Do you have life insurance? How about car insurance beyond the minimum required liability? Or medical insurance? If you do, you're contradicting yourself. You've considered and prepared for remote possibilities. If you do die tomorrow in a car crash, you've prepared for your loved ones. The car is paid for, your medical bills are paid for and you're paid for. Do you have savings in the remote possibility that you'll lose your job? How about extra fuses in your house? Do you back up your hard drive? All of these are preparations for things that are remote possibilities, yet you are prepared for them. Either be consistant or don't bitch. I personally have plans for a large underground shelter / habitat ala Blast From The Past. While I haven't constructed it cause I have no money, I would like to do so. Maybe I'm paranoid.... Or maybe I'll be laughing when the aliens use their ESP to abduct you and insert an anal probe, then you get turned away from the hospital cause you have no insurance.
I think the quote is "any sufficently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" or something along those lines. While most instances of things like ESP are most likely hoaxes, there's always the possiblity that there are brainwave analyzers implanted into people's heads. People from the future...
It may sound silly, but try your local thrift stores, pawn shops, and garage sales. It's amazing what you'll find there. Recently there was a Tivo of some flavor (don't remember) at Goodwill in West Lafayette, IN for $60. I left to get some cash, came back and it was gone. I was really bummed. But I kept looking around, and recently I got the ReplayTV ShowStopper for $75 at Best Buy. And if all else fails, go to eBay. Around $250 for the 20 hr showstopper. There are also a few online stores that still have it for around the same price. Good luck.
Why would anyone buy this when there are tons of old ShowStopper and older ReplayTV units available used or open-item (I got a ShowStopper 20hr for $75 at BestBuy) for way less? They're incredibly easy to upgrade to obscenely long record times. And their service is free. I can't see any reason to buy a new unit. What additional features could they add? Is this just going to make the old "free" and upgradable models more expensive on the secondary market? Food for thought.
Does fobbit support VOIP - POTS calls?
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Does fobbit support VOIP -> POTS calls? If not, then it is only good for using the VB in a shared connection or behind a firewall. If it does support VOIP -> POTS, then I'm running out to buy a few of these beasts before they vanish into the ether. I didn't see anything about whether or not VOIP -> POTS was supported on fobbit's site, but the site was running really slow.... Anyway, if anyone knows, I'd love to know, too.
This reminds me of the guy who built his own monorail in his yard. I've gotta wonder which is cheaper per mile. This guy's or the one going in Las Vegas.
Is there a Katz bites website? Cause advertising his book on Slashdot is pretty low.... Maybe it would be a hare more aceptable if one of the other editors had posted it, but it would still reek of self promotion. Who let the katz out? I don't know, but they'd better reign him back in! Snoogans.
Actually, I work 3rd shift. You learn very quickly to dissociate any particular time with being "normal." Personally, I'd prefer that the world run on millitary-style GMT and be done with it. No more troubles with time zones. You say to someone in Singapore call at 14:30 and you'll get a phone call at 14:30. No more confusion about who's time to use or what time it is someplace far away. This is a long-overdue change in peoples' worldview.
Silent Bob's mom is the assessor of our township here and they just had a service come in and drive around the entire township videotaping every house / lot. Then she had to sit thru *hours upon hours* of boring videotapes deciding which frame was best for the database. It took a ton of people to do it, and that's just for a little township. do one block of your neighborhood and you'll be sick of it. by the time you get to your local quick stop, you'll be so sick of it, you'll want to destroy all the footage. That's why it takes lots of people. everyone does a little bit and nobody goes totally nuts. Snoogans
My dialup always stayed under 28.8.... It got to 28.8 once or twice on my 56k, but never above it, and almost never to it.... There were times when it was under 9600 for days at a time. The phone company (Ameritech) was quite unfriendly and unwilling to do anything about it. We've had other problems, such as hearing neighbors in the lines when making calls. And the lines buzz really bad when it's damp outside.... The phone company doesn't really care. We gave up on dialup when AT&T rolled out cable in our area. we were the 1st people to sign up and will be the last to sign off.
Me and Silent Bob love the Ogg Vorbis format. We are strong supporters of the open source. Except this tubby bitch never says anything! But when he doies release information it's usually important shit, not useless stuff.... So I guess tubby here is more of the closed source type, but I am 100% open source. I don't leave nothing unsaid. Bong.
Is not AIM P2P when two users are "directly connected" as when they are transfering files, pictures, or just typing to each other? If not then what are they directly connected to? I was under the impression that if I was directly connected to someone and the AOL servers ceased to exist, I could continue my conversation with them until one of us severed the link.
