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Actually my DirecTiVo. Beautiful digital signal from the bird so high in the sky straight to disk. No recompresssion. Far higher quality than this or any other PVR (other than DishNetwork's PVR).
I travel to washington DC from time to time and like to visit the gift shops at the smithsoneon museums. The one in the basement of American History has a particularly good collection of books for sale. If the book is reasonable, I buy it. If it's overpriced, I take out the digital camera (not an unusual thing to have in a musuem) and snap a photo of the ISBN number then visit Half.com when I get back to the office and buy it, often for half of what I saw it for in the bookstore.
This is the only reason I can see for having a camera equiped phone, a different sort of notepad.
I was an early adopter of NetFlix and then gave up on them when it was taking 2 weeks to turn around DVDs. Joined back up again a few months ago and service has improved a bit.
I joing WallyWorld's service as soon as I heard about it. I was shocked at how badly their service sucks. 9 freaking mailing days (Mon-Sat) to get my first DVD after signing up. Then I put them head to head against Netflix, mailing back DVDs on the same day from the same mailbacks. Netflix beat WalMart by 2 days on the first try and 4 days on the second. They didn't get a 3rd. I cancelled the WalMart service.
Netflix used to try really hard to please customers, now they've gotten so big that they no longer seem to care.
Monday: put DVD in mail
Tuesday: in postal transit
Wednesday: arrives in at NetFlix in Pennsyltucky. Netflix staffers place it on a shelf, go out for lattes.
Thursday: Inspected and marked as returned in Netflix database, send email to me acknowledging receipt, more lattes
Friday: Things starting to pile up, no lates today. Next DVD on my queue picked and mailed out
Monday, often Tuesday: next DVD arrives.
Back when NetFlix's only distribution house was in California turn around to the east coast was not that much different, sometimes better. They've taken 4 days advantage by adding more distribution houses and pissed it away with internal bottlenecks.
Their database quality has also suffered recently. You used to be able to get full information about what each DVD offered. Some movies I'd like to see again if they've got director commentary. This info used to be easier to come by, now it's hit or miss. Both WalMart and Netflix insist on breaking up special feature DVDs from the main disc which drives me nuts.
If WallyMart can get them off their rear ends, I'm all for it.
When I finally upgraded to a decent digital camera (Canon G3 FWIW), I looked into finally getting a decent color printer. After wading through the "photo quality" jargon and looking at the real cost per page, I decided to skip it all together.
Even assuming a lifetime of 5 years for the printer (which is laughable these days) once you buy photo paper, cartridges and the like, even if you print 3 4x6 prints per page, you are looking at around $1 per page minimum. And those prints will fade in a matter of weeks so you've got to pony up for the archival quality (read: expensive) inks which aren't readily available in bulk to do your own refills with.
So what to do? When I need a couple of shots printed onto 4x5, 5x7 or 8x10, I pop those photos on a compact flash card and head down to my local WalMart. for $.26 a print I get very good quality on good quality Fuji paper. If it's something I really care about and want Kodak paper, I use ofoto.com. They are a bit more expensive ($.47 per 4x6 print) and you've got to pay for shipping and wait a couple of days for them to arrive, but the quality is top notch.
If you can create better looking icons than hers while subject to the same conditions and limitations
I contend that she did nothing special because if she didn't do it, someone else would have and the results would have been identical because of those limitations.
that they should put the good of the students ahead of any politics. That being said, the gift should be politely turned down. The best education these students could receive is a broad one.
That is, one that doesn't show any bias towards or against any one company's products. An education that includes zero microsoft products could be just as harmful as one that includes 100% microsoft products.
Fast forward to the first interviewer saying to a kid "What do you mean you've never heard of Visual Basic?"
There are always extreemists on both sides of an issue. Sometimes they suck, sometimes they don't.
Gotta disagree here, but it is a matter of perspective. In a idiological clean room environment (not unlike academia or even the extreme left or right wing media at times) extremists might not suck but in the real world where these problems not only have to be dealt with but ultimately solved, extremism always sucks, mostly because it grinds the wheels of change to a halt.
While extremist views and their proposed solutions do a marvelous job of bringing out a dialog, they refuse to embrace something that is very necessary for any solution to come about, compromise.
Martin Luther King when he was alive was generally regarded by the media as a dangerous radical, much more Al Sharpton than Jessie Jackson. Nelson Mandela was an extreemist too.
A very good example but King wasn't the extremist. He was an educated man raised in a loving middle class home. His approach to the problem of race relations was very difference from Malcom X's. King looked at race problems from both sides and tried to get people to focus on the root of the problem. King certainly wasn't a centralist but he wasn't an extremist either. That's why he was so successful.
Malcom X was an extremist. Growing up in poverty, having the clan burn a cross in your yard and having your father killed, then your mother suffer a nervous breakdown will do that to a boy.
Sometimes the right position is pretty damn extreeme, there is no middle ground. There is no middle ground on slavery for example.
