Ha! I swear I didn't bump into your comment until just now -- updated the story w/ independent recollection, with (praise be to Google) a link to the very same online collection;)
Yes, a great story -- I'll have to read some of the other stuff at that site as well.
Unfortunately, there is no "sideways" moderation / tagging, or I'd mark this "sad." (Not that I have ever been hot at math; apparently the genes coding for that skill skipped at least my part of the generation. But college courses at the elementary school level, that's nuts.)
So you're in favor of a free(r) market in medical services and finance, more akin to American grocery stores than Soviet commissaries?
Me, too!:)
timothy
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Reusing Old TiVo Hardware?
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Re: "cracking" / "ripping off" -- Typically it means buying the hardware at a discount and then modifying the software to use some sort of alternative TV Guide feed, instead of the TiVo paid subscription service.
At least some TiVos (I have one; it's actually a Toshiba/TiVo joint-branded thing, also a DVD player, which I bought 4 or so years ago) were sold w/ lifetime service (lifetime of the device, not the purchaser;)), rather than subscription.
Curious (bmfs, or anyone else with knowledge pertaining), any experience / knowledge / anecdotes / suspicions of the airport express streaming being possible w/ a Linux backend rather than Mac+iTunes?
I like the Airport express hardware / concept, but not a fan of OS X -- or rather, I prefer Linux, and to quote the original Michael Bolton, "No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks!"
Yep, it's an Apple product, and yep, it's made to work w/ iTunes, just curious about alternative uses:)
They're making a wise decision: status updates and contact information for dead people pretty much define "sensitive information."
DEADGUY: "Status: Bones yellowed, but still have some structure. Rat finally got away with St. Anthony medallion. Anyone gonna to go the open bar at Styx tonight?!"
Yep. Selling software (as RMS has pointed out many times) is not antithetical to Free software of the FSF variety; it's one way the FSF makes money! As you say, unless the source is denied the paying customers (and it's not under some separate license more restrictive on this front than, say, the GPL), there's no contradiction.
(As the owner of an XO with a borked OS, I do *wish* this was otherwise available as a straight download, though.)
It should be a very, very serious crime to force anyone to gamble on sports or anything else, including the stock market or tomorrow's weather.
That's it! The other gaming ("gambling") laws should all be tested against this one, and should be tossed if violating them does not involve forcing someone to gamble.
No questions? Alright, I'll be in my office today, and office hours as usual on Wednesday.
It's an annoying set-up, I agree. However, it's pretty neat information (for those of us obsessed w/ input devices) -- so, a dilemma. I'd enjoy seeing some sort of script / plug-in that would seek "next" links on such sites and string them together into one big vertical page, but I don't know of such a thing yet.
Any suggestions, other than "don't ever run links to sites with stories spread over more than one page," that might make this easier on everyone's eyeballs?
Two syllables, one color-word? And the color word might remind you of the content of (what I hear) is a vital plot device in another movie which is apparently a bit better than (say) The Da Vinci Code called Two Girls One Cup?
Because I suspect he's just floating in a pool of his own drool trying to work this device into an awful novel.
There might be a picture (as the linked story says) of an AK-47 assault rifle on that page, but (even aside from the mentioned fact that it's a voucher, not a gun, that buyers get) they almost certainly won't be buying an assault rifle, just a lookalike. Unless the dealer is somehow magically and illegally supplying them all with selective-fire capability. Pretty tough (expensive, long process) for ordinary Americans to buy any guns with selective (or plain full-auto) guns; those are only for the gub'mint, not the Pipple.
Just Say Nope to object-vilification through word choice:)
the Neil Armstrong ADR is especially good, given the problems with the first version.
"Hey folks, Neal 'Moonman' Armstrong here -- I can say Moonman now, can't I! -- reporting live, that's LIVE LIVE LIVE from the surface of the mooooooooon, that's right, the one, the only, the biggest satellite in orbit around the Earth you all know and love, and lemme tell ya, folks, the Earth is looking pretty damn good from here, it's a real crackerjack experience, even in this helluva suit, to be up here, and waving down there at all you fine listeners. Station break and ID comin' up, but I'll be right back atcha with more moon-media-madness, so stay tuned!"
