I'll bet your Series 2 TiVos have added hard drives, right?
The response time f Now Playing list is directly proportional to the number of shows it displays.
That said, I have a stock Series 3 TiVo (HD? The original one with the OLED display) and it occasionally stops listening to the remote commands when it's doing net access stuff like Podcaster. I always thought that Tivo thought that was the worse sin possible next to audio and video getting out of sync.
It's not bad enough to make me want to ditch it. I like MRV and TiVo2Go enough that I was tempted to but another one until TiVo raised the multi-account rates. They promised me I could add another with my Lifetime account for $6.95 a month. Now it's $9.95 and they're saying I don't qualify for that so it's $12.95. No way.
What B&N doesn't have is any power outlets. I needed a place to get a few hours work done on the road. I have AT&T WiFi with my home DSL. The B&N was about the only place in town. I checked the whole store to see if there was a place to let me work. Not an outlet to be seen. They must use battery powered vacuum cleaners.
Pathetic geek story: I had a battery/invertor box in the car so I dragged in and used that to get me an extra hour to work. It was kinda bad when the battery ran low and started beeping.
At least Panera has outlets. I dunno about Starbucks. I never went for the T_Mobile deal.
The ASRS program was set up so pilots could anonymously report safety issues, including those where they might admit to making a violation of regulations, without fear of enforcement action. Since pilots wouldn't trust the very FAA or NTSB that regulates them to keep the anonymous aspect another agency was needed to receive, tabulate, and analyze the reports. NASA was selected.
Especially since they want Indy's dad to play a decent part in the movie. As much as Connery is one of my all time favorite actors, he's up in the years, and probably only has a few years left on the blue ball. I'll see it strictly for the Connery factor.
They're both up in years.
Sean Connery is 76. As mentioned, Harrison Ford is 64.
That you bought the illusion that Sean Connery could be Harrison Ford's father means they're actors!
Are there really only 11 men who have flown rocket belts in free flight?
I remember that they used to do Bell Rocket Belt demos on the road. I think Keds sneakers sponsored a tour in the 60's where the Keds Rocketman(?) would fly into baseball stadiums. If that was one guy he must have had quite the frequent flyer miles.
There was also a rocket belt fly in and landing at the opening ceremonies of the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. I remember watching the behind the scenes documentary where the manager told the costumed mascots that the rocket guy would be physically hot so they shouldn't try to touch him.
There was also a young guy interviewed on the radio long ago who claimed to have a company that was going to make commuting by rocket belt routine. He said you would land on the roof of your office. I knew then that you had like 90 seconds of fuel so you had to live pretty close to work. The guy was young and slick enough that he wasn't mere wacko. He was prolly fishing to fleece investors.
Bell had a famous demo film where it looks like the Bell rocket belt pilot is flying for as long as he wanted. He flies under a bridge dipping his feet into the water. They admitted later that they stitched together dozens of short flights to make the sequence.
Wiggling a key is NOT bumping. You were able to amaze your neighbor probably because your building is MK'd with a rotating constant. Medeco can be bumped, if your bump key has the proper rotation.
I'll buy it's not bumping, but there's no Master Key. It's a very old two flat. I just happened to have a bunch of random old keys and one fit the keyway. I've done it before by sliding the key in and out and vibrating.
I've done this simply by wiggling a key that fits the keyway. You don't need that much force. You don't need a "tomahawk" you need to vibrate the key.
I amazed my upstairs neighbor when I managed to open his door when he was locked out, with the wrong key.
I didn't know the technique had a name.
There are locks that will resist this, like the Medaco locks that require the pins to rotate to open. I don't think bumping alone will get those lined up.
The knees are jerking so loud there's a background hum across the whole hemisphere.
At O'Hare they're saying to allow 2 hours to check in and the TV reporters are saying that won't ber nearly enough time. GA is looking better with every new procedure.
Best of all, they are insisting that LAPTOP COMPUTERS have to be in checked baggage. None may be in carry ons. I think they're happily giving out clear plastic bags to hold them. Of course, as always the luggage cannot be locked lest the TSA not be able to search.
