I assume all your programs store dates with at least 5- or 6-digit years, right? Since you're thinking that far ahead?
All my dates are virtual programs anyways, so I store them by hooter sizes not years. And by naming my dates like '44dd.avi' and '36c.mpeg', I really do think that far ahead for our next taudry encounter.
Ahhh. The good 'ole 400. That flat plastic keyboard of mine had more stains on it than a butchers apron. And that snazzy tape drive made more screeches and moans than a hyenna making love to a chainsaw as it booted up my favorite game Loadrunner. Good times. Good times, my friend.
I guarantee you'll have that stupid jingle stuck in your head for DAYS!
Oh yeah? I got a better one for yah. Try this jingle on for size. I just picked it up immediately after reading this/. headline. It goes a little sumpin sumpin like iss...Harry McCracken corn and I don't care. Harry McCracken corn and I don't care...
Does wiki mention the 'ole Chuckster and Brinkley sweating over a Total Gym machine? It's $49.95 btw, so act now. Supplies are limited. I'd paypal someone baller type scrillah to put that up there. Future genetically engineered children with superior adaminitium exoskeleton hydraulic limbs will want to know where that fitness trend all started from. So, until wiki stops dissin Hollywood and gets their facts straight, it's no more entertaining than an unfinished crossword puzzle at a public toilet.
I'm in Shanghai now. I do indeed have access to wikipedia, but apparently certain filters are in place. I just tried a search on "tibet" and got a 404 response. What's funny is now that I did that "tibet" search, I cannot access wikipedia at all, and I was reading about "pinyin" and "chinese language" just a few minutes earlier on wikipedia. I really don't know if that's by *design*, or just this crappy excuse for DSL they have over here. Who knows...
Oh well, I love this country and it's people. I just had a cashmier suit tailor made for me for only $28, including a nice white shirt thrown in for free. Plus, I picked up a 12 pack of AA batteries for 67 cents at the Carrafour (which is like a super walmart here). So, beat that you filthy American dogs! I'll gladly trade in the freedom for a wikipedia search for a bargain at the market any ole day.
I must be really bored since I just read over their "Acceptable Use Policy", and I don't even have Comcast for cable or even broadband.
* Basically, I see no explicit mention of forwarding emails as a violation (or abuse), which seems to be the issue here when receiving bulks of yourname@mydomain.com type TLD(s) emails through comcast POP(s).
However, there is a very vague catch all (viii - restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or otherwise disrupt or cause a performance degradation, regardless of intent, purpose or knowledge, to the Service or any Comcast (or Comcast supplier) host, server, backbone network, node or service, or otherwise cause a performance degradation to any Comcast (or Comcast supplier) facilities used to deliver the Service;) Or, in other words, we here at Comcast would need to add more server farms to deal with all these innocent emails chewing up our limited bandwidth, and quite frankly, Verizon and AT&T are tearing us a new on on price already.
So, I guess the real questions are: 1) Do I have some [legal] recourse to be compensated for their own breach of service agreement, if any? or 2)Can Comcast add some easy to manage Software filters which each user can add to a list of finite trusted forwarding domains, accepting those bulk mailings as a compromise?
And, the real answer is: censorship never had anything to do with it.
Perhaps, but in that case why the fuck is non-thc-rich HEMP illegal?
It is? Somebody better tell the Whole Food store chains down here in Texas then. They sell HEMP waffles at $4.50/box. I just had me some yummy doobie waffles slathered in molasses for breakfast this morning. The funny thing about those waffles is they make me even more hungry. At $4.50/box x 5 boxes per week, I think smoking the real deal might be a bit cheaper.
So the MPAA/RIAA are only going after file sharing people? Not leeches. I thought they were hitting up everyone, but maybe they were just getting distributors.
Good question. I presume MPAA/RIAA tactics are not that much different than typical law enforcement of the illegal narcotic smuggling trade; always set the bait for the big fish, but lob a few sticks of dynamite every so often at the little fishies swimming in the lake. Hopefully, the little fishies will get the message. Either way, the effect of such deterence by such means is still debatable for either the DEA or RIAA.
I have a real talent for sitting on my ass while snacking on a can of Pringles in front of a computer, fantasizing I'm King Theoden making sweet snoo snoo to Liv Tyler on my cold castle marble floor. I've never played WoW before, but what talent tree class do I belong to?
