To answer your question about identifying between programming and commercials, I recall there was a VCR that used to detect that between the break of programming to the commercial would be a brief period of black/blank without any audio. If you watch closely this still applies before the commercial start, and after they end. Itâ(TM)s a trigger I've gotten accustomed to while watching TV. If the programming cut away for that near fraction of a second to a black/blank screen I knew the commercials would be coming on. Likewise the commercials run into each other, with very little delay between them. But after the last commercial there was always that near fraction of a second of black/blank screen and the programming began again. Are there other transmitted signals that prompt when the commercials are about to begin and end? Maybe, but the example I gave is the most obvious to human senses.
Yes, cable TV is hugely popular, and I certainly prefer my cable TV. But the concept of replacing it entirely with cable is about as ingenious as noting that everyone has a cell phone now, and shutting off residential phone lines to all homes, because the wires can be used for something else. Sure, some people might never notice. But there will always be people who still depend on their regular phone.
Exactly, it baffles me to think how foolish and/or naive some people are to think that absolutely everyone has cable/sat TV, mobile phone & broadband. Doing away with the VHF & UHF in exchange for an entirely tethered service is not practical and thinking that the last mile is not worthwhile merely because the area is remote and sparsely populated really irks me. Reminds me of when my roommate (from NYC) went to college in Cleveland, his friends picked on him, asking if he was going to study agriculture, and if he expected to be tending to 20 acres of land upon arriving in town. I needed to rant, its been a long day.
Since I couldn't see what buttons I was pushing, the crotch-level nozzle blasting 102-degree water came as a shock--and my attempts to shut it off only caused other nozzles to splash me as if I were in a penitentiary riot.
Well written, got a great laugh from that last bit, but not nearly enough information, too bad the writer did not go into more detail, or maybe spend more time there.
I wouldn't doubt it. Probably pulling an all-nighter like many students. Maybe its the environment, being around people of similar behavior leads professors into behaving nearly the same way.
I once tried to call my advisor, who was also my professor for a class. I had a situation where I needed to pass along some information but really didn't want to speak to him. I suppose I could have e-mailed him, but decided against it and called his office at 1:30 am to leave a voice mail message, the phone range twice and he picked up the phone. Not only was he working in his office at that hour, but also this was shortly after finals in May, and before summer courses.
Every time I do business at my bank person to teller. The teller counts down my change to the last cent, if your teller doesn't I'd strongly consider doing business elsewhere.
Re:Gaming the Recorder and Black Boxes
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Another thing that came to mind - this device could be the equivalent of a 'black box' on an airplane - you could have BlueTooth enabled guns / batons, health monitoring devices in the uniform...
The concept of a gun connected to the officer is a real concept that exists and can be used. The officer is issued a device much like a wristwatch, which communicates with the pistol. The pistol will only fire when the distance of the wristwatch device is within it's set parameters. Therefore if an assailant were being apprehended, evades the officer, swipes his/her gun, the gun will not fire because it is too far away from the officer's wristwatch equipped with bluetooth technology, keeping track of how many times the weapon was drawn, fired, and restricting use to authorized handler.
I should have looked into this before trying to play soccer with my pet dog (living flesh & blood) and consequently breaking his leg. Poor thing now has his front leg wrapped up with a stint and does a goose leg walk. My dog, Doc loves to chase after the soccer ball. So my wife and I played keep-away from the dog Saturday. It was a glorious day, warm sunlight and a faint cool breeze. So my wife lobs the ball up in the air to my left, I take about six quick strides to the ball as it is still in the air, step down, planting my right foot down on the dog's front leg, my left foot out in the swinging to strike the ball. Poor thing yelps out as I stumble and bumble trying not to crush the 10 lb. Dog. Maybe I should have waited 5 more days to consider using an AIBO to play soccer with Doc.
I'm surprised people haven't realized that there is so much going on over the naming of phoenix and firebird because of their association with AOL/Time Warner. Sure it is a not-for-profit project but really, who is backing their pursuits so the code can be implemented in their own products other than AOL & Netscape. Lets be realistic, no matter how big their net losses were the AOLTW conglomerate is worth billions. It appears as if everyone with a preexisting product with an even remotely close name to that of mozilla (remember when the Godzilla people threatened suit?), phoenix (phoenix bios in my laptop?), thunderbird (pre-release name of microprocessors?), firebird (insert any product/project by name of firebird here). Do you get the point? They are all going to threaten mozilla to change their product name or be sued.
All hail the mighty dollar and the sleaziest as possible, yet legal way to get more if it.
