If you have a digital cable box, you have one channel to watch. It will be the same with any VCR too...
So its not particularly a problem of PVRs, its a design issue with cable boxes (once some bright spark makes multiple MPEG decoders, and a bit of software which allow you to stick the output of those onto UHF channels, we are stuck with this).
But ultimately, once you have PVR like a tivo or mythtv, you will load up the hard disc and watch deferred television.
BTW, I dunno about mythtv, but with tivo you can watch recorded programs at same time as recording. Its just livetv you can't change.
Lord Hutton "independent" inquiry not really independent: http://media.guardian.co.uk/huttoninquiry/story/0, 13812,1133385,00.html
"Multifarious law lords have been asked to investigate the government over the years, and if anyone can name one where the government has not been exonerated pretty much entirely I would be interested, from Profumo onwards. Law lords do not often attack the government, what we usually see happen with inquiries is that the ministers get off scott free."
And yes, the statement from the Sun is actually factually wrong. BBC reported that the Government "sexed up" the document. And a large amount of uk voters still do.
Whats another old government bought fart, who actually believes Blair when he turns on the waterworks, worth anyway?
Interestingly, its gone unstated, but there are a percentage of the uk population that believe that Government killed Mr Kelly. I personally don't, but it does show how much Mr Blair is respected nowadays. He led his country into an unpopular war in Iraq (yes, it was unpopular in the uk, some of the biggest protests in recent times happened over the Iraq war) and now the public plainly distrusts him...
Nope it isnt always me who comes up with this "rubish" (spelling?)
Yes, they are mutually exclusive. They are two different forms of government. Its like saying the uk is both a monarchy and a democracy. It isnt, its a democracy. Thats its form of government.
Democracy seemed to be a taboo word until the first world war in the US, with its overtones of Oliver Cromwell in the uk. About then it became a general term referring to any sort of government where leaders are elected. The word democracy gets bandied around by both uk and us leaders, and it is kind of worrying that our leaders dont actually know what the word means.
From: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3388
"A republic is a government in which a restricted group of citizens form a political unit, usually under the auspice of a charter, which directs them to elect representatives who will govern the state. Republics, by their very nature, tend to be free polities, not because they are elected by the citizens of the polity, but because they are bound by charters, which limit the responsibilities and powers of the state. The fact that people vote for representatives has nothing to do with making anything free. The logical consistency and rationality of the charter, as well as the willingness of the people to live by it, is what keeps people free.
A democracy is government by the majority. There is still a restricted group of citizens in a democracy, but this group rules directly and personally runs the state. The group may delegate specific tasks to individuals, such as generalships and governorships, but there is no question that the ruling force in a democracy is not a charter (if there even is a charter), but the vote of the majority. Democracies are free only if the people know what freedom is and are consistent in their application of it. If they don't know this, or more appropriately, if a majority of the people don't know this, then a democracy could be just as tyrannical as the worst dictator (see Socrates' forced suicide by the Athenian democracy.)
As should be plain, there is a giant difference between the two systems of government. One of the main fears at the Constitutional Convention of the United States was that the government they created would be too democratic (causing Alexander Hamilton to suggest a restricted monarchy), because it was quite obvious, then and now, that any majority could vote itself anything it wanted, be it property or executions. That is why it irks me so much when politicians (who have no excuse not knowing what kind of government they serve in) and ignorant people say that this country is a democracy; it does a tremendous disservice to all of the people whose thought went into creating our republic."
Can get two way satellite, www.aramiska.com and others which covers from Ireland to Czech Republic. That will solve your broadband problem if you live halfway up a hill in middle of nowhere.
Of course the latency is bad, but nothings perfect.
Western Digital in the 20-40 gig range have been clicking on out if used regularly too. My IBM 40 gig one seems to be going strong, Ironically had lots of Quantums go on me recently (but my home one keeps rolling), and the seagate 120Gig one seems ok so far.
Its amazing really how the mad little self publicist called Kevin Warwick gets quoted so many times, usually without context, and he comes across as sensible... Why don't they quote the BBC Radio interviews where he gets savagely discredited by someone who knows little about technology, but can see he's a loon?
Maybe people like quoting loonies. I'm looking forward to the critique of the next Star Wars movie based around the local bearded tramp which shouts at people, and smells of urine.
"Jedi Padawan! Yer all bastards! The Bats! The Bats! Aiiieeee"
Well, I've never found the register anti-american. It is anti microsoft, and critical of intel, but they are not the only companies in the US, contrary to what MS says. Sun seems to get even handed coverage, redhat fine and linux in general too.