They compete by being free and "bundled" with your car. That's how Microsoft kicked Netscape's ass. This is like Netscape trying to squeze its way in after Internet Explorer had been the standard forever...
read the articles linked to above on ZeroPaid. basically, the kazaa network allows for automatic upgrades propagated thru the network itself. A recent "upgrade" is what killed morpheus. It's a fatal flaw with kazaa. Read the ZeroPaid articles for a better explination.
by Nintendo for ripping off their next-generation Game Cube. Seriously, that thing does remind me of a Nintendo Gamecube. maybe it's the cutsey logo thing on the side... I'm not sure
Morpeus is NOT down! After I read this, I fired up the program, and while the webpages that usually pop up at the start weren't present, and the program took *forever* to connect, Morpheus is most certianly NOT down. If they've been locked out of fasttrack, then Morpheus has carried on its older version of fasttrack. The protocall still works, just not with other fasttrack apps. The network is samll (300 some users and only 260 gigs), but it does exsit. Its connections also seem to be rather shaky, as it's cut out a few times since I started typing this post, but it is capable of searching and downloading. The morpheus network truly does carry on without intervention. Don't belevive those who tell you differently.
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Do you have life insurance? How about car insurance beyond the minimum required liability? Or medical insurance? If you do, you're contradicting yourself. You've considered and prepared for remote possibilities. If you do die tomorrow in a car crash, you've prepared for your loved ones. The car is paid for, your medical bills are paid for and you're paid for. Do you have savings in the remote possibility that you'll lose your job? How about extra fuses in your house? Do you back up your hard drive? All of these are preparations for things that are remote possibilities, yet you are prepared for them. Either be consistant or don't bitch. I personally have plans for a large underground shelter / habitat ala Blast From The Past. While I haven't constructed it cause I have no money, I would like to do so. Maybe I'm paranoid.... Or maybe I'll be laughing when the aliens use their ESP to abduct you and insert an anal probe, then you get turned away from the hospital cause you have no insurance.
I think the quote is "any sufficently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" or something along those lines. While most instances of things like ESP are most likely hoaxes, there's always the possiblity that there are brainwave analyzers implanted into people's heads. People from the future...
It may sound silly, but try your local thrift stores, pawn shops, and garage sales. It's amazing what you'll find there. Recently there was a Tivo of some flavor (don't remember) at Goodwill in West Lafayette, IN for $60. I left to get some cash, came back and it was gone. I was really bummed. But I kept looking around, and recently I got the ReplayTV ShowStopper for $75 at Best Buy. And if all else fails, go to eBay. Around $250 for the 20 hr showstopper. There are also a few online stores that still have it for around the same price. Good luck.
Why would anyone buy this when there are tons of old ShowStopper and older ReplayTV units available used or open-item (I got a ShowStopper 20hr for $75 at BestBuy) for way less? They're incredibly easy to upgrade to obscenely long record times. And their service is free. I can't see any reason to buy a new unit. What additional features could they add? Is this just going to make the old "free" and upgradable models more expensive on the secondary market? Food for thought.
Does fobbit support VOIP -> POTS calls? If not, then it is only good for using the VB in a shared connection or behind a firewall. If it does support VOIP -> POTS, then I'm running out to buy a few of these beasts before they vanish into the ether. I didn't see anything about whether or not VOIP -> POTS was supported on fobbit's site, but the site was running really slow.... Anyway, if anyone knows, I'd love to know, too.
This reminds me of the guy who built his own monorail in his yard. I've gotta wonder which is cheaper per mile. This guy's or the one going in Las Vegas.
