Yes, I heard that. Back then I listed to KMET and KROQ quite a bit.
I remembered when I switched over to 95.5 (KLOS) out of disgust, the hosts there were discussing the overnight format change and subsequent lockout of all the KMET employees (who they said showed up for work to find all the locks had been changed). Such was the birth of 94.7 (The Wave). The rival station then hired quite a few of the ex-station's employees. That showed a lot of class.
Don't bring up bad memories. The day I drove in to work, flipped on KMET (94.7) and heard New Age music coming out of my speakers was one of the saddest days of my life.
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I loved the 4 hour format and the "Top 10". When the show was cut to two hours, a lot of the more obscure stuff was also cut out. The show also really grated on me when every week for a year or so Weird Al's "Another one Rides the Bus" came in #1 over and over and over again.
Not a couple of months, barely more than one month. The 3G iPads went on sale April 30th. Only the "lucky" few who got one during the first few days managed to complete one month of unlimited service (mine just renewed for the 2nd month yesterday) before the announcement. Most 3G iPad users who activated are still on their initial month of service.
Yesterday was the wrap-up of "The Pacific" on HBO, and as I watched end credits roll, I realized a sobering fact:
We are losing WWII vets at an astonishing pace simply due to old age. This shocks me because I was born in the mid-60's and WWII vets have been around for all of my younger years. It's going to get a lot worse once this generation eventually dies out and there's no one left to dispute these claims. The revisionists will have a field day once that happens.
Unagi is horribly expensive ($18/US per package) if you want the Japanese-sourced unagi. The Chinese unagi is much cheaper ($4-5/US per package), but there have been problems with the chemicals, antibiotics, and other crap they feed them.
Anago is readily available here in Los Angeles at a moderate price, but unagi kabayaki is definitely where its at.
I have several PS3's all of which share the same account.
Back up your old one and restore on the new one. All non-DRM items and non OtherOS items will copy over. Many, but not all, of your saved games in progress will also copy over, but some game companies slap DRM restrictions on the saved games as well and you will lose those.
When you sign up for PSN, tell it you have an existing account and use your info from the other PS3, all your trophies will come over and you can then sign in to the PS3 store and re-download nearly all of your DRM'd purchases. Some purchases like Warhawk and Singstar content need a call to Sony support to re-download.
From what I remember of the "old days" dealing with my high school's foray into teaching basic computing... excuse me... BASIC computing.
They planned on getting a full class of 30 or so students instead of the 6 or so that were supported by a TRS-80 model III and an apple II and an Apple II+.
The school got a shipment of 20+ Atari 800's with floppy drives. They sat in a closet for an entire year because the district refused to let the school use them. Why? When they heard "Atari" they thought 2600 VCS and videogames and could not comprehend that Atari also made computers.
This kind of closed-minded thinking will also kill off any idea of using the DS as an educational tool in the school districts.
Because there are some US citizens that are actively working with the Taliban. If US citizens are working as enemy combatants then they should be eligible as targets as well.
You can "back up" the file using the PS3's backup utility and restore it on a new drive. That will protect against a failed drive but not a failed PS3 since a replacement PS3 will refuse to restore any DRM'd content.
Also note: it won't protect you against false leap years as well.
As much as I would like to argue with you, the AC is right.
Harmonix definitely has played favoritism among the consoles with a heavy bias towards the 360. A couple examples are the delay in the RB2 release for the PS3 and Wii, the exclusivity of "All you need is Love", the even more delayed RB2 patch everyone waited over a year for, and now RBN.
Unfortunately lack of RBN support is the fault of Sony and Nintendo. And the saddest part now is that neither of these "other two" consoles will ever have parity with the 360 again. The 360 will now become the superior platform and be the focus of development - actually it's been this way for a while now.
DJ Hero isn't THAT BAD. It's actually a fresh idea for a change. My mistake was trusting the GH franchise just that one more time after getting burned by the utter crappiness that was GHIII and Aerosmith.
DJ Hero hit with a bunch of fanfare, a couple DLC packs came out, and now they are talking about DJ Hero II while support for the original dropped off to nothing. Activision/Neversoft's idea of churning out several releases a year with mediocre after-support are killing the genre by flooding the market with too many titles on the fast track to the discount bin. It seems GH5 learned from this and offers much better after purchase support, but it's too little, too late.
I've abandonded the GH franchise for good and will stick with Rockband - which I admittedly also play a lot less recently even though I sunk way more than enough money into it on DLC. Way too many compelling non-music titles coming out recently.
It got all the way through the supply chain to the end-users. I'm pretty sure that proves they did a good enough job to make it undetectable. If they really wanted to make it really undetectable,they would need a functional chip in it - like rebadging a cheaper/slower model to a higher model. But that costs time and money. This was a quick and easy scam, and the responsible parties are long gone with 300+ perfectly good i7;s.