In other news, Ryder and U-Haul report a huge influx in demand for van rentals in locations near airports.
In other news, eBay reports a huge influx in for sale listings of nearly laptop computers.
When asked for comment the Department of Homeland Security refused citing national security reasons.
I'll take Amtrak or fly myself even if it takes me an extra 4 days on each end.
It occurs to me that is similar to what I encountered when a I was sysadmin. The boss has no idea how many problems the company didn't have because you're good at your job. In fact, an admin that's always fighting fires can be highly valued for all of the work they put it in.
With security, the only measure is imagining the cost of outages and security breaks, maybe for other companies if you're good enough or lucky enough to prevent them. Otherwise, the bean counters will only look at what you want to spend as having no return.
An exception might be if the company hires a consultant (because what would YOU know. You work here. You can't be smart.) to assses the econonmic impact of the risks. That would be followed of course, by how you need to hire them to prevent the danger.
This pundit ALSO gets wrong the whole ATT/SBC/Cingular/Bell South musical chairs.
He knows that AT&T (the old SBC) will be absorbing Bell South. Then he says that AT&T will own 60% of Cingular. Nope. SBC always owned 60% of Cingular. The other 40% was owned by....Bell South. Somebody check my math but I think 60% + 40% = 100%, in other words after the Bell South merger AT&T will own all of Cingular which, just to confuse you if you followed this so far, will be called AT&T Wireless after the Bell South merger. Yep. You're right. Cingular absorbed AT&T Wireless a few years ago. This will bring the name out of the still-warm grave.
Somebody needs to put this saga into a graphic. There's a lotta confusion.
call bullshit. I'm not sure what "definition" you're using, but a given interface does not have to become more complex as functions get added. As a matter of face, added features can simplify a given interface. I can't think of something specific atm, but I'm sure you can find an example or two in Cupertino somewhere.
I think the classic problem with the user interface is it ends being designed by the coders who, try as they might, cannot fully grasp how the user would expect it to work because they have to deal how the code and the hardware, etc. behind the scenes are organized.
I'm not a professional developer but learned once when I implemented a user menu for my LAN users. I set up the menu to map a networked printer so it asked you the questions in the order I needed to make up the DOS command rather than what the user would think was the most important question the ask first: which printer do you want, not what port do you want to map to a printer as I had it.
You can tell that the UI in these phones is set up based on what was built into the base OS, what drivers did the chip manufacturer supply us with, the camera code came from a third party, of course, and then what we had add to talk to the customer's peculiar phone network. Oh. And then the carrier got in and messed around a bit. So it ends being tough if the user can't figure out why the phone network options are three menus in rather than under "Call."
I think we can guess that the Cupertino guys have UI and hardware designers that tell the coders to make it work this way rather than letting it be an afterthought.
The US Postal Service demoed just such a thing many, many years ago. They had an email encryption and delivery service to verify that the message was not altered. I suppose the problem in certifying the sender and receiver and proving delivery (to a person - not a mail spool) were technical issues they couldn't handle.
The difference of the USPS vs. Goodmail is that the USPS has official legal authority for such thing as mail tampering and proof of delivery.
I suppose if they were to offer the service now, Goodmail would buy a law to prohibit to USPS from competing against a private business as Sen. Santorum is trying to do with the weather service.
Here is a recent strip mentioning the same topic of the banned pictures of the FAA building. This one and the strips following are about how space tourists are also going to be subject to security screenings
This madness has occurred in the U.S. too, in the fall of 2003 to cartoonist Wes Oleszewski, who does an aviation comic strip called Klyde Morris. Klyde is the first ant who becomes a commercial pilot. Just as with Doonesbury, the strip often shows well-known buildings with balloons of the conversations inside.
Oleszewski wanted to be able to draw a better representation of the FAA's building.
Oleszewski tried to take pictures of the FAA headquarters building in Washington, D.C. but was told photographs were forbidden for security reasons.
