"because sure enough, at least once a month the HD DVR doesn't record something, or cuts it off etc etc...at that point I can still watch it in the bedroom...just not in HD."
My DVR does the same thing occasionally, but that's when I turn to the internet and bittorrent. Problem solved.
I'm not really sure why you included Trent Reznor in there, but just for the record, he's actually been pretty vocal about endorsing downloading of music in some cases. I'd be very surprised if he turned around and sued people over it.
Reznor also openly admitted to being pretty active on the bittorrent site Oink before it got shutdown.
audiauto.com is a ppc site, but audicom.com appears to be a valid one. Domain names are already oftentimes misleading unless you have some other information (like from Google) to help you sort them out.
I do agree with you though that adding more TLDs won't necessarily fix the problem since there will still be ppc sites taking advantage of the confusion and misspellings. In my opinion, the only real way to deal with the problem is to make them illegal. We have laws (in America, at least) against various forms of fraud and things like Pyramid or Ponzi schemes, so why should this be any different? They're creating sites that are intentionally designed to mislead.
[quote]Actually, I suspect that there's going to be a major perceived difference between someone who has simply hacked into others' computers in the past, and someone who has specifically exploited the trust of and targeted those who employed him to protect their PCs.[/quote]
Yeah, screw a new job. He'll probably get elected president.
I had just received a new laptop yesterday and had been waiting to try out Vista. I'm already considering going back to XP for now (I have Ubuntu on other machines in the house, but my work generally requires windows).
It's a bit sad that they couldn't fix some basic issues. The main one I'm running into is copying files over the network is ridiculously slow (as in 100K/second) which I found out while trying to move files from my old laptop. I spent most of yesterday running around looking for "fixes" which generally meant disabling things like indexing and the whole microsoft search thing, but none of those seem to be working. I even tried installing some of the recent patches online, but nothing is speeding up the copies.
Oh well, maybe Dell will let me trade it in for a regular copy of xp again.
This has always been what frustrated me about Fairplay, since most of the decoding is done in Quicktime anyway yet they still force you to install iTunes to deal with the authentication. iTunes should be unnecessary.
Thank You! I'm getting so tired of reading about Vim and Emacs every time an IDE discussion comes up. Yes, they are good at what they do and have their uses, but comparing them to well developed IDEs like Eclipse when working in the languages they're designed for is a joke.
As you suggested, I would usually only stick with Vim or Emacs if a good IDE didn't exist yet, and in the case of Python, it looks like some of the IDEs are starting to mature. I personally like Pydev for Eclipse, since it's one of the more mature ones that also has bicycle repair man integrated (for refactoring).
So, I realize this might not be the best place to mention this, but I recently discovered that active desktop is actually a bit more interesting than I used to think if you start thinking of the fact that you could be using AJAX to create a more interactive desktop on windows. A person had showed me how he messed with some javascript that made the desktop have snow, and it got me thinking of the possibilities.
I only spent a little bit of time on it, but I already created some animated menus that link to applications on my machine and added a calendar and better clock. There are limitations, such as you're forced to use IE as the rendering engine, but the possibilities really are interesting when you consider you don't have as much of a security concern on your own desktop and you could start playing with activex controls a bit more.
"Can somebody please tell me specifically how studying past events will ever help quench anything but our own curiosity?"
"That its vital purpose is to discover and outline the laws of Nature, thereby allowing us to engineer new ways to exploit those laws to make things a little more liveable."
Comedy books are good as audio. I've listened to some of George Carlin's stuff, and I think I prefer the audio versions. You just can't compare having him read the material to you to having to read it yourself.
I also second the Pimsleur recommendation. Though it's expensive, it's been very useful for me when learning Japanese.
I've sort of had to print some at home lately since I'm taking a painting class and the teacher wanted us to do some from photos. I might send some off to snapfish or flickr if I have time, but it's just more convenient to print out large sheets from home to take to class.
