I wouldn't be so quick on that. One movie on the list, "The Secret of NIMH", seems to have only been released as full screen.
My copy is full screen, and I'm usually very careful to buy only widescreen movies. I'll have to check the packaging again to see if it ever disclosed that it was full screen.
Well I may use it to get money back for my copy of "WarGames" which stops playing at the layer change on the word "Jesus" in his lament about not knowing how to swim. Or the copy of "The Princess Bride" which I replaced with the special edition.
I'd still like to know how "The Secret of NIMH" ended up on the list. I mistakenly bought a full-screen version of that and couldn't find anyplace selling a widescreen one. Amazon.com lists only the 1.33:1 version.
The explanation that it is only that these widescreen versions are simply matted 4:3 versions as seen in theaters and weren't disclosed as such doesn't entirely explain why the animated movie "The Secret of NIMH" is on the list.
...Except when the Nav computer gets infected and 0WNZ0Red.
It's not like the nav system actually drives the car:
"Get me to the hospital, Super-Pursuit Mode." "I'm sorry, Michael, but I'm afraid I can't do that." "Dammit! I knew I should have let Bonnie install that backup OnStar system!"
I use the first click of Fwd on the TiVo remote to play it back at 3x speed without sound and with captions displayed, then sing it myself at high speed in a chipmunk voice (two octaves higher), but only after the first stanza, "It's been a long road".
If you have TiVo, try it next time. It's fun! (You may want to try speeding up a sample of it on your computer first to get a feel for what it should sound like.)
I think the real question is, why would you put the CableCard in the TV, not the TiVo?
No, it's why would I wait to get a CC-2.0 compatible TV with PPV ordering abilities when I can't record with a TV.
I'd probably pick up a CC-2.0 TiVo and put such a card in it that would let me record PPV and On Demand content (if only TiVo would allow it), but I have no need for access to that content directly on the TV.
Besides, anything on PPV is or soon will be available on DVD, and is often also currently showing in the local $2.00 theater.
I'd be happy with a CC-1.0 TV... as long as the cable company will continue to support the 1.0 cards in 1.0-only TVs.
But, what if I don't want my TV communicating with the cable company?
I really don't care for PPV and on-demand programming. I don't use them with my TiVo now; why would I want to use a CableCard in my TV that bypasses my recorders so I can only watch that content live?
And maybe I don't want them to be able to audit what I'm watching. And no, I don't like that they can do that with my cableboxes now. (Though they do get a skewed look about me based on what my TiVo records as suggestions.)
I read the definition...at least the one in the CA bill recently, and essentially a P2P program is defined as a program capable of both upload and download.
In precisely those words, "upload" and "download"?
I have yet to see a P2P program that allows someone to upload a file onto another's machine, in the original, technical sense of the word. Everyone pulls files, i.e. is downloading. No one is uploading.
Anthropomorphizing the machines as the actors is not proper usage of the upload/download terminology, especially if you say because the machine uploaded to the person requesting the file, so did the person who set up the machine to be operated by the downloader. The newthink just seeks to assign liability to someone for another's overt act.
Grokster does not allow you to make a copy, it allows you to distribute copies to a theoretically unlimited amount of people.
Technically, it does not distribute to others. It merely offers to others the ability to pull the data themselves.
It's the difference between passing out CDs on the street corner to anyone who passes by and having a kiosk that will let people burn a copy of the CD themselves by inserting a blank. The device is a distribution device. It can be used to distribute the owner's original work, or it could be used to distribute the works of others.
It is still able to distribute to an unlimited number of people. Unless you're going to say that the rate at which it is capable of distributing also matters. That would be like claiming someone having 5 52x CD burners is the same thing as having 260 1x burners.
When does the scale change something from legal to illegal anyway? Stealing 5 dollars and stealing 5 million dollars are both crimes. When does non-liability for selling a device with non-infringing uses on the small scale become liabilty for selling a more capable device with non-infringing uses on the large scale?
what PC can I buy instead that will take up as little space and do as much for the same price (or less)?
Wait for it to become last year's model and/or get an additional speed bump, or buy a used/refurbished one sooner, then buy Virtual PC for it (from some of the shadier dealers).
Or buy a normal size PC for cheap, seal it up in a wall or crawlspace you couldn't use for anything else, and run your cables into the wall.
if you're generally curious for what/if people use the rel attribute on anchor tags.
There's lots of power you can exert over the appearance of web pages through your client-side stylesheet.
If only there were a way to restrict a set a rules to particular sites, or that you could trust sites to put ID attributes on their BODY tags to uniquely identify their pages to the world, even just the domain name (substituting some other character for the dots).
but human readers won't see the NOFOLLOW tag - and they'll click.
They will if they put
a[rel=nofollow]:after { content: " [NOFOLLOW]"; }
in their client-side stylesheet, or the blog owner puts it in the site's stylesheet. I do similar things to put "[PDF]" after PDF links and "[reg]" after nytimes.com links.
I would have gone with, "Since when was a crowbar developed that took `reasonable care' in preventing its use in prying open locked desk drawers?"
Unfortunately the people who think this is possible will be pointing to changes to photocopiers and graphics software in preventing casual counterfeiting.
Now where's my candlestick? I have a surprise appointment in the Library with Professor Plum.
Interesting that, like Tron, WarGames also had a computer game sequel (real-time strategy). And a WarGames 2 movie was rumored for 2004 (google cache).
It's kind of a moot point for me anyway, as their price for the 512 upgrade isn't that far out of line for what I'd expect a ram stick that size to go for
Except it should cost the difference of a 256 and 512 in price, seeing as if they install the 512, you won't still possess the 256 to sell on eBay or install in another machine.
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As long as the bank has them. My local bank rarely has $2 bills, and I've wanted to get a whole pack ($200 worth).
I find I have to go to the post office vending machines these days if I want dollar coins.
I wouldn't be so quick on that. One movie on the list, "The Secret of NIMH", seems to have only been released as full screen.
My copy is full screen, and I'm usually very careful to buy only widescreen movies. I'll have to check the packaging again to see if it ever disclosed that it was full screen.
Well I may use it to get money back for my copy of "WarGames" which stops playing at the layer change on the word "Jesus" in his lament about not knowing how to swim. Or the copy of "The Princess Bride" which I replaced with the special edition.
I'd still like to know how "The Secret of NIMH" ended up on the list. I mistakenly bought a full-screen version of that and couldn't find anyplace selling a widescreen one. Amazon.com lists only the 1.33:1 version.
The explanation that it is only that these widescreen versions are simply matted 4:3 versions as seen in theaters and weren't disclosed as such doesn't entirely explain why the animated movie "The Secret of NIMH" is on the list.
Some 1x1 gif inserted by an advertiser titled "powerbook_g5.gif" is quite a little thing to inspire such wild speculation.
Indeed, a transparent 1x1 GIF gives another shade to the meaning of the term "thin evidence".
and a rudimentary software program capable of converting pixels of various colors into piano notes of various tones
So it's a reverse-Spielburg device then?
...Except when the Nav computer gets infected and 0WNZ0Red.
It's not like the nav system actually drives the car:
"Get me to the hospital, Super-Pursuit Mode."
"I'm sorry, Michael, but I'm afraid I can't do that."
"Dammit! I knew I should have let Bonnie install that backup OnStar system!"
... if you're in a public area, you're fair game for being photographed
Only if I can have a surveillance camera impounded for loitering.
I use the first click of Fwd on the TiVo remote to play it back at 3x speed without sound and with captions displayed, then sing it myself at high speed in a chipmunk voice (two octaves higher), but only after the first stanza, "It's been a long road".
If you have TiVo, try it next time. It's fun! (You may want to try speeding up a sample of it on your computer first to get a feel for what it should sound like.)
Two things saved Voyager, and they were both attached to Ms. Ryan.
Are they round?
Sometimes.
I know, I know: earrings!
No, the "five years" was dropped in to the opening as a big hint to the network that Roddenberry wanted 5 seasons. The network didn't agree.
He got to finish the five-year mission only by having two seasons of the animated series, and after a 4 year hiatus.
I think the real question is, why would you put the CableCard in the TV, not the TiVo?
No, it's why would I wait to get a CC-2.0 compatible TV with PPV ordering abilities when I can't record with a TV.
I'd probably pick up a CC-2.0 TiVo and put such a card in it that would let me record PPV and On Demand content (if only TiVo would allow it), but I have no need for access to that content directly on the TV.
