I was going to mod you down, but decided to respond. Had you read the article, you would know that part of MS's REQUIREMENTS for producing a MCE is that they have hardware MPEG2 encoding on the tuner card.
I recognize that performance issues are unacceptable, the article seems to suggest they are due to poor coding of the guide scrolling system rather than design of the encode-stream.
Microsoft was convicted of abusing its monopoly. Thats not a felony. I dont even think its a criminal case. MS isn't even a person. A felon is someone who does something very bad and goes to jail for it and can no longer vote. You are mixing up your terms.
Its fine if you dont want to support MS, but at least sound intelligent when you choose to advocate that point of view in public.
You are absolutely wrong. The BBB, while they legally cant do anything, will contact the vendor on your behalf. The theater would tather just refund his $30 than deal with the BBB and arbitration, etc.
If it hasn't worked this way for you, then you didnt present your case properly.
First, all throughout this process, get everyone's names that you talk to up front, and make sure you conspicuously write them down. People are more honest when they know they will be held accountable for their actions. Also, make SURE you are in public, next to the ticket line or something. You want people to hear this. If he asks you to go somewhere to discuss this, say the following:
"One would assume you are proud of how you treat your customers, wouldn't you want others to hear what you have to say?"
Go to the theater, and ask to speak with the manager. Normally someone will get you him or her quickly.
Remember to always be polite and kind - you want them to think they are being good people
Tell the manager your story, as factually as possible. Tell him about the lack of the sign, and show him your tickets.
Tell him he can make a happy and loyal customer right now. If he refuses to honor/change the tickets:
* Tell him you will be writing a letter to
* Tell him you will be disputing the CC charge
* Tell him you will speaking with the Better Business Buereau in your area.
Companies really care about their CC ratings (chargebacks are expensive for them, and Visa gets awefully pissy to the merchent when they happen). They also care abotu BBB ratings. Alot. More than you might think.
Lastly, ask for the phone # of the managers supervisor. Everyone gets scared of people calling their managers.
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I know you are joking, but to seriously answer, I would bet the reason they drop adult topics, etc, is they would skew the results into oblivion:0).
Actually, snapstream has all the features you mention...TV output, Season Passes (incl all or just new epsiodes) category search, and a pretty damn good TV full screen interface. That and it does streaming too over the web. Unfortunately, its windows & WMP only at the moment (DivX is on alpha)...but still a neat product.
Not affiliated, just a happy customer.
Actually, trillian does support IRC, and does so very nicely witha clean interface and neato color coding and stuff....the the white button in the center of the mainwindow witht he deault skin.
3a) Pull off god awful packaging
3b) Install in rack with mickey mouse install setup thatrequires removing the cover from the machine, exposing all the internal electronics while your at it
3c) Making sure the system sags in the middle while installed in the rack.
and
4a) Wipe OS because you have to before you can set up RAID
4b) Setup RAID, have the disk set utility fail multiple times with cryptic errors, only to find that Apple's own docs say this is 'normal behavior'
4c) When disks fail are are removed, must reboot server to signle user mode to reconstruct failed data. May or may not work...apple says 'normal behavior'
and
5a) Hope that your machine doesn't exhause it TCP connection pool which it will if you make too many SSH connections to it.
Sorry, Im ust so pedantic today.
Really, though, the XServes are a cheap attempt at a server that just doesn't work. Its a mickey mouse hack from the beginning. And yes, I have set them up personally. Only 2, because I wont reccommend the purchase of anymore after THAT experiment.
Hi.
I go to Bowdoin College, and we have one of these that i manage. It works pretty well - almost scary. Using sliding TCP windows sizes & delayed acks to do its magic...pretty neat stuff. Strangely enough, the new version of Kazaa gets through the Shaper quite nicely, as it likes to port hop to port 80 - and the Packeteer people cant fix it yet due to memory leak issues.
Its a neat little box.
I did try show shifter. Aside from having the most ameteurish interface I can think of, it doesn't follow any kind of reasonable interface guidelines. Let us know when it becomes usable and doesn't take up the entire screen - god forbid I mnight want to use my computer for watching TV AND doing work at the same time.
No, but they do care that Channel is SELLING modchips. They dont care if you take a sledgehammer to your PS2, or if you reverse engineer the super duper soundchip or something. Just dont sell it.
Read the filter action again - it doesn't get deleted, it gets moved. I dont know anyone in russia, no anyone with a.ru address - if at anytime I do, I will be a check ABOVE that to filter out that specific address. Even if something get caught that should, its still sitting in the folder waiting to get looked at.
