Whoops. My bad - I meant Bell ExpressVU instead of DirecTV. Got the two mixed up.
I know someone who had DirecTV, but when they couldn't get it anymore they pointed the DTV dish at the Bell satellite and got the Bell receiver/service (apparently the dish was compatible). That's probably why.
Can someone (an American) please explain to this Canadian what a cable box is?
Obviously you haven't been out much. I'm Canadian, and yes, if you order your basic Rogers or Shaw cable, you can plug that directly into your TV.
But you want DirecTV, Look, StarChoice or the digital offerings from Rogers or Shaw? Need a box to decode those signals, and you can only get it from your provider.
Means that decoder can only understand one channel at a time. It means no split screen. It means you can't record a show on your VCR while watching TV (unless you have multiple boxes).
Generally, it's a pain in the ass. But personally I still went with StarChoice because I think their channel package flexibility is superior. Even though the Motorola set-top box sucks (it takes a while to scroll through the channels - some weird display delay). My only complaint, really, is that although my dish supports multiple boxes (3 I think), if I buy them I still have to pay an additional $5/month per box for the service.
Generally the theme here is that all this wonderful technology is actually providing us with less service and flexibility than we used to have.
From the article: "If someone discovered the combination of your bike lock, should they be able to publish it? I think the making it public part is the real sticking point."
I would agree that no, the shouldn't be allowed to publish your bike lock combination. However, if someone discovered that the bike lock can be opened by sticking a pen in it, I should have a right to know that the lock I bought has a serious vulnerability. And the way for me to find out about it is that this information has been published.
so I think he's going to put up a bounty for a frame buffer -> DirectX driver
Why not use FreeNX Server on the X side, and an NX client on the Windows side? Others have suggested VNC, but NX should be more efficient.
On a side note, I've been able to use NX to use my work desktop from home (via cable) and it feels almost as fast as if I were sitting there. I hadn't been able to accomplish that before, even with VNC or the various X solutions (forget what they were called now).
Legal drinking age is 18 in Canada, I think that says it all.
You are wrong, sir. Legal drinking age is 18 only in Quebec. In the rest of Canada it is 19. You can drive, vote and get married by 18, but you cannot drink (at least legally you can't).
Remember...skipping commercials is stealing.
What confuses me is that *distributing* commercials is also considered stealing. So you want me to watch them or not?
Could they be any more vague? Whatever happened to the days of "land a man on the moon and return him safely to the Earth." You know, goals that people actually knew what the heck you were talking about?
I thought the Wikipedia article above was very clear on what the CEV is supposed to be able to do. It mentions it's likely it'll follow the module-and-capsule approach, and is supposed to be capable of getting to LEO while also taking part in the assembly of lunar expeditions while in orbit (and, presumably Mars too, since that's a listed goal as well). Reusability is apparently desirable, but not essential to win the contract.
Frankly I think it's a bug with the whole concept of session cookies. If you're a web developer and you want to fix this for your users it's really simple, use a session variable for username/password that is different for every app that you run on your website.
Doesn't always work. Take, for example, the users who might want to use the SAME app with two different logins at the same time. Happens at my work all the time - one of the main reasons why people here use IE. I use Firefox because I don't have that need (and I like FF better).
I'd rather have a game repeatedly pushed back then bug ridden.
That's exactly what I'd rather not have. I would prefer they neither push it back, NOR have it bug-ridden. But if I must have a choice, then I'd rather have it pushed back than bug ridden.
My college roommate used to throw that excuse at me. I actually did a check on how long it took for me to assemble a computer from a pile of parts. I wasn't even really rushing, just working at a comfortable pace. Took a little over 30 minutes. Anybody who claims they don't have an extra 30 minutes to spare in the day is either kidding themselves, or doesn't have time to use the computer in the first place.
First, I'm not in college. I'm a married adult with a full-time job. Second, it's not the 30 minutes to put it together, it's the extra hours to shop for all those components. They didn't get into your house by themselves. I don't have time to shop around, look for compatibility and such. I want a machine that's a single box in a tested configuration that I know will work that I don't have to dick around with. I may customize it later, but normally I have far better things to do with my time (spending time with my wife, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning and home projects).
BUILD dont buy OEM and you dont hve this problem. Nobody is forcing you to BUY OEM machines. Now grow up you child.
