requiring a functioning internet to work, but I will dispute you on one point there; it's not (necessarily) the first thing to go down. Tons of people from areas with power outages were still using their cells to communicate. But then again, I suppose it depends on the particulars of your cell provider's infrastructure.
Yes. during the good-old-days of expensive, overregulated state-run phone network, Emergency communication was an essential part of the network design. Simple phones would be powered by the phone network itself, in case power went down. And even in case the power for the phone exchange went down (or the exchange went out for some other reason), there were rooms full of lead batteries to give emergency power to a secon, independant set of lines that could be used to connect to the local police and fire stations.
Phones were life-safers. Having a second network (cellphones), completly independant from landlines mitigates the risks of each one on its own being less stable than the old POTS.
And even nowadays you sometimes hear alerts about either the phone net being down OR the emergency net being down, but never both. and you either have the emergency lines working or can reach the police station by their normal landline.
You couldn't even get a licence for running a cordless phone if you didn't prove that you have also a simple phone connected that works on network emergency power, as people didn't think about the phone base station.
And likewise, when cellphone networks were regulated to a similar extent, all cellphone towers were required to have a generator for emergency power.
THAT is an emergency medium. The US Emergency Broadcast system is an emergency medium.
I don't know the US regulations about emegency power for cellphone towers, but unless that underlying feature is gueranteed (and this is no guarantee twitter could give), twitter can't be relied on. It's really nice if it works, but, hey, Twitter itself had a reputation of unreliability. Remember the fail whale? Their outages even had their own mascott!
but just hop on a popular hashtag for a major event and suddenly you're reading 1000s of people describing onditions in real-time around the city.
That's my (personal) problem with twitter. How do I know what hashtag to use? What if I'm twitting away and no one reads it cause I'm using the wrong tag? Or if the really usefull information is posted on facebook instead of twitter?
In fact the police used it so heavily that their account was blocked temporarily. Funnily enough at the time, one thing we were thinking was how useful it would be if Twitter actually had formal support for emergency communications.
Yes. It may be a good thing to help people organize. And probably much better than other means of communication. But you CAN NOT tout it as an emergency replacement communication channel, when it itself relies on a "traditional" media (internet either over cellphone or landline) that is probably the first to go down.
Whoever said this, has no idea of emergency communication. They should either now base Twitter on a less disruptable bese technology (hard), or position it as emergency organization medium, but not communication medium. It NEEDS a communication medium itself.
This is something I agree with. It did feel like a "graphic adventure" game, but the puzzles were made somewhat frustrating. I might have enjoyed the puzzles if they were something I could have played with outside of the game.
Right!
I remember back when Maniac Mansion was all the rage! We solved 80% of that game outside the actual game during breaks at school, mostly by discussing the individual progress we made the evening before. That was fun I never had again until later at university, the whole dorm joined "Planetarion". Most of the game didn't take place in our browsers, but on the kitchen table and in the local pub where we would discuss strategy. I still remember the pub owner taking that one phone call... A message for the "galactic commander"...:-)
To me, it's about the style of gameplay. There are puzzles, hard puzzles and a story that you're trying to piece together with very little exposition. It was great to just explore without worrying about time limits or things trying to kill you.
And that killed it for me.
Putting very hard puzzles between no exposition and story fragments left me with a "WTF am I doing here?" There was no story that I wanted to have continued. Just random, meaningless puzzles.
On the other hand, I like the Professor Layton series, despite the meaningless (*) puzzles. But they're usually easy and the story gets going without them, so you want to solve them to get the next part of the storyline.
(*) IMHO, the puzzles are SO distached from the story, that the contrieved ways of how they are attached to the storyline, often enough are a tounge-in-cheek fun of their own.
"Old man Stauff built a house, stuffed it full of toys" the "old man Stauff is waiting there. crazy, sick and MEAN!" stuck even better than "Another visitor. Stay awhile, Stay FOREVERAHAHAHA!"
Great voice acting, great music, solveable riddles....
I never got the hang of Myst. Partly because the puzzle weren't adventure style. They were completly detached from the story! The graphics were great, but I never had any motivation why I should open these valves or turn that sundial. And finding out what the story is about at all by reading those text fragments at a 1995 monitor was a PITA!
Indeed i usually check the locations of the exits relative to my seats and have a look at the hatch with the oxygen masks. For some reason I ususally don't check my live vest but I have books or anything else that might fly around the cabin during a take-off accident tucked away.
And in my former post I wasn't talking about not listening to a well known routine, but to deliberate disregarding of safety procedures that just have been spelled out. or in other words: If people don't switch of their devices, they obviosly have NOT heard the security procedures often enough and should better pay attention.
