I can't imagine there are a large number of people who are not only going to read the flyer, but take it home and remember to get on their computer and type in a URL from it. The "parking ticket" gambit seems pretty weak too if you look around and notice two things:
I mean for this infection to work, the victim has to be not only stupid, but also not lazy. It has to have a low infection rate.
I'll admit, the parking ticket might catch me enough to get to the site if the URL was realistic enough. Something ending in a foreign domain or some completely "out there" URL would set off my flags right away, but a good enough parking ticket scam might nail me at first.
But the instant I'd have to install something I'd stop what I was doing. I wouldn't care if the domain ended in.gov, I am very particular about what goes onto my PCs. I'd immediately look for alternative routes like the city's or county's official website and/or phone number.
As for parking, if you parked at a meter then maybe you could think that the cop misread the thing and issued it by mistake. My friend was given a parking ticket at his company's campus in error, and he had to argue with them over it. I'd imagine people think mistakes happen.
... The one interesting idea brought to the table was the idea of a "subscription fee" for music... pay a monthly fee and listen to _whatever_ you want. I'm not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, I kinda like it as a compromise between DRM and piracy, but on the other hand, it doesn't seem like that would _stop_ piracy at all.
The subscription thing has been done. There are one or two mainstream services that offer that. Some people love it, others hate it.
Personally I'm not a fan, while listening to anything I want on-demand is cool I hate subscriptions, particularly for something like this.
I'm not that into music. On average I buy maybe 1-2 songs a month from iTunes, more if I get a gift card or want a whole album. That's $24-$36 USD per year with the latest variable prices, and I get to keep my music.
If I was REALLY into music and listed to a LOT of stuff then I could see the benefit. But for me, i'm fine with the occasional song purchase.
Eh, in some ways they aren't wrong with it getting a bad wrap in the general public's eyes.
I started using Vista not too long ago as my secondary OS (primary being OS X). My only problems have been UAC, some performance loss, and that my laptop doesn't have 64-bit drives for everything (so I'm stuck on 32-bit).
Save for my first day where I was still getting everything installed/patched, it hasn't crashed on me.
Do I think it's great or awe-inspiring? No. Do I think it's garbage? No. Do I think there's room for improvement? Yes.
Most of the people I've spoken that said Vista sucks had either not used it or only used it for 5 minutes. The ones that didn't use it just said "well, because I heard it's horrible."
So in the end, I'd say Vista did get a bad wrap in some sense. People are just repeating what they heard from TV or their nephew.
Personally I think 1 release is enough (2 if you count 32 vs 64 bit). OS X does just fine with usability, meanwhile it still has all/most of the features you could want for either home or business.
Barring that, they should have 2 or MAYBE 3 (4 or 6 if you count 32 vs 64 bit).
Home - everything you need for home and then some. Basic stuff plus video editing and such.
Professional - everything you need for business and then some. Basic stuff plus domain handling, encryption, etc.
MAYBE an Ultimate - all features from both Home and Professional
Once you start throwing in Home Basic, Professional Advanced, etc it starts to get too confusing. If you MUST segregate the features, then the 3-package should be fine.
I think their problem is that games are treated more like movies, and less like cigarettes and alcohol. And to them that seems like a bad thing.
An easy-going cashier might sell a violent game to some 8-year-old without a care in the world. I've seen it happen with films at the theater, rentals at a BlockBuster, and games at a GameStop.
As with most things, video games shouldn't be a federal matter but a family one. Parents need to take an active role in their kids lives and not just hand over wads of cash or buy something because they want it.
Parents should be vigilant about what they're buying for their kids: a box with dismembered corpses on the cover might require a millisecond of thought when buying for a 5-year-old.
Parents should keep track of what their kids are doing with their money. Personally when I was a kid I didn't have access to a lot of disposable income
etc
I've mentioned it in the past, but my favorite anecdote about this whole thing took place while waiting in line at a GameStop. Some mother was asking the cashier if he thinks she should buy DeadRising for her really young kid. He told her about the ratings and described the game, but she STILL didn't want the responsibility of making the decision herself and kept asking for him to make the decision..
