I submit a story about a US Senator advocating that the US government IGNORE patent rights and that gets rejected - in SPITE of all the stories on the idiots in the US Patent Office.
Yet a story gets posted about a whining guy who works at a government facility with secure areas (regardless if HE works in a secure area), sensitive data, and controlled access.
Mohammud-frelling-Allah. If you don't like the policy, seek your lawyer (DUH), or better yet another job.
Go ahead and mod me down. I'm not a kharma-whore, else I'd post this anonymously.
my answer? i like the form factor of the tivo. it fits in my audio rack, and looks like it belongs in the audio rack. i like the convience of it working in my existing av configuration - that it can control my DishNetwork receiver. i like the interface. i like the gui. i like how it manages my season passes. i like how i don't have to do any tinkering with it (after adding a hard drive to it). i tinker enough on my pc and mac network in the computer room in the house. i like how it's dedicated to tv, so there's little chance that my mucking with something else on the same machine might bring down my recording box. granted, i've not looked at the linux pvr project in a while, so i don't know how it stands in relation to the spit and polish of TiVo, but i definitely wouldn't want to be running my season passes on a WinTel solution with an ATI card.
oh where are my moderator points when i need them to mark a troll.
pray tell, how would freebsd improve TiVo? the TiVo UI is proprietary and rather independent of the underlying OS. in fact, the user is completely shielded from the OS.
your comment really should be moderated up to a 5.
you beat me to the punch on this reference. it really makes IBM just look... SO stupid.
i can picture the two ibm PHBs now. "hey, i have an idea! let's file a patent on this web thing, and let's put in a reference showing someone else did it first!"
in fact, i'm gunna submit it to steve adams for dilbert.
DUH.
or better yet, find your local phone number for time/weather. won't raise an eyebrow like 555 does. i have my local number memorized. rolls off my tongue.
the other phun one is the whitehouse switchboard - 202-456-1414. fax 202-456-2883
- i like the ticking sound (it's a primitive instinctive thing harking back to my first nine months of life)
- metal wrist bands fit much better and last longer (why are adult male plastic watch bands sized for kids? is an eight-inch wrist really that abnormal?)
- like telling time in terms of neareast quarter hour compared to the 80s/90s to-the-minute. i'm older now, and enjoying the here and now more.
when commercials come on, i mute. after a period of time passes, i unmute. if i miss a song, it's not a big deal. between cummulus and clear channel owning my town's RF, i'll be sure to hear the same songs all bloody day long. god to have an AOR radio station like back in college.
great watch i had in 1984. had this neat little game where i picked off numbers, much like one of the typing tutor or graffiti games.
(of course, i'm a bit older than you, as this was tenth grade, first car, foreign national girlfriend, summer job at an amusement park, ah the memories...)
you'll be cold and dead before collecting money. after all, e=mc^2 still (_basically_) holds in star trek (at least in regards to ship movement). at warp 9, the ship is still moving slower than the speed of light.
the corporation i work for (over 100k employees, billions of revenue per year) has several divisions with llc in the title. it basically protects the parent corporation from more risky business ventures that divisions may pursue - short of spinning off a new corporation. it is a valid and critial business practice.
notice i'm not saying that pause technologies is valid. i'm of the camp that if one patents something, one had better damn well do something PRODUCTIVE with the patent, else one is simply a squatter.
er, what's so wrong about that? my dad was a naval pilot. i grew up building model airplanes and idolizing him. it's not *gasp* fictional.
let's recap - every bloody first episode in the ST world sucked. the first season of the sequel series sucked. earth final conflict sucks to this day. even b5 sucked _at first_, and andromeda and crusade suck(ed) through and through. about the only sf i've seen in a long time that didn't suck coming out of the gate was farscape.
frelling get a life folks. sf - especially st - historically takes time to build a head of steam. enterprise is no exception, and it certainly was better out of the gate - partly due to bakula having a tv/sf background compared to shatner's whatever, cisco's hawk character, mulgrew's columbo character, and stewart's stage background - than the rest of the st tv world.
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oh yeah, where he's pusing mp3 players and is droning on and on about classical artists, finishing with air-jamming a hard rock riff. funny 'mercial.
see, i'll watch entertaining commercials even if i won't buy the product.
actually, with the latest TiVO software release (2.5.1), owners can now skip 30 seconds at the press of a button.
select.play.select.3.0.select turns this on.
then hit the -> button.
now if only i could put in 29 instead of 30.
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(be sure to cut Wil's code first!)
I submit a story about a US Senator advocating that the US government IGNORE patent rights and that gets rejected - in SPITE of all the stories on the idiots in the US Patent Office.
Yet a story gets posted about a whining guy who works at a government facility with secure areas (regardless if HE works in a secure area), sensitive data, and controlled access.
Mohammud-frelling-Allah. If you don't like the policy, seek your lawyer (DUH), or better yet another job.
Go ahead and mod me down. I'm not a kharma-whore, else I'd post this anonymously.
fair question.
my answer? i like the form factor of the tivo. it fits in my audio rack, and looks like it belongs in the audio rack. i like the convience of it working in my existing av configuration - that it can control my DishNetwork receiver. i like the interface. i like the gui. i like how it manages my season passes. i like how i don't have to do any tinkering with it (after adding a hard drive to it). i tinker enough on my pc and mac network in the computer room in the house. i like how it's dedicated to tv, so there's little chance that my mucking with something else on the same machine might bring down my recording box. granted, i've not looked at the linux pvr project in a while, so i don't know how it stands in relation to the spit and polish of TiVo, but i definitely wouldn't want to be running my season passes on a WinTel solution with an ATI card.
and i like the remote control.
