I live in Denver and always preferred the Rocky Mountain News to the Denver Post, the local paper that has so far survived. I'm a news junkie and get all my content almost exclusively online. I never heard of InDenverTimes.com until this morning.
While the summary's conclusion may be correct — migration from print to web may very well be a futile endeavor — it's an entirely different story if people in the target demographic know nothing of the venture. Let's at least acknowledge this for what it is: in large part, a failure of publicity.
For posterity: Then named Godspeed You Black Emperor!, they were in Ardmore, Oklahoma in March, 2003, and got hassled at a gas station, not while eating pancakes at IHOP. They had just finished playing a (great) show at Ridglea Theater in Dallas with Bardo Pond, and were en route to St. Louis.
Wikipedia has a concise summary, and notes that the ordeal was also mentioned in Michael Moore's Dude, Where's My Country?
The problem with public transport, is if it doesn't actually improve my day and make my commute better, I'm not taking it.
The problem isn't with public transportation, it's with you. You've made a cost/benefit analysis about your own circumstances and decided accordingly. Great; I understand. But don't pass it off as somehow being the fault of the public transportation system that you don't want to wait.
I was on the fence last summer and fall as to whether Obama was "the real deal." That is, I was until I saw the Q&A portion of his November 2007 talk at the Google campus. This was my true turning point.
It is a typical question and answer session with some pretty advanced questions lobbed by the Googlers and moderated by Eric Schmidt. It is, beyond any combative debate or stump speech, a truly (+5) insightful conversation about his views on technology.
(As others have mentioned, Senator Obama's Technology page is also a helpful peek at what he stands for in case you don't have the patience for the ~20 min. video)
Unfortunately, hp is planning on 'nearshoring' large portions of its technical support workforce by year's end.
Nearshoring, in the oh-so-clever corporate parlance of our day, is the term for getting all the financial benefits of normal outsourcing (ie., India) with all the benefits of... staying in the in the same hemisphere ("Hey, we're only shipping jobs out of the country a LITTLE ways!"). Costa Rica seems to be a potential favorite for the pending hp move.
Not to be overly pedantic, but Chris Strohm is a Congress Daily reporter (presumably, as CD is subscription-only).
Russell Tice is the 'NSA whistleblower' and ~20 year veteran of US agencies that alleges he has seen 'some things that are illegal' in the intelligence community.
I work in the library at a semi-under privileged high school. A lot of our kids don't have computers at home, but they still have the same requirements as every other high schooler in the country. Reports: typed, double-spaced, etc.
So, we check out AlphaSmarts. Basically, they are keyboards with a 3 or 4 line LCD screen and built-in word processor. The units we have can store 8 different files of decent length.
When kids are ready to transfer documents, they hook it up to ANY computer with a standard USB cable and hit Send. The AS then emulates keyboard input and transfers all the characters to whatever application is active (ideally, a word processor).
They are pretty slick and robust enough to withstand high schoolers, and not too expensive second hand. A quick look on eBay shows newish models for $50.
(*Obviously, I get no compensation for this plug. Just a satisified middle-man spreading the word.)
These are the true classics. I agree, however, that these kind of games have lost any kind of marketability in the face of Dooms and Halos and GTAs. OMFG!! Monkey Island was leaked two weeks earlY!!
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I live in Denver and always preferred the Rocky Mountain News to the Denver Post, the local paper that has so far survived. I'm a news junkie and get all my content almost exclusively online. I never heard of InDenverTimes.com until this morning.
While the summary's conclusion may be correct — migration from print to web may very well be a futile endeavor — it's an entirely different story if people in the target demographic know nothing of the venture. Let's at least acknowledge this for what it is: in large part, a failure of publicity.
For posterity: Then named Godspeed You Black Emperor!, they were in Ardmore, Oklahoma in March, 2003, and got hassled at a gas station, not while eating pancakes at IHOP. They had just finished playing a (great) show at Ridglea Theater in Dallas with Bardo Pond, and were en route to St. Louis.
Wikipedia has a concise summary, and notes that the ordeal was also mentioned in Michael Moore's Dude, Where's My Country?
The problem isn't with public transportation, it's with you. You've made a cost/benefit analysis about your own circumstances and decided accordingly. Great; I understand. But don't pass it off as somehow being the fault of the public transportation system that you don't want to wait.
I was on the fence last summer and fall as to whether Obama was "the real deal." That is, I was until I saw the Q&A portion of his November 2007 talk at the Google campus. This was my true turning point.
It is a typical question and answer session with some pretty advanced questions lobbed by the Googlers and moderated by Eric Schmidt. It is, beyond any combative debate or stump speech, a truly (+5) insightful conversation about his views on technology.
(As others have mentioned, Senator Obama's Technology page is also a helpful peek at what he stands for in case you don't have the patience for the ~20 min. video)
Unfortunately, hp is planning on 'nearshoring' large portions of its technical support workforce by year's end.
Nearshoring , in the oh-so-clever corporate parlance of our day, is the term for getting all the financial benefits of normal outsourcing (ie., India) with all the benefits of ... staying in the in the same hemisphere ("Hey, we're only shipping jobs out of the country a LITTLE ways!"). Costa Rica seems to be a potential favorite for the pending hp move.
Not to be overly pedantic, but Chris Strohm is a Congress Daily reporter (presumably, as CD is subscription-only).
Russell Tice is the 'NSA whistleblower' and ~20 year veteran of US agencies that alleges he has seen 'some things that are illegal' in the intelligence community.
I work in the library at a semi-under privileged high school. A lot of our kids don't have computers at home, but they still have the same requirements as every other high schooler in the country. Reports: typed, double-spaced, etc.
So, we check out AlphaSmarts. Basically, they are keyboards with a 3 or 4 line LCD screen and built-in word processor. The units we have can store 8 different files of decent length.
When kids are ready to transfer documents, they hook it up to ANY computer with a standard USB cable and hit Send. The AS then emulates keyboard input and transfers all the characters to whatever application is active (ideally, a word processor).
They are pretty slick and robust enough to withstand high schoolers, and not too expensive second hand. A quick look on eBay shows newish models for $50.
(*Obviously, I get no compensation for this plug. Just a satisified middle-man spreading the word.)
I realize you may be thinking about LA games like Monkey Island and Sam&Max, but they had a history of smart and very funny games even before then.
the two that spring to mind most handily are Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Loom ("Do you know the name Bobbin Threadbare?" [#3])
These are the true classics. I agree, however, that these kind of games have lost any kind of marketability in the face of Dooms and Halos and GTAs. OMFG!! Monkey Island was leaked two weeks earlY!!
Oh well.