Just when I thought I was ok with just buying Smartmedia and Compact flash (I believe a PS2 adaptor can do Smartmedia, and have compact flash for my camera).
But at least theres a possibility of stopping paying huge money for vastly overpriced memory cards, such as the PS2 one. 27 UKP ($43 US) for a 8 MB memory card. Not even sure if thats 8 Megabyte, it says it, but my experience is that consoles use bits over correct terminology...
So bring it on. Its simply a transfer mechanism to larger storage for me. All you need is one memory card, and an ability to stick it onto that 200 Gig of disk space you have..
Its another one of these misnamings, such as Moores law (a marketing term coined by the head of Intel to sell their product philosophy).
Its never been _on demand_. Its been on request. If I demand I want repeats of an obscure late 80s comedy show shown on uk television (called Absolutely), theres no chance I will get it.
And it will never knock out recorded technology.
Yet again the MPAA wants a shift away from anyone owning their content in the end. Maybe its the future, but its a future where they will sell less, and get less money for their product. And in the end, it just means we record it off the television rather than buy it legitimately from them.
Didn't they learn from the original DVD-subscribe idea of DIVX?
As for Video On Demand itself, its been one of those "killer app" technologies which the telecomms companies have built since 1995, and never hugely deployed because the customers don't really want it. It offers them little, and local rental shops can always deliver (or post rentals to you). Its a novelty, and probably the last choice of the consumer. So they don't demand anything in the end...
I bought a couple before, they worked fine. After of course some heatsink tweaking to stop it crashing all the time. Then I found this statement somewhere:
"Be very careful if you want to install AMD CPU's yourself, because the AMD warranty policy became very severe. Guidelines from AMD: '' NO warranty on mechanical damage of the CPU like bent or broken pins, cracked dies or packages. NO warranty on manipulated CPU's by e.g. overclocking. No warranty on overheating e.g. caused by use of non-recommended (www1.amd.com/athlon/config) or improperly mounted coolers (www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/pdf/23986.pdf). or by overclocking or use of core voltage different from the datasheet. You can recognize overheating by e.g. brown spots on bottom side of the CPU, different colors on the chip surface, destroyed support pads, head conducting pastes spread all over the package. Especially no warranty for findings like: open/short at Vcc- or I/O pins, Micro Cracks (invisible cracks), when part is fully functional. ''"
Why is their warranty very severe? And why are they backing off thermal grease and non approved heatsinks? Because they have a severe overheating problem, and their design is certainly not rugged enough to bear any type of slip or mistake. With some investigation I realise that most of my friends with AMDs have overheating problems, one running 10 fans in the case to get it 55 degrees.
You get what you pay for, and AMD is cheap. Their stock heatsinks are crap, and some of the design decisions they've taken are flawed. Ho hum.
Its sad, but next one for me is a intel. At least it might still be running on a sunny day, rather than setting fire to the house...
>One of my favorites, to be sure. But have you seen Welsh's The Acid House?
Not that great. Its like 3 short TVMovies stuck together. The stories they are based upon are great, sad, crazy and inspiring... Doesn't come across so much in the movies though.
Slashdot Mirror
With a spate of people being shot and stabbed to death recently in the uk, what do the police focus on?
Costless middle class crimes which they _can_ enforce.
Seems like the Uk will be type of place where you can stab someone to death, but god help you if the drop the knife.
You'll get done for littering.
Yes, he is interfering with other peoples play.
He is devaluing the time they take to level their own characters. His automated creature is taking drops etc from real players.
The investment of Wow is time spent. You devalue that investment. You might not agree with this idea, but its what Blizz puts forward in the world.
It didn't even mention Starcraft, which was arguable the game of choice in various Far Eastern countries...
I mean how many games have people died during, because they were so addicted?
Police Corruption
Erm, yes.
If you have a digital cable box, you have one channel to watch. It will be the same with any VCR too...
So its not particularly a problem of PVRs, its a design issue with cable boxes (once some bright spark makes multiple MPEG decoders, and a bit of software which allow you to stick the output of those onto UHF channels, we are stuck with this).
But ultimately, once you have PVR like a tivo or mythtv, you will load up the hard disc and watch deferred television.
BTW, I dunno about mythtv, but with tivo you can watch recorded programs at same time as recording. Its just livetv you can't change.
If MS discover a cure for cancer it wouldn't be a cure...
It would be a subscription based model....
