The story is crazy on its face -- paranoid and just totally off base. It seems they want to exempt satellite imagery from FOIA. That doesn't mean that they still wouldn't release hell of information into the public domain, as they do now. It seems more likely that they don't want to have to release pictures of things that they found interesting, or even release information on where they wanted pictures of.
It wasn't like Yamouchi was out whacking people. The people who played high-stakes Hanafunda just wanted -- or needed -- to use a new deck every time they played the game. And Nintendo was there for them.
By the way, if you ever are in Japan (or some authentic "Japantown"), you should check out Nintendo's Hanafuda cards -- they're awesome. So are their western playing cards. (Yes, they still make both.)
OT, but I once traced the SEARS SMELL to their candy counter. IIRC (I was about 7), the genesis of the smell seemed to be some mixture of caramel corn and regular popcorn. As far as I know, Sears hasn't had a candy counter in YEAR. And yet, the smell persists. WTF? Is it just memory bringing back the smell, or does it somehow linger in the corners?
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I apologize for my agricultural ignorance, but is there some reason you'd want wireless in your wheatfield? Like, is there a reason to have your irrigation machine or tractor online?
A lot of times if a bug creeps in on a console game, they'll fix in subsequent manufacturing runs (slipstream it), then potentially replace bad copies with good ones on a case by case basis.
I'm not sure I can agree. I love Apple's design senses, ever since the IIc, through the original Macs, the IIcx, iMacs, etc. But this design -- I've just *seen* it before. IBM had a PC in a monitor, Sony has had the same thing in a Vaio.
This design maybe - ok certainly is -- the cleanest, PC-in-the-monitor design I've seen, sure, but it isn't a bold step like the original iMac or the lamp iMac designs.
And what's next for the iMac? PC in the mouse? I don't think they left themselves a lot of room to grow.
This is what kills me about all digital music... People frown on cassettes and analog records, but will happily listen to crappy MP3s... You can defeat *any* DRM by using a cable that goes from your line-out jack to your line-in jack. The horror of sound degradation from that method is not going to compare to how crappy you make the MP3 sound anyhow, so what's the big deal?
Of course, most of the music I listen to (bad punk) was probably recorded in a garge with a condenser mike on a Panasonic Slim-line, so I don't really have any audiophile legs to stand on...
The Amish have electricity, and computers, and phones. Just in their barns, not their houses. Only used for work, and connecting with modern delivery logistics systems. There was an article about it in some business mag at one point. Sadly, a quick googling turns up nothing but "amish computer viruses" (hahaha), but trust me, I read it. On the Internet.
Neither Amped nor Links (both produced in Utah) were affected. I'd post the link to the article, but since it was already posted and you didn't read the article, I doubt it would help you!
I believe the IBM extended warrantee does someimes cover this. I have had experience here, as I smashed the screen on my laptop (my fault, cat-5 wrapped around ankle, etc.) a few days after I got it. I called up to get the repair going, and the rep said "did you get the extended warrentee" (it's actually called something different, but I probably couldn't spell that either)? And I was like "no," and the rep was like "sucks to be you, it would have been covered" or something, in more polite IBM talk.
FTR, although it cost an unpleasant amount of money ($800 or $900), the repair was lightning fast and they even shipped it to a third location (where I was on a trip) once it was fixed (which was well before their estimate). IBM Rul0rz.
One of the big reasons they need to know who you are before you get on a plane -- the airline, not the TSA -- is so that if it crashes, they have an accurate list of who died. This prevents notifying the wrong people, etc. It's kind of morbid, but it makes a lot of sense.
One of the reasons the TSA checks IDs everyday is so that if there's ever a time when they need to be checking IDs to make it tougher for someone to travel under a false name, they don't have to suddenly invent the procedure.
Well, there's a simple way around it. Release a keyboard for the Xbox and voila, it's a computer not a console.
Nintendo basically did this in reverse when the crux of an issue between them and Atari regarding the Tetris license was whether or not the NES was a computer or some other thing, a dedicated game playing machine. At the time Nintendo had a keyboard and disk drive planned for the NES. But that would have made it a computer, so those things didn't come out.
Of course, the reality is that every console ever released that had a CPU was also a computer, albeit a dedicated purpose computer, like the dedicated purpose computer you might find at a hospital that runs a heart monitor machine.
