Sounds like you think like me. I submitted a duplicate "greppable text file" comment. [I am a windows user, tho, who uses windows like unix-users use unix:) ]
Anyway... I'm wondering... Do you have a URL for these selector cases? or a picture?
And also.. are the Ritek double-sided DVD-Rs more than twice the cost of single-sided DVD-rs? currently i pay about 60 to 90 cents for a blank DVD-R (buy 200 at a time).
Just do a "dir/b" (or "ls -1", I think, for you unix folks) to a master-video-list.txt (Be sure to append, not ovewrite).
My file has grown to 12,000 or so lines (unique episodes/movies/clips).
I search it with grep.
I search it with a script (vchk.bat) that works on every computer in my house despite the fact that the text file is only on one computer. (Environment variables to hold harddrive letters helps one write scripts that work on all 3 computers by addressing the harddrive itself, ie %HD120G1, instead of "C:" which would be "S:" on my other computer, etc, but i digress.)
This file can be put on your webpage too. Then you will get emails from people weekly offering to give you money for your tv shows. It's fun rejecting them citing MPAA concerns. Helps make these noobs who don't know these issues exist more aware of the forces that are working against all of us.
And the advice the other guy said about "Waiting til you have enough episodes to fill a DVD-R with" is pretty good. I got up to video-cdr-1650 before I switched ot DVD-R (up to video-dvdr-80 or so now). 2 terabytes would probably not be enough for me, counting the blank space I need to capture a week's worth of shows (~100G).
I'd show you my master-video-text.txt, but I don't want my server slashdotted. and no one gives a fuck anyway.
Do what I do and put your computer next to your television.
Get an ATI card (accept no substitutes) with s-video output.
Voila! You now have a HUGE monitor for $0 (assuming you already own the television.)
(My 36' Proscan TV -- more scanlines than standard -- cost $1200, about 1 month of house payments. I've already used it over 20,000 hours, and I have seen no better TV-out.)
At that point, any $15 monitor you pick up at a yardsale will be enough for your "monitor", which will actually become secondary as a TV is good enough and has enough resolution for small text like that which I am typing right now [on my TV].
Plus, you can now play dvds, download tv shows, watch Flash videos, use your computer as a VCR using only freeware, etc, on your primary screen. A screen is a screen, it shoudln't matter wheather a computer or movie is on it. Convergence is the wave of the future.
I bought an expensive $400 100-cd changer. It had video out that would display the disc you are listening to. (And before you ask, no, it was not CDDB enabled, in fact it named the slot, not the disc, so you would have to key in 16 character for 100 slots and make sure to always keep the same disc in the same slot, sucky.)
Of course all 100 discs must be removed to transport it. And put back in in the same order. It takes a good 30-45 minutes to do so each time you took it in for repair.
I bought the 4-year extended warrantee. Supposedly this means at the end of the 4 years I would have a perfectly working cd player.
NOT SO. About 2 years in it started skipping on cds. More and more cds. Every week, a new disc would start skipping horribly. I took it in for repair. They "repaired" it. It still skipped.
Now they have a policy that after 3 repairs, you get a replacement one. So after the 2nd time I said "only 2 more times right?" Right. After the 3rd time I said "only 1 more time, right?" Right.
Finally I was coming in to replace it, and they pulled their shit on me. The policy only replaces your cd player if they actually REPAIR it 3 times and the same part is malfunctioning a 4th time. It turns out they did not repair mine. Everytime I brought it in, they had simply cleaned the lens.
So I told them to repair it. They looked me in the face and told me it was not broken so they would not repair it. I went as far as to bring in a box of malfunctioning cds and have them LISTEN to the cds skipping and they still looked me in the eye and told me that there was nothing wrong with it and it was not going to be repaired.
Finally my warrantee expired during all of this, so I had no options. I have a $400 piece of shit cd player that is no damn good.
