Beginning to be very glad I didn't buy a Tivo and got a ReplayTV instead. When you schedule a show from say, 8:00 - 9:00 and you know the show will run over a bit, in the advanced options you can pad the beginning of the show or the end of the show by several minutes, and when its done recording you can still switch to the next show thats scheduled to record automatically. While you may lose any crossover between the two you still get most of the shows. And frankly the beginning of most shows are a lot less important then the endings.
As far as 30 second skip, there's a button on the remote that does this admirably. It even stops when you smash it a bunch when it hits a commercial/show boundary (chapters)...on most show the chapter advance button lets you skip the whole slew of commercials outright, although a few shows I watch are missing some of them =P.
Best part tho is the network jack in the back, I guess Tivos have this now but they didn't when i bought it. Full control over all functions via a clever Java App.
All hail PVR/DVR/Tivo-clones
I have a ReplayTV and it still has the commercial skip feature...no modifications involved...
They cleverly named it the Chapter advance button or something similar, just hitting the right arrow on the remote will advance the "chapters" which just happen to be at the end of the commercial breaks...not flawless but it works.
Yeah, I'm 4 times the legally blind limit in both eyes. Thankfully some very potent prescription contact lenses relieve me from wearing a pound of plastic on my face, but laser surgery is a very attractive option. My mother has had it and had great imporvement, not perfect tho. If you do get it, I do reccommend Dr. Wang tho, only one anywhere near me that actually has a degree in lasers and optometry, and he pioneered the science at Vanderbilt.
Hardly a new idea. as a commercial device a bit odd and of dubious use. I know my phone, nokia 3595 i think, makes any amp;lifiers near it buzz loudly when its updating the clock or receive calls. obviously some phones are more suceptible to being pick up then others.
Someone forgot about the Patriot Act.
They can and will invade your house without an reason at all. =P
Everyone knows that downloading warez is supporting terroism.
Actually, from the little i understand about corporate laws. A corporation has a psuedo-identity as a citizen and is subject to the same restrictions and benefits. IE they have their own Social Security # (although its called a TaxID#) and have a name and birth records as well as financial ties.
I am curious as to the laws involving free speech though for corporations. Anyone have information about that?
No RTFA....
Each photon contains two pieces of information. You cannot read one without destroying the other. So if you are sending encrypted information over the quantum link you cannot identify the information based on half the information that you can pull from it. And even then, recovering half the information destroys the transmission.
Ah the good ol' days of college when you didn't have to worry about looking for/losing a job. I remember learning Simulink VHDL and coding a complete computer from scratch and programming it on a FPGA...I think that particular project ate a good couple thousand hours but it was very satisfying when it worked...Writing the 350+ pages of documentation for it...well sucked. It didn't have a vga card, but it had good ol' 12x24 pixels of screen output! and a whopping 2k of RAM.
I guess its just not my thing, but the only reason I really listen to radio nowadays is background noise for driving when i'm bored. I suppose if I lived in a city that wasn't 95% country music I might have a different opinion. There are much better ways to record music, and a lot of talk radio is released over the internet now as well.
The question I want answered is Pogo + Radio...where is Pogo the Monkey.....I want my Pogo!
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Well, amperage determines the heat that will be generated with power flowing through the wire, thus bigger wires for higher amperage, but high voltage has this nasty tendency to penetrate weak insulation...the higher the voltage the greater it can penetrate through insulation...ever seen those van degraf generators that make your hair stand on end =) or those cool orb thingies like in that movie the Wizard or something.....ahhh, i digress
I was under the impression that "humans powering the matrix" more referrered to their neural pathways being used as a gigacluster...the body heat is a handy dandy by product....and frontal lobots would kinda be like clocking an amd 3200 to 33mhz
Last year I was contract working for a small startup company in Nashville called Digital Safety Technology. They had developed a complete digital camera and database system based on gigabit ethernet in a custom box. Guess this looks like another case of the big guys catching up with the smaller suppliers and drowning them.
I got my Creative Nomad Jukebox (6GB) couple years ago for $125. It was an open box model but it has worked flawlessly.. All i have is a tape player in my car so it sits under my dash most of the time but I do take it out a lot. And it came with two sets of Nickel Hydride AA's for loads of playing time. Interface is slow but i'm sure a lot of that is from it being out of date. Only gripe is I misplaced the connection software, and the only software they offer is for win9x and UPDATES to win2000/xp and I can't install the win9x copy on 2000 (bitches about something or the other).
The web comic is clearly a parody....a parody of McGee's game alice. It is not in any way a parody of Strawberry Shortcake, there is no use of her name and the other names except to parody American McGee's gaming franchise....It is legal to parody something, but it is not legal to use copyrighted material for a parody that is not a part of the parody. I'm sure some people will understand what I 'm saying, at least I hope...
