That's not how you do it: you cut from different parts of each bill (i.e., bottom, middle and top). Trying to convince the bank that two separate pieces of a bill were originally part of the same whole is another issue. I assume this is how the Japanese people did it? Maybe they cut into diagonals and used tape to piece together different diagonals.
Secondly, I know this will sound patronising, but it's a fantasy story, so please let go of the "above the clouds posts and fires would be impractical and impossible" shit.
"Fantasy" isn't a license to do whatever you want with no rules. Judging only from the movies, LotR is one of the more sparsely "fantasy" fantasy stories that I've seen or read. People don't magically fly, and spells and potions and things are not liberal. Not to say that those things are bad or spite-worthy; my point in saying this is that LotR has a good basis in "normal reality" for its logic. Following this, it is not impractical to question things that do not work in the normal world but do in LotR: I didn't see Gandalf up on the mountains keeping the fires lit; if those fires do not light in our world, they should not light in Middle Earth: the same atmosphere that prohibits clouds to form above a certain altitude by law is of the same nature we have, and therefore should not permit fires to be struck.
Every fantasy is classically allowed some bit of "bolognium," but frankly I don't accept that: if something happens and goes unexplained through the entirety of the story, that really detracts from the story in my opinion. Fantasy stories must have rules (and rigid ones) to work.
I've been watching something, and had to leave (like you), and actually this happened semi-frequently, especially if you're into movies. What I did was: Open the guide program; select the show you're watching (it is already selected by default); hit record.
This will start a recording of the current show, prepending the recording with the "cache backup" (cool). And, I have an inkling that it did this automatically, if I just hit "record" during the show, without bringing up the guide. I could be wrong, though. As I mentioned in my original post, the PVR will hold a finite amount of backup cache, the minimum being whenever you started watching the show, the maximum being whatever is pre-set on the box (I believe it was two hours, for me). Note that this has a potentially saddening side effect: Switch channels by accident, and say bye-bye to all your backup cache.
re: Point 02:
For shifting schedules, I can't really help you. I really couldn't say whether the PVR used "intelligent" tracking of shows (based on ID rather than time slot), but I do know that I scheduled recordings of Seinfeld and King of the Hill, and it was able to (after asking me), record ALL INSTANCES of that show, not just the one I selected (or that "time slot"). This seems to bother you, but it never bugged me at all. Again, I would assume that if a show had an "ID," the PVR would track according to that. I know that in paper TV listings, you can get "VCR+" numbers, or whatever they're officially called. Can anyone comment on this, in regards to the TWC guide program?
When you can't find work, and love movies, you learn a lot about PVRs, I suppose:-)
I had a Time Warner PVR when they were still testing them, and it worked out wonderfully, for me: I scheduled recordings; I could rewind live TV (and fast-forward up until the "live point"); I could pause for up to two hours or something (whatever the length of the "live cache" was); I could record two things at once, while playing something off the hard drive; I could record something, and watch something else, with full RW/FF/Pause capabilities.
As far as I know, the Secret Service's two main jobs are personal security, and counterfeiting. Check out their homepage, it's even hosted on the U.S. Treasury's site: Secret Service Home Page.
[STILL waiting for...] Native support for SATA hard drives!
This concerned me, as I am upgrading to a new rig, with an SATA HDD. I did a quick google, and found these articles:
http://lwn.net/Articles/52488/
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1787
Now, my new motherboard is ICH5 (the uber-clockable P4 2.4C is too good a deal to pass up; sorry AMD), so I assume if I had an installer with the 2.6.0 kernel (released in December, please let me know if my assumption is incorrect), I could get things up and running. I'm thinking I'll give the latest dev Debian distribution a shot. Any success stories?
Hiring off-shore work on the cheap, and saying that IT workers get paid too much, are completely different issues, so don't fool yourself into being justified for off-shoring labor.
Sending work off-shore to save a few bucks, is an exploitation of a low standard of living. Simple as that. Only IT could get away with what The Gap does every day, and get patted on the back for it.
Your thinking is short sighted and selfish. You advocate knowing business? I want to know business, but not your business. Complacency is the same as ignorance, and is the greatest sin.
A while back I remember reading an article that stated that the Star Wars DVDs will only feature edited versions of the originals, which include extra dialogue and special effects. Most troubling was the inclusion of scenes specifically tailored to make the originals fit better with the new (old) movies. Specifically, I believe some scenes were said to include Amidala.
