For the record, I'm not a parent but I do work in a boarding school.
Are parents that emotionally detached from their kids? I mean, couldn't you just ask your kids what they ate for lunch?
So the kid who ate nothing but chips, cake and chocolate from the machine won't lie to an adult when they think they're in trouble? I've seen kids lie to a teacher about what they just ate, when the empty plates with the leftovers were still in front of them. Kids tell little white lies all the time, it's just part of growing up to be an adult. (Yes boss, I'll have that finished monday; no dear, your hair looks lovely). You teach them why they shouldn't lie about the important stuff, and shouldn't lie for their own advantage, but it's tough when they see adults do even that every day.
If your body wants protein, you're gonna crave a steak. If your body needs calcium, you'll crave some orange juice or vegetables. I don't think we really have to worry too much about kids buying six dollars worth of snickers bars every day. You don't know much about kids. Jamie Oliver, a UK chef had a TV program where he tried to reform kids diets. The biggest problem he had was getting the kids to even try the healthier options, they wanted the high sugar, high fat processed foods over the nicer, health choices he was making. Some went as far as buying food from outside rather than eat the 'horrible new food'. He had to not only provide good food, but convince them to eat it.
Which sounds great, in theory, but considering the fact that anorexia is usually linked to domineering parents, a history of sexual abuse, and an inescapable urge to be in control of something
I call shenanigans. Anorexia can be caused by the things you mention, but it's most often caused by poor body image from unrealistic comparisons to the media and by their peers, until they think they're fat even when they're not.
If you can't ask your kids what they had for lunch and get an honest answer, you have a much bigger problem than the lack of an online monitoring service.
We have a massive problem with obesity in the western world, especially amongst children who are growing up fatter than ever before, in greater numbers than ever before. Parents who both provide good meals at home, and want to get involved in their school meals should be applauded, not derided. After all, who do we blame when we see an 8 year old that weighs twice as much as his peers? And the example from the article shows that parents can help point out things that are unhealthy over time, even though they're not bad in moderation. That's a trend a student might not spot on their own.
The very fact that this system exists will make children think twice about what they choose at the dinner counter; and that's no bad thing at all.
Ah, it's possible your drive controller was setup in compatability or legacy mode, where the SATA controller pretends it's a PATA setup. That can work if you need a minimum of real PATA drives and don't mind that the bus is running at 133 rather than SATA's 150, and it would indeed treat it like a PATA drive for install. Only seen that on onboard chipsets where the IDE and SATA is provided by the same chipset, intel's ICH5 for example.
It's one thing to add an additional SATA drive to an existing working windows computer; that's easy, once you've got the drivers for the SATA controller installed.
What's not so easy is to install a clean copy of windows on a SATA drive, with no PATA in the system. Every time I've had to do it so far, including SP2, I've either got to use a floppy drive to provide the SATA driver at installation time, or patch the install CD to create a custom one at boot.
I did a lot of looking around for a gaming mouse as a leftie, and I can recommend the one I finally plumped for; the razer diamondback
It's a symetrical mouse, but it has two large buttons on top, plus the wheel button. There are also two double switches, one on each side in the thumb position. That gives 5 buttons easy to use, with another double switch which you can operate with your ring finger. I tend to set that one with both buttons the same action, as it is a little awkward, giving 6 buttons total.
It's got a very high dpi and response, laser 1600dpi, so I usually set the games down to minimum response, and the mouse up to 7 or 8 (10 scale), and adjust it down on the fly when I'm using a sniper rifle, or up higher if I'm using a slow move anti-tank gun.
It's not specifically designed for a leftie, but it's much nicer than your average neutral mouse. I especially like the large non-slip main buttons and long thin usb cord.
There used to be a few virus 10 years ago that would screw up your hard drive controllers, or overwrite the bios, or even just feck your mbr.
The problem with them, from the virus writers point of view, is threefold:
1)they kill the infected machine, so don't spread so easily or as much 2)they encourage people to get it fixed, and protect themselves better in future 3) they don't make the virus writer any money.
