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Because people in the US don't understand the slightest bit about the Tibet situation. Almost no one here has been to Tibet, none of the people who haven't have ever talked to a real Tibetan, they've only talked to (at best) ex-pat Tibetans who are angry about the situation.
Pick any major city in the world with large US ex-pat populations, and ask those people what they think about the situation in the US. They are people who are not living here for reasons they consider very valid, and they will make a very good case for them. Its no different with the ex-pats from Tibet.
What the Chinese did may be wrong, depending on how much of the pro-Tibet propoganda you believe (there are pleanty of *unbiased* experts who believe the absorbtion of Tibet into China probably *saved* their culture!), the fact of the matter is China has done a huge amount of work in the last 20 years to preserve their cultures, to protect the different racial groups, and to expand the quality of live for the entire country. They have a middle class that is bigger than the US, their "poor" tend to live in FAR better conditions than the poor in the US (since the majority of their "poor" live in agrarian communities).
If you haven't been to China and seen these things first hand... if you haven't talked to the people who have chosen to stay there... and if you haven't really compared what their government has been known to do to what ours has, you're really not qualified to make such a pseudo-intellectual statement on Chinese affairs.
Or maybe their legal department didn't have the money or resources to verify the contest met local laws in hundreds of countries?
I know assuming you're smarter than people who made decisions you don't understand is the slashdot way, but insulting people who probably actually know more about their job than you is pretty childish.
If you're talking USD, then you're not looking very hard. Its easy to find 32" sets WELL below $1000, and its fairly common to find 37" LCD sets for $1000.
And if you don't understand why $999 for a 37" LCD makes sense either you have never lived in a small house and had to move a 35" CRT TV, or you just wanted to post on Slashdot with a contrary view in hopes of getting moderated up.
Thats grasping at straws trying to link OSS and radio and freedom. Its just a silly connection to make, unless you're a mindless OSS fanboi.
Seriously. If you think the FCC's role is not an important one, you don't understand some combination of: human nature, radio communications, electronics, telecommunications history, etc. I'm sure others can come up with more broad areas believing that shows a lack of understanding in.
And trying to pass off the "OSS means freedom" argument really sends things into left field.
iPod -- drive died. That was common with the early 40 gig ones, for whatever reason.
iBook -- can't do much when the motherboard is dead. Resetting the PMU doesn't do anything. I should add that I also had the onboard RAM fail on it, and the service guys solution was to replace the 256m SODIMM with a 512 and pretend they fixed it. They wouldn't replace the logic board, when I knew it was bad under warranty.
And that doesn't change that the dock connector on the iPod they sent me as a warranty repair was bad, and then they wouldn't cover that.
Having had my first 40 gig iPod die under warranty, only to have its replacement have a bad dock connector they wouldn't warranty... and having had my 18 month old G4 iBook die a couple days ago with a faulty logic board... Apple needs to seriously get their act in gear where product reliability is concerned. I've had a 25% success rate of their products lasting longer than 18 months.
I'm fed up enough with the quality problems that I'm actually debating buying a PC laptop to replace the iBook. And that really makes me ill to think about. I hope I can figure out how to get OSX/86 on it;-)
CableCARD support is a hardware issue, not a software issue, and not only is there no hardware available to do that, there's not even rumors of them.
That'd be the killer app feature for MCE 2006, though. Even if its just first generation CableCard, that would make for accessing the vast majority of content, just losing on-demand, PPV and the program guide.
This year its "they both suck because neither supports QAM/CableCard HD".
And, in fact, they both suck because neither supports QAM/CableCard HD.
Until there are input cards that accept a cablecard, software PVRs will always be a fringe hobbiest activity. Joe six pack doesn't want to deal with the hassle, so Tivo or a service-provided DVR makes more sense. And anyone who has bought one of the 16.5 million HD sets in the US doesn't find them terribly useful either. I have three Tivos sitting in my storage unit, and I'm sure I'll never use any of them again because I don't own an SD TV anymore. It may piss me off to be stuck using the near-worthless Motorola box that Comcast provides, but at least I can watch and record HD, and most stuff I watch is, in fact, in HD.
And I'd bet it'll be a long while, if ever, before we see a cablecard-compatible input device.
DirecTV supporting locals in HD is not a rumor -- its the point of their Spaceway launches. They're starting a rollout of MPEG4 boxes this year, and by the end of next year will have transitioned the entire country to MPEG4 (at least for those who want HD).
Their claimed capacity is 500 channels per satellite at 19mbit. I don't recall the number of satellites being launched, but I know they require a 5LNB dish, so presumably its two additional satellites, unless they're going to EOL the others.
If I have to pay $17 for a PPV movie, I'm not likely to use it. If I pay $4 for one, and have the option to shell out another $13 after it for the DVD, thats something I'd use. Thats a try-before-I-buy sort of option.
