education: the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
Really, it's "easier..."?
So amusing to see non-theists appropriating theistic "logic" for their scientific proofs....
Sure, Hawking can theorize that there is no God, even claiming that there is no evidence (acceptable to him) to support the existence of God.
But until *he* can make something out of nothing, I think I will keep him relegated to the more suitable position of skeptic.
In fact, the *only* way he can prove there is no God is by being/becoming one and making something out of nothing!
Seems to me you would measure (and report) energy consumption in kilowatt hours or something, right? Not in dollars? At least, you would explain how you calculated the increased costs with some background detail...wouldn't you?
After all, I think energy costs were up at least "1% to 4%" over the time period discussed. Increased "bills" don't equal increased "consumption".
Finally, I don't know whether you can use 2 counties prior bills as a control for statewide weather patterns, and thus variability in consumption patterns across the state. Her results would only be interesting on a county by county basis.
In other words, localized weather conditions SHOULD have produced disparate results in various counties. The effect of GENERALIZING results across the entire state obscures the facts...
this model was demonstrated YEARS ago...in a land far away.http://www.stockholmopen.net/index.php
but no one will listen, even today.
a muni wifi network does NOT have to offer free INTERNET access...it just has to provide ubiquitous access to commercial ISPs...http://software.stockholmopen.net/stockholmopen_1.shtml#SEC1
the muni network provides a single infrastructure and sells access not to users but to the ISPs, which then resell it to their customers. so the local cable co pays the city $3/mo per user of the wifi net and then sells citywide wifi INTERNET access to their existing customers for an additional $7/mo for example...
meanwhile, the city offers direct access to muni services, non-profits, support for underserved populations and even subsidized INTERNET access to targeted populations, city departments, etc.
how stupid can people (and business) be?
actually, i think it gives real definition to that old brainstorming nugget: there are no stupid ideas...
execution, however, that's another story, isn't it?
I was an xBox Live beta tester, and I loved the console.
Last week, I let my xBox Live account lapse for good.
I only use my xBox as an MCE extender now (a role in which it excels, by the way).
Why turn my back on the xBox? Quite frankly, having bought in excess of 20 games for it, and played it since release (inlcuding online). In the end, I don't feel I got my money's worth from it.
The good games were few and far between. Improvements to the console and the online service, equally few and far between.
And then I spent the last year hearing about the 360 and being underwhelmed, except for the obivous: more expensive, with more expensive games (the second round of 1st generation games, no less!), to play on a more expensive, more heavily advertising-laden service that could NOT possibly be more responsive than the original...given all the basic junk they were loading onto it.
Their constant hype of "micro-payments" and "micro marketplaces" only fueled my "micro interest."
So now what? I don't know, maybe I will wait for the Nintendo...more than likely, I will reconsider my previously ridicule-fueled opinion of PC gaming.
So, the good news? There's one less non-offensive/non-obsenity suggesting/non-hatemongering gamertag on xBox Live.
So how do you grow a social networking site? First, you set the terms of service to limit users to those 16 years or older...then you overtly encourage younger (much younger) users to violate those very terms OPENLY and easily detectably (word?)...
So why are there 15-20 million 12 to 13 year olds with MySpace sites (and their public profiles clearly reveal this by revealing both what school and what GRADE they are actually in!?!?!?!?
Because it's all about the money.
The MySpace folks are sick.
Would it be a troll to repost my comment from the original of this dupe?
Or would it be a dupe to repost my troll from the original of this comment?
Or, would it be a comment to repost my dupe from the original troll?/. can be very complicated.
is that while they focus on how things appear similar; they actually only relate to things that are different.
Two comments (one short, one long):
First, I wonder what EVIDENCE (other than the "perp's" confession) the police gathered to actually PROVE that a CRIME occurred? After all, people apparently confess to crimes they didn't commit...all the time. Were logs downloaded from the router? What type of computer forensics were undertaken on the scene? Was the upstream ISP's logs subpoenaed? Oh well....
Second, who actually committed a crime? The homeowner/ISP customer is probably prohibited from sharing his connection. *HE* violated his EULA with the ISP. There is no contractual relationship between the "perp" and the upstream ISP. Particularly when it is very likely that that same ISP proactively offers free wireless access in certain other settings (perhaps a local coffee shop/the library, etc.). Is passthrough IP traffic across a router considered "accessing a computer network"? I am not sure it is that simplistic. After all, if he did not access the homeowner's actual PC or network services (DNS/SMTP), as opposed to the ISP's services...
