Wow, is that just a Cat5e cable? I like this quote from the Denon site:
Additionally, signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer.
The picture above shows the end of the cable with arrows going both directions. Thank goodness they marked it for optimum signal transer.
I also think it's awesome that on the Amazon description it says that the "insulation is made of a fluoropolymer material with superior heat resistance, weather resistance, and anti-aging properties." Weather resistance? Who exposes a $500 5 foot cable made for high-end home theater equipment to weather?
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns is a setting in about:config in Firefox. It won't help with other apps going through tsocks. Maybe there's a similar setting in tsocks, thought?
Your fundamental problem in arguing with a person who denies global warming is that they use erroneous logic. They find one uncertainty or minor flaw in a study and suddenly volumes of studies -- even those unrelated -- can be thrown out and dismissed.
Not to mention you have right-wing pundits who don't understand*** the science, the statistics, or the processes involved, and when something like "Climategate" comes along, they don't understand the context or what the "scandal" really is. Suddenly everyone is a scientist and they can all understand things they've never even been interested in studying before.
And the sad thing is, people who believe everything these people say (like my mom and several of my neighbors), go out and forcefully repeat it all anytime something tangentially related comes up in a conversation.
***Most likely, they could understand, but they choose not so they can deny the facts and get away with it.
It's timely given the tendency in the current political climate to invoke Godwin's Law about any issue which one party or the other disagrees with. I thought it was funny.
What you say is true, but the problems of the Archos tablet aren't carrier related... It's not manufactured by/for a carrier and doesn't have built-in 3G hardware.
Problems with Android phones are the carriers' faults. Problems with a non-3G tablet device are the manufacturer's fault.
This isn't really targeted specifically for the living room. The article bases its assertion about the living room on the fact that this model includes an HDMI connection (which people have been requesting for years). That does make it a little more convenient for the living room, but it hardly makes it the target application. Note that it still doesn't ship with the remote as a standard option, or with a keyboard or mouse (wireless or otherwise). Also, the default hard drive is still pretty small for a living room media center.
The Apple TV is still the device that's aimed at the living room (and therefore competing with Google TV, and rumors have it that there are big changes in the works to make it more of a mainstream product.
But what about Courier? It was a very interesting concept, but it wasn't even confirmed as a project until it was killed. It likely would have been complicated and expensive (or more likely it would have lost money to stay competitive), although I would have loved to see it come to market.
The point is, even when MS makes a big deal of announcing a tablet (this time it was in the face of the iPad release that everyone knew was coming), it still can't get a successful tablet out the door. And now the tablet that MS tried to use to pre-empt the iPad even though it got almost no fanfare at all, is dying and rising from its own ashes with a Palm OS.
Even HP, which has sold desktops, laptops and PDAs with MS OS's for years, knew that it should jump ship to a better OS as soon as the opportunity arose.
It really all makes Balmer look like an idiot, because by trying to announce the Slate, he basically just legitimized and amped up excitement for a tablet market that MS just can't compete in, and gave Apple a little extra boost. Now the tablet that would have been MS's first mainstream tablet device just got turned against them.
Just so you know, 0.23 is not the same thing as 0.2.3. It's the 23rd minor release, it's not in the middle of it's 2nd minor release.
And MythTV is a hobby project for linux geeks. It likely always will be. I use it and I love it. My wife can use it, but if anything goes wrong, I have to be there to clean it up. And it may take an hour of searching internet forums to find answers.
It has been around for quite a while now, and it's not hard to set up if someone is willing to put some time and effort into it. It is not, however, a commercial-quality product ready for any joe blow to pickup at target and install on a PC. If you want that, there are other options, including Windows Media Center. That works great if you want your general purpose PC to be able to record and playback TV. If you want a dedicated appliance-type set-top box and you don't want to have to screw around with it or spend hours setting it up, get a Tivo, or a DVR from your cable or satellite company. If you want the set-top box, and you want something that you can say you put together yourself, and you want to be in control of the features available on it, spend a lot of time working with MythTV. If you're a tinkerer, you'll love it. If you're not, you'll hate it.
tl;dr: Keep the 0.xx versioning, it's a good representation of who the project is aimed at.
I never understood why Balmer acted like anyone should care that he was introducing the Slate, when tablets had failed for years, and this was just another one (other than the fact that he was trying to preempt the iPad announcement). Now, the irony is that the tablet that he introduced to the world has turned to vapor before it could be released, and MS's lame attempt to steal Apple's thunder is being reborn in a device that may actually steal some thunder from Apple and a lot of thunder from MS, running a non-MS operating system (the only way it can really work right as a tablet).
I'm sure Balmer would like to pretend that it doesn't exist now. I'm looking forward to reading his dismissive comments about it (the sure sign that it's going to be a success) after it's officially announced.
The 42" screens are demos/prototypes. They're not on the market, and if they were on the market, their prices would be much more than plasmas from 5-6 years ago. Sony just gave up on selling their 11" screen for $2500... Imagine what a 42 inch screen would go for.
