If you like Tivo, and can get Dish network service, why not just do DirectTV?
You can't use the HMO, but you can record two shows at once (which will also allow you to watch tv through the tivo, thereby always having the pause/rewind feature)
OK! WHOOT!
I'm a CLASS-A Idiot this morning:)
I looked up SCOR, not SCOX
SCOX is at 8.05, *up* a 1.25 today.
As another post put it, I'm glad I'm not an investor, this kind of news causing the stock price to go up just befuddles me.
Linux Journal: With the end of the road for Intel's 80XXX series chips in sight (although at least a few years away), what chip or hardware platform would you like to see Linux ported to?
Outside of most gas stations and quick marts, this is for hygene --- it's easy and hygenic to clean a non-porous hard surface.
When your resturaunt seats 15 people, 1 private small restroom is fine. When it seats 50, and has to accomodate people with disabilites, like all new public restrooms built in the last couple of decades (most states), you will have these "multi user installations" built to accomodate more than 1 person, more than one ability, and be safe and hygenic.
(again, throwing out those gas station restrooms that are cleaned once a year;)
I stopped reading when they insulted both nerds and MT dew in the same sentence.
Your first task is to find a store that has the coveted sugar water. Just look for the yellow caps. Diet Pepsi, Pepsi and Sierra Mist all have them, and some [surely single] nerds claim select Mountain Dew bottles do as well.
I honestly feel that the Xbox and the GameCube work very well together. I bought a GameCube at $199, two at $149, and will probably pick up another one at $99. I use it to play the great exclusives it's got (Animal Crossing is my current addiction and Ikaruga is a beast). For everything else, I turn to Xbox, because its versions of the games are simply better than on the other consoles.
Ok, someone has to ask..... Why do you need 4 of the same console??????
If you like a Microsoft Product, look for other products to see if there is one that does nearly the same.
Is there anything that does Xbox for nearly the same? Yes, sorta, except it's not an Xbox, and doesn't have the exact same games.
I have no trouble giving MS cash for a good product. I love my sidewinder joystick. I love my MS USB IntellimousePro, much more than the logitech one that I threw to the side because I didn't like the way it felt.
Just because it's MS doesn't automatically mean it's not worth purchasing. Does that mean I automatically want all of their software? No.
Make your choices where it really counts. Some areas, MS is ALWAYS going to have competition. And guess what? They are starting to have competition in the SW dept too. If things had gone just a little different 20 years ago, we could have all been griping about Apple the same way we do about MS.
Who can find out what patents they have filed? That's usually a start on what this is.
It looks like a wireless reciever with something that may hook directly into your home ethernet, pulling media off of your home computers or the net. Maybe a media-centric version of WebTV?
There's lots of people working on these devices, maybe this company has created a nice interface for it? Maybe Tivo wants to purchase a company who has designed a device like this so that you can watch a tivo's playback on another TV without having to have an extra Tivo in the other room?
Hopefully this will be a killer app that will finally cause them to get bought out by a company with more clout, and get the Tivo system liscensed into more devices, making it cheaper and more affordable for me to get multiple tivo's:)
I don't think this will be how it works, when this becomes a reality. I'm sure there will be a whole new sales force devoted to selling this service to buisnesses, who will jump on this quickly in alot of urban markets. To make it effective, they have to send this down to as many people as possible. Which leads to the following....
5 years after this comes out, getting a cell phone plan will probably cost half as much as it does now, or even less, AS LONG as you get the ad-supported account. This way, they'll be able to sell the private ad-free one for even more than we pay now!
It goes back much much further than this. Those tracks were not built for diesel, they were built for Steam. Of course, the pitiful thing is that most freight trains and passenger trains went faster 70 years ago with steam than they do today...
This is an older story explaining why we have such limitations in our railroad system (found many different places an versions on the internet, but is very true!).
In the United States the standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number, so why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail
lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in
England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first
long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
So the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches was derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.
Now the ironic twist to the story . . . When you see a Space
Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRB would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory
happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass!...and you thought being a HORSE'S ASS wasn't important
As it is now, it's cheaper and sometimes faster to take Greyhound than Amtrack! The US spent so much on railroad tracks and most aren't used anymore. Sure the costs would be expensive, but would it be worth it if some of those tracks were replaced to support maglevs?
