Right. I was hoping the player would actually receive a circuit-welder that he'd have to carry around until he needed it, rather than just see the icon on his display.
... to run a 5k! I imagine it's much easier to plan a race event around the very rare shuttle landings rather than blocking traffic and having runners run in circles around city blocks or something. Maybe they could have a shorter race, a 4.5k, as a special KSC event. Call it "The Space Race".
>> But you are correct in that if it could be proved that the guide data they provide says one schedule and they actually broadcast another schedule, that seems like the seed for a nice class action lawsuit...
Hold on a minute there. Are they actually required by any contracts to provide their schedules to TiVo (or other DVR providers) at all?
I've got to disagree. The driving force here will be if the movies are released in HDTV quality. The difference between that and typical DVD quality will be enough to get many people to switch.
It's a technological arms race. The studios get a new format (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) and it works to prevent piracy for a while until the consumer gear to copy it becomes cheaper. It sounds like HP is already announcing Blu-ray writers though, unlike when CDs and DVDs were first introduced and it took years to make them commonplace.
Now put the LOTR trilogy on one Blue Ray and that will be slammin.
A typical movie DVD can store up to 8.5 GB.
These new Blu-Ray discs can store up to 54GB.
That's roughly six times the storage. The LOTR: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Special Extended DVD Edition) - no, I'm not making that name up - is 12 discs. Looks like you'd still need two BDs.
I would imagine it wouldn't take much dissuading... why would she want to drive traffic to katie.com?
Chances are this is already in the works; they'll change the promotion material to drive traffic to the appropriate site.
There are eight book covers pictured on the home page of KatieT.com and they all show the former title of katie.com. I expect they'll change those soon, too.
Makeupitness: noun. To assign your own definition, and make it look like a dictionary definition, to a pop culture word to make it sound like you know what you are talking about.
google
"verb. To google. To extract some information using the Google search engine."
I don't know about you, but I am a member of the species homo sapiens. We have two eyes on the front of our heads giving two horizontally overlapping fields of vision.
How inconsiderate. You've forgotten those of our population with only one usable eye.;)
Just this week I found a product called Kaleidescape. It seems to be the equivalent of storing all your CDs on your hard drive in iTunes. It's super expensive, but looks very cool. You just load your dvds into the reader and it burns it to the HD. You then put a networked player in every room and play any DVD at any time. The thing is, it seems like it would promote piracy. Why buy a dvd when you can just rent it from Blockbuster and load it to your system?;) This would make it all too easy to do that.
However, as I mentioned in my post, there isn't much to movtivate me to get a DVD player anyway. Maybe someday there will be movies I will want to watch (rent or own) but right there just isn't the incentive.
Ok, sounds like the problem is more in the lack of movies you like than whatever technology exists on which to play them.
1) Do you watch movies at all, in theaters or at home?
2) Are you happy to watch whatever movies happen to be shown on tv or do you want to pick what and when to watch movies?
3) Do you have and use a vcr?
4) If you don't ever watch movies, how do you know there aren't any good ones out there?
IMHO, just get a stand-alone DVD player. Then get a console if you still want one. Especially connected to a HDTV, progressive scan and component outputs are a must. The new model PS2 has both, but in my experience a stand-alone DVD player is better as far as usability goes. Best Buy offers a Samsung model with 1080i HD Upconvert and MP3 Playback to take advantage of the HDTV's higher resolution. Of course there are cheaper players out there, too (for $30-$50).
The one attraction he doesn't like to talk about is the chance for his guests to get a little "space nookie." Since humans are inherently horny, there is no question that some space tourists would take the trip just so they could join the
62-Mile-High Club.
People know WWE is fake but they watch it anyway. If people knew that Jeopardy was rigged, they'd watch it less, IMO. So it's important for the networks for people to believe that it's real.
I don't know that there are any legal/congressional issues they'd be violating if it wasn't, however. Do game shows make any explicit promise that the outcome isn't scripted?
I read somewhere (previously here on slashdot?) how the ambient heat put out by a PC adds a non-neglible amount of heat to your house, which adds to your AC bill as well. Essentially for every watt of power used by your computer, some (all?) of it is output as heat into the surrounding air. In the winter, great. But for us who air condition our homes for most of the year, it's just one more added expense.
I have a 2004 Acura TSX (2.4L I4, 6-spd manual) that requires premium. It's rated 21 city / 29 hwy. The 5-spd automatic is actually rated better, at 22/31.
My averages over the last year:
Lowest mpg: 18.7
Highest mpg: 25.0
Total mpg: 21
Miles per day: 19... (only 7k mi/yr)
I live just 3 miles from work, haven't driven farther than 50 miles at a time, and tend to have a heavy foot around town. My long-term average is right at the city estimate, which is probably about right.
Decent city, heh... Where I am, Adelphia's basic alone cable is $25/mo (that's analog basic, not digital basic). No idea what HDTV costs but I'm willing to bet it's more than $7/mo...
