60x60x24x7x52x365x10x100x10 should pretty much cover it, unless you want to go sub-second.
Tried to figure out something formulaic to put in there to cover leap years (every 4 years, except for years that are "century" years, but with the exception that the "century exception" does not apply to years divisible by 400), but more of a pain than its worth.
I was under the impression that "Internet by Satellite" still requires a phone line for the "uplink" part.. They can easily send DOWN data to your dish, but you sending data UP to the them from it seems pretty doubtful.
Of course, I could (easily) be totally wrong on this.
Well, I personally recommend using a (gas powered if possible) leaf blower and just blowing the leaves and the nasty gunk that the Looj cannot deal with. Yes, that means getting up on the roof and doing it, but the Looj (which I bought last year and have used exactly twice, since it doesn't really do that good of a job...) just doesn't have the power to get that gunk out, and when it throws a tread (which it will, I promise), you'll still have to get up on the roof to retrieve it. I suppose you could just leave it there forever, which is probably just as good, but that's just plain annoying.
So, I guess the distillation of what I think is: Use a gas powered leaf blower. If you don't have one, spend the $100 on that, and hey, it blows leaves on the ground too!
Or, I suppose that we could place him into suspended animation and send him (and a few of his hack3r buddies) into space....
That would certainly keep him from, say, mucking about with his genes and turning himself into some sort of charismatic leader while attempting to take over the world.
[Tin Foil Hat] What right does a Vice President have to give orders to the military, like "Shoot down that plane"?
Answer.. NONE. The VP is not anywhere in the chain of command, and has ZERO authority over the military.
But that didn't stop the military from beginning to act upon this "order" on 9/11. [/Tin Foil Hat]
My point is that just because a person has no actual authority to command something does not mean that someone won't react as if they do. This is especially true if the person in question can make life miserable for the person that does not obey that "command", even if they were technically correct in (not) doing so.
A US senator can certainly case problems for a corporation if they choose to make an issue out of something..
I'm not sure that this is to your point, but that page up on the Netflix website seems to be saying that the hurdle isn't the technology, it is that the various content owners are wedded to the DRM that is bundled with Windows, and have not given their (necessary) permission for anything BUT the the DRM associated with Windows. Without that permission, Netflix cannot legally stream that content.
Here is the full text of that page:
"Our apologies -- instant watching is currently not supported for Macintosh.
Our goal is for Netflix members to enjoy movies and TV shows on whatever screen they want. We're required to use Digital Rights Management to protect movies watched instantly online, and right now we only have approval for this protection on Windows Operating systems, not the Mac.
Apple does not license their DRM solution to third parties, which has made this more difficult, but we are working with the studios and content owners to gain approval for other solutions. As soon as a studio-approved DRM for the Mac is available to us, whether from Apple or another source, we will move quickly to provide a movie viewer that enables you to watch movies from Netflix instantly on your Mac.
In the meantime, you can use your account to watch instantly on any compatible PC, and Intel-based Macintosh computers can watch movies instantly using Boot Camp, Parallels, or Fusion to run Windows. Also, your Macintosh is fully compatible with adding titles to the Instant Queue for later watching on compatible devices, as well as to have a playlist ready to go when we do enable Macintosh watching."
And do you seriously believe that they won't try to correlate the characteristics of your phone to the person carrying it? Really?
I'm not a cell phone tech (or even play one on tv), but I'm pretty sure that your phone # or at least the SIM# (or whatever the equivalent is for CDMA) is among the information being broadcast willy-nilly by the nice little radio in your pocket. It doesn't really take much for me to believe that the vendors in the mall will aggregate the cell phone info with their sales and come up with your name and purchase history. Hell, it would probably even be legal, since I'm sure they'd just add a line about it to the "Code of Conduct" or whatever they have hidden somewhere on the premises...
It would probably read something like (IANAL either..)
"In consideration for your admittance to this private property, you explicitly acknowledge that the management and vendors herein may capture certain information about you, and disclaim any and all recourse against the parties involved in said information gathering".