The idea of paying a monthly fee for a piece of electronics simply sounds suspicous to me.
so, if i read you correctly, you have no internet, eletricity, telephone, nor cable/satellite connection to your house.
oh where are my moderator points when i need them to mark a troll.
pray tell, how would freebsd improve TiVo? the TiVo UI is proprietary and rather independent of the underlying OS. in fact, the user is completely shielded from the OS.
that actually is the reason to patent. then you get to go back and sue everyone who "copied" your idea.
think about the big companies and products that can now be sued... Adobe, Macromedia, Microsoft
your comment really should be moderated up to a 5.
you beat me to the punch on this reference. it really makes IBM just look... SO stupid.
i can picture the two ibm PHBs now. "hey, i have an idea! let's file a patent on this web thing, and let's put in a reference showing someone else did it first!"
in fact, i'm gunna submit it to steve adams for dilbert.
DUH.
/dev/null numbers:
555-xxxx
or better yet, find your local phone number for time/weather. won't raise an eyebrow like 555 does. i have my local number memorized. rolls off my tongue.
the other phun one is the whitehouse switchboard - 202-456-1414. fax 202-456-2883
score -2 for misinformation.
touch tones are composed of dual frequencies (DTMF).
sit tones are composed of single frequencies.
the alleged copyright is on specific DTMF sequences - hence it wouldn't (if it is real) apply to sit.
"thanks for playing! try again!"
um, none of them.
try:
Olivia D'Abo (True Q)
-or-
Madchen Amick (The Dauphin)
gawd, am i a geek or what.
I'm of the fuzzy persuasion. The titanium band on my Seiko does not grab the hair. A well-made link metal band doesn't. YMMV.
i use analog.
why?
- thinner
- lighter
- looks more professional in my white collar job
- can find north when the sun is shining
- i like the ticking sound (it's a primitive instinctive thing harking back to my first nine months of life)
- metal wrist bands fit much better and last longer (why are adult male plastic watch bands sized for kids? is an eight-inch wrist really that abnormal?)
- like telling time in terms of neareast quarter hour compared to the 80s/90s to-the-minute. i'm older now, and enjoying the here and now more.
when commercials come on, i mute. after a period of time passes, i unmute. if i miss a song, it's not a big deal. between cummulus and clear channel owning my town's RF, i'll be sure to hear the same songs all bloody day long. god to have an AOR radio station like back in college.
hmmm. maybe citizen should team with seiko for their latest kinetic technology. human-powered linux wristwatch would be SWEET.
hey!
i dearly miss my Casio CA-50.
great watch i had in 1984. had this neat little game where i picked off numbers, much like one of the typing tutor or graffiti games.
(of course, i'm a bit older than you, as this was tenth grade, first car, foreign national girlfriend, summer job at an amusement park, ah the memories...)
Why the marketoids have to ruin a good thing. "XP". Sheesh.
My money says it's all because...
did anyone else read that as: My mommy says...
> At least in Bab5, dead was dead, and was pretty permanent for most characters
Unless you're the _MAIN BLOODY CHARACTER_.
(Or Kosh...)
Which one is it? You're either dead, or not dead. Pretty permanent and dead are mutually exclusive.
You wasted a personal point for this?
you'll be cold and dead before collecting money. after all, e=mc^2 still (_basically_) holds in star trek (at least in regards to ship movement). at warp 9, the ship is still moving slower than the speed of light.
(honestly, this isn't a troll.)
to quote inigo, i do not think it means what you think it means.
try this link:
Limited Liability Company FAQ
the corporation i work for (over 100k employees, billions of revenue per year) has several divisions with llc in the title. it basically protects the parent corporation from more risky business ventures that divisions may pursue - short of spinning off a new corporation. it is a valid and critial business practice.
notice i'm not saying that pause technologies is valid. i'm of the camp that if one patents something, one had better damn well do something PRODUCTIVE with the patent, else one is simply a squatter.
er, more than once there was a scene in the arboritum of NCC-1701 Enterprise. go back and watch the series again.
but as has been shown through numerous REAL LIFE examples, plants are not necessarily needed for O2.
> How many times have you been annoyed when you hit the wheel mouse and it didn't work right?
Or more importantly, how many times have you hit CTRL-C/CTRL-V in Windows only to *NOT* have the application cut and paste.
Standards are a good thing. You're right on the money.
you mean even number ones, right? as all the odd-numbered ones sucked. :)
er, what's so wrong about that? my dad was a naval pilot. i grew up building model airplanes and idolizing him. it's not *gasp* fictional.
let's recap - every bloody first episode in the ST world sucked. the first season of the sequel series sucked. earth final conflict sucks to this day. even b5 sucked _at first_, and andromeda and crusade suck(ed) through and through. about the only sf i've seen in a long time that didn't suck coming out of the gate was farscape.
frelling get a life folks. sf - especially st - historically takes time to build a head of steam. enterprise is no exception, and it certainly was better out of the gate - partly due to bakula having a tv/sf background compared to shatner's whatever, cisco's hawk character, mulgrew's columbo character, and stewart's stage background - than the rest of the st tv world.