and while you're attributing the failure to things like the keypad and the display... well... of course it's not the big honking steel-and-polystyrene hinge that's failing. it's the little ribbon cable that passes through the hinge.
i've only used bar phones. the first one was free. the reason i got the second one was for a feature upgrade. i've dropped both of them from 10-15 feet onto concrete on more than one occasion. the worst i've ever had was to reseat the sim card and power cycle it.
Any nerd worth his salt would look at a flip phone and say "hey, this thing has signal-bearing electronics in the crotch of a mechanical hinge -- we need to fix that right away!"
Of course, if you replace your phone every 9 months anyway, I suppose it's no big deal.
It is a very limited and fundamentalist reading of Revelation that requires a one-to-one correspondence of symbols in the text and historical events.
The reason the image of the "mark of the beast" is frightening is that authorities in human history have always attempted to assert their control in ways that reach into individuals' lives and compel them to function as slaves for a self-serving power.
Social Security cards, bar codes, and RFID tags all provide valid readings of the text in Revelation. There is no reason to try to force a fundamendalist, literal prophecy onto a text that's not asking for it. Take a warning about authorities' will to dominate mankind for what it is.
It doesn't matter whether you are religious or not -- an identification system that can be read remotely and surreptitiously is a friend to no one but evil.
Myth TV is great but then of course you have to pay for a cable subscription, which I am soon to drop altogether. So I wouldn't be so sure your solution is more financially appealing.
the way comcast is priced in my area, i save 90 cents per month by having basic television service. my other broadband option, bellsouth's DSL, is beyond awful, so unless i want dialup or nothing, my best option for internet access comes with essentially free cable.
i'm well aware of why many people would purchase through the itunes video store. you asked why "anyone" would prefer a DVR.
And one last point... if you like MythTV then why not run MythTV on the mini?
according to everything i've read, the mini has no pci expansion slots. so i'd need some kind of external capture card (as if i need any more cables to manage). i already have a bt878 pci card that works just fine. as far as i know, there is no s-video, composite, or component video output (do the newest ones have this? maybe hdmi?), so i'd need some kind of adapters to plug it into my TV set. (yay, more cables!) on top of that, i'd have to futz around making mythtv work on os x, or install linux on the mini. os x has never really made much sense to me.
i already have a near-silent shuttle amd64 system, which is completely configured, stable, and in service. migrating my system to a mini would be a gratuitous exercise in expense and inconvenience.
Why would you mess around with a DVR and work with a somewhat fallable guide and programming in hopes of catching media as it flies past you, instead of downloading it when YOU want to, at any time, with no thoughts as to schedule. If you think of any aspects of the DVR that make it so popular, can you think of ANY that cannot be replicted by simply downloading video and watching it with full random access?
There's a lot to be said for the freedom to do whatever I want with the files I've recorded, and paying only for the hardware. The alternative would be paying, frankly, through the nose for DRM'ed up, poorer quality videos from the iTunes store and having to limit myself to whatever arbitrary rules some marketroids negotiated for me.
If removing software configuration from the setup task is worth enough to you to give up the freedom and flexibility of a DVR, then a DRM-based single-supplier proprietary solution is probably what you're going to choose.
Really, I'm not terribly concerned with what most people are going to choose. MythTV is a breeze for me to maintain and to use, and there's nothing in the market yet to entice me away from it.
That episode occurred during a time of high tension between Earth and Vulcan; T'Pol was not a member of Starfleet at that point, and the message was sent not only encrypted but disguised as noise. To add to the suspicion, the Ti'Mur had been apparently spying on Enterprise from a distance. Relations between two mismatched armed starships are hardly a comparison for businesses and governments spying upon their own users and citizens:-)
But that's not really the issue here. The state needs taxpayers to fill its gluttonous coffers; children grow up to be taxpayers. It follows that the state will never willingly provide an incentive to stop the growth of its captive taxpaying base, and in fact will probably to all it can to encourage the fastest achievable growth in that population.
Personally, I'd pick Ruby on Rails. Not that I have any technical reason to prefer it, mind you... but man, it's so jam-packed with alliterative goodness and it's all Web 2.0'ed out and shit. And it has some crap called a scaffold. Do you have any idea how many struts it takes to build just one scaffold? No? Well it takes a lot!!
you would be ruined if a competitor got the software?
then it sounds like you are in the business of selling disks with programs on them. in that case, you're already sunk. you need to move NOW to a model where you make your money deploying and supporting software.