Besides, anything on PPV is or soon will be available on DVD, and is often also currently showing in the local $2.00 theater.
I'd be happy with a CC-1.0 TV... as long as the cable company will continue to support the 1.0 cards in 1.0-only TVs.
But, what if I don't want my TV communicating with the cable company?
I really don't care for PPV and on-demand programming. I don't use them with my TiVo now; why would I want to use a CableCard in my TV that bypasses my recorders so I can only watch that content live?
And maybe I don't want them to be able to audit what I'm watching. And no, I don't like that they can do that with my cableboxes now. (Though they do get a skewed look about me based on what my TiVo records as suggestions.)
I read the definition...at least the one in the CA bill recently, and essentially a P2P program is defined as a program capable of both upload and download.
In precisely those words, "upload" and "download"?
I have yet to see a P2P program that allows someone to upload a file onto another's machine, in the original, technical sense of the word. Everyone pulls files, i.e. is downloading. No one is uploading.
Anthropomorphizing the machines as the actors is not proper usage of the upload/download terminology, especially if you say because the machine uploaded to the person requesting the file, so did the person who set up the machine to be operated by the downloader. The newthink just seeks to assign liability to someone for another's overt act.
Grokster does not allow you to make a copy, it allows you to distribute copies to a theoretically unlimited amount of people.
Technically, it does not distribute to others. It merely offers to others the ability to pull the data themselves.
It's the difference between passing out CDs on the street corner to anyone who passes by and having a kiosk that will let people burn a copy of the CD themselves by inserting a blank. The device is a distribution device. It can be used to distribute the owner's original work, or it could be used to distribute the works of others.
It is still able to distribute to an unlimited number of people. Unless you're going to say that the rate at which it is capable of distributing also matters. That would be like claiming someone having 5 52x CD burners is the same thing as having 260 1x burners.
When does the scale change something from legal to illegal anyway? Stealing 5 dollars and stealing 5 million dollars are both crimes. When does non-liability for selling a device with non-infringing uses on the small scale become liabilty for selling a more capable device with non-infringing uses on the large scale?
what PC can I buy instead that will take up as little space and do as much for the same price (or less)?
Wait for it to become last year's model and/or get an additional speed bump, or buy a used/refurbished one sooner, then buy Virtual PC for it (from some of the shadier dealers).
Or buy a normal size PC for cheap, seal it up in a wall or crawlspace you couldn't use for anything else, and run your cables into the wall.
"psshhhh-kapoooo!" is an adjective describing a set of noises, not any one particular noise.
It's in the same dictionary that you'd find jozxyqk.
There's lots of power you can exert over the appearance of web pages through your client-side stylesheet.
If only there were a way to restrict a set a rules to particular sites, or that you could trust sites to put ID attributes on their BODY tags to uniquely identify their pages to the world, even just the domain name (substituting some other character for the dots).
They will if they put in their client-side stylesheet, or the blog owner puts it in the site's stylesheet. I do similar things to put "[PDF]" after PDF links and "[reg]" after nytimes.com links.
I would have gone with, "Since when was a crowbar developed that took `reasonable care' in preventing its use in prying open locked desk drawers?"
Unfortunately the people who think this is possible will be pointing to changes to photocopiers and graphics software in preventing casual counterfeiting.
Now where's my candlestick? I have a surprise appointment in the Library with Professor Plum.
Interesting that, like Tron, WarGames also had a computer game sequel (real-time strategy). And a WarGames 2 movie was rumored for 2004 (google cache).
It makes sense... take a book with an established fanbase that's exciting and well thought out...
and make it into a movie.
Result: I, Robot.
It's kind of a moot point for me anyway, as their price for the 512 upgrade isn't that far out of line for what I'd expect a ram stick that size to go for
Except it should cost the difference of a 256 and 512 in price, seeing as if they install the 512, you won't still possess the 256 to sell on eBay or install in another machine.
Also, BTO units aren't readily returnable.
"doing it yourself does not void the warranty unless you damage something."
So it doesn't void your warranty as long as you never need to repair it under the warranty? Riiight.
I would love to have a pen that would "hand-write" anything that I typed...
Would be great for entering those mail-in sweepstakes, eh Lazlo?