tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493046141913553242024-03-13T15:52:38.631-07:00Jared Connell's BloggerPersonal blog for Jared Connell. All comments and opinions are my own, nobody else would be dumb enough to claim them.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-9022134673873609302017-08-30T21:45:00.000-07:002017-08-30T21:45:37.567-07:00Destiny Gurus Site Launch - Your #1 Source on the Web for all Things Destiny!<br />
I am happy to announce the official launch of the latest site that I have worked on, <a href="http://destinygurus.com/">Destiny Gurus</a>! <br />
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The owners of <a href="http://destinygurus.com/">Destiny Gurus</a> are die-hard fans of the Destiny universe and have launched the site in order to help other players enjoy the game to the fullest. Users can go on to <a href="http://destinygurus.com/">Destiny Gurus</a> and select many of the services that they offer in order to improve their characters and progress in the game without having to spend all that time grinding away in order to increase in levels and beat the raids and exotic quests.<br />
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I personally don't know much about the game as I have only played Destiny on my PlayStation4 a few times and never got very far so this service would be perfect for me. I know firsthand that it is very hard to progress through the game when everyone else is so much better and has much better gear, so this services that <a href="http://destinygurus.com/">Destiny Gurus</a> offers would be great for someone like me in order to get into the game quicker and be able to actually stand up to the other players.<br />
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But what <a href="http://destinygurus.com/">Destiny Gurus</a> offers isn't just for newbie players. <a href="http://destinygurus.com/">Destiny Gurus</a> is great for any level of player. Even if you are the top of your game, you don't always want to waste time beating the exotic quests or raids and leveling up your characters all the time. Maybe you started a new character and don't want to start from scratch, or maybe there is just one part you are having trouble with. Or perhaps you would rather have someone else do the dirty work so you can come back and enjoy the game with your newly acquired skills and weapons. Whatever the case is, <a href="http://destinygurus.com/">Destiny Gurus</a> has the top Destiny players on XBox One and PlayStation4 that can jump on your account and help you with whatever you need. So check out <a href="http://destinygurus.com/">Destiny Gurus.com</a> and see what they have to offer if you want to up your Destiny game!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-30331892165842556182017-03-06T09:43:00.000-08:002017-03-06T09:43:46.393-08:00New Mr Robot Theories and Ideas BlogAs one of my favorite shows on TV, Mr. Robot has me on edge every single week. I download the newest episodes as soon as they are available on the East coast just so I don't have to wait that extra few hours to watch them. But after watching every week I was left with more questions than I had before I watched the show. Sometimes I even wait a few weeks - even as hard as it is to go that long without my Mr. Robot fix - just so that I can watch those few episodes back to back so that I'm not so riddled with confusion. So many episodes give you a moment in the last minute or so that just makes you go crazy having to wait another week to see the conclusion. But then, like I said before, you are just left with more and more questions that you get answers. Add to that but the show has so many things that you might miss the first time you watch so you end up having to watch multiple times to see and understand everything. And even after watching all the episodes some things are not fully stated in the show and kind of left to the viewer to make their own decision as to what is really going on. <br />
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And to add to the confusion, the main character Elliot has some mental issues and some of the things that you see in the show are how Elliot would be seeing it and some are how everyone else see it. This just makes it super hard to really know what is happening because something you see might just be in Elliot's head and you are never really sure what is real and what is not. <br />
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So since I love the show so much and am so obsessed with it I decided to make a blog called <a href="http://mr-robot-theories.jaredconnell.com/">Mr. Robot Theories</a> about the show to write about my thoughts and theories about what is going on with the Mr. Robot world. I hope to be able to talk about the show and my thoughts and theories about what is going on and people will visit and comment on what I have to say. So please if you like the show visit the site at <a href="http://mr-robot-theories.jaredconnell.com/">http://mr-robot-theories.jaredconnell.com</a> for more on my thoughts about Mr. Robot.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-26582323995545326532016-12-26T14:51:00.000-08:002016-12-26T14:51:40.740-08:00My New BlogAlthough I really like blogger - it has many great features, it is easy to use, its run by google so it gets great search engine traffic, and best of all it is free. But all the features in the world can't compete with your own hosted server that you can fully control. Although I only have a shared hosting plan for now it is still very feature rich and a good stepping stone to getting my own hosted server all to myself when the need arises. In fact I will go over the pro's and con's of having a dedicated server vs. a shared hosting server in a future article but that is beyond the scope of this one.<br />
I have decided that Blogger does not allow me enough freedom for all of the things that I need to do with my web sites, and although I will still continue to leave them live and post on them from time to time, the main focus will now be on my own sites that I host myself. Furthermore this blog will be mostly succeeded by my new hosted blog at <a href="http://blog.jaredconnell.com/">blog.jaredconnell.com</a> which will now be the new home to all my nonsensical ramblings! Jokes aside, this new blog will allow people to keep up with most of what I am doing as I will post links on there to most of my other projects as well. And like I stated previously I will try to continue to keep posting on this blogger blog as often as time allows. t won't be as much as I would like but I will try and keep it alive for the years to come. It has been my main online home for my thoughts and everything else for some time now and I don't want to just abandon it. So although I will post most of my articles that would have gone on the blogger blog on my new hosted blog on my domain name which is located at <a href="http://blog.jaredconnell.com/">blog.jaredconnell.com</a>, just think of this as an extension to the blogger, not a replacement for it. And as I explained in my previous post, my main site at the URL jaredconnell.com is a main site for listings and links to all my current and past projects as well as some basic pictures and videos of myself that document my life and have no other clear organizational scheme. So please check out both my blog site at <a href="http://blog.jaredconnell.com/">blog.jaredconnell.com</a> as well as my home page at <a href="http://jaredconnell.com/">jaredconnell.com</a> and see all that it has to ofter and check back often as it will be updated regularly. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-42660578717841545132016-12-24T03:02:00.001-08:002016-12-24T03:02:24.079-08:00Launch of My New Main WebsiteI have recently bought a hosting plan an a few domain names that I will be concetrating most of my efforts on. Each domain name will have multiple subdomains so I will be hosting dozens of sites eventually. The main site, <a href="http://jaredconnell.com/">JaredConnell.com</a> is going to be the main site for my personal domain name, which will help link to all my personal info as well as all my other hosted sites, blogs, third party sites, social media accounts, and much more. I will try to keep up on all my blogs, especially those hosted here on Blogger as this is currently my longest running home on the internet. Paid hosts come and go but free services typically last forever. So I will continue to update my blogger pages but may not spend quite as much time on them as I will my own self hosted sites. I just like having full control and being able to add whatever I want, do whatever I want with it, choose my CMS system, or even not even use a CMS if i want to create a completely custom web application. So for now check out <a href="http://jaredconnell.com/">JaredConnell.com</a> for my main web site which will link you to many of my other projects that I am working on.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-38728694261042928222015-10-26T06:04:00.000-07:002015-10-26T06:04:20.223-07:00The IBM Article That Sparked Larry Ellison's CareerLarry Ellison, the founder of Oracle got his start from a small company he and friend Bruce Scott founded in 1977. He got the idea for the company's flagship product from an article (<a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf">A Co-Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks</a>) written by an IBM engineer about relational databases that, apparently, IBM didn't care about. Ellison then went on to use this idea to create the company's first product for their first customer - the United States Central Intelligence Agency. And with the CIA's need for vast amounts of data storage, relational databases were just the thing they needed.<br />
