For fucks sake, this "Hate shit because it's popular" crap is old.
Yeah, they used a meme (the MYTH vs FACT rebuttal method) that doesn't 100% line up with the way they are presenting their arguments. So the fuck what? Their arguments, whether you agree or disagree with them, are valid presentation of their points.
They aren't pulling shit like BP claiming that reporters weren't being barred from talking to the cleanup workers in the Gulf as said reporters were shooting film of that exact thing happening.
They aren't using political rhetoric to attempt to push their view through without letting anyone bring up objections based on critical thinking.
They are simply presenting the complaints they see as not entirely on target and explaining why they don't see them as valid. HOW THE FUCK IS THAT EVIL?
Did I wake up this morning in Bizzaro land where GWBush has managed to run for a third term and win and we've reduced all discourse down to the equivalent of a sports fan brawl
Sadly, the publishers, who set the price for the ebook, would either keel over as all the blood vessels in their head exploded or would nuke the store off the map in a fit of apoplectic rage. They want to pretend that e-books are worth just as much or more than a paper book, so attempting to roll a '2 fer 1' deal will never pass muster till they agree to open their eyes.
Look back on the past three years of news on things like Google Books and the Amazon vs Apple ebook wars, and tell me you think that'll be happening sometime this generation.
You, the customer pays the ISP for a connection. Your ISP pays a backbone provider for a connection. Backbone providers pay each other to carry each other's data.
Now, either your ISP or their backbone provider want to also be paid by the sites you visit to carry that data over the connection you already paid for, even though they are already being paid by you or the ISP respectively and the originating backbone to carry that data to you.
The MOMENT someone brought up getting rid of net neutrality, the government's first response should have been, "Oh, really? Well what do you advertise your product as? Do you disclose this? No? Then I guess you won't, will you?"
If it were anything like the coop Alien Swarm or Left 4 Dead, you'd have lots of fun once you found a core group to play with, and lots of misery till then as you got stuck with asshole after asshole who found it more fun to fuck the team over than actually play the game. Can you imagine the sort of pain you'd get into when griefers can make portals?
Don't get me wrong, I love the L4D series and so far have enjoyed my brief forays into Alien Swarm, but every time I launch the game and see none of my core group online to play with, I cringe a little over what the next pug I'll be stuck with will be like.
If they had used the GPL, yes. But since they didn't (http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Copying.html#Copying) , your question is mooted by the invalid assumption.
That's how I handle it today, and it's definitely 'workable'. What I'm looking for however is something 'better'.
We are talking about 30 minute shows, not a feature length film. Ending an episode, navigating the menus to pick the next show to pull an episode from, remembering that you've watched up to that point in the season...
It works. But it's cumbersome and doesn't lend itself to 'non-marathon' sessions. I tend to end up just watching a bunch of episodes from one series in a row, getting burnt out and not watching anymore of it for a few weeks and forgetting where I left off, what's happened, and etc.
Ideally, I'd like to setup something like a stream, where everything is queued up and just plays. Where I pick what I want to watch by picking a channel.
I.E. Old School TV, just run inhouse.
Of course, that's the dream. How it roles out.... Who knows.
If I understand correctly, that gets me the OTA channels but doesn't provide a method for me to 'inject' any additional channels via other sources (for instance if I wanted to setup a computer that had a dynamically generated play list running all the time) which was my primary stumbling block.
Honestly, my ultimate dream was to have several computer generated 'channels' which broadcast over the home network my dvd collection. I've discovered that I have a problem watching tv box sets of shows on DVD because most shows really don't work well as marathon material. And swapping discs every few episodes to 'simulate' different shows being on gets old quick. PVR's are neat, but you still have the issues of "ok this show is over, now what" that could be solved if I had my own 'mini tv station' setup.
I think however, the magic keywords I was missing were "video distribution box". I know, it's sad I wasn't able to infer the terms, but despite being a 'techie' in some areas, the audio/visual gear arena is still a little murky to me.
Stupid, off topic question, but is there any place you know of online to read up on things like the Channel Plus? I've been dreaming for a long time of setting up an 'in-home' network where I've got my OTA channels as well as a few 'computer run' channels setup to pass through preexisting coax I have in my home. But have so little knowledge about the topic that I haven't been able to even craft a relevant Google query to start off from.
Easy way to get around this, don't build in the city. My parents specifically moved out to the country when they retired so my father's "dream" log home didn't have to deal with zoning regulations. There were still things that had to be signed off on (the electrical work had to be certified by a licensed electrician even though they did all the actual wiring), but there were far fewer hurdles to overcome than there would have been had they been within a city's limits.
