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Read this.

It's been done.

bluetooth modded handset here:

http://www.g4techtv.com/screensavers/features/4796 6/Yoshis_Mod_Tips_Project_OldSchool_Bluetooth.html

from yoshi at tech tv

~fabz

The chatroom usually has around 100-150 people, except for when the The Screen Savers is taped live every day at 4PM PST where the room spikes at 300-400 people. Users in the chatroom interact with the hosts on live TV and the live show incorporate user comments from the channel.

I'd say we definitely make good use, legal and positive, of IRC!

Users shouldn't try to carry out an engineer's discussion, but they try nevertheless.

-uberpenguin

http://forums.g4techtv.com/messageview.cfm?catid=5 9&threadid=329404&STARTPAGE=1

That would be Portal and, yes, it is a complete and utter waste of 30 minutes of air time.

Schwab

Checking out the responses, it looks noone watched "Unscrewed with Martin Sargent".

It was a segment on his show, but it really was more about 'oh look, i found this supermodels website, here's some pix' than 'girls in technology'. I don't have high expectations. The funny thing is, I'm a cableone subscriber (pity me) and I got their "plus package" solely for TechTV. Looks like I'll be dropping that soon.

Also, did anyone notice DanHuard's little blog post about TSS having fake calls is now gone? He's emptied his blog for some reason.

A graphic that is said to be the redesigned logo is on this thread in G4's "The Screen Savers" forum. I can understand why they'd pull that... it looks like a really bad 60's era logo/test pattern, right down to the blur.

If anyone cares you can tell them how much they suck. Here is a link to a contact us page G4techTv

Remember that picture Kevin got as Mr. Spock? well I saw this on a G4's forum, enjoy!!!!

btw, here's a link to a biosheet on who wil had a beef with. jimdownslickssweatyballs.com. and this asshole is still running things 2 years later...

I'm just trying to figure out how homebrewing beer & purifying vodka tie into a computer technology show. And one that seemingly more and more is catering to an under 21 crowd at that.

I'm just trying to figure out how homebrewing beer & purifying vodka tie into a computer technology show. And one that seemingly more and more is catering to an under 21 crowd at that.

The fact that 480 Mbps is a BURST transfer rate, not a sustained rate?

Not that Firewire makes 400Mbps in sustained rate either, but it's sustained rate is higher than that of USB2. Why do you think digital video production uses Firewire instead of USB2?

To paraphrase the reply before you: typical PC user, only looking at the numbers marketing shows you.

I merely tie a Pringles can to the foot of my canary, and let him fly.

As the article summary notes, this isn't a problem for dual-tuner PVRs.

Most PVRs offered by cable and satellite providers, such as Charter's Motorola BMC9012 offering, are just that. And, adding another tuner (or several tuners) to media PCs, such as those running MythTV or the surprisingly good Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, is a simple task (for a person so inclined to have a media PC in the first place).

So, yes, it's interesting to see this acknowledged, but the tactic does show up in the guides (e.g., ER starting at 8:59PM CT), and for multi-tuner PVRs it is not at all an issue.

What will be far more interesting to me is the networks' and content providers' handling and usage of the Broadcast Flag (more, more, more), which will probably be utilized to prevent digital and/or HD recording, and thus prevent (easy) skipping of ad content, of some "high value" shows altogether, as well as allowing the placement (force feeding?) of new shows to piggyback on existing "popular" shows.

Interesting that while the invention of the VCR has been recently lauded as releasing people from the prison of having to watch "prime time" TV in prime time, the Broadcast Flag may essentially shoot us back 20 years. And most consumers don't understand or know the rights that have already been granted them enough to know the difference.

(And why don't content providers understand that: 1. this won't stop pirates from pirating TV, and that 2. this only makes it harder on ordinary consumers?)

