HBO does not broadcast. They are cable-only. You have to subscribe to a cable company or sat provider, then pay extra for HBO content.
I see your point if they were broadcasting, yes they should set up some sort of online distribution for everyone. They don't broadcast crap free to the world, so if you are distributing their material, you probably paid them and are in breach of contract.
The original signal is encrypted to your cable box. I doubt you can get a non-encrypted HBO signal anywhere anymore. Somebody is doing something thy shouldn't.
All this crap should have been taken care of with a usage license when you sign on with your cable company. "If you want cable, you have to agree not to redistriburte the content under civil penalty." The DMCA should never have been born to criminalize what is a civil matter.
HBO is not giving you a free download, as in your cheese analogy.
HBO is fighting illegal distribution of their material. They do give you a free taste of the show in their advertising. That is the level they feel comfortable giving out.
You downloading the show is like going to the dairy section and opening / eating whatever cheese you want.
They should do like XM and let you get an online account if you pay for the service and download / stream content when you can't watch otherwise. You pay for the stuff, why not get internet access as well? If enough people go that way, maybe you can even charge for access online instead of offering it free to your current subscribers...
The Mac Office version has always had some level of problem in incompatability, as it was not the golden native x86 Windows Office product. It would never be 100%.
I run MS office on Linux using Crossover Office and it is terrific. No overhead of VMware, and it works pretty darn good for 99% of what I need to do (view doc xls and do simeple edits)
Check it out, it is only $40 and it lets you use your current legal office copy on your linux box. Plus it installs a lot of nice browser plugins and some fonts too. Easy install, professional stuff.
Exactly. Put a layer of dirt on top and you have a nice, new hippee-friendly hill to grow plants and trees on.
Sure, the chemicals / heavy metals can be a bitch when the landfill leaches into groundwater, but if that doesn't happen you can still enjoy your new hill.
Yep, he wrote a lot of garbage. Sometimes style was not so great, but it had a couple of neat sci-fi concepts.
What if a nuke landed right on your house? Could it send you into a different time? (This was written decades ago, so it may have been plausible then).
What if you did have to survive? I think there was some sort of incest deal in that book, but it has been years.
And they suggested some alternate reality / timeline ideas as well. Maybe not the best of his, but also not the absolute worst.
1. The Dems were not in the majority in the Senate when either vacancy occurred during the Clinton administration, so they had to take into account who could be confirmed in a floor vote (note: not a filibuster). The Republican Senators had just as much right to vote to reject someone in a floor vote as Clinton did to nominate them. The Republicans are not in the same position today. They are virtually certain to prevail in a floor vote.
2. Clinton could not claim a mandate from his election for appointing liberal justices because he was never elected with a majority of votes, only a plurality. In contrast, the Republicans in the Senate circa the 1990's *could* claim a mandate for blocking very liberal justices since they were in the majority. Bush can certainly claim a mandate from the 2004 election for appointing conservative justices (he did not hide his admiration for Scalia/Thomas), and the Republicans generally can claim a mandate for confirming them from controlling a majority of seats in the Senate.
3. Hatch told Clinton he could get a liberal confirmed but it would take a fight and Clinton decided he did not want the fight -- he wanted to use his political capital elsewhere. The same applies to Bush, but Bush does not mind the fight: he wants to use his capital here. Ironically, it may end up being the legacy of the Democrats blocking Bush's Social Security plans that he decides he has nothing to lose here -- if his principal legislative goal is already dead, why not go for broke on the Supreme Court?
The filebox I mentioned acctually takes hanging files, maybe 10-12" deep of them with about 2" walls around. Enough for some organization of important docs and room for some negatives or CD backups, but it is a little bulky to have sitting around.
I used to keep my camping stuff in my trunk in case I wanted to head out of town for a quick weekend, but no longer. We barely have enough milk and bread to last the week. I hear the mormons have some deal where they are always prepped for disaster / second coming so they buy a couple of giant 50 lb rice and flour bags and slowly eat through it during the year to make sure it stays fresh. Interesting idea if I ate flour and rice ever. I should just go get a couple of MRE cases, they last years.
Have you ever taken a US history / constituion class?
It all goes back to check and balances for our three arms of the national government.
Why is it wrong to have the president appoint a SC justice with the advice and consent of the Legislative branch? Just because you hate W does not make the process "wrong". Billy boi Clinton appointed one of the most liberal SC justices ever and had her approved in a 96-4 vote in the Senate, with little to no bitching by the minority right (or was that majority right at the time?)
Reminds me of a post nucular survivalist scifi book by Heinlein, I think it was Farnham's Freehold. One idea from that book was that the most valued item after the war was a useful text book.