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A relational database is a way of storing data in ways that allows you to create relationships between pieces of data in order to organize and access them more easily while using minimal storage space. For example a library's card catalog is like the old way of accessing data, each piece of data is on a card and each card is placed in line in it's drawer. You can go right to the call number of the book you want to find based on the dewy decimal system by going to the right drawer and pulling it out. But each book needs its own card and it isn't very practical to search through each one to find the data you need. There is also the problem of redundant data, but this is where the relational database model shines. Instead of having the author's data on every card, as well as the book data, in a relational database there would be two sets of data, called tables, one for the books and another for the authors. The table with the books information contains a relationship to the authors table so that each book has a link to the corresponding data in the authors table. In a huge library there is a good possibility that some author's have written many books. With an old card catalog system the author's data would be repeated on every single book that she has written. With a RDB the author's data doesn't have to be repeated on each record for each book. This saves much space as the same data doesn't have to be stored over and over again when it is the same exact information. But this is also very powerful because if the information changes, say the author changes her name because she got married and wants to append her new name to each book's record. With a RDB model this change only has to be made once, instead of finding and changing every single instance of that author's name<br />
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The library example is a simple one but think of how much easier and simpler this would make complex data sets, such as the CIA's foreign intelligence information. And this is where the idea came into play for Ellison, inspiring him to start SPL in order to create the first Oracle database software version - interestingly named 'Oracle Database Version 2' although there was no version 1, because "Nobody buys version 1 of anything", Ellison stated. Although rather primitive compared to today's standards, the first version of Oracle's database system was leaps and bounds ahead of the competition. While IBM was content to keep the same old card catalog way of doing things, Oracle came in and changed the data storage and retrieval industry almost overnight. Instead of investigating the intriguing concept of the relational database, IBM did what they always did and thought it was worthless because their products were already good enough. Just like with the idea of the personal computer before that, they let someone else run with it and take the lead while they are still trying to play catch up to Oracle to this day. It's actually pretty funny that now IBM's major competitor is Oracle when Oracle wouldn't exist if Ellison hadn't read that paper written by an IBM employee. How different would the data storage landscape be if he never came accross it? We would probably still be storing data on reel to reel tapes because IBM would never have innovated anything lol.<br />
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If you are interested in reading the original article that sparked Ellison's career, it is still available in its original format by following this link: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/%7Ezives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf">A Co-Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks</a>. If you are a nerd like you might enjoy perusing through it, if only for nostalgia reasons. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-76359628046969579622015-08-08T08:55:00.000-07:002015-08-08T08:55:22.159-07:00Microsoft Embracing Bitcoin?It seems like almost daily bitcoin is being mentioned in traditional media and other news outlets. Either a new company announces they will begin accepting bitcoins or some new bitcoin related product or servic is released. It seems like there is no stopping the crypto currency's momentum as more and more people become aware of what bitcoin is and start buying or mining bitcoins themselves. Some of the companies may be unknown start-ups but there are also many large, highly reputable corporations.
Well now you can include Microsoft to that list. While you cannot buy a new surface tablet with bitcoins, they are promoting another bitcoin related item on the Bing search engine. Now you can actually get bitcoins from Bing, via their Bing Rewards program which awards points for doing searches or other easy tasks that can be traded in for all kinds of items. All you need to do is use the Bing search engine and you accumulate points each day. Once you save up enough points you can use them to get different rewards such as gift cards from many different retailers and access to services such as hulu plus or Xbox Live. There are also different sweepstakes and giveaways that you can enter to win various items. And now with the newest giveaway you can win $500 worth of bitcoins! Although you can't use your bitcoins to buy anything from Microsoft, I think this is a step in the right direction for the Redmond, Washington based company. Who knows, maybe in the future you will be able to shop from the Microsoft store and use bitcoins to pay. Even if this never happens maybe it will introduce bitcoin to people who have never heard of it before and make others more intrigued so they want to find out more about crypto coins, especially bitcoin. The more people who know about it and tell others about it, the more the currency will be worth because more and more people will be wanting to join in on the crypto coin revolution.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-76122459597538130782015-04-19T05:50:00.001-07:002015-04-19T05:50:52.815-07:00Apple Watch In-Store Preview<p>
Apple has announced an in store preview for its upcoming new gadget, the Apple watch, to let proespective buyers get a better look at the device in person and try it on their own wrists to get a feel for it as well as to help decide what version of the watch to get and what band to get it with. Although you cannot buy the watch and take it home with you just yet, they are letting people preorder them for delivery later this month. If you are an Apple fanboy like me then you are salivating at the thought of getting another Apple branded gadget, and the Apple Watch is like no other Apple product before! You can go to most Apple stores and other stores around the world to see the Apple Watch in real life and to try it on for yourself. <a href="http://apple-aficionado.weebly.com/apple-news/apple-offers-in-store-preview-for-apple-watch">Get more information about the Apple Watch in-store preview here</a>.
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As the number two and three players of the top three search engines on the internet, Bing and Yahoo have announced a recent ammendment to their search relationship, to "improve the search experience, create value for advertisers and establish ongoing stability for partners." The two companies have had an agreement in place since 2009 and this is just an evolution of that partnership. Yahoo will continue to serve Bing Ads and will now be able to give consumers the same experience on both mobile and desktop platforms. Microsoft will be in charge of all ads through the Bing Ads services while Yahoo will be the sole salesforce for the Yahoo Gemini platform, allowing the sales and engineering teams for each product to operate closely together in order to serve advertisers best. Microsoft gives Yahoo a portion of the revenue obtained through Yahoo's search user, a fact that remains unchanged with this update to their agreement. For more information, the full press release is <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150416005673/en/Microsoft-Yahoo-Agree-Amend-Search-Partnership#.VTIiWZMWlk3">available here</a>.
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If you are like most people you like to listen to music, and if you are like most people you have certain types of music and favorite bands you like to listen to. And, most of us like to listen to music while in the car, and doing things like working out, etc. But even though everybody hates commercial interruptions, most of us do not use Sirius XM radio to listen to music.
