How come nobody mentions piping YouTube content out to a television channel, or to a series of television channels? This is so blatantly obvious to me.
Of course, I'm one of those nuts that wants to pipe Internet into TV Land. I've been trying to get the proper resources for a LPTV station, but it is taking me a little while to singlehandedly do this. I already record my own shows, commercials, and other TV-type content.
If the idea is to push video to users, wouldn't Cable/Satellite TV be ideal for that? I'm sure nobody wants more reality TV shows, but if you think about it, Reality Internet TV is the next obvious step.
Hi. This is why there are these 'restrictive gun laws' that right right-wingers talk about. Y'know, the ones where you have to have a background check before purchasing pretty much ANY firearms, and there's a waiting period on handguns (BB guns, too!).
Where I grew up in Rhode Island, one of my neighbors had a missile of some sort in his fucking yard. It came in two pieces, and each were on a trailor. I don't remember checking my safety factor at the time, but I do remember that it was fucking cool.
So, if my neighbor had a fully-armed Apache hellicopter, I'd certainly make friends with him. One guy with an aircraft beats two crackies with jake-legs.
By the count of the dead and wounded and the suffering of those who survive and those who saw the violence and lost those who they love.
Compare the count of the dead and wounded from non-military gun crimes/accidents/etc with car accidents, Iraq, Afghanistan, or even crack fun in the ghetto. Which one comes out the winner?
Also, note the problem -- I'm at home here with my laptop, and outside there are armed soldiers with tear gas tanks, and automatic weaponry. Can you see why this is bad? Note that I am not David Koresh. Lets hope that armed soldiers don't need to pull American Citizens from their homes with automatic weapons, tear gas, or anything else.
The mass ownership of guns is one of the leading causes of terror and misery in our society.
Really? How do you come to this conclusion?
I would think that assholes behind the wheel of the giant SUVs provide me with more terror and misery than anything else I can think of off hand. In fact, I get quite a bit of amusement out of shooting computers with my gun, not feelings of terror. Maybe the computers I shoot feel terror?
Hi. Like the man said, 'from my cold dead hands.' Guns aren't just for the military, cops, and gang-bangers -- we have 'em to make sure that our government doesn't herd us into cattle-cars, and send us off to the thermal depolymerizor en masse. We've already got Extrordinary Rendition, what's after that?
Yay, Microsoft supports HD-DVD. How does this help me at home with everything running GNU/Linux?
On a related note, I don't care about HD-DVD, SACD, or even Blu-Ray. They can all take their overly priced DRM-infected machines, and just sit on 'em. Why do I need Blu-Ray? I can't think of a single reason. In fact, after my experiences with the Playstation2 (We bought it as a DVD player -- it does not play most DVDs), I am very unlikely to buy any Sony product ever again. Hay, and where the hell are all the space games?
there may be a general market for a cheap, robust laptop without hard drive or optical storage
Ah, so *there* is where our handheld industry went! And with all seriousness, I have been horrified with all of the handhelds since the Palm first came out. I can't understand why they don't build general-purpose cheap and fully-functional small computing devices -- that aren't obtusely designed and super fucking expensive.
I'd love to get my hands on one of Negroponte's OLPC laptop thingies. If Microsoft is getting into the market, lets all hope and prey that they are ultra mass produced, and flop terribly.
Neat idea and all -- the TiVo. Rather than fight with DRM, I'm using MythTV. All the shows I want are recorded, plus I get the added bonus of being able to drag and drop shows to my laptop for watching later. Add in the many other features that come with MythTV, and it's a wonder why people would use a TiVo. Check it out, and you'll be amazed.
Are they tracking travel by car? I make road trips -- plane-distance road trips. I do this instead of flying -- mostly because it is cheaper, but also because of the convenience.
So on these road trips, there are quite a number of communications towers, as well as these interesting localized sensor packs, complete with wind sensors, some have a camera, and there are other prongs which stick out of their little mast. Sometimes they have solar power, too. I've been tempted to investigate, but I'd probably want to put the more interesting bits in my car, and I don't want a closeup of my face to be the last thing transmitted.