Finally, if a randy couple decides to have sex in front of their living room picture window with the curtains open, such that the neighbors across the street can clearly see them FROM INSIDE THEIR OWN HOME!?!?!? Who has committed a crime, if any: The randy couple could be guilty of "public indecency" (even though they are in their own home); the neighbors could be guilty of "peeping tom"...
People create loaded buzzwords like Creationism and Intelligent Design with loaded connotations that far exceed the necessity of an agreed-upon denotation.
Then they whip out the philosophy or whatever...
Too bad it is not relevant.
Read on for a more proper STARTING POINT for meaningful discussion.
3. Evolution and God
Q5. Does evolution deny the existence of God?
No. See question 1. There is no reason to believe that God was not a guiding force behind evolution. While it does contradict some specific interpretations of God, especially ones requiring a literal interpretation of Genesis 1, few people have this narrow of a view of God.
There are many people who believe in the existence of God and in evolution. Common descent then describes the process used by God. Until the discovery of a test to separate chance and God this interpretation is a valid one within evolution.
Q6. But isn't this Deism, the belief that God set the universe in motion and walked away?
While it could be Deism, the Bible speaks more of an active God, one who is frequently intervening in His creation. If the Bible represents such a God in historical times there is no reason to assume that He was not active in the universe before then. A guiding hand in evolution could exist, even in the time before humans came around. Just because people were not there to observe does not mean that there was nothing to observe.
Q7. So if God directed evolution, why not just say he created everything at once?
Mainly because all the evidence suggests otherwise. If God created the universe suddenly, he created it in a state that is indistinguishable from true age. If he did create it that way there must be a reason, otherwise God is a liar. Whatever that reason may be, a universe that is exactly like one that is old should be treated as if it were old.
Q8. By denying creation, aren't you denying God's power to create?
No. Because God did not create the world in seven days does not mean that he couldn't. What did, or did not, happen is not an indication of what could, or could not, have happened. All evidence suggests that evolution is the way things happened. Regardless of what could have happened, the evidence would still point to evolution.
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Compare that to putting a TIVO on 4 TV's, even if you get the box for free, it's $1200 for the lifetime guide access (which is free with BeyondTV), and then more money if you want the home networking option so that you can move programs from one TIVO to another.
I know I should let this pass, but for posterity, let me correct a couple of points:
I bought 3 tivos a year ago for $50 each (direct from tivo by weborder). I then purchased 3 usb ethernet adapters for $20 each to add them hardwired to my home network. I then signed up for month to month guide service for a total of $27 (13 for first, 7 each for the others).
So first year cost is/was $534. Second year will be just the 324 in service...for a total 24-month outlay of $858.
So what do I get for that? All the basic DVR stuff (at tivo quality); full MultiRoom Viewing (which allows me to move shows among the different tivos...even when halfway watched); Photo and Music server in all 3 rooms; the ability to schedule recordings remotely over the internet; and tivo2go from all three devices to a PC for archiving OR legal DVD burning (there are ways to do it with what you have, but you can throw in another $50 for Sonic MyDVD, which hooks straight in).
Total cost of $900 for 3 tivos for 2 years of use (including the hardware) Even if I added a 4th ($70 for box and ethernet; $238 for 24 months of guide, etc.) the REALWORLD comparison is $1200 versus your $1800 investment.
Oh, and as an aside, I would love to watch your $1500 machine playback 4 separate streams, and simultaneously record 4 separate programs AT ONCE (because my setup is doing it everyday)! And even if it could, I still have $600 for my next "next" thang.
Okay the premise is theoretically swarming ants...but they cannot actually support a swarm of would be players....
Probably a better (more unintended) metaphor for the new xbox (and live service) than they intended...too little,too late.
A $100 price point and that "works out of the box" experience.
It has been my experience that most Linux geeks only have about $100 and they "live out of the box" (down by the river)...
That said (in jest, I might add), I have 3 Tivo Series 2 Standalones for which I paid $50 each (purchased remanufactured directly from Tivo last summer). I pay $27 a month to Tivo gladly--$13 for the first, $7 each on the second and third). I leave it as an exercise for others to figure out the breakeven point of monthly subscription versus lifetime on all three boxes, but I am pretty sure subscription is the way to go here. I have cable, but don't have any settop boxes.