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While there are tons of free services that allow you to listen to music, they all have commercials. So to get the music you want without the annoying commercials every few songs and annoying DJs telling you to be caller 10 to win tickets to some band you've never heard of, you have to shell out some money. You can either buy your music on CD or downloadable version for about a dollar a song, or you can pay for a service that charges monthly fees to listen as much as you like. That is where services like Pandora, Spotify, and Sirius XM come in to play. For the price of about a dozen of songs per month you can subscribe to these services and listen to all the music your can handle. And with a service like Sirius XM you can listen in your car with a satellite radio tuner right over your cars stereo, or even stream music over the internet to your cell phone to listen to your tunes anywhere you want. And Sirius XM also has tons of other features in addition to just playing music. There are tons of talk radio, news radio, sports talk and live game coverage to listen to, as well as live traffic and weather updates that you can get right on your cars GPS. All that for about 50 cents a day! Seems like a great deal right?
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Well apparently it isn't such a great deal, as it isn't really the top competitor that it really should be. Sure there are millions of subscribers, but they could have way more. And yes there are some cool features, but they could have a lot more services to offer. I believe the problems started after the two companies merged. The merger was pending for a long time but was finally approved and the sole two satellite radio companies merged into one. When this happened they were finally able to merge many of their operations to save costs, and they could now offer content that was once limited to one service to all their subscribers. But they still have a lot of redundancy that should be done away with,
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One of the biggest things that I believe they should've done, and it is hard and would cost a lot of money, but they should've make all the old radios obsolete but they need to merge both services into one. See, since they started off as two separate competitors they both had to have their own chunks of bandwidth to use. See, each company that can broadcast over the airwaves must be registered with the FCC, which allows them to use only a small portion of bandwidth in the overall spectrum. Everything from broadcast TV, radio, and even things like cell phones and WiFi all use certain parts of the spectrum, designated by the FCC. Things like WiFi are set to use a certain portion of the spectrum in the 2.4 ghz range, while an FM radio station may use the spectrum in the range of 103.1 MHz. Similarly Sirius XM has their own portion of the spectrum allotted to them. When they first started out, both Sirius and XM both had an equal portion of the spectrum. But since they merged, they effectively had double the amount of spectrum to broadcast on. So that means they should've added a whole bunch of stations, effectively doubling the amount of channels to listen to, right? Well actually no. While maybe a few stations may have been added here and there but these are usually at the cost of removing a current station. That is because both the original Sirius and XM radios are still supported and they can't reorganize their part of the spectrum and still have those old radios still work. However I believe that they should have put a plan into place regarding this in the event that the deal went through that could allow radios to be reprogrammed on the fly. And if the merged was denied, there would have been no harm done. But since the merger did in fact happen they should merge both the services into one and allow their services to take over the full amount of spectrum they are allotted.
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Another thing that Sirius dropped the ball on is limiting their service to only those in the United States. The satellites that revolve around the earth are mainly focused at North America, the united states to be exact, so most parts of the world do not get good, if at all, coverage. But many parts of Canada, Mexico, Central America and other areas do get pretty good coverage, and even for those that don't, Sirius could allow their international customers to use the internet to stream their content when they cannot get a signal. I believe they are leaving a lot of money on the table by not allowing international customers to subscribe. Many people living around the world, such as ex-patriots or those living in other countries who wish to stay connected by listening to the news, talk and sports from the US, along with the music the love.
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While there are some neat extra services that Sirius XM offers, I believe they could have many more cool features to offer. Currently they offer live traffic and weather data that can be displayed on a car's GPS display. They also have special services available just for pilots in their planes. But there is so much more that they could be doing. A few years ago they offered a service which allowed select vehicles with a preinstalled system to be able to view a few channels of select video content. The channels were pretty much all kid and family related and there weren't that many but the service was killed off long before it was given the chance to take off. With the advent of in vehicle video screens I believe this could have been a huge market for Sirius XM that they dipped their toe in but pulled out before they ever even got their figurative foot in the pool. Only one company released vehicles with Sirius TV service compatible receivers, and only on 2 or 3 of their vehicles! How can you give a service a fair shot when only two minivans and one SUV model has the $1,500 option for the needed equipment? Nowadays most parents have tablet, DVD player, portable game console, or something else to keep their kids occupied watching movies and shows while driving, but this service started years ago - before the iPad was even invented. If multiple manufacturers had this available on many different vehicles as well as aftermarket add on receivers and Sirius subsidized the purchase of the equipment there could have been exponentially more customers for the service. Then, if they would have focused on creating more high quality content and allow a few more diverse channels and programming options, this service could have been a home-run. Instead of all the channels being kids shows, they could have had a little more diversity as well. I think there should have been a few more channels. I think there was about 3 channels that were all kids shows. In my opinion I think they should've had a few more, although I know it is limited to the amount of bandwidth available and video channels take much more space than audio only channels. To start, they could've had a channel aimed at younger kids, a channel for the older kids, a channel for kids and family members of all ages, a channel for news and weather, a business news channel, a sports channel, and a general entertainment channel. That way not only parents would want to subscribe, and parents would be given more reasons to subscribe other than just for their kids to watch. I believe that the sports, news, and business channels would be great for businessmen who commute. Many businessmen have drivers, take taxis, or even take limos - all of which would be a prime candidate for a live TV service in the car. Imagine if a private chauffeur service outfitted all their vehicles with Sirius backseat TV, who wouldn't want to hire them over their competitors? And if they have a driver for their limo or town car, they probably wouldn't mind paying the small subscription fee to have this service. And even regular people would want the service for their other programming options like sports, news, general entertainment, and whatever else Sirius XM might want to squeeze in. I don't have kids and I can't afford a driver but I would love live satellite based TV service in my car. I know you can get live DirecTV in your car or truck but the satellite receiver is huge and the cost is outrageous. In fact, I used to have a terrestrial based over the air TV antenna and receiver in my car years ago, but the reception was horrible in my car, especially while driving at speed because it is hard to receive a TV signal that is not designed for moving antennas.
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There are many other services that I think Sirius XM could offer as well, but this article is plenty long enough so I won't go into depth on those. The ability to receive one way data at pretty fast speeds could be used in a myriad different ways. Data streams could deliver live traffic and weather info on your car's GPS navigation system. And when new streets and other updates are added to the GPS, it could even be downloaded into your car automatically while your car is parked at night. Imagine if you locked your keys in your car and you could unlock it simply by calling up Sirius XM and having them send a signal to your Sirius XM receiver connected to your car's internal electronic components and voila - your door unlocks almost magically. Emergency alerts like weather warnings and amber alerts could be broadcast to your vehicle via satellite as well. As mentioned above, there are services that aren't aimed at the average consumer as well and Sirius XM should have tried to conquer this market even more. One of the biggest markets for satellite radio is for truck drivers, I'm not sure what but I would bet there could be some great service they could offer truckers for a nominal fee. Something like traffic and route news and info that is geared specifically towards truck drivers and other professional drivers. This would increase their revenue stream monthly as well as entice more truckers to make the jump and sign up. I think Sirius XM missed the boat on this, as now more and more vehicles are coming with internet connectivity abilities, either alone or with the use of your cell phone's data connection. If they would have cornered the market on this they could have had a great market built up already and had 100% of the market share when other companies started to try and offer services like this via internet as opposed to satellite.
