IMNSHO, it sucked. Ripley's Believe it or Not (another Stern title) is actually a lot of fun. Even though you figure it will be dumb since its based on a TV show. Spider Man is good, too.
But pinball? HUNDREDS of unique mechanical parts, all subject to wear and tear from heavy steel balls, lots of LEDs/bulbs to replace and make sure that all the wires are working, tilt sensors, the list goes on. The maintainance is not cheap.
One thing I always wondered about is why pinball machines almost always seem to use regular bulbs still. I hardly ever see LED lights in them, which is dumb. The "retry" light - the one at the bottom between the pins and you get to shoot a ball again if you lose it within the first 30 seconds or so of play - burns out so fast because it's running in flash mode so much, and I've never seen a machine where it's an LED bulb.
One day, I upgraded my client and it was this huge, bloated... THING.
I gave it about 15 minutes before I sadly shook my head, deleted it and installed uTorrent. It's a shame b/c there was a lot of things I liked about Azureus - especially those things having to do with individual privilege controls.
Wouldn't a better solution been to simply go back to the version you had before?
I'm still using Bitcomet 0.84 because it has the per-hour bandwidth throttle scheduling, and was the last version before they added the advertising sidebar. When that bar came out in 0.85 you could hide it via a menu command, but the choice didn't stick so you had to rehide it every time you launched the program. I think they have removed the advertising bar completly now due to user complaints (you can't very well claim to be adware free and have advertsing). But I still see no reason to upgrade since what I have seems to work fine.
This is pretty ridiculous. If the professor wants to protect his copyright, then he shouldn't be putting the material up on the blackboard for everyone to freely see.
I'd just argue that since I paid tuition to take the class, I've already paid for my notes, so if I'm not allowed to take any, I should get a copy of the ones the publishing company is making for free.
Since when have they actually enforced the original intent of TLDs? Everyone's email address from their ISP should be a.net, there are government websites operating with.com, and plenty of for profit sites running with.org domains.
If they don't win an appeal, their patent could turn to dust. They'd better do their lines and improve their software, or a chunk of their business could be erased from competing products.
Funny how a co-worker sent me the email announcing the launch telling me that my days as a freelance graphic artist were numbered...
It only shows he knows nothing about your job. It's funny how people get the idea that any job that involves using a computer program like Photoshop or taking pictures is easy because "the computer is doing all the work" or "the camera is doing all the work" and all you do is press buttons.
Anyone can sit down and apply filters on top of each other and draw on the image. It takes a skilled individual to do this in moderation. Others will either end up with something boring/ugly, or fry the image from overprocessing.
The difference is Vista's poor sales and Microsoft's imploding cash reserves. No cash, no control, end of story.
To paraphrase Sneakers, control isn't about who has the most guns or money anymore, it's about the information - little ones and zeros. I'm sure anyone who has had the task of trying to convert documents from an old format belonging to an application/company that has gone out of business would agree.
As long as Microsoft is still standing and still has so much important data locked up in its own proprietary formats, there isn't going to be any miraculous rise of Linux to power. Even if they ceased to exist right now everyone would continue to churn along in Windows-land for another 5 years or more because what they have now is already working for them, and the poor sales of Vista show they really don't need anything else at this time.
Imploding cash reserves? Look how SCO continues to exist with little/no money at all, and almost no real products anymore. Watch AOL continue to flounder years after they should have evaporated. Microsoft has it's fingers in too many pies to disappear from a lack of Windows license sales.
"5) Selectively throttling specific protocols is a slippery slope. What's to say that they don't decide that VoIP is the next service that gets eliminated because it competes with their local phone service?"
"4) The type of throttling they are doing is interfearing with QoS systems in routers that ensure VoIP works. It is causing reduced quality in VoIP services."
I know you're referring to the fact ISPs don't want to roll out municipal networks, because they will inevitably find themselves making less money than if they keep things status quo.
But it should be pointed out that the OP is a taxpayer as well we assume. So "living off the taxpayers dime" would be living off his own as well.
They're actually billed as 6-12 years, but don't have anything like that in real use.
You're looking at the wrong place on the packaging. The hours of life figure is with the lumen output, which you should check so you don't buy a bulb that claims to be "75w equivalent" only to find the manufacturer has a poor perception of what an incandescent 75w bulb puts out for light.
After the recent warrentless wiretap fiasco, it's brutally obvious that this would be abused by some government agency somewhere.
