I wonder what DirecTV would say to these scenarios:
using the cards and receiving in an unauthorized fashion the "major networks" (because due to the waiver system there is no other way to get them) and paying DirecTV the typical fee for network feeds.
Canadians using the cards to receive all the US channels that are censored off the Canadian channel list, and also paying for these by putting extra money in the bill.
There would be less of a problem with a "need" to have hack-cards if DirecTV would only sell the services in the first place. Mainly, network feeds. I'm pretty much barred from getting DirecTV because I want it to have CBS/ABC/NBC/Fox. The local affiliates have a policy of "we don't grant waivers", and on top of that, they are not full affiliates anyway (pre-empting prime-time network shows willy-nilly and never re-showing them.
If DirecTV could find some way around the local broadcasters' censorship and send network content in the satellite signal, that would be a big plus.
Two users on my PC at once?
I already have this. Not only am I using it, but Bill Gates apparently has free range over the thing, as does Bonzi Buddy. I bet if I run AdAware, I'll find a half-dozen other unknowns sharing it with me as well!
The Ployphonic Spree, The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, or The Flaming Lips
Flaming Lips? Worth checking out, huh? I never could get past the name and ignored them up until now. The name made them seem like a Rolling Stones tribute band.
I tried this a few times and went back to Windows tax calculation. No matter how I calculated it with the Linux version, I always ended up paying $699 more than with comparable Windows tax software scenarios.
now I gotta look up Greendale)
It depends on if you like Neil Young in his retro electric-grunge-Crazy Horse mode. It is his first concept album, as far as I know.
Dark side of the moon should be listened to in from begining to end. Alot of "good" albums should be. Perhaps it's not the attention span but the fact that new albums mostly suck
This pretty much applies only to "concept albums" (which does include rock operas). "Dark Side of the Moon" is one, as is "Sgt Pepper". However, there is nothing inherently inferior about albums like "The White Album" which are great, but are not concept albums, and thus better hold up to "Scrambled" listening.
Many older albums (Pink Floyd, especially) are meant to be listened to as albums, not singular songs"Amarok" by Mike Oldfield solves this problem: the CD/work is a single track of 60 minutes in length. Never mind that one can break it up into sections: it only plays as one track unless you have special player program written just to play parts of the single track.
I've been too lazy to put my latest favorite songs into a playlist
I've never done playlists on everything. If it is on the media, I want it played. I have never yet wanted to bother to make lists of subsets of available songs/tracks. In fact, I've been impatient with media-playing software that forces you to deal with playlists when all you want to do is "load 'n' play one song".
I like a good random mix as anyone. However, I am also rather fond of the "rock opera" format. You lose something if the songs of "The Wall" or "Tommy" or "Greendale" are scrambled and mixed in with other tracks: a lot of the enjoyment is in the "story" and sequence. I suppose you can get around this by making sure that these albums are encoded as one single audio file.
In a related story, the company reports that out of all the device forms in the catalog, the "inflatable woman" leads in pre-sales, followed by "Bit" from TRON and the Sonic Hedgeho "Tails" character.
(like the entire Dune series, including prequels) - Now, I'm sucked back in watching reality TV... bah.
Tonight on the Arrakis Broadcasting Company (ABC): "The Kwisach Haderach". 220,000 originally applied, but tonight only one will by chosen by Trump-Gesserit as the Kwisach Haderach. Tune in and spice up your life!
Over on Tech TV, yet another panel discussion about how Tech TV will survive once the Butlerian Jihad reaches its completion. Quote from Leo LaPorte: "A Vic-20 does not count as a thinking machine, does it?"
Over on the other network, there is Fear Factor. Yet another worm-swallowing episode. I doubt the typical outcome with the worm swallowing all the contestants in one gulp will ever be altered.
Also, on CBS (Caladan Broadcasting System), there is "Survivor". Find out who survives when the royal family is dumped on a harsh desert planet.
On CNN, an interview concerning the ongoing search for Shaddam IV's weapons of mass destruction.
would excrete 1.3 litres of gasoline every 20 miles
oops...sorry for mixing standard with Metric. I'll take the document icon for this and drag it across my Windows 98 desktop and drop it in the trash can.
The Toyota Prius already gets 60mpg in the city. Imagine the gas mileage these cars could get if they used one of these motor
If I calculated correctly, not a Toyota Prius outfitted with one of these motors would excrete 1.3 litres of gasoline every 20 miles. (it is beyond a matter of getting "great gas mileage": the car would put out more gasoline than it takes in).
Venkman: "Or you could accept the fact that this city is headed for a disaster of Biblical proportions." Mayor: "What do you mean, Biblical? Ray: "What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor. Real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky. Rivers and seas boiling." Egon: "Forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes." Winston: "The dead rising from the grave." Venkman: "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria."
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using the cards and receiving in an unauthorized fashion the "major networks" (because due to the waiver system there is no other way to get them) and paying DirecTV the typical fee for network feeds.
Canadians using the cards to receive all the US channels that are censored off the Canadian channel list, and also paying for these by putting extra money in the bill.
There would be less of a problem with a "need" to have hack-cards if DirecTV would only sell the services in the first place. Mainly, network feeds. I'm pretty much barred from getting DirecTV because I want it to have CBS/ABC/NBC/Fox. The local affiliates have a policy of "we don't grant waivers", and on top of that, they are not full affiliates anyway (pre-empting prime-time network shows willy-nilly and never re-showing them. If DirecTV could find some way around the local broadcasters' censorship and send network content in the satellite signal, that would be a big plus.