These days, viruses and trojans are largely written to make the writer money, either by spam schemes, popup adverts, or phishing. That's why they're mainly annoying these days, rather than dangerous to the machine per se.
People writing viruses for bragging rights alone also want their virus to spread as far as possible, as fast as possible, so it's not in their interest to write destructive viruses either, especially since they usually seem to want to get the machines to do a DDOS.
Yeah because gods forbid anyone who owns property or a home should be allowed to do as they please with it just because they own it. They must be forced to conform with government approved standards. If they can't handle that then perhaps some time in Siberia will teach them a lesson. If they offend a second time then the neighbors should be allowed to lynch them.
Couldn't agree more, you just need to present your form signed by God himself granting you the land and permission to build on it...
Oh, you were given lease to the land and permission to build on it by the government. A government that I paid my taxes for just as much, than not more so that you. But you can do anything you like on your government granted land, without having to care about the impact on other people?
Got it. Let me get you a shotgun so you can shoot some people you don't like. After all, if they're on your land you can do whatever you like...
In this particular case, if I had a choice, my taxpayer dollars should go toward the replacement of the school's unhealthy food items with healthy food. No bribes necessary; the kids would eat better. Besides, there are plenty of healthy foods; one can snack on fruits instead of chocolate candy bars, for example.
This is already happening - in no small part due to a campaign by a celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver who basically started revamping some school's menus as an experiment. The biggest problem he encountered is the kids are used to their unhealthy foods, and won't even try the healthy options - they just bring in snacks and junk food. Incentives are one way to get them to switch.
As for the Government getting involved; the nation's health has a direct impact on productivity. In the UK, we also have a nationalised health care scheme, the NHS, because we rather like the idea of everybody getting healthcare, not just the wealthy. Obesity is shaping up to be one of the biggest killers with heart disease. Healthier kids means healthier adults. Healthier adults mean better quality of life, and longer life, and less expense for the NHS.
The purpose of government is to improve the life of a country's citizens, and the health of those citizens is a big chunk of it. It's certainly no worse than farming the issue out to corporations to make profit on.
The gubmint has been fingerprinting foreign nationals entering the U.S. for some time now
And you know what? This is precisely why I, a UK citizen, won't be visting the US again. I'm sure my tourist dollars won't mean much to the US government; but I'm certainly not alone in that decision.
Another possibility if you're using freeview is to use the 'over the air' guide - it's just over a weeks worth of data, constantly updated.
If you've got dvb-eit support (and dvb, obviously, since you need a digital tuner card to watch freeview) in your mythtv build, then it's a simple as ticking the OTA guide option on each channel setup in mythsetup. Can take a few minutes to populate the listings when you first switch, but after that you can just forget about it.
Much simpler than messing about with xmltv or manually plugging the radiotimes guide data into the database, and it means you can run your mythbox with no internet connection.
the DAB radio stations are suffering from a lack of available spectrum, which they're sharing with national analog radio, local analog radio, national DVB television, and national analog television.
DVB tv (freeview) suffers from the same problem, though at least when they eventually switch off analog tv broadcasting (currently looking at around 2010) there'll be a huge amount of bandwidth freed up for all sorts of services, including more and higher rate digital broadcasting.
It's entirely fair for a manufacturer to state that the warranty does not apply if you start "customising" the product with new code and builds. How does the manufacturer know that your cross-compilation of the firmware didn't produce a bad image?
They only get to disclaim the warranty as far as the third party product caused the fault. Say you compile a new firmware, image it, and then your DVR won't boot any more. Chances are, your firmware's responsible and no warranty for you if you can't reflash it. On the other hand, if your custom firmware is working peachily and the power supply fails then they still have to replace the power supply, because your firmware wasn't responsible.
Same with car parts and printer cartridges; orginial manufacturers like to threaten voided warranties, but they can only do so when the fault is in the third party part, or a direct result of using it.
I wouldn't be surprised if Linux equivalents either existed
Believe me, they don't. I run a school network, and the teachers have all sorts of knarly requirements for specific (windows only) software, especially with the younger pupils. The worst is ASP based stuff that has to run on an IIS server, and talk to a MS SQL database. Unstable doesn't cover it, but they have to have it, there simply aren't alternatives.
