Desire to watch TV
That last one would mean I'd have to avert my eyes from Slashdot, however briefly. I can't see that happening anytime soon.
Still, for those of us who wind-down watching TV, as opposed to it being an occupation, it would be a plus. I do long bike rides on weekends and usually sit down with some food, to recharge and recover and watching the soccer match from the UK would be a big plus, rather than that guy in the question-mark-suit trying to sell me a bunch of answers to questions i don't ask.
Isn't that called a TV? Need ultraportable? Get a Watchman or Casio.
It's about receiving it and making it available to you wherever you are. ie..
Welcome to the 21st Century - a world without borders, a world without boundaries.
Bob Cooper - Coop's Satellite Digest
However, I'm certain our legislators will rush to the rescue and erect borders, boundaries, tariffs, injunctions, and so on as needed to ensure terrorists don't somehow benefit. Imagine(!) being able to watch Al Jazeera in the confort of your living room, without all the helpful filtering of the government and big media empires. Shocking...
It's a matter of TV carrying what you want to watch. I want to watch TV (sports in particular) from other countries, but thanks to NTSC/PAL and a lack of willingness by fatcats at cable companies (who believe that's not what the public wants: Self full-filling prophecy) it's not on the menu or ever likely to be.
Then there's still the sticky matter of not being allowed to watch a network station from outside the area your local affiliate owns.
Halliburton was awarded a no-bid contract for hundreds of millions for work in Iraq and the people didn't kick the scoundrels responsible out of office.
Doesn't matter how obvious or how egregious. Not enough people actually care.
as quoted from the Pay-Per-View Avarice Hour of Power
Gov. Rendell: This bill is a piece of crap.
Minion of Telecoms: We're rich
Gov. Rendell: I cannot be bribed!
Minion of Telecoms: Oh, we wouldn't dream of it!
Gov. Rendell: Good to hear it, I'll just veto this sucker.
Minion of Telecoms: We'll direct our considerable influence to your opponent in the next gubenatorial election.
Gov. Rendell:... ah yes, there's the line I sign on scrit-scrit-scrizzitz-scrit-scrut
Minion of Telecoms: Good boy, here's a dog biscuit.
It allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio, watch all your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more.
Clearly a threat to Copyrights, Profits and Homeland Security. In certain the authorities (MPAA/RIAA/Microsoft have already been notified and are moving the threat level up from Plaid to Paisley)
The software is a port of the homebrew Xbox Media Center software which requires a Modded Xbox to run."
Now I'm certain Microsoft will be activating their Bucket 'o Lawyers* The only people allowed to give away something like that for free must have an ulterior motive, such as locking everyone into mind control or market share...
*Not to be confused with the toys Bucket o' Soldiers or Barrel o' Monkeys, but toys of their masters all the same.
I thought that it was just a case of actually finding someone who could enforce them.
Yep.
We've got the Dept of Homeland Security, FBI and CIA chasing terrorists around the world and tracking down their fundraising, but without pursuing all the spammers, for all we know, terrorists are raising funds with phishing and selling junk through spam. Their contempt for people is so complete that they'll slaughter their own countrymen and consider it an acceptable loss in pursuing their goals, so they'd have no problem offering anything and everything to those gullible enough to take them up on whatever offer or hand over their passwords, credit card numbers, bank account numbers or personal identification bits.
The problem with W. is he still sees the enemy as something that you can shoot or drop a bomb on. No wonder people say there's a problem with intelligence.
Ohio Inmate #73507: What're you in for?
Ohio Inmate #66092: Burglary, grand theft, passing bad checks, what're you in for?
Ohio Inmate #73507: 4.5 million pieces of email a day, selling bogus pharmaceuticals, green card lotteries, advertising pr0n and promoting online casinos. I was making $250,000 a month before the troopers knocked on my door.
Ohio Inmate #66092: Oh, master! I am not worthy! I am not worthy!
is it a must to have your media PC in the same room? couldn't you tuck it in the cupboard somewhere and transmit signals wirelessly?
