Except, the parent isn't trying to be funny. The Daily Show is, in some regards, better "news" than the crap that comes on after primetime television.
Their news IS parody of real news, of course, but it's insightful, it's thought-provoking, and they're equal opportunity in their mocking of liberals and conservatives.
If you saw Stewart on Crossfire, you'd know he takes politics seriously. [Read his book, America: Democracy Inaction - at $15 for a "textbook," you can't beat it.
One of the biggest problems with HDTV tuners isn't the problem you describe, where you've got great picture, but nothing WORTH watching in hi-def.
The problem is that most people with computer capture cards have to rely on computer-based output to their television. They only place you can watch your HDTV is on your computer monitor. Ok, sure, a lot of people have HDTV televisions, but most don't. Most projectors under $2500 are 800x600 at best, and even the ones that are 1024x768 use DLP chips that have to actually process video at 800 vertical or less.
Long story short, unless you've got a GREAT television, or a >$2,500 projector, you're going to be watching your HDTV content on your computer monitor, or it's going to look a hell of a lot like the rest of the content on your antenna.
Actually, as a long time gambler and part time chip collector...
Most casinos *will* take chips from other casinos if (a) they're part of the same chain, or (b) they're a reputable A-list casino not in debt.
Luxor will take Circus Circus chips because they're both Circus Circus owned casinos.
Binions will take a Station chip because the Station casinos are financially stable.
Those chips are dropped in the box as cash and replaced with chips from THAT establishment.
Elsewhere in this thread they mentioned take-home chips were nearly 100% proffit for the casino. Not so on $1 denominations and roulette and other "marker" chips. The cost of high-grade casino chips from someone like Paulson or Chipco (look at your chips, the ones with top-hats and canes, those are Paulsons -- the slick ones are Chipco) run about $1 each (!) in lots under a thousand, and probably don't drop much under $.50 for quantities in the 10's of thousands. Sure, they're still proffit, but try running out of Binions downtown with a rack of $1's from the Poker Room. Expect to be "asked" to cash out your chips before you leave. [$1 Binions WSOP chips went for >$1 on eBay for most of last year.]
We've had posts in the past for what people ask for OTHER THAN money for doing tech support. I suggest you stick to barter with your friends and family. Sure, people will say barter has this problem too, but with the exchange of money comes responsibility and even with a bold-faced denial of warranty on your part, you're going to be expected to KEEP fixing things forever.
Make certain you want to be in the business of fixing machines on the side for cash for the rest of your natural life.
If you're foolish enough to do this sort of thing on the side, a fair rule of thumb would be about 2-3x your fulltime hours rate for "basic" work (home router setups, Spybot installs, video card upgrades), and 3-5x your fulltime hourly rate for "complex" work (disaster recovery, custom programming).
By those guidelines a 60k professional could charge $70-100 an hour for basic work while an entry level help-desk techno-geek making 35-40k could charge $40-60 an hour for the same task -- and still keep a striaght face when quoting their rate.
Coke drinker, or Pepsi drinker aren't protected classes of workers. "Doesn't like the Three Stooges" is a similarly non-protected class of workers. As long as your decision to hire or fire isn't based on a federally (or often, more restrictive state/county/city) mandated protected class of worker (age, regilion, ethnicity, disability, whistle-blower) then you can pretty much screen based on any OTHER criteria you want -- as long as it doesn't de-facto also screen based on one of the other criteria.
If your company goes out of its way to block Shoutcast, maybe, just maybe, they don't want you using their bandwidth to broadcast a radio station.
You (don't) get what you (don't) pay for.
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I have a copy of HL2. I got it when I bought my Athlon 64, but I "paid" for it nonetheless. But, as we all been reminded, I don't "own" anything. I didn't even get a DVD. I have the license to play HL2 at the whimsey of Valve. If Valve feels like letting me play, I can play. If Valve feels like taking the weekend off when their servers go down, I can't play.
If I hadn't gotten it for free with my CPU, I wouldn't have "bought" it at all; their license is simply idiotic.
Mind you, I respect their rights to have such an idiotic license...
The AC already suggested you switch to decaf, and...he's right. There are plenty of decaffineated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
That said, us 'xp dorks' don't *want* or *care* what's running inside of it. We want to plug in our to the machine and we want it to work. We want to take pictures and videos, and then we want to plug it in to our computer, and we want the media to magically appear. If you feel like checking the 'expert' box, go ahead.
While it's nify that it runs *nix, these devices should be easy to use, and we don't much care if they run on a beowulf cluster of tiny gnomes.
I think the parent meant something along the lines of, "Why can't I put the thing in a cabinet, use a remote with an IR/FM repeater, and run a couple of cables out to my Hi-Fi and TV?"
I've used the OneForAll line of remotes, and I do enjoy their IR-repeater. Similarly, on the PC end, I've used the ATI All In Wonder Remote, and the RF range on mine (interference, perhaps) was less than exciting.
Lack of good HARD buttons keeps me in a remote nightmare right now, but I've got a mid-level URC (OneForAll) that I like right now. Doesn't have the annoying PVR "Thumb" buttons, but does have enough extras that I can map my Exploer 8000 to it.