Windows-based products could be served up on thin Linux clients - yes, but you spend as much on licencing windows terminal servers as desktop OEM licences and CAL's, with the huge educational discounts. Same goes for crossover office with thick clients. Hardware is so cheap now, thin clients don't offer much of a cost saving, and we'd need to spend the difference on beefing up the network.
I'm not a windows proponant. I'm testing windows 2003 active directory vs SuSE; samba is nice, but it can't replace active directory yet, only supplement it (we want to get away from NT domain policies, they're not fine grained enough). The equivalent linux tools on the backend like zenworks cost as much as the windows alternative, and seem less effective when dealing with windows on the desktop.
What I have done with linux is provide edge services; email, webmail, intranet, firewall, restricted proxy, some network shares etc. But I can't seem to replace windows with linux in many areas - it costs the same with education discounts, while functionality actually seems to be better with windows.
I'm trying to resist getting exchange, but when you've management wanting shared calenders that sync with their palms and pocketpc's, the linux groupware just doesn't quite 'join up' like the MS solutions do. It's frustrating.
Walking right past the line is actually pretty nice. But I don't want to pay a dollar over box office for the privilege. Since Fandango is *more* efficient than paying teenagers six bucks an hour to hand out tickets from those little bulletproof booths, it should cost *less*.
I think you've missed the reason; it's because you get to walk right past the line that you pay a dollar over box office. Efficiency has nothing to do with it, they do the same with telephone advance booking here. Because you get to guarantee your seat in advance without having to queue up in the rain, they figure you will be willing to pay more for the priviledge and convenience. Many people are. Is it fair? No. Market forces at work.
Same way they always managed before IE being a mandatory unremovable part of the OS; get a browser by other means.
ISP's still give out CDs with a browser and an account setup script. That browser could just as easily be firefox as internet explorer. Flash drives, network installs, isp ftp setup script, hell even a custom front end that not only lets you choose your ISP but your browser too.
But nobody does any of it, because there's already a browser built into the computer. Why bother supplying a second one when you can support the one already guaranteed to be on the desktop of 90% of your customers?
You're assuming the companies the MPAA represents, and the congressmen they own, want a fair deal.
To them, it won't be a fair setup until everything we watch is a) produced by a MPAA member b) paid for* by every watcher, every time they view it. Yes, that means you pay twice as much if two people watch one show simultaneously. c) even better, paid for by potential viewers, whether you watch it or not. d) uncopyable, unless they're doing the copying e) Chargable like b) every time you change format or viewer, in addition to the per-viewing fee. f) only viewable when the MPAA producer wants you to watch it, especially if you're in a different country g) eternal copyright, so that all of the above applies to all content, forever. h) all fair use of any kind is eliminated.
* paid for to include a flat rate fee, per-viewing fee, or unskippable commercials. Ideally, they'd like all three at once.
"[Skipping ads with a PVR or VCR] is theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial . . . you're actually stealing the programming."
This beautiful piece of logic was bruited about as part of the Big Media blitz against ReplayTV's model 4000 personal video recorder.
Yes, we know it happened. The point is, extradition applies if you commited the (serious) crime in the country that wants to extradite you.
Presumably the DoD member is alleged to have comitted whatever crime (article doesn't say) using servers in the US over the 'net while living in australia.
In addition, he must have done things that bump him up from a civil case (basic copyright infringment) to a criminal case.
There are a handful of crimes such as genocide and pedophilia where some countries will prosecute you (the UK, for example) even if you committed the crime outside of that countries borders. AFAIK though, that only applies to their citizens, so wouldn't apply in this case.
Plus, it's somewhat of an unusual case, as Australia is bending over backwards to accomodate the US government at the moment, even at the expense of their citizens. Most countries governments are not so supine.
