Hate Crime Or Stupidity? I'm just glad to see that no one is suggesting it was both.
It is absurd to even suggest that there can be "hate crimes", that any one group had more rights than others, particularly if based on some generally deplorable choice they have made in their lives. That is not to say that such people should not have the same rights as anyone else. If they are the victim of a crime that would also be considered a crime against the majority of the public then they have the same rights to justice that anyone else does. But when they act like they are special and that they have more rights than I do or that they are entitled to more protection under the law, well that makes me hate them.
My thought on reading this was that they left out the best choice in media players, a simple PC. Maybe they just realized that the PC would be so much better in every way that there was no point in making the comparison, but it still seems liker a disservice to not include one in the comparison. Run whatever software you want, open or not. Always have an update option (Don't get screwed when, as happens, manufacturer decided that a product is "no longer supported"). Play television network feeds such as ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox and free Hulu and other things that are blocked from the appliances like Roku or Google TV. Even play games on that 40 inch 1080p screen. I've tried media player appliances, including an expensive D-link appliance that was poorly supported when it came out and then eventually completely abandoned. If you just want a minimal "media player" then at least get a Blu-Ray player with some media functions, it will at least play DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs and you will not seem like a complete loser when the manufacturer no longer supports it in six months. But if you want a truly flexiable and useful media player then a PC with good open software is the way to go.
I have ads disabled. Yet I still saw the blatant ad for a hoodie sold by a website owned by the same people who also own/. And since there really wasn't much interesting in the commercial (opps, I mean "video"), I can only assume it was published here as an advertisement.
Thank Goodness that the Federal Government is protecting the profits of the National Felons League rather than protecting our boarders from the drug cartels, going after Chris Dodd for his acknowledged bribery issues, or anything else they could be doing.
Mother Nature claimed one of her oldest living specimens (Monday) in a freak...
I saw this on the news weeks ago. The article itself is dated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 (Last Monday Was January 30th). Shouldn't someone catch this stuff before it is published?
Judges judge, they don't investigate and they don't prosecute. That is most definitely a function of the Executive branch. The justice department should be looking into this, they should be reporting to the President, and he should be asking why they are not doing anything about it. You need to get a much better understanding. Perhaps you are confused because judge and justice department both begin with a "J", but the judicial branch doesn't and can't investigate or prosecute. In the case of Federal Law issues that falls to the Justice department in the Executive branch, under the President.
That makes sense, since law enforcement isn't part of the executive branch. They just make laws by executive decree, give away tax payer money to corrupt foreign governments (including Red China) and to political contributors who are going bankrupt, and stuff like that. Far be it from them to be involved in enforcing our laws. If they start doing that them some crackpot is going to suggest that the laws apply to them too.
What would have happened? The same thing as if Jesus had never really risen from the dead. Some people would have faked it. Called those who questioned it crackpots. And made a lot of money from it.
Well, it is impressive and very much an accomplishment, even if you consider other limitations already pointed out. But all I see is an implementation that might provide playback support. One very important thing for me in a media center is tuner support. So until there is support for a tuner for the Raspberry Pi, I'll still need to use a PC as a media center.
XBMC uses many tuners, but depends on their drivers being installed in the OS. I don't see that happening any time soon for the R Pi. I hope I'm wrong about that, but until then this will not really serve as a media center.
That's pretty lame, the original post provides a link for "quantum levitation." that goes to a Wikipedia page that wants the user to choose between three different things. No reasonable poster would provide that link, if the poster wanted to link to Wikipedia he should have made the proper choice on the "Disambiguation page" and posted the link to the actual article. If I need to follow the link then one should assume that I don't have enough information to make the choice for myself.
Yea, I'm using an old laptop as my TVs Internet access, as well as a BluRay player with limited Imternet apps and some media player capability. But I plan on upgrading the laptop to a PC with HDMI output. That will support a lot more than Roku, including PC gaming and pretty much anything on the web, not just a limited subset.
Building the Roku device into a smaller form factor may be good for Roku, but not so great for the consumer. The need for the atypical connector is a shame, likely just done to avoid providing a power supply. Even if you have the right type of HDMI port (and many will buy it and then find that they don't), it is likely on the back of the TV. So it will not be easily reached by an IR remote. Even if Roku provides some type of RF remote to work past the positioning problem that will not help many users of Harmony type universal remotes who want everything working from one IR remote.
