That's a decent response, actually. I haven't compared Bush's cabinet with whom Gore might have chosen - where's the list of Gore's chosen cabinet, or can you just tell me who you remember to be on the list?
...or rather, for apartment use. When you live in a "community" that has rules restricting your ability to mount anything on the walls or roof, and you don't want to put anything down at ground level because someone might walk by and steal it, it's rather hard to get set up for satellite tv, unless you want to do the sackcrete-box-and-pole route, which isn't always sturdy, can still be a pain to set up, etc.
An omnidirectional flat antenna wouldn't attract nearly as much attention, is easier to place, and I suspect that you could probably stick it in a window if you didn't have a balcony or anything outside with line-of-sight to the satellites.
Plus archiving video to your PC and burning to DVD, if you have the hardware.
Does your ReplayTV send its content to your PC through its NIC? According to what I've been reading, it will officially only send it to other Replay TV boxes. And unlike Tivo hacking, I haven't read of anyone successfully modifying their ReplayTVs to do this, either.
Or were you just referring to the ability to use a capture board on your PC, which is something you can do with Tivo and your VCR and lots of other stuff?
What the US needs is a Manhattan Project for alternative energy to oil. Solar, wind, geo, fusion, whatever. Something but burning simple chain hydrocarbons and because the waste product is mostly invisible, pretending it doesn't exist.
No kidding. We've used the excuse of dependence on foreign oil to barge around in the Middle East, propping up dictators and then fighting them, since before I was born.
Who elected George Bush anyway?
Some judges, really. =) I don't know how Al Gore would have handled foreign policy, but at least he'd have sounded adequately literate during his speeches.
no use for it and it broke my Win2K system.
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We've got MPlayer, after all.
Besides, when I installed WiMP 9, it broke some of my codecs, so I can't play some DVD-compliant MPG files I was arranging for an upcoming DVD burn. Since I can't even uninstall WiMP 9, I find that very tacky, indeed, because now I need to reinstall the OS on that machine.
All of the good reviews are within the first few days of the products release and they all sound like they could have come from the back of the box.
We've had fun discussions here about how silly the Amazon reviewer rating structure is, before (before Christmas, I think). It seems quite obvious that many of the top-rated reviewers don't actually have the products they are espousing (other than some of the ones who only review movies, etc.) If I want a "review" based on someone reading the ad copy or reading an article because I've suddenly gone blind or something, I'll ask a Best Buy or Fry's drone to do it.
(Obligatory whine: Amazon rejected my review of one of the Information Society's remix compilation albums, because they said I was demeaning to the artist's work. What I basically said was that this one CD is a really bad compilation, if you're new to them or are interested, go buy one of the real albums, which are good, etc. Typical stuff I wished I'd known before I bought the CD, and a redirect to their real work. I appealed, but a second customer service drone stuck to the verdict. Apparently, though I've done that before and I've seen several other reviews that are like that, they don't want "negative" reviews any more. I could resubmit the comment if I basically said "their other work is better," but that's about it.)
I used TurboTax last year, so I figured I'd use it again this year, and went and bought it (they mailed me a disc last month asking me to "renew," but they wanted more than I knew these January bundles would be). I want to go ahead and start pre-planning my return, and add stuff as 1099 forms come in the mail, etc. I figured that, like last year, I could just copy the new saved file off when I go to reformat and rebuild my comuter next month. Luckily, I read the disclaimer in the package, because I have to either put off reformatting or I have to put off installing TurboTax.
I can definitely say that next year, if they haven't stopped this stupid limitation, I'm switching back to TaxCut, which I used two years ago. I only switched over last year because the bundles (free-after-rebate Microsoft Money vs. free-after-rebate Quicken) seemed to be about the same, and I wanted to give Quicken a try.
(In fact, that reminds me, I will probably switch back next year, anyway, because this is the first year I actually had time to try Quicken, and it's one giant ad for other services, with "features" that don't seem to work well unless you subscribe to those services! Good lord, no wonder they "give it away" with rebates - who wants to pay for software with ads in it and that is less than it promises? I don't recall Microsoft Money being that bad?)
Not only that, it takes a LONG time after a domain expires before it becomes available again to re-register.
They probably kept it in the hope that someone would pay to be on the "waiting list." I don't know how much the waiting list costs, but I'm sure it makes waiting 6-8 months or more before releasing cost effective.
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knew I wouldn't be the only geek who saw that movie and then thought about sleeping with her!