The thing is, sweden doesn't have the DMCA for a start. Add to that, it appears it's legal in sweden to post links to copyrighted material, through probably not to host and share it directly. Since the torrent is only a list of instructions on where to find the material, not the material itself, it would appear torrent sites are currently legal in sweden.
Just thought to add, deleting the profile is usually no longer necessary when you upgrade; it's just they changed a few things around before they hit 1.0, so any profile from then could screw the current version.
That said, I've also had 1 case of a corrupted profile post 1.0, but that was a network problem.
I've been running firefox on a number of machines for a while, and I suspect it might not be firefox per se that's having the problems.
The first thing is to make sure you've completely cleaned off any old version. (back up any bookmarks first, it's just an html file). Like any program, upgrading over old cruft can cause some odd effects, so make sure you've uninstalled, and deleted the firefox program directory and more importantly, your profile directory. (should be under %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles). Check for any very old pheonix or firebird profile directory too, as firefox might be trying to import your old settings and getting stuck on some out of date extension or such. Firefox did warn about this if you were running the pre 0.8 ish versions, but seem to have dropped it now.
After that, do a clean install of the latest firefox version, and run it without any extensions. Do a clean install of flash and shockwave plugins (i.e. uninstall, then reinstall latest versions). I've found problems with the flash and shockwave plugins to cause 100% cpu more often than any other cause wuth firefox. Failing that, you could run with flashblock and see if that helps on the sites that run at 100%.
Hopefully that might give it a clean run and fair test as it stands now. If not, then fair enough, it's just a browser:)
It also means you could make a different robot that produces the pre-made blocks from raw materials. Have the first set also be able to assemble a 'factory' robot, and all you need to create a whole ton of these things is a handful of self-assembling robots and a smattering of parts.
You could imagine air/space dropping them into an area with their required resources, let them spend a while making and assembling themselves, then order them off to do your mission.
Would make missions in hazardous areas or space exploration a lot simpler. As examined in Kim Robinson's Mars trilogy, you could send a rocket with a future version of these robots to an asteroid, and have them assemble an entire facility/space elevator remotely and automonously.
Except of course, they were required to document the API's for their middleware network protocols as part of the reduced anti-trust procedings in the US.
Given that they got away with making the terms very restrictive (impossible for OSS to use), it would be beyond foolhardy to risk a new anti-trust case with harsher terms were they to start suing their competition, i.e. samba, in an area where they've already been nailed for anti-trust violations.
I'd suspect there's a specific problem with that machine; I reinstalled an (old) home machine last week that only had a licence for ME, and did a complete windows update on it with no problems. (Thank cthulu for broadband though)
Failing that, do a clean install on a new partition/drive and port your mum's data over.
Or stick a decent OS on it;)
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I used to do this, and still do occasionally. Thing is, torrents follow the very latest season, whereas local broadcast can be on a different schedule. For example, ER is on series 11 in the states, and only series 10 in the uk. I'm using my DVR to grab series 10 off broadcast, so I stay in sync with what I've seen before, and I've got series 11 available for when I finish series 10. The same applies to the various CSI series.
I used to think torrent was all I needed before I got my mythbox, but it's very nice to be able to record local programs that don't hit torrents; older movies, comedy, documentaries and political shows, or even soaps. I find I'm recording over a dozen extra things a week that I would either watch sporadically, or not at all.
Now I can do it easily - things that often aren't available for download. Combine that with the DVD's I've ripped to disc, and when I want to watch something, I've always got half a dozen things cued up ready and waiting. The BBC did a nice special on Genghis Khan the other day that wouldn't go up on a torrent, and I couldn't have watched. I recorded it with two mouse clicks, far easier than setting a video machine.
It's also very handy for when there's two things on TV - say a movie on one channel, and my usual show on another. Now I record one and watch the other. I'm seriously thinking of getting another tuner so I can record both, and watch at my leisure.
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For the record, I'm not a parent but I do work in a boarding school.
Are parents that emotionally detached from their kids? I mean, couldn't you just ask your kids what they ate for lunch?
