I'd LOVE to fly JetBlue or Song... if they served St. Louis. Southwest is pretty decent and does come here, but typically, the companies that I *WANT* to patronize don't give a damn about my area. They need to get a clue that because they have a clue in OTHER areas... there are people that would give them money for their services! But no, instead we're stuck with crap like American, who bought TWA a few years ago and promised no layoffs or other screwings.
Now here we are with most of the flight schedule gone, the local airport just about gutted, TWA's staff all fired/laid-off/etc.... and me refusing to give those fucking liars a red cent of my money, as they sure as hell haven't proven themselves worthy of getting it.
This service was announced sometime in 2000 or so and should have been far more pervasive than it is now. Wifi Internet access in the air was supposed to have been fairly easy to get, but you can still only get it on a few airlines (like Lufthansa) and you have to be going on pretty long trips (like overseas) to even have the option of getting it.
Before we start adding more stuff like TV (why do we need that, anyway, when aircraft are often equipped these days with seatback LCD screens?)... give us more flights (shorter-duration and on more airlines) that have the wifi option.
More typical corporate foot-dragging here, and more PR fluff pieces for something that no one really has access to.
I've never seen any of those, even before this bug/feature/whatever was introduced.
If I was a programmer I'd write a patch to do what you suggest, but I'm not -- are you? Perhaps you could... or maybe if someone who reads this is, they could.
It's irritating how many times I have to fix links broken because of this before I can view them, although I can't really blame all the people who just don't know how to HTMLize a link (there's lots of them - have discovered that over the years)
Has anyone actually started such a torrent site? I would honestly actually keep it in my bookmarks as I'd like to try more Free Software, and a central repository arranged by category and offering up torrents and also links to the project sites (in case the torrent died, or there wasn't one available for whatever reason, or in case the user wants to learn more before downloading) would do a lot to help people more easily find freely distributable and open-source or real-freeware (i.e. no spyware etc) means of filling their needs.
I never used BT much (though I'm an X-Plane user and downloaded an update that way a few times) but this does seem like a worthwhile use.
It could be called freeasinbeerorspeechtorrents.net or something.
People find resources they need through web links. People advertise the resources they have, or like, through web links. Especially if there is a need needing filling, like there seems to be now. "Find the sites themselves" how, without weblinks? I'd like to see a search engine that does a good job indexing sites that no one links to! I'd like to see a web browser that automagically knows about unlinked sites, no matter how perfectly they may match the needs of whoever is doing the surfing.
There is no point in having a web site that no one links to, because no one will ever go there. Furthermore, if people like a particular site, they tend to talk about it, and link to it. That's just the way the net is.
In other words, you're advocating doing something that makes it IMPOSSIBLE to do the other thing you're advocating doing.
So which do you want? Pick one, dammit, and be consistent.
Tell that to all the people who'd drop everything and go up in an instant if offered the chance. We would love to go, really. The people who are really afraid are the ones who think we don't, so they hold everything back.
Anyway, this remote resembles the Tivo remote quite a bit. That's nice; I like the shape of the Tivo remote. In fact, the Harmony 688 is listed as being able to control a Tivo. I may have to look into getting one of these; I'd seen pictures but didn't know who made the remote. Now I do. I have set up my Tivo's remote to control my television set, and it works great for that, but I'd also like it to be able to control my DVD player and my separate powered speakers (not surround; deaf in left ear and can't hear surround, so I bought these used from a friend who upgraded.)
For the DVD player, I need to be able to navigate menus, stop, and play discs. For the speakers, I need to be able to change between Input 1 (TiVo/DVD) and Input 2 (Airport Express).
What I can't figure out is why my explanations of security problems and the like aren't sinking in nor is the fact that I set up Firefox to have all his bookmarks, etc.
While I'd love to see what you come up with (feel free to send it my way once you write a guide, though it might be overkill for this particular machine) I might try the blocking-access trick with zonealarm. Maybe the irritation trick will be enough for a while at least.
He's not that advanced of a user. Must be something stupidly simple that windows just doesn't get right. Of course, that doesn't narrow down things much.