I was thinking of the early seasons where Earth-based episodes were rare one-shots; they'd occur maybe once or twice per season. IE they find a relic on Earth, or discover an ancient imprisoned alien, or follow around an amnesiac alien that's writing an SG-1 TV show, or find an experiment gone wrong, etc.
The beginning of the Ba'al clone storyline and "The Trust" storylines were pretty weak. It was one thing to be on Earth but they just weren't really that interesting. Oh no! He's going to blow up his building... But I don't recall either storyline last too long as the primary threat.
As for the Ba'al clones, I did enjoy 2 moments. The first where the capture a whole bunch and the second is the direct-to-DVD movie Continuum.
So far, the only direct UK->US remake that I thoroughly enjoy is "Life on Mars." I think it's a great show and they're doing a wonderful job. That being said I only saw a few minutes of the UK version so I can't say that I like the US version more... just that I think it's excellent. However I'd imagine that I'd "get" the 70's US styles/culture/references more than the 70's UK styles/culture/references.
The America version of "The Office" is... alright. The British version only had a few episodes (quality episodes, but too few). I have to say I'm finding Steve Carell to be too over-the-top-annoying. I pretty much only watch the show now for the B-story, which is pretty much what the rest of the office is doing when Michael isn't around.
Anyways, the first time I saw them on Earth I thought "What a cop-out". Same with Stargate SG-1 actually..
What do you mean about SG-1? The squad was always based on Earth since its creation. Sure there were the occasional episodes/missions that took place on Earth but that kind of makes sense as they were defending their planet from invasion. Besides, the offword sets were never that elaborate... maybe a CGI shot of a building and then a modified corridor with curved metal and some flashing screens.
If you mean Stargate Atlantis, it was only a matter of time before they were able to make contact with Earth again; and even then Earth episodes were pretty rare.
The u[recent]u Battlestar Galactica is alright, as it's the end of the series and signifies what they thought/hoped was the end of their journey. Meanwhile you don't see any real buildings/landscapes.
I was pretty young back during the Challenger disaster; I was just passed the age of where we start actually storing memories into adult-hood.
I recall our school making a big deal about it: they quickly rushed radios and what few TVs we had into the classrooms so we could follow the news. A few days/weeks later we planted a tree near the playground in memory of the crew.
From what I remember it didn't really affect me. I remember I was shocked (I think I said "Wow" or something), as back then I thought NASA was some overly-ideal and perfect organization... but that's about it.
I do recall my teacher looked either sad or shaken while we were watching, and maybe a few kids cried, but that's about it.
Recent events are another story. But back then the intricacies were lost on me.
Dude - you're overthinking - you need to get out more.
A troll, but I'll bite.
I was merely responding the comment saying that Battlestar Galactica runs past the moral issues. When in fact a LOT of the show has specifically focused on the moral gray areas the fictional characters must deal with.
Sure some of the problems only get an episode when in fact they would be an on-going problem but if they tackled all of the past issues every episode they wouldn't have any time for plot advancement.
I'm not saying it's a paragon television nor is it an exercise in moral and ethical stand points. I'm just saying that they don't run past the issues. They merely point them out, discuss them, reveal that they aren't perfect, and move on.
I wouldn't say they run past them. There were a few where they dedicated the whole episode to a moral question and how some really had no perfect solution.
Others had entire seasons (or the entire story) to deal with: the occupation, what is "alive", is mass-deception OK, etc.
The conditions and rebellion on New Caprica were done well (which lasted 1/2 a season) and "Baltar becoming a cult-like leader of a monotheistic religion" has played out pretty well.
Other small 1-episode shots that were done well:
The forced medication episode was another:
What happens when the beliefs of a few, risk the lives of the whole?
A group of people contracted a disease that was easily treatable, but refused medicine on religious grounds.
So the disease spread like wildfire amongst them, while exposing the rest of the fleet.
With medicine a scarce resource like in the show you'd want to stop an outbreak before it got out of control, which they made impossible.
The whole "inherited jobs" and "labor issue on the refinery ship" was one that stood out.
