"I really don't want to purchase four new tickets at an additional $3.25 each."
He's bitching because they aren't honoring the matinee price for a midnight showing - they obviously were willing to take the extra $3.25 to exchange his ticket as he plainly implies. He's just trying to take advantage and complaining when they refuse to go along.
Here's a cluebat for you: I subscribe to every channel my cable provider transmits except for the pay per view channels. I cannot buy a box that authorizes like the equipment used by the cable company, so the only alternative I have to paying them another rental fee for a box is to get a hacked box. Even that doesn't get all the channels I pay for, but it gets some I don't and I figure that's a tradeoff I can live with.:) If I could purchase a digital box that authorized properly on their network, I would, but I can't, so there!
It's something like $80 at Best Buy. It can use standard earphones, but comes with it's own. Works fairly well, but the incoming signal strength needs to be set right so it doesn't clip the audio. It's not particularly strong - it won't penetrate the steel subflooring where I work so I have to turn it off when I change floors and I sometimes have to "reorient the antenna" when there is a lot of metal between me and the transmitter.:( It uses rechargable batteries (included) and has a built in recharger. Charges usually last 10-12 hours. In Wired parlance, it delivers economy level performance, but I've yet to find a product one functional tier higher. Perhaps one of the other responses might enlighten.
That will only happen if the ice was touching the bottom of the pan. If you had the slightest grasp of the science involved here you'd understand that the ice displaces (below the water level) exactly as much space as the water that composes the ice will once the ice melts. When it melts, there is NO CHANGE in the water level. None, nada, naught! Back to school with you!
Fer christ sake, this is what they should have done from the beginning! And which I detailed in 3 technician interactions and one long and detailed rant to their admin address (waste of time I'm sure, but I can at least say I tried).
All copyright enforcement comes at the end of a gun - whether it's at the behest of the "big guys" (like MS) or the little guys (like the FSF).
Therefore you must oppose all copyrights. Does this make sense? Copyrights were recognized as important by this country's founders (USA, for those of you who are confused) and for good reason. They were also meant to be SHORT TERM - like 20 years or so. The current regime of life + many years is an offense to each and every citizen of this country (again, this is the USA for those who are confused).
Sanity must be restored to copyrights, but eliminating them completely is both unconstitutional and throws out the good along with the bad.
How many people in NTSC regions bother to get equipment that is PAL compatible, hmmm?
Now how many in PAL regions bother to get NTSC equipment?
We both know the answer to that - almost nobody and almost everyone respectively.
In any case, I wasn't talking about picture quality, but the shows produced in the various regions of the world. Why you found it necessary to get all worked up about PAL vs NTSC (think Beta vs VHS) I don't know. It's irrelevant, as are you.
Certainly not the US ones, but perhaps the UK ones may - but of that I have no knowledge. Us USians have no need for PAL anyway. Hardly any good stuff comes from PAL countries - mostly is comes from Japan and the US, both NTSC countries.:)
They use encrypted CPUs with integral RAM that only they can program (don't ask me how).:)
These run off a long term battery mounted on the board. Your box doesn't die if you open it, but if you disconnect the wrong cable, poof, no more program in the encrypted CPU and no more video from the box.
I dug up an old version (v 1.51) of the notify CD player by Mats Ljungqvist (mlt@cyberdude.com). The readme file dated 2/10/98 in this mentions that CDDB support was added in version 1.50 (the prior version).
This was certainly before May of 98, therefore proving the patent was filed too late and is completely unenforceable.
The O'Brien case was, in the end, about destruction of government property - the draft card - and not about free speach. Anyone who peddles a different interpretation of it hasn't read the case law very well.
Do you really think the Swiss want all the people that have figured out they are being fucked by their respective governments to move there? No way. They are pretty restrictive about allowing people to become citizens.
Dude, check out Centralinfo.net. They offer no cost DNS for simple configurations, and pretty cheap fee based DNS for more complicated configurations. I've been there a while and emailed them a time or two and every time, even when it was a boneheaded question, they got back to me promptly. Do you know of anyone who has ever gotten a reply from GC??? Also, their domain records update *immediately*!!! Your cable modem gets renumbered - no problem. You're back up within the hour (given that expiration times on remote systems will expire whenever they do).
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He's bitching because they aren't honoring the matinee price for a midnight showing - they obviously were willing to take the extra $3.25 to exchange his ticket as he plainly implies. He's just trying to take advantage and complaining when they refuse to go along.
Here's a cluebat for you: I subscribe to every channel my cable provider transmits except for the pay per view channels. I cannot buy a box that authorizes like the equipment used by the cable company, so the only alternative I have to paying them another rental fee for a box is to get a hacked box. Even that doesn't get all the channels I pay for, but it gets some I don't and I figure that's a tradeoff I can live with. :) If I could purchase a digital box that authorized properly on their network, I would, but I can't, so there!