One of my coworkers is constantly somehow managing to run IE to surf the web no matter how many times I tell windows to hide it and tell HIM to not use such an insecure browser. I think he's got it and I set up Firefox to look just like IE, and what happens?!
THE IDIOT FIRES UP IE AGAIN!!
How the fuck is he even getting it to run when I removed all access to it!? Next step: block it from net access entirely and refuse to unblock it. Want to browse the web? You won't do it with IE unless you're at windowsupdate.
And peer-reviewed articles aren't in-depth, well-researched, proposing a hypothesis that fits (e.g. why/why not global warming is a problem), proposing avenues for further study? They aren't trying to teach, provide a foundation for further work, and describe methodologies so that others can repeat the experiment and confirm the results? Not all articles are "incomprehensible" to "most" people. In fact, a lot of them are written so anyone can understand them.
The short version: articles are tagged with generic classifications like 'asinine' 'stupid' 'hero' 'obvious' and so on (the front page shows this.) Sometimes, people disagree with the category the moderator chooses and will display the graphic of their preferred tag for the article as the text of their comment.
The 'hero' tag is the closest one that fit, I thought, since these days governments tend to put their heads in the sand, don't trust their constituents, and over-regulate everything.
And you didn't phrase your answer in the form of a question.:)
I did that post as a joke (well, the format of it anyway) but I do think that this sort of falls into the 'hero tag', if anyone's ever looked at Fark (I go there occasionally for amusement.) And given how often governments don't trust us to be responsible (I'm in the US, but I have several Australian friends, so I hear from them firsthand how policies affect them -- they may not be as sue-happy as we are, but still...) it's a relief when someone in the government seems to have their head on straight.
I don't know how you can trademark "weather". The combination of "weather" + "firefox" is brain dead obvious. The scum sucking lawyers should have been told to piss off -- I doubt they'd have a case.
I usually don't mind the multimedia clues, but that one was annoying as hell. too long, annoying, and how the hell are you supposed to guess "sweater" from a 5-second clip of people acting like idiots!?
It means that any misspellings etc. are the fault of the original writer being quoted, not the writer of the material being read, the material which quotes the misspelled text. So, in other words, he is saying that someone else wrote that text and that it was written exactly as he quotes it.
Notice also that he quotes this phrase right after mentioning modified wallpaper. So, presumably this means that the modified wallpaper has the bad grammar, which would mean that the modified wallpaper was made by the crackers who installed the spyware.
So no, I'm not off. If you're going to tell someone to look things up in the dictionary, make sure that whoever you're telling this to is using the word in the wrong way, mmmkay? I already knew the definition. I looked it up, just in case I was wrong, but nope.
Actually, he didn't write that. The idiots who can't write proper English (must be the same idiots who write the stuff that lands in my spam folder) wrote that.
And then the corporation (not you, so it stays off your credit record) promptly declares bankruptcy to thumb their nose at the corporate scum. Then the guy starts a new company with a new product.
That was a very interesting article, to go off on a side tangent here. When I mentioned it in my own blog upon reading it when it was first posted, I wrote that maybe, just maybe, it meant that some of those farmers whose crops didn't die so easily when sprayed with Roundup might have been telling the truth when Monsanto decided to sue. Monsanto's kinda like the RIAA/MPAA that way... doesn't care that you might be honest, just wants to ruin you and get its money.
It also shows that maybe it's not necessary to invest billions in genetic engineering -- the plants mentioned in the article didn't contain the modified gene but instead got their resistance elsewhere, and were selected for via Mendel-like breeding efforts. It probably takes about the same amount of time, less high technology, and as the article describes, it works very, very well.
Fortunately, it didn't work for those weeds under my back porch -- which are now in their death throes due to the Roundup I sprayed on them the other day. Bwhahahah...
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I'd LOVE to fly JetBlue or Song ... if they served St. Louis. Southwest is pretty decent and does come here, but typically, the companies that I *WANT* to patronize don't give a damn about my area. They need to get a clue that because they have a clue in OTHER areas ... there are people that would give them money for their services! But no, instead we're stuck with crap like American, who bought TWA a few years ago and promised no layoffs or other screwings.