Verizon customers like to be overcharged, else they would not be Verizon customers. The company's business model is "Screw our customers every chance we get". That has been talked about here as long as there has been a Verizon. I remember discussions about trivial games on Verizon phones that didn't actually connect to anything while the game was being played, but the customer was still charged airtime for every minute that he (or his child) played the game. Verizon is the one who settled with the FCC for 25 million for "mystery fees" (a drop in the bucket in contrast to what they stole with those fees). They want buttons on the phone that can he easily accidentally hit so that they can charge a several dollar fee each time to inform you that you don't have that feature! If anyone cared about being cheated by a cell phone company then they would not be a Verizon customer.
Perhaps because any real programmer hates Basic. I would advocate for Forth, an easy to implement interpreter that produces very fast and very compact code, and can cleanly be tied to the hardware (not so easy in Basic unless you like lots of peeks and pokes). But, of course, there will be plenty of anti-Forth heretics that say it is a bad choice, so the complaints will likely go on. However, a quick Google search tells me that there already is an AndroidForth, so if you really want a powerful and useable programming language for Android I suggest finding out if this suits your needs.
Yea, what crap. I have been buying Seagate for years, and it became my first choice in drives primarily because they offered a five year warranty. My philosophy was that if they offered a five year warranty while other drive makers were saying "we would go broke if we offered a five year warranty" then the Seagate drive was pretty likely more reliable than the other drives.
And yes, one time (and only one time) I have taken advantage of the Seagate warranty on a drive. I called then sent in the old drive and they replaced the drive promptly and without balking.
So now they say that they are getting rid of the reason that I and I expect many others have preferred Seagate drives over other drives. And they claim the reason is to be more like the other manufacturers???? Maybe if you are the idiot they think their customers are you would believe that, but I take it as an indication that the product just isn't going to be up to previous standards. Next time I buy drives I'll not only not give Seagate preference, but I'll remember that they lower the warranty and wanted to be more aligned with the bad parts of the industry. If I have to choose between two manufacturers and other factors including price and performance are comparable, I'll choose the non-Seagate drive. (Not Western Digital, of course, those are junk.)
If the picture shows a burger thicker than the bottom part of the bun, and the actual burger is about half the thickness of the bottom bun, then how can you believe there is not an intent to deceive? And yes, I have gotten some nice thick burgers at other places, so it would not be unreasonable for someone to expect the same from BK or a similar fast food joint when they put up a sign showing just such a product and telling customers to try the New Bait-n-Switch Burger
Yea, I really wish someone in the government would make the fast food industry stop the clearly deceptive advertising. The pictured sandwiches are nothing like what you are actually buying. It is one thing to say "we took extra care to make it look good, positioned all of the parts perfectly, and photographed it under good lighting, it is quite another to photograph larger portions than the customer will ever get.
From the description it sounds like it would not be apparent that it was actually bolted to the floor from outside the truck. If that is the case then how many times have you found the windows smashed but the box still there? If none then it would seem that bolting it in really has had no effect. If you have found the windows smashed but the box still there then consider that the box just being there was likely the reason the first window was smashed (and being bolted in was the reason any other windows were broken).
The original poster was asking for stupid things to do rather than what he admitted was obvious, removing the things that you didn't want stolen. So I gave him some stupid things to do to at least help prevent damage to the car while the poor misunderstood misguided urbanites were drug into a life of crime by the temptation he insisted on offering them
Great idea. Leave a $300 laptop in plain sight and enjoy the pleasure of seeing that the thieves smashed one or more of your $500 windows trying to get it but failed. I actually do believe that someone who knows that this stuff should not be left in the car (even if "cleverly" hidden) and states the he wants suggestions Besides the obvious would be exactly the type to be pleased when he saw the shattered but unbreeched windows.
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Hate Crime Or Stupidity? I'm just glad to see that no one is suggesting it was both.
