A properly configured, current version of Mythtv does exactly that. If you are watching commercials on Mythtv, you are doing it wrong. It has a fairly sophisticated process of monitoring the video for subtle changes that indicate a commercial break, and it's very very accurate.
Like many others, I have built a simple, stable piece of hardware to host the system. The only time I have to spend time to 'maintain' it is if I *feel* like upgrading to add new features. Which, btw, sure is nice since the cable co's DVR is a complete piece of shit. Its dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to scheduling, it crashes periodically, and it doesnt delete commercials. Feature upgrades are something you cant even pay for in that case, but you can do on your own time if you have Myth. What's that make it? Priceless? The time I have saved in not having to see or fast forward through commercials by using Myth has FAR FAR FAR outweighed the time spent installing the software. That's the bottom line, and thats why I swear by Mythtv.
we'll feel free to run more invasions, longer counterinsurgency campaigns, and so forth
Perfect! We have a LOT of invasions and subsequent counterinsurgencies to get through. If the casualties per conflict rate goes down, all that means is there will be more Americans left after we are done Westernizing every nation on the planet. Wait, where did my sarcasm switch go...
It's simple, MythTV is never wrong. Seriously. In over a year of extensive recording with the new commercial detect engine, it has only erred toward caution, and an extra commercial creeps into the playback. Trust me, it beats the hell out of fast forwarding.
Plus, they aren't really 'gone' like the other poster said.
Young people are KIDS, they are PROTECTED from the world until they reach an agreed age of adulthood. If you don't want to be working for a living from the age of 15, STFU! You have it damn good, trust me. No, I don't want to hear about your 'job' at the Mall or how 'hard it is' having to live by being SUPPORTED BY YOUR PARENTS. Just STFU and maybe you will get over yourself in time for your adult life to not be as miserable as you are making your youth life.
The computer needs to do web browsing, email, and word processing. The occasional song or pic shared with friends is to be expected too. However, as long as the hardware is shitty enough to prevent the owner from becoming hooked on WOW, Eve, or any other time-vacuum, then it will probably be the best $500 the parents DIDNT spend to get their kid a better computer. And with all that free time, they just might do their homework! For the education market, this product gets an A+ from me.
There's a very good chance that it's not a satellite photo you are looking at, but an aerial photo taken from a plane at about 10,000'. The satellites employed by google are not capable of anything beyond 1m resolution, which would only reveal the fattest of humans. The point of the story is that yes, you can be photographed at great detail without knowing it. Imagine what detail they would get if they had a guy in a van outside your house with a huge zoom lens, I mean they could tell if you picked your nose (yet)! If you want privacy, you had better not leave your house.
Toilets flush money down you? I guess NASA learned a lesson after the incident where Russian cosmonauts decided to simply use pencils instead of spending millions developing a zero-g pen... NASA probably just spent $19M on a hole in the side of the space station that astronauts press their cheeks against so the poo is forced into the vacuum of space. So worth every penny.
(p.s. yes I know the space pen thing is an urban legend)
In a way, yes, but in this case it's like working on a FOSS project, only to have your employer claim ownership and slap a copyright on every last bit of source code. A situation even the most generous of programmers doesn't want to see happen to his/her work.
Does anyone else see this as a lose-lose for these budding filmmakers? If the project is a success, ILM will own any distribution rights to it, since it was made with company resources. Meanwhile, these guys spent undoubtedly countless nights and weekends working on it, without pay. What will they have to show for it but a spot in the credits?
The two blog posts are missing in action, and the first linked story just mentions 'a cd was made for him to exercise to' making no claim that the songs were even copyrighted, or that if they were there was no permission to copy them. Also, when twins do something, who takes the blame for it? Do they have to split the $1.8M fine? So many unanswered questions...
Ok this is neither a consumer product (in the sense that it is sold for money) nor is it new for 2007! I suspect many other entries also fail one or both of these tests. So where is the top 100 list of things to smoke when writing for PC World to provide the most outrageous articles possible? Because THATS news I can use...
Units of time... You mean like when they said 'Within 30 minutes'? You can calculate watts, joules, etc but you are still comparing it to a variable rate of efficiency, since there is no claim of genuine *work* being done. If they had said 'Use 30 watts to move 150kg of soil into a bucket whose opening is 5m up from the surface' you would have been able to start crunching. Don't forget to adjust for lunar gravity!
Since Americans started getting squeamish about hearing the term "Massive layoffs". Sure, they aren't going to announce it to the world as such. Once the layoffs pick up pace (assuming this report is true) IBM will start touting the 'revenue improvement' due to the 'cost saving measures' of their 'recent reorganization' that coincidentally involved eliminating a bulk of their labor. Then, watch as stock prices soar on news of improved profit per share.