Uhh - if something exists before the patent, it's called "prior art", not infringement.
I believe in God. God created everything from nothing. God has prior art on every patent ever created. Since God has not sued anyone yet (by lightning bolt) for infringing on his prior art, every device under patent known to man must be ultimately non productive and worthless. Therefore, if you believe in patents as a means for intellectual progression and financial sustenance, your faith in God and his creation is circumspect at best. Consequently, if you do not believe in the practical efficacy of patents and consider yourself an atheist, in reality you believe in God and his majesty. Q.E.D.
Give them a little bit of credit. Maybe they live on a small island, and the only computer shops are on either side of the isle.
I heard the Skipper is trying to pass off the boat radio as a computer at his shop, while the Professor is selling a sweet beowulf coconut cluster running linux on the other.
Weather should not be an issue at all with your satellite reception, provided the installation was done correctly. Here in Texas, we call some of our storms "Texas Turd Floaters", since some downpours will pretty much float your car down the street to the nearest gutter drain. I have to wear my shades at night while watching TV sometimes as the lightning flashes around the uncovered window edges. And I've never lost my sat reception.
More than likely, your dish was never peaked properly to the number of satellites carrying your programs. On sats 110 and 119 you should have at least a signal strength of 90 or above. For the HD sat programming (mine is 129 but other providers probably mirror on other sats), 75 is pretty damn good but you should get at least get 60. I also use an HD antennae for the local HD broadcasts. Also, the LNB(s) used on your dish will affect your quality of service as well. Some even go bad over time and need to be replaced. Sometimes, even the wrong combination of LNB(s) and number of dishes were used in the installation. I have 1 dual (1 sat) and 1 twin LNB (2 sats) which bring in the 129, 110 and 119 respectively. Some installers will use 3 1 sat LNB(s) on the same dish when they should have put up another dish and peaked the 129 separately from the 110 and 119. That's why some people lose some channels but other programs remain at times (like in inclement weather and such).
Either way, if anyone is having sat reception problems in general, call your dish support and have them peak the dish(s) properly or replace a diplexer (which combines 2 sat signals into 1 for the receiver) which go bad sometimes too. Line of sight for the dish might be ok during a winter install, but changes quite a bit in the summer when foliage grows back and a brisk wind knocks the trees around. Also, tell them to properly ground your dish if not done so already.
Finally, some real wisdom here. There is nothing inheritently unique about watching one show while recording another, no more than any multitude of various VHS manufacturers allowing you to hit record and the TV/VCR button simultaneously after the Betamax sets, albeit recording in different formats.
* The real thrust of TiVo's case (which is apropos for all of us silicon wafer heads who ever signed an NDA) is the fact that Echostar hired a TiVo engineer some time back to develop a similar PVR before TiVo was even granted a single patent. And Dish did just that. The migration of one Engineer from competing company to another competing company happens all the time, and there is nothing particularly evil or insidious about it. Unfortunately, in such cases like this, it can cast an air of impropriety when a competing product almost bankrupts the former, for whatever reason, but more than often than not, the latter product is just plain better and the former rattles the judicial gavel and crys foul. Google vs. Microsoft and the recent migrations from one to the other ring a bell?
This whole case is just a splotch of spilt milk spoiling on the public counter top for all of TiVo's investors to get their last licks from. For anyone to compare a current Echostar DVR offering to an antiquated TiVo is just plain silly. Echostar has far superior DVR's currently (like the 622) which has a multi tuner multi satellite receiver capable of recording HD broadcasts in MPEG-4. Echostar has long surpased the rolling of the stone wheel with a stick age, while TiVo (and even their DirectTV partner) are still chipping away with flint and rocks. Even DirectTV has to lease some time on Echostar owned satellites. Saavy investors like me appreciate saavy investors like Echosphere, dropping 250 mil a year alone for each satellite they put up, not to mention their investment in hiring engineers (like in this case) while turning out sweet hardware. That's a good financial indicator of a solid company with an aggressive market spirit poised for future growth and dominance. Good riddance TiVo. My investment in Echosphere stock is well secured. This case doesn't phase (or time shift) me one single bit...
Or, do they only have to demonstrate that they are trying?