There is no way chording keyboards would ever replace normal keyboards. For one, a large portion of people can't touch type as it is, and you expect them to remember the chords for every key. Secondly, try using any app that requires pushing more than one key at once, ala games. I'd love to see someone play quake on a chord keyboard
I use Mozilla for dang near everything, hugely in part to the javascript control over popups. The one thing i still have to rely on another browser for is java based gaming sites, ie playsite. For some reason all version of mozilla have a serious redraw issue on java applet windows. Anyone have a clue as to where this originates from and why it hasn't been fixed.
I don't know what kind of fashion statement they will make in 100+ years (or now for that matter) but modular geodesic structures can be made out of very hardy materials such as steel and lexan and have the added benefit of a cheap and easy replacement or reconfiguration of panels. Adding new rooms is as simple and building another dome and reconfiguring the panels for a passageway. Great insulation, really great lighting...just watch out for peeping toms... =)
Uhm, why not make your own bricks and mortar, it really isn't that difficult provided you have a kiln for the bricks. And well lumber, ahem, pioneers were more than capable of building a log house that was quite secure in a matter of days with help or weeks without.
I worked for a company designing high speed video capture units and have been using 10k and 15k laptop sized IDE drives for months now....how exactly is this new?
Wasn't there some cheesey 70's flick with Sean Connery where people all lived in bubbles to protect themselves from savage outsiders and a crystal or something with AI kept everyone alive indefinitely against their wishes and good ol' Connery manages to kill them all off (something about a floating head in the sky spewing guns...) I did actually see this didn't I....or is my brain tunneling electrons
For as long as I can remember I've had this problem as well. The wierdest thing is that 99% of the time i sneeze twice (the twice thing is regardless of cause of the sneeze). At least its only mildly obnoxious seeing as i'm not a fighter pilot and a night owl (hey maybe there is a connection there) Anyone have photosneezes and are also early birds? actually, any slashdotters that aren't night owls? =) something about computers and night
I just recently got back into the workforce after doing odd jobs like delivering pizza and selling sell phones. I actually got a respectable salary and the workload isn't to hard. The company i'm working for is actually in the process of hiring, being a physical security company and all that. I was a bit leary about working for a startup but there is a lot of potential in this untapped section of the market. Now I shall see about those benefits soon enough =) holiday season approaches.
Uhm there is no way in hell you could get the resolution on an earth based telescope to see the landing sights. The distance to the moon is huge and the size of the lander is exrememly small...I believe the highest resolution on an optical telscope on earth looking at the moon would is measured in kilometers, not meters and definitely not decimeters.
Nasa is a civilian agency...and even if the money for the book was from government sources, 15k wouldn't buy you a toilet seat on your congressman's private jet.
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Beginning to be very glad I didn't buy a Tivo and got a ReplayTV instead. When you schedule a show from say, 8:00 - 9:00 and you know the show will run over a bit, in the advanced options you can pad the beginning of the show or the end of the show by several minutes, and when its done recording you can still switch to the next show thats scheduled to record automatically. While you may lose any crossover between the two you still get most of the shows. And frankly the beginning of most shows are a lot less important then the endings. As far as 30 second skip, there's a button on the remote that does this admirably. It even stops when you smash it a bunch when it hits a commercial/show boundary (chapters)...on most show the chapter advance button lets you skip the whole slew of commercials outright, although a few shows I watch are missing some of them =P. Best part tho is the network jack in the back, I guess Tivos have this now but they didn't when i bought it. Full control over all functions via a clever Java App. All hail PVR/DVR/Tivo-clones
I have a ReplayTV and it still has the commercial skip feature...no modifications involved... They cleverly named it the Chapter advance button or something similar, just hitting the right arrow on the remote will advance the "chapters" which just happen to be at the end of the commercial breaks...not flawless but it works.
Yeah, I'm 4 times the legally blind limit in both eyes. Thankfully some very potent prescription contact lenses relieve me from wearing a pound of plastic on my face, but laser surgery is a very attractive option. My mother has had it and had great imporvement, not perfect tho. If you do get it, I do reccommend Dr. Wang tho, only one anywhere near me that actually has a degree in lasers and optometry, and he pioneered the science at Vanderbilt.
Hardly a new idea. as a commercial device a bit odd and of dubious use. I know my phone, nokia 3595 i think, makes any amp;lifiers near it buzz loudly when its updating the clock or receive calls. obviously some phones are more suceptible to being pick up then others.
Someone forgot about the Patriot Act. They can and will invade your house without an reason at all. =P Everyone knows that downloading warez is supporting terroism.
Actually, from the little i understand about corporate laws. A corporation has a psuedo-identity as a citizen and is subject to the same restrictions and benefits. IE they have their own Social Security # (although its called a TaxID#) and have a name and birth records as well as financial ties. I am curious as to the laws involving free speech though for corporations. Anyone have information about that?
No RTFA.... Each photon contains two pieces of information. You cannot read one without destroying the other. So if you are sending encrypted information over the quantum link you cannot identify the information based on half the information that you can pull from it. And even then, recovering half the information destroys the transmission.