All other things being equal, I would definitely say rural poor kids are better off than urban poor kids. It would really suck to be poor in Oakland. When I was recently in Montana I met a lot of people who, based on income alone, would definitely be classed as "poor" but their quality of life was vastly superior to that of urban poor people (as far as I could tell).
That's just not true. Many people who work minimum wage jobs are poor enough to qualify for foodstamps, especially if they have larger families. I'm not saying it doesn't piss me off when I sometimes see someone in Safeway with better clothes than me using foodstamps (note comment about my right-wing politcs in grandparent), but it's totally without sense to just group all people on government assistance together as being some kind of lazy, leisure class. Many -- maybe even most -- people on government assistance use it in the way it was intended.
No, TV isn't the only option at all. There are library books, coloring, crafts, telling stories, etc. But of all the options that cost money, it's the cheapest and offers the most entertainment for the cost. Also, the sad reality is that many poor people have pretty bad education levels, and aren't big readers. Hence, TV becomes even more important to them.
Finally, I'm not talking just about young kids. No one wants to be outside on 98th and Foothill. Teenagers especially need to be kept in if you don't want bad things befalling them.
I see your point for sure, but I'd just say that there's a huge difference between urban poor and rural poor. The net effect may be the roughly the same, but urban poor probably have more total dollars to throw around (albeit with a higher cost of living).
If you live in the country, you can let your kids play outside. If you live on 98th and Foothill in East Oakland, and you let your kids play outside, there's a reasonable chance that they might die or get into serious trouble. Having a TV to keep them occupied -- and inside -- may not seem like such a luxury at that point.
That's just bullshit. There are plenty of people who are poor as hell who still have cars, so they can get to their crappy minimum wage jobs. Without a car, many people would flat out STARVE TO DEATH, and having a car is often more important to the super-poor than anything else. I know, I live near tons of them in East Oakland.
I'd change your list to read something like
If you have to live with 8 other people in a two bedroom house to make rent, you're poor.
If your children face the prospect of going to terrible schools, and you don't have any recourse (like even sending them to better schools in the district), you're poor.
If you'll lose your job if your car breaks down because you won't be able to afford to fix it, you're poor.
A crappy Goodwill TV is $15 *at Goodwill*, so you're not going to get much rent money for selling it. And the entertainment / keep kids off the street value a TV provides is so extreme, I don't even consider whether or not you have cable as a reliable indication of poverty anymore (again, at least where I live, in East Oakland)
Finally, if you're poor and trying to make sure your kids won't be poor, buying a PC is not some indication that you're no longer poverty stricken. Hang out at a Goodwill next time some crappy 486 goes on the floor. It's sold in SECONDS.
I'm about 10 degrees to the right of Atilla the Hun, and even to me your post smacks of total cluelessness about the situation that actual poor people are in.
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I saw it at ComicCon! Or maybe it was E3. But I think it was ComicCon. Anyway, it was kind of nifty, but you had to be right in front of it for it to work well. I have pretty shitty depth perception to begin with (although I can see those Magic Eye things great... go figure), but it was neat. It was hard to imaging a great application though, because it felt like looking at one of those little lenticular things, and it was kind of an effort for me to keep the 3D in view. The monitors (a laptop and a PC monitor) were just showing stills, not moving images, so I can't evaluate that, and also they were on a table and I was standing, so I was not at all at an optimum viewing angle (I had to crouch down, which is not a super sustainable posture at which to evaluate a monitor).
This is a key point. IBM would have been happy to have the IBM-PC be a CP/M-based machine. This was Bill Gate's major stroke of luck. One of the reasons I think Microsoft fights so hard is that they know that they have been good, but also lucky, and they know they *have* to work hard to avoid allowing someone else to get lucky at their expense, as almost happened with Netscape, and which may have happened with Google.
The nice thing about a real keyboard is I can easily move my hands away. If I need to keep a few fingers curled for maximum typing speed, I can let my other fingers hang loose. This device looks like I'll need to actively grip with all my fingers. That might not be fun.
I think the bigger problem is that the people who've been writing these articles have been going to E3 ten years running -- it's bound to get a bit dull (to them) after a while. I remember last year (E3 2003) which was a *DULL* show, I saw a friend give a pass to a 17-year-old kid. I ran into the kid outside later and he was practically orgasmic and almost unable to speak... "I saw MIYAMOTO! I saw HALF LIFE 2! I SAW TONY HAWK! Dude he said Hi to me, I thought I was going to *push* right there!"
