actualy there is a logical reason other thanstyle for a product like this.. given it's size and the goal of being light weight.. by spacing the keys out and allowing the upper frame to be solid accross the mid secion of the device allows the surface to he structural - there for allowing the bottom of it to be thiner and allowing the whole device to be thinner as you don't have to make room under the keyboard for support and you don't need heavy materials around the edges for support - caluse as soon as it flexes watch it die.
why procrastinate? the CCNA really isn't that hard of a cert to get.. the NP's are difficult.. and no mater what google does.. if you have an IE you will be able to find a job
i think you failed to read the post i was talking about.. that was a sarcastic comment based on the parent's comment that no one ownes them and then on the next line said socity gave the government the right to control them
i would say serious.. i can't stand lossy encoding when it comes to soloist's and clasical music.. i only buy music from places that let me download either the wav or flac versions
"As a society we decided to allow government to divy up the airwaves"
if nobody owns them then nobody has the right to decied on who gets to rule them.
last i checked no one owned Air it's self.. lets hope we don't decied to let the government divy it up.
my outrage is that a body of government that was put inplace to "regulate" has restorted to being basicly a distributer
orginaly they where in place to prevent people from just pumping more power in to over power others.. now it doesn't mater if you where there first or what your using it for.. if the guy next to you is willing to give the more $ they you will lose it. That is basicly what is happening here.. cause i assure you that if all the normal brodcast stations had gotten together to outbid for the c block that the FCC would have awarded it to them apon the check being cashed. and they could have kept right on brodcasting how they where...
now i also agree in progress in socity.. it makes sence to use them digitaly instead of analog.. BUT i also don't think that a the FCC has any biz being a fore profit intity.. if as you say as a socity we agreed to let them regulate it.. then as a socity they still belong to us.. so then why is this regulating body making money while forcing socity to spend money.. all so some company can use it for what ever they want with no benifit to socity other than another pay for x service?
sorry but if the government wants to build a road accross my land (has happened) they will pay me for it as they should. every penny spend on buying the spectrum should go driectly to the tax payers.. and as we all know that isn't going to happen ever.. the least they can do is pay for my grandmother who is on a fixed income to get a converter box.
once the cost of the convert box program meets or exceeds the money made by the FCC from the auction.. then we can argue aobut this.. but for now even being over budget it is still far less than what they are making.
"Collect some cans along the road and turn them in to buy your converter."
how about they just mail me a check for the portion of the "public" air waves that was mine that they "sold" for a fuck load of money to come company that is going to deny me access to them.
sorry but the whole reason we are having to use converters is so the FCC could sell the spectrum for alot more money - as they took a public resource and sold it they better reimburse the people they took it from..
i for one can read numbers and do math.. the cost of funding this program even over the orinal amount is far far far less than what the FCC made/will make off selling of public airwaves
what i think (along this line) would work well is a single teather with 2 cables encased inside.. match the timing of the climber with the base.. osolate the two cables and use the teather case as a stable hodler and something to break on.. have the climber grab the approperiate cable based on direction of movement then have it switch back and forth as the two cables oslate.
i have a mag light that uses a 3 watt led.. and is far more than bright enough for the job of a flash light.. my only complaint with it is that it requires 3 AA's instead of their normal 2 AA's so it makes it abit longer.. which makes it hard on your teeth to hold it while working on the car with both hands..
i honestly don't think it is the lack of light output or the lack of propper defusing but rather the harsh color of the light
i have seen several 360's die each had the same issue which with hunting turned out to be a failure in the soder joints on the GPU due to excessive heat or some failure at that manufacturing point or maybe nV's fault (didn't they have a big back lash about GPU failures in laptops?) or it could have been alittle of all of the above.
over all the 360 is a great consol.. but also the only consumer electronic device that i would recomend buying and extended warrenty for (well recommend before MS extended the warrenty)
who knows.. i still refuse to pay that much for a consol.. the 360 or ps3.. the wii is nice.. but until the US version will let me play DVD movies like they said they where going to do (the Jap version does) then i can justify it.
some places use them here.. they are normaly RSA keys and are 2-300$ each and are optional.. my bank doesn't use them.. but i know realestate agents that have to have them to open lock boxes on houses.. someone was a good sales man for that one.. and the banks jsut don't give a fuck.. if someone takes money out of my account it isn't their proplem as i'm the one that is short
i remember a while back a firend of mine that workd for a college was tasked with trying to find a person who was sniffing peoples logins on the campus wifi.. what he ended up doing was sending out garbled truncated packets - turns out that windows boxes running things like etheral would get the truncated packet and then request the rest of the packet even though it wasn't addressed to them.. very clever way of finding the stupid ones.. luckly the person they where after was stupid
if you where to do this in daytona then yes it would be a nightmare.. but in Dubai it is very diffrent - the waters there are by far the commest in the world.. their beachs have the waves and errosion of a lake.. think of the water with nearly no tide change and no storms.. this is the same place that has built island comunities in diffrent shapes.. they don't have to (for now) worrie about errosion or all that funn stuff a normal beach has to.
