Since the rumour has it that Natalie Portman will appear in Indy 4, I guess we can say with some certainty that the film will include an artifact that petrifies whoever touches it.
A one-year non-compete agreement is not necessarily a bad thing for the individual. It's one year paid vacation that you can use to study in your field.
(YMMV, at least a Google employee I know got paid in the waiting period, split between his old and new companies)
Not all locations are big enough to have guides that speak Italian, French, German or Japanese on call. The possibility to give guided tours in many different languages is where this solution shines.
It is also a very good solution for city-size museums (like Venice, Firenze), where you would spend an entire day walking around.
Quote:
"As my mother said when I told her, 'which part of the silence are they claiming you nicked?'. They say they are claiming copyright on a piece of mine called 'One Minute's Silence' on the Planets' album, which I credit Batt/Cage just for a laugh. But my silence is original silence, not a quotation from his silence."
I also have a TiVo and what I miss most on the Panasonic is the lack of a program guide. The best you can do is use the VCR Plus codes from TV Guide but otherwise you have to manually enter the time and channel. And the worst is, you have to manually enter the program name!
XMLTV support would be perfect for this type of recorders. It would be the feature that would get me to buy a standalone PVR.
No TiVo where I live (Norway), but I can get the local TV data with XMLTV. Using GB-PVR now, but would prefer a standalone unit.
I have been thinking about creating a web service that could be used by PVR software to create an open-source version of TIVO-style recommendations.
The idea would be to collect viewing habits anonymously, and then automatically create "viewers who recorded this also recorded..." listings.
A PVR project could then use this data to automatically record shows, or just mark them as recommendations in the Guide. It would not be tied to a specific PVR project, it could be added as modules to GB-PVR (which I use), MythTV, or any other project.
Some of the challenges include how to identify films and TV series correctly, handle international show titles, and how to make the users contribute to the database hassle-free.
If anyone has heard of a project like this before, please let me know:-)
Admittedly not as cool as the unit in the article, I am very happy with the cheaper brother, Sony RM-AV3000 (There is also a slightly updated model, AV3100)
It is big, but it keeps my 5-6 other remotes in the drawer.
Macros are great, when watching DVD you usually have to first turn on the DVD player, switch input on the TV, switch the TV to anamorphic 16:9, switch the surround receiver over to the DVD input and set the correct surround mode. With macros this is one button.
You can create some custom labeled buttons for each device. It is possible to mix and match from the different devices, e.g. I have the TV aspect ratio button also on the DVD panel.
It has hard buttons for the most common operations, like channel hopping, volume and arrow keys.
The IR is strong! It works from under the blanket when cuddled up in the sofa.
"Sorry, but print jobs will go very slow today because of the heavy fog"
And it was true, our university campus was linked to the other campus with a high-speed laser link that turned into a low-speed laser link in foggy conditions. And someone had decided to put all the print servers in a central location at the other campus...
Here in Norway we have commercial free state radio broadcasting in high quality on DAB, as well as some commercial stations. Most broadcasts are in 160kbps or 128kbps streams, while special interest stations (like "Parliament live" or "Inner Oslofjord weather") broadcast in 32kbps mono to save bandwidth.
On the DAB stream stations can also broadcast text information like song titles or news.
I could probably get just as good sound in just as cute cabinet from Henry Kloss FM radio, but I'm a nerd, and nerds need DAB.
> and the client connects up to 20 times to the ftp server until I hit 300k/sec
Isn't this a bit antisocial? If everyone did this it will eat up the available number of slots on the server very quickly... On the Fanimatrix file, I got up to 750kB/sec incoming (with 200kB/sec outgoing) with BitTorrent, that is quicker than the fastest FTP sites I have downloaded from.
It looks just like my old Newton!
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The interface is very similar to my old Newton PDA, down to the friendly handwriting-type fonts.
The Newton 2000 series were great machines, but too bulky. It had room for two PCMCIA cards, so there were no limits for what you could put into them. (Yes, people are running 802.11b cards on them)
Apple has always had a nice sense for details, on the Newton 2000 there was a little hole to park the stylus in a standing position, you could also use the screen cover flap as a stand for the device, handy when using the optional keyboard.
The videos do look fake though. Oh well.
(Although the detail with changing the screen orientation seems very... Apple. The Newtons had rotatable screens...)
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> Here's hoping another country will pick up the slack.
Like North Korea.
The one benefit I can think of is that the airlines then must make a "quiet zone", with no phones, no loud talkers, and NO CRYING BABIES!
Since the rumour has it that Natalie Portman will appear in Indy 4, I guess we can say with some certainty that the film will include an artifact that petrifies whoever touches it.
