They are doing it for "Black. White." -- showing it on DirecTV PPV three days ahead of the actual showing. Personally I think that it was a poor show choice to try this model on because the contect of "Black. White." (IMHO) sucks.
They should have done it with Rescue Me or Nip/Tuck. Even Thief, being new, doesn't have the viewership to warrant a test like that. On a personal note, I'm trying to like Thief, I really am -- but it's too much drama and not enough action.
I had the first Tivo of anyone I knew -- the day I first heard about it I picked one up. It was a great device for its time, but the recent Tivos I've experienced have no shown much improvement.
I'm no fan of Tivo (the company) but the Tivo device itself is great. I own both a Series 2 and a DirecTivo. I don't personally see a need for all the things that MythTV does (while tying up a fairly high-end (for me) piece of useable hardware). My DirecTivo records my shows, without much interaction, and lets me watch one while it records two more.
A good majority of the users out there (that Tivo attracts over MythTV installations) are using a Tivo because they couldn't give a two flying fucks about "additional uses" that other DVRs offer. On a side note, I'm a fairly competent computer user but I still can't justify another computer purchase just to hook it up to my TV to burn DVDs of TV shows and have a weather report while playing MAME. YMMV.
"I used to think nothing of checking my Yahoo mail several times a day," says Global Crossing Chief Marketing Officer Anthony Christie. Now that he can't, his long workday makes it hard to avoid using his work email account for personal messages, he says.
Sometimes I wonder if this is exactly what companies *want*. They don't want people to use outside e-mail (especially ones running over https) because then they can't easily monitor what their staff is doing.
If people are using their work e-mail for their personal use, the company gets to see exactly what, where, how, and when their employees are spending their own time. If the employee opts to not use their work e-mail for anything personal, the company knows that they now have the other added benefit of possible added productivity.
I'm just glad I can use SSH and tunnel everything over that. If I can't do that, I have GPRS service on my mobile device and I *could* use that for AIM, e-mail, and browsing instead.
It's wonderful that so many people are willing to say they want to make a difference. That's just as good as actually doing it! Studies also show that 74% of all Americans also say they want to start excersizing regularly, continue their education, spend time with their families, and find a cure for cancer.
Exactly! As long as someone else has to do the cutting back everyone is all for it! *I* would *love* to be able to take mass transit to work daily -- problem is that it's just not possible as the transit system here (from the suburbs) was intended for suburb A city rather than being able to go from suburb A suburb B.
We need the local, state, and Federal governments to be able to help a bit and allow us the ability to help -- especially for those of us that really want to.
Looks like you are either registered or have some funky access that I do not. Either way, EE still sucks. Even if I *could* see it, e-mailing some guy for the answers isn't what I consider acceptable.
Toshiba expects to sell 600k to 700k of these units?! There isn't enough shelf-space worldwide to hold those devices at that size.
They mention in the article that there will be a lower-end version for sale in North America for around $500. I couldn't find any specs or reasons for the lower cost. Anyone else?
However, you clearly haven't seen any modern pornography. It's not just naked human beings. It's guys cumming on womens faces saying, "Take that bitch, want some more?" This kind of material can be very harmful to kids. It provides for a horrendous role model that some children adopt and it causes a number of problems in their ability to develop relationships with the opposite sex. It warps their ideas of love and sex.
No, it warps the socially acceptable ideas of "love" and "sex" that you prefer. Just because one person or a group of people find it socially acceptable to have sex, missionary style, in their bedroom, silently, at night, with the lights off, and no clothes on doesn't mean that it's the only way to show love.
By the way, I don't usually watch much TV. Partly because of the mind-numbing dullness and idiocy, partly because I cannot stand censorship. I want my swear words!
Watch USA, Comedy Central, and FX. FX, especially, is constantly full of sex, violence, and "adult language" while also having some of the most innovative and interesting shows out there (Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, Thief, The Shield, etc).
If seeing the movie in the theater is better, then I'll do that regardless of whether the DVD is out.
It *should* be better but due to various influences (cell phones, douchebags, douchebags with cell phones, and high ticket/food cost) it's not. The theatres know that and that's why they are upset.
...why did they order the PCs from China in the first place? Didn't they know that their attempt to save a buck might end up in future unforeseen costs?
So that they can start planting the seeds of war with China. What better way to recoup all the money that we owe them but to go to war w/them for years so we don't have to pay it back?!
Google is better in the long term, but I've noticed MSN is faster to update its index. This is helpful for site designers to get quicker feedback on how they are doing in search results.
Google indexes me just as often as MSN does. Perhaps that's because I'm using Sitemaps but I don't know. Whether or not I show up in the Google index (after being indexed) usually depends on when any particular post on my website gets off the main page (at least that's what it seems like).
