I contacted him and he said that he would love to break out and because of his costume he has trouble and the nature of his act he has trouble getting on to traditional stages.
Sounds like he knows exactly why he's having trouble getting mainstream gigs. If he wants to break out, he needs to apply his skills to more relatable material with a more mainstream presentation. That's how these things work.
Do you think all those boy band guys wanted to do that pop dreck? (God, I hope not.) But that was the opportunity presented at the time so they bent over and took the money.
In comedy, you pander to the crowd. Why else would Ron White drink so much? It's a tough gig and sticking to an act with narrow appeal is a death sentence.
If it's a chemical imbalance, you definitely shouldn't be waiting for God to make it right. That's where you turn to science, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, etc.
It's God's will. God is testing me. It's beyond my control. There's also the "God gives me strength" angle.
I suppose it's easier to overcome mental health problems if one believes that they bear no responsibility for their troubles and that an infinitely powerful being will make everything okay if they just believe. A metaphysical placebo.
It's a bit rougher if you've only got yourself to blame for your shortcomings and believe the strength to overcome must come from within.
And old-school AmEx cards have no limit (in theory). And the balance on those old style accounts is due in full when the next statement is presented. Back in the day, it wasn't a credit card so much as a way for rich folks to pay for things while travelling without carrying a bunch of cash around or get businesses to accept personal checks. They'd pay the month's bill in full immediately, not carry a balance like poor people do with a regular credit card.
I wonder if that's why my G3 ibook battery shit the bed 2 days before I went on vacation that one time. I still got around 4 hours of runtime out of it (I'd checked a couple weeks earlier to be sure I didn't need a new battery) but the charging system suddenly refused to charge it. Of course, it was so old by then that I couldn't even pay full retail for one at the Apple store because they'd stopped stocking them a year or two earlier. I had to suffer without a battery through my vacation and ordered a replacement from Hong Kong when I got home.
The audio quality of cellular voice calls has been falling for years. My first analog cell phone sounded pretty darn good when I wasn't at the edge of a service area. Cost me $25-30/month for the service. It's been a downhill slide since then. Now I've got a device that retailed for $700 new (it's already been discontinued so you can't buy then new any more) with a $115/month service contract and it sounds worse than a $9.99 wired land line phone.
I've been hearing for years how US carriers are working on higher quality voice calls but none of them have actually done it.
Full disclosure: I barely skimmed the summary and only read 2 or 3 comments. I certainly didn't read any linked articles.
You're having a dispute with your neighbor. How would you feel if your neighbor went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their backyard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?
I'd feel annoyed about it. And there are already laws on the books I can use to deal with that situation. If my neighbor was doing that, s/he would be interfering with my quiet enjoyment of my home and property. I document it and call the cops. If the neighbor keeps it up, we'll end up in court and the judge will order him to knock it the hell off. If the neighbor still keeps it up, contempt of court and whatever.
My point is that it's already illegal for a neighbor (or non-neighbor) to harass me, regardless of the method of harassment. We don't need a new law for this scenario.
One was the removal of an advertised feature of the console. The other is the removal of an advertised feature of the console. That's how it's similar.
All of our stuff is made in areas that NoKo could realistically harm. Good tablets and phones come out of SoKo. Good cameras are made in Japan. Just about everything else is made in China. It'll matter when you can't get a new phone.
Pretty much. I'm typing on an 11.6" pre-ultrabook from 2010 that does everything I need in a portable. i7 cpu, 8 gigs of RAM ($20 upgrade from 4 gigs just because I could do it for $20), 500 gig hard drive (soon to get a hand-me-down 750 gig hybrid), gigabit networking, etc. Just about any over the counter computer built in the last 5 years can handle email, chat (both text and video), youtube, facebook, turbotax, etc. That's all most people need.
I built a new gaming rig last year because I had cash and felt like building a beast. If it wasn't for games, I wouldn't have had any excuse for building it. If the PS4 or XB720 had been slated for release in 2012, I wouldn't have bothered.
Also, phones and tablets are encroaching on casual internet usage. If my tablet had a keyboard dock (or if I could find my full size bluetooth keyboard), I'd probably do my internetting on that.
The amazing article doesn't say exactly what the "wireless cloud" is. Wifi, perhaps, or do they just mean ramping up mobile phone networks adding capacity and transmitters?