Comcast is definitely a company that "gets it" though. The on-demand works well, they're pushing out more and more HD content. 5+mbit cable modems, etc. If they could only get reasonable software on the digital PVR cable boxes, I wouldn't even be entertaining a switch to satellite. That and if they got Universal HD, so I could see BSG in HD:)
In a couple minutes of playing around with it, I have to say I'm pretty impressed. The first couple groups I put in it didn't know, but when I put Delerium in, it picked out one of the newer Delerium songs I liked and has continued to pick a stream of songs I like.
I'm impressed. Particularly since the songs it picked are either songs in very different genres or songs I haven't heard of and liked.
The biggest thing I noticed versus 1.0.7 is its no longer a steaming pile of crap. 1.0.6 worked beautifully, but.7 constantly crashed, bogged down badly on large pages, and was sluggish in general.
1.5 is snappy, is using less memory and miracle of miracles, I've got almost an hour without it crashing.
I'm sure there are actual feature differences, but thats enough of a reason for me to be happy with the upgrade.
I only had three come up as not working (GreaseMonkey, Google and FoxyTunes). All three worked fine when I went into the install.rdf in my profile directory for each one and set the max-version to 1.4+
It took about thirty seconds total. I don't have any GreaseMonkey scripts installed right now but Google Toolbar and FoxyTunes both seem to work fine.
One can only hope this one disappears. Anyone who has been on the receiving end of a security audit done by some dork who lives in his parents basement who hung out a shingle as a security analyist and basically only runs Nessus without any interpretation can tell you what a HUGE false-positive rate its got. I know how much time *I* waste responding to them, its staggerirng to think how much time throughout the industry is wasted because of them.
Security tools like SATAN and NESSUS (and even tools like NMAP) are a poor substitute for someone who knows what they're doing, and just make being secure harder for everyone who has to deal with them.
If you want to be really depressed, just think about how you'd be making just as much or more as a union carpenter or a plumber... and your job could never really be outsourced.
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Because people in the US don't understand the slightest bit about the Tibet situation. Almost no one here has been to Tibet, none of the people who haven't have ever talked to a real Tibetan, they've only talked to (at best) ex-pat Tibetans who are angry about the situation.
Pick any major city in the world with large US ex-pat populations, and ask those people what they think about the situation in the US. They are people who are not living here for reasons they consider very valid, and they will make a very good case for them. Its no different with the ex-pats from Tibet.
What the Chinese did may be wrong, depending on how much of the pro-Tibet propoganda you believe (there are pleanty of *unbiased* experts who believe the absorbtion of Tibet into China probably *saved* their culture!), the fact of the matter is China has done a huge amount of work in the last 20 years to preserve their cultures, to protect the different racial groups, and to expand the quality of live for the entire country. They have a middle class that is bigger than the US, their "poor" tend to live in FAR better conditions than the poor in the US (since the majority of their "poor" live in agrarian communities).
If you haven't been to China and seen these things first hand... if you haven't talked to the people who have chosen to stay there... and if you haven't really compared what their government has been known to do to what ours has, you're really not qualified to make such a pseudo-intellectual statement on Chinese affairs.
They should just pin the suspect down and pump five rounds into their head.
Oh wait...
FWIW, he couldn't see the colors because of the glowstick's color, not because of the fluid in his suit.
Or maybe their legal department didn't have the money or resources to verify the contest met local laws in hundreds of countries?
I know assuming you're smarter than people who made decisions you don't understand is the slashdot way, but insulting people who probably actually know more about their job than you is pretty childish.
Even a blind monkey banging on a keyboard could randomly pick a good submission once in a while!
Everyone submit this again, and lets see in a few hours if he posts it again. That'll be the real test.
If you're talking USD, then you're not looking very hard. Its easy to find 32" sets WELL below $1000, and its fairly common to find 37" LCD sets for $1000.
And if you don't understand why $999 for a 37" LCD makes sense either you have never lived in a small house and had to move a 35" CRT TV, or you just wanted to post on Slashdot with a contrary view in hopes of getting moderated up.
At least they didn't post something claiming it was caused by storm-generated capacitance and other new age numbo-jumbo.
It took a long time to even hit 2000.
I procrastinated setting an account up for quite a while and still got a low one.
Thats grasping at straws trying to link OSS and radio and freedom. Its just a silly connection to make, unless you're a mindless OSS fanboi.
Seriously. If you think the FCC's role is not an important one, you don't understand some combination of: human nature, radio communications, electronics, telecommunications history, etc. I'm sure others can come up with more broad areas believing that shows a lack of understanding in.
And trying to pass off the "OSS means freedom" argument really sends things into left field.
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Yes, its worth so little to him.
Don't you think if they meant 60% has access, not 60% has access to, they would've left out the "to" in that sentence?
