Ah, but the MIDI port worked wonderfully for the all important MIDI MAZE, a game where smiley faces wandered through a maze in 3d and shot at each other (predating Wolf3d by some time). Up to 16 players, all connected by $5 MIDI cables. We used to get together and play all the time. I even ran permanent cables under my carpet down the hall to my roommates room so we could play in comfort.
Use your Season Pass Manager to lower the priority of that Food Show. TiVo will pick up the other show at 10 PM and automagically get the Food Show at 2 AM.
If you got a Series 2, they came with the 2.0 software which didn't do a lot of the neat stuff in this area we've taken for granted since 2.5. When you get 3.0 you'll be very pleased with the control (in fact, I did exactly what you described for Witchblade last year with 2.5. It conflicted during it's 8 PM run so I got the 2 am repeat. Worked great).
There is one site that I know of that attempts to pop up it's ads, and once they fail pops open a dialog box that tells you they use those ads to pay for the site and you should disable your adblocking software. You can't get to the site unless you allow the popups.
Dynamic DNS allows that with DHCP. You don't have to have a static IP to be rang up, if your DHCP server makes a DNS entry every time you get an IP address.
We've recently implemented that where I work, and it's working great, including secure connections through firewalls that require reverse lookups.
Y'know, I WANT to vote for Adam Warlock, because I really like him, but looking at his track record, you have to be skeptical that he's the man for the job. After all, he only seems to solve the problem of Thanos, but really it keeps coming back, like Saddam Hussein or something. Can he solve any problems, really, without having to hibernate in a coccoon for a couple years to find out the exact same problem is back?
Though, having Puck in the White House would be cool. And I can just see Drax the Destroyer as Secretary of Defense!
So, my father, who's computer did not come with Office but came with MS Works, should go out and spend another $400 on Office so he can open one email attachment (yes, he can use a viewer, but in this case he was asked to make corrections to the attachment and send it back).
Or, he should steal it?
Isn't politely asking the user to send it in another format, one that they have in common, a better answer?
Actually, the integrated units do NOT re-encode the signal. They don't even have an MPEG encoder in the hardware. They record the bitstream exactly as it comes from the satellite company, where their much more expensive encoders have already encoded it.
These same people who can't figure out the interface changes in Windows or Linux or Mac, who you regard as being ok for that problem, have absolutely zero problem when they buy a new TV or VCR or DVD Player and have to learn a new remote. It's a new interface, they simply learn it, without even bitching much. Some go out and buy universal remotes and Prontos so they can keep their old interface, but most just learn the new interface ("Oh, play is over here now"). There's no "extremely simple, fairly standard UI" on consumer electronics. Even on-screen displays differ from manufacturer to manufacturer.
The reason they can't do that on their computer is that it's somehow "ok" to not understand a computer, so most of them don't bother to try. They are afraid of the machine and so learn exactly how to do the one or two things they need to know, and as soon as you move the button it confuses them, because they were always intimidated in the first place. You make them comfortable with the computer, they'll be less bothered by where the little "x" moved to.
On the other hand, in the proprietary software world, if John Q Consumer-Nondeveloper needs one more feature, he CAN'T hire Jane P. Developer to make it for him. He has to ask the software developer if they will make it, and then wait and wait and wait and hope the developer agrees.
In the open source world, the freedom to modify that software to get you that one extra feature is a great strength.
Try the other site then, http://www.stargate-sg1.com. Depending on where the hyphen is, you get the Showtime site, or the MGM site, which deals with the syndicated version (ie, the shows from last year that are run on Fox or wherever). I was always amused that they have two separate web sites so fans who don't get Showtime don't end up with spoilers.
Good point. We should arrest the publishers of those bestiality magazines you can get in Denmark because, while they are legal to make in Denmark, they are illegal in the US and darn it, that's all that counts right?
Makes as much sense as arresting Dmitri for writing a legal program in Russia.
By extension, anyone in the US who criticizes Islam can be arrested by the Iranians, right? I wonder what THAT extradition hearing would be like. For that matter, where IS Salman Rushdie these days?
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I was going to suggest Pig Latin. Then, when the prosecutor understands your responses, ask him how he can understand you. When he explains, inform him that he's just violated the same DMCA Dmitri did and he should be on trial, too, since he just described how to make a technological device to circumvent a copy protection measure.