If only the article had said something like "...from the rising use of cellular and Wi-Fi networks to access cloud services..." somewhere near the beginning we'd know that they're referring to both WiFi and cellular.;^>
You can already buy laptops with high end graphics and multiple outputs built in. No need for a clunky external setup. High end gaming laptops can be configured with dual 2gb GTX 680M GPUs or the AMD equivalent. Not exactly anemic.
I used to use firewire all the time back when I used to do a lot of video editing around the turn of the millennium. The first generation of USB was so bad that I didn't even consider USB2 for my external storage. Firewire, OTOH, was a rock. Never had a device just disappear for no reason. Throughput was better, CPU load was lower, isochronous transfer was possible. Night and day. Like comparing a Lexus to a Yugo.
Of course, now all my stuff is USB because firewire components are so rare and I have no need to move devices between computers. I've got gigabit ethernet to move files and I don't need to move a single optical drive between multiple machines. And USB is much more reliable than it used to be. My new gaming rig has two firewire ports but I haven't used them. Neither of my laptops has a firewire port and I haven't missed them. Thunderbolt seems like a solution to a problem that no longer exists [in my world].
As soon as gmail made IMAP available, everything went there. I used to get my stuff via POP and saved it all going back to the early 90s. When IMAP went live on gmail, I let it chug away for hours and hours until it was synced and all my archived stuff was stored on my gmail account. They've been bumping up the limit faster than my mail's built up so I'm now at 3.9 gigs used of 10.1 available, holding about twenty years of email. I have email clients on a desktop and couple laptops that I fire up every couple of months to sync with gmail and keep local stores in the event that google screws up and loses my data. (I like to think I'd be smart enough to disconnect from the internet before accessing the local clients if my gmail account ever went blank but I've got multiple copies just in case I forget.)
I know that won't work for email fiends who pile up a gig a month but it works for me. I don't even bother sorting my email any more. It's faster to just search. Not like the old days when it would take my email client half an hour to slog through all the messages.:)
I mean within the store. I've done Walmart pickups at a couple stores and the pickup department is way the Hell in the back of the store, as far from the entrance as they can put it. When I do in-store pickup at a local store, I do it to reduce the time I spend walking around the store, not maximize it.:P
Yeah, I took a tour of Wavefront Technologies back in the early 90s and they were still measuring storage in gigabytes. They'd just unpacked their first HDTV setup and, if I remember right, the demo system had 10 gigabytes of storage and it was ridiculously expensive because it had to be able to read/write crazy-fast to handle the HD content. I think that was about the time I paid $600 for a 212 meg drive at a computer show and it was a great price. A couple years later, I met a guy who was working on a project to built a 4tb array. Back then something like that was a project.
Now I look at that 250tb and I could order the parts needed to build an array of that capacity from Amazon. Heck, I've already got an array at home that's 10% of that. Okay, I'd probably have trouble getting all of the production/server level equipment thru Amazon but I'd still be able to build it with off-the-shelf parts.
On the one hand, he's scum. On the other hand, anyone who believed
He produced glossy brochures to trick potential investors into believing the devices could detect tiny amounts of explosive from three miles away, the Old Bailey heard.
shouldn't be in charge of the fry/chip station, let alone be in charge of ordering military equipment.
You realize I'm talking about the shipper's warehouses, right? Track your next cross-country shipment. Unless you live right on the border next to a big city in another state, it's going to land at a warehouse in your state where people are employed to move that package. Those employees pay income tax. The shipper pays property tax. They pay taxes on the fuel they put in their vehicles. There's also probably a mileage tax on those vehicles.
The states already get plenty of tax on out-of-state internet sales. Those packages don't appear by magic. They're moved (usually by ground) from origin to destination, paying taxes all along the way. Fuel and mileage taxes and registration for vehicles, income tax from the employees, property tax from the depots and warehouses in the origin and destination states, corporate taxes from the shipping companies, etc.
If you've got decent equipment and a quiet environment. With cheapo earbuds, I don't notice the difference. With my good headphones, the difference is obvious. When I'm driving down the highway, I can't tell. In my living room, I can tell.
With storage so cheap and bandwidth so plentiful, there's really no reason not to use lossless audio. My $40 Clip+ with a $25 miscrosd card can hold 40 gigs of content and can play FLAC. There's no reason to use a lossy format.
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I contacted him and he said that he would love to break out and because of his costume he has trouble and the nature of his act he has trouble getting on to traditional stages.