This will work and will work amazingly well and shouldn't require alot of maintenance if they do it right... and if it does.. they are so damn rich they can just pay the bill
3k for a class no.. but then she is someone who is happy to read the material online and tries not to kill trees.. but i know people at work that if in the same situation would kill a printer just for the hell of it
actualy my wife is currently getting her masters via distance ed. the cost.. 115$ a credit hour.. so 90$ in printing for a 3 hour (345$) class is a 26% cost increase.. now granted it is distance ed so she just uses the home printer.. but not all college's rape the student as bad as most.
i just go with the best of both worlds.. i own a volvo and an MG.. one is basicly maintence free for 120k miles.. the other required me to bring my tools to get it running so i could drive it home (well half way.. the other half i used a tow truck)
it's not an issue with beint try loaded vs' slot loaded.. it has to do with the moving of the unit causeing the optical reader's cradle to shift.. which when a disk is spinnging would hit the disk and scratch it.. considering slot load and try load all use the same spinnign and optical reader cradle desing (basicly the same concept) the loading portion makes no diffrence.
still i side with MS on this.. here is a box spinning a disk.. I move the box and the disk gets scratched.. if I hadn't moved the box it wouldn't have scratched... sounds like it's MY fault not MS's that MY disk got scratched.
i alwasy got a kick out of the NT4 documentation for how to defragment a partition.. the "best pratice" was to back the data up to tape then format the partition and restore from the tape..
and i agree that it costs more now to produce a game but that applies to everything..
you can throw more man hours at anything and make it better more expensive.. BUT is it really needed? I like game play - forgive me if i care about a story line more than i care about how realistic an explosion or falling rocks are.. show me a sprite.. some thigns falling.. i see that i get the picture.. my mind can fill in the missing little bits, i don't need a renderer to do it.
and sadly ther have been alot of games recently where yes the graphics and the worlds where very amazing BUT gameplay lasted only a couple of hours, that to me is kinda pointless - if all i wanted was a couple of hours of life like entertainment i would just rent a couple movies.. or buy them.. it'd be cheaper.
all i'm saying.. is the point of this artical is that the game studios don't like the resell of games.. because people prefer them to new.. and i just was stating that the reasoin i do it is because the used ones hit MY price point for the value i'm getting.. if the new games where at the 30$ point.. yea i'd buy new over used.
on top of that if you look this compared to jsut a few years ago.. the new games prices have gone up so much.. now the price you pay for a used new release is the same as the new new release jsut a few years ago..
we all have our price points.. the amount of $ we are willing to spend on something.. there are extreamly few games i'm willing to spend 50+$ on - and the ones i will.. well they are the ones you can't really finish in a day..
if you think of how a back light on an LCD works there is one light source that is injected into a peice of glass and there is a reflective layer around all the edges and the back with a polirized layer (usualy 3-4) on the front then the LCD.. the idea being the light will bounce around untill it is at relitivly 90 degree of this the only part that can't be made flexiable is the glass and the LCD.. well this is the LCD.. and it is clear platic.. could it not be made 2x as thick with this tec on the top layer and the light shot in the bottom.. adding the polirizing layers shouldnt' be too hard.. and as this is a double sided display you wouldn't need the reflective surface ont he back as the other side would be another set of polirizers. each layer acking as a refractor for the other side.
actualy if they did make it completely out of (basicly) clear plastic - i wonder if it would have the same optical effect that plexi glass or lexan does.. where youcan put a beam of light through it and any holes or imperfections cause reflection at 90 degrees.
meaning they could do a roll out display with white LED's at the end of the screen - light would travel through the display untill it hit a colored pixel and refract light out... i do see a color bleading issue with this but would still be a neat way of supplying light
isnt' that exaclty what i said? i put "well if he put a battery in it" and then took the largest one i could find's specs (well the largest easy to get one) and pointed out it would last 30min.
