Because the only reason to fast forward a DVR is to skip commercials. You really want to watch that 20 minutes of the baseball game that is on before the show you were trying to tape. Or if you rewind to see something at the start of Lost again, you really want to re-watch the 30 minutes of the show you've already seen.
Any DVR manufacturer that goes along with making a DVR less useful than a VCR is going to suffer in a huge way. In 1988 we had a VCR with a 30-second fastforward button.
I'm not even going to get into how making someone watch commercials is wrong.
It would work great for sellers because the emotionally invested bidders would run up their bids more than they otherwise would.
Considering that it is the sellers who pay money to E-bay based on the selling price, this would be a perfectly logical thing for E-bay to do.
In fact, I would want the time lengthened by an hour or more, not by ten minutes. Ten minutes assumes your bidder is glued to the computer constantly reloading his e-mail when the auction is ending.
If you buy something in a store, it is the store's resonsibility to make sure you get what you paid for when you walk out of the store. He should not have to wait one day, let alone 4-6 weeks to get all the right parts. The store can call the 800 number to get the parts and replace them in the box they just opened.
No kidding. One of the hotels I stay at has something like the "Music Choice" I get with digital cable. I figured, that's cool, I wonder how much? It was something like $12/day or maybe that was only for 4 hours. The more expensive the hotel, the more expensive the "extras." Wireless is generally free or almost free at your basic hotels and $10-12/day at you $150/night hotels.
There are a couple of other benefits of Latex for collaborating. I understand that Word, et. al. have some facilities to do this type of thing, but I've watched groups of 10-100 people try to collaboratively write a Word document and a Latex document and Latex wins hands down.
First, Latex makes it super easy to break your document into small pieces. Each can be edited separately but the style is applied to the whole. Figures, references, etc. automatically span smaller files.
Second, Latex is text which means you can put all of these small pieces into CVS/SVN/etc. There is no "token passing" in which only one person can be working on the document (or a part) at a time.
Sounds pretty good to me. Aside from collecting stuff I can't buy, I've always used P2P to find music I want to buy. I've bought several things I wouldn't have otherwise. If music is good enough, I am happy to pay $15 an album for it (as long as I am not getting some compressed, DRMed POS.)
Exactly. The last thing I want when I install a new piece of software is it asking me a bunch of silly questions like this. I like the FF way: A box that lets me search, it show where it is searching (the big G), and it has an entry for "Add more."
Microsoft should be free to choose whatever default they want and not add anyone else by default.
Soon I will be one of these "budget gamers." By that I mean that I don't spend a lot of $$$ on game related hardware and software, not that I have no money.
I'm buying a 1600x1200 LCD to increase my productivity at home. I also like to play the odd game (generally a year or two old) and want a video card that is able to play my games at the highest resolution my monitor will support.
My next game purchase may be Neverwinter Nights 2 in early 2007, so at the point I will probably looking at a 7600-level card. By that time, those cards should be in my sweet spot, about $100-150. At the moment I am using the 6150 graphics built into my motherboard and for the things I play, that's fine.
Like all of Tom's (and most other reviews) this is a lot of verbage for not much information. I didn't notice it with this one, but many reviews repeat the same thing over and over. All (I presume) in an effort to get the review to spread over as many short pages as possible to deliver as many ads as possible.
But this one is even worse: "We rate the unit's suitability for gaming on a scale of one to five for FPS, RTS or RPG titles" and again "Here again we use a five-point rating system." But where are these numbers? First page? No. Last page? No. Where referenced? No. Not anywhere that I could find.
Your $40 is about right. So, lets say I can get a Pentium M at 10x the CPU power and the same wattage. You'd spend $1200 over the course of three years (reasonable lifetime of a PC) on electricity. I'd spend $120. Plus, you have 10 old PCs that are going to break down and cause you problems. I have one new one that probably won't.
Running old computers as supercomputers makes no sense. I do have one, though, that I run as a home network server. They are great for that.
I suspect you are right. My problem seems to be with the VIA KT333/400/600 series of boards. I manage about 40 PCs at work and at home an almost without exception over the last 3 years, the failures have been these boards. The boards are a mix of 440BX, VIA KT, Intel 865 (I think), dual Athlon MPs (the old ones), new NForce 4, and a few other chipsets. The (assumed) VIA problems put me off Athlons for quite a while, which is not good for AMD.
I say assumed, because I think twice we tracked it down and it was the MB. After that, we just replaced the whole MB/CPU/RAM combo since it's not worth trying to diagnose and replace one old part.
The 440BX boards are tanks. They are running 450 MHz P3s 24/7 for about 8 years now and have ~0 problems.
I've been using Mandr* for probably 5 years now. I've looked at other things, but never really given them a fair shake. I'm thinking of trying it again. Should I look at Ubuntu or Kanotix? One thing I really like about Mandr* is the PLF packages that add MP3 playing/encoding, DVD playing, proprietary codecs for VLC etc. Is there something similar for one of these friendly Debian based distros?
