I'm surprised Mario Kart wasn't on that list. It was always the best game I had in my collection to break the ice with. When I was living in the dorms in college I found that the N64 version was quite popular. They were always knocking on my door asking if they could come in to play Mario Kart (which I of course obliged). Their favorite track would always be Moo Moo Farm.
I think most people miss the point of TiVo especially when they say things like "I can just build a MythTV box or I can do this on a computer..."
What makesTiVo really great isn't the box, or the interface, or any of the generic PVR features, it's the TiVo service that makes it great and you lose that with everything else. It's the service that's worth it for me and what I don't mind paying for it. All these other PVRs are just hard-drive based VCRs with a GUI. Even a TiVo box is just a hard-drive VCR with a GUI without the TiVo service.
Sure you can get other PVR solutions to download TV-listings and they probably have something like TiVo's season pass where it can follow shows you have season passes to and tape them whenever they air (even if they are pre-empted). The one thing I don't know if anyone else has is the TiVo suggestions. I have my TiVo so well trained I don't have to use the TV listings anymore. My TiVo picks out most of what I watch for me. It's like hiring a personal secretary who knows your tastes.
After I come home for work and eat dinner, I usually have enough shows on my TiVo that TiVo picked for me to keep me entertained until I go to bed a couple of hours later. I don't have to surf channels, I don't even have to look at any listing to see if it's something I might like to watch and tell my PVR to tape it. It's gotten to the point where sometimes I don't even know what's on TV anymore and I don't care because I have more than enough shows I like to watch waiting for me each evening. I don't have to spend 20 minutes each day scrolling through a program listing of 500 channels to find the one program I might like to watch tomorrow and tell my PVR to tape it. For me I don't mind paying $12.95 a month if it means saving me 20 minutes a day in front of a computer or on a TV menu doing "prep-work" for my evening's TV watching. I will sorely miss this if TiVo were to go away.
One of the things that really bothered me about Bush's statements was if I lost my job, how am I supposed to pay my existing bills *AND* my tuition (even if some of it is subsidized by a government program) while I'm going to school to get training to look for a new job? I can't tell my creditors:
Dear Creditor,
I've lost my job, but I'm going back to school to get some more training. I'll have my AA degree in two years and then I'll get another job, send me my bill at that time.
Yours truly, Unemployed Joe
Wouldn't it just be better to not lose my job in the first place and use that income to pay for the tuition (without even having to use any government subsidies) to go to school so I can look for a *BETTER* job?
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No, we'll just fill all the systems with coffee and call ourselves The Happy Folk.
Imagine using that system with coffee to run programs written in Java...
Maybe when the 30 million Walmart and Fast Food jobs get turned over to Service Robots people will wake up and start to wonder how we are going to provide the chance at a decent life to all the members of our society.
Who needs robots when they can just have their customers check themselves out at one of those damn self-check registers.
That reminds me of where I work. At my office, documents have cumulative yield abbreviated "cum yield". So there's always e-mails flying around saying "We need to increase our cum yield."
Maybe we'll go back to using USENET news. I prefer that to mailing lists anyways. Sure there's spam in newsgroups too, but at least the ISP server has to only download one spam per posting instead of the same spam multiplied 1000 times for each customer.
See that's one of the reasons why companies get confused and fear the GPL. They don't have to give up their candy if they made it themselves without any help from you. Companies have knee-jerk reactions to the GPL and think that just because they use it on one product it means all of the sudden everything they ever produced now falls under the GPL.
Another analogy of GPL might be what's mine is yours, what's yours is yours what you do with my stuff is yours and mine and his and hers.
It was revealed today that a third of the code was stolen, so maybe Valve actually was taking some sorts of precautions - maybe it was separated into three segments on three different machines.
The three machines contained the Source Code of Power, the Source Code of Wisdom, and the Source Code of Courage respectively.
Honestly, did you 'look for the union label' before buying your clothing? Why do you think anyone else is going to care if their software was made in the USA? Ultimately, they just want the lowest price.
I don't look for the union label, but I sure as heck do look for "Made in the U.S.A." labels on a lot of products (especially tools) and will buy U.S.A. product before buying the one made abroad even if the U.S.A. product is more expensive.
There are certain products I won't even buy at all if it's not made in the U.S.A. From my experience of working for an international company dealing with programmers all over the world, I can assure you that if they had such a label, I would probably only buy software written exclusively in the U.S.A. price be damned. Otherwise, I'm going to *really scrutinize* the foreign software to see if it's quality is up to par before parting with my money. Even then, there would probably be a short list of countries I would consider buying from. There are some things I think the U.S.A. does a lot better than the rest of the world and writing software is one of them.
This whole SCO scenario reminds me of Dallas. Think of IBM as JR Ewing and SCO as Cliff Barnes. In a typical season the viewer watches over several episodes Cliff Barnes' latest scheme to "ruin Ewing Oil" and at times it looks like he might actually pull it off. Then of course to the audience's delight, JR bounces back and Cliff is humiliated and ruined while JR smiles and laughs. I for one can't wait for the end of the season to see SCO fall on it's face while IBM smiles and laughs.
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this kid who's going with a girl who saw the SCO borrow the code at 31 flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
I'm sorry, I'm sure this has been brought up before, but to me the whole idea of an MP3 player in ammo-mag sounds really silly to me. If you have your MP3 ammo-magazine plugged into your gun, you can't shoot it. In essence you no longer have a gun and instead you just have a bulky gun-shaped iPod. Wouldn't it make more sense to have something like an MP3 playing laser scope that you attach to your gun? That way you can shoot your gun and listen to MP3s at the same time?