He may be humble, he may be selfless. But he also dances to the beat of his own drum. For instance, when he came up with his solution, instead submitting it for review, he posted it online. And when he returned from America after meeting with a number of people and wowing them with his intellect, he dropped of the face of the Earth for a good portion of time. He quit his teaching job, is unemployed and living with his mother, refusing to even see anyone.
He has 'issues'. They may be minor issues where he is still functional and simply has switched his focus from math to something else, or they may be major issues where we'll be calling him the next Bobby Fisher in a decade. But regardless, he has them.
And cold medicine, don't forget that in most states you have to sign an agreement promising not to become a hardened drug dealer and use your cold medicine to make meth and provide your ID before you can buy cold medicine.
In a case like this, anonymity is not a protection for cowards. It's a protection from cowards. There are few things more cowardly and insecure than hating someone and wishing to harm them because they do not believe as you do.
How ironic this argument is being used in support of protecting homophobes who were venting their own hatred of others and doing their best to cause them harm via restricting their rights.
I think anyone who reads my comments, and no I'm not vain enough to think that people do, knows I'm not a fan of Apple's business practices or attitude, but you have to have a World Heavy Weight Championship Belt in Officially Missing the Point to bring up a "journalistic ethics" complaint against Apple in this particular soap opera.
If Jason Chen or the Gawker media group had even a smattering of "Journalistic ethic" in them, they wouldn't have purchased a stolen phone off someone, written an article about ripping the phone apart, followed up by an article humiliating the Apple engineer that lost it to 'prove its real', then attempt to make Apple publicly announce it's their phone before giving it back.
What you could do with Kaleidoscope and a handful of other extensions far outpaced what you could do with themes (with or without additional software) in the comparatively aged version of Windows (and while this site stopped updating in the early 2000's, I was using it in the early 90's so we are talking about Windows 95/98).
Some stuff Windows didn't get till Vista, some stuff it still hasn't gotten. Unfortunately, System 7 was so long ago, there aren't many examples I can point to online these days. Like I said, Kaleidoscope was just the tip of the iceberg. It's hard to even know where to start to explain all the stuff you could do to customize the system that just weren't possible or were the realm of the hardcore 'hacker' in Windows due the difficulty.
But even with just it, peruse the scheme archive and tell me things like that notepaper theme are possible, even today with Windows 7. Can you theme the standard widgets yet in Windows? I know you can mess with the borders of windows, but can you make the progress bars look like they are being scribbled in? The buttons look like sketches?
Don't even get me started about how much fun it was to play with AppleScript to get things to do what you wanted, when you wanted, even if it was telling a game to send a screen shot to an image viewer, ask it to crop the image by some preset parameters, and then have the image program pass that along to the email program to send it to the mailing list for that game.
And I don't know how many times I messed around with ResEdit hacking away at application menus to rename, reorder, or just remove stuff to fit my needs, replacing icons, fonts, graphics with ones I liked better, and all without having to use my computer science degree for anything more than "ok, you are holding a mouse. click the button".
Seriously, there were games out there that were almost as 'expandable' as today's Oblivion/Morrowind/Fallout 3 purely because their data files were based off Mac resource forks and so you could just copy the file, edit or add resources to it, and load it back into the game and have everything 'just work'.
Apple is famous for its rigid control over its devices, in its quest to maintain user quality.
You know, the sad thing is, I remember a time when it wasn't true. When I preferred to use the Macs in the computer lab at the university over the PC's specifically because I could carry around a floppy full of extensions that all I needed to do was drop into the extension folder and reboot and have a machine that looked and mostly worked completely different from any other Mac.
Stuff like Kaleidoscope were just the tip of the Iceberg, with the fact that 'hacking' resources on the Mac was a trivial task, you could customize almost anything you wanted in your apps. This is stuff that Windows never had and still doesn't.
But then Steve had to go and get to the top of the hill, and it turned out that he was just a smarmier, better dressed Bill. That's sort of sad. Back when there really were two camps, really the only difference between the two was their fashion sense.
On every single CMS I've seen that uses that setup, the edit link is publicly listed in the article or article list. As others have stated, setup your robots.txt properly. That isn't Google's problem.
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The credit scroll of the wreckage clearly had some of the survivor's old camp still visible. They didn't die in the wreck, the Island happened. The bomb simply pushed the crew forward in time back to 'the present'. It didn't do anything else, other than it possibly was the cause of the whole hatch problem in first place.
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I wish I hadn't commented already on this story so I could have modded you up. Please accept my virtual +1 insightful in pale compensation.
That's the other side of competitive, price are pushed as low as they can go only when people aren't willing to pay more...