So the kid who ate nothing but chips, cake and chocolate from the machine won't lie to an adult when they think they're in trouble? I've seen kids lie to a teacher about what they just ate, when the empty plates with the leftovers were still in front of them. Kids tell little white lies all the time, it's just part of growing up to be an adult.
(Yes boss, I'll have that finished monday; no dear, your hair looks lovely). You teach them why they shouldn't lie about the important stuff, and shouldn't lie for their own advantage, but it's tough when they see adults do even that every day.
If your body wants protein, you're gonna crave a steak. If your body needs calcium, you'll crave some orange juice or vegetables. I don't think we really have to worry too much about kids buying six dollars worth of snickers bars every day.
You don't know much about kids. Jamie Oliver, a UK chef had a TV program where he tried to reform kids diets. The biggest problem he had was getting the kids to even try the healthier options, they wanted the high sugar, high fat processed foods over the nicer, health choices he was making. Some went as far as buying food from outside rather than eat the 'horrible new food'. He had to not only provide good food, but convince them to eat it.
Which sounds great, in theory, but considering the fact that anorexia is usually linked to domineering parents, a history of sexual abuse, and an inescapable urge to be in control of something
I call shenanigans. Anorexia can be caused by the things you mention, but it's most often caused by poor body image from unrealistic comparisons to the media and by their peers, until they think they're fat even when they're not.
If you can't ask your kids what they had for lunch and get an honest answer, you have a much bigger problem than the lack of an online monitoring service.
We have a massive problem with obesity in the western world, especially amongst children who are growing up fatter than ever before, in greater numbers than ever before. Parents who both provide good meals at home, and want to get involved in their school meals should be applauded, not derided. After all, who do we blame when we see an 8 year old that weighs twice as much as his peers?
And the example from the article shows that parents can help point out things that are unhealthy over time, even though they're not bad in moderation. That's a trend a student might not spot on their own.
The very fact that this system exists will make children think twice about what they choose at the dinner counter; and that's no bad thing at all.
Ah, it's possible your drive controller was setup in compatability or legacy mode, where the SATA controller pretends it's a PATA setup. That can work if you need a minimum of real PATA drives and don't mind that the bus is running at 133 rather than SATA's 150, and it would indeed treat it like a PATA drive for install. Only seen that on onboard chipsets where the IDE and SATA is provided by the same chipset, intel's ICH5 for example.
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Didn't think of that way round it
It's one thing to add an additional SATA drive to an existing working windows computer; that's easy, once you've got the drivers for the SATA controller installed.
What's not so easy is to install a clean copy of windows on a SATA drive, with no PATA in the system. Every time I've had to do it so far, including SP2, I've either got to use a floppy drive to provide the SATA driver at installation time, or patch the install CD to create a custom one at boot.
I did a lot of looking around for a gaming mouse as a leftie, and I can recommend the one I finally plumped for; the razer diamondback
It's a symetrical mouse, but it has two large buttons on top, plus the wheel button. There are also two double switches, one on each side in the thumb position. That gives 5 buttons easy to use, with another double switch which you can operate with your ring finger. I tend to set that one with both buttons the same action, as it is a little awkward, giving 6 buttons total.
It's got a very high dpi and response, laser 1600dpi, so I usually set the games down to minimum response, and the mouse up to 7 or 8 (10 scale), and adjust it down on the fly when I'm using a sniper rifle, or up higher if I'm using a slow move anti-tank gun.
It's not specifically designed for a leftie, but it's much nicer than your average neutral mouse. I especially like the large non-slip main buttons and long thin usb cord.
There used to be a few virus 10 years ago that would screw up your hard drive controllers, or overwrite the bios, or even just feck your mbr.
The problem with them, from the virus writers point of view, is threefold:
1)they kill the infected machine, so don't spread so easily or as much
2)they encourage people to get it fixed, and protect themselves better in future
3) they don't make the virus writer any money.
These days, viruses and trojans are largely written to make the writer money, either by spam schemes, popup adverts, or phishing. That's why they're mainly annoying these days, rather than dangerous to the machine per se.