Sounds like he knows exactly why he's having trouble getting mainstream gigs. If he wants to break out, he needs to apply his skills to more relatable material with a more mainstream presentation. That's how these things work.
Do you think all those boy band guys wanted to do that pop dreck? (God, I hope not.) But that was the opportunity presented at the time so they bent over and took the money.
In comedy, you pander to the crowd. Why else would Ron White drink so much? It's a tough gig and sticking to an act with narrow appeal is a death sentence.
One way to find out.
And you just added something to my list of things to try.
If it's a chemical imbalance, you definitely shouldn't be waiting for God to make it right. That's where you turn to science, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, etc.
It's God's will. God is testing me. It's beyond my control. There's also the "God gives me strength" angle.
I suppose it's easier to overcome mental health problems if one believes that they bear no responsibility for their troubles and that an infinitely powerful being will make everything okay if they just believe. A metaphysical placebo.
It's a bit rougher if you've only got yourself to blame for your shortcomings and believe the strength to overcome must come from within.
People who aren't poor.
And old-school AmEx cards have no limit (in theory). And the balance on those old style accounts is due in full when the next statement is presented. Back in the day, it wasn't a credit card so much as a way for rich folks to pay for things while travelling without carrying a bunch of cash around or get businesses to accept personal checks. They'd pay the month's bill in full immediately, not carry a balance like poor people do with a regular credit card.
Weezie Jefferson. Movin' on up, to the east side!
Now there will be debates about the advantages of organic coral over robotically engineered coral.
A wizard did it.
I wonder if that's why my G3 ibook battery shit the bed 2 days before I went on vacation that one time. I still got around 4 hours of runtime out of it (I'd checked a couple weeks earlier to be sure I didn't need a new battery) but the charging system suddenly refused to charge it. Of course, it was so old by then that I couldn't even pay full retail for one at the Apple store because they'd stopped stocking them a year or two earlier. I had to suffer without a battery through my vacation and ordered a replacement from Hong Kong when I got home.
Amen, brother!
The audio quality of cellular voice calls has been falling for years. My first analog cell phone sounded pretty darn good when I wasn't at the edge of a service area. Cost me $25-30/month for the service. It's been a downhill slide since then. Now I've got a device that retailed for $700 new (it's already been discontinued so you can't buy then new any more) with a $115/month service contract and it sounds worse than a $9.99 wired land line phone.
I've been hearing for years how US carriers are working on higher quality voice calls but none of them have actually done it.
Full disclosure: I barely skimmed the summary and only read 2 or 3 comments. I certainly didn't read any linked articles.
You're having a dispute with your neighbor. How would you feel if your neighbor went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their backyard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?
I'd feel annoyed about it. And there are already laws on the books I can use to deal with that situation. If my neighbor was doing that, s/he would be interfering with my quiet enjoyment of my home and property. I document it and call the cops. If the neighbor keeps it up, we'll end up in court and the judge will order him to knock it the hell off. If the neighbor still keeps it up, contempt of court and whatever.
My point is that it's already illegal for a neighbor (or non-neighbor) to harass me, regardless of the method of harassment. We don't need a new law for this scenario.
One was the removal of an advertised feature of the console. The other is the removal of an advertised feature of the console. That's how it's similar.
All of our stuff is made in areas that NoKo could realistically harm. Good tablets and phones come out of SoKo. Good cameras are made in Japan. Just about everything else is made in China. It'll matter when you can't get a new phone.
Pretty much. I'm typing on an 11.6" pre-ultrabook from 2010 that does everything I need in a portable. i7 cpu, 8 gigs of RAM ($20 upgrade from 4 gigs just because I could do it for $20), 500 gig hard drive (soon to get a hand-me-down 750 gig hybrid), gigabit networking, etc. Just about any over the counter computer built in the last 5 years can handle email, chat (both text and video), youtube, facebook, turbotax, etc. That's all most people need.
I built a new gaming rig last year because I had cash and felt like building a beast. If it wasn't for games, I wouldn't have had any excuse for building it. If the PS4 or XB720 had been slated for release in 2012, I wouldn't have bothered.
Also, phones and tablets are encroaching on casual internet usage. If my tablet had a keyboard dock (or if I could find my full size bluetooth keyboard), I'd probably do my internetting on that.
The amazing article doesn't say exactly what the "wireless cloud" is. Wifi, perhaps, or do they just mean ramping up mobile phone networks adding capacity and transmitters?