I'm pretty sure that's William H. Macy, though the alternative sound tracks and director's cut are good, too. Gary Sinese doing his "perpetual typecast criminal conspirator on the moon" is pretty good, too, and I will admit the Reese Witherspoon version makes those space suits suddenly look pretty sexy. The Nick Cage one is cool, too, sort of a National Treasure reprise.
a) typo in there. You can read it as "I won't tear my hair out," or, at your option, "I won't tear my heart out." Both are true!
b) Also trying to remember to take a multivitamin each day. Mine are shaped like little animals, with some sort of shape I can't make out -- perhaps bears, since they come from a container shaped like a bear. Until someone gives me compelling evidence that kids' vitamins are any worse than the adult kind, nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah.
c) Echoing practically everyone else: water. I find water boring, I crave sugar and fruit flavor, but I know that's where a lot of my calories come from -- delicious drinks with tons of sugar. Whether or not you believe the conventional wisdom that HFCS is especially bad (I'm skeptical, but not a food scientist, medical doctor, or Merlin), there's certainly a lot of sugar there. Adding lime / lemon wedges helps, even though it won't turn water into wine, or even fruit punch.
I know water by itself will drive me a bits buts; therefore, I'm allocating to myself, on ordinary days, 8 ounces of orange juice. OJ is about 15 calories an ounce (less than I'd expected), has vitamin C, and tastes pretty good even diluted to 1/3 water.
Have not had any coffee or tea in a little while, but that's not doctrine, just fact; I might have some coffee (today, even), but with very little or zero sweetener.
This topic's been on my mind, so I have a longish / digressive comment. Read at your own risk!
My constraints aren't exactly the same, but I'm lazy, find it easy to sleep too much, eat WAY too much, and exercise too little -- and would like to lose some weight. (5'10" or just over, around 190 lbs.) I realize that something has to give. My arbitrary goal is to shed 10 lbs over the next month; some people say that's a lot, but I'm not aiming for 10 lbs *every* month, and I'm not concerned about the number except that it would be a cool one to reach. I won't tear my hear out if that's not the final result, etc; I want to just get healthier in my intake / outgo of calories, to fit my pants better, etc.
My approach, which is neither well-tested yet, nor especially scientific (but seems like it should work), is basically to do simple things that I can't give up on the basis of complication (like counting foods to the molecule, keeping super-careful exercise notes, etc).
This is not exact, but I'm essentially trying to estimate what I *would* eat (unconstrained, as in "how I've eaten for 34 years") and select approximately half of that much, for any given meal / day. I know I'll go over sometimes (which is fine, if the overall reduction is still substantial), and I hope to sometimes go under, in order to get used to not being completely sated.
It's not starving myself, I realize (and try to tell myself), but it's also about a third (maybe a quarter) of what I would ordinarily eat. Getting used to a smaller amount is tough; since I'm only a few days in to the current project of eating better / smarter, I hope it gets a bit easier.
I am pondering the Tim Ferris advice to eat whatever I want one day a week (probably Sunday); perhaps that's just seductive nonsense; I suspect that coarse analogies about the body ratcheting down to account for lower calorie intake are... well, coarse. There might be something to it, but it seems like a case where the model may eclipse that which is being modeled, leading to the physiological equivalent of spurious precision in math. However, I can also see it as a psychological aid -- if I eat my old norm once a week, then it means I've still cut down substantially.
wrt exercise: I have been jogging / walking (more walking than jogging, though yesterday was nearly equal between the two) in an attempt to be less of a slug, get the aerobic exercise going, etc. I find running boring, and have never in my life experienced the "runner's high," don't expect to. However, it's still satisfying to know that I've completed a few miles without dying. I use the time partly to listen to interesting podcasts, too. Uptempo Bach, or Clash, or New Order... I don't listen to music as general background sounds very much, but with exercise, it seems to help distract from pain, and provides some rhythm. Maybe should try some old-time work songs, incl. sea shanties:) *Pure* running, with no distractions, though? I am amazed that anyone does it for pleasure, even though I admire the athleticism and determination of my friends who run long distances.
