Yes, we have a Leverpull. The patent expired on them recently and now everyone is marketing one. The Rabbit was the first competitor, but now there are a lot of non-branded ones at varying price points.
It makes opening a bottle of wine a 5 second endeavor. If you open up enough wine (we open 4-6 bottles a week) it's worth it. If you rarely open wine, go for a different one.
Ack, what a crappy corkscrew. Get a real corkscrew. If you don't have corkscrew experience, I'd recommend a Screwpull. It's got a longer thread, teflon coated, and removing the cork is as easy as twisting the handle on top. Trust me, it's much, much easier to use than the short screws without assist on pocket knives.
The worst part about 10-digit local calls is never being sure whether it's free or toll.
Here on Long Island, it may be a toll call even within your area code, so you always need to check the prefix, if you care. (As I did for TiVo.) It's been that way the three years I've lived here, at least.
Software dvd decoding has advanced to the point that it equals pretty much even the most absurdly expensive hardware players
AFAIK, aren't the software DVD players all flag-reading players? Which would mean, no, it doesn't equal even reasonably priced dvd players on progressive output on DVDs with bad flags (all too common).
I like vi for quick & dirty, and i know emacs is all-powerful if you take the time to learn it, but I haven't yet seen a GUI X editor (like Pepper) that wasn't amatuerish or ugly, or counterintuitive, or only half finished.
The point is that in Linux, unlike MacOS, Pepper is competing in an environment which has long had powerful text editors. As an individual, I can pay $35 for an executable which I have to work around when upgrading my system, pay more for certain upgrades, and which has a limited user community, or I can use Emacs, which has nearly every feature pepper has (editing files larger than memory is the only one I find that it doesn't, and that has not been an issue for me) and many, many features that it doesn't have. Will Pepper be around in 8 years? I don't like to have to relearn my editor all the time.
Even if I choose to pay for a text editor, Pepper still has obstacles. First, I have to know it exists, and I'd never heard of it before. Then I'd have to decide it's worth buying Pepper rather than Visual SlickEdit, Epsilon, Crisp or something else I haven't heard of (many of which are likewise more powerful than Pepper).
It may be pretty and intuitive, but that doesn't make up for the fact that it's got a lot of competition.
There are still problems with the X3 technology, not the least being the limited ISO available given its noise characteristics.
Sigma's camera was delayed significantly in coming to market because of problems they had to work out. Even if other companies are working on using the technology, their products might be delayed.
I've read the article, and used PPP over SSH for about three years now.
In the real world, it works quite well. Occasionally, you might have problems. In those rare cases I've had problems, the raw SSH was also having problems. I don't believe the problems are nearly as dire as Olaf says, unless your on a really bad network (like the 10-20% packet loss network he talks about).
You can get the details at iO's site, but for select shows from Showtime, IFC or HBO, it's 4.95$/month/channel. (Not counting the monthly subscription to Showtime or HBO, since you can't look at their on-demands without the normal sub.)
For the movies, it's $2.95-4.95 per title per 24-hour viewing window.
The problem for cable companies isn't that they're afraid you'll swap programs, or even that you won't watch commercials. They don't really care about that.
The problem with a standalone PVR is that you've gotten features from someone else, and the cable company won't be able to get ahold of that money.
For example Cablevision's digital product includes video on demand. They've got a bunch of series available for that... and to get a certain channel's programming on demand, you pay an additional fee. If you have a PVR, you probably won't be buying their VOD entrees, since you'll just tell your PVR to grab them for you.
The bit about satellites is also telling. Cable companies can do VOD, because they've got a nice fast low-latency pipe between your house and their systems. CV does VOD by shipping the video over their cable-modem network. When you pause it, it stops coming at the other end. Naturally, that's not very feasible with a dish. They'd like to hype that as something that makes them better than a dish, but DirecTiVo is their worst nightmare, because it gives you the benefits of their VOD service, while giving you two tuners so you can record anything you like, instead of the selection of shows the cable company has available.
The reality of the matter is that, while it certainly would be possible for somebody to gag a machine to evade all your wascally checksumming tricks, they frequently don't do so.
No kidding. I still haven't even seen people updating the RPM md5sums, and you'd think that's something that rootkits would like to do.
Sure, if you know your system has been compromised, you want to take it down and do a check with known-safe binaries, kernel, etc. But in the real world you can't do that daily on a production box, so checksumming on a live box is a reasonable solution.
The current user is a perfectly safe security context - unless, you are doing the same stupid thing 98% of bad users out there do: run as admin.
That's why we don't have to worry about any of the viruses that send the payroll listings to everyone in your addressbook, or delete your personal files, or insert profanity in your resume when you print it.
They need to have a little more of Bond using his wits and physical skills to survive a situation, not some gadget and car.
If you listen to the commentaries on the Bond DVDs, you'll find out that the people making the films are aware of this. There seems to be a cycle where the gadgets start to get out of hand, then a new director steps in and decides he's going to take Bond back to the basics. That lasts for a while, but then the gadgets come back....
