Yeah, yeah, I realize that the TiVo service subscription will put off people, but it's worth it.
Verizon's HD DVR box for FIOS costs me $20/month.
A cable card is $3/month. Tivo service is $17/month at its most expensive plan and less than $9/month at its cheapest monthly price in the 3year prepaid plan. That's wort-case total $20/month and best-case total $12/month.
Sorry, but I do not see a significant service price difference. I'd rather buy the Tivo and have the same or cheaper per month fees to keep it running than Verizon's fee for their box which I am horribly unhappy with.
The title of the OP makes it sound liek you can't buy anything from anyone. I just bought an HD Tivo that takes cablecards. It's going to replace the Verizon FIOS DVR box that I think is a POS, even after being replaced with another.
I wonder if they even knew their game might lead to this... Seeing as how much MS loves industry standards that are not theirs to own and control, this certainly isn't bad for MS, but was it part of the plan or just an unexpected joy in their life?
They're congress. If they ask a question in an investigation about another section of governemnt, that other section of government should not be able to block it. Congress could make a new law stating that it is illegal to decline a question from congress in this sort of investigation. Maybe a generic "never decline a question from congress" thing would be overbearing and need constrained, but I don't think that these telecoms should be able to ignore congress in this kind of situation.
Someone take a butterfly net to the next anti-war rally and catch one of these things. Either take pictures and let it go, or do an autopsy. Can you steal something that doesn't exist?
So, if parallel universes exist for all possible permutations of possibilities, then I see a built-in paradox. Consider all permutations of if they exist or not and the correctness of those conclusions:
1. Parallel universes exist, that is correct. 2. Parallel universes do not exist, that is wrong.
but also: 3. Parallel universes exist, that is wrong. and 4. Parallel universes do not exist, that is correct.
How can all permutations of these conclusions truely exist in parallel universes? Because if it must be possible that all permutations do exist, then it also must be that there are no parallel universes, at least that must be true somewhere. Or does that represent a fork in the multiverse, and there are also parellel multiverses?
I'd also love to see some documentation for the terms and concepts you've mentioned. What are ROP2/3/4, why do we want them around, etc. Not just the registers for them, because not all of us know what those are for or why we care. How does one go from knowing little if anything about graphics to knowing what to do with registers defined in these and other Radeon documents?
I started getting telemarketing calls again a couple months ago and reregistered all my numbers. I'd rather not have to, but it's worth the couple minutes involved. I get very little phone spam, mostly mortgage offers which I turn down by saying "It's illegal for you to be talking to me right now".
In the youtube video I saw, it seemed he wasn't so much asking questions as he was delivering a monologue. There were a coupel things that would look like questions in there, but he never stopped talking until the cops started dragging him away before the taser was brought out.
To those saying that liberals are a bunch of whining airbags because he was tased due to resisting arrest, even though he wasn't really asking questions to be answered, why was he put under arrest? Is being a microphone hogging idiot really that big of an offense to deserve being arrested for it?
I don't want Vista at all. Not genuine, not pirated, not at all. Before you get too excited, I wouldn't buy a laptop for Linux either. For what I want I need Windows XP. I'd want it to be legit of course, but Vista is useless to me and I don't want it. It's hard to find anything new with XP these days though, and thus I am not buying anything. I may have to buy a laptop with Vista and buy XP and try to send Vista back or something. Then I need to wonder about driver support, does this new laptop work properly with XP, or do I lose something that lacks or has poor drivers under XP since they're all supposed to go Vista now for periherals?
I was given a good talking to when I complained about the pink logoing for the Subaru STI cars. The dealer told me how in Japan that this "pink" in my mind is caled "cherry blossom red", which is a very masculine color in Japan, since the cherry blossoms come out in spring season, and spring is seen as a very masculine time of year in that country.
This particular blue vs pink thing may have come out very different in different parts of the world. If it was all down to evolution and looking for berries, why would there be such differences from one region to another in terms of the "genderness" of these colors?
Is it? We don't know what the plan is, so we don't know that it's failing. To me it looks like there's a lot of new cogs put into place, ready for later use by "they" knows who.
While we've heard a lot about cablecards and cablecard2's and mcards, the Tivo-HD compatibility problems show that we in the USA don't have a good standard yet. It works in some places but not in others. Would Sony face the same problem? Are they just avoiding this fiasco until there's a better guarantee that their tuners will actually work for all buyers in America? How is it that Europe gets better defined standards to work with (GSM, DVB) to ensure compatibility while we in America are rolling the dice with cablecards without knowing if we have the switched video stuff or not that might prevent my cablecard device from working? Or that vastly reduces choice in what phones I can use on my cellphone network?
Or, you know, give everyone they don't like cancer. Just saying.
Imagine the DOD and CIA getting their hands on this. Foreign spies suddenly dieing of massive cancer due to stuff slipped into their drinks. Cancer serum bottled into giant bombs to vaporize it over Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc. Police could threaten to use it to calm riots. Spray it over anti-Bush/Cheney/Rove protests. That'll learn 'em. Anyone who doesn't support "The Party" will simply die of "natural causes", and all that's left are the suitably faithful. Religious wackos of all faiths will be using it on people of other religions. Great...
