I said the same thing about my own storage needs a few years ago when I bought a TeraStation. Then I turned my computer into a media center and that extra space quickly disappeared. I don't think that digital storage of movies and television shows is that far away considering how cheap hard drive space is getting and how fast our internet connections are growing. Before I started storing my music in digital format I could never dream of using more than 20GB of space. Then 100GB seemed absurd.
We may not be the "standard consumers" but in many cases we are the harbingers of them.
Oh for pete's sake he/she was making a generality. Of course there are going to be exceptions but in general, he/she is right. PS games tend to be more violent than Nintendo games and the audiences are clearly different.
My Bias: I want a Wii and would never pay $600 for a console
Have you ever done this on a windows machine for an extended period of time? I did it for about a week before I gave up. Some programs don't even run unless you are administrator.
Now if we are talking about a work enviornment then sure, give everyone in the building (except engineering) non-admin accounts, but I would never recommend doing it to someone who didn't have a high level of computer knowledge and patience or an equivalant IT staff on hand to help out with any issues.
carrier for video is not going to be a mainstream technology anymore.
I'm not so sure about that. There is a lot to be said for the "impulse" buy and all the fancy packaging. While my entire music collection is on my computer/iPod I'm certainly in a minority and I've had to fight tooth and nail to get my fiance to follow suit. Perhaps we will instead of little ram drives that contain the movie which is downloaded to our players? I'm also not sure that a subscription service will really work for movies as I doubt that all the movie studios will get behind one service and then you'll have to either subscribe to a dozen or pick and choose.
On another note, I thought that HD-DVD used standard lasers for their format and simply changed the compression algorithm to fit more onto a single disc. Thus making it cheaper to produce a player that is backwards compatible since you don't need two lasers to read it. Perhaps I am missing something but if this is the case it spells bad news for blue ray but NOT hd-dvd.
EILALILFL&O (Everything I learned about law I learned from Law & Order), but it seems to me that if an officer catches you in the middle of a crime then they have enough probable cause to arrest you. However, if they are building up evidence against you they would need a judge to sign an arrest warrant. Heck, i don't even think they can bring you in for questioning against your will without a warrant.
I work for company that sees a ton of traffic from MSN, yahoo and AOL. Through partnerships with these portals we host content that makes everyone involved a good deal of money. We also use "opt-out/opt-in" emailing on our registration pages. Not Spam. One of these emails is a daily alert of the new data in the specific area the user was searching in. Now when the "brilliant" AOL user gets sick of these emails do they click on our "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email? NO! They click the nice and easy to find spam button next to the email without even reading it.
Now the spam filter system that AOL uses is a sort of threshold system. If enough people report a specific sender as spam then they get blacklisted and then our customers who rely on these emails get pissed. All that their "white list" does is increase that threshold, it does not, however, gaurentee our email will get through.
Even though we have a partnership with them they will still blacklist us if enough people report us as spam. We have since had to setup a feedback loop where by if someone clicks the spam button on one of our emails AOL will send us the email (without the email address) and we have to figure out how to unsubscribe them from our lists.
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Slightly off topic but your t-shirt comment reminded me of the newspaper headline in American Dad last night:
There is also no advertisment link in the article, which means that they would have not direct way of knowing how much money they make off of the article. I assume that is why the article is noticably lacking in links of any kind. I picture would have been nice though.
I had the exact same problem and was most frustrated by my in-ability to check-in online. I found it very ironic that "Thomas Paine" is on the terrorism watch list. I would joke that it's a really old list that we got from our former colonial masters. The saddest part is that it's not our actual name on the list, but the Soundex of your name. So in theory "Thomas Paine" could have the same soundex as "Osama Bin Laden", it doesn't but you get my point.
So I was going through the same dozen hoops that you were until I found this out, at which point I came up with a solution. The next plane ticket I bought I used "Thomas Anthony Paine" on my plane ticket and was able to check-in online (a necessity with southwest) without any issues. I still use the same southwest club card and everything, just a slightly different name on my card. Note that Thomas A Paine would not have worked because vowels aren't used to create a soundex.
The bogusness of their "decision" is pretty clear consider that they pulled the "backwards compatibility" red herring out, as every commercial blu-ray player will offer full backwards compatibility.
But at what cost? HD-DVD uses the same "laser", all blue-ray players will need to have a second "laser" installed in order to be backwards compatible. I would imagine that this would significantly increase the cost of the player.
One other thing to keep in mind is the rumor that the blue-ray disc will have a much thinner layer of protection over the data making them far more susceptible to scratches that permanently damage a disc... can you imagine loosing 50GB of data because of a sratch?
I heartily agree with you in reference to flying, fighting and driving games. The console controllers are far superior to anything specifically designed for the PC. Thankfully they make handy adapters or else my bf1942 flying skills would have remained elusive I'm sure.