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It is because of these and other missteps that Sirius XM has taken that they are not nearly as big as they should be. The technology is great and it fills a huge need for in car entertainment.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-83470150279862033962015-02-10T20:16:00.000-08:002015-02-10T20:16:19.998-08:00The Butts Of Robert Mapplethorpe<p>
Robert Mapplethorpe is an artist, who apparently according to The Simpsons, has a particular interest in human derrieres as well as flowers. There was a "game" made for the failed CD-i video game and multimedia format of a collection of pictures from the artist aptly titled "The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe" that some may have heard about. The popular internet show The Angry Video Game Nerd has done a show that features the famous art based game, while a very small sight gag in The Simpsons has also poked fun at the works of Mr. Mapplethorpe. In the 10th episode of the 6th season, named Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy, the Simpson family is at the book store. While parents Marge and Homer are looking for books to help them spice up their marriage, the kids suddenly come up and in order to hide the content of the books they are looking at they quickly pick up whatever they can find, and wouldn't you know it, Homer grabs a book with the name Mapplethorpe written across the cover with a black and white image of a human posterior. As soon as he sees what he's grabbed Homer gasps and drops it suddenly. If you are a casual watcher you probably never even noticed this scene but here is an image captured from that scene for your enjoyment, along with the video from James 'The Angry Video Game Nerd' Rolfe of the game.
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James Rolfe, also known as the Angry Video Game Nerd, released on his Cinemassacre Youtube channel the video: James and Mike Play The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe, which features the CD-i game that showcases select works of Mapplethorpe.
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Bitcoin, surprisingly to most people, have endured a few years already and increased in value from a fraction of a penny to a peak or about 1,000 dollars. As of now it seems like bitcoin is here to stay with a bright future ahead. As the very first crypto currency bitcoin enjoys widespread adoption by merchants, consuners, miners, and investors.
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While some coins have some useful new feature and may have enjoyed a brief moment in the spotlight, the majority are just carbon copies of existing crypto coins. Therefore they are pretty much worthless and will eventually die as the miners and traders give up on them. It is inevitable so it would be a huge waste of time to do anything with them. If you do want to continue to use altcoins, stick to the few that are most popular such as dogecoin and Litecoin. These are the few alt coins that will hold their value much longer than the rest. Although I think that Litecoin is the best choice of all the alt coins if you want to trade or mine something. Other than that I believe that all altcoins will be a wast of time in the end as they will be worthless and inevitably die out as they are abandoned.
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As one of the original pioneers into the live video streaming arena, Justin.tv has definitaly had an impact on live video streaming and the internet as a whole. The site has come a long way from being a sole stream of one of the founders' daily life captured with a webcam attached to his baseball cap and broadcast to the internet via a makeshift rig in his backpack. In fact hundreds of thousands of viewers regularly visit and stream content from the Justin.tv website. That is, until today of course. If you try to visit the website now you aren't greeted by the familiar homepage listing many of the top streams at the moment. No, there is just a single page that announces the end of the Justin.tv website and apps.
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In recent years, the site has sort of become a wild west of streaming video channels, full of pirated copyright material broadcast to anybody on the internet free of charge. The channels were not operated by Justin.tv, all channels are created and run by the users. This means that there were tons of streams that the various copyright holders would not approve of, including channels with streams of popular TV shows and movies. This was a good chunk of the appeal of the site, but not all of it. If I want to watch something on my computer I can find it online and download it in a matter of seconds. In this sense, Justin.tv was nothing new or revolutionary. But the site was much more than just a breeding ground for pirated material. There were tons of streams that were legitimate and attracted hundreds and even thousands of viewers at any given time. Among them were people broadcasting their daily lives just like the founder did 7 years ago, radio stations broadcasting their own live video stream of the studio, and much more. The site was also an online community in its own right, offering chat rooms for each channel and other social networking features, allowing users to communicate and share ideas and voice their opinions with other like minded individuals. This, I think, is the feature that is going to be missed the most.
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There is a silver lining of some sort, though. Twitch.tv, Justin.tv's video gaming counterpart is still going to remain active. Apparently this is the most popular (read: profitable) part of their business and has no become their main focus. In order to keep growing the Twitch.tv brand, they must halt operations at Justin.tv (or so they say) so that they can focus all their efforts and resources (read: bandwidth) on the one site.
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What do you think about this announcement? Did you see it coming? Or are you as devastated as I am? Are there any good alternatives to Justin.tv? What site will you visit now to stream videos? Leave your comments below, I would love to know what everyone else has to say.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-9854414542389602562013-08-01T05:24:00.001-07:002013-08-01T05:24:23.993-07:00"Spider Goats" Produce Super Strong Fibers Stronger Than Steel And Kevlar<p dir=ltr>Listening to Coast to Coast AM radio show they brought up a very intersting subject that I have never heard of but sounds extremely fascinating.  We all are familiar with spider webs, created by silk spun by the spider in a web pattern to catch and trap bugs and insects.  It may not seem like it but the silk that spiders create is very very strong, in fact it is stronger than steel pound for pound.  This material would be very beneficial if only we could harvest the silk.  After all how hard would it be to "milk" a bunch of spiders in order to extract enough silk to do anything with.</p>
<p dir=ltr>So how can we get enough of these super strong fibers that make up the spiders silk to actually do something with?  Well one way is to take the spiders out if the equation.  How?  Well that is where this topic gets really strange.  Apparently scientists have been able to isolate the DNA of the spider that creates the super strong silk and inject it into goats.  The goats then produce milk like any other goat, except now the milk contains similar fibers compared to those in spider silk.  In fact the goats can actually create fibers that are even stronger than the spiders silk!  These fibers can be extracted from the milk and be spun together into fabric.  As you would expect, like the spiders silk, this fabric is super strong.  In fact it is so string that it is stronger than Kevlar and can stop a bullet just like a Kevlar lined bullet proof vest, but the material that comes from the "spider goats" is so strong that much less material is needed.  This means that the super strong spider goat material can be made into a garment about as thick as a regular t-shirt  that could stop a bullet as well as a thick Kevlar vest like what police and armed forces personnel use.  And all the while these genetically altered goats go on to live a mostly normal life and don't seem to be hurt or in pain or anything like that. The one problem that they did mention however is that these goats are all sterile after this procedure and can't have offspring, so every new generation of spider goats needs to be implanted with the spider DNA.</p>
<p dir=ltr>I think that this is absolutely amazing that people have actually figured out how to do something so incredible like this that it actually sounds like science fiction.  What else can be created in this manner?  What other applications could this super strong fiber be used for?  Only time will tell but I think that there will only be more incredible breakthroughs in the future, things that we can't even fathom being possible.  </p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-91979837310689200882013-07-31T16:44:00.001-07:002013-08-01T05:27:15.324-07:00Completely Redesigned New Mac Pro Cylindrical ComputerOnce again apple has redesigned the Mac Pro. Usually Apple computers are pretty revolutionary, but this is even more drastic of a change than normal. There is nothing on the new Mac Pro that is like any other computer in the world. The case alone is unlike any other computer, being a black cylinder about 10 inches high and 6 inches in diameter with a hole in the middle for cooling.<div><br></div><div>There's no doubt this new model is stunning. Even if you don't like the look of it you still have to admit that it is very creative. The CPU and GPUs are all connected thermally to the middle piece of aluminum that acts as one big heat sink for the entire unit. The specs are pretty amazing too, Apple claim that it can edit 4k video and render effects in the background with no performance degradation thanks to its available 12 cores. </div><div><br></div><div>But with the new design they had to drop a lot of typical computer parts. There is no optical drive and the storage is flash based. There is no room for expansion via PCI cards or new hard drive so you'd better be sure to buy the system you want that will be able to fit your needs for the long run because you can't just pop in a new hard drive more ram and a new video card.</div><div><br></div><div>Since Steve Jobs died the company has taken a drastic turn. I'm not sure that they will be able to continue what he started, but time will tell. I'm hoping so.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-43294746790771096212013-07-29T19:49:00.001-07:002013-07-29T19:49:52.854-07:00Amazon's New Product Category: Add-On Items<p>
Amazon has recently started classifying certain smaller and cheaper products as "Add-On Items." These are items that are inexpensive and not cost efficient to ship individually so Amazon will now only ship add-on items with other items if the total cost is over $25. If your order is less than $25 they won't ship any items that are marked as add-ons. On one hand I could see how this could save the company money and if they save money they can offer lower prices and better products and services. However this is also frustrating for customers who don't understand and don't like this new policy.