It's something like $80 at Best Buy. It can use standard earphones, but comes with it's own. Works fairly well, but the incoming signal strength needs to be set right so it doesn't clip the audio. It's not particularly strong - it won't penetrate the steel subflooring where I work so I have to turn it off when I change floors and I sometimes have to "reorient the antenna" when there is a lot of metal between me and the transmitter. :( It uses rechargable batteries (included) and has a built in recharger. Charges usually last 10-12 hours. In Wired parlance, it delivers economy level performance, but I've yet to find a product one functional tier higher. Perhaps one of the other responses might enlighten.
That will only happen if the ice was touching the bottom of the pan. If you had the slightest grasp of the science involved here you'd understand that the ice displaces (below the water level) exactly as much space as the water that composes the ice will once the ice melts. When it melts, there is NO CHANGE in the water level. None, nada, naught! Back to school with you!
Other than that what would be the benefit of a CD? Fill it woth pr0n?
How about this from July 11?
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13197&cid=9
I thought this was a _news_ site.
What do you call old news? Olds?
The RFC you refer to has nothing at all to do with POP3, it is an e-mail header spec.
Are you huffing whippets or something?
http://www.hp.com/desktops/misc/comdex/comdex.html
Fer christ sake, this is what they should have done from the beginning! And which I detailed in 3 technician interactions and one long and detailed rant to their admin address (waste of time I'm sure, but I can at least say I tried).
All copyright enforcement comes at the end of a gun - whether it's at the behest of the "big guys" (like MS) or the little guys (like the FSF).
Therefore you must oppose all copyrights. Does this make sense? Copyrights were recognized as important by this country's founders (USA, for those of you who are confused) and for good reason. They were also meant to be SHORT TERM - like 20 years or so. The current regime of life + many years is an offense to each and every citizen of this country (again, this is the USA for those who are confused).
Sanity must be restored to copyrights, but eliminating them completely is both unconstitutional and throws out the good along with the bad.
Idiot, eh?
How many people in NTSC regions bother to get equipment that is PAL compatible, hmmm?
Now how many in PAL regions bother to get NTSC equipment?
We both know the answer to that - almost nobody and almost everyone respectively.
In any case, I wasn't talking about picture quality, but the shows produced in the various regions of the world. Why you found it necessary to get all worked up about PAL vs NTSC (think Beta vs VHS) I don't know. It's irrelevant, as are you.
Certainly not the US ones, but perhaps the UK ones may - but of that I have no knowledge. Us USians have no need for PAL anyway. Hardly any good stuff comes from PAL countries - mostly is comes from Japan and the US, both NTSC countries. :)
If you are willing to do without the guide, you can do all that stuff with the TIVO. Pause and rewind live TV, record by time/date/channel/duration.
What is it you don't think you can do with a TIVO?
If that is the news article I think it is (it doesn't seem to be there anymore) it's not *entirely* correct on a number of specifics.
:)
Don't ask me how I know.
They use encrypted CPUs with integral RAM that only they can program (don't ask me how). :)
These run off a long term battery mounted on the board. Your box doesn't die if you open it, but if you disconnect the wrong cable, poof, no more program in the encrypted CPU and no more video from the box.
I believe cwonline.com still has some in stock, though you're not going to get one cheap.
If he's out, let me know - I have a few dozen hanging around the house.
(I'm a former Spacetec employee and SpaceOrb software team member)
Hear hear!
A little web digging came up with this directory at freedb.org:
http://www.freedb.org/software/old/
This leaves no question as to the invalidity of the patent. The first date mentioned is december of '96.
I dug up an old version (v 1.51) of the notify CD player by Mats Ljungqvist (mlt@cyberdude.com). The readme file dated 2/10/98 in this mentions that CDDB support was added in version 1.50 (the prior version).
This was certainly before May of 98, therefore proving the patent was filed too late and is completely unenforceable.
The O'Brien case was, in the end, about destruction of government property - the draft card - and not about free speach. Anyone who peddles a different interpretation of it hasn't read the case law very well.
Or maybe it means that this was not on the main Slashdot page and so get's much less exposure to the Slashdot public?
It only gets seen by those that look at this section of Slashdot or who look in 'older stuff'.
I believe that was the fjords, not antarctica.
>Where do I sign up to be a Swiss citizen?
HA!
Do you really think the Swiss want all the people that have figured out they are being fucked by their respective governments to move there? No way. They are pretty restrictive about allowing people to become citizens.
Nice try, but that device doesn't provide SNES emulation.
Based on the discussions in the newsgroups, SNES emulation on the PSX is marginal if it's possible at all due to the slow CPU in the PSX.
Dude, check out Centralinfo.net. They offer no cost DNS for simple configurations, and pretty cheap fee based DNS for more complicated configurations. I've been there a while and emailed them a time or two and every time, even when it was a boneheaded question, they got back to me promptly. Do you know of anyone who has ever gotten a reply from GC??? Also, their domain records update *immediately*!!! Your cable modem gets renumbered - no problem. You're back up within the hour (given that expiration times on remote systems will expire whenever they do).