The screen savers reviewed a bunch of external harddrives a few weeks back and they showed one with 80GB of storage for around 200 bucks (and it wasn't huge). I can't find the link right now but it should be somewhere on their site. Click Here

The Screensavers had a download for the mac that would allow one to scan a barcode of movies through the webcam which would then look up the name and other information. The other thing they showed was a microwave that could scan barcodes to automatically figure out how long to set the timer. These two examples show that there is somewhat of a standard.

*googles* Here's the wiki on UPCs at least in the US and Canada. I guess the question is: are we combining standards with the rest of the world?

Posting anonymous for as to not Karma whore, but....

http://www.g4techtv.com/freshgear/features/43787/O ne_TrekkedOut_Home.html

Some years ago, TechTV's Megan Morrone featured one of our games on The Screensavers (screengrab here, with the game on in the background). Indie studios receive relatively modest press coverage, so seeing one of our own titles on the tele-vision was unreal and wonderful.

G4's X-Play seems more geared towards the mainstream/console market; either they don't cover independents, or I accidentally offended them in our press release. ____________________________________
Inago Rage - Create. Fly. Fight.

"Plus, don't miss out on X-Play's console endurance test to see which console can withstand the most punishment."

This is the one day I am glad Leo is gone... if he weren't I'd be praying he takes a sick-day.

Where did I put that Bring Back Leo Petition...

Isn't hydrofluoroether better at heat transfer?

And for anyone interested, here's an article on building a submersion case for using HFE-7100.

ummm, g4techTV is doing that for EA, they have a whole web site set up with some big name hockey stars calling the games.

But G4Tech's version has daily hockey coverage with guest Luc Robataille. Not great, but much better than weekly updates in a newspaper.

The article doesn't seem to mention it. G4Tech does virtual games of NHL 2005.

This popped up a year ago. When will Slashdot actually accept news that is up and current, rather than accepting old posts?

For a high-res view but user-interface nightmare, GlobeXplorer has free and subscription imagery online that incorporates aerial photography for less than 1 meter resolution (like way zoomed in.)

Of course, what roxorz is that the NASA prog is free. At least for now!

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carbolic
WiFi-toys

There is no law preventing you from generating your own electricity and selling it to your neighbor.

Wouldn't selling electric power to my neighbor or to the power company require me to go back to school and take out a second student loan to pay tuition in order to learn how to generate electric power and sell it to my neighbor or to the power company? Or do there exist plug-and-play household solar power generators? Google didn't help.

If you produce more power than your home consumes and you run your power meter backwards, the local utility is required by law to pay you for it at the same rate they'd charge you for power.

I didn't know I could sell power back to the incumbent. Thank you. But wouldn't it still require an allegedly oppressive contract with the incumbent?

there is nothing preventing you from providing local low-latency, high-speed residential Internet service, either. Five years ago I put together a wireless ISP for my entire subdivision

Now that you have said the word "wireless", I have something to latch onto for Google research. Thank you. (after several minutes of using Google) I did some research into fixed terrestrial wireless and found an article about BroadLink. But there's one thing: what little information I could find on the site is nearly useless to ISPs that want to become a BroadLink partner and sell dishes to local customers. How would one learn more about this? And wouldn't managing a new business require that I go to a business school, taking out a second student loan? And how would I come across the land to put my antenna on?

In other words, I admit that my examples failed. Thank you for pointing out that I had misplaced the entry barriers in my argument; instead of at the municipal government level, they turned out to be at the education finance level. However, there are some other public utilities that I can't easily think of how to replace with small-business competition, such as the water company (as some state laws prohibit collecting rain on one's land) the natural gas company (as many customers own gas-powered appliances and couldn't afford to replace them with electric appliances even if I were to supply electricity for free), and the phone company (in the areas whose terrain interferes with fixed terrestrial wireless). What would you suggest to replace these? In addition:

You ask "who is the competitive provider of novels used in twentieth century literature classes in universities?" There is no law preventing you or anyone else from authoring any number of texts on any number of subjects you like.

