I dunno, I'm with the parent here. I signed up and I'll be damned if I can figure out why people spend 10 minutes on that site much less the hours and hours people claim to fill their day with on Facebook. Seriously, what do you *do* after logging in?
They were also common in my small town in Colorado growing up. I left home in 1991 and there was still a 4-family party line for the dead end dirt road I lived on. My parents moved away shortly after so I have no idea if it is still that way, but 1991 wasn't *that* long ago...
True, the sale price of homes would drop, but that does nothing to change the existing mortgages, which means people would be stuck with houses they couldn't afford to sell since they owe more than the new sale price would be. I think that's what the parent was getting at.
That also assumes you are using the new mysql driver code in PHP 5. My web host still has PHP 4.x, so no, I cannot do what you just showed. Not to mention that's not particularly portable for other databases, with Perl and DBI you just change the DBD driver and keep using the same code...
I have a good friend who bought a nice HD set and whenever he tuned to SD channels he hated it, he finally asked me how to stretch the aspect ratio (though he didn't know what it was called.) When I explained to him about the picture degradation his response was "I paid for 50 inches, I WANT ALL 50 INCHES".
My girlfriend sold her old VCR in our garage sale a couple months ago. The guy who bought it asked about the original box (which she still had) since he wanted to ship it home to India. He said VHS is still incredibly popular there but you cannot buy players anymore, so he was out hitting garage sales to buy all of them that he could. Just because people don't think they are useful in the US doesn't mean the rest of the world isn't looking for them, even used...
Just as a side-note, I was on a flight back from South Korea about 2 years ago. We landed 30 minutes early, which sounded great until we were informed that "Customs isn't opened yet, please remain in your seats until 7am". So much for the half-hour early, we sat on the place instead. And then when the finally let us of? Well, 5 other planes had landed within that time, so you had 6 planes worth of people all trying to get through immigration and customs at once. Not a good idea...
Congratulations that only 500 daytime minutes is enough for you. I spent 25 hours in 3 days last week on conference calls with clients troubleshooting problems. And that was just in one week. Thankfully I have Vonage and a nice speakerphone on my desk in my home office, I can just imagine trying to do all that with my cell phone (which has a horrible speakerphone, not very good reception, and would have required me plugging the phone in to charge). While YOU may be satisfied with a cell-only plan it would hardly work for me.
As for being "made a fool of", in what way? Vonage provides a service that has been rock-solid for me for two years in exchange for a MUCH lower rate than my local Telco would charge me. So why exactly am I a fool?
I use Verizon with an LG VX6100 and can connect to their "Express Network" using only minutes. Since I have an unlimited nights/weekends plan this sometimes works out well for me when I travel. More details at: http://www.poremsky.com/p/verizonwireless.htm
I can also sync using BitPim and a cheapo cable off ebay.
So what does that prove? I have a huge number of CDs where I know I like some of the songs but that doesn't mean I know the title of it. Sometimes when you get a large collection going on random (say in a CD changer or just shuffling mp3s) I will hit on something I really enjoy and have to actually go looking for the artist and song title. Congratulations to you for having such a small sample that you can know everything about every song. Some of us branch out into more variety...
At one company I worked for we used to joke about the servers that we were going to "manage them to their knees" since we had so many security and monitoring applications on them.
Of course this was the same company that would randomly block websites (that had worked before). At one point they blocked access to CPAN of all things. When I questioned it with someone in Info Security I was told "we get our filtering rules from the company that supplies the proxy, we can't change them, just wait until next week and your site might be back off the block list". Great way to manage security huh, just "trusting" some other company to do it right and if it's wrong just wait a week.
I have had the same experience of flakey people when using Craig's List to get rid of things. I feel bad when someone wants to claim it and so I turn away 50 other people asking about the same thing. Then I get angry when the person I was saving it for either doesn't show or tries to make me do a bunch of work to get them the item ("Oh, you live all the way over there, why don't you come to my neighborhood to drop it off...")
I've found it best to just say "I'll be leaving it on the street near this address, first one to come get it can have it." That actually worked for a toilet I wanted to dispose of from a rental house (it mostly worked it just needed some new guts.)