It is absurd to even suggest that there can be "hate crimes", that any one group had more rights than others, particularly if based on some generally deplorable choice they have made in their lives. That is not to say that such people should not have the same rights as anyone else. If they are the victim of a crime that would also be considered a crime against the majority of the public then they have the same rights to justice that anyone else does. But when they act like they are special and that they have more rights than I do or that they are entitled to more protection under the law, well that makes me hate them.
My thought on reading this was that they left out the best choice in media players, a simple PC. Maybe they just realized that the PC would be so much better in every way that there was no point in making the comparison, but it still seems liker a disservice to not include one in the comparison. Run whatever software you want, open or not. Always have an update option (Don't get screwed when, as happens, manufacturer decided that a product is "no longer supported"). Play television network feeds such as ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox and free Hulu and other things that are blocked from the appliances like Roku or Google TV. Even play games on that 40 inch 1080p screen. I've tried media player appliances, including an expensive D-link appliance that was poorly supported when it came out and then eventually completely abandoned. If you just want a minimal "media player" then at least get a Blu-Ray player with some media functions, it will at least play DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs and you will not seem like a complete loser when the manufacturer no longer supports it in six months. But if you want a truly flexiable and useful media player then a PC with good open software is the way to go.
I have ads disabled. Yet I still saw the blatant ad for a hoodie sold by a website owned by the same people who also own /. And since there really wasn't much interesting in the commercial (opps, I mean "video"), I can only assume it was published here as an advertisement.
Thank Goodness that the Federal Government is protecting the profits of the National Felons League rather than protecting our boarders from the drug cartels, going after Chris Dodd for his acknowledged bribery issues, or anything else they could be doing.
Mother Nature claimed one of her oldest living specimens (Monday) in a freak ...
I saw this on the news weeks ago. The article itself is dated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 (Last Monday Was January 30th). Shouldn't someone catch this stuff before it is published?
Judges judge, they don't investigate and they don't prosecute. That is most definitely a function of the Executive branch. The justice department should be looking into this, they should be reporting to the President, and he should be asking why they are not doing anything about it. You need to get a much better understanding. Perhaps you are confused because judge and justice department both begin with a "J", but the judicial branch doesn't and can't investigate or prosecute. In the case of Federal Law issues that falls to the Justice department in the Executive branch, under the President.
That makes sense, since law enforcement isn't part of the executive branch. They just make laws by executive decree, give away tax payer money to corrupt foreign governments (including Red China) and to political contributors who are going bankrupt, and stuff like that. Far be it from them to be involved in enforcing our laws. If they start doing that them some crackpot is going to suggest that the laws apply to them too.
Good move, because the United Stated would never send a bunch of it's thugs there to just take what they wants.
What would have happened? The same thing as if Jesus had never really risen from the dead. Some people would have faked it. Called those who questioned it crackpots. And made a lot of money from it.
Awesome? There is a movement to get Neil DeGrasse Tyson downgraded from Astronomer to Dwarf Astronomer.
My understanding was that the Roku would play Hulu Plus, but not basic Hulu. Do you know something different?
Well, it is impressive and very much an accomplishment, even if you consider other limitations already pointed out. But all I see is an implementation that might provide playback support. One very important thing for me in a media center is tuner support. So until there is support for a tuner for the Raspberry Pi, I'll still need to use a PC as a media center.
XBMC uses many tuners, but depends on their drivers being installed in the OS. I don't see that happening any time soon for the R Pi. I hope I'm wrong about that, but until then this will not really serve as a media center.
Father of the web? Wait 'till Al Gore hears about hears about this poser!
That's pretty lame, the original post provides a link for "quantum levitation." that goes to a Wikipedia page that wants the user to choose between three different things. No reasonable poster would provide that link, if the poster wanted to link to Wikipedia he should have made the proper choice on the "Disambiguation page" and posted the link to the actual article. If I need to follow the link then one should assume that I don't have enough information to make the choice for myself.
Yea, I'm using an old laptop as my TVs Internet access, as well as a BluRay player with limited Imternet apps and some media player capability. But I plan on upgrading the laptop to a PC with HDMI output. That will support a lot more than Roku, including PC gaming and pretty much anything on the web, not just a limited subset.