I can't imagine they'd record licenseplates, though that could be one of the purposes. Anyone else see these things on the highway?
Of course there's usenet. That's where I get my porn =_) Seriously, though, there's the issue of content. I sure like to listen to specific bands I like, and some old freaky psychedelic goodies that I like. I do have some old CDs that I've *bought*. More often than not, though, it is so much easier to scan through my favorite Internet radiostations (MythTV friggin' *rocks*).
Usenet will always be there, but there are a shortage of good free usenet servers that carry the binaries. That, and the extra tools needed to decode RAR, PAR, and all that -- I wanna listen to tunes now, not screw with writing scripts and tool figureoutage. The Internet gratifies me instantly, for free, and without the terror brought on by these silly lawsuits.
See? This is bullshit. I'm so scared of getting sued by the RIAA, that I don't download music anymore -- and I don't buy CDs either. No, I don't have a 20+G inventory of MP3s. Instead, I use many of the online commercial-free radio stations (Like the fabulous SomaFM.com).
Now I've been a little scared of being hit by the MPAA for downloading Doctor Who and James Burke shows. Oh, wait...
One main difference between man-made items and natural items is that the latter has a natural mechanism for returning to its original state. Consider a tree struck by lightning. The tree falls to the ground and decomposes back into the soil -- returning to the original molecules that once formed the tree.
You made me think of a couple of points which I found relevant. First of all, laptop (shell)s have been made out of natural materials, but until we can do something like grow a wet laptop -- grow it out of meat instead of a lithographic metal melted way, we're not going to see many laptops built with materials that are going to rot naturally. Then again, I think I'd hate to see some of the viruses that attack biological computing devices. Eeew.
And as far as decomposing naturally, we could digest or process the resulting materials into some raw materials. THis is a bit beyond doing at home, I think. You'd macerate what you could, and dump it into a chamber, and perform a range of reactions on the materials -- you'd need to seperate things, cook others, melt some, and mix whatever is left with someething else, and repeat the process. Sewage is a great semi fluid which would be perfect for the task.
You do need a big facility, and from the scope of this kind of recycling (where it would be feasable with today's primitive New Jersey-styled refining techniques), laptops would be one of many types of electronic devices you'd want to reclaim materials from.
And this is what freaks me out about coal plants dumping CO2 into the air -- isn't that a raw material? Ignore the environmental issues, but they're dumping a potential product into the trash. Same thing with other types of waste -- nuclear included. There's a way to refine everything into something useful.
once we've invented AI that can do our jobs, the whole human race is pretty much redundant.
Not quite. There are lots of things that we could use AI for to help us do our jobs better -- as technology is supposed to do for us in the first place. Think of a plow, or a tractor, or even the computer in the first place. How the hell do you think programming or systems administration was done before computers?
Sign me up, I'm ready to take a vacation from *this* rock.
I wonder that if NASA is thinking about the public's attention, why not send rock-stars, or famous people to some asteroid? Make them do the television circuit to tell us all about it. I don't care about the risk of death due to failures.
I'd sure like to see the FCC release a bunch of these frequencies back to the public. Didn't we already pay for them? Also, I am definately sure that most licensed broadcasters bend the rules a little, whether it is to up the signal power, or even to release noise into nearby bands. How can we get the FCC to audit their licensees? Are we not complaining loud enough?
As a long-time sysadmin, I've found it hard to keep steady employment -- although I usually do startups and small dev shops because they're fun (if not so lucrative). One thing I've had a hard time with, is getting through all the job board spam -- I hate it!
I have my resume up on monster -- clearly as a sysadmin. I get messages about insurance sales, modeling, marketing, and Amway-style multi-level-marketing jobs. Also, there are recruiters up there harvesting resumes, with no actual jobs. I got so mad that I had to do something about it -- so I did.
Recruiter-Rater is a rate-your-recruiter type of website. Have good dealings with a recruter? Please post about it, we'd love to hear your success story. Got a recruiter repeatedly wasting your time? Post about that too. Bad recruiters need to be shamed out of existance, and good recruiters should see their commissions increase.