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I'm surprised Mario Kart wasn't on that list. It was always the best game I had in my collection to break the ice with. When I was living in the dorms in college I found that the N64 version was quite popular. They were always knocking on my door asking if they could come in to play Mario Kart (which I of course obliged). Their favorite track would always be Moo Moo Farm.
As Coroner , I thoroughly examined Moore's Law And it's not only merely dead It's really most sincerely dead
Riiiiiiiiiiiight... what's a qubit?
What makesTiVo really great isn't the box, or the interface, or any of the generic PVR features, it's the TiVo service that makes it great and you lose that with everything else. It's the service that's worth it for me and what I don't mind paying for it. All these other PVRs are just hard-drive based VCRs with a GUI. Even a TiVo box is just a hard-drive VCR with a GUI without the TiVo service.
Sure you can get other PVR solutions to download TV-listings and they probably have something like TiVo's season pass where it can follow shows you have season passes to and tape them whenever they air (even if they are pre-empted). The one thing I don't know if anyone else has is the TiVo suggestions. I have my TiVo so well trained I don't have to use the TV listings anymore. My TiVo picks out most of what I watch for me. It's like hiring a personal secretary who knows your tastes.
After I come home for work and eat dinner, I usually have enough shows on my TiVo that TiVo picked for me to keep me entertained until I go to bed a couple of hours later. I don't have to surf channels, I don't even have to look at any listing to see if it's something I might like to watch and tell my PVR to tape it. It's gotten to the point where sometimes I don't even know what's on TV anymore and I don't care because I have more than enough shows I like to watch waiting for me each evening. I don't have to spend 20 minutes each day scrolling through a program listing of 500 channels to find the one program I might like to watch tomorrow and tell my PVR to tape it. For me I don't mind paying $12.95 a month if it means saving me 20 minutes a day in front of a computer or on a TV menu doing "prep-work" for my evening's TV watching. I will sorely miss this if TiVo were to go away.
I know a guy right here in the States who will perform that same operation for only $129.99.
Dear Creditor,
Wouldn't it just be better to not lose my job in the first place and use that income to pay for the tuition (without even having to use any government subsidies) to go to school so I can look for a *BETTER* job?I've lost my job, but I'm going back to school to get some more training. I'll have my AA degree in two years and then I'll get another job, send me my bill at that time.
Yours truly,
Unemployed Joe
Imagine using that system with coffee to run programs written in Java...
Who bought the can of expired Vienna sausage ?
Lili Von Shtupp?
Who needs robots when they can just have their customers check themselves out at one of those damn self-check registers.
This Dilbert comic which ran in the paper recently.
That reminds me of where I work. At my office, documents have cumulative yield abbreviated "cum yield". So there's always e-mails flying around saying "We need to increase our cum yield."
Maybe we'll go back to using USENET news. I prefer that to mailing lists anyways. Sure there's spam in newsgroups too, but at least the ISP server has to only download one spam per posting instead of the same spam multiplied 1000 times for each customer.
See that's one of the reasons why companies get confused and fear the GPL. They don't have to give up their candy if they made it themselves without any help from you. Companies have knee-jerk reactions to the GPL and think that just because they use it on one product it means all of the sudden everything they ever produced now falls under the GPL. Another analogy of GPL might be what's mine is yours, what's yours is yours what you do with my stuff is yours and mine and his and hers.
OK, I'm not a Java fanatic so I have no idea what these things are. What the heck is JBoss and what is it's supposed advantage?
The three machines contained the Source Code of Power, the Source Code of Wisdom, and the Source Code of Courage respectively.
I don't look for the union label, but I sure as heck do look for "Made in the U.S.A." labels on a lot of products (especially tools) and will buy U.S.A. product before buying the one made abroad even if the U.S.A. product is more expensive.
There are certain products I won't even buy at all if it's not made in the U.S.A. From my experience of working for an international company dealing with programmers all over the world, I can assure you that if they had such a label, I would probably only buy software written exclusively in the U.S.A. price be damned. Otherwise, I'm going to *really scrutinize* the foreign software to see if it's quality is up to par before parting with my money. Even then, there would probably be a short list of countries I would consider buying from. There are some things I think the U.S.A. does a lot better than the rest of the world and writing software is one of them.
Hey now I have an idea for the slashdot T-shirt:
"Wow it's Tony Randall"
(Think Tom Hanks on SNL if you want to know what this is a reference to)
This whole SCO scenario reminds me of Dallas. Think of IBM as JR Ewing and SCO as Cliff Barnes. In a typical season the viewer watches over several episodes Cliff Barnes' latest scheme to "ruin Ewing Oil" and at times it looks like he might actually pull it off. Then of course to the audience's delight, JR bounces back and Cliff is humiliated and ruined while JR smiles and laughs. I for one can't wait for the end of the season to see SCO fall on it's face while IBM smiles and laughs.
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this kid who's going with a girl who saw the SCO borrow the code at 31 flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
a particle of pre-animate matter caught in the matrix.
I'm sorry, I'm sure this has been brought up before, but to me the whole idea of an MP3 player in ammo-mag sounds really silly to me. If you have your MP3 ammo-magazine plugged into your gun, you can't shoot it. In essence you no longer have a gun and instead you just have a bulky gun-shaped iPod. Wouldn't it make more sense to have something like an MP3 playing laser scope that you attach to your gun? That way you can shoot your gun and listen to MP3s at the same time?
mmmmmmmmmmmm....Organized pot-luck....rrrrrrrglglglglge
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Someone who gets the source to this will have to tell us if shift-8-3-8 works to activte test mode.