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Personally I think this is a good idea in theory but I don't like it how it is right now. I think that they should offer a discount if you ship with other items or even charge a premium for shipping add-on items individually. I was searching for a cable that was about $5 and was marked as an add-on item. I tried to checkout but when I was in my shopping cart I couldn't understand why there was no way for me to check out yet. It seriously took me about 20 minutes of going back and fourth, trying different items, different browsers, I even tried using another computer! Then I finally actually read what it said for add-on items. Since this cable was so cheap I couldn't even order it by itself. I either had to order $20 worth of more crap or buy a more expensive cable! This is pretty frustrating when you spend a while finding the best item at the best price and then finding out you can't even buy it. I wish they would just let me buy it and even charge me a little more for shipping and handling. It's almost like a teaser price saying "this product is cheap - so cheap you can't even buy it!" If they just offered the option to buy it on its own and pay a little more I would have bought it already. But since they don't allow me to I will look for a better deal elsewhere. I might end up buying from Amazon but I doubt it after this. I might think twice about buying from Amazon next time because of this. And I am an Amazon affiliate so I don't like talking negatively about them, but when I see something I will comment how I feel about it no matter what. It just goes to show that any thing that looks too good to be true, usually is. Any time you are shopping, either online or in a store, always look out for deals that are too good and prices that are too low. Most times there is either fine print that you need to know about or the product is inferior. Amazon is a great retailler and most of their products and deals are the best anywhere, but this is one thing that I do not like about Amazon.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-2918013946598318862013-07-25T08:42:00.000-07:002013-07-25T08:42:08.148-07:00Blog Comments For Backlinks No Longer Provide Link Juice, Most Blogs Using NoFollow For Comment Links<p>
A few years ago when SEO just started to become very competitive most people were scrambling to get as many links to their sites as possible. They didn't care about the quality of the links, if there was relevant content on the page, anchor text, page rank of the linking domain, etc. But now things have changed, no longer do people want as many links as possible. Many SEOers believe that too many bad quality links actually do harm to your site's SERP results. And since Google has started the "NoFollow" tag which means that the spider doesn't follow the link or give you any credit for it. One of the easiest and quickest ways to get some fast back links was to comment on people's blogs and use links in the body of your comment and for your name. But now most blogs automatically use the NoFollow tag on any links in the comments section making this practice pretty much futile. There are still a few blogs out there that pass on their link juice to links left in the comments section but for the most part the only good a comment link will do is if somebody reading that blog clicks on your link. Some search engines count these links, and of course nobody knows exactly what is in the search engine's algorithms but most people in the SEO field seem to agree that NoFollow links don't count for anything in the top three search engines - Yahoo, Bing, and of course good old Google. So next time you see an offer for 10,000 backlinks from blog comments for $10 you know that it isn't even worth that. The better way to get quality links and real organic traffic is to take your time to get high quality links. Submit press releases to attract links and articles from real people, not automated scripts. Create useful articles that are relavent to your site and the site you post it on. Post good answers to people's questions in forums and other sites. Submit to high quality web directories like DMOZ. Create a real blog with lots of good content for your site with news and info about your products or services. Don't spam the entire web just to get a few crappy links. It won't help and many people claim it could actually harm your SERP rankings. So just like they taught you in school - don't follow the crowd, just say NO!
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-44809667518239812142013-07-24T12:27:00.000-07:002013-07-24T12:35:45.044-07:00Mt. Gox Is Not Down: How To Access Mt. Gox Without 503 Error<p>
A few days ago I wrote a blog post about how I could not access the Mt. Gox online bitcoin exchange site. Every time I tried to go to the Mt. Gox online homepage it would redirect me to a 503 error page that read 'Service Temporarily Available' so of course I thought that the site was down. At first I thought it was only a temporary service disruption due to upgrades or high traffic loads. I tried a dozen or so times within a few minutes at first but I still got the same error each time so I decided to try again later. The next day I tried again a few times and still got the 503 error every single time, I thought that something else was going on besides a simple hardware upgrade or software update. I speculated there was a problem because Mt. Gox was being attacked by malicious hackers with a DDoS attack.
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I don't know for sure but I don't think that that was the cause of the error. This was a few days ago that I first encountered the error. I have checked it a few times since then and still got the error page every time. That is when I tried a few things to see if the Mt. Gox site was definitely down or not. I finally figured out that if you type in exactly http://mtgox.com (not www.mtgox.com, http://www.mtgox.com, or mtgox.com) that the home page loaded immediately. I have no idea why this is but if you enter the www prefix or if your browser adds the www when you type in only mtgox.com. The only thing I can think of is that there is a problem with the www subdomain or the server that the www subdomain points to. So there you have it, if you are trying to access Mt. Gox and it gives you the same 503 error try entering http://mtgox.com and it should work fine.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-8811168321341116972013-07-23T22:02:00.003-07:002013-07-23T22:02:56.711-07:00How Much Does It Cost To Leave Your Computer On?<p>
As an avid computer user I have multiple computers and usually I leave at least one on around the clock. Today I heard somebody claim that leaving a computer on 24/7 will cost $600 for an entire year, which equals $50 each month, just by leaving your computer running constantly. I tried to argue this claim but they stuck to their guns and claimed that they knew it to be true. So I tried to calculate the power usage and cost myself.
