Looks like he's done with Video Keg what I've been planning to do with a MythTV box to manage watching my DVD collection, even the insertion of commericals (trailers) between playbacks.
A few more iterations of development to bring in a few more features and this system could be used to run a 24-7 TV station.
Sheridan [troubled]: Commander --- the message we got from the probe. What did it promise if we did give all the right answers?
Ivanova: Advanced tech, mainly. Medical information, cures for disease, new jumpgate technology.
Sheridan: But it never gave you the name of the race or where it's from?
Ivanova: I assume we get that information once we pass the test.
Corwin: Two minutes!
Ivanova: Okay, here we go!
Sheridan: No, wait! [Everyone turns to stare.] There's something about this that has been bothering me ever since they made contact! We have been operating under the assumption that whoever sent the probe is deciding whether or not a sentient race is fit to survive based on what they know at the moment of contact. But if that's true, why give them a leg up on more advanced technologies?
Ivanova: Maybe they were feeling generous!
Sheridan: No, if they were feeling generous, they wouldn't be wiping out inferior races based on lack of advancement. No, I don't like it!
Ivanova: Captain, we're down to one minute! I don't see any other options here!
Sheridan: What if it's a berserker --- a probe sent out to find life forms advanced enough to pose a threat to the race that created it? It sends a list of questions backed by a threat. If it gets the right answers back, that proves a certain level of technological advancement, then boom! You wipe out a potential enemy without leaving any trace of where you came from!
Ivanova: Or it could be exactly what it said! Fifteen seconds, Captain! Send or no send?
I was thinking along the same lines when I realized this was a PVR and not a DVR.
They're the same thing. It's just because PVR was already trademarked within the same field (Digital Processing Systems' Perception Video Recorder) that TiVo changed the term to DVR.
I thought a second person shooter would put the POV as that of the target. Which would only work if the person you're trying to shoot is also trying to shoot you, so you have some chance to see where you're aiming.
Yeah, their fictionalized version was titled "Murder One: San Francisco", the latter words in the same font as used in GTA:SA.
They should find some other game to kick around for these shows. How about a murder where the victim is killed by a low hanging branch when the horse bolts from being sprayed by a skunk released by the killer, and the killer got the idea from playing Barbie Horse Adventure.
And have someone official quip at the crime scene at the start, "Looks like someone ran out of trust on the friendship meter."
How about that rash of trucker suicides driving through homes and off bridges from playing and emulating the game Big Rig Racing?
Users of PCP report memory loss, difficulties with speech and learning, depression, and weight loss. These symptoms can persist up to a year after cessation of PCP use. PCP has sedative effects, and interactions with other central nervous system depressants, such as alcohol and benzodiazepines, can lead to coma or accidental overdose. Use of PCP among adolescents may interfere with hormones related to normal growth and development.
"Combining several previous researchs, a new FEARLESS, SELF-REGENERATING, ERGONOMIC, SMART MOUSE has escaped into the wild. The results are unpredictable. Expect the unexpectable.
With lasers on their friggin heads."
I'd think the lasers would be where their balls should be.
Only problem with holographic memory is that sequential erasure will not work. You'd have to feed it a tapeworm to selectively seek out and destroy unwanted data.
TMZ, named for the 30-mile zone around Hollywood that is mentioned in some film-union contracts
It would be easier to discern what TMZ stood for if you would write out the number and capitalize it ("Thirty-Mile Zone" instead of "30-mile zone"). Who do I blame--Saul Hansell or his editor--for this?
I also note that Acronym Finder's got nothing on TMZ, directing users to Acronym Attic, which offers:
Tram Museum Zuerich
Trimbelangen Midden Zeeland
Team Minus Zero
Transportation Management Zone
Taltson Magmatic Zone
Triangle Metro Zoo
Turbidity Maximum Zone
The Mineral Zone
The Mystery Zone
Trindade Me Zochi
No "30-mile zone around Hollywood" definitions. (I'm submitting it now to AF.)
Also, wouldn't Pressman Toy Company have some say over trademarking AOL Hi-Q, or is that lost to HiQ Computers?
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Because posting excerpts from sci-fi shows is insightful... Riiiight.
Apparently so, though I have disagreed with such moderation before. I do appreciate freedom_india's gesture, however.
Looks like he's done with Video Keg what I've been planning to do with a MythTV box to manage watching my DVD collection, even the insertion of commericals (trailers) between playbacks.
A few more iterations of development to bring in a few more features and this system could be used to run a 24-7 TV station.
The Shirt Tales or Teletubbies?
Ivanova: How much time?
Corwin: Three minutes!
Ivanova: Standing by to transmit.
Sheridan [troubled]: Commander --- the message we got from the probe. What did it promise if we did give all the right answers?
Ivanova: Advanced tech, mainly. Medical information, cures for disease, new jumpgate technology.