Was it really such a "fiasco"?
From what I can see, most people didn't give a damn about the warrantless wiretapping. At least not enough to actually act on their feelings. There was no mob of pitchforks and torches looking for government agents, no collapse of AT&T from mass customer defection (in fact, AT&T has been gaining customers thanks to the iPhone, so this whole thing hasn't effected their business one bot), the telecoms are eventually going to get their retroactive immunity just like they want considering how the bills are flowing in Congress. Every lawsuit is getting stopped at some point either by a "State's Secrets" clause or an appellate court refusing to hear a case. Nothing has happened. All I can see is everyone's too busy watching TV to do anything (making this article rather funny in a sad sort of way).
People have been more worried about the writer's strike than the wiretapping.
Not sure. I've never had problems like that with the regular spiral CFL's (in fact, I like the new ultra-compact GE's since they start much closer to full brightness and fit into smaller lamp fixtures without extending past the shade). I have noticed a short buzzing sound lately when first I turn that light on, so I'm keeping my eye on it.
As for the bathroom fixture replacement bulbs, I don't know. There appears to be few companies making these so there is little competition (which might explain why a bulb that takes so long to warm up it would be unacceptable by today's standards is being produced). I might have to try something from Amazon or some other online retailer (much as I hate to pay for shipping on light bulbs).
3) Visit FBI sting site (and also maybe do some Google searches for child porn topics to build a browsing history with the ISP they'll find worth checking out).
I now buy Phillips/made in mexico only bulbs, but it does not solve the problem of mercury recycle.
How ironic, I'm dropping the Philips-brand bulbs - because they plain don't last as advertised.
I bought a three pack of the globe ones (for the bathroom vanity) and put in two. I still had two incandescent bulbs in the fixture because they were working fine. One of the Philips bulbs burned out after only 30 seconds, I had to take the entire three pack back to Wal-Mart to get an exchange.
Then another bulb burned out four months later.
It has now been seven months since I put the bulbs in and another has stopped working. Meanwhile, the incandescent bulbs that are supposedly much lower life and were here when I moved in are still going. They also don't take a minute and a half (not joking) to warm up to full brightness (long enough I'm already leaving the room before it happens).
Go to an entertainment district of a major city on a Summer Friday night, and you will find as many if not more cars in it that in the day. Add to that people are much more likely to be drinking and driving...
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I hope Williams is not gone. Attack From Mars is one of the best machines ever and I want spare parts to be around for it.
IMNSHO, it sucked. Ripley's Believe it or Not (another Stern title) is actually a lot of fun. Even though you figure it will be dumb since its based on a TV show. Spider Man is good, too.
One thing I always wondered about is why pinball machines almost always seem to use regular bulbs still. I hardly ever see LED lights in them, which is dumb. The "retry" light - the one at the bottom between the pins and you get to shoot a ball again if you lose it within the first 30 seconds or so of play - burns out so fast because it's running in flash mode so much, and I've never seen a machine where it's an LED bulb.
The Sanitation Dept. of New York already claims ownership of that box. The RIAA will have to sue for the shirt off his back.
Wouldn't a better solution been to simply go back to the version you had before?
I'm still using Bitcomet 0.84 because it has the per-hour bandwidth throttle scheduling, and was the last version before they added the advertising sidebar. When that bar came out in 0.85 you could hide it via a menu command, but the choice didn't stick so you had to rehide it every time you launched the program. I think they have removed the advertising bar completly now due to user complaints (you can't very well claim to be adware free and have advertsing). But I still see no reason to upgrade since what I have seems to work fine.
I'd just argue that since I paid tuition to take the class, I've already paid for my notes, so if I'm not allowed to take any, I should get a copy of the ones the publishing company is making for free.
Since when have they actually enforced the original intent of TLDs? Everyone's email address from their ISP should be a .net, there are government websites operating with .com, and plenty of for profit sites running with .org domains.
Yup things are looking black for them now.
If they don't win an appeal, their patent could turn to dust. They'd better do their lines and improve their software, or a chunk of their business could be erased from competing products.
It only shows he knows nothing about your job. It's funny how people get the idea that any job that involves using a computer program like Photoshop or taking pictures is easy because "the computer is doing all the work" or "the camera is doing all the work" and all you do is press buttons.
Anyone can sit down and apply filters on top of each other and draw on the image. It takes a skilled individual to do this in moderation. Others will either end up with something boring/ugly, or fry the image from overprocessing.