I don't even know what the frick "push" means in that context, but it did give a new perspective on E3 being considered dull. It's dull if you're a jaded journalist or gamer who grew up on 8- and 16-bit gaming. If you're 17, or a new gamer, there's nothing dull about it.
My IBM Thinkpad R40 (1.3Ghz Pentium M, built in DVD/CD-RW) has done >180 minutes while playing DVDs (two of them -- Lion King and Nemo (yes, I was travelling cross-country with my son)), and >6 hours while just writing and or surfing. That was when the battery was brand new, but I still see several hours of life when just surfing, etc at home. I've really pounded the battery (probably a near full discharge daily for the past year) too, but performance remains good, even after upgrading to a 7200RPM drive. My screen isn't giant, and dimming that and using IBM's power-management stuff seems to make a great difference.
Battery life and system performence were my main criteria when searching (yeah, I know they can be in conflict!), and I am extremely happy with the ThinkPad. Even after a year, it continues to amaze me just how well IBM designed (and built) this machine.
You can file for statutory damages no matter what, even if you never had a problem with PayPal. From the site:
If you believe you are a claim member and do not fall within the definition of a "Dispute Resolution Claimant" as defined in the Notice of Pendency of Class Action and Proposed Settlement you can make a claim for a payment from the Statutory Damage Fund.
A car accident is one thing, but telling someone to do something which directly kills dozens of people, well, that's something else. I really pity the pilot of that plane, not sure who to trust. I also can't say I have a lot of sympathy for the air traffic controller.
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The story is crazy on its face -- paranoid and just totally off base. It seems they want to exempt satellite imagery from FOIA. That doesn't mean that they still wouldn't release hell of information into the public domain, as they do now. It seems more likely that they don't want to have to release pictures of things that they found interesting, or even release information on where they wanted pictures of.
By the way, if you ever are in Japan (or some authentic "Japantown"), you should check out Nintendo's Hanafuda cards -- they're awesome. So are their western playing cards. (Yes, they still make both.)
OT, but I once traced the SEARS SMELL to their candy counter. IIRC (I was about 7), the genesis of the smell seemed to be some mixture of caramel corn and regular popcorn. As far as I know, Sears hasn't had a candy counter in YEAR. And yet, the smell persists. WTF? Is it just memory bringing back the smell, or does it somehow linger in the corners?
I apologize for my agricultural ignorance, but is there some reason you'd want wireless in your wheatfield? Like, is there a reason to have your irrigation machine or tractor online?
A lot of times if a bug creeps in on a console game, they'll fix in subsequent manufacturing runs (slipstream it), then potentially replace bad copies with good ones on a case by case basis.
This design maybe - ok certainly is -- the cleanest, PC-in-the-monitor design I've seen, sure, but it isn't a bold step like the original iMac or the lamp iMac designs.
And what's next for the iMac? PC in the mouse? I don't think they left themselves a lot of room to grow.
The first Macs had 128K of RAM. You probably started with an SE. Not to be a picky, bastard, but you know...
This is what kills me about all digital music... People frown on cassettes and analog records, but will happily listen to crappy MP3s... You can defeat *any* DRM by using a cable that goes from your line-out jack to your line-in jack. The horror of sound degradation from that method is not going to compare to how crappy you make the MP3 sound anyhow, so what's the big deal?
Of course, most of the music I listen to (bad punk) was probably recorded in a garge with a condenser mike on a Panasonic Slim-line, so I don't really have any audiophile legs to stand on...
The Amish have electricity, and computers, and phones. Just in their barns, not their houses. Only used for work, and connecting with modern delivery logistics systems. There was an article about it in some business mag at one point. Sadly, a quick googling turns up nothing but "amish computer viruses" (hahaha), but trust me, I read it. On the Internet.
Neither Amped nor Links (both produced in Utah) were affected. I'd post the link to the article, but since it was already posted and you didn't read the article, I doubt it would help you!
FTR, although it cost an unpleasant amount of money ($800 or $900), the repair was lightning fast and they even shipped it to a third location (where I was on a trip) once it was fixed (which was well before their estimate). IBM Rul0rz.
One of the reasons the TSA checks IDs everyday is so that if there's ever a time when they need to be checking IDs to make it tougher for someone to travel under a false name, they don't have to suddenly invent the procedure.
