I had similar thoughts. Then I remembered that people can get picked up and tried a second time by the feds. I'm thinking specifically when the cops involved with Rodney King got tried for 'civil rights violations' after their acquittal in a California court. Legal types will explain how this isn't a violation of double jeopardy, even though every citizen understands they were tried twice for the same crime.
All the naysayers must not have children. The Disney (and Universal and one or two other studios) whose discs I have for my kid prevent you from hitting skip or menu on EVERYTHING. FBI warnings, ads for other movies, ads for the current movie, ads for the soundtrack for the current movie (sensing a trend?). I've even tried going into the info screen, which lets you jump to different titles/tracks on a disc to no avail. The only solution is FFWD, and that doesn't work on certain things. This is on a ProScan player, ca 1999. I've done a little testing on two Apex machines with similar results. Ditto a Sony machine.
My biggest problem with this is that I just want to put 'Babe' on the freakin' TV so I can go make dinner.
Or sold it for the $140 million he was offered? Yeah, he gets no tears from me. Partially blind at 56? Meet my wife. Partially blind at 18, totally blind at 28.
Maybe you should be asking why more Governments do not consider publicly funded television important?
I subscribe to a few ideas. First, 'the government that governs least, governs best.' And, 'first, do no harm.'
I suppose it goes without saying that food, clothing, shelter, and medicine are essential parts of human life, therefore the government should provide them as well?
Universal education is a demonstrable good. Better workers, better jobs, better living for all. Government funded telly? I don't see it. Perhaps you can explain?
So you are the one to blame for the lack of informative advertisements? You're the reason that I have to endure 30 second spots of something filmed by an epileptic?
I've got a tape of some ca. 1960 auto commercials. Incredible how informative they are. XX horsepower, show someone with a tape measure in the bed of a truck, etc. Now I get these 'entertaining' lifestyle ads. Yay.
Even worse with pledge drives is that you CAN'T watch your regular show. They insist on putting special garbage on that the bread and butter PBS viewer doesn't give two shits about. I'm used to getting my weekly Britcoms (or cooking shows, or whatever), flip on the tube, and there's Suze Orman or Deepak Chopra. Screw that. When they pull that stunt, that's when I call and complain and point out why they're not getting any money.
BTW, when your kid wants to see Teletubbies, Elmo, or Barney, and some bink is on the screen begging for cash, 'nag screen' is too kind a word. STFU!! My kid is going nuts! He's actually trying to interact with me. Even worse. He's pointing at the 'gift' she's holding up and wanting me to buy it. Crass commercialism from aging hippies; gotta love it.
It's worse than you present. Many of the WB cartoons are edited as much for content as for commercial reasons. Catch some of the uncut DVDs, and you'll see just how unPC they can be. Damn but that was some funny stuff.
Time compression, for those who don't know, is speeding things up a little bit. Kinda like playing an LP on 45 rpm (why do I think many of the kiddies here won't get that reference?) Everyone seems to be speaking with just a hint of helium in the air.
BTW, did you have any of the Jonah Hex action figures? I saw them advertised in the catalogs that came with my Star Wars toys in the mid 70's.
Whoa, an intelligent slashdotter. My mother wondered what the big hullabaloo with cable TV was all about in the 80's, seeing as she was familiar with it from college 20 years earlier (college being in a white bread, redneck mountain town).
You're absolutely right. A fact I was reminded of yesterday morning when my mother said "Do you want to come down for dinner tomorrow? BTW, my computer isn't acting right..."
I've spent the weekend fighting various wireless products for my wife's machine. Finally stumbled onto some supported hardware. Glad it's working for you.
Directive four is obviously: all employees of Microsoft can get off scot-free. (would be way cooler if I could remember the phrase and substitute Microsoft for OCP)
This includes a chipset, not a radio. Therefore, it won't be sending out your world control schemes to everyone in existence. Yes, Intel will at some point in the nebulous future include a radio. As will many manufacturers. At that point, we go to the next paragraph:
Every integrated soundcard/videocard/ethernet controller/serial port/etc. I've ever seen has a setting in the BIOS. If you don't want the location of your laser embedded sharks known to the black helicopter people, switch it off.