Not all cable companies offer internet. Not all homes are serviced by cable. Much of rural US can't get any form of broadband other than satellite.
iPod -- drive died. That was common with the early 40 gig ones, for whatever reason.
iBook -- can't do much when the motherboard is dead. Resetting the PMU doesn't do anything. I should add that I also had the onboard RAM fail on it, and the service guys solution was to replace the 256m SODIMM with a 512 and pretend they fixed it. They wouldn't replace the logic board, when I knew it was bad under warranty.
And that doesn't change that the dock connector on the iPod they sent me as a warranty repair was bad, and then they wouldn't cover that.
Yeah, lots will come of that, I'm sure.
I don't need to waste my time on meaningless petitions, or rediculous lawsuits. I, however, can take my money elsewhere.
Having had my first 40 gig iPod die under warranty, only to have its replacement have a bad dock connector they wouldn't warranty... and having had my 18 month old G4 iBook die a couple days ago with a faulty logic board... Apple needs to seriously get their act in gear where product reliability is concerned. I've had a 25% success rate of their products lasting longer than 18 months.
;-)
I'm fed up enough with the quality problems that I'm actually debating buying a PC laptop to replace the iBook. And that really makes me ill to think about. I hope I can figure out how to get OSX/86 on it
CableCARD support is a hardware issue, not a software issue, and not only is there no hardware available to do that, there's not even rumors of them.
That'd be the killer app feature for MCE 2006, though. Even if its just first generation CableCard, that would make for accessing the vast majority of content, just losing on-demand, PPV and the program guide.
This year its "they both suck because neither supports QAM/CableCard HD".
And, in fact, they both suck because neither supports QAM/CableCard HD.
Until there are input cards that accept a cablecard, software PVRs will always be a fringe hobbiest activity. Joe six pack doesn't want to deal with the hassle, so Tivo or a service-provided DVR makes more sense. And anyone who has bought one of the 16.5 million HD sets in the US doesn't find them terribly useful either. I have three Tivos sitting in my storage unit, and I'm sure I'll never use any of them again because I don't own an SD TV anymore. It may piss me off to be stuck using the near-worthless Motorola box that Comcast provides, but at least I can watch and record HD, and most stuff I watch is, in fact, in HD.
And I'd bet it'll be a long while, if ever, before we see a cablecard-compatible input device.
Most of that page is the body of the e-mail.
You didn't notice that the MSN content in the middle IS the e-mail?
DirecTV supporting locals in HD is not a rumor -- its the point of their Spaceway launches. They're starting a rollout of MPEG4 boxes this year, and by the end of next year will have transitioned the entire country to MPEG4 (at least for those who want HD).
Their claimed capacity is 500 channels per satellite at 19mbit. I don't recall the number of satellites being launched, but I know they require a 5LNB dish, so presumably its two additional satellites, unless they're going to EOL the others.
If I have to pay $17 for a PPV movie, I'm not likely to use it. If I pay $4 for one, and have the option to shell out another $13 after it for the DVD, thats something I'd use. Thats a try-before-I-buy sort of option.
:)
Comcast is definitely a company that "gets it" though. The on-demand works well, they're pushing out more and more HD content. 5+mbit cable modems, etc. If they could only get reasonable software on the digital PVR cable boxes, I wouldn't even be entertaining a switch to satellite. That and if they got Universal HD, so I could see BSG in HD
In a couple minutes of playing around with it, I have to say I'm pretty impressed. The first couple groups I put in it didn't know, but when I put Delerium in, it picked out one of the newer Delerium songs I liked and has continued to pick a stream of songs I like.
I'm impressed. Particularly since the songs it picked are either songs in very different genres or songs I haven't heard of and liked.
The biggest thing I noticed versus 1.0.7 is its no longer a steaming pile of crap. 1.0.6 worked beautifully, but .7 constantly crashed, bogged down badly on large pages, and was sluggish in general.
1.5 is snappy, is using less memory and miracle of miracles, I've got almost an hour without it crashing.
I'm sure there are actual feature differences, but thats enough of a reason for me to be happy with the upgrade.
I only had three come up as not working (GreaseMonkey, Google and FoxyTunes). All three worked fine when I went into the install.rdf in my profile directory for each one and set the max-version to 1.4+
It took about thirty seconds total. I don't have any GreaseMonkey scripts installed right now but Google Toolbar and FoxyTunes both seem to work fine.
One can only hope this one disappears. Anyone who has been on the receiving end of a security audit done by some dork who lives in his parents basement who hung out a shingle as a security analyist and basically only runs Nessus without any interpretation can tell you what a HUGE false-positive rate its got. I know how much time *I* waste responding to them, its staggerirng to think how much time throughout the industry is wasted because of them.
Security tools like SATAN and NESSUS (and even tools like NMAP) are a poor substitute for someone who knows what they're doing, and just make being secure harder for everyone who has to deal with them.
If you want to be really depressed, just think about how you'd be making just as much or more as a union carpenter or a plumber... and your job could never really be outsourced.
Whats that?