I just use LED bulbs since they don't have the same problem in cold weather as CFL bulbs. I think CFL bulbs shoudn't be marketed for outside at all.
Why?
That delay you mentioned is the perfect reason. Every outside light is on a sensor(even the front door.) Since the timer goes off after three minutes they would never turn on.
Yeah, with American culture it's focused on playing games at home with a few friends. The only difference from arcades is you don't have to compete with strangers for a turn, and eventually the cost of a DDR pad pays itself off(assuming you don't stomp it to death.)
I think another reason U.S. arcades died out is because of cost. $1-$1.25 per game for some is beyond expensive, and it's even worse if they require tokens instead of quarters.
Though, last time I made the pilgrimage, Fun Spot in the lakes region(it's the big honkin one though I heard JTs BBQ closed down across the street so no more good after fun eats) of N.H. still had some classics (a really old Star Wars game), and prices weren't too bad on the older machines.
A website like/. should NOT require a GPU to display. I come here for text based news and comment, but not a "lets be pretty/fancy" kind of thing. Now, I don't have any issues in FF3.6 on XP Home on my old P4HT and 6800; though in the last version of/. I had to force the old style of comments because the new one was so sluggish.
The point is/. is not a site you should need a GPU for period, and it's stupid for any website that does that isn't running a video game in the browser.
Not just a trinity if you are Catholic! I grew up to all the saints you prayed to for different things. Just like the pagan gods. I came to atheism after realizing that the Catholic god was like Zeus, Hercules like Christ(God impregnates a mortal), and the Saints(One for travels, one for the lost, etc) like all of the sub deities that were prayed to for certain things.
Yes, be in the phone book or pay a FEE not too.
You do realize phone companies charge per month for that right? My guess is they sell it to phone book companies for extra bucks so they discourage people with it.
I end up hitting BBC News for U.S. and World News. Television news is something that I don't bother with. Even local news as there is a website for that. Oh look it's all condensed on their website so I don't have to sit through dribble like "Lassie saves Timmy again!"
Anything that they report science, tech, or health wise I only need the title anyway(gives me all the info to start looking for the actual study with the real science data.)
As for video games. With all that activation and DRM crap I'm considering taking up gardening as another hobby in the spring/summer in addition to tennis and maybe golf(and fletching!) If the video game industry ever claims piracy is killing them I'll disagree and say it's their own idiotic attempts at fighting it that's killing it. More DRM = less customers.
In the winter I can catch up on my backlog of books to read.
Until the tiger decides it wants a snack.
I imagine if Google directed it's lobbyists to fight against things the lobbyists at the MPAA want, and against it's power. Maybe their lawyers to seek an injunction from the MPAA bringing further lawsuits due to abuses or unreasonable requests.
I read the patent claims too(at the end of the complaint linked in the article.) I saw some of them filed in 2007. and the PS3 was launched in Nov 2006.
So right there Sony has a prior art defense, and that's not in addition to the fact they were part of the development of BluRay.
My preferred method is to buy the latest version of Windows Pro once SP1 hits. Then every new laptop after that gets that version installed on it. It doesn't get past two so I never worry about a licensing issue. I wipe the first laptop(DBAN), drop Linux on it; then see if a friend or family member needs one.
I go to the store because I don't like waiting around for the new system, and I need to play around with it. Online shopping is not something I enjoy much. Too hard to get a feel for the product, a good size gauge, and then there is the constant worry about stolen packages(never worried about a break in because my car is so boring inside that nothing is in it but registration, insurance, paper maps, and owners manual.)
Most network adapters work once you start Windows so the most I ever need to do is plug in the Ethernet, and go to the vendor site for any specific drivers for the model: flash, PDF, and MS Office after(Console, Email, Phone, FaceBook: my friends have it to get in contact as I hate dedicated IM clients and my gaming has gone console to avoid graphics wars.) HP is really easy to search for too.
My order is family, friends, and them the community(neighborhood maybe but the LGBT community much more.). Outside of that I don't care much. I only have so much money and time.
Abney Park(steampunk band) doesn't have free music all the time(ocasionally they give a song away), but they do have their own steampunk fashion line(stuff made by their stage costume designer.) So that idea isn't really far from where it could be. T-Shirt sales too as they are cheap to make, and can go for more than a CD.