And no one remembers that back in 1959, you could go to the store and buy a single, remember 45's, had two(2) sides, and it only cost 99 cents (plus tax), I think we are getting ripped off at 99 cents today
It was more like 49 cents or 59 cents. And as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddy, and Little Richard tell it, they had to sell TWO 45s to get a penny. They got half a cent per record.
But Apple's iTunes Music Store is by no means the only online music available. There are others that offer flexible pricing models.
And guess what? Nobody uses them.
It could be because your link is wrong. |-[) It's buymusic.com.
I just searched for a Chuck Berry song I own but I've temporarily misplaced the CD. I would buy another copy. They have it, for $0.99. I couldn't get the "listen" thing to work. The javascript on the site evidently doesn't work with Firefox. See ya!
Hey, I was doing desktop support in the late eighties when one of the electrical engineers put in a ticket that his LAN connection wasn't working - bring him a new NIC card.
He had the 486 machine on the floor unde rhis desk with the case open when I handed him the new card and he proceded to plug it in with the accompaning sparks and all while the power was on.
I cringed. At the time I had an Osborne computer where the printer cable would spark if you plugged it while the power was on.
I said, "I wouldn't do that while he power is on." He said, "I would." and he proceeded to unplug the card and try it different slots with more fireworks at each plug and pray.
I finally convinced him that the PC might see the network if he rebooted it. He finally listened to dumb ol' unqualified me, rebooted, and it worked.
I practically ran away to get some distance from that poor tortured machine.
The Science Channel was rerunning old Science TV shows, one of which was "The 21st Century" with Walter Cronkite from the late 1960s.
One thing he mentions repeatedly is we will have men on Mars by 1985. That was a whole 15 years in the future.
So just hold yer horses... Oh
It is facinating to see what our time looked like from there. We had just landed on the moon so why would Mars be so hard? The living room of the future is a hoot. It had a wall-sized flat big screen TV with high fidelity stereo sound. TVs for stock quotes, another for the weather, this one let's you talk to the office. They all had knobs almost bigger than today's MP3 players.
We did have men on the moon. We could imagine the rest.
The sad thing is for the last 30 years kids only had a low-performance space truck and a make-work place for it go to think about - all it managed by those who now have to think about how every decision will sound in testimony before a congressional committee.
Those kids got a raw deal. We're all getting a raw deal.
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I'll bet your Series 2 TiVos have added hard drives, right?
The response time f Now Playing list is directly proportional to the number of shows it displays.
That said, I have a stock Series 3 TiVo (HD? The original one with the OLED display) and it occasionally stops listening to the remote commands when it's doing net access stuff like Podcaster. I always thought that Tivo thought that was the worse sin possible next to audio and video getting out of sync.
It's not bad enough to make me want to ditch it. I like MRV and TiVo2Go enough that I was tempted to but another one until TiVo raised the multi-account rates. They promised me I could add another with my Lifetime account for $6.95 a month. Now it's $9.95 and they're saying I don't qualify for that so it's $12.95. No way.
What B&N doesn't have is any power outlets. I needed a place to get a few hours work done on the road. I have AT&T WiFi with my home DSL. The B&N was about the only place in town. I checked the whole store to see if there was a place to let me work. Not an outlet to be seen. They must use battery powered vacuum cleaners.
Pathetic geek story: I had a battery/invertor box in the car so I dragged in and used that to get me an extra hour to work. It was kinda bad when the battery ran low and started beeping.
At least Panera has outlets. I dunno about Starbucks. I never went for the T_Mobile deal.
You could read the documentation. You want 9+ 9+ = At the end you did 9+9+9 You could look at what's on the tape. IHBTHIND
The ASRS program was set up so pilots could anonymously report safety issues, including those where they might admit to making a violation of regulations, without fear of enforcement action. Since pilots wouldn't trust the very FAA or NTSB that regulates them to keep the anonymous aspect another agency was needed to receive, tabulate, and analyze the reports. NASA was selected.
