>> People from other countries sure love our music, movies, toys, etc.... for how much they hate us.
Maybe not the most elegant way of phrasing that, but your point is there. I have a South American friend who lives in the US now. He likes laughing at his old countrymen sometimes, because, he says, they're always talking about how horrible the US is. How corrupt the government is. How lazy fat and stupid the people are. How much more beautiful South America is. Then when they get a week of vacation the first thing they do is book a trip to the US.
The only reason i wanted to comment on this was the line, "Want it for yourself?"
1. Its not that the government is saying they want exclusive rights, they just don't want to give up the control.
2. Err... we already "have it". Its not like the US is demanding we run the Internet, or whatever, we already are administering it. The UN is the one instigating this, by asking for control.
3. Our government made it. Hey glad you're enjoying it, and i think we'd all agree its public domain just about now, but the UN is asking for the change.
4. Personally I'm of the mindset that hey, it works now, why try to change things. Either it will break or become more censored. Course it could and probably would work just as well, but as someone else said "If it ain't broken..."
Now, don't mod me troll, "i's just speakin' the truth".
These are all a bunch of horrible horrible lies of course. There is no way that Mozilla is worse than IE in any aspect.
All of those bugs reported last year for IE were well founded, with serious implications that needed to be released to the public for THEIR OWN SAFETY!
Obviously these Mozilla bugs reported this year are miniscule at best, and it does the community a great disservice to release any information about them!
Gates is the devil! Impeach Bush! Katrina is a direct result of WalMart cutting lunches! And Starbucks is lacing their coffee with microscopic beta nanomachines, built to track and report our intake of caffeinated beverages!
"Excellent Ms. Jones, I'll make the first inc/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/we are I hope you aren't moving much, you must keep very s/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/you must keep very s/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/eep very sti/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/nd we're done. $2500 please."
I didn't RTFA so i apologize. But as far as the headline goes, he is correct in some aspects.
Some sites depend on ad-based revenue to pay for servers/bandwidth. If people use ad-blocking software, those sites make less revenue. Less revenue means they may not be able to keep their content free, and would then go under or start charging for use of their site.
Understand, I use ad-block, though I am aware that my actions might lead to sites charging for their content.
Jools Matthews of Gulfstream surfboards designed the board itself and pro surfer Duncan Scot helped with the design of the board to make sure that the board still performed well with the extra weight. The board...
The board board then board after the board, board. Well, the board board the board the board only if the board board the board the board.
I'm sure in the future when robots integrate more easily with our lives and it becomes natural to interact with them perhaps "sex" of the robot will become important for sales, but determining the sex of a Roomba? Come on, thats ridiculous.
And I'm not really sure we need to determine the sex of a robot that has, dum dum DUUUUMM mastered stairs. An impressive achievement true, but not sex assignment worthy.
I modded my xbox for a few reasons, some legal some not.
1. I couldn't stand walking to the xbox, so I copied all my games (which i own) so i can run them all from there, jukebox style.
2. I can stream video directly from my replay. So i leave my replay upstairs and my xbox downstairs, to stream standard video to my HDTV.
3. I have downloaded divx movies (illegal i know, sue me, unless you're the mpaa then please don't) I also stream them to my xbox.
4. Finally I wanted a decent way to show off my digital pictures, without making my family pile infront of a computer, a HDTV is brilliant for this.
I'm considering purchasing another xbox to use in my bedroom, this time copying my Sopranos/Family Guy/Cowboy Bebop DVDs so i can save $5 a month on my satellite rental fees.
I'm tempted to start copying games, I must admit, but there are plenty of legitimate reasons to mod an xbox.
I thought the problem with backwards compatability was that MS was most likely going with ATI in the Xbox 2. How are they going to make that work switching from a proprietary nvidia solutions to a proprietary ati solution?
Personally, i think its too bad if they don't include it, but it isn't going to stop me from buying one eventually.
I'm a web "coder" buddy, and I get paid to do what the client wants. Of course I tell them flash pages are stupid, and a lot of dynamic is a waste of time. But they don't listen.
Its like teller a/.'er that "putting" "quotes" "around" "things" "is" "a" "gay" "way" "to" "talk".