I'm a AAA member for more than just the fact that it drops the hookup($100+) to the dues you pay. I also go to an office to talk with them. They will help you plan a trip, and get you all the offline(cell phones don't cut it) maps you might need.
Do I have a GPS? Yes. Do I use it to go EVERYWHERE? Not really. It's a tool that helps me find a motel in a TOWN I don't know, or a business I'm going to interview at someplace unfamiliar. I've used it to help learn a new route on a commute(sometimes there are roads just out of a major city widely unused) because I found some route that takes twenty minutes longer two exits out of the city no one uses because google maps said it takes longer(I value missing the two hours for a thirty minute commute from traffic.)
Another thing I'm good at(mid twenties) is reading a map, and planning highways myself. This is due to my stepfather on family trips growing up. I was the official navigator. So control of the maps was in my hands, and coming up with alternate routes. Each route I came up with he would tell me the pros and cons(having driven on them he knew the traffic patterns at different times/days/seasons.) He may have know the routes, but as a kid it was the feeling of being treated like an adult besides figuring out how to get someplace.
So besides having decent resouces to get paper maps still, education is also needed. Parents need to get some maps, and teach kids to use them.
I would think an angry genious would be angry at the angry fools. For an angry fool is the reason my town isn't getting a Walmart(what fool votes down needed jobs in a town that's 30 minutes from the nearest elctronics store, clothing store, homewares store, etc.) Maybe they don't hire as many full-time employees as part-time to avoid taxes.
Wait a second! Nearly everyone does that! There are small businesses all over(the ones the angry fool was trying to protect) doing the EXACT same thing. It's expected that if you work at a job that barely requires a high school diploma(if they even do.)
Once I can my plans are only for major medical(over $1K hospital visits) as I have gone to a dermatoligst uninsured. The $250(self pay rates are half of the insured rate) for the doctors office and the biopsy of a mole. Half of the amount I was paying for health insurance in a month. So if you're young, paying off student loans, and in good health; then general health coverage isn't needed. A dentist is $100 a cleaning, and it's about $100 for the optomitrist.
So I'm also angry that me, someone in good health, would be required to pay for general insurance at a rate of $500 a month for cruddy coverage($1K deductibles, $50 name brand, and a Walmart would have been great because they get some great prices on meds) for services that would normally cost me that much in a year(checkups) and $6K a year(mostly wasted.)
Yeah, my libertarian views place me just south of center-top on a nolan chart. Some conservatives("right") can end up falling towards the lower-right arm between conservative-statism others the upper-right between Liberterian-Conservative, and yet others towards the center on the middle line: any point in between really.
The funny thing is how people think Libertarians are against giving or receiving aide in hard times. Not true at all. It hurts my pride, but my grandfather freely chose to give me a place to live; that I freely accepted. It's about not interfering with my rights, or my interfering with the rights of others. My grandfather has a right to offer me help, and I have a right to accept it. Even if it hurts my pride.
You need to do well in the history program, and hope the CIA wants you as an Analyst(or if you were are fit enougn a field agent.) It's one of the few careers that a history degree is good for(history is required so you can make sense of cultural/historical context in codes or conversations.) You also need to be fluent in a foreign language for all the really good history programs(if you take middle eastern history the program will require Arabic or Pashtu etc depending on the region.)
I looked at the CIA career site once to see the requirements for an analyst position. Four year degree in history and fluent in a foreign language. The Bourne series of books actually took that into account too. Jason is actually a professor of history after the first book, and it's in Asian history(the movies were only someone close to the books for the first film.) So other than a history teacher, that's really the only option for a history major I can think of. There may be more.
Middlemen are only necessary if you want nation/world wide television/radio coverage. It's been a very long time since I have bought a CD from a record company. Now, I have bought a couple of CDs, but these were self made ones at the door of a concert(they look professionally done due to independants being able to order them mass produced cheaply), and from a bands website that was using the paypal merchant system to take credit cards: same professional looking CD as the band commisioned a good artist. Web sites like Deviant Art have allowed great artists that would have otherwise gone unnoticed show their work and get some decent commisions.
