The IRS doesn't archive mail. It backs up its Exchange servers for disaster, but not for endless archiving, because there is no requirement for them to do so. [NARA says so.]
Someone with a laptop had their laptop crash in 2012 and lost a PST file, or someone upgraded them to Windows 7 and didn't back up their personal junk. Astonishing!
Oh, man, you're killing me here. That's the funniest thing I've seen here in a long time.
Numerous government organizations use 90-day retention policies for email. They're deleted from the server, which is why people keep PST files -- which they probably shouldn't either, but network admins bend to the will of executives...you know, in every organization everywhere.
NARA makes pretty damned clear that the only federal government requirement for archiving email is when it's a "record" and goes on to describe what a "record" is.
Do you also propose that they maintain the hardware to restore these backups forever on whatever medium they were originally stored, or do you advocate they re-archive them to a newer format every 5 years until the eventual heat death of the universe?
This amounts to "once we figure out how to monetize this, we'll own your stuff and you can't do anything about it unless you agree to the pittance we'll offer".
OF COUSE it does. That was the goal on day one of YouTube; and Google bought them because they understood that vision.
Do you think YouTube bought all those hard disks and and bandwidth to not monetize it efficiently?
Google is now saying that anybody who has a song up on YouTube that Google would like to include in their (for pay) streaming services (at a crappy rate of compensation) will have it removed from YouTube unless the artist signs up for these terms.
That's not what they're saying, despite people trying to interpret it that way.
They're saying that record labels who use YouTube as the distribution (and revenue) channel for their artists need to deal with them.
You, an independent artist, can upload whatever you want, just like you always could.
Yes, everyone else except music labels. You, an artist, are allowed, without any special deal, to upload videos of your music to YouTube, without need for a special deal.
Your music label isn't going to be allowed to use YouTube as it's distribution (and revenue) channel without a deal.
The average car "costs" 14,000 pounds of CO2 to make, which is roughly the same as a thousand gallons of gas. A new car gets 36 miles to the gallon, so unless you only drive a car for 3 years before lighting it on fire for Earth Day 2017, your math is wrong.
A new electric car costs perhaps 30,000 pounds of CO2 to make, meaning it doesn't break even on CO2 until year 4-5 or so, depending on how dirty your grid electricity is (coal in Oklahoma versus lots of renewable energy on the pacific northwest).
Similarly, Google - though YouTube - is under no obligation to show anything for anyone.
It's hardly "evil" for them to provide a free platform for independent artists, just because they're independent artists. Artists whom they're willing to compensate, by the way... Feel free to upload to Vimeo.
A lot of these records simply don't make sense in public -- in that they take hours. Robotron, for example, in the default Marathon setting is a marathon. Despite some nagging questions about the supposed Marathon high score, a great player can rack up enough free lives to run to the bathroom (quickly) before dying completely. It's purely a matter of how long a great player can stay awake, since any top tier player can average more than 25,000 points per life. Missile Command clocks in the same way at two days to get the Marathon mode score.
Those are extreme cases, and games that have tournament modes, but there are plenty of games that take forever. Even the fastest perfect PacMan score takes almost 4 hours.
All the other challengers? They're almost all video-taped sumissions.
Or by "in public" do you mean sitting in your garage like Steve Wiebe recording yourself? Or like Tim Sczerby, who had the #2 score in 2007 (not Mitchell), since Wiebe was already #1 in 2003 with a previously submitted video tape -- he was bumping up his own score.
The record has changed hands like 10 more times since then, to 4-5 players, including Mitchell.
He's saying that some boards are expensive, should you restore, say, a JAMMA a cabinet and want to actually own multiple games and swap original hardware.
There are numerous $200-500 boards on eBay right now, and a quick search for expensive JAMMA boards has threads discussing rare boards costing well over $1000.
Of *course* you can get a 60-in-1 board from Hong Kong for cheap in your "real" JAMMA cabinet, and you can *absolutely* just emulate nearly everything in MAME, but, he's totally right, real boards can cost a lot.
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Why is this so hard to understand?
The IRS doesn't archive mail. It backs up its Exchange servers for disaster, but not for endless archiving, because there is no requirement for them to do so. [NARA says so.]
Someone with a laptop had their laptop crash in 2012 and lost a PST file, or someone upgraded them to Windows 7 and didn't back up their personal junk. Astonishing!
In fact, a hard copy is required.
BWAHAHAHA!
Oh, man, you're killing me here. That's the funniest thing I've seen here in a long time.
Numerous government organizations use 90-day retention policies for email. They're deleted from the server, which is why people keep PST files -- which they probably shouldn't either, but network admins bend to the will of executives...you know, in every organization everywhere.
NARA makes pretty damned clear that the only federal government requirement for archiving email is when it's a "record" and goes on to describe what a "record" is.
http://www.archives.gov/record...