Nintendo basically did this in reverse when the crux of an issue between them and Atari regarding the Tetris license was whether or not the NES was a computer or some other thing, a dedicated game playing machine. At the time Nintendo had a keyboard and disk drive planned for the NES. But that would have made it a computer, so those things didn't come out.
Of course, the reality is that every console ever released that had a CPU was also a computer, albeit a dedicated purpose computer, like the dedicated purpose computer you might find at a hospital that runs a heart monitor machine.
Anyway, since most games probably won't be spooling off the UMD (RTA), but instead loading in chunks, it shouldn't be a major issue anyway.
No, TV isn't the only option at all. There are library books, coloring, crafts, telling stories, etc. But of all the options that cost money, it's the cheapest and offers the most entertainment for the cost. Also, the sad reality is that many poor people have pretty bad education levels, and aren't big readers. Hence, TV becomes even more important to them.
Finally, I'm not talking just about young kids. No one wants to be outside on 98th and Foothill. Teenagers especially need to be kept in if you don't want bad things befalling them.
If you live in the country, you can let your kids play outside. If you live on 98th and Foothill in East Oakland, and you let your kids play outside, there's a reasonable chance that they might die or get into serious trouble. Having a TV to keep them occupied -- and inside -- may not seem like such a luxury at that point.
I'd change your list to read something like
If you have to live with 8 other people in a two bedroom house to make rent, you're poor.
If your children face the prospect of going to terrible schools, and you don't have any recourse (like even sending them to better schools in the district), you're poor.
If you'll lose your job if your car breaks down because you won't be able to afford to fix it, you're poor.
A crappy Goodwill TV is $15 *at Goodwill*, so you're not going to get much rent money for selling it. And the entertainment / keep kids off the street value a TV provides is so extreme, I don't even consider whether or not you have cable as a reliable indication of poverty anymore (again, at least where I live, in East Oakland)
Finally, if you're poor and trying to make sure your kids won't be poor, buying a PC is not some indication that you're no longer poverty stricken. Hang out at a Goodwill next time some crappy 486 goes on the floor. It's sold in SECONDS.
I'm about 10 degrees to the right of Atilla the Hun, and even to me your post smacks of total cluelessness about the situation that actual poor people are in.
I saw it at ComicCon! Or maybe it was E3. But I think it was ComicCon. Anyway, it was kind of nifty, but you had to be right in front of it for it to work well. I have pretty shitty depth perception to begin with (although I can see those Magic Eye things great... go figure), but it was neat. It was hard to imaging a great application though, because it felt like looking at one of those little lenticular things, and it was kind of an effort for me to keep the 3D in view. The monitors (a laptop and a PC monitor) were just showing stills, not moving images, so I can't evaluate that, and also they were on a table and I was standing, so I was not at all at an optimum viewing angle (I had to crouch down, which is not a super sustainable posture at which to evaluate a monitor).
This is a key point. IBM would have been happy to have the IBM-PC be a CP/M-based machine. This was Bill Gate's major stroke of luck. One of the reasons I think Microsoft fights so hard is that they know that they have been good, but also lucky, and they know they *have* to work hard to avoid allowing someone else to get lucky at their expense, as almost happened with Netscape, and which may have happened with Google.
The nice thing about a real keyboard is I can easily move my hands away. If I need to keep a few fingers curled for maximum typing speed, I can let my other fingers hang loose. This device looks like I'll need to actively grip with all my fingers. That might not be fun.
I don't even know what the frick "push" means in that context, but it did give a new perspective on E3 being considered dull. It's dull if you're a jaded journalist or gamer who grew up on 8- and 16-bit gaming. If you're 17, or a new gamer, there's nothing dull about it.
Battery life and system performence were my main criteria when searching (yeah, I know they can be in conflict!), and I am extremely happy with the ThinkPad. Even after a year, it continues to amaze me just how well IBM designed (and built) this machine.
If you believe you are a claim member and do not fall within the definition of a "Dispute Resolution Claimant" as defined in the Notice of Pendency of Class Action and Proposed Settlement you can make a claim for a payment from the Statutory Damage Fund.
Use this form to file a statutory damage claim.
A car accident is one thing, but telling someone to do something which directly kills dozens of people, well, that's something else. I really pity the pilot of that plane, not sure who to trust. I also can't say I have a lot of sympathy for the air traffic controller.