My 2 year old daughter loves ( L - O - V - E - S - !) the Fiest 1,2,3,4 Sesame Street video and has watched it since she was a little younger than 1. She dances and sings and it has never gotten old. In the beginning she was so enamoured with it, it was like watching those old movies of Beatles fans grasping their heads and shrieking with delight. She'd wave at the characters and definitely was interpretting it right from the start. It had less than 7 million hits a year ago, and at 14 million and counting, I am sure she is not the only fan.
Introducing music to kids is great and I'd add that its fun for me to do too.. I'd have to say that this is different than plugging her into a TV set to watch the eye-candy slackjawed n drooling and I noted the ADHD link with fast edit kids media recently It is a much more interactive thing where she picks her favourite videos to watch as a treat. We talk about the characters and animals and sometimes do drawings after. Another favorite is a Woody Guthrie classic and we sing it together sometimes. She digs the iPad since she can click on suggested videos at the end of one... OF course it is a supervise activity.
How much of that revenue comes from the huge bundle of pre-installed of demos?
However, their PC tower at a big box store was competitive priced compared with a generic import computer store.
Generally I don't support HP, tho I was very impressed with the Green packaging a friends new printer came with.. no plastic wrappers, instead it all was packaged in a re-usable shopping totebag and accessory pouch.
I'm ok with the mod system as-is. With 2 exceptions:
- A fractional mod pt rating capability for all logged in users as suggested by Capt.DrumkenBum.. Used parallel to the regular mod score, rather than combining scores.
- Add META/THEME-Classification for each comment: Explanation, Information, Advice, Commentary, Humour, Analysis, History, Null. The Theme is initially set by the poster. This is used in addition to regular mods.
SO: Informative Advice vs Funny Advice. Funny Humour vs Overrated Humour. Interesting Science vs Interesting History
Moderation can re-classify a comment's Theme. Add a viewing filter for Themes, such as an array of sliders. That way, standard mod ups are more targeted, and can also be viewed as such. An informative thread can be viewed independently of a thread-jacking good joke.
Privacy in mod-up/downs is important to maintain separation of memes from individuals. Attack ideas not people
The constant forced upgrade cycles and confusing versioning in Firefox has left me with an unpleasantly different experience every time I upgrade. Not to mention gui redesigns and plug-in fails. So I don't upgrade.. and then when I do the upgrades fail and I can't roll-back without a re-install from what I can tell. The bitch is: it never gets stable, or shuts up about it. In fact I've quit using it altogether for the first time Firefox was released. Now I use Safari wtf.
Looks like it could self assemble.. meaning several modules could be fit thru a fairly narrow diameter pipe in a snakelike configuration. I'm thinking either through a bore hole, or perhaps entering a building via the sewage system.. and reconfigure itself once situated. I mean really, how many people lock their toilets?
I suggest you shop for a turnkey vendor with an up-time monitoring & support package and signal strength survey as part of installation. That way when any trouble is observed, its logged and dealt with before the front-desk gets inundated with calls. Nothing is going to make you more unpopular with this business than the sheer volume of calls when it stops working. It will be inconvenient for you to drop everything to service this low-markup client. Save tinker toy wi-fi play for hobby time.
The tips of the lil buggers break off inside the socket like the mating tactic of some insects. Cheap 3.5mm plugs are weak.
Fix her equipment: bend 1mm or so at the tip of a smallish very thin safety pin (safety first!)
Insert into the socket, alongside the busted bit using the spring loaded tab inside the socket to your advantage. Pull it back to remove the plug. It might take a couple minutes. Chicks love it when you do this. Repair shops advocate motherboard replacement. You could however; delay your "repair sucess" until after a meal is served.
Regardless of production planning, in sub-contractor (monkey) shops, the budget a production team has is decided during a frenetic few day/week bid process where they are played against each other by a publisher (gorilla) to cut their bid by substantial percentages (think 50% or so).
