A great documentary on PBS called 'KEN BURNS'S “THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA"', detailing the early days of the park and those who tried to move in to privatize and setup monopoly's in there. Thankfully they stepped in before a thousand hotels could be built and started getting some common sense. http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/watch-video/#642 http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/about/
Lincoln, John Muir and a collection of others wanted this to be a special place for Americans that no matter how poor or rich you were you could experience it, well as long as you reserve a place 8 months in advance( i know it sucks). As an American I kind of felt like in the last 10 years we have been getting the shaft in priority to get access to these parks, no offense to the foreign travelers but they have been making the waiting period and getting access to it much harder. The problem in the last 2 years is you will have these Chinese tourist companies who have a thousand workers standing by as the date comes up to put in reservations for the National Parks, so opening day when the phone lines and internet reservations opened they flooded them. The greatest people of them all are the Germans and Dutch, those people know how to travel and not be a nuisance.
That's the least of my worries though as the parks are being overrun by giant RV's and generators galore, that was the one thing that pissed me off waking up in the morning to a generator although they are only allowed to run it for like 30 mins at most(yeah right...).
End of my rant but word is they are going to setup a 2 week grace period for American citizens and they eventually want to make the parks a 'no-car-zone' and bus people in on a tram. You also have to get reservations on Fri, Sat, Sun for a lot of the trails that become overrun, but it never ceases to amaze me to see some woman 'HIKING WITH HIGH HEELS' to the top of Half Dome with little to no water. BRING EXTRA WATER!!!!
Some of the ones that got me were when the woman was taking a picture of her boyfriend by the Nevada Falls and he slipped on the rocks falling into the river, the girlfriend not knowing any better jumps in to try to get him and they both end up going over the Nevada Falls (600ft to the bottom).
The young guys who think they can tough it out in the weather and try to go for Half Dome in a thunderstorm, only to try to seek shelter on the side rocks and than be struck and killed by lightning.
quoted from some Swedish guy in a forum "he has been cleared by the attourney who charged him. There is no longer any suspicions against him." "Also he went back to turn himself in. He's in sweden again."
I have a Geforce ti4200 that I have gone through 3 of them, 2 overheated and one I crushed myself. Apparently if I send it in again they will not have them in stock anymore and will send you a free one that is better than the original. Running out of motherboards to support AGP anymore....
anytime soon in the next 4 years, that or be sold off to somebody.
For Android though get him the app CoPilot for street navigation, it is very easy to use and provides everything mostly. Ndrive gets lots of good ratings, but no Garmin or TomTom yet
OruxMaps rules them all as it is free and works great for outdoor, in fact thats what it was built for. Very easy to use and you can download maps online defining the area grid you want, you can download Aviation maps, Google terrain/maps/sat, MS Maps, trails/hiking maps, many other types also. I used it for my 3 day hike Tuluome Meados to Yosemite Valley over the summer.
You may want to buy a standalone because of battery life alone, not to mention better GPS signal but phone is not that awful unless you in mountain range/dense trees. I only lost reception when I was right next to the granite rock with my weak G1.
But if you do decide to save money with the old Android phone than buy him 'EXTRA BATTERIES' off ebay/amazon. I bought one of the real big ones 2850 mAh and about 3 extra ones all for about $25. Not the greatest quality but with GPS and hopefully brightness turned down to the lowest tolerable level for your eyes, you should hopefully get about 6 hours or 8hrs+ for listening to music, 2 hrs for movies. Also advise to buy him a 'Pelican Case' to protect the phone and hook on somewhere, not only are they manufactured in USA but they are good quality and waterproof.
awesome tip, thanks; but I might hold off until they get apps2sd working on my poor weak G1 Do I just uninstall through Titanium Backup correct? No need to wipe date/delete the app through Titanium?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGbYVvU0Z5s I see they did at it for texting, I wish the summary would just have a link to the Youtube video as they describe everything in there. This is awesome because it truly means hands free, now I almost want to replace the camera button as a shortcut button for search as it would be convenient to get to everything. Some of the newer phones have a 'voice' button already built into the hardware interface.
But this is brilliant "Send text to bill burgs lets meet outside the....", I wonder how this will hold up in court as 'hands free' while texting. But officer I wasn't texting I was voice texting. I wonder how bluetooth handsets will integrate with these features.
The best one were some Mexican people who took over a 'Friend Chicken' restaurant in like the real ghetto part of East LA. One of their signs they added basically said something to the effect "Sur(south)negroe(black) pollo(chicken)", sure enough next morning on the news there were black community leaders out there protesting it.
