I've been pretty happy using Universal Media Server instead of Plex.
I checked them both out last year when looking for the best way to steam stuff from my network to my Samsung Smart TV, and I was much more comfortable with UMS. It's been working fine ever since for my purposes.
IBM, at least, is using it as a way to get rid of older, higher paid workers in the USA. By making an employee come back to the office and/or move to a regional office, they are able to force people out without running into those pesky layoff laws.
I second this, a dedicated hardware solution is going to be more reliable than a pc-based solution. Plus those Cocoontech forums are a wealth of information.
This was a technique used by fictional assassin John Rain in Barry Eisler's "Rain Fall". The assassin got right up to his victim in the subway and placed a device that would trigger the pacemaker on a delay.
Hopefully they remembered the "will it blend" episode with the iphone. "iPhone Smoke, don't breathe this". I did hear some coughing in the video though...
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Microsoft's Applesoft BASIC was the second BASIC for the Apple ][, the first was Integer BASIC, which was written by Woz. Applesoft Basic fixed some of the bugs in Integer BASIC, and also introduced floating point arithmetic.
from A Clockwork Orange:
Alex: No. No! NO! Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sin! This is sin! This is sin! It's a sin, it's a sin, it's a sin!
Dr. Brodsky: Sin? What's all this about sin?
Alex: That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!
Dr. Branom: Are you referring to the background score?
Alex: Yes.
Dr. Branom: You've heard Beethoven before?
Alex: Yes!
Dr. Brodsky: So, you're keen on music?
Alex: YES!
Dr. Brodsky: Can't be helped. Here's the punishment element perhaps.
So much magic that the chips overheated and unseated themselves. Luckily, you could then lift the computer off of the table, and drop it, thus scaring the magic back into the chips.
I can't answer my iPhone while wearing gloves. That's a glaring deficiency in my book because I wear gloves about 4 months of the year. Even then, I missed a week's worth of calls because the screen didn't register my swipe-to-answer. I'd be happy if I could just double-click the menu button to answer.
Have you looked at these gloves? http://www.180s.com/glovesforaddicts/
They've got a little nub that lets you actually use your phone while wearing them.
I had this problem with my X-25M yesterday. I updated the firmware, rebooted Windows 7 Ultimate, and everything was fine.
Then I started playing around with AHCI mode on my motherboard (I had installed with Enhanced-IDE) in order to get instant-TRIM, and after that didn't work I switched back.
Then the drive started getting SMART errors, so I switched around a few more times, and eventually SMART went away entirely, and the drive started showing up as a non-partitionable 7 MB drive.
Intel gave me an RMA after getting my info (processor, motherboard, bios revision).
I did make a backup beforehand though, because of the earlier intel bios snafu, so it really only cost me time and aggravation (and $11 shipping).
As long as you were the one doing the ripping, you should still hear the sound transmitted through your gloves.
It might be hard to hear, though, depending on the ambient noise generated by your suit.
I have the Sony's reader, but I would actually recommend a PDA. I personally have been using a Sony NX-70V for years, and have use it to read many ebooks.
For me, it comes down to the ergonomics of using both. I can get very comfortable while using the PDA, and I like how I can turn the pages just by clicking a button, or using the jog dial. The Sony Reader's buttons are not in a position where I normally keep my hands, so I have to move more in order to turn a page.
Also, I've dropped both the PDA and the Sony Reader, and the Sony Reader's screen is more fragile. I have lost about a half inch of the screen on the left, but I can actually work around this problem by playing with the document margins.
Advantages to PDA:
Lower Cost (You can get the PDA on eBay for less than $100)
Can be used in low light, because of backlighting
Better ergonomics
Less fragile
Advantages to Sony Reader:
Lower Power Consumption for better battery life
For people really wanting to see how it would look to travel at the speed of light, you could always try the open source 3d space simulator Celestia.
I find that watching planets whiz by as you travel at the speed of light is pretty entertaining. I've had some fun just trying to steer with a joystick at this speed.