Really? My home PC and about 4 (of 8 or so) machines at work have died over the last 18 months. Every single one of them was a VIA KT333/KT400 based motherboard (and the MB was the likely cause). We still have plenty of Intel 440BX/PII/PIII systems running, but these VIA/AMD systems are dropping like flies.
Sure makes me wary (I've been buying i875 and NVidia NForce lately).
1. Make a fist and look at the back of your hand. 2. Start with the knuckly on the left. That's elevated, so January has 31 days. 3. The gap between the first and second knuckles is recessed, so Feb. does not. 4. Continue like this until your last knuckle. Then start over again on the left. (July and August both have 31.)
I made the same decision Linus did on a project I run. I like what GPLv2 says, I don't want someone at MIT deciding, years after I wrote my code, what the terms of the license on my code are by granting additional rights or restrictions. My application happens to be one that runs on a server and presents users with a web interface. As you'll recall, there were originally thoughts that v3 would require modifications to such applications to be available.
Doesn't this make you think that you might want an offsite backup?
My digital data is at my house and a copy is at work. If I couldn't use "unison" over the network to back it up, I'd have a big drive on USB or Firewire which I'd keep at work or a friends house.
A RAID array is still a single point of failure if the failure is big enough.
Yup, I have the same DVR. $10/month for HD signal, equipment, service (programming data), and warranty (if it breaks, I return it) was too good to pass up. I've never owned a Tivo, but a friend had it. The Comcast interface is not as nice, but it is good enough.
Connect the firewire output to a computer, and I can even "download" the odd show that I need to.
Tivo just seems to be a day late and a dollar short here.
Because the code probably isn't structured to just pass through a pre-processor to strip out the bits that shouldn't be there. Why should they pay someone to sift through the code to remove the proprietary pieces for a product not enough people bought in the first place?
My luck is pretty good, but not perfect. There was a memory stick I bought. [Retailer] had the form, it had [retailer]'s logo on it, and said buy a [company] [product] from [retailer] and get $XX back. I sent it back to [company] and later got a postcard saying [product]s bought from [retailer] were not eligible.
Then there is the rebate from Palm for *sending in an old PDA* that I had to track down and supply a tracking # for before they gave me the $50 in store credit. I could have sold the old PDA on eBay for close to $50, so that kind of ticked me off.
I thought I remembered XP being promised as "almost never" needing a reboot for updates. This was supposed to be one of the great things about XP. But, I don't know if XP has ever updated itself and NOT asked for a reboot.
I just had to re-install Windows on my machine. The disk I had was XP SP1. I think it required four reboots for the updates.
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Because the only reason to fast forward a DVR is to skip commercials. You really want to watch that 20 minutes of the baseball game that is on before the show you were trying to tape. Or if you rewind to see something at the start of Lost again, you really want to re-watch the 30 minutes of the show you've already seen.
Any DVR manufacturer that goes along with making a DVR less useful than a VCR is going to suffer in a huge way. In 1988 we had a VCR with a 30-second fastforward button.
I'm not even going to get into how making someone watch commercials is wrong.
If you buy something in a store, it is the store's resonsibility to make sure you get what you paid for when you walk out of the store. He should not have to wait one day, let alone 4-6 weeks to get all the right parts. The store can call the 800 number to get the parts and replace them in the box they just opened.
No kidding. One of the hotels I stay at has something like the "Music Choice" I get with digital cable. I figured, that's cool, I wonder how much? It was something like $12/day or maybe that was only for 4 hours. The more expensive the hotel, the more expensive the "extras." Wireless is generally free or almost free at your basic hotels and $10-12/day at you $150/night hotels.
We go through this every time with you shuttle fan-boys:
m issions/list_main.html
What is this hey-dey you speak of where we were launching shuttles to ths ISS every month:
2002: 5 missions, 4 to ISS
2001: 6 missions, all to ISS
2000: 5 missions, 4 to ISS
NEVER have we sent a mission a month (for more than thre months) to the ISS.
Look it up for yourself.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttle
First, Latex makes it super easy to break your document into small pieces. Each can be edited separately but the style is applied to the whole. Figures, references, etc. automatically span smaller files.
Second, Latex is text which means you can put all of these small pieces into CVS/SVN/etc. There is no "token passing" in which only one person can be working on the document (or a part) at a time.
Yes, and it looks visually bad too, so people tend to figure it out.
Sounds pretty good to me. Aside from collecting stuff I can't buy, I've always used P2P to find music I want to buy. I've bought several things I wouldn't have otherwise. If music is good enough, I am happy to pay $15 an album for it (as long as I am not getting some compressed, DRMed POS.)
Exactly. The last thing I want when I install a new piece of software is it asking me a bunch of silly questions like this. I like the FF way: A box that lets me search, it show where it is searching (the big G), and it has an entry for "Add more."
Microsoft should be free to choose whatever default they want and not add anyone else by default.