People writing viruses for bragging rights alone also want their virus to spread as far as possible, as fast as possible, so it's not in their interest to write destructive viruses either, especially since they usually seem
to want to get the machines to do a DDOS.
Yeah because gods forbid anyone who owns property or a home should be allowed to do as they please with it just because they own it. They must be forced to conform with government approved standards. If they can't handle that then perhaps some time in Siberia will teach them a lesson. If they offend a second time then the neighbors should be allowed to lynch them.
Couldn't agree more, you just need to present your form signed by God himself granting you the land and permission to build on it...
Oh, you were given lease to the land and permission to build on it by the government. A government that I paid my taxes for just as much, than not more so that you. But you can do anything you like on your government granted land, without having to care about the impact on other people?
Got it. Let me get you a shotgun so you can shoot some people you don't like. After all, if they're on your land you can do whatever you like...
Presumably Congress have not tried to trademark the the CAN-SPAM act.
I can just see it now. Get your CAN-SPAM(TM) act here, fresh from the chamber, it's luuuverly....
In this particular case, if I had a choice, my taxpayer dollars should go toward the replacement of the school's unhealthy food items with healthy food. No bribes necessary; the kids would eat better. Besides, there are plenty of healthy foods; one can snack on fruits instead of chocolate candy bars, for example.
This is already happening - in no small part due to a campaign by a celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver who basically started revamping some school's menus as an experiment.
The biggest problem he encountered is the kids are used to their unhealthy foods, and won't even try the healthy options - they just bring in snacks and junk food. Incentives are one way to get them to switch.
As for the Government getting involved; the nation's health has a direct impact on productivity. In the UK, we also have a nationalised health care scheme, the NHS, because we rather like the idea of everybody getting healthcare, not just the wealthy. Obesity is shaping up to be one of the biggest killers with heart disease. Healthier kids means healthier adults. Healthier adults mean better quality of life, and longer life, and less expense for the NHS.
The purpose of government is to improve the life of a country's citizens, and the health of those citizens is a big chunk of it. It's certainly no worse than farming the issue out to corporations to make profit on.
The gubmint has been fingerprinting foreign nationals entering the U.S. for some time now
And you know what? This is precisely why I, a UK citizen, won't be visting the US again. I'm sure my tourist dollars won't mean much to the US government; but I'm certainly not alone in that decision.
Another possibility if you're using freeview is to use the 'over the air' guide - it's just over a weeks worth of data, constantly updated.
If you've got dvb-eit support (and dvb, obviously, since you need a digital tuner card to watch freeview) in your mythtv build, then it's a simple as ticking the OTA guide option on each channel setup in mythsetup. Can take a few minutes to populate the listings when you first switch, but after that you can just forget about it.
Much simpler than messing about with xmltv or manually plugging the radiotimes guide data into the database, and it means you can run your mythbox with no internet connection.
the DAB radio stations are suffering from a lack of available spectrum, which they're sharing with national analog radio, local analog radio, national DVB television, and national analog television.
DVB tv (freeview) suffers from the same problem, though at least when they eventually switch off analog tv broadcasting (currently looking at around 2010) there'll be a huge amount of bandwidth freed up for all sorts of services, including more and higher rate digital broadcasting.
It's entirely fair for a manufacturer to state that the warranty does not apply if you start "customising" the product with new code and builds. How does the manufacturer know that your cross-compilation of the firmware didn't produce a bad image?
They only get to disclaim the warranty as far as the third party product caused the fault. Say you compile a new firmware, image it, and then your DVR won't boot any more. Chances are, your firmware's responsible and no warranty for you if you can't reflash it. On the other hand, if your custom firmware is working peachily and the power supply fails then they still have to replace the power supply, because your firmware wasn't responsible.
Same with car parts and printer cartridges; orginial manufacturers like to threaten voided warranties, but they can only do so when the fault is in the third party part, or a direct result of using it.
I wouldn't be surprised if Linux equivalents either existed
Believe me, they don't. I run a school network, and the teachers have all sorts of knarly requirements for specific (windows only) software, especially with the younger pupils. The worst is ASP based stuff that has to run on an IIS server, and talk to a MS SQL database. Unstable doesn't cover it, but they have to have it, there simply aren't alternatives.