With so few people available it became a big question of who worka which job
Travel between the specialized ships (mining, refinery, fuel, etc) was limited. People just "lived" there, raised a family, and showed them the trade on the ship.
Would new people get trained? Or would it just turn into a cast system? Would anyone without the last name Adama ever run the fleet?
And even the sympathetic protagonist's seemingly ideal solution was flawed. People got roped into jobs they weren't fit for.
Should working with farm machinery for a summer abroad qualify you into working on dangerous machinery at the refinery?
Treating the black and grey markets was interesting.
In the context of the show, the black market kept the fleet running.
They weren't trying to make the survivors seem like a close-knit extended family like the original series: you didn't get something for nothing.
But then you look at the darker aspects of the market and you have to wonder where you draw the line. What is going too far? Should it exist at all?
I'd imagine a good system would count the number of cars that have passed through the green and the number of cars waiting at the red, and toggle accordingly.
This one just stinks, and it's not like the lesser-road is a dirt road. Though only 1-lane each way, it has the same speed limit and is one of the 2 ways to get to the flippin highway.
A friend says he thinks they've changed something, but I don't know as I avoid that light like the plague. I'd rather take the other way to the highway if that's how they're going to be.
One thing I've alwasy thought would help a lot would be better traffic control systems. Governments don't really have a big incentive to really optimize these systems and I think that great strides could be made in improving them. I always wind up spending several minutes every time I go to work sitting at lights when there is no traffic going the other way. That should never happen. Better and more intelligent systems would mean faster commutes, less idling at red lights, and fewer cars on the road at any one time since travel times would be shorter.
I agree.
When I heard they were going to put some sensors on a couple of the busy intersections by me I was thrilled. I though it would do the perfect option: intelligently manage the lights so people aren't waiting when nobody is coming from the perpendicular direction.
Fast-forward to a few months later and it's a joke. The lights tend to favor the "main" road, meaning that the lighter road now waits a LONG time until X cars approach the light on it.
While on one hand this makes sense, it sucks after rush hour when there's nobody on any of the roads and you're stuck waiting on the lighter road's light for 3x as long even though nobody is coming perpendicularly.
It sucks waiting there an ungodly amount of time at 11PM, praying that some more cars will approach the red light to cause it to trigger.
...Besides there is no important information that you can get on TV that you cant get via the Radio. You may actually get it faster via the radio.
While radio will give you all news that TV does (and more), TV has one advantage I haven't noticed on radio (perhaps it's just me).
Network TV will display important and/or major events along the bottom of their shows. Amber Alerts, plane crashes, some shootings, weather/flood alerts, etc.
This obviously gets the word out immediately even though you're not near a news broadcast. You could be watching "30 Rock" or a rerun of "Seinfeld" and a message will appear letting you know of something major.
I don't recall radio halting a song to give me an Amber Alert or info about a plane crash. If the station is known for news breaks then they'd mention it during their breaks.
For some neighborhoods (like mine) they just use the existing telephone phone poles, so maybe they did yours already.
They did my entire street in a day or 2, and you wouldn't have known unless you drove by them or saw them doing the length in front of your house. Personally I'd rather they went the trench route, but oh well.
In any case, it's always refreshing to hear a happy Comcast customer. It's such a rarity (or at least was back when they were my cable company).
Back when I had Verizon's 3mbit DSL my speeds would be relatively close to the promise. Sure, some websites could max out quickly, but overall I was close to my limit. The same would go for if I downloaded multiple files simultaneously, their combined speed would be close to 3 mbit.
Now with Verizon Fios, I am once again hitting my speed (or very close to it) more most of my downloading.
About 'Instant Queue', it's a security feature. They want you to queue your movies by logging into your account, because they assume you might attach your neighbor's TiVo to the service, but not share your NetFlix account details with them.
Yet another bad idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas.
Why not add in a DivX player too while you're at it?
Now...if the $300 bought me a built in open source DVR and the Netflix gateway was included, I'd be interested.
Explain to me why this is a bad idea.
Netflix is about RENTING movies.