Survival of the fittest. Google is *the* search engine that returns the *best* results. If he's going to limit his children to a search engine that sucks (i.e. MSN) then his kids won't be as well informed as those that are permitted to use Google.
This is like a father telling his children that they are only allowed to use Encyclopedias from 2001 instead of the 2006 edition.
The book has the facts and figures and whatnot, but for many students just reading the book doesn't make things click.
I didn't go to some fancy school that cost big bucks, nor do I currently work at one either, but what I do know is that only a *handful* of professors and instructors that I have come in contact with over the years do anything except teach (word for word) what's in the book.
I agree 100% that communities should determine what is and isn't acceptable in their little part of the world.
Obscenity is and should always be defined by the community -- preferably by the household. What disgusts me should have no effect on what you like -- true freedom means allowing (if not accepting) others to do what they want as long as they don't harm your body or your property. Porn doesn't harm me, so I can not speak out against it. I am free to tell people on my property to leave if they decide they want to look at porn or talk about it on my land.
The arguement that was behind bringing this to the Supreme Court was that because of the Internet, commerce is no longer just a localized entity. The Internet makes it *easily* possible for anyone and everyone, regardless of their physical location, to access information where decency standards might be different.
The Supreme Court would have taken a step forward when they removed the 1996 Telecommunications Act not by ignoring this case.
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They are doing it for "Black. White." -- showing it on DirecTV PPV three days ahead of the actual showing. Personally I think that it was a poor show choice to try this model on because the contect of "Black. White." (IMHO) sucks.
They should have done it with Rescue Me or Nip/Tuck. Even Thief, being new, doesn't have the viewership to warrant a test like that. On a personal note, I'm trying to like Thief, I really am -- but it's too much drama and not enough action.
I had the first Tivo of anyone I knew -- the day I first heard about it I picked one up. It was a great device for its time, but the recent Tivos I've experienced have no shown much improvement.
I'm no fan of Tivo (the company) but the Tivo device itself is great. I own both a Series 2 and a DirecTivo. I don't personally see a need for all the things that MythTV does (while tying up a fairly high-end (for me) piece of useable hardware). My DirecTivo records my shows, without much interaction, and lets me watch one while it records two more.
A good majority of the users out there (that Tivo attracts over MythTV installations) are using a Tivo because they couldn't give a two flying fucks about "additional uses" that other DVRs offer. On a side note, I'm a fairly competent computer user but I still can't justify another computer purchase just to hook it up to my TV to burn DVDs of TV shows and have a weather report while playing MAME. YMMV.
"I used to think nothing of checking my Yahoo mail several times a day," says Global Crossing Chief Marketing Officer Anthony Christie. Now that he can't, his long workday makes it hard to avoid using his work email account for personal messages, he says.
Sometimes I wonder if this is exactly what companies *want*. They don't want people to use outside e-mail (especially ones running over https) because then they can't easily monitor what their staff is doing.
If people are using their work e-mail for their personal use, the company gets to see exactly what, where, how, and when their employees are spending their own time. If the employee opts to not use their work e-mail for anything personal, the company knows that they now have the other added benefit of possible added productivity.
I'm just glad I can use SSH and tunnel everything over that. If I can't do that, I have GPRS service on my mobile device and I *could* use that for AIM, e-mail, and browsing instead.
It's wonderful that so many people are willing to say they want to make a difference. That's just as good as actually doing it! Studies also show that 74% of all Americans also say they want to start excersizing regularly, continue their education, spend time with their families, and find a cure for cancer.
Exactly! As long as someone else has to do the cutting back everyone is all for it! *I* would *love* to be able to take mass transit to work daily -- problem is that it's just not possible as the transit system here (from the suburbs) was intended for suburb A city rather than being able to go from suburb A suburb B.
We need the local, state, and Federal governments to be able to help a bit and allow us the ability to help -- especially for those of us that really want to.
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Looks like you are either registered or have some funky access that I do not. Either way, EE still sucks. Even if I *could* see it, e-mailing some guy for the answers isn't what I consider acceptable.
I did a simple and quick test based on your incorrect statement:
Simple Google Search for "access VB experts exchange"
I got this result first from Google.
I then clicked the first link on the result (under Experts Exchange) and was given this gem.
Right there, see that BIG orange circle with, "View Solution" in the middle? What does it link to? Yeah, register.
Nice troll though!
Expert's Exchange? Give me a break. Most of their solutions require a login and the page is so filled with ads that it's not worth your time.
Google, as great as it is with other shit, usually returns Expert Exchange as the first couple of hits on any search for help. Boo.
I welcome any open and free wiki competitor to EE.