There is little management can do when served that plate of shit. Anyone seen yelling matches with the boss who keeps bidding low to keep his foot in the door with the publishers? Throw your plans out the window and shift into firefighting mode from day 1. That is why these small studios wither so frequently, people do vote with their feet; however, same story at the next job due to the structure of cash-flow in the industry. Same result if employees do not deliver, the company loses the contract and everyone on the team is out of a job, especially if they are short-term contractors brought in for the production. Teams making sensible modular re-useable code will win in the long run, because developing long term efficiency will be rewarded long term by residuals rather than seen as overhead on "work for hire."
Forcing residuals to trickle down assures that the big publishers have to pay out to those that keep their brand going year in year out. Instead, its a shell game where no one is around long enough to allow them to assert themselves as a stakeholder except the skullfucking motherfuckers. There needs to be some method of directing cash to the periphery rather than keeping it above the glass ceiling. I think that small companies will certainly have better stability and working conditions given that, rather than the oft heard hollow promise of "next year's contract".
Percentage of overall software sales should be mandated by law for employees and contractors. The boundary for this should include coders, artists & platform port teams, but stop somewhere before functionaries such as translation and printing ad copy. It avoids but does not preclude the "union" issue. The residual would accumulate after the percentage accumulation passes the salary earned on the project. It would protect against the disenfranchisement and emotional/fiscal abuse that occurs, yet still allow producers to have a reasonable break even point.
This whole "brand" licensing thing has funneled the money away from those who actually do the work, and the trend towards short term contractors leads to the littlest guy taking the hit on fair wages, job security and benefits to protect the bottom line of the gorillas in the room and the monkeys that fight each other all the way to the bottom to kiss gorilla butt..
speaking from experience of being a crucial (yet by monkey madness necessity cheap) monkey employed sub-whore for several triple A titles, I have seen lots of monkey companies go down, with the same individuals being re-hired by different outfits for the same project. Just sayin.
The recent meal, the un-plundered artifacts (valuable copper axe, knife, arrows, fire kit & clothing) found with him and determination of injuries sure sounds like he died alone in a "chase" involving two groups. Wikipedia mentions multiple blood evidence. Most intriguing is the sophistication of his shoes or possibly framed snowshoes.
My country is a member of NATO, yet I am not held personally accountable for bombing raids that kill civilians. Am I supposed to be accountable for what some anonymous people do, simply because I too expect and implement privacy of identity?
I suggest the term "NANONYMOUS" for those who wish to be unknown, but not confused with the "Anonymous". PS: I for one welcome our hiveminded and unknown overlords.
Got into Autoit on a recent project. Definitely a good implementation. Did what I wanted completely.
I was calling Autoit into and out of Maya (3D) scripts, chaining it all together. Was able to wait and timeout on specific Maya exporter dialogs and trap contingencies.
There was a little funny business with different ways of accessing the windows controls, but not too hard, just ganked code from some demos.
In pictures, the beginning of our century may be looked back on as the time when everyone was happy (smile detection) and people had perfect looks (retouch).
We look at old photos of frozen lakes and giant crowds and consider them accurate. Tho, it turns out people took photos of the lake being frozen or the crowded streets because it was exceptional rather than that being the norm.
I recall reading that the Spanish plundered gold and silver discs that were several feet in diameter in their conquest of the South American peoples. It was suggested that they were solar concentrators similar to the one demonstrated, since smaller ones are known to have been used in lighting ritual fires, the larger ones may have had a more practical purpose, including shaping stone.
That tired old "buy stock" slogan again? If you give enough money to the racketeers, they might do what you want?!?
Anyways, where does it say that a citizen need buy stock to exercise democratic rights? If a country does not have control of its currency, its not very sovereign is it? To quote: " Sure as hell ain't a Democracy".
A business has to bear its own cost of doing its own business, ie maintaining its cash reserves, by deposit envelope, or armoured car. That is the business' own problem, not society's.
That is different than a person who has a requirement in today's society to transact in cash to service their daily needs. It is the profiteering off these daily monetary transactions by these "meta businesses" that are vampiric and it then becomes political. The surcharges are essentially unavoidable.