Two users on my PC at once? I already have this. Not only am I using it, but Bill Gates apparently has free range over the thing, as does Bonzi Buddy. I bet if I run AdAware, I'll find a half-dozen other unknowns sharing it with me as well!
Flaming Lips? Worth checking out, huh? I never could get past the name and ignored them up until now. The name made them seem like a Rolling Stones tribute band.
Don't forget TuxCat for the Web.
I tried this a few times and went back to Windows tax calculation. No matter how I calculated it with the Linux version, I always ended up paying $699 more than with comparable Windows tax software scenarios.
"I'm the tuxman. Yeaheh, I'm the tuxman...."
Anyone got counterexamples of recent music which actually belongs in album format?) How about Tubular Bells 2003 :)
now I gotta look up Greendale) It depends on if you like Neil Young in his retro electric-grunge-Crazy Horse mode. It is his first concept album, as far as I know.
Dark side of the moon should be listened to in from begining to end. Alot of "good" albums should be. Perhaps it's not the attention span but the fact that new albums mostly suck This pretty much applies only to "concept albums" (which does include rock operas). "Dark Side of the Moon" is one, as is "Sgt Pepper". However, there is nothing inherently inferior about albums like "The White Album" which are great, but are not concept albums, and thus better hold up to "Scrambled" listening.
Many older albums (Pink Floyd, especially) are meant to be listened to as albums, not singular songs "Amarok" by Mike Oldfield solves this problem: the CD/work is a single track of 60 minutes in length. Never mind that one can break it up into sections: it only plays as one track unless you have special player program written just to play parts of the single track.
I've been too lazy to put my latest favorite songs into a playlist
I've never done playlists on everything. If it is on the media, I want it played. I have never yet wanted to bother to make lists of subsets of available songs/tracks. In fact, I've been impatient with media-playing software that forces you to deal with playlists when all you want to do is "load 'n' play one song".
I like a good random mix as anyone. However, I am also rather fond of the "rock opera" format. You lose something if the songs of "The Wall" or "Tommy" or "Greendale" are scrambled and mixed in with other tracks: a lot of the enjoyment is in the "story" and sequence. I suppose you can get around this by making sure that these albums are encoded as one single audio file.
It's two different songs:
La Cucaracha:
"La Cucaracha, La Cucaracha
Peanut butter comes in jars"
Mexican Hat Dance:
"I dance
I dance
I dance
Around a Mexican hat
I dance
I dance
I dance
And that's the end of that"
Sure to increase sales of urine- and beer- resistant PDA's.
In a related story, the company reports that out of all the device forms in the catalog, the "inflatable woman" leads in pre-sales, followed by "Bit" from TRON and the Sonic Hedgeho "Tails" character.
"You seem to be writing a letter"
"You seem to be sleeping in and there is an exam in 13 minutes"
"Are you really sure you want to install OSS on that machine?"
I hear the things beeping all over the place now. Little tinny tunes like Mexican Hat Dance too.
Oh, sorry, thought you said cell PHONES.
(like the entire Dune series, including prequels) - Now, I'm sucked back in watching reality TV ... bah .
Tonight on the Arrakis Broadcasting Company (ABC): "The Kwisach Haderach". 220,000 originally applied, but tonight only one will by chosen by Trump-Gesserit as the Kwisach Haderach. Tune in and spice up your life!
Over on Tech TV, yet another panel discussion about how Tech TV will survive once the Butlerian Jihad reaches its completion. Quote from Leo LaPorte: "A Vic-20 does not count as a thinking machine, does it?"
Over on the other network, there is Fear Factor. Yet another worm-swallowing episode. I doubt the typical outcome with the worm swallowing all the contestants in one gulp will ever be altered.
Also, on CBS (Caladan Broadcasting System), there is "Survivor". Find out who survives when the royal family is dumped on a harsh desert planet.
On CNN, an interview concerning the ongoing search for Shaddam IV's weapons of mass destruction.
You're right. I have one of those in my 5.25" drive bay in my tower. It really is compact.
would excrete 1.3 litres of gasoline every 20 miles
oops...sorry for mixing standard with Metric. I'll take the document icon for this and drag it across my Windows 98 desktop and drop it in the trash can.
Does this mean if I lived out in the 'country', and my neighbours had nodes
They can always go to the city and go to a hospital and get those things removed.
Unfortunately for Mary Jo Kopechne, he didn't have one of these.
He probably would have just had to throw her overboard to get the same result.
The Toyota Prius already gets 60mpg in the city. Imagine the gas mileage these cars could get if they used one of these motor
If I calculated correctly, not a Toyota Prius outfitted with one of these motors would excrete 1.3 litres of gasoline every 20 miles. (it is beyond a matter of getting "great gas mileage": the car would put out more gasoline than it takes in).
What will come next, dogs mating with cats?!?!
Venkman: "Or you could accept the fact that this city is headed for a disaster of Biblical proportions."
Mayor: "What do you mean, Biblical?
Ray: "What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor. Real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky. Rivers and seas boiling."
Egon: "Forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes."
Winston: "The dead rising from the grave."
Venkman: "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria."