Kermit with sliding windows was/is known as SuperKermit. zmodem leapfrogged SuperKermit (pun intended) speedwise by using a more efficient encoding and larger blocksizes. And, it was less processor and memory intensive than Kermit. But Kermit was more robust.
In the sense that some games glorify crime, I think it's reasonable to ask whether they lead the player to antisocial behavior.
But, I don't think it's fair to say that a person is antisocial because they choose to spend their time alone playing games. Asocial maybe, but not antisocial.
And to claim that lan parties are antisocial or asocial seems absurd.
No one individuals personal privacy has been violated.
Still, the ostensible reason Tivo has this info in the first place is to provide a service to a paying customer. It would have been possible to put the "season pass" and "thumbs up" logic on the client, but they decided to implement it serverside where they can have access to the data.
Now, they are using this info for their own direct gains. The benefits and/or detriments to the consumer are arguable, yet they assume the consumer is willing to participate. IMO, Tivo should be opt-in rather than opt-out.
Hopefully if they can sustain enough income from this, they can drop their monthly fees.
Yeah sure. And my left testicle is large enough that I can afford to chop of my right one. It's not gonna happen though, at least not by choice.
The whole idea of having to pay for program listings is BS. It's in the advertiser's, producer's, and broadcaster's best interest for their listings to be seen by as many people as possible. Tivo's competitors should tell the broadcasters that they are planning to offer free listings (xml over usenet maybe) and that each broadcaster is responsible for providing their schedules, else be invisible to the viewers.
Others have already mentioned the Cadillac V8-6-4. It used solenoids to make the valves on certain cylinders stay closed. The energy wasted on the compression and exhaust strokes was mostly recovered on the downstrokes.
AFAIK, this technique only work for combinations of cylinders which balance against each other. The 8-6-4 dropped the two inner cyls on one bank, and the two outers on the other. I don't think you would ever want to drop just one cylinder.
It's true that drivers didn't like it. Caddy only did it to meet fuel economy standards for 1981. They rolled out an entirely new engine the next year that made the 8-6-4 cars pretty desirable on the used car market.
A source close to the Pentagon claims to have seen evidence of a Martian plot to destroy vital U.S. interests around the globe. He spoke to us on the condition that we refer to him only as "Bugs".
"They have an Illudium Q36 explosive space modulator, and we're the ones who sold it to them" explained Bugs. "Back in the fifties, there was an American company called Acme who would sell anything to anyone. The Martian leader, a looney little guy named Marvin was a regular customer. He's hell bent on destroying the Earth. It's all he ever talks about. Something to do with his view of Venus." Some research into the Acme company seems to confirm Bugs' allegations.
But Martian Information Minister, Wyle. E. Coyote, told us a different story. "There is no Illudium Q36 explosive space modulator. This is a myth being spread by the evil ones. "Sure, they sold us some rocket powered roller skates, and giant magnets, but we only use those to control the roadrunner population." He went on to deny the existence of tens of thousands of freeze-dried Martian warriors.
So get out your telescope on Aug. 27, but wear some earplugs. There just might be an earth-shattering kaboom.
The stereo shop I worked at in Boston in the 80's carried Bose. That is, until Dr. Bose came in one night and the salesman, not knowing who he was, told him that Bose speakers suck. Everyone who worked there agreed that Bose was junk and made no effort to hide it. The only people who ever bought Bose from us were MIT students. We were pretty sure that one of them must have informed him about us.
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"ascii middle finger"
Should be EBCDIC middle finger.
But they have nothing to lose, so they're free to run a "scorched-earth" campaign.
We'll have it ported to Linux in no time.
Hotmeal spam, arghahghaghahghaga
Mr. Rembrandt? I'm guessing it was about 1970.
Kermit with sliding windows was/is known as SuperKermit. zmodem leapfrogged SuperKermit (pun intended) speedwise by using a more efficient encoding and larger blocksizes. And, it was less processor and memory intensive than Kermit. But Kermit was more robust.
I guess it's just not easy being green.
In the sense that some games glorify crime, I think it's reasonable to ask whether they lead the player to antisocial behavior.
But, I don't think it's fair to say that a person is antisocial because they choose to spend their time alone playing games. Asocial maybe, but not antisocial.
And to claim that lan parties are antisocial or asocial seems absurd.