We have MultiRoom Viewing, Home Media Option and Tivo2Go enabled on all three, so bascially, I can record on any of the 3, and watch from one to another (did I mention they are all on my home network via wired ethernet?), including starting something in one room and finishing it in another.
Anything I like gets transferred in the background to a home media PC server...where there are ways to make the video "available" to all devices in the home. But what I really want is for Tivo to dump the big HardDrive units and stick with 40 or 80 gig'ers...use the PC/network for permanent storage and incorporate playback from the PC to the Tivo DIRECTLY.
The reality remains that people who have NOT used a Tivo should NOT be allowed to comment on their value proposition. I have other thoughts about this as well, but you will have to find them elsewhere...
I am fastforwarding through commercials and yet TiVo is *SHOWING* me a commercial?!?!?!?
When fastforwarding at a minimum 2x, how can they show me a commercial and yet let me see when to stop fastforwarding and go back to my show? (How do they know how long a commercial to show?)
Given that it is, after all, digital content; does this mean that TiVo will deliberately slowdown the FF to allow time to show commercials? I mean, if I am using 30-sec skip, how CAN they show a commercial?
And when they are (technically) showing commercials ON TOP OF the paid advertisers commercials (thus obscuring them), aren't they treading into the realm of "taking" the broadcasters IP?
Quite frankly, we are all at odds with one another: viewers seeking ways to escape ads, and everyone else trying to show us ads. No way is this going to work out well for TiVo. Since when has anyone even had longterm success trying to BRIBE people to watch ads?
This is undoubtedly the first nail in TiVo's coffin (and I own 3 units).
Worse, this is the first real sign of the merging worlds of internet and broadcast--it's the same issue in both cases.
talk about repurposed content...
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Oh my absolute favorite is the "Chapter 15: Making a Dynamic Wireless Digital Picture Frame"
Ha, ha, ha....
Sounds a lot like "Chapter 15: Creating a Digital Picture Frame." from the Linux Toys book, doesn't it?
Hmmmm, given that the Picture frame was a scavanged and hacked LAPTOP (!?!?!?) what new info could they have added to the WiFi version? Oh, I get it, "insert a PCMCIA wireless adapter card."
What a great book. What's next, "G'whiz WiFi Toys, version 2" in which you just replace the B cards with G cards...
This sounds more like Extreme Dreck.
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Excuse me. Let's compare a $150 console with a $2000-plus Leet gamerz rig, huh...oh, and for an additional $50, I get a year of unlimited broadband multiplayer fun...
Hmmmm. Throw in $50 for Halo 2, and boom, for $250, all the lamers (me included, that's for sure) will be playing our fingers off--in my case up on a 60-inch rear projection monitor.
Oh, feel like driving for a while, or a little sports, swap the disc and keep on going...
Man oh man, this is the same discussion as TiVo versus a homebrew PVR...
All I can say is: To all of you out there that like doing your own dental work...I've got a teeth-cleaning appointment at my dentist's tomorrow.
The better for you to see my pearly whites come midnight...
That may be, but based on the performances in the debates so far, I think our MCOTUS has been listening to his own little "Karltena" a wee bit too much!?!?!?
Let me see if I understand you all: You're pissed that someone playing around with the underlying tech of gMail is going to cause you the *disaster* of losing your oh-so-vital e-mail!?!?!?
Let's all just agree right now, that anyone worried about their gMail (and thus obviously unable to run their own Internet-accessible mail server) is SO clueless and SO *user-like* that they are NOT to comment on gMail hacks...
Insert the various tired-out cautions here: It's a free service (you didn't think it would last forever did you?); What, you didn't back up your e-mail locally (are you nuts, it's not like you were paying them to...).
This guy is just one of many blurring the whole distinction between file systems/datastores/mailservers/etc. and what in the world is the harm in that? (That's kinda how gMail came about, isn't it?
If you are so worried, go get 10-12 yahoo accounts and don't worry/be happy--I haven't noticed anybody hacking yahoo's webmail service...
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Realistically, charities don't really have privacy concerns (other than governmental compliance).
education: the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
training: activity leading to skilled behavior.
sigh...
http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Tracking
Really, it's "easier..."? So amusing to see non-theists appropriating theistic "logic" for their scientific proofs.... Sure, Hawking can theorize that there is no God, even claiming that there is no evidence (acceptable to him) to support the existence of God. But until *he* can make something out of nothing, I think I will keep him relegated to the more suitable position of skeptic. In fact, the *only* way he can prove there is no God is by being/becoming one and making something out of nothing!
