First of all, I have no idea about the OP's condition which is why I couldn't comment on his particular circumstances.
Secondly, my point in short was that "not being able to drive is NOT an excuse not to recycle". That is ON ITS OWN, IT IS NOT AN EXCUSE. I said nothing about being infirm or unable. There are plenty of people that DO drive and still don't recycle, driving in itself IS NOT RELEVANT to whether or not you recycle.
The point remains that IF you regularly do your shopping at a supermarket where there are recycling facilities then no matter how you get there, if you can mange to carry your shopping then you should be able to manage a few empty bottles and some cardboard.
As for "offloading anything you don't want to take responsibility for" at the supermarket's garbage can. I was referring more to excess cardboard outer packaging which in many case could be dropped in the paper/cardboard recycling bin at the supermarket BEFORE YOU LEAVE to save you carrying it home and then back to the supermarket next time you shop.
And speaking of taking responsibility - if you hadn't chickened out and posted as AC then perhaps you'd be reading this reply to your insane dribble. Now fuck off.
The argument that you don't drive so you can't recycle doesn't hold water on its own. I can't berate you personally because I don't know your particular circumstances. If you have to do all your shopping in a local corner shop/convenience store then fair enough they don't have recycling facilities so you can only rely on what the local authority provides. However there are hundreds of thousands or millions of people who do their shopping in supermarkets (most of which have bottle banks and such) who don't take their recyclables back - regardless of whether they drive there or not. Empty packaging weighs a hell of a lot less than the full bags of shopping you bring back from the supermarket so even if you're making your regular shop by bus or walking there is no excuse not to take along your bottles (glass and plastic), tins and cardboard in the plastic carrier bags you got from the supermarket last time you went, emptying them and reusing the bags to bring home your new shopping. Hell why not leave some of the outer packaging at the supermarket before you leave. And yes, I do this. I haven't taken a new carrier bag from a supermarket for months, it's not hard and I no longer have drawers stuffed with the things.
I foresee a WebClip Dashboard Widget focusing in on the video playback section of the page. And then someone'll make a proper widget allowing you to view any video to any song in your iTunes library - or indeed any other playlist you'd care to set up.
Ok, I've read the article and a whole lot of comments about having to replace the entire expensive assembly when it goes off at the wrong time so forgive my ignorance. I don't understand why the entire blade needs to be replaced except for the fact it get damaged in the whole stopping-with-a-big-metal-brake scenario. Having watched the demo (some years ago as it happens) the blade is pulled out of the way and out of view seemingly before it has gone any way towards stopping. So why bother stopping it at all? Pulling it out of the way would seem to be enough to complete the saving fingers task. That would mean you're only left to replace the fuse which for some reason can't be a circuit breaker with a reset button. Of course false positives are still going to be a pain in the ass but a safety-mode OFF button could fix that, obviously making it readily apparent to the user that doing such a thing is ill advised. Perhaps it should be two keys which have to be turned simultaneously in awkward positions, responsibility for which is authorised in writing by both parties prior to continuing.
Tell me about it. I had a letter informing me about the Stupid Ugly Key Fob(TM) HSBC are going to be sending me some time ago. Fortunately it hasn't arrived yet. If it wasn't bad enough that their stupid website won't allow me to save my password and have it completed by the Keychain automatically, now they want me to carry this piece of plastic around with me at all times and it'll be wholly MY responsibility if someone gets into my account. Fortunately I'm not aware of any keyloggers for OSX so I won't be affected by this issue, however I seem to recall reading in the revised T&Cs they sent out with the SUKF(TM) letter that I'll be held liable if I'm not running AV software and someone breaks into my account even if its nothing to do with my computer.
I can't imagine many bands being happy in a situation where the front ten rows of every gig is filled with overweight corporate businessmen in their forties and their precious little princesses with their Gucci handbags. You know it's coming. Every gig I've been to in the last few years has had more than its fair share of people who are only there so they can call everyone in their phone's address book to inform them that they are there and that therefore they are cool, whilst paying no attention to the people on stage 'cept to film them with their stupid f-ing phone cameras to prove that they were indeed there.
I don't understand people who pay full price for DVDs. You either have too much money or too little sense. If you're just prepared to wait a couple of months then half price deals will be the norm, a few months after that you'll find all sorts of 4 for £20 deals or you can scrabble around in the bargain bin. The price of a movie is no reflection on the quality, in fact very often the converse is true as the drones tend not to buy intelligent films anyway. Any download price would have to compete with bargain bin prices to be even remotely viable in my eyes.