So no. Middlemen aren't necessary to get it out there, and make enough to fill your belly. If I loved making and playing music, and was good at it. One thing I know is that I would be happy living on the road with food in my belly, and performing to my hearts content. Music, theater, and art are rarely things you can make much money on. That's the reason most people do it because it's the thing they love to do, and are good at it.
The internet and cheap manufacturing has just expanded the fan base for independant artists, and made it possible to get just a little bit more money. My college found some really good indpendant musicians and comics: some of them even sold out of their merchandise.
My brother and I dug out our tennis rackets, and there is a public court that's seldom used. I'm really starting to phase out video games(too many gimicks, too little story, too many quick to beat games.) The basement has a good sized tablle with a really bright light above it(shop quality long tube FL), and I plan to work on fletching with that. Once I get another job is when we start hitting the shooting range and getting our pistol permits.
So yeah, I'm finding a lot more interesting things to do that make me feel more accomplished. Also, learning fletching could make me side cash eventually selling at SCA events.
I just need to clean out my parents basement(my mom kept junk because she didn't want to hear it from my grandma for getting rid of something that could be worth money some day) to get that table back(my old lego table.)
This will make more people suspicious that their MMOFPS in development codenamed "Titan" IS a Starcraft MMO. One other reason comes to mind: "Crud! Someone coule make something good, and prove it's possible to do a SC MMO. WE MUST STOP THEM!"
It could also be that, as a result of other underlying problems, people latch onto some form of addiction to deal with them. With the lower cost, legality, and access; gaming is now another source. I would tend to think that violent people are naturally attracted to violent video games. So the correlation CAN go both ways, but the media uses the direction that has the best scare tactic element to it.
Video games are something that I play in spare time when: there is no good book to read, no good movie to watch, no good television show to watch, I can't go out and play tennis, I had a long day and am tired(but don't want to mess up my sleep schedule by going to bed early), or my friends are on a date or hanging out with someone else(or the one I want to spend time with is hundreds of miles away.) SO no, not everyone is addicted to games, and I would rather say that any correllation to a mental disorder is that they are addicted to games as a result of that disorder: rather than they have a disorder as the result of gaming addiction(addicts will be addicts, but will have a different source.)
I think they are looking for the same dumb schmucks that pay $60 a year for Xbox Live Gold. M$ has a great desktop operating system and office suite, but aside from that they are too greedy with their other platforms. So even though I run Windows on my computer, have Office 07, and run IE(Firefox is just as insecure but because of the lower user base with a higher secuirty sense there are less infectios, and if Firefox had the same market share IE does now we would be looking down on Firefox instead.)
My choice of console, however, is the PS3. Why? I don't have to pay an extra $60 a year to stream Netflix(last I checked it was Xbox Gold Only), hard drive upgrades are much easier, I can use the same power cable as my PC, to recharch the controller I don't need to shell out an extra $20 for the charge and play kit(instead using any UBS A - USB Mini A cable), and it can play blue ray discs so the only thing I need under the TV is the PS3.
I don't buy into the whole smartphone thing. Since I can memorize my full checking account number, still remember a student ID number I haven't used for nearly four years, and I can remember my daily schedule once I check it(outlook on my laptop) I just have a very basic cell phone(with a camera for quick accident photos if needed) and nothing more than the cheapest plan(yeah I have friends but skype, MSN, AIM, and email are the main comm methods including setting up a time to hang out.) I get the occasional SMS message from one if they want to set something up for after I'm done with classes(economy sucks, back in school, blah blah.)
So yeah, most smartphones are completely usesles. If I am traveling, but not driving I bring my kindle, and a good book iof the battery is dead. Microsoft is just trying to play off of those people that will shell out for something that normally is free.
This is exactly what I was thinking. If I was forced out of Netflix(possibility) or Hulu because of this, then I would just go to reading books(still paper because they are cheaper than digital and free if the library has it), and doing things outside in my downtime. I may be a nerd, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy time outside in the garden(mmm...fresh veggies to support my cooking addicti..err...hobby: I freestyle meals since I hate using a recipe.) Cold winter days or at night i'll just have the PS3, however, until I get a new laptop.
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I just use LED bulbs since they don't have the same problem in cold weather as CFL bulbs. I think CFL bulbs shoudn't be marketed for outside at all.
Why?