Ok I'll try to answer, and I'm not "picking" either.
I have Dish Network and I use their PVR because 1. It was free. 2. No monthly fee. 3. It was free. Why did you go with DirecTV over Dish?
Now, why I built my own was for fun. I had tons of computer parts lying around, and I wanted to see how these worked. I installed FreeVo and MythTV on a Linux box, then took it apart and built it as a windows box running MyHTPC which I like a lot better.
I think some people are into doing things themselves, and if they have the parts/money then why not try it? Worst case they'll go out and buy a tivo if they don't like it. Others are fine with just using the pre-packaged stuff.
I still use my DishPVR because of simplicity, but I use my MediaPC for file storage, image display, DiVX movies, jukebox mp3s, and internet radio.
What I've found since I began PVRing is that there are so many programs I tape to watch later, I don't have time to back everything up. I used to keep a ton of simpsons around, but now I have so many simpsons, futurama, and family guy piled up that it doesn't matter.
But to each his own...
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A friend of mine has a replayTV so i don't know how that compares to a tivo (which i've never used) but I know his replay controls his DirectTV reciever and when he changes channels theres a minute pause or loss of signal as the replay changes the recievers channel thru infared.
Since I have one thats all integrated I found this really annoying. I kinda wish i've seen a DirecTiVo system now to see how two integrated systems compare.
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>> People from other countries sure love our music, movies, toys, etc.... for how much they hate us. Maybe not the most elegant way of phrasing that, but your point is there. I have a South American friend who lives in the US now. He likes laughing at his old countrymen sometimes, because, he says, they're always talking about how horrible the US is. How corrupt the government is. How lazy fat and stupid the people are. How much more beautiful South America is. Then when they get a week of vacation the first thing they do is book a trip to the US.
The only reason i wanted to comment on this was the line, "Want it for yourself?"
1. Its not that the government is saying they want exclusive rights, they just don't want to give up the control.
2. Err... we already "have it". Its not like the US is demanding we run the Internet, or whatever, we already are administering it. The UN is the one instigating this, by asking for control.
3. Our government made it. Hey glad you're enjoying it, and i think we'd all agree its public domain just about now, but the UN is asking for the change.
4. Personally I'm of the mindset that hey, it works now, why try to change things. Either it will break or become more censored. Course it could and probably would work just as well, but as someone else said "If it ain't broken..."
Now, don't mod me troll, "i's just speakin' the truth".
These are all a bunch of horrible horrible lies of course. There is no way that Mozilla is worse than IE in any aspect.
All of those bugs reported last year for IE were well founded, with serious implications that needed to be released to the public for THEIR OWN SAFETY!
Obviously these Mozilla bugs reported this year are miniscule at best, and it does the community a great disservice to release any information about them!
Gates is the devil! Impeach Bush! Katrina is a direct result of WalMart cutting lunches! And Starbucks is lacing their coffee with microscopic beta nanomachines, built to track and report our intake of caffeinated beverages!
"Excellent Ms. Jones, I'll make the first inc/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/we are I hope you aren't moving much, you must keep very s/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/you must keep very s/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/eep very sti/BUFFERING/BUFFERING/nd we're done. $2500 please."
Welcome to 2005, things cost more now. $199? Thats how much the gas costs for Microsoft to ship it to your EBX.
/Except back to school deals at Dell! Computers for cheap cheap cheap. blech.
I didn't RTFA so i apologize. But as far as the headline goes, he is correct in some aspects.
Some sites depend on ad-based revenue to pay for servers/bandwidth. If people use ad-blocking software, those sites make less revenue. Less revenue means they may not be able to keep their content free, and would then go under or start charging for use of their site.
Understand, I use ad-block, though I am aware that my actions might lead to sites charging for their content.
Thanks for the heads up Captain Obvious.
In other news Michael Jackson is a little weird.
/i'm ashamed.
Thats what my stomach tattoo says "Blu-Ray Life".
/represent
I'm doing the same thing, and thus why I came across your post. Ahhh togetherness in geekdom.
Fantastic idea, someone mod this man up.
Jools Matthews of Gulfstream surfboards designed the board itself and pro surfer Duncan Scot helped with the design of the board to make sure that the board still performed well with the extra weight. The board...