FOr those of us that use IMAP on a server we dont control (many college students, company users) but that have access to a Unix machine, we can use a beautiful app called, strangelely enoughm imapfilter
I have set up some spam filters for it, and they generally work very well. Here is my script for removing SPAM - it hasb't caught a bogus one yet:
filter spam or
subject "Cat"
to "unlisted"
to "undisclosed"
from "WeatherBug"
subject "Animals"
body "Nigeria"
body "Virtumundo"
subject "Casino"
subject "Payout"
subject "win"
subject "won"
subject "free"
subject "back"
subject "SaveBig"
subject "Breast"
subject "Natural"
subject "Rates"
subject "teen"
subject "lesbian"
subject "sex"
body "teen"
body "sex"
body "lesbian"
body "Merchant"
subject "Money"
subject "mortgage"
subject "loan"
subject "irs"
from "Cyberworld"
subject "$"
from "Dialpad"
subject "DVD"
subject "Debt"
subject "Judgement"
subject "Dollar"
from "email.ro"
subject "%"
to "Valued"
to ".ru"
from ".ru"
to "$"
from ".ar"
to ".ar"
action move SPAM
True, but how else, besides protecting competition are we to protect consumers. We need a way, in the market to protect consumers, and we cant very well legislate a price for Windows, unless we want to legislate the OS market as whole. So, whats the solution? Protect the competition. So, while not the goal, it is the effective means of protecting consumers.
The only reason I can think of is that the switches they were given were donated. Granted I would rather use amphenols as well, as they are cleaner and look nicer too, but there is downside. If you get a bad cable (as we have where I work a coupe times), you have to pull down the whole set of 12 machines on that cable to replace it, rather than just unplug a single cable. Of course, your critique about a whole blade going bad still holds, but I have rarely had a whole blade go bad...usually just one port on that blade.
My AP Chem class did soemthing similar...We put burning magnesium in water. The heat from the maghnesium ( ibleieve) spearated the O and H in the water, and the flame then burned under water on the generated H2. Pretty cool stuff.
I can't believe no one has mentioned John young's Ultmiate watergun
Aside from being a pretty ridiculous hack (imagine 100+ PSI from a backpack mounted FIRE EXTINGUISHER BOFY), he gives it out free to people witha good reason.
He gave it to me and my friends for a college party (the "Beach Party") and it was the collest thing I have ever played with...I am working on building my own version. This guy truly has the ultimate water gun.
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I recognize that performance issues are unacceptable, the article seems to suggest they are due to poor coding of the guide scrolling system rather than design of the encode-stream.
Microsoft was convicted of abusing its monopoly. Thats not a felony. I dont even think its a criminal case. MS isn't even a person. A felon is someone who does something very bad and goes to jail for it and can no longer vote. You are mixing up your terms.
Its fine if you dont want to support MS, but at least sound intelligent when you choose to advocate that point of view in public.
If it hasn't worked this way for you, then you didnt present your case properly.
"One would assume you are proud of how you treat your customers, wouldn't you want others to hear what you have to say?"
Go to the theater, and ask to speak with the manager. Normally someone will get you him or her quickly.
Remember to always be polite and kind - you want them to think they are being good people
Tell the manager your story, as factually as possible. Tell him about the lack of the sign, and show him your tickets.
Tell him he can make a happy and loyal customer right now. If he refuses to honor/change the tickets:
* Tell him you will be writing a letter to
* Tell him you will be disputing the CC charge
* Tell him you will speaking with the Better Business Buereau in your area.
Companies really care about their CC ratings (chargebacks are expensive for them, and Visa gets awefully pissy to the merchent when they happen). They also care abotu BBB ratings. Alot. More than you might think.
Lastly, ask for the phone # of the managers supervisor. Everyone gets scared of people calling their managers.
I know you are joking, but to seriously answer, I would bet the reason they drop adult topics, etc, is they would skew the results into oblivion :0).
Actually, snapstream has all the features you mention...TV output, Season Passes (incl all or just new epsiodes) category search, and a pretty damn good TV full screen interface. That and it does streaming too over the web. Unfortunately, its windows & WMP only at the moment (DivX is on alpha)...but still a neat product. Not affiliated, just a happy customer.
He's right. :)
Actually, trillian does support IRC, and does so very nicely witha clean interface and neato color coding and stuff....the the white button in the center of the mainwindow witht he deault skin.