... and me refusing to give those fucking liars a red cent of my money, as they sure as hell haven't proven themselves worthy of getting it.
Now here we are with most of the flight schedule gone, the local airport just about gutted, TWA's staff all fired/laid-off/etc.
This service was announced sometime in 2000 or so and should have been far more pervasive than it is now. Wifi Internet access in the air was supposed to have been fairly easy to get, but you can still only get it on a few airlines (like Lufthansa) and you have to be going on pretty long trips (like overseas) to even have the option of getting it.
... give us more flights (shorter-duration and on more airlines) that have the wifi option.
Before we start adding more stuff like TV (why do we need that, anyway, when aircraft are often equipped these days with seatback LCD screens?)
More typical corporate foot-dragging here, and more PR fluff pieces for something that no one really has access to.
I've never seen any of those, even before this bug/feature/whatever was introduced.
If I was a programmer I'd write a patch to do what you suggest, but I'm not -- are you? Perhaps you could... or maybe if someone who reads this is, they could.
It's irritating how many times I have to fix links broken because of this before I can view them, although I can't really blame all the people who just don't know how to HTMLize a link (there's lots of them - have discovered that over the years)
And in yours. ;) It's a bug in slashcode.
Has anyone actually started such a torrent site? I would honestly actually keep it in my bookmarks as I'd like to try more Free Software, and a central repository arranged by category and offering up torrents and also links to the project sites (in case the torrent died, or there wasn't one available for whatever reason, or in case the user wants to learn more before downloading) would do a lot to help people more easily find freely distributable and open-source or real-freeware (i.e. no spyware etc) means of filling their needs.
I never used BT much (though I'm an X-Plane user and downloaded an update that way a few times) but this does seem like a worthwhile use.
It could be called freeasinbeerorspeechtorrents.net or something.
People find resources they need through web links. People advertise the resources they have, or like, through web links. Especially if there is a need needing filling, like there seems to be now. "Find the sites themselves" how, without weblinks? I'd like to see a search engine that does a good job indexing sites that no one links to! I'd like to see a web browser that automagically knows about unlinked sites, no matter how perfectly they may match the needs of whoever is doing the surfing.
There is no point in having a web site that no one links to, because no one will ever go there. Furthermore, if people like a particular site, they tend to talk about it, and link to it. That's just the way the net is.
In other words, you're advocating doing something that makes it IMPOSSIBLE to do the other thing you're advocating doing.
So which do you want? Pick one, dammit, and be consistent.
Tell that to all the people who'd drop everything and go up in an instant if offered the chance. We would love to go, really. The people who are really afraid are the ones who think we don't, so they hold everything back.
... bureaucrats.
Namely
The link you posted is just, apparently, a redirector. Logitech Products > Harmony® Remote Controls
Anyway, this remote resembles the Tivo remote quite a bit. That's nice; I like the shape of the Tivo remote. In fact, the Harmony 688 is listed as being able to control a Tivo. I may have to look into getting one of these; I'd seen pictures but didn't know who made the remote. Now I do. I have set up my Tivo's remote to control my television set, and it works great for that, but I'd also like it to be able to control my DVD player and my separate powered speakers (not surround; deaf in left ear and can't hear surround, so I bought these used from a friend who upgraded.)
For the DVD player, I need to be able to navigate menus, stop, and play discs. For the speakers, I need to be able to change between Input 1 (TiVo/DVD) and Input 2 (Airport Express).
This looks promising -- I'm looking into it now!
What I can't figure out is why my explanations of security problems and the like aren't sinking in nor is the fact that I set up Firefox to have all his bookmarks, etc.
While I'd love to see what you come up with (feel free to send it my way once you write a guide, though it might be overkill for this particular machine) I might try the blocking-access trick with zonealarm. Maybe the irritation trick will be enough for a while at least.
He's not that advanced of a user. Must be something stupidly simple that windows just doesn't get right. Of course, that doesn't narrow down things much.
One of my coworkers is constantly somehow managing to run IE to surf the web no matter how many times I tell windows to hide it and tell HIM to not use such an insecure browser. I think he's got it and I set up Firefox to look just like IE, and what happens?!