"Iay amay orrysay, utbay ouyay ivegay emay onay oichechay"
We were paralyzed because we have no equipment or experience dealing with snow. For our northern friends, if I point out that the city was literally "on hold" with Police warnings not to leave your home because of dangerous road conditions for three days, and then add that we got 1/4 inch of snow, they'll laugh their butts off. The problem is that everything is slanted here for water runoff, and all those overpasses and bridges all froze and we had no way to remove the ice, short of waiting for the sun to do it on its own. We tried to borrow de-icing equipment, but cities north of us who had it, were USING it, understandably.
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the global temperature has risen about 1.5 degrees. If penguins are dying because it's less than 2 degrees warmer, then penguins were not going to survive anyway.
Katz' argument that people can "feel the weather has changed" has nothing to do with Global Warming. Earths climate has regular cycles. There are periods of particularly mild climactic change, usually lasting about 100 years. We exited one of those periods in the mid 1990s. As predicted, the weather has become more volatile. This has nothing to do with global warming, and everything to do with normal variations in the Earths climate (probably caused by orbital changes). People, especially uneducated people, base their opinions on what they know and what they are told by the media. Since none of them were alive before we entered the period of mild climactic change, that period seems "normal" to them, rather than the abnormality it really was. We'll have a few thousand years of rougher weather, whether we drive SUVs, or were huddling around a campfire in a cave.
Will it be a couple degrees warmer? Possibly. But Mt Pinatubo threw up enough dust to cool the average temperature 1 full degree for several years (reducing average global temperatures to roughly a half degree higher than before the Industrial Revolution). Averages, people, are averages. If we are 2 degrees higher for a few years, and a few degrees lower a few years, guess what? We are average.
I agree that scientists should study these things. I don't agree that the time has come to worry about the sky falling.
It's not a feature, it was never a feature. It's a programmer backdoor. If Microsoft upgrades IIS to remove the backdoor and you were using it, do you really think you are going to get them to put it back? Do you really think they need your consent to do so?
It's an exploit of debugging code accidentally left behind. Whether the users "like" it or not is really irrelevant, they were told, repeatedly, that the unit they bought doesn't have that functionality, they shouldn't be surprised to find out that, son of a gun, it really DOESN'T have that functionality.
True, but Tivo has stated that, were they to go out of business, they would send a code down to disable all the nags and turn it into just a digital VCR. How you feel about that promise would determine whether you think the product is worth getting.
On the other hand, I'm sure I'm not the only one here with a closet full of electronics that don't have their full functionality anymore. I had an 8-track recorder. Seen any blank 8-tracks for sale lately? For that matter, blank Beta tapes aren't easy to find, nor new software for my Commodore 64.
Heh. Actually I don't. I'm a Solaris consultant currently at a large financial institution. I live in Florida, pretty far from Tivo. I just happen to love mine and am amazed at some of the irrational responses I've seen.
Ok, so it's pretty slow at work and maybe I'm spending too much time on Slashdot. Point taken. Thanks.
Actually, Tivo has long stated that newer machines will be pretty non-functional without the service. You can pause and trick-play Live TV and that's about it. This is not new, we've known this for months.
Tivo doesn't make money off the box itself, they make money off the service. They have no incentive to sell a box without service. If you don't want the service, don't buy one, it's not the product you want.
Having said that, there are numerous people in the AVS Forum who comment that they bought it to use as an expensive VCR fully intending to not use the service, until they had it and used it during their free trial. They loved the functionality and decided to keep the service. Tivo is hard to describe, it really takes using one to fully appreciate it.
Sorry. I didn't mean you personally, I meant anybody who buys a product specifically for a feature the manufacturer insists it doesn't have.
As for 30 second skip, that was a developer test, that was disabled. It was found a VERY short time before 2.0 started shipping (a couple weeks). It was never intended for consumers to find it. There are some guys in the Underground Forum who've insisted that it wasn't removed, but the enabling sequence was changed, but they haven't revealed (or found?) the new sequence.
While some people are fanatical about 30 second skip, most of us don't care, as we can fast forward through the commercials whether they are multiples of 30 seconds or not, without it. There have already been some reports from users who've discovered commercials not being 30 seconds long, the networks can beat 30 second skip pretty easy.
It IS a new feature, but it's a new feature intended for boxes that ship with 2.01. The part that was overlooked was that it also affected boxes that shipped with 1.3.
Since Tivo makes money only on the subscription, why are you surprised that they'd want a subscription-only model?