In truth, I'm still evaluating running as exercise; the satisfaction from it is pretty good, esp. since my starting point is so low that running 1/4 mile feels like I've accomplished something great, even though that's precisely diddly/squat to people who actually run. However, besides being pretty boring, it's not great on the joints, and not as calorie intensive as, say, swimming. Good things, though, are that a) the equipment is right (and here in Seattle, it's decent weather for it most of the year) and b) I like the fact that tracks are measured in nice little increments, so I can fairly say "OK
Second, I like to drive long distances / cross-country (for instance: I plan to go east in not many weeks from now on this route and back to Seattle via a slightly less direct path), and would like something that can fake AI pretty well as a travel aid. ("Infotainment!")"
I really would like an R2 unit / the earthly equivalent.
First, I have a penchant for getting lost. As in, it's happened in my own neighborhood -- GPS device, while in some ways it's a crutch, also helps me *learn* streets by taking me the (or a) correct way a few times. As the saying goes, sometimes crutches are useful.
Second, I like to drive long distances / cross-country (for instance: I plan to go east in not many weeks from now on this route -- and back to Seattle via a slightly less direct path -- ), and would like something that can fake AI pretty well as a travel aid. ("Infotainment!")
Right now I have a decent-enough (discontinued, middle-end) Garmin, which took me several GPS-buying attempts to settle on, and it does a lot of things well (interface is OK, and it plays MP3s). But a guy can dream...
I know this is not yet a reasonable demand for products in my price range, but I'd like to be able to use moderately complex spoken demands / requests / ideas, Star Trek (or Star Wars, or Hitchhiker's Guide) fashion, some of which would require either a really big data store or (at least intermittently) an internet connection:
"Plot me a course to the nearest used bookstore, artoo."
"How much longer if I take a route with no tolls?"
"Does that Taco Bell have a 24 hour drive through?"
"What happened at this battlefield? Give me the short version."
"Play that interview from EconTalk.org about the difference between law and legislation, and then some up-tempo Bach."
Why any car is made with other than LED lights (perhaps cold-cathode is good enough, or for some reason that I don't know even better) rather than little incandescent bulbs is beyond me. "Here's an important part we know will fail, that's about 18" from the driver. Let's make it very, very difficult to remove, so when the important dashlights fail, he'll need to pay someone with more tools a lot of money to fix the 10-cent lightbulb."
Headlights, the same way, at least the ones on a) a 1998 Subaru Outback and b) a 2003 (?) Mazda Protege5. I have no yet had the courage to well investigate on my current car, but since it's also a Subaru, I bet it will lead to much cursing. Ooh, how I hate those little bendy-pins, straight of our Rube Goldberg, and the awkward angles / hand positioning needed to do a repair that's to be easily expected.
With this one, at least, it can focus down to about 2 feet, at which point (I'm guessing, holding up a sheet of paper) it's about 20" diagonal. The problem is, since the keystone correction can only do so much, that you've then got the projector right there in the way:) If you have a desktop area though and give it another foot, placement gets a little more reasonable.
I also thought HUD, but, well, not with this projector in particular.
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Ha! I swear I didn't bump into your comment until just now -- updated the story w/ independent recollection, with (praise be to Google) a link to the very same online collection ;)
Yes, a great story -- I'll have to read some of the other stuff at that site as well.
timothy
Unfortunately, there is no "sideways" moderation / tagging, or I'd mark this "sad." (Not that I have ever been hot at math; apparently the genes coding for that skill skipped at least my part of the generation. But college courses at the elementary school level, that's nuts.)
timothy
So you're in favor of a free(r) market in medical services and finance, more akin to American grocery stores than Soviet commissaries?