How many stories will we have to hear about that start out with "Allegedly stolen IPOD discovered in smoldering wreckage of owner's car" until this idea is abandoned? Answer: Not enough! Smoldering wreckage, coming to a street corner near you! It's about time this hip trend left the streets of Baghdad and got a little closer to home...
Your comparison is wholly incongruent. The ancient architecture that defined a civilization is remembered by visiting the historical sites of Rome. What, exactly, would future generations gain from visiting this former fruit stand? There is nothing of specific significance to what happened there. It deserves a marker on a post (which it got), the building itself lends nothing to history.
This list reads like a combination of 'well duh' and 'seen it on Mythbusters'... I'm glad they had to remind us that thunder does indeed follow lightning. Yawn
This is just what I was going to say. This time around, google, PLEEEEASE put someone good on GAIM!!! Not that it's bad software, and I know that if I want it to improve I should shut up and fix it, but it would be nice to hear about SoC working for this project for once.
Please, mr dell, start a price war between RAM manufacturers next! I live in perpetual obsolescence thanks to the dramatic cost of DDR and DDR2! Won't someone think of the child processes!
No, their use (as has been proven in the past 50 years) is clearly to DETER the rapid killing of lots of people. Same story with handguns. If more of them are used in this way than any other, how can you say that it's not their true purpose???
Has anyone backing this project considered how these laptops will become nothing more then a symbol of America and 'Westernization'? What happens when it is taken as a political message that these are being distributed to certain regions, and groups who oppose the symbolism move to suppress it? I know this is outside the scope of the current discussion but I am genuinely interested in what has been considered, especially before I think about writing a check...
I am a habitual NPR listener, but everyone I know finds it slow, uninteresting, easily dismissed radio. I try to expose them to intriguing news material that's delivered spin free and very palatable, but have not yet impressed a single person. It's times like these that I just shake my head and sigh.
"a great All Things Considered story from a few years back about Akin Fernandez's 'Numbers' CD, a CD compilation of some of the most interesting strings of randomly read numbers"
Interesting... random numbers... Ok, so my friends were right.
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A properly configured, current version of Mythtv does exactly that. If you are watching commercials on Mythtv, you are doing it wrong. It has a fairly sophisticated process of monitoring the video for subtle changes that indicate a commercial break, and it's very very accurate.
Like many others, I have built a simple, stable piece of hardware to host the system. The only time I have to spend time to 'maintain' it is if I *feel* like upgrading to add new features. Which, btw, sure is nice since the cable co's DVR is a complete piece of shit. Its dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to scheduling, it crashes periodically, and it doesnt delete commercials. Feature upgrades are something you cant even pay for in that case, but you can do on your own time if you have Myth. What's that make it? Priceless? The time I have saved in not having to see or fast forward through commercials by using Myth has FAR FAR FAR outweighed the time spent installing the software. That's the bottom line, and thats why I swear by Mythtv.
Perfect! We have a LOT of invasions and subsequent counterinsurgencies to get through. If the casualties per conflict rate goes down, all that means is there will be more Americans left after we are done Westernizing every nation on the planet. Wait, where did my sarcasm switch go...
It's simple, MythTV is never wrong. Seriously. In over a year of extensive recording with the new commercial detect engine, it has only erred toward caution, and an extra commercial creeps into the playback. Trust me, it beats the hell out of fast forwarding.
Plus, they aren't really 'gone' like the other poster said.
MythTV or... MythTV. It's all the same to me as long as the commercials are deleted before I watch the show.
Young people are KIDS, they are PROTECTED from the world until they reach an agreed age of adulthood. If you don't want to be working for a living from the age of 15, STFU! You have it damn good, trust me. No, I don't want to hear about your 'job' at the Mall or how 'hard it is' having to live by being SUPPORTED BY YOUR PARENTS. Just STFU and maybe you will get over yourself in time for your adult life to not be as miserable as you are making your youth life.
Wrong again, when you make an assumption you're an ASS and the UMP will TION (shun) you...
The computer needs to do web browsing, email, and word processing. The occasional song or pic shared with friends is to be expected too. However, as long as the hardware is shitty enough to prevent the owner from becoming hooked on WOW, Eve, or any other time-vacuum, then it will probably be the best $500 the parents DIDNT spend to get their kid a better computer. And with all that free time, they just might do their homework! For the education market, this product gets an A+ from me.