I've seen very few people make real cases for buying a Tivo without the service. The service is what makes Tivo great. Without it, it's a pretty expensive VCR. I believe someone said that some other company will be selling digital VCRs that allow simply manual recording with no service in the future. Those people who only want that are encouraged to go that way. Tivo is about the service, and how it changes your Television viewing.
Why does it seem that way? Tivo says it was overlooked in testing (the new software is correct, it's just supposed to notice that the unit is grandfathered and not do it on those systems). The only way it was "Yet Another Evil Corporate Move" is for Richard Bullwinkle and Tivo to be lying. What evidence do you have that they are lying? (Can I assume you've never made a mistake?)
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Mine has progressive scan too. I use it on both Socom and Burnout 2. Those are the only games that support it.
AND, I've played both a DVD-R and a DVD+RW in my Playstation within the last few days, without any effort whatsoever.
So I'm really puzzled by this announcement.
Ah, but the MIDI port worked wonderfully for the all important MIDI MAZE, a game where smiley faces wandered through a maze in 3d and shot at each other (predating Wolf3d by some time). Up to 16 players, all connected by $5 MIDI cables. We used to get together and play all the time. I even ran permanent cables under my carpet down the hall to my roommates room so we could play in comfort.
Oh yeah, you built new mazes with a text editor!
I loved that game!
Use your Season Pass Manager to lower the priority of that Food Show. TiVo will pick up the other show at 10 PM and automagically get the Food Show at 2 AM.
If you got a Series 2, they came with the 2.0 software which didn't do a lot of the neat stuff in this area we've taken for granted since 2.5. When you get 3.0 you'll be very pleased with the control (in fact, I did exactly what you described for Witchblade last year with 2.5. It conflicted during it's 8 PM run so I got the 2 am repeat. Worked great).
There is one site that I know of that attempts to pop up it's ads, and once they fail pops open a dialog box that tells you they use those ads to pay for the site and you should disable your adblocking software. You can't get to the site unless you allow the popups.
How do you reconcile Joel's "never rewrite code from scratch" with Brooks' "Plan to throw one away. You will anyway"?
Dynamic DNS allows that with DHCP. You don't have to have a static IP to be rang up, if your DHCP server makes a DNS entry every time you get an IP address.
We've recently implemented that where I work, and it's working great, including secure connections through firewalls that require reverse lookups.
How can you make money selling something that nobody wanted when it was free?
Y'know, I WANT to vote for Adam Warlock, because I really like him, but looking at his track record, you have to be skeptical that he's the man for the job. After all, he only seems to solve the problem of Thanos, but really it keeps coming back, like Saddam Hussein or something. Can he solve any problems, really, without having to hibernate in a coccoon for a couple years to find out the exact same problem is back?
Though, having Puck in the White House would be cool. And I can just see Drax the Destroyer as Secretary of Defense!
So, my father, who's computer did not come with Office but came with MS Works, should go out and spend another $400 on Office so he can open one email attachment (yes, he can use a viewer, but in this case he was asked to make corrections to the attachment and send it back).
Or, he should steal it?
Isn't politely asking the user to send it in another format, one that they have in common, a better answer?
Actually, the integrated units do NOT re-encode the signal. They don't even have an MPEG encoder in the hardware. They record the bitstream exactly as it comes from the satellite company, where their much more expensive encoders have already encoded it.
These same people who can't figure out the interface changes in Windows or Linux or Mac, who you regard as being ok for that problem, have absolutely zero problem when they buy a new TV or VCR or DVD Player and have to learn a new remote. It's a new interface, they simply learn it, without even bitching much. Some go out and buy universal remotes and Prontos so they can keep their old interface, but most just learn the new interface ("Oh, play is over here now"). There's no "extremely simple, fairly standard UI" on consumer electronics. Even on-screen displays differ from manufacturer to manufacturer.
The reason they can't do that on their computer is that it's somehow "ok" to not understand a computer, so most of them don't bother to try. They are afraid of the machine and so learn exactly how to do the one or two things they need to know, and as soon as you move the button it confuses them, because they were always intimidated in the first place. You make them comfortable with the computer, they'll be less bothered by where the little "x" moved to.
In the open source world, the freedom to modify that software to get you that one extra feature is a great strength.
Try the other site then, http://www.stargate-sg1.com. Depending on where the hyphen is, you get the Showtime site, or the MGM site, which deals with the syndicated version (ie, the shows from last year that are run on Fox or wherever). I was always amused that they have two separate web sites so fans who don't get Showtime don't end up with spoilers.
Makes as much sense as arresting Dmitri for writing a legal program in Russia.