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Of course all computers use different amounts of power and the price of electricity differs depending on where you live and your local electric company, so we will use averages to reach a estimated conclusion. Most desktops use at maximum about 400-500 watts of power for the computer itself and monitor. Other equipment such as printers, routers, modems, etc. all use extra power too, but no more than a few watts each so they aren't too big of a deal. Laptops are designed to use much less power than desktops so that they can have maximum battery life. Many components in a laptop are smaller and use less power, such as the fans and hard drives. Also the processor, video processor, ram, bus, and other components also use much less power, and modern laptops employ advanced power management techniques, such as lowering the screen brightness and slowing down or turning off components when not in use like the hard drive, processor, screen, networking chips, etc. Because of the power saving features, most laptops use less electricity, usually about 75-100 watts for the entire system. So in order to find out how much it costs we need to know how much power costs. Again this varies from state to state and city to city. The state with the lowest electricity cost is Washington at 8.66 cents per kilowatt, and the most expensive electricity is in Hawaii, where it costs 37.11 cents per kilowatt hour. The average price for electricty in the US is 12.40 cents/kwh. What exactly is a kilowatt hour? A kilowatt is the amount of electricity that would be consumed by something that uses 1000 watts over the period of an hour. So if a computer uses 400 watts that would be equal to 0.4 kwh each hour. In a day the cost would be $1.19 for the computer at maximum power, and over the course of a month it would cost $35.71, and $428 for the entire year. Of course most computers are not running at maximum capacity all the time. If the screen and other components such as the fans and hard drive are set to go to sleep after no activity for a while it would probably average about half of the maximum power so this price would drop to about $17.80 a month. In a year it would amount to $214. Many people these days have laptop computers for their only computer, and as previously mentioned they use a lot less power than regular desktop computers. At an average of 75 watts with power saving settings, it would cost $6.69 a month and $80.28 a year.
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So most full sized computers use about $215 worth of electricity a year and most laptops would cost $80 per year. So where did the $500 figure come from? If a computer uses a full 500 watts around the clock and the price of power is still 12.4 cents per kwh, it would end up costing $535 per year. I would imagine that whoever came up with this calculation thought that the 500 watts that some high end computers use is being used consistently over the entire time the computer is on. But that is not true at all, many high end gaming PCs are rated for 500 watts or more but that is the maximum amount of power that can be drawn at one time. A lot of these high end computers have components that drawn whole lot more electricity than a standard consumer PC. Many gaming computers have more than a few very large powerful fans, as well as multiple graphics cards that could use 75 watts each, 1 or more hard drives that spin at speeds up to 10,000 rpms, a central processor that uses 50-100 watts alone, and other extras like lights and liquid cooling systems. But the maximum power is only used when the computer is under full load such as playing a very graphics intensive game, and still the amount of power is always going to less than the maximum amount the power supply puts out, otherwise ther wouldn't be enough power and the computer would crash. Even high end computers use less than maximum power most of the time. If you aren't playing a game the graphics cards use way less than their max. If you aren't using the processor to 100% capacity it uses less power as well. And if the hard drive hasn't been accessed in a while it is turned off to save power as well. And when the CPU and other components are not at full capacity they produce much less heat which means that the fans don't have to go as fast and can run at a lower speed or even be turned off if the temperature is low enough. So even a high end PC, such as those used for gaming, don't use their full amount of power around the clock. Even a top of the line machine with a 600-700 watt power supply and all the top components would use about half of that amount of power on average. So it would take a computer with a power supply rated over 500 watts and components that add up to 500 watts total working at 100% efficiency 24 hours a day 7 days a week to end up costing more than $500. Which backs up my first claim that the figure stated is an exaggeration and that it usually costs much less for an average computer to be left on all the time and being actively used for many hours each and every day. If you don't use your computer that much, say only a dozen or so hours a week, then your computer won't cost an arm and a leg to run, even if you leave it on all the time. So in conclusion it does cost money to leave your computer on all the time but it really matters how much you actively use it. If you run programs in the background, like constantly downloading files or streaming or sharing files with other systems or devices then it would use much more power, but most of us do not. And even if you do leave programs running that use the hard drive and networking devices, the CPU probably won't be running at peak and other components like the fans, graphics chips, and monitor will be using less than their maximum amount of power consumption. Of course turning off your computer will use no power and therefore cost you nothing, but leaving it on won't likely break the bank either.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-30259411568927672862013-07-23T02:59:00.001-07:002013-07-23T02:59:57.214-07:00Breaking Bad on DVDWhen Breaking Bad first started airing on TV I watched all episodes the first day they aired. I watched every episode in the first 2 or 3 seasons but I started to get a little bored and thought that the story line was getting a little too far out there and far fetched. <div><br></div><div>But I recently got a few seasons of the show on DVD and started watching and I think I like it now more than ever. The story is a little outlandish but of you watch it for what it is you can enjoy it. Of course it is highly unlikely that a high school teacher would become a drug kingpin but it is fun to watch nonetheless. If you have never seen it then I recommend checking it out. Bryan Cranston is a great actor and makes the show very believable for what it is. Some of the other characters are a little out there but he holds the show together. So pick up a season or five of Breaking Bad and be prepared to sit in front of the TV for a while. </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-82578772210435481272013-07-21T22:18:00.001-07:002013-07-21T22:18:44.581-07:00Mt. Gox Down: More DDoS Attacks For Bitcoin's Largest Exchange?<p>
Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange on the internet, has experienced service outages on and off for a few hours now. DDoS attacks are nothing new for Mt. Gox, but no site is fully immune to these types of attacks. If you don't know a DDoS, or distributed denial of service attack, is when an attacker uses multiple machines across the internet to flood a server with traffic which causes it to slow down to the point where it can no longer serve legitimate visitors. DDoS attacks are hard for site owners to contend with as attacks can come from all over the world simultaneously. This makes it hard to ignore attackers while still providing service to actual users. Mt. Gox has had these attacks before and usually they start to die off as the machines used to attack get taken down or blocked, but how long before this attack stops? Who is doing this and why would they attack a site like Mt. Gox? Well anybody who wants to affect the price of Bitcoin could use an attack like this to their advantage. An attacker could cause a site to be unreachable for most visitors which would cause the price to change. They could then buy or sell huge amounts of Bitcoins at different points during their attack and theoretically end up making a lot of money. Attackers could gauge when prices will fluctuate and act accordingly, trading when necessary to make profit, in the end making a lot of money and destabilizing the Bitcoin value as a currency, as well as causing uneasiness among Bitcoin users.
