Every Mac (apart from the XServes) has an infrared port enabled out of the box
Where is it on my 4-core Mac Pro? My G4 Cube? My PowerBook G4 Titanium? My Blue&White G3? My PowerMac 7500/100? My PowerBook 540c? My PowerBook 120? My PowerBook 100?
Cheese and racing? All you need to attract Space Rats:
Avon: Bring that thing into close-up. [Shots of the space chopper, getting larger and larger.] Avon: Closer. Concentrate on the pilot. I want a close-up of his helmet. [Shot of helmet revealing red silhouette of a rat.] Vila: It's a Space Rat! Soolin: Friends of yours? Vila: Friends? Space Rats? There's no such thing as a friend of a Space Rat -- they even hate each other. Tarrant: What else do you know about them? Vila: They're maniacs, psychopaths! All they live for is sex and violence, booze and speed. And the fellows are just as bad. We had a couple in the penal colony once. They were always trying to frighten me. Dayna:[Laughing] And they never succeeded, of course. What were they imprisoned for? Vila: Breaking into transport museums. When the Federation banned all leisure transport, they went in for stealing anything on wheels or could fly. They were speed crazy, and I do mean crazy.
Mine crashes every time I run it, but that's due to either no libpangocairo or no GTK+ 2.10 or someone deciding I shouldn't have permissions to be able to run X applications on that machine. But then that's probably not considered crashing as it never got running properly in the first place. So I'm running 2.0.0.16.
At least I solved one of the crashes I used to get with it: a very long Javascript bookmark in the toolbar to open a Javascript console would crash the browser if it tried to display as a tooltip or if you tried to edit the bookmark.
Does anyone out there in the US actually LIKE the set top boxes they have? Would you not rather have different choices?
I certainly don't care for the STBs Time Warner Cable has been subjecting us. They can't even serve their primary purpose reliably ever since they put their "mystro" software on the Scientific American hardware. You can't change channels at scheduled programming start times reliably anymore. It may fail to change channels, change to the wrong channel due to digits being thrown out, or even crash and restart but not power on. They've effectively sabotaged it against control by a TiVo.
So I don't think I'd trust them to do anything else with it when they can't make its primary function work reliably.
Indeed, I'd love to have a C Band dish in my backyard if I didn't have to cut down a tree to make room for it. And as the AC sibling above mentioned, it is possible to mount a Dish or DirectTV LNB in them and be able to pull in a much stronger signal, defeating rain fade and possibly seasonal foliage as well.
My mother used to have a tall antenna next to her garage which had a remote for aiming it to pick up TV signals. She sold it for scrap without first consulting me. Had she done, I would have told her to keep it for HDTV reception.
I'd also wager two 128 GiB SSDs in a Series1 TiVo will easily last at least until February 2009, if they were to make some with PATA interfaces
Seriously though, I think it would last even longer than that. A Series2 with dual tuners and a typical load of TiVoToGo pulling and video podcast downloads should have no problems either.
I haven't run any numbers on a Series3 with two CableCards constantly recording 1080i HD programming, but I'd want one 1 TiB SATA SSD and one 1 TiB eSATA SSD on it for the test.
There are many things in Firefox settings I wish could be set in a site-specific manner, such as whether a left-click on a link to the same site opens the link in a new tab or the same tab. If the link is a thread in a discussion forum, I prefer it to be a different tab, but most of the time I don't want to be constantly spawning new tabs with every click.
What really got me hooked on the ][ was the release of Sabotage and Sneakers in 1981.
Heh, I liked SABOTAGE so much I first repackaged it as a SYS file to run it under ProDOS, then a full disassembly of it, which led to removal the last bit of copy protection in it (intended to prevent memory dump cards, it would periodically test the data in the second text screen's screen holes and go into a memory-wiping loop, which also prevented going into the Apple IIgs Control Panel to adjust the processor speed).
I had intended eventually to upgrade the game to use Apple IIgs graphics, a saved high score list, and include day, night, and weather cycles. Unfortunately, even with a complete disassembly of the code, a lookup table for the new screen memory and new raster sprites, I never got myself a real assembler to make the final product (the new sprites required more memory than the original, so memory would have to shift to accommodate them).