Sleeping? Who has time to sleep? No, I expect with a new-generation prototype like that, I could easily spend nights in full diagnostic mode once I strip it down, maybe some extended-transfer throughput tests on her - uhh, it's - ports, etc. Yah. Nothing like finding the undocumented tweaks and getting the system truly singing, so to speak.
Actually, if you want to transfer domains to Verisign/NetSol, they play the same game as Register.com and some others, of offering you a low first-year's transfer fee, then later renewals at higher than the bulk registration market's price.
I recently switched a bunch of names from Melbourne IT to Register.com after getting a flyer in the mail offering a transfer ("plus remaining time on your old registration" for something like $15 per year, or cheaper if you get longer terms. Unfortunately, their normal quoted registrations are like $30 a year, so I wouldn't have done it otherwise. Verisign's offer was similar (no flyer needed but $19 a year for transfers), but I was a bit leery of their bad rep regarding tying up domain names that expire, yanking registrations away anytime a big business hints that it wants a domain, etc., and I remembered the spam that I got from them to my hostmaster address when a domain was registered through them.
For that matter, the agent of Melbourne IT that I went through had prices similar to Verisign's, but I had to order and renew each domain separately, which was a pain, and I figured, if another provider (in this case, Register.com) could do it cheaper and put them all in one place for me to manage, great. If they try to charge me the "regular" price next year, I'll move them all again; I'll risk a few placements with "bulk" registrars once I see that they've survived another year post-internet-burst-bubble.
One thing I do miss about having my domains at the old Network Solutions: the ability to use a crypto key to manage the domains, and doing it all through email. Of course, the downside of using email for their plaintext password alternative was that anyone could see that password, and I'm guessing that email insecurity made forging transfers easier.
Ha! No, actually, he got a degree involving metallurgy in some fashion, but later got a degree in something else, and his career was in something else entirely, etc., so that was the easiest way to say it. I'll tell him your joke, though. He'll probably stroke his copper whiskers (that being the subject of one of his dissertations) and chuckle.
P.S. Lest you think otherwise, while my family has a heavy math/science background (my mom was even more intense than my dad), I wound up with a degree in the social sciences, so don't discount me when I say the "hard" science stuff doesn't interfere with this being an excellent read. Though it does make me want to find my old college chemistry books and see what I slept through...
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Sounds like I would really like this...
From what I have managed to read of the book, it's incredibly witty but also gives a lot of nifty scientific trivia (I have spouted his facts about element name histories, etc., at my dad, who, even with a metallurgical background, was suitably impressed), as well as being a great story about what an unusual life Oliver Sacks has been blessed with. He made me wish I had been there, or even had some of his experiences myself, and there are very few autobiographies I have read that have left me feeling the first, much less the second. In fact, I had intended this book to be my first review for Slashdot, but I misplaced it in one of my moving boxes back in November. (cry!)
Thanks for reminding me that I haven't finished unpacking.
If you store it in the front of your car, instead of in the trunk, you can use the HOV lanes. Totally legal, I swear!
I'm working on some ideas for overclocking and streamlining it... I imagine it will involve removing some (or all) of that fibrous covering. Does it come with or without a "bra" for the front end, like cars?
Does people risk getting sued by downloading the client?
I doubt people will get sued for downloading it. Using it is another matter, and distributing the broken key is more different.
Personally, I draw a line between the RC contests, like distributed.net participates in, and willfully trying to break a company's security.
Sure, you bought the hardware, but I don't see you thinking that cracking keys (or generating faked IMSIs) for your GSM phone is legitimate. And most people will admit that screwing around with key card interceptors and other stuff for their DirecTV receivers in order to get free premium channels is illegitimate. So why do you think it's ok to do it to the XBox, except that you want to screw Microsoft?
If I lived in a city where you had to drive 7 miles just to buy groceries, I'd shoot the city planner, guy in charge of zoning, and the asshole developers who built the residental areas.
Why? Theoretically speaking, you chose to live there. If you don't like it, move.
Just because "Rights" is one of the DRM words, doesn't make it right.
Of course not. If you look at the names of lobbying organizations, you'll find a number of organizations that sound like they are environmentally-oriented but are, in fact, run by oil or other big industry concerns. Same with supposedly health-related lobbyists who really work for tobacco companies, etc. Heck, even "Greenpeace" seems a misnomer sometimes:)
After all, if you can only watch future movies on "approved" OS's, guess which ones
will be approved and which ones won't!
