Robot Wars a rip-off of Battlebots? Puh-leez. I was watching Robot Wars years ago on PBS. It's been around as a British series (hence all the funny accents) since 1997.
Craig Charles the "smarmy" host, played Lister on Red Dwarf, an IMHO, great sci-fi comedy.
There was (is?) an American Robot Wars on TNN that had Mick Foley, a professional wrestler (aka Mankind, Catus Jack), as MC - it was horrible. It was like Robot Wars meets trailer park. I'd much rather have Craig's stupid poetry at the end of every show.
I miss the obstacle courses they used to have - I found that more interesting than the battles most of the time.
If you took a look at the screenshots, you'd see they don't really look much like iTunes and iPhoto. If you think they do, you might want to get your eyes checked. The functionality may be similar but the styling and quality of the ui between the apps is worlds apart. The L-apps look like crap, IMHO.
And since there was no link to the fedora website, I went to fedora.org. Whoops. Guess I'm gonna get fired (it's not a work friendly image, not nearly in goatse's league though). Apparently they forgot to register the names before they announced the project name.
How about supporting incremental output (flushing portions of the page/app to the browser, for example before a long block slow database calls)? The block size safari uses before rendering output is just too big.
Comcast has a PVR, they're supposedly starting to roll it out. People in the county next to me have them. Even records HD. Streams digital channels straight to disk (no re-encoding at the box), but it will encode non-digital channels.
In my experience, Comcast compresses their channels way too much (LOTS of artifacts, all the time), and I often experience lost or partially lost frames, resulting in heavy pixelation and a screen that looks like scrambled tv (often during bad weather). Their customer service and sales folks tend to be rude, IMHO, and their website sucks (you can't change your package, order new services, etc. - all you can do is sign up for brand new service and view or pay your bill, and half of that is broken.
As far as DirecTV went, I've had a much better experience. I would occassionally experience an outage because of a storm, mostly because my dish wasn't aimed just right (I aimed it myself manually, and didn't have it secured very well). In my first apartment where I had it professionally aimed, I never had a problem except during severe thunderstorms coming from a particular direction, which was ok because I always lost power shortly thereafter anyway. Their customer service was always friendly and helpful, and you can do just about everything right there from the website. I wouldn't have dropped my service had my wife and I not needed more space and more money (cheaper place, with no "private" outside space with line of sight).
In fact, a friend of mine who's got HD and comcast's HD tuner recently remarked that my satellite signal on my old sony wega tv (non-hd) looked better, had less artifacts, etc. than comcast's HD!
I didn't see your post before I posted my comment:
I'm running Mac OS X as well. I had major problems playing DivX, and I had both DivX and 3ivX installed - which turns out to be part of the problem. I've managed to resolve most of my issues with the following components:
AC3 Codec.component
DivX 5.component
msmpeg4v1.component
msmpeg4v2.component
OggVorbis.qtx
on2vp3.component
XVIDDelegate.component
Since setting this up I haven't run into any AVI's or MPEGS that I couldn't play in quicktime.
I'm running Mac OS X as well. I had major problems playing DivX, and I had both DivX and 3ivX installed - which turns out to be part of the problem. I've managed to resolve most of my issues with the following components:
Darl's claim is that because there's no actual $$ changing hands with GPL licensed software, that it doesn't qualify as "financial gain" under U.S. copyright laws, and is therefore illegal.
Linus is just clarifying what "financial gain" means in terms of the copyright code. Although most people see "financial gain" and instantly think $$, he points out that the legal definition of the term "financial gain" includes not only $$, but anything of value and actually goes so far as to specifically include access/use of a copyrighted work.
It all depends on what your definition of "is", is, so to speak. But in this case the law defines the meaning of the term, which McBride has apparently gotten incorrect.
I'm guessing your image doesn't have a proper alt tag for screen readers, so that begs the question: why don't you want to receive email from blind people?
Think before you do something like this people - first it's not section 508 compliant (if your site needs to be), and secondly it's just not nice to exclude a whole bunch of disabled people.
Use a form instead that mails you their input - never reveals their email address, and is accessible.
Cliff's suggestion of using an image for the email address doesn't take into account that not every visitor to your site is necessarily sighted. This is a bad, bad, BAD idea. Preventing mailto: harvesting by excluding people with visual impairments is not the way to go.
The best method is to use a mailto form that allows you to receive the message but doesn't give away your address. That way you leave your site open and accessible to all users, but can protect your email address.
Eolas could actually turn out to be a hero of the browser wars.
