You don't need their set-top box at all. If you've got a cablecard capable tv then you can rent a cablecard for $2/month from them and you are home free. Perhaps that'd be a better solution for the OP - i can't imagine the cablecard draws much power.
From a casual reading of the denver agreement, the city provides access to rights of way for cable laying and comcast provides various services like local municipal channels, service to public buildings etc...
If comcast are violating their franchise agreement then surely the municipality can tell them to stop running cables under roads.
The Central Mid-Levels Escalator moves you up and down about a half mile in a busy hilly part of the city. It has its critics but it seemed to be pretty well used when i was there.
A friend of mine got banned from fark late one night, and my response was along the lines of "fuck fark, we can make something better". By 9am the next morning bannination.com was live and i had one hell of a hangover coming on. It had hundreds of users the first day and i'm now kinda stuck with it.
It's proven to be a pretty entertaining hobby, and despite the level of stupidity, there are certainly gems of humour and moments of educational value.
I know quite a few of my facebook contacts haven't used their real name, however i'd say facebook and linked in fall firmly in the domain of social networking which is of course tied to your identity.
I'm looking for a site like slashdot which focuses on the discussion but requires up front identification.
What makes fark "anonymous" but something like HuffPo not? Perhaps there's a market for a real-name-only, must post your address discussions site, but it'll be largely unused in this world.
I'm stunned by the effort that people will take to subvert stuff - from the admin side i've seen a couple of users maintain totally distinct persona that I don't think any of my actual users would connect together. The difficulty in battling against noise is that the side with more time will win, and for most small internet sites that's not going to be the server admin. I'm pretty much convinced that the only real way to deal with trouble makers is to just ignore them and hope that the signal drowns out the noise.
I know drew went through various battles to sanitize his site a few years ago, and while i don't harbor any personal resentment towards him, it quickly became apparent that it wasn't the place for me. My main issue with fark is that the signal was attenuated more-so than the noise.
I run a site that targets the same demographic as Curtis and while I concur that the vast majority of posts provide little value, there are a subset that are well reasoned and very helpful.
Any crowd is going to eventually devolve into a set of leaders and a set of followers and I think the problem that we see online is that the leaders are often not the most informed, but the most controversial.
However, i'm not sure that's much different from anywhere in the real world
There's no inherent reason that Java should be slow. I run a discussion site (linked in my sig) that's running off an all-java codebase, and while it has occasional load issues. We can render the content for the front page of the site in 20 ms or less (it's at the bottom of the page if you are curious). Java has a proper application model, so with smart use of singletons you can effectively keep the entire working set of a forum site in memory. Our performance is much poorer if you start browsing through archives, but that makes up a tiny percentage of our page views.
It's possible you won't be using the App at the time.
I'm pretty sure one of the permissions you can grant is "Wake my phone from sleep". How do you create a good UI for when a weather alert comes in and your phone needs to ask you permission if it can wake up?
One of the slickest things about android is that apps don't need to maintain their own contact lists.
Even a third party app can step in and give you alternate options for calling someone. The google voice app is great (and initially wasn't google produced) - when i go to dial a number it gives me a choice of whether to call them directly or route the call through my GV account.
I don't feel like the current set of apps in the market fully realize that, but hopefully in time it'll improve
Yes and no. While you can do it with a $200 laptop, the skills required to decode something like an mp4 file are going to be far in excess of what these two guys needed.
Fortunately the file specificiations will hopefully be preserved digitally too
Is there any reason you wouldn't just make a high resolution scan of the film and attempt to process it from there? Certainly I understand the satisfaction in making a physical machine, but doesn't that risk a lot more damage to the original media?
I went through that set up a few weeks ago and thought it was pretty damn elegant. How else would you enter your WPA key on a device without any real input?
Wire it up, configure it for wireless, unplug the wire. Easy
Couldn't we have an ESSID and BSSID swap day when we all trade our router configuration details with someone else elsewhere on the planet. Then anyone trying to use their services near my house would be told they were in alaska.
One thing that did irk me is that we did never use the full book, even in follow up courses.
I had a few professors who'd generally photocopy the chapters we needed. One said he made enough money off his academic work, consulting and book sales that he really didn't need to profit unnecessarily from his own students.
Depends a lot on whether it's a store coupon or a manufacturer coupon.