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actualy there is a logical reason other thanstyle for a product like this.. given it's size and the goal of being light weight.. by spacing the keys out and allowing the upper frame to be solid accross the mid secion of the device allows the surface to he structural - there for allowing the bottom of it to be thiner and allowing the whole device to be thinner as you don't have to make room under the keyboard for support and you don't need heavy materials around the edges for support - caluse as soon as it flexes watch it die.
why procrastinate? the CCNA really isn't that hard of a cert to get.. the NP's are difficult.. and no mater what google does.. if you have an IE you will be able to find a job
i think you failed to read the post i was talking about.. that was a sarcastic comment based on the parent's comment that no one ownes them and then on the next line said socity gave the government the right to control them
i would say serious.. i can't stand lossy encoding when it comes to soloist's and clasical music.. i only buy music from places that let me download either the wav or flac versions
http://www.magnatunes.com/ is a good one - all indy for the most part and alot of very good stuff
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"Nobody owns the airwaves"
"As a society we decided to allow government to divy up the airwaves"
if nobody owns them then nobody has the right to decied on who gets to rule them.
last i checked no one owned Air it's self.. lets hope we don't decied to let the government divy it up.
my outrage is that a body of government that was put inplace to "regulate" has restorted to being basicly a distributer
orginaly they where in place to prevent people from just pumping more power in to over power others.. now it doesn't mater if you where there first or what your using it for.. if the guy next to you is willing to give the more $ they you will lose it. That is basicly what is happening here.. cause i assure you that if all the normal brodcast stations had gotten together to outbid for the c block that the FCC would have awarded it to them apon the check being cashed. and they could have kept right on brodcasting how they where...
now i also agree in progress in socity.. it makes sence to use them digitaly instead of analog.. BUT i also don't think that a the FCC has any biz being a fore profit intity.. if as you say as a socity we agreed to let them regulate it.. then as a socity they still belong to us.. so then why is this regulating body making money while forcing socity to spend money .. all so some company can use it for what ever they want with no benifit to socity other than another pay for x service?
sorry but if the government wants to build a road accross my land (has happened) they will pay me for it as they should. every penny spend on buying the spectrum should go driectly to the tax payers.. and as we all know that isn't going to happen ever.. the least they can do is pay for my grandmother who is on a fixed income to get a converter box.
once the cost of the convert box program meets or exceeds the money made by the FCC from the auction.. then we can argue aobut this.. but for now even being over budget it is still far less than what they are making.
"Collect some cans along the road and turn them in to buy your converter."
how about they just mail me a check for the portion of the "public" air waves that was mine that they "sold" for a fuck load of money to come company that is going to deny me access to them.
sorry but the whole reason we are having to use converters is so the FCC could sell the spectrum for alot more money - as they took a public resource and sold it they better reimburse the people they took it from..
i for one can read numbers and do math.. the cost of funding this program even over the orinal amount is far far far less than what the FCC made/will make off selling of public airwaves
what i think (along this line) would work well is a single teather with 2 cables encased inside.. match the timing of the climber with the base .. osolate the two cables and use the teather case as a stable hodler and something to break on.. have the climber grab the approperiate cable based on direction of movement then have it switch back and forth as the two cables oslate.
i have a mag light that uses a 3 watt led.. and is far more than bright enough for the job of a flash light.. my only complaint with it is that it requires 3 AA's instead of their normal 2 AA's so it makes it abit longer.. which makes it hard on your teeth to hold it while working on the car with both hands..
i honestly don't think it is the lack of light output or the lack of propper defusing but rather the harsh color of the light
wheee power just went out
i have seen several 360's die each had the same issue which with hunting turned out to be a failure in the soder joints on the GPU due to excessive heat or some failure at that manufacturing point or maybe nV's fault (didn't they have a big back lash about GPU failures in laptops?) or it could have been alittle of all of the above.
over all the 360 is a great consol.. but also the only consumer electronic device that i would recomend buying and extended warrenty for (well recommend before MS extended the warrenty)
who knows.. i still refuse to pay that much for a consol.. the 360 or ps3.. the wii is nice.. but until the US version will let me play DVD movies like they said they where going to do (the Jap version does) then i can justify it.
some places use them here .. they are normaly RSA keys and are 2-300$ each and are optional.. my bank doesn't use them.. but i know realestate agents that have to have them to open lock boxes on houses.. someone was a good sales man for that one.. and the banks jsut don't give a fuck.. if someone takes money out of my account it isn't their proplem as i'm the one that is short
i remember a while back a firend of mine that workd for a college was tasked with trying to find a person who was sniffing peoples logins on the campus wifi.. what he ended up doing was sending out garbled truncated packets - turns out that windows boxes running things like etheral would get the truncated packet and then request the rest of the packet even though it wasn't addressed to them.. very clever way of finding the stupid ones.. luckly the person they where after was stupid
if you where to do this in daytona then yes it would be a nightmare.. but in Dubai it is very diffrent - the waters there are by far the commest in the world.. their beachs have the waves and errosion of a lake.. think of the water with nearly no tide change and no storms.. this is the same place that has built island comunities in diffrent shapes.. they don't have to (for now) worrie about errosion or all that funn stuff a normal beach has to.