Lord Hutton "independent" inquiry not really independent: http://media.guardian.co.uk/huttoninquiry/story/0, 13812,1133385,00.html
"Multifarious law lords have been asked to investigate the government over the years, and if anyone can name one where the government has not been exonerated pretty much entirely I would be interested, from Profumo onwards. Law lords do not often attack the government, what we usually see happen with inquiries is that the ministers get off scott free."
And yes, the statement from the Sun is actually factually wrong. BBC reported that the Government "sexed up" the document. And a large amount of uk voters still do.
Whats another old government bought fart, who actually believes Blair when he turns on the waterworks, worth anyway?
Interestingly, its gone unstated, but there are a percentage of the uk population that believe that Government killed Mr Kelly. I personally don't, but it does show how much Mr Blair is respected nowadays. He led his country into an unpopular war in Iraq (yes, it was unpopular in the uk, some of the biggest protests in recent times happened over the Iraq war) and now the public plainly distrusts him...
Nope it isnt always me who comes up with this "rubish" (spelling?)
Yes, they are mutually exclusive. They are two different forms of government. Its like saying the uk is both a monarchy and a democracy. It isnt, its a democracy. Thats its form of government.
Democracy seemed to be a taboo word until the first world war in the US, with its overtones of Oliver Cromwell in the uk. About then it became a general term referring to any sort of government where leaders are elected. The word democracy gets bandied around by both uk and us leaders, and it is kind of worrying that our leaders dont actually know what the word means.
From: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3388
"A republic is a government in which a restricted group of citizens form a political unit, usually under the auspice of a charter, which directs them to elect representatives who will govern the state. Republics, by their very nature, tend to be free polities, not because they are elected by the citizens of the polity, but because they are bound by charters, which limit the responsibilities and powers of the state. The fact that people vote for representatives has nothing to do with making anything free. The logical consistency and rationality of the charter, as well as the willingness of the people to live by it, is what keeps people free.
A democracy is government by the majority. There is still a restricted group of citizens in a democracy, but this group rules directly and personally runs the state. The group may delegate specific tasks to individuals, such as generalships and governorships, but there is no question that the ruling force in a democracy is not a charter (if there even is a charter), but the vote of the majority. Democracies are free only if the people know what freedom is and are consistent in their application of it. If they don't know this, or more appropriately, if a majority of the people don't know this, then a democracy could be just as tyrannical as the worst dictator (see Socrates' forced suicide by the Athenian democracy.)
As should be plain, there is a giant difference between the two systems of government. One of the main fears at the Constitutional Convention of the United States was that the government they created would be too democratic (causing Alexander Hamilton to suggest a restricted monarchy), because it was quite obvious, then and now, that any majority could vote itself anything it wanted, be it property or executions. That is why it irks me so much when politicians (who have no excuse not knowing what kind of government they serve in) and ignorant people say that this country is a democracy; it does a tremendous disservice to all of the people whose thought went into creating our republic."
Democracy in inaction...
Still, USA is not a democracy. Its a republic. People seem to forget that...
Given that the original Sandman seemed to shine before it hit the stratosphere (ie: to issue 30), and seemed to wane a fair bit since then:
1) Do you feel free'er with people not having the expectations of any comic series.
and, blatently not related:
2) Fancy doing Hellblazer for a bit. Strikes me as Constantines came across well in Sandman.
Who with a job, in europe can participate?
9pm EST = 3am uk time (4 continental europe)
Then again, less and less of us programmers have
jobs in europe though.
Stick with modern tradition, make it Indian time.
When we left our clan Unreal Tournament server going for a week with godlike bots with no timelimit and forgot about them...
Came in for a visit, and it was loque, tamara and another versus poor old Desloch by himself. 769 caps to 212.
Evened the teams a bit and Deslochs team had picked up another 400 caps a day later. What a fighter, eh?
Can get two way satellite, www.aramiska.com and others which covers from Ireland to Czech Republic. That will solve your broadband problem if you live halfway up a hill in middle of nowhere.
Of course the latency is bad, but nothings perfect.
My Western Digital one went about September.
About 3 years and 1 week after I bought it.
Not so much a warranty, but a warning.
Lost 2 120 Gig drives in last 6 months from them.
Western Digital in the 20-40 gig range have been clicking on out if used regularly too. My IBM 40 gig one seems to be going strong, Ironically had lots of Quantums go on me recently (but my home one keeps rolling), and the seagate 120Gig one seems ok so far.
Maxtor 120 Gig, 1 broken before plugged in, another broken after 6 months. Probably a rebadged Quantum.