I'm amazed you were even able to purchase anything from Buy.com. Three separate times over the past couple years I've tried to buy something only to be told the item was out of stock and that it'd be in "real soon now". So I waited. And waited. In one instance it was a nice coffee-table photo book for a Christmas present. I ordered it in October, and come February when they were still telling me they'd have them "any day now" I finally called the publisher (who, oddly enough, was in my same city.) The publisher told me the book had been sold out, but they'd never heard of Buy.com and had a very limited shipment going out that week to some retail stores in the area. They were extemely nice and let me come purchase the book directly. So thanks Buy.com, not only did you lie to me about what you had in stock, and make me miss a Christmas gift by almost 2 months, but you weren't ever going to get the book in stock anyway!
Ever since these multiple episodes I've avoided them like the plague, when I see a great deal pop up on Dealnews if it has the Buy.com name I just skip it and look elsewhere.
Actually I work for the company selling some of the encoders. We are getting raw feeds in and pushing out MPEG-4. The bitrate will be variable based on the needs of the channel, something like C-SPAN with it's slow-changing backgrounds will get the minimum (4 Mbps) and ESPN will be variable from 4-20 Mbps.
I've gotten to see a little bit of this, since my company (TandbergTV) is supplying the encoders. The bitrates on the mpeg-4 stream are going to vary from 4mbps to 20 mbps, which in mpeg-4 is pretty good looking. There's a load-balancing system that will adjust a channel's bitrate as it needs more (for say fast-panning scenes in sports). The encoders are installed now in two locations and running, but as with all projects this will take time.
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I appreciate the work you put into this but how about some screen shots or tour of the site without me having to create an account?
FBPurity. Cleans all the crap out so you can just see newsfeeds. Essential for the rare time I spend on Facebook.
That's super if you never travel. If you end up in other countries and need a cheap way to call home however Skype is useful.
Wish I had mod points right now, someone please mod the parent up!
Does it matter? Do you think it only happened at one airport and not all of them?
I dunno, I'm with the parent here. I signed up and I'll be damned if I can figure out why people spend 10 minutes on that site much less the hours and hours people claim to fill their day with on Facebook. Seriously, what do you *do* after logging in?
They were also common in my small town in Colorado growing up. I left home in 1991 and there was still a 4-family party line for the dead end dirt road I lived on. My parents moved away shortly after so I have no idea if it is still that way, but 1991 wasn't *that* long ago...
I'd be very interested in a bundle even if you removed the commercial apps.
-- C
True, the sale price of homes would drop, but that does nothing to change the existing mortgages, which means people would be stuck with houses they couldn't afford to sell since they owe more than the new sale price would be. I think that's what the parent was getting at.
That also assumes you are using the new mysql driver code in PHP 5. My web host still has PHP 4.x, so no, I cannot do what you just showed. Not to mention that's not particularly portable for other databases, with Perl and DBI you just change the DBD driver and keep using the same code...
I have a good friend who bought a nice HD set and whenever he tuned to SD channels he hated it, he finally asked me how to stretch the aspect ratio (though he didn't know what it was called.) When I explained to him about the picture degradation his response was "I paid for 50 inches, I WANT ALL 50 INCHES".
My girlfriend sold her old VCR in our garage sale a couple months ago. The guy who bought it asked about the original box (which she still had) since he wanted to ship it home to India. He said VHS is still incredibly popular there but you cannot buy players anymore, so he was out hitting garage sales to buy all of them that he could. Just because people don't think they are useful in the US doesn't mean the rest of the world isn't looking for them, even used...
Are you thinking of Jack in the Box with e.coli? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_in_the_Box#Food_ safety
Just as a side-note, I was on a flight back from South Korea about 2 years ago. We landed 30 minutes early, which sounded great until we were informed that "Customs isn't opened yet, please remain in your seats until 7am". So much for the half-hour early, we sat on the place instead. And then when the finally let us of? Well, 5 other planes had landed within that time, so you had 6 planes worth of people all trying to get through immigration and customs at once. Not a good idea...