It's also about keeping the passengers alert and conentrated during the most dangerous phases of flight. Simply no personal headphones that might block security announcements from the cockpit. That side benefit is larger than the very small risk of actual interefernce.
No, that's because the fellow passengers now know that they have to spend the next few hours next to someone who is obviously too stupid to understand simple instructions.
chicken and turkey hen have the least distinctive taste among meat, so if some other meat has hardly any distinctive taste (as beef, pork or lamb have), you'd end up comparing it to - chicken!
He could start with "immediately delete all metadata for calls inside the United States unless you have actual evidence that one party is not a U.S. Citizen".
No problem with that.
That's what partnerships with other international intelligence agencies are for. They usually are also barred from spying on their own citizens, but are free to spy on foreigners (in this case: US citizens)
Win-Win situation. And a completly legal way to get rid of that nasty limitation that you shouldn't spy on your own citizens.
Considering the microbiological fun fair we alreadhy have in a healthy gut and that a yeast infection or other disturbances in the balance of gut bacteria isn't too uncommon, I'd have expected to see alcohol producing yeasts more often.
I'm fine with certain zones being non-free speech zones. 3am under my bedroom window would be one of them. And everyone should be able to start his own newspaper or - thanks to the internet - radio and tv station (no need to compete for scarce frequencies anymore)
What else do you mean with "free speech zones"? I think we agree that free speech does not give you the right to commandeer others property, but it should not be obstructed as far as you use your own means.
Freedom of speech does neither mean that a state has to pay for your speech, not that anyone is forced to listen. Audience? Could you imagine a bigger potential audience than on the web?
Intresting sites will find their audience, but no one gets a guarantee to an audience. But that's the same within a twitter or facebook ecosystem.
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requiring a functioning internet to work, but I will dispute you on one point there; it's not (necessarily) the first thing to go down. Tons of people from areas with power outages were still using their cells to communicate. But then again, I suppose it depends on the particulars of your cell provider's infrastructure.
Yes. during the good-old-days of expensive, overregulated state-run phone network, Emergency communication was an essential part of the network design. Simple phones would be powered by the phone network itself, in case power went down. And even in case the power for the phone exchange went down (or the exchange went out for some other reason), there were rooms full of lead batteries to give emergency power to a secon, independant set of lines that could be used to connect to the local police and fire stations.
Phones were life-safers. Having a second network (cellphones), completly independant from landlines mitigates the risks of each one on its own being less stable than the old POTS.
And even nowadays you sometimes hear alerts about either the phone net being down OR the emergency net being down, but never both. and you either have the emergency lines working or can reach the police station by their normal landline.
You couldn't even get a licence for running a cordless phone if you didn't prove that you have also a simple phone connected that works on network emergency power, as people didn't think about the phone base station.
And likewise, when cellphone networks were regulated to a similar extent, all cellphone towers were required to have a generator for emergency power.
THAT is an emergency medium. The US Emergency Broadcast system is an emergency medium.
I don't know the US regulations about emegency power for cellphone towers, but unless that underlying feature is gueranteed (and this is no guarantee twitter could give), twitter can't be relied on. It's really nice if it works, but, hey, Twitter itself had a reputation of unreliability. Remember the fail whale? Their outages even had their own mascott!
There is a personalized birthday Doodle if you log in with your birthdate.
but just hop on a popular hashtag for a major event and suddenly you're reading 1000s of people describing onditions in real-time around the city.
That's my (personal) problem with twitter. How do I know what hashtag to use? What if I'm twitting away and no one reads it cause I'm using the wrong tag? Or if the really usefull information is posted on facebook instead of twitter?
In fact the police used it so heavily that their account was blocked temporarily. Funnily enough at the time, one thing we were thinking was how useful it would be if Twitter actually had formal support for emergency communications.
Yes. It may be a good thing to help people organize. And probably much better than other means of communication. But you CAN NOT tout it as an emergency replacement communication channel, when it itself relies on a "traditional" media (internet either over cellphone or landline) that is probably the first to go down.
Whoever said this, has no idea of emergency communication. They should either now base Twitter on a less disruptable bese technology (hard), or position it as emergency organization medium, but not communication medium. It NEEDS a communication medium itself.
But how was I supposed to know that I have to go through different ages?
I guess an introduction would have helped. Espescially as I liked a few similar games.
This is something I agree with. It did feel like a "graphic adventure" game, but the puzzles were made somewhat frustrating. I might have enjoyed the puzzles if they were something I could have played with outside of the game.
Right!
I remember back when Maniac Mansion was all the rage! We solved 80% of that game outside the actual game during breaks at school, mostly by discussing the individual progress we made the evening before. That was fun I never had again until later at university, the whole dorm joined "Planetarion". Most of the game didn't take place in our browsers, but on the kitchen table and in the local pub where we would discuss strategy. I still remember the pub owner taking that one phone call... A message for the "galactic commander"... :-)
Oh how I hate mainstream!