Seriously. I would get an email about a job in my area. I'd apply, send-in a resume, sometimes talk to the guy on the phone -- and never hear from them again, until they have another req, starting the cycle again.
I've been at this job-hunting game for a while, and just recently I've almost completely given up as a wage-slave, except that I still need money to live. Of course, being here in Pittsburgh certianly does *not* help, but it is easier to be broke and still live pretty well here, than it is to be broke and live in places like Boston.
Seriously! It's a Norelco electric razor for me. I had one for 10 years before it broke. So, like any dotcom guy, I went out and bought a nice one with an LCD screen on it. The rotating blades are far better than the reciprocating blades. Also, I've found it better to shave later in the day, rather than first thing -- smooshing my face into the three circular trimmers. I definately prefer the electric to the bladed razor, because I keep shaving pieces of skin off my face with the blades. What moron invented a bladed razor, I will never know.
So imagine you have an interview (like I did today). Instead of bits of tissue paper stuck to my face, I simply have no beard. It does take about two weeks to get used to, but once you do, you'll never go back.
Also, forget Remminton. Their razors are junky, and have a chintzy feel to 'em. Also, the reciprocating action of other razors leaves much to be desired -- it's inefficient!
Why? Because some of us are actually interested in Enlightenment's development and upcoming release. As it is this is something very much like bait and switch. I see the icon, and get a craptasic story instead of something related to E. Is it so fucking hard to cook up a human interest icon? Maybe a fluffy kitten, or a pink pony?
This is a great idea, and I don't know why you were modded to zero. We need a human-interest type of category. I suggest a kitten crossed with a pony, like the skull and crossbones. I for one, welcome our new kitten/pony icon/category overlords!
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How come nobody mentions piping YouTube content out to a television channel, or to a series of television channels? This is so blatantly obvious to me.
Of course, I'm one of those nuts that wants to pipe Internet into TV Land. I've been trying to get the proper resources for a LPTV station, but it is taking me a little while to singlehandedly do this. I already record my own shows, commercials, and other TV-type content.
If the idea is to push video to users, wouldn't Cable/Satellite TV be ideal for that? I'm sure nobody wants more reality TV shows, but if you think about it, Reality Internet TV is the next obvious step.
Hi. This is why there are these 'restrictive gun laws' that right right-wingers talk about. Y'know, the ones where you have to have a background check before purchasing pretty much ANY firearms, and there's a waiting period on handguns (BB guns, too!).
Where I grew up in Rhode Island, one of my neighbors had a missile of some sort in his fucking yard. It came in two pieces, and each were on a trailor. I don't remember checking my safety factor at the time, but I do remember that it was fucking cool.
So, if my neighbor had a fully-armed Apache hellicopter, I'd certainly make friends with him. One guy with an aircraft beats two crackies with jake-legs.
> Really? How do you come to this conclusion?
By the count of the dead and wounded and the suffering of those who survive and those who saw the violence and lost those who they love.
Compare the count of the dead and wounded from non-military gun crimes/accidents/etc with car accidents, Iraq, Afghanistan, or even crack fun in the ghetto. Which one comes out the winner?
Also, note the problem -- I'm at home here with my laptop, and outside there are armed soldiers with tear gas tanks, and automatic weaponry. Can you see why this is bad? Note that I am not David Koresh. Lets hope that armed soldiers don't need to pull American Citizens from their homes with automatic weapons, tear gas, or anything else.
The mass ownership of guns is one of the leading causes of terror and misery in our society.
Really? How do you come to this conclusion?
I would think that assholes behind the wheel of the giant SUVs provide me with more terror and misery than anything else I can think of off hand. In fact, I get quite a bit of amusement out of shooting computers with my gun, not feelings of terror. Maybe the computers I shoot feel terror?
Hi. Like the man said, 'from my cold dead hands.' Guns aren't just for the military, cops, and gang-bangers -- we have 'em to make sure that our government doesn't herd us into cattle-cars, and send us off to the thermal depolymerizor en masse. We've already got Extrordinary Rendition, what's after that?