I had taken my cd player into best buy a total of 6 times. I had unloaded and reloaded 100 discs 6 times (that's 1200 cd operations). I had kept track of all the discs in my changer and what date they started skipping. The total amount of time spent was well over 12 hours, plus I had insane skipping for almost a year. (Imagine a 4 minute song taking 8 minutes to play, while you are trying to snooze.)
I now only play mp3s. My computer controls the sound for the whole house thanks to long RCA cable runs and shitty $70 X10 transmitters that barely work across 20 feet of air. (And of course you can only by 1 receiver per transmitter, I don't know why they don't sell receivers alone so I could add the 1 missing room to the mix.)
I am now against all standalone players in the home.
I will never buy another cd player.
I will never buy another VCR.
I will never buy a DVD player. (Playstation2 is enough.)
Standalone players are a thing of the past. Your computer can play music. Your computer can play video. Your computer can do anything. We will always have computers until the day we die, of course, because we are slashdot readers.
There is no reason to subsidize such a crooked industry. I am not participating anymore and I encourage everyone else to STOP BUYING STANDALONE MEDIA PLAYERS RIGHT AWAY. It is just not worth it. They belong in the car, not in the home.
And BOYCOTT BEST BUY. Circuit City does price matching, and has (Barely) better customer service. And they aren't fucking pricks.
So to answer the question, in this case, NO, the extended warrantee is not worth it. I would still purchase one for a $1200 36-inch tv like the one I am using as a monitor right now. I would still purchase one in many situations, but NEVER from Best Buy.
If they were "vegan extremists", then yes they WOULD hold a sausage sizzle.
If they held an all-vegan fundraiser, who would buy the stuff? Vegans. They would get some money from their friends but not their foes.
If they held a sausage sizzlefest, then the money of meateaters would go into their hands. Like someone said, it would be delicious (no pun intended) irony for them to take the money from their foes and use it for themselves.
Any extremist group will be willing to go against its own ideals if it hurts the opposing group enough to be worth it.
...And notice that there generally isn't gang warfare over Alcohol and Cigarettes, is there?
That's because they are legal. Prohibition is what creates gang warfare.
Remember, the most powerful gang warfare we ever had was during alcohol prohibition. Because more people drink alcohol than smoke marijuana, it created a lot more funding for Al Capone and his insidious cronies.
As long as things people want to do are illegal but still have high demand, they will fund the black market.
A) you know nothing about the project
B) you clearly don't know how long some web applications can take
C) did I ever specify that the money was just for labor, and not for servers? No.
He was an independent contractor. He had to put food on his plate. The guy was screwing him over. He did the right thing & I would encourage anyone else to do the same.
Here in america at least, the big guy always screws the little guy. Leverage is needed.
The guy decided to be a dick about it and not pay him the money he deserved.
Fortunately for him he put a backdoor in. He told the guy about it. Once activated the system would not work until a password only he knew was entered.
His payment was promptly received. (He got the idea from a movie.)
I got my secondary NES at a Garage Sale just last summer. $20 for that and a working 15' monitor. I got 160 Atari 2600 cartridges and several consoles for about $50 too, a few summers ago.
I have equity, but this house is practically unsellable.
60 yrs old, crack in foundation, dangerous heating system, questionable electrical wiring, shitty windows (sometimes 1 pane of plastic screwed in), crooked kitchen floor (kitchen is downstairs), hilly/rocky yard.
But yea there is abou $60K of equity due to the insane realstate market inside the D.C. beltway. I didn't work for a year (well 2.5 actually) and the value of the house went up more than if I had worked. So I didn't feel as guilty.
Hey, at least at Taco Bell i'd get free tacos! I guess it's not so bad.
Slashdot Mirror
It's best to preserve the original "noise" rather than introduce another layer of loss.
Run it thourgh a temporal smoother and a 2-d filter like SmartSmother 2.1 (a virtualdub plugin), and that will make it look better.