I'm betting that within a week of Microsoft pushing a DRM implementation out to the public, there will probably be an mplayer patch with a couple downloadable DLLs that will do the whole thing.:)
IMHO, software companies created this brain damaged thought process when they beat it into people's heads that it was a license instead of a purchase. Maybe if they started making it clear that we're buying a physical product, people wouldn't feel such entitlement to every future iteration. Honda doesn't send you the latest model every year for any less than the full price, why should Apple?
No, the idea that it's just a license is still valid - as long as you take into account that it's a license for the product in its current state of development. Your license may additionally grant you rights to future improvements depending on how you worked it out, but if it's not explicitly stated, I think the only thing you can justifiably complain about is not getting bug fixes free. (Just like Honda has to do safety recalls, but not give you a free or cheap "upgrade" if the next model car has a better engine or a nicer stereo, etc.)
The idea that you're buying a physical product is actually a bad thing - when you scratch that CD and can't use it any more, if that's all you bought, you have buy another one, because you can't ask them to send you a free or cost-of-media replacement if licenses don't exist. Of course, if all they're selling you is the media, then copyright goes out the window, and anyone can sell you that software. Some people imagine this is true with other media content already, of course.
I bought Zend Studio for a few hundred bucks, it was a good deal, really nice software. Only it doesn't work for me now, it won't run under a glibc2.3 system. Most likely I'll have to buy an upgrade(the new 2.6 version they're pushing) to see it work under my new system.
"Yah, commercial software sucks! I had Norton Utilities 4 when I ran Windows 3.1, and then when I upgraded to 95, suddenly I had to upgrade Norton again. That's sooo unfair..."
This is a silly attitude to take. You changed your system and the software is no longer compatible with it. Did you get a promise that the software would always work with any OS upgrade? I doubt it. Before making the decision to upgrade your OS, you had the responsibility to check to make sure your important app wouldn't break, or that you could get a vendor patch, or that you agreed with how much it was going to cost to upgrade the app to work in the new system.
Of course, you don't have to buy the software upgrade, if building another box is cheaper. Or, perhaps you could run VMware and run the earlier config inside it. On the other hand, you could throw that vendor some more money, because if there wasn't a patch, they probably had to do more than simply recompile. Or you could roll back your libs.
Better to meditate for a couple hours in the car than to get home right away and spend those two hours pureeing your brain with television.
What I found when I lived in Portland was that Oregonians are much more apt to ride bicycles if they can at all, and I even met a few who chose not to have tv sets at home. One of them was a fellow network engineer, so it's not from neo-Luddism, just a different set of personal values. I, being from a larger city in the southwest and not anything like physically fit, grew to consider my 20 minute commute by car as excessive, as well.
As stated on the page, a charge of involuntary manslaughter would have been much more appropiate to these circumstances.
I would agree, save for the fact that she was additionally and quite plainly criminally negligent. Having caused the arson, she could have taken steps to prevent the murder of her 4 victims. She may not have originally intended to kill, but the fact that she did not try to stop them from being killed shows she was not sufficiently averse to it.
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Thanks! Like I said, I hadn't seen anything on it before - I just wasn't typing the right stuff in, I guess.
And how do you do that? Seriously, this one reason why I put off buying either box.
That's a decent response, actually. I haven't compared Bush's cabinet with whom Gore might have chosen - where's the list of Gore's chosen cabinet, or can you just tell me who you remember to be on the list?
...or rather, for apartment use. When you live in a "community" that has rules restricting your ability to mount anything on the walls or roof, and you don't want to put anything down at ground level because someone might walk by and steal it, it's rather hard to get set up for satellite tv, unless you want to do the sackcrete-box-and-pole route, which isn't always sturdy, can still be a pain to set up, etc.
An omnidirectional flat antenna wouldn't attract nearly as much attention, is easier to place, and I suspect that you could probably stick it in a window if you didn't have a balcony or anything outside with line-of-sight to the satellites.
Does your ReplayTV send its content to your PC through its NIC? According to what I've been reading, it will officially only send it to other Replay TV boxes. And unlike Tivo hacking, I haven't read of anyone successfully modifying their ReplayTVs to do this, either.
Or were you just referring to the ability to use a capture board on your PC, which is something you can do with Tivo and your VCR and lots of other stuff?
No kidding. We've used the excuse of dependence on foreign oil to barge around in the Middle East, propping up dictators and then fighting them, since before I was born.
Some judges, really. =) I don't know how Al Gore would have handled foreign policy, but at least he'd have sounded adequately literate during his speeches.