That delay you mentioned is the perfect reason. Every outside light is on a sensor(even the front door.) Since the timer goes off after three minutes they would never turn on.
Yeah, with American culture it's focused on playing games at home with a few friends. The only difference from arcades is you don't have to compete with strangers for a turn, and eventually the cost of a DDR pad pays itself off(assuming you don't stomp it to death.)
I think another reason U.S. arcades died out is because of cost. $1-$1.25 per game for some is beyond expensive, and it's even worse if they require tokens instead of quarters.
Though, last time I made the pilgrimage, Fun Spot in the lakes region(it's the big honkin one though I heard JTs BBQ closed down across the street so no more good after fun eats) of N.H. still had some classics (a really old Star Wars game), and prices weren't too bad on the older machines.
Along with a good way for Google to get ad revenue from people using the search box.
A website like /. should NOT require a GPU to display. I come here for text based news and comment, but not a "lets be pretty/fancy" kind of thing. Now, I don't have any issues in FF3.6 on XP Home on my old P4HT and 6800; though in the last version of /. I had to force the old style of comments because the new one was so sluggish.
The point is /. is not a site you should need a GPU for period, and it's stupid for any website that does that isn't running a video game in the browser.
Not just a trinity if you are Catholic! I grew up to all the saints you prayed to for different things. Just like the pagan gods. I came to atheism after realizing that the Catholic god was like Zeus, Hercules like Christ(God impregnates a mortal), and the Saints(One for travels, one for the lost, etc) like all of the sub deities that were prayed to for certain things.
Yes, be in the phone book or pay a FEE not too.
You do realize phone companies charge per month for that right?
My guess is they sell it to phone book companies for extra bucks so they discourage people with it.
I end up hitting BBC News for U.S. and World News. Television news is something that I don't bother with. Even local news as there is a website for that. Oh look it's all condensed on their website so I don't have to sit through dribble like "Lassie saves Timmy again!" Anything that they report science, tech, or health wise I only need the title anyway(gives me all the info to start looking for the actual study with the real science data.) As for video games. With all that activation and DRM crap I'm considering taking up gardening as another hobby in the spring/summer in addition to tennis and maybe golf(and fletching!) If the video game industry ever claims piracy is killing them I'll disagree and say it's their own idiotic attempts at fighting it that's killing it. More DRM = less customers. In the winter I can catch up on my backlog of books to read.
Until the tiger decides it wants a snack. I imagine if Google directed it's lobbyists to fight against things the lobbyists at the MPAA want, and against it's power. Maybe their lawyers to seek an injunction from the MPAA bringing further lawsuits due to abuses or unreasonable requests.
I read the patent claims too(at the end of the complaint linked in the article.) I saw some of them filed in 2007. and the PS3 was launched in Nov 2006.
So right there Sony has a prior art defense, and that's not in addition to the fact they were part of the development of BluRay.
My preferred method is to buy the latest version of Windows Pro once SP1 hits. Then every new laptop after that gets that version installed on it. It doesn't get past two so I never worry about a licensing issue. I wipe the first laptop(DBAN), drop Linux on it; then see if a friend or family member needs one.
I go to the store because I don't like waiting around for the new system, and I need to play around with it. Online shopping is not something I enjoy much. Too hard to get a feel for the product, a good size gauge, and then there is the constant worry about stolen packages(never worried about a break in because my car is so boring inside that nothing is in it but registration, insurance, paper maps, and owners manual.)
Most network adapters work once you start Windows so the most I ever need to do is plug in the Ethernet, and go to the vendor site for any specific drivers for the model: flash, PDF, and MS Office after(Console, Email, Phone, FaceBook: my friends have it to get in contact as I hate dedicated IM clients and my gaming has gone console to avoid graphics wars.) HP is really easy to search for too.
My order is family, friends, and them the community(neighborhood maybe but the LGBT community much more.). Outside of that I don't care much. I only have so much money and time.
Abney Park(steampunk band) doesn't have free music all the time(ocasionally they give a song away), but they do have their own steampunk fashion line(stuff made by their stage costume designer.) So that idea isn't really far from where it could be. T-Shirt sales too as they are cheap to make, and can go for more than a CD.