Of course, I suppose if you really were going this speed (or even 99.9% of it), you'd see some wierd spectral shifting (or that circular blur effect as in the article's animation), which is not shown by celestia.
I use CD Drums. They each hold 100 discs, and make getting to a single disk a lot easier than by using spindles. I think it also protects individual disks better from scratches than spindles do.
Just search amazon for 'CD Drum' to see what I'm talking about.
The ones that I use have these detachable CD sleeves that each hold 2 discs. They can clip in and out of the cd drums. The drums came with CD wallets that have the same clips, which makes taking just a portion of your collection around pretty easy.
The only thing is, once you have a good physical storage system for your dics, you may get so many of them that you need a cataloging system to remember how to locate your stuff. I actually ended up writing my own, as I couldn't find anything out there that met my needs. For example, I wanted to be able to recursively scan archive files.
I'd be interested to hear if there's any anything out there that people use for cataloging their stuff.
If you want Movie information, you can grab the data files from the Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
My father has a large VHS collection of movies whose info he keeps updated in a spreadsheet. It was a lot of fun to link his database to the IMDB one, and start searching for movies that included my favorite actors (and were already in the house).
Another source of data that I use from the internet is daily stock data. If you go to this page Yahoo S&P 500 Info and click Historical Prices you will get a page that lists the historical data in a browser-friendly format. At the bottom of this page is an option to download the data in a comma separated value (CSV) file.
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I've been pretty happy using Universal Media Server instead of Plex.
I checked them both out last year when looking for the best way to steam stuff from my network to my Samsung Smart TV, and I was much more comfortable with UMS. It's been working fine ever since for my purposes.
IBM, at least, is using it as a way to get rid of older, higher paid workers in the USA. By making an employee come back to the office and/or move to a regional office, they are able to force people out without running into those pesky layoff laws.
I second this, a dedicated hardware solution is going to be more reliable than a pc-based solution. Plus those Cocoontech forums are a wealth of information.
This was a technique used by fictional assassin John Rain in Barry Eisler's "Rain Fall".
The assassin got right up to his victim in the subway and placed a device that would trigger the pacemaker on a delay.
It seems like the open scripting would fit in great with these folks:
http://phonebloks.com/
Unfortunately, I doubt the carriers would ever 'appreciate' this much freedom.
Hopefully they remembered the "will it blend" episode with the iphone. "iPhone Smoke, don't breathe this". I did hear some coughing in the video though...
Microsoft's Applesoft BASIC was the second BASIC for the Apple ][, the first was Integer BASIC, which was written by Woz.
Applesoft Basic fixed some of the bugs in Integer BASIC, and also introduced floating point arithmetic.
Is the food really that bad?
from A Clockwork Orange:
Alex: No. No! NO! Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sin! This is sin! This is sin! It's a sin, it's a sin, it's a sin!
Dr. Brodsky: Sin? What's all this about sin?
Alex: That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!
Dr. Branom: Are you referring to the background score?
Alex: Yes.
Dr. Branom: You've heard Beethoven before?
Alex: Yes!
Dr. Brodsky: So, you're keen on music?
Alex: YES!
Dr. Brodsky: Can't be helped. Here's the punishment element perhaps.
As a homebrewer, I know that oxidation of beer can give it "cardboardy" flavors, so this technology is probably useless for beer.
I'm not sure how long oxidation needs to occur before the off flavors manifest though, so perhaps you could force-oxygenate at pour time.
Sounds like some experiments need to be done...
So much magic that the chips overheated and unseated themselves. Luckily, you could then lift the computer off of the table, and drop it, thus scaring the magic back into the chips.
Enough that they still sell for a pretty penny on eBay, and people have written emulators to get the "Lisa Experience" on modern hardware.
I can't answer my iPhone while wearing gloves. That's a glaring deficiency in my book because I wear gloves about 4 months of the year. Even then, I missed a week's worth of calls because the screen didn't register my swipe-to-answer. I'd be happy if I could just double-click the menu button to answer.
Have you looked at these gloves? http://www.180s.com/glovesforaddicts/ They've got a little nub that lets you actually use your phone while wearing them.