My cardboard boxes are free. Of course, they can't be used to show off how intellectual I am.
Oh, you're not living in them, then...
Seems to me you would measure (and report) energy consumption in kilowatt hours or something, right? Not in dollars? At least, you would explain how you calculated the increased costs with some background detail...wouldn't you?
After all, I think energy costs were up at least "1% to 4%" over the time period discussed. Increased "bills" don't equal increased "consumption".
Finally, I don't know whether you can use 2 counties prior bills as a control for statewide weather patterns, and thus variability in consumption patterns across the state. Her results would only be interesting on a county by county basis.
In other words, localized weather conditions SHOULD have produced disparate results in various counties. The effect of GENERALIZING results across the entire state obscures the facts...
this model was demonstrated YEARS ago...in a land far away.http://www.stockholmopen.net/index.php but no one will listen, even today. a muni wifi network does NOT have to offer free INTERNET access...it just has to provide ubiquitous access to commercial ISPs...http://software.stockholmopen.net/stockholmopen_1.shtml#SEC1 the muni network provides a single infrastructure and sells access not to users but to the ISPs, which then resell it to their customers. so the local cable co pays the city $3/mo per user of the wifi net and then sells citywide wifi INTERNET access to their existing customers for an additional $7/mo for example... meanwhile, the city offers direct access to muni services, non-profits, support for underserved populations and even subsidized INTERNET access to targeted populations, city departments, etc. how stupid can people (and business) be?
actually, i think it gives real definition to that old brainstorming nugget: there are no stupid ideas... execution, however, that's another story, isn't it?
I was an xBox Live beta tester, and I loved the console. Last week, I let my xBox Live account lapse for good. I only use my xBox as an MCE extender now (a role in which it excels, by the way). Why turn my back on the xBox? Quite frankly, having bought in excess of 20 games for it, and played it since release (inlcuding online). In the end, I don't feel I got my money's worth from it. The good games were few and far between. Improvements to the console and the online service, equally few and far between. And then I spent the last year hearing about the 360 and being underwhelmed, except for the obivous: more expensive, with more expensive games (the second round of 1st generation games, no less!), to play on a more expensive, more heavily advertising-laden service that could NOT possibly be more responsive than the original...given all the basic junk they were loading onto it. Their constant hype of "micro-payments" and "micro marketplaces" only fueled my "micro interest." So now what? I don't know, maybe I will wait for the Nintendo...more than likely, I will reconsider my previously ridicule-fueled opinion of PC gaming. So, the good news? There's one less non-offensive/non-obsenity suggesting/non-hatemongering gamertag on xBox Live.
So how do you grow a social networking site? First, you set the terms of service to limit users to those 16 years or older...then you overtly encourage younger (much younger) users to violate those very terms OPENLY and easily detectably (word?)... So why are there 15-20 million 12 to 13 year olds with MySpace sites (and their public profiles clearly reveal this by revealing both what school and what GRADE they are actually in!?!?!?!? Because it's all about the money. The MySpace folks are sick.
I want to point out that I made this very point explicitly a couple of days earlier than the Register article in the Comments on Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcements/dell-open s-up-129032.php
Perhaps the new strategy will be to let subscribers read a "dupe-free" version?
Would it be a troll to repost my comment from the original of this dupe? Or would it be a dupe to repost my troll from the original of this comment? Or, would it be a comment to repost my dupe from the original troll? /. can be very complicated.
is that while they focus on how things appear similar; they actually only relate to things that are different. Two comments (one short, one long): First, I wonder what EVIDENCE (other than the "perp's" confession) the police gathered to actually PROVE that a CRIME occurred? After all, people apparently confess to crimes they didn't commit...all the time. Were logs downloaded from the router? What type of computer forensics were undertaken on the scene? Was the upstream ISP's logs subpoenaed? Oh well.... Second, who actually committed a crime? The homeowner/ISP customer is probably prohibited from sharing his connection. *HE* violated his EULA with the ISP. There is no contractual relationship between the "perp" and the upstream ISP. Particularly when it is very likely that that same ISP proactively offers free wireless access in certain other settings (perhaps a local coffee shop/the library, etc.). Is passthrough IP traffic across a router considered "accessing a computer network"? I am not sure it is that simplistic. After all, if he did not access the homeowner's actual PC or network services (DNS/SMTP), as opposed to the ISP's services... Finally, if a randy couple decides to have sex in front of their living room picture window with the curtains open, such that the neighbors across the street can clearly see them FROM INSIDE THEIR OWN HOME!?!?!? Who has committed a crime, if any: The randy couple could be guilty of "public indecency" (even though they are in their own home); the neighbors could be guilty of "peeping tom"...
