You made my point for me- the fact that there are these little things someone has to tell you to do in order to get video working suggests that linux video just isn't quite ready yet.
Also, the CNN.com site doesn't give me the opportunity to say no, I don't need media player- it just gives me a download button and that's it. Sure, that's their developers problem- but before they had that on there, I'd click and it'd just give me the missing plugin icon.
I'm a big linux lover and am not spreading FUD- but my experience has been that linux video (especially on x86_64) just doesn't work out of the box, and until very very recently (I've been a RedHat/Fedora user exclusively- so at least until recently in Fedora, which is fairly bleeding edge) didn't really work at all (32 or 64 bit) for many types of video.
Maybe the problem is that I'm on x86_64. I'm not a novice linux user, but linux is for work stuff for me and I've never taken much effort to get the multimedia working.
I agree with almost all of what you said, but linux video is a big cow pie. There aren't even good browser plugins for some basic content types- and that's not even really video. Go to CNN.com on fedora core 6 (relatively leading edge linux) and try and play a video. Linux is great for some things, and not for others- which is why I dual boot (not that CNN is the deciding factor or even close). Try playing a DVD. Even simple mpg video doesn't work without effort in a lot of cases. Just stick with XP and Linux dual booting or go to OS-X.
Maybe this is what you meant, but I've actually seen a lot of garage doors with those keypads (and most garage doors have a wire installed in the garage rather than a wireless remote)- I suppose if you were expecting these jammings regularly, a keypad wouldn't be a bad investment unless you lived somewhere cold (majority of the US in winter?). I still wouldn't want my grandma getting out in 20 degree weather- but fortunately she lives in sunny california in an area where it seldom gets that cold. Anyway, I guess my point is, people were caught unprepared for the jamming and probably will be again next time. Someone should be suggesting the keypads to the affected folks.
Tell that to your 86 year old grandma in winter (my grandma still drives, and safely I might add). She may still drive, but she shouldn't open the door even if she might physically be able to. What about handicapped folks?
The solution here is that garage doors need to be in a licensed space (and have the government avoid that frequency for this sort of thing) and using some sort of spread spectrum frequency hopping deal that hopefully will find a working window of space.
There's just too many garage door openers out there for this to happen overnight, but make all new openers have it and eventually you'll get there (10 years or so?).
Good luck finding one- the closest one I know of around here (Ames, IA) is about 6 or 7 miles from where I live. Pay phones are pretty sparse anymore due to the prevalence of cell phones. As much as I like cell phones and dislike payphones (dirty!/black ears, etc) I wish payphones were still around because if I'm ever stranded somewhere or lost and without a cell phone, I should still be able to call someone.
I have this terrible habit of explaining an action with 'you' instead of 'I'. Many people do this without thinking about it, and an old teacher of mine gave me a pretty bad grade on a paper for using 'you' everywhere- she upped the grade when I fixed it, but ever since, I've tried to be better about this and I slipped this time and tried to correct after writing, but obviously failed in a rather unsightly manner;o)
For a very short and perhaps imperfect example- the following: Sometimes you find that in life, things aren't the way we expect.
really should be written: Sometimes I find that in life, things aren't the way I expect.
depending on the context of course, sometimes you really do mean you, like now.
For packages with unsealed borders, but a sealed edge, I cut down the borders with household Fiskars scissors- being careful not to cut my hands on the edges as you move my hand between the two serrated edges I'm creating. For ones with sealed borders, I usually jab a scissors in the side and make a hole and start cutting from there- if there's not much space to get in there without damaging something, a short exacto will work on softer plastics but beware of flying blades on harder plastics (nearly lost an eye once!). Usually, my scissors work fine.
So, what then if you invent the amazing Widget which becomes a staple of the American household. Your WidgetCo business is booming and you pass away. Should your children not inherit the business? The music is the business and is almost a living entity in and of itself, since times change and unpopular music becomes popular and vice versa. The music continues to do work- and if you're smart enough to create a great song or a great widget, then you should be able to rest easy knowing your family is taken care of forever. They -should- keep working and doing things for themselves, but if your work can support them forever, then great. Just because you and I will probably never make a million or 10 doesn't mean I can't support the creativity of someone else?
except that the work only makes money if people are still buying or performing it- which means it still has value to someone. If the work was a piece of junk, the kids wouldn't get anything anyway.
bingo- there's the real proof that this is a scam. most of the other arguments don't take into account a sort of compression that could be possible by using the shapes and whatnot to encode the data- so think of it on a bitmap- he claims you can store 256gb of data in a bitmap of only a few mb?
