Wouldn't it be more productive to ask the people of North Korea to help find out of Kim Jong-Un is dead?
I was at that park for a week in 1997 for an OSHA training course. Various groups could rent out some of the small meeting rooms. Some areas of the park were, oddly enough, still operating. The 500-room hotel was sometimes used by the Carolina Panthers, and that's where the people attending the OSHA course stayed. I don't remember anything about the hotel room, but I do remember the free breakfast and lunch buffets.
When I was there with about 15 other people. It was odd seeing the huge breakfast and lunch buffets staffed by more people than there were customers. I remember asking one of the staff if the place was always this dead. She said yes, but they still ran the hotel like it was busy. The food was good, though.
I remember walking around the area in the afternoons, and the place was truly a ghost town. The water slide in the middle of the man-made lake was abandoned, but the lake, at the time, was being used by some performing water-skiiers.
Most of the area was overgrown with vegitation. Here and there, you could find buildings that looked occupied (I remember seeing a bunch of teenagers playing pool in a small rec room). The TV studio was abandoned, but cameras and lights were visibile through the windows.
The busiest area, oddly enough, was a sort of mini-mall lined with various shops that sold religious products. The ceiling was curved and painted with stars, and lit with hidden lights so that it looked like open sky. The lighting changed with the time of day. It was a rather convincing effect.
It's a very creepy place. Interesting to see how much further it has declined since I was there.
Is this video trying to say that Siri can't understand accents, or that Scottish people don't know that you shouldn't use regional slang when talking to an AI that wasn't designed in your country?
You, sir, have excellent manly taste.
Is it a Dos Equis brand microphone?
"You attacked the site first and followed up on topic. I guess I just don't understand why people continue to read the site when they clearly have issues with what is written and how it is written."
One could use the same logic to wonder why you replied to my comment when you didn't actually have to read it. :)
I don't have issues with ALL of Gizmodo. I continue to read the site because, for the most part, it's a good source for tech news. But I do feel that I'm free to criticize an article on the site if I take issue with it. One could even argue that that's one of the uses for the "comments" feature. Or am I wrong in thinking that the "comments" section is not just for heaping praise on the Gizmodo staff, but can also be used to criticize?
You don't think that the phrase "Stop Ruining Your Phone with a Stupid Case" is condemning the use of cases?
And actually, Jamie is condemning the use of all cases. To wit:
"Our Official Endorsement
So: Cases are ugly. They're a bad investment. But there's one more reason that we're decidedly anti-case, that we didn't realize until just this morning."
I'm not sure how much more official the phrase "Our Official Endorsement" could be.
Notice that he didn't say "Some cases are ugly" or "some cases are a bad investment".
Ultimately, I understand the point of the article and agree with it to some extent. But I find the tone to be rather condescending and over-the-top.
Until Apple changes up the configuration of their 30-pin connector.
One of the two arguments against phone cases was that they're not worth the expense. If protecting your phone from scratches isn't worth the expense of buying a case, then how can animated lights (which use power) be worth a $40 cable purchase?
You guys hate phone cases, and yet you recommend THIS?
I see your Five Guys and raise you Only Burger.
Can a rant post not get a rant reply?
If the Gizmodo staff can rant about something which doesn't affect them (i.e., other people's phones), then surely it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to expect a response...
I read it because it was (and still is) staring me in the face as the featured article on Gizmodo, and Gizmodo has been coming off as really arrogant in their posts in the last year or so.
Also, Gizmodo does post articles about iPhone cases. Rather hypocritical to rant about something that you often post about. Jaime (who authored this article), posted about a Nissan iPhone case on January 16th. And while a rant is techincally "one person's opinion", the article does end with "OUR Official Endorsement" against iphone cases.
Why report on cases at all if the site's official opinion is that cases suck?
Andrew even posted his desire for a waffle-sole-inspired case not long ago.
Here's an idea, Gizmodo: How's about you guys review tech products and post news, and we'll worry about what's on our phones.
Why the hell do you care who puts cases on their phones and who doesn't? Worry about your own phones.
I don't have a case on my phone, but I'm not about to chastise someone for using one. That would be the asshole thing to do.
I guess stolen iPhone prototypes are harder to buy if you can't identify it when it's covered in a case, huh?
Magnets only affect devices that use magnetic storage media, like hard drives or floppy disks or devices with CRT displays. The iPad uses flash memory and an LCD display, which are not affected by magnetic fields.
Which, seemingly unbeknownst to Londo who gave them those nicknames, means that he is "War".
You obviously haven't been listening to the news coverage of people being pissed that Wikipedia is down.
"Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we are seeing an entirely new form of lobbying emerge, one that isn't dependent on money, but on numbers. "
Funny thing. Do you know what those numbers translate to? Money.
Also, we get it: Gizmodo isn't going dark in protest of SOPA. But calling the efforts of other websites "cute"... how arrogant can you guys get?
Craigslist isn't down...the black anti-SOPA page presents you with a link after about 10 seconds that will take you to whatever CL page you're trying to get to.
My Firefox tab for this page reads "Mark Zuckerberg Finally Comes Out ..."
Just FYI.
Time Trax was, along with Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and Babylon 5, a show in the PTEN (Prime Time Entertainment Network). PTEN was created by Warner Brothers and Chris-Craft Group as a collection of shows that were offered as a programming package to various networks (which ended up being mostly Fox stations) which helped fund the shows in the beginning. It was sort of a way to syndicate shows without actually syndicating them. Babylon 5 was the most successful of the PTEN shows. The PTEN itself only lasted for about 4 years, while B5 went on to finish its 5 year run.
Oops. Double-post.
