I tried using tv_grab_au and patching together scripts from several different places... I even had it working for about a year at one stage. In the end I upgraded the myth box to digital and in the process didn't bother setting up a tv guide and just left it on the 'grab from the air' option. Several days later it had and I now have seven day listings from each station. So yeah, just keep trying and it'll work some day.
Yes. This is all extrapolation so kind of pointless anyway... But, your figure easily puts one single program at well over half of NASAs total budget per year for ten+ years. On top of this they have to pay all other expenses and upkeep on a mothballed fleet of other projects that would have to wait the ten years while we reinvent the wheel. Also your average doesn't take into account out bursts in yearly funding requirements - pretty sure the apollo 11 year would have cost a lot more than the apollo 1 year.
Then again I totally agree with the world super power spending its money on increasing R&D in science over increasing the rate at which it pays for its Maccas workers being killed. Plus, while we are talking about broad extrapolations, we already know that space weaponisation isn't an issue due to the total lack of nuclear weapons leading to total world destruction over the last fifty-sixty years.
This case sickens me. Even if he did do it they appear to have no evidence at all, and it really does scare me that they can potentially take away your freedoms with conjecture.
After seeing several law cases through, some famous and some not, for personal interest, my faith in the legal system 'getting the right guy' is almost null. I often wonder how they get any one at all...
Because that is why they aren't using webkit, apache, samba, cups (or employ the guy who writes it), and several others in their default install.
While I would agree with you on the matter of trolling it really gets old when BSD users trumpet it constantly where-as in my experience GPL supporters tend to realise there are limitations. Of course I'm sure it is seen the same way across the bridge.
I like the part where if some company, say Apple, does fix it BSD sports fans can't automatically get the fix because, hey, the BSD license!
That's right, I'm trolling BSD users because their idea of Free Software has a flaw, and it'd be nice for them to realise it once in awhile. This is instead of their constant trolling of the GPL (and compatible) while pretending their perception is perfect. And I'm no coward in saying it.
Of course this will only effect 5% of all customers and if those customers leave it saves Comcast money and allows them to fill their network with more users who don't download much. Furthermore it tends to keep new customers who would download a lot away from the company...It's effectively win:win for Comcast and there simply isn't anything you can do about it.
Now that your ISPs have started going down this route there isn't much you'll be able to do. When this happened in Australia around 2000-01 a single user of one of the ISPs that lead the charge towards download limits and limited speeds started a small site, as the industry fell into worse condition (from the consumers point of view) that site basically turned into the independent industry watchdog. www.whirlpool.net.au became a very important staging ground for consumers to fight back, even if that meant mass organised exodus from misbehaving companies. Hopefully for your internet use sake some thing similar pops up in the US and gets wide attention.
Of course there is at least one up side to this all and that is once you have defined download limits you the consumer are directly paying for x amount of bandwidth. Opponents to net neutrality find their arguments fail completely because people en mass start to understand that it means they'd be paying for the same bandwidth twice. So far in Australia any attempts to start the debate on net neutrality have fallen on deaf ears and even out rage.
Yes you can easily get wireless to transmit that much. Though the limitations and the cost would be totally insane mainly because you would have to use a huge chunk of in use spectrum, limit the range so you didn't drown out a huge amount of other equipment as well as other wireless HDMI systems, and depending on how many megawatts used hide your cat to avoid it being microwaved.
There is a suggestion in your prediction that there is a creator of some type which implies that a creator of some value (mass, everything, something) exists and that it is alive. Then your prediction, hypothetically, suggests that it wouldn't be possible to trace the steps leading to life. I put to you that it is a contradiction to suggest in one breath that life exists and in the next that it cannot - that the chicken requires the egg which doesn't exist.
Have a think about that contradiction and thank you for teaching me a new word.
I don't know any DnD nerds and luckily no one as condescending as you.
The project we were talking about was doing the opposite to what I suggested. To do what we wanted would take a large cluster only days to complete so I assumed that in the other direction would be similar (not the same, similar, since you are in to semantics), I really should have thought about it further and realised it was a power. Lucky I don't have to work with you or help you on a project, one minor mistake and it's out in the gutter.