I wanted to be the first to post this, but you beat me to it, and I wanted to make sure someone saw your post which was at zero for some reason.
forgot to mention- and then all of that is irrelevant to the very original posters comment about making indestructable CD's, which is a very, very, very good/cool idea.
Although the 'indestructable' cd's would be very good for preservation, odds are they couldn't be used as a die and still couldn't be a 'master' in that respect, though perhaps this would redefine the term. There would be the archival master and the die master.
Thanks, but the mod point should go to wikipedia;o)
I was one of the first on my block to have a CD-R- even then it was a refurbished Philips SCSI model that I got at Egghead Software (before they went online as Newegg) for something like $400 (they were otherwise still going for around $1000 and I recall seeing some burners for $15,000 a year or two prior). In anycase, I still have some CDs from that era (that still work) and nearly all were green or mostly green reflective layers with gold on top and when they came out, I bought Verbatim blue on silvers for ~$6 a piece which were great discs- all of which of course is irrelevant to the argument that anyone ever sent a CD-R off to mastering to make CD-ROMs/Audio CDs when 1x CD drives were prevalent and even if they did, the CD-R wouldn't be the master, the glass one would have been.
sarcasm aside, I often wonder why people can't voluntarily submit themselves to whatever they want. All these laws we have are designed in large part to prevent involuntary testing- but if someone like Jonas Salk is willing to die to test a vaccine or treatment, why stop them? I'm not a big fan of animal testing as it is- though I accept it as somewhat of a necessary evil- but I really don't see why if we want to have a limb taken off, added on, grow boobs, have them taken off, whatever, that we can't just do what we want as long as we're aware of the consequences and are of sufficient age and sound mind to make the decision. I wonder if when we live in the Star Trek world (hah?) medicines will indeed be under something like the GPL? Feel free to make it better, but give it back to the world?
For young children, its burdensome, sure but everybody that has to do it gets used to it, just like anyone who has to take any kind of medicine- regardless whether its IM, IV or PO. I wasn't saying that what people go through isn't troublesome, and everyone needs shots at different intervals- everyone is different. There are exceptions to everything. Anyway, my overall point was that rather than saying, well geeze, it'll be 4-6 years before its available, waah- we should be saying Thank Someone that there's even a chance of a cure, otherwise you and your daughter are guaranteed to be doing those shots for a long time to come- now you may only have to do it a few more years- if even that. Insulin pumps have come a long way and are better than giving shots- maybe something better (transdermal patch?) will come along between now and when the 'cure' is available. I happen to know a relative who is Type 1 diabetic and has received awards for having the disease for longer than the vast majority of people (I think he's around 80 and has had it since he was young)- but he's been giving himself shots several times a day his whole life and still manages to have a pretty good existence- he used to run even up to a few years ago, still walks a lot, etc. Its a part of his life and it doesn't slow him down. On the same token, I know another friend and her husband who are in their late 50's and have nearly had to have legs amputated. There's someone on every end of the spectrum, as I said originally- but just be thankful you can look forward to the day you don't have to give those shots anymore, or she may never have to do it herself.
better than never, and diabetes, though the complications can be gruesome, if managed well is more of a nuisance than a terror. For many, diabetes is a very manageable problem, but instances do occur with circulation problems to the limbs that require amputation. It'll be great when this cure hits the streets, and as with anything, the sooner the better, but rather than complaining that it'll take years before being available to humans, why don't we celebrate the fact that a cure is officially in sight?
They really were more sort of a greenish yellow or green along with some blue if I recall- but 'gold master' came along way before CD-R's. It wouldn't surprise me if the first CD's were pressed from digital tape or a hard disk.
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You made my point for me- the fact that there are these little things someone has to tell you to do in order to get video working suggests that linux video just isn't quite ready yet.
Also, the CNN.com site doesn't give me the opportunity to say no, I don't need media player- it just gives me a download button and that's it. Sure, that's their developers problem- but before they had that on there, I'd click and it'd just give me the missing plugin icon.