I used to do that. Now I don't have the time nor the patience for this. Just because I don't want to build my own box doesn't mean that I should have to purchase that expensive OS, dontcha think?
Or take another perspective. Say we're building a new server for work. My company can only purchase HP or IBM servers (for hardware warranty and support and such). The machines come with Windows pre-installed. We format them and install Linux. Any chance getting that money back?
... in exactly how many machines we're talking about here. Given that every time I've purchased a machine in the last 5 years I've been force-fed a Windows license, how likely is it for someone to have a pirate copy?
I'm still steaming from all the times I've purchased machines to run Linux, yet been forced to buy the OEM Windows license along with it.
And before anyone mentions building a box yourself, that just causes a hassle when it comes to warranties (I want a name brand machine that I can take back if something breaks in its hardware), and companies that allow you to purchase the machine without an OS are virtually nonexistant in my area.
So given that I've been forced to buy a Windows license with every PC I own (whether I use it or not), I'm not sure how it's possible that there's that many pirate copies out there.
People behind nazi-like firewalls shouldn't consider themselves on the internet. It's not the job of the rest of us to bend over backwards to service people that don't actually have internet access, but have restricted web-server access.
Yeah, yeah. Heard it before. Except this is HTTP content, therefore it makes sense that it reside on an HTTP port.
Port blocking is very necessary in certain environments, and usually advisable to reduce the effect of worms and such should they infect a network. Or would you rather we don't bother to try containing anything, and let it all spew out to the 'net?
Wait! We're talking a CANADIAN Football League!? What next -- hockey in the United States?
Looks like Football started off as
ours too, just like Hockey and Basketball. I quote The first recorded "football" match in Canada, and perhaps the first in North America, was a game played at University College, University of Toronto on November 9, 1861.
The City of Toronto recently put out RFPs for replacement PCs. The MFP-leased ones are now up, and the city had asked for companies to bid on contracts to replace them with new machines and software.
Guess what? The bidding process is over, and no companies that were offering free software qualified under the terms. The contract has now been awarded to another company (who will be providing MS software, surprise surprise), which I'm sure will be scrutinized quite a bit to make sure there's no rip-offs. So try again in 3 years when the next lease is up, but this time put together a professional proposal complying with their RFP requirements and I'm sure it would be considered.
I think if a company came along and actually BID on the contract, preparing a decent presentation as to how the city would save costs, they would have to listen. After all, the City of Toronto is very interested in saving money, as they've dug themselves quite the hole in recent years (mostly due to the Province of Ontario not being particularly generous).
Is this something that perhaps could be integrated into MythTV?
As it stands, I'd love to have something like that. My family room and kitchen are together in the same area of the house. It'd be trivial for me to walk over to the TV when I run out of something and scan it (with my CueCat) so that it can be added to a grocery list before I toss out the empty container.
In the future, an RFID scanner placed in my recycling box could do this trick automatically.
A quick click of the remote could then print the list, or even better access it from work via MythWeb. Perhaps even having a menu of additional items to add (for produce or cold cuts, for example) before finishing the list, the whole thing could be managed fairly easily.
For those who don't already know, (quoting the site), "KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it."
I have an idea that *might* work. At least make it a little more difficult, though it wouldn't get rid of the problem entirely. Well, ok, a COUPLE of ideas:
1 - put the toners into the printer in a different order. Put yellow in the blue slot, the red in the yellow slot and the blue in the yellow slot. Now your serial number will be in a different colour - could that mess things up?
2 - buy two printers. Print the same image twice - one with red and yellow, the second with blue and yellow. Some adjustments might be needed to account for the fact that yellow is being printed twice.
3 - buy used printers off eBay. Use a PO box to receive printer.
4 - use an old printer. My crappy DeskJet 500 probably doesn't have this 'feature'
5 - make your *own* printer with Lego MindStorms!
6 - print in B&W only
Yeah, I'm a little drunk so my ideas are probably not the best, but at least a few of these sound decent.
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Whoops. My bad - I meant Bell ExpressVU instead of DirecTV. Got the two mixed up.
I know someone who had DirecTV, but when they couldn't get it anymore they pointed the DTV dish at the Bell satellite and got the Bell receiver/service (apparently the dish was compatible). That's probably why.
Can someone (an American) please explain to this Canadian what a cable box is?
Obviously you haven't been out much. I'm Canadian, and yes, if you order your basic Rogers or Shaw cable, you can plug that directly into your TV.