Sounds kind of like just another EULA that people will ignore whilst going about their business at the mall.
You know, I've only recently become aware that people possessing a low UID somehow have some kind of "street cred" here on/. .
I used to (many years ago now) work with someone (with a MUCH lower UID than mine.. in the low 4 digit range) that now works for sourceforge (the company behind/.), and he's the one that introduced it to me..
I've been mostly a lurker for all that time, as my posting history indicates.
I honestly didn't expect to ignite anything like the commentary that has been spawned from my post.
Wow. That's a pretty arrogant assertion on your part.
The "system" has in no way "kept me in poverty", and none of the people that I have kept in touch with from that time of my life are either. In fact, that "system" has served me very well.
I'm not stupid. I'm not (by anyone's calculation) poor. I'm pretty sure that I'm not naive (although if I am, I'm by definition not aware of it).
In fact, I DID join the military for a reason other than the ones you assert "no other career options or hope to piggy back their way through college are the only choices". Personally, I didn't feel that I was ready to just go straight to school, so a few years in the military (yes, "serving my country") seemed like (and was) a good way to spend some time.
Maybe my experience was different, Sergeant Hulka...
I spent all of my "at sea" time in the Navy on submarines (insert the inevitable gay sumbariner joke here), and while we had the power to end literally millions of lives (128 100kt warheads will ruin most anyone's day), nobody on either of my boats I was on (that I know of) ever shot, stabbed, raped, killed, etc anyone. Obviously the Marines that we dealt with DID have a job that required them to shoot or kill people in the line of duty, but I'm willing to go out on a limb here and say that they also were unlikely to have raped or pillaged anyone.
My point was that it is manifestly unfair to tar an entire class of people as being indiscriminate thugs and killers, especially when the group that is being tarred is doing their jobs primarily for the benefit of (whether you agree with the underlying real or imagined political rationale or not) the very people that are reading this. And yes, I KNOW that not everyone on/.is in the US, but I imagine that the vast majority of us are.
"On a site like this one, where people from the outside would presume everyone is a pasty and pimply 34 year old living in their parent's basement".
Note the "where people from the outside would presume". I'm also not a "pencil-necked dork", nor are most of the people that I know personally (as in "In person", in the real world) on/. .
My point was that it is not usually a good idea to make assumptions about people based purely on a single factor (like having been in the military or being a/. reader). At no point did I assert or imply that people on/. are ANY of the things that "people from the outside" would think we are.
You know, all that is great, and if you have the time, knowledge and inclination to implement everything you've documented, you're probably going to be able to avoid all of this..
But.... the 99.9% of people that either don't know about this or don't have the time/knowledge/inclination to do anything about it are being royally screwed (again) by their ISP.
The real question is why we're being treated like so many sheep by the ISPs, and why there isn't more public outrage at these tactics.. Nobody can claim with a straight face that people want MORE ads delivered to us, much less ones that are "targeted" at us by stealing (as in not paying us for) our browsing habits (which DOES have tangible value, else the ISPs wouldn't be doing all of this), so why are people just standing by (like the aforementioned sheep) and allowing this to happen?
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I prefer the use of ~= to mean "give or take" or approximately.
"No, Moron" seems quite a bit harsh.
I like that... "Waist of power".. Sounds like "shoulders of strength" or "arms of steel".
Still, I think you meant "Waste of power".
Confused.. How would loosening their shirts help anything other than a too tight fit across the shoulders or at the waist?
60x60x24x7x52x365x10x100x10 should pretty much cover it, unless you want to go sub-second.
Tried to figure out something formulaic to put in there to cover leap years (every 4 years, except for years that are "century" years, but with the exception that the "century exception" does not apply to years divisible by 400), but more of a pain than its worth.
I was under the impression that "Internet by Satellite" still requires a phone line for the "uplink" part.. They can easily send DOWN data to your dish, but you sending data UP to the them from it seems pretty doubtful.
Of course, I could (easily) be totally wrong on this.
