Why haven't television stations started broadcasting thier schedules on the verticle blank interupt? (black lines around the edge of the tv screen) I remember wayy back with win98 they had some bundled app that got limited internet content via the VBI and a capture card, why not a TV schedule?
I'm only mentioning this because of all the "I paid $250 for my tivo lifetime subsciption" comments. VBI schedules seem like a win for everybody.
Those are all professional grade machines, I never saw those before and thank you for the link.
However have you ever seen the stuff Roland puts out? They make a desktop CNC mills for under $1500 that can produce small items. Leases start at $100 @ mo. They have desktop laser 3D scanners (put a real world object in, produces 3d model) too.
We still have a right to vote. Unfortunately last election, our popular vote (the people) was ignored by the Governer of Florida, the confusion of the divits, and the amount of time they wasted on investigating it drew out the talley of the electorial past the cutoff date.
Because of Florida has more electorial votes, when they swayed towards Bush it was enough (barely) for him to win the presidency.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so original! You make me laugh! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man! I like you jokes! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Today we secretly replaced The Bungi's daily dose of ritalin with methanphedamine. Let's see if he notices the difference.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wow... my sides are hurting with that funny, funny quip you just threw down on us like some clever maniacal funny man! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Have you ever had an exec chew your ass because his exchange froze up when trying to download a large attatchment?
Or for that matter, ever been chewed out for suggesting pro-active server maintenence, then gotten chewed out again when said server crashes from not being properly maintained?
Or have you ever been chewed out for solar flares, sun spots, or other celestial things that are completely beyond your control?
You don't know the life of a sysadmin working for a jackass, probably because you are a jackass yourself.
And I won't waste my karma bonus on a dumb fuck like you, if a moderator agree's with what I say, then hip hup hooray.
Robots are slowly coming down in price. With all the innovations in bipedal robot locomotion, it will only be a matter of time before robots like the Asimo are common place.
I only see this peltier oven as a short term, limited lifecycle product. It's only a matter of time before I can go to the web interface of my Asimo at home, and tell it to monitor the GPS location of my car as I drive home from work, take a few El Monteray Burrito's out of the freezer 5 minutes before I get home, place them in the microwave and nuke them for 3 minutes. Maybe have it spread some grated cheese on top after 2 minutes of cooking, and BAM robotic cooking.
No I'm serious folks, this isn't even trying to go for a funny on this one. Robots will make this thing obselete.
I once had a paranoid CEO that wanted to bang his executive assistant.
He had me share her exchange inbox, I didn't do much else other than that. He said it was because she was filing a sexual harassment lawsuit (untrue) and was just trying to find out if she was dating anyone from the office.
She was a nice lady, and having to look her in the eye daily knowing that I set it up so the CEO could spy on her (out of jealosy) made me sick, sort of depressed really.
There are situations where you know doing this for management is just, such as a corporate spy's or what not, but to find out who's bangin who is just detestable.
And going off just what I saw in the slash post, there's no mention of it. Since I can't read the article (slashdotted) I can only go on what is availiable to me.
So since time shifting wasn't mentioned about windows media center or linux, I can only assume since the author is trying to compare lindows to media center that it must have time shifting capabilities.
So how is the time shifting on linux? Could someone from linuxhardware.com please either provide another mirror to the article, or just answer my reply? I'm just really curious to know if it's working well in lindows.
I've heard that Dell outsourced all it's frontline support to India.
It makes me sick everytime I see that Dell Intern "Who turned out the lights in tech support?" commercial knowing that what they portray on TV doesn't resemble reality at all.
Dell cannot draw me into it's delusion of an american company anymore. I still love their service contracts though:D
This doesn't do jack people for us people, just another open loophole law that was passed so the politicians have "busy work"
Most spam is sent out through a 3rd party, who usually hides behind all kinds of nifty little things like hijacked SMTP servers and spoofed IP addresses. My freinds dad was a spammer, so I'm quite aquainted with thier operations.
Let's say, I recieve a spam from penis enlargement corporation. I try to sue, PEC just points out that the spam wasn't sent by them, it was sent by "insert spam company here" and they're off the hook.