The recent movies haven't been, in my mind, quite so gadgetful. For example, I don't think Bond got to use his car hardly at all in the last film.
SQL offers an abstraction for which the underlying database layout is irrelevant except for performance issues. The performance issues may be major, but at least you don't have to worry about correctness.
No, it means you think you don't have to worry about correctness. It is never the case that an abstraction means you don't have to worry about things. It just means you don't have to worry about things as often.
Someone told me that my query must be wrong... no, it was because the DBM was missing a service pack. (We worked around it anyway since I couldn't convince the lead that my approach should work, and would on the production box, which was more up to date than the dev box. Why weren't they the same? Don't even go there.)
After struggling through the Jedi Academy trilogy I've got to say that Kevin J. Anderson isn't close to one of the best sf authors out there today. The plots were bad, the additions were juvenile, the character voices were wrong. It's a shame that the SW franchise has so many books written by him rather than better authors.
I find that most people who like him just haven't read anything by good authors. I do seem to recall a collaboration he did with someone that I didn't hate but I can't remember what it was. So maybe there's hope for him when he has someone riding herd over him, but with fanbeings like you around, it's unlikely he'll be forced to improve.
You may be able to choose between cable modem or DSL. Most of the US can't. I can't. Where I live (Melville, Long Island, NY) there aren't other providers waiting to pick up the slack. I'm not in the boonies by any stretch, but the phone company can't give me DSL and doesn't seem to care to. (Unless I want to spend 5 times as much as dialup for a crappy iDSL connection which is around two times as fast as dialup.)
If you want to project, slides will still do better than digital, because existing digital projectors don't match the resolution of the images.
If you want archival prints, there is no problem with digital. You just need to use an archival print process. You can print with digital to the same papers you do with film, so there's no difference.
Ink jets are _not_ the only way you can print with digital.
Naturally anyone in hi-fi sales will agree with that. They're trying to sell things with extremely high markup. These are the same people who convince people you need to spend several bucks a foot on speaker wire.
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Yes, we have a Leverpull. The patent expired on them recently and now everyone is marketing one. The Rabbit was the first competitor, but now there are a lot of non-branded ones at varying price points.
It makes opening a bottle of wine a 5 second endeavor. If you open up enough wine (we open 4-6 bottles a week) it's worth it. If you rarely open wine, go for a different one.
Ack, what a crappy corkscrew. Get a real corkscrew. If you don't have corkscrew experience, I'd recommend a Screwpull. It's got a longer thread, teflon coated, and removing the cork is as easy as twisting the handle on top. Trust me, it's much, much easier to use than the short screws without assist on pocket knives.
If the NYT--the "paper of record"--was so inaccurate about the facts of this case, how can we trust any of its content?
Welcome to the real world. People have been questioning the NYT for years.
If I buy a Monet, it would be perfectly legal for me to take it home and spray-paint the whole thing black.
Maybe, but if you did that to a recent well-known work, you'd probably get in trouble. Look at the the rights to integrity in current copyright law.
The worst part about 10-digit local calls is never being sure whether it's free or toll.
Here on Long Island, it may be a toll call even within your area code, so you always need to check the prefix, if you care. (As I did for TiVo.) It's been that way the three years I've lived here, at least.
Software dvd decoding has advanced to the point that it equals pretty much even the most absurdly expensive hardware players
AFAIK, aren't the software DVD players all flag-reading players? Which would mean, no, it doesn't equal even reasonably priced dvd players on progressive output on DVDs with bad flags (all too common).
I like vi for quick & dirty, and i know emacs is all-powerful if you take the time to learn it, but I haven't yet seen a GUI X editor (like Pepper) that wasn't amatuerish or ugly, or counterintuitive, or only half finished.
The point is that in Linux, unlike MacOS, Pepper is competing in an environment which has long had powerful text editors. As an individual, I can pay $35 for an executable which I have to work around when upgrading my system, pay more for certain upgrades, and which has a limited user community, or I can use Emacs, which has nearly every feature pepper has (editing files larger than memory is the only one I find that it doesn't, and that has not been an issue for me) and many, many features that it doesn't have. Will Pepper be around in 8 years? I don't like to have to relearn my editor all the time.
Even if I choose to pay for a text editor, Pepper still has obstacles. First, I have to know it exists, and I'd never heard of it before. Then I'd have to decide it's worth buying Pepper rather than Visual SlickEdit, Epsilon, Crisp or something else I haven't heard of (many of which are likewise more powerful than Pepper).
It may be pretty and intuitive, but that doesn't make up for the fact that it's got a lot of competition.
There are still problems with the X3 technology, not the least being the limited ISO available given its noise characteristics.
Sigma's camera was delayed significantly in coming to market because of problems they had to work out. Even if other companies are working on using the technology, their products might be delayed.
I've read the article, and used PPP over SSH for about three years now.
In the real world, it works quite well. Occasionally, you might have problems. In those rare cases I've had problems, the raw SSH was also having problems. I don't believe the problems are nearly as dire as Olaf says, unless your on a really bad network (like the 10-20% packet loss network he talks about).
what are they charging for the VOD service?