I had this problem with my X-25M yesterday. I updated the firmware, rebooted Windows 7 Ultimate, and everything was fine. Then I started playing around with AHCI mode on my motherboard (I had installed with Enhanced-IDE) in order to get instant-TRIM, and after that didn't work I switched back. Then the drive started getting SMART errors, so I switched around a few more times, and eventually SMART went away entirely, and the drive started showing up as a non-partitionable 7 MB drive. Intel gave me an RMA after getting my info (processor, motherboard, bios revision). I did make a backup beforehand though, because of the earlier intel bios snafu, so it really only cost me time and aggravation (and $11 shipping).
It's got to be "The Road Ahead", by Bill Gates.
As long as you were the one doing the ripping, you should still hear the sound transmitted through your gloves. It might be hard to hear, though, depending on the ambient noise generated by your suit.
I have the Sony's reader, but I would actually recommend a PDA. I personally have been using a Sony NX-70V for years, and have use it to read many ebooks.
For me, it comes down to the ergonomics of using both. I can get very comfortable while using the PDA, and I like how I can turn the pages just by clicking a button, or using the jog dial. The Sony Reader's buttons are not in a position where I normally keep my hands, so I have to move more in order to turn a page.
Also, I've dropped both the PDA and the Sony Reader, and the Sony Reader's screen is more fragile. I have lost about a half inch of the screen on the left, but I can actually work around this problem by playing with the document margins.
Advantages to PDA:
Lower Cost (You can get the PDA on eBay for less than $100)
Can be used in low light, because of backlighting
Better ergonomics
Less fragile
Advantages to Sony Reader:
Lower Power Consumption for better battery life
You are making the assumption that the 'value' in attacking us would be solely for our resources.
They might simply view it as an investment for the future, there would be one less aggressive species out there to worry about.
I believe that was the point of the book 'The Killing Star' referenced in the summary.
Has anyone else wondered, with all of this extra data at its command, how is Tron going to defeat the Master Control Program this time?
For people really wanting to see how it would look to travel at the speed of light, you could always try the open source 3d space simulator Celestia.
I find that watching planets whiz by as you travel at the speed of light is pretty entertaining. I've had some fun just trying to steer with a joystick at this speed.
Of course, I suppose if you really were going this speed (or even 99.9% of it), you'd see some wierd spectral shifting (or that circular blur effect as in the article's animation), which is not shown by celestia.
I use CD Drums. They each hold 100 discs, and make getting to a single disk a lot easier than by using spindles. I think it also protects individual disks better from scratches than spindles do.
Just search amazon for 'CD Drum' to see what I'm talking about.
The ones that I use have these detachable CD sleeves that each hold 2 discs. They can clip in and out of the cd drums. The drums came with CD wallets that have the same clips, which makes taking just a portion of your collection around pretty easy.
The only thing is, once you have a good physical storage system for your dics, you may get so many of them that you need a cataloging system to remember how to locate your stuff. I actually ended up writing my own, as I couldn't find anything out there that met my needs. For example, I wanted to be able to recursively scan archive files.
I'd be interested to hear if there's any anything out there that people use for cataloging their stuff.
That's a good point.
Does anyone know why they left out AM Radio?
Is it really that much more expensive to put it in?
If you want Movie information, you can grab the data files from the Internet Movie Database.
http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
My father has a large VHS collection of movies whose info he keeps updated in a spreadsheet. It was a lot of fun to link his database to the IMDB one, and start searching for movies that included my favorite actors (and were already in the house).
Another source of data that I use from the internet is daily stock data. If you go to this page Yahoo S&P 500 Info and click Historical Prices you will get a page that lists the historical data in a browser-friendly format. At the bottom of this page is an option to download the data in a comma separated value (CSV) file.
On my old Amiga, I used to have a white-noise generating program that was supposed to put you in an "alpha state" or set you to sleep.
It never really did much for me, but I was wondering if there was any similar software out there for the pc (and of course if it does any good).
Perhaps he just wanted to get a nice setting for a live action role play session.
Didn't all those anti-D&D movies have people going into steam tunnels?