I do not know if this is still true (or if it was even more than a rumor then, though I do believe George Lucas himself lent credence to it, stating that these edited versions of the original trilogy would be the only versions released on DVD), but if it is, it might be enough to spoil the movies altogether, for me. And even if these new edits are not included, what about the old edits that were included in the re-release of the original trilogy? I wasn't necessarily a fan of those; to have those included as extras ("redone" scenes), would be appropriate, in my mind.
The news on slashdot is only as good as the contributors and editors, and does not really have the resources afforded to "genuine" news sources, so I tend to cut it a little slack. It's not really a news site; it's more of a community weblog with editors.
PHP is decent, but its support of more linear, "c-like" code, is disconcerting. The object-oriented features are likewise minimized and somewhat poor. I would quickly use Python or Ruby in place of PHP, given the availability of sufficient support packages (eRuby, HTML templating, etc.). I do not really enjoy writing software in PHP.
ASP is commendable for its exposure of certain classes to all "ASP-bridged languages," making available such interfaces as those that handle state data (such as sessions), and for its language "agnosticism," given that a bridge is written (from what I understand). I really believe strongly that the open-source community should develop an answer to ASP to allow any language to run in a certain capacity in relation to the web (again, HTML embedding, a standard "web" library to expose features such as state data in a standard way).
PHP usage in an enterprise environment? It wouldn't be my choice for a substantial web application. Being OSS doesn't automatically make it a better choice.
If you can't do that, then find another line of work
I was thinking about going into IT
"Yeah I used to program, but I figured I better be a Chemist." Nobody says that, because it doesn't work like that.
Man, you sound like one of those kids who wanted to get into IT purely for the money, then found out that programming is tough, and then the market fell out from under them, and where are they now? Struggling in ROTC trying to get a business degree. Maybe you should do that, and put that first-layer ECON 1002 knowledge of Economics to work, instead of pasting passages from your Libertarian Philosophy paper on Slashdot. Things aren't so black and white.
Offer something in America in IT that foreigners cannot offer
First you extol the equal value of workers in the "global economy," then you advocate scrambling for corner cases that these same people can't seem to figure out? Which is it?
I refuse to support people who want to screw me
Ugh! Why are you so bitter? Look, shit happens. Farmers lose stake in water and have to sell all their land. Name a job that cant be screwed or outsourced to somewhere. This isn't about hate, laziness, and hubris, it's about equal pay for equal work (granted, "equal pay" means something different now than it did five years ago), extortion, and post-modern colonies.
Finally, a politician whose web site has a photo gallery::rolls eyes::. Additionally, I'd wager that at least 30% of visitors have looked for a photo gallery;-)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a software-only linux bootloader for the xbox would easily allow for an "xbox loading program" to be written for linux, bypassing all the Microsoft "signing" verification and such, and therefore would allow users to run pirated games with no mod chips. I read the article and I believe that is what will happen when this software is released.
I'm not in the "scene," but from what I do hear, this is not a bluff, and is inevitable. If that is true, and the previous paragraph is a true scenario that will be played out, then Microsoft releasing a "signed" Linux bootloader could allow for Linux on the xbox without the support of piracy. Seems pretty fair to me: It shows that people really want to do something with the xbox, and not just play pirated media on it.
An AC with a reverence for Buddhism and a disdain for people much like himself, but with the ability to make pragmatic distinctions and observations? Wow, that's so unique. I bet you really like BeOS too.
Yeah, maybe it's TV. Then again, maybe it is the borning cries of a not-very-free nation cut off from the rest of the world, being exposed to the elements of culture. Maybe we should ask the "Dragon King" for some words of wisom.
So, you actually use this "feature," right? You are actually streaming music through iTunes from internet users on a non-novelty basis? I think sharing music with others is the "number one" way to get new music, but frankly this feature is just something to talk about on Slashdot and never have to try and endure: It does not work well.
The iTunes Music Store is not Winzip: It does not have a useless license agreement and serial key evaluator for purchases. Apple has presented a burgeoning distribution model for music, and while in one breath, we sigh "finally," in the other, we cry foul? I understand that iTMS has been a long-time-coming, and we want to nurture it and not see it go astray, but to interpret Apple's fair use policy (which is very fair for where we are now), and its reaction to community software, and scream "unfair," is, in my opinion, overdoing it.
I don't want to call DRM a "necessary evil," but I would like to make two points: The internet, and especially internet distribution of information, is not mature; DRM is a "stepping stone," and sort of an awkward one, as it is a ridiculous notion to think that someone can have a bunch of files and not ever be able to access them: They will eventually. However, this is how the iTMS works, and its DRM is currently not the draconian hardware-supported DRM of Palladium. Will we be using some form of DRM in sixty years? Will we force the square peg of internet distribution into the round hole of pre-1990s commerce? We'll see.