If everyone refused to pay the initial high prices for DVDs then the price would have to come down.
That's bollocks though. Madonna, Chili Peppers, whoever is going to sell out of whatever venues they decide to play. Whether they charge $100 or $300 makes no difference to the NUMBER or people that they will be playing to.
You're saying Madonna could halve her ticket price and they'd stick an extra 10,000 seats onto the roof of the arena. Nope.
The trailers for Nemesis, or the posters, I can't remember, advertised it as "The beginning of the end" or words to that effect. This piqued my interest somewhat after the extended episode which was Insurrection. I was hoping that this was alluding to the fact that Picard's new enemy (literally his nemesis) was going to be a formidable opponent that would stand up to being in more than one movie. With the borg effectively out of the equation after Voyager finished I was expecting a trilogy of darker movies which would ultimately finish off the TNG crew in style. Shame it just ended up being shite.
I think I'm an advertisers worst nightmare. I very rarely to never buy branded goods in the supermarket and just like you I have pointedly refused to buy a product if their advertising is bad/annoying. Coke adverts especially the sugary Christmas ones are invariably bad so that's off the list. Pringles, no not until you get that stupid face off the packet.
Actually I'm finding it quite hard to come up with recent examples since I got the PVR I watch everything offset anyway so don't watch any any more. I just hope noone comes up with the cure for mortality and has a really shitty advert that I miss.
I've probably used my VCR to record something off TV about 10 times in the last 5 years precisely because it is so much hassle either having to stick to 4hrs maximum storage capacity or use multiple unlabelled tapes which I have to scan through to find anything. I've no longer got any interest in storing recorded programming on a long term basis so I don't have a DVD recorder. The PVR is far easier than any VCR I ever used. Find a programme in the guide and hit record, no VideoPlus(TM) numbers, no barcodes (yes I had a video which used those), no clock programming.
Whatever reason you may have for not liking the Toppy I think being more hassle than a VCR is a bizarre one. IMO
That's where the TAPs come in. I'm not saying it is perfect by any means but there are ways of gathering all the metadata. I use rt2mei which grabs the data from the Radio Times website. This includes things like genre and episode number and very long descriptions. If you have it connected to a computer via a serial cable I gather you can have it update automatically. Myself I copy the data over each week via USB. It will only be a matter of time before something like MyStuff or JAGs (both TAPs to the uninitiated) can use this information to record programmes LIKE the ones you like watching. Out of the box I admit the Topfield EPG leaves a lot to be desired but the expandability of the box makes it very tidy indeed. I recommend MyStuff.
Not being in the US I don't really know what is broadcast along with your TV signals, but I'm assuming all that the Tivo subscription provides is an electronic programme guide and the ability to find things you like based on rankings and previous preferences. Is that right? Because that just sounds like a complete rip off to me. Everybody in the UK goes on about "rip-off Britain" but it seems you're getting stung worse than us. Our Freeview digital broadcasts come with an EPG for free and I see no reason why all the clever stuff that Tivo provide can't go on at the box level, no suscription should be necessary. I've got a Topfield 5800 PVR which has the ability to run applications (TAPs) downloaded from the interweb. They're generally open source and free and they are getting very close to offering the Tivo experience without the need for a subscription. Do you have this possibility in America?
VIC 20 was my first computer too. I remember spending an age writing out all the code from the silver manual (which is still around) which was supposed to produce a crap game. I didn't even know what craps was at that age. Got a bit frustrated when it didn't work. I gave up trying to find out what I must have typed wrong. I also remember my dad buying Input magazine (this 52 week partwork builds into...a big stack of useless paper in big plastic coated folders) but the VIC 20 stuff ran out fairly early on.
I'm now on my fifth computer having gone through Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, iMac Bondi 233 and finally my G4 Powerbook 550. Apart from the A500 which I sold to fund the 1200 purchase they're all still working.
Ok, you're standing in the bookshop looking at all the Pratchett titles deciding which to buy. Look a little further to the right or perhaps the next shelf down and pick up a Robert Rankin book instead. Open up any one of them, the published order is inside. Some have them broken down into trilogies so you can start with the first book of any trilogy you like.
The UK has seen an explosion in the numbers of people driving around in ridiculously proportioned vehicles. America has lived with them for decades so your cities are built around them. The UK is not. Parking spaces are a lot smaller.