For fucks sake, this "Hate shit because it's popular" crap is old.
Yeah, they used a meme (the MYTH vs FACT rebuttal method) that doesn't 100% line up with the way they are presenting their arguments. So the fuck what? Their arguments, whether you agree or disagree with them, are valid presentation of their points.
They aren't pulling shit like BP claiming that reporters weren't being barred from talking to the cleanup workers in the Gulf as said reporters were shooting film of that exact thing happening.
They aren't using political rhetoric to attempt to push their view through without letting anyone bring up objections based on critical thinking.
They are simply presenting the complaints they see as not entirely on target and explaining why they don't see them as valid. HOW THE FUCK IS THAT EVIL?
Did I wake up this morning in Bizzaro land where GWBush has managed to run for a third term and win and we've reduced all discourse down to the equivalent of a sports fan brawl
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He's from Bee Cave Texas, to be exact.
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Sadly, the publishers, who set the price for the ebook, would either keel over as all the blood vessels in their head exploded or would nuke the store off the map in a fit of apoplectic rage. They want to pretend that e-books are worth just as much or more than a paper book, so attempting to roll a '2 fer 1' deal will never pass muster till they agree to open their eyes.
Look back on the past three years of news on things like Google Books and the Amazon vs Apple ebook wars, and tell me you think that'll be happening sometime this generation.
Worse, it's about triple dipping.
You, the customer pays the ISP for a connection.
Your ISP pays a backbone provider for a connection.
Backbone providers pay each other to carry each other's data.
Now, either your ISP or their backbone provider want to also be paid by the sites you visit to carry that data over the connection you already paid for, even though they are already being paid by you or the ISP respectively and the originating backbone to carry that data to you.
The MOMENT someone brought up getting rid of net neutrality, the government's first response should have been, "Oh, really? Well what do you advertise your product as? Do you disclose this? No? Then I guess you won't, will you?"
Santa Claus! I've found Santa Claus!
Everyone! Look! It's Santa Claus!
I told them you existed, I really really did. Can I have a pony?
If it were anything like the coop Alien Swarm or Left 4 Dead, you'd have lots of fun once you found a core group to play with, and lots of misery till then as you got stuck with asshole after asshole who found it more fun to fuck the team over than actually play the game. Can you imagine the sort of pain you'd get into when griefers can make portals?
Don't get me wrong, I love the L4D series and so far have enjoyed my brief forays into Alien Swarm, but every time I launch the game and see none of my core group online to play with, I cringe a little over what the next pug I'll be stuck with will be like.
If they had used the GPL, yes. But since they didn't (http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Copying.html#Copying) , your question is mooted by the invalid assumption.
Thanks! Knowing where to look and what to look for has been the hardest half of the battle so far.
That's how I handle it today, and it's definitely 'workable'. What I'm looking for however is something 'better'.
We are talking about 30 minute shows, not a feature length film. Ending an episode, navigating the menus to pick the next show to pull an episode from, remembering that you've watched up to that point in the season...
It works. But it's cumbersome and doesn't lend itself to 'non-marathon' sessions. I tend to end up just watching a bunch of episodes from one series in a row, getting burnt out and not watching anymore of it for a few weeks and forgetting where I left off, what's happened, and etc.
Ideally, I'd like to setup something like a stream, where everything is queued up and just plays. Where I pick what I want to watch by picking a channel.
I.E. Old School TV, just run inhouse.
Of course, that's the dream. How it roles out.... Who knows.
If I understand correctly, that gets me the OTA channels but doesn't provide a method for me to 'inject' any additional channels via other sources (for instance if I wanted to setup a computer that had a dynamically generated play list running all the time) which was my primary stumbling block.
Honestly, my ultimate dream was to have several computer generated 'channels' which broadcast over the home network my dvd collection. I've discovered that I have a problem watching tv box sets of shows on DVD because most shows really don't work well as marathon material. And swapping discs every few episodes to 'simulate' different shows being on gets old quick. PVR's are neat, but you still have the issues of "ok this show is over, now what" that could be solved if I had my own 'mini tv station' setup.
I think however, the magic keywords I was missing were "video distribution box". I know, it's sad I wasn't able to infer the terms, but despite being a 'techie' in some areas, the audio/visual gear arena is still a little murky to me.
Stupid, off topic question, but is there any place you know of online to read up on things like the Channel Plus? I've been dreaming for a long time of setting up an 'in-home' network where I've got my OTA channels as well as a few 'computer run' channels setup to pass through preexisting coax I have in my home. But have so little knowledge about the topic that I haven't been able to even craft a relevant Google query to start off from.