LOL. I was thinking the same thing as I read this.
Yeah, someone might sue them for missing important emails from the poor service ORDB is offering.
Oh, wait...
To paraphrase Sneakers, control isn't about who has the most guns or money anymore, it's about the information - little ones and zeros. I'm sure anyone who has had the task of trying to convert documents from an old format belonging to an application/company that has gone out of business would agree.
As long as Microsoft is still standing and still has so much important data locked up in its own proprietary formats, there isn't going to be any miraculous rise of Linux to power. Even if they ceased to exist right now everyone would continue to churn along in Windows-land for another 5 years or more because what they have now is already working for them, and the poor sales of Vista show they really don't need anything else at this time.
Imploding cash reserves? Look how SCO continues to exist with little/no money at all, and almost no real products anymore. Watch AOL continue to flounder years after they should have evaporated. Microsoft has it's fingers in too many pies to disappear from a lack of Windows license sales.
I don't think it will go like that. Something tells me the install will not complete if you give Microsoft an expired credit card.
I wonder what they'd do with a foreign reporter who was writing articles in Chinese.
"5) Selectively throttling specific protocols is a slippery slope. What's to say that they don't decide that VoIP is the next service that gets eliminated because it competes with their local phone service?"
"4) The type of throttling they are doing is interfearing with QoS systems in routers that ensure VoIP works. It is causing reduced quality in VoIP services."
Doesn't it appear they already have?
Am I the only one who read this as Sausage Fills Flash Creation Hole for Linux?
I know you're referring to the fact ISPs don't want to roll out municipal networks, because they will inevitably find themselves making less money than if they keep things status quo.
But it should be pointed out that the OP is a taxpayer as well we assume. So "living off the taxpayers dime" would be living off his own as well.
You're looking at the wrong place on the packaging. The hours of life figure is with the lumen output, which you should check so you don't buy a bulb that claims to be "75w equivalent" only to find the manufacturer has a poor perception of what an incandescent 75w bulb puts out for light.
Remember that CFLs have a life span of 5000 - 8000 hrs.
Was it really such a "fiasco"?
From what I can see, most people didn't give a damn about the warrantless wiretapping. At least not enough to actually act on their feelings. There was no mob of pitchforks and torches looking for government agents, no collapse of AT&T from mass customer defection (in fact, AT&T has been gaining customers thanks to the iPhone, so this whole thing hasn't effected their business one bot), the telecoms are eventually going to get their retroactive immunity just like they want considering how the bills are flowing in Congress. Every lawsuit is getting stopped at some point either by a "State's Secrets" clause or an appellate court refusing to hear a case. Nothing has happened. All I can see is everyone's too busy watching TV to do anything (making this article rather funny in a sad sort of way).
People have been more worried about the writer's strike than the wiretapping.
Not sure. I've never had problems like that with the regular spiral CFL's (in fact, I like the new ultra-compact GE's since they start much closer to full brightness and fit into smaller lamp fixtures without extending past the shade). I have noticed a short buzzing sound lately when first I turn that light on, so I'm keeping my eye on it.
As for the bathroom fixture replacement bulbs, I don't know. There appears to be few companies making these so there is little competition (which might explain why a bulb that takes so long to warm up it would be unacceptable by today's standards is being produced). I might have to try something from Amazon or some other online retailer (much as I hate to pay for shipping on light bulbs).
1) Disconnect from my network.
2) Connect to his unsecured wireless router.
3) Visit FBI sting site (and also maybe do some Google searches for child porn topics to build a browsing history with the ISP they'll find worth checking out).
4) Sit back and wait.
How ironic, I'm dropping the Philips-brand bulbs - because they plain don't last as advertised.
I bought a three pack of the globe ones (for the bathroom vanity) and put in two. I still had two incandescent bulbs in the fixture because they were working fine. One of the Philips bulbs burned out after only 30 seconds, I had to take the entire three pack back to Wal-Mart to get an exchange.
Then another bulb burned out four months later.
It has now been seven months since I put the bulbs in and another has stopped working. Meanwhile, the incandescent bulbs that are supposedly much lower life and were here when I moved in are still going. They also don't take a minute and a half (not joking) to warm up to full brightness (long enough I'm already leaving the room before it happens).
Go to an entertainment district of a major city on a Summer Friday night, and you will find as many if not more cars in it that in the day. Add to that people are much more likely to be drinking and driving...
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