This is fairly ridiculous, people with ventricular assist devices (blood pumps) need to take blood thinners to reduce their risk of clots. This would probably lower survival rates of pacemaker patients.
Are you serious? I am an EE major and took my school's Intro to Stats class that was loaded with Psych majors as an elective. It was quite simply the easiest math class I have taken in years and got an easy A.
MythTV and a Small Form Factor can work well.
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I built a MythTV box using an Asus Pundit. http://www.asus.com/products/desktop/pundit/overvi ew.htm The Pundit is a small form factor all in one that looks a lot like any other home theatre component when turned on its side and is quiet too. While it can be a nuisance to set up MythTV, once it is working, it will continue to work well. You just have to make sure all your hardware is linux compatible and works together well.
There are a lot of nice things you can do with it. Watching any movies or music is simple as they can just be transferred over via a wireless network. SAMBA can be used to share stuff. Emulators for lots of different systems can be used. You also don't have to pay for any service like you do with TiVo or the other companies. Of course, it will record TV as well.
The main complaints I saw were it would be noisy, unable to record more than one channel at once, ugly form factor, bad UI, and bad tv listings. The pundit isn't noisy or ugly. MythTV will record more than one show at a time, you just need another tuner. MythTV also has a very nice UI, MUCH better than the regular cable DVRs I have seen. Listings come from Zap2It and are very reliable.
I think the notion is that you just build a DVR out of the scrap that is in your closet. If you do that, sure, it will be ugly and loud. But if you spend a little more for a pundit or similar system it will work out very well.
A big problem is HD recording though. I will be getting a DVR from my cable company to record HD now because getting HD recording to work with Myth looks scary and expensive. So if anyone wants to buy a slighty used MythTV box, email me at QwQw at earthlink doot net!
I believe he was commenting on Kevin Rose's digg.com and how it's better than slashdot because some cowboy isn't editing the stories, but it's edited by the people. Something to that effect.
Cinematech is actually the one show I found to be interesting on G4, it's just game trailers for upcoming games. It's a nice thing to watch for a few minutes when you're eating or something. It's not like you watch some dudes play counterstrike for 30 minutes, that is another one of their shows, arena I believe.
The kneejerk reaction to patents being the work of the devil is not really necessary. Sure, some software patents and whatnot tend to be looney, but patents are overall important. It helps encourage the development of new ideas and protects those that come up with them.
According to wikipedia: "President Bush's budget request for Financial Year 2005 includes: "$428 million for Project Constellation ($6.6 billion over five years) to develop a new crew exploration vehicle." Budget for year 2005 has been confirmed by the Congress in November 2004."
Where you got that 500 BILLION this year, I dunno. Their budget is barely 16 billion.
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This is fairly ridiculous, people with ventricular assist devices (blood pumps) need to take blood thinners to reduce their risk of clots. This would probably lower survival rates of pacemaker patients.
Don't tell that to Magneto.
Are you serious? I am an EE major and took my school's Intro to Stats class that was loaded with Psych majors as an elective. It was quite simply the easiest math class I have taken in years and got an easy A.
I built a MythTV box using an Asus Pundit.i ew.htm
http://www.asus.com/products/desktop/pundit/overv
The Pundit is a small form factor all in one that looks a lot like any other home theatre component when turned on its side and is quiet too. While it can be a nuisance to set up MythTV, once it is working, it will continue to work well. You just have to make sure all your hardware is linux compatible and works together well.
There are a lot of nice things you can do with it. Watching any movies or music is simple as they can just be transferred over via a wireless network. SAMBA can be used to share stuff. Emulators for lots of different systems can be used. You also don't have to pay for any service like you do with TiVo or the other companies. Of course, it will record TV as well.
The main complaints I saw were it would be noisy, unable to record more than one channel at once, ugly form factor, bad UI, and bad tv listings. The pundit isn't noisy or ugly. MythTV will record more than one show at a time, you just need another tuner. MythTV also has a very nice UI, MUCH better than the regular cable DVRs I have seen. Listings come from Zap2It and are very reliable.
I think the notion is that you just build a DVR out of the scrap that is in your closet. If you do that, sure, it will be ugly and loud. But if you spend a little more for a pundit or similar system it will work out very well.
A big problem is HD recording though. I will be getting a DVR from my cable company to record HD now because getting HD recording to work with Myth looks scary and expensive. So if anyone wants to buy a slighty used MythTV box, email me at QwQw at earthlink doot net!
Sucks for those fat people who aren't geeks.
I believe he was commenting on Kevin Rose's digg.com and how it's better than slashdot because some cowboy isn't editing the stories, but it's edited by the people. Something to that effect.
Cinematech is actually the one show I found to be interesting on G4, it's just game trailers for upcoming games. It's a nice thing to watch for a few minutes when you're eating or something. It's not like you watch some dudes play counterstrike for 30 minutes, that is another one of their shows, arena I believe.
Mmm, Andorian women...
The kneejerk reaction to patents being the work of the devil is not really necessary. Sure, some software patents and whatnot tend to be looney, but patents are overall important. It helps encourage the development of new ideas and protects those that come up with them.
According to wikipedia: "President Bush's budget request for Financial Year 2005 includes: "$428 million for Project Constellation ($6.6 billion over five years) to develop a new crew exploration vehicle." Budget for year 2005 has been confirmed by the Congress in November 2004." Where you got that 500 BILLION this year, I dunno. Their budget is barely 16 billion.
or maybe there is a bug on the telescope.