I was waiting outside a supermarket the other week, in a parking slot, and one of these tossers shows up and stops in front of me to let out his passengers before moving into a space. The reason was obvious. His car was too damned big to get the doors open properly when it was between two other cars. As far as I'm concerned he should expect to have his bodywork smacked up by the car doors on either side of him.
I also always make a point of thanking people for waiting on narrow roads where parked cars make it impossible for two cars to pass eachother, unless they're driving something like a VW Touraeg. If it is possible for two normal cars to pass each other and your stupid truck sized car is making it impossible then it's your own fault and you'll get no thanks from me. If you drove a normal car you'd have had no reason to stop.
There's a 50% chance that might be the case, but there's a 50% chance it might scare them and they'd try to block Safari from making connections at all. You know what control freaks these people are. I don't want to give them an excuse to cut me off.
They send me a digital certificate for my browser which Firefox saves in its own personal repository instead of using the Keychain like every good application should. It has the ability to export the certificate which is mine anyway. I install it in my keychain and Safari handles the technical gubbins which goes on to authorise me to the site.
Actually thinking about it again, I think the requirements for the site were that I use Netscape on the Mac but I use Firefox with UA spoofing and it worked perfectly well, and now I use Safari with no issues at all.
To answer the question as to which bank, it is a business account with the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation which is posh speak for Midland bank in the UK.
What I'm interested to know is whether they intend to inform the blind legions of people still using IE 5 Mac. You know how on the PC, IE sometimes hijacks where you wanted to go to tell you that an update is available, you should go download it, well are they going to put a big message up on everyone's browser window come Jan 1 2006 saying "your browser is old, buggy and outdated, upgrade to Safari now for a better, more secure experience?
Additionally, my bank specifically stated that Safari was not supported. I chose to ignore this warning and indeed the initial setup process failed because I needed to download a secure certificate which involved some IE/Moz specific capability apparently. So I used Firefox to get the certificate and then exported it to the desktop and imported it into Keychain Access. Now my bank's website works perfectly well with Safari.
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First of all, I have no idea about the OP's condition which is why I couldn't comment on his particular circumstances.
Secondly, my point in short was that "not being able to drive is NOT an excuse not to recycle". That is ON ITS OWN, IT IS NOT AN EXCUSE. I said nothing about being infirm or unable. There are plenty of people that DO drive and still don't recycle, driving in itself IS NOT RELEVANT to whether or not you recycle.
The point remains that IF you regularly do your shopping at a supermarket where there are recycling facilities then no matter how you get there, if you can mange to carry your shopping then you should be able to manage a few empty bottles and some cardboard.
As for "offloading anything you don't want to take responsibility for" at the supermarket's garbage can. I was referring more to excess cardboard outer packaging which in many case could be dropped in the paper/cardboard recycling bin at the supermarket BEFORE YOU LEAVE to save you carrying it home and then back to the supermarket next time you shop.
And speaking of taking responsibility - if you hadn't chickened out and posted as AC then perhaps you'd be reading this reply to your insane dribble. Now fuck off.
The argument that you don't drive so you can't recycle doesn't hold water on its own. I can't berate you personally because I don't know your particular circumstances. If you have to do all your shopping in a local corner shop/convenience store then fair enough they don't have recycling facilities so you can only rely on what the local authority provides. However there are hundreds of thousands or millions of people who do their shopping in supermarkets (most of which have bottle banks and such) who don't take their recyclables back - regardless of whether they drive there or not. Empty packaging weighs a hell of a lot less than the full bags of shopping you bring back from the supermarket so even if you're making your regular shop by bus or walking there is no excuse not to take along your bottles (glass and plastic), tins and cardboard in the plastic carrier bags you got from the supermarket last time you went, emptying them and reusing the bags to bring home your new shopping. Hell why not leave some of the outer packaging at the supermarket before you leave. And yes, I do this. I haven't taken a new carrier bag from a supermarket for months, it's not hard and I no longer have drawers stuffed with the things.
I foresee a WebClip Dashboard Widget focusing in on the video playback section of the page. And then someone'll make a proper widget allowing you to view any video to any song in your iTunes library - or indeed any other playlist you'd care to set up.
