Jeebus, I hate Ben Affleck. What is it about him that makes my skin crawl? I *ALWAYS* want him to die in movies. There is just something about him that makes me want to smack him in the head with a sledge hammer.
Having owned many cellular capable scanners I can say with authority, cellular listening sucks 99.9999999999% of the time.
Most of it is soccer mom yakking, suits doing work and contractors ordering lumber.
Every once in a while, you will hear something good. I once heard what I think was a murder being planned, I have heard a few drug deals going down and some screwing around on spouses.
It's all moot. Almost all cellular is digital now. Scanners are only good for the very few analog calls. All analog will be going away very soon.
Yeah, Lakeland. TW tech was just at the house. He had to run a new line to my house. They will have to bury it later. Cable, but no RR. Not enough signal strength. I now have another project for the weekend (check connections, replace splitters, correctly terminate lines, etc.).
We lost power for 50 hours. Since we were closed here at work, I spent the time at Pickwick, drinking beer on the pontoon and feeling sorry for all the poor folks at midtown...
I have one box set up mainly as a Tivo-like unit, with an ATI TV Wonder VE. I'm thinking about sticking another tuner card in one of my other boxes for the rare occasions when I need to record two shows at once.
Appropriate, since we are talking about Time Warner. I would have read this last night, at home, but my fucking TW cable (and roadrunner) has been out *ELEVEN DAYS*! I still can't get the bastards on the phone. Just because the whole county got trashed by a storm is no excuse! I am going to miss SG-1 *AGAIN*!
OK, enough venting. Some guys here at work have the TW DVR box and love it. I mean, frothing at the mouth, Tivo, Mac or Linux zealot love.
I have built my own, but like the Tivo, these units have more features and are easier to use.
Yeah, why not just get a GP32 instead? They go for ~$200 with the backlight.
The emulators for the GP32 get better every day. NES, SNES, C64, Atari 2600, Atari 800, Atari 5200, ST, GBC, Genesis...if only a MAME port would be finished!
The new Divx and Mp3 players for the GP32 rock too.
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Jeebus, I hate Ben Affleck. What is it about him that makes my skin crawl? I *ALWAYS* want him to die in movies. There is just something about him that makes me want to smack him in the head with a sledge hammer.
Is it just me?
Is this the place to make the obligitory remark about Chinese and Rabbit mating habbits?
There are, after all, a *LOT* of Chinese...
"I'm multiplying Doc, I'm multiplying."
Imagine a PDA with a thin layer of diamond over the screen. You could use a stainless steel stylus and never scratch it!
Now if we can do computer back-ups of brains, then we're going somewhere.
That's what I want, Matrix style immortality, but with *ME* in control.
All the fun you want, in any form. Space exploration? Just send a partial copy of your intellect and personality in a probe.
Want interaction with the "real world"? Upload into a robot body (make a backup, first).
Does it come with a girlfriend?
Try here. They now have sensors, audio via ethernet (I shit you not), tan lines, moveable hands and "hip thrusting" available.
Now we need porn star and celebrity models with special "heated vibrating" functions.
The ultimate Geek Game Console.
So build a cab with real arcade controls.
Duh.
Feel free to sell any rubber pistols there.
Are you a very brave yankee, or a very dumb yankee?
Is the "he needed killin'" murder defense still valid in Texas?
Hell, have you ever been to Alabama?
I once saw a Doctors office sign in Alabama that was also advertising "Fireworks".
I consider Alabama an honorary third world country.
What is really scary is Alabama also has a city with the highest percentage of Engineers of an city in the US, maybe the world...
The conductivity of aluminum is much higher and aluminum doesn't corrode very fast.
You're with the government, aren't you?
I'm not looking to get involved in some battle of the zealots
Jeebus, are you in the wrong place!
And remember, if your aluminum foil hat is not Hersheys Kiss like (ala "Signs") it doesn't work...
Having owned many cellular capable scanners I can say with authority, cellular listening sucks 99.9999999999% of the time.
Most of it is soccer mom yakking, suits doing work and contractors ordering lumber.
Every once in a while, you will hear something good. I once heard what I think was a murder being planned, I have heard a few drug deals going down and some screwing around on spouses.
It's all moot. Almost all cellular is digital now. Scanners are only good for the very few analog calls. All analog will be going away very soon.
Yeah, Lakeland. TW tech was just at the house. He had to run a new line to my house. They will have to bury it later. Cable, but no RR. Not enough signal strength. I now have another project for the weekend (check connections, replace splitters, correctly terminate lines, etc.).
We lost power for 50 hours. Since we were closed here at work, I spent the time at Pickwick, drinking beer on the pontoon and feeling sorry for all the poor folks at midtown...
It's just that skulls all seem to be grinning...
And I would guess the RIAA does not really give a shit about movies and maybe not even videos.
The "R" stands for "recording", as in songs. The MPAA and TV studios may not like it though (TW makes movies and TV too).
My friend Jon got his Time Warner PVR for Digital cable in June... so this is new? (He lives in Orlando, FL)
Don't you know? It's only news if it happens in NYC or LA. Everything else is "flyover land".
I know in Boston cable can be 60 bucks a month for basic service.
I'll bet DirecTV does good business in bean town.
I have one box set up mainly as a Tivo-like unit, with an ATI TV Wonder VE. I'm thinking about sticking another tuner card in one of my other boxes for the rare occasions when I need to record two shows at once.
And ten pounds of vaseline.
Appropriate, since we are talking about Time Warner. I would have read this last night, at home, but my fucking TW cable (and roadrunner) has been out *ELEVEN DAYS*! I still can't get the bastards on the phone. Just because the whole county got trashed by a storm is no excuse! I am going to miss SG-1 *AGAIN*!
OK, enough venting. Some guys here at work have the TW DVR box and love it. I mean, frothing at the mouth, Tivo, Mac or Linux zealot love.
I have built my own, but like the Tivo, these units have more features and are easier to use.
Yeah, why not just get a GP32 instead? They go for ~$200 with the backlight.
The emulators for the GP32 get better every day. NES, SNES, C64, Atari 2600, Atari 800, Atari 5200, ST, GBC, Genesis...if only a MAME port would be finished!
The new Divx and Mp3 players for the GP32 rock too.
Maybe he is an indian (or native american or original american or whatever the fsck the PC label of the day is).
OHMYGOD! You mean he would actually have to select 2 whole check boxes! Good thing you're around to set him straight.
Though, IIRC, SmartRipper at least, selects those options as defaults.
"Street Bum"?
Don't you mean "Homeless Person"?
Of course, I prefer the tried and true "Get away from me before I bust a cap in your smelly ass!".
You must be referring to the "Starfleet Material Supply Command".
I generally order mine direct from Utopia Planitia.