I've got Adelphia in South Florida. I called them this weekend and HDTV is *finally* available in my specific area. It's only $8/mo extra (for I think three channels so far: ABC, NBC, CBS) so I'm going to order it next week. Adelphia HDTV details
Wake up Neo. The MATRIX has you.
Really, can these guys pick a name with worse symbolism? Skynet, maybe?
And am I the only one who noticed that it should really be abbreviated as MATIE?
To get "Matrix" from Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, they had to grab a random 'r' from the middle of Terrorism and the second letter of Exchange.
The weird thing is that file searches worked pretty well under Windows 2000. Under XP, the stupid dog just doesn't work. Even if I'm pretty much rubbing his nose in the file I'm looking for, he's either humorously slow or fails to find a file I know is there (and later find manually).
I found that Windows XP only searches inside the file for a certain subset of file extensions. You have to explicitly tell it to search inside all files.
To change this:
Search
Change Preferences
With Indexing Service (you don't have to actually enable it)
Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced)
Action > Properties
Check [x] Index files with unknown extensions
The code was for IE5, this is very unlikely. And a patch is available, its called shutting off the help sub-system. With Windows 2000 and XP it is a service, one which I never use, although I'm sure some people do.
Is that all you have to do? I just stopped and disabled the "Help and Support" service in WinXP Home. But then when I try "Help and Support" from the Start menu, that service switches itself to Automatic and starts again! Of course I won't be opening H&S any time soon.. but if "disabled" doesn't mean much, will it stop a virus? Or just start itself back up again?
I wonder if the upcoming Spongebob movie will have the same effect on that tv show?
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I thought the same thing when I saw Finding Nemo the first time.
When Nemo's mom disappeared along with all the eggs (presumably eaten) I remember thinking "wow... that sure was a happy, fun-time, family kind of moment!"
That scene in Nemo caught me a bit off guard as well. But there's a difference between using a sad moment (the death of a parent) and the excessive use of language, violence, sex, and whatever else was in South Park: BLU. (I did see it in the theater, but it's been almost five years and I've blocked most of it out of my memory.)
the system alerts the driver by lighting a warning icon on the outside rearview mirror for that side of the vehicle.
Like the turn signal I've seen on Ford Expeditions, etc.? If the warning icon is on the outside of the car, then it's got the added effect of being visible to other cars on the road. Someone else would know when they're in your blind spot because your mirror is warning them, too. Interesting.
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Right. I was hoping the player would actually receive a circuit-welder that he'd have to carry around until he needed it, rather than just see the icon on his display.
... to run a 5k! I imagine it's much easier to plan a race event around the very rare shuttle landings rather than blocking traffic and having runners run in circles around city blocks or something. Maybe they could have a shorter race, a 4.5k, as a special KSC event. Call it "The Space Race".
>> But you are correct in that if it could be proved that the guide data they provide says one schedule and they actually broadcast another schedule, that seems like the seed for a nice class action lawsuit...
Hold on a minute there. Are they actually required by any contracts to provide their schedules to TiVo (or other DVR providers) at all?
I couldn't believe it when I saw a product (National Geographic Back Roads Explorer) in the store that comes on 17 CD-ROMS instead of just a couple DVDs.
I've got to disagree. The driving force here will be if the movies are released in HDTV quality. The difference between that and typical DVD quality will be enough to get many people to switch.
It's a technological arms race. The studios get a new format (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) and it works to prevent piracy for a while until the consumer gear to copy it becomes cheaper. It sounds like HP is already announcing Blu-ray writers though, unlike when CDs and DVDs were first introduced and it took years to make them commonplace.
Now put the LOTR trilogy on one Blue Ray and that will be slammin.
A typical movie DVD can store up to 8.5 GB.
These new Blu-Ray discs can store up to 54GB.
That's roughly six times the storage. The LOTR: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Special Extended DVD Edition) - no, I'm not making that name up - is 12 discs. Looks like you'd still need two BDs.
I would imagine it wouldn't take much dissuading... why would she want to drive traffic to katie.com?
Chances are this is already in the works; they'll change the promotion material to drive traffic to the appropriate site.
There are eight book covers pictured on the home page of KatieT.com and they all show the former title of katie.com. I expect they'll change those soon, too.
Makeupitness: noun. To assign your own definition, and make it look like a dictionary definition, to a pop culture word to make it sound like you know what you are talking about.
google
"verb. To google. To extract some information using the Google search engine."
That is, if UrbanDictionary.com is an official reference. Of course, Google doesn't like that we use it as such.
I don't know about you, but I am a member of the species homo sapiens. We have two eyes on the front of our heads giving two horizontally overlapping fields of vision.
;)
How inconsiderate. You've forgotten those of our population with only one usable eye.
FACT: Ninjas hate Pirates
Have you seen this [apple.com]?
;) This would make it all too easy to do that.
Just this week I found a product called Kaleidescape. It seems to be the equivalent of storing all your CDs on your hard drive in iTunes. It's super expensive, but looks very cool. You just load your dvds into the reader and it burns it to the HD. You then put a networked player in every room and play any DVD at any time. The thing is, it seems like it would promote piracy. Why buy a dvd when you can just rent it from Blockbuster and load it to your system?