Anyway, I found at the office store Staples, they're now offering cartridges that are cheaper and have more ink then some of the name brand cartridges. In my case, I have an hp DeskJet 952c and I saved quite a bit by buying the staples brand. I would recommend looking into it next time you have to get replacements.
Don't get me wrong, I happen to like both C# and Java, but if I have to create a gui app on windows for some reason, C# and.net wins hands down.
Yes, I realize I could use SWT, but that's still not necessarily good enough. It surprises me that Swing still sucks so much after all this time. I would love to use one language exclusively if I could, but until I see some decent gui apps being built using Swing, it's hard for me to want to use Java unless I have backend services to create.
Having said that, I would like to know if anyone can point me to gui applications that use swing and are actually good and fast. I'm curious if they exist at all.
Actually, I have comcast in a pretty dense area and can't complain too much.
Of course, now that I say that it will probably go out on me soon.:p
Anyway, I think part of it may have been that about 2 years ago after a rain storm, my connection died for about 2 weeks. Ever since then though it's been running smoothly. I may have just gotten "lucky" and they replaced everything in my area.
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"because sure enough, at least once a month the HD DVR doesn't record something, or cuts it off etc etc...at that point I can still watch it in the bedroom...just not in HD."
My DVR does the same thing occasionally, but that's when I turn to the internet and bittorrent. Problem solved.
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell
I suppose I could have said a whole bunch more, but that sums it up nicely.
Wait, so does that mean it doesn't support keywords at all anymore? I haven't tried using ff3 yet.
..." google, "img ..." image search, "map ..." google maps)
I've become accustomed to doing most of my searching in the address bar though in ff2 ("g
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/13/trent-reznor-to-chin.html
I'm not really sure why you included Trent Reznor in there, but just for the record, he's actually been pretty vocal about endorsing downloading of music in some cases. I'd be very surprised if he turned around and sued people over it.
Reznor also openly admitted to being pretty active on the bittorrent site Oink before it got shutdown.
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/10/trent-reznor-on.html
It's already a bit confusing.
audiauto.com is a ppc site, but audicom.com appears to be a valid one. Domain names are already oftentimes misleading unless you have some other information (like from Google) to help you sort them out.
I do agree with you though that adding more TLDs won't necessarily fix the problem since there will still be ppc sites taking advantage of the confusion and misspellings. In my opinion, the only real way to deal with the problem is to make them illegal. We have laws (in America, at least) against various forms of fraud and things like Pyramid or Ponzi schemes, so why should this be any different? They're creating sites that are intentionally designed to mislead.
You mean like Sexx Laws from Beck?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1w_ATXrHjU
Or better yet, have a family member or friend look at the document if they happen to be a lawyer. Barter with them if you have to.
Fortunately, I just trade with my younger brother and take care of his IT needs occasionally. That, or I threaten him with wedgies.
[quote]Actually, I suspect that there's going to be a major perceived difference between someone who has simply hacked into others' computers in the past, and someone who has specifically exploited the trust of and targeted those who employed him to protect their PCs.[/quote]
Yeah, screw a new job. He'll probably get elected president.
I had just received a new laptop yesterday and had been waiting to try out Vista. I'm already considering going back to XP for now (I have Ubuntu on other machines in the house, but my work generally requires windows).
It's a bit sad that they couldn't fix some basic issues. The main one I'm running into is copying files over the network is ridiculously slow (as in 100K/second) which I found out while trying to move files from my old laptop. I spent most of yesterday running around looking for "fixes" which generally meant disabling things like indexing and the whole microsoft search thing, but none of those seem to be working. I even tried installing some of the recent patches online, but nothing is speeding up the copies.
Oh well, maybe Dell will let me trade it in for a regular copy of xp again.
Or, if you're using Firefox you could just install the CustomizeGoogle Add-on which has options for anonymity.
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
"It isn't OUT yet. That's the point. It's been dragging on for a year and the big boffo resolution is a MONTH AWAY."
Just so you know, the comic came out today.
