MythTV has no season passes or wishlists... hard to qualify it as a PVR really - a DVR maybe, but unless I can set it up with my favourite shows then leave it to do its thing without having to worry what time stuff is on, it's not a PVR.
What, you mean like Linux, and a thousand other opensource projects? Yes. I have done, too.
Unlike the PHBs I don't have an overinflated ego to satisfy. If I have an idea and someone else can make some dough by turning it into something good then fine - let them do it.
selling better than their non digital counterparts.
What, you mean you've met someone who has one?
Seriously, DAB is dead in the water. The big potential market was the home one and joe public just went out and bought freeview boxes, which have all the radio stations in digital too...
Sending people would be cool... I dunno, I don't find the idea that they spend billions for some low resolution images of sand that enthralling... now some bloke leaping up and down on the mars surface on my TV - *that* would be interesting.
Anyway it isn't that implausible to believe that the moon landings were faked - the US had a lot to gain by saying they'd beat the russians there, but comparitively little to gain by actually doing it.. Nobody could prove one way or the other, which is why it's still such a controversial subject even today.
TBH I think they probably did actually go to the moon (the complete inability to repeat the exercise not withstanding). The evidence against isn't particularly persuasive.
"In our benchmarks the 3C905C performed poorly, giving only 99.95Mb/s in our benchmarks. In contrast the FA311 (praise be to the advertisers) gave a flawless 99.99Mb and it definately the gamers network card of choice"
"The fact that the rcom 3C905C stops if you put it in a microwave to 10 minutes then stamp on it, means that the FA311 (praise be to the advertisiers) is the only usable network card in its class"
It's easy to stop emails to someone who has left the company.
1. Send an email to the list admin. Usually something like -admin@, but postmaster will do just as well. I get one of these every month or so and just unsubscribe the people... no hassles, only takes 10 seconds.
2. Bounce the emails, preferably in an RFC compliant way. The list software will automatically unsubscribe them after 2 or 3 bounces. *please* put the original email address in the bounce as it's a real pain to work out when you've got 2000 subscribers who this silly bounce message is coming from.
Any properly configured router will drop packets that try to falsify their source IP anyway (even Linux can do it 'if packet comes in on interface X and isn't in subnet Y then drop it').
The problem is a lot of ISPs don't have properly configured routers...
Spammers mostly make money from selling spam CDs. If you simnply get a copy then publish it (and publicise the fact that you can get it for free off the internet) their market vanishes. Sure you'd get an initial spike of opportunistic spammers using the list, but you'd drive a lot of them out of business.
You can't AFAIK. You'd need an IP enabled PABX and a DSL/Cable connection connected to it... too expensive for a home user.
OTOH you can add a mic/speakers to your PC and use it. I haven't for a while - hated it because I can't stand having to say 'over' at the end of each sentence (the latency is horrible - I was talking to someone in russia and there was a >10 second wait for a reply).
I doubt you'd ever see them, though, as they're calculated on the fly... when your kernel was built they hadn't decided whether to have a leap second this year or not.
Maybe if you sync with an NTP server it can trigger it?
I hope they don't do it a lot though as calculating a date from a time_t would get increasingly inaccurate, unless very OS had a list of leap seconds and added them as needed (maybe they do?)
1. They're expensive - 32MB = 40 (~$60) (not sure where you get $40 for 256MB the cheapest I can find is around $150). 2. 99% of Computers have USB ports at the *back*, meaning that you have to crawl around the floor to get the thing in. Floppy drives are (almost) universally at the front. 3. You need drivers. If you have to boot into DOS they stop working... For a similar reason they're not bootable, so you can't carry around a 'boot pen' to rescue systems the way you can a floppy. 4. They're not durable - electronics is too easy to break. If you get a floppy wet it'll usually keep working. If you get a pen drive wet then that's $40 (or $150) down the drain.
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I thought it was, ages ago?
OTOH every ISP round here patched bind so quickly I only saw the page once...
MythTV has no season passes or wishlists... hard to qualify it as a PVR really - a DVR maybe, but unless I can set it up with my favourite shows then leave it to do its thing without having to worry what time stuff is on, it's not a PVR.
What, you mean like Linux, and a thousand other opensource projects? Yes. I have done, too.
Unlike the PHBs I don't have an overinflated ego to satisfy. If I have an idea and someone else can make some dough by turning it into something good then fine - let them do it.
selling better than their non digital counterparts.
What, you mean you've met someone who has one?
Seriously, DAB is dead in the water. The big potential market was the home one and joe public just went out and bought freeview boxes, which have all the radio stations in digital too...
..and it's so far bombed completely.
FM Radio - 5UKP...