I think some of the best ones are in foreign countries and I remember a viral post going around showing all these Chinese misspelled names.
A 'Pelican Case'; they are sealed and even waterproof ones for all different kinds of phones with rubber padding inside. Oh yeah and as a side note 'Pelican Cases' are one of the last companies I have found that actually produce their stuff in America in Fullerton, CA I think. Great product if you work in a tough environment or ever go on a several day hike.
I don't care about looks but I just bought a 2500mAh battery and it is huge now, but I can have brightness on max, gps/wifi/bluetooth/browse and talk all day long on it
But I have Flash running on my G1 the oldest of the Android phones and 90% of the time most sites work, in fact all the major websites work just fine and day by day more sites are adjusting their content for mobile. To put it in another way, I have more options than you and can access more stuff. No it is not bloated(yet..) and videos stream perfectly clear.
That's all it is, another avenue to socialize and than when it isn't around they just send 200 text messages a minute, get on the webcam and so on.
AOLMyspaceFacebook/Text/Webcam
In the 'old days' we used to have to tinker with stuff to get access to it so you probably learned a lot more. Hence things are becoming more 'automated' and served up with a 'silver spoon' these days.
Webcams are worrying though, already had one of my girls friends who got caught up in sexting pics scandal. In Southern California so about a dozen news crews showed up in front of the school burned everything down and left the area.
Maybe people are just over analyzing this generation and some tech people are digging too deep out of maybe fear or bitterness of what is being lost/forgotten.
Give it up dude, the free ride is over. I can go on living my life normally without my materialistic ways. Can you?
Seriously stop trying to open source the game industry and putting up the bullshit argument that DRM gets in the way, bad game play, design and bugs is what makes a game bad not DRM. Where the hell have you been during the whole PC gaming era? I have been doing the WAREZ scene forever and I have found that more cracks don't work most of the time or they are a *pain* to setup. Yeah ok it usually just involves copying over a.exe and.dll. To say people who have the cracked non-drm version are better off is a complete lie and I don't know how you people swallow it. Usually when it comes to patch time 3-5weeks later it is always the crackers who are having the problems and have to go digg through the forums to find an answer. OPEN YOUR EYES!!! Go to any Warez forum and just take a look at the UBIsoft thread where all the people have given up trying to crack it and basically said "you know what, it is more trouble trying to crack this and I would rather just *buy* it"
Same thing happened with 'Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory', it sat uncracked for months and people basically said the same thing. People did the same thing with Steam in its early days and I remember people around here claiming Steam was a disaster that would never succeed, screaming that "DRM WOULD BE THE END OF STEAM". Terrible predictions around here for almost all technology some times.
If you think your business model will work of non-drm than prove it, you can't apply the open source model to it either because that fails also and don't drag up the minority 3 games that are blockbuster on Linux now because they are lame in comparison to any other platform games. I have never not once ever pirated a game and than bought it afterwards, that would be beyond idiotic. Why would I pay for a game I have already played?
Nothing unusual around here though..... +5 Insightful comments that do not represent the market or its opinion at all. Cry me a river over the silly arguments of "ooooh they're too greedy and they get too much money"
Same crap is happening in the Android market as we speak, it is being ruined by pirates and astronomical pirating statistics. Hence the upcoming added DRM to the apps that will be added soon (2.2/3.0), which should hopefully lure some developers who were hesitant to touch the Android platform. Sorry to bring the bad news.
Off topic: Does anyone know the location of those stored pics, because everytime I change roms on my Android phone and restore it. That is the one thing that Google Backup does not restore is the pics.
So I take it these pics are deleted or just stored locally, but where (System/data ?)
haha I remember I said the same exact comment about 7 months ago several times and was constantly modded troll.
I was told that it was a small minority sect of people doing this and not the majority, but than I replied that the majority remain silent and there is no outrage/protest over there. Funny how it took a Islamic country to start banning websites, South Park episode and condemning the internet for people around here to take off the mittens and start dishing out some criticism of Islam. They have to be criticized and made fun of, if that causes them to want to kill people over it than we have succeeded in some way. What we don't want is websites/govt bowing to pressure from these countries because it might cause 'civil disturbances'. Sadly America is one of the last countries where we can speak up, not have to worry about the govt. cracking down or massive protest by 2nd generation immigrants from Islamic countries who love the freedom they enjoy but love to be hypocrites.
Yeah... They have gone from supplying 90% of the worlds rubble, to now a $1 trillion in minerals.