I have '666' in my NRA membership number.
Yay, Microsoft supports HD-DVD. How does this help me at home with everything running GNU/Linux?
On a related note, I don't care about HD-DVD, SACD, or even Blu-Ray. They can all take their overly priced DRM-infected machines, and just sit on 'em. Why do I need Blu-Ray? I can't think of a single reason. In fact, after my experiences with the Playstation2 (We bought it as a DVD player -- it does not play most DVDs), I am very unlikely to buy any Sony product ever again. Hay, and where the hell are all the space games?
Do you think Microsoft has their own version of Linux now? That would be the only answer, I would think.
Either that, or my buddy Josh (and many others) is doing his job properly!
there may be a general market for a cheap, robust laptop without hard drive or optical storage
Ah, so *there* is where our handheld industry went! And with all seriousness, I have been horrified with all of the handhelds since the Palm first came out. I can't understand why they don't build general-purpose cheap and fully-functional small computing devices -- that aren't obtusely designed and super fucking expensive.
I'd love to get my hands on one of Negroponte's OLPC laptop thingies. If Microsoft is getting into the market, lets all hope and prey that they are ultra mass produced, and flop terribly.
Sorry, sorry. You're right, I should stick to the topic. I did get modded up for it, though =_)
Neat idea and all -- the TiVo. Rather than fight with DRM, I'm using MythTV. All the shows I want are recorded, plus I get the added bonus of being able to drag and drop shows to my laptop for watching later. Add in the many other features that come with MythTV, and it's a wonder why people would use a TiVo. Check it out, and you'll be amazed.
Are they tracking travel by car? I make road trips -- plane-distance road trips. I do this instead of flying -- mostly because it is cheaper, but also because of the convenience.
So on these road trips, there are quite a number of communications towers, as well as these interesting localized sensor packs, complete with wind sensors, some have a camera, and there are other prongs which stick out of their little mast. Sometimes they have solar power, too. I've been tempted to investigate, but I'd probably want to put the more interesting bits in my car, and I don't want a closeup of my face to be the last thing transmitted.
I can't imagine they'd record licenseplates, though that could be one of the purposes. Anyone else see these things on the highway?
People are willing to *die* in order to release information. Of course, people are willing to kill to keep it quiet.
Psst... Usenet. Whoops, I've said too much.
Of course there's usenet. That's where I get my porn =_) Seriously, though, there's the issue of content. I sure like to listen to specific bands I like, and some old freaky psychedelic goodies that I like. I do have some old CDs that I've *bought*. More often than not, though, it is so much easier to scan through my favorite Internet radiostations (MythTV friggin' *rocks*).
Usenet will always be there, but there are a shortage of good free usenet servers that carry the binaries. That, and the extra tools needed to decode RAR, PAR, and all that -- I wanna listen to tunes now, not screw with writing scripts and tool figureoutage. The Internet gratifies me instantly, for free, and without the terror brought on by these silly lawsuits.
See? This is bullshit. I'm so scared of getting sued by the RIAA, that I don't download music anymore -- and I don't buy CDs either. No, I don't have a 20+G inventory of MP3s. Instead, I use many of the online commercial-free radio stations (Like the fabulous SomaFM.com).
Now I've been a little scared of being hit by the MPAA for downloading Doctor Who and James Burke shows. Oh, wait...
One main difference between man-made items and natural items is that the latter has a natural mechanism for returning to its original state. Consider a tree struck by lightning. The tree falls to the ground and decomposes back into the soil -- returning to the original molecules that once formed the tree.
You made me think of a couple of points which I found relevant. First of all, laptop (shell)s have been made out of natural materials, but until we can do something like grow a wet laptop -- grow it out of meat instead of a lithographic metal melted way, we're not going to see many laptops built with materials that are going to rot naturally. Then again, I think I'd hate to see some of the viruses that attack biological computing devices. Eeew.