Here's a review on that system. (Scroll down.)
However, as I mentioned in my post, there isn't much to movtivate me to get a DVD player anyway. Maybe someday there will be movies I will want to watch (rent or own) but right there just isn't the incentive.
Ok, sounds like the problem is more in the lack of movies you like than whatever technology exists on which to play them.
1) Do you watch movies at all, in theaters or at home?
2) Are you happy to watch whatever movies happen to be shown on tv or do you want to pick what and when to watch movies?
3) Do you have and use a vcr?
4) If you don't ever watch movies, how do you know there aren't any good ones out there?
A quick search found: BatteryRecycling.com but it says you must ship them the batteries and pay $0.85/lb.
Or there's the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation for rechargeables. They list an Ace Hardware, Radio Shack, and Sears near me as drop-off sites.
IMHO, just get a stand-alone DVD player. Then get a console if you still want one. Especially connected to a HDTV, progressive scan and component outputs are a must. The new model PS2 has both, but in my experience a stand-alone DVD player is better as far as usability goes. Best Buy offers a Samsung model with 1080i HD Upconvert and MP3 Playback to take advantage of the HDTV's higher resolution. Of course there are cheaper players out there, too (for $30-$50).
Nope. From the article..
Why was/is it so important?
People know WWE is fake but they watch it anyway. If people knew that Jeopardy was rigged, they'd watch it less, IMO. So it's important for the networks for people to believe that it's real.
I don't know that there are any legal/congressional issues they'd be violating if it wasn't, however. Do game shows make any explicit promise that the outcome isn't scripted?
I read somewhere (previously here on slashdot?) how the ambient heat put out by a PC adds a non-neglible amount of heat to your house, which adds to your AC bill as well. Essentially for every watt of power used by your computer, some (all?) of it is output as heat into the surrounding air. In the winter, great. But for us who air condition our homes for most of the year, it's just one more added expense.
I have a 2004 Acura TSX (2.4L I4, 6-spd manual) that requires premium. It's rated 21 city / 29 hwy. The 5-spd automatic is actually rated better, at 22/31.
... (only 7k mi/yr)
My averages over the last year:
Lowest mpg: 18.7
Highest mpg: 25.0
Total mpg: 21
Miles per day: 19
I live just 3 miles from work, haven't driven farther than 50 miles at a time, and tend to have a heavy foot around town. My long-term average is right at the city estimate, which is probably about right.
Decent city, heh... Where I am, Adelphia's basic alone cable is $25/mo (that's analog basic, not digital basic). No idea what HDTV costs but I'm willing to bet it's more than $7/mo...
I've got Adelphia in South Florida. I called them this weekend and HDTV is *finally* available in my specific area. It's only $8/mo extra (for I think three channels so far: ABC, NBC, CBS) so I'm going to order it next week.
Adelphia HDTV details
Wake up Neo. The MATRIX has you.
Really, can these guys pick a name with worse symbolism? Skynet, maybe?
And am I the only one who noticed that it should really be abbreviated as MATIE?
To get "Matrix" from Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, they had to grab a random 'r' from the middle of Terrorism and the second letter of Exchange.
The weird thing is that file searches worked pretty well under Windows 2000. Under XP, the stupid dog just doesn't work. Even if I'm pretty much rubbing his nose in the file I'm looking for, he's either humorously slow or fails to find a file I know is there (and later find manually).
I found that Windows XP only searches inside the file for a certain subset of file extensions. You have to explicitly tell it to search inside all files.
To change this:
Search
Change Preferences
With Indexing Service (you don't have to actually enable it)
Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced)
Action > Properties
Check [x] Index files with unknown extensions
Or see: Repair The XP Search Engine, Did You Know It Was Broken?
The code was for IE5, this is very unlikely. And a patch is available, its called shutting off the help sub-system. With Windows 2000 and XP it is a service, one which I never use, although I'm sure some people do.
Is that all you have to do? I just stopped and disabled the "Help and Support" service in WinXP Home. But then when I try "Help and Support" from the Start menu, that service switches itself to Automatic and starts again! Of course I won't be opening H&S any time soon.. but if "disabled" doesn't mean much, will it stop a virus? Or just start itself back up again?
I wonder if the upcoming Spongebob movie will have the same effect on that tv show?
I thought the same thing when I saw Finding Nemo the first time.
When Nemo's mom disappeared along with all the eggs (presumably eaten) I remember thinking "wow... that sure was a happy, fun-time, family kind of moment!"
That scene in Nemo caught me a bit off guard as well. But there's a difference between using a sad moment (the death of a parent) and the excessive use of language, violence, sex, and whatever else was in South Park: BLU. (I did see it in the theater, but it's been almost five years and I've blocked most of it out of my memory.)
the system alerts the driver by lighting a warning icon on the outside rearview mirror for that side of the vehicle.
Like the turn signal I've seen on Ford Expeditions, etc.? If the warning icon is on the outside of the car, then it's got the added effect of being visible to other cars on the road. Someone else would know when they're in your blind spot because your mirror is warning them, too. Interesting.