People always tried to throw out the theory of the mystery oil line that was supposed to be laid, but that idea was long abandoned ago by the Russians and was not practical.
Yeah except you are still getting service through their Dealership(AT&T) and getting your vehicle(Ipad) serviced there, otherwise it would void your warranty because they said no extra mods on your vehicle or you will not be able to bring it into the dealership. Lets just say the car(Ipad) cannot run unless it get an offical authorized(AT&T) dealership inspection and servicing.
I always play the victim and say I am being robbed at gunpoint "oh god hes got a gun and hes gonna shoot me, help me!!!"
If I am in front of the computer than I pull out the 'Arnold Schwarzenegger Sound Board' "SHUT UP!!!" "WHO IS YOUR DADDY AND WHAT IS HIS NAME?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. " *a weird quiet on the phone* followed by a "hello, are you okay sir?" --------- P.S. - Had a friend who worked at one of these telemarketing firms with DirectTV and we would always bash him, he would constantly say "were not telemarketers because we have a special list and we do it a certain way". Apparently another buddy got him into it because you can get some big bonuses sometimes for making sales. He said if people would talk shit against them that they would purposely put their number in the crap bin who would get harassed even more. *aholes* ---------------- I just don't even answer the phone these days unless I recognize the number or leave it to my visual Google voice mail that shows me what they say and if it is emergency I can call right back. My number is easy to remember but for some reason people constantly accidently dial it in their pocket because my phone number digits are located on the outside right where all the numbers get pushed. I average about 2-4 accidental dials a week and get one asshole who accidently dials at 1am in the morning, so I make sure to call them about 20 times at 5am when I get up and than just hang up every time.
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A great documentary on PBS called 'KEN BURNS'S “THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA"', detailing the early days of the park and those who tried to move in to privatize and setup monopoly's in there. Thankfully they stepped in before a thousand hotels could be built and started getting some common sense.
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/watch-video/#642
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/about/
Lincoln, John Muir and a collection of others wanted this to be a special place for Americans that no matter how poor or rich you were you could experience it, well as long as you reserve a place 8 months in advance( i know it sucks).
As an American I kind of felt like in the last 10 years we have been getting the shaft in priority to get access to these parks, no offense to the foreign travelers but they have been making the waiting period and getting access to it much harder. The problem in the last 2 years is you will have these Chinese tourist companies who have a thousand workers standing by as the date comes up to put in reservations for the National Parks, so opening day when the phone lines and internet reservations opened they flooded them. The greatest people of them all are the Germans and Dutch, those people know how to travel and not be a nuisance.
That's the least of my worries though as the parks are being overrun by giant RV's and generators galore, that was the one thing that pissed me off waking up in the morning to a generator although they are only allowed to run it for like 30 mins at most(yeah right...).
End of my rant but word is they are going to setup a 2 week grace period for American citizens and they eventually want to make the parks a 'no-car-zone' and bus people in on a tram.
You also have to get reservations on Fri, Sat, Sun for a lot of the trails that become overrun, but it never ceases to amaze me to see some woman 'HIKING WITH HIGH HEELS' to the top of Half Dome with little to no water. BRING EXTRA WATER!!!!
Sierra Club Forever!!!
While you're at it get 'Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite', I read it during my stay there over the summer and it will give you chills.
Mostly about people falling off the cliffs or going over the falls trying to get that 'perfect photo'.
http://www.amazon.com/Off-Wall-Yosemite-Michael-Ghiglieri/dp/0970097360/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282587916&sr=1-1
Some of the ones that got me were when the woman was taking a picture of her boyfriend by the Nevada Falls and he slipped on the rocks falling into the river, the girlfriend not knowing any better jumps in to try to get him and they both end up going over the Nevada Falls (600ft to the bottom).
The young guys who think they can tough it out in the weather and try to go for Half Dome in a thunderstorm, only to try to seek shelter on the side rocks and than be struck and killed by lightning.
quoted from some Swedish guy in a forum
"he has been cleared by the attourney who charged him. There is no longer any suspicions against him."
"Also he went back to turn himself in. He's in sweden again."
"does not serve as a precedent at all."
It does however serve as an 'example' to achieve.
So your argument is basically the same old "Think of the Children
I have a Geforce ti4200 that I have gone through 3 of them, 2 overheated and one I crushed myself.
Apparently if I send it in again they will not have them in stock anymore and will send you a free one that is better than the original.
Running out of motherboards to support AGP anymore....
Surprised this didn't get coverage
http://tetrischampionship.com/
anytime soon in the next 4 years, that or be sold off to somebody.