A friend of mine was working with md5 sums for a uni research project which led to many geeky get togethers in the refec with lots of other nerds just mulling over the limitations of md5 sums and how to take advantage of them in this project. Having a think about it if you were to use the limitations for bad ends it should be rather easy. For example you can easily change the contents of source code (assuming it's in a tar with the tars md5 sum) to what you want and just pad it out with extra rubbish content until you hit the same md5sum again. Of course you'd need to generate the rubbish and the file size would blatantly be different. Md5 and any sort of tag has the simple limitation that there aren't enough bits to represent the data, not by a long shot, so it repeats more often as the size gets bigger.
And look where beating around the bush is getting the document format world.
Make a standard, make the hard choice, and stick with it. If you reasoning is sound (and the case of ogg is) you can tell all nay sayers to go shove it which is what those working on the HTML5 spec should have done. Since they've shown no spine in this matter I think I'll show no interest in moving from xhtml to html5. If you don't cut right to the point you end up with greedy groups like Microsoft ruining every ones day.
What does it all have to do with GNOME anyway? Why is my desktop of choice even entering into a debate on OOXML. If the chap is supporting OOXML because he happens to think that Microsoft has struck gold in their waste land of creativity then that's fine. However if he (and others) are supporting it in the name of GNOME or its community then some thing really needs to be done to decouple this situation from my desktop.
I think GNOME is the best thing since sliced bread and I defend its design chioces. I think OOXML has nothing to do with GNOME and therefor I ignore it completely (in this context). What is different between those on this bandwagon and myself?
And who cares what 8th graders do? Seriously, this is just a bunch of useless trolls (who exist in every community) trying to present themselves as big, important, and note worthy to the world. Wikipedia works for me, I correct mistakes I see, and I add content if I see it missing and I know what goes there, beyond that there is no need for the normal person to interact further with the 'community'.
In my opinion Wikipedia should be run like the internet; by a bunch of useless people who are so tied up in their own mess they don't ruin my day and some how out of it all we end up with a magically great resource.
Moreso what is with the over use of the term 'bricked' lately. My understanding was that 'to brick a device' was to make it unusable ever again creating a possibly expensive paperweight. The last handful of stories using the term (mostly related to Apple) have all had undo solutions leaving the hardware in a working state. Did a miss a memo some where a long the way?
I've been using gnu-gnash at work on my Linux workstation and it is almost ready for the prime time (IE most web games almost work and youtube only has a couple of bugs left). Why not just make a video player that works in the current gnash and flash, that way every one will be happy? Make it open source too.
I have to ask, as I was very young at the time, why did the generation that could have picked up RISC and ran with it drop the ball and leave us with x86?
I say that owning a PPC chip and understanding how current x86 chips are made, but seriously, why were you so cruel to my generation?
Interesting...I'm sure last time I looked Linux held around 5% of the desktop market, and Apple held a touch more. Oh and strangely enough Vista was sitting just under 5%. Guess those game makers developing for Vista must be out right mad in the head to go DX10 in a market that is saturated... Or they could do dx9/opengl/sdl and develop for the 10% of the market that is completely untapped instead while still keeping the other 85% who use regular Windows as well.
Please think through what you say before you spout off the FUD that we've all read a million times, Linux and Mac users are like every one else, we need relaxing games too. Or in the case of EVE some thing to remind us that life is rather easy in comparison...
Also all Blizzard did was make a game that gives cheap rewards for basic tasks and added pretty colours, it rolls in everything addictive, predictable, and easy into one game and charges for it. While it shouldn't be laughed off as a game, and it can be a lot of fun (I must admit:D), it shouldn't be praised as a 'good game' as it hasn't been designed around challenges to advance yourself...Instead it is like a pokie machine, the perception of advancement for no or little effort.
Compare EVE Online under WINE (currently performs slightly better than Cedega at running eve) to Doom 3.