Something's been wrong with the PSN trophy tracking for at least a week now. I've gotten trophies on Star Ocean and Heavy Rain. Neither of the two are showing up on PSN, although the console is tracking them and my trophy count is correct. Old games that had previous trophy data are tracking properly though.
And yes, my 60GB US PS3 (now 500GB) is borked. And I'm really nervous about it because I have a very sizeable Rockband and Singstar library. I also have 60GB and 40GB JP units whichwere off before and will remain off until all this blows over.
The law of supply and demand only work in a free market. Utilities are monopolies and will just scale back production so the supply always *just* meets the demand.
The context of my comment was from the POV of the utility companies. If I am a refiner and distributor of gasoline, and demand drops significantly, I can pump or buy less crude, refine less crude, and reduce employment because I do not need to run so many refineries and deliver so much fuel. Same goes for electricity - just shut down some plants.
Sony may be more anti-consumer as a whole, but between the two platforms Microsoft is definitely the more anti-consumer of the two gaming platforms.
Simple HD swaps vs. overpriced upgrades Ability to install another OS (crippled as it may be) vs. nothing Plethora of 3rd party peripherals vs. only licensed ones Availability of 3rd party wireless controllers vs. very few due to refusing to issue licenses - especially guitar controllers Using any method of USB storage vs disabling 3rd party memory devices.
Back during one of the droughts in Southern California they called for mandatory conservation. The people actually took this to heart and water usage dropped so much that revenue at the local municipal water companies fell.
So the utilities raised their rates to get it back.
More conservation means having to obtain less resources, process less resources, employ less workers, spend less on distribution and capacity. After that, they can raise rates as well.
Getting an imprint is normal for pizza deliveries - or at least for Pizza Hut. The issue was the driver used the info on the receipt to fund a shopping spree.
Not much different than my one instance dealing with CC fraud. In my case my CC info was lifted off of my mail-in college tuition payment as it sat on some processor's desk.
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I don't know about WalMart, but Best Buy routinely bundles, and was still bundling the white Wii's and PS3 as recently as this past April.
Yes, I heard that. Back then I listed to KMET and KROQ quite a bit.
I remembered when I switched over to 95.5 (KLOS) out of disgust, the hosts there were discussing the overnight format change and subsequent lockout of all the KMET employees (who they said showed up for work to find all the locks had been changed). Such was the birth of 94.7 (The Wave). The rival station then hired quite a few of the ex-station's employees. That showed a lot of class.
Don't bring up bad memories. The day I drove in to work, flipped on KMET (94.7) and heard New Age music coming out of my speakers was one of the saddest days of my life.
Re: The grandparent post
I loved the 4 hour format and the "Top 10". When the show was cut to two hours, a lot of the more obscure stuff was also cut out. The show also really grated on me when every week for a year or so Weird Al's "Another one Rides the Bus" came in #1 over and over and over again.
Not a couple of months, barely more than one month. The 3G iPads went on sale April 30th. Only the "lucky" few who got one during the first few days managed to complete one month of unlimited service (mine just renewed for the 2nd month yesterday) before the announcement. Most 3G iPad users who activated are still on their initial month of service.
Yesterday was the wrap-up of "The Pacific" on HBO, and as I watched end credits roll, I realized a sobering fact:
We are losing WWII vets at an astonishing pace simply due to old age. This shocks me because I was born in the mid-60's and WWII vets have been around for all of my younger years. It's going to get a lot worse once this generation eventually dies out and there's no one left to dispute these claims. The revisionists will have a field day once that happens.
Funny you mention that.
Unagi is horribly expensive ($18/US per package) if you want the Japanese-sourced unagi. The Chinese unagi is much cheaper ($4-5/US per package), but there have been problems with the chemicals, antibiotics, and other crap they feed them.
Anago is readily available here in Los Angeles at a moderate price, but unagi kabayaki is definitely where its at.
I have several PS3's all of which share the same account.
Back up your old one and restore on the new one. All non-DRM items and non OtherOS items will copy over. Many, but not all, of your saved games in progress will also copy over, but some game companies slap DRM restrictions on the saved games as well and you will lose those.
When you sign up for PSN, tell it you have an existing account and use your info from the other PS3, all your trophies will come over and you can then sign in to the PS3 store and re-download nearly all of your DRM'd purchases. Some purchases like Warhawk and Singstar content need a call to Sony support to re-download.
And don't forget that China blissfully ignores IP laws when it suits them.
From what I remember of the "old days" dealing with my high school's foray into teaching basic computing... excuse me... BASIC computing.
They planned on getting a full class of 30 or so students instead of the 6 or so that were supported by a TRS-80 model III and an apple II and an Apple II+.