Yeah, why did they do that? Heck, if they had just built a maglev instead of a railroad, Theodore Judah could have made a route through the Sierra in just a few months with those 10% grades those maglev's can do. No messy tunnels! They could have built the transcontinental before the civil war even!
Of course, the bad thing is with all those maglevs that wouldn't have gone away, we wouldn't have any of those long bike trails we have now, so those enviromental wackos may have shut it down, right?
Seriously, there hasn't been a new line of mainline railroad over 30 miles in length in the US in the past 50 years. There have been cutoffs that reduce grade on existing lines, and there was some new lines to Wyoming coalfields, but no major new lines. Besides, the big issue now is with all the abandonments over the last 40 years, many of the main long distance routes are overburdened because there's too many trains over too few tracks. (and a good reason why most long distance Amtrack trains are 10-15% slower thn their schedules say. Some of the transcontinental trains can be 12 *hours* late by the time you add up all the 10 minutes here, 15 minutes there for 2000 miles.)
-Chris
I swear, the slamming he gave it the day after Revolutions came out has to be one of the funniest daily shows lines this year. He kept harping on it for the rest of that week. Everytime me or my wife hear someone mention the matrix, we both end up looking at each other and saying "It Bloooooooowwws" for giggles.
Umm, at the very end of TTT Extended, when they re standing in the water, Merry is checking out his height compared to pippin, and says alls back to normal.
The bad thing is that companies such as this one are positioning themselves for the next round of laws, the ones where they say it's illegal to purchase any new device that does not confirm to the DRM standards.
Sure, there will be people who can get around whatever restrictions, but if DRM is built into everything, it becomes harder for the avg joe to get around them.
Most people won't complain about these issues if it comes slowly... first, the broadcast flag will be used very very sparingly... then a little more, except that they'll sell that tv show to you through your cablebox at 3:00 am in the morning when you want to see it--- then pretty soon, that will be the format for everything.
The good news is that anything you ever want to see will be available for a cheap price (because of competition).
The bad news is that anything you ever want to see will be available for a cheap price (nothing will be free, except infomercials).
Slashdot Mirror
Some of us are behind firewalls at work :)
actually, the website you referenced DOES show it as a removed scene. On this page
Actually, if you waited long enough, it would. Of course, it might be many many many times more than the universe's age before it happens. :)
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/gmis9844. htm
If you like Tivo, and can get Dish network service, why not just do DirectTV? You can't use the HMO, but you can record two shows at once (which will also allow you to watch tv through the tivo, thereby always having the pause/rewind feature)
OK! WHOOT! I'm a CLASS-A Idiot this morning :)
I looked up SCOR, not SCOX
SCOX is at 8.05, *up* a 1.25 today.
As another post put it, I'm glad I'm not an investor, this kind of news causing the stock price to go up just befuddles me.
How low will the stock be at the end of todays trading? 1.62 according to Yahoo finance at 11:00 am. Less than $1 at end of day?
And that end is in sight now, right guys?
Guys?
-Chris
When your resturaunt seats 15 people, 1 private small restroom is fine. When it seats 50, and has to accomodate people with disabilites, like all new public restrooms built in the last couple of decades (most states), you will have these "multi user installations" built to accomodate more than 1 person, more than one ability, and be safe and hygenic.
(again, throwing out those gas station restrooms that are cleaned once a year ;)
Ok, this shouldn't be modded as +3 interesting, it should plus 5 funny or ironic :)
The post talking about knowing frontpage and wanting an 80k a year salary, or the totally serious reply wanting to help.
Your first task is to find a store that has the coveted sugar water. Just look for the yellow caps. Diet Pepsi, Pepsi and Sierra Mist all have them, and some [surely single] nerds claim select Mountain Dew bottles do as well.
....and watch how slashdotters reading this story pull overclockers.com offline with too many hits....
nothin there yet!
Next!
