Well you areLord Kronos, God of Time after all. I'd be disappointed if you couldn't record 5 minutes in the past:-)
PS I think if the dreaded 'broadcast flag' comes in, your TiVo - or perhaps only future TiVos - may be less useful than they currently are. Wish I had one:-(
In the early 90s, I went to a talk given by a guy from Sydney who had spent some time in Eritrea trying to set up a pathology lab. This was post-yet-another-war-with-Ethiopia, and the country was devastated.
Some friends of his back in Australia wanted to donate something to the larger project, so this bloke asked the Eritrean in charge of the hospital what he wanted. He wanted a computer + a printer. With that computer he could send letters to aid organisations, the UN, governments etc to help raise funds for the hospital. (cue the 419 jokes...) Although it wouldn't solve all his problems RIGHT NOW, it was a step in the right direction.
I believe that the computer fellows around here refer to it as 'bootstrapping'.
HP is *selling* PCs because that's what they do - sell PCs. It's up to the individual areas/schools/governments if they want to buy them or not. A region probably won't buy them if they have no food or water or electricity, but not all regions are like that. If they decide that they do need computers, here's a way for them to get them at a lower cost than previously possible.
With these, perhaps we'll see African programmers emerge from where there were none before and THEY can lead the charge for localised software (hell, it's open source - they can probably localise it themselves), localised web sites and localised help.
I believe that the computer fellows around here would also refer to this as 'bootstrapping'.
Disaffected Youth #1: Here comes the cannonball guy. He's cool. Disaffected Youth #2: Dude, are you being sarcastic? Disaffected Youth #1: I don't even know anymore.
Quote 2:
Homer: Ooh! Look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the magical man from happy land, in a gumdrop house on lollypop laaaane!....oh, by the way I was being sarcastic.
Just the other day my mum was saying "I would really like a consumer UNIX satisfactory to both end and power users that is capable of running POSIX and most Linux-targeted software without modification, just compile and it runs".
And I said "d000000d, where have you been. Get a Mac! This is a major coup, and it surprises me people don't see this!"
Commodore has seemed to have done one, and now is trying to do the other postmortem.
sooo, the first song on the Commodore Music Store should be... The Resurrection Shuffle! Thankyou, thankyou, you're all to kind...
Actually, I was going to suggest Apple, too, because they went from 68k Motorola CPUs to A.I.M. Power PCs and now exclusively IBM Power PCs, and from the old OS to a shiny new one brought in from outside. I suppose the difference is that Apple kept their head above water the whole time.
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if I went to your home while you were gone and peeled out in your yard, t.p.ed your trees and broke your windows. I could claim it was performance art
So YOU did it. Wait till I get my hands on you, you crazy teen performance artist!
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I think there's two (or more) parts to the grafitti question/problem.
Firstly, there's the vandalism part. Bad bad bad. Springs from a lack of "canvas", plus a good dollop of bored teenager.
Then there's the creative part. Some of these kids are damn good at what they do.
Then there's the subject, which may be an expression of something close to them in their urban, teenage-angsty way (hehe, jeez, i'm talkin' like an art wanker).
If you can separate the first from the rest, then all is well. Those that continue to vandalise can get The Boot. If you catch someone keying your car or spraying your fence, call the cops, sic your dog, blast with buckshot. I would.
Condemn the vandalism.
FWIW: I haven't sprayed any grafitti anywhere, and I don't have an artistic bone in my body.
In a roundabout way, you are buying the DVD in order to receive the same service, (minus sticky seats and annoying teenagers:-) ) but in the convenience of your own home.
I just see the whole buying of DVDs as a transition to when we'll be able to get video on-demand. Which DVDs are the big sellers? Apart from blockbusters (LOTR etc,) it's the oldies. The classics. People are buying them because they are either replacing their video collection, or because they want movies that aren't played on TV.
If you could watch them anytime you wanted with DVD or VOD, does it matter if you own them? There's only a handful of movies worth watching 10 times, and they're mainly for the kids (Nemo, etc).
I don't know why I picked '24'. I really enjoyed the series, but once you knew who did what, I just couldn't see anyone actually buying it on DVD.
The first series was fantastic and very well written. Especially the way each episode presented the viewer (through Jack Bauer) with a very real ethical problem. Jack engaged in quite a bit of unethical conduct, but who amongst us wouldn't be tempted to do the same given the circumstances and the time constraints placed upon Jack. Hot chix, too:-)
Q. Would you have bought the series if you could have watched it for $24 ($1 per ep) using video-on-demand?
I think the whole buying DVDs thing is a transition to VOD.