I'm a big linux lover and am not spreading FUD- but my experience has been that linux video (especially on x86_64) just doesn't work out of the box, and until very very recently (I've been a RedHat/Fedora user exclusively- so at least until recently in Fedora, which is fairly bleeding edge) didn't really work at all (32 or 64 bit) for many types of video.
The ones I've seen were mounted in the doorjam- I always assumed they were through-hole wired?
see Virtual IO iGlasses which became Phillips iGlasses (including a 'HD' version for movies, which was IIRC a whopping 800x600 or something)
Maybe the problem is that I'm on x86_64. I'm not a novice linux user, but linux is for work stuff for me and I've never taken much effort to get the multimedia working.
I agree with almost all of what you said, but linux video is a big cow pie. There aren't even good browser plugins for some basic content types- and that's not even really video. Go to CNN.com on fedora core 6 (relatively leading edge linux) and try and play a video. Linux is great for some things, and not for others- which is why I dual boot (not that CNN is the deciding factor or even close). Try playing a DVD. Even simple mpg video doesn't work without effort in a lot of cases. Just stick with XP and Linux dual booting or go to OS-X.
Maybe this is what you meant, but I've actually seen a lot of garage doors with those keypads (and most garage doors have a wire installed in the garage rather than a wireless remote)- I suppose if you were expecting these jammings regularly, a keypad wouldn't be a bad investment unless you lived somewhere cold (majority of the US in winter?). I still wouldn't want my grandma getting out in 20 degree weather- but fortunately she lives in sunny california in an area where it seldom gets that cold. Anyway, I guess my point is, people were caught unprepared for the jamming and probably will be again next time. Someone should be suggesting the keypads to the affected folks.
Tell that to your 86 year old grandma in winter (my grandma still drives, and safely I might add). She may still drive, but she shouldn't open the door even if she might physically be able to. What about handicapped folks?
The solution here is that garage doors need to be in a licensed space (and have the government avoid that frequency for this sort of thing) and using some sort of spread spectrum frequency hopping deal that hopefully will find a working window of space.
There's just too many garage door openers out there for this to happen overnight, but make all new openers have it and eventually you'll get there (10 years or so?).
Good luck finding one- the closest one I know of around here (Ames, IA) is about 6 or 7 miles from where I live. Pay phones are pretty sparse anymore due to the prevalence of cell phones. As much as I like cell phones and dislike payphones (dirty!/black ears, etc) I wish payphones were still around because if I'm ever stranded somewhere or lost and without a cell phone, I should still be able to call someone.
well, we may not have open-source handsets, but is open-mic good enough?
I have this terrible habit of explaining an action with 'you' instead of 'I'. Many people do this without thinking about it, and an old teacher of mine gave me a pretty bad grade on a paper for using 'you' everywhere- she upped the grade when I fixed it, but ever since, I've tried to be better about this and I slipped this time and tried to correct after writing, but obviously failed in a rather unsightly manner ;o)
For a very short and perhaps imperfect example- the following:
Sometimes you find that in life, things aren't the way we expect.
really should be written:
Sometimes I find that in life, things aren't the way I expect.
depending on the context of course, sometimes you really do mean you, like now.
My wife uses those for fabric, but I use the 'standard' ones. They're pretty sharp, stay sharp, and fairly sturdy.
err- substitute the you's with I's- I tried to change them all, but apparently I missed one- preview preview preview.
For packages with unsealed borders, but a sealed edge, I cut down the borders with household Fiskars scissors- being careful not to cut my hands on the edges as you move my hand between the two serrated edges I'm creating. For ones with sealed borders, I usually jab a scissors in the side and make a hole and start cutting from there- if there's not much space to get in there without damaging something, a short exacto will work on softer plastics but beware of flying blades on harder plastics (nearly lost an eye once!). Usually, my scissors work fine.
why build one when you can build two at twice the price!