LG has released a 15" screen in Korea, it should be out in Europe any time now, and in the US this summer. Its price should be roughly the same or just slightly more than the Sony display was, so maybe this is the beginning of a trend of bigger displays coming in at the same prices. We'll have to wait until more manufacturers release displays before we really know how quickly the prices will come down and how quickly bigger displays will start coming out.
As it is, though, prices are insanely high for a display that isn't useful for consumers in general. It's a very, very expensive toy for people who have money to burn on cool new stuff that most people can't afford.
I would imagine that the "provided by parents" clause was intended to mean "not provided by the school", and the letter of the law is being over-vigorously enforced. In any case, somebody's parent probably provided the candy to their own student, who passed it along to the "guilty" girl. The school really shouldn't care where the candy came from as long as the school didn't give it to her.
I also thought this part of the article was interesting:
Ellis said school officials had decided a stricter punishment was necessary after lesser penalties failed to serve as a deterrent.
How extreme do the punishments have to be before the powers that be realize that the rule sucks? Maybe deterring is pointless? I understand that Fast Food Nation and Supersize Me are bringing things to public awareness, and in general it's a good thing if the schools increase the nutritional quality of what they provide to the kids, but to try to take away a kid's right to choose whether she's going to eat a tiny piece of long-lasting candy is borderline insane. Rule makers, educators and legistlators: Please stop making new rules just to try to make things "better", when there are much better ways for you to spend your time.
Also, one other question: Do parents get to provide any feedback on this rule?
I think the way the submitter's writing was quoted in the summary made it appear as if his statement
Of course, he's referring to talk radio, blogs and other mediums that tend to disagree with his political views.
was in the actual article... which of course it wasn't. It's the uninsightful commentary of the submitter himself. Obama said nothing about talk radio or conservative blogs or anything like that. Obama has a perfectly valid right (and even a duty) to point out that we need to think carefully about believing what we hear or read. Notice that he didn't say where you should get your news or where not to get it. He also pointed out how Thomas Jefferson believed that the only way the USA would succeed is if the citizens are informed.
Basically, he's saying that you need to use your head. And this applies just as much to the people that make up conspiracies about Sarah Palin's baby as it does to the birthers.
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Luke, you'll find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
Additionally, signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer.
The picture above shows the end of the cable with arrows going both directions. Thank goodness they marked it for optimum signal transer. I also think it's awesome that on the Amazon description it says that the "insulation is made of a fluoropolymer material with superior heat resistance, weather resistance, and anti-aging properties." Weather resistance? Who exposes a $500 5 foot cable made for high-end home theater equipment to weather?
While the traveler is in China it's probably not a good idea to risk legal issues with the Chinese government.
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns is a setting in about:config in Firefox. It won't help with other apps going through tsocks. Maybe there's a similar setting in tsocks, thought?
Your fundamental problem in arguing with a person who denies global warming is that they use erroneous logic. They find one uncertainty or minor flaw in a study and suddenly volumes of studies -- even those unrelated -- can be thrown out and dismissed.
Not to mention you have right-wing pundits who don't understand*** the science, the statistics, or the processes involved, and when something like "Climategate" comes along, they don't understand the context or what the "scandal" really is. Suddenly everyone is a scientist and they can all understand things they've never even been interested in studying before.
And the sad thing is, people who believe everything these people say (like my mom and several of my neighbors), go out and forcefully repeat it all anytime something tangentially related comes up in a conversation.
***Most likely, they could understand, but they choose not so they can deny the facts and get away with it.
It's timely given the tendency in the current political climate to invoke Godwin's Law about any issue which one party or the other disagrees with. I thought it was funny.
What you say is true, but the problems of the Archos tablet aren't carrier related... It's not manufactured by/for a carrier and doesn't have built-in 3G hardware. Problems with Android phones are the carriers' faults. Problems with a non-3G tablet device are the manufacturer's fault.
Hulu, on the other hand, is owned and was created by the big networks as an alternative to bittorrent and iTunes/Amazon for TV shows only...
Actually, Hulu has movies too. They're not the most in-demand movies and there's not a ton of them, but they do have some.
I have a 2G iPod Touch, and I use a microphone occasionally (not for VoIP though).
Since it's not a killswitch at all (even though such a thing does exist for the telcos), it doesn't raise any such thing: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/the-internet-kill-switch-and-other-lies-the-internet-told-you/
Nope
This isn't really targeted specifically for the living room. The article bases its assertion about the living room on the fact that this model includes an HDMI connection (which people have been requesting for years). That does make it a little more convenient for the living room, but it hardly makes it the target application. Note that it still doesn't ship with the remote as a standard option, or with a keyboard or mouse (wireless or otherwise). Also, the default hard drive is still pretty small for a living room media center.
The Apple TV is still the device that's aimed at the living room (and therefore competing with Google TV, and rumors have it that there are big changes in the works to make it more of a mainstream product.
Hence the assertion above that you have to pay Apple an extra $30 to get a USB port.
You're so productive...
Which of the three did you use to post that on slasdot?
(I kid.. sort of)
It looks like they have...Google gave me this link, but when you try to open it in iTunes it says it's not currently available in the US app store.
It's funny how much that sounds like Steve Jobs' e-mail comments about the new iPhone announcements coming up in the face of Android.