It appears you have shifted the discussion from twentieth century novels to textbooks about twentieth century novels. Because each university has a different set of copyrighted novels that it chooses, many universities insource these textbooks; one of its professors writes such a text giving an overview of the novels, and the university press prints it and sells it to the bookstore. Can you help me find keywords that would help me use Google to discover another inroad to this market?

If you'd have spent half the effort you spent making all the above excuses actually looking for ways to solve a problem rather than looking for more excuses

I see those two activities as one in the same. What do you consider the more polite way to get other people to help me discover alternatives by tossing out relevant keywords such as "sell power back to the power company" and "fixed wireless", other than by explaining a few ideas that I know don't work, which you have called "making excuses"?

But complaining is easy and work is hard.

Without a job, I can't earn the money I need to invest in one of these businesses you describe. How would you suggest I find a job related to my computer science degre

1. Click on the Start button and open the control panel.
2. Open the Performance and Maintenance control panel and go to Administrative Tools.
3. Now double-click on Services, then scroll to Messenger.
4. Double-click Messenger and click Stop to stop the service.
5. Change the startup type to Disable (see an example).

1. Click on the Start button and open the control panel.
2. Open the Performance and Maintenance control panel and go to Administrative Tools.
3. Now double-click on Services, then scroll to Messenger.
4. Double-click Messenger and click Stop to stop the service.
5. Change the startup type to Disable (see an example).

Quite frequently, publications and/or shows get entirely the wrong person to review the game: Someone who is a button-mashing fighting game player is probably not going to appriciate the slower pace of a tactics-RPG. Similarly, the heavy-duty RTS fan probably won't find much to like in rhythm-based dance games.

Useful game reviews come from people who have similar tastes to your own. Case in point: Tommy Tallarico. Tommy is not mainstream, nor are his tastes. When he reviews games on G4TechTV's show Judgement Day, it's clear that he was put there simply to provide a dissenting view. Have him play even the most revolutionary turn-based strategy game, and he'll insult it in the most vile manner he can think of. Thing is, there's a certain segment of the population that has similar tastes, and they will find his reviews useful.

Another issue may be that some mediocre games get cast as "inexcusably awful" or "mind-bogglingly terrible" simply because it's easy for reviewers to get carried away insulting a game. "I'd rather rub my eyeballs with 80-grit sandpaper," is more interesting to read than "It wasn't awful, but there are no remarkable qualities to this game. It really isn't worth the money."

Well, let's consult Google:

techtv - 404 (site redesigned, so this is expected)
http://www.g4techtv.com/feature.aspx?article_key=1 0624&pg=3
"I just found out about this puppy. Wow. No matter what kind of system you have (fast or slow, new or old), this rabbit-like tool will increase the CPU time for a foreground app. What does that mean? Not only do programs load faster, but they run faster as well."

locker gnome - 404
http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/backissues /20010419.phtml
(duplicate of the techtv one)
http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/backissues /20021105.phtml
"I gave Hare another shot - although it remains to be seen whether or not Hare actually improves system performance markedly."

Funny. I don't remember Farah having underarm flab. I wonder if she'll make her entrance through a crevice at G-phoria.

The new website is SO bad. Doom III

I saw an episode of The Screen Savers where they reviewed antennas such as this and they were shown to work. I don't remember the specifics as to the actual dBi gain but I did gather from it that they worked.

Pretty sure it just takes the signal going out the back side of an omni-directional antenna and reflects it back the other direction so you have more waves of the same amplitude going in the same direction, which would increase the signal strength. That increase in signal strength would create an increase in distance? Note: I could be wrong on all of this, I'm just basing my ideas off of a collection of stuff I've heard over the years.

TechTV did a screensavers show on the template shown on freeantennas.org. You can find the info at g4techtv.com.

It's merged with the G4 network and is now G4TechTV.

Just as well to, as I get G4 on my current digital package, but TechTV was up on a higher tier. To get it, I'd have to get out of my current promotion and reassemble into a new package with the techtv tier - taking a normally $6.95/mo tier up to almost 40$ - since I'd lose the savings I was currently getting!