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Laforge129 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:31:26 -0000

I think it is nationwide. I'm on the Central time zone and can't access either.

Re: Ingress portal submissions have been reopened!

Laforge129 — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:57:02 -0000

Christ,

I elaborate graciously, right now we have Pokemons moving around, we have balls being thrown and we have encryption going on to try to prevent players from spoofing or getting information about where the Pokemon are. This all is really central Processing Unit(CPU) and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) intensiveness. While this might not a problem on a gaming laptop these cell phones are not as fast and don't have memory to be fast enough. While we are using Pogo we are speeding up the system for both CPU and GPU. Each one draws a lot of energy from the battery. I suspect they did try this a few months back but people started complaining about battery life and batteries getting hot.

Now I will say this they would need to hook every aspect of the pokestops submissions in the game. This would create an addition layer, which would probably slow down the game play and drain the battery even faster because it's like a deck cards, if you add another deck of cards and try to play a game of gofish, it would take you longer time to finish the game. So by adding an additional layer to the game would take more time to load, more ticks to the cpu and thus that would slow the game down tremendously.

Ingress is a simple 2d game that uses less cpu and battery power thus it is the best option for the adding portals/pokestops. Niantic is worried that if they do this people will stop playing the game due to even more game problems, slower game play, and even more data usage. Niantic is probably trying to keep people from leaving why would they rock the boat. They want people to buy coins and they want good pr. Ingress has had this in the past and just a thought they might would also have to make even more programming for the server because I don't know how they have it set up but they would have to create a way to add portals on the server side and why would they put so much money into pokemon go when they have it already set up in ingress?

Re: Ingress portal submissions have been reopened!

Laforge129 — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:11:36 -0000

Chris,

I thought long and hard why Niantic probably won't add that feature. The problem is the game is so graphics intensive that it is hard on the battery of most phones. They don't want the backlash of players when it drains it faster with the added features. I suggest you log into ingress and reach out to the community and find players who could do this. I've got a ton of places pogo players have suggested to me that it will keep me busy for several weeks. You could also play ingress and get to lvl 11 or 12 and do it yourself. Just a thought...

Re: Ingress portal submissions have been reopened!

Laforge129 — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 06:19:27 -0000

Chris, You'd be surprised as to how many ingress players there are. We have worked really hard to get new stops and new gyms available in areas where there isn't any. I personally have found like 50 places that was in need of a stop/gym. So I understand your frustration but be assured that the ingress community takes this situation very seriously!

Re: Bit.ly is Harmful to Your Reputation

Laforge129 — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:43:58 -0000

You can change the service on Tweetdeck for those who want to be able to retweet stuff. You have more than one choice in the settings section.

Re: Hulu blocks another Portable Browser

Laforge129 — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:39:41 -0000

Oh really, wonder when they find that out Hulu will try to block that also!!

Re: What Bloggers Should Know About PR And Advertising

Laforge129 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:00:48 -0000

Jason,

How has that worked for you so far with the pitch me patch? Has it
stopped all together or are they still trying to pitch irrelevant
stuff?? If it is working for you I might add something to my contact
me page about pitches and stuff like that!!

Re: What Bloggers Should Know About PR And Advertising

Laforge129 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:00:05 -0000

Jason,

I really hate those PR pitches for something that doesn't even fit my
blog! I have been thrown so many pitches about something that I don't
even know, I usually use one of my many auto response letters telling
them thanks but no thanks!! Anyone use one of those types of auto
responders? Anyone know of Any good ones??

Re: Are you writing for your audience?

Laforge129 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:54:23 -0000

People who comment, sometimes only have one object and that is to put out a link in spam. I've seen it in the past but that doesn't always work. Comments are like roses, if they really like the post they will comment but if they are just searching for answers then they will not leave a comment.

Some people want answers and not say thank you! So it can be hard to count on comments!!

Re: What Bloggers Should Know About PR And Advertising

Laforge129 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:49:43 -0000

Although, I try to blog like a teacher. I've been tossed some pitches that I don't get how that relates to my technology blog. I can understand why she might want to charge a fee to hear a pitch for some blog post for her. I find it easier to find Advertisers who are willing to work with you and make sure they will include you in their discussions on their home page.

If you really want to make money with your blog, I have found you have to consider your audience and that out ways any advertiser throwing ideas about my blog. If it doesn't fit, I tell them nicely. It definitely makes my audience more receptive on all my blog posts.

Good Post though, I enjoyed hearing your side of two coins though!!

Re: Blackberry and Cricket Together?

Laforge129 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:30:55 -0000

Actually Cricket Wireless has confirmed that it will have both Androids and Blackberrys!!

http://www.tech-linkblog.co...