By extension, anyone in the US who criticizes Islam can be arrested by the Iranians, right? I wonder what THAT extradition hearing would be like. For that matter, where IS Salman Rushdie these days?
I was going to suggest Pig Latin. Then, when the prosecutor understands your responses, ask him how he can understand you. When he explains, inform him that he's just violated the same DMCA Dmitri did and he should be on trial, too, since he just described how to make a technological device to circumvent a copy protection measure. "Iay amay orrysay, utbay ouyay ivegay emay onay oichechay"
Doesn't Jon Katz win that one automatically?
We were paralyzed because we have no equipment or experience dealing with snow. For our northern friends, if I point out that the city was literally "on hold" with Police warnings not to leave your home because of dangerous road conditions for three days, and then add that we got 1/4 inch of snow, they'll laugh their butts off. The problem is that everything is slanted here for water runoff, and all those overpasses and bridges all froze and we had no way to remove the ice, short of waiting for the sun to do it on its own. We tried to borrow de-icing equipment, but cities north of us who had it, were USING it, understandably.
Katz' argument that people can "feel the weather has changed" has nothing to do with Global Warming. Earths climate has regular cycles. There are periods of particularly mild climactic change, usually lasting about 100 years. We exited one of those periods in the mid 1990s. As predicted, the weather has become more volatile. This has nothing to do with global warming, and everything to do with normal variations in the Earths climate (probably caused by orbital changes). People, especially uneducated people, base their opinions on what they know and what they are told by the media. Since none of them were alive before we entered the period of mild climactic change, that period seems "normal" to them, rather than the abnormality it really was. We'll have a few thousand years of rougher weather, whether we drive SUVs, or were huddling around a campfire in a cave.
Will it be a couple degrees warmer? Possibly. But Mt Pinatubo threw up enough dust to cool the average temperature 1 full degree for several years (reducing average global temperatures to roughly a half degree higher than before the Industrial Revolution). Averages, people, are averages. If we are 2 degrees higher for a few years, and a few degrees lower a few years, guess what? We are average.
I agree that scientists should study these things. I don't agree that the time has come to worry about the sky falling.
It's an exploit of debugging code accidentally left behind. Whether the users "like" it or not is really irrelevant, they were told, repeatedly, that the unit they bought doesn't have that functionality, they shouldn't be surprised to find out that, son of a gun, it really DOESN'T have that functionality.
On the other hand, I'm sure I'm not the only one here with a closet full of electronics that don't have their full functionality anymore. I had an 8-track recorder. Seen any blank 8-tracks for sale lately? For that matter, blank Beta tapes aren't easy to find, nor new software for my Commodore 64.
Ok, so it's pretty slow at work and maybe I'm spending too much time on Slashdot. Point taken. Thanks.
Tivo doesn't make money off the box itself, they make money off the service. They have no incentive to sell a box without service. If you don't want the service, don't buy one, it's not the product you want.
Having said that, there are numerous people in the AVS Forum who comment that they bought it to use as an expensive VCR fully intending to not use the service, until they had it and used it during their free trial. They loved the functionality and decided to keep the service. Tivo is hard to describe, it really takes using one to fully appreciate it.
As for 30 second skip, that was a developer test, that was disabled. It was found a VERY short time before 2.0 started shipping (a couple weeks). It was never intended for consumers to find it. There are some guys in the Underground Forum who've insisted that it wasn't removed, but the enabling sequence was changed, but they haven't revealed (or found?) the new sequence.
While some people are fanatical about 30 second skip, most of us don't care, as we can fast forward through the commercials whether they are multiples of 30 seconds or not, without it. There have already been some reports from users who've discovered commercials not being 30 seconds long, the networks can beat 30 second skip pretty easy.
Since Tivo makes money only on the subscription, why are you surprised that they'd want a subscription-only model?
I've seen very few people make real cases for buying a Tivo without the service. The service is what makes Tivo great. Without it, it's a pretty expensive VCR. I believe someone said that some other company will be selling digital VCRs that allow simply manual recording with no service in the future. Those people who only want that are encouraged to go that way. Tivo is about the service, and how it changes your Television viewing.
Why does it seem that way? Tivo says it was overlooked in testing (the new software is correct, it's just supposed to notice that the unit is grandfathered and not do it on those systems). The only way it was "Yet Another Evil Corporate Move" is for Richard Bullwinkle and Tivo to be lying. What evidence do you have that they are lying? (Can I assume you've never made a mistake?)