I have almost the same thing on my xbox using MythTV. Granted I have to decide ahead of time if I want to watch the show, but when I get home from work I have a selection of Red Dwarf, Simpsons, Zoboomafoo, Blues Clues, the list goes on. (My kid is gonna be such a geek when he gets older)
Bill has never been able to guess what technology is going to do in the future, and should just stop because all we do is laugh at him.
The only way that I can see DVD's going out of style is if the price of those 12gig compact flash cards drops significantly from $1400USD.
How about the news articles in British Columbia about loggers finding spikes imbedded in trees where they were logging? When the loggers came by with metal detectors to find the spikes, the greenpeace terrorists switched to boring holes at a downward angle into the trunk of the tree, and dropping in a ceramic rod before glueing a piece of bark over the hole. The purpose of which is that when the logger's chainsaw comes in contact with the rod, it is thrown with extreme force in his general direction.
My father was a logger (Before his accident) and he always said that if he found someone in the top of a tree, he would cut that one down first.
Oh, and the forests aren't disappearing. If you get the chance to re-visit a site that has been re-planted 20 years ago, you will be amazed by the growth and abundance of life. If you ever get the chance to fly through the interior of British Columbia, you will also be amazed by the huge area covered by forest, and realize that as long as a respectable level of harvest is maintained, there will never be a shortage of forest.
Recycled paper is a crock. It takes more energy, and does more damage to the environment recycling a piece of paper into a lower grade product, then it takes to grow a tree, and make it into a new piece of paper.
MSI TV@NYWHERE card is especially crap. I did find however that the ATI drivers not only worked, but worked better then the MSI drivers.
In WinXP if you drag a video from one monitor to the other (Using dual head of course) it locks up until you actually do a hard reset (ie. flatten out the 120VAC for a few seconds)
Now to get the tv@nywhere card to work with MythTV.
Testing is all fine and good, but there are always going to be instances where something will remain undetectable for years until circumstances are just right (wrong?)
I am a technician at a plant that makes batteries and we see this all the time.
I remember one time where an operator was cleaning a conveyor with a cloth soaked in Methanol (standard procedure) but forgot about the rag he had left on the underside of the running conveyor. Once the Meth had all evaporated, the dry rag got caught on the conveyor and jammed in the sprocket. At the same instance a valve had opened to fill the electrolyte tank. The jammed sprocket blew a breaker which stopped the machine. The PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) is programmed to keep valves in their current state in the case of an emergency (you kill less operators this way), but in this case it should have closed the valve. The result was a large puddle of nasty smelling, toxic, expensive electrolyte underneath the machine. Much fun.
My point is that as much as we try to make our machines foolproof, there is always at least one fool out there that will one day outsmart you.
Arrogant Worms just popped into my head. Go download the song if you want.
*singing* "The whitehouse burned burned burned, and we're the ones who did it... And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies wah wah waaahhhh. In the war of 1812!"
I was boxing day shopping at futureshop (canadian version of bestbuy I think) and I picked up a ximeta netdisk for $100 Canadian.
I bought this thing mainly on coolness factor alone (wife almost made me take it back because she doesn't put the same value on coolness factor I guess).
Anyhow, it is an 80gig harddrive with USB2.0 and 10/100 Ethernet all packaged in a cool blue metalic case. I also bought an internal harddrive of the same size for $50. I figured not a bad deal, $50 for the portability, and connectivity.
With the way things are booming right now, there is no way I can buy a house. I need a whole lot of people to go bankrupt before I can afford anything. However, that may only happen if a lot of people lose their jobs. And one of those people could be me. And that would suck.
The housing market is so hot right now that we don't have enough labourers to build houses fast enough so we are outsourcing. I just read in the paper the other day that Ottawa is allowing Canadian companies to hire Americans.
Best thing about being in Canada is that our politicians are all crooked (sponsorship scandal?) but at least we are not scared of them.
When we were kids we had a hobby farm with a few cows. When one of our cows had a calf, we would play with the calf by getting her to chase us. It was great fun until the calf grew into an 800 lb cow. An 800lb cow that wants to play tag is a LOT scarier then a 35kg cowdragon with 50 sensors.
At the end of the 4th to last paragraph it states
"The ads run on Windows Media Player software, which an estimated 8 of 10 Internet users have on their computers."
I think Linux is finally starting to catch on if only 8 to 10 users use Windows Media Player.
