A humanzee is a hypothetical cross between human and chimpanzee. Just walking on two legs doesn't make a humanzee, though it may encourage people to claim that the upright animal is a humanzee.
There's nothing misleading about it. Yes, copyright is automatic now (since the Berne Convention, IIRC); but it used to be that you had to register it. (And that's how it should be.) Hence the word "traditional" in the text you quoted.
is that I can tell that they're using Averatec laptops, just like mine, even though I can't read the logos -- the styling is unmistakable. Nice touch; I would've expected a more generic rendering.
BTW, I see this as more graphic novel than Sunday funny style.
I have a Hughes HDVR2 Series2 DirecTivo. It was cool and all, but what I really wanted was a way to get content off of it and watch it on a computer. No home media option for DirecTivo users though. Nice.
The Home Media Option wouldn't have got you that anyway. It only allows sharing video with other Tivos, and only MP3s and pictures with your desktop computer. (There's another service coming soon, "TivoToGo", that may allow it.)
But you can get the content off an HDVR2 (and even run HMO on it, for that matter), by hacking it. I have scads of DVDs with DirecTV content extracted from my HDVR2. (It's nonstandard for DVD -- 480x480 -- but plays in all my DVD players.) Check out http://dealdatabase.com/forum for details.
Wait... ESPN2-HD? 95% of what's on ESPN-HD is upconverted SD with sidebars. Why do they need a second HD channel when they're barely using their first?
I don't rememember Thomas Jefferson saying it was ok to take the war to the civilians back in Britan or France or kidnap Britsh merchants and cut thier heads off as a 'message to others.'
Well, the Continental Congress did issue
letters of marque, aka licenses to pirate.
How many of your kids play pick-up games of street ball with their neighbors? How many of them roam around the neighborhood on bicycles, unsupervised, like we did in the 70's?
It still happens in my neighborhood (suburban Maryland). Kind of a nuisance, really, kids playing in the street. But then, I'm not a parent.
I'm sure I'll be modded down for this, but I think Sawyer is just about the most overrated SF author of recent years, with the possible exception of Allen Steele (darling of the Libertarians).
I think you may have missed the context of that ad... it was put there to illustrate Google's "often interesting" ad selection. (The Google ad from AdBar is for an anti-Bush site.)
If you'd noticed one of the other screenshots on that page, the Daily Kos, you might've come to the opposite conclusion.
EDTVs are not considered "high definition", but they're certainly "high res", compared to NTSC sets. And at normal viewing distances, most people are hard-pressed to tell the difference.
ATSC set-top boxes can be had for as little as $150. That's what I paid for mine two days ago. Granted, it was a discontinued demo unit; but that $600 figure is strangely outdated. A variety of new models are available at $300. And they'll only get cheaper -- they're basically the same technology as DVD players, needing a little more processing power, but without the moving parts.
Standard-definition digital cable, DirecTV, etc. shouldn't be lumped together with HDTV. Even standard-def digital broadcasts are far superior, and quite noticeably better than analog. (DirecTV is only 480x480 resolution on most channels, while SD OTA starts at 704x480, and HD starts at 1280x720.) Despite which, my switch from analog Comcast to DirecTV in 2000 was a huge improvement in picture quality.
Tivo has no such ability. Where did you get that idea?
For removing commercials at record time, Tivo is actually less effective than a VCR. On a VCR, I can hit pause when the commercials start, and unpause the recording when they're finished. But on a Tivo, the best I could do would be to stop the recording during each commercial break -- which would mean starting a new recording after each one. Plus, since the Tivo grabs whatever was in its live buffer when the record button is pressed (a very neat feature, in general, but a problem in this case), you'd still get the commercials on the front of the new recording -- unless you flushed the buffer by switching to another channel, and switching back just in time.
Now, Tivo does make it easy to skip commercials on playback, either with fast forward (like a VCR) or 30-second skip (only available through a backdoor code). And if you hack your Tivo, you can extract the recordings, and edit out the commercials in a much more precise way than a VCR allows. But live editing just isn't practical.
We can't scale in the metric way; however, it's possible to put four or nine sheets together in a way that preserves the aspect ratio, or to divide a sheet into fourths in the same way. (I've done all of the above with resized printouts.)