/the board
The board board then board after the board, board. Well, the board board the board the board only if the board board the board the board.
You have a wombat?! Wombats are freakin' cool.
picture of one (pops)
I'm sure in the future when robots integrate more easily with our lives and it becomes natural to interact with them perhaps "sex" of the robot will become important for sales, but determining the sex of a Roomba? Come on, thats ridiculous.
And I'm not really sure we need to determine the sex of a robot that has, dum dum DUUUUMM mastered stairs. An impressive achievement true, but not sex assignment worthy.
And we don't understand why you call an elevator a 'lift'.
/at least we know idiocy is univerisal
MAYBE ITS BECAUSE EVERY COUNTRY HAS ITS OWN LEXICONS!!!!
I modded my xbox for a few reasons, some legal some not. 1. I couldn't stand walking to the xbox, so I copied all my games (which i own) so i can run them all from there, jukebox style. 2. I can stream video directly from my replay. So i leave my replay upstairs and my xbox downstairs, to stream standard video to my HDTV. 3. I have downloaded divx movies (illegal i know, sue me, unless you're the mpaa then please don't) I also stream them to my xbox. 4. Finally I wanted a decent way to show off my digital pictures, without making my family pile infront of a computer, a HDTV is brilliant for this. I'm considering purchasing another xbox to use in my bedroom, this time copying my Sopranos/Family Guy/Cowboy Bebop DVDs so i can save $5 a month on my satellite rental fees. I'm tempted to start copying games, I must admit, but there are plenty of legitimate reasons to mod an xbox.
I thought the problem with backwards compatability was that MS was most likely going with ATI in the Xbox 2. How are they going to make that work switching from a proprietary nvidia solutions to a proprietary ati solution? Personally, i think its too bad if they don't include it, but it isn't going to stop me from buying one eventually.
microsoft: taking a bad ruling and turning it into a cash cow. again.
Sorry but what were they supposed to do? Sit in the corner like the badboy they are and think about what they'd done?
There'll be no dessert for MS either! Bad MS, bad MS.
Its the civil war all over again. Cept without all that slavery stuff...
Is this the same jesus that was arrested in 99 (or 2002 I'm an idiot) for indecent assualt and battery on a 14year old?
http://www.socialaw.com/appslip/appAug02d.html
If so... I dunno... I'm all for free speech, but if its the same guy it makes me feel icky.
I'm a web "coder" buddy, and I get paid to do what the client wants. Of course I tell them flash pages are stupid, and a lot of dynamic is a waste of time. But they don't listen.
/.'er that "putting" "quotes" "around" "things" "is" "a" "gay" "way" "to" "talk".
Its like teller a
Sometimes people are dumb, what do you want?
I find myself pausing it when an uncomfortable moment came on so i could laugh into my cusion before hitting play again...
Am I the only one who gets embarrassed when some idiot makes a mockery of himself on tv?
Ok I'll try to answer, and I'm not "picking" either.
I have Dish Network and I use their PVR because 1. It was free. 2. No monthly fee. 3. It was free. Why did you go with DirecTV over Dish?
Now, why I built my own was for fun. I had tons of computer parts lying around, and I wanted to see how these worked. I installed FreeVo and MythTV on a Linux box, then took it apart and built it as a windows box running MyHTPC which I like a lot better.
I think some people are into doing things themselves, and if they have the parts/money then why not try it? Worst case they'll go out and buy a tivo if they don't like it. Others are fine with just using the pre-packaged stuff.
I still use my DishPVR because of simplicity, but I use my MediaPC for file storage, image display, DiVX movies, jukebox mp3s, and internet radio.
What I've found since I began PVRing is that there are so many programs I tape to watch later, I don't have time to back everything up. I used to keep a ton of simpsons around, but now I have so many simpsons, futurama, and family guy piled up that it doesn't matter. But to each his own...
A friend of mine has a replayTV so i don't know how that compares to a tivo (which i've never used) but I know his replay controls his DirectTV reciever and when he changes channels theres a minute pause or loss of signal as the replay changes the recievers channel thru infared. Since I have one thats all integrated I found this really annoying. I kinda wish i've seen a DirecTiVo system now to see how two integrated systems compare.