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Yeah, you sound like a typical Logan denizen. Or Inala:-)
And waddya know, I'm a guvmint worker too!
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hehehe too true. however, it is only unfoggy when I'm not in it, so I don't usually see it. that is, i can't see its absence... errr... i can't fully appreciate the clarity of the glass... except the only point of clarity is the lettering, because everything else is foggy.....
oh-oh. i've gone and hurt my brane. again.
(must stop listening to drone zone)
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If it was horribly dirty enough to write a message in once, it will be horribly dirty again. Then you won't be able to read any 'micro scratch' message.
On that subject, we just had a clear shower screen installed. When it fogs up, two letters (6a) can clearly be seen in it. NOTHING will remove it. Soap, alcohol, turps. Nothing.
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But which is preferable: having them shove their art in your face, or easily and cheaply providing a venue (well, just a big wall really)?
It's gotta be more effective than cleaning it up, sending the cops out after them, locking them up...
And who knows, a grafitti artist may even become a productive and creative member of society, instead of a drone who got busted for tagging once too often.
It can easily happen. People go to the movies, pay money and leave with nothing more tangible than popcorn-greasy hands. People get cable TV and just watch it. No recording, just watch it.
Even now that DVDs are relatively cheap to buy, there's not a whole lot I want to watch more than once. I'd rather pay a dollar every now and then to watch an episode of 'Futurama' on demand than have to buy the whole series.
Do people really watch the entire '24' series on DVD?
Get them to try it again. The first iTunes on the PC was iffy - it worked OK but was generally unresponsive. The next version is much better. Still takes forever to launch though...
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Well you are Lord Kronos, God of Time after all. I'd be disappointed if you couldn't record 5 minutes in the past :-)
PS I think if the dreaded 'broadcast flag' comes in, your TiVo - or perhaps only future TiVos - may be less useful than they currently are. Wish I had one :-(
or "Yessir, we made a digital record of everything, but I'm afraid that if were to try and access it, or even make a copy of it, then it could be permanently corrupted"
the principle should still apply that it's the complainant's (=prosecution's) duty to provide evidence to back up their case
Maybe the FCC is bringing this in because all the droobs complaining to them haven't worked out how to tape something off their TV yet
I think you mean the PFJ.
The PFJ was the people's Front of Judea.
Then there was the Judean People's Front.
And the Popular Front of Judea? That's him sitting over there...
So true. Thanks to pirated software, I now have a huge list of things I have found I can't do due to lack of skills or intelligence:
:-)
1. Photoshopping
2. 3D modelling
3. Anything to do with music
4. Programming
5. Most games except for UT (which I bought)
I can however use iMovie, which is free
In the early 90s, I went to a talk given by a guy from Sydney who had spent some time in Eritrea trying to set up a pathology lab. This was post-yet-another-war-with-Ethiopia, and the country was devastated.
Some friends of his back in Australia wanted to donate something to the larger project, so this bloke asked the Eritrean in charge of the hospital what he wanted. He wanted a computer + a printer. With that computer he could send letters to aid organisations, the UN, governments etc to help raise funds for the hospital. (cue the 419 jokes...) Although it wouldn't solve all his problems RIGHT NOW, it was a step in the right direction.
I believe that the computer fellows around here refer to it as 'bootstrapping'.
HP is *selling* PCs because that's what they do - sell PCs. It's up to the individual areas/schools/governments if they want to buy them or not. A region probably won't buy them if they have no food or water or electricity, but not all regions are like that. If they decide that they do need computers, here's a way for them to get them at a lower cost than previously possible.
With these, perhaps we'll see African programmers emerge from where there were none before and THEY can lead the charge for localised software (hell, it's open source - they can probably localise it themselves), localised web sites and localised help.
I believe that the computer fellows around here would also refer to this as 'bootstrapping'.
Ob Simpsons quote:
Disaffected Youth #1: Here comes the cannonball guy. He's cool.
Disaffected Youth #2: Dude, are you being sarcastic?
Disaffected Youth #1: I don't even know anymore.
Quote 2:
Homer: Ooh! Look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the magical man from happy land, in a gumdrop house on lollypop laaaane!....oh, by the way I was being sarcastic.
ad anonymem attack?
Guys, I think it was a joke. Of the "In Soviet Russia..." or "Beowulf cluster..." variety.
Totally!
Just the other day my mum was saying "I would really like a consumer UNIX satisfactory to both end and power users that is capable of running POSIX and most Linux-targeted software without modification, just compile and it runs".
And I said "d000000d, where have you been. Get a Mac! This is a major coup, and it surprises me people don't see this!"
Your reasonable, inclusive and tolerant views have no place here!