Ok, I've read the article and a whole lot of comments about having to replace the entire expensive assembly when it goes off at the wrong time so forgive my ignorance. I don't understand why the entire blade needs to be replaced except for the fact it get damaged in the whole stopping-with-a-big-metal-brake scenario. Having watched the demo (some years ago as it happens) the blade is pulled out of the way and out of view seemingly before it has gone any way towards stopping. So why bother stopping it at all? Pulling it out of the way would seem to be enough to complete the saving fingers task. That would mean you're only left to replace the fuse which for some reason can't be a circuit breaker with a reset button. Of course false positives are still going to be a pain in the ass but a safety-mode OFF button could fix that, obviously making it readily apparent to the user that doing such a thing is ill advised. Perhaps it should be two keys which have to be turned simultaneously in awkward positions, responsibility for which is authorised in writing by both parties prior to continuing.
Tell me about it. I had a letter informing me about the Stupid Ugly Key Fob(TM) HSBC are going to be sending me some time ago. Fortunately it hasn't arrived yet. If it wasn't bad enough that their stupid website won't allow me to save my password and have it completed by the Keychain automatically, now they want me to carry this piece of plastic around with me at all times and it'll be wholly MY responsibility if someone gets into my account. Fortunately I'm not aware of any keyloggers for OSX so I won't be affected by this issue, however I seem to recall reading in the revised T&Cs they sent out with the SUKF(TM) letter that I'll be held liable if I'm not running AV software and someone breaks into my account even if its nothing to do with my computer.
Big Issue?
I can't imagine many bands being happy in a situation where the front ten rows of every gig is filled with overweight corporate businessmen in their forties and their precious little princesses with their Gucci handbags. You know it's coming. Every gig I've been to in the last few years has had more than its fair share of people who are only there so they can call everyone in their phone's address book to inform them that they are there and that therefore they are cool, whilst paying no attention to the people on stage 'cept to film them with their stupid f-ing phone cameras to prove that they were indeed there.
I don't understand people who pay full price for DVDs. You either have too much money or too little sense. If you're just prepared to wait a couple of months then half price deals will be the norm, a few months after that you'll find all sorts of 4 for £20 deals or you can scrabble around in the bargain bin. The price of a movie is no reflection on the quality, in fact very often the converse is true as the drones tend not to buy intelligent films anyway. Any download price would have to compete with bargain bin prices to be even remotely viable in my eyes.
If everyone refused to pay the initial high prices for DVDs then the price would have to come down.
You missed out "They're" from your sig. Although that may be because of the character limit, I don't know, I didn't count.
No. We're not nazis.
That's bollocks though. Madonna, Chili Peppers, whoever is going to sell out of whatever venues they decide to play. Whether they charge $100 or $300 makes no difference to the NUMBER or people that they will be playing to.
You're saying Madonna could halve her ticket price and they'd stick an extra 10,000 seats onto the roof of the arena. Nope.
The trailers for Nemesis, or the posters, I can't remember, advertised it as "The beginning of the end" or words to that effect. This piqued my interest somewhat after the extended episode which was Insurrection. I was hoping that this was alluding to the fact that Picard's new enemy (literally his nemesis) was going to be a formidable opponent that would stand up to being in more than one movie. With the borg effectively out of the equation after Voyager finished I was expecting a trilogy of darker movies which would ultimately finish off the TNG crew in style. Shame it just ended up being shite.
I think I'm an advertisers worst nightmare. I very rarely to never buy branded goods in the supermarket and just like you I have pointedly refused to buy a product if their advertising is bad/annoying. Coke adverts especially the sugary Christmas ones are invariably bad so that's off the list. Pringles, no not until you get that stupid face off the packet.
Actually I'm finding it quite hard to come up with recent examples since I got the PVR I watch everything offset anyway so don't watch any any more. I just hope noone comes up with the cure for mortality and has a really shitty advert that I miss.
Maybe Luke will lose his memory just before the droids arrive. That'd make it work.
More hastle[sic] than a VCR?
I've probably used my VCR to record something off TV about 10 times in the last 5 years precisely because it is so much hassle either having to stick to 4hrs maximum storage capacity or use multiple unlabelled tapes which I have to scan through to find anything. I've no longer got any interest in storing recorded programming on a long term basis so I don't have a DVD recorder. The PVR is far easier than any VCR I ever used. Find a programme in the guide and hit record, no VideoPlus(TM) numbers, no barcodes (yes I had a video which used those), no clock programming.
Whatever reason you may have for not liking the Toppy I think being more hassle than a VCR is a bizarre one. IMO
That's where the TAPs come in. I'm not saying it is perfect by any means but there are ways of gathering all the metadata. I use rt2mei which grabs the data from the Radio Times website. This includes things like genre and episode number and very long descriptions. If you have it connected to a computer via a serial cable I gather you can have it update automatically. Myself I copy the data over each week via USB.