Easy way to get around this, don't build in the city. My parents specifically moved out to the country when they retired so my father's "dream" log home didn't have to deal with zoning regulations. There were still things that had to be signed off on (the electrical work had to be certified by a licensed electrician even though they did all the actual wiring), but there were far fewer hurdles to overcome than there would have been had they been within a city's limits.
He may be humble, he may be selfless. But he also dances to the beat of his own drum. For instance, when he came up with his solution, instead submitting it for review, he posted it online. And when he returned from America after meeting with a number of people and wowing them with his intellect, he dropped of the face of the Earth for a good portion of time. He quit his teaching job, is unemployed and living with his mother, refusing to even see anyone.
He has 'issues'. They may be minor issues where he is still functional and simply has switched his focus from math to something else, or they may be major issues where we'll be calling him the next Bobby Fisher in a decade. But regardless, he has them.
And certainly for any 'non-commercial' news group. People don't talk about things because it doesn't matter to them.
And cold medicine, don't forget that in most states you have to sign an agreement promising not to become a hardened drug dealer and use your cold medicine to make meth and provide your ID before you can buy cold medicine.
How ironic this argument is being used in support of protecting homophobes who were venting their own hatred of others and doing their best to cause them harm via restricting their rights.
I think anyone who reads my comments, and no I'm not vain enough to think that people do, knows I'm not a fan of Apple's business practices or attitude, but you have to have a World Heavy Weight Championship Belt in Officially Missing the Point to bring up a "journalistic ethics" complaint against Apple in this particular soap opera.
If Jason Chen or the Gawker media group had even a smattering of "Journalistic ethic" in them, they wouldn't have purchased a stolen phone off someone, written an article about ripping the phone apart, followed up by an article humiliating the Apple engineer that lost it to 'prove its real', then attempt to make Apple publicly announce it's their phone before giving it back.
What you could do with Kaleidoscope and a handful of other extensions far outpaced what you could do with themes (with or without additional software) in the comparatively aged version of Windows (and while this site stopped updating in the early 2000's, I was using it in the early 90's so we are talking about Windows 95/98).
Some stuff Windows didn't get till Vista, some stuff it still hasn't gotten. Unfortunately, System 7 was so long ago, there aren't many examples I can point to online these days. Like I said, Kaleidoscope was just the tip of the iceberg. It's hard to even know where to start to explain all the stuff you could do to customize the system that just weren't possible or were the realm of the hardcore 'hacker' in Windows due the difficulty.
But even with just it, peruse the scheme archive and tell me things like that notepaper theme are possible, even today with Windows 7. Can you theme the standard widgets yet in Windows? I know you can mess with the borders of windows, but can you make the progress bars look like they are being scribbled in? The buttons look like sketches?
Don't even get me started about how much fun it was to play with AppleScript to get things to do what you wanted, when you wanted, even if it was telling a game to send a screen shot to an image viewer, ask it to crop the image by some preset parameters, and then have the image program pass that along to the email program to send it to the mailing list for that game.
And I don't know how many times I messed around with ResEdit hacking away at application menus to rename, reorder, or just remove stuff to fit my needs, replacing icons, fonts, graphics with ones I liked better, and all without having to use my computer science degree for anything more than "ok, you are holding a mouse. click the button".
Seriously, there were games out there that were almost as 'expandable' as today's Oblivion/Morrowind/Fallout 3 purely because their data files were based off Mac resource forks and so you could just copy the file, edit or add resources to it, and load it back into the game and have everything 'just work'.
You know, the sad thing is, I remember a time when it wasn't true. When I preferred to use the Macs in the computer lab at the university over the PC's specifically because I could carry around a floppy full of extensions that all I needed to do was drop into the extension folder and reboot and have a machine that looked and mostly worked completely different from any other Mac.
Stuff like Kaleidoscope were just the tip of the Iceberg, with the fact that 'hacking' resources on the Mac was a trivial task, you could customize almost anything you wanted in your apps. This is stuff that Windows never had and still doesn't.
But then Steve had to go and get to the top of the hill, and it turned out that he was just a smarmier, better dressed Bill. That's sort of sad. Back when there really were two camps, really the only difference between the two was their fashion sense.
On every single CMS I've seen that uses that setup, the edit link is publicly listed in the article or article list. As others have stated, setup your robots.txt properly. That isn't Google's problem.
Have you attempted to buy Sudafed in a 'meth state' recently?
Lack of suitable ships and places to sip.
The credit scroll of the wreckage clearly had some of the survivor's old camp still visible. They didn't die in the wreck, the Island happened. The bomb simply pushed the crew forward in time back to 'the present'. It didn't do anything else, other than it possibly was the cause of the whole hatch problem in first place.