If anyone knows of a free cross-assembler for Mac OS X to compile 65c02/65c816 assembly source, I'll dig out my old disks.
Umm... Lets see. Which is going to get more views, either A) an episode that gets shown on TV say 10 times a year or B) the same episode that is online for viewing 24/7. More views == more money, granted, online distribution has a slightly lower profit margin, but it also has slightly lower costs.
They can make more money by quashing good content and keep expectations lower so that cheaper OK content still sells. If great content is available forever, the market for other content is diminished. Take a look at Disney's DVD reissue business.
Mama Carlson: Dr. Fever, in every business, there are not pluses and minuses, but pluses and pluses... but only if the minuses are played correctly. [Fever looks at Mama Carlson, bewildered] Mama Carlson: You don't understand, and I don't expect you to... Johnny:[interrupting] No. No, I understand. This is so deeply warped that even I can make sense of it. 'KRP is not supposed to make money! We're set up to lose! That's our job.
1) Provides retroactive immunity to telecoms, it doesn't provide forward immunity though.
Last time I read it it did. In multiple places it removed the ability to sue the telecoms for following government orders, without qualification as to whether the orders were legal or not.
A friend's friend had a DDR game for the XBOX 360. After flipping through the bundled play list and hearing samples of what it had, I decided I would never have that game in my house. And I had considered it just for the exercise aspect before.
If they had these in ATA versions, it would be a fantastic upgrade for my old ThinkPad T40, as I certainly don't need anything more than 32GiB in my laptop (though I know some people do). Sadly, they are only available in SATA versions.:(
If I had mod points to give, I'd rate your Informative. That's just what I was going to ask about. Two ATA drives each at 128 GiB would be good for stress testing in my Series1 TiVos that lack LBA48-compatible kernels (for as long as cable still provides SD channels).
That they can still record to establish copyright but not have license to distribute settles my question, regardless of any confusion on my part between mechanical and performance rights.
However, you misunderstand the signature.
A work does not "expire" before its copyright.
I mean "expire" in the sense that it ceases to exist in any tangible form. The tray liners at Burger King enjoy the same duration of copyright as any other copyrighted work, yet the medium in which they are fixed is not durable for that duration and extremely unlikely to have special action undertaken to preserve them.
In as such as a work can cease to exist in a tangible medium before its copyright expires denies its entry into the public domain by its failure to exist. It might as well have been granted eternal copyright, which would be a violation of the "limited times" clause. Therefore it should be impermissible to enforce copyright upon a work that will not survive its copyright term.
Maybe that's a novel way to challenge copyright: by challenging what constitutes tangible media by excluding anything that doesn't outlive the author by 70 years (80 if Spanish). Certainly DVD media that becomes opaque and unreadable when exposed to air for 48 hours would not qualify by that metric (as tangibility surely presumes accessibility).
By the way, if a band is recording a cover song, they first have to pay to get a license for the mechanical rights to the song.
So if they don't have mechanical rights, they can't record it. So the performance of that cover is not fixed by them in a tangible medium, and copyright over that particular performance won't exist. But if I were to record it, I'd be fixing it in tangible medium. The copyright of the performance may belong to me, but then I could be sued for not having the mechanical rights to make the recording?
Sounds like these licensed mechanical rights mandate a public domain that no one can exploit and the extinguishing of works forced to be ephemeral, which sounds to me to be against the spirit of copyright (see signature).
Terry: How did you know you weren't hearing voices? Bruce: Well, for one, I'm not psychotic. Terry: Well, I hope your other answer's more convincing. Bruce: Second, the voice kept calling me, "Bruce". That's not what I call myself. Terry: Oh? What do you call yourself? [Bruce gives Terry a long stare] Terry:[in realization] Oh! You would. [changing voice] But remember, that's my name now. Bruce: Tell my subconscious that.
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Every Mac (apart from the XServes) has an infrared port enabled out of the box
Where is it on my 4-core Mac Pro? My G4 Cube? My PowerBook G4 Titanium? My Blue&White G3? My PowerMac 7500/100? My PowerBook 540c? My PowerBook 120? My PowerBook 100?
Pfft! "Every"!
LinuxBIOS... the Apple IIgs supported a ROMdisk. The speed of booting from a RAMdisk without the need for battery backup.