I'm a AAA member for more than just the fact that it drops the hookup($100+) to the dues you pay. I also go to an office to talk with them. They will help you plan a trip, and get you all the offline(cell phones don't cut it) maps you might need.
Do I have a GPS? Yes.
Do I use it to go EVERYWHERE? Not really. It's a tool that helps me find a motel in a TOWN I don't know, or a business I'm going to interview at someplace unfamiliar. I've used it to help learn a new route on a commute(sometimes there are roads just out of a major city widely unused) because I found some route that takes twenty minutes longer two exits out of the city no one uses because google maps said it takes longer(I value missing the two hours for a thirty minute commute from traffic.)
Another thing I'm good at(mid twenties) is reading a map, and planning highways myself. This is due to my stepfather on family trips growing up. I was the official navigator. So control of the maps was in my hands, and coming up with alternate routes. Each route I came up with he would tell me the pros and cons(having driven on them he knew the traffic patterns at different times/days/seasons.) He may have know the routes, but as a kid it was the feeling of being treated like an adult besides figuring out how to get someplace.
So besides having decent resouces to get paper maps still, education is also needed. Parents need to get some maps, and teach kids to use them.
I would think an angry genious would be angry at the angry fools. For an angry fool is the reason my town isn't getting a Walmart(what fool votes down needed jobs in a town that's 30 minutes from the nearest elctronics store, clothing store, homewares store, etc.) Maybe they don't hire as many full-time employees as part-time to avoid taxes.
Wait a second! Nearly everyone does that! There are small businesses all over(the ones the angry fool was trying to protect) doing the EXACT same thing. It's expected that if you work at a job that barely requires a high school diploma(if they even do.)
Once I can my plans are only for major medical(over $1K hospital visits) as I have gone to a dermatoligst uninsured. The $250(self pay rates are half of the insured rate) for the doctors office and the biopsy of a mole. Half of the amount I was paying for health insurance in a month. So if you're young, paying off student loans, and in good health; then general health coverage isn't needed. A dentist is $100 a cleaning, and it's about $100 for the optomitrist.
So I'm also angry that me, someone in good health, would be required to pay for general insurance at a rate of $500 a month for cruddy coverage($1K deductibles, $50 name brand, and a Walmart would have been great because they get some great prices on meds) for services that would normally cost me that much in a year(checkups) and $6K a year(mostly wasted.)
Yeah, my libertarian views place me just south of center-top on a nolan chart. Some conservatives("right") can end up falling towards the lower-right arm between conservative-statism others the upper-right between Liberterian-Conservative, and yet others towards the center on the middle line: any point in between really.
The funny thing is how people think Libertarians are against giving or receiving aide in hard times. Not true at all. It hurts my pride, but my grandfather freely chose to give me a place to live; that I freely accepted. It's about not interfering with my rights, or my interfering with the rights of others. My grandfather has a right to offer me help, and I have a right to accept it. Even if it hurts my pride.
Anti-lock breaks and rear parking?
No kitchen sink either?
Ok Pablo, just hold this large bag tight; then, once you're over the border hold onto the handles tight.
GOOD LUCK SON!
*pulls lever*
AIEEEE!!!!
I guess it has made the people in the middle east much braver. Go them!
You need to do well in the history program, and hope the CIA wants you as an Analyst(or if you were are fit enougn a field agent.) It's one of the few careers that a history degree is good for(history is required so you can make sense of cultural/historical context in codes or conversations.) You also need to be fluent in a foreign language for all the really good history programs(if you take middle eastern history the program will require Arabic or Pashtu etc depending on the region.)
I looked at the CIA career site once to see the requirements for an analyst position. Four year degree in history and fluent in a foreign language. The Bourne series of books actually took that into account too. Jason is actually a professor of history after the first book, and it's in Asian history(the movies were only someone close to the books for the first film.) So other than a history teacher, that's really the only option for a history major I can think of. There may be more.
Middlemen are only necessary if you want nation/world wide television/radio coverage. It's been a very long time since I have bought a CD from a record company. Now, I have bought a couple of CDs, but these were self made ones at the door of a concert(they look professionally done due to independants being able to order them mass produced cheaply), and from a bands website that was using the paypal merchant system to take credit cards: same professional looking CD as the band commisioned a good artist. Web sites like Deviant Art have allowed great artists that would have otherwise gone unnoticed show their work and get some decent commisions.