Soon I will be one of these "budget gamers." By that I mean that I don't spend a lot of $$$ on game related hardware and software, not that I have no money. I'm buying a 1600x1200 LCD to increase my productivity at home. I also like to play the odd game (generally a year or two old) and want a video card that is able to play my games at the highest resolution my monitor will support. My next game purchase may be Neverwinter Nights 2 in early 2007, so at the point I will probably looking at a 7600-level card. By that time, those cards should be in my sweet spot, about $100-150. At the moment I am using the 6150 graphics built into my motherboard and for the things I play, that's fine.
Like all of Tom's (and most other reviews) this is a lot of verbage for not much information. I didn't notice it with this one, but many reviews repeat the same thing over and over. All (I presume) in an effort to get the review to spread over as many short pages as possible to deliver as many ads as possible.
But this one is even worse: "We rate the unit's suitability for gaming on a scale of one to five for FPS, RTS or RPG titles" and again "Here again we use a five-point rating system." But where are these numbers? First page? No. Last page? No. Where referenced? No. Not anywhere that I could find.
Tom's site is just not really worth it anymore.
Your $40 is about right. So, lets say I can get a Pentium M at 10x the CPU power and the same wattage. You'd spend $1200 over the course of three years (reasonable lifetime of a PC) on electricity. I'd spend $120. Plus, you have 10 old PCs that are going to break down and cause you problems. I have one new one that probably won't.
Running old computers as supercomputers makes no sense. I do have one, though, that I run as a home network server. They are great for that.
I suspect you are right. My problem seems to be with the VIA KT333/400/600 series of boards. I manage about 40 PCs at work and at home an almost without exception over the last 3 years, the failures have been these boards. The boards are a mix of 440BX, VIA KT, Intel 865 (I think), dual Athlon MPs (the old ones), new NForce 4, and a few other chipsets. The (assumed) VIA problems put me off Athlons for quite a while, which is not good for AMD.
I say assumed, because I think twice we tracked it down and it was the MB. After that, we just replaced the whole MB/CPU/RAM combo since it's not worth trying to diagnose and replace one old part.
The 440BX boards are tanks. They are running 450 MHz P3s 24/7 for about 8 years now and have ~0 problems.
I've been using Mandr* for probably 5 years now. I've looked at other things, but never really given them a fair shake. I'm thinking of trying it again. Should I look at Ubuntu or Kanotix? One thing I really like about Mandr* is the PLF packages that add MP3 playing/encoding, DVD playing, proprietary codecs for VLC etc. Is there something similar for one of these friendly Debian based distros?
Really? My home PC and about 4 (of 8 or so) machines at work have died over the last 18 months. Every single one of them was a VIA KT333/KT400 based motherboard (and the MB was the likely cause). We still have plenty of Intel 440BX/PII/PIII systems running, but these VIA/AMD systems are dropping like flies.
Sure makes me wary (I've been buying i875 and NVidia NForce lately).
"Thirty days hath..."
I never learned the rhyme. What I learned was
1. Make a fist and look at the back of your hand.
2. Start with the knuckly on the left. That's elevated, so January has 31 days.
3. The gap between the first and second knuckles is recessed, so Feb. does not.
4. Continue like this until your last knuckle. Then start over again on the left. (July and August both have 31.)
I think it's an optional clause you can put it.
I made the same decision Linus did on a project I run. I like what GPLv2 says, I don't want someone at MIT deciding, years after I wrote my code, what the terms of the license on my code are by granting additional rights or restrictions. My application happens to be one that runs on a server and presents users with a web interface. As you'll recall, there were originally thoughts that v3 would require modifications to such applications to be available.
Doesn't this make you think that you might want an offsite backup?
My digital data is at my house and a copy is at work. If I couldn't use "unison" over the network to back it up, I'd have a big drive on USB or Firewire which I'd keep at work or a friends house.
A RAID array is still a single point of failure if the failure is big enough.
Yup, I have the same DVR. $10/month for HD signal, equipment, service (programming data), and warranty (if it breaks, I return it) was too good to pass up. I've never owned a Tivo, but a friend had it. The Comcast interface is not as nice, but it is good enough. Connect the firewire output to a computer, and I can even "download" the odd show that I need to. Tivo just seems to be a day late and a dollar short here.
Because the code probably isn't structured to just pass through a pre-processor to strip out the bits that shouldn't be there. Why should they pay someone to sift through the code to remove the proprietary pieces for a product not enough people bought in the first place?
The MetrO application (which is free-as-in-beer) will do this for hundreds of cities around the world.
My luck is pretty good, but not perfect. There was a memory stick I bought. [Retailer] had the form, it had [retailer]'s logo on it, and said buy a [company] [product] from [retailer] and get $XX back. I sent it back to [company] and later got a postcard saying [product]s bought from [retailer] were not eligible.
Then there is the rebate from Palm for *sending in an old PDA* that I had to track down and supply a tracking # for before they gave me the $50 in store credit. I could have sold the old PDA on eBay for close to $50, so that kind of ticked me off.
I thought I remembered XP being promised as "almost never" needing a reboot for updates. This was supposed to be one of the great things about XP. But, I don't know if XP has ever updated itself and NOT asked for a reboot.
I just had to re-install Windows on my machine. The disk I had was XP SP1. I think it required four reboots for the updates.