Windows-based products could be served up on thin Linux clients - yes, but you spend as much on licencing windows terminal servers as desktop OEM licences and CAL's, with the huge educational discounts. Same goes for crossover office with thick clients. Hardware is so cheap now, thin clients don't offer much of a cost saving, and we'd need to spend the difference on beefing up the network.
I'm not a windows proponant. I'm testing windows 2003 active directory vs SuSE; samba is nice, but it can't replace active directory yet, only supplement it (we want to get away from NT domain policies, they're not fine grained enough). The equivalent linux tools on the backend like zenworks cost as much as the windows alternative, and seem less effective when dealing with windows on the desktop.
What I have done with linux is provide edge services; email, webmail, intranet, firewall, restricted proxy, some network shares etc. But I can't seem to replace windows with linux in many areas - it costs the same with education discounts, while functionality actually seems to be better with windows.
I'm trying to resist getting exchange, but when you've management wanting shared calenders that sync with their palms and pocketpc's, the linux groupware just doesn't quite 'join up' like the MS solutions do. It's frustrating.
Walking right past the line is actually pretty nice. But I don't want to pay a dollar over box office for the privilege. Since Fandango is *more* efficient than paying teenagers six bucks an hour to hand out tickets from those little bulletproof booths, it should cost *less*.
I think you've missed the reason; it's because you get to walk right past the line that you pay a dollar over box office. Efficiency has nothing to do with it, they do the same with telephone advance booking here. Because you get to guarantee your seat in advance without having to queue up in the rain, they figure you will be willing to pay more for the priviledge and convenience. Many people are. Is it fair? No. Market forces at work.
Same way they always managed before IE being a mandatory unremovable part of the OS; get a browser by other means.
ISP's still give out CDs with a browser and an account setup script. That browser could just as easily be firefox as internet explorer. Flash drives, network installs, isp ftp setup script, hell even a custom front end that not only lets you choose your ISP but your browser too.
But nobody does any of it, because there's already a browser built into the computer. Why bother supplying a second one when you can support the one already guaranteed to be on the desktop of 90% of your customers?
You're assuming the companies the MPAA represents, and the congressmen they own, want a fair deal.
To them, it won't be a fair setup until everything we watch is
a) produced by a MPAA member
b) paid for* by every watcher, every time they view it. Yes, that means you pay twice as much if two people watch one show simultaneously.
c) even better, paid for by potential viewers, whether you watch it or not.
d) uncopyable, unless they're doing the copying
e) Chargable like b) every time you change format or viewer, in addition to the per-viewing fee.
f) only viewable when the MPAA producer wants you to watch it, especially if you're in a different country
g) eternal copyright, so that all of the above applies to all content, forever.
h) all fair use of any kind is eliminated.
* paid for to include a flat rate fee, per-viewing fee, or unskippable commercials. Ideally, they'd like all three at once.
"[Skipping ads with a PVR or VCR] is theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial . . . you're actually stealing the programming."
This beautiful piece of logic was bruited about as part of the Big Media blitz against ReplayTV's model 4000 personal video recorder.
This is what we're dealing with.
Yes, we know it happened. The point is, extradition applies if you commited the (serious) crime in the country that wants to extradite you.
Presumably the DoD member is alleged to have comitted whatever crime (article doesn't say) using servers in the US over the 'net while living in australia.
In addition, he must have done things that bump him up from a civil case (basic copyright infringment) to a criminal case.
There are a handful of crimes such as genocide and pedophilia where some countries will prosecute you (the UK, for example) even if you committed the crime outside of that countries borders. AFAIK though, that only applies to their citizens, so wouldn't apply in this case.
Plus, it's somewhat of an unusual case, as Australia is bending over backwards to accomodate the US government at the moment, even at the expense of their citizens. Most countries governments are not so supine.
The thing is, sweden doesn't have the DMCA for a start. Add to that, it appears it's legal in sweden to post links to copyrighted material, through probably not to host and share it directly. Since the torrent is only a list of instructions on where to find the material, not the material itself, it would appear torrent sites are currently legal in sweden.