Oh you wanted more to this comment? Guess you honestly don't understand the difference between native and the limitations of compatibiliy layers. There is simply no comparison to a native supported application.
This isn't a port, it is the windows client wrapped in transgamings cedega.
EVE Online has been working nicely under Cedega for around a year and a half now, under WINE for around a year, and under Crossover for around six months. Honestly if you really want to play this game under Linux or Mac you are spoilt for choice as this new Cedega wrapper and Crossover both offer seamless install and at least in Crossovers case almost seamless game play.
Hopefully this will help EVE Onlines large Linux community and growing Mac community play the game easily. More games under alternative platforms can only be a good thing!
Diebold ATMs are new to Australia though we seem to be getting the latest all singing dancing 'make it harder to do you banking' models that match web 2.0. Comically enough the other week I was thinking about the joke every one had here when they switched to windows for their OS tasks a good few months back. About three days later I walked past one that had a lovely blue screen of death just happily sitting there; I honestly have never fallen over laughing in my life before, let alone in the middle of a busy shopping centre.
So I thank your family and diebold for really uplifting my month.:)
I nearly left when the Intel section crap started... It was a good idea if Intel would have been serious about it but it quickly became blatant that it was an ad driven dream for them and a monster for Slashdot. It is as simple as that for me, as long as Rob (or for more fun CmdrTaco) is in charge and calls the shoots I can't see myself leaving, when it becomes clear he no longer has control I'll be off.
A note to the corporate overlords now and in the future; I often click on the ads on this site, as they tend to be topical to services we need to implement and we have gone on to purchase several services from ads here. While us readers mostly would have been in high school and college when we started reading the majority of us now work in IT and call the shoots or suggest solutions to problems. As time goes on our potential to increase profits through ads increases and from that point of view do you really want to piss us off and replace us with a digg like crowd who can't even afford their own broadband from their parents basements? Erm, yes, I agree.:)
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My mouse hoverover saw what you did there. >.
I tried using tv_grab_au and patching together scripts from several different places... I even had it working for about a year at one stage. In the end I upgraded the myth box to digital and in the process didn't bother setting up a tv guide and just left it on the 'grab from the air' option. Several days later it had and I now have seven day listings from each station. So yeah, just keep trying and it'll work some day.
Yes. This is all extrapolation so kind of pointless anyway... But, your figure easily puts one single program at well over half of NASAs total budget per year for ten+ years. On top of this they have to pay all other expenses and upkeep on a mothballed fleet of other projects that would have to wait the ten years while we reinvent the wheel. Also your average doesn't take into account out bursts in yearly funding requirements - pretty sure the apollo 11 year would have cost a lot more than the apollo 1 year.
Then again I totally agree with the world super power spending its money on increasing R&D in science over increasing the rate at which it pays for its Maccas workers being killed. Plus, while we are talking about broad extrapolations, we already know that space weaponisation isn't an issue due to the total lack of nuclear weapons leading to total world destruction over the last fifty-sixty years.
This case sickens me. Even if he did do it they appear to have no evidence at all, and it really does scare me that they can potentially take away your freedoms with conjecture.
After seeing several law cases through, some famous and some not, for personal interest, my faith in the legal system 'getting the right guy' is almost null. I often wonder how they get any one at all...
Because that is why they aren't using webkit, apache, samba, cups (or employ the guy who writes it), and several others in their default install.
While I would agree with you on the matter of trolling it really gets old when BSD users trumpet it constantly where-as in my experience GPL supporters tend to realise there are limitations. Of course I'm sure it is seen the same way across the bridge.
I like the part where if some company, say Apple, does fix it BSD sports fans can't automatically get the fix because, hey, the BSD license!
That's right, I'm trolling BSD users because their idea of Free Software has a flaw, and it'd be nice for them to realise it once in awhile. This is instead of their constant trolling of the GPL (and compatible) while pretending their perception is perfect. And I'm no coward in saying it.
Of course this will only effect 5% of all customers and if those customers leave it saves Comcast money and allows them to fill their network with more users who don't download much. Furthermore it tends to keep new customers who would download a lot away from the company...It's effectively win:win for Comcast and there simply isn't anything you can do about it.