Building the Roku device into a smaller form factor may be good for Roku, but not so great for the consumer. The need for the atypical connector is a shame, likely just done to avoid providing a power supply. Even if you have the right type of HDMI port (and many will buy it and then find that they don't), it is likely on the back of the TV. So it will not be easily reached by an IR remote. Even if Roku provides some type of RF remote to work past the positioning problem that will not help many users of Harmony type universal remotes who want everything working from one IR remote.
Let this be a lesson to anyone considering doing this. If we convict you then absolutely nothing will happen to you.
Verizon customers like to be overcharged, else they would not be Verizon customers. The company's business model is "Screw our customers every chance we get". That has been talked about here as long as there has been a Verizon. I remember discussions about trivial games on Verizon phones that didn't actually connect to anything while the game was being played, but the customer was still charged airtime for every minute that he (or his child) played the game. Verizon is the one who settled with the FCC for 25 million for "mystery fees" (a drop in the bucket in contrast to what they stole with those fees). They want buttons on the phone that can he easily accidentally hit so that they can charge a several dollar fee each time to inform you that you don't have that feature! If anyone cared about being cheated by a cell phone company then they would not be a Verizon customer.
.. it at least still hurts the people who eat it. They don't adapt as quickly as insects.
Perhaps because any real programmer hates Basic. I would advocate for Forth, an easy to implement interpreter that produces very fast and very compact code, and can cleanly be tied to the hardware (not so easy in Basic unless you like lots of peeks and pokes). But, of course, there will be plenty of anti-Forth heretics that say it is a bad choice, so the complaints will likely go on. However, a quick Google search tells me that there already is an AndroidForth, so if you really want a powerful and useable programming language for Android I suggest finding out if this suits your needs.
Yea, what crap. I have been buying Seagate for years, and it became my first choice in drives primarily because they offered a five year warranty. My philosophy was that if they offered a five year warranty while other drive makers were saying "we would go broke if we offered a five year warranty" then the Seagate drive was pretty likely more reliable than the other drives.
And yes, one time (and only one time) I have taken advantage of the Seagate warranty on a drive. I called then sent in the old drive and they replaced the drive promptly and without balking.
So now they say that they are getting rid of the reason that I and I expect many others have preferred Seagate drives over other drives. And they claim the reason is to be more like the other manufacturers???? Maybe if you are the idiot they think their customers are you would believe that, but I take it as an indication that the product just isn't going to be up to previous standards. Next time I buy drives I'll not only not give Seagate preference, but I'll remember that they lower the warranty and wanted to be more aligned with the bad parts of the industry. If I have to choose between two manufacturers and other factors including price and performance are comparable, I'll choose the non-Seagate drive. (Not Western Digital, of course, those are junk.)
If the picture shows a burger thicker than the bottom part of the bun, and the actual burger is about half the thickness of the bottom bun, then how can you believe there is not an intent to deceive? And yes, I have gotten some nice thick burgers at other places, so it would not be unreasonable for someone to expect the same from BK or a similar fast food joint when they put up a sign showing just such a product and telling customers to try the New Bait-n-Switch Burger
Yea, I really wish someone in the government would make the fast food industry stop the clearly deceptive advertising. The pictured sandwiches are nothing like what you are actually buying. It is one thing to say "we took extra care to make it look good, positioned all of the parts perfectly, and photographed it under good lighting, it is quite another to photograph larger portions than the customer will ever get.
From the description it sounds like it would not be apparent that it was actually bolted to the floor from outside the truck. If that is the case then how many times have you found the windows smashed but the box still there? If none then it would seem that bolting it in really has had no effect. If you have found the windows smashed but the box still there then consider that the box just being there was likely the reason the first window was smashed (and being bolted in was the reason any other windows were broken).
The original poster was asking for stupid things to do rather than what he admitted was obvious, removing the things that you didn't want stolen. So I gave him some stupid things to do to at least help prevent damage to the car while the poor misunderstood misguided urbanites were drug into a life of crime by the temptation he insisted on offering them
Great idea. Leave a $300 laptop in plain sight and enjoy the pleasure of seeing that the thieves smashed one or more of your $500 windows trying to get it but failed. I actually do believe that someone who knows that this stuff should not be left in the car (even if "cleverly" hidden) and states the he wants suggestions Besides the obvious would be exactly the type to be pleased when he saw the shattered but unbreeched windows.