Sure and you can control it by contorting in your La-Z-Boy, trying to get the remote to reflect off the strategically placed mirrors around the house. You may also want to scrable the signal if it's wireless so the neighborhood geeks don't see what you're really watching...
...oh, sure, says he watches Star Trek, but he's really into Oprah and Sesame Street, the fraud...
As for me, the other important thing is it runs cool. For some reason things which run hot attract a ton of dust.
Otoh, it's a snap to request a new password in paypal. I guess you could argue both need a reasonably high level of security, but I think snail mail is a little bit of overkill.
You're telling me. I can't send student information via email without encryption, but I can send it one a diskette, as an unencrypted text file, through the US Mail.
The implication is that the US Mail is totally secure.
Why do I need to be told I have a new text message when I'm on the phone? Can't that wait until I hang up?
No... You have to be connected to everything, all the time, everywhere. You're not living life to the fullest until you have a cell phone which allows you to do the following...
Talk on the phone
Play video games
Send and receive text messages
Track your global position
Surf the internet
Watch video
Check voice mails
Listn to MP3's
Receive satellite radio
... all at the same time. Just have a couple more espressos and you'll be able to handle it just fine, too about about not being able to sleep at night, though...
start an app (like, say Photoshop), wait 10 seconds, get bored staring at the developers' names, and start doing something else. in another ten seconds, PS will come to life and jump to the top of the z-order - no matter what you're doing.
and related...
you're playing around in some menus and some other app throws up a popup, your menu disappears. nothing should ever kill your menu.
Exactly, it's like Windows remembers what the order was before you started alt-tabbing around. There's also some behavior where if you start A, B and C, where A is some app, B is a MS app, and C is a different app, when they've all finished loading the MS app will be the one on top. (They know what's most important and if you know what's good for you, you'll listen!)
I can't remember where to get it but there is a disk you can boot off of that lets you turn off the administrator password and turn it back on. If you find it you'll be able to use it to fix the comp.
I've moved the drive from the computer it was in, to mine, which books up with me as admin, etc. However, to repair a bootsector, you need to boot to the Windows Setup CD rom and use R to repair. At this point the administator password for the drive is required (as it was in it's former life actually bootable.)
As I've already stated, it's no problem to boot to my primary drive with the defective drive as a slave, but you need Windows Setup to repair the boot sector. I could about as easily just copy everything off the drive to another, but registry crap I don't know how to transfer. Maybe that's just the simplest route, if there's a registry export. But there's hidden files and other bizzare practices one has to watch out for.
Sure makes me ache for the days when I was admin of *nix and other systems. PC's are like doing surgery on an red ant hill with a knife and fork.
I'm guessing one of them has to do with posting a link to a page that gets/.'ed before any comments even get posted. Of course, I'm just guessing since I can't read the page.
How about/.ers who just paste the full url into an item instead of coding a hyperlink?
i.e. http://goehere.org/foo/bar/something.html rather than <a href="http://url Goes Here">desc Goes Here</a>
I've got the hard disk and I'm attempting to make it bootable again. Not trying to open folders or any other crap. First system implementation I've ever encountered where this is a requirement. The system owner claims not to have even set an admin password. So, according to Microsoft, what's broke stays broke in some blind adherence to security.
Meanwhile, I could copy everything off the disk, as it mounts just peachy as a slave and I can see everything from a booted drive that *I* am administrator of.
Like the thing about disk removal. The only thing Windows handles being removed "gracefully" is a floppy (and I'd hardly say "gracefully", if you had a file open on the disk).
I've been trying to repair the boot sector on a HD with WinXP on it and the damn thing wants an administrator password for the damn disk. Wtf kind of logic is that?
Tight security where it doesn't matter and sloppy security where it does.
Inexplicable configuration. This is broad a broad item and includes buried preference settings where you'd never think to look, default settings to most frustrating (think Word), system settings under inappropriate categories and items with more than one relevence only found under one.
Pop-Up windows which steal focus immediately from whatever task has focus (active rather than passive bulletins) Ever been typing something, and hit ENTER just as something pops up? Gee, what the heck was that about?
Most evils were accepted into the culture after some toning down. Though as anyone should see there has been a segment of the population which resisted many of these things and has had some growth over the past decade. We're seeing more of it and I believe it's a natural thing. Progressive ideas have pressed some hard-headed folks so far that they're finally pushing back. Be vigilant.
Back in 1954 Dr. Frederick Wertham wrote the infamous Seduction Of The Innocent, regarding the comics industry preying upon the youth of America.
"Wertham was convinced that comic books were evil, that they contributed to the delinquency of minors, and also to their sexual perversion. In addition Wertham claimed that when any questioned the comic book publishers on their product, they were conspired against, and were labelled communists."
Before you laugh off it off, recall the US Senate Subcommittee Investigation on Juvenile Delinquency in the United States.
and all the recent stink about decency in television.
The comic industry, to placate the witch hunters offered self policing. Sound familiar? Wertham considered it a sham. Sound familiar, too?
For some background on Comics Code check this site and this site.
make way! make way! make way for the age of decency! 60,608,582 merkins can't be denied!
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Desire to watch TV
That last one would mean I'd have to avert my eyes from Slashdot, however briefly. I can't see that happening anytime soon.
Still, for those of us who wind-down watching TV, as opposed to it being an occupation, it would be a plus. I do long bike rides on weekends and usually sit down with some food, to recharge and recover and watching the soccer match from the UK would be a big plus, rather than that guy in the question-mark-suit trying to sell me a bunch of answers to questions i don't ask.
It's about receiving it and making it available to you wherever you are. ie..
However, I'm certain our legislators will rush to the rescue and erect borders, boundaries, tariffs, injunctions, and so on as needed to ensure terrorists don't somehow benefit. Imagine(!) being able to watch Al Jazeera in the confort of your living room, without all the helpful filtering of the government and big media empires. Shocking...
Maybe on an economy of scale it could be done for much less?
Then there's still the sticky matter of not being allowed to watch a network station from outside the area your local affiliate owns.
Can't sleep? View our slide shows!
Halliburton was awarded a no-bid contract for hundreds of millions for work in Iraq and the people didn't kick the scoundrels responsible out of office.
Doesn't matter how obvious or how egregious. Not enough people actually care.
You're still paying the Micrsoft tax after all.
Actually, if you buy the Xbox but no games for it you're screwing Microsoft, since the box is a loss-leader. The real revenue is games and services.
Clearly a threat to Copyrights, Profits and Homeland Security. In certain the authorities (MPAA/RIAA/Microsoft have already been notified and are moving the threat level up from Plaid to Paisley)
The software is a port of the homebrew Xbox Media Center software which requires a Modded Xbox to run."
Now I'm certain Microsoft will be activating their Bucket 'o Lawyers* The only people allowed to give away something like that for free must have an ulterior motive, such as locking everyone into mind control or market share...
*Not to be confused with the toys Bucket o' Soldiers or Barrel o' Monkeys, but toys of their masters all the same.
Does not atone for what you did on November 2nd.
Maybe they'll invade Michigan and capture Alan Murray Ralsky... It wouldn't be the first time there was war between Michigan and Ohio.
Yep.
We've got the Dept of Homeland Security, FBI and CIA chasing terrorists around the world and tracking down their fundraising, but without pursuing all the spammers, for all we know, terrorists are raising funds with phishing and selling junk through spam. Their contempt for people is so complete that they'll slaughter their own countrymen and consider it an acceptable loss in pursuing their goals, so they'd have no problem offering anything and everything to those gullible enough to take them up on whatever offer or hand over their passwords, credit card numbers, bank account numbers or personal identification bits.
The problem with W. is he still sees the enemy as something that you can shoot or drop a bomb on. No wonder people say there's a problem with intelligence.
Follow the money. If it comes back to Ohio then they've got a case.
Ohio Inmate #66092: Burglary, grand theft, passing bad checks, what're you in for?
Ohio Inmate #73507: 4.5 million pieces of email a day, selling bogus pharmaceuticals, green card lotteries, advertising pr0n and promoting online casinos. I was making $250,000 a month before the troopers knocked on my door.