The law needs to include the customer of the spam house, otherwise it's going to be ineffective.
The Butcher Boy without a doubt has to be my all time favorite, relatively unknown movie.
It revolves around a boy named Francy Brady (Anti-hero?) who grows up in a home with a mother who constantly tries to commit suicide and a father who drinks like a fish.
He has one friend throughout the whole movie, and his arch nemisis's (the nugents) constantly remind him that he is low class trash. The best part in the movie is when Francy starts having delusions of the Virgin Mary (played by Sinade O'Conner) They start out completely fake as a way to gain attention at the catholic orphanage he's put in, but they eventually evolve into full on delusions in which Francy starts to have really weird conversations.
This is a really late reply, I should have jumped on this a while back...
Set your browsing to +5, somewhere down the page I go into explaining how these licensing fee's are going to eat up my gamehouse profits. Now onto your comment:)
is not applicable to software used for a limited purpose computer designed for playing video games.
In a gamehouse enviroment, computers are pretty much a "limited purpose computer designed for playing video games" The stations are locked down, users cannot use them as "general purpose" Their purpose is very limited to games, maybe MS word, and some web browsing.
I found your comment to be very informative, it actually gives me a foothold to challenge what I consider to be unfair licensing from Id, activision, Valve and others.
Funny thing was, cliff took the time to personally respond. I'd paste the
message in this post, but I deleted it from the inbox.
Video game rental is a big issue for me because I'm in the process of opening up
a gamehouse right now. Most game companies, with the exception of Bioware and
Epic have just plain greedy licensing schemes that eat up any profit a game
house owner might see.
Here are my thoughts on this issue, posted on the story about the price of
commander keen. My argument against these licensing fee's go along the
following..
Capcom, Atari, ect all provided more than just a
cabinet when they sold you a game. You got a cabinet (physical security) Coin
Mech (money validator) Access software (credits) Input Device (Joystick,
buttons) Service contracts, monitor, and the game. Usually it was anywhere
between a 50/50 to a 25/75 split for the quarters between the cabinet owner and
the person that owned the property.
Now with a gamehouse, I'm providing those first 6 items, while the game company
only provides the game. After looking at paying off employee's, loans, and a
lease, these fee's are going to be eating up enough of my profits to where me,
the owner is going to be lucky to break even at the end of the month. On top of
all that I have a machine that needs to be replaced every 2-3 years to stay
current with the CPL standard so I can host CPL qualifyers at my place.
Companies like Id, Activision, well, everyone except bioware/epic all expect
a cut out of your gross profits. I could see them asking for a cut from the net,
but the gross? That's just greed. No value added services, no
special gamehouse edition, nothing.
I took some time out to write Mark Rein of Epic, to thank him for his
companies license free policy. Following is his response.
Toqer,
We've had this policy for a long time. Basically if people play the game
at your location they might be encouraged to buy their own copy for home and to
tell their friends about it. We feel it's a win-win for both sides. The only
think we ask in return is that you legally purchase, and keep on hand at all
times, a copy of UT2003 for each machine the game is being played on.
As for images, you're welcome to use screen shots you create for the
purpose of positive promotion of our game in your establishment.
Good luck!
Mark Rein
Epic Games Inc.
How fucking cool is that? Not only do they let you rent it as long as
you buy a legal retail copy without fee's, they're more than happy to let me use
their images/logo's screenshots for my centers motif.
Bottom line is, these licensing fee's suck. Ford doesn't charge me for making
money on a truck after I purchase it, and neither should game companies.
It's unfortunate that for some games (counterstrike) i'll have to pay these
fee's if I want to carry the games that will draw the customers. What makes it
even less fair, is I plan on playing by the rules, and there are many many other
gamehouses that completely skip out on these fee's. I would love to
challenge them in court, but as a startup, i'm in no position to do so.
I disagree with your looking across the street analogy, and agree with the parent poster. In order to scan, you have to hit my firewall/router i.e. MY network with something. If you hit anything past that, you're totally on MY network.
