My local PBS, one of the bigs, is showing spam infotainment horseshit for at least 12 hours a week now, maybe more. Love is over. It's easy to blame it on commercial broadcasters, but if no one was watching it, it wouldn't be on.
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Teen strippers, 'gansett, coffee milk... man, I gotta move to RI.
I know people had been using wave with success for playing RPGs. It's a hell of a lot faster than PBEM, and more accessible for most than IRC. Other than that, it was a solution looking for a problem.
Arrogant people who achieve power never give it up voluntarily.
Any fork would either immediately or very quickly suffer from the same fate. If there's anything the open source community has a surplus of, it's egos.
We've been throwing money at computing technology in, and in recent years out, of the schools for thirty years. Imagine if even a fraction of that went to more and/or better educators, support staff or repairing aging buildings. My high school had the math 'wing' closed for months while they tore moldy carpets out and sanitized the walls. The library was closed for almost two years because of structural integrity issues. The math wing contained the "language lab" which was a little over a quarter million dollar computer lab with AV interaction at all stations with the master station. It was supposed to be used for the foreign language department but even before the wing was closed it sat mostly unused. After the mold problem was taken care of, the lab was rebuilt for general purpose. The library closing wasn't as big a deal. There weren't many articles published after ~1981, no big loss. However, they had just spent near $100k on rebuilding most of the library space as another (fifth) computer lab. Then, installing another $70k worth of gear inside.
It's cool though, they made up for the losses by laying off two art teachers and outright killing the metal/wood shop and drafting programs. Last I heard, the shops have been converted to computer labs.
Over half of the machines I see at the shop that are running XP, are still running SP2. The problem is that even if the machine is genuine, people don't interact with the WUA. Of those that do, many are running software that prevents it from being installed, Norton, Trend, HPcrapware, etc. There's a lot of things out there that screw up an sp3 install.
I'm very pleased with DCU. They've got the customer service and low/lack of fees that my old hometown bank had before they were bought up. I don't partake, but I've friends that tell me that the investment and loan products are fair. The biggest problem they have is lack of locations, but I do everything over PC Branch or SUM network ATM anyway.
Not sure why this is modded down. Inmates running the asylum, money and arrogance out their ass, projects with and for no reason going on forever, changes to long-time services for the sake of change... All they need is a PRISM or a couple Rainbows and we'll see Gmail getting spun off before they die. People forget how quickly gods can fall.
I was very interested when they made this announcement a year(+?) ago. Even contacted the company with some questions. The price is out of my league for my, basically toy, uses though. I hope it comes down a bit eventually.
OTA Broadcast radio is fine as long as the content is unchanged. It's playing records at a volume louder than adequate for that employee's enjoyment that is what they'd go after you for.
Eh, we already get crappy flash game ports. The more phonegame ports they get, the bigger the [3]DSiWare shop gets. I'm fairly disappointed with the 3DS announcement. The GBA/DS platforms have been amazing and the last real bastion of 2D gaming. I hope nintendo doesn't force 3D early on like they forced stylus controls.
Draytek Vigor? I had actually never heard of the company before, but I've been doing some work with a UK firm beginning their push into the states and they shipped over Draytek appliances. The hardware platform seems very robust and full featured, the web interface didn't make me want to claw my eyeballs out and they haven't had any dropouts or other issues even with the hardware hiding in a toasty coatroom.
It's already happening. Trans fats are banned in more than a few places, smokes are $10 and they're looking to tax "sugar-sweetened" drinks, nevermind juice can have as many (or more) calories and sugar as soda. They're running out of smokers to tax. The fun police are strapping their boots on and we're all going to suffer for their coffers, in the name of public health. No "vice" is safe.
I agree with your most of your points but as long as you get a good laptop, thinkpad or business-line dell, it's trivial to upgrade optical drives. Even if you have something else, if you don't mind doing some bezel swapping, it's not that hard on other machines. Also, some thinkpads, many dells, and almost every HK brand use socketed cpus and it's usually not too bad to change. I know for the dell studios, you don't even have to drop the logic board. The sink and CPU are both accessible from the bottom plate. Going from a core solo to a c2d in five minutes is a lot more than a 'small upgrade.'
They've gotten very political over the last few years. Also, at the same time the paper/binding and quality of articles has gone down, the price has gone up. I still grab it, but I'm not sure why.
It's pretty rugged. I wouldn't put it up against my olpc but I'd stack it up against a macbook any day. Nevermind the fact that it doesn't need to go into a backpack, since it has a strap.
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We'll see Han shoot first again well before we'll see another TIE fighter.
My local PBS, one of the bigs, is showing spam infotainment horseshit for at least 12 hours a week now, maybe more. Love is over.
It's easy to blame it on commercial broadcasters, but if no one was watching it, it wouldn't be on.
Teen strippers, 'gansett, coffee milk... man, I gotta move to RI.