Congratulations that only 500 daytime minutes is enough for you. I spent 25 hours in 3 days last week on conference calls with clients troubleshooting problems. And that was just in one week. Thankfully I have Vonage and a nice speakerphone on my desk in my home office, I can just imagine trying to do all that with my cell phone (which has a horrible speakerphone, not very good reception, and would have required me plugging the phone in to charge). While YOU may be satisfied with a cell-only plan it would hardly work for me.
As for being "made a fool of", in what way? Vonage provides a service that has been rock-solid for me for two years in exchange for a MUCH lower rate than my local Telco would charge me. So why exactly am I a fool?
I second using BitPim (I have the VX6100 as well.) Some details on their Express Network here: http://www.poremsky.com/p/verizonwireless.htm
I use Verizon with an LG VX6100 and can connect to their "Express Network" using only minutes. Since I have an unlimited nights/weekends plan this sometimes works out well for me when I travel. More details at: http://www.poremsky.com/p/verizonwireless.htm
I can also sync using BitPim and a cheapo cable off ebay.
-- C
So what does that prove? I have a huge number of CDs where I know I like some of the songs but that doesn't mean I know the title of it. Sometimes when you get a large collection going on random (say in a CD changer or just shuffling mp3s) I will hit on something I really enjoy and have to actually go looking for the artist and song title. Congratulations to you for having such a small sample that you can know everything about every song. Some of us branch out into more variety...
At one company I worked for we used to joke about the servers that we were going to "manage them to their knees" since we had so many security and monitoring applications on them.
Of course this was the same company that would randomly block websites (that had worked before). At one point they blocked access to CPAN of all things. When I questioned it with someone in Info Security I was told "we get our filtering rules from the company that supplies the proxy, we can't change them, just wait until next week and your site might be back off the block list". Great way to manage security huh, just "trusting" some other company to do it right and if it's wrong just wait a week.
I have had the same experience of flakey people when using Craig's List to get rid of things. I feel bad when someone wants to claim it and so I turn away 50 other people asking about the same thing. Then I get angry when the person I was saving it for either doesn't show or tries to make me do a bunch of work to get them the item ("Oh, you live all the way over there, why don't you come to my neighborhood to drop it off...")
I've found it best to just say "I'll be leaving it on the street near this address, first one to come get it can have it." That actually worked for a toilet I wanted to dispose of from a rental house (it mostly worked it just needed some new guts.)
So even Yahoo! is producing dupes like Slashdot now?
And here I was hoping that just using Google was the path to riches. At least it makes me smarter...
I'm amazed you were even able to purchase anything from Buy.com. Three separate times over the past couple years I've tried to buy something only to be told the item was out of stock and that it'd be in "real soon now". So I waited. And waited. In one instance it was a nice coffee-table photo book for a Christmas present. I ordered it in October, and come February when they were still telling me they'd have them "any day now" I finally called the publisher (who, oddly enough, was in my same city.) The publisher told me the book had been sold out, but they'd never heard of Buy.com and had a very limited shipment going out that week to some retail stores in the area. They were extemely nice and let me come purchase the book directly. So thanks Buy.com, not only did you lie to me about what you had in stock, and make me miss a Christmas gift by almost 2 months, but you weren't ever going to get the book in stock anyway!
Ever since these multiple episodes I've avoided them like the plague, when I see a great deal pop up on Dealnews if it has the Buy.com name I just skip it and look elsewhere.
Actually I work for the company selling some of the encoders. We are getting raw feeds in and pushing out MPEG-4. The bitrate will be variable based on the needs of the channel, something like C-SPAN with it's slow-changing backgrounds will get the minimum (4 Mbps) and ESPN will be variable from 4-20 Mbps.
I've gotten to see a little bit of this, since my company (TandbergTV) is supplying the encoders. The bitrates on the mpeg-4 stream are going to vary from 4mbps to 20 mbps, which in mpeg-4 is pretty good looking. There's a load-balancing system that will adjust a channel's bitrate as it needs more (for say fast-panning scenes in sports). The encoders are installed now in two locations and running, but as with all projects this will take time.