They (currently) offer their OnDemand service for as a free bonus to your rental subscription. It's better than the free OnDemand services your cable provider offers.
Until recently, their OnDemand service was only available on PCs using Silverlight. Little-by-little set-top boxes are being released to allow viewing on the TV.
B is a non-issue for the majority of recent computers. That said, it's still a problem for older harder, and especially for some older peripherals (scanners, printers, etc.). Even for the things which the manufacturers still support, the 64-bit drivers may only be available on the manufacturer's site and not the CD it came with, and the non-tech savvy will have issues and blame it on the OS.
Some laptops, even those about 1 year old, have hardware that manufacturers don't support on Vista 64-bit. It's quite annoying.
I'm not talking about the sellers like Dell and such, but the companies that make the components: wireless, bluetooth, etc.
Mine is from Q3 2007 (which is when it was released) and its wireless and bluetooth do not have Vista 64 drivers.
I don't use wireless ALL the time, but I need it a couple of times a month when I drag my laptop around for work or personal time. Bluetooth I can live without as I can use an ordinary USB dongle for my cellphone to sync.
It's a simple matter to bring about a civil suit, even a large number of them. At that point it's just the plaintiff vs the defendant, each doing their own to win the case.
But getting a number of DAs across the country to all-of-a-sudden take on a several concurrent prosecutions of illegal file sharing is another matter. Criminal courts are busy enough already, and getting a number of prosecutors and investigators to prepare a trial for all of these people would be taxing our resources.
In short, if they went the criminal route they'd start facing major opposition from the state or federal governments.
Which means since I mostly use ot for development I reach this stage after a few hours of work.
You see, that's what I don't get. No offense, but was the Air really the best machine for development?
I thought it was a neat little laptop, but I avoided it specifically because of my machine needs: a programmer's rig.
Now if I wanted a small laptop that I carried around with me to do minor things then I might consider it as it looks like it might travel better, but it would be a secondary machine to my coding rig (be it a MB Pro or a Desktop)..
Vala found out she was going to be questioned and tested to see if she was worthy to join the SGC. They wanted to know if she was trustworthy and if her psych profile was suitable.
To practice she started reading common human/english psych questions to prepare for the test by visiting various websites, even though the C.O. said practicing for such things doesn't help.
She was reading allowed while practicing and got to the popular tortoise question. After reading it out loud and thinking for a sec she responded "Because I too am a tortoise."
The joke being that she had to idea what a tortoise was, being an alien and all.
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I can't imagine there are a large number of people who are not only going to read the flyer, but take it home and remember to get on their computer and type in a URL from it. The "parking ticket" gambit seems pretty weak too if you look around and notice two things:
1. You are parked legally
2. Everybody else has these "tickets"
And that's before you notice that your local government is using a website like: http://qlmbix.ch/parkingticets.html
I mean for this infection to work, the victim has to be not only stupid, but also not lazy. It has to have a low infection rate.
I'll admit, the parking ticket might catch me enough to get to the site if the URL was realistic enough. Something ending in a foreign domain or some completely "out there" URL would set off my flags right away, but a good enough parking ticket scam might nail me at first.
But the instant I'd have to install something I'd stop what I was doing. I wouldn't care if the domain ended in .gov, I am very particular about what goes onto my PCs. I'd immediately look for alternative routes like the city's or county's official website and/or phone number.
As for parking, if you parked at a meter then maybe you could think that the cop misread the thing and issued it by mistake. My friend was given a parking ticket at his company's campus in error, and he had to argue with them over it. I'd imagine people think mistakes happen.
...
The one interesting idea brought to the table was the idea of a "subscription fee" for music... pay a monthly fee and listen to _whatever_ you want. I'm not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, I kinda like it as a compromise between DRM and piracy, but on the other hand, it doesn't seem like that would _stop_ piracy at all.
The subscription thing has been done. There are one or two mainstream services that offer that. Some people love it, others hate it.
Personally I'm not a fan, while listening to anything I want on-demand is cool I hate subscriptions, particularly for something like this.