It comes down to this: You can stream music from people and hijack the audio into your own files. While you can always do that with your iPods, CD players, and other devices, I think it's fair to say that the internet is sort of a sore spot for the record companies, and perhaps we should back off a little for now, and let the nascent iTMS allay any fears the record industry may have. That being said, we have to keep pushing for our rights and interests in what you have rightly interpreted to be the "brave new world" of internet communication. This iTunes hack is one way we could sort-of say "this is what we want," but again, I really don't think this feature is very useful.
Awesome, now we can all celebrate our reclaimed ability to do something we will never do, meanwhile getting Apple in trouble again. I really don't think this is some wonderful "secret feature," and frankly its usefulness is, in my opinion, limited to those people who want to stream music from their own computers at some other location (work perhaps), which narrows the legitimate audience for this hack down to about a dozen people. Trying to stream music from random users on the internet is an exercise in futility. Mac users: Don't believe me? try it. PC users: When was the last time you were able to download something off a sharing program at a constant speed with no interruptions?
Since this feature is so easy to root out, I have suspicions that Apple had planned/is planning to let users do this, but that's just speculation.
I'm serious. That gut of hers makes Jabba the Hutt look like Calista Flockhart.
I really don't know what to say to you other than I am simply amazed at the totally transparent, obviously superficial, absurd, and ultimately laughable attitude you have towards women. Even looking with an "MTV eye," an eye with some sort of a warped sociopathic complex, this woman looks emaciated.
Well, I should be fair. I may be looking at this issue with a very narrow context: I knew a dude that rejected all women under the pretext that they didn't live up to his standards, and then he finally accepted he was gay. Perhaps there are other issues at play here as well. I celebrate homosexuality, so I'd like to make it explicitly clear that I'm not joking.
Aimee Deep is probably most famously known as the highly attractive cover-girl of Madster (formerly known as Aimster). Since being involved with Madster (her father's business), she has had the opportunity to become more interested in legal and business issues surrounding the music distribution business and now blogs on the subject.
Her father took / used revealing photos of her for his product? That's disgusting. I was simply rolling my eyes, before, that she gets to sit for interviews because she doesn't eat and shows herself off, but now I'm creeped out.
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Frankly, how she was able to be a bitch with two aneurisms is beyond me.
hahah
Searches for "xfree87" and "xfree85" work perfectly fine. Sounds suspicious to me, and worthy of investigation.
That's not how you do it: you cut from different parts of each bill (i.e., bottom, middle and top). Trying to convince the bank that two separate pieces of a bill were originally part of the same whole is another issue. I assume this is how the Japanese people did it? Maybe they cut into diagonals and used tape to piece together different diagonals.
Secondly, I know this will sound patronising, but it's a fantasy story, so please let go of the "above the clouds posts and fires would be impractical and impossible" shit.
"Fantasy" isn't a license to do whatever you want with no rules. Judging only from the movies, LotR is one of the more sparsely "fantasy" fantasy stories that I've seen or read. People don't magically fly, and spells and potions and things are not liberal. Not to say that those things are bad or spite-worthy; my point in saying this is that LotR has a good basis in "normal reality" for its logic. Following this, it is not impractical to question things that do not work in the normal world but do in LotR: I didn't see Gandalf up on the mountains keeping the fires lit; if those fires do not light in our world, they should not light in Middle Earth: the same atmosphere that prohibits clouds to form above a certain altitude by law is of the same nature we have, and therefore should not permit fires to be struck.
Every fantasy is classically allowed some bit of "bolognium," but frankly I don't accept that: if something happens and goes unexplained through the entirety of the story, that really detracts from the story in my opinion. Fantasy stories must have rules (and rigid ones) to work.
re: Point 01:
:-)
I've been watching something, and had to leave (like you), and actually this happened semi-frequently, especially if you're into movies. What I did was: Open the guide program; select the show you're watching (it is already selected by default); hit record.
This will start a recording of the current show, prepending the recording with the "cache backup" (cool). And, I have an inkling that it did this automatically, if I just hit "record" during the show, without bringing up the guide. I could be wrong, though. As I mentioned in my original post, the PVR will hold a finite amount of backup cache, the minimum being whenever you started watching the show, the maximum being whatever is pre-set on the box (I believe it was two hours, for me). Note that this has a potentially saddening side effect: Switch channels by accident, and say bye-bye to all your backup cache.
re: Point 02:
For shifting schedules, I can't really help you. I really couldn't say whether the PVR used "intelligent" tracking of shows (based on ID rather than time slot), but I do know that I scheduled recordings of Seinfeld and King of the Hill, and it was able to (after asking me), record ALL INSTANCES of that show, not just the one I selected (or that "time slot"). This seems to bother you, but it never bugged me at all. Again, I would assume that if a show had an "ID," the PVR would track according to that. I know that in paper TV listings, you can get "VCR+" numbers, or whatever they're officially called. Can anyone comment on this, in regards to the TWC guide program?
