I have Windstream's (completely unadvertised) deal called Greenstreak, their version of naked DSL.
Oh, I've seen the television advertisement for it, but I didn't know it still provided incoming calls. It almost sounds like what I've had for a long time--a landline with no assigned long distance provider--but for even less.
I've also been thinking about getting a twin-WAN router to have both DSL and cablemodem access. I like the 5 static IPs and domain hosting I get via DSL, but I don't get that with Time Warner Cable.
Except we want cops to catch people with illegal drugs etc.. Why restrain the cops from doing what we all need them to do?
You seem to be excluding people with illegal drugs from this group you erroneously label as "all". Be careful you do not find yourself similarly excluded.
And sometimes they're not even caught with drugs but rather caught with "too much" cash on their person.
Whether its illegal aliens or a bundle of dope I prefer that 100% be detected and punished.
"Vote Fascist for a Third Glorious Decade of Total Law Enforcement."
If every law is enforced 100% of the time, you live in a police state and have no real freedom, where even the tiniest of harmless infractions will bring harsh penalties:
A much-fatter Mrs. Krabappel writes "Homework: eat a stick of butter" on the blackboard. "Since so many students have been put on permanent detention," she begins, burps, and continues, "we've merged everyone into a single class. I trust there are no objections?" Bart, Lisa, Milhouse, Wendell, and Ralph say nothing. Wendell shivers in fright and his pencil falls to the floor. Mrs. Krabappel looks up, points to the hall, and says, "Detention." Wendell looks appealingly at Milhouse and Ralph who look away, and he leaves the class.
Why should I climb the tallest tower in the furthest castle, if I get the same stuff as from the chest behind the entrance door?
Why should you release Schröedinger's cat from its box?
RPGs should let you take the chest without opening it and sell it unopened. You could get more from selling a mystery box than you will from what's actually in it, especially if you hype up where you recovered it in the marketplace.
Hell, if it just let you play back your campaign to get it to potential buyers (in the guise of relating the story), that would be cool in itself. It could even discourage farming.
I bought a handheld version of Tetris (under a different name) from RadioShack and discovered I could actually induce the game to only give me straight pieces. It apparently used the time it took the piece to fall to determine what the piece after the next would be. If you allowed straight pieces to drop at their own rate to hit the bottom standing upright, it would always give you straight pieces. Drop it faster or not upright or on anything else and the next-next piece would change. As long as you didn't have any holes, you could play this way forever. If you got it to start doing it on a clear (or clearable) screen, all the better.
After getting bored enough to roll the score over twice in one game this way, I gave it to my mother one Christmas. It's the only video game she has ever learned to play, and we had pong.
Greatest would imply that there are several others to compete against.
Well, there have been lesser depressions than The Great Depression. That's what makes it great: by being greater than another.
And I wouldn't say "several". You only need "a couple" others, which when combined with a potential new one, gives a total of "a few".
I'm just expecting that Stephen Colbert will use that line eventually because it's a natural to succeed his loaded, "George W. Bush: great president, or the greatest president?" interview question.
TFA says that it provides light for up to 90 minutes. But it uses a capacitor to store charge, so I imagine it could discharge very rapidly under the wrong conditions.
So it doubles as a taser? Bonus!
Well, except that you'd then be in the dark with an only possibly incapacitated angry assailant.
I think the discharge time is dependent on the particular fleshlight user.
Turn on your fleshlight Let it shine wherever you go Let it make a happy glow For all the world to see Turn on your fleshlight In the middle of a young boy's dream Don't wake me up too soon Gonna take a ride across the moon You and--
Yeah, I'm gonna stop it right there. Those lyrics are sounding a bit too perverted.
He gave an example of a shopkeeper creating 3D models of his store's interior and goods with Photosynth and then uploading the results into a large 3D model of local shopping district. Customers could 'visit' the area, browse products, and order them for real-world delivery.
And have their IPs banned for taking screen captures of prices?
Stores like physical stores because they restrain the customer into seeing only their prices. If the stores are virtual, the customer could be browsing multiple stores and do price comparisons. Even the stores that price-match don't like to do it and will find any excuse not to.
Apparently the BMV plans to compare your new picture when you get a license to all your previous license pictures. If it looks significantly different, they'll take extra steps to ensure that you are, in fact, who you say you are.
Great! Windows Genuine Advantage for your driver's license!
Unless of course you DO have a facial condition that makes you always smile in ehich case they will refuse to take a picture becuase the rules say you can't be smiling.
Man, that's really going to suck once Jack Napier moves to Indiana. He'll see to it that if he can't get a driver's license, no one will.
That's not true. Series 1s have padding just like all of the other Tivos.
You're right. It's been awhile since I've actually used my Series1 boxes.
What I meant was that that option is practically unavailable to Series1 users as padding causes conflicts between recordings for them, preventing back-to-back scheduling of programs even on the same channel. A Series2 or newer can start/end another recording late/early (respectively). Manual repeat recording doesn't help much for the other reason you mentioned: no 4-minute pad option.
With the bugs in the mystro software, I'd be happy to have a 5-second pad option. That would be long enough to bypass TWC's "bug".
That's my thought. I still have a SDTV, why would I upgrade to a Series 3 TiVo?
For me, my cable company forced me to get the Series3. I'm in one of the Time Warner Cable markets where they were forcing beta "mystro" software on their cable boxes to us. Beta software that could not reliably change channels at the times shows were starting or ending. They'd throw out initial digits, all digits, or crash if you tried to change channels at the moment it wanted to update the on-screen guide data for the channel you were leaving. Not considered a problem if you're a human changing the channel, but a show-stopper for any device having to trust that the channel was changed properly.
Padding Season Passes on the Series2 by a minute start and end still wouldn't work right for the creative scheduling of the networks. And that option is completely unavailable to Series1 users.
The CableCards have been working reliably for me for awhile now, with just some early problems due to signal strength. There are just a few hiccups with the HDCP handshake between the TiVo, HDMI switch, stereo receiver, and TV, but I seem to have routed around the problem.
Especially since my Series 2 has lifetime service and is still going strong 5 years later. It sure beats having the cable company's "DVR".
I transferred lifetime from two of my Series1 units to two Series2 units (with the idea that I could retire the Series1s and still do manual recordings with them) in a special promotion, not grandfathered option. If TiVo would offer that again to a TiVo HD, I'd buy two more and give the Series2 units as gifts to family and friends (with new cooling fans installed).
It would be a good offer to do before Feb. 17, 2009.
There's only one Linux box in my workplace that has GTK+ 2.10, and I run Firefox 3 on it displaying to my local machine. Still,/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 does not exist, I can't configure a printer (can only print to file), and for some reason I kept getting errors on the console for not having Thai support (none yet today though).
The Ubuntu machines here only have GTK+ 2.8, and the Redhat 9 machines (my desktop) don't have libpangocairo.
Looking at what we've done to this planet, I'm not so sure the survival of our species is in anyone else's interest.
Yes, why can't it be like, like, human beings are a planetary disease? Like the Earth's got German measles or facial herpes, right? And that's why all of the other planets give us such a wide berth. It's like, "Oh, don't go near Earth! It's got human beings on it, they're contagious!
Or the planet could crash into the sun, or maybe the moon is going to crash into us, or the planet was going to be invaded by a gigantic swarm of twelve foot piranha bees, or that the entire planet is in imminent danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star goat! Yes! A monstrous creature from the pit of hell with scything teeth ten thousand miles long, breath that would boil oceans, claws that could tear continents from their roots, a thousand eyes that burned like the sun, slavering jaws a million miles across, a monster such as you have never... never... ever...
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"Surviving" as in "intact".
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For example, text scrolling on top of a fixed background image.
Meh, that's too common. Give me text scrolling on top a background image scrolling half as fast in the same direction.
Dunno. Are there any other Google products out of beta? :-)
Here, let me google that for you(*).
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I have Windstream's (completely unadvertised) deal called Greenstreak, their version of naked DSL.
Oh, I've seen the television advertisement for it, but I didn't know it still provided incoming calls. It almost sounds like what I've had for a long time--a landline with no assigned long distance provider--but for even less.
I've also been thinking about getting a twin-WAN router to have both DSL and cablemodem access. I like the 5 static IPs and domain hosting I get via DSL, but I don't get that with Time Warner Cable.
Except we want cops to catch people with illegal drugs etc.. Why restrain the cops from doing what we all need them to do?
You seem to be excluding people with illegal drugs from this group you erroneously label as "all". Be careful you do not find yourself similarly excluded.
And sometimes they're not even caught with drugs but rather caught with "too much" cash on their person.
Whether its illegal aliens or a bundle of dope I prefer that 100% be detected and punished.
"Vote Fascist for a Third Glorious Decade of Total Law Enforcement."
If every law is enforced 100% of the time, you live in a police state and have no real freedom, where even the tiniest of harmless infractions will bring harsh penalties:
It's a fine line between hampering catching criminals by giving "too many rights" and stepping over the bounds of innocent until proven guilty...
Oh yes, it's so fine a line that it is in fact the same line approached from opposite sides.
I'm surprised that the summary has yet to bear the scientology tag.
Why should I climb the tallest tower in the furthest castle, if I get the same stuff as from the chest behind the entrance door?
Why should you release Schröedinger's cat from its box?
RPGs should let you take the chest without opening it and sell it unopened. You could get more from selling a mystery box than you will from what's actually in it, especially if you hype up where you recovered it in the marketplace.
Hell, if it just let you play back your campaign to get it to potential buyers (in the guise of relating the story), that would be cool in itself. It could even discourage farming.
I bought a handheld version of Tetris (under a different name) from RadioShack and discovered I could actually induce the game to only give me straight pieces. It apparently used the time it took the piece to fall to determine what the piece after the next would be. If you allowed straight pieces to drop at their own rate to hit the bottom standing upright, it would always give you straight pieces. Drop it faster or not upright or on anything else and the next-next piece would change. As long as you didn't have any holes, you could play this way forever. If you got it to start doing it on a clear (or clearable) screen, all the better.
After getting bored enough to roll the score over twice in one game this way, I gave it to my mother one Christmas. It's the only video game she has ever learned to play, and we had pong.
Well, there have been lesser depressions than The Great Depression. That's what makes it great: by being greater than another.
And I wouldn't say "several". You only need "a couple" others, which when combined with a potential new one, gives a total of "a few".
I'm just expecting that Stephen Colbert will use that line eventually because it's a natural to succeed his loaded, "George W. Bush: great president, or the greatest president?" interview question.
[blast of loud Van Halen music]
Silence, Earthling! My name is Darth Vader. I am an extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan!
TFA says that it provides light for up to 90 minutes. But it uses a capacitor to store charge, so I imagine it could discharge very rapidly under the wrong conditions.
So it doubles as a taser? Bonus!
Well, except that you'd then be in the dark with an only possibly incapacitated angry assailant.
I think the discharge time is dependent on the particular fleshlight user.
Turn on your fleshlight
Let it shine wherever you go
Let it make a happy glow
For all the world to see
Turn on your fleshlight
In the middle of a young boy's dream
Don't wake me up too soon
Gonna take a ride across the moon
You and--
Yeah, I'm gonna stop it right there. Those lyrics are sounding a bit too perverted.
RSA encryption: c = m^e mod n.
It really is something a 5th grader could write. The security is in the selection of e and n (and d, for decryption).
Assuming of course you wanted to decrypt it. That doesn't seem to be part of the design in this case.
He gave an example of a shopkeeper creating 3D models of his store's interior and goods with Photosynth and then uploading the results into a large 3D model of local shopping district. Customers could 'visit' the area, browse products, and order them for real-world delivery.
And have their IPs banned for taking screen captures of prices?