This has always been what frustrated me about Fairplay, since most of the decoding is done in Quicktime anyway yet they still force you to install iTunes to deal with the authentication. iTunes should be unnecessary.
My situation is similar, though occasionally I get a little bit of congestion in the high traffic areas of the house.
Usually, that's resolved with a gentle kick to the butts of my two dogs to move out of the way.
I know some people modded that funny, but I have an Inspiron 9100 also, and he's not joking. Nice laptop, but it'll suck faster than a cheap hooker.
Thank You! I'm getting so tired of reading about Vim and Emacs every time an IDE discussion comes up. Yes, they are good at what they do and have their uses, but comparing them to well developed IDEs like Eclipse when working in the languages they're designed for is a joke.
As you suggested, I would usually only stick with Vim or Emacs if a good IDE didn't exist yet, and in the case of Python, it looks like some of the IDEs are starting to mature. I personally like Pydev for Eclipse, since it's one of the more mature ones that also has bicycle repair man integrated (for refactoring).
I absolutely agree, though I would expand it to a more general "Commentary" category and add stuff like Joel on Software to it. I'm sick of those too.
So, I realize this might not be the best place to mention this, but I recently discovered that active desktop is actually a bit more interesting than I used to think if you start thinking of the fact that you could be using AJAX to create a more interactive desktop on windows. A person had showed me how he messed with some javascript that made the desktop have snow, and it got me thinking of the possibilities.
I only spent a little bit of time on it, but I already created some animated menus that link to applications on my machine and added a calendar and better clock. There are limitations, such as you're forced to use IE as the rendering engine, but the possibilities really are interesting when you consider you don't have as much of a security concern on your own desktop and you could start playing with activex controls a bit more.
Just a thought.
"Can somebody please tell me specifically how studying past events will ever help quench anything but our own curiosity?"
"That its vital purpose is to discover and outline the laws of Nature, thereby allowing us to engineer new ways to exploit those laws to make things a little more liveable."
You answered your own question.
Comedy books are good as audio. I've listened to some of George Carlin's stuff, and I think I prefer the audio versions. You just can't compare having him read the material to you to having to read it yourself.
I also second the Pimsleur recommendation. Though it's expensive, it's been very useful for me when learning Japanese.
I've sort of had to print some at home lately since I'm taking a painting class and the teacher wanted us to do some from photos. I might send some off to snapfish or flickr if I have time, but it's just more convenient to print out large sheets from home to take to class.
Anyway, I found at the office store Staples, they're now offering cartridges that are cheaper and have more ink then some of the name brand cartridges. In my case, I have an hp DeskJet 952c and I saved quite a bit by buying the staples brand. I would recommend looking into it next time you have to get replacements.
Don't get me wrong, I happen to like both C# and Java, but if I have to create a gui app on windows for some reason, C# and .net wins hands down.
Yes, I realize I could use SWT, but that's still not necessarily good enough. It surprises me that Swing still sucks so much after all this time. I would love to use one language exclusively if I could, but until I see some decent gui apps being built using Swing, it's hard for me to want to use Java unless I have backend services to create.
Having said that, I would like to know if anyone can point me to gui applications that use swing and are actually good and fast. I'm curious if they exist at all.
Clearly you just have not come to understand the wisdom of this strategy.
It's nothing a good cornholing won't clear up.
Actually, I have comcast in a pretty dense area and can't complain too much.
:p
Of course, now that I say that it will probably go out on me soon.
Anyway, I think part of it may have been that about 2 years ago after a rain storm, my connection died for about 2 weeks. Ever since then though it's been running smoothly. I may have just gotten "lucky" and they replaced everything in my area.
"why do lefties are righties feel the need to basically highjack the book"
Because anyone that labels themselves "Left" or "Right" is already braindead.
http://www.coronaproductions.com/ubb/Forum28/HTML/ 002242.html
She already won last year. There were other news sources reporting it, but that was the first one I saw.