When you can't find work, and love movies, you learn a lot about PVRs, I suppose
I had a Time Warner PVR when they were still testing them, and it worked out wonderfully, for me: I scheduled recordings; I could rewind live TV (and fast-forward up until the "live point"); I could pause for up to two hours or something (whatever the length of the "live cache" was); I could record two things at once, while playing something off the hard drive; I could record something, and watch something else, with full RW/FF/Pause capabilities.
As far as I know, the Secret Service's two main jobs are personal security, and counterfeiting. Check out their homepage, it's even hosted on the U.S. Treasury's site: Secret Service Home Page.
[STILL waiting for...] Native support for SATA hard drives!
This concerned me, as I am upgrading to a new rig, with an SATA HDD. I did a quick google, and found these articles:
http://lwn.net/Articles/52488/
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1787
Now, my new motherboard is ICH5 (the uber-clockable P4 2.4C is too good a deal to pass up; sorry AMD), so I assume if I had an installer with the 2.6.0 kernel (released in December, please let me know if my assumption is incorrect), I could get things up and running. I'm thinking I'll give the latest dev Debian distribution a shot. Any success stories?
Hiring off-shore work on the cheap, and saying that IT workers get paid too much, are completely different issues, so don't fool yourself into being justified for off-shoring labor.
Sending work off-shore to save a few bucks, is an exploitation of a low standard of living. Simple as that. Only IT could get away with what The Gap does every day, and get patted on the back for it.
Your thinking is short sighted and selfish. You advocate knowing business? I want to know business, but not your business. Complacency is the same as ignorance, and is the greatest sin.
A while back I remember reading an article that stated that the Star Wars DVDs will only feature edited versions of the originals, which include extra dialogue and special effects. Most troubling was the inclusion of scenes specifically tailored to make the originals fit better with the new (old) movies. Specifically, I believe some scenes were said to include Amidala.
I do not know if this is still true (or if it was even more than a rumor then, though I do believe George Lucas himself lent credence to it, stating that these edited versions of the original trilogy would be the only versions released on DVD), but if it is, it might be enough to spoil the movies altogether, for me. And even if these new edits are not included, what about the old edits that were included in the re-release of the original trilogy? I wasn't necessarily a fan of those; to have those included as extras ("redone" scenes), would be appropriate, in my mind.
I am dissatisfied with microsoft's products, however I have nowhere to go.
Will microsoft flinch at this article? It depends on which part of that sentence they are more concerned with.
The news on slashdot is only as good as the contributors and editors, and does not really have the resources afforded to "genuine" news sources, so I tend to cut it a little slack. It's not really a news site; it's more of a community weblog with editors.
How much is an Opteron system? How much is a GameCube?
You buy your computers only to play games? The real question is, how much is an opteron system minus the cost of a Gamecube?
PHP is decent, but its support of more linear, "c-like" code, is disconcerting. The object-oriented features are likewise minimized and somewhat poor. I would quickly use Python or Ruby in place of PHP, given the availability of sufficient support packages (eRuby, HTML templating, etc.). I do not really enjoy writing software in PHP.
ASP is commendable for its exposure of certain classes to all "ASP-bridged languages," making available such interfaces as those that handle state data (such as sessions), and for its language "agnosticism," given that a bridge is written (from what I understand). I really believe strongly that the open-source community should develop an answer to ASP to allow any language to run in a certain capacity in relation to the web (again, HTML embedding, a standard "web" library to expose features such as state data in a standard way).
PHP usage in an enterprise environment? It wouldn't be my choice for a substantial web application. Being OSS doesn't automatically make it a better choice.
Whoa whoa!
The new BASELINE iMac is now a G4 1GHz, with a GeForce4 MX? All that, an 80 gig HDD, and a 15" LCD, for $1299, is pretty damn hard to beat..
If you can't do that, then find another line of work
I was thinking about going into IT
"Yeah I used to program, but I figured I better be a Chemist." Nobody says that, because it doesn't work like that.
Man, you sound like one of those kids who wanted to get into IT purely for the money, then found out that programming is tough, and then the market fell out from under them, and where are they now? Struggling in ROTC trying to get a business degree. Maybe you should do that, and put that first-layer ECON 1002 knowledge of Economics to work, instead of pasting passages from your Libertarian Philosophy paper on Slashdot. Things aren't so black and white.