Like the former googlegear.com? Now it's zipzoomfly.com. Lindows anyone? On and on it goes, where it stops nobody knows. When does it end? I predict by the year 2037, the Blue Union Labor League Society Helping Industry Trade will mandate that all our children lose their first and last name to avoid any future trademark lawsuits, using their social security numbers instead.
"Do you 103569872, take 324091256 to be your lawfully wedded wife? To have and to hold, until death or soylent green do you part?"...
Welcome to the club brother! We are a select few. Soon, you will find the lazy dumbass club even more invigorating and exciting than this one. Join now! We do not even read the first page, or the article!
Your pirate neighbor should be ok. I'm pretty sure the green parrot on his shoulder will eat any worms. If not, the patch over his right eye is probably the most current out there.
I have a red shield and X in my systray so I'm safe. I think it's a warning symbol for anyone trying to hack my box, like a medieaval coat of arms or something saying my computer is stronger than them.
No. But I am. And thanks Mom for trying to help me out here, but please use your own computer next time. Last thing I need is for you to get your bookmarks confused again and post your "Cinnamon Applebee" cookie recipe under my/. account.
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Ahhh. The good 'ole 400. That flat plastic keyboard of mine had more stains on it than a butchers apron. And that snazzy tape drive made more screeches and moans than a hyenna making love to a chainsaw as it booted up my favorite game Loadrunner. Good times. Good times, my friend.
...tilling for weeds and replacing your entire front yard with rocks.
Does wiki mention the 'ole Chuckster and Brinkley sweating over a Total Gym machine? It's $49.95 btw, so act now. Supplies are limited. I'd paypal someone baller type scrillah to put that up there. Future genetically engineered children with superior adaminitium exoskeleton hydraulic limbs will want to know where that fitness trend all started from. So, until wiki stops dissin Hollywood and gets their facts straight, it's no more entertaining than an unfinished crossword puzzle at a public toilet.
I'm in Shanghai now. I do indeed have access to wikipedia, but apparently certain filters are in place. I just tried a search on "tibet" and got a 404 response. What's funny is now that I did that "tibet" search, I cannot access wikipedia at all, and I was reading about "pinyin" and "chinese language" just a few minutes earlier on wikipedia. I really don't know if that's by *design*, or just this crappy excuse for DSL they have over here. Who knows... Oh well, I love this country and it's people. I just had a cashmier suit tailor made for me for only $28, including a nice white shirt thrown in for free. Plus, I picked up a 12 pack of AA batteries for 67 cents at the Carrafour (which is like a super walmart here). So, beat that you filthy American dogs! I'll gladly trade in the freedom for a wikipedia search for a bargain at the market any ole day.
I must be really bored since I just read over their "Acceptable Use Policy", and I don't even have Comcast for cable or even broadband.
* Basically, I see no explicit mention of forwarding emails as a violation (or abuse), which seems to be the issue here when receiving bulks of yourname@mydomain.com type TLD(s) emails through comcast POP(s).
However, there is a very vague catch all (viii - restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or otherwise disrupt or cause a performance degradation, regardless of intent, purpose or knowledge, to the Service or any Comcast (or Comcast supplier) host, server, backbone network, node or service, or otherwise cause a performance degradation to any Comcast (or Comcast supplier) facilities used to deliver the Service;) Or, in other words, we here at Comcast would need to add more server farms to deal with all these innocent emails chewing up our limited bandwidth, and quite frankly, Verizon and AT&T are tearing us a new on on price already.
So, I guess the real questions are: 1) Do I have some [legal] recourse to be compensated for their own breach of service agreement, if any? or 2)Can Comcast add some easy to manage Software filters which each user can add to a list of finite trusted forwarding domains, accepting those bulk mailings as a compromise?
And, the real answer is: censorship never had anything to do with it.
smart and mis-spelled? What prize do I get for the not so obvious missing hyphen?
I have a real talent for sitting on my ass while snacking on a can of Pringles in front of a computer, fantasizing I'm King Theoden making sweet snoo snoo to Liv Tyler on my cold castle marble floor. I've never played WoW before, but what talent tree class do I belong to?
iPods use Sony lithium ion batteries. For fear of an explosion in the plane shitter, I'd say the FAA was quite prudent in this decision.
This whole article is full of crap.