There's a very good chance that it's not a satellite photo you are looking at, but an aerial photo taken from a plane at about 10,000'. The satellites employed by google are not capable of anything beyond 1m resolution, which would only reveal the fattest of humans. The point of the story is that yes, you can be photographed at great detail without knowing it. Imagine what detail they would get if they had a guy in a van outside your house with a huge zoom lens, I mean they could tell if you picked your nose (yet)! If you want privacy, you had better not leave your house.
Toilets flush money down you? I guess NASA learned a lesson after the incident where Russian cosmonauts decided to simply use pencils instead of spending millions developing a zero-g pen... NASA probably just spent $19M on a hole in the side of the space station that astronauts press their cheeks against so the poo is forced into the vacuum of space. So worth every penny.
(p.s. yes I know the space pen thing is an urban legend)
In a way, yes, but in this case it's like working on a FOSS project, only to have your employer claim ownership and slap a copyright on every last bit of source code. A situation even the most generous of programmers doesn't want to see happen to his/her work.
Does anyone else see this as a lose-lose for these budding filmmakers? If the project is a success, ILM will own any distribution rights to it, since it was made with company resources. Meanwhile, these guys spent undoubtedly countless nights and weekends working on it, without pay. What will they have to show for it but a spot in the credits?
The two blog posts are missing in action, and the first linked story just mentions 'a cd was made for him to exercise to' making no claim that the songs were even copyrighted, or that if they were there was no permission to copy them. Also, when twins do something, who takes the blame for it? Do they have to split the $1.8M fine? So many unanswered questions...
Ok this is neither a consumer product (in the sense that it is sold for money) nor is it new for 2007! I suspect many other entries also fail one or both of these tests. So where is the top 100 list of things to smoke when writing for PC World to provide the most outrageous articles possible? Because THATS news I can use...
Units of time... You mean like when they said 'Within 30 minutes'? You can calculate watts, joules, etc but you are still comparing it to a variable rate of efficiency, since there is no claim of genuine *work* being done. If they had said 'Use 30 watts to move 150kg of soil into a bucket whose opening is 5m up from the surface' you would have been able to start crunching. Don't forget to adjust for lunar gravity!
Since Americans started getting squeamish about hearing the term "Massive layoffs". Sure, they aren't going to announce it to the world as such. Once the layoffs pick up pace (assuming this report is true) IBM will start touting the 'revenue improvement' due to the 'cost saving measures' of their 'recent reorganization' that coincidentally involved eliminating a bulk of their labor. Then, watch as stock prices soar on news of improved profit per share.
How many stories will we have to hear about that start out with "Allegedly stolen IPOD discovered in smoldering wreckage of owner's car" until this idea is abandoned? Answer: Not enough! Smoldering wreckage, coming to a street corner near you! It's about time this hip trend left the streets of Baghdad and got a little closer to home...
Your comparison is wholly incongruent. The ancient architecture that defined a civilization is remembered by visiting the historical sites of Rome. What, exactly, would future generations gain from visiting this former fruit stand? There is nothing of specific significance to what happened there. It deserves a marker on a post (which it got), the building itself lends nothing to history.
This list reads like a combination of 'well duh' and 'seen it on Mythbusters'... I'm glad they had to remind us that thunder does indeed follow lightning. Yawn
So we have what, 24 (1927-1903) years or so before there is a human put into LEO by a privately funded organization?
This is just what I was going to say. This time around, google, PLEEEEASE put someone good on GAIM!!! Not that it's bad software, and I know that if I want it to improve I should shut up and fix it, but it would be nice to hear about SoC working for this project for once.
Please, mr dell, start a price war between RAM manufacturers next! I live in perpetual obsolescence thanks to the dramatic cost of DDR and DDR2! Won't someone think of the child processes!
No, their use (as has been proven in the past 50 years) is clearly to DETER the rapid killing of lots of people. Same story with handguns. If more of them are used in this way than any other, how can you say that it's not their true purpose???
Has anyone backing this project considered how these laptops will become nothing more then a symbol of America and 'Westernization'? What happens when it is taken as a political message that these are being distributed to certain regions, and groups who oppose the symbolism move to suppress it? I know this is outside the scope of the current discussion but I am genuinely interested in what has been considered, especially before I think about writing a check...
I am a habitual NPR listener, but everyone I know finds it slow, uninteresting, easily dismissed radio. I try to expose them to intriguing news material that's delivered spin free and very palatable, but have not yet impressed a single person. It's times like these that I just shake my head and sigh.
"a great All Things Considered story from a few years back about Akin Fernandez's 'Numbers' CD, a CD compilation of some of the most interesting strings of randomly read numbers"
Interesting... random numbers... Ok, so my friends were right.