License the patent to open projects for a penny, or for "advertising" in their documentation ("this product contains patent technology licensed by Eolas"). Charge companies like Opera & Apple a modest fee, and refuse to license to MS.
MS almost instantly looses the browser war that everybody thought was over.
I scored a 40, which would be consistent with my Myers-Briggs personality type - INTP(introverted, intuitive, thinking, perceiving). It would seem this "tool", if you could even call it that, is biased against particular personality types. I certainly wouldn't consider my personality type to be a disorder.;) You might actually find more relevance in taking the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Inventory).
I don't think this is so much about end user savings. They obviously have to pay for bandwidth, like anyone else. If I was a VA stock holder (who owns OSDN and slashdot) I might be a bit upset at the waste.
Assume about 2/3 of those are cached, so 45 bytes x ~800,000 hits/day. If my calculations are correct that's something like 34 gigs of bandwidth saved *per day* by moving to png, on just that image alone! Apply those small savings to every image on slashdot, and you're looking at a possible not insignificant bandwidth savings.
No, not the software, but actually making my own wine. You can actually make some very nice wines from kits these days - they're much better than they used to be. And if you really get into it, there's plenty of technical details involved.
Many of my geek friends are also home brewers, and so I will eventually be trying my hand at beer.
The thing is, it's mostly not their IP, it's Linus' and the rest of the people that wrote the code's IP. They may have made some changes, but that doesn't mean they can disregard the copyright under which the software was released. I'm pretty sure they knew about the GPL before the got started.
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What kind of crack are you smoking?
Robot Wars a rip-off of Battlebots? Puh-leez. I was watching Robot Wars years ago on PBS. It's been around as a British series (hence all the funny accents) since 1997.
Craig Charles the "smarmy" host, played Lister on Red Dwarf, an IMHO, great sci-fi comedy.
There was (is?) an American Robot Wars on TNN that had Mick Foley, a professional wrestler (aka Mankind, Catus Jack), as MC - it was horrible. It was like Robot Wars meets trailer park. I'd much rather have Craig's stupid poetry at the end of every show.
I miss the obstacle courses they used to have -
I found that more interesting than the battles
most of the time.
I've got a review of my experiences with the comcast motorola based PVR - http://webmages.com/blog/2004.04/comcast-pvr-revie w
Likewise with the comcast motorola box.
Don't forget... integrating additional tuners in a single box, so you don't have to have 2 tivos and 2 cable boxes, both in seperate rooms.
If you took a look at the screenshots, you'd see they don't really look much like iTunes and iPhoto. If you think they do, you might want to get your eyes checked. The functionality may be similar but the styling and quality of the ui between the apps is worlds apart. The L-apps look like crap, IMHO.
Obviously he's got a thing for feet. Look at the gnome logo. :)
And since there was no link to the fedora website, I went to fedora.org. Whoops. Guess I'm gonna get fired (it's not a work friendly image, not nearly in goatse's league though). Apparently they forgot to register the names before they announced the project name.
How about supporting incremental output (flushing portions of the page/app to the browser, for example before a long block slow database calls)? The block size safari uses before rendering output is just too big.
DirecTV and DishNet both carry porn.
Anyway....
Comcast has a PVR, they're supposedly starting to roll it out. People in the county next to me have them. Even records HD. Streams digital channels straight to disk (no re-encoding at the box), but it will encode non-digital channels.
In my experience, Comcast compresses their channels way too much (LOTS of artifacts, all the time), and I often experience lost or partially lost frames, resulting in heavy pixelation and a screen that looks like scrambled tv (often during bad weather). Their customer service and sales folks tend to be rude, IMHO, and their website sucks (you can't change your package, order new services, etc. - all you can do is sign up for brand new service and view or pay your bill, and half of that is broken.
As far as DirecTV went, I've had a much better experience. I would occassionally experience an outage because of a storm, mostly because my dish wasn't aimed just right (I aimed it myself manually, and didn't have it secured very well). In my first apartment where I had it professionally aimed, I never had a problem except during severe thunderstorms coming from a particular direction, which was ok because I always lost power shortly thereafter anyway. Their customer service was always friendly and helpful, and you can do just about everything right there from the website. I wouldn't have dropped my service had my wife and I not needed more space and more money (cheaper place, with no "private" outside space with line of sight).
In fact, a friend of mine who's got HD and comcast's HD tuner recently remarked that my satellite signal on my old sony wega tv (non-hd) looked better, had less artifacts, etc. than comcast's HD!