There is very little cost to provide the "service", shown by the billions in annual profits by those e-cash corporations. They have inserted themselves between the issuer of the financial instrument (the government) and the end user of the instrument (the citizen) and impose a surcharge, which in effect is a "tax" on cash. (For the service. Not to be confused with interest, which is a whole other bookeeping scam, since as we all should know the money didn't exist in the first place: the initial balance is created from naught and then balanced by writing it off at the end of the loan.. )
The collectors of this "tax" have no obligations to those they are collecting from, and instead have shown themselves to be dictatorial. At the point an institution attempts to control society or limit access to government issued privaleges, it is no longer a "business", it is attempting to act with "governance".
"Service" charges on electronic cash transactions to me are little more than taxation without representation. The only choice one can make is who skims your money.
If these services are to be a replacement for legal tender, what charter protects them as legal tender transactions?
At what point does this bypass democracy? (Thinking of Wikileaks donation issue, among others).
I can only see the model with lycra shorts on; however, on firefox at least, however at a distance, the clothes partially disappear due to Z granularity.
Incorporation is a privilege granted, rather than a certainty, or a "right". It can be revoked, although in the century since the accountants and lawyers started running things, it hasn't happened much. BP's apparent dishonesty and negligence would seem valid reasons for this action, given the outcome: Many people dead and a huge environmental / economic effect.
After seeing this proclaimed "biggest US environmental disaster", I think we might consider all the other massive impacts of industrialization on the US and question not how bad the Gulf is (terrible and worse every moment), but just how bad everything else that has been allowed to become. (mountain top removal, pesticide and medications in water supplies, species extinctions, massive deforestation, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, etc) Can we really be sucked into believing that this is just one bad thing on one bad day?
The few tractors I have driven had a stacked wet clutch.. you need the stacked plates to get enough friction area to handle the high torque of the bull-low ranges, and the lubrication helps prolong the life of it/distributes heat.
A standard dry clutch on a stick shift wears faster than a stacked wet clutch in an automatic transmission with a torque converter. Show me a dry clutch as used on most cars that outlasts an automatic transmission.
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My 2 year old daughter loves ( L - O - V - E - S - !) the Fiest 1,2,3,4 Sesame Street video and has watched it since she was a little younger than 1. She dances and sings and it has never gotten old. In the beginning she was so enamoured with it, it was like watching those old movies of Beatles fans grasping their heads and shrieking with delight. She'd wave at the characters and definitely was interpretting it right from the start. It had less than 7 million hits a year ago, and at 14 million and counting, I am sure she is not the only fan.
Introducing music to kids is great and I'd add that its fun for me to do too.. I'd have to say that this is different than plugging her into a TV set to watch the eye-candy slackjawed n drooling and I noted the ADHD link with fast edit kids media recently It is a much more interactive thing where she picks her favourite videos to watch as a treat. We talk about the characters and animals and sometimes do drawings after. Another favorite is a Woody Guthrie classic and we sing it together sometimes. She digs the iPad since she can click on suggested videos at the end of one... OF course it is a supervise activity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P1M5bMbHNU&NR=1
Inhaling just a few tablespoons of fresh water can kill you. Salt water can be tolerated tho due to its salinity(isotonic).
How much of that revenue comes from the huge bundle of pre-installed of demos?
However, their PC tower at a big box store was competitive priced compared with a generic import computer store.
Generally I don't support HP, tho I was very impressed with the Green packaging a friends new printer came with.. no plastic wrappers, instead it all was packaged in a re-usable shopping totebag and accessory pouch.
I'm ok with the mod system as-is. With 2 exceptions:
- A fractional mod pt rating capability for all logged in users as suggested by Capt.DrumkenBum.. Used parallel to the regular mod score, rather than combining scores.
- Add META/THEME-Classification for each comment: Explanation, Information, Advice, Commentary, Humour, Analysis, History, Null. The Theme is initially set by the poster. This is used in addition to regular mods.
SO: Informative Advice vs Funny Advice. Funny Humour vs Overrated Humour. Interesting Science vs Interesting History
Moderation can re-classify a comment's Theme. Add a viewing filter for Themes, such as an array of sliders. That way, standard mod ups are more targeted, and can also be viewed as such. An informative thread can be viewed independently of a thread-jacking good joke.