I have heard that you can put some documents in the freezer, as it will be mostly waterproof when the FD floods your house and stands a decent chance at being fireproof as well.
We bought a little fireproof waterproof safe for like $50.
I think the topic of this post was mostly for big chemical, bio, or nucular attack on NYC or DC. What would you take? How prepared would you be to never come back to your house?
BTW, Foxfire books are awesome if you don't have the series already. Great stuff with good detail on everything from building a log cabin to making moonshine to making a violin.
To get around this, just write a script that goes to a meta server to get the current URL, downloads the jpg, then converts it to whatever you wan on your ipod.
This is what crossover office does for downloading wordviewer plugins and MS fonts from MS for use on your linux box. They let MS do the distribution, but make installation stupid easy. All appears legal, as you have do download the content that is alread freely available for anyone to use on the internet.
Yes,the phone is not that great and the camera stinks.
My bigest beef is the delay when you activate it, it should just be ready to go.
But the form factor is nice and it allows me to have a single small device. And the keyboard is nice. And it has the traditional palm applications. It is really the first convergence piece IMHO.
Honestly, a ton of the stuff in an undergraduate education may never be used by a practicing engineer.
Some of the issues the article raises related to workload are understandable. A person with an engineering degree shows they can perservere through the physics, math, chemistry, then get through the even tougher engineering classes.
Bad instruction also forces you to learn on your own or in groups, a useful ability.
If you want spoonfed technical classes, consider a degree in "technology" or MIS or something else but engineering.
At least the story was posted by different editors. The best is when someone dupes themselves.
We have not seen a triple dupe recently. Those used to happen with some regularity.
You would think they might have two bodies sign off on a story, unless it falls into some sort of time relevant category. Normal stories can be scheduled at least a hour ahead of time...
I don't get it. Is there still a Mozilla? Does this compete with Mozilla?
Why is this not Mozilla 2.0 or 1.8 or some other number?
And why did people split out and make different components? Netscape / Mozilla were great because all your net needs were taken care of: browsing, email, web authoring, and eventually IM. Now things don't work together.
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HBO does not broadcast. They are cable-only. You have to subscribe to a cable company or sat provider, then pay extra for HBO content.
I see your point if they were broadcasting, yes they should set up some sort of online distribution for everyone. They don't broadcast crap free to the world, so if you are distributing their material, you probably paid them and are in breach of contract.
The original signal is encrypted to your cable box. I doubt you can get a non-encrypted HBO signal anywhere anymore. Somebody is doing something thy shouldn't.
All this crap should have been taken care of with a usage license when you sign on with your cable company. "If you want cable, you have to agree not to redistriburte the content under civil penalty." The DMCA should never have been born to criminalize what is a civil matter.
HBO is not giving you a free download, as in your cheese analogy.
HBO is fighting illegal distribution of their material. They do give you a free taste of the show in their advertising. That is the level they feel comfortable giving out.
You downloading the show is like going to the dairy section and opening / eating whatever cheese you want.
They should do like XM and let you get an online account if you pay for the service and download / stream content when you can't watch otherwise. You pay for the stuff, why not get internet access as well? If enough people go that way, maybe you can even charge for access online instead of offering it free to your current subscribers...
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The Mac Office version has always had some level of problem in incompatability, as it was not the golden native x86 Windows Office product. It would never be 100%.
I run MS office on Linux using Crossover Office and it is terrific. No overhead of VMware, and it works pretty darn good for 99% of what I need to do (view doc xls and do simeple edits)
Check it out, it is only $40 and it lets you use your current legal office copy on your linux box. Plus it installs a lot of nice browser plugins and some fonts too. Easy install, professional stuff.
Exactly. Put a layer of dirt on top and you have a nice, new hippee-friendly hill to grow plants and trees on.
Sure, the chemicals / heavy metals can be a bitch when the landfill leaches into groundwater, but if that doesn't happen you can still enjoy your new hill.
Yep, he wrote a lot of garbage. Sometimes style was not so great, but it had a couple of neat sci-fi concepts.
What if a nuke landed right on your house? Could it send you into a different time? (This was written decades ago, so it may have been plausible then).
What if you did have to survive? I think there was some sort of incest deal in that book, but it has been years.
And they suggested some alternate reality / timeline ideas as well. Maybe not the best of his, but also not the absolute worst.
Sweet, so I just keep my DVD player in a dark closet with a nice nitrogen blanket and I can watch Dukes of Hazard forever!
Yep, I periodically make a DVD and ship it out to family. They get a "family album" and I get some level of backup.
Nobody has mentioned EMP. Those flash drives will probably all be garbage in the case of a nuke, even if you survive.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/07/01/how-clinton-t
Stolen from one of the comments
The filebox I mentioned acctually takes hanging files, maybe 10-12" deep of them with about 2" walls around. Enough for some organization of important docs and room for some negatives or CD backups, but it is a little bulky to have sitting around.