The only argument here is if some of those emails constitute "records" or not.
You're kidding right?
Do you also propose that they maintain the hardware to restore these backups forever on whatever medium they were originally stored, or do you advocate they re-archive them to a newer format every 5 years until the eventual heat death of the universe?
"Half of the money they collect" is at best, incredibly misleading. At worst, it's a complete lie.
Granted, its been years since i last tried Maps for gps duty, but i dont think it changed that much as far as that is concerned.
Sure. Why bother to check when you can just reply.
Offline access - completely pre-loading towns, cities, whatever, got added in mid-2012.
No.
It's a choice between experience or no experience.
Anyone with sufficient experience will come from some background and bring with them some bias.
Indeed.
Who do you want leading the FCC? Someone with no experience in the communications industry?
Any perceived good or bad in his bias is just going to be a matter of which side of the fight that you're on.
RE: 5. Google Maps allows pre-caching of maps, for whatever that's worth.
WSJ citing the 2012 comprehensive life-cycle analysis in Journal of Industrial Ecology.
I've seen similar numbers before and factored them into my Leaf purchase -- although economy was our primary driving factor.
This amounts to "once we figure out how to monetize this, we'll own your stuff and you can't do anything about it unless you agree to the pittance we'll offer".
OF COUSE it does. That was the goal on day one of YouTube; and Google bought them because they understood that vision.
Do you think YouTube bought all those hard disks and and bandwidth to not monetize it efficiently?
Google's drawn the line somewhere. I confess to not knowing where.
Objection. Leading.
Tell it to the kids, who stopped watching television, and only watch streaming media.
Google is now saying that anybody who has a song up on YouTube that Google would like to include in their (for pay) streaming services (at a crappy rate of compensation) will have it removed from YouTube unless the artist signs up for these terms.
That's not what they're saying, despite people trying to interpret it that way.
They're saying that record labels who use YouTube as the distribution (and revenue) channel for their artists need to deal with them.
You, an independent artist, can upload whatever you want, just like you always could.
Yes, everyone else except music labels. You, an artist, are allowed, without any special deal, to upload videos of your music to YouTube, without need for a special deal.
Your music label isn't going to be allowed to use YouTube as it's distribution (and revenue) channel without a deal.
How evil.
You're free to upload your videos, cat, music, or other.
Your music label is not free to do so unless it signs a deal for licensing and distribution.
Hardly.
The average car "costs" 14,000 pounds of CO2 to make, which is roughly the same as a thousand gallons of gas. A new car gets 36 miles to the gallon, so unless you only drive a car for 3 years before lighting it on fire for Earth Day 2017, your math is wrong.
A new electric car costs perhaps 30,000 pounds of CO2 to make, meaning it doesn't break even on CO2 until year 4-5 or so, depending on how dirty your grid electricity is (coal in Oklahoma versus lots of renewable energy on the pacific northwest).
The internet is full of special snowflakes.
Similarly, Google - though YouTube - is under no obligation to show anything for anyone.
It's hardly "evil" for them to provide a free platform for independent artists, just because they're independent artists. Artists whom they're willing to compensate, by the way... Feel free to upload to Vimeo.
However, if their database is wrong(translating BFF to Big Fat Friend for example), then it's kind of moot anyway.
Now it's just a question if Moot is in there.
A lot of these records simply don't make sense in public -- in that they take hours. Robotron, for example, in the default Marathon setting is a marathon. Despite some nagging questions about the supposed Marathon high score, a great player can rack up enough free lives to run to the bathroom (quickly) before dying completely. It's purely a matter of how long a great player can stay awake, since any top tier player can average more than 25,000 points per life. Missile Command clocks in the same way at two days to get the Marathon mode score.
Those are extreme cases, and games that have tournament modes, but there are plenty of games that take forever. Even the fastest perfect PacMan score takes almost 4 hours.
All the other challengers? They're almost all video-taped sumissions.
Or by "in public" do you mean sitting in your garage like Steve Wiebe recording yourself? Or like Tim Sczerby, who had the #2 score in 2007 (not Mitchell), since Wiebe was already #1 in 2003 with a previously submitted video tape -- he was bumping up his own score.
The record has changed hands like 10 more times since then, to 4-5 players, including Mitchell.
You're responding to the wrong thing.
He's saying that some boards are expensive, should you restore, say, a JAMMA a cabinet and want to actually own multiple games and swap original hardware.
There are numerous $200-500 boards on eBay right now, and a quick search for expensive JAMMA boards has threads discussing rare boards costing well over $1000.
Of *course* you can get a 60-in-1 board from Hong Kong for cheap in your "real" JAMMA cabinet, and you can *absolutely* just emulate nearly everything in MAME, but, he's totally right, real boards can cost a lot.
Two D batteries are going to be huge.
It also encourages new solutions, not just derivatives.