Privacy in mod-up/downs is important to maintain separation of memes from individuals. Attack ideas not people
The constant forced upgrade cycles and confusing versioning in Firefox has left me with an unpleasantly different experience every time I upgrade. Not to mention gui redesigns and plug-in fails. So I don't upgrade.. and then when I do the upgrades fail and I can't roll-back without a re-install from what I can tell. The bitch is: it never gets stable, or shuts up about it.
In fact I've quit using it altogether for the first time Firefox was released. Now I use Safari wtf.
Looks like it could self assemble.. meaning several modules could be fit thru a fairly narrow diameter pipe in a snakelike configuration. I'm thinking either through a bore hole, or perhaps entering a building via the sewage system.. and reconfigure itself once situated. I mean really, how many people lock their toilets?
You get the picture.
I suggest you shop for a turnkey vendor with an up-time monitoring & support package and signal strength survey as part of installation. That way when any trouble is observed, its logged and dealt with before the front-desk gets inundated with calls. Nothing is going to make you more unpopular with this business than the sheer volume of calls when it stops working. It will be inconvenient for you to drop everything to service this low-markup client. Save tinker toy wi-fi play for hobby time.
The tips of the lil buggers break off inside the socket like the mating tactic of some insects. Cheap 3.5mm plugs are weak.
Fix her equipment: bend 1mm or so at the tip of a smallish very thin safety pin (safety first!) Insert into the socket, alongside the busted bit using the spring loaded tab inside the socket to your advantage. Pull it back to remove the plug. It might take a couple minutes. Chicks love it when you do this.
Repair shops advocate motherboard replacement. You could however; delay your "repair sucess" until after a meal is served.
Regardless of production planning, in sub-contractor (monkey) shops, the budget a production team has is decided during a frenetic few day/week bid process where they are played against each other by a publisher (gorilla) to cut their bid by substantial percentages (think 50% or so).
There is little management can do when served that plate of shit. Anyone seen yelling matches with the boss who keeps bidding low to keep his foot in the door with the publishers? Throw your plans out the window and shift into firefighting mode from day 1. That is why these small studios wither so frequently, people do vote with their feet; however, same story at the next job due to the structure of cash-flow in the industry. Same result if employees do not deliver, the company loses the contract and everyone on the team is out of a job, especially if they are short-term contractors brought in for the production. Teams making sensible modular re-useable code will win in the long run, because developing long term efficiency will be rewarded long term by residuals rather than seen as overhead on "work for hire."
Forcing residuals to trickle down assures that the big publishers have to pay out to those that keep their brand going year in year out. Instead, its a shell game where no one is around long enough to allow them to assert themselves as a stakeholder except the skullfucking motherfuckers. There needs to be some method of directing cash to the periphery rather than keeping it above the glass ceiling. I think that small companies will certainly have better stability and working conditions given that, rather than the oft heard hollow promise of "next year's contract".
Percentage of overall software sales should be mandated by law for employees and contractors. The boundary for this should include coders, artists & platform port teams, but stop somewhere before functionaries such as translation and printing ad copy. It avoids but does not preclude the "union" issue. The residual would accumulate after the percentage accumulation passes the salary earned on the project. It would protect against the disenfranchisement and emotional/fiscal abuse that occurs, yet still allow producers to have a reasonable break even point.
This whole "brand" licensing thing has funneled the money away from those who actually do the work, and the trend towards short term contractors leads to the littlest guy taking the hit on fair wages, job security and benefits to protect the bottom line of the gorillas in the room and the monkeys that fight each other all the way to the bottom to kiss gorilla butt..
speaking from experience of being a crucial (yet by monkey madness necessity cheap) monkey employed sub-whore for several triple A titles, I have seen lots of monkey companies go down, with the same individuals being re-hired by different outfits for the same project. Just sayin.
The recent meal, the un-plundered artifacts (valuable copper axe, knife, arrows, fire kit & clothing) found with him and determination of injuries sure sounds like he died alone in a "chase" involving two groups. Wikipedia mentions multiple blood evidence. Most intriguing is the sophistication of his shoes or possibly framed snowshoes.
My country is a member of NATO, yet I am not held personally accountable for bombing raids that kill civilians. Am I supposed to be accountable for what some anonymous people do, simply because I too expect and implement privacy of identity?
