One of my favorite TV shows waaay waaay back was Fractured Flickers. It took old silent movies and added a humorous sound track. Same principle as Woody Allen's "What's Up Tiger Lily?" I'd like to see this DVD track stuff applied that way. Properly done, it's hilarious.
I carry it in my car. When I know I'm going to have to present ID, like to a notary or for a large credit card transaction, I bring it in with me. Most of the time it doesn't make any difference, it's just a way to throw a small monkey wrench into whatever The Man has in mind for us. However, it's sometimes fun when people who don't customarily deal with passports don't quite know what to make of it.
I use my passport when I don't want people to have all the info that's on my driver's license. Passports don't have the SSN or home address, but do have birthday, making them usable for proving age.
I have a 75GXP that went South after less than a month of use, and another that died after a couple of months. After that experience and having seen several stories about the unreliability of certain IBM drives, it's going to be a long time before I buy another one. I suspect that there are a lot of people like me, and that IBM's drive business will be taking some bad hits for the foreseeable future.
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Since googlewhacking requires that you find just one page on the web that has two English words:
1. Obtain dictionary in electronic form. 2. Separate the words from the definitions 3. Publish to web page 4. Publish to another web page 5. If feeling particularly cruel, publish to additional web pages. 6. Wait for hate mail
Does it really matter if the disks are unreadable? If the data wasn't important enough that somebody didn't say, "hey, we need to transfer this stuff to new media," then maybe it's not such a big deal. At a minimum, I presume that it means that the data wasn't being used by anyone, or they'd have noticed that it was about to become unavailable.
Similar to Tivo, but you can add on more storage via a FireWire interface, and it can wirelessly transmit programming to remote locations. That's a brief, simplistic description that really doesn't do the product justice. I suggest reading up on it at their site.
I once went on a rant such as that myself, though not on SlashDot. I said "you people's post's are making me s'ick". Perhaps unsurprisingly, some folks came back with the "English is continuously evolving and new rules... blah blah blah." I asked them to state the 'rule' that says to just put apostrophes wherever the hell you want. I got no answer. Ah well, it felt good to vent.
I just discovered CSI a few months ago, thanks to my Tivo 'recommending' it. It's a great show. The only thing I don't like about the characters is their tendency to use their authority to push people around. I've encountered enough authoritarian jerks that it rubs me the wrong way.
How is it going to help increase the rollout of broadband if the restrictions on it make it undesireable to build? No one is going to invest money in infrastructure that they're forced to share with the competition at a price determined by someone else. If government wants to handle broadband in this manner, it should just make it a publicly-owned utility instead of pretending that it's a private business.
The 9th circuit has earned a reputation as the most-overturned court in the U.S. Until this hits the Supreme Court (or is denied cert), don't take this as the final word.
I read the alt.graphics.photoshop newsgroup from time to time, and every couple of days someone will post a "where can I download Photoshop for free"-type question. There's a large population out there who just don't want to pay for their software. Personally, I pay for everything I use, including shareware. Shareware plug: I love screenruler.
People go nuts when you suggest building a new nuclear reactor. What do you think would happen if you tell them you're going to multiply the potential destructive consequences of that by many fold, and suspend it over their heads? And the potential for an accident pales in insignificance if you consider how attractive a target it would make for someone to take down on purpose. I'm as big a techno-freak as anyone (hey, bring on those nukes, we need the power), but this would worry even me.
Make a PVR that can record 2+ streams from my cable provider at the same time, and I will buy it.
I don't know if they've activated the second tuner yet, but DirecTivo has this ability. Not from your cable provider, but satellite is just as good, IMO. Requires a dual-LNB dish of course, but that's not a big deal.
I get the feeling that Adobe is not just doing this for financial reasons, but also to punish the area by not providing Asian versions of it software. It's too bad that they're going to stop development of Asian language versions, but if punishment is their goal, somehow I think that it will have little effect, and may even backfire.
I interpret this as a threat to get the governments in the area to cut down on piracy. If they don't then Adobe would make good on the threat (or not, as it chooses).
This is a great example of the wackiness of intellectual property law as it applies to software, in the eyes of most consumers.
It may be more an indication of the mindset of an academic. I recall that I once worked for a company which sold some computers to a university. For the next go-round, the procurement person found a cheaper source, and our vice president went to talk to her. He pointed out that we supported our systems, whereas the cheaper company did not. She said that her university had a support contract with our company for that type of computer. Asked if she expected us to support systems she bought from our competitor for no additional money, she said yes! Needless to say, we did no further business with them.
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One of my favorite TV shows waaay waaay back was Fractured Flickers. It took old silent movies and added a humorous sound track. Same principle as Woody Allen's "What's Up Tiger Lily?" I'd like to see this DVD track stuff applied that way. Properly done, it's hilarious.