I'm not that into music. On average I buy maybe 1-2 songs a month from iTunes, more if I get a gift card or want a whole album. That's $24-$36 USD per year with the latest variable prices, and I get to keep my music.
If I was REALLY into music and listed to a LOT of stuff then I could see the benefit. But for me, i'm fine with the occasional song purchase.
Eh, in some ways they aren't wrong with it getting a bad wrap in the general public's eyes.
I started using Vista not too long ago as my secondary OS (primary being OS X). My only problems have been UAC, some performance loss, and that my laptop doesn't have 64-bit drives for everything (so I'm stuck on 32-bit).
Save for my first day where I was still getting everything installed/patched, it hasn't crashed on me.
Do I think it's great or awe-inspiring? No.
Do I think it's garbage? No.
Do I think there's room for improvement? Yes.
Most of the people I've spoken that said Vista sucks had either not used it or only used it for 5 minutes. The ones that didn't use it just said "well, because I heard it's horrible."
So in the end, I'd say Vista did get a bad wrap in some sense. People are just repeating what they heard from TV or their nephew.
Personally I think 1 release is enough (2 if you count 32 vs 64 bit). OS X does just fine with usability, meanwhile it still has all/most of the features you could want for either home or business.
Barring that, they should have 2 or MAYBE 3 (4 or 6 if you count 32 vs 64 bit).
Once you start throwing in Home Basic, Professional Advanced, etc it starts to get too confusing. If you MUST segregate the features, then the 3-package should be fine.
I think their problem is that games are treated more like movies, and less like cigarettes and alcohol. And to them that seems like a bad thing.
An easy-going cashier might sell a violent game to some 8-year-old without a care in the world. I've seen it happen with films at the theater, rentals at a BlockBuster, and games at a GameStop.
As with most things, video games shouldn't be a federal matter but a family one. Parents need to take an active role in their kids lives and not just hand over wads of cash or buy something because they want it.
I've mentioned it in the past, but my favorite anecdote about this whole thing took place while waiting in line at a GameStop. Some mother was asking the cashier if he thinks she should buy DeadRising for her really young kid. He told her about the ratings and described the game, but she STILL didn't want the responsibility of making the decision herself and kept asking for him to make the decision..
No problem, looking back I can see what you mean.
I was thinking of the early seasons where Earth-based episodes were rare one-shots; they'd occur maybe once or twice per season. IE they find a relic on Earth, or discover an ancient imprisoned alien, or follow around an amnesiac alien that's writing an SG-1 TV show, or find an experiment gone wrong, etc.
The beginning of the Ba'al clone storyline and "The Trust" storylines were pretty weak. It was one thing to be on Earth but they just weren't really that interesting. Oh no! He's going to blow up his building... But I don't recall either storyline last too long as the primary threat.
As for the Ba'al clones, I did enjoy 2 moments. The first where the capture a whole bunch and the second is the direct-to-DVD movie Continuum.
So far, the only direct UK->US remake that I thoroughly enjoy is "Life on Mars." I think it's a great show and they're doing a wonderful job. That being said I only saw a few minutes of the UK version so I can't say that I like the US version more... just that I think it's excellent. However I'd imagine that I'd "get" the 70's US styles/culture/references more than the 70's UK styles/culture/references.
The America version of "The Office" is... alright. The British version only had a few episodes (quality episodes, but too few). I have to say I'm finding Steve Carell to be too over-the-top-annoying. I pretty much only watch the show now for the B-story, which is pretty much what the rest of the office is doing when Michael isn't around.
Anyways, the first time I saw them on Earth I thought "What a cop-out". Same with Stargate SG-1 actually..
What do you mean about SG-1? The squad was always based on Earth since its creation. Sure there were the occasional episodes/missions that took place on Earth but that kind of makes sense as they were defending their planet from invasion. Besides, the offword sets were never that elaborate... maybe a CGI shot of a building and then a modified corridor with curved metal and some flashing screens.
If you mean Stargate Atlantis, it was only a matter of time before they were able to make contact with Earth again; and even then Earth episodes were pretty rare.