No. Hipsters and Hipster-Haters are different kind of mainstream.
To me, it's about the style of gameplay. There are puzzles, hard puzzles and a story that you're trying to piece together with very little exposition. It was great to just explore without worrying about time limits or things trying to kill you.
And that killed it for me.
Putting very hard puzzles between no exposition and story fragments left me with a "WTF am I doing here?" There was no story that I wanted to have continued. Just random, meaningless puzzles.
On the other hand, I like the Professor Layton series, despite the meaningless (*) puzzles. But they're usually easy and the story gets going without them, so you want to solve them to get the next part of the storyline.
(*) IMHO, the puzzles are SO distached from the story, that the contrieved ways of how they are attached to the storyline, often enough are a tounge-in-cheek fun of their own.
I loved The 7th guest!
"Shy gypsy, slyly, spryly tryst by my crypt"
"The moon is ruddy, your fate is bloody..."
"Old man Stauff built a house, stuffed it full of toys" the "old man Stauff is waiting there. crazy, sick and MEAN!" stuck even better than "Another visitor. Stay awhile, Stay FOREVERAHAHAHA!"
Great voice acting, great music, solveable riddles....
I never got the hang of Myst. Partly because the puzzle weren't adventure style. They were completly detached from the story! The graphics were great, but I never had any motivation why I should open these valves or turn that sundial. And finding out what the story is about at all by reading those text fragments at a 1995 monitor was a PITA!
Indeed i usually check the locations of the exits relative to my seats and have a look at the hatch with the oxygen masks. For some reason I ususally don't check my live vest but I have books or anything else that might fly around the cabin during a take-off accident tucked away.
And in my former post I wasn't talking about not listening to a well known routine, but to deliberate disregarding of safety procedures that just have been spelled out. or in other words: If people don't switch of their devices, they obviosly have NOT heard the security procedures often enough and should better pay attention.
Ohh you poor guy!
Do you realize that most people would be glad if they ONLY lost 15 minutes per leg on their daily commute?
Who said it's only about interference.
It's also about keeping the passengers alert and conentrated during the most dangerous phases of flight. Simply no personal headphones that might block security announcements from the cockpit. That side benefit is larger than the very small risk of actual interefernce.
No, that's because the fellow passengers now know that they have to spend the next few hours next to someone who is obviously too stupid to understand simple instructions.
I'd consider it if it was only *twice* the price. We're talking something about five times the base fare.
Paying double gets you "economy plus" which means you're paying for a meal, a pair of socks and a sleeping mask...
Do you want the SCADA guys come up with an internet connected software that controls the nuclear reactor up the road...?
chicken and turkey hen have the least distinctive taste among meat, so if some other meat has hardly any distinctive taste (as beef, pork or lamb have), you'd end up comparing it to - chicken!
He could start with "immediately delete all metadata for calls inside the United States unless you have actual evidence that one party is not a U.S. Citizen".
No problem with that.
That's what partnerships with other international intelligence agencies are for. They usually are also barred from spying on their own citizens, but are free to spy on foreigners (in this case: US citizens)
Win-Win situation. And a completly legal way to get rid of that nasty limitation that you shouldn't spy on your own citizens.
Considering the microbiological fun fair we alreadhy have in a healthy gut and that a yeast infection or other disturbances in the balance of gut bacteria isn't too uncommon, I'd have expected to see alcohol producing yeasts more often.
And why shouldn't the bombs go off if the plane goes down?
Because the plane might go down over North Carolina. And you never know when having a North Carolina may become handy, so it's better to keep it.
That's not the exact definition of "failsafe", but rather normal "safety".
A design is considered "failsafe" when even the failure mode is "safe".
Aren't walking whales quite common at places like Walmart?
Yes. But for those it's a real advantage if they can get support for phone AND network from the same support: their carrier.
There's nothing inheritantly bad with getting a phone through the carrier. as long as you have a choice.
I'm fine with certain zones being non-free speech zones. 3am under my bedroom window would be one of them. And everyone should be able to start his own newspaper or - thanks to the internet - radio and tv station (no need to compete for scarce frequencies anymore)
What else do you mean with "free speech zones"? I think we agree that free speech does not give you the right to commandeer others property, but it should not be obstructed as far as you use your own means.
Freedom of speech does neither mean that a state has to pay for your speech, not that anyone is forced to listen. Audience? Could you imagine a bigger potential audience than on the web?
Intresting sites will find their audience, but no one gets a guarantee to an audience. But that's the same within a twitter or facebook ecosystem.