Offer something in America in IT that foreigners cannot offer
First you extol the equal value of workers in the "global economy," then you advocate scrambling for corner cases that these same people can't seem to figure out? Which is it?
I refuse to support people who want to screw me
Ugh! Why are you so bitter? Look, shit happens. Farmers lose stake in water and have to sell all their land. Name a job that cant be screwed or outsourced to somewhere. This isn't about hate, laziness, and hubris, it's about equal pay for equal work (granted, "equal pay" means something different now than it did five years ago), extortion, and post-modern colonies.
Finally, a politician whose web site has a photo gallery ::rolls eyes::. Additionally, I'd wager that at least 30% of visitors have looked for a photo gallery ;-)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a software-only linux bootloader for the xbox would easily allow for an "xbox loading program" to be written for linux, bypassing all the Microsoft "signing" verification and such, and therefore would allow users to run pirated games with no mod chips. I read the article and I believe that is what will happen when this software is released.
I'm not in the "scene," but from what I do hear, this is not a bluff, and is inevitable. If that is true, and the previous paragraph is a true scenario that will be played out, then Microsoft releasing a "signed" Linux bootloader could allow for Linux on the xbox without the support of piracy. Seems pretty fair to me: It shows that people really want to do something with the xbox, and not just play pirated media on it.
Where are the screenshots of the "stacks" file-organization metaphor? I was really curious to see how it worked.
An AC with a reverence for Buddhism and a disdain for people much like himself, but with the ability to make pragmatic distinctions and observations? Wow, that's so unique. I bet you really like BeOS too.
Yeah, maybe it's TV. Then again, maybe it is the borning cries of a not-very-free nation cut off from the rest of the world, being exposed to the elements of culture. Maybe we should ask the "Dragon King" for some words of wisom.
So, you actually use this "feature," right? You are actually streaming music through iTunes from internet users on a non-novelty basis? I think sharing music with others is the "number one" way to get new music, but frankly this feature is just something to talk about on Slashdot and never have to try and endure: It does not work well.
The iTunes Music Store is not Winzip: It does not have a useless license agreement and serial key evaluator for purchases. Apple has presented a burgeoning distribution model for music, and while in one breath, we sigh "finally," in the other, we cry foul? I understand that iTMS has been a long-time-coming, and we want to nurture it and not see it go astray, but to interpret Apple's fair use policy (which is very fair for where we are now), and its reaction to community software, and scream "unfair," is, in my opinion, overdoing it.
I don't want to call DRM a "necessary evil," but I would like to make two points: The internet, and especially internet distribution of information, is not mature; DRM is a "stepping stone," and sort of an awkward one, as it is a ridiculous notion to think that someone can have a bunch of files and not ever be able to access them: They will eventually. However, this is how the iTMS works, and its DRM is currently not the draconian hardware-supported DRM of Palladium. Will we be using some form of DRM in sixty years? Will we force the square peg of internet distribution into the round hole of pre-1990s commerce? We'll see.
It comes down to this: You can stream music from people and hijack the audio into your own files. While you can always do that with your iPods, CD players, and other devices, I think it's fair to say that the internet is sort of a sore spot for the record companies, and perhaps we should back off a little for now, and let the nascent iTMS allay any fears the record industry may have. That being said, we have to keep pushing for our rights and interests in what you have rightly interpreted to be the "brave new world" of internet communication. This iTunes hack is one way we could sort-of say "this is what we want," but again, I really don't think this feature is very useful.
Awesome, now we can all celebrate our reclaimed ability to do something we will never do, meanwhile getting Apple in trouble again. I really don't think this is some wonderful "secret feature," and frankly its usefulness is, in my opinion, limited to those people who want to stream music from their own computers at some other location (work perhaps), which narrows the legitimate audience for this hack down to about a dozen people. Trying to stream music from random users on the internet is an exercise in futility. Mac users: Don't believe me? try it. PC users: When was the last time you were able to download something off a sharing program at a constant speed with no interruptions?
Since this feature is so easy to root out, I have suspicions that Apple had planned/is planning to let users do this, but that's just speculation.
Well, I should be fair. I may be looking at this issue with a very narrow context: I knew a dude that rejected all women under the pretext that they didn't live up to his standards, and then he finally accepted he was gay. Perhaps there are other issues at play here as well. I celebrate homosexuality, so I'd like to make it explicitly clear that I'm not joking.
Her father took / used revealing photos of her for his product? That's disgusting. I was simply rolling my eyes, before, that she gets to sit for interviews because she doesn't eat and shows herself off, but now I'm creeped out.