THE IDIOT FIRES UP IE AGAIN!!
How the fuck is he even getting it to run when I removed all access to it!? Next step: block it from net access entirely and refuse to unblock it. Want to browse the web? You won't do it with IE unless you're at windowsupdate.
And peer-reviewed articles aren't in-depth, well-researched, proposing a hypothesis that fits (e.g. why/why not global warming is a problem), proposing avenues for further study? They aren't trying to teach, provide a foundation for further work, and describe methodologies so that others can repeat the experiment and confirm the results? Not all articles are "incomprehensible" to "most" people. In fact, a lot of them are written so anyone can understand them.
Give me the brain -- I can hear the ocean.
The short version: articles are tagged with generic classifications like 'asinine' 'stupid' 'hero' 'obvious' and so on (the front page shows this.) Sometimes, people disagree with the category the moderator chooses and will display the graphic of their preferred tag for the article as the text of their comment.
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The 'hero' tag is the closest one that fit, I thought, since these days governments tend to put their heads in the sand, don't trust their constituents, and over-regulate everything.
And you didn't phrase your answer in the form of a question.
I did that post as a joke (well, the format of it anyway) but I do think that this sort of falls into the 'hero tag', if anyone's ever looked at Fark (I go there occasionally for amusement.) And given how often governments don't trust us to be responsible (I'm in the US, but I have several Australian friends, so I hear from them firsthand how policies affect them -- they may not be as sue-happy as we are, but still...) it's a relief when someone in the government seems to have their head on straight.
:)
As for the karma? I've got tons.
I don't know how you can trademark "weather". The combination of "weather" + "firefox" is brain dead obvious. The scum sucking lawyers should have been told to piss off -- I doubt they'd have a case.
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I usually don't mind the multimedia clues, but that one was annoying as hell. too long, annoying, and how the hell are you supposed to guess "sweater" from a 5-second clip of people acting like idiots!?
I've wondered that too. What's the point if you're just going to point to dead links?
So are we arguing over the bad grammar or the s.i.c.? Yes, he goofed with the s.i.c., I noticed that too. THAT is his fault. The bad grammar isn't.
It means that any misspellings etc. are the fault of the original writer being quoted, not the writer of the material being read, the material which quotes the misspelled text. So, in other words, he is saying that someone else wrote that text and that it was written exactly as he quotes it.
Notice also that he quotes this phrase right after mentioning modified wallpaper. So, presumably this means that the modified wallpaper has the bad grammar, which would mean that the modified wallpaper was made by the crackers who installed the spyware.
So no, I'm not off. If you're going to tell someone to look things up in the dictionary, make sure that whoever you're telling this to is using the word in the wrong way, mmmkay? I already knew the definition. I looked it up, just in case I was wrong, but nope.
The idiots still wrote it.
Actually, he didn't write that. The idiots who can't write proper English (must be the same idiots who write the stuff that lands in my spam folder) wrote that.
And then the corporation (not you, so it stays off your credit record) promptly declares bankruptcy to thumb their nose at the corporate scum. Then the guy starts a new company with a new product.
Repeat ad infinitum.
That was a very interesting article, to go off on a side tangent here. When I mentioned it in my own blog upon reading it when it was first posted, I wrote that maybe, just maybe, it meant that some of those farmers whose crops didn't die so easily when sprayed with Roundup might have been telling the truth when Monsanto decided to sue. Monsanto's kinda like the RIAA/MPAA that way... doesn't care that you might be honest, just wants to ruin you and get its money.
It also shows that maybe it's not necessary to invest billions in genetic engineering -- the plants mentioned in the article didn't contain the modified gene but instead got their resistance elsewhere, and were selected for via Mendel-like breeding efforts. It probably takes about the same amount of time, less high technology, and as the article describes, it works very, very well.
Fortunately, it didn't work for those weeds under my back porch -- which are now in their death throes due to the Roundup I sprayed on them the other day. Bwhahahah...
If the DVD isn't playing when you press the menu key, it doesn't know whether or not you can normally skip to the menu from the beginning of the disc.