I signed a form saying that I didn't accept it, and they walked me to the front of the line for normal security!
Why did you have to sign a form? Was it to state that you agree you weren't being sexually harassed by being pat down, and that it was your choice? That seems really weird, but I can't think of another reason you'd have to sign anything.
I've seen a number of users come crying in the mythtv forum that somehow all of their recordings mysteriously disappeared. Seems having your mythweb completely unsecured isn't such a good thing.
For those people, this move by Google is great news. You see, the delete links were all simple GET requests, so the spiders were able to delete content. However, the scheduling is all done via POST'ed forms, so nothing would ever get recorded. This move on Google's part is really just an attempt to combat this. The other spiders delete all your recordings, then Google comes in a schedules your box to record every single show for the next 2 weeks. Sure, theres bound to be a few conflicts (unless your box has 150 tuners), but at least you won't have to resort to LiveTV to actually find something to watch.
If you hit someone in the rear, you're following too close!
100% true. It was also 0% consolation to me the time that I was rear ended. The other driver was a minor with a car in his dads name, had no insurance (but had proof of insurance, so he got out of that ticket), and his dad was impossible to track down (nobody could find the guy). End result, I ate the cost of my deductible, plus the cost of the tow truck, plus I got to waste a day off of work to go to court since he contested the ticket (but then never even bothered to show up in court).
Every time I look at my bank statement, it's somehow not very comforting knowing "but, it was 100% his fault". I'm sure it would be even less comforting had myself or my wife been physically injured.
I'd imagine that this thing will be roughly as cat-resistant as your keyboard.
Not necessarily. From the demo video, it would seem the table has some degree of recognition, so it can tell what's touching it. As long as it's flexible enough, theres no reason why it couldn't do image recognition of the cat and refuse to respond to it. That reminds me of the Flo Control project: http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm
Mythtv doesn't record the raw stream. It duplicates the stream and then applies the necessary PID filters for each channel. The end result is that you get the same files you would have had you used 2 separate tuners.
You also might wonder whether scalpers selling concert tickets for $500 each is sustainable. After all, there can't be that many people willing to pay that much for concert tickets, right? It would only work for a few artists, and only once or twice per artist, right?
Yet, here we are decades later and scalpers are still going strong, selling tickets for more money than ever, and now there are even some artists that sell tickets with a face value that rivals scalpers prices (and then, of course, scalpers are STILL able to sell those insanely priced tickets with their usually markup).
Unless you want to pay $5 per gallon for your music.
I'd need more information before deciding if I'd be willing to pay that. Would that be a gallon of floppy discs containing uncompressed pcm audio or a gallon of 1TB hard drives containing 320Kbps variable bitrate MP3's?
Thanks for actually listing out the figures. It really puts things in perspective, and it made me realize something. My internet service probably gets somewhere between 99.9% and 99.99% uptime. My cell phone is probably in a similar range. My cable is better than 99.999% (maybe even 99.9999%).
So you plug in a USB device that appears as a mouse and it emulates mouse movements to prevent the screensaver from kicking in. That works great until the system is programed to go into panic mode when a new device is attached.
Also, it's patent pending? Great, I'm sure they'll easily get a patent for an obvious solution. In the few seconds between reading your post and clicking on the link, I already came up with a solution to the problem. Then the page came up and...surprise! It's exactly what I was thinking.
Nope. Wasn't this summer. I've had parts of a thread get flagged as spam well over a year ago, and it has never once move the whole thread to the spam box.
Would you care if your phone made a loud beep, or sent you a text message if you were unconscious?
I think you completely missed the point. It was stated that in the Netherlands, if nobody responds on the line when the 911 operator's answer, the operator just hangs up on you. The point was, that's a bad practice, because what if you are injured and can't respond to the operator? The ideal practice is to err on the side of caution and send someone to investigate.
I can kind of see the point of this, with all the people who've accidentally dialed 911 while the phone was in their pocket/purse. However, I think this may be the wrong way to go about solving the problem. I don't have any evidence to back up my theory, but I suspect most accidental calls don't actually dial the full 911. I've seen several cell phones before where simply holding down the 9 key will dial 911. If that isn't an accident waiting to happen, I don't know what is. Eliminate that, and I wonder how many accidental calls will be left.
This seems to contradict the UK information you pointed out
You know, I didn't realize that was a UK link. This policy applies to US products, also. I had a bookmark to it at one point (somehow this is a topic I seem to correct people on repeatedly in various forums, so I bookmarked it), but they changed URLs on their website and the bookmark no longer works. I did a search for the info and found that link (with what I believe was the exact same wording) and posted it without noticing.