Media Center Edition is nice, but it's still not QUITE the killer set-top machine. I still haven't seen GOOD two-tuner support in 2005, something that Cox already gives (well, sells) people on it's PVR units. As lon as NBC is going to start ER at 8:59pm, I'm gonna need two tuners.
If you're not interested in parting out your large collection for a potentially higher return, then perhaps someone ELSE is. Perhaps your intended audience is 'owners of retro-gaming stores' or 'resellers.'
It takes a larger investment on your part (time) to part out a large collection of nearly anything. Time is something the seller might not have; and the buyer might have in spades.
This is normal. This is another in a long line of articles that does little more than say:
L0LZ@Micro$0ft!111!!11oneeleven1!! because your firewall choices and services defaults aren't what I would have picked.
There's still service bloat in XP. There's little doubt about that, but suggesting that you turn off DHCP when 51% of us use broadband? I mean, DHCP only has an effect for people that actually, you know - HAVE A FRICKIN NETWORK CABLE PLUGGED INTO THEM! Can we make an assumption that a pretty fair percentage of people who have network cables plugged into their computer use DHCP? Good lord almighty.
Also, he complains because the service type on most services is set to......get this......MANUAL. Manual is another word for "not on unless I need it," which is a nice long way of saying "OFF" -- you damned chowderheads.
Sure, XPSP2 isn't perfect, but articles like this, these "If I had made it, I'd have made it stupid!" articles - they're just drivel.
This is yet another in a VERY long lineage of Agobot/Gaobot/Phatbot variants that simply has yet-another-plugin available from the "pwnership" backdoor menu.
The *bot line is a modular virus and people write plugins for it pretty much all the time.
Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
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Their news IS parody of real news, of course, but it's insightful, it's thought-provoking, and they're equal opportunity in their mocking of liberals and conservatives.
If you saw Stewart on Crossfire, you'd know he takes politics seriously. [Read his book, America: Democracy Inaction - at $15 for a "textbook," you can't beat it.
One of the biggest problems with HDTV tuners isn't the problem you describe, where you've got great picture, but nothing WORTH watching in hi-def.
The problem is that most people with computer capture cards have to rely on computer-based output to their television. They only place you can watch your HDTV is on your computer monitor. Ok, sure, a lot of people have HDTV televisions, but most don't. Most projectors under $2500 are 800x600 at best, and even the ones that are 1024x768 use DLP chips that have to actually process video at 800 vertical or less.
Long story short, unless you've got a GREAT television, or a >$2,500 projector, you're going to be watching your HDTV content on your computer monitor, or it's going to look a hell of a lot like the rest of the content on your antenna.
Actually, as a long time gambler and part time chip collector...
Most casinos *will* take chips from other casinos if (a) they're part of the same chain, or (b) they're a reputable A-list casino not in debt.
Luxor will take Circus Circus chips because they're both Circus Circus owned casinos.
Binions will take a Station chip because the Station casinos are financially stable.
Those chips are dropped in the box as cash and replaced with chips from THAT establishment.
Elsewhere in this thread they mentioned take-home chips were nearly 100% proffit for the casino. Not so on $1 denominations and roulette and other "marker" chips. The cost of high-grade casino chips from someone like Paulson or Chipco (look at your chips, the ones with top-hats and canes, those are Paulsons -- the slick ones are Chipco) run about $1 each (!) in lots under a thousand, and probably don't drop much under $.50 for quantities in the 10's of thousands. Sure, they're still proffit, but try running out of Binions downtown with a rack of $1's from the Poker Room. Expect to be "asked" to cash out your chips before you leave. [$1 Binions WSOP chips went for >$1 on eBay for most of last year.]
We've had posts in the past for what people ask for OTHER THAN money for doing tech support. I suggest you stick to barter with your friends and family. Sure, people will say barter has this problem too, but with the exchange of money comes responsibility and even with a bold-faced denial of warranty on your part, you're going to be expected to KEEP fixing things forever.
Make certain you want to be in the business of fixing machines on the side for cash for the rest of your natural life.
If you're foolish enough to do this sort of thing on the side, a fair rule of thumb would be about 2-3x your fulltime hours rate for "basic" work (home router setups, Spybot installs, video card upgrades), and 3-5x your fulltime hourly rate for "complex" work (disaster recovery, custom programming).
By those guidelines a 60k professional could charge $70-100 an hour for basic work while an entry level help-desk techno-geek making 35-40k could charge $40-60 an hour for the same task -- and still keep a striaght face when quoting their rate.
They should get some sort of feature in browsers that let you see what the link points to before you click it... ...oh, wait.
I bought a bike. Why in the hell should I have to buy a helmet!
How can anyone take these awards seriously? I mean, they weren't on The Network for Men(tm) hosted by a top-40 rapper!
Very legal.
Coke drinker, or Pepsi drinker aren't protected classes of workers. "Doesn't like the Three Stooges" is a similarly non-protected class of workers. As long as your decision to hire or fire isn't based on a federally (or often, more restrictive state/county/city) mandated protected class of worker (age, regilion, ethnicity, disability, whistle-blower) then you can pretty much screen based on any OTHER criteria you want -- as long as it doesn't de-facto also screen based on one of the other criteria.