It is worth noting that "-ii" NEVER replaces "-us". There are circumstances in which "-i" replaces "-us", but "abacii" and "virii" are absolutely wrong, in Latin and in English.
That depends on the file manager you're using. I've not used Konqueror as a file manager recently, so I can't tell you much about KDE here. As for GNOME, Nautilus' default behvior is to generate a thumbnail of an image file. If something has a.jpg extension, and it's a binary executable with the execute bit set, Nautilus will fail to generate a thumbnail for it (your first clue). If you attempt to open it, Nautilus displays the following warning:
The filename "1.jpg" indicates that this file is of type "JPEG image". The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type "executable". If you open this file, the file might present a security risk to your system. Do not open the file unless you created the file yourself, or received the file from a trusted source. To open the file, rename the file to the correct extension for "executable", then open the file normally. Alternatively, use the Open With menu to choose a specific application for the file.
The only button in the warning dialog is "Cancel." In the case of a shell script masquerating as a jpeg, the behavior is the same. I'm kind of surprised this is still a problem on any platform, when the solution is so easy.
Perhaps the solution is for people not to equate a secured network transport layer with the legitimacy of the business on the other end of said transport.
Sure, you may be speaking with a scumbag using strong encryption, but he's still a scumbag.
I'd bet my life that the firmware providing that capability *is*.
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Are you serious? That doesn't even remotely describe my experience with MythTV. Everything worked smoothly right out of the box -- spending a 5-10 minutes reading the install documentation *can* be very helpful.
There's a good reason your TV gets by without any metadata about the channels it's receiving -- it doesn't have any functionality which makes use of that metadata. It doesn't have to schedule recordings or resolve conflicts. It just has to tune what you tell it to tune, and light up your CRT with the signal.
All that aside, it's very rude for you to criticize something that people are writing and giving away freely on their own time and their own dime. Lots of people have used it successfully. If it doesn't work for you, track down the bugs and either report them or patch them. Vague, general complaints about the developers' priorities are completely out of line.
PUSH -- you mean like an MTA connecting to port 25 of a remote mail host, saying "hey, I have some mail for your user" -- or if the remote mail host is down, queueing it for later delivery?
it's not like PINE users ever had to go poll every SMTP server in the universe to find out if they had new mail. the only thing "PUSH" about this is that it's in the last-mile delivery rather than the second-to-last-mile. this is so far beyond obvious that it's absurd.
Opera's market penetration is just too small for it to have that effect. As it stands, most people who would download something via bittorrent already have some other client; Opera is itself the "extra" download. It is mostly existing Opera users who will use this BT client.
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not any time in the forseeable future, no.
i knew that was coming :-)
and while you're attributing the failure to things like the keypad and the display... well... of course it's not the big honking steel-and-polystyrene hinge that's failing. it's the little ribbon cable that passes through the hinge.
i've only used bar phones. the first one was free. the reason i got the second one was for a feature upgrade. i've dropped both of them from 10-15 feet onto concrete on more than one occasion. the worst i've ever had was to reseat the sim card and power cycle it.
Okay, I have to ask -- how do y'all describe what Americans call a "series"?
Any nerd worth his salt would look at a flip phone and say "hey, this thing has signal-bearing electronics in the crotch of a mechanical hinge -- we need to fix that right away!"
Of course, if you replace your phone every 9 months anyway, I suppose it's no big deal.
The reason the image of the "mark of the beast" is frightening is that authorities in human history have always attempted to assert their control in ways that reach into individuals' lives and compel them to function as slaves for a self-serving power.
Social Security cards, bar codes, and RFID tags all provide valid readings of the text in Revelation. There is no reason to try to force a fundamendalist, literal prophecy onto a text that's not asking for it. Take a warning about authorities' will to dominate mankind for what it is.