We've got MPlayer, after all.
Besides, when I installed WiMP 9, it broke some of my codecs, so I can't play some DVD-compliant MPG files I was arranging for an upcoming DVD burn. Since I can't even uninstall WiMP 9, I find that very tacky, indeed, because now I need to reinstall the OS on that machine.
(but wait! I can't, yet!)
We've had fun discussions here about how silly the Amazon reviewer rating structure is, before (before Christmas, I think). It seems quite obvious that many of the top-rated reviewers don't actually have the products they are espousing (other than some of the ones who only review movies, etc.) If I want a "review" based on someone reading the ad copy or reading an article because I've suddenly gone blind or something, I'll ask a Best Buy or Fry's drone to do it.
(Obligatory whine: Amazon rejected my review of one of the Information Society's remix compilation albums, because they said I was demeaning to the artist's work. What I basically said was that this one CD is a really bad compilation, if you're new to them or are interested, go buy one of the real albums, which are good, etc. Typical stuff I wished I'd known before I bought the CD, and a redirect to their real work. I appealed, but a second customer service drone stuck to the verdict. Apparently, though I've done that before and I've seen several other reviews that are like that, they don't want "negative" reviews any more. I could resubmit the comment if I basically said "their other work is better," but that's about it.)
I used TurboTax last year, so I figured I'd use it again this year, and went and bought it (they mailed me a disc last month asking me to "renew," but they wanted more than I knew these January bundles would be). I want to go ahead and start pre-planning my return, and add stuff as 1099 forms come in the mail, etc. I figured that, like last year, I could just copy the new saved file off when I go to reformat and rebuild my comuter next month. Luckily, I read the disclaimer in the package, because I have to either put off reformatting or I have to put off installing TurboTax.
I can definitely say that next year, if they haven't stopped this stupid limitation, I'm switching back to TaxCut, which I used two years ago. I only switched over last year because the bundles (free-after-rebate Microsoft Money vs. free-after-rebate Quicken) seemed to be about the same, and I wanted to give Quicken a try.
(In fact, that reminds me, I will probably switch back next year, anyway, because this is the first year I actually had time to try Quicken, and it's one giant ad for other services, with "features" that don't seem to work well unless you subscribe to those services! Good lord, no wonder they "give it away" with rebates - who wants to pay for software with ads in it and that is less than it promises? I don't recall Microsoft Money being that bad?)
They probably kept it in the hope that someone would pay to be on the "waiting list." I don't know how much the waiting list costs, but I'm sure it makes waiting 6-8 months or more before releasing cost effective.
Sleeping? Who has time to sleep? No, I expect with a new-generation prototype like that, I could easily spend nights in full diagnostic mode once I strip it down, maybe some extended-transfer throughput tests on her - uhh, it's - ports, etc. Yah. Nothing like finding the undocumented tweaks and getting the system truly singing, so to speak.
Actually, if you want to transfer domains to Verisign/NetSol, they play the same game as Register.com and some others, of offering you a low first-year's transfer fee, then later renewals at higher than the bulk registration market's price.
I recently switched a bunch of names from Melbourne IT to Register.com after getting a flyer in the mail offering a transfer ("plus remaining time on your old registration" for something like $15 per year, or cheaper if you get longer terms. Unfortunately, their normal quoted registrations are like $30 a year, so I wouldn't have done it otherwise. Verisign's offer was similar (no flyer needed but $19 a year for transfers), but I was a bit leery of their bad rep regarding tying up domain names that expire, yanking registrations away anytime a big business hints that it wants a domain, etc., and I remembered the spam that I got from them to my hostmaster address when a domain was registered through them.
For that matter, the agent of Melbourne IT that I went through had prices similar to Verisign's, but I had to order and renew each domain separately, which was a pain, and I figured, if another provider (in this case, Register.com) could do it cheaper and put them all in one place for me to manage, great. If they try to charge me the "regular" price next year, I'll move them all again; I'll risk a few placements with "bulk" registrars once I see that they've survived another year post-internet-burst-bubble.
One thing I do miss about having my domains at the old Network Solutions: the ability to use a crypto key to manage the domains, and doing it all through email. Of course, the downside of using email for their plaintext password alternative was that anyone could see that password, and I'm guessing that email insecurity made forging transfers easier.