The u[recent]u Battlestar Galactica is alright, as it's the end of the series and signifies what they thought/hoped was the end of their journey. Meanwhile you don't see any real buildings/landscapes.
I was pretty young back during the Challenger disaster; I was just passed the age of where we start actually storing memories into adult-hood.
I recall our school making a big deal about it: they quickly rushed radios and what few TVs we had into the classrooms so we could follow the news. A few days/weeks later we planted a tree near the playground in memory of the crew.
From what I remember it didn't really affect me. I remember I was shocked (I think I said "Wow" or something), as back then I thought NASA was some overly-ideal and perfect organization... but that's about it.
I do recall my teacher looked either sad or shaken while we were watching, and maybe a few kids cried, but that's about it.
Recent events are another story. But back then the intricacies were lost on me.
Dude - you're overthinking - you need to get out more.
A troll, but I'll bite.
I was merely responding the comment saying that Battlestar Galactica runs past the moral issues. When in fact a LOT of the show has specifically focused on the moral gray areas the fictional characters must deal with.
Sure some of the problems only get an episode when in fact they would be an on-going problem but if they tackled all of the past issues every episode they wouldn't have any time for plot advancement.
I'm not saying it's a paragon television nor is it an exercise in moral and ethical stand points. I'm just saying that they don't run past the issues. They merely point them out, discuss them, reveal that they aren't perfect, and move on.
I wouldn't say they run past them. There were a few where they dedicated the whole episode to a moral question and how some really had no perfect solution.
Others had entire seasons (or the entire story) to deal with: the occupation, what is "alive", is mass-deception OK, etc.
The conditions and rebellion on New Caprica were done well (which lasted 1/2 a season) and "Baltar becoming a cult-like leader of a monotheistic religion" has played out pretty well.
Other small 1-episode shots that were done well:
The forced medication episode was another:
The whole "inherited jobs" and "labor issue on the refinery ship" was one that stood out.
Treating the black and grey markets was interesting.
How do you treat POWs
I definitely agree.
I'd imagine a good system would count the number of cars that have passed through the green and the number of cars waiting at the red, and toggle accordingly.
This one just stinks, and it's not like the lesser-road is a dirt road. Though only 1-lane each way, it has the same speed limit and is one of the 2 ways to get to the flippin highway.
A friend says he thinks they've changed something, but I don't know as I avoid that light like the plague. I'd rather take the other way to the highway if that's how they're going to be.
One thing I've alwasy thought would help a lot would be better traffic control systems. Governments don't really have a big incentive to really optimize these systems and I think that great strides could be made in improving them. I always wind up spending several minutes every time I go to work sitting at lights when there is no traffic going the other way. That should never happen. Better and more intelligent systems would mean faster commutes, less idling at red lights, and fewer cars on the road at any one time since travel times would be shorter.
I agree.
When I heard they were going to put some sensors on a couple of the busy intersections by me I was thrilled. I though it would do the perfect option: intelligently manage the lights so people aren't waiting when nobody is coming from the perpendicular direction.
Fast-forward to a few months later and it's a joke. The lights tend to favor the "main" road, meaning that the lighter road now waits a LONG time until X cars approach the light on it.
While on one hand this makes sense, it sucks after rush hour when there's nobody on any of the roads and you're stuck waiting on the lighter road's light for 3x as long even though nobody is coming perpendicularly.
It sucks waiting there an ungodly amount of time at 11PM, praying that some more cars will approach the red light to cause it to trigger.
Great,
Now Farmer's Markets will have to equip Flak cannons.
...Besides there is no important information that you can get on TV that you cant get via the Radio. You may actually get it faster via the radio.
While radio will give you all news that TV does (and more), TV has one advantage I haven't noticed on radio (perhaps it's just me).
Network TV will display important and/or major events along the bottom of their shows. Amber Alerts, plane crashes, some shootings, weather/flood alerts, etc.
This obviously gets the word out immediately even though you're not near a news broadcast. You could be watching "30 Rock" or a rerun of "Seinfeld" and a message will appear letting you know of something major.
I don't recall radio halting a song to give me an Amber Alert or info about a plane crash. If the station is known for news breaks then they'd mention it during their breaks.