It will only be a matter of time before something like MyStuff or JAGs (both TAPs to the uninitiated) can use this information to record programmes LIKE the ones you like watching.
Out of the box I admit the Topfield EPG leaves a lot to be desired but the expandability of the box makes it very tidy indeed. I recommend MyStuff.
Not being in the US I don't really know what is broadcast along with your TV signals, but I'm assuming all that the Tivo subscription provides is an electronic programme guide and the ability to find things you like based on rankings and previous preferences. Is that right? Because that just sounds like a complete rip off to me. Everybody in the UK goes on about "rip-off Britain" but it seems you're getting stung worse than us. Our Freeview digital broadcasts come with an EPG for free and I see no reason why all the clever stuff that Tivo provide can't go on at the box level, no suscription should be necessary.
I've got a Topfield 5800 PVR which has the ability to run applications (TAPs) downloaded from the interweb. They're generally open source and free and they are getting very close to offering the Tivo experience without the need for a subscription. Do you have this possibility in America?
VIC 20 was my first computer too. I remember spending an age writing out all the code from the silver manual (which is still around) which was supposed to produce a crap game. I didn't even know what craps was at that age. Got a bit frustrated when it didn't work. I gave up trying to find out what I must have typed wrong. I also remember my dad buying Input magazine (this 52 week partwork builds into...a big stack of useless paper in big plastic coated folders) but the VIC 20 stuff ran out fairly early on.
I'm now on my fifth computer having gone through Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, iMac Bondi 233 and finally my G4 Powerbook 550. Apart from the A500 which I sold to fund the 1200 purchase they're all still working.
Ok, you're standing in the bookshop looking at all the Pratchett titles deciding which to buy. Look a little further to the right or perhaps the next shelf down and pick up a Robert Rankin book instead. Open up any one of them, the published order is inside. Some have them broken down into trilogies so you can start with the first book of any trilogy you like.
IMO
Surprisingly I'm not THAT Lee Noble, no. If I was I'd be driving a much bigger car than I am currently ;)
The UK has seen an explosion in the numbers of people driving around in ridiculously proportioned vehicles. America has lived with them for decades so your cities are built around them. The UK is not. Parking spaces are a lot smaller.
I was waiting outside a supermarket the other week, in a parking slot, and one of these tossers shows up and stops in front of me to let out his passengers before moving into a space. The reason was obvious. His car was too damned big to get the doors open properly when it was between two other cars. As far as I'm concerned he should expect to have his bodywork smacked up by the car doors on either side of him.
I also always make a point of thanking people for waiting on narrow roads where parked cars make it impossible for two cars to pass eachother, unless they're driving something like a VW Touraeg. If it is possible for two normal cars to pass each other and your stupid truck sized car is making it impossible then it's your own fault and you'll get no thanks from me. If you drove a normal car you'd have had no reason to stop.
There's a 50% chance that might be the case, but there's a 50% chance it might scare them and they'd try to block Safari from making connections at all. You know what control freaks these people are. I don't want to give them an excuse to cut me off.
What could possibly be illegal about it?
They send me a digital certificate for my browser which Firefox saves in its own personal repository instead of using the Keychain like every good application should. It has the ability to export the certificate which is mine anyway. I install it in my keychain and Safari handles the technical gubbins which goes on to authorise me to the site.
Actually thinking about it again, I think the requirements for the site were that I use Netscape on the Mac but I use Firefox with UA spoofing and it worked perfectly well, and now I use Safari with no issues at all.
To answer the question as to which bank, it is a business account with the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation which is posh speak for Midland bank in the UK.
What I'm interested to know is whether they intend to inform the blind legions of people still using IE 5 Mac. You know how on the PC, IE sometimes hijacks where you wanted to go to tell you that an update is available, you should go download it, well are they going to put a big message up on everyone's browser window come Jan 1 2006 saying "your browser is old, buggy and outdated, upgrade to Safari now for a better, more secure experience?
I suspect not.
Additionally, my bank specifically stated that Safari was not supported. I chose to ignore this warning and indeed the initial setup process failed because I needed to download a secure certificate which involved some IE/Moz specific capability apparently. So I used Firefox to get the certificate and then exported it to the desktop and imported it into Keychain Access. Now my bank's website works perfectly well with Safari.