DAB Radio - 75-200UKP...
I'm lucky enough to have heard both for comparison, and whilst there's a difference it's nowhere near worth a 1500% markup.
It's a bin that fills up *really fast*!
How dose one loose their mind? Is it struggling to be free? If you loose it does it pop out of your ear screeming "I'm free! I'm free!"
Perhaps you meant lose?
We got there first, but the US is the first to get there in one piece!
Sending people would be cool... I dunno, I don't find the idea that they spend billions for some low resolution images of sand that enthralling... now some bloke leaping up and down on the mars surface on my TV - *that* would be interesting.
I suspect the humour went right over your head...
Anyway it isn't that implausible to believe that the moon landings were faked - the US had a lot to gain by saying they'd beat the russians there, but comparitively little to gain by actually doing it.. Nobody could prove one way or the other, which is why it's still such a controversial subject even today.
TBH I think they probably did actually go to the moon (the complete inability to repeat the exercise not withstanding). The evidence against isn't particularly persuasive.
Or in NASAs case..
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Why not? The thing is a few million miles away...
It may not be able to reliably transmit data particularly fast, especially if they used a low frequency signal.
"In our benchmarks the 3C905C performed poorly, giving only 99.95Mb/s in our benchmarks. In contrast the FA311 (praise be to the advertisers) gave a flawless 99.99Mb and it definately the gamers network card of choice"
"The fact that the rcom 3C905C stops if you put it in a microwave to 10 minutes then stamp on it, means that the FA311 (praise be to the advertisiers) is the only usable network card in its class"
That phrase does rank amongst the worlds lamest - it's totally self defeating.
Yes I *do* want my cake and eat it because I can hardly eat it if I *don't* have the cake can I!!!
Since the can spam act legalised spam in the US, why go to China?
I dunno, I reckon a couple of tons dropped from about 10 feet could do some serious damage.
It's easy to stop emails to someone who has left the company.
1. Send an email to the list admin. Usually something like -admin@, but postmaster will do just as well. I get one of these every month or so and just unsubscribe the people... no hassles, only takes 10 seconds.
2. Bounce the emails, preferably in an RFC compliant way. The list software will automatically unsubscribe them after 2 or 3 bounces. *please* put the original email address in the bounce as it's a real pain to work out when you've got 2000 subscribers who this silly bounce message is coming from.
Any properly configured router will drop packets that try to falsify their source IP anyway (even Linux can do it 'if packet comes in on interface X and isn't in subnet Y then drop it').
The problem is a lot of ISPs don't have properly configured routers...
Actually this has merit.
Spammers mostly make money from selling spam CDs. If you simnply get a copy then publish it (and publicise the fact that you can get it for free off the internet) their market vanishes. Sure you'd get an initial spike of opportunistic spammers using the list, but you'd drive a lot of them out of business.
You can't AFAIK. You'd need an IP enabled PABX and a DSL/Cable connection connected to it... too expensive for a home user.
OTOH you can add a mic/speakers to your PC and use it. I haven't for a while - hated it because I can't stand having to say 'over' at the end of each sentence (the latency is horrible - I was talking to someone in russia and there was a >10 second wait for a reply).
The sun also loses mas due to solar flares, and apparently gains mass due to space debris hitting it (I saw this on TV today :)
Plus of course the sun us a huge fusion reaction which is burning fuel and giving off energy.. which must have some effect.
I'm not sure how much effect that would have on the orbit though.
Give it 5 years and we'll be accusing them of hiding WMD and planning to invade them....
I doubt you'd ever see them, though, as they're calculated on the fly... when your kernel was built they hadn't decided whether to have a leap second this year or not.
Maybe if you sync with an NTP server it can trigger it?
I hope they don't do it a lot though as calculating a date from a time_t would get increasingly inaccurate, unless very OS had a list of leap seconds and added them as needed (maybe they do?)
Well out of your list...
Multimedia
Cobol
Apple II
8" floppies
CASE tools
Audio cassettes for data storage
All of these were runaway successes.... many of them are still in wide use today.
Bad things about USB drives...
1. They're expensive - 32MB = 40 (~$60) (not sure where you get $40 for 256MB the cheapest I can find is around $150).
2. 99% of Computers have USB ports at the *back*, meaning that you have to crawl around the floor to get the thing in. Floppy drives are (almost) universally at the front.
3. You need drivers. If you have to boot into DOS they stop working... For a similar reason they're not bootable, so you can't carry around a 'boot pen' to rescue systems the way you can a floppy.
4. They're not durable - electronics is too easy to break. If you get a floppy wet it'll usually keep working. If you get a pen drive wet then that's $40 (or $150) down the drain.