The store ones could certainly just use a key lookup (i think staples already does this) but I don't see any way coke could issue a 20c off coupon that could be widely redeemed. The overhead in having every POS system contact a third party central database would be unacceptable.
The best a manufacturer could do would surely be to have a barcode where one portion encodes the discount and the remainder has some kind of key. Then they could offer higher reimbursement rates to retailers who also turn over the POS information associated with the key.
I'm not sure why I should be afraid of this stuff. It's easy to opt out if you don't print any coupons and I also really don't care much that merchants where I shop regularly can collect information to better target how & when i shop and what i buy there.
You can see speed results at Google Webmaster Tools. They do include all external media (which as someone who runs a discussion site that has hotlinked images is very frustrating).
Still it reports our pages average 0.9s to load, and even still that's apparently faster than 94% of sites.
Well you are posting on slashdot during normal work hours in the US, so there's a good chance you already know the answer to that question.
Most employers i've had have a fairly reasonable policy on that stuff. I'll post when i'm waiting on builds or during my lunch break, or sometimes when i'm just pissed off and need to "walk away" for a bit.
Your public activities outside of work have always been fair game. If I wrote a letter to the local newspaper slamming my employer then I'd fully expect that to come back to me, why should a blog post about it be any different?
I'm not sure how that would work, but finding the right person seems tricky.
I'm the #1 hit for my name on google, yet when searching with site:facebook.com i'm not on the first few pages. Even attaching various cities i've lived in doesn't make that any better. I'm not even sure how they'd do that, short of requiring the employer to provide a list of pages to monitor.
In particular it seems that this service is monitoring publicly available posts and also flagging how many of them happen during work hours. Considering employers are likely within their rights to monitor when their networks are used to make private posts, this doesn't really seem so bad.
It might serve as a wake-up call to people who share too much publicly.
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I think you are exactly right.
You don't need their set-top box at all. If you've got a cablecard capable tv then you can rent a cablecard for $2/month from them and you are home free. Perhaps that'd be a better solution for the OP - i can't imagine the cablecard draws much power.
How does that work with the franchise agreement.
From a casual reading of the denver agreement, the city provides access to rights of way for cable laying and comcast provides various services like local municipal channels, service to public buildings etc...
If comcast are violating their franchise agreement then surely the municipality can tell them to stop running cables under roads.
The Central Mid-Levels Escalator moves you up and down about a half mile in a busy hilly part of the city. It has its critics but it seemed to be pretty well used when i was there.
It was an honest mistake.
A friend of mine got banned from fark late one night, and my response was along the lines of "fuck fark, we can make something better". By 9am the next morning bannination.com was live and i had one hell of a hangover coming on. It had hundreds of users the first day and i'm now kinda stuck with it.
It's proven to be a pretty entertaining hobby, and despite the level of stupidity, there are certainly gems of humour and moments of educational value.
I know quite a few of my facebook contacts haven't used their real name, however i'd say facebook and linked in fall firmly in the domain of social networking which is of course tied to your identity.
I'm looking for a site like slashdot which focuses on the discussion but requires up front identification.
What makes fark "anonymous" but something like HuffPo not? Perhaps there's a market for a real-name-only, must post your address discussions site, but it'll be largely unused in this world.
I'm stunned by the effort that people will take to subvert stuff - from the admin side i've seen a couple of users maintain totally distinct persona that I don't think any of my actual users would connect together. The difficulty in battling against noise is that the side with more time will win, and for most small internet sites that's not going to be the server admin. I'm pretty much convinced that the only real way to deal with trouble makers is to just ignore them and hope that the signal drowns out the noise.
I know drew went through various battles to sanitize his site a few years ago, and while i don't harbor any personal resentment towards him, it quickly became apparent that it wasn't the place for me. My main issue with fark is that the signal was attenuated more-so than the noise.
I run a site that targets the same demographic as Curtis and while I concur that the vast majority of posts provide little value, there are a subset that are well reasoned and very helpful.
Any crowd is going to eventually devolve into a set of leaders and a set of followers and I think the problem that we see online is that the leaders are often not the most informed, but the most controversial.
However, i'm not sure that's much different from anywhere in the real world
There's no inherent reason that Java should be slow. I run a discussion site (linked in my sig) that's running off an all-java codebase, and while it has occasional load issues. We can render the content for the front page of the site in 20 ms or less (it's at the bottom of the page if you are curious). Java has a proper application model, so with smart use of singletons you can effectively keep the entire working set of a forum site in memory. Our performance is much poorer if you start browsing through archives, but that makes up a tiny percentage of our page views.