Ha! No, actually, he got a degree involving metallurgy in some fashion, but later got a degree in something else, and his career was in something else entirely, etc., so that was the easiest way to say it. I'll tell him your joke, though. He'll probably stroke his copper whiskers (that being the subject of one of his dissertations) and chuckle.
P.S. Lest you think otherwise, while my family has a heavy math/science background (my mom was even more intense than my dad), I wound up with a degree in the social sciences, so don't discount me when I say the "hard" science stuff doesn't interfere with this being an excellent read. Though it does make me want to find my old college chemistry books and see what I slept through...
From what I have managed to read of the book, it's incredibly witty but also gives a lot of nifty scientific trivia (I have spouted his facts about element name histories, etc., at my dad, who, even with a metallurgical background, was suitably impressed), as well as being a great story about what an unusual life Oliver Sacks has been blessed with. He made me wish I had been there, or even had some of his experiences myself, and there are very few autobiographies I have read that have left me feeling the first, much less the second. In fact, I had intended this book to be my first review for Slashdot, but I misplaced it in one of my moving boxes back in November. (cry!)
Thanks for reminding me that I haven't finished unpacking.
If you store it in the front of your car, instead of in the trunk, you can use the HOV lanes. Totally legal, I swear!
I'm working on some ideas for overclocking and streamlining it... I imagine it will involve removing some (or all) of that fibrous covering. Does it come with or without a "bra" for the front end, like cars?
I doubt people will get sued for downloading it. Using it is another matter, and distributing the broken key is more different.
Personally, I draw a line between the RC contests, like distributed.net participates in, and willfully trying to break a company's security.
Sure, you bought the hardware, but I don't see you thinking that cracking keys (or generating faked IMSIs) for your GSM phone is legitimate. And most people will admit that screwing around with key card interceptors and other stuff for their DirecTV receivers in order to get free premium channels is illegitimate. So why do you think it's ok to do it to the XBox, except that you want to screw Microsoft?
Why? Theoretically speaking, you chose to live there. If you don't like it, move.
Let's all write him and ask?
Of course not. If you look at the names of lobbying organizations, you'll find a number of organizations that sound like they are environmentally-oriented but are, in fact, run by oil or other big industry concerns. Same with supposedly health-related lobbyists who really work for tobacco companies, etc. Heck, even "Greenpeace" seems a misnomer sometimes
No, the idea that it's just a license is still valid - as long as you take into account that it's a license for the product in its current state of development. Your license may additionally grant you rights to future improvements depending on how you worked it out, but if it's not explicitly stated, I think the only thing you can justifiably complain about is not getting bug fixes free. (Just like Honda has to do safety recalls, but not give you a free or cheap "upgrade" if the next model car has a better engine or a nicer stereo, etc.)
The idea that you're buying a physical product is actually a bad thing - when you scratch that CD and can't use it any more, if that's all you bought, you have buy another one, because you can't ask them to send you a free or cost-of-media replacement if licenses don't exist. Of course, if all they're selling you is the media, then copyright goes out the window, and anyone can sell you that software. Some people imagine this is true with other media content already, of course.
"Yah, commercial software sucks! I had Norton Utilities 4 when I ran Windows 3.1, and then when I upgraded to 95, suddenly I had to upgrade Norton again. That's sooo unfair..."
This is a silly attitude to take. You changed your system and the software is no longer compatible with it. Did you get a promise that the software would always work with any OS upgrade? I doubt it. Before making the decision to upgrade your OS, you had the responsibility to check to make sure your important app wouldn't break, or that you could get a vendor patch, or that you agreed with how much it was going to cost to upgrade the app to work in the new system.
Of course, you don't have to buy the software upgrade, if building another box is cheaper. Or, perhaps you could run VMware and run the earlier config inside it. On the other hand, you could throw that vendor some more money, because if there wasn't a patch, they probably had to do more than simply recompile. Or you could roll back your libs.
Silly me, I was still thinking only of frats, and not secret world domination societies.
What I found when I lived in Portland was that Oregonians are much more apt to ride bicycles if they can at all, and I even met a few who chose not to have tv sets at home. One of them was a fellow network engineer, so it's not from neo-Luddism, just a different set of personal values. I, being from a larger city in the southwest and not anything like physically fit, grew to consider my 20 minute commute by car as excessive, as well.
I would agree, save for the fact that she was additionally and quite plainly criminally negligent. Having caused the arson, she could have taken steps to prevent the murder of her 4 victims. She may not have originally intended to kill, but the fact that she did not try to stop them from being killed shows she was not sufficiently averse to it.