Re: Hulu’s misses out of Roku, Not so wise!!

Laforge129 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:06:11 -0000

Yes but we still need to know how many are in each household. With them being under $100 Not all the 500,000 boxes have been sold to 500,000 people!! That can make the difference in who comes to Roku in my opinion!

Re: Reviewing the Wi-Fire 500mW High-Gain USB Wireless 802.11b/g USB WiFi Adapter

Laforge129 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:18:56 -0000

There can be a multitude of solutions when it comes to a USB port? If you want to discus this more, I encourage to come join the forums and there are more people who can help answer your question besides me. I might miss an idea that someone else might know how to figure out!!

Re: Is Stargate Universe becoming an Soap Opera??

Laforge129 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:43:55 -0000

Yea I started talking about this on my forums, Feel free to join me and talk about it in more detail : http://www.tech-linkforum.c...

Re: Hulu Days of Summer Clues July 20 to July 24 2009

Laforge129 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:33:14 -0000

I found out why they gave us the clue for the other show. It was because the Electric doesn't have any titles! Which makes no sense if they are going to use another show they should of come up with a clue for that show. I got an email from one of the HULU employees over this because I thought it was a mistake. They said nope, they had no title clue for The electric Company!! So they used H.R. Pufnstuf for the title clue.

Re: Hulu Days of Summer Clues July 20 to July 24 2009

Laforge129 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:20:09 -0000

I was way off, though blame it on IMDB because I did a Title Search new
it was a title and nothing came up remotely had to dig deepper and
thought it was S.P.D. because it was an ABC show!! Since they were
doing ABC recently I really thought it would of been that!!

Re: Did you Recieve a Check from Shadow Shopper? (Scam)

Laforge129 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:26:30 -0000

Some other resources to check out is:

http://www.snopes.com/fraud...

http://www.jobmonkey.com/my...

I would Call the number on this website to verify it is a real money order:

http://www.usps.com/missing...

To verify a postal money order, call the Money Order Verification System
at 1-866-459-7822. If you suspect fraud, call the U.S. Postal Inspection
Service at 1-877-876-2455 (select option 4).

This is the only really way to verify that is a real money order, if not
and you do what they say you will be out of money and could be charged
in this scam!!

Paul

Re: Did you Recieve a Check from Shadow Shopper? (Scam)

Laforge129 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:58:27 -0000

There are all scam might look real but you will pay later on down the
road. It seems they can even make a fake money order
<http: www.fraud.org="" toolbox="" tips="" english="" pdfs="" fakecheck%28english%29.pdf="">.
If you think it a fake your best bet is to report it to the proper
authorities and let them handle it from there!!

Re: Scam ALERT: NATIONWIDE MARKETING!!

Laforge129 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:49:49 -0000

Only thing you can do is wait and see but you should at least get ready for a lawsuit or a return check depends on how the authorities want to handle this. If you go talk to the police you might be able to get away with just paying it back without the need for the legal trouble!

Re: Hulu Days of Summer Clues for July 6 thru 10, 2009

Laforge129 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:38:22 -0000

Thanks though, I am gonna guess your right that seems the most logical.
So I updated it. I even gave you a mention. Please feel free and keep
coming back to help help even more!! ;) Thanks Again

Re: Hulu Days of Summer Clues for July 6 thru 10, 2009

Laforge129 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:29:25 -0000

Yea but The problem with that is Jon Sanders has to be a A character all
the other anagrams were Show characters that is the only one that poped
up with the character name. You're probably right about the others
though. I'll look into it!!
Paul

Re: Extended Review : A600 Cricket modem

Laforge129 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:45:41 -0000

First of all it is on the side of the A600 Modem, I have it but the slot is covered up by a small plastic cover it will however say Micro SD on the plastic. Pull that off and that is where the you put your Micro SD card at! See the Post :
http://www.tech-linkblog.co...

and look at the picture you will see the slot covered by the rubber in the picture there. That is where it should be unless they are starting to sell them without the slot in some areas!!

Re: Hulu Days Of Summer are here again

Laforge129 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:49:12 -0000

I have started the process of keeping track of these clues daily and I
you should check my website daily for updates.

Re: Hulu Days Of Summer are here again

Laforge129 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:16:12 -0000

I found out last week the clues are easy right now they are giving the
Bit.ly like they did last summer with the tinyurl.com. I will update
these daily when I find the clue out myself but right now they are
really easy!!

Re: Personal Antivirus just scareware

Laforge129 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:01:13 -0000

Actually,

Most Anti-virus will pick the Trojan installer before you even know it
tried it. I had it do that twice with AVG. The installer is the virus
this is the by product because it installed it without your knowledge or
permission!!