Another good point but theres more at play than just a possition but the implementation of that possition as well. It's still possible to acheive a compromise even with a fairly extreme possition by easing into that solution, either in phases or simply by capturing more flies with honey than with vinegar
Getting back to the topic at hand. The solution the scientific journal editors have come up with, self censorship, is a good one because it is extreme but implemented in a way that isn't. Govt implemented censorship, now that's extreme. At least here the ones with the knowledge are deciding what should and shouldn't be published.
Do we limit access to information that might be useful to terorists in the name of security, or do we make it freely available in the name of intellectual freedom.
There are extremists on both sides of this topic. Extremists suck though.
The answer lies in the middle, but nobody wants to discuss that. They just want to criticise the other extremists.
I put a WiFi access point I was no longer using up on eBay, within hours someone had clicked on "buy it now". I emailed the guy a bunch of times but he never responded. After 7 day's I'd had enough so I left him negative feedback, within minutes he'd retaliated leaving me negative feedback.
Looking at this clown's feedback, this looked like this was how he got his jollies. Usually used "buy it now" so that the seller wouldn't have a chance to remove the bid.
So I filled a non-paying bidder complaint, and a request to have the feedback removed. Ebay not only removed the feedback (mine and his), they suspended the idiot's account, and refunded the fees on the auction, all within 36 hours of my complaint. Sure Ebay has a few hoops to jump through but they dont make it needlessly hard. If this lawyer really thought the feedback was wrong and it was going to cause him harm he should have gone through things the right way and not run off to court. Heck he could have hired an arbitrator for $20 and gotten it removed.
If we can pause from the "mile high" jokes for a minute...
This Lufthansa flight and the British Airways one that starts between JFK and LHR on Saturday use the Boeing. This technology is very different than the one being touted by Airbus. For one, the Connextion is up and running.
Airbus tapped Tenzing of Seattle to create a system which periodically connects to the net to upload/download email update a few webpages stored on a server aboard the aircraft. That's right, it's not live access to the net. Connection speeds for the Tenzing solution are slower than most dialup connections.
So whats the difference? I'm guessing Tenzing is using the same technology as airphones, while Boeing is probably using a newer satellite technology (they have a satellite division)
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Actually my DirecTiVo. Beautiful digital signal from the bird so high in the sky straight to disk. No recompresssion. Far higher quality than this or any other PVR (other than DishNetwork's PVR).
I travel to washington DC from time to time and like to visit the gift shops at the smithsoneon museums. The one in the basement of American History has a particularly good collection of books for sale. If the book is reasonable, I buy it. If it's overpriced, I take out the digital camera (not an unusual thing to have in a musuem) and snap a photo of the ISBN number then visit Half.com when I get back to the office and buy it, often for half of what I saw it for in the bookstore.
This is the only reason I can see for having a camera equiped phone, a different sort of notepad.
I was an early adopter of NetFlix and then gave up on them when it was taking 2 weeks to turn around DVDs. Joined back up again a few months ago and service has improved a bit. I joing WallyWorld's service as soon as I heard about it. I was shocked at how badly their service sucks. 9 freaking mailing days (Mon-Sat) to get my first DVD after signing up. Then I put them head to head against Netflix, mailing back DVDs on the same day from the same mailbacks. Netflix beat WalMart by 2 days on the first try and 4 days on the second. They didn't get a 3rd. I cancelled the WalMart service.
Netflix used to try really hard to please customers, now they've gotten so big that they no longer seem to care.
Back when NetFlix's only distribution house was in California turn around to the east coast was not that much different, sometimes better. They've taken 4 days advantage by adding more distribution houses and pissed it away with internal bottlenecks.
Their database quality has also suffered recently. You used to be able to get full information about what each DVD offered. Some movies I'd like to see again if they've got director commentary. This info used to be easier to come by, now it's hit or miss. Both WalMart and Netflix insist on breaking up special feature DVDs from the main disc which drives me nuts.
If WallyMart can get them off their rear ends, I'm all for it.
It would eliminate the protection problems any of these music download sales thingies impose.
Star Wars !!!!! Linux !!!!!! Intel? Now if this only mentioned Apple, it would be the perfect Slashtop topic
When I finally upgraded to a decent digital camera (Canon G3 FWIW), I looked into finally getting a decent color printer. After wading through the "photo quality" jargon and looking at the real cost per page, I decided to skip it all together.
Even assuming a lifetime of 5 years for the printer (which is laughable these days) once you buy photo paper, cartridges and the like, even if you print 3 4x6 prints per page, you are looking at around $1 per page minimum. And those prints will fade in a matter of weeks so you've got to pony up for the archival quality (read: expensive) inks which aren't readily available in bulk to do your own refills with.