Me, too! :)
timothy
Re: "cracking" / "ripping off" -- Typically it means buying the hardware at a discount and then modifying the software to use some sort of alternative TV Guide feed, instead of the TiVo paid subscription service.
At least some TiVos (I have one; it's actually a Toshiba/TiVo joint-branded thing, also a DVD player, which I bought 4 or so years ago) were sold w/ lifetime service (lifetime of the device, not the purchaser ;)), rather than subscription.
timothy
Thanks to you who replied -- excellent. bmfs, that's perfect; might make me break down and buy one!
timothy
Curious (bmfs, or anyone else with knowledge pertaining), any experience / knowledge / anecdotes / suspicions of the airport express streaming being possible w/ a Linux backend rather than Mac+iTunes?
I like the Airport express hardware / concept, but not a fan of OS X -- or rather, I prefer Linux, and to quote the original Michael Bolton, "No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks!"
Yep, it's an Apple product, and yep, it's made to work w/ iTunes, just curious about alternative uses :)
Cheers,
timothy
And not some country where the government wants to censor the internet on a perpetual basis, for the greater good (THE GREATER GOOD)!
Because that would be wrong!
timothy
They're making a wise decision: status updates and contact information for dead people pretty much define "sensitive information."
DEADGUY: "Status: Bones yellowed, but still have some structure. Rat finally got away with St. Anthony medallion. Anyone gonna to go the open bar at Styx tonight?!"
timothy
Yep. Selling software (as RMS has pointed out many times) is not antithetical to Free software of the FSF variety; it's one way the FSF makes money! As you say, unless the source is denied the paying customers (and it's not under some separate license more restrictive on this front than, say, the GPL), there's no contradiction.
(As the owner of an XO with a borked OS, I do *wish* this was otherwise available as a straight download, though.)
timothy
Casablanca ... now in color, 3D, and animated!
Judgment at Nurenberg -- with a whole new laughtrack!
Tron: Nearly as 3D as before!
timothy
I may be braindead, or at least you may think so (Hey, eye of the beholder, etc), but I didn't "slap a fascism tag" on anything here.
Cheers,
timothy
It should be a very, very serious crime to force anyone to gamble on sports or anything else, including the stock market or tomorrow's weather.
That's it! The other gaming ("gambling") laws should all be tested against this one, and should be tossed if violating them does not involve forcing someone to gamble.
No questions? Alright, I'll be in my office today, and office hours as usual on Wednesday.
timothy
It's an annoying set-up, I agree. However, it's pretty neat information (for those of us obsessed w/ input devices) -- so, a dilemma. I'd enjoy seeing some sort of script / plug-in that would seek "next" links on such sites and string them together into one big vertical page, but I don't know of such a thing yet.
Any suggestions, other than "don't ever run links to sites with stories spread over more than one page," that might make this easier on everyone's eyeballs?
timothy
Two syllables, one color-word? And the color word might remind you of the content of (what I hear) is a vital plot device in another movie which is apparently a bit better than (say) The Da Vinci Code called Two Girls One Cup?
Because I suspect he's just floating in a pool of his own drool trying to work this device into an awful novel.
timothy
There might be a picture (as the linked story says) of an AK-47 assault rifle on that page, but (even aside from the mentioned fact that it's a voucher, not a gun, that buyers get) they almost certainly won't be buying an assault rifle, just a lookalike. Unless the dealer is somehow magically and illegally supplying them all with selective-fire capability. Pretty tough (expensive, long process) for ordinary Americans to buy any guns with selective (or plain full-auto) guns; those are only for the gub'mint, not the Pipple.
Just Say Nope to object-vilification through word choice :)
timothy
the Neil Armstrong ADR is especially good, given the problems with the first version.
"Hey folks, Neal 'Moonman' Armstrong here -- I can say Moonman now, can't I! -- reporting live, that's LIVE LIVE LIVE from the surface of the mooooooooon, that's right, the one, the only, the biggest satellite in orbit around the Earth you all know and love, and lemme tell ya, folks, the Earth is looking pretty damn good from here, it's a real crackerjack experience, even in this helluva suit, to be up here, and waving down there at all you fine listeners. Station break and ID comin' up, but I'll be right back atcha with more moon-media-madness, so stay tuned!"