Now that your ISPs have started going down this route there isn't much you'll be able to do. When this happened in Australia around 2000-01 a single user of one of the ISPs that lead the charge towards download limits and limited speeds started a small site, as the industry fell into worse condition (from the consumers point of view) that site basically turned into the independent industry watchdog. www.whirlpool.net.au became a very important staging ground for consumers to fight back, even if that meant mass organised exodus from misbehaving companies. Hopefully for your internet use sake some thing similar pops up in the US and gets wide attention.
Of course there is at least one up side to this all and that is once you have defined download limits you the consumer are directly paying for x amount of bandwidth. Opponents to net neutrality find their arguments fail completely because people en mass start to understand that it means they'd be paying for the same bandwidth twice. So far in Australia any attempts to start the debate on net neutrality have fallen on deaf ears and even out rage.
There is a huge difference between secure code or writing code to some sort of security minded policy and just saying your OS is secure.
In other words; they did it wrong and we're calling them on their bluff.
Yes you can easily get wireless to transmit that much. Though the limitations and the cost would be totally insane mainly because you would have to use a huge chunk of in use spectrum, limit the range so you didn't drown out a huge amount of other equipment as well as other wireless HDMI systems, and depending on how many megawatts used hide your cat to avoid it being microwaved.
You contradict yourself.
There is a suggestion in your prediction that there is a creator of some type which implies that a creator of some value (mass, everything, something) exists and that it is alive. Then your prediction, hypothetically, suggests that it wouldn't be possible to trace the steps leading to life. I put to you that it is a contradiction to suggest in one breath that life exists and in the next that it cannot - that the chicken requires the egg which doesn't exist.
Have a think about that contradiction and thank you for teaching me a new word.
I don't know any DnD nerds and luckily no one as condescending as you.
The project we were talking about was doing the opposite to what I suggested. To do what we wanted would take a large cluster only days to complete so I assumed that in the other direction would be similar (not the same, similar, since you are in to semantics), I really should have thought about it further and realised it was a power. Lucky I don't have to work with you or help you on a project, one minor mistake and it's out in the gutter.
A friend of mine was working with md5 sums for a uni research project which led to many geeky get togethers in the refec with lots of other nerds just mulling over the limitations of md5 sums and how to take advantage of them in this project. Having a think about it if you were to use the limitations for bad ends it should be rather easy. For example you can easily change the contents of source code (assuming it's in a tar with the tars md5 sum) to what you want and just pad it out with extra rubbish content until you hit the same md5sum again. Of course you'd need to generate the rubbish and the file size would blatantly be different. Md5 and any sort of tag has the simple limitation that there aren't enough bits to represent the data, not by a long shot, so it repeats more often as the size gets bigger.
And look where beating around the bush is getting the document format world.
Make a standard, make the hard choice, and stick with it. If you reasoning is sound (and the case of ogg is) you can tell all nay sayers to go shove it which is what those working on the HTML5 spec should have done. Since they've shown no spine in this matter I think I'll show no interest in moving from xhtml to html5. If you don't cut right to the point you end up with greedy groups like Microsoft ruining every ones day.
My two cents anyway.
What does it all have to do with GNOME anyway? Why is my desktop of choice even entering into a debate on OOXML. If the chap is supporting OOXML because he happens to think that Microsoft has struck gold in their waste land of creativity then that's fine. However if he (and others) are supporting it in the name of GNOME or its community then some thing really needs to be done to decouple this situation from my desktop.
I think GNOME is the best thing since sliced bread and I defend its design chioces. I think OOXML has nothing to do with GNOME and therefor I ignore it completely (in this context). What is different between those on this bandwagon and myself?
And who cares what 8th graders do? Seriously, this is just a bunch of useless trolls (who exist in every community) trying to present themselves as big, important, and note worthy to the world. Wikipedia works for me, I correct mistakes I see, and I add content if I see it missing and I know what goes there, beyond that there is no need for the normal person to interact further with the 'community'.