The different policy you referred to only applies to macromedia products. When adobe purchased them, they decided to keep the more restrictive rules in place for those products. I don't recall ever hearing whether or not future releases will continue with the macromedia license term or switch to match adobe's terms.
I used a careful-placed weasel word
Yes you did. Sorry about getting jumpy there. As I said, somehow I always seem to be correcting people on this topic. However, most of the time the people I'm correcting aren't so polite and weaselly...usually they come right out and accuse people of violating the license agreement (or even "breaking the law") in a much more confrontational "I know what I'm talking about" fashion. I guess I've got an itchy trigger finger on the topic. Sorry.
"Good news! You can use Adobe Education software (any title!) to produce commercial/professional paid-for work when you leave school, or even while you are in school."
Read again..the quote was in the FIRST article that the story linked to. The reason part of that quote was linked to a different article was because that other article was an example of just what the quote was trying to convey. Nothing misleading at all.
Red touches yellow: you're okay fellow; Red touches black: you're dead, Jack.
This version is just as memorable as what you quoted, and it makes exactly as much sense (but will get you killed). In fact, it almost makes more since, since those type of mnemonics often have the extremely bad outcome as the second line, not the first. A mnemonic where the order is pretty arbitrary is a terrible mnemonic. You have to invest just as much effort to remember which version is correct as you would to just remember the thing it's trying to help you remember.
The vinyl version may have been bettered mastered than the remastered CDs, but that doesn't mean the vinyl version was beyond the means of any CD player. If I took your vinyl record and scratched it to hell, does that mean your record player is inferior to a well cared for 8-track?
With Comcast? I'm sure you don't. With WOW, it's not at all difficult to get in touch with the C*O's of the company. Their CIO is responding to customer inquiries all the time. A few weeks ago, a bunch of us who were watching the local HD channels without actually subscribing to the digital or HD packages noticed all of our HD channels gone. Someone sent an email to the CIO asking about it and promptly got a very detailed reply, explaining exactly what the problem was and how it happened (botched upgrade), what they were doing to resolve it, and promised that it would be resolved soon.
You know, what is being reported there may very well be true. However, considering how many bogus things that've been reported on (the recent "OMG terrorists are doing dry runs oh wait, they're not" thing comes to mind, among many others) I'm not inclined to give the media or government the benefit of the doubt.
When you look at their record in accusing terrorists over the last 6 years, they've been wrong WAY more often than right. Of course it's difficult to realize that unless you pay careful attention. The accusation makes headline news every day for a week, and then when the truth comes out it's only a small clip at the end of the broadcast on maybe a couple of stations.
so it couldn't be used for seeing through opaque objects anyway.
What do you mean? On 24 they can see the IR of people inside a concrete building. On every floor. From a satellite. Surely you aren't suggesting that TV lied to me, are you?
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Why did you have to sign a form? Was it to state that you agree you weren't being sexually harassed by being pat down, and that it was your choice? That seems really weird, but I can't think of another reason you'd have to sign anything.
I've seen a number of users come crying in the mythtv forum that somehow all of their recordings mysteriously disappeared. Seems having your mythweb completely unsecured isn't such a good thing.
For those people, this move by Google is great news. You see, the delete links were all simple GET requests, so the spiders were able to delete content. However, the scheduling is all done via POST'ed forms, so nothing would ever get recorded. This move on Google's part is really just an attempt to combat this. The other spiders delete all your recordings, then Google comes in a schedules your box to record every single show for the next 2 weeks. Sure, theres bound to be a few conflicts (unless your box has 150 tuners), but at least you won't have to resort to LiveTV to actually find something to watch.
100% true. It was also 0% consolation to me the time that I was rear ended. The other driver was a minor with a car in his dads name, had no insurance (but had proof of insurance, so he got out of that ticket), and his dad was impossible to track down (nobody could find the guy). End result, I ate the cost of my deductible, plus the cost of the tow truck, plus I got to waste a day off of work to go to court since he contested the ticket (but then never even bothered to show up in court).
Every time I look at my bank statement, it's somehow not very comforting knowing "but, it was 100% his fault". I'm sure it would be even less comforting had myself or my wife been physically injured.
Mythtv doesn't record the raw stream. It duplicates the stream and then applies the necessary PID filters for each channel. The end result is that you get the same files you would have had you used 2 separate tuners.
You also might wonder whether scalpers selling concert tickets for $500 each is sustainable. After all, there can't be that many people willing to pay that much for concert tickets, right? It would only work for a few artists, and only once or twice per artist, right?