PS2:
Frequency / Amplitude
I'm just curious, becuase I want out of America, but everyplace else sucks.
As for those of us with modchips, that hate P.O.D., hopefully this will show up on eMule sometime. Amplitude is just about the best game ever.
Anyway... I'm wondering... Do you have a URL for these selector cases? or a picture?
And also.. are the Ritek double-sided DVD-Rs more than twice the cost of single-sided DVD-rs? currently i pay about 60 to 90 cents for a blank DVD-R (buy 200 at a time).
My file has grown to 12,000 or so lines (unique episodes/movies/clips).
I search it with grep.
I search it with a script (vchk.bat) that works on every computer in my house despite the fact that the text file is only on one computer. (Environment variables to hold harddrive letters helps one write scripts that work on all 3 computers by addressing the harddrive itself, ie %HD120G1, instead of "C:" which would be "S:" on my other computer, etc, but i digress.)
This file can be put on your webpage too. Then you will get emails from people weekly offering to give you money for your tv shows. It's fun rejecting them citing MPAA concerns. Helps make these noobs who don't know these issues exist more aware of the forces that are working against all of us.
And the advice the other guy said about "Waiting til you have enough episodes to fill a DVD-R with" is pretty good. I got up to video-cdr-1650 before I switched ot DVD-R (up to video-dvdr-80 or so now). 2 terabytes would probably not be enough for me, counting the blank space I need to capture a week's worth of shows (~100G).
I'd show you my master-video-text.txt, but I don't want my server slashdotted. and no one gives a fuck anyway.
Maybe we could have "Flash Beowulf Cluster Mobs".
I don't understand the above comment. But yes... Kaylee was the hottest chick. Not the whore.
You need Scorched Earth [the game].
Get an ATI card (accept no substitutes) with s-video output.
Voila! You now have a HUGE monitor for $0 (assuming you already own the television.)
(My 36' Proscan TV -- more scanlines than standard -- cost $1200, about 1 month of house payments. I've already used it over 20,000 hours, and I have seen no better TV-out.)
At that point, any $15 monitor you pick up at a yardsale will be enough for your "monitor", which will actually become secondary as a TV is good enough and has enough resolution for small text like that which I am typing right now [on my TV].
Plus, you can now play dvds, download tv shows, watch Flash videos, use your computer as a VCR using only freeware, etc, on your primary screen. A screen is a screen, it shoudln't matter wheather a computer or movie is on it. Convergence is the wave of the future.
HDTV-Out would be even better of course.
It smells like victory.
I bought an expensive $400 100-cd changer. It had video out that would display the disc you are listening to.
(And before you ask, no, it was not CDDB enabled, in fact it named the slot, not the disc, so you would have to key in 16 character for 100 slots and make sure to always keep the same disc in the same slot, sucky.)
Of course all 100 discs must be removed to transport it. And put back in in the same order. It takes a good 30-45 minutes to do so each time you took it in for repair.
I bought the 4-year extended warrantee. Supposedly this means at the end of the 4 years I would have a perfectly working cd player.
NOT SO. About 2 years in it started skipping on cds. More and more cds. Every week, a new disc would start skipping horribly. I took it in for repair. They "repaired" it. It still skipped.
Now they have a policy that after 3 repairs, you get a replacement one. So after the 2nd time I said "only 2 more times right?" Right. After the 3rd time I said "only 1 more time, right?" Right.
Finally I was coming in to replace it, and they pulled their shit on me. The policy only replaces your cd player if they actually REPAIR it 3 times and the same part is malfunctioning a 4th time. It turns out they did not repair mine. Everytime I brought it in, they had simply cleaned the lens.
So I told them to repair it. They looked me in the face and told me it was not broken so they would not repair it. I went as far as to bring in a box of malfunctioning cds and have them LISTEN to the cds skipping and they still looked me in the eye and told me that there was nothing wrong with it and it was not going to be repaired.