There are a few clear advantages to an expensive PC like the superior graphics and user interface the keyboard & mouse. Though I did enjoy hooking up my ps2 controller to my machine for flying in bf1942. Also I'm sure you will agree that a computer overall is far more usefull than a console. So I see it as not building a PC instead of buying a console, but putting a few extra bucks into the PC I'm building to make it all the more powerful.
These are surface issues though. To me the main reason that the PC gaming market will never die is because of inovation. Any old joe can make a game or app for the PC that can greatly enhance gamer experience. Take X-Box Live for example which is an awesome service that happens to be a complete copy of Roger Wilco/Teamspeak. With a console being proprietary and requiring an expensive dev kit the global innovation that open source loves so much is stiffled.
did you miss the part where i said that they requested the email? Therefore it is not SPAM by definition. Get a clue, people are lazy and mark stuff as spam because it's easier than unsubscribing.
Yes, but the problem is that AOL's so called "whitelist" is more like a gray list. My company has an extensive parternship with AOL supplying all of their real estate listings yet still we can not get all of our email through their servers. Essentially their whitelist just gives you more leeway for those dumb people who would rather mark something as spam instead of unsubscribing from something they asked for. Instead of only needing X "this is spam" clicks we need X+Y number of clicks. so. freaking. dumb.
Since I don't like spoilers would someone be interested in reading the article and give me a basic summary (here come the spoilers). It would have been nice if the summary did as much.
I'm not talking about a perpetual energy source, I'm talking about a viable one. Whether it be coal, gas or nuclear the amount of energy put in (usually in the form of heat) is less than the amount of energy put out (usually as electricity). Otherwise a power plant would only consume energy which sort of defeats the point.
The reaction gave off an isotope of helium along with subatomic particles known as neutrons, a characteristic of fusion. The experiment did not, however, produce more energy than the amount put in -- an achievement that would be a huge breakthrough.
To me this was the most important part of the article and the summary would have benefited for it. The quote shows the reason why this only has limited applications.
You are missing the point of discrimination. It doesn't matter if there are certain requirements for some religiouns all members of all faiths have equal protection from discrimination based on their choice of faith. How do you think those people would feel if you told them that they had to hide thier faith in order to be not discriminated against. It's not like gay people are asking for the right to participate in gay pride events. They are asking to have their job qualification based upon their skill as an employee and not upon their sexual oreintation.
To your last point, i have a gay friend who simply can't hide the fact that he is gay. He tries to and fails misserably and gets exteremly embarrased when people point out his flamboyant nature.
Ahh that's what he mean by non unvariable. To many double negatives for me. In that case I will again come back to my religious example. You can change your religion yet there are anti discrimination laws for people of a specific faith.
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I said the same thing about my own storage needs a few years ago when I bought a TeraStation. Then I turned my computer into a media center and that extra space quickly disappeared. I don't think that digital storage of movies and television shows is that far away considering how cheap hard drive space is getting and how fast our internet connections are growing. Before I started storing my music in digital format I could never dream of using more than 20GB of space. Then 100GB seemed absurd.
We may not be the "standard consumers" but in many cases we are the harbingers of them.
Actually it was 250 whales for 10 villages over 5 years not per year.
I'm sure the 2 stage switch is only for turning it on ... there is probably a single large button that can be used for emergency shut-off.
Oh for pete's sake he/she was making a generality. Of course there are going to be exceptions but in general, he/she is right. PS games tend to be more violent than Nintendo games and the audiences are clearly different. My Bias: I want a Wii and would never pay $600 for a console
Now if we are talking about a work enviornment then sure, give everyone in the building (except engineering) non-admin accounts, but I would never recommend doing it to someone who didn't have a high level of computer knowledge and patience or an equivalant IT staff on hand to help out with any issues.
... because it's a well known fact that most AOL users have higher than average internet savvy.
Now I have more reason than ever to install trillian/gaim on newb computers.
On another note, I thought that HD-DVD used standard lasers for their format and simply changed the compression algorithm to fit more onto a single disc. Thus making it cheaper to produce a player that is backwards compatible since you don't need two lasers to read it. Perhaps I am missing something but if this is the case it spells bad news for blue ray but NOT hd-dvd.
EILALILFL&O (Everything I learned about law I learned from Law & Order), but it seems to me that if an officer catches you in the middle of a crime then they have enough probable cause to arrest you. However, if they are building up evidence against you they would need a judge to sign an arrest warrant. Heck, i don't even think they can bring you in for questioning against your will without a warrant.
yeah, this is what pisses me off so much about those stupid RIAA adds ... "you wouldn't steal a car ... why would you steal music?" ... i hate them
... is more like a gray list.
