TVs should be a display and that's it. Give it the brain to decode HDMI signals and the tuner for over the air digital but that should be it.
You've said two incompatible things there. Wither you want your tv to just have a baseband hdmi input or 10, or you want it to receive a data stream and decide it. Dvbt, dvbc, ts over ip, doesn't matter.
You presumably want a way of displaying what channels are in your stream, without tuning in manually and selecting a pid.
Fundamentally what's the difference between watching a dvb stream over the air, and watching a Netflix program?
Nerf Now was my pleasant discovery in 2012:) Yes, some humor can be a bit weird for non-gamers, but you can't just limit yourself to XKCD (okay, maybe you can, but more regular content is better)
Xkcd has come out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for years. How is that not regular?
Google needs to test their system in environments with agressive/dickhead drivers around it. No, not the SoCal 4-lane emergency exit lane-changers (which is bad enough). More like Phoenix AZ drivers, or the SCORE-wannabe truck drivers, or the ricer-racers, or the numb octogenarians in their Crown Vics/Lincoln Continentals, or the wanna-be Marios in their Escalades/Range Rovers/G500s etc.
Try it in Cairo or Delhi, worse than anything in the western world.
There was a joke a while back about physically punching people through the computer screen, and today we have vibrators that work exactly like this (and vibrating underwear). Wouldn't that be prior art and an example of longdistance physical activity between people?
I wonder if the 'gravitationally neutral' selected position is provably safe from glancing impact from other bodies that might cause either of them to change course to hit Earth?
On the other hand moving the asteroid may avoid that event
There is zero chance that MS will not improve it. They are desperate for apps and they approve total crap. They will not ban a quality app. Also the music player has nothing to do with selling music. The player is not related to the files you get from their service.
I suspect Microsoft have contributed a large amount to the project
With the frequency of RPi "articles" on/. one might wonder if there is some payola behind the positive press.
But not a word is spoken about the ongoing supply chain issues, and resellers making candid statements about it not being worthwhile to try to carry them. Can we have a moratorium on articles that drive up RPi demand until the Foundation can get its supply caught up more with the demand you've already created?
I just bought 6, delivered next day. What supply problems?
if it weren't for Mr. Torvald's kernel, the GNU project would be still spinning its wheels.
True, but where would Linux be without GNU? The GNU project created all the other parts of an operating system, and then Linus created a kernel. He built it using GNU, and he built it to use GNU. Linux didn't replace GNU; it is de facto part of GNU.
A desktop os needs a browser (Firefox), text editor (vim), office suite (OpenOffice), PDF reader (evince), window manager (kde), etc
Gcc and Libc are very important, but to the end user gnu is a tiny part of the system.
Oh my word! That's shocking! I can't believe that even needs stating. Even in Saudi Arabia it's perfectly legal (and encouraged).
A brief bit of research on the internet confirms that the U.S. is far more puritanical than the rest of the world. Whether that's because of the same failure in the education system which means religion is so pervasive, or pressure from formula companies like Nestle that want to flog their own stuff at the expense of babies health
Say we are in a crisis situation, both pinned down behind cover, I don't have a shot, but you do. You have been shot in your dominant arm (or handicapped one armed) so you are unable to fiddle with a weapon. I can safely throw you my weapon with a round in the chamber ready to shoot, you can pick it up and shoot with no delay. Try that with some electronic gizmo......
They want to sell shitty pictures, taken by shitty camera phones, that have shitty filters applied to them? Great business model there.
This is nothing about using them for general advertising. This is about using them to 1) Work out where you've been, what you've done, and where you're likely to go for targetted adverts 2) Using your pictures in adverts targeted to you and your friends. "Hay Bob, Dave just got back from Rome (with photo of Dave in the Colosseum), click here to book a flight!"
If I wanted to watch the final season of sopranos legitimately (and believe me, I tried), I saw something like 2 episodes, then it went away for about a month, came back for another couple of episodes and it was gone again. Typical television patronage, here. My response? What am I supposed to do? Hang out for the tv guide, every week? Sorry, you created my desire to watch your program and I'm now going to watch it.
We had this through the 90s in the uk, so people like me downloaded the episodes (starting off on 56k modems at about 128kbit)
Then sky caught on and now episodes are broadcast within a week of u.s. airings (some series we had the episodes before the u.s!)