I wonder if they're going to learn from the folly that was 'Microsoft Netmeeting'.
That degraded into a place of seeing countless people jerking off, flashing and other lude acts. ...and how is that different from current instant messages sent over AOL?
comparing your subject to your comments, you've shown that the grammar school rule of "sometimes y" applies to their methods of compression, how astute of y.
I would have compressed the above text similarly, but my software couldn't interpret stt to be astute.
First off, I'm very low tech compared to most of Slashdot, so please bear with me. Why should the person on the receiving end have to deal with the majority of E-mail, why not use the U.S. Postal service in comparison. If I wanted to send out a million notices to the local community that I'm opening a new widgets shop, then I have to front the bill for each individual letter I send. Therefore, why not FORCE a system where after you reach your cap of so many bytes of transfer on port 13 you must pay by the byte for delivery. Does this system already exist and I don't know about it? From watching the majority of American service industry where every opportunity you can find to reasonably exploit the customer for additional charges you do so to increase revenue; I'm shocked that such a system might not be in place.
After looking over a few interesting explainations as to why Venezuelan clocks are running slow, is there any idea why my VCR clock runs fast? I've noticed that over the span of ten months it has advanced on its own by about one minute a month. Any thoughts?
I can only hope that their ATMs connect via a direct telephone dialup from ATM to BoA. They may connect from BoA to other divisions of their own bank, or to other banks via the internet.
Attention seeking hoax
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I won't even validate this by saying its an elaborate hoax, which it is clearly not even close. Just because he decided to write into his notes ``(c. 1991)'' that is the entire proving point that he came up with the idea of an xbox before MS? Please, I'm even lead to question whether shoulder buttons on the controlers were even in use at the time only because the SNES was the first significant system to use that configuration and it did not come out in the US until I believe late 1991? My memory tends to fail me at the moment, someone help me out here. The only interest I have in this is making my futilre attempt to disprove it's validity. Pathetic really, the article should have never been posted. and no, i didn't read the entire peice, i stoped at the end of the first scanned page.
well, not just civil, there's domestic courts too, but i don't think verizon and and the RIAA were ever married. nevermind if i'm the only one who saw humor in that.
ok, you're right the RIAA has no right to directly subpoena those records from Verizon. But if they have brought forth a suit of damages that Verizon has caused members of the RIAA to court, then the court then passes along the order to produce those records which the plaintiff and defendant have called upon for evidence. That order btw is called a subpoena. and i think you meant ``Damn you're a prick.''
Verizon by law is allowed to bill the RIAA for the production of records. If it is a civil Subpoena Verizon can bill.15 cents a page and $10.00 an hour. Federal Grand Jury Subpoena I believe is.10 cents a page and $11.00 an hour. Often times those rates do not cover for the entire cost of retrieving, assembling, and delivery of those records. It is an expense that can over time become costly, but likewise it is a necessary evil, by law they are required to produce those records no matter how much money they lose, else they will be in contempt.
Thank you for setting some people straight, another analogy is like Ford when the Model T first came out, and was nearly the only internal combustion car on the road, forcing Goodyear to go out of business because Ford was making their own tires. If history serves correctly, Ford was in this situation, with either the tires, or the glass used for the windshields. But for all I know I could be completely wrong. So here's a grain of salt, now take it.
Re:These drones are way too expensive
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No, I don't know how much a cargo pilot earns. But I can fathom that it will cost MUCH more so to operate and maintain mechanical clones to do the work of a ~22k a year pilot.
Re:These drones are way too expensive
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Look at it like this. Is it cheaper to employ a pilot at $200,000.00 a year, or to cover the expense of purchasing a peice of machiner that costs more than 10 million, and include the cost of maintenance, plus the cost to employ specialized mechanics to maintain the drone, just add the numbers.
I'm glad to see that instead of making the inference that our dependence upon convenience has consequently taken from us any sense of privacy; that you understand that the idea of convenience is by no means a right or privilege that you have. Likewise privacy is not a whole and encompassing right or freedom that cannot be taken away from you. You do although have the rights and privileges to pursue happiness, which for some may be brought about by convenience. In other words, if making three right turns instead of one left turn is going to assure you more privacy, what's stopping you, certainly not the law (3 right turns in this scenario are legal) it is certainly your right to try, just no promises on whether there will be a pleasant outcome.