Earthquakes can cause hurricanes?
But what about Courier? It was a very interesting concept, but it wasn't even confirmed as a project until it was killed. It likely would have been complicated and expensive (or more likely it would have lost money to stay competitive), although I would have loved to see it come to market.
The point is, even when MS makes a big deal of announcing a tablet (this time it was in the face of the iPad release that everyone knew was coming), it still can't get a successful tablet out the door. And now the tablet that MS tried to use to pre-empt the iPad even though it got almost no fanfare at all, is dying and rising from its own ashes with a Palm OS.
Even HP, which has sold desktops, laptops and PDAs with MS OS's for years, knew that it should jump ship to a better OS as soon as the opportunity arose.
It really all makes Balmer look like an idiot, because by trying to announce the Slate, he basically just legitimized and amped up excitement for a tablet market that MS just can't compete in, and gave Apple a little extra boost. Now the tablet that would have been MS's first mainstream tablet device just got turned against them.
Just so you know, 0.23 is not the same thing as 0.2.3. It's the 23rd minor release, it's not in the middle of it's 2nd minor release.
And MythTV is a hobby project for linux geeks. It likely always will be. I use it and I love it. My wife can use it, but if anything goes wrong, I have to be there to clean it up. And it may take an hour of searching internet forums to find answers.
It has been around for quite a while now, and it's not hard to set up if someone is willing to put some time and effort into it. It is not, however, a commercial-quality product ready for any joe blow to pickup at target and install on a PC. If you want that, there are other options, including Windows Media Center. That works great if you want your general purpose PC to be able to record and playback TV. If you want a dedicated appliance-type set-top box and you don't want to have to screw around with it or spend hours setting it up, get a Tivo, or a DVR from your cable or satellite company. If you want the set-top box, and you want something that you can say you put together yourself, and you want to be in control of the features available on it, spend a lot of time working with MythTV. If you're a tinkerer, you'll love it. If you're not, you'll hate it.
tl;dr: Keep the 0.xx versioning, it's a good representation of who the project is aimed at.
I never understood why Balmer acted like anyone should care that he was introducing the Slate, when tablets had failed for years, and this was just another one (other than the fact that he was trying to preempt the iPad announcement). Now, the irony is that the tablet that he introduced to the world has turned to vapor before it could be released, and MS's lame attempt to steal Apple's thunder is being reborn in a device that may actually steal some thunder from Apple and a lot of thunder from MS, running a non-MS operating system (the only way it can really work right as a tablet).
I'm sure Balmer would like to pretend that it doesn't exist now. I'm looking forward to reading his dismissive comments about it (the sure sign that it's going to be a success) after it's officially announced.
The 42" screens are demos/prototypes. They're not on the market, and if they were on the market, their prices would be much more than plasmas from 5-6 years ago. Sony just gave up on selling their 11" screen for $2500... Imagine what a 42 inch screen would go for.
LG has released a 15" screen in Korea, it should be out in Europe any time now, and in the US this summer. Its price should be roughly the same or just slightly more than the Sony display was, so maybe this is the beginning of a trend of bigger displays coming in at the same prices. We'll have to wait until more manufacturers release displays before we really know how quickly the prices will come down and how quickly bigger displays will start coming out.
As it is, though, prices are insanely high for a display that isn't useful for consumers in general. It's a very, very expensive toy for people who have money to burn on cool new stuff that most people can't afford.
I also thought this part of the article was interesting:
Ellis said school officials had decided a stricter punishment was necessary after lesser penalties failed to serve as a deterrent.
How extreme do the punishments have to be before the powers that be realize that the rule sucks? Maybe deterring is pointless? I understand that Fast Food Nation and Supersize Me are bringing things to public awareness, and in general it's a good thing if the schools increase the nutritional quality of what they provide to the kids, but to try to take away a kid's right to choose whether she's going to eat a tiny piece of long-lasting candy is borderline insane. Rule makers, educators and legistlators: Please stop making new rules just to try to make things "better", when there are much better ways for you to spend your time.
Also, one other question: Do parents get to provide any feedback on this rule?
Of course, he's referring to talk radio, blogs and other mediums that tend to disagree with his political views.
was in the actual article... which of course it wasn't. It's the uninsightful commentary of the submitter himself. Obama said nothing about talk radio or conservative blogs or anything like that. Obama has a perfectly valid right (and even a duty) to point out that we need to think carefully about believing what we hear or read. Notice that he didn't say where you should get your news or where not to get it. He also pointed out how Thomas Jefferson believed that the only way the USA would succeed is if the citizens are informed.
Basically, he's saying that you need to use your head. And this applies just as much to the people that make up conspiracies about Sarah Palin's baby as it does to the birthers.
Apple didn't have developers when the iPhone first came out, either. They offered web-based apps as the way to program for the iPhone.
The way things turned out, people make it sound like Apple invented apps for mobile devices, and suddenly everyone has to have their own "app store".
A lot can happen with developers between generations of a product, or even within a given generation.
The type of people who use the Wii don't depend on a lot of internal memory. It's not a media machine and it doesn't back up games.
Also, the Wii can make use of SD cards.