I know people had been using wave with success for playing RPGs. It's a hell of a lot faster than PBEM, and more accessible for most than IRC. Other than that, it was a solution looking for a problem.
I'm sure PandaGlass will work as well as all those PandaCaps.
Any fork would either immediately or very quickly suffer from the same fate. If there's anything the open source community has a surplus of, it's egos.
Always a ridiculous waste of money and space after the olympics is through. This is pretty cool, though.
Making somebody pay extra to unlock, or buy the game all over again+extra to get, LAN play certainly sounds like a pillar of opportunity to me!
We've been throwing money at computing technology in, and in recent years out, of the schools for thirty years. Imagine if even a fraction of that went to more and/or better educators, support staff or repairing aging buildings. My high school had the math 'wing' closed for months while they tore moldy carpets out and sanitized the walls. The library was closed for almost two years because of structural integrity issues.
The math wing contained the "language lab" which was a little over a quarter million dollar computer lab with AV interaction at all stations with the master station. It was supposed to be used for the foreign language department but even before the wing was closed it sat mostly unused. After the mold problem was taken care of, the lab was rebuilt for general purpose.
The library closing wasn't as big a deal. There weren't many articles published after ~1981, no big loss. However, they had just spent near $100k on rebuilding most of the library space as another (fifth) computer lab. Then, installing another $70k worth of gear inside.
It's cool though, they made up for the losses by laying off two art teachers and outright killing the metal/wood shop and drafting programs. Last I heard, the shops have been converted to computer labs.
Over half of the machines I see at the shop that are running XP, are still running SP2. The problem is that even if the machine is genuine, people don't interact with the WUA. Of those that do, many are running software that prevents it from being installed, Norton, Trend, HPcrapware, etc. There's a lot of things out there that screw up an sp3 install.
TFA compares the 1.5 to an Acer. When the hell did the 1.5 start shipping and where can I get one? Or even just the motherboard? :(
I'm very pleased with DCU. They've got the customer service and low/lack of fees that my old hometown bank had before they were bought up. I don't partake, but I've friends that tell me that the investment and loan products are fair. The biggest problem they have is lack of locations, but I do everything over PC Branch or SUM network ATM anyway.
"Because we can"? This idea isn't anything new.
Not sure why this is modded down. Inmates running the asylum, money and arrogance out their ass, projects with and for no reason going on forever, changes to long-time services for the sake of change... All they need is a PRISM or a couple Rainbows and we'll see Gmail getting spun off before they die. People forget how quickly gods can fall.
I was very interested when they made this announcement a year(+?) ago. Even contacted the company with some questions. The price is out of my league for my, basically toy, uses though. I hope it comes down a bit eventually.
I dunno, I think it's one of the last good scifi/horror movies. Not anywhere near Alien, but it's up there.
None of those are TV stations.
OTA Broadcast radio is fine as long as the content is unchanged. It's playing records at a volume louder than adequate for that employee's enjoyment that is what they'd go after you for.
Eh, we already get crappy flash game ports. The more phonegame ports they get, the bigger the [3]DSiWare shop gets.
I'm fairly disappointed with the 3DS announcement. The GBA/DS platforms have been amazing and the last real bastion of 2D gaming. I hope nintendo doesn't force 3D early on like they forced stylus controls.
Draytek Vigor? I had actually never heard of the company before, but I've been doing some work with a UK firm beginning their push into the states and they shipped over Draytek appliances. The hardware platform seems very robust and full featured, the web interface didn't make me want to claw my eyeballs out and they haven't had any dropouts or other issues even with the hardware hiding in a toasty coatroom.
It's already happening. Trans fats are banned in more than a few places, smokes are $10 and they're looking to tax "sugar-sweetened" drinks, nevermind juice can have as many (or more) calories and sugar as soda. They're running out of smokers to tax.
The fun police are strapping their boots on and we're all going to suffer for their coffers, in the name of public health. No "vice" is safe.
I agree with your most of your points but as long as you get a good laptop, thinkpad or business-line dell, it's trivial to upgrade optical drives. Even if you have something else, if you don't mind doing some bezel swapping, it's not that hard on other machines.
Also, some thinkpads, many dells, and almost every HK brand use socketed cpus and it's usually not too bad to change. I know for the dell studios, you don't even have to drop the logic board. The sink and CPU are both accessible from the bottom plate. Going from a core solo to a c2d in five minutes is a lot more than a 'small upgrade.'
They've gotten very political over the last few years. Also, at the same time the paper/binding and quality of articles has gone down, the price has gone up. I still grab it, but I'm not sure why.
Manufacturing moves on to India, then Africa and eventually back to the States. It's the circle of life~
It's pretty rugged. I wouldn't put it up against my olpc but I'd stack it up against a macbook any day. Nevermind the fact that it doesn't need to go into a backpack, since it has a strap.