HL2 was also bundled with every Athlon64 + Motherboard (or, large numbers of them) from most retailers. It's how I got mine.
Mod me troll if you must, but.
If your company goes out of its way to block Shoutcast, maybe, just maybe, they don't want you using their bandwidth to broadcast a radio station.
I have a copy of HL2. I got it when I bought my Athlon 64, but I "paid" for it nonetheless. But, as we all been reminded, I don't "own" anything. I didn't even get a DVD. I have the license to play HL2 at the whimsey of Valve. If Valve feels like letting me play, I can play. If Valve feels like taking the weekend off when their servers go down, I can't play.
If I hadn't gotten it for free with my CPU, I wouldn't have "bought" it at all; their license is simply idiotic.
Mind you, I respect their rights to have such an idiotic license...
The AC already suggested you switch to decaf, and...he's right. There are plenty of decaffineated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
That said, us 'xp dorks' don't *want* or *care* what's running inside of it. We want to plug in our to the machine and we want it to work. We want to take pictures and videos, and then we want to plug it in to our computer, and we want the media to magically appear. If you feel like checking the 'expert' box, go ahead.
While it's nify that it runs *nix, these devices should be easy to use, and we don't much care if they run on a beowulf cluster of tiny gnomes.
There are several "intuitive" ways to come to the realization that .99~ (repeating) is 1.
What is the decimal value of one third? What is the decimal value of two thirds? What are the sum of those two decimal values?
What number to you add to .99~ (repeating) to make 1.0? 0.00~ (repeating), of course, and 0 is zero.
9.99~ -
9.0 = 9X
1 = x
That said, .9 and 50 more 9's isn't 1. .9 and 50,000 more 9's isn't 1 either - but .99~ (repeating) is.
Wow, similar IDs for government employees? This might prove as dangerous to our freedom as, say, Military IDs.
I think the parent meant something along the lines of, "Why can't I put the thing in a cabinet, use a remote with an IR/FM repeater, and run a couple of cables out to my Hi-Fi and TV?"
I've used the OneForAll line of remotes, and I do enjoy their IR-repeater. Similarly, on the PC end, I've used the ATI All In Wonder Remote, and the RF range on mine (interference, perhaps) was less than exciting.
Lack of good HARD buttons keeps me in a remote nightmare right now, but I've got a mid-level URC (OneForAll) that I like right now. Doesn't have the annoying PVR "Thumb" buttons, but does have enough extras that I can map my Exploer 8000 to it.
Media Center Edition is nice, but it's still not QUITE the killer set-top machine. I still haven't seen GOOD two-tuner support in 2005, something that Cox already gives (well, sells) people on it's PVR units. As lon as NBC is going to start ER at 8:59pm, I'm gonna need two tuners.
It's ok, we all wanted Clawhammer Athlons with 1 megabyte caches anyway.
If you're not interested in parting out your large collection for a potentially higher return, then perhaps someone ELSE is. Perhaps your intended audience is 'owners of retro-gaming stores' or 'resellers.'
It takes a larger investment on your part (time) to part out a large collection of nearly anything. Time is something the seller might not have; and the buyer might have in spades.
This is normal. This is another in a long line of articles that does little more than say:
...get this... ...MANUAL. Manual is another word for "not on unless I need it," which is a nice long way of saying "OFF" -- you damned chowderheads.
L0LZ@Micro$0ft!111!!11oneeleven1!! because your firewall choices and services defaults aren't what I would have picked.
There's still service bloat in XP. There's little doubt about that, but suggesting that you turn off DHCP when 51% of us use broadband? I mean, DHCP only has an effect for people that actually, you know - HAVE A FRICKIN NETWORK CABLE PLUGGED INTO THEM! Can we make an assumption that a pretty fair percentage of people who have network cables plugged into their computer use DHCP? Good lord almighty.
Also, he complains because the service type on most services is set to...
Sure, XPSP2 isn't perfect, but articles like this, these "If I had made it, I'd have made it stupid!" articles - they're just drivel.
Ports 135-139 are turned off by default on NON-DOMAIN installs for XP2 at the firewall.
Ports 135-139 are enabled by defailt when joining a domain.
Windows Firewall is managable by DOMAIN POLICY.
Complaining that they're enabled by default is moronic.
DHCP Client, automatic. Unnecessary on most home machines. Should be disabled by default.
DNS Client, automatic. Unnecessary on most home machines. Should be disabled by default.
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WHAT? Thank god 51% of us aren't using broadband.
I find it especially important in my strippers and "escorts."
Does this mean I have to buy all my Nazi gear on UBid now?
*shucks*
This is yet another in a VERY long lineage of Agobot/Gaobot/Phatbot variants that simply has yet-another-plugin available from the "pwnership" backdoor menu.
The *bot line is a modular virus and people write plugins for it pretty much all the time.
*yawn*
Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
Asking the user delete folders still causes them to be deleted. What sort of exploit is this, anyway?