For Android though get him the app CoPilot for street navigation, it is very easy to use and provides everything mostly.
Ndrive gets lots of good ratings, but no Garmin or TomTom yet
OruxMaps rules them all as it is free and works great for outdoor, in fact thats what it was built for. Very easy to use and you can download maps online defining the area grid you want, you can download Aviation maps, Google terrain/maps/sat, MS Maps, trails/hiking maps, many other types also.
I used it for my 3 day hike Tuluome Meados to Yosemite Valley over the summer.
You may want to buy a standalone because of battery life alone, not to mention better GPS signal but phone is not that awful unless you in mountain range/dense trees. I only lost reception when I was right next to the granite rock with my weak G1.
But if you do decide to save money with the old Android phone than buy him 'EXTRA BATTERIES' off ebay/amazon. I bought one of the real big ones 2850 mAh and about 3 extra ones all for about $25. Not the greatest quality but with GPS and hopefully brightness turned down to the lowest tolerable level for your eyes, you should hopefully get about 6 hours or 8hrs+ for listening to music, 2 hrs for movies.
Also advise to buy him a 'Pelican Case' to protect the phone and hook on somewhere, not only are they manufactured in USA but they are good quality and waterproof.
Would this really be considered public shaming?
China recently just banned the decades old practice of public shaming by walking criminals down the street in front of the towns people.
awesome tip, thanks; but I might hold off until they get apps2sd working on my poor weak G1
Do I just uninstall through Titanium Backup correct? No need to wipe date/delete the app through Titanium?
Link for anyone interested in CyanogenMod 6(2.2)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=722801
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGbYVvU0Z5s
I see they did at it for texting, I wish the summary would just have a link to the Youtube video as they describe everything in there. This is awesome because it truly means hands free, now I almost want to replace the camera button as a shortcut button for search as it would be convenient to get to everything. Some of the newer phones have a 'voice' button already built into the hardware interface.
But this is brilliant "Send text to bill burgs lets meet outside the....", I wonder how this will hold up in court as 'hands free' while texting. But officer I wasn't texting I was voice texting. I wonder how bluetooth handsets will integrate with these features.
I could have sworn this has been on the platform forever.
I use the Cyanogenmod and I remember the Voice Dialer/Search have been on there since 1.6 and even 1.5.
I have on my G1 2.1 right now as we speak. This has been around forever or am I missing something from this article.
The best one were some Mexican people who took over a 'Friend Chicken' restaurant in like the real ghetto part of East LA.
One of their signs they added basically said something to the effect "Sur(south)negroe(black) pollo(chicken)", sure enough next morning on the news there were black community leaders out there protesting it.
I think some of the best ones are in foreign countries and I remember a viral post going around showing all these Chinese misspelled names.
"Grammer Nazis.... I hate these guys"
A 'Pelican Case'; they are sealed and even waterproof ones for all different kinds of phones with rubber padding inside.
Oh yeah and as a side note 'Pelican Cases' are one of the last companies I have found that actually produce their stuff in America in Fullerton, CA I think. Great product if you work in a tough environment or ever go on a several day hike.
I don't care about looks but I just bought a 2500mAh battery and it is huge now, but I can have brightness on max, gps/wifi/bluetooth/browse and talk all day long on it
Whatever floats your boat.
But I have Flash running on my G1 the oldest of the Android phones and 90% of the time most sites work, in fact all the major websites work just fine and day by day more sites are adjusting their content for mobile.
To put it in another way, I have more options than you and can access more stuff.
No it is not bloated(yet..) and videos stream perfectly clear.
It works....
You mean they want to 'socialize' *shock*
That's all it is, another avenue to socialize and than when it isn't around they just send 200 text messages a minute, get on the webcam and so on.
AOLMyspaceFacebook/Text/Webcam
In the 'old days' we used to have to tinker with stuff to get access to it so you probably learned a lot more.
Hence things are becoming more 'automated' and served up with a 'silver spoon' these days.
Webcams are worrying though, already had one of my girls friends who got caught up in sexting pics scandal. In Southern California so about a dozen news crews showed up in front of the school burned everything down and left the area.
Maybe people are just over analyzing this generation and some tech people are digging too deep out of maybe fear or bitterness of what is being lost/forgotten.
So hows that PS3 cracking going? *crickets*
Give it up dude, the free ride is over.
I can go on living my life normally without my materialistic ways. Can you?
Seriously stop trying to open source the game industry and putting up the bullshit argument that DRM gets in the way, bad game play, design and bugs is what makes a game bad not DRM. Where the hell have you been during the whole PC gaming era? .exe and .dll.