I agree, gift certificates suck. That is why I tell my wife to talk to my geeky friends and have them go shopping for my christmas/birthday presents. It also works out that I end up picking up presents for my friends in leiu of their wives picking up $75 antivirus programs that only last for a year and such.
You ever stick your head out the window of your car doing 75mph? If the HUD is external to the helmet, it is going to vibrate and wistle/roar like crazy.
My 1983 Honda Sabre 750 has an LCD Matrix display in the centre of the instrument cluster that shows the gear and any error messages (Fuel, temp, battery, etc). VERY nice to have. Incorporating that into the HUD would be slick.
" terrible noise your helmet made while scraping the ground.."
A HUD in my helmet would be pretty cool, if unnecessary. I wouldn't want to use it for navigation, and how often do I need to look at my guages while I am riding? I could see the benifit for racers however, not wanting to look down, but needing to know fuel/rpm/temp/speed.
About the dangers or riding? My biggest fear is the distracted driver that pulls out in front of me, see's me, and then stops. Completely blocking my escape.
I know a guy that sat on 220VAC. The electrician had wired everything in, but left the breakers off because nothing was terminated. One of the other sub-trades had come in needing 120VAC and so had turned on everything in the panel. Buddy was squatting down to measure for the cabinets and sat right on the bare wires for the stove. He said next thing he remembered was being shoulder deep in the wall on the other side of the kitchen.
To discount this as not being possible is foolish. I am sure I am not the only/.er who has racked his brains trying to find a solution only to have someone (less skilled even) come over and point out the obvious solution. Yes this is an insult, and yes you wanna punch the smart alec in the mouth, but it doesn't mean he is wrong to suggest the solution.
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Kinda like the scottsman who saw the add stating "Drink Canada Dry", so he went out to see if he could.
I have almost the same thing on my xbox using MythTV. Granted I have to decide ahead of time if I want to watch the show, but when I get home from work I have a selection of Red Dwarf, Simpsons, Zoboomafoo, Blues Clues, the list goes on. (My kid is gonna be such a geek when he gets older)
Bill has never been able to guess what technology is going to do in the future, and should just stop because all we do is laugh at him.
The only way that I can see DVD's going out of style is if the price of those 12gig compact flash cards drops significantly from $1400USD.
How about the news articles in British Columbia about loggers finding spikes imbedded in trees where they were logging? When the loggers came by with metal detectors to find the spikes, the greenpeace terrorists switched to boring holes at a downward angle into the trunk of the tree, and dropping in a ceramic rod before glueing a piece of bark over the hole. The purpose of which is that when the logger's chainsaw comes in contact with the rod, it is thrown with extreme force in his general direction.
My father was a logger (Before his accident) and he always said that if he found someone in the top of a tree, he would cut that one down first.
Oh, and the forests aren't disappearing. If you get the chance to re-visit a site that has been re-planted 20 years ago, you will be amazed by the growth and abundance of life. If you ever get the chance to fly through the interior of British Columbia, you will also be amazed by the huge area covered by forest, and realize that as long as a respectable level of harvest is maintained, there will never be a shortage of forest.
Recycled paper is a crock. It takes more energy, and does more damage to the environment recycling a piece of paper into a lower grade product, then it takes to grow a tree, and make it into a new piece of paper.
MSI TV@NYWHERE card is especially crap. I did find however that the ATI drivers not only worked, but worked better then the MSI drivers.
In WinXP if you drag a video from one monitor to the other (Using dual head of course) it locks up until you actually do a hard reset (ie. flatten out the 120VAC for a few seconds)
Now to get the tv@nywhere card to work with MythTV.
Wasn't Chernobyl taken out by a test gone bad?
Testing is all fine and good, but there are always going to be instances where something will remain undetectable for years until circumstances are just right (wrong?)
I am a technician at a plant that makes batteries and we see this all the time.
I remember one time where an operator was cleaning a conveyor with a cloth soaked in Methanol (standard procedure) but forgot about the rag he had left on the underside of the running conveyor. Once the Meth had all evaporated, the dry rag got caught on the conveyor and jammed in the sprocket. At the same instance a valve had opened to fill the electrolyte tank. The jammed sprocket blew a breaker which stopped the machine. The PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) is programmed to keep valves in their current state in the case of an emergency (you kill less operators this way), but in this case it should have closed the valve. The result was a large puddle of nasty smelling, toxic, expensive electrolyte underneath the machine. Much fun.
My point is that as much as we try to make our machines foolproof, there is always at least one fool out there that will one day outsmart you.