The school got a shipment of 20+ Atari 800's with floppy drives. They sat in a closet for an entire year because the district refused to let the school use them. Why? When they heard "Atari" they thought 2600 VCS and videogames and could not comprehend that Atari also made computers.
This kind of closed-minded thinking will also kill off any idea of using the DS as an educational tool in the school districts.
Because there are some US citizens that are actively working with the Taliban. If US citizens are working as enemy combatants then they should be eligible as targets as well.
Yes, policies like this are why Linksys is selling routers that are actually bags of dirt with "puto" written on it.
You can "back up" the file using the PS3's backup utility and restore it on a new drive. That will protect against a failed drive but not a failed PS3 since a replacement PS3 will refuse to restore any DRM'd content.
Also note: it won't protect you against false leap years as well.
That's the rub. Why would Apple allow a $5 or $20 app on the AppStore that negates the only other way to remote wipe or track your iPhone?
Here's the answer: $90/year subscriptions to MobileMe
As much as I would like to argue with you, the AC is right.
Harmonix definitely has played favoritism among the consoles with a heavy bias towards the 360. A couple examples are the delay in the RB2 release for the PS3 and Wii, the exclusivity of "All you need is Love", the even more delayed RB2 patch everyone waited over a year for, and now RBN.
Unfortunately lack of RBN support is the fault of Sony and Nintendo. And the saddest part now is that neither of these "other two" consoles will ever have parity with the 360 again. The 360 will now become the superior platform and be the focus of development - actually it's been this way for a while now.
DJ Hero isn't THAT BAD. It's actually a fresh idea for a change. My mistake was trusting the GH franchise just that one more time after getting burned by the utter crappiness that was GHIII and Aerosmith.
DJ Hero hit with a bunch of fanfare, a couple DLC packs came out, and now they are talking about DJ Hero II while support for the original dropped off to nothing. Activision/Neversoft's idea of churning out several releases a year with mediocre after-support are killing the genre by flooding the market with too many titles on the fast track to the discount bin. It seems GH5 learned from this and offers much better after purchase support, but it's too little, too late.
I've abandonded the GH franchise for good and will stick with Rockband - which I admittedly also play a lot less recently even though I sunk way more than enough money into it on DLC. Way too many compelling non-music titles coming out recently.
It got all the way through the supply chain to the end-users. I'm pretty sure that proves they did a good enough job to make it undetectable. If they really wanted to make it really undetectable,they would need a functional chip in it - like rebadging a cheaper/slower model to a higher model. But that costs time and money. This was a quick and easy scam, and the responsible parties are long gone with 300+ perfectly good i7;s.
Not quite. Some of us have intel iMacs with ATI cards with piss-poor graphic performance.
Something's been wrong with the PSN trophy tracking for at least a week now. I've gotten trophies on Star Ocean and Heavy Rain. Neither of the two are showing up on PSN, although the console is tracking them and my trophy count is correct. Old games that had previous trophy data are tracking properly though.
And yes, my 60GB US PS3 (now 500GB) is borked. And I'm really nervous about it because I have a very sizeable Rockband and Singstar library. I also have 60GB and 40GB JP units whichwere off before and will remain off until all this blows over.
The law of supply and demand only work in a free market. Utilities are monopolies and will just scale back production so the supply always *just* meets the demand.
The context of my comment was from the POV of the utility companies. If I am a refiner and distributor of gasoline, and demand drops significantly, I can pump or buy less crude, refine less crude, and reduce employment because I do not need to run so many refineries and deliver so much fuel. Same goes for electricity - just shut down some plants.
Sony may be more anti-consumer as a whole, but between the two platforms Microsoft is definitely the more anti-consumer of the two gaming platforms.
Simple HD swaps vs. overpriced upgrades
Ability to install another OS (crippled as it may be) vs. nothing
Plethora of 3rd party peripherals vs. only licensed ones
Availability of 3rd party wireless controllers vs. very few due to refusing to issue licenses - especially guitar controllers
Using any method of USB storage vs disabling 3rd party memory devices.
Why would they care?
Back during one of the droughts in Southern California they called for mandatory conservation. The people actually took this to heart and water usage dropped so much that revenue at the local municipal water companies fell.
So the utilities raised their rates to get it back.
More conservation means having to obtain less resources, process less resources, employ less workers, spend less on distribution and capacity. After that, they can raise rates as well.
Getting an imprint is normal for pizza deliveries - or at least for Pizza Hut. The issue was the driver used the info on the receipt to fund a shopping spree.
Not much different than my one instance dealing with CC fraud. In my case my CC info was lifted off of my mail-in college tuition payment as it sat on some processor's desk.
A great book on the early discovery of sentient species by a superior species:
The Killing Star
Relativistic weapons impacting earth from outer space with Michael Jackson's "We are the world" warbling in over all the radio frequencies.
Great book.
Thank you. That series happens to be one of my favorites.
One of the Minervans?