Finally, when is the last time your built in ethernet card just randomly spewed data out the port to the CIA? Oh, last week? Then you have more problems than just a wireless AP built into your motherboard.
Both of those industries, IIRC, are basing things on spurious evidence at best. However, given the possibly life threatening nature, better to be safe than sorry.
But, I should also point out that healthcare uses a TREMENDOUS amount of wireless technology. Nurses with wireless pads to enter vitals, monitors sending info via wireless, etc. Not sure if they use 2.4 or some other frequency, but they exist.
Maybe it's a grudge that I have. Or maybe it's that I drive cars until they're 15+ years old and the spiffy bits would fsck up before then.
Nah. It's that your parents finally figured out how to open the tailgate on the station wagon, and the pressure caused exhaust gas to get sucked into the cabin. Upon breathing, you were left retarded:)
In at least one instance, they are buying Infiniti's as well. Father just picked up (10 days ago?) a Q45. Why not an M5 (about the same sticker)? iDrive is one big freakin' reason. The Q45 has much of the same crap, but it was usable after just a few minutes. And last week, the salesperson made a visit to my mother (an hour or more from the dealership) to spend a few hours training her on each and every little function. No, not the 'change volume and station', but the minor stuff.
Having experienced neither machine (hell, my car doesn't even shift itself:) I can offer nothing but the opinion of people who just bought a car whose value exceeds my annual salary. So there may be some 'Emperor's New Clothes' in there.
That's why I bought the GF3 a year ago instead of the lower end GF4: it was more advanced. The low end GF4 of about a year ago was actually a souped up GF2, not a dumbed down GF4. It was even on/. a few times.
Still, you are right in that lots of people bought the things.
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I had similar thoughts. Then I remembered that people can get picked up and tried a second time by the feds. I'm thinking specifically when the cops involved with Rodney King got tried for 'civil rights violations' after their acquittal in a California court. Legal types will explain how this isn't a violation of double jeopardy, even though every citizen understands they were tried twice for the same crime.
All the naysayers must not have children. The Disney (and Universal and one or two other studios) whose discs I have for my kid prevent you from hitting skip or menu on EVERYTHING. FBI warnings, ads for other movies, ads for the current movie, ads for the soundtrack for the current movie (sensing a trend?). I've even tried going into the info screen, which lets you jump to different titles/tracks on a disc to no avail. The only solution is FFWD, and that doesn't work on certain things. This is on a ProScan player, ca 1999. I've done a little testing on two Apex machines with similar results. Ditto a Sony machine.
My biggest problem with this is that I just want to put 'Babe' on the freakin' TV so I can go make dinner.
I heard of a company that made decent hardware, but Linux only. I think their name was VA something or other. Ever heard of them?
Or sold it for the $140 million he was offered? Yeah, he gets no tears from me. Partially blind at 56? Meet my wife. Partially blind at 18, totally blind at 28.
Boo frickin' hoo.
According to the manual for my wife's tdd, it's actually 48.5 baud.
Maybe you should be asking why more Governments do not consider publicly funded television important?
I subscribe to a few ideas. First, 'the government that governs least, governs best.' And, 'first, do no harm.'
I suppose it goes without saying that food, clothing, shelter, and medicine are essential parts of human life, therefore the government should provide them as well?
What JB 'just released' set? It's been re-released. I've had all three sets for a few years now. Guess the marketing works.
Universal education is a demonstrable good. Better workers, better jobs, better living for all. Government funded telly? I don't see it. Perhaps you can explain?
So you are the one to blame for the lack of informative advertisements? You're the reason that I have to endure 30 second spots of something filmed by an epileptic?
I've got a tape of some ca. 1960 auto commercials. Incredible how informative they are. XX horsepower, show someone with a tape measure in the bed of a truck, etc. Now I get these 'entertaining' lifestyle ads. Yay.
Even worse with pledge drives is that you CAN'T watch your regular show. They insist on putting special garbage on that the bread and butter PBS viewer doesn't give two shits about. I'm used to getting my weekly Britcoms (or cooking shows, or whatever), flip on the tube, and there's Suze Orman or Deepak Chopra. Screw that. When they pull that stunt, that's when I call and complain and point out why they're not getting any money.