1. No joke, my pc came with it, I'm either too lazy or too dense to successfully install redhat, or mandrake. Did I fail to mention waiting for it to download on my 52k connection? 2. Winmodem, wait, I have to buy an external serial port modem to successfully connect to the Internet? 3. Games, give me all my favorite games on Linux, and I'll have MORE than reason enough to switch. 4. Haven't tried star office or open office, can't say whether MS office is holding me back, but it's a good enough reason right now. 5. That and an over all lack in knowledge of other software applications I could use on Linux, i.e. finance software, or ability to synchronize with my non-existent Palm which I dream to scrape up enough cash to buy.
Reasons to keep trying to switch.
The open source community has caught my interest for the past 2 years, (thank you slashdot) And of course all the other things come along with an open source OS, like free as in beer, stability like a rock, and a large cost-free support community that has seemed be more willing to help me.
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To answer your question about identifying between programming and commercials, I recall there was a VCR that used to detect that between the break of programming to the commercial would be a brief period of black/blank without any audio. If you watch closely this still applies before the commercial start, and after they end. Itâ(TM)s a trigger I've gotten accustomed to while watching TV. If the programming cut away for that near fraction of a second to a black/blank screen I knew the commercials would be coming on. Likewise the commercials run into each other, with very little delay between them. But after the last commercial there was always that near fraction of a second of black/blank screen and the programming began again. Are there other transmitted signals that prompt when the commercials are about to begin and end? Maybe, but the example I gave is the most obvious to human senses.
Exactly, it baffles me to think how foolish and/or naive some people are to think that absolutely everyone has cable/sat TV, mobile phone & broadband. Doing away with the VHF & UHF in exchange for an entirely tethered service is not practical and thinking that the last mile is not worthwhile merely because the area is remote and sparsely populated really irks me. Reminds me of when my roommate (from NYC) went to college in Cleveland, his friends picked on him, asking if he was going to study agriculture, and if he expected to be tending to 20 acres of land upon arriving in town. I needed to rant, its been a long day.
Well written, got a great laugh from that last bit, but not nearly enough information, too bad the writer did not go into more detail, or maybe spend more time there.
I wouldn't doubt it. Probably pulling an all-nighter like many students. Maybe its the environment, being around people of similar behavior leads professors into behaving nearly the same way.
I once tried to call my advisor, who was also my professor for a class. I had a situation where I needed to pass along some information but really didn't want to speak to him. I suppose I could have e-mailed him, but decided against it and called his office at 1:30 am to leave a voice mail message, the phone range twice and he picked up the phone. Not only was he working in his office at that hour, but also this was shortly after finals in May, and before summer courses.
Every time I do business at my bank person to teller. The teller counts down my change to the last cent, if your teller doesn't I'd strongly consider doing business elsewhere.
Another thing that came to mind - this device could be the equivalent of a 'black box' on an airplane - you could have BlueTooth enabled guns / batons, health monitoring devices in the uniform...
The concept of a gun connected to the officer is a real concept that exists and can be used. The officer is issued a device much like a wristwatch, which communicates with the pistol. The pistol will only fire when the distance of the wristwatch device is within it's set parameters. Therefore if an assailant were being apprehended, evades the officer, swipes his/her gun, the gun will not fire because it is too far away from the officer's wristwatch equipped with bluetooth technology, keeping track of how many times the weapon was drawn, fired, and restricting use to authorized handler.
I should have looked into this before trying to play soccer with my pet dog (living flesh & blood) and consequently breaking his leg. Poor thing now has his front leg wrapped up with a stint and does a goose leg walk. My dog, Doc loves to chase after the soccer ball. So my wife and I played keep-away from the dog Saturday. It was a glorious day, warm sunlight and a faint cool breeze. So my wife lobs the ball up in the air to my left, I take about six quick strides to the ball as it is still in the air, step down, planting my right foot down on the dog's front leg, my left foot out in the swinging to strike the ball. Poor thing yelps out as I stumble and bumble trying not to crush the 10 lb. Dog. Maybe I should have waited 5 more days to consider using an AIBO to play soccer with Doc.
Please tell me what the problem is here.
All hail the mighty dollar and the sleaziest as possible, yet legal way to get more if it.
I wonder if they're going to learn from the folly that was 'Microsoft Netmeeting'.
...and how is that different from current instant messages sent over AOL?
That degraded into a place of seeing countless people jerking off, flashing and other lude acts.
comparing your subject to your comments, you've shown that the grammar school rule of "sometimes y" applies to their methods of compression, how astute of y.
I would have compressed the above text similarly, but my software couldn't interpret stt to be astute.