Now I may have left a lemon tree on my lawn as a public web server, little kids go and pick my lemons all summer long. Since the lemon tree is just for looks, I don't care if they eat lemmons from my tree.
Now one day, some teenagers come along, and they notice a window open on my house. Sure I didn't mean to leave that window open, but sure enough they climb though and drink my beer from the fridge.
I come home to find these passed out drunken teenagers swimming in their own vomit on my shag rug. For some odd reason, (maybe they're just kids) they tore down the curtains, tagged up my walls, cooked my silverware in the microwave, and took a big shit in my bathtub.
Time to grab the rock salt shells ma! We got us some trespassers.
This program is designed to go past the router point on most networks and right onto the lan. It's tresspassing. Anything past the router is tresspassing.
I'm sorry, but gamespy obviously doesn't know about kaillera.
Kaillera enables mame to play just about any old arcade hit online. Since it's release 2 years ago, it's developed an entire subculture of dedicated players, clans, and ladders.
According to statistics built by kaillera the most popular game genre on kaillera is fighting games (King of fighters, Street Fighter), followed by a single adventure game that dominates the charts, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara.
I think this game was misclassified as an Adventure game, because it's gameplay really resembles that of Final Fight, and other Beat em ups
I had this software on my system, maybe 2 weeks (ok a month because thats how long the free trial lasts)
The images produced are amazing, but after you get through seeing your house, grandma's house, cousins house, freinds houses, your work, all from the air it kind of get's boring.
The user level version produces some good maps, but if you're really interested in earthviewer, you should sign up for the corporate trial. Even though all the images produced from the corporate trial have a watermark of keyholes logo on them, the detail is just too good to pass up.
Slashdot Mirror
Why haven't television stations started broadcasting thier schedules on the verticle blank interupt? (black lines around the edge of the tv screen) I remember wayy back with win98 they had some bundled app that got limited internet content via the VBI and a capture card, why not a TV schedule?
I'm only mentioning this because of all the "I paid $250 for my tivo lifetime subsciption" comments. VBI schedules seem like a win for everybody.
Those are all professional grade machines, I never saw those before and thank
you for the link.
However have you ever seen the
stuff Roland puts out? They make a desktop CNC mills for under $1500
that can produce small items. Leases start at $100 @ mo. They have
desktop laser 3D scanners (put a real world object in, produces 3d model) too.
BeOS?
No it's not.
We still have a right to vote. Unfortunately last election, our popular vote (the people) was ignored by the Governer of Florida, the confusion of the divits, and the amount of time they wasted on investigating it drew out the talley of the electorial past the cutoff date.
Because of Florida has more electorial votes, when they swayed towards Bush it was enough (barely) for him to win the presidency.
Damn!
:P I liked the xanac comment, I was going for the whole tasters choice coffee thing :D
Wednesday April 09, @02:00PM
Wednesday April 09, @02:00PM
You must have beaten my comment by seconds
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so original! You make me laugh! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man! I like you jokes! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Today we secretly replaced The Bungi's daily dose of ritalin with methanphedamine. Let's see if he notices the difference.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wow... my sides are hurting with that funny, funny quip you just threw down on us like some clever maniacal funny man! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Nope, still as maniacal as ever.
Have you ever had an exec chew your ass because his exchange froze up when trying to download a large attatchment?
Or for that matter, ever been chewed out for suggesting pro-active server maintenence, then gotten chewed out again when said server crashes from not being properly maintained?
Or have you ever been chewed out for solar flares, sun spots, or other celestial things that are completely beyond your control?
You don't know the life of a sysadmin working for a jackass, probably because you are a jackass yourself.
And I won't waste my karma bonus on a dumb fuck like you, if a moderator agree's with what I say, then hip hup hooray.
I'm sick and tired of being the corporate whipping boy for the executive staff.
Robots are slowly coming down in price. With all the innovations in bipedal robot locomotion, it will only be a matter of time before robots like the Asimo are common place.
I only see this peltier oven as a short term, limited lifecycle product. It's only a matter of time before I can go to the web interface of my Asimo at home, and tell it to monitor the GPS location of my car as I drive home from work, take a few El Monteray Burrito's out of the freezer 5 minutes before I get home, place them in the microwave and nuke them for 3 minutes. Maybe have it spread some grated cheese on top after 2 minutes of cooking, and BAM robotic cooking.