Sheridan: But it never gave you the name of the race or where it's from?
Ivanova: I assume we get that information once we pass the test.
Corwin: Two minutes!
Ivanova: Okay, here we go!
Sheridan: No, wait! [Everyone turns to stare.] There's something about this that has been bothering me ever since they made contact! We have been operating under the assumption that whoever sent the probe is deciding whether or not a sentient race is fit to survive based on what they know at the moment of contact. But if that's true, why give them a leg up on more advanced technologies?
Ivanova: Maybe they were feeling generous!
Sheridan: No, if they were feeling generous, they wouldn't be wiping out inferior races based on lack of advancement. No, I don't like it!
Ivanova: Captain, we're down to one minute! I don't see any other options here!
Sheridan: What if it's a berserker --- a probe sent out to find life forms advanced enough to pose a threat to the race that created it? It sends a list of questions backed by a threat. If it gets the right answers back, that proves a certain level of technological advancement, then boom ! You wipe out a potential enemy without leaving any trace of where you came from!
Ivanova: Or it could be exactly what it said! Fifteen seconds, Captain! Send or no send?
Sheridan: No send!
Ivanova: Oh, boy!
The commercial for Call of Duty 2 looks freakin awesome.
I may buy an XBox 360 just for that!
Most people would just buy a blank VHS tape, but presumably you could get by with choosing to Save/Keep Until I Delete.
So all the Anti-Microsoft-geeks on slashdot will now run out to buy a console just to hurt Microsoft!
Still, you could have fun smashing it in public.
Would it help to pronounce DRM to rhyme with "germ"?
I was thinking along the same lines when I realized this was a PVR and not a DVR.
They're the same thing. It's just because PVR was already trademarked within the same field (Digital Processing Systems' Perception Video Recorder) that TiVo changed the term to DVR.
It's unfortunate that one hast to actually BAFN to figure that out.
Bloomsburg Area Free-Net? Bonnechere Algonquin First Nation?
(Be A Fine Nerd?)
Not to mention the idea that the powers that be already have all of our dna on file so they know who is good...
"Been there, done that." -- Santa Claus
I thought a second person shooter would put the POV as that of the target. Which would only work if the person you're trying to shoot is also trying to shoot you, so you have some chance to see where you're aiming.
Yeah, their fictionalized version was titled "Murder One: San Francisco", the latter words in the same font as used in GTA:SA.
They should find some other game to kick around for these shows. How about a murder where the victim is killed by a low hanging branch when the horse bolts from being sprayed by a skunk released by the killer, and the killer got the idea from playing Barbie Horse Adventure.
And have someone official quip at the crime scene at the start, "Looks like someone ran out of trust on the friendship meter."
How about that rash of trucker suicides driving through homes and off bridges from playing and emulating the game Big Rig Racing?
The first demos of TiVoToGo were on the Mac. What held up production versions for the Mac was the DRM requirement.
Ask your nearest Agent if the Blue Pill is right for you.
Users of PCP report memory loss, difficulties with speech and learning, depression, and weight loss. These symptoms can persist up to a year after cessation of PCP use. PCP has sedative effects, and interactions with other central nervous system depressants, such as alcohol and benzodiazepines, can lead to coma or accidental overdose. Use of PCP among adolescents may interfere with hormones related to normal growth and development.
Ask your doctor if PCP is right for you.
Because how do you maintain order in an Army if the soldier has totally no fear of the consequences of not obeying ?
Start a eugenics war? Control them with drugs?
"Combining several previous researchs, a new FEARLESS, SELF-REGENERATING, ERGONOMIC, SMART MOUSE has escaped into the wild. The results are unpredictable. Expect the unexpectable.
With lasers on their friggin heads."
I'd think the lasers would be where their balls should be.
So you've seen that episode of Batman: The Animated Series too?
Only problem with holographic memory is that sequential erasure will not work. You'd have to feed it a tapeworm to selectively seek out and destroy unwanted data.
Enquiring minds want to know, how do YOU sing ^H?
Backwards.
Seriously, if the preceding lyric was "bitter" you'd sing "erskib", with a reverse tonal inflection.
Negative information at work?
Nice. Pity about the typo on error 5 though.
It would be easier to discern what TMZ stood for if you would write out the number and capitalize it ("Thirty-Mile Zone" instead of "30-mile zone"). Who do I blame--Saul Hansell or his editor--for this?
I also note that Acronym Finder's got nothing on TMZ, directing users to Acronym Attic, which offers:
No "30-mile zone around Hollywood" definitions. (I'm submitting it now to AF.)
Also, wouldn't Pressman Toy Company have some say over trademarking AOL Hi-Q, or is that lost to HiQ Computers?
so that's a June release date that they missed. It certainly won't make it in April.
BillG: What rhymes with June?
SteveB: No it doesn't.
BillG: Bah! I'll make it April.