So no. Middlemen aren't necessary to get it out there, and make enough to fill your belly. If I loved making and playing music, and was good at it. One thing I know is that I would be happy living on the road with food in my belly, and performing to my hearts content. Music, theater, and art are rarely things you can make much money on. That's the reason most people do it because it's the thing they love to do, and are good at it.
The internet and cheap manufacturing has just expanded the fan base for independant artists, and made it possible to get just a little bit more money. My college found some really good indpendant musicians and comics: some of them even sold out of their merchandise.
Funny thing...
My brother and I dug out our tennis rackets, and there is a public court that's seldom used. I'm really starting to phase out video games(too many gimicks, too little story, too many quick to beat games.) The basement has a good sized tablle with a really bright light above it(shop quality long tube FL), and I plan to work on fletching with that. Once I get another job is when we start hitting the shooting range and getting our pistol permits.
So yeah, I'm finding a lot more interesting things to do that make me feel more accomplished. Also, learning fletching could make me side cash eventually selling at SCA events.
I just need to clean out my parents basement(my mom kept junk because she didn't want to hear it from my grandma for getting rid of something that could be worth money some day) to get that table back(my old lego table.)
This will make more people suspicious that their MMOFPS in development codenamed "Titan" IS a Starcraft MMO. One other reason comes to mind: "Crud! Someone coule make something good, and prove it's possible to do a SC MMO. WE MUST STOP THEM!"
It could also be that, as a result of other underlying problems, people latch onto some form of addiction to deal with them. With the lower cost, legality, and access; gaming is now another source. I would tend to think that violent people are naturally attracted to violent video games. So the correlation CAN go both ways, but the media uses the direction that has the best scare tactic element to it.
Video games are something that I play in spare time when: there is no good book to read, no good movie to watch, no good television show to watch, I can't go out and play tennis, I had a long day and am tired(but don't want to mess up my sleep schedule by going to bed early), or my friends are on a date or hanging out with someone else(or the one I want to spend time with is hundreds of miles away.) SO no, not everyone is addicted to games, and I would rather say that any correllation to a mental disorder is that they are addicted to games as a result of that disorder: rather than they have a disorder as the result of gaming addiction(addicts will be addicts, but will have a different source.)
I think they are looking for the same dumb schmucks that pay $60 a year for Xbox Live Gold. M$ has a great desktop operating system and office suite, but aside from that they are too greedy with their other platforms. So even though I run Windows on my computer, have Office 07, and run IE(Firefox is just as insecure but because of the lower user base with a higher secuirty sense there are less infectios, and if Firefox had the same market share IE does now we would be looking down on Firefox instead.)
My choice of console, however, is the PS3. Why? I don't have to pay an extra $60 a year to stream Netflix(last I checked it was Xbox Gold Only), hard drive upgrades are much easier, I can use the same power cable as my PC, to recharch the controller I don't need to shell out an extra $20 for the charge and play kit(instead using any UBS A - USB Mini A cable), and it can play blue ray discs so the only thing I need under the TV is the PS3.
I don't buy into the whole smartphone thing. Since I can memorize my full checking account number, still remember a student ID number I haven't used for nearly four years, and I can remember my daily schedule once I check it(outlook on my laptop) I just have a very basic cell phone(with a camera for quick accident photos if needed) and nothing more than the cheapest plan(yeah I have friends but skype, MSN, AIM, and email are the main comm methods including setting up a time to hang out.) I get the occasional SMS message from one if they want to set something up for after I'm done with classes(economy sucks, back in school, blah blah.)
So yeah, most smartphones are completely usesles. If I am traveling, but not driving I bring my kindle, and a good book iof the battery is dead. Microsoft is just trying to play off of those people that will shell out for something that normally is free.
This is exactly what I was thinking. If I was forced out of Netflix(possibility) or Hulu because of this, then I would just go to reading books(still paper because they are cheaper than digital and free if the library has it), and doing things outside in my downtime. I may be a nerd, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy time outside in the garden(mmm...fresh veggies to support my cooking addicti..err...hobby: I freestyle meals since I hate using a recipe.) Cold winter days or at night i'll just have the PS3, however, until I get a new laptop.