I'm pretty sure that's William H. Macy, though the alternative sound tracks and director's cut are good, too. Gary Sinese doing his "perpetual typecast criminal conspirator on the moon" is pretty good, too, and I will admit the Reese Witherspoon version makes those space suits suddenly look pretty sexy. The Nick Cage one is cool, too, sort of a National Treasure reprise.
timothy
Might well be that it is the only other one! I was pleased to have good reason (at least, I thought it was good) to use that icon ;)
timothy
a) typo in there. You can read it as "I won't tear my hair out," or, at your option, "I won't tear my heart out." Both are true!
b) Also trying to remember to take a multivitamin each day. Mine are shaped like little animals, with some sort of shape I can't make out -- perhaps bears, since they come from a container shaped like a bear. Until someone gives me compelling evidence that kids' vitamins are any worse than the adult kind, nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah.
c) Echoing practically everyone else: water. I find water boring, I crave sugar and fruit flavor, but I know that's where a lot of my calories come from -- delicious drinks with tons of sugar. Whether or not you believe the conventional wisdom that HFCS is especially bad (I'm skeptical, but not a food scientist, medical doctor, or Merlin), there's certainly a lot of sugar there. Adding lime / lemon wedges helps, even though it won't turn water into wine, or even fruit punch.
I know water by itself will drive me a bits buts; therefore, I'm allocating to myself, on ordinary days, 8 ounces of orange juice. OJ is about 15 calories an ounce (less than I'd expected), has vitamin C, and tastes pretty good even diluted to 1/3 water.
Have not had any coffee or tea in a little while, but that's not doctrine, just fact; I might have some coffee (today, even), but with very little or zero sweetener.
timothy
This topic's been on my mind, so I have a longish / digressive comment. Read at your own risk!
My constraints aren't exactly the same, but I'm lazy, find it easy to sleep too much, eat WAY too much, and exercise too little -- and would like to lose some weight. (5'10" or just over, around 190 lbs.) I realize that something has to give. My arbitrary goal is to shed 10 lbs over the next month; some people say that's a lot, but I'm not aiming for 10 lbs *every* month, and I'm not concerned about the number except that it would be a cool one to reach. I won't tear my hear out if that's not the final result, etc; I want to just get healthier in my intake / outgo of calories, to fit my pants better, etc.
My approach, which is neither well-tested yet, nor especially scientific (but seems like it should work), is basically to do simple things that I can't give up on the basis of complication (like counting foods to the molecule, keeping super-careful exercise notes, etc).
This is not exact, but I'm essentially trying to estimate what I *would* eat (unconstrained, as in "how I've eaten for 34 years") and select approximately half of that much, for any given meal / day. I know I'll go over sometimes (which is fine, if the overall reduction is still substantial), and I hope to sometimes go under, in order to get used to not being completely sated.
For instance, here's my lunch today: https://slashdot.org/~timothy/journal/232517
It's not starving myself, I realize (and try to tell myself), but it's also about a third (maybe a quarter) of what I would ordinarily eat. Getting used to a smaller amount is tough; since I'm only a few days in to the current project of eating better / smarter, I hope it gets a bit easier.
I am pondering the Tim Ferris advice to eat whatever I want one day a week (probably Sunday); perhaps that's just seductive nonsense; I suspect that coarse analogies about the body ratcheting down to account for lower calorie intake are ... well, coarse. There might be something to it, but it seems like a case where the model may eclipse that which is being modeled, leading to the physiological equivalent of spurious precision in math. However, I can also see it as a psychological aid -- if I eat my old norm once a week, then it means I've still cut down substantially.
wrt exercise: I have been jogging / walking (more walking than jogging, though yesterday was nearly equal between the two) in an attempt to be less of a slug, get the aerobic exercise going, etc. I find running boring, and have never in my life experienced the "runner's high," don't expect to. However, it's still satisfying to know that I've completed a few miles without dying. I use the time partly to listen to interesting podcasts, too. Uptempo Bach, or Clash, or New Order ... I don't listen to music as general background sounds very much, but with exercise, it seems to help distract from pain, and provides some rhythm. Maybe should try some old-time work songs, incl. sea shanties :) *Pure* running, with no distractions, though? I am amazed that anyone does it for pleasure, even though I admire the athleticism and determination of my friends who run long distances.