I have been doing the WAREZ scene forever and I have found that more cracks don't work most of the time or they are a *pain* to setup. Yeah ok it usually just involves copying over a
To say people who have the cracked non-drm version are better off is a complete lie and I don't know how you people swallow it.
Usually when it comes to patch time 3-5weeks later it is always the crackers who are having the problems and have to go digg through the forums to find an answer. OPEN YOUR EYES!!! Go to any Warez forum and just take a look at the UBIsoft thread where all the people have given up trying to crack it and basically said "you know what, it is more trouble trying to crack this and I would rather just *buy* it"
Same thing happened with 'Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory', it sat uncracked for months and people basically said the same thing.
People did the same thing with Steam in its early days and I remember people around here claiming Steam was a disaster that would never succeed, screaming that "DRM WOULD BE THE END OF STEAM". Terrible predictions around here for almost all technology some times.
If you think your business model will work of non-drm than prove it, you can't apply the open source model to it either because that fails also and don't drag up the minority 3 games that are blockbuster on Linux now because they are lame in comparison to any other platform games.
I have never not once ever pirated a game and than bought it afterwards, that would be beyond idiotic. Why would I pay for a game I have already played?
Nothing unusual around here though..... +5 Insightful comments that do not represent the market or its opinion at all.
Cry me a river over the silly arguments of "ooooh they're too greedy and they get too much money"
Same crap is happening in the Android market as we speak, it is being ruined by pirates and astronomical pirating statistics. Hence the upcoming added DRM to the apps that will be added soon (2.2/3.0), which should hopefully lure some developers who were hesitant to touch the Android platform. Sorry to bring the bad news.
Off topic: Does anyone know the location of those stored pics, because everytime I change roms on my Android phone and restore it. That is the one thing that Google Backup does not restore is the pics.
So I take it these pics are deleted or just stored locally, but where (System/data ?)
haha I remember I said the same exact comment about 7 months ago several times and was constantly modded troll.
I was told that it was a small minority sect of people doing this and not the majority, but than I replied that the majority remain silent and there is no outrage/protest over there.
Funny how it took a Islamic country to start banning websites, South Park episode and condemning the internet for people around here to take off the mittens and start dishing out some criticism of Islam. They have to be criticized and made fun of, if that causes them to want to kill people over it than we have succeeded in some way.
What we don't want is websites/govt bowing to pressure from these countries because it might cause 'civil disturbances'.
Sadly America is one of the last countries where we can speak up, not have to worry about the govt. cracking down or massive protest by 2nd generation immigrants from Islamic countries who love the freedom they enjoy but love to be hypocrites.
Israel probably has the most freedom for muslims.
Yeah...
They have gone from supplying 90% of the worlds rubble, to now a $1 trillion in minerals.
People always tried to throw out the theory of the mystery oil line that was supposed to be laid, but that idea was long abandoned ago by the Russians and was not practical.
Yeah except you are still getting service through their Dealership(AT&T) and getting your vehicle(Ipad) serviced there, otherwise it would void your warranty because they said no extra mods on your vehicle or you will not be able to bring it into the dealership. Lets just say the car(Ipad) cannot run unless it get an offical authorized(AT&T) dealership inspection and servicing.
You knew it when you originally bought the car.
I always play the victim and say I am being robbed at gunpoint
"oh god hes got a gun and hes gonna shoot me, help me!!!"
If I am in front of the computer than I pull out the 'Arnold Schwarzenegger Sound Board'
"SHUT UP!!!"
"WHO IS YOUR DADDY AND WHAT IS HIS NAME?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. "
*a weird quiet on the phone* followed by a "hello, are you okay sir?"
---------
P.S. - Had a friend who worked at one of these telemarketing firms with DirectTV and we would always bash him, he would constantly say "were not telemarketers because we have a special list and we do it a certain way". Apparently another buddy got him into it because you can get some big bonuses sometimes for making sales.
He said if people would talk shit against them that they would purposely put their number in the crap bin who would get harassed even more. *aholes*
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I just don't even answer the phone these days unless I recognize the number or leave it to my visual Google voice mail that shows me what they say and if it is emergency I can call right back. My number is easy to remember but for some reason people constantly accidently dial it in their pocket because my phone number digits are located on the outside right where all the numbers get pushed.
I average about 2-4 accidental dials a week and get one asshole who accidently dials at 1am in the morning, so I make sure to call them about 20 times at 5am when I get up and than just hang up every time.
5. When the IED goes off and it everything on your body burns, it will melt into and mend with your skin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs