The difference is that people like to hear music they like over and over, year after year. Even with a TV show or a movie you like, you'd likely only watch it a handful of times in a lifetime. Strange then that my DVD collection is upwards of 800 titles and my CD collection would fit in three shoeboxes.
I'd rather have an FM tuner in my cell phone than a subscription music service. I'd rather stick to a station (or set of stations) that play what I like, but with more surprises than what ClearChannel stations offer.
So now someone could be watching all those cell phone cameras everybody is so afraid of. If the phones could somehow figure out where they're pointing and stitch the images together.. *shudder* No need for Google Street View?
The apps that do require admin rights, are modifying the system in some way, and those do require you to give the administrator password. Since this dialog is rare, people do pay special attention when it pops up. There's only so much an OS designer can do. Speaking of which, is there a setting I can make so that the Details pane is open automatically on these windows? I want to be sure it's coming from the application I think it is coming from and don't like having to click the disclosure triangle every time to find out.
This power seeking human nature is like a self corrupting mechanism I like how you omitted the hyphen there. It works. Corrupting one's self instead of corrupting oneself.
"It isn't the comet. It's a broom. Imagine you're a race of aliens, right? And, you're looking for a new place to live. Say you're looking for a planet like you and I looking for a new place to live. A new house. So here's Earth. Only it's like this big old house. And, it's kind of polluted, dirty, and smoky. Grease on the walls, soot in the chimney. So, they send in their interstellar housecleaners. Send in their broom. Sweep us all up. That's what this it is, it's a broom. Using our own machines to sweep us right off."
Sure, they left the content in. But realize that what they did to the scenes was "fuzz" them over with odd camera angles and filters. You need the scenes there in order to filter them.. If this game gets re-rated because the content was only blurred and the objectionable content was still on the disk, this would give Jack Thompson the reload of ammo he needs to go after The Sims and its pixelated nudity.
Why don't we get people to make nude patches for Barbie Pony Princess (fake game, but you know what I mean...some E game targeted at kids)? There is "Barbie Horse Adventures", now with two games in the franchise: Wild Horse Rescue and Mystery Ride. They were rated E. (X-Play rated the first one as a "game you should never play".)
Question is, should the nude mod for Barbie still make her "smooth around the bend", making her just as age-appropriate as the dolls, or make her anatomically correct?
SlySoft claims to have cracked BD+ Vila: Talk's cheap. Slysoft: Does that mean something? Avon: It means he doesn't believe you, and neither, as a matter of fact, do I. Slysoft: I take it you wish me to prove it. Avon: Why not?
Stupid apple for keeping them down, what's happened since their biggest strength was openness (apple + apple II)? Some versions of ProDOS included a hardware test to make it refuse to run on Franklin computers.
The Series 3 just had an update and lost one of my Cablecards about a week (2 weeks) ago I was only getting 1 HD channel at a time, I could tune the other to SD just fine.
Anyways the fix from Tivo support was to pull the power plug out for 15 seconds and then the problem was fixed. Yeah, assuming you noticed the problem and were able to do the restart without disrupting any other recordings. Which is why I initially went with the "eject and reinsert problem CableCARD" solution.
And that sounds exactly like what I've been experiencing, except that I'm having to restart the TiVo one or two times a week. For me, the problem card is in Slot 1 and if there's no conflict that's what the TiVo always tries to record on. So it'll sit there trying to record no signal even with a functioning tuner in the other slot.
I may just tell it to start recording off a known no-signal channel just before the shows I want to record to force them to the second card. But then I'd probably have to record two simultaneous no-signal shows immediately before as well just to flush out the possibility of a suggestion. So just some extra repeating manual timed records to work around it.
I have noticed that the 30-second skip option is now durable across restarts.
Since the price of a shrink-wrap machine and the hassle and time involved are worth a lot more than the $300 The aforementioned catalog company has a website. They sell economy shrink wrapping systems for $175 for 12" and $229 for 20". Industrial systems cost more.
I can't speak for JackieBrown, but for me, the Mystro software on their cable boxes is incompatible with TiVo Suggestions (cable box will tune the wrong channel or crash if channel changes are done in sync with the schedule) which they seem to have no interest in fixing (despite us being an unannounced and unwilling beta test city), and lately even the CableCARDs are giving me problems with my TiVo Series3 HD (losing signal and not reacquiring on card slot 1 without reboot or ejecting and re-inserting the card, resulting it missed recordings), though this may be a TiVo problem.
Though my home is very close to their office, service appointments have been at the end of their window, the last one more than an hour after the window closed. Apparently I'm being scheduled to be at the end of the return to the office. The periods always seem to overlap my recording periods at the end as well, so disruption is maximized.
I do like how all non-premium channels are sent in unencrypted QAM (meaning cablecards need not apply). At least, that's the way it is in my area Not true in all areas. Here only the broadcast channels are unencrypted, and it was like pulling teeth to get my first Firewire-enabled HD cable box.
The only competition here is with satellite, with Dish being hawked by the landline phone company and DirecTV wanting to sign you up for 5 rooms or more.
a new streetcar, powered by lithium battery, has been invented by the Railway Technical Research Institute in Kokubunji, Tokyo. The new transport is capable of speeds of 40 kph for 15 kilometers and can convert 70 percent of its deceleration energy into electricity which is then sent back to the battery which can recharge in under one minute. I desire this streetcar.
Previously, The Simpsons Game lead designer Greg Rizzer told CVG, "I was always under the impression that when you do parody, it's a sign of respect... If we make fun of Grand Theft Auto, we're not going to hurt the sales of Grand Theft Auto." And even if it did hurt sales, it's still fair:
Sometimes the reputation of a parody outlasts the reputation of what is being parodied. For example, Don Quixote, which mocks the traditional knight errant tales, is much more well-known than the novel that inspired it, Amadis de Gaula (although Amadis is mentioned in the book). Another notable case is the novel Shamela by Henry Fielding (1742), which was a parody of the gloomy epistolary novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) by Samuel Richardson. Many of Lewis Carroll's parodies, such as "You Are Old, Father William", are much better known than the originals.