In truth, I'm still evaluating running as exercise; the satisfaction from it is pretty good, esp. since my starting point is so low that running 1/4 mile feels like I've accomplished something great, even though that's precisely diddly/squat to people who actually run. However, besides being pretty boring, it's not great on the joints, and not as calorie intensive as, say, swimming. Good things, though, are that a) the equipment is right (and here in Seattle, it's decent weather for it most of the year) and b) I like the fact that tracks are measured in nice little increments, so I can fairly say "OK
a) that is one of my all-time favorite quotes (the "keep my feathers" numbered one) and
b) I nearly made the department line for this post "foghorn leghorn whistles dixie," but Ah, well.
timothy
Flubbed above; corrected below:
Second, I like to drive long distances / cross-country (for instance: I plan to go east in not many weeks from now on this route and back to Seattle via a slightly less direct path ), and would like something that can fake AI pretty well as a travel aid. ("Infotainment!")"
timothy
I really would like an R2 unit / the earthly equivalent.
First, I have a penchant for getting lost. As in, it's happened in my own neighborhood -- GPS device, while in some ways it's a crutch, also helps me *learn* streets by taking me the (or a) correct way a few times. As the saying goes, sometimes crutches are useful.
Second, I like to drive long distances / cross-country (for instance: I plan to go east in not many weeks from now on this route -- and back to Seattle via a slightly less direct path -- ), and would like something that can fake AI pretty well as a travel aid. ("Infotainment!")
Right now I have a decent-enough (discontinued, middle-end) Garmin, which took me several GPS-buying attempts to settle on, and it does a lot of things well (interface is OK, and it plays MP3s). But a guy can dream ...
I know this is not yet a reasonable demand for products in my price range, but I'd like to be able to use moderately complex spoken demands / requests / ideas, Star Trek (or Star Wars, or Hitchhiker's Guide) fashion, some of which would require either a really big data store or (at least intermittently) an internet connection:
"Plot me a course to the nearest used bookstore, artoo."
"How much longer if I take a route with no tolls?"
"Does that Taco Bell have a 24 hour drive through?"
"What happened at this battlefield? Give me the short version."
"Play that interview from EconTalk.org about the difference between law and legislation, and then some up-tempo Bach."
"What are reviews like on this cheap motel?"
You're right.
I didn't catch that in the original submission; thanks for seeing it.
timothy
Why any car is made with other than LED lights (perhaps cold-cathode is good enough, or for some reason that I don't know even better) rather than little incandescent bulbs is beyond me. "Here's an important part we know will fail, that's about 18" from the driver. Let's make it very, very difficult to remove, so when the important dashlights fail, he'll need to pay someone with more tools a lot of money to fix the 10-cent lightbulb."
Headlights, the same way, at least the ones on a) a 1998 Subaru Outback and b) a 2003 (?) Mazda Protege5. I have no yet had the courage to well investigate on my current car, but since it's also a Subaru, I bet it will lead to much cursing. Ooh, how I hate those little bendy-pins, straight of our Rube Goldberg, and the awkward angles / hand positioning needed to do a repair that's to be easily expected.
And it's not even a space shuttle!
timothy
With this one, at least, it can focus down to about 2 feet, at which point (I'm guessing, holding up a sheet of paper) it's about 20" diagonal. The problem is, since the keystone correction can only do so much, that you've then got the projector right there in the way :) If you have a desktop area though and give it another foot, placement gets a little more reasonable.
I also thought HUD, but, well, not with this projector in particular.
timothy