But you want DirecTV, Look, StarChoice or the digital offerings from Rogers or Shaw? Need a box to decode those signals, and you can only get it from your provider.
Means that decoder can only understand one channel at a time. It means no split screen. It means you can't record a show on your VCR while watching TV (unless you have multiple boxes).
Generally, it's a pain in the ass. But personally I still went with StarChoice because I think their channel package flexibility is superior. Even though the Motorola set-top box sucks (it takes a while to scroll through the channels - some weird display delay). My only complaint, really, is that although my dish supports multiple boxes (3 I think), if I buy them I still have to pay an additional $5/month per box for the service.
Generally the theme here is that all this wonderful technology is actually providing us with less service and flexibility than we used to have.
From the article: "If someone discovered the combination of your bike lock, should they be able to publish it? I think the making it public part is the real sticking point."
I would agree that no, the shouldn't be allowed to publish your bike lock combination. However, if someone discovered that the bike lock can be opened by sticking a pen in it, I should have a right to know that the lock I bought has a serious vulnerability. And the way for me to find out about it is that this information has been published.
so I think he's going to put up a bounty for a frame buffer -> DirectX driver
Why not use FreeNX Server on the X side, and an NX client on the Windows side? Others have suggested VNC, but NX should be more efficient.
On a side note, I've been able to use NX to use my work desktop from home (via cable) and it feels almost as fast as if I were sitting there. I hadn't been able to accomplish that before, even with VNC or the various X solutions (forget what they were called now).
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Legal drinking age is 18 in Canada, I think that says it all.
You are wrong, sir. Legal drinking age is 18 only in Quebec. In the rest of Canada it is 19. You can drive, vote and get married by 18, but you cannot drink (at least legally you can't).
Remember...skipping commercials is stealing. What confuses me is that *distributing* commercials is also considered stealing. So you want me to watch them or not?
Not having a dig, but it is a touch ironic that whilst explaining how straight forward everything is, you used two acronyms :)
:)
Sorry, I was in a rush because I had a meeting to go to, so didn't have time to type it in full
LEO - Low Earth Orbit
CEV - Crew Exploration Vehicle
Could they be any more vague? Whatever happened to the days of "land a man on the moon and return him safely to the Earth." You know, goals that people actually knew what the heck you were talking about?
I thought the Wikipedia article above was very clear on what the CEV is supposed to be able to do. It mentions it's likely it'll follow the module-and-capsule approach, and is supposed to be capable of getting to LEO while also taking part in the assembly of lunar expeditions while in orbit (and, presumably Mars too, since that's a listed goal as well). Reusability is apparently desirable, but not essential to win the contract.
Frankly I think it's a bug with the whole concept of session cookies. If you're a web developer and you want to fix this for your users it's really simple, use a session variable for username/password that is different for every app that you run on your website.
Doesn't always work. Take, for example, the users who might want to use the SAME app with two different logins at the same time. Happens at my work all the time - one of the main reasons why people here use IE. I use Firefox because I don't have that need (and I like FF better).
I'd rather have a game repeatedly pushed back then bug ridden.
That's exactly what I'd rather not have. I would prefer they neither push it back, NOR have it bug-ridden. But if I must have a choice, then I'd rather have it pushed back than bug ridden.
My college roommate used to throw that excuse at me. I actually did a check on how long it took for me to assemble a computer from a pile of parts. I wasn't even really rushing, just working at a comfortable pace. Took a little over 30 minutes. Anybody who claims they don't have an extra 30 minutes to spare in the day is either kidding themselves, or doesn't have time to use the computer in the first place.
First, I'm not in college. I'm a married adult with a full-time job. Second, it's not the 30 minutes to put it together, it's the extra hours to shop for all those components. They didn't get into your house by themselves. I don't have time to shop around, look for compatibility and such. I want a machine that's a single box in a tested configuration that I know will work that I don't have to dick around with. I may customize it later, but normally I have far better things to do with my time (spending time with my wife, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning and home projects).
Uhh...why don't you just buy them with linux on them? Both HP and IBM offer linux solutions don't they?
Not in all areas. Particularly in Canada it's difficult to get this.
BUILD dont buy OEM and you dont hve this problem. Nobody is forcing you to BUY OEM machines. Now grow up you child.
I used to do that. Now I don't have the time nor the patience for this. Just because I don't want to build my own box doesn't mean that I should have to purchase that expensive OS, dontcha think?