Just thought to add, deleting the profile is usually no longer necessary when you upgrade; it's just they changed a few things around before they hit 1.0, so any profile from then could screw the current version.
That said, I've also had 1 case of a corrupted profile post 1.0, but that was a network problem.
I've been running firefox on a number of machines for a while, and I suspect it might not be firefox per se that's having the problems.
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The first thing is to make sure you've completely cleaned off any old version. (back up any bookmarks first, it's just an html file). Like any program, upgrading over old cruft can cause some odd effects, so make sure you've uninstalled, and deleted the firefox program directory and more importantly, your profile directory. (should be under %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles). Check for any very old pheonix or firebird profile directory too, as firefox might be trying to import your old settings and getting stuck on some out of date extension or such. Firefox did warn about this if you were running the pre 0.8 ish versions, but seem to have dropped it now.
After that, do a clean install of the latest firefox version, and run it without any extensions. Do a clean install of flash and shockwave plugins (i.e. uninstall, then reinstall latest versions). I've found problems with the flash and shockwave plugins to cause 100% cpu more often than any other cause wuth firefox. Failing that, you could run with flashblock and see if that helps on the sites that run at 100%.
Hopefully that might give it a clean run and fair test as it stands now. If not, then fair enough, it's just a browser
It also means you could make a different robot that produces the pre-made blocks from raw materials. Have the first set also be able to assemble a 'factory' robot, and all you need to create a whole ton of these things is a handful of self-assembling robots and a smattering of parts.
You could imagine air/space dropping them into an area with their required resources, let them spend a while making and assembling themselves, then order them off to do your mission.
Would make missions in hazardous areas or space exploration a lot simpler. As examined in Kim Robinson's Mars trilogy, you could send a rocket with a future version of these robots to an asteroid, and have them assemble an entire facility/space elevator remotely and automonously.
Except of course, they were required to document the API's for their middleware network protocols as part of the reduced anti-trust procedings in the US.
Given that they got away with making the terms very restrictive (impossible for OSS to use), it would be beyond foolhardy to risk a new anti-trust case with harsher terms were they to start suing their competition, i.e. samba, in an area where they've already been nailed for anti-trust violations.
I'd suspect there's a specific problem with that machine; I reinstalled an (old) home machine last week that only had a licence for ME, and did a complete windows update on it with no problems. (Thank cthulu for broadband though)
a milyID=1e1550cb-5e5d-48f5-b02b-20b602228de6&displa ylang=en and installing directly.
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You could try uninstalling any extensions to IE, (flash, googlebar etc), run a scan with adaware and hijackthis, and then try either windows update or grabbing the individual patch update from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F
Failing that, do a clean install on a new partition/drive and port your mum's data over.
Or stick a decent OS on it
I used to do this, and still do occasionally. Thing is, torrents follow the very latest season, whereas local broadcast can be on a different schedule. For example, ER is on series 11 in the states, and only series 10 in the uk. I'm using my DVR to grab series 10 off broadcast, so I stay in sync with what I've seen before, and I've got series 11 available for when I finish series 10. The same applies to the various CSI series.
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I used to think torrent was all I needed before I got my mythbox, but it's very nice to be able to record local programs that don't hit torrents; older movies, comedy, documentaries and political shows, or even soaps. I find I'm recording over a dozen extra things a week that I would either watch sporadically, or not at all.
Now I can do it easily - things that often aren't available for download. Combine that with the DVD's I've ripped to disc, and when I want to watch something, I've always got half a dozen things cued up ready and waiting.
The BBC did a nice special on Genghis Khan the other day that wouldn't go up on a torrent, and I couldn't have watched. I recorded it with two mouse clicks, far easier than setting a video machine.
It's also very handy for when there's two things on TV - say a movie on one channel, and my usual show on another. Now I record one and watch the other. I'm seriously thinking of getting another tuner so I can record both, and watch at my leisure.
Besides, ripping off TV is legal