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By Rene Sanchez Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 23, 2002; Page A01 LAS VEGAS -- The trains will zip through the heart of the Strip, curving along an elevated track that rises 50 feetabove the ground and dimming their lights on nighttime trips so passengers see the city flash by in all of its gaudy neon splendor. "We want them to think it's like a ride at Disneyland," said Bob Broadbent, who leads the project, "not public transportation." Las Vegas, which never stops thinking big, has just embarked on its most ambitious, costly attempt to solve a problem that once seemed impossible to have in this sprawling desert valley: gridlock. It is building the nation's largest monorail system. Plans call for the line to stretch up to seven miles by the time construction ends later this decade, with stops at most casinos, downtown and the local convention center. Sleek bullet-shaped trains will be run by computers, not drivers, and travel up to 50 miles per hour on a winding route above roadways. There will also be unusual safeguards. Since more than a few riders here are bound to be sloshed by more than a few drinks, every stop will be walled and sealed in glass, with doors timed to open only at the moment trains arrive -- so no one in a stupor falls from a platform. "We had to keep the nature of the city in mind," said Todd Walker, director of communications for the company managing the monorail. The $650 million project is unique -- it will be America's first urban monorail built on a grand scale. But it is not just another Vegas thrill. It is also a sign of a budding revolution in the West. The region is growing faster than any other part of the country. And its population boom is creating so much congestion on roads that for the first time many western cities are getting desperate to coax residents out of their cars and on to some form of mass transit. In Phoenix, officials are making plans for a 20-mile commuter rail, now that voters there have taken the rare step of raising taxes to help pay for the project. Denver is extending some of its new commuter rails and a proposed monorail downtown is a subject of fervent debate. Salt Lake City just opened it first light-rail line. In Seattle, one of the few places in the country besides theme parks that already has a monorail, a measure to expand the one-mile line is heading to the ballot this fall. "Forget about the mentality that this is the frontier. It's not anymore, it's getting crowded," said Robert Dunphy, a senior fellow at the Urban Land Institute. "Cities in the West are realizing that they've got to get more serious about transit. And in some places, they're starting from scratch." No place is trying harder to change its mindset than metropolitan Las Vegas. Its population has nearly doubled in the past decade, and many of the 1.5 million people now living here work or play along the four miles of the Strip. Then there are the tourists. About 35 million of them also swarm the city every year, and most of them arrive or get around in cars. The local bus service has three times as many riders as it did a decade ago. Roads have been widened, and widened again. Local leaders have even gone to the extreme of paying some residents to stop driving. One new program is a citywide game of chance: Anyone who comes to work by bus, bike or commuter van at least four times a month is eligible to enter a weekly drawing that rewards 100 people with $100 each. Dozens of local companies are participating in that campaign by recording how their employees get to work. But the streets are still clogged. Even one recent Monday afternoon, when Las Vegas seemed to be taking a rare nap, several dozen cars were still stacked bumper-to-bumper waiting for traffic signals near the Strip to change. Traffic gets choked so often on Las Vegas Boulevard, which rolls through the center of the Strip, that transit officials no longer print schedules for that bus route. It's anyone's guess when a bus will arrive. At some hours of the day, and especially on weekends, walking from one end of the Strip to the other can take less time than driving. But the gridlock also fouls sidewalks with exhaust fumes. Many residents here say they have stopped coming downtown to restaurants or shows because they are sick of the traffic. "We don't have a way to solve this problem anymore just by continuing to add more roadways," said Jacob Snow, general manager of the Regional Transportation Commission here. "We've become a big city, and we have no choice but to deal with this in a big and a different way." Las Vegas has been contemplating a monorail for nearly 30 years. Twice, plans to build a system similar to the one now being built, collapsed. But the latest attempt appears to have all the financing and political support that it needs. The first four miles of the rail project are being funded entirely with private money raised through tax-free bonds. The second phase, which will add another three miles to the line, will take $300 million in public money. Eight casinos, worried that traffic is beginning to hurt business, also are spending about $5 million each to build monorail station stops on their properties. The monorail's initial line is scheduled to open in two years. Eventually, its backers hope to extend the system to the airport and to the city's expanding suburbs. Monorail officials predict more than 19 million people a year will pay $2.50 for a ride around town that will be cheaper than cabs and faster than buses or cars. The trains will come a few minutes apart and be able to transport 400 people. But the project, in keeping with the Vegas spirit, is a big gamble. Several neighboring casinos already are linked by free trams that are popular, but Las Vegas has never placed a larger bet on a form of public transportation that is foreign to many of its residents and visitors. Other western cities are facing similar doubts that rails will cure their growing problems with gridlock. In Arizona, voters placed a 20-year limit on the transportation tax they approved for a rail system, in case it flops. Some western lawmakers also say such projects are unnecessary or too expensive. "This is the kind of place where the car has always been such a big part of your life, some people hardly even know that we have buses," said Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman. "We're trying to give them incentives to get out of their cars, but it takes more than a pittance. It could be very difficult to change people's habits. But there's no question we'll have to if we keep growing like this. What's happening is phenomenal, and there's no end in sight." Planners already are working on strategies to make the monorail enticing. New technology may allow passengers to ride trains by using the same key card they use for their hotel rooms, with charges showing up on their bill when they check out. Frequent riders also may get discount passes. Walker, a Las Vegas native, expects locals to board, too. "It used to take only about 10 minutes to get pretty much anywhere in town," he said. "Now, you almost always have to figure that it's going to take at least half an hour. People are really getting tired of all the headaches of traffic." A nonprofit corporation whose board is appointed by Nevada's governor is managing the monorail system. The state legislature also backs the project. Delegations from other western cities have come to study its blueprint. Monorail officials say they are confident the system will eliminate millions of car trips. They are already promoting it with heavy doses of Vegas glitz. The groundbreaking ceremony last fall featured an Elvis impersonator and showgirls. "Everyone has known for years we need something like this," said Broadbent, the monorail chairman. He is a former county commissioner in Las Vegas who saw the earlier projects fail. "This is just the first time we've got just about everyone to agree it's feasible. We really don't have any other choices. "We're growing so much," he said, "it has to be successful." © 2002 The Washington Post Company
Is there a Katz bites website? Cause advertising his book on Slashdot is pretty low.... Maybe it would be a hare more aceptable if one of the other editors had posted it, but it would still reek of self promotion. Who let the katz out? I don't know, but they'd better reign him back in! Snoogans.