If only the article had said something like "...from the rising use of cellular and Wi-Fi networks to access cloud services..." somewhere near the beginning we'd know that they're referring to both WiFi and cellular. ;^>
You can already buy laptops with high end graphics and multiple outputs built in. No need for a clunky external setup. High end gaming laptops can be configured with dual 2gb GTX 680M GPUs or the AMD equivalent. Not exactly anemic.
I used to use firewire all the time back when I used to do a lot of video editing around the turn of the millennium. The first generation of USB was so bad that I didn't even consider USB2 for my external storage. Firewire, OTOH, was a rock. Never had a device just disappear for no reason. Throughput was better, CPU load was lower, isochronous transfer was possible. Night and day. Like comparing a Lexus to a Yugo.
Of course, now all my stuff is USB because firewire components are so rare and I have no need to move devices between computers. I've got gigabit ethernet to move files and I don't need to move a single optical drive between multiple machines. And USB is much more reliable than it used to be. My new gaming rig has two firewire ports but I haven't used them. Neither of my laptops has a firewire port and I haven't missed them. Thunderbolt seems like a solution to a problem that no longer exists [in my world].
As soon as gmail made IMAP available, everything went there. I used to get my stuff via POP and saved it all going back to the early 90s. When IMAP went live on gmail, I let it chug away for hours and hours until it was synced and all my archived stuff was stored on my gmail account. They've been bumping up the limit faster than my mail's built up so I'm now at 3.9 gigs used of 10.1 available, holding about twenty years of email. I have email clients on a desktop and couple laptops that I fire up every couple of months to sync with gmail and keep local stores in the event that google screws up and loses my data. (I like to think I'd be smart enough to disconnect from the internet before accessing the local clients if my gmail account ever went blank but I've got multiple copies just in case I forget.)
I know that won't work for email fiends who pile up a gig a month but it works for me. I don't even bother sorting my email any more. It's faster to just search. Not like the old days when it would take my email client half an hour to slog through all the messages. :)
I mean within the store. I've done Walmart pickups at a couple stores and the pickup department is way the Hell in the back of the store, as far from the entrance as they can put it. When I do in-store pickup at a local store, I do it to reduce the time I spend walking around the store, not maximize it. :P
Yeah, I took a tour of Wavefront Technologies back in the early 90s and they were still measuring storage in gigabytes. They'd just unpacked their first HDTV setup and, if I remember right, the demo system had 10 gigabytes of storage and it was ridiculously expensive because it had to be able to read/write crazy-fast to handle the HD content. I think that was about the time I paid $600 for a 212 meg drive at a computer show and it was a great price. A couple years later, I met a guy who was working on a project to built a 4tb array. Back then something like that was a project.
Now I look at that 250tb and I could order the parts needed to build an array of that capacity from Amazon. Heck, I've already got an array at home that's 10% of that. Okay, I'd probably have trouble getting all of the production/server level equipment thru Amazon but I'd still be able to build it with off-the-shelf parts.
On the one hand, he's scum. On the other hand, anyone who believed
He produced glossy brochures to trick potential investors into believing the devices could detect tiny amounts of explosive from three miles away , the Old Bailey heard.
shouldn't be in charge of the fry/chip station, let alone be in charge of ordering military equipment.
You realize I'm talking about the shipper's warehouses, right? Track your next cross-country shipment. Unless you live right on the border next to a big city in another state, it's going to land at a warehouse in your state where people are employed to move that package. Those employees pay income tax. The shipper pays property tax. They pay taxes on the fuel they put in their vehicles. There's also probably a mileage tax on those vehicles.
?Comprende?
The states already get plenty of tax on out-of-state internet sales. Those packages don't appear by magic. They're moved (usually by ground) from origin to destination, paying taxes all along the way. Fuel and mileage taxes and registration for vehicles, income tax from the employees, property tax from the depots and warehouses in the origin and destination states, corporate taxes from the shipping companies, etc.
If you've got decent equipment and a quiet environment. With cheapo earbuds, I don't notice the difference. With my good headphones, the difference is obvious. When I'm driving down the highway, I can't tell. In my living room, I can tell.
With storage so cheap and bandwidth so plentiful, there's really no reason not to use lossless audio. My $40 Clip+ with a $25 miscrosd card can hold 40 gigs of content and can play FLAC. There's no reason to use a lossy format.
What about North Dakota?