Cheese and racing? All you need to attract Space Rats:
Avon: Bring that thing into close-up.
[Shots of the space chopper, getting larger and larger.]
Avon: Closer. Concentrate on the pilot. I want a close-up of his helmet.
[Shot of helmet revealing red silhouette of a rat.]
Vila: It's a Space Rat!
Soolin: Friends of yours?
Vila: Friends? Space Rats? There's no such thing as a friend of a Space Rat -- they even hate each other.
Tarrant: What else do you know about them?
Vila: They're maniacs, psychopaths! All they live for is sex and violence, booze and speed. And the fellows are just as bad. We had a couple in the penal colony once. They were always trying to frighten me.
Dayna: [Laughing] And they never succeeded, of course. What were they imprisoned for?
Vila: Breaking into transport museums. When the Federation banned all leisure transport, they went in for stealing anything on wheels or could fly. They were speed crazy, and I do mean crazy.
Mine crashes every time I run it, but that's due to either no libpangocairo or no GTK+ 2.10 or someone deciding I shouldn't have permissions to be able to run X applications on that machine. But then that's probably not considered crashing as it never got running properly in the first place. So I'm running 2.0.0.16.
At least I solved one of the crashes I used to get with it: a very long Javascript bookmark in the toolbar to open a Javascript console would crash the browser if it tried to display as a tooltip or if you tried to edit the bookmark.
Does anyone out there in the US actually LIKE the set top boxes they have? Would you not rather have different choices?
I certainly don't care for the STBs Time Warner Cable has been subjecting us. They can't even serve their primary purpose reliably ever since they put their "mystro" software on the Scientific American hardware. You can't change channels at scheduled programming start times reliably anymore. It may fail to change channels, change to the wrong channel due to digits being thrown out, or even crash and restart but not power on. They've effectively sabotaged it against control by a TiVo.
So I don't think I'd trust them to do anything else with it when they can't make its primary function work reliably.
Indeed, I'd love to have a C Band dish in my backyard if I didn't have to cut down a tree to make room for it. And as the AC sibling above mentioned, it is possible to mount a Dish or DirectTV LNB in them and be able to pull in a much stronger signal, defeating rain fade and possibly seasonal foliage as well.
My mother used to have a tall antenna next to her garage which had a remote for aiming it to pick up TV signals. She sold it for scrap without first consulting me. Had she done, I would have told her to keep it for HDTV reception.
I'd also wager two 128 GiB SSDs in a Series1 TiVo will easily last at least until February 2009, if they were to make some with PATA interfaces
Seriously though, I think it would last even longer than that. A Series2 with dual tuners and a typical load of TiVoToGo pulling and video podcast downloads should have no problems either.
I haven't run any numbers on a Series3 with two CableCards constantly recording 1080i HD programming, but I'd want one 1 TiB SATA SSD and one 1 TiB eSATA SSD on it for the test.
The larger the drive, the more space to spread the wear.
There are many things in Firefox settings I wish could be set in a site-specific manner, such as whether a left-click on a link to the same site opens the link in a new tab or the same tab. If the link is a thread in a discussion forum, I prefer it to be a different tab, but most of the time I don't want to be constantly spawning new tabs with every click.
What really got me hooked on the ][ was the release of Sabotage and Sneakers in 1981.
Heh, I liked SABOTAGE so much I first repackaged it as a SYS file to run it under ProDOS, then a full disassembly of it, which led to removal the last bit of copy protection in it (intended to prevent memory dump cards, it would periodically test the data in the second text screen's screen holes and go into a memory-wiping loop, which also prevented going into the Apple IIgs Control Panel to adjust the processor speed).
I had intended eventually to upgrade the game to use Apple IIgs graphics, a saved high score list, and include day, night, and weather cycles. Unfortunately, even with a complete disassembly of the code, a lookup table for the new screen memory and new raster sprites, I never got myself a real assembler to make the final product (the new sprites required more memory than the original, so memory would have to shift to accommodate them).
If anyone knows of a free cross-assembler for Mac OS X to compile 65c02/65c816 assembly source, I'll dig out my old disks.
some third party unknown to you could get a hard on over potatoes and that means you get 25 in PMITA pen.
Potatoes Mashed In The Ass?
Atouk alounda Lana. Atouk Lana zug-zug.