Or take another perspective. Say we're building a new server for work. My company can only purchase HP or IBM servers (for hardware warranty and support and such). The machines come with Windows pre-installed. We format them and install Linux. Any chance getting that money back?
... in exactly how many machines we're talking about here. Given that every time I've purchased a machine in the last 5 years I've been force-fed a Windows license, how likely is it for someone to have a pirate copy?
I'm still steaming from all the times I've purchased machines to run Linux, yet been forced to buy the OEM Windows license along with it.
And before anyone mentions building a box yourself, that just causes a hassle when it comes to warranties (I want a name brand machine that I can take back if something breaks in its hardware), and companies that allow you to purchase the machine without an OS are virtually nonexistant in my area.
So given that I've been forced to buy a Windows license with every PC I own (whether I use it or not), I'm not sure how it's possible that there's that many pirate copies out there.
That's not giving me confidence heading into my performance review. Thanks a lot.
(I'm not kidding - my review IS on monday. You bastard!)
People behind nazi-like firewalls shouldn't consider themselves on the internet. It's not the job of the rest of us to bend over backwards to service people that don't actually have internet access, but have restricted web-server access.
Yeah, yeah. Heard it before. Except this is HTTP content, therefore it makes sense that it reside on an HTTP port.
Port blocking is very necessary in certain environments, and usually advisable to reduce the effect of worms and such should they infect a network. Or would you rather we don't bother to try containing anything, and let it all spew out to the 'net?
How about a link that doesn't use a weird port? Some of us are behind restrictive firewalls...
Wait! We're talking a CANADIAN Football League!? What next -- hockey in the United States?
Looks like Football started off as ours too, just like Hockey and Basketball. I quote The first recorded "football" match in Canada, and perhaps the first in North America, was a game played at University College, University of Toronto on November 9, 1861.
The City of Toronto recently put out RFPs for replacement PCs. The MFP-leased ones are now up, and the city had asked for companies to bid on contracts to replace them with new machines and software.
Guess what? The bidding process is over, and no companies that were offering free software qualified under the terms. The contract has now been awarded to another company (who will be providing MS software, surprise surprise), which I'm sure will be scrutinized quite a bit to make sure there's no rip-offs. So try again in 3 years when the next lease is up, but this time put together a professional proposal complying with their RFP requirements and I'm sure it would be considered.
I think if a company came along and actually BID on the contract, preparing a decent presentation as to how the city would save costs, they would have to listen. After all, the City of Toronto is very interested in saving money, as they've dug themselves quite the hole in recent years (mostly due to the Province of Ontario not being particularly generous).
Is this something that perhaps could be integrated into MythTV?
As it stands, I'd love to have something like that. My family room and kitchen are together in the same area of the house. It'd be trivial for me to walk over to the TV when I run out of something and scan it (with my CueCat) so that it can be added to a grocery list before I toss out the empty container.
In the future, an RFID scanner placed in my recycling box could do this trick automatically.
A quick click of the remote could then print the list, or even better access it from work via MythWeb. Perhaps even having a menu of additional items to add (for produce or cold cuts, for example) before finishing the list, the whole thing could be managed fairly easily.
Anybody game to program that?
KNOPPIX 3.7 has just been released
Crank up your torrents!
For those who don't already know, (quoting the site), "KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it."
And those of us behind restrictive firewalls are still left in the dark.
Anybody got a mirror that's on port 80?
What about getting run over by a cell phone talkin' driver whose phone just exploded?
I'd say that thought makes me panic a bit.
I have an idea that *might* work. At least make it a little more difficult, though it wouldn't get rid of the problem entirely. Well, ok, a COUPLE of ideas:
1 - put the toners into the printer in a different order. Put yellow in the blue slot, the red in the yellow slot and the blue in the yellow slot. Now your serial number will be in a different colour - could that mess things up?
2 - buy two printers. Print the same image twice - one with red and yellow, the second with blue and yellow. Some adjustments might be needed to account for the fact that yellow is being printed twice.
3 - buy used printers off eBay. Use a PO box to receive printer.
4 - use an old printer. My crappy DeskJet 500 probably doesn't have this 'feature'
5 - make your *own* printer with Lego MindStorms!
6 - print in B&W only
Yeah, I'm a little drunk so my ideas are probably not the best, but at least a few of these sound decent.