Toshiba expects to sell 600k to 700k of these units?! There isn't enough shelf-space worldwide to hold those devices at that size.
They mention in the article that there will be a lower-end version for sale in North America for around $500. I couldn't find any specs or reasons for the lower cost. Anyone else?
However, you clearly haven't seen any modern pornography. It's not just naked human beings. It's guys cumming on womens faces saying, "Take that bitch, want some more?" This kind of material can be very harmful to kids. It provides for a horrendous role model that some children adopt and it causes a number of problems in their ability to develop relationships with the opposite sex. It warps their ideas of love and sex.
No, it warps the socially acceptable ideas of "love" and "sex" that you prefer. Just because one person or a group of people find it socially acceptable to have sex, missionary style, in their bedroom, silently, at night, with the lights off, and no clothes on doesn't mean that it's the only way to show love.
USA (TV channel) censors the shows.
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1:30PM CST two weekends ago on a Saturday afternoon they said "asshole". So you're wrong.
Comedy Central also censors if anything is airing before 11pm.
Move to the Midwest and you don't have that problem
By the way, I don't usually watch much TV. Partly because of the mind-numbing dullness and idiocy, partly because I cannot stand censorship. I want my swear words!
Watch USA, Comedy Central, and FX. FX, especially, is constantly full of sex, violence, and "adult language" while also having some of the most innovative and interesting shows out there (Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, Thief, The Shield, etc).
I'm not just being paranoid am I?
Depends on who you ask... I have a feeling that the DOJ might have a different outlook on your paranoia than the rest of us here.
If seeing the movie in the theater is better, then I'll do that regardless of whether the DVD is out.
It *should* be better but due to various influences (cell phones, douchebags, douchebags with cell phones, and high ticket/food cost) it's not. The theatres know that and that's why they are upset.
Oh come on now! It's talking about Steve Jobs, Apple, their 30th Anniversary, and suicide. Sounds almost as good as the 6 o'clock news trailers.
...why did they order the PCs from China in the first place? Didn't they know that their attempt to save a buck might end up in future unforeseen costs?
So that they can start planting the seeds of war with China. What better way to recoup all the money that we owe them but to go to war w/them for years so we don't have to pay it back?!
And this guy said "YES!" to Walmart. Well, for 41 hours at least.
Google is better in the long term, but I've noticed MSN is faster to update its index. This is helpful for site designers to get quicker feedback on how they are doing in search results.
Google indexes me just as often as MSN does. Perhaps that's because I'm using Sitemaps but I don't know. Whether or not I show up in the Google index (after being indexed) usually depends on when any particular post on my website gets off the main page (at least that's what it seems like).
Survival of the fittest. Google is *the* search engine that returns the *best* results. If he's going to limit his children to a search engine that sucks (i.e. MSN) then his kids won't be as well informed as those that are permitted to use Google.
This is like a father telling his children that they are only allowed to use Encyclopedias from 2001 instead of the 2006 edition.
iv) They remember the content better if they make pencil notes, and type them up later.
Wake me up when professors learn to understand that students have schedules that do not usually permit triplicate work.
The book has the facts and figures and whatnot, but for many students just reading the book doesn't make things click.
I didn't go to some fancy school that cost big bucks, nor do I currently work at one either, but what I do know is that only a *handful* of professors and instructors that I have come in contact with over the years do anything except teach (word for word) what's in the book.
People should just take audio recordings of lectures instead.
It's a growing trend for schools to offer podcasts of lectures as well as information about the admissions process.
In some states you can be married, with parental consent, at the wonderful age of 14. This is not the case in most states.
You're right, in some states it's 12 years old. WTF?!
Kansas, South Carolina, and Massachusetts. New Hampshire is almost as bad with 13 being the lower limit.
I agree 100% that communities should determine what is and isn't acceptable in their little part of the world.
Obscenity is and should always be defined by the community -- preferably by the household. What disgusts me should have no effect on what you like -- true freedom means allowing (if not accepting) others to do what they want as long as they don't harm your body or your property. Porn doesn't harm me, so I can not speak out against it. I am free to tell people on my property to leave if they decide they want to look at porn or talk about it on my land.
The arguement that was behind bringing this to the Supreme Court was that because of the Internet, commerce is no longer just a localized entity. The Internet makes it *easily* possible for anyone and everyone, regardless of their physical location, to access information where decency standards might be different.
The Supreme Court would have taken a step forward when they removed the 1996 Telecommunications Act not by ignoring this case.
So is this any different than the Firefox 2 alpha that wasn't released yesterday?
Yes, this one is officially released so they get *two* days of hype about an alpha release.
American Inventor apparently has an episode that will include boobs. American Idol does too -- just a different kind -- and on every episode.