You, you, you CENTRIST FENCE SITTER!
We told them.
Yes, he was taping it so he coud catch a snooze in the cinema and watch it later at home. Time- and space-shifting.
He was holding the camera for a friend.
Someone (probably the REAL perp) threw it at him.
Commodore has seemed to have done one, and now is trying to do the other postmortem.
sooo, the first song on the Commodore Music Store should be ... The Resurrection Shuffle! Thankyou, thankyou, you're all to kind...
Actually, I was going to suggest Apple, too, because they went from 68k Motorola CPUs to A.I.M. Power PCs and now exclusively IBM Power PCs, and from the old OS to a shiny new one brought in from outside. I suppose the difference is that Apple kept their head above water the whole time.
if I went to your home while you were gone and peeled out in your yard, t.p.ed your trees and broke your windows. I could claim it was performance art
So YOU did it. Wait till I get my hands on you, you crazy teen performance artist!
I think there's two (or more) parts to the grafitti question/problem.
Firstly, there's the vandalism part. Bad bad bad. Springs from a lack of "canvas", plus a good dollop of bored teenager.
Then there's the creative part. Some of these kids are damn good at what they do.
Then there's the subject, which may be an expression of something close to them in their urban, teenage-angsty way (hehe, jeez, i'm talkin' like an art wanker).
If you can separate the first from the rest, then all is well. Those that continue to vandalise can get The Boot. If you catch someone keying your car or spraying your fence, call the cops, sic your dog, blast with buckshot. I would.
Condemn the vandalism.
FWIW: I haven't sprayed any grafitti anywhere, and I don't have an artistic bone in my body.
In a roundabout way, you are buying the DVD in order to receive the same service, (minus sticky seats and annoying teenagers:-) ) but in the convenience of your own home.
I just see the whole buying of DVDs as a transition to when we'll be able to get video on-demand. Which DVDs are the big sellers? Apart from blockbusters (LOTR etc,) it's the oldies. The classics. People are buying them because they are either replacing their video collection, or because they want movies that aren't played on TV.
If you could watch them anytime you wanted with DVD or VOD, does it matter if you own them? There's only a handful of movies worth watching 10 times, and they're mainly for the kids (Nemo, etc).
(My list: Blues Brothers, Brazil, Casablanca, anything Pixar, anything Monty Python)
I don't know why I picked '24'. I really enjoyed the series, but once you knew who did what, I just couldn't see anyone actually buying it on DVD.
:-)
The first series was fantastic and very well written. Especially the way each episode presented the viewer (through Jack Bauer) with a very real ethical problem. Jack engaged in quite a bit of unethical conduct, but who amongst us wouldn't be tempted to do the same given the circumstances and the time constraints placed upon Jack. Hot chix, too
Q. Would you have bought the series if you could have watched it for $24 ($1 per ep) using video-on-demand?
I think the whole buying DVDs thing is a transition to VOD.
Yeah, you sound like a typical Logan denizen. Or Inala :-)
And waddya know, I'm a guvmint worker too!
hehehe too true. however, it is only unfoggy when I'm not in it, so I don't usually see it. that is, i can't see its absence ... errr ... i can't fully appreciate the clarity of the glass ... except the only point of clarity is the lettering, because everything else is foggy.....
oh-oh. i've gone and hurt my brane. again.
(must stop listening to drone zone)
If it was horribly dirty enough to write a message in once, it will be horribly dirty again. Then you won't be able to read any 'micro scratch' message.
On that subject, we just had a clear shower screen installed. When it fogs up, two letters (6a) can clearly be seen in it. NOTHING will remove it. Soap, alcohol, turps. Nothing.
But which is preferable: having them shove their art in your face, or easily and cheaply providing a venue (well, just a big wall really)?
:-)
It's gotta be more effective than cleaning it up, sending the cops out after them, locking them up...
And who knows, a grafitti artist may even become a productive and creative member of society, instead of a drone who got busted for tagging once too often.
Everyone's happy
It can easily happen. People go to the movies, pay money and leave with nothing more tangible than popcorn-greasy hands. People get cable TV and just watch it. No recording, just watch it.
Even now that DVDs are relatively cheap to buy, there's not a whole lot I want to watch more than once. I'd rather pay a dollar every now and then to watch an episode of 'Futurama' on demand than have to buy the whole series.
Do people really watch the entire '24' series on DVD?
I'm surprised no-one else has commented. The Estes site is the worst I have seen for a while.
ESTES: PLEASE REDESIGN YOUR SITE.
Get them to try it again. The first iTunes on the PC was iffy - it worked OK but was generally unresponsive. The next version is much better. Still takes forever to launch though...