However we don't bother any more, too much hassle, we simply wait for the DVDs to come out. Just finished watching Sanctuary, and have reached season 7 of 24 (we gave up when it left the BBC after day 2). We do lose something in the lack of cliffhangers, but the lack of adverts, the lack of faff of downloading, and the instant availability when and where we want, more than makes up for it.
We occasionally dip back into TV -- we watched Terra Nova last year. Just got into it, and then it was cancelled. By waiting a few years we can see when a series is worthwhile buying.
NASA is not showing much of a sense of humor here.
On a very personal note, I wish they'd fly it out of the solar system, in the hopes that it might eventually land on a planet somewhere after drifting through space for a few billion years.
Because, who knows... maybe a few bacteria currently contaminate the probe, survive the drift through space, and end up finding their new planet hospitable. Or more fun yet, it could land within the reach of pre-modern civilization somewhere.
These probes don't have enough fuel to get back to earth, let alone escape the sun's gravity well.
9% of the US presidents died for job related reasons - people shot them. The cost of security is not their fault. It's actually not mainly their fault that people kill them or try to.
What do you want them to do? Hole up in a bunker for the entire presidential term?
Fix the problem in America which leads to so many Americans shooting their president?
Slashdot Mirror
What is a "mn"?
TVs should be a display and that's it. Give it the brain to decode HDMI signals and the tuner for over the air digital but that should be it.
You've said two incompatible things there. Wither you want your tv to just have a baseband hdmi input or 10, or you want it to receive a data stream and decide it. Dvbt, dvbc, ts over ip, doesn't matter.
You presumably want a way of displaying what channels are in your stream, without tuning in manually and selecting a pid.
Fundamentally what's the difference between watching a dvb stream over the air, and watching a Netflix program?
Nerf Now was my pleasant discovery in 2012 :)
Yes, some humor can be a bit weird for non-gamers, but you can't just limit yourself to XKCD (okay, maybe you can, but more regular content is better)
Xkcd has come out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for years. How is that not regular?
popup: "WOW an Opera Web Surfer \nPlease Sing for the Internet!"
What does this mean?
It means slashdot uids have reached 7 figures. It went downhill at 6, but 7 is disastrous
Google needs to test their system in environments with agressive/dickhead drivers around it. No, not the SoCal 4-lane emergency exit lane-changers (which is bad enough). More like Phoenix AZ drivers, or the SCORE-wannabe truck drivers, or the ricer-racers, or the numb octogenarians in their Crown Vics/Lincoln Continentals, or the wanna-be Marios in their Escalades/Range Rovers/G500s etc.
Try it in Cairo or Delhi, worse than anything in the western world.
There was a joke a while back about physically punching people through the computer screen, and today we have vibrators that work exactly like this (and vibrating underwear). Wouldn't that be prior art and an example of longdistance physical activity between people?
http://www.bash.org/?4281
I wonder if the 'gravitationally neutral' selected position is provably safe from glancing impact from other bodies that might cause either of them to change course to hit Earth?
On the other hand moving the asteroid may avoid that event
I would be much happier if nobody ported their software, and Windows 8 was allowed to completely fail.
Then Microsoft would be forced to fix the UI and bring back the start menu.
As long as progman.exe still works.
There is zero chance that MS will not improve it. They are desperate for apps and they approve total crap. They will not ban a quality app. Also the music player has nothing to do with selling music. The player is not related to the files you get from their service.
I suspect Microsoft have contributed a large amount to the project
With the frequency of RPi "articles" on /. one might wonder if there is some payola behind the positive press.
But not a word is spoken about the ongoing supply chain issues, and resellers making candid statements about it not being worthwhile to try to carry them. Can we have a moratorium on articles that drive up RPi demand until the Foundation can get its supply caught up more with the demand you've already created?
I just bought 6, delivered next day. What supply problems?
if it weren't for Mr. Torvald's kernel, the GNU project would be still spinning its wheels.
True, but where would Linux be without GNU?
The GNU project created all the other parts of an operating system, and then Linus created a kernel.
He built it using GNU, and he built it to use GNU.