I used to keep my camping stuff in my trunk in case I wanted to head out of town for a quick weekend, but no longer. We barely have enough milk and bread to last the week. I hear the mormons have some deal where they are always prepped for disaster / second coming so they buy a couple of giant 50 lb rice and flour bags and slowly eat through it during the year to make sure it stays fresh. Interesting idea if I ate flour and rice ever. I should just go get a couple of MRE cases, they last years.
Have you ever taken a US history / constituion class?
It all goes back to check and balances for our three arms of the national government.
Why is it wrong to have the president appoint a SC justice with the advice and consent of the Legislative branch? Just because you hate W does not make the process "wrong". Billy boi Clinton appointed one of the most liberal SC justices ever and had her approved in a 96-4 vote in the Senate, with little to no bitching by the minority right (or was that majority right at the time?)
Reminds me of a post nucular survivalist scifi book by Heinlein, I think it was Farnham's Freehold. One idea from that book was that the most valued item after the war was a useful text book.
I have heard that you can put some documents in the freezer, as it will be mostly waterproof when the FD floods your house and stands a decent chance at being fireproof as well.
We bought a little fireproof waterproof safe for like $50.
I think the topic of this post was mostly for big chemical, bio, or nucular attack on NYC or DC. What would you take? How prepared would you be to never come back to your house?
BTW, Foxfire books are awesome if you don't have the series already. Great stuff with good detail on everything from building a log cabin to making moonshine to making a violin.
Some people already pay to run Office on Linux.
I run codeweavers crossover office, and I have loved it for years.
I run real powerpoint and word and have no worries about conversion issues.
But most of my work is in LaTeX or plain text files.
A nice map is available at:
http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm
To get around this, just write a script that goes to a meta server to get the current URL, downloads the jpg, then converts it to whatever you wan on your ipod.
This is what crossover office does for downloading wordviewer plugins and MS fonts from MS for use on your linux box. They let MS do the distribution, but make installation stupid easy. All appears legal, as you have do download the content that is alread freely available for anyone to use on the internet.
There are fast GUIs out there, IceWM is my favorite. fvwm2 is ok.
Anything but KDE and GNOME probably works fine.
Or maybe just a terminal window, and you get 4 by default in linux (shift F1-F4 maybe?) lynx, vi, elm, and nethack, what else could you ever want?
Yes, there are many limitations in the treo.
Yes,the phone is not that great and the camera stinks.
My bigest beef is the delay when you activate it, it should just be ready to go.
But the form factor is nice and it allows me to have a single small device. And the keyboard is nice. And it has the traditional palm applications. It is really the first convergence piece IMHO.
Honestly, a ton of the stuff in an undergraduate education may never be used by a practicing engineer.
Some of the issues the article raises related to workload are understandable. A person with an engineering degree shows they can perservere through the physics, math, chemistry, then get through the even tougher engineering classes.
Bad instruction also forces you to learn on your own or in groups, a useful ability.
If you want spoonfed technical classes, consider a degree in "technology" or MIS or something else but engineering.
So the foundation does not support Mozilla anymore.
Since the source is open, can't they continue development on Mozilla and realease 2.0?
Seamonkey is crazy. Mozilla is bad enough, but it has years of user experience behind it.
I think you mean:
"Ill copy-edit this stuff. You're choice."
At least the story was posted by different editors. The best is when someone dupes themselves.
We have not seen a triple dupe recently. Those used to happen with some regularity.
You would think they might have two bodies sign off on a story, unless it falls into some sort of time relevant category. Normal stories can be scheduled at least a hour ahead of time...
Rob made his millions. there is always kuroshin
Thank you Palm for putting out a device that does everything fairly well. Phone, PDA, mp3, camera, MS office. Not the best, but good enough for now.
"I use a mac and I can only use one finger" WTF? Mouse butons or mp3 interface, people should be able to do more.
Weak devices for weak minds.
i kid, i kid!!
What the heck is it then? I use Moz, where do I go to if it is not supported? Firefox is not a Moz replacement. Why not call it 2.0?
Silly.
I don't get it. Is there still a Mozilla? Does this compete with Mozilla?
Why is this not Mozilla 2.0 or 1.8 or some other number?
And why did people split out and make different components? Netscape / Mozilla were great because all your net needs were taken care of: browsing, email, web authoring, and eventually IM. Now things don't work together.
I was running Office 2000 on XP.
After service pack 2, slide sorter became dog slow, like nearly hung in anything with 10+ slides.
Luckily, things work fine in Codeweavers wine.
I have to develop / creat powerpoint on linux, then just use XP to display the crap.