Arrogant Worms just popped into my head. Go download the song if you want. *singing* "The whitehouse burned burned burned, and we're the ones who did it... And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies wah wah waaahhhh. In the war of 1812!"
Oh, and Pamela Anderson
Looks like they hit Mach 5 before they lost radio contact.
I was boxing day shopping at futureshop (canadian version of bestbuy I think) and I picked up a ximeta netdisk for $100 Canadian.
:-)
I bought this thing mainly on coolness factor alone (wife almost made me take it back because she doesn't put the same value on coolness factor I guess).
Anyhow, it is an 80gig harddrive with USB2.0 and 10/100 Ethernet all packaged in a cool blue metalic case. I also bought an internal harddrive of the same size for $50. I figured not a bad deal, $50 for the portability, and connectivity.
They also just released linux drivers
Oh boy am I ever waiting for that.
With the way things are booming right now, there is no way I can buy a house. I need a whole lot of people to go bankrupt before I can afford anything. However, that may only happen if a lot of people lose their jobs. And one of those people could be me. And that would suck.
I have 3 $2 bills, and had a $1000 bill when I bought my car.
But then I live in Canada so it is no big deal
Take a job in construction.
The housing market is so hot right now that we don't have enough labourers to build houses fast enough so we are outsourcing. I just read in the paper the other day that Ottawa is allowing Canadian companies to hire Americans.
Best thing about being in Canada is that our politicians are all crooked (sponsorship scandal?) but at least we are not scared of them.
Rule #1 if you want to work in Canada?
Roof rhymes with Goof
Woah woah woah, perhaps we are missing something here. Lets analyze should we?
Dihydrogen -> 2 Hydrogen
Monoxide -> 1 Oxygen
Combined?
H2O
Sound familiar now?
And buy a real cow to protect your house.
When we were kids we had a hobby farm with a few cows. When one of our cows had a calf, we would play with the calf by getting her to chase us. It was great fun until the calf grew into an 800 lb cow. An 800lb cow that wants to play tag is a LOT scarier then a 35kg cowdragon with 50 sensors.
Really, I don't come to slashdot to read stories about american politics/law. It is not just that I don't care, it is that this is a forum for geeks.
Give me more SCO stories, that is what I came here for.
My excuse is I have been on nightshift all week, just woke up from not enough sleep, and was only halfway through my first coffee.
And if you read the article you will see that only 8 to 10 internet users have this plug in.
See the end of the 4th to last paragraph.
"The ads run on Windows Media Player software, which an estimated 8 of 10 Internet users have on their computers."
At the end of the 4th to last paragraph it states "The ads run on Windows Media Player software, which an estimated 8 of 10 Internet users have on their computers." I think Linux is finally starting to catch on if only 8 to 10 users use Windows Media Player.
I agree, gift certificates suck. That is why I tell my wife to talk to my geeky friends and have them go shopping for my christmas/birthday presents. It also works out that I end up picking up presents for my friends in leiu of their wives picking up $75 antivirus programs that only last for a year and such.
I think that distinction is reserved for evilmegacorporation.com
You ever stick your head out the window of your car doing 75mph? If the HUD is external to the helmet, it is going to vibrate and wistle/roar like crazy.
My 1983 Honda Sabre 750 has an LCD Matrix display in the centre of the instrument cluster that shows the gear and any error messages (Fuel, temp, battery, etc). VERY nice to have. Incorporating that into the HUD would be slick.
Man, that just gave me goose bumps.
.."
" terrible noise your helmet made while scraping the ground
A HUD in my helmet would be pretty cool, if unnecessary. I wouldn't want to use it for navigation, and how often do I need to look at my guages while I am riding? I could see the benifit for racers however, not wanting to look down, but needing to know fuel/rpm/temp/speed.
About the dangers or riding? My biggest fear is the distracted driver that pulls out in front of me, see's me, and then stops. Completely blocking my escape.
I know a guy that sat on 220VAC. The electrician had wired everything in, but left the breakers off because nothing was terminated. One of the other sub-trades had come in needing 120VAC and so had turned on everything in the panel. Buddy was squatting down to measure for the cabinets and sat right on the bare wires for the stove. He said next thing he remembered was being shoulder deep in the wall on the other side of the kitchen.
To discount this as not being possible is foolish. I am sure I am not the only /.er who has racked his brains trying to find a solution only to have someone (less skilled even) come over and point out the obvious solution. Yes this is an insult, and yes you wanna punch the smart alec in the mouth, but it doesn't mean he is wrong to suggest the solution.