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Hopefully this attack won't last long and won't upset the value of Bitcoin. The value of Bitcoin is at a good level right now. It is just high enough to keep interest among users and prospective investors and still easy enough for many to get into the Bitcoin world. If attacks like these keep happening and the attackers are able to game the system enough the Bitcoin market could collapse. Although the Bitcoin currency was created with this in mind, its value could plummet to the point where it is almost invaluable. People would stop mining and therefore stop using Bitcoins altogether. Once the value drops to a certain level everyone will rush to sell and the value will drop to near nothing. Hopefully this won't happen, hopefully the existence of multiple exchanges and users around the world will keep the Bitcoin currency alive. However only time will tell if the Bitcoin has a future or if it will become another internet fad. I'm hoping the former, not the latter.
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Unless you live under a rock, you have probably heard or read about the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin murder case. I'm not going to go into details about it because I'm sure 99% of the people in the country know at least a little bit about the case. Basically Martin was walking through Zimmerman's neighborhood acting suspiciously. Supposedly he was wearing a hood over his head so it was hard to see his face and was walking close some of the houses in the neighborhood. That particular neighborhood had recently had a few robberies and other crimes recently and Zimmerman was a member of the neighborhood watch. When he say a somebody who he thought looked and was acting suspicious. He proceeded to call 911 after he grabbed his pistol and started to follow the person who he later found out to be Trayvon Martin. There is conflicting stories about what happened at this point, but apparently the two ended up getting into a fight and Zimmerman pulled out his gun and shot Martin. Zimmerman claims that he was attacked and that he ended up on the ground with Martin on top of him, punching him in the face multiple times similar to how a UFC fighter would attack in what is called a 'ground and pound' position. At this point pulled out his gun and ended up shooting Martin. The next day Martin took pictures of his head and it was all bloody and had multiple wounds as if his head was being slammed into the ground repeatedly. Of course Trayvon is not around to tell his side of the story, but the evidence and the witnesses corroborated Zimmerman's story.
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Zimmerman was not immediately arrested and charged, this only happened days later after people around the country demanded that he be arrested and charged with murder. This all happened months ago and the trial was started recently. Some parts of the trial were televised, but a lot of media outlets either tried to spin the story so it appeared that Zimmerman was being racist and only shot Martin because he was black. To me the racism accusation is totally unfounded. I believe that Zimmerman didn't care if he was black, white, Asian, Indian, native american, green, blue, or even purple, he wanted to see what he was doing and so he approached him. Why would Zimmerman get into a fist fight if he had a gun? It makes more sense that he would flash his gun to intimidate Martin to explain what he was doing and where he was going. I don't think that he would try to attack Martin only to end up on his back to end up being hit multiple times and get his head bashed into the ground. However many people seem to think that Zimmerman is a racist and he was out to kill a black person that night, for what reason I don't know.
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The defense and the prosecutors were both in on the jury selection and they both agreed that the jury they picked was competent and would make a fair ruling. A few ago the jury finally came to a conclusion that Zimmerman was not guilty of murder as he was only acting in self defense. When this news came out, people around the country started to protest. They were upset that Zimmerman would be freed because they all believed that he was guilty. But the thing is just about everyone in the public seemed to already have an opinion about whether Zimmerman was guilty or not, and then when the trial was over everyone complained that the jury wasn't fair and that the trial was somehow flawed. But nobody except the 6 women on the jury were in the court room every day of the trial to see and hear all the evidence and testimonies. Only those 6 women heard the jury instructions. Only those 6 women were briefed on the law and the case in particular by the judge. Nobody outside of those 6 people can say whether he was guilty or not because we don't know the full story. You can't judge a book by its cover because you haven't read the entire book yet. The same goes for a case such as this. Sure they might hear a few short clips of the trial on the news and think they know the entire story. But how could anybody but the jurors know everything that happened? How could anybody be sure of his guilt or innocence if they weren't on the jury?
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There was nothing racist about the case at all. The only person who mentioned race was Trayvon Martin's friend that he was talking to on the phone right before the altercation happened. She testified that Trayvon told her that somebody was following her and called him a 'creey ass cracker'. But somehow everybody who was not part of the trial seems to think that race played a huge role in Martin's untimely death. Of course it is sad when anybody loses their life, especially at such a young age, don't get me wrong. But to claim that it was a hate crime only commited because Martin was black is ignorant, and racist in itself. The people who claim that Zimmerman acted due to his supposed racist tendencies are the racist ones. And it just so happens that every single black person that I've seen talking about the case believes that Zimmerman was guilty. Not every caucasian person thinks that he was innocent, so why do all black people think he's guilty? Why do they all think that he should be tried again. And again. And again. But none of us can decide if he was innocent or guilty because we weren't in the courtroom everyday to see and hear all the evidence that was presented. All the public has to go on is what the media reports to us, and that is not at all accurate because the news media is always trying to spin stories so that they get people's attention, they don't care about the facts. For example, NBC edited the original 911 call and cut out the part where the operator asks if he was black or white so when he says he's black it sounds like he's being racist and only cared about the color of his skin when the truth is that race is not a part of this case and it never was. the media tried to spin it that way so they could sensationalize it and be provocative. the only racist thing about the whole case is when the kid called the guy a creepy ass cracker, so if anybody was being racist it was him.
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By the way, I'm not saying that George Zimmerman is innocent, and I'm also not saying he was guilty. I don't know if he was or not because, you know what, I WASN'T THERE FOR THE TRIAL so I cant prove it either way. In this wonderful country of ours, the burden of evidence is on the state and everyone is innocent until proven guilty. The jury couldn't prove without doubt that he committed the crime of murder and therefore they had to find him innocent.
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Yesterday, fox news host and former lawyer Greta Van Susteren had Trayvon Martin's family's attorney on her show, and Susteren tried to explain why people outside of the jury can't judge the case for themselves and that just because they are unhappy with the verdict doesn't mean that they are right or that he should be tried again. On her show last night, Van Susteren said, "Millions of people who may not like a verdict whether its for it or against it in this case or any other didn't watch the case, didn't sit in the court room, didn't weigh the evidence, didn't listen to the jury instuctions... That's why we have court systems, so both sides have a chance to be heard... Justice is presented in the court room with a jury deciding and both sides having an opportunity. That's justice." I think she the nail right on the head. We can't decide without all the evidence. Which is exacly what many people have already done with catg
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Rosetta Stone is a software package that touts the ability to teach users new languages quicker and more thouroughly than any other method. How is this possible? In one word: immersion.
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Think about the way that babies learn their first language. They don't constantly have written definitions and translations thrown in their face in an attempt to memorize as many meaningless words as they can. Babies learn by being surrounded by words every day since their birth. They hear others talking before they even open their eyes. So of course within a year or two they already know a good amount of the language, even if they can't exactly speak it properly. Rosetta stone attempts to teach users a new language the same exact way. There are no translations and no definitions. They don't use English at all in the language lessons. They use only the language you are trying to learn and everything is in that language. It may seem a little daunting at first, but you quickly start to learn the basics of the new language and in no time you can start flying through the lessons. There are different courses that you can take within the Rosetta Stone software, varying in length from a few short lessons all the way to a full year. You can become fully fluent in a language if you use the Rosetta Stone software to its full capability. There are many languages to choose from so whatever language you want to learn, Rosetta Stone is the way to go.