Well, I personally recommend using a (gas powered if possible) leaf blower and just blowing the leaves and the nasty gunk that the Looj cannot deal with. Yes, that means getting up on the roof and doing it, but the Looj (which I bought last year and have used exactly twice, since it doesn't really do that good of a job...) just doesn't have the power to get that gunk out, and when it throws a tread (which it will, I promise), you'll still have to get up on the roof to retrieve it. I suppose you could just leave it there forever, which is probably just as good, but that's just plain annoying.
So, I guess the distillation of what I think is: Use a gas powered leaf blower. If you don't have one, spend the $100 on that, and hey, it blows leaves on the ground too!
That wouldn't really help all that much.
Quick tip- You're means "You are". Your means "belonging to you". You're != Your.
Or, I suppose that we could place him into suspended animation and send him (and a few of his hack3r buddies) into space....
That would certainly keep him from, say, mucking about with his genes and turning himself into some sort of charismatic leader while attempting to take over the world.
Ok, sorry, can't resist..
Khaan!!!!
Khaan!!!!
Actually, the proper temp for optimum extraction is not 212.. It should be between 195-205 (91-96C)
Water at 212 (100C) extracts too many of the bitter compounds that are present in the beans, which actually detracts from the flavor.
See:
http://www.boyds.com/coffee/brewingguide.html
http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/brewing.htm
In practice, that means taking the pot off the boil, waiting maybe 10 seconds, THEN pouring the water over the coffee grounds.
Many home coffeemakers (Technivorm excluded) don't come close to this mark, which is why French press coffee usually tastes better..
What?
Hey, a boy can dream.. :)
Why get a fake ID to show a notary? Just get a notarial seal and cut out the proverbial middle man.
$8.. http://tinyurl.com/6luvgs
You forgot:
5) ????
6) Profit
Someone was bound to do it, figured I'd just get it out of the way...
Please forgive this from a mere low 6 digit...
Who are you? I am the new Number 2.
Who is Number 1? You are Number 6.
I am not a number, I am a free man!
[Tin Foil Hat]
What right does a Vice President have to give orders to the military, like "Shoot down that plane"?
Answer.. NONE. The VP is not anywhere in the chain of command, and has ZERO authority over the military.
But that didn't stop the military from beginning to act upon this "order" on 9/11.
[/Tin Foil Hat]
My point is that just because a person has no actual authority to command something does not mean that someone won't react as if they do. This is especially true if the person in question can make life miserable for the person that does not obey that "command", even if they were technically correct in (not) doing so.
A US senator can certainly case problems for a corporation if they choose to make an issue out of something..
Do they have a legal leg to stand on? No..
Does that matter? Also (sadly) no.
I'm not sure that this is to your point, but that page up on the Netflix website seems to be saying that the hurdle isn't the technology, it is that the various content owners are wedded to the DRM that is bundled with Windows, and have not given their (necessary) permission for anything BUT the the DRM associated with Windows. Without that permission, Netflix cannot legally stream that content.
Here is the full text of that page:
"Our apologies -- instant watching is currently not supported for Macintosh.
Our goal is for Netflix members to enjoy movies and TV shows on whatever screen they want. We're required to use Digital Rights Management to protect movies watched instantly online, and right now we only have approval for this protection on Windows Operating systems, not the Mac.
Apple does not license their DRM solution to third parties, which has made this more difficult, but we are working with the studios and content owners to gain approval for other solutions. As soon as a studio-approved DRM for the Mac is available to us, whether from Apple or another source, we will move quickly to provide a movie viewer that enables you to watch movies from Netflix instantly on your Mac.
In the meantime, you can use your account to watch instantly on any compatible PC, and Intel-based Macintosh computers can watch movies instantly using Boot Camp, Parallels, or Fusion to run Windows. Also, your Macintosh is fully compatible with adding titles to the Instant Queue for later watching on compatible devices, as well as to have a playlist ready to go when we do enable Macintosh watching."
And do you seriously believe that they won't try to correlate the characteristics of your phone to the person carrying it? Really?