Finally my warrantee expired during all of this, so I had no options. I have a $400 piece of shit cd player that is no damn good.
I had taken my cd player into best buy a total of 6 times. I had unloaded and reloaded 100 discs 6 times (that's 1200 cd operations). I had kept track of all the discs in my changer and what date they started skipping. The total amount of time spent was well over 12 hours, plus I had insane skipping for almost a year. (Imagine a 4 minute song taking 8 minutes to play, while you are trying to snooze.)
I now only play mp3s. My computer controls the sound for the whole house thanks to long RCA cable runs and shitty $70 X10 transmitters that barely work across 20 feet of air. (And of course you can only by 1 receiver per transmitter, I don't know why they don't sell receivers alone so I could add the 1 missing room to the mix.)
I am now against all standalone players in the home.
I will never buy another cd player.
I will never buy another VCR.
I will never buy a DVD player. (Playstation2 is enough.)
Standalone players are a thing of the past. Your computer can play music. Your computer can play video. Your computer can do anything. We will always have computers until the day we die, of course, because we are slashdot readers.
There is no reason to subsidize such a crooked industry. I am not participating anymore and I encourage everyone else to STOP BUYING STANDALONE MEDIA PLAYERS RIGHT AWAY. It is just not worth it. They belong in the car, not in the home.
And BOYCOTT BEST BUY. Circuit City does price matching, and has (Barely) better customer service. And they aren't fucking pricks.
So to answer the question, in this case, NO, the extended warrantee is not worth it. I would still purchase one for a $1200 36-inch tv like the one I am using as a monitor right now. I would still purchase one in many situations, but NEVER from Best Buy.
If they held an all-vegan fundraiser, who would buy the stuff? Vegans. They would get some money from their friends but not their foes.
If they held a sausage sizzlefest, then the money of meateaters would go into their hands. Like someone said, it would be delicious (no pun intended) irony for them to take the money from their foes and use it for themselves.
Any extremist group will be willing to go against its own ideals if it hurts the opposing group enough to be worth it.
That's because they are legal. Prohibition is what creates gang warfare.
Remember, the most powerful gang warfare we ever had was during alcohol prohibition. Because more people drink alcohol than smoke marijuana, it created a lot more funding for Al Capone and his insidious cronies.
As long as things people want to do are illegal but still have high demand, they will fund the black market.
Legalize it.
A) you know nothing about the project
B) you clearly don't know how long some web applications can take
C) did I ever specify that the money was just for labor, and not for servers? No.
Well then obviously, if you were the customer, you would have deserved it.
Here in america at least, the big guy always screws the little guy. Leverage is needed.
The guy decided to be a dick about it and not pay him the money he deserved.
Fortunately for him he put a backdoor in. He told the guy about it. Once activated the system would not work until a password only he knew was entered.
His payment was promptly received. (He got the idea from a movie.)
What is the author of this smoking?
I got my secondary NES at a Garage Sale just last summer. $20 for that and a working 15' monitor. I got 160 Atari 2600 cartridges and several consoles for about $50 too, a few summers ago.
These things are everywhere.
Both are excellent shows but any current South Park beats any current Simpsons (Except the medical marijuana episode Weekend At Burnsies).
I'm not comparing early Simpsons to current South Park. Just current seasons.
....Jackoff Valenti interviews YOU.
60 yrs old, crack in foundation, dangerous heating system, questionable electrical wiring, shitty windows (sometimes 1 pane of plastic screwed in), crooked kitchen floor (kitchen is downstairs), hilly/rocky yard.
But yea there is abou $60K of equity due to the insane realstate market inside the D.C. beltway. I didn't work for a year (well 2.5 actually) and the value of the house went up more than if I had worked. So I didn't feel as guilty.
Hey, at least at Taco Bell i'd get free tacos! I guess it's not so bad.
It's not so cool once you run out of money and your savings depletes to $0 and you wonder if you'll have your mortgage a year from now.
Especially the cool graphical version.