I'm running Mac OS X as well. I had major problems playing DivX, and I had both DivX and 3ivX installed - which turns out to be part of the problem. I've managed to resolve most of my issues with the following components:
- AC3 Codec.component
- DivX 5.component
- msmpeg4v1.component
- msmpeg4v2.component
- OggVorbis.qtx
- on2vp3.component
- XVIDDelegate.component
Since setting this up I haven't run into any AVI's or MPEGS that I couldn't play in quicktime.I'm running Mac OS X as well. I had major problems playing DivX, and I had both DivX and 3ivX installed - which turns out to be part of the problem. I've managed to resolve most of my issues with the following components:
n ente .component
AC3 Codec.component
DivX 5.component
msmpeg4v1.component
msmpeg4v2.compo
OggVorbis.qtx
on2vp3.component
XVIDDelegat
Since setting this up I haven't run into any AVI's or MPEGS that I couldn't play in quicktime.
Darl's claim is that because there's no actual $$ changing hands with GPL licensed software, that it doesn't qualify as "financial gain" under U.S. copyright laws, and is therefore illegal.
Linus is just clarifying what "financial gain" means in terms of the copyright code. Although most people see "financial gain" and instantly think $$, he points out that the legal definition of the term "financial gain" includes not only $$, but anything of value and actually goes so far as to specifically include access/use of a copyrighted work.
It all depends on what your definition of "is", is, so to speak. But in this case the law defines the meaning of the term, which McBride has apparently gotten incorrect.
I had an Audi 5000 once upon a time, and the battery was UNDER the back seat.
I'd just be happy with contacts that could sense the amount of ambient light and adjust their opacity to compensate. UV protection would be good too.
Beer, and bread as others have mentioned, but don't forget cider, meads, wines, and lots of other nifty beverages!
;)
I have 6 gallons of cider fermenting away in my living room as we speak.
Vegimite, marmite, promite, etc. can definately be removed from the list.
I'm guessing your image doesn't have a proper alt tag for screen readers, so that begs the question: why don't you want to receive email from blind people?
Think before you do something like this people - first it's not section 508 compliant (if your site needs to be), and secondly it's just not nice to exclude a whole bunch of disabled people.
Use a form instead that mails you their input - never reveals their email address, and is accessible.
Cliff's suggestion of using an image for the email address doesn't take into account that not every visitor to your site is necessarily sighted. This is a bad, bad, BAD idea. Preventing mailto: harvesting by excluding people with visual impairments is not the way to go.
The best method is to use a mailto form that allows you to receive the message but doesn't give away your address. That way you leave your site open and accessible to all users, but can protect your email address.
This would mean the end of name based virtual hosts, unless google only checks for the verisign ip in question.
Eolas could actually turn out to be a hero of the browser wars.
License the patent to open projects for a penny, or for "advertising" in their documentation ("this product contains patent technology licensed by Eolas"). Charge companies like Opera & Apple a modest fee, and refuse to license to MS.
MS almost instantly looses the browser war that everybody thought was over.
It seems I'm experiencing the same thing. I think their pipe is a little too small (or their servers).
Over the years I've done that, yes. But as I've gotten older I've been following things through more an more.
I've been doing home winemaking for almost a year now. I've done freshwater aquria for about 5 years.
I scored a 40, which would be consistent with my Myers-Briggs personality type - INTP(introverted, intuitive, thinking, perceiving). It would seem this "tool", if you could even call it that, is biased against particular personality types. I certainly wouldn't consider my personality type to be a disorder. ;) You might actually find more relevance in taking the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Inventory).
I don't think this is so much about end user savings. They obviously have to pay for bandwidth, like anyone else. If I was a VA stock holder (who owns OSDN and slashdot) I might be a bit upset at the waste.
45 bytes x 2.5 million hits/day. (see the recent slashnet log)
Assume about 2/3 of those are cached, so 45 bytes x ~800,000 hits/day. If my calculations are correct that's something like 34 gigs of bandwidth saved *per day* by moving to png, on just that image alone! Apply those small savings to every image on slashdot, and you're looking at a possible not insignificant bandwidth savings.
No, not the software, but actually making my own wine. You can actually make some very nice wines from kits these days - they're much better than they used to be. And if you really get into it, there's plenty of technical details involved.
Many of my geek friends are also home brewers, and so I will eventually be trying my hand at beer.
The thing is, it's mostly not their IP, it's Linus' and the rest of the people that wrote the code's IP. They may have made some changes, but that doesn't mean they can disregard the copyright under which the software was released. I'm pretty sure they knew about the GPL before the got started.