I suggest the term "NANONYMOUS" for those who wish to be unknown, but not confused with the "Anonymous". PS: I for one welcome our hiveminded and unknown overlords.
"Bana" - nanonymous
Got into Autoit on a recent project. Definitely a good implementation. Did what I wanted completely. I was calling Autoit into and out of Maya (3D) scripts, chaining it all together. Was able to wait and timeout on specific Maya exporter dialogs and trap contingencies. There was a little funny business with different ways of accessing the windows controls, but not too hard, just ganked code from some demos.
In pictures, the beginning of our century may be looked back on as the time when everyone was happy (smile detection) and people had perfect looks (retouch).
We look at old photos of frozen lakes and giant crowds and consider them accurate. Tho, it turns out people took photos of the lake being frozen or the crowded streets because it was exceptional rather than that being the norm.
I recall reading that the Spanish plundered gold and silver discs that were several feet in diameter in their conquest of the South American peoples. It was suggested that they were solar concentrators similar to the one demonstrated, since smaller ones are known to have been used in lighting ritual fires, the larger ones may have had a more practical purpose, including shaping stone.
That tired old "buy stock" slogan again? If you give enough money to the racketeers, they might do what you want?!?
Anyways, where does it say that a citizen need buy stock to exercise democratic rights? If a country does not have control of its currency, its not very sovereign is it? To quote: " Sure as hell ain't a Democracy".
My reply to the comments:
A business has to bear its own cost of doing its own business, ie maintaining its cash reserves, by deposit envelope, or armoured car. That is the business' own problem, not society's.
That is different than a person who has a requirement in today's society to transact in cash to service their daily needs. It is the profiteering off these daily monetary transactions by these "meta businesses" that are vampiric and it then becomes political. The surcharges are essentially unavoidable.
There is very little cost to provide the "service", shown by the billions in annual profits by those e-cash corporations. They have inserted themselves between the issuer of the financial instrument (the government) and the end user of the instrument (the citizen) and impose a surcharge, which in effect is a "tax" on cash. (For the service. Not to be confused with interest, which is a whole other bookeeping scam, since as we all should know the money didn't exist in the first place: the initial balance is created from naught and then balanced by writing it off at the end of the loan.. )
The collectors of this "tax" have no obligations to those they are collecting from, and instead have shown themselves to be dictatorial. At the point an institution attempts to control society or limit access to government issued privaleges, it is no longer a "business", it is attempting to act with "governance".
If corporations can give to government, but people can't give to corporations, the issue of financial instruments has become fundamental to your democracy.
As far as old catchphrases go, how about "you suck", you ignorant hellbent moron.
"Service" charges on electronic cash transactions to me are little more than taxation without representation. The only choice one can make is who skims your money. If these services are to be a replacement for legal tender, what charter protects them as legal tender transactions? At what point does this bypass democracy? (Thinking of Wikileaks donation issue, among others).
I can only see the model with lycra shorts on; however, on firefox at least, however at a distance, the clothes partially disappear due to Z granularity.
Incorporation is a privilege granted, rather than a certainty, or a "right". It can be revoked, although in the century since the accountants and lawyers started running things, it hasn't happened much. BP's apparent dishonesty and negligence would seem valid reasons for this action, given the outcome: Many people dead and a huge environmental / economic effect.
After seeing this proclaimed "biggest US environmental disaster", I think we might consider all the other massive impacts of industrialization on the US and question not how bad the Gulf is (terrible and worse every moment), but just how bad everything else that has been allowed to become. (mountain top removal, pesticide and medications in water supplies, species extinctions, massive deforestation, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, etc) Can we really be sucked into believing that this is just one bad thing on one bad day?
The few tractors I have driven had a stacked wet clutch.. you need the stacked plates to get enough friction area to handle the high torque of the bull-low ranges, and the lubrication helps prolong the life of it/distributes heat.
It needs to match torque like you said, not power. Torque can be achieved with gear reduction, power needs greater input.
A standard dry clutch on a stick shift wears faster than a stacked wet clutch in an automatic transmission with a torque converter. Show me a dry clutch as used on most cars that outlasts an automatic transmission.
I've posted about this here I think the control system needs to match torque, not power.