This will work and will work amazingly well and shouldn't require alot of maintenance if they do it right... and if it does.. they are so damn rich they can just pay the bill
3k for a class no.. but then she is someone who is happy to read the material online and tries not to kill trees.. but i know people at work that if in the same situation would kill a printer just for the hell of it
actualy my wife is currently getting her masters via distance ed. the cost.. 115$ a credit hour.. so 90$ in printing for a 3 hour (345$) class is a 26% cost increase.. now granted it is distance ed so she just uses the home printer.. but not all college's rape the student as bad as most.
Its and older story but every time i think Novell i remember this
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6505527
i remember talking with one of the admins the day it happend - can't seem to find the pictures he sent me.
i just go with the best of both worlds.. i own a volvo and an MG.. one is basicly maintence free for 120k miles.. the other required me to bring my tools to get it running so i could drive it home (well half way.. the other half i used a tow truck)
it's not an issue with beint try loaded vs' slot loaded.. it has to do with the moving of the unit causeing the optical reader's cradle to shift.. which when a disk is spinnging would hit the disk and scratch it.. considering slot load and try load all use the same spinnign and optical reader cradle desing (basicly the same concept) the loading portion makes no diffrence.
still i side with MS on this.. here is a box spinning a disk.. I move the box and the disk gets scratched.. if I hadn't moved the box it wouldn't have scratched... sounds like it's MY fault not MS's that MY disk got scratched.
just because something works doesn't* mean you should do it that way
*unles you live in perl - then you just do it and it is done
i alwasy got a kick out of the NT4 documentation for how to defragment a partition.. the "best pratice" was to back the data up to tape then format the partition and restore from the tape..
alwasy gave me a good laugh..
sure you can ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/exavior/2462658431/
it would be intresting to walk around down town witht hat thing
and i agree that it costs more now to produce a game but that applies to everything ..
you can throw more man hours at anything and make it better more expensive.. BUT is it really needed? I like game play - forgive me if i care about a story line more than i care about how realistic an explosion or falling rocks are.. show me a sprite.. some thigns falling.. i see that i get the picture.. my mind can fill in the missing little bits, i don't need a renderer to do it.
and sadly ther have been alot of games recently where yes the graphics and the worlds where very amazing BUT gameplay lasted only a couple of hours, that to me is kinda pointless - if all i wanted was a couple of hours of life like entertainment i would just rent a couple movies.. or buy them .. it'd be cheaper.
all i'm saying.. is the point of this artical is that the game studios don't like the resell of games.. because people prefer them to new.. and i just was stating that the reasoin i do it is because the used ones hit MY price point for the value i'm getting.. if the new games where at the 30$ point.. yea i'd buy new over used.
on top of that if you look this compared to jsut a few years ago.. the new games prices have gone up so much.. now the price you pay for a used new release is the same as the new new release jsut a few years ago..
we all have our price points.. the amount of $ we are willing to spend on something.. there are extreamly few games i'm willing to spend 50+$ on - and the ones i will.. well they are the ones you can't really finish in a day..
true - but another way of doing it is this,
if you think of how a back light on an LCD works there is one light source that is injected into a peice of glass and there is a reflective layer around all the edges and the back with a polirized layer (usualy 3-4) on the front then the LCD.. the idea being the light will bounce around untill it is at relitivly 90 degree of this the only part that can't be made flexiable is the glass and the LCD .. well this is the LCD .. and it is clear platic.. could it not be made 2x as thick with this tec on the top layer and the light shot in the bottom.. adding the polirizing layers shouldnt' be too hard.. and as this is a double sided display you wouldn't need the reflective surface ont he back as the other side would be another set of polirizers. each layer acking as a refractor for the other side.
this would be really neat to play with..
actualy if they did make it completely out of (basicly) clear plastic - i wonder if it would have the same optical effect that plexi glass or lexan does.. where youcan put a beam of light through it and any holes or imperfections cause reflection at 90 degrees.
meaning they could do a roll out display with white LED's at the end of the screen - light would travel through the display untill it hit a colored pixel and refract light out... i do see a color bleading issue with this but would still be a neat way of supplying light
just an idea
isnt' that exaclty what i said? i put "well if he put a battery in it" and then took the largest one i could find's specs (well the largest easy to get one) and pointed out it would last 30min.