I'm not sure if I should rejoice or freak out. I'm glad to see him out of there, as I'd like to see the whole administration gone. But at the same time, while I'm not a mega-tinfoil-hat kind of guy, I do wonder if he's leaving because he's now completed whatever he wanted to do there, and how afraid should I be of whatever that might be.
There are people who still browse with java switched on?! That is SO 1990's.
Didn't you read the headline? You can't stop these things. Heck, the demo popped up an unkillable window on my AmigaOS box, and no JVM even exists for that...
Because someday when you get old and feeble you'll appreciate all those young healthy people paying for your doctor visits, prescriptions, surgeries, etc.
I always thought of medical insurance as a socialist concept. Everyone pays into a bucket, and the sick people take out of it when needed. So long as there are more healthy people than sick people, it should work. Even in capitalist implementations of medical insurance schemes.
So if sick people need to pay more than healthy people, what's the point of having insurance? Healthy people then shouldn't need to pay anything, as they aren't costing anyoen anything. And sick people should pay everything, as only they need it. Which completely voids any reason to send any money to the insurance guy. OK, that's going further than this article summary sounded, but if this idea gains any momentum that may be where we end up at.
How about this, as a related idea... Old people should pay more into social security because they use it more. young people should get discounts because they're a long way away from taking it. I bet todays elderly would get all riled up if we tried to make that change, eh?
If this is meant to be motivation to fix things, some things cannot be fixed. I've got high cholesterol. Very high. And very bad ratio of HDL to LDL. I'm relatively young, 31. I've gotten into running, have done a couple relay marathons (split the maraton distance between four runners) and am currently training for a 1/2 marathon. While still bad, my cholesterol measurements were better BEFORE I started running. Now after doing it for a few years, my cholesterol is 20 total points higher and it's time for the pills to fight it. Weird but true. Not sure what my genetics have in mind, but the doctor told me of other patients more athletic than I am trying to become are not able to lower their cholesterol without pills either. No amount of financial motivation can change that, and no amount of financial punishment for testing poorly will help either.
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Yeah, yeah, I realize that the TiVo service subscription will put off people, but it's worth it.
Verizon's HD DVR box for FIOS costs me $20/month.
A cable card is $3/month. Tivo service is $17/month at its most expensive plan and less than $9/month at its cheapest monthly price in the 3year prepaid plan. That's wort-case total $20/month and best-case total $12/month.
Sorry, but I do not see a significant service price difference. I'd rather buy the Tivo and have the same or cheaper per month fees to keep it running than Verizon's fee for their box which I am horribly unhappy with.
The title of the OP makes it sound liek you can't buy anything from anyone. I just bought an HD Tivo that takes cablecards. It's going to replace the Verizon FIOS DVR box that I think is a POS, even after being replaced with another.
I wonder if they even knew their game might lead to this... Seeing as how much MS loves industry standards that are not theirs to own and control, this certainly isn't bad for MS, but was it part of the plan or just an unexpected joy in their life?
They're congress. If they ask a question in an investigation about another section of governemnt, that other section of government should not be able to block it. Congress could make a new law stating that it is illegal to decline a question from congress in this sort of investigation. Maybe a generic "never decline a question from congress" thing would be overbearing and need constrained, but I don't think that these telecoms should be able to ignore congress in this kind of situation.
Someone take a butterfly net to the next anti-war rally and catch one of these things. Either take pictures and let it go, or do an autopsy. Can you steal something that doesn't exist?
So much for using dummies in the front seat."
Nah. They'll just have to upgrade to self-heated models.
So, if parallel universes exist for all possible permutations of possibilities, then I see a built-in paradox. Consider all permutations of if they exist or not and the correctness of those conclusions:
1. Parallel universes exist, that is correct.
2. Parallel universes do not exist, that is wrong.
but also:
3. Parallel universes exist, that is wrong. and
4. Parallel universes do not exist, that is correct.
How can all permutations of these conclusions truely exist in parallel universes? Because if it must be possible that all permutations do exist, then it also must be that there are no parallel universes, at least that must be true somewhere. Or does that represent a fork in the multiverse, and there are also parellel multiverses?
I'd also love to see some documentation for the terms and concepts you've mentioned. What are ROP2/3/4, why do we want them around, etc. Not just the registers for them, because not all of us know what those are for or why we care. How does one go from knowing little if anything about graphics to knowing what to do with registers defined in these and other Radeon documents?
I started getting telemarketing calls again a couple months ago and reregistered all my numbers. I'd rather not have to, but it's worth the couple minutes involved. I get very little phone spam, mostly mortgage offers which I turn down by saying "It's illegal for you to be talking to me right now".
Hey look at that idiot, he must be going to buy some expensive junk...
In the youtube video I saw, it seemed he wasn't so much asking questions as he was delivering a monologue. There were a coupel things that would look like questions in there, but he never stopped talking until the cops started dragging him away before the taser was brought out.