First off, I'm very low tech compared to most of Slashdot, so please bear with me. Why should the person on the receiving end have to deal with the majority of E-mail, why not use the U.S. Postal service in comparison. If I wanted to send out a million notices to the local community that I'm opening a new widgets shop, then I have to front the bill for each individual letter I send. Therefore, why not FORCE a system where after you reach your cap of so many bytes of transfer on port 13 you must pay by the byte for delivery. Does this system already exist and I don't know about it? From watching the majority of American service industry where every opportunity you can find to reasonably exploit the customer for additional charges you do so to increase revenue; I'm shocked that such a system might not be in place.
After looking over a few interesting explainations as to why Venezuelan clocks are running slow, is there any idea why my VCR clock runs fast? I've noticed that over the span of ten months it has advanced on its own by about one minute a month. Any thoughts?
I can only hope that their ATMs connect via a direct telephone dialup from ATM to BoA. They may connect from BoA to other divisions of their own bank, or to other banks via the internet.
I won't even validate this by saying its an elaborate hoax, which it is clearly not even close. Just because he decided to write into his notes ``(c. 1991)'' that is the entire proving point that he came up with the idea of an xbox before MS? Please, I'm even lead to question whether shoulder buttons on the controlers were even in use at the time only because the SNES was the first significant system to use that configuration and it did not come out in the US until I believe late 1991? My memory tends to fail me at the moment, someone help me out here. The only interest I have in this is making my futilre attempt to disprove it's validity. Pathetic really, the article should have never been posted. and no, i didn't read the entire peice, i stoped at the end of the first scanned page.
ok, there's more than just civil and domestic, there is criminal court too. What am i doing? i really need to stop replying to myself...
well, not just civil, there's domestic courts too, but i don't think verizon and and the RIAA were ever married. nevermind if i'm the only one who saw humor in that.
ok, you're right the RIAA has no right to directly subpoena those records from Verizon. But if they have brought forth a suit of damages that Verizon has caused members of the RIAA to court, then the court then passes along the order to produce those records which the plaintiff and defendant have called upon for evidence. That order btw is called a subpoena. and i think you meant ``Damn you're a prick.''
Verizon by law is allowed to bill the RIAA for the production of records. If it is a civil Subpoena Verizon can bill .15 cents a page and $10.00 an hour. Federal Grand Jury Subpoena I believe is .10 cents a page and $11.00 an hour. Often times those rates do not cover for the entire cost of retrieving, assembling, and delivery of those records. It is an expense that can over time become costly, but likewise it is a necessary evil, by law they are required to produce those records no matter how much money they lose, else they will be in contempt.
Thank you for setting some people straight, another analogy is like Ford when the Model T first came out, and was nearly the only internal combustion car on the road, forcing Goodyear to go out of business because Ford was making their own tires. If history serves correctly, Ford was in this situation, with either the tires, or the glass used for the windshields. But for all I know I could be completely wrong. So here's a grain of salt, now take it.
No, I don't know how much a cargo pilot earns. But I can fathom that it will cost MUCH more so to operate and maintain mechanical clones to do the work of a ~22k a year pilot.
Look at it like this. Is it cheaper to employ a pilot at $200,000.00 a year, or to cover the expense of purchasing a peice of machiner that costs more than 10 million, and include the cost of maintenance, plus the cost to employ specialized mechanics to maintain the drone, just add the numbers.
I'm glad to see that instead of making the inference that our dependence upon convenience has consequently taken from us any sense of privacy; that you understand that the idea of convenience is by no means a right or privilege that you have. Likewise privacy is not a whole and encompassing right or freedom that cannot be taken away from you. You do although have the rights and privileges to pursue happiness, which for some may be brought about by convenience. In other words, if making three right turns instead of one left turn is going to assure you more privacy, what's stopping you, certainly not the law (3 right turns in this scenario are legal) it is certainly your right to try, just no promises on whether there will be a pleasant outcome.
Reasons to continue using windows?
1. No joke, my pc came with it, I'm either too lazy or too dense to successfully install redhat, or mandrake. Did I fail to mention waiting for it to download on my 52k connection?
2. Winmodem, wait, I have to buy an external serial port modem to successfully connect to the Internet?
3. Games, give me all my favorite games on Linux, and I'll have MORE than reason enough to switch.
4. Haven't tried star office or open office, can't say whether MS office is holding me back, but it's a good enough reason right now.
5. That and an over all lack in knowledge of other software applications I could use on Linux, i.e. finance software, or ability to synchronize with my non-existent Palm which I dream to scrape up enough cash to buy.
Reasons to keep trying to switch.
The open source community has caught my interest for the past 2 years, (thank you slashdot)
And of course all the other things come along with an open source OS, like free as in beer, stability like a rock, and a large cost-free support community that has seemed be more willing to help me.