How about because you can skim over the replies that are stuff you already know until you hit one where someone has gone off on a tangent that generates replies that tell you interesting stuff which you didn't know?
If you have no interest in the topic, expend your time on something else. It's not as though this one story stinks up the entire front page, unlike, say, a Jon Katz posting.:-)
"And I've been pulling shows off my Series 1 TiVo for years now too."
Assuming that you mean copying them off in digital form that doesn't have to be dumped back into another Tivo to be viewed, and not just dumping out to VCR via the analog outs, I'd like very much to know how to go about doing that. Although I wouldn't mind knowing how to import into a Series 1 too.
I started reading FF back in the '60s about a year or so after it started and as I remember it he only appeared as Ben Grimm in flashbacks or maybe once in some sort of "temporary phenomena temporarily reverts him back" storyline.
Am I the only one who thinks that casting Jessica Alba as Sue Storm is like casting Vanessa Williams as Scarlett O'Hara, or is she no longer the "little miss whitebread" of the sixties in the current run of the comic?
"1. Computers and Consumer Electronics today are cheap enough that repair is often no longer practical."
Consumer electronics nowadays aren't designed to be repairable. You can't get service manuals and you can't get parts and often you can't even pay five times the original price to ship it off to the manufacturer for repair after the warranty is ended, assuming that you can track down the actual manufacturer and that they are still in business, because they just don't want to be bothered with helping you avoid buying a new replacement, even if that means you buy from their competitor.
"The first article was about the guy posting the info and a Congressman calling for his arrest. The second article was about an FBI raid on his house and seizure of a bunch of property."
It's important to note that the second article is also about this guy getting this treatment in spite of a U. S. freaking Senator having previously done much the same thing with no one sending the FBI after him.
Seriously, it has great potential. Spaceship at original intersection of Tigris, Euphrates, and other two rivers mentioned in Genesis, surrounding material carbon-dates to a little before first appearance of humans. Or it turns out to have been constructed by Saddam's regime. Or both:-)
"They are trying to rescue the Time Warner stock by shedding a dog like AOL."
There's also talk about merging AOL into Time-Warner Cable prior to the upcoming TWC IPO which is supposed to raise money to let them buy up Adelphia and maybe even Cablevision Services down the road. Since AOL has had difficulties finding cable systems other than TWC to allow them to offer cable modem service, this might actually make sense.
On the other hand, we *are* talking about AOL, so the whole thing might go down in flames.
Anyone who isn't willing to read at -1 when they have mod points should do the honorable thing and make themselves ineligible for mod points.
It would be nice if, when one does have mod points, one could load particular stories with or without points enabled, so as to only have all those drop down boxes on stories in which one intends to use those mod points and otherwise not have to deal with the problems which they cause.
"They have to air songs with the expletives deleted."
No, they don't. They can choose to not air them at all.
"The FCC practices censorship by extortion on radio licencees."
Extortion? Are you sure that word properly expresses what you're trying to say?
The airwaves belong to the people, all of the people, which means that there has to be a way for them to be shared. That's why broadcasters are granted a license to operate "in the public interest", not just granted a license because they outbid everyone else, or because they're willing to lease the spectrum from the government, and then left free to use that spectrum anyway they want.
"For the first week the studio gets 60% of the boxoffice."
Well, the movie theater has to pay out 90% or more of ticket sales to whoever they get the movie from for that first week, so where does the rest of the money go?
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How about because you can skim over the replies that are stuff you already know until you hit one where someone has gone off on a tangent that generates replies that tell you interesting stuff which you didn't know?
If you have no interest in the topic, expend your time on something else. It's not as though this one story stinks up the entire front page, unlike, say, a Jon Katz posting. :-)
Those of us of a certain age are also wondering how Ted feels about all of this. :-)
Assuming that you mean copying them off in digital form that doesn't have to be dumped back into another Tivo to be viewed, and not just dumping out to VCR via the analog outs, I'd like very much to know how to go about doing that. Although I wouldn't mind knowing how to import into a Series 1 too.
Am I the only one who thinks that casting Jessica Alba as Sue Storm is like casting Vanessa Williams as Scarlett O'Hara, or is she no longer the "little miss whitebread" of the sixties in the current run of the comic?
There's a Pink Floyd "Another Brick In The Wall" joke lurking in there somewhere.
Consumer electronics nowadays aren't designed to be repairable. You can't get service manuals and you can't get parts and often you can't even pay five times the original price to ship it off to the manufacturer for repair after the warranty is ended, assuming that you can track down the actual manufacturer and that they are still in business, because they just don't want to be bothered with helping you avoid buying a new replacement, even if that means you buy from their competitor.
Which is probably just as well in the long run. :-)
Okay, so maybe it's more like "Particular Rights You Don't Have Online" :-)
He has his own blog now. http://peterrost.blogspot.com/
Won't someone please think of the S-100s (and all those little S-50s)?
They're talking about audio compression, not video.
And actually it's compression and limiting, same as radio stations do to try to be the loudest on the dial for any given volume control setting.
It's important to note that the second article is also about this guy getting this treatment in spite of a U. S. freaking Senator having previously done much the same thing with no one sending the FBI after him.
I plot to steal that idea.
Seriously, it has great potential. Spaceship at original intersection of Tigris, Euphrates, and other two rivers mentioned in Genesis, surrounding material carbon-dates to a little before first appearance of humans. Or it turns out to have been constructed by Saddam's regime. Or both :-)
Property tax-funded schools and truancy laws exist to protect property values by keeping the neighborhood from filling up with illiterates.
(Please tell me I didn't misspell illiterates. :-)
Left where? Must know to count.
Adam had'em
His longer stuff is really good, too.
A definition that broad covers your paycheck, or air.
There's also talk about merging AOL into Time-Warner Cable prior to the upcoming TWC IPO which is supposed to raise money to let them buy up Adelphia and maybe even Cablevision Services down the road. Since AOL has had difficulties finding cable systems other than TWC to allow them to offer cable modem service, this might actually make sense.
On the other hand, we *are* talking about AOL, so the whole thing might go down in flames.
And that's what saved it, it dyed all those iMacs all those different colors.
Speaking of different, with regard to your sig...
...That should be different than, except that it shouldn't be, because when things (including people) differ, they differ from one another.
I thought Microsoft pretty much had a monopoly on doing that. They must at least have the patent.
If I stay away from people I get fritters? Cool!
If that were true I'd be much better at math.
It would be nice if, when one does have mod points, one could load particular stories with or without points enabled, so as to only have all those drop down boxes on stories in which one intends to use those mod points and otherwise not have to deal with the problems which they cause.
No, they don't. They can choose to not air them at all.
"The FCC practices censorship by extortion on radio licencees."
Extortion? Are you sure that word properly expresses what you're trying to say?
The airwaves belong to the people, all of the people, which means that there has to be a way for them to be shared. That's why broadcasters are granted a license to operate "in the public interest", not just granted a license because they outbid everyone else, or because they're willing to lease the spectrum from the government, and then left free to use that spectrum anyway they want.
Well, the movie theater has to pay out 90% or more of ticket sales to whoever they get the movie from for that first week, so where does the rest of the money go?