You missed a few steps:
3a) Pull off god awful packaging
3b) Install in rack with mickey mouse install setup thatrequires removing the cover from the machine, exposing all the internal electronics while your at it
3c) Making sure the system sags in the middle while installed in the rack.
and
4a) Wipe OS because you have to before you can set up RAID
4b) Setup RAID, have the disk set utility fail multiple times with cryptic errors, only to find that Apple's own docs say this is 'normal behavior'
4c) When disks fail are are removed, must reboot server to signle user mode to reconstruct failed data. May or may not work...apple says 'normal behavior'
and
5a) Hope that your machine doesn't exhause it TCP connection pool which it will if you make too many SSH connections to it.
Sorry, Im ust so pedantic today.
Really, though, the XServes are a cheap attempt at a server that just doesn't work. Its a mickey mouse hack from the beginning. And yes, I have set them up personally. Only 2, because I wont reccommend the purchase of anymore after THAT experiment.
Hi. I go to Bowdoin College, and we have one of these that i manage. It works pretty well - almost scary. Using sliding TCP windows sizes & delayed acks to do its magic...pretty neat stuff. Strangely enough, the new version of Kazaa gets through the Shaper quite nicely, as it likes to port hop to port 80 - and the Packeteer people cant fix it yet due to memory leak issues. Its a neat little box.
AKA BT:
good albums:
Movement in Still Life
ESCM (Electric Sky Church Music)
Also, R&R (Raresides & Remixes is cool)
DJ Rap:
Learning Curve
Both are unbelievable CD's. Both are somewhat experiemntal/progressive, but well worth the purchase.
Thanx for the note - it IS a little more bearable now.
I did try show shifter. Aside from having the most ameteurish interface I can think of, it doesn't follow any kind of reasonable interface guidelines. Let us know when it becomes usable and doesn't take up the entire screen - god forbid I mnight want to use my computer for watching TV AND doing work at the same time.
That would be cool, but the FRS freq. regulations explicitly forbid such uses.
No, but they do care that Channel is SELLING modchips. They dont care if you take a sledgehammer to your PS2, or if you reverse engineer the super duper soundchip or something. Just dont sell it.
Read the filter action again - it doesn't get deleted, it gets moved. I dont know anyone in russia, no anyone with a .ru address - if at anytime I do, I will be a check ABOVE that to filter out that specific address. Even if something get caught that should, its still sitting in the folder waiting to get looked at.
I have set up some spam filters for it, and they generally work very well. Here is my script for removing SPAM - it hasb't caught a bogus one yet:
filter spam or
subject "Cat"
to "unlisted"
to "undisclosed"
from "WeatherBug"
subject "Animals"
body "Nigeria"
body "Virtumundo"
subject "Casino"
subject "Payout"
subject "win"
subject "won"
subject "free"
subject "back"
subject "SaveBig"
subject "Breast"
subject "Natural"
subject "Rates"
subject "teen"
subject "lesbian"
subject "sex"
body "teen"
body "sex"
body "lesbian"
body "Merchant"
subject "Money"
subject "mortgage"
subject "loan"
subject "irs"
from "Cyberworld"
subject "$"
from "Dialpad"
subject "DVD"
subject "Debt"
subject "Judgement"
subject "Dollar"
from "email.ro"
subject "%"
to "Valued"
to ".ru"
from ".ru"
to "$"
from ".ar"
to ".ar"
action move SPAM
Anyways, have fun all.
True, but how else, besides protecting competition are we to protect consumers. We need a way, in the market to protect consumers, and we cant very well legislate a price for Windows, unless we want to legislate the OS market as whole. So, whats the solution? Protect the competition. So, while not the goal, it is the effective means of protecting consumers.
The only reason I can think of is that the switches they were given were donated. Granted I would rather use amphenols as well, as they are cleaner and look nicer too, but there is downside. If you get a bad cable (as we have where I work a coupe times), you have to pull down the whole set of 12 machines on that cable to replace it, rather than just unplug a single cable. Of course, your critique about a whole blade going bad still holds, but I have rarely had a whole blade go bad...usually just one port on that blade.
My AP Chem class did soemthing similar...We put burning magnesium in water. The heat from the maghnesium ( ibleieve) spearated the O and H in the water, and the flame then burned under water on the generated H2. Pretty cool stuff.
I can't believe no one has mentioned John young's Ultmiate watergun Aside from being a pretty ridiculous hack (imagine 100+ PSI from a backpack mounted FIRE EXTINGUISHER BOFY), he gives it out free to people witha good reason. He gave it to me and my friends for a college party (the "Beach Party") and it was the collest thing I have ever played with...I am working on building my own version. This guy truly has the ultimate water gun.