($300?? what was this, one of the new quantum hard drives?) The My Book Home 750GB External Hard Drive with USB 2.0, Firewire 400, and eSATA interfaces is currently selling at that price. They have sold 1 TB NAS RAID systems for less.
It's newsworthy stupidity just to buy a hard drive from Best Buy even when there is an actual hard drive in the box; their markup is insane. Actually, once I discovered that a combination of sale price and downloadable coupon could have gotten me a hard drive as cheap as 12.5 cents per gigabyte, were they not already sold out by the time I'd noticed. And it wasn't even Black Friday.
I haven't had much if any problems at my local Best Buy. Granted, I tend to know what I want and where to find it. The only times I've needed assistance was finding out feature sets of HDTVs and when they were expecting more in stock of some DVD titles. The people working in the entertainment media sections have always been friendly.
I've done enough shopping there that I'm recognized, and if the security scanner goes off while I go out the door, I'm just waved through; it's always an item that didn't get its tag cleared properly at the register. Well, except one time when I tripped the scanner on the way in to the store. On the way out, it tripped again, and I was the one who ended up insisting on finding the cause. It was a rebate I hadn't yet mailed still in my pocket for a hard drive, and the security tag stuck on the back of the bar code was still active, probably from one of those times they waved me out.
They did risk alienating me very early on with their double-checking of receipts for big items before going through the security scanner. I was annoyed with that, but that was what I would have considered a medium-sized item.
Where did I get the shrink wrapper? Well I knew some guys at another computer store, so I'd take opened items there to reshrink-wrap with their machine if I had bought it elsewhere. Interesting story. But I must say, I didn't consider asking the question. For some reason I'm on a mailing list for a company that sells bulk shipping materials and machines, which includes shrink-wrapping machines.
If I had the catalog handy, I'd be quoting you prices right now.
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I'd rather have an FM tuner in my cell phone than a subscription music service. I'd rather stick to a station (or set of stations) that play what I like, but with more surprises than what ClearChannel stations offer.
So much for trying to escape to an island when the machines take over, Bill.
"It isn't the comet. It's a broom. Imagine you're a race of aliens, right? And, you're looking for a new place to live. Say you're looking for a planet like you and I looking for a new place to live. A new house. So here's Earth. Only it's like this big old house. And, it's kind of polluted, dirty, and smoky. Grease on the walls, soot in the chimney. So, they send in their interstellar housecleaners. Send in their broom. Sweep us all up. That's what this it is, it's a broom. Using our own machines to sweep us right off."
Question is, should the nude mod for Barbie still make her "smooth around the bend", making her just as age-appropriate as the dolls, or make her anatomically correct?
I hope you don't mind me summarizing the issue with two words from popular culture:
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Slysoft: Does that mean something?
Avon: It means he doesn't believe you, and neither, as a matter of fact, do I.
Slysoft: I take it you wish me to prove it.
Avon: Why not?
...just happened to be... just happens to be... Hig Hurtenflurst?Anyways the fix from Tivo support was to pull the power plug out for 15 seconds and then the problem was fixed. Yeah, assuming you noticed the problem and were able to do the restart without disrupting any other recordings. Which is why I initially went with the "eject and reinsert problem CableCARD" solution.
And that sounds exactly like what I've been experiencing, except that I'm having to restart the TiVo one or two times a week. For me, the problem card is in Slot 1 and if there's no conflict that's what the TiVo always tries to record on. So it'll sit there trying to record no signal even with a functioning tuner in the other slot.
I may just tell it to start recording off a known no-signal channel just before the shows I want to record to force them to the second card. But then I'd probably have to record two simultaneous no-signal shows immediately before as well just to flush out the possibility of a suggestion. So just some extra repeating manual timed records to work around it.
I have noticed that the 30-second skip option is now durable across restarts.
Though my home is very close to their office, service appointments have been at the end of their window, the last one more than an hour after the window closed. Apparently I'm being scheduled to be at the end of the return to the office. The periods always seem to overlap my recording periods at the end as well, so disruption is maximized. I do like how all non-premium channels are sent in unencrypted QAM (meaning cablecards need not apply). At least, that's the way it is in my area Not true in all areas. Here only the broadcast channels are unencrypted, and it was like pulling teeth to get my first Firewire-enabled HD cable box.
The only competition here is with satellite, with Dish being hawked by the landline phone company and DirecTV wanting to sign you up for 5 rooms or more.
As always, IANAL.
... is NBC trying to create a "Youtube Killer" ? Indeed, I thought this was to be NBC trying to create an iTunes Video killer.I haven't had much if any problems at my local Best Buy. Granted, I tend to know what I want and where to find it. The only times I've needed assistance was finding out feature sets of HDTVs and when they were expecting more in stock of some DVD titles. The people working in the entertainment media sections have always been friendly.
I've done enough shopping there that I'm recognized, and if the security scanner goes off while I go out the door, I'm just waved through; it's always an item that didn't get its tag cleared properly at the register. Well, except one time when I tripped the scanner on the way in to the store. On the way out, it tripped again, and I was the one who ended up insisting on finding the cause. It was a rebate I hadn't yet mailed still in my pocket for a hard drive, and the security tag stuck on the back of the bar code was still active, probably from one of those times they waved me out.
They did risk alienating me very early on with their double-checking of receipts for big items before going through the security scanner. I was annoyed with that, but that was what I would have considered a medium-sized item.
If I had the catalog handy, I'd be quoting you prices right now.