What I want to know is why Pluto is now a dwarf planet. But a dwarf planet is not a planet?? So, I guess a dwarf human is not a human????
I find this whole planetoid debate quite alarming, as it may be applied to future generations and give rise to new human sub classifications.What discussion? Linux, nForce + nvidia card, AMD64.
Q.E.D.Eat smart. Eat dolphins.
Weather should not be an issue at all with your satellite reception, provided the installation was done correctly. Here in Texas, we call some of our storms "Texas Turd Floaters", since some downpours will pretty much float your car down the street to the nearest gutter drain. I have to wear my shades at night while watching TV sometimes as the lightning flashes around the uncovered window edges. And I've never lost my sat reception.
More than likely, your dish was never peaked properly to the number of satellites carrying your programs. On sats 110 and 119 you should have at least a signal strength of 90 or above. For the HD sat programming (mine is 129 but other providers probably mirror on other sats), 75 is pretty damn good but you should get at least get 60. I also use an HD antennae for the local HD broadcasts. Also, the LNB(s) used on your dish will affect your quality of service as well. Some even go bad over time and need to be replaced. Sometimes, even the wrong combination of LNB(s) and number of dishes were used in the installation. I have 1 dual (1 sat) and 1 twin LNB (2 sats) which bring in the 129, 110 and 119 respectively. Some installers will use 3 1 sat LNB(s) on the same dish when they should have put up another dish and peaked the 129 separately from the 110 and 119. That's why some people lose some channels but other programs remain at times (like in inclement weather and such).
Either way, if anyone is having sat reception problems in general, call your dish support and have them peak the dish(s) properly or replace a diplexer (which combines 2 sat signals into 1 for the receiver) which go bad sometimes too. Line of sight for the dish might be ok during a winter install, but changes quite a bit in the summer when foliage grows back and a brisk wind knocks the trees around. Also, tell them to properly ground your dish if not done so already.Finally, some real wisdom here. There is nothing inheritently unique about watching one show while recording another, no more than any multitude of various VHS manufacturers allowing you to hit record and the TV/VCR button simultaneously after the Betamax sets, albeit recording in different formats.
* The real thrust of TiVo's case (which is apropos for all of us silicon wafer heads who ever signed an NDA) is the fact that Echostar hired a TiVo engineer some time back to develop a similar PVR before TiVo was even granted a single patent. And Dish did just that. The migration of one Engineer from competing company to another competing company happens all the time, and there is nothing particularly evil or insidious about it. Unfortunately, in such cases like this, it can cast an air of impropriety when a competing product almost bankrupts the former, for whatever reason, but more than often than not, the latter product is just plain better and the former rattles the judicial gavel and crys foul. Google vs. Microsoft and the recent migrations from one to the other ring a bell?
This whole case is just a splotch of spilt milk spoiling on the public counter top for all of TiVo's investors to get their last licks from. For anyone to compare a current Echostar DVR offering to an antiquated TiVo is just plain silly. Echostar has far superior DVR's currently (like the 622) which has a multi tuner multi satellite receiver capable of recording HD broadcasts in MPEG-4. Echostar has long surpased the rolling of the stone wheel with a stick age, while TiVo (and even their DirectTV partner) are still chipping away with flint and rocks. Even DirectTV has to lease some time on Echostar owned satellites. Saavy investors like me appreciate saavy investors like Echosphere, dropping 250 mil a year alone for each satellite they put up, not to mention their investment in hiring engineers (like in this case) while turning out sweet hardware. That's a good financial indicator of a solid company with an aggressive market spirit poised for future growth and dominance. Good riddance TiVo. My investment in Echosphere stock is well secured. This case doesn't phase (or time shift) me one single bit...
"Do you 103569872, take 324091256 to be your lawfully wedded wife? To have and to hold, until death or soylent green do you part?"...
Your pirate neighbor should be ok. I'm pretty sure the green parrot on his shoulder will eat any worms. If not, the patch over his right eye is probably the most current out there.
I have a red shield and X in my systray so I'm safe. I think it's a warning symbol for anyone trying to hack my box, like a medieaval coat of arms or something saying my computer is stronger than them.
No. But I am. And thanks Mom for trying to help me out here, but please use your own computer next time. Last thing I need is for you to get your bookmarks confused again and post your "Cinnamon Applebee" cookie recipe under my /. account.