Stores like physical stores because they restrain the customer into seeing only their prices. If the stores are virtual, the customer could be browsing multiple stores and do price comparisons. Even the stores that price-match don't like to do it and will find any excuse not to.
Apparently the BMV plans to compare your new picture when you get a license to all your previous license pictures. If it looks significantly different, they'll take extra steps to ensure that you are, in fact, who you say you are.
Great! Windows Genuine Advantage for your driver's license!
I never smile anyway, but what's with this "you can't wear glasses" rule?
Maybe they're trying to ID that illegal alien vigilante Kal El.
Unless of course you DO have a facial condition that makes you always smile in ehich case they will refuse to take a picture becuase the rules say you can't be smiling.
Man, that's really going to suck once Jack Napier moves to Indiana. He'll see to it that if he can't get a driver's license, no one will.
That's not true. Series 1s have padding just like all of the other Tivos.
You're right. It's been awhile since I've actually used my Series1 boxes.
What I meant was that that option is practically unavailable to Series1 users as padding causes conflicts between recordings for them, preventing back-to-back scheduling of programs even on the same channel. A Series2 or newer can start/end another recording late/early (respectively). Manual repeat recording doesn't help much for the other reason you mentioned: no 4-minute pad option.
With the bugs in the mystro software, I'd be happy to have a 5-second pad option. That would be long enough to bypass TWC's "bug".
Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham drown in a helicopter.
Oh yes, a favorite I had to have on DVD even though it was only available in 4:3 aspect.
That's my thought. I still have a SDTV, why would I upgrade to a Series 3 TiVo?
For me, my cable company forced me to get the Series3. I'm in one of the Time Warner Cable markets where they were forcing beta "mystro" software on their cable boxes to us. Beta software that could not reliably change channels at the times shows were starting or ending. They'd throw out initial digits, all digits, or crash if you tried to change channels at the moment it wanted to update the on-screen guide data for the channel you were leaving. Not considered a problem if you're a human changing the channel, but a show-stopper for any device having to trust that the channel was changed properly.
Padding Season Passes on the Series2 by a minute start and end still wouldn't work right for the creative scheduling of the networks. And that option is completely unavailable to Series1 users.
The CableCards have been working reliably for me for awhile now, with just some early problems due to signal strength. There are just a few hiccups with the HDCP handshake between the TiVo, HDMI switch, stereo receiver, and TV, but I seem to have routed around the problem.
Especially since my Series 2 has lifetime service and is still going strong 5 years later. It sure beats having the cable company's "DVR".
I transferred lifetime from two of my Series1 units to two Series2 units (with the idea that I could retire the Series1s and still do manual recordings with them) in a special promotion, not grandfathered option. If TiVo would offer that again to a TiVo HD, I'd buy two more and give the Series2 units as gifts to family and friends (with new cooling fans installed).
It would be a good offer to do before Feb. 17, 2009.
There's only one Linux box in my workplace that has GTK+ 2.10, and I run Firefox 3 on it displaying to my local machine. Still, /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 does not exist, I can't configure a printer (can only print to file), and for some reason I kept getting errors on the console for not having Thai support (none yet today though).
The Ubuntu machines here only have GTK+ 2.8, and the Redhat 9 machines (my desktop) don't have libpangocairo.
Looking at what we've done to this planet, I'm not so sure the survival of our species is in anyone else's interest.
Yes, why can't it be like, like, human beings are a planetary disease? Like the Earth's got German measles or facial herpes, right? And that's why all of the other planets give us such a wide berth. It's like, "Oh, don't go near Earth! It's got human beings on it, they're contagious!
Or the planet could crash into the sun, or maybe the moon is going to crash into us, or the planet was going to be invaded by a gigantic swarm of twelve foot piranha bees, or that the entire planet is in imminent danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star goat! Yes! A monstrous creature from the pit of hell with scything teeth ten thousand miles long, breath that would boil oceans, claws that could tear continents from their roots, a thousand eyes that burned like the sun, slavering jaws a million miles across, a monster such as you have never ... never ... ever ...