But I could be wrong.
Are you sure they have to trench?
For some neighborhoods (like mine) they just use the existing telephone phone poles, so maybe they did yours already.
They did my entire street in a day or 2, and you wouldn't have known unless you drove by them or saw them doing the length in front of your house. Personally I'd rather they went the trench route, but oh well.
In any case, it's always refreshing to hear a happy Comcast customer. It's such a rarity (or at least was back when they were my cable company).
Back when I had Verizon's 3mbit DSL my speeds would be relatively close to the promise. Sure, some websites could max out quickly, but overall I was close to my limit. The same would go for if I downloaded multiple files simultaneously, their combined speed would be close to 3 mbit.
Now with Verizon Fios, I am once again hitting my speed (or very close to it) more most of my downloading.
About 'Instant Queue', it's a security feature. They want you to queue your movies by logging into your account, because they assume you might attach your neighbor's TiVo to the service, but not share your NetFlix account details with them.
Sounds quite logical.
Yet another bad idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas.
Why not add in a DivX player too while you're at it?
Now...if the $300 bought me a built in open source DVR and the Netflix gateway was included, I'd be interested.
Explain to me why this is a bad idea.
Netflix is about RENTING movies.
They (currently) offer their OnDemand service for as a free bonus to your rental subscription. It's better than the free OnDemand services your cable provider offers.
Until recently, their OnDemand service was only available on PCs using Silverlight. Little-by-little set-top boxes are being released to allow viewing on the TV.
B is a non-issue for the majority of recent computers. That said, it's still a problem for older harder, and especially for some older peripherals (scanners, printers, etc.). Even for the things which the manufacturers still support, the 64-bit drivers may only be available on the manufacturer's site and not the CD it came with, and the non-tech savvy will have issues and blame it on the OS.
Some laptops, even those about 1 year old, have hardware that manufacturers don't support on Vista 64-bit. It's quite annoying.
I'm not talking about the sellers like Dell and such, but the companies that make the components: wireless, bluetooth, etc.
Mine is from Q3 2007 (which is when it was released) and its wireless and bluetooth do not have Vista 64 drivers.
I don't use wireless ALL the time, but I need it a couple of times a month when I drag my laptop around for work or personal time. Bluetooth I can live without as I can use an ordinary USB dongle for my cellphone to sync.
Where do you see that? I can't find a list of HD titles anywhere.
Ah, I guess it's for TV only.
I have the HD option under "Watch Instantly" -> "Genres". But further info shows that it's only for TV.
I guess it shows up for me since I activated my Tivo to use Netflix.
Isn't HD Netflix OnDemand available already? I see a section under their OnDemand feature labeled HD with a small selection of content.
Because they're not complete idiots.
It's a simple matter to bring about a civil suit, even a large number of them. At that point it's just the plaintiff vs the defendant, each doing their own to win the case.
But getting a number of DAs across the country to all-of-a-sudden take on a several concurrent prosecutions of illegal file sharing is another matter. Criminal courts are busy enough already, and getting a number of prosecutors and investigators to prepare a trial for all of these people would be taxing our resources.
In short, if they went the criminal route they'd start facing major opposition from the state or federal governments.
You see, that's what I don't get. No offense, but was the Air really the best machine for development?
I thought it was a neat little laptop, but I avoided it specifically because of my machine needs: a programmer's rig.
Now if I wanted a small laptop that I carried around with me to do minor things then I might consider it as it looks like it might travel better, but it would be a secondary machine to my coding rig (be it a MB Pro or a Desktop)..
In case you didn't see the episode...
Vala found out she was going to be questioned and tested to see if she was worthy to join the SGC. They wanted to know if she was trustworthy and if her psych profile was suitable.
To practice she started reading common human/english psych questions to prepare for the test by visiting various websites, even though the C.O. said practicing for such things doesn't help.
She was reading allowed while practicing and got to the popular tortoise question. After reading it out loud and thinking for a sec she responded "Because I too am a tortoise."
The joke being that she had to idea what a tortoise was, being an alien and all.