The announcement is of the mobile, low-voltage Athlon 64, not just the mobile, low-voltage Athlon -- which has been in the very machine I'm typing on for nearly a year. This is referenced in one place in the article, but the chips are misleadingly referred to simply as "Athlon" in the title, and several more times.
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A humanzee is a hypothetical cross between human and chimpanzee. Just walking on two legs doesn't make a humanzee, though it may encourage people to claim that the upright animal is a humanzee.
There's nothing misleading about it. Yes, copyright is automatic now (since the Berne Convention, IIRC); but it used to be that you had to register it. (And that's how it should be.) Hence the word "traditional" in the text you quoted.
It's like how Jefferson and Adams died on the 50th anniversary of the Republic.
is that I can tell that they're using Averatec laptops, just like mine, even though I can't read the logos -- the styling is unmistakable. Nice touch; I would've expected a more generic rendering.
BTW, I see this as more graphic novel than Sunday funny style.
Wait... ESPN2-HD? 95% of what's on ESPN-HD is upconverted SD with sidebars. Why do they need a second HD channel when they're barely using their first?
Do you have citations to back up that claim?
Earth would be easy to detect, in the radio spectrum. (From within, say, 80 light years.)
The Change Bank!
This song was made for you and me!
"Eskimo power"? WTF?
I'm sure I'll be modded down for this, but I think Sawyer is just about the most overrated SF author of recent years, with the possible exception of Allen Steele (darling of the Libertarians).
I think you may have missed the context of that ad... it was put there to illustrate Google's "often interesting" ad selection. (The Google ad from AdBar is for an anti-Bush site.)
If you'd noticed one of the other screenshots on that page, the Daily Kos, you might've come to the opposite conclusion.
IBM DOES distribute Linux. Look here, for example. (That's just the first example I could find; I'm sure there are others.)
The GPL, which IBM has accepted by distributing Linux, seems already to prohibit them from asserting patent claims against Linux users. No?
By "sauter", do you mean solder?
It sounds unbelievably dangerous. I haven't got past that to figure out if it would work. How about a system that doesn't involve molten metal?
That's not a bust, it's a bas-relief.
BTW, without a cite, I don't buy the story.
EDTVs are not considered "high definition", but they're certainly "high res", compared to NTSC sets. And at normal viewing distances, most people are hard-pressed to tell the difference.
ATSC set-top boxes can be had for as little as $150. That's what I paid for mine two days ago. Granted, it was a discontinued demo unit; but that $600 figure is strangely outdated. A variety of new models are available at $300. And they'll only get cheaper -- they're basically the same technology as DVD players, needing a little more processing power, but without the moving parts.
Standard-definition digital cable, DirecTV, etc. shouldn't be lumped together with HDTV. Even standard-def digital broadcasts are far superior, and quite noticeably better than analog. (DirecTV is only 480x480 resolution on most channels, while SD OTA starts at 704x480, and HD starts at 1280x720.) Despite which, my switch from analog Comcast to DirecTV in 2000 was a huge improvement in picture quality.
The Pentagon isn't tall, but it's still huge -- by some accounts the world's largest office building.
Its squat structure (as compared to the WTC) turned out to be a great boon on Sept. 11, 2001.
Tivo has no such ability. Where did you get that idea?
For removing commercials at record time, Tivo is actually less effective than a VCR. On a VCR, I can hit pause when the commercials start, and unpause the recording when they're finished. But on a Tivo, the best I could do would be to stop the recording during each commercial break -- which would mean starting a new recording after each one. Plus, since the Tivo grabs whatever was in its live buffer when the record button is pressed (a very neat feature, in general, but a problem in this case), you'd still get the commercials on the front of the new recording -- unless you flushed the buffer by switching to another channel, and switching back just in time.
Now, Tivo does make it easy to skip commercials on playback, either with fast forward (like a VCR) or 30-second skip (only available through a backdoor code). And if you hack your Tivo, you can extract the recordings, and edit out the commercials in a much more precise way than a VCR allows. But live editing just isn't practical.
We can't scale in the metric way; however, it's possible to put four or nine sheets together in a way that preserves the aspect ratio, or to divide a sheet into fourths in the same way. (I've done all of the above with resized printouts.)
The announcement is of the mobile, low-voltage Athlon 64, not just the mobile, low-voltage Athlon -- which has been in the very machine I'm typing on for nearly a year. This is referenced in one place in the article, but the chips are misleadingly referred to simply as "Athlon" in the title, and several more times.