So what to do? When I need a couple of shots printed onto 4x5, 5x7 or 8x10, I pop those photos on a compact flash card and head down to my local WalMart. for $.26 a print I get very good quality on good quality Fuji paper. If it's something I really care about and want Kodak paper, I use ofoto.com. They are a bit more expensive ($.47 per 4x6 print) and you've got to pay for shipping and wait a couple of days for them to arrive, but the quality is top notch.
Who needs a printer.Am I the only one who isn't sick of this already.
If you can create better looking icons than hers while subject to the same conditions and limitations
I contend that she did nothing special because if she didn't do it, someone else would have and the results would have been identical because of those limitations.
Tell me again why we are supposed to care about this? There is only so much you can put on a 16x16 canvas.
happen to be over the serial number?
And I love it. Great camera. This is a good question. Engineering often overlooks form factor and usability.
the link shows the results of a test and says absolutely nothing about Adobe declaring any platform "preferred."
Whats with this description.
Who buys software at Office Depot anyway? Their prices aren't exactly stellar.
What should manufacturers of networking equipement and software do help their customers security efforts?
that they should put the good of the students ahead of any politics. That being said, the gift should be politely turned down. The best education these students could receive is a broad one.
That is, one that doesn't show any bias towards or against any one company's products. An education that includes zero microsoft products could be just as harmful as one that includes 100% microsoft products.
Fast forward to the first interviewer saying to a kid "What do you mean you've never heard of Visual Basic?"
... Slashdotters sure seem to follow the same fads religiously, especially with entertainment. Linux,LOTR,Apple,Farscape, and apparantly Buffy
These retailers are more than welcome to track anything and everything until I've paid for it because until that point, it belongs to them.
There are always extreemists on both sides of an issue. Sometimes they suck, sometimes they don't.
Gotta disagree here, but it is a matter of perspective. In a idiological clean room environment (not unlike academia or even the extreme left or right wing media at times) extremists might not suck but in the real world where these problems not only have to be dealt with but ultimately solved, extremism always sucks, mostly because it grinds the wheels of change to a halt.
While extremist views and their proposed solutions do a marvelous job of bringing out a dialog, they refuse to embrace something that is very necessary for any solution to come about, compromise.
Martin Luther King when he was alive was generally regarded by the media as a dangerous radical, much more Al Sharpton than Jessie Jackson. Nelson Mandela was an extreemist too.
A very good example but King wasn't the extremist. He was an educated man raised in a loving middle class home. His approach to the problem of race relations was very difference from Malcom X's. King looked at race problems from both sides and tried to get people to focus on the root of the problem. King certainly wasn't a centralist but he wasn't an extremist either. That's why he was so successful.
Malcom X was an extremist. Growing up in poverty, having the clan burn a cross in your yard and having your father killed, then your mother suffer a nervous breakdown will do that to a boy.
Sometimes the right position is pretty damn extreeme, there is no middle ground. There is no middle ground on slavery for example.
Another good point but theres more at play than just a possition but the implementation of that possition as well. It's still possible to acheive a compromise even with a fairly extreme possition by easing into that solution, either in phases or simply by capturing more flies with honey than with vinegar
Getting back to the topic at hand. The solution the scientific journal editors have come up with, self censorship, is a good one because it is extreme but implemented in a way that isn't. Govt implemented censorship, now that's extreme. At least here the ones with the knowledge are deciding what should and shouldn't be published.
Do we limit access to information that might be useful to terorists in the name of security, or do we make it freely available in the name of intellectual freedom.
There are extremists on both sides of this topic. Extremists suck though.
The answer lies in the middle, but nobody wants to discuss that. They just want to criticise the other extremists.
Looking at this clown's feedback, this looked like this was how he got his jollies. Usually used "buy it now" so that the seller wouldn't have a chance to remove the bid.
So I filled a non-paying bidder complaint, and a request to have the feedback removed. Ebay not only removed the feedback (mine and his), they suspended the idiot's account, and refunded the fees on the auction, all within 36 hours of my complaint. Sure Ebay has a few hoops to jump through but they dont make it needlessly hard. If this lawyer really thought the feedback was wrong and it was going to cause him harm he should have gone through things the right way and not run off to court. Heck he could have hired an arbitrator for $20 and gotten it removed.
They make really good computers, cant we just stop there? Isn't that good enough? Do we need to build a tranluscent plastic alter?
It's not Linux based.
This Lufthansa flight and the British Airways one that starts between JFK and LHR on Saturday use the Boeing. This technology is very different than the one being touted by Airbus. For one, the Connextion is up and running.
Airbus tapped Tenzing of Seattle to create a system which periodically connects to the net to upload/download email update a few webpages stored on a server aboard the aircraft. That's right, it's not live access to the net. Connection speeds for the Tenzing solution are slower than most dialup connections.
So whats the difference? I'm guessing Tenzing is using the same technology as airphones, while Boeing is probably using a newer satellite technology (they have a satellite division)
mod this flamebait if you must but I gotta ask, what does it really matter what OS it's running?
It could run TRS-DOS for all I care as long as it gets the job done efficiently.