It's nice to know the lawyers spent a whole 50 minutes on this case....
until it becomes known as QVC- but that already exists ;o)
So, what then if you invent the amazing Widget which becomes a staple of the American household. Your WidgetCo business is booming and you pass away. Should your children not inherit the business? The music is the business and is almost a living entity in and of itself, since times change and unpopular music becomes popular and vice versa. The music continues to do work- and if you're smart enough to create a great song or a great widget, then you should be able to rest easy knowing your family is taken care of forever. They -should- keep working and doing things for themselves, but if your work can support them forever, then great. Just because you and I will probably never make a million or 10 doesn't mean I can't support the creativity of someone else?
except that the work only makes money if people are still buying or performing it- which means it still has value to someone. If the work was a piece of junk, the kids wouldn't get anything anyway.
bingo- there's the real proof that this is a scam. most of the other arguments don't take into account a sort of compression that could be possible by using the shapes and whatnot to encode the data- so think of it on a bitmap- he claims you can store 256gb of data in a bitmap of only a few mb?
I wanted to be the first to post this, but you beat me to it, and I wanted to make sure someone saw your post which was at zero for some reason.
forgot to mention- and then all of that is irrelevant to the very original posters comment about making indestructable CD's, which is a very, very, very good/cool idea.
Although the 'indestructable' cd's would be very good for preservation, odds are they couldn't be used as a die and still couldn't be a 'master' in that respect, though perhaps this would redefine the term. There would be the archival master and the die master.
Thanks, but the mod point should go to wikipedia ;o)
I was one of the first on my block to have a CD-R- even then it was a refurbished Philips SCSI model that I got at Egghead Software (before they went online as Newegg) for something like $400 (they were otherwise still going for around $1000 and I recall seeing some burners for $15,000 a year or two prior). In anycase, I still have some CDs from that era (that still work) and nearly all were green or mostly green reflective layers with gold on top and when they came out, I bought Verbatim blue on silvers for ~$6 a piece which were great discs- all of which of course is irrelevant to the argument that anyone ever sent a CD-R off to mastering to make CD-ROMs/Audio CDs when 1x CD drives were prevalent and even if they did, the CD-R wouldn't be the master, the glass one would have been.
sarcasm aside, I often wonder why people can't voluntarily submit themselves to whatever they want. All these laws we have are designed in large part to prevent involuntary testing- but if someone like Jonas Salk is willing to die to test a vaccine or treatment, why stop them? I'm not a big fan of animal testing as it is- though I accept it as somewhat of a necessary evil- but I really don't see why if we want to have a limb taken off, added on, grow boobs, have them taken off, whatever, that we can't just do what we want as long as we're aware of the consequences and are of sufficient age and sound mind to make the decision. I wonder if when we live in the Star Trek world (hah?) medicines will indeed be under something like the GPL? Feel free to make it better, but give it back to the world?
For young children, its burdensome, sure but everybody that has to do it gets used to it, just like anyone who has to take any kind of medicine- regardless whether its IM, IV or PO. I wasn't saying that what people go through isn't troublesome, and everyone needs shots at different intervals- everyone is different. There are exceptions to everything. Anyway, my overall point was that rather than saying, well geeze, it'll be 4-6 years before its available, waah- we should be saying Thank Someone that there's even a chance of a cure, otherwise you and your daughter are guaranteed to be doing those shots for a long time to come- now you may only have to do it a few more years- if even that. Insulin pumps have come a long way and are better than giving shots- maybe something better (transdermal patch?) will come along between now and when the 'cure' is available. I happen to know a relative who is Type 1 diabetic and has received awards for having the disease for longer than the vast majority of people (I think he's around 80 and has had it since he was young)- but he's been giving himself shots several times a day his whole life and still manages to have a pretty good existence- he used to run even up to a few years ago, still walks a lot, etc. Its a part of his life and it doesn't slow him down. On the same token, I know another friend and her husband who are in their late 50's and have nearly had to have legs amputated. There's someone on every end of the spectrum, as I said originally- but just be thankful you can look forward to the day you don't have to give those shots anymore, or she may never have to do it herself.
better than never, and diabetes, though the complications can be gruesome, if managed well is more of a nuisance than a terror. For many, diabetes is a very manageable problem, but instances do occur with circulation problems to the limbs that require amputation. It'll be great when this cure hits the streets, and as with anything, the sooner the better, but rather than complaining that it'll take years before being available to humans, why don't we celebrate the fact that a cure is officially in sight?
They really were more sort of a greenish yellow or green along with some blue if I recall- but 'gold master' came along way before CD-R's. It wouldn't surprise me if the first CD's were pressed from digital tape or a hard disk.