No I'm serious folks, this isn't even trying to go for a funny on this one. Robots will make this thing obselete.
I once had a paranoid CEO that wanted to bang his executive assistant.
He had me share her exchange inbox, I didn't do much else other than that. He said it was because she was filing a sexual harassment lawsuit (untrue) and was just trying to find out if she was dating anyone from the office.
She was a nice lady, and having to look her in the eye daily knowing that I set it up so the CEO could spy on her (out of jealosy) made me sick, sort of depressed really.
There are situations where you know doing this for management is just, such as a corporate spy's or what not, but to find out who's bangin who is just detestable.
Hardware emulation isn't illeagle. No honest to god it isn't.
And going off just what I saw in the slash post, there's no mention of it. Since I can't read the article (slashdotted) I can only go on what is availiable to me.
So since time shifting wasn't mentioned about windows media center or linux, I can only assume since the author is trying to compare lindows to media center that it must have time shifting capabilities.
So how is the time shifting on linux? Could someone from linuxhardware.com please either provide another mirror to the article, or just answer my reply? I'm just really curious to know if it's working well in lindows.
Yours Truly
Toq
Don't engineers drive trains?
I've heard that Dell outsourced all it's frontline support to India.
:D
It makes me sick everytime I see that Dell Intern "Who turned out the lights in tech support?" commercial knowing that what they portray on TV doesn't resemble reality at all.
Dell cannot draw me into it's delusion of an american company anymore. I still love their service contracts though
It made sense for them, I mean it could have panned out..
Free Developers from around the world to pick up the slack their developers couldn't (or vice versa)
Free QA from around the world.
Free beer?
Forget I just said that.
This is what I did, it was a +5 I wrote about the experience, and let me say I wouldn't want to go through it again.
This doesn't do jack people for us people, just another open loophole law that was passed so the politicians have "busy work"
Most spam is sent out through a 3rd party, who usually hides behind all kinds of nifty little things like hijacked SMTP servers and spoofed IP addresses. My freinds dad was a spammer, so I'm quite aquainted with thier operations.
Let's say, I recieve a spam from penis enlargement corporation. I try to sue, PEC just points out that the spam wasn't sent by them, it was sent by "insert spam company here" and they're off the hook.
The law needs to include the customer of the spam house, otherwise it's going to be ineffective.
Rad how out of 380 comments, his is the only one modded +5.
Props to the mods.
Spanish Fly?
The Butcher Boy without a doubt has to be my all time favorite, relatively unknown movie.
It revolves around a boy named Francy Brady (Anti-hero?) who grows up in a home with a mother who constantly tries to commit suicide and a father who drinks like a fish.
He has one friend throughout the whole movie, and his arch nemisis's (the nugents) constantly remind him that he is low class trash. The best part in the movie is when Francy starts having delusions of the Virgin Mary (played by Sinade O'Conner) They start out completely fake as a way to gain attention at the catholic orphanage he's put in, but they eventually evolve into full on delusions in which Francy starts to have really weird conversations.
Good movie, gotta rent it sometime.
This is a really late reply, I should have jumped on this a while back...
:)
Set your browsing to +5, somewhere down the page I go into explaining how these licensing fee's are going to eat up my gamehouse profits. Now onto your comment
is not applicable to software used for a limited purpose computer designed for playing video games.
In a gamehouse enviroment, computers are pretty much a "limited purpose computer designed for playing video games" The stations are locked down, users cannot use them as "general purpose" Their purpose is very limited to games, maybe MS word, and some web browsing.
I found your comment to be very informative, it actually gives me a foothold to challenge what I consider to be unfair licensing from Id, activision, Valve and others.
Thanks, friend added.
Funny thing was, cliff took the time to personally respond. I'd paste the message in this post, but I deleted it from the inbox.
Video game rental is a big issue for me because I'm in the process of opening up a gamehouse right now. Most game companies, with the exception of Bioware and Epic have just plain greedy licensing schemes that eat up any profit a game house owner might see.
Here are my thoughts on this issue, posted on the story about the price of commander keen. My argument against these licensing fee's go along the following..
Capcom, Atari, ect all provided more than just a cabinet when they sold you a game. You got a cabinet (physical security) Coin Mech (money validator) Access software (credits) Input Device (Joystick, buttons) Service contracts, monitor, and the game. Usually it was anywhere between a 50/50 to a 25/75 split for the quarters between the cabinet owner and the person that owned the property.
Now with a gamehouse, I'm providing those first 6 items, while the game company only provides the game. After looking at paying off employee's, loans, and a lease, these fee's are going to be eating up enough of my profits to where me, the owner is going to be lucky to break even at the end of the month. On top of all that I have a machine that needs to be replaced every 2-3 years to stay current with the CPL standard so I can host CPL qualifyers at my place.
Companies like Id, Activision, well, everyone except bioware/epic all expect a cut out of your gross profits. I could see them asking for a cut from the net, but the gross? That's just greed. No value added services, no special gamehouse edition, nothing.
I took some time out to write Mark Rein of Epic, to thank him for his companies license free policy. Following is his response.
Toqer,
We've had this policy for a long time. Basically if people play the game at your location they might be encouraged to buy their own copy for home and to tell their friends about it. We feel it's a win-win for both sides. The only think we ask in return is that you legally purchase, and keep on hand at all times, a copy of UT2003 for each machine the game is being played on.
As for images, you're welcome to use screen shots you create for the purpose of positive promotion of our game in your establishment.
Good luck!
Mark Rein
Epic Games Inc.
How fucking cool is that? Not only do they let you rent it as long as you buy a legal retail copy without fee's, they're more than happy to let me use their images/logo's screenshots for my centers motif.
Bottom line is, these licensing fee's suck. Ford doesn't charge me for making money on a truck after I purchase it, and neither should game companies. It's unfortunate that for some games (counterstrike) i'll have to pay these fee's if I want to carry the games that will draw the customers. What makes it even less fair, is I plan on playing by the rules, and there are many many other gamehouses that completely skip out on these fee's. I would love to challenge them in court, but as a startup, i'm in no position to do so.
I disagree with your looking across the street analogy, and agree with the parent poster. In order to scan, you have to hit my firewall/router i.e. MY network with something. If you hit anything past that, you're totally on MY network.
Now I may have left a lemon tree on my lawn as a public web server, little kids go and pick my lemons all summer long. Since the lemon tree is just for looks, I don't care if they eat lemmons from my tree.
Now one day, some teenagers come along, and they notice a window open on my house. Sure I didn't mean to leave that window open, but sure enough they climb though and drink my beer from the fridge.
I come home to find these passed out drunken teenagers swimming in their own vomit on my shag rug. For some odd reason, (maybe they're just kids) they tore down the curtains, tagged up my walls, cooked my silverware in the microwave, and took a big shit in my bathtub.
Time to grab the rock salt shells ma! We got us some trespassers.
This program is designed to go past the router point on most networks and right onto the lan. It's tresspassing. Anything past the router is tresspassing.
I'm sorry, but gamespy obviously doesn't know about
kaillera.
Kaillera enables mame to play just about any old arcade hit online. Since it's
release 2 years ago, it's developed an entire subculture of dedicated players,
clans, and ladders.
According to statistics built by
kaillera the most popular game genre on kaillera is fighting games (King of
fighters, Street Fighter), followed by a single adventure game that dominates
the charts,
Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara.
I think this game was misclassified as an Adventure game, because it's
gameplay really resembles that of Final Fight, and other Beat em ups
Thats all I have to say about that.
I had this software on my system, maybe 2 weeks (ok a month because thats how long the free trial lasts)
The images produced are amazing, but after you get through seeing your house, grandma's house, cousins house, freinds houses, your work, all from the air it kind of get's boring.
The user level version produces some good maps, but if you're really interested in earthviewer, you should sign up for the corporate trial. Even though all the images produced from the corporate trial have a watermark of keyholes logo on them, the detail is just too good to pass up.