Sean Connery is 76. As mentioned, Harrison Ford is 64.
That you bought the illusion that Sean Connery could be Harrison Ford's father means they're actors!
I remember that they used to do Bell Rocket Belt demos on the road. I think Keds sneakers sponsored a tour in the 60's where the Keds Rocketman(?) would fly into baseball stadiums. If that was one guy he must have had quite the frequent flyer miles.
There was also a rocket belt fly in and landing at the opening ceremonies of the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. I remember watching the behind the scenes documentary where the manager told the costumed mascots that the rocket guy would be physically hot so they shouldn't try to touch him.
There was also a young guy interviewed on the radio long ago who claimed to have a company that was going to make commuting by rocket belt routine. He said you would land on the roof of your office. I knew then that you had like 90 seconds of fuel so you had to live pretty close to work. The guy was young and slick enough that he wasn't mere wacko. He was prolly fishing to fleece investors.
Bell had a famous demo film where it looks like the Bell rocket belt pilot is flying for as long as he wanted. He flies under a bridge dipping his feet into the water. They admitted later that they stitched together dozens of short flights to make the sequence.
I've done this simply by wiggling a key that fits the keyway. You don't need that much force. You don't need a "tomahawk" you need to vibrate the key.
I amazed my upstairs neighbor when I managed to open his door when he was locked out, with the wrong key.
I didn't know the technique had a name.
There are locks that will resist this, like the Medaco locks that require the pins to rotate to open. I don't think bumping alone will get those lined up.
The knees are jerking so loud there's a background hum across the whole hemisphere.
At O'Hare they're saying to allow 2 hours to check in and the TV reporters are saying that won't ber nearly enough time. GA is looking better with every new procedure.
Best of all, they are insisting that LAPTOP COMPUTERS have to be in checked baggage. None may be in carry ons. I think they're happily giving out clear plastic bags to hold them. Of course, as always the luggage cannot be locked lest the TSA not be able to search.
In other news, Ryder and U-Haul report a huge influx in demand for van rentals in locations near airports.
In other news, eBay reports a huge influx in for sale listings of nearly laptop computers.
When asked for comment the Department of Homeland Security refused citing national security reasons.
I'll take Amtrak or fly myself even if it takes me an extra 4 days on each end.
Phishing: Your account is locked pending verification...
Nuttin' like truth in scamming.
It occurs to me that is similar to what I encountered when a I was sysadmin. The boss has no idea how many problems the company didn't have because you're good at your job. In fact, an admin that's always fighting fires can be highly valued for all of the work they put it in.
With security, the only measure is imagining the cost of outages and security breaks, maybe for other companies if you're good enough or lucky enough to prevent them. Otherwise, the bean counters will only look at what you want to spend as having no return.
An exception might be if the company hires a consultant (because what would YOU know. You work here. You can't be smart.) to assses the econonmic impact of the risks. That would be followed of course, by how you need to hire them to prevent the danger.
This pundit ALSO gets wrong the whole ATT/SBC/Cingular/Bell South musical chairs.
He knows that AT&T (the old SBC) will be absorbing Bell South. Then he says that AT&T will own 60% of Cingular. Nope. SBC always owned 60% of Cingular. The other 40% was owned by....Bell South. Somebody check my math but I think 60% + 40% = 100%, in other words after the Bell South merger AT&T will own all of Cingular which, just to confuse you if you followed this so far, will be called AT&T Wireless after the Bell South merger. Yep. You're right. Cingular absorbed AT&T Wireless a few years ago. This will bring the name out of the still-warm grave.
Somebody needs to put this saga into a graphic. There's a lotta confusion.
I think the classic problem with the user interface is it ends being designed by the coders who, try as they might, cannot fully grasp how the user would expect it to work because they have to deal how the code and the hardware, etc. behind the scenes are organized.
I'm not a professional developer but learned once when I implemented a user menu for my LAN users. I set up the menu to map a networked printer so it asked you the questions in the order I needed to make up the DOS command rather than what the user would think was the most important question the ask first: which printer do you want, not what port do you want to map to a printer as I had it.