To those saying that liberals are a bunch of whining airbags because he was tased due to resisting arrest, even though he wasn't really asking questions to be answered, why was he put under arrest? Is being a microphone hogging idiot really that big of an offense to deserve being arrested for it?
So RMS is saying I don't get to choose, I have to do exactly what he says or else I'm wrong? Feels like freedom is lacking a little bit in that...
and then ask how well it works.
I don't want Vista at all. Not genuine, not pirated, not at all. Before you get too excited, I wouldn't buy a laptop for Linux either. For what I want I need Windows XP. I'd want it to be legit of course, but Vista is useless to me and I don't want it. It's hard to find anything new with XP these days though, and thus I am not buying anything. I may have to buy a laptop with Vista and buy XP and try to send Vista back or something. Then I need to wonder about driver support, does this new laptop work properly with XP, or do I lose something that lacks or has poor drivers under XP since they're all supposed to go Vista now for periherals?
I was given a good talking to when I complained about the pink logoing for the Subaru STI cars. The dealer told me how in Japan that this "pink" in my mind is caled "cherry blossom red", which is a very masculine color in Japan, since the cherry blossoms come out in spring season, and spring is seen as a very masculine time of year in that country.
This particular blue vs pink thing may have come out very different in different parts of the world. If it was all down to evolution and looking for berries, why would there be such differences from one region to another in terms of the "genderness" of these colors?
Everything is coming unraveled for them.
Is it? We don't know what the plan is, so we don't know that it's failing. To me it looks like there's a lot of new cogs put into place, ready for later use by "they" knows who.
While we've heard a lot about cablecards and cablecard2's and mcards, the Tivo-HD compatibility problems show that we in the USA don't have a good standard yet. It works in some places but not in others. Would Sony face the same problem? Are they just avoiding this fiasco until there's a better guarantee that their tuners will actually work for all buyers in America? How is it that Europe gets better defined standards to work with (GSM, DVB) to ensure compatibility while we in America are rolling the dice with cablecards without knowing if we have the switched video stuff or not that might prevent my cablecard device from working? Or that vastly reduces choice in what phones I can use on my cellphone network?
OK, so now when I put my cold food in the nukerwave, it'll be heated up and done before I press start?
I haven't read the article, but I've forwarded it to my friends!
Or, you know, give everyone they don't like cancer. Just saying.
Imagine the DOD and CIA getting their hands on this. Foreign spies suddenly dieing of massive cancer due to stuff slipped into their drinks. Cancer serum bottled into giant bombs to vaporize it over Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc. Police could threaten to use it to calm riots. Spray it over anti-Bush/Cheney/Rove protests. That'll learn 'em. Anyone who doesn't support "The Party" will simply die of "natural causes", and all that's left are the suitably faithful. Religious wackos of all faiths will be using it on people of other religions. Great...
I'm not sure if I should rejoice or freak out. I'm glad to see him out of there, as I'd like to see the whole administration gone. But at the same time, while I'm not a mega-tinfoil-hat kind of guy, I do wonder if he's leaving because he's now completed whatever he wanted to do there, and how afraid should I be of whatever that might be.
Wow you can run Java even without a JVM??
Not really. But I can be a sarcastic jerk even without a JVM.
There are people who still browse with java switched on?! That is SO 1990's.
Didn't you read the headline? You can't stop these things. Heck, the demo popped up an unkillable window on my AmigaOS box, and no JVM even exists for that...
Because someday when you get old and feeble you'll appreciate all those young healthy people paying for your doctor visits, prescriptions, surgeries, etc.
I always thought of medical insurance as a socialist concept. Everyone pays into a bucket, and the sick people take out of it when needed. So long as there are more healthy people than sick people, it should work. Even in capitalist implementations of medical insurance schemes.
So if sick people need to pay more than healthy people, what's the point of having insurance? Healthy people then shouldn't need to pay anything, as they aren't costing anyoen anything. And sick people should pay everything, as only they need it. Which completely voids any reason to send any money to the insurance guy. OK, that's going further than this article summary sounded, but if this idea gains any momentum that may be where we end up at.
How about this, as a related idea... Old people should pay more into social security because they use it more. young people should get discounts because they're a long way away from taking it. I bet todays elderly would get all riled up if we tried to make that change, eh?
If this is meant to be motivation to fix things, some things cannot be fixed. I've got high cholesterol. Very high. And very bad ratio of HDL to LDL. I'm relatively young, 31. I've gotten into running, have done a couple relay marathons (split the maraton distance between four runners) and am currently training for a 1/2 marathon. While still bad, my cholesterol measurements were better BEFORE I started running. Now after doing it for a few years, my cholesterol is 20 total points higher and it's time for the pills to fight it. Weird but true. Not sure what my genetics have in mind, but the doctor told me of other patients more athletic than I am trying to become are not able to lower their cholesterol without pills either. No amount of financial motivation can change that, and no amount of financial punishment for testing poorly will help either.