In my opinion Wikipedia should be run like the internet; by a bunch of useless people who are so tied up in their own mess they don't ruin my day and some how out of it all we end up with a magically great resource.
Moreso what is with the over use of the term 'bricked' lately. My understanding was that 'to brick a device' was to make it unusable ever again creating a possibly expensive paperweight. The last handful of stories using the term (mostly related to Apple) have all had undo solutions leaving the hardware in a working state. Did a miss a memo some where a long the way?
Is it just me or wouldn't this allow bad people to track children as well?
I've been using gnu-gnash at work on my Linux workstation and it is almost ready for the prime time (IE most web games almost work and youtube only has a couple of bugs left). Why not just make a video player that works in the current gnash and flash, that way every one will be happy? Make it open source too.
I have to ask, as I was very young at the time, why did the generation that could have picked up RISC and ran with it drop the ball and leave us with x86?
I say that owning a PPC chip and understanding how current x86 chips are made, but seriously, why were you so cruel to my generation?
Interesting...I'm sure last time I looked Linux held around 5% of the desktop market, and Apple held a touch more. Oh and strangely enough Vista was sitting just under 5%. Guess those game makers developing for Vista must be out right mad in the head to go DX10 in a market that is saturated ... Or they could do dx9/opengl/sdl and develop for the 10% of the market that is completely untapped instead while still keeping the other 85% who use regular Windows as well.
:D), it shouldn't be praised as a 'good game' as it hasn't been designed around challenges to advance yourself...Instead it is like a pokie machine, the perception of advancement for no or little effort.
Please think through what you say before you spout off the FUD that we've all read a million times, Linux and Mac users are like every one else, we need relaxing games too. Or in the case of EVE some thing to remind us that life is rather easy in comparison...
Also all Blizzard did was make a game that gives cheap rewards for basic tasks and added pretty colours, it rolls in everything addictive, predictable, and easy into one game and charges for it. While it shouldn't be laughed off as a game, and it can be a lot of fun (I must admit
Compare EVE Online under WINE (currently performs slightly better than Cedega at running eve) to Doom 3.
Oh you wanted more to this comment? Guess you honestly don't understand the difference between native and the limitations of compatibiliy layers. There is simply no comparison to a native supported application.
This isn't a port, it is the windows client wrapped in transgamings cedega.
EVE Online has been working nicely under Cedega for around a year and a half now, under WINE for around a year, and under Crossover for around six months. Honestly if you really want to play this game under Linux or Mac you are spoilt for choice as this new Cedega wrapper and Crossover both offer seamless install and at least in Crossovers case almost seamless game play.
Hopefully this will help EVE Onlines large Linux community and growing Mac community play the game easily. More games under alternative platforms can only be a good thing!
Diebold ATMs are new to Australia though we seem to be getting the latest all singing dancing 'make it harder to do you banking' models that match web 2.0. Comically enough the other week I was thinking about the joke every one had here when they switched to windows for their OS tasks a good few months back. About three days later I walked past one that had a lovely blue screen of death just happily sitting there; I honestly have never fallen over laughing in my life before, let alone in the middle of a busy shopping centre.
:)
So I thank your family and diebold for really uplifting my month.
I nearly left when the Intel section crap started... It was a good idea if Intel would have been serious about it but it quickly became blatant that it was an ad driven dream for them and a monster for Slashdot. It is as simple as that for me, as long as Rob (or for more fun CmdrTaco) is in charge and calls the shoots I can't see myself leaving, when it becomes clear he no longer has control I'll be off.
:)
A note to the corporate overlords now and in the future; I often click on the ads on this site, as they tend to be topical to services we need to implement and we have gone on to purchase several services from ads here. While us readers mostly would have been in high school and college when we started reading the majority of us now work in IT and call the shoots or suggest solutions to problems. As time goes on our potential to increase profits through ads increases and from that point of view do you really want to piss us off and replace us with a digg like crowd who can't even afford their own broadband from their parents basements?
Erm, yes, I agree.