I carry it in my car. When I know I'm going to have to present ID, like to a notary or for a large credit card transaction, I bring it in with me. Most of the time it doesn't make any difference, it's just a way to throw a small monkey wrench into whatever The Man has in mind for us. However, it's sometimes fun when people who don't customarily deal with passports don't quite know what to make of it.
I use my passport when I don't want people to have all the info that's on my driver's license. Passports don't have the SSN or home address, but do have birthday, making them usable for proving age.
I have a 75GXP that went South after less than a month of use, and another that died after a couple of months. After that experience and having seen several stories about the unreliability of certain IBM drives, it's going to be a long time before I buy another one. I suspect that there are a lot of people like me, and that IBM's drive business will be taking some bad hits for the foreseeable future.
Since googlewhacking requires that you find just one page on the web that has two English words:
1. Obtain dictionary in electronic form.
2. Separate the words from the definitions
3. Publish to web page
4. Publish to another web page
5. If feeling particularly cruel, publish to additional web pages.
6. Wait for hate mail
Does it really matter if the disks are unreadable? If the data wasn't important enough that somebody didn't say, "hey, we need to transfer this stuff to new media," then maybe it's not such a big deal. At a minimum, I presume that it means that the data wasn't being used by anyone, or they'd have noticed that it was about to become unavailable.
Wasn't it named the 'Domesday' book?
Similar to Tivo, but you can add on more storage via a FireWire interface, and it can wirelessly transmit programming to remote locations. That's a brief, simplistic description that really doesn't do the product justice. I suggest reading up on it at their site.
http://www.moxi.com/product.htm
I'm not signing up for lifetime. If the Moxie lives up to its hype and becomes available this year as promised, I'm switching to that.
I once went on a rant such as that myself, though not on SlashDot. I said "you people's post's are making me s'ick". Perhaps unsurprisingly, some folks came back with the "English is continuously evolving and new rules ... blah blah blah." I asked them to state the 'rule' that says to just put apostrophes wherever the hell you want. I got no answer. Ah well, it felt good to vent.
I just discovered CSI a few months ago, thanks to my Tivo 'recommending' it. It's a great show. The only thing I don't like about the characters is their tendency to use their authority to push people around. I've encountered enough authoritarian jerks that it rubs me the wrong way.
If you think this is happening, how about withdrawing your bid near the end so that the shill EBay account ends up having to buy the item?
How is it going to help increase the rollout of broadband if the restrictions on it make it undesireable to build? No one is going to invest money in infrastructure that they're forced to share with the competition at a price determined by someone else. If government wants to handle broadband in this manner, it should just make it a publicly-owned utility instead of pretending that it's a private business.
Materials engineers call the equivalent thing in their field 'unobtainium,' I believe.
In this particular case, the repeater is passive, so no batteries or electronics to protect, just some metal and cabling.
I imagine that his mods predate the article.
The 9th circuit has earned a reputation as the most-overturned court in the U.S. Until this hits the Supreme Court (or is denied cert), don't take this as the final word.
I read the alt.graphics.photoshop newsgroup from time to time, and every couple of days someone will post a "where can I download Photoshop for free"-type question. There's a large population out there who just don't want to pay for their software. Personally, I pay for everything I use, including shareware. Shareware plug: I love screenruler.
People go nuts when you suggest building a new nuclear reactor. What do you think would happen if you tell them you're going to multiply the potential destructive consequences of that by many fold, and suspend it over their heads? And the potential for an accident pales in insignificance if you consider how attractive a target it would make for someone to take down on purpose. I'm as big a techno-freak as anyone (hey, bring on those nukes, we need the power), but this would worry even me.
Make a PVR that can record 2+ streams from my cable provider at the same time, and I will buy it.
I don't know if they've activated the second tuner yet, but DirecTivo has this ability. Not from your cable provider, but satellite is just as good, IMO. Requires a dual-LNB dish of course, but that's not a big deal.
Whose satellite system are you using? I presume that yours, unlike Inmarsat, is geographically limited?
I get the feeling that Adobe is not just doing this for financial reasons, but also to punish the area by not providing Asian versions of it software. It's too bad that they're going to stop development of Asian language versions, but if punishment is their goal, somehow I think that it will have little effect, and may even backfire.
I interpret this as a threat to get the governments in the area to cut down on piracy. If they don't then Adobe would make good on the threat (or not, as it chooses).
Pirate what? The now non-existent Asian version? Good trick.
This is a great example of the wackiness of intellectual property law as it applies to software, in the eyes of most consumers.
It may be more an indication of the mindset of an academic. I recall that I once worked for a company which sold some computers to a university. For the next go-round, the procurement person found a cheaper source, and our vice president went to talk to her. He pointed out that we supported our systems, whereas the cheaper company did not. She said that her university had a support contract with our company for that type of computer. Asked if she expected us to support systems she bought from our competitor for no additional money, she said yes! Needless to say, we did no further business with them.
I've wanted a powered suit ever since reading Heinlein's Starship Troopers (the movie didn't have them, which was a major disappointment).