It doesn't matter whether you are religious or not -- an identification system that can be read remotely and surreptitiously is a friend to no one but evil.
the way comcast is priced in my area, i save 90 cents per month by having basic television service. my other broadband option, bellsouth's DSL, is beyond awful, so unless i want dialup or nothing, my best option for internet access comes with essentially free cable.
i'm well aware of why many people would purchase through the itunes video store. you asked why "anyone" would prefer a DVR. And one last point... if you like MythTV then why not run MythTV on the mini?
according to everything i've read, the mini has no pci expansion slots. so i'd need some kind of external capture card (as if i need any more cables to manage). i already have a bt878 pci card that works just fine. as far as i know, there is no s-video, composite, or component video output (do the newest ones have this? maybe hdmi?), so i'd need some kind of adapters to plug it into my TV set. (yay, more cables!) on top of that, i'd have to futz around making mythtv work on os x, or install linux on the mini. os x has never really made much sense to me.
i already have a near-silent shuttle amd64 system, which is completely configured, stable, and in service. migrating my system to a mini would be a gratuitous exercise in expense and inconvenience.
There's a lot to be said for the freedom to do whatever I want with the files I've recorded, and paying only for the hardware. The alternative would be paying, frankly, through the nose for DRM'ed up, poorer quality videos from the iTunes store and having to limit myself to whatever arbitrary rules some marketroids negotiated for me.
If removing software configuration from the setup task is worth enough to you to give up the freedom and flexibility of a DVR, then a DRM-based single-supplier proprietary solution is probably what you're going to choose.
Really, I'm not terribly concerned with what most people are going to choose. MythTV is a breeze for me to maintain and to use, and there's nothing in the market yet to entice me away from it.
Sorry. I honestly didn't think that's what would happen.
That episode occurred during a time of high tension between Earth and Vulcan; T'Pol was not a member of Starfleet at that point, and the message was sent not only encrypted but disguised as noise. To add to the suspicion, the Ti'Mur had been apparently spying on Enterprise from a distance. Relations between two mismatched armed starships are hardly a comparison for businesses and governments spying upon their own users and citizens :-)
the other one is http://linux.dell.com/ .
But that's not really the issue here. The state needs taxpayers to fill its gluttonous coffers; children grow up to be taxpayers. It follows that the state will never willingly provide an incentive to stop the growth of its captive taxpaying base, and in fact will probably to all it can to encourage the fastest achievable growth in that population.
Personally, I'd pick Ruby on Rails. Not that I have any technical reason to prefer it, mind you... but man, it's so jam-packed with alliterative goodness and it's all Web 2.0'ed out and shit. And it has some crap called a scaffold. Do you have any idea how many struts it takes to build just one scaffold? No? Well it takes a lot!!
then it sounds like you are in the business of selling disks with programs on them. in that case, you're already sunk. you need to move NOW to a model where you make your money deploying and supporting software.
show them the bleeding source code, you pansy.
Here is a page describing how to form plurals of Latin nouns used in English:
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/luschnig/EWO/1.htm
It is worth noting that "-ii" NEVER replaces "-us". There are circumstances in which "-i" replaces "-us", but "abacii" and "virii" are absolutely wrong, in Latin and in English.
And likewise, Darwin may be based on BSD, but it sure as hell ain't BSD anymore.
The only button in the warning dialog is "Cancel." In the case of a shell script masquerating as a jpeg, the behavior is the same. I'm kind of surprised this is still a problem on any platform, when the solution is so easy.
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Sure, you may be speaking with a scumbag using strong encryption, but he's still a scumbag.
I'd bet my life that the firmware providing that capability *is*.
There's a good reason your TV gets by without any metadata about the channels it's receiving -- it doesn't have any functionality which makes use of that metadata. It doesn't have to schedule recordings or resolve conflicts. It just has to tune what you tell it to tune, and light up your CRT with the signal.
All that aside, it's very rude for you to criticize something that people are writing and giving away freely on their own time and their own dime. Lots of people have used it successfully. If it doesn't work for you, track down the bugs and either report them or patch them. Vague, general complaints about the developers' priorities are completely out of line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cluster
I favor unreasonably huge subsidies to the brain slug planet.
it's not like PINE users ever had to go poll every SMTP server in the universe to find out if they had new mail. the only thing "PUSH" about this is that it's in the last-mile delivery rather than the second-to-last-mile. this is so far beyond obvious that it's absurd.
Opera's market penetration is just too small for it to have that effect. As it stands, most people who would download something via bittorrent already have some other client; Opera is itself the "extra" download. It is mostly existing Opera users who will use this BT client.
Argh! Enough already with the "doing foo... with a computer!" and "doing foo... on a mobile device!" patents. You're not impressing anybody.