@JaredBusch said:

power generating shows

I like the idea of power generating shows. You could utilise the power from the audience applause to power the performers' amplifiers. If the audience doesn't clap loud enough the show can't continue.

Awesome, this is what we need to get C# and F# into the open source ecosystem.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

We had days in the winter of 06-07 where school was closed with no snow on the ground. My understanding is that if the windchill factor drops the temperature below -25 or -30F that schools that have high walker percentages are required to close. Mine was and we had at least 2 and up to 4 days we closed due to cold that year. That was in Liverpool too!

It's not good that they use a percentage of walkers as a guide. If any kids are in danger, it should be enough. Why would kids' lives only matter in certain quantities?

School closings cost the school money. Districts budget a certain number of snow days a year, and when they go over, they have to dip into school vacations and other scheduled holidays to make up the difference. If you have a rural school district where all but 5 kids commute by bus, that's one thing. But I lived in a very suburban, very city school district. There were at least 1000 homes within 1 mile of the school. At least. It's horrible to say but it's all about the numbers.

Even in super rural NY districts tons of kids walk.

Yes, but they aren't classified as walkers because they live outside a certain radius. What that radius is I have no clue.

http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/ibm-invests-1-billion-into-new-z13-mainframe-platform.html

@Carnival-Boy said:

@scottalanmiller said:

The license restrictions, though, for content are by location of the viewer, not the nationality of the viewer.

And that's what's got to change. Ultimately, geographical restrictions are not compatible with the modern world and we need a new model.

That is completely true. They are draconian and senseless and that is why many people accept them as a tacit approval of piracy by the studios.

Wow.. has it really been 40 years? yeah I guess it has been (I'm almost 40 now)..

I guess I'll try the new one at least once, but it does suck they've changed them.

Who knows, maybe in 5 years, they'll bring them back as a special, like Pepsi bringing back cane sugar instead corn syrup in Throwback Pepsi.

@Reid-Cooper said:

Whoops, lol. Fixed.

Someone had Apple on the brain...

@thanksaj said:

Oh, so if you're using AT&T for 9 sites and your 10th site only has access to Verizon or TWC, you're screwed out of that site getting MPLS?

@scottalanmiller said:

Yes

Well, in the T1 days, you still could due to the regulations on it. AT&T could order a Verizon T1 and lay their network on it. This was really a very standard practice back in the day.

@Dashrender said:

Was the thought behind the registry the possible simplification for network admins to administer computers? think GPOs

Not likely as it does the opposite.

Going to be a stressful day at Amazon.

That's freaking awesome

Here is the VM offerings table.

VM Size Cores RAM Storage Persistent Data Disks Max Standard_G1 2 28 412 4 Standard_G2 4 56 824 8 Standard_G3 8 112 1,649 16 Standard_G4 16 224 3,298 32 Standard_G5 32 448 6,596 64

@Dashrender said:

@thanksaj said:

@Dashrender said:

I haven't tried letting all of that stuff connect on my Android device.

Does it allow the use of your real phone number, not a google voice number?

You can text from your phone with your real number via Hangouts but not from your PC. When you SMS from your PC with Hangouts, it always uses Google Voice. Your phone just uses the last number that sent a text to the number your text as the source. You can switch back and forth and Hangouts aggregates it all into one thread in Hangouts. It's nice.

The other side could be confused though if they don't have your google voice number in your contact, or worse, it can't aggregate sources.

Hangouts goes by contacts, so if you have someone who had 17 cellphone numbers and you had them all saved in your phone under one contact, all texts would be aggregated into one conversation. But yes, if someone doesn't have an SMS client that aggregates, it will make your texts via Google Voice and texts via your cell number as separate threads.

I don't ever use it so I wouldn't notice really. The only thing I see is the new groups thingy. Which because we don't use Lync any longer is useless to me.

@Carnival-Boy said:

Evil capitalist companies don't get to dictate the English language, even for their trademarked names. 😡

Well said

@Carnival-Boy said:

Anyway, if you did add an 's', shouldn't you also add an 'e'? Like mangoes. <opens can of worms>

Not for those of us who speak true English. THERE IS NO U IN COLOR!!!!!

😉

That's kinda how I feel. It actually feels overpriced. I can get a better Chromebook for less money.