Ohio Inmate #66092: Oh, master! I am not worthy! I am not worthy!
Sure and you can control it by contorting in your La-Z-Boy, trying to get the remote to reflect off the strategically placed mirrors around the house. You may also want to scrable the signal if it's wireless so the neighborhood geeks don't see what you're really watching...
As for me, the other important thing is it runs cool. For some reason things which run hot attract a ton of dust.
You're telling me. I can't send student information via email without encryption, but I can send it one a diskette, as an unencrypted text file, through the US Mail.
The implication is that the US Mail is totally secure.
No... You have to be connected to everything, all the time, everywhere. You're not living life to the fullest until you have a cell phone which allows you to do the following...
Talk on the phone
Play video games
Send and receive text messages
Track your global position
Surf the internet
Watch video
Check voice mails
Listn to MP3's
Receive satellite radio
and related... you're playing around in some menus and some other app throws up a popup, your menu disappears. nothing should ever kill your menu.
Exactly, it's like Windows remembers what the order was before you started alt-tabbing around. There's also some behavior where if you start A, B and C, where A is some app, B is a MS app, and C is a different app, when they've all finished loading the MS app will be the one on top. (They know what's most important and if you know what's good for you, you'll listen!)
I've moved the drive from the computer it was in, to mine, which books up with me as admin, etc. However, to repair a bootsector, you need to boot to the Windows Setup CD rom and use R to repair. At this point the administator password for the drive is required (as it was in it's former life actually bootable.)
As I've already stated, it's no problem to boot to my primary drive with the defective drive as a slave, but you need Windows Setup to repair the boot sector. I could about as easily just copy everything off the drive to another, but registry crap I don't know how to transfer. Maybe that's just the simplest route, if there's a registry export. But there's hidden files and other bizzare practices one has to watch out for.
Sure makes me ache for the days when I was admin of *nix and other systems. PC's are like doing surgery on an red ant hill with a knife and fork.
How about /.ers who just paste the full url into an item instead of coding a hyperlink?
i.e. http://goehere.org/foo/bar/something.html rather than <a href="http://url Goes Here">desc Goes Here</a>
Ha ha! Yer funny.
I've got the hard disk and I'm attempting to make it bootable again. Not trying to open folders or any other crap. First system implementation I've ever encountered where this is a requirement. The system owner claims not to have even set an admin password. So, according to Microsoft, what's broke stays broke in some blind adherence to security.
Meanwhile, I could copy everything off the disk, as it mounts just peachy as a slave and I can see everything from a booted drive that *I* am administrator of.
Irony is dead.
I've been trying to repair the boot sector on a HD with WinXP on it and the damn thing wants an administrator password for the damn disk. Wtf kind of logic is that?
Tight security where it doesn't matter and sloppy security where it does.
Inexplicable configuration. This is broad a broad item and includes buried preference settings where you'd never think to look, default settings to most frustrating (think Word), system settings under inappropriate categories and items with more than one relevence only found under one.
Pop-Up windows which steal focus immediately from whatever task has focus (active rather than passive bulletins) Ever been typing something, and hit ENTER just as something pops up? Gee, what the heck was that about?
Had a look at what publications and TV time slots some of this stuff is advertised in?
Most evils were accepted into the culture after some toning down. Though as anyone should see there has been a segment of the population which resisted many of these things and has had some growth over the past decade. We're seeing more of it and I believe it's a natural thing. Progressive ideas have pressed some hard-headed folks so far that they're finally pushing back. Be vigilant.
Back in 1954 Dr. Frederick Wertham wrote the infamous Seduction Of The Innocent, regarding the comics industry preying upon the youth of America.
Before you laugh off it off, recall the US Senate Subcommittee Investigation on Juvenile Delinquency in the United States. and all the recent stink about decency in television.
The comic industry, to placate the witch hunters offered self policing. Sound familiar? Wertham considered it a sham. Sound familiar, too?
For some background on Comics Code check this site and this site.
make way! make way! make way for the age of decency! 60,608,582 merkins can't be denied!