It's possible you won't be using the App at the time.
I'm pretty sure one of the permissions you can grant is "Wake my phone from sleep". How do you create a good UI for when a weather alert comes in and your phone needs to ask you permission if it can wake up?
One of the slickest things about android is that apps don't need to maintain their own contact lists.
Even a third party app can step in and give you alternate options for calling someone. The google voice app is great (and initially wasn't google produced) - when i go to dial a number it gives me a choice of whether to call them directly or route the call through my GV account.
I don't feel like the current set of apps in the market fully realize that, but hopefully in time it'll improve
Yes and no. While you can do it with a $200 laptop, the skills required to decode something like an mp4 file are going to be far in excess of what these two guys needed.
Fortunately the file specificiations will hopefully be preserved digitally too
I doubt that. The widescale use of technology will pretty much ensure it can be read well into the future.
Granted i have nothing in my house that would play an 8 track recording or a vhs tape, but I could find one in a day or two on ebay or craigslist.
I'm sure in 30 yrs, CD players will be far more obtainable than 8 tracks are now
Is there any reason you wouldn't just make a high resolution scan of the film and attempt to process it from there? Certainly I understand the satisfaction in making a physical machine, but doesn't that risk a lot more damage to the original media?
Isn't that a lot of the point of the smart grid?
I should be able to say, "Dry my clothes in the next 4 hours or when the unit price for power drops below $0.07"
I went through that set up a few weeks ago and thought it was pretty damn elegant. How else would you enter your WPA key on a device without any real input?
Wire it up, configure it for wireless, unplug the wire. Easy
Couldn't we have an ESSID and BSSID swap day when we all trade our router configuration details with someone else elsewhere on the planet. Then anyone trying to use their services near my house would be told they were in alaska.
One thing that did irk me is that we did never use the full book, even in follow up courses.
I had a few professors who'd generally photocopy the chapters we needed. One said he made enough money off his academic work, consulting and book sales that he really didn't need to profit unnecessarily from his own students.
\didn't go to school in the US
Depends a lot on whether it's a store coupon or a manufacturer coupon.
The store ones could certainly just use a key lookup (i think staples already does this) but I don't see any way coke could issue a 20c off coupon that could be widely redeemed. The overhead in having every POS system contact a third party central database would be unacceptable.
The best a manufacturer could do would surely be to have a barcode where one portion encodes the discount and the remainder has some kind of key. Then they could offer higher reimbursement rates to retailers who also turn over the POS information associated with the key.
I'm not sure why I should be afraid of this stuff. It's easy to opt out if you don't print any coupons and I also really don't care much that merchants where I shop regularly can collect information to better target how & when i shop and what i buy there.
You can see speed results at Google Webmaster Tools. They do include all external media (which as someone who runs a discussion site that has hotlinked images is very frustrating).
Still it reports our pages average 0.9s to load, and even still that's apparently faster than 94% of sites.
Except if I post about work sucking on facebook then my boss will usually apologize and ask how he can make that less of a problem in the future.
I like having a decent employer
Not at all, it's a useful tool and i've used it to develop professional relationship alongside personal ones.
However as a facebook user, it's on you to make sure that what's public is not going to compromise your professional life.
Well you are posting on slashdot during normal work hours in the US, so there's a good chance you already know the answer to that question.
Most employers i've had have a fairly reasonable policy on that stuff. I'll post when i'm waiting on builds or during my lunch break, or sometimes when i'm just pissed off and need to "walk away" for a bit.
Your public activities outside of work have always been fair game. If I wrote a letter to the local newspaper slamming my employer then I'd fully expect that to come back to me, why should a blog post about it be any different?
I'm not sure how that would work, but finding the right person seems tricky.
I'm the #1 hit for my name on google, yet when searching with site:facebook.com i'm not on the first few pages. Even attaching various cities i've lived in doesn't make that any better. I'm not even sure how they'd do that, short of requiring the employer to provide a list of pages to monitor.
In particular it seems that this service is monitoring publicly available posts and also flagging how many of them happen during work hours. Considering employers are likely within their rights to monitor when their networks are used to make private posts, this doesn't really seem so bad.
It might serve as a wake-up call to people who share too much publicly.