And as far as decomposing naturally, we could digest or process the resulting materials into some raw materials. THis is a bit beyond doing at home, I think. You'd macerate what you could, and dump it into a chamber, and perform a range of reactions on the materials -- you'd need to seperate things, cook others, melt some, and mix whatever is left with someething else, and repeat the process. Sewage is a great semi fluid which would be perfect for the task.
You do need a big facility, and from the scope of this kind of recycling (where it would be feasable with today's primitive New Jersey-styled refining techniques), laptops would be one of many types of electronic devices you'd want to reclaim materials from.
And this is what freaks me out about coal plants dumping CO2 into the air -- isn't that a raw material? Ignore the environmental issues, but they're dumping a potential product into the trash. Same thing with other types of waste -- nuclear included. There's a way to refine everything into something useful.
once we've invented AI that can do our jobs, the whole human race is pretty much redundant.
Not quite. There are lots of things that we could use AI for to help us do our jobs better -- as technology is supposed to do for us in the first place. Think of a plow, or a tractor, or even the computer in the first place. How the hell do you think programming or systems administration was done before computers?
Sign me up, I'm ready to take a vacation from *this* rock.
I wonder that if NASA is thinking about the public's attention, why not send rock-stars, or famous people to some asteroid? Make them do the television circuit to tell us all about it. I don't care about the risk of death due to failures.
Did hell just freeze over? Microsoft releasing their source? Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that SCO went under!
I'd sure like to see the FCC release a bunch of these frequencies back to the public. Didn't we already pay for them? Also, I am definately sure that most licensed broadcasters bend the rules a little, whether it is to up the signal power, or even to release noise into nearby bands. How can we get the FCC to audit their licensees? Are we not complaining loud enough?
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virtuoso != star
Competent != Employed (Just look at our current administration)
As a long-time sysadmin, I've found it hard to keep steady employment -- although I usually do startups and small dev shops because they're fun (if not so lucrative). One thing I've had a hard time with, is getting through all the job board spam -- I hate it!
I have my resume up on monster -- clearly as a sysadmin. I get messages about insurance sales, modeling, marketing, and Amway-style multi-level-marketing jobs. Also, there are recruiters up there harvesting resumes, with no actual jobs. I got so mad that I had to do something about it -- so I did.
Recruiter-Rater is a rate-your-recruiter type of website. Have good dealings with a recruter? Please post about it, we'd love to hear your success story. Got a recruiter repeatedly wasting your time? Post about that too. Bad recruiters need to be shamed out of existance, and good recruiters should see their commissions increase.
Seriously. I would get an email about a job in my area. I'd apply, send-in a resume, sometimes talk to the guy on the phone -- and never hear from them again, until they have another req, starting the cycle again.
I've been at this job-hunting game for a while, and just recently I've almost completely given up as a wage-slave, except that I still need money to live. Of course, being here in Pittsburgh certianly does *not* help, but it is easier to be broke and still live pretty well here, than it is to be broke and live in places like Boston.
Seriously! It's a Norelco electric razor for me. I had one for 10 years before it broke. So, like any dotcom guy, I went out and bought a nice one with an LCD screen on it. The rotating blades are far better than the reciprocating blades. Also, I've found it better to shave later in the day, rather than first thing -- smooshing my face into the three circular trimmers. I definately prefer the electric to the bladed razor, because I keep shaving pieces of skin off my face with the blades. What moron invented a bladed razor, I will never know.
So imagine you have an interview (like I did today). Instead of bits of tissue paper stuck to my face, I simply have no beard. It does take about two weeks to get used to, but once you do, you'll never go back.
Also, forget Remminton. Their razors are junky, and have a chintzy feel to 'em. Also, the reciprocating action of other razors leaves much to be desired -- it's inefficient!
Why? Because some of us are actually interested in Enlightenment's development and upcoming release. As it is this is something very much like bait and switch. I see the icon, and get a craptasic story instead of something related to E. Is it so fucking hard to cook up a human interest icon? Maybe a fluffy kitten, or a pink pony?
This is a great idea, and I don't know why you were modded to zero. We need a human-interest type of category. I suggest a kitten crossed with a pony, like the skull and crossbones. I for one, welcome our new kitten/pony icon/category overlords!
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