Umm... Lets see. Which is going to get more views, either A) an episode that gets shown on TV say 10 times a year or B) the same episode that is online for viewing 24/7. More views == more money, granted, online distribution has a slightly lower profit margin, but it also has slightly lower costs.
They can make more money by quashing good content and keep expectations lower so that cheaper OK content still sells. If great content is available forever, the market for other content is diminished. Take a look at Disney's DVD reissue business.
Mama Carlson: Dr. Fever, in every business, there are not pluses and minuses, but pluses and pluses... but only if the minuses are played correctly.
[Fever looks at Mama Carlson, bewildered]
Mama Carlson: You don't understand, and I don't expect you to...
Johnny: [interrupting] No. No, I understand. This is so deeply warped that even I can make sense of it. 'KRP is not supposed to make money! We're set up to lose! That's our job.
from the they-had-to-count-them-all- dept.
So now they know how many bits it takes to fill the Albert Hall?
1) Provides retroactive immunity to telecoms, it doesn't provide forward immunity though.
Last time I read it it did. In multiple places it removed the ability to sue the telecoms for following government orders, without qualification as to whether the orders were legal or not.
John Madden: Thank you for playing "Madden 2009". Do you have a song request?
Homer: "It's Raining Men"!
So, annoyingly mostly random then.
A friend's friend had a DDR game for the XBOX 360. After flipping through the bundled play list and hearing samples of what it had, I decided I would never have that game in my house. And I had considered it just for the exercise aspect before.
If they had these in ATA versions, it would be a fantastic upgrade for my old ThinkPad T40, as I certainly don't need anything more than 32GiB in my laptop (though I know some people do). Sadly, they are only available in SATA versions. :(
If I had mod points to give, I'd rate your Informative. That's just what I was going to ask about. Two ATA drives each at 128 GiB would be good for stress testing in my Series1 TiVos that lack LBA48-compatible kernels (for as long as cable still provides SD channels).
For the SATA unit, I'd just use 1 TB drives.
Some moderators apparently have no sense of humor.
When an absolute statement is modified with an adverb, the statement is not generally true. Examples:
America is becoming more like Sweden, and not in the good way.
That they can still record to establish copyright but not have license to distribute settles my question, regardless of any confusion on my part between mechanical and performance rights.
However, you misunderstand the signature.
A work does not "expire" before its copyright.
I mean "expire" in the sense that it ceases to exist in any tangible form. The tray liners at Burger King enjoy the same duration of copyright as any other copyrighted work, yet the medium in which they are fixed is not durable for that duration and extremely unlikely to have special action undertaken to preserve them.
In as such as a work can cease to exist in a tangible medium before its copyright expires denies its entry into the public domain by its failure to exist. It might as well have been granted eternal copyright, which would be a violation of the "limited times" clause. Therefore it should be impermissible to enforce copyright upon a work that will not survive its copyright term.
Maybe that's a novel way to challenge copyright: by challenging what constitutes tangible media by excluding anything that doesn't outlive the author by 70 years (80 if Spanish). Certainly DVD media that becomes opaque and unreadable when exposed to air for 48 hours would not qualify by that metric (as tangibility surely presumes accessibility).
By the way, if a band is recording a cover song, they first have to pay to get a license for the mechanical rights to the song.
So if they don't have mechanical rights, they can't record it. So the performance of that cover is not fixed by them in a tangible medium, and copyright over that particular performance won't exist. But if I were to record it, I'd be fixing it in tangible medium. The copyright of the performance may belong to me, but then I could be sued for not having the mechanical rights to make the recording?
Sounds like these licensed mechanical rights mandate a public domain that no one can exploit and the extinguishing of works forced to be ephemeral, which sounds to me to be against the spirit of copyright (see signature).
Terry: How did you know you weren't hearing voices?
Bruce: Well, for one, I'm not psychotic.
Terry: Well, I hope your other answer's more convincing.
Bruce: Second, the voice kept calling me, "Bruce". That's not what I call myself.
Terry: Oh? What do you call yourself?
[Bruce gives Terry a long stare]
Terry: [in realization] Oh! You would. [changing voice] But remember, that's my name now.
Bruce: Tell my subconscious that.
But don't they get a new copyright for restoration of the missing footage?