People create loaded buzzwords like Creationism and Intelligent Design with loaded connotations that far exceed the necessity of an agreed-upon denotation.
Then they whip out the philosophy or whatever...
Too bad it is not relevant.
Read on for a more proper STARTING POINT for meaningful discussion.
And God bless you.
Here's a little quoteout from http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-god.html
3. Evolution and God Q5. Does evolution deny the existence of God?
No. See question 1. There is no reason to believe that God was not a guiding force behind evolution. While it does contradict some specific interpretations of God, especially ones requiring a literal interpretation of Genesis 1, few people have this narrow of a view of God. There are many people who believe in the existence of God and in evolution. Common descent then describes the process used by God. Until the discovery of a test to separate chance and God this interpretation is a valid one within evolution.
Q6. But isn't this Deism, the belief that God set the universe in motion and walked away?
While it could be Deism, the Bible speaks more of an active God, one who is frequently intervening in His creation. If the Bible represents such a God in historical times there is no reason to assume that He was not active in the universe before then. A guiding hand in evolution could exist, even in the time before humans came around. Just because people were not there to observe does not mean that there was nothing to observe.
Q7. So if God directed evolution, why not just say he created everything at once?
Mainly because all the evidence suggests otherwise. If God created the universe suddenly, he created it in a state that is indistinguishable from true age. If he did create it that way there must be a reason, otherwise God is a liar. Whatever that reason may be, a universe that is exactly like one that is old should be treated as if it were old.
Q8. By denying creation, aren't you denying God's power to create?
No. Because God did not create the world in seven days does not mean that he couldn't. What did, or did not, happen is not an indication of what could, or could not, have happened. All evidence suggests that evolution is the way things happened. Regardless of what could have happened, the evidence would still point to evolution.
I know I should let this pass, but for posterity, let me correct a couple of points:
I bought 3 tivos a year ago for $50 each (direct from tivo by weborder). I then purchased 3 usb ethernet adapters for $20 each to add them hardwired to my home network. I then signed up for month to month guide service for a total of $27 (13 for first, 7 each for the others).
So first year cost is/was $534. Second year will be just the 324 in service...for a total 24-month outlay of $858.
So what do I get for that? All the basic DVR stuff (at tivo quality); full MultiRoom Viewing (which allows me to move shows among the different tivos...even when halfway watched); Photo and Music server in all 3 rooms; the ability to schedule recordings remotely over the internet; and tivo2go from all three devices to a PC for archiving OR legal DVD burning (there are ways to do it with what you have, but you can throw in another $50 for Sonic MyDVD, which hooks straight in).
Total cost of $900 for 3 tivos for 2 years of use (including the hardware) Even if I added a 4th ($70 for box and ethernet; $238 for 24 months of guide, etc.) the REALWORLD comparison is $1200 versus your $1800 investment.
Oh, and as an aside, I would love to watch your $1500 machine playback 4 separate streams, and simultaneously record 4 separate programs AT ONCE (because my setup is doing it everyday)! And even if it could, I still have $600 for my next "next" thang.
Okay the premise is theoretically swarming ants...but they cannot actually support a swarm of would be players.... Probably a better (more unintended) metaphor for the new xbox (and live service) than they intended...too little,too late.
It has been my experience that most Linux geeks only have about $100 and they "live out of the box" (down by the river)...
That said (in jest, I might add), I have 3 Tivo Series 2 Standalones for which I paid $50 each (purchased remanufactured directly from Tivo last summer). I pay $27 a month to Tivo gladly--$13 for the first, $7 each on the second and third). I leave it as an exercise for others to figure out the breakeven point of monthly subscription versus lifetime on all three boxes, but I am pretty sure subscription is the way to go here. I have cable, but don't have any settop boxes.