I found some of what you've described, only larger.... closer to a foot in size. Do I open them up nad put them on the turntable?
They plan to build a turbine above the computer and sell the power to *other* supercomputers as "better" power.
Actually, I work 3rd shift. You learn very quickly to dissociate any particular time with being "normal." Personally, I'd prefer that the world run on millitary-style GMT and be done with it. No more troubles with time zones. You say to someone in Singapore call at 14:30 and you'll get a phone call at 14:30. No more confusion about who's time to use or what time it is someplace far away. This is a long-overdue change in peoples' worldview.
We might not have daylight savings time
You say that like it's bad. DST is just plain stupid. Let's fool ourselves by resetting the clocks!
Silent Bob's mom is the assessor of our township here and they just had a service come in and drive around the entire township videotaping every house / lot. Then she had to sit thru *hours upon hours* of boring videotapes deciding which frame was best for the database. It took a ton of people to do it, and that's just for a little township. do one block of your neighborhood and you'll be sick of it. by the time you get to your local quick stop, you'll be so sick of it, you'll want to destroy all the footage. That's why it takes lots of people. everyone does a little bit and nobody goes totally nuts. Snoogans
sounds like Microsoft's been stuffing the ballot box again. Bloody savages.
It's no joke, buddy... the article is from March 26. It just took until today for somebody to find it.
All of the out of work pigeons can go to work at Google now, making Google even better and faster. So much for that new-fangled Tahoma search engine.
My dialup always stayed under 28.8.... It got to 28.8 once or twice on my 56k, but never above it, and almost never to it.... There were times when it was under 9600 for days at a time. The phone company (Ameritech) was quite unfriendly and unwilling to do anything about it. We've had other problems, such as hearing neighbors in the lines when making calls. And the lines buzz really bad when it's damp outside.... The phone company doesn't really care. We gave up on dialup when AT&T rolled out cable in our area. we were the 1st people to sign up and will be the last to sign off.
Me and Silent Bob love the Ogg Vorbis format. We are strong supporters of the open source. Except this tubby bitch never says anything! But when he doies release information it's usually important shit, not useless stuff.... So I guess tubby here is more of the closed source type, but I am 100% open source. I don't leave nothing unsaid. Bong.
Is not AIM P2P when two users are "directly connected" as when they are transfering files, pictures, or just typing to each other? If not then what are they directly connected to? I was under the impression that if I was directly connected to someone and the AOL servers ceased to exist, I could continue my conversation with them until one of us severed the link.
They compete by being free and "bundled" with your car. That's how Microsoft kicked Netscape's ass. This is like Netscape trying to squeze its way in after Internet Explorer had been the standard forever...
Does anyone know what this means for BountyQuest? Has it been a cruel joke all along? Just curious....
read the articles linked to above on ZeroPaid. basically, the kazaa network allows for automatic upgrades propagated thru the network itself. A recent "upgrade" is what killed morpheus. It's a fatal flaw with kazaa. Read the ZeroPaid articles for a better explination.
by Nintendo for ripping off their next-generation Game Cube. Seriously, that thing does remind me of a Nintendo Gamecube. maybe it's the cutsey logo thing on the side... I'm not sure
An Athlon 4 with water-cooling would just produce steam.
Morpeus is NOT down! After I read this, I fired up the program, and while the webpages that usually pop up at the start weren't present, and the program took *forever* to connect, Morpheus is most certianly NOT down. If they've been locked out of fasttrack, then Morpheus has carried on its older version of fasttrack. The protocall still works, just not with other fasttrack apps. The network is samll (300 some users and only 260 gigs), but it does exsit. Its connections also seem to be rather shaky, as it's cut out a few times since I started typing this post, but it is capable of searching and downloading. The morpheus network truly does carry on without intervention. Don't belevive those who tell you differently.