Linux didn't replace GNU; it is de facto part of GNU.
A desktop os needs a browser (Firefox), text editor (vim), office suite (OpenOffice), PDF reader (evince), window manager (kde), etc
Gcc and Libc are very important, but to the end user gnu is a tiny part of the system.
reticent =/= reluctant
"reticent" $\notequal$ "reluctant"
reticent â reluctant
.
How many ways can I type that "not-equal sign"?
Normal people would write <> or !=
iPhone was only released in China because Google Maps became available for it.
It would have launched earlier, but the UPS guy got sent to Peru.
Rumour has it he's under arrest for stealing one of the phones.
You can even breast feed in public.
Oh my word! That's shocking! I can't believe that even needs stating. Even in Saudi Arabia it's perfectly legal (and encouraged).
A brief bit of research on the internet confirms that the U.S. is far more puritanical than the rest of the world. Whether that's because of the same failure in the education system which means religion is so pervasive, or pressure from formula companies like Nestle that want to flog their own stuff at the expense of babies health
Plus encryption was highly restricted for export as an "ordnance" during the early days of the web and before.
I don't believe Switzerland ever had restrictions on exporting encryption.
Say we are in a crisis situation, both pinned down behind cover, I don't have a shot, but you do.
You have been shot in your dominant arm (or handicapped one armed) so you are unable to fiddle with a weapon.
I can safely throw you my weapon with a round in the chamber ready to shoot, you can pick it up and shoot with no delay.
Try that with some electronic gizmo......
Protip. You're not Jack Bauer.
Ask the Army if they really want their guns locked to only work when they pull the trigger
Isn't that the point of a trigger?
Coincidence
Yes
But where's the Earth shattering kaboom? There's supposed to be an Earth shattering kaboom!
No boom today, boom tomorrow (well on Friday)
These are your pictures. You own them. No corporation has the right to use them without your permission just because they are holding them.
Yes they do, you agreed to it in the terms-of-service
They want to sell shitty pictures, taken by shitty camera phones, that have shitty filters applied to them? Great business model there.
This is nothing about using them for general advertising. This is about using them to
1) Work out where you've been, what you've done, and where you're likely to go for targetted adverts
2) Using your pictures in adverts targeted to you and your friends. "Hay Bob, Dave just got back from Rome (with photo of Dave in the Colosseum), click here to book a flight!"
If I wanted to watch the final season of sopranos legitimately (and believe me, I tried), I saw something like 2 episodes, then it went away for about a month, came back for another couple of episodes and it was gone again. Typical television patronage, here. My response? What am I supposed to do? Hang out for the tv guide, every week? Sorry, you created my desire to watch your program and I'm now going to watch it.
We had this through the 90s in the uk, so people like me downloaded the episodes (starting off on 56k modems at about 128kbit)
Then sky caught on and now episodes are broadcast within a week of u.s. airings (some series we had the episodes before the u.s!)
However we don't bother any more, too much hassle, we simply wait for the DVDs to come out. Just finished watching Sanctuary, and have reached season 7 of 24 (we gave up when it left the BBC after day 2). We do lose something in the lack of cliffhangers, but the lack of adverts, the lack of faff of downloading, and the instant availability when and where we want, more than makes up for it.
We occasionally dip back into TV -- we watched Terra Nova last year. Just got into it, and then it was cancelled. By waiting a few years we can see when a series is worthwhile buying.
Indiana Jones 5 buzz? or maybe it Indiana Jones and the time machine.
I modded that -1, scary thought
NASA is not showing much of a sense of humor here.
On a very personal note, I wish they'd fly it out of the solar system, in the hopes that it might eventually land on a planet somewhere after drifting through space for a few billion years.
Because, who knows... maybe a few bacteria currently contaminate the probe, survive the drift through space, and end up finding their new planet hospitable. Or more fun yet, it could land within the reach of pre-modern civilization somewhere.
These probes don't have enough fuel to get back to earth, let alone escape the sun's gravity well.
9% of the US presidents died for job related reasons - people shot them. The cost of security is not their fault. It's actually not mainly their fault that people kill them or try to.
What do you want them to do? Hole up in a bunker for the entire presidential term?
Fix the problem in America which leads to so many Americans shooting their president?