BTW, when your kid wants to see Teletubbies, Elmo, or Barney, and some bink is on the screen begging for cash, 'nag screen' is too kind a word. STFU!! My kid is going nuts! He's actually trying to interact with me. Even worse. He's pointing at the 'gift' she's holding up and wanting me to buy it. Crass commercialism from aging hippies; gotta love it.
It's worse than you present. Many of the WB cartoons are edited as much for content as for commercial reasons. Catch some of the uncut DVDs, and you'll see just how unPC they can be. Damn but that was some funny stuff.
Time compression, for those who don't know, is speeding things up a little bit. Kinda like playing an LP on 45 rpm (why do I think many of the kiddies here won't get that reference?) Everyone seems to be speaking with just a hint of helium in the air.
BTW, did you have any of the Jonah Hex action figures? I saw them advertised in the catalogs that came with my Star Wars toys in the mid 70's.
Whoa, an intelligent slashdotter. My mother wondered what the big hullabaloo with cable TV was all about in the 80's, seeing as she was familiar with it from college 20 years earlier (college being in a white bread, redneck mountain town).
You're absolutely right. A fact I was reminded of yesterday morning when my mother said "Do you want to come down for dinner tomorrow? BTW, my computer isn't acting right..."
I've spent the weekend fighting various wireless products for my wife's machine. Finally stumbled onto some supported hardware. Glad it's working for you.
Directive four is obviously: all employees of Microsoft can get off scot-free. (would be way cooler if I could remember the phrase and substitute Microsoft for OCP)
Would you people please think before posting?
This includes a chipset, not a radio. Therefore, it won't be sending out your world control schemes to everyone in existence. Yes, Intel will at some point in the nebulous future include a radio. As will many manufacturers. At that point, we go to the next paragraph:
Every integrated soundcard/videocard/ethernet controller/serial port/etc. I've ever seen has a setting in the BIOS. If you don't want the location of your laser embedded sharks known to the black helicopter people, switch it off.
Finally, when is the last time your built in ethernet card just randomly spewed data out the port to the CIA? Oh, last week? Then you have more problems than just a wireless AP built into your motherboard.
Thoughts? Yeah, go into the BIOS and turn it off, like you can onboard IDE controllers, ethernet ports, serial ports, parallel ports, etc, etc, etc.
Oh, or get your head out of your ass and reread the article where it says this is just the chipset, and doesn't include a radio.
Both of those industries, IIRC, are basing things on spurious evidence at best. However, given the possibly life threatening nature, better to be safe than sorry.
But, I should also point out that healthcare uses a TREMENDOUS amount of wireless technology. Nurses with wireless pads to enter vitals, monitors sending info via wireless, etc. Not sure if they use 2.4 or some other frequency, but they exist.
Not sure if asx100 and acx100 are the same thing, but if so, have you tried this?
Read the article; this is a design excercise. The phrase 'we could be seeing these on the streets in 2025' should have been a dead giveaway.
Further, since Bombardier already produces motorcycles, perhaps they are already thinking of fuel cells for bikes?
Then it may have been a 540. Or a 740. I didn't pay that much attention. The taste of sour grapes was getting to me.
Maybe it's a grudge that I have. Or maybe it's that I drive cars until they're 15+ years old and the spiffy bits would fsck up before then.
Nah. It's that your parents finally figured out how to open the tailgate on the station wagon, and the pressure caused exhaust gas to get sucked into the cabin. Upon breathing, you were left retarded:)
In at least one instance, they are buying Infiniti's as well. Father just picked up (10 days ago?) a Q45. Why not an M5 (about the same sticker)? iDrive is one big freakin' reason. The Q45 has much of the same crap, but it was usable after just a few minutes. And last week, the salesperson made a visit to my mother (an hour or more from the dealership) to spend a few hours training her on each and every little function. No, not the 'change volume and station', but the minor stuff.
Having experienced neither machine (hell, my car doesn't even shift itself:) I can offer nothing but the opinion of people who just bought a car whose value exceeds my annual salary. So there may be some 'Emperor's New Clothes' in there.
IIRC, the Xbox release isn't gold yet.
That's why I bought the GF3 a year ago instead of the lower end GF4: it was more advanced. The low end GF4 of about a year ago was actually a souped up GF2, not a dumbed down GF4. It was even on /. a few times.
Still, you are right in that lots of people bought the things.