Yet, here we are decades later and scalpers are still going strong, selling tickets for more money than ever, and now there are even some artists that sell tickets with a face value that rivals scalpers prices (and then, of course, scalpers are STILL able to sell those insanely priced tickets with their usually markup).
I'd need more information before deciding if I'd be willing to pay that. Would that be a gallon of floppy discs containing uncompressed pcm audio or a gallon of 1TB hard drives containing 320Kbps variable bitrate MP3's?
Thanks for actually listing out the figures. It really puts things in perspective, and it made me realize something. My internet service probably gets somewhere between 99.9% and 99.99% uptime. My cell phone is probably in a similar range. My cable is better than 99.999% (maybe even 99.9999%).
Well, not quite. According to the Wiki entry for Bluray, Sony and Pioneer teemed up to create DVR Blue, which eventually turned into Bluray.
So you plug in a USB device that appears as a mouse and it emulates mouse movements to prevent the screensaver from kicking in. That works great until the system is programed to go into panic mode when a new device is attached.
Also, it's patent pending? Great, I'm sure they'll easily get a patent for an obvious solution. In the few seconds between reading your post and clicking on the link, I already came up with a solution to the problem. Then the page came up and...surprise! It's exactly what I was thinking.
You mean like Mega Maid?
Nope. Wasn't this summer. I've had parts of a thread get flagged as spam well over a year ago, and it has never once move the whole thread to the spam box.
Would you care if your phone made a loud beep, or sent you a text message if you were unconscious?
I think you completely missed the point. It was stated that in the Netherlands, if nobody responds on the line when the 911 operator's answer, the operator just hangs up on you. The point was, that's a bad practice, because what if you are injured and can't respond to the operator? The ideal practice is to err on the side of caution and send someone to investigate.
I can kind of see the point of this, with all the people who've accidentally dialed 911 while the phone was in their pocket/purse. However, I think this may be the wrong way to go about solving the problem. I don't have any evidence to back up my theory, but I suspect most accidental calls don't actually dial the full 911. I've seen several cell phones before where simply holding down the 9 key will dial 911. If that isn't an accident waiting to happen, I don't know what is. Eliminate that, and I wonder how many accidental calls will be left.
Sorry, but wrong: http://www.adobe.com/uk/education/purchasing/faq.html
"Good news! You can use Adobe Education software (any title!) to produce commercial/professional paid-for work when you leave school, or even while you are in school."
How about the oath of office?
Read again..the quote was in the FIRST article that the story linked to. The reason part of that quote was linked to a different article was because that other article was an example of just what the quote was trying to convey. Nothing misleading at all.
Thats a terrible mnemonic. Why?
Red touches yellow: you're okay fellow;
Red touches black: you're dead, Jack.
This version is just as memorable as what you quoted, and it makes exactly as much sense (but will get you killed). In fact, it almost makes more since, since those type of mnemonics often have the extremely bad outcome as the second line, not the first. A mnemonic where the order is pretty arbitrary is a terrible mnemonic. You have to invest just as much effort to remember which version is correct as you would to just remember the thing it's trying to help you remember.
That was exactly his point. When he said "sad commentary on corporate culture" it wasn't any sort of insult against Costco.
The vinyl version may have been bettered mastered than the remastered CDs, but that doesn't mean the vinyl version was beyond the means of any CD player. If I took your vinyl record and scratched it to hell, does that mean your record player is inferior to a well cared for 8-track?
With Comcast? I'm sure you don't. With WOW, it's not at all difficult to get in touch with the C*O's of the company. Their CIO is responding to customer inquiries all the time. A few weeks ago, a bunch of us who were watching the local HD channels without actually subscribing to the digital or HD packages noticed all of our HD channels gone. Someone sent an email to the CIO asking about it and promptly got a very detailed reply, explaining exactly what the problem was and how it happened (botched upgrade), what they were doing to resolve it, and promised that it would be resolved soon.
oops, I forgot to preview...tags didn't work. What I meant to say was:
"OMG terrorists are doing dry runs [quietly]oh wait, they're not[/quietly]"
You know, what is being reported there may very well be true. However, considering how many bogus things that've been reported on (the recent "OMG terrorists are doing dry runs oh wait, they're not" thing comes to mind, among many others) I'm not inclined to give the media or government the benefit of the doubt.
When you look at their record in accusing terrorists over the last 6 years, they've been wrong WAY more often than right. Of course it's difficult to realize that unless you pay careful attention. The accusation makes headline news every day for a week, and then when the truth comes out it's only a small clip at the end of the broadcast on maybe a couple of stations.
What do you mean? On 24 they can see the IR of people inside a concrete building. On every floor. From a satellite. Surely you aren't suggesting that TV lied to me, are you?