I honestly feel that the Xbox and the GameCube work very well together. I bought a GameCube at $199, two at $149, and will probably pick up another one at $99. I use it to play the great exclusives it's got (Animal Crossing is my current addiction and Ikaruga is a beast). For everything else, I turn to Xbox, because its versions of the games are simply better than on the other consoles.
Ok, someone has to ask..... Why do you need 4 of the same console??????
Is there anything that does Xbox for nearly the same? Yes, sorta, except it's not an Xbox, and doesn't have the exact same games.
I have no trouble giving MS cash for a good product. I love my sidewinder joystick. I love my MS USB IntellimousePro, much more than the logitech one that I threw to the side because I didn't like the way it felt.
Just because it's MS doesn't automatically mean it's not worth purchasing. Does that mean I automatically want all of their software? No.
Make your choices where it really counts. Some areas, MS is ALWAYS going to have competition. And guess what? They are starting to have competition in the SW dept too. If things had gone just a little different 20 years ago, we could have all been griping about Apple the same way we do about MS.
It looks like a wireless reciever with something that may hook directly into your home ethernet, pulling media off of your home computers or the net. Maybe a media-centric version of WebTV?
There's lots of people working on these devices, maybe this company has created a nice interface for it? Maybe Tivo wants to purchase a company who has designed a device like this so that you can watch a tivo's playback on another TV without having to have an extra Tivo in the other room?
Hopefully this will be a killer app that will finally cause them to get bought out by a company with more clout, and get the Tivo system liscensed into more devices, making it cheaper and more affordable for me to get multiple tivo's :)
5 years after this comes out, getting a cell phone plan will probably cost half as much as it does now, or even less, AS LONG as you get the ad-supported account. This way, they'll be able to sell the private ad-free one for even more than we pay now!
This is an older story explaining why we have such limitations in our railroad system (found many different places an versions on the internet, but is very true!).
In the United States the standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number, so why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
So the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches was derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.
Now the ironic twist to the story . . . When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRB would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass! ...and you thought being a HORSE'S ASS wasn't important
Yeah, why did they do that? Heck, if they had just built a maglev instead of a railroad, Theodore Judah could have made a route through the Sierra in just a few months with those 10% grades those maglev's can do. No messy tunnels! They could have built the transcontinental before the civil war even!
Of course, the bad thing is with all those maglevs that wouldn't have gone away, we wouldn't have any of those long bike trails we have now, so those enviromental wackos may have shut it down, right?
Seriously, there hasn't been a new line of mainline railroad over 30 miles in length in the US in the past 50 years. There have been cutoffs that reduce grade on existing lines, and there was some new lines to Wyoming coalfields, but no major new lines. Besides, the big issue now is with all the abandonments over the last 40 years, many of the main long distance routes are overburdened because there's too many trains over too few tracks. (and a good reason why most long distance Amtrack trains are 10-15% slower thn their schedules say. Some of the transcontinental trains can be 12 *hours* late by the time you add up all the 10 minutes here, 15 minutes there for 2000 miles.)
-Chris
I swear, the slamming he gave it the day after Revolutions came out has to be one of the funniest daily shows lines this year. He kept harping on it for the rest of that week. Everytime me or my wife hear someone mention the matrix, we both end up looking at each other and saying "It Bloooooooowwws" for giggles.
-chris
It BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWSSSSSSS!
Umm, at the very end of TTT Extended, when they re standing in the water, Merry is checking out his height compared to pippin, and says alls back to normal.
Sure, there will be people who can get around whatever restrictions, but if DRM is built into everything, it becomes harder for the avg joe to get around them.
Most people won't complain about these issues if it comes slowly... first, the broadcast flag will be used very very sparingly... then a little more, except that they'll sell that tv show to you through your cablebox at 3:00 am in the morning when you want to see it--- then pretty soon, that will be the format for everything.
The good news is that anything you ever want to see will be available for a cheap price (because of competition).
The bad news is that anything you ever want to see will be available for a cheap price (nothing will be free, except infomercials).
-chris
I just realized we can send our stock up 20% if we hurry up and send in these fees so we can sue!
However, you need to pay a license fee to online petitions, inc, for patent 6,570,483: "Online system for collecting petitions".
That will be 1.99 per signature, plus tax...