We have MultiRoom Viewing, Home Media Option and Tivo2Go enabled on all three, so bascially, I can record on any of the 3, and watch from one to another (did I mention they are all on my home network via wired ethernet?), including starting something in one room and finishing it in another.
Anything I like gets transferred in the background to a home media PC server...where there are ways to make the video "available" to all devices in the home. But what I really want is for Tivo to dump the big HardDrive units and stick with 40 or 80 gig'ers...use the PC/network for permanent storage and incorporate playback from the PC to the Tivo DIRECTLY.
The reality remains that people who have NOT used a Tivo should NOT be allowed to comment on their value proposition. I have other thoughts about this as well, but you will have to find them elsewhere...
Seriously, I recommend the following combo, which I have fallen in love with:
http://www.xwall.us/
http://www.esatinformer.com/
I am fastforwarding through commercials and yet TiVo is *SHOWING* me a commercial?!?!?!?
When fastforwarding at a minimum 2x, how can they show me a commercial and yet let me see when to stop fastforwarding and go back to my show? (How do they know how long a commercial to show?)
Given that it is, after all, digital content; does this mean that TiVo will deliberately slowdown the FF to allow time to show commercials? I mean, if I am using 30-sec skip, how CAN they show a commercial?
And when they are (technically) showing commercials ON TOP OF the paid advertisers commercials (thus obscuring them), aren't they treading into the realm of "taking" the broadcasters IP?
Quite frankly, we are all at odds with one another: viewers seeking ways to escape ads, and everyone else trying to show us ads. No way is this going to work out well for TiVo. Since when has anyone even had longterm success trying to BRIBE people to watch ads?
This is undoubtedly the first nail in TiVo's coffin (and I own 3 units).
Worse, this is the first real sign of the merging worlds of internet and broadcast--it's the same issue in both cases.
Oh my absolute favorite is the "Chapter 15: Making a Dynamic Wireless Digital Picture Frame"
Ha, ha, ha....
Sounds a lot like "Chapter 15: Creating a Digital Picture Frame." from the Linux Toys book, doesn't it?
Hmmmm, given that the Picture frame was a scavanged and hacked LAPTOP (!?!?!?) what new info could they have added to the WiFi version? Oh, I get it, "insert a PCMCIA wireless adapter card."
What a great book. What's next, "G'whiz WiFi Toys, version 2" in which you just replace the B cards with G cards...
This sounds more like Extreme Dreck.
Excuse me. Let's compare a $150 console with a $2000-plus Leet gamerz rig, huh...oh, and for an additional $50, I get a year of unlimited broadband multiplayer fun...
Hmmmm. Throw in $50 for Halo 2, and boom, for $250, all the lamers (me included, that's for sure) will be playing our fingers off--in my case up on a 60-inch rear projection monitor.
Oh, feel like driving for a while, or a little sports, swap the disc and keep on going...
Man oh man, this is the same discussion as TiVo versus a homebrew PVR...
All I can say is: To all of you out there that like doing your own dental work...I've got a teeth-cleaning appointment at my dentist's tomorrow.
The better for you to see my pearly whites come midnight...
That may be, but based on the performances in the debates so far, I think our MCOTUS has been listening to his own little "Karltena" a wee bit too much!?!?!?
Actually, the large screen TV output on most of those really sucks...blocky, blocky, blocky.
I never could get a good output signal using either a 27" tube or 65" rear projection.
It really put me off of PVRs. But now I do have 3 TiVos which are very popular with everyone in the house...
But does anyone *really* output their PVR (MS or Myth) to an actual TV? (or better yet--modulate it into a housewide video distribution system)?
Let me see if I understand you all: You're pissed that someone playing around with the underlying tech of gMail is going to cause you the *disaster* of losing your oh-so-vital e-mail!?!?!?
Let's all just agree right now, that anyone worried about their gMail (and thus obviously unable to run their own Internet-accessible mail server) is SO clueless and SO *user-like* that they are NOT to comment on gMail hacks...
Insert the various tired-out cautions here: It's a free service (you didn't think it would last forever did you?); What, you didn't back up your e-mail locally (are you nuts, it's not like you were paying them to...).
This guy is just one of many blurring the whole distinction between file systems/datastores/mailservers/etc. and what in the world is the harm in that? (That's kinda how gMail came about, isn't it?
If you are so worried, go get 10-12 yahoo accounts and don't worry/be happy--I haven't noticed anybody hacking yahoo's webmail service...