Ah the good ol' days of college when you didn't have to worry about looking for/losing a job. I remember learning Simulink VHDL and coding a complete computer from scratch and programming it on a FPGA...I think that particular project ate a good couple thousand hours but it was very satisfying when it worked...Writing the 350+ pages of documentation for it...well sucked. It didn't have a vga card, but it had good ol' 12x24 pixels of screen output! and a whopping 2k of RAM.
I guess its just not my thing, but the only reason I really listen to radio nowadays is background noise for driving when i'm bored. I suppose if I lived in a city that wasn't 95% country music I might have a different opinion. There are much better ways to record music, and a lot of talk radio is released over the internet now as well. The question I want answered is Pogo + Radio ...where is Pogo the Monkey.....I want my Pogo!
Well, amperage determines the heat that will be generated with power flowing through the wire, thus bigger wires for higher amperage, but high voltage has this nasty tendency to penetrate weak insulation...the higher the voltage the greater it can penetrate through insulation...ever seen those van degraf generators that make your hair stand on end =) or those cool orb thingies like in that movie the Wizard or something.....ahhh, i digress
I was under the impression that "humans powering the matrix" more referrered to their neural pathways being used as a gigacluster...the body heat is a handy dandy by product....and frontal lobots would kinda be like clocking an amd 3200 to 33mhz
Last year I was contract working for a small startup company in Nashville called Digital Safety Technology. They had developed a complete digital camera and database system based on gigabit ethernet in a custom box. Guess this looks like another case of the big guys catching up with the smaller suppliers and drowning them.
I got my Creative Nomad Jukebox (6GB) couple years ago for $125. It was an open box model but it has worked flawlessly.. All i have is a tape player in my car so it sits under my dash most of the time but I do take it out a lot. And it came with two sets of Nickel Hydride AA's for loads of playing time. Interface is slow but i'm sure a lot of that is from it being out of date. Only gripe is I misplaced the connection software, and the only software they offer is for win9x and UPDATES to win2000/xp and I can't install the win9x copy on 2000 (bitches about something or the other).
The web comic is clearly a parody....a parody of McGee's game alice. It is not in any way a parody of Strawberry Shortcake, there is no use of her name and the other names except to parody American McGee's gaming franchise....It is legal to parody something, but it is not legal to use copyrighted material for a parody that is not a part of the parody. I'm sure some people will understand what I 'm saying, at least I hope...
There is no way chording keyboards would ever replace normal keyboards. For one, a large portion of people can't touch type as it is, and you expect them to remember the chords for every key. Secondly, try using any app that requires pushing more than one key at once, ala games. I'd love to see someone play quake on a chord keyboard
I use Mozilla for dang near everything, hugely in part to the javascript control over popups. The one thing i still have to rely on another browser for is java based gaming sites, ie playsite. For some reason all version of mozilla have a serious redraw issue on java applet windows. Anyone have a clue as to where this originates from and why it hasn't been fixed.
I don't know what kind of fashion statement they will make in 100+ years (or now for that matter) but modular geodesic structures can be made out of very hardy materials such as steel and lexan and have the added benefit of a cheap and easy replacement or reconfiguration of panels. Adding new rooms is as simple and building another dome and reconfiguring the panels for a passageway. Great insulation, really great lighting...just watch out for peeping toms... =)
Uhm, why not make your own bricks and mortar, it really isn't that difficult provided you have a kiln for the bricks. And well lumber, ahem, pioneers were more than capable of building a log house that was quite secure in a matter of days with help or weeks without.
I worked for a company designing high speed video capture units and have been using 10k and 15k laptop sized IDE drives for months now....how exactly is this new?
Wasn't there some cheesey 70's flick with Sean Connery where people all lived in bubbles to protect themselves from savage outsiders and a crystal or something with AI kept everyone alive indefinitely against their wishes and good ol' Connery manages to kill them all off (something about a floating head in the sky spewing guns...) I did actually see this didn't I....or is my brain tunneling electrons
For as long as I can remember I've had this problem as well. The wierdest thing is that 99% of the time i sneeze twice (the twice thing is regardless of cause of the sneeze). At least its only mildly obnoxious seeing as i'm not a fighter pilot and a night owl (hey maybe there is a connection there) Anyone have photosneezes and are also early birds?
actually, any slashdotters that aren't night owls? =) something about computers and night
If you want to resolve a footprint... A meter is hardly enough resolution. Oh, but i suppose you don't know what a decimeter is..shame
I just recently got back into the workforce after doing odd jobs like delivering pizza and selling sell phones. I actually got a respectable salary and the workload isn't to hard. The company i'm working for is actually in the process of hiring, being a physical security company and all that. I was a bit leary about working for a startup but there is a lot of potential in this untapped section of the market. Now I shall see about those benefits soon enough =) holiday season approaches.
Uhm there is no way in hell you could get the resolution on an earth based telescope to see the landing sights. The distance to the moon is huge and the size of the lander is exrememly small...I believe the highest resolution on an optical telscope on earth looking at the moon would is measured in kilometers, not meters and definitely not decimeters.
Nasa is a civilian agency...and even if the money for the book was from government sources, 15k wouldn't buy you a toilet seat on your congressman's private jet.