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Rosetta Stone is like having your very own language tutor inside your computer. The words are displayed on the screen and the software plays a sound of somebody speaking it so you know how to pronounce it properly. There are also sections that have you repeat the words and with the help of voice recognition software, it tells you if you are pronouncing it correctly or not. This way you can learn the words and be sure that you are saying the words properly.
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I took a Spanish course in high school but I never learned more than a few basic words. So when I tried Rosetta Stone I wasn't really expecting much. I thought that it would be more of the same, learning only a handful of words after hours and hours of listening to and reading translations and definitions. But to my surprise it actually worked much better than I expected. I have only used Rosetta Stone for a few basic lessons and I already know about as many words as I remember from an entire year of high school Spanish class. Of course it helped that I already knew how to count to 10 and a few basic colors, but I really learned some new words very quickly. I plan on using the software daily so that I can slowly learn more and more of the language so that I can eventually speak with native Spanish speakers. I live in the South West United States so there are many people here who come from Latin America and are native Spanish speakers. I would love to be able to converse with them in their native language and be able to fully understand them and carry on a conversation. I've been wanting to learn a second language since I was a kid. I went to Spain when I was about 12 and I had a Spanish dictionary but I never learned more than a few words and didn't even know how to properly pronounce them. I went to Mexico a few years ago on a cruise and couldn't understand any of the people who didn't speak English. I'm hoping that next time, with the help of Rosetta Stone, I can finally be able to converse with people in Spanish without any trouble. If you want to learn any language I would definitely recommend that you try Rosetta Stone. I think it is better than any other method, including having a personal tutor!
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05975264197738329729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749304614191355324.post-6037056990609344542013-07-04T18:14:00.001-07:002013-07-04T18:14:28.692-07:00Who Keeps Google'ing My Name?<p>
When running a website, you get natural organic traffic from search engines. The search engines have spiders that crawl the entire web and catalog everything so that when people search for keywords they can get the best, most relevant page to their search. Naturally some of the things that people search for are a little weird. I always like to see where my traffic is coming from, so I use programs like Google Analytics and even the built in logging functions for different web servers and applications. I have been running web sites for over 6 years now and I've seen all kinds of keywords that people search for. Some of them I want to be listed for, while others are pure surprises. Some of them are just downright weird. But lately, since I've started this particular blog under my own name, I get traffic from search results for all kinds of keywords. It's a little strange when I see people constantly searching for my name, as well as my name along with some weird keyword. The latest one that I couldn't figure out is "Jared Connell needs money". Well I like money, and I guess you go as far as to say that I need money - just as everybody in this world needs money to live. But why the hell would someone be searching for that? Who is so interested in my financial situation that they would go to Google and search for that? I can't figure this one out. I can see who searches for what and I can even narrow the results down to geographical location via their IP. But I can't go so far as to see the name of the people sitting in front of the computer typing the keywords into the search engines, so I'm a little baffled as to who would search for this term. So whoever you are out there, why not leave me a comment below or send me an email or something. Heck, drop me a line of Facebook if you want. Or even Twitter. It doesn't matter, I just want to know who it is and what they want to know about me. I'm not very secretive, but I would like to know who is that interested in me. Heck, maybe it is another Jared Connell that they are looking for. I think there are about 7 of us in the country with the same name. So maybe I'm the wrong Jared Connell, maybe I am the right one. Whatever the case, I would like to know why you are searching for my name so often, and if you are finding out what you want to know. If not, just tell me and I'll tell you firsthand. No need to lurch behind the computer monitor, just drop me a line! If you have the time to search for Jared Connell on Google then surely you have the time to write a simple blog comment or to message me.
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I've seen a lot of movies; some good, some not so good. But I don't think I've ever seen something so bad as the movie Spring Breakers with Selena Gomez and James Franco. Not only could the entire script be written on a bar napkin, the plot is about as thick and the acting is about as flimsy. James Franco's character is supposed to be a gangster who bails out the four main girls after they commit some crime that I already forgot about. Then he introduces himself and eventually takes them home, where his bed is full of stacks of cash and a wall full of weapons from nunchucks and shurikens to uzis and machetes. Somehow they come across Gucci Mane's character, another gangster in town who is apparently Franco's rival. Some things happen and some people die and the movie ends. I wont give away the ending, not because I don't want to spoil it for you because I hope nobody sees it after reading how bad it is. No I won't tell you the ending because I wasn't really paying attention and I already forgot what happens. Really. That's how bad this movie is.
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The characters are horribly written and their dialouge is so forced that I don't believe anything they say. It's pretty bad when the non actors are better than the lead actors in the film. The background extras are more believable than the entire main cast. The only one who is remotely believable is the rapper Gucci Mane. Franco's character is the sterotypical whigger who is trying so hard to be black that it is just pathetic. He has a fake set of teeth with corn rows braided in his hair and he drives an older Camaro on floating rims with dollar signs on them. Yes, dollar signs on his rims.
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But the movie doesn't stop there. No, that isn't even the worst part. After he shows him his bedroom with all the guns and other outrageous weapons, the girls take two pistols with silencers on them and puts them into Franco's mouth. Does he push them away, being the gangster that he is? No, he proceeds to deep throat the guns like they are, well you know. And he actually likes it. He takes two guns in the mouth and actually likes it!!! Yes this actually happens in the movie. I wouldn't believe it either, so here is a picture so you know I'm not making this up.
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So if you want to watch a soft core porn with Selena Gomez and some other hot chicks that has absolutely no story and is almost unwatchable, this movie is for you. Don't forget to turn down the volume though. The music isn't bad, the soundtrack was made by the hit dubstep artist Skrillex and rapper Gucci Mane who plays Archie the rival gangster. But there isn't that much music and most of the time you are subjected to listening the ramblings of James Franco trying to act ghetto. Some how the ratings on the movie are above 0 stars. On Rotten Tomatos the movie got 65% and on IMDB it got 5.9/10. I don't know how anybody in the world could give this more than a 1. Maybe all the reviewers were deaf and just liked the hot chicks. Maybe the production company bribed every movie reviewer in the country. Or maybe they are just so dumb that they don't realize how fake and lame this movie really is. Whatever the reason, I am surprised. But then again I hardly ever agree with critics on movies. Although 5.9 is not a good score by any means it is about 5 points higher than I would have given it. If I haven't made myself clear enough: THIS MOVIE STINKS! DON'T GO SEE IT! I'd rather gargle with sulfuric acid than watch this abomination of a film.
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