I have a JVC region 1 DVD player, which I assume is a typical, mainstream player. Although it won't let me FF through previews, it does let me get around them in a way...perhaps it will work for you:
When the commercials start, press the stop button, taking you to the player's "standby" screen. Pressing play (or is it the menu button) then takes me into the film's main menu.
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Canadians with TiVo are already doing this since they don't have access to the official TiVo service. Presumably, we'd have to start doing it in the US, too. The basic idea is that you have a "dummy TiVo service" for your box to log into. The dummy service, in turn, downloads programming info in XML format, much like MythTV. The data is then reparsed so that the Tivo unit can understand it. I'm just praying someone will make a Knoppix CD that can automate all that if/when the time comes.
"Music, video, and other entertainment content is *not* intellectual property. Trade secrets, manufacturing methods, software - that's IP."
Yeah, but the copyright on the "music, video and other entertainment content" is intellectual property, specifically, an intangible asset. Otherwise, you're spot on.
Oh Christ, I'm just going to call you out right now...are you one of those people that complain when a black guy gets a role for a character you expected to be white? The book does not describe Ford's skin color.
Everyone that uses Excel and any other modern spreadsheet can relate to tabs, since they've had them almost forever. A statement to the effect of "Now with tabs, just like Excel!" can go a long way with MS Office users.
If anyone has ever seen the documentary, "The Gift," on the Sundance Channel, then you would know that there is an entire subculture in the gay community that is deliberately *trying* to get AIDS. Naturally, that's just a small segment of the community and they do not represent the gay community at large.
I can use it everywhere in the US without incurring roaming fees. Presumably, Verizon and all the regional carriers have something worked out, but all of that complexity (and more importantly, the charges) are hidden from me. $45, coincidentally, is my monthly landline charge (after all taxes and fess) and that does not include long distance and only works in my home.
"And this is different from North America: you pay VERY high prices for placing calls, sometimes up to 2$ a minute to call a mobile phone with another network provider..."
Most mobile phone companies in the US are steering towards a flat rate plan to call anyone in the country. I pay $45 a month (taxes included) for Verizon and can call anyone in the US with no additional fees. Quite frankly, anyone paying more than that *is* stupid.
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I have a JVC region 1 DVD player, which I assume is a typical, mainstream player. Although it won't let me FF through previews, it does let me get around them in a way...perhaps it will work for you:
When the commercials start, press the stop button, taking you to the player's "standby" screen. Pressing play (or is it the menu button) then takes me into the film's main menu.
OTOH, Showtime shows a lot more late-night soft core pr0n than HBO. HBO would suck in that one regard :)
Wow, and I thought he only owned the 'Bing!
Canadians with TiVo are already doing this since they don't have access to the official TiVo service. Presumably, we'd have to start doing it in the US, too. The basic idea is that you have a "dummy TiVo service" for your box to log into. The dummy service, in turn, downloads programming info in XML format, much like MythTV. The data is then reparsed so that the Tivo unit can understand it. I'm just praying someone will make a Knoppix CD that can automate all that if/when the time comes.
Hmm, I don't think I've ever seen images accompany an article on Slashdot before. Or maybe I don't read enough of them.
It doesn't sound like too much of a stretch.
"Music, video, and other entertainment content is *not* intellectual property. Trade secrets, manufacturing methods, software - that's IP."
Yeah, but the copyright on the "music, video and other entertainment content" is intellectual property, specifically, an intangible asset. Otherwise, you're spot on.
Panera ~ Paneria = Bread store. Maybe they're just trying to attract people who know what it means?
The kid stole the gun from the police officer.
Well, after I'm done with a round or two of GTAIII, my first thought is, "I'm glad that it was only a game and not real life."
If I were a criminal, I'd rather get away with the crime and be subject to neither :)
Oh Christ, I'm just going to call you out right now...are you one of those people that complain when a black guy gets a role for a character you expected to be white? The book does not describe Ford's skin color.
"The detector-van spotted the operation of their set, and dispatched license-fee collector to the addresss."
For a second there, I thought your next words were going to be, "quick, Vyvyan! eat the telly!"
That's what property taxes are.
Tabs go back to the 1980s...spreadsheets had them first. Putting them in a web browser isn't an innovation, it's an evolution.
Everyone that uses Excel and any other modern spreadsheet can relate to tabs, since they've had them almost forever. A statement to the effect of "Now with tabs, just like Excel!" can go a long way with MS Office users.
Most scholars agree that it is Pat Buchanan.
When I visited the Chicago suburbs, I discovered that some people actually can choose their cable provider.
If anyone has ever seen the documentary, "The Gift," on the Sundance Channel, then you would know that there is an entire subculture in the gay community that is deliberately *trying* to get AIDS. Naturally, that's just a small segment of the community and they do not represent the gay community at large.
I can use it everywhere in the US without incurring roaming fees. Presumably, Verizon and all the regional carriers have something worked out, but all of that complexity (and more importantly, the charges) are hidden from me. $45, coincidentally, is my monthly landline charge (after all taxes and fess) and that does not include long distance and only works in my home.
"And this is different from North America: you pay VERY high prices for placing calls, sometimes up to 2$ a minute to call a mobile phone with another network provider..."
Most mobile phone companies in the US are steering towards a flat rate plan to call anyone in the country. I pay $45 a month (taxes included) for Verizon and can call anyone in the US with no additional fees. Quite frankly, anyone paying more than that *is* stupid.
I'll take the "no jail time and up to a $3 million fine" because:
Not catching AIDS from prison rape...priceless.
"Yet another project abandoned because of WWII."
Well, here's a similar project that was started because of WWII. It would have been as scary as hell if the Germans were able to mass-produce these babies.
...is "competitors of Company XYZ"?
Between Microsoft and Paris Hilton alone, there is so much suction I'm surprised the rest of us haven't been flung into space.