I'm not a cell phone tech (or even play one on tv), but I'm pretty sure that your phone # or at least the SIM# (or whatever the equivalent is for CDMA) is among the information being broadcast willy-nilly by the nice little radio in your pocket. It doesn't really take much for me to believe that the vendors in the mall will aggregate the cell phone info with their sales and come up with your name and purchase history. Hell, it would probably even be legal, since I'm sure they'd just add a line about it to the "Code of Conduct" or whatever they have hidden somewhere on the premises...
It would probably read something like (IANAL either..)
"In consideration for your admittance to this private property, you explicitly acknowledge that the management and vendors herein may capture certain information about you, and disclaim any and all recourse against the parties involved in said information gathering".
Sounds kind of like just another EULA that people will ignore whilst going about their business at the mall.
And you might successfully fight it, but you might not.
You know, I've only recently become aware that people possessing a low UID somehow have some kind of "street cred" here on /. .
/.), and he's the one that introduced it to me..
I used to (many years ago now) work with someone (with a MUCH lower UID than mine.. in the low 4 digit range) that now works for sourceforge (the company behind
I've been mostly a lurker for all that time, as my posting history indicates.
I honestly didn't expect to ignite anything like the commentary that has been spawned from my post.
I stand corrected...
You are correct that only THINGS can be pillaged, but those things are usually PEOPLES things. I should have said "Pillaged anyone's things".
Wow. That's a pretty arrogant assertion on your part.
The "system" has in no way "kept me in poverty", and none of the people that I have kept in touch with from that time of my life are either. In fact, that "system" has served me very well.
I'm not stupid.
I'm not (by anyone's calculation) poor.
I'm pretty sure that I'm not naive (although if I am, I'm by definition not aware of it).
In fact, I DID join the military for a reason other than the ones you assert "no other career options or hope to piggy back their way through college are the only choices". Personally, I didn't feel that I was ready to just go straight to school, so a few years in the military (yes, "serving my country") seemed like (and was) a good way to spend some time.
Maybe my experience was different, Sergeant Hulka...
/.is in the US, but I imagine that the vast majority of us are.
I spent all of my "at sea" time in the Navy on submarines (insert the inevitable gay sumbariner joke here), and while we had the power to end literally millions of lives (128 100kt warheads will ruin most anyone's day), nobody on either of my boats I was on (that I know of) ever shot, stabbed, raped, killed, etc anyone. Obviously the Marines that we dealt with DID have a job that required them to shoot or kill people in the line of duty, but I'm willing to go out on a limb here and say that they also were unlikely to have raped or pillaged anyone.
My point was that it is manifestly unfair to tar an entire class of people as being indiscriminate thugs and killers, especially when the group that is being tarred is doing their jobs primarily for the benefit of (whether you agree with the underlying real or imagined political rationale or not) the very people that are reading this. And yes, I KNOW that not everyone on
Umm... What I said was:
/. .
/. reader). At no point did I assert or imply that people on /. are ANY of the things that "people from the outside" would think we are.
"On a site like this one, where people from the outside would presume everyone is a pasty and pimply 34 year old living in their parent's basement".
Note the "where people from the outside would presume". I'm also not a "pencil-necked dork", nor are most of the people that I know personally (as in "In person", in the real world) on
My point was that it is not usually a good idea to make assumptions about people based purely on a single factor (like having been in the military or being a
You know, all that is great, and if you have the time, knowledge and inclination to implement everything you've documented, you're probably going to be able to avoid all of this..
But.... the 99.9% of people that either don't know about this or don't have the time/knowledge/inclination to do anything about it are being royally screwed (again) by their ISP.
The real question is why we're being treated like so many sheep by the ISPs, and why there isn't more public outrage at these tactics.. Nobody can claim with a straight face that people want MORE ads delivered to us, much less ones that are "targeted" at us by stealing (as in not paying us for) our browsing habits (which DOES have tangible value, else the ISPs wouldn't be doing all of this), so why are people just standing by (like the aforementioned sheep) and allowing this to happen?
Makes me really sick.