In "Sleeper", to an offer to try out the "oragasmatron", he says "No thank you, I'm stricty a manual operator."
So what happens if they conclude that "Tivo owners tend to skip ads" and "Star Trek viewers tend to use Tivo"?
No one individuals personal privacy has been violated.
Still, the ostensible reason Tivo has this info in the first place is to provide a service to a paying customer. It would have been possible to put the "season pass" and "thumbs up" logic on the client, but they decided to implement it serverside where they can have access to the data.
Now, they are using this info for their own direct gains. The benefits and/or detriments to the consumer are arguable, yet they assume the consumer is willing to participate. IMO, Tivo should be opt-in rather than opt-out.
Hopefully if they can sustain enough income from this, they can drop their monthly fees.
Yeah sure. And my left testicle is large enough that I can afford to chop of my right one. It's not gonna happen though, at least not by choice.
The whole idea of having to pay for program listings is BS. It's in the advertiser's, producer's, and broadcaster's best interest for their listings to be seen by as many people as possible. Tivo's competitors should tell the broadcasters that they are planning to offer free listings (xml over usenet maybe) and that each broadcaster is responsible for providing their schedules, else be invisible to the viewers.
Others have already mentioned the Cadillac V8-6-4. It used solenoids to make the valves on certain cylinders stay closed. The energy wasted on the compression and exhaust strokes was mostly recovered on the downstrokes.
AFAIK, this technique only work for combinations of cylinders which balance against each other. The 8-6-4 dropped the two inner cyls on one bank, and the two outers on the other. I don't think you would ever want to drop just one cylinder.
It's true that drivers didn't like it. Caddy only did it to meet fuel economy standards for 1981. They rolled out an entirely new engine the next year that made the 8-6-4 cars pretty desirable on the used car market.
Troll? I've hate to bitch about moderation, but...
But I'd rather be blown!
Sperry (the company that bough Eckert and Mauchly's company...
Actually, it was "Remington Rand" which bought out Eckert and Mauchly. The "Sperry Rand" merger happened later.
No one had contested that Eckert and Mauchly had designed the first electronic computer.
Honeywell claimed that the Univac patent was invalid because the design was derived from the work of Atanasoff and Berry.
"...the slightest idea of what Memorial Day is..."
I used to, but I forgot.
Are you sure it wasn't like two other guys, or something?
A source close to the Pentagon claims to have seen evidence of a Martian plot to destroy vital U.S. interests around the globe. He spoke to us on the condition that we refer to him only as "Bugs".
"They have an Illudium Q36 explosive space modulator, and we're the ones who sold it to them" explained Bugs. "Back in the fifties, there was an American company called Acme who would sell anything to anyone. The Martian leader, a looney little guy named Marvin was a regular customer. He's hell bent on destroying the Earth. It's all he ever talks about. Something to do with his view of Venus." Some research into the Acme company seems to confirm Bugs' allegations.
But Martian Information Minister, Wyle. E. Coyote, told us a different story. "There is no Illudium Q36 explosive space modulator. This is a myth being spread by the evil ones. "Sure, they sold us some rocket powered roller skates, and giant magnets, but we only use those to control the roadrunner population." He went on to deny the existence of tens of thousands of freeze-dried Martian warriors.
So get out your telescope on Aug. 27, but wear some earplugs. There just might be an earth-shattering kaboom.
Are you sure you don't mean XNS?
And if Sheriff Roscoe had one, he'd be in Luke Duke pursuit. Meanwhile, back at the Boar's Nest...
"... over-abusing their powers,"
If you over-abuse your congressional member, you'll go blind.
by Arthur Ganson
Bowels in motion
Surak scores plus-five funny
Blew my ass-gasket
"There isn't a pronunciation for *nix"
Make quotation marks in the air with your fingers and, in your best Dr. Evil voice, say "u-nix".
I have a good one for you. Tex Avery's "Red Hot Riding Hood" from 1943.
"--A former student of Professor Bose's"
The stereo shop I worked at in Boston in the 80's carried Bose. That is, until Dr. Bose came in one night and the salesman, not knowing who he was, told him that Bose speakers suck. Everyone who worked there agreed that Bose was junk and made no effort to hide it. The only people who ever bought Bose from us were MIT students. We were pretty sure that one of them must have informed him about us.