I work for company that sees a ton of traffic from MSN, yahoo and AOL. Through partnerships with these portals we host content that makes everyone involved a good deal of money. We also use "opt-out/opt-in" emailing on our registration pages. Not Spam. One of these emails is a daily alert of the new data in the specific area the user was searching in. Now when the "brilliant" AOL user gets sick of these emails do they click on our "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email? NO! They click the nice and easy to find spam button next to the email without even reading it.
Now the spam filter system that AOL uses is a sort of threshold system. If enough people report a specific sender as spam then they get blacklisted and then our customers who rely on these emails get pissed. All that their "white list" does is increase that threshold, it does not, however, gaurentee our email will get through.
Even though we have a partnership with them they will still blacklist us if enough people report us as spam. We have since had to setup a feedback loop where by if someone clicks the spam button on one of our emails AOL will send us the email (without the email address) and we have to figure out how to unsubscribe them from our lists.
retarded!
There is also no advertisment link in the article, which means that they would have not direct way of knowing how much money they make off of the article. I assume that is why the article is noticably lacking in links of any kind. I picture would have been nice though.
I had the exact same problem and was most frustrated by my in-ability to check-in online. I found it very ironic that "Thomas Paine" is on the terrorism watch list. I would joke that it's a really old list that we got from our former colonial masters. The saddest part is that it's not our actual name on the list, but the Soundex of your name. So in theory "Thomas Paine" could have the same soundex as "Osama Bin Laden", it doesn't but you get my point.
So I was going through the same dozen hoops that you were until I found this out, at which point I came up with a solution. The next plane ticket I bought I used "Thomas Anthony Paine" on my plane ticket and was able to check-in online (a necessity with southwest) without any issues. I still use the same southwest club card and everything, just a slightly different name on my card. Note that Thomas A Paine would not have worked because vowels aren't used to create a soundex.
The bogusness of their "decision" is pretty clear consider that they pulled the "backwards compatibility" red herring out, as every commercial blu-ray player will offer full backwards compatibility. But at what cost? HD-DVD uses the same "laser", all blue-ray players will need to have a second "laser" installed in order to be backwards compatible. I would imagine that this would significantly increase the cost of the player.
... can you imagine loosing 50GB of data because of a sratch?
One other thing to keep in mind is the rumor that the blue-ray disc will have a much thinner layer of protection over the data making them far more susceptible to scratches that permanently damage a disc
I heartily agree with you in reference to flying, fighting and driving games. The console controllers are far superior to anything specifically designed for the PC. Thankfully they make handy adapters or else my bf1942 flying skills would have remained elusive I'm sure.
There are a few clear advantages to an expensive PC like the superior graphics and user interface the keyboard & mouse. Though I did enjoy hooking up my ps2 controller to my machine for flying in bf1942. Also I'm sure you will agree that a computer overall is far more usefull than a console. So I see it as not building a PC instead of buying a console, but putting a few extra bucks into the PC I'm building to make it all the more powerful. These are surface issues though. To me the main reason that the PC gaming market will never die is because of inovation. Any old joe can make a game or app for the PC that can greatly enhance gamer experience. Take X-Box Live for example which is an awesome service that happens to be a complete copy of Roger Wilco/Teamspeak. With a console being proprietary and requiring an expensive dev kit the global innovation that open source loves so much is stiffled.
did you miss the part where i said that they requested the email? Therefore it is not SPAM by definition. Get a clue, people are lazy and mark stuff as spam because it's easier than unsubscribing.
Yes, but the problem is that AOL's so called "whitelist" is more like a gray list. My company has an extensive parternship with AOL supplying all of their real estate listings yet still we can not get all of our email through their servers. Essentially their whitelist just gives you more leeway for those dumb people who would rather mark something as spam instead of unsubscribing from something they asked for. Instead of only needing X "this is spam" clicks we need X+Y number of clicks. so. freaking. dumb.
Since I don't like spoilers would someone be interested in reading the article and give me a basic summary (here come the spoilers). It would have been nice if the summary did as much.
I'm not talking about a perpetual energy source, I'm talking about a viable one. Whether it be coal, gas or nuclear the amount of energy put in (usually in the form of heat) is less than the amount of energy put out (usually as electricity). Otherwise a power plant would only consume energy which sort of defeats the point.
ah yes, now i understand ;-)
You are missing the point of discrimination. It doesn't matter if there are certain requirements for some religiouns all members of all faiths have equal protection from discrimination based on their choice of faith. How do you think those people would feel if you told them that they had to hide thier faith in order to be not discriminated against. It's not like gay people are asking for the right to participate in gay pride events. They are asking to have their job qualification based upon their skill as an employee and not upon their sexual oreintation.
To your last point, i have a gay friend who simply can't hide the fact that he is gay. He tries to and fails misserably and gets exteremly embarrased when people point out his flamboyant nature.
Ahh that's what he mean by non unvariable. To many double negatives for me. In that case I will again come back to my religious example. You can change your religion yet there are anti discrimination laws for people of a specific faith.