You can tell that the UI in these phones is set up based on what was built into the base OS, what drivers did the chip manufacturer supply us with, the camera code came from a third party, of course, and then what we had add to talk to the customer's peculiar phone network. Oh. And then the carrier got in and messed around a bit. So it ends being tough if the user can't figure out why the phone network options are three menus in rather than under "Call."
I think we can guess that the Cupertino guys have UI and hardware designers that tell the coders to make it work this way rather than letting it be an afterthought.
The US Postal Service demoed just such a thing many, many years ago. They had an email encryption and delivery service to verify that the message was not altered. I suppose the problem in certifying the sender and receiver and proving delivery (to a person - not a mail spool) were technical issues they couldn't handle.
The difference of the USPS vs. Goodmail is that the USPS has official legal authority for such thing as mail tampering and proof of delivery.
I suppose if they were to offer the service now, Goodmail would buy a law to prohibit to USPS from competing against a private business as Sen. Santorum is trying to do with the weather service.
The problem is not when you'll get the flying car, it's how much is it worth to you?
Here is a recent strip mentioning the same topic of the banned pictures of the FAA building. This one and the strips following are about how space tourists are also going to be subject to security screenings
This madness has occurred in the U.S. too, in the fall of 2003 to cartoonist Wes Oleszewski, who does an aviation comic strip called Klyde Morris. Klyde is the first ant who becomes a commercial pilot. Just as with Doonesbury, the strip often shows well-known buildings with balloons of the conversations inside.
Oleszewski wanted to be able to draw a better representation of the FAA's building.
Oleszewski tried to take pictures of the FAA headquarters building in Washington, D.C. but was told photographs were forbidden for security reasons.
The inital series of three cartoon strips on what happended start here. There's a follow up on the story here.
In other (actual) news, LIMBO itself is in Limbo as the Vatican decides if it ever existed.
I just searched for a Chuck Berry song I own but I've temporarily misplaced the CD. I would buy another copy. They have it, for $0.99. I couldn't get the "listen" thing to work. The javascript on the site evidently doesn't work with Firefox. See ya!
"Watt's wrong with you?
Why did you get get insulate?"
"I'm ohm, ain't I?"
He had the 486 machine on the floor unde rhis desk with the case open when I handed him the new card and he proceded to plug it in with the accompaning sparks and all while the power was on.
I cringed. At the time I had an Osborne computer where the printer cable would spark if you plugged it while the power was on.
I said, "I wouldn't do that while he power is on." He said, "I would." and he proceeded to unplug the card and try it different slots with more fireworks at each plug and pray.
I finally convinced him that the PC might see the network if he rebooted it. He finally listened to dumb ol' unqualified me, rebooted, and it worked.
I practically ran away to get some distance from that poor tortured machine.
The Science Channel was rerunning old Science TV shows, one of which was "The 21st Century" with Walter Cronkite from the late 1960s.
One thing he mentions repeatedly is we will have men on Mars by 1985. That was a whole 15 years in the future.
So just hold yer horses... Oh
It is facinating to see what our time looked like from there. We had just landed on the moon so why would Mars be so hard? The living room of the future is a hoot. It had a wall-sized flat big screen TV with high fidelity stereo sound. TVs for stock quotes, another for the weather, this one let's you talk to the office. They all had knobs almost bigger than today's MP3 players.
We did have men on the moon. We could imagine the rest.
The sad thing is for the last 30 years kids only had a low-performance space truck and a make-work place for it go to think about - all it managed by those who now have to think about how every decision will sound in testimony before a congressional committee.
Those kids got a raw deal. We're all getting a raw deal.
OK, I Googled it.
"Policy" here is a typo. There is a Scotland Policy, but they aren't the Police. They work on policies.
Carry on.
Is it really "Policy" meaning "Police?"
I guess I should Google that.
You guys who invented the language sure do talk funny.