I guess this page would quickly be the first to be subverted with that particular java applet.
In 2004 Reason Magazine put the name and a satellite photo of the house of 40.000 of their subscribers.
http://www.reason.com/putting/
It's a nice way of saying "We know where You live, and where Your kids go to school"
A one-year non-compete agreement is not necessarily a bad thing for the individual.
It's one year paid vacation that you can use to study in your field.
(YMMV, at least a Google employee I know got paid in the waiting period, split between his old and new companies)
... why do we always send the poor?
"Everyone should have the right to a fair trial and execution."
Not all locations are big enough to have guides that speak Italian, French, German or Japanese on call. The possibility to give guided tours in many different languages is where this solution shines.
It is also a very good solution for city-size museums (like Venice, Firenze), where you would spend an entire day walking around.
Vigelandsparken in Oslo, Norway turned out nice, but just a few kilometers east towards Vålerenga the coverage changes quality.
Still nice that they allow you to link to longitude/latitude, lot of online map resources don't allow that.
And we wonder why the retail industry wants to adopt RFID?
Cause you can't do that kind of spoofing there, right? Right?
No TiVo where I live (Norway), but I can get the local TV data with XMLTV. Using GB-PVR now, but would prefer a standalone unit.
I have been thinking about creating a web service that could be used by PVR software to create an open-source version of TIVO-style recommendations.
:-)
The idea would be to collect viewing habits anonymously, and then automatically create "viewers who recorded this also recorded..." listings.
A PVR project could then use this data to automatically record shows, or just mark them as recommendations in the Guide. It would not be tied to a specific PVR project, it could be added as modules to GB-PVR (which I use), MythTV, or any other project.
Some of the challenges include how to identify films and TV series correctly, handle international show titles, and how to make the users contribute to the database hassle-free.
If anyone has heard of a project like this before, please let me know
It is big, but it keeps my 5-6 other remotes in the drawer.
Macros are great, when watching DVD you usually have to first turn on the DVD player, switch input on the TV, switch the TV to anamorphic 16:9, switch the surround receiver over to the DVD input and set the correct surround mode. With macros this is one button.
You can create some custom labeled buttons for each device. It is possible to mix and match from the different devices, e.g. I have the TV aspect ratio button also on the DVD panel.
It has hard buttons for the most common operations, like channel hopping, volume and arrow keys.
The IR is strong! It works from under the blanket when cuddled up in the sofa.
The girlfriend likes it :-)
About $90
"Sorry, but print jobs will go very slow today because of the heavy fog"
And it was true, our university campus was linked to the other campus with a high-speed laser link that turned into a low-speed laser link in foggy conditions. And someone had decided to put all the print servers in a central location at the other campus...
Rune
No, that's not it.
What is cantonese for "Your move, creep", again?
Rune -- Change is good, you go first
I have one of these (Evoke-1 from Pure Digital) in my kitchen.
Here in Norway we have commercial free state radio broadcasting in high quality on DAB, as well as some commercial stations. Most broadcasts are in 160kbps or 128kbps streams, while special interest stations (like "Parliament live" or "Inner Oslofjord weather") broadcast in 32kbps mono to save bandwidth.
On the DAB stream stations can also broadcast text information like song titles or news.
I could probably get just as good sound in just as cute cabinet from Henry Kloss FM radio, but I'm a nerd, and nerds need DAB.
> and the client connects up to 20 times to the ftp server until I hit 300k/sec
Isn't this a bit antisocial? If everyone did this it will eat up the available number of slots on the server very quickly...
On the Fanimatrix file, I got up to 750kB/sec incoming (with 200kB/sec outgoing) with BitTorrent, that is quicker than the fastest FTP sites I have downloaded from.
Rune
In this modern world, $5000 buys you either a second-hand subway or a DIY cruise missile.
Hmm.... tough choice.
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Rune
> Also, what about those techno albums that only have four 20 minute songs?
:-)
But very good for those death-rock Napalm Death albums with forty 30-second songs
Rune
Blame Caa-nadaaa! Blame Caa-nadaaa!
:-)
The interface is very similar to my old Newton PDA, down to the friendly handwriting-type fonts.
The Newton 2000 series were great machines, but too bulky. It had room for two PCMCIA cards, so there were no limits for what you could put into them. (Yes, people are running 802.11b cards on them)
Apple has always had a nice sense for details, on the Newton 2000 there was a little hole to park the stylus in a standing position, you could also use the screen cover flap as a stand for the device, handy when using the optional keyboard.
The videos do look fake though. Oh well.
(Although the detail with changing the screen orientation seems very... Apple. The Newtons had rotatable screens...)
User Friendly had a strip like this a while ago...
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990207