You can get the details at iO's site, but for select shows from Showtime, IFC or HBO, it's 4.95$/month/channel. (Not counting the monthly subscription to Showtime or HBO, since you can't look at their on-demands without the normal sub.)
For the movies, it's $2.95-4.95 per title per 24-hour viewing window.
The problem for cable companies isn't that they're afraid you'll swap programs, or even that you won't watch commercials. They don't really care about that.
The problem with a standalone PVR is that you've gotten features from someone else, and the cable company won't be able to get ahold of that money.
For example Cablevision's digital product includes video on demand. They've got a bunch of series available for that... and to get a certain channel's programming on demand, you pay an additional fee. If you have a PVR, you probably won't be buying their VOD entrees, since you'll just tell your PVR to grab them for you.
The bit about satellites is also telling. Cable companies can do VOD, because they've got a nice fast low-latency pipe between your house and their systems. CV does VOD by shipping the video over their cable-modem network. When you pause it, it stops coming at the other end. Naturally, that's not very feasible with a dish. They'd like to hype that as something that makes them better than a dish, but DirecTiVo is their worst nightmare, because it gives you the benefits of their VOD service, while giving you two tuners so you can record anything you like, instead of the selection of shows the cable company has available.
The reality of the matter is that, while it certainly would be possible for somebody to gag a machine to evade all your wascally checksumming tricks, they frequently don't do so.
No kidding. I still haven't even seen people updating the RPM md5sums, and you'd think that's something that rootkits would like to do.
Sure, if you know your system has been compromised, you want to take it down and do a check with known-safe binaries, kernel, etc. But in the real world you can't do that daily on a production box, so checksumming on a live box is a reasonable solution.
I'm sorry, you do not count as much as an entity representing thousands of people.
You make the fatal assumption that those in charge of the business cares about its employees as much as their own interests.
Why does everyone seem to think that these sites won't be able to link to sites outside of .kids?
Probably because we read the article.
What is gained by that?
It's probably to ease the checkers, so they don't have to check the link content, just the URL.
The current user is a perfectly safe security context - unless, you are doing the same stupid thing 98% of bad users out there do: run as admin.
That's why we don't have to worry about any of the viruses that send the payroll listings to everyone in your addressbook, or delete your personal files, or insert profanity in your resume when you print it.
Thank you for reassuring me.
They need to have a little more of Bond using his wits and physical skills to survive a situation, not some gadget and car.
If you listen to the commentaries on the Bond DVDs, you'll find out that the people making the films are aware of this. There seems to be a cycle where the gadgets start to get out of hand, then a new director steps in and decides he's going to take Bond back to the basics. That lasts for a while, but then the gadgets come back....
The recent movies haven't been, in my mind, quite so gadgetful. For example, I don't think Bond got to use his car hardly at all in the last film.
SQL offers an abstraction for which the underlying database layout is irrelevant except for performance issues. The performance issues may be major, but at least you don't have to worry about correctness.
No, it means you think you don't have to worry about correctness. It is never the case that an abstraction means you don't have to worry about things. It just means you don't have to worry about things as often.
Someone told me that my query must be wrong... no, it was because the DBM was missing a service pack. (We worked around it anyway since I couldn't convince the lead that my approach should work, and would on the production box, which was more up to date than the dev box. Why weren't they the same? Don't even go there.)
The free download didn't come with the console version. The server edition did (which was a bit more expensive than the normal edition).
I don't see why the "MBAs of Wharton and Harvard who run the country" should have to explain about a Canadian company laying off workers....
It's simply pure capitalism. The government is just another service industry providing services to those who can afford it.
After struggling through the Jedi Academy trilogy I've got to say that Kevin J. Anderson isn't close to one of the best sf authors out there today. The plots were bad, the additions were juvenile, the character voices were wrong. It's a shame that the SW franchise has so many books written by him rather than better authors.
I find that most people who like him just haven't read anything by good authors. I do seem to recall a collaboration he did with someone that I didn't hate but I can't remember what it was. So maybe there's hope for him when he has someone riding herd over him, but with fanbeings like you around, it's unlikely he'll be forced to improve.
You may be able to choose between cable modem or DSL. Most of the US can't. I can't. Where I live (Melville, Long Island, NY) there aren't other providers waiting to pick up the slack. I'm not in the boonies by any stretch, but the phone company can't give me DSL and doesn't seem to care to. (Unless I want to spend 5 times as much as dialup for a crappy iDSL connection which is around two times as fast as dialup.)
Easier said than done... the slide services I've seen so far are oriented towards business users and aren't high enough resolution.
If you want to project, slides will still do better than digital, because existing digital projectors don't match the resolution of the images.
If you want archival prints, there is no problem with digital. You just need to use an archival print process. You can print with digital to the same papers you do with film, so there's no difference.
Ink jets are _not_ the only way you can print with digital.
Naturally anyone in hi-fi sales will agree with that. They're trying to sell things with extremely high markup. These are the same people who convince people you need to spend several bucks a foot on speaker wire.