At the moment, I'm backing Seagate, but thats might be wrong too...
Its amazing really how the mad little self publicist called Kevin Warwick gets quoted so many times, usually without context, and he comes across as sensible... Why don't they quote the BBC Radio interviews where he gets savagely discredited by someone who knows little about technology, but can see he's a loon?
Maybe people like quoting loonies. I'm looking forward to the critique of the next Star Wars movie based around the local bearded tramp which shouts at people, and smells of urine.
"Jedi Padawan! Yer all bastards! The Bats! The Bats! Aiiieeee"
(Hang on, he looks a lot like Lucas too. Hmmmn)
Well, I've never found the register anti-american. It is anti microsoft, and critical of intel, but they are not the only companies in the US, contrary to what MS says. Sun seems to get even handed coverage, redhat fine and linux in general too.
>Well, since SuSE isn't an American product,they >probably felt no gratutious need to bash it.
Erm, are you mad? Or do you have a chip on your shoulder?
>SuSE being a German company, I think it should be "soozeh" (which, IIRC, is how SuSE wants it pronounced).
Is that Kaizer Soozeh's company?
Just when I thought I was ok with just buying
Smartmedia and Compact flash (I believe a PS2 adaptor can do Smartmedia, and have compact flash for my camera).
But at least theres a possibility of stopping paying huge money for vastly overpriced memory cards, such as the PS2 one. 27 UKP ($43 US) for a 8 MB memory card. Not even sure if thats 8 Megabyte, it says it, but my experience is that consoles use bits over correct terminology...
So bring it on. Its simply a transfer mechanism to larger storage for me. All you need is one memory card, and an ability to stick it onto that 200 Gig of disk space you have..
Its another one of these misnamings, such as Moores law (a marketing term coined by the head of Intel to sell their product philosophy).
Its never been _on demand_. Its been on request. If I demand I want repeats of an obscure late 80s comedy show shown on uk television (called Absolutely), theres no chance I will get it.
And it will never knock out recorded technology.
Yet again the MPAA wants a shift away from anyone owning their content in the end. Maybe its the future, but its a future where they will sell less, and get less money for their product. And in the end, it just means we record it off the television rather than buy it legitimately from them.
Didn't they learn from the original DVD-subscribe idea of DIVX?
As for Video On Demand itself, its been one of those "killer app" technologies which the telecomms companies have built since 1995, and never hugely deployed because the customers don't really want it. It offers them little, and local rental shops can always deliver (or post rentals to you). Its a novelty, and probably the last choice of the consumer. So they don't demand anything in the end...
I bought a couple before, they worked fine. After of course some heatsink tweaking to stop it crashing all the time. Then I found this statement somewhere:
"Be very careful if you want to install AMD CPU's yourself, because the AMD warranty policy became very severe. Guidelines from AMD: '' NO warranty on mechanical damage of the CPU like bent or broken pins, cracked dies or packages. NO warranty on manipulated CPU's by e.g. overclocking. No warranty on overheating e.g. caused by use of non-recommended (www1.amd.com/athlon/config) or improperly mounted coolers (www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/pdf/23986.pdf). or by overclocking or use of core voltage different from the datasheet. You can recognize overheating by e.g. brown spots on bottom side of the CPU, different colors on the chip surface, destroyed support pads, head conducting pastes spread all over the package. Especially no warranty for findings like: open/short at Vcc- or I/O pins, Micro Cracks (invisible cracks), when part is fully functional. ''"
Why is their warranty very severe? And why are they backing off thermal grease and non approved heatsinks? Because they have a severe overheating problem, and their design is certainly not rugged enough to bear any type of slip or mistake. With some investigation I realise that most of my friends with AMDs have overheating problems, one running 10 fans in the case to get it 55 degrees.
You get what you pay for, and AMD is cheap. Their stock heatsinks are crap, and some of the design decisions they've taken are flawed. Ho hum.
Its sad, but next one for me is a intel. At least it might still be running on a sunny day, rather than setting fire to the house...
I watched it years ago a lot. When watching it again recently for the first time, I thought "Man, this is like Slashdots dream movie".
Professor Hathaway: When you first started at Pacific Tech you were well on your way to becoming another Einstein and then you know what happened?
Chris Knight: I got a haircut?
Just gotta add the other cult movies, Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, Evil Dead II, Leon.
>One of my favorites, to be sure. But have you seen Welsh's The Acid House?
Not that great. Its like 3 short TVMovies stuck together. The stories they are based upon are great, sad, crazy and inspiring... Doesn't come across so much in the movies though.