Replay TV is the best. It is a Video Recorder that does everything that a Tivo does with much less intrusion. If you buy an older model on ebay in the 5500 series, you can get the model that automagically skips most commercials. It will talk to your cable box, and if you buy one with the lifetime subscription ($299) it will give you weeks of TV scheduling ahead of time. You also can go to Source Forge and download the driver that lets you take out the 40 Gig drive and put in a 300 Gig and record mucho hours of video.
Oh yes, if interfaces nicely with your PC using DVArchive. You can use your LAN to capture the video and watch it from your PC. It also finds video shows and movies on the subjects you like.
You make some excellent points. Right now I do not have time to offer a long reply, but on the matter of writing and history check out www.chinamuseums.com
The Chinese have an unbroken record because in their doings they seem to have kept a reverence for their past and not trashed it.
Regarding the esteemed Bishop Usher, my argument is not that he is wrong, but that he made some arbitrary assumptions which are unsupported by the original religious literature he was attempting to define. There are many, but in essence I believe there are three major steps of reason which are unsupported.
1. He just assumed that the "days" spoken of in the Hebrew Bible were chronologically the same as the modern interpretation of "day." Just as translators choose to term the Greek word for "age" and "era" and "world" (same Greek word) as "world" and thus making thousands of years of followers worry about the end of the world rather than the end of an era. It is my belief that this paradigm colors all of our western thinking regarding the end of the world coming soon and rolling up creation. Keep in mind that Star Trek Next Gen gets a lot of flack for showing a future filled with many enlightened and rational people. Not all certainly, but a significant percentage. These rational people apparently take care of the poor, honor personal freedoms, and believe that morality is essential to humanity. This does not square well with the end-of-the-worlders. It is only a new era.
2. Even more astounding is the six day assessment of the Genesis Story. The first three days of which passed prior to the creation of the sun. This interpretation of a "day" is based upon an assumption that somehow the Almighty was constrained by a planetary relationship which was not yet created. While it cannot be proved false, it is only a conjecture. Even the Biblical text itself has some days being 1,000 years long. It is my humble belief that I have absolutely no idea of the actual length in modern counting of the time period which may have passed according to that creation story. If the early "days" were a billion earth years long it would make just as much sense biblicaly and yet not contradict the information which we have gathered through scientific means due to humanity's powers of reason and logic, which, I believe, were also created by the same Divine agency.
3. Amazingly, all religions have a creation story, not just the western mainstream religions. The Indigenous peoples of North America, South America and Australia have creation stories which parallel the western faiths. While vastly different in physical details they all have the central theme that the universe was created by intention and by a higher power, that humanity all originated from the same substance of the Earth, and the Almighty revealed to humanity certain moral ways of living which effectively create the difference between what is right and what is wrong. This indicates to me that the stories of the creation of the Earth and the lessens therefrom are not physical histories but spiritual truths. As spiritual truths they are eternal, make coherent sense, and are amazingly in agreement. As physical histories they do not match much observed phenomena and are of little use. The confusion, to my way of thinking, is that we have limited the meaning of our Wisdom Literature and thus created a spurious difference between science and religion. Science is about what we have learned regarding that which was created previously, while religion is about what people need to do and become for their future advancement. Our society has them reversed. The problem with the 6,000 year assumption is that it limits the power of God to do only what we assume to have been correct, that it assumes certain timescales which we cannot know, and ignores all written histories and inscribed artifacts from our ancestors which clearly show we have been on this Earth for far longer.
Best Regards,
Excellent opinions. One issue with predicting the future is that most futurists (in fact probably many of the 700 experts polled) are not expert on the future --but on the past. Indeed, the way one becomes an "expert" is to learn something well that already existed. Thus, their visions of the future are formed just like the rest of us, by science fiction movies. The bigger the gross of the movie, the more like the future we think it is. This is the power of suggestion, not futurism. (OK, really good books count too.)
The future of humanity will be formed from elemental principles that we cannot resist, all else consists of trends and affectations. Some folks think that these elemental principles must be only material, and are attracted to the 'global warming will change it all' religion. Others think that the principles are only from their personal view of what their vision of God wants. These form a cluster of fanatical religions seeking to impose their personal understanding of God's will, as was eloquently stated by misanthrope101.
However, one thing is sure, that the worldview from the year 1020 CE would never have predicted anything that exists today. We are thinking too small, time is much larger than our predictions. Humanity is evolving upward as an organic unity and is still in the early days of its awareness. We have barely 9,000 years of written history (Much to the horror of those who believe we have only been here for 6,000 years based upon the infallible Bishop Usher.) and yet we want to go to the stars, cure sickness, end poverty, and most of us would like the peoples of Earth to be at peace and have justice prevail. Certainly there are loud groups that want otherwise and CNN and Fox feast on these exceptions in their ratings-gathering fear mongering. However, the overwhelmingly vast masses of Earth want to live in peace and raise a family without fear. The desire for freedom from fear is soon to be an elemental force that will shake the planet. But that is not the future, it is a small step driven by elemental forces.
Think of how we will be after our turbulent adolescence in 1,000 more years. How about 10,000 more years? That's the future! Some doubt our continuation as a species mostly because that is the plot in the Si-Fi movies they see and what the fear mongers repeat. How easily the "experts" are led by reporters and politicians even after our experience as a species for perhaps 500 thousands of years has clearly shown that humanity has remarkable abilities to learn, adapt, and change based on need. I vote for the creativity of the human race, something that has never failed before and shows absolutely no sign of failing now as Slashdot attests hourly.
Good comments. Refine your requirements; you need to consider what you are protecting, and what are the threats you are concerned with. Sure server rooms are sensitive, but your boss can go to jail if the financial records are not valid. Your company can get big fines if health information is disclosed improperly, and there are always the GAAP rules to prevent fraud.
The physical layout can be modified to enhance security and the ease of establishing it. However, do not pay for security that is not required. If you rely on biometric ID (and some of the new fingerprint readers are quite sophisticated and beyond the gummy-bear hack) do not burden your folks with a card. And yes you will need a physical back-up when the power goes down. But if the power is down your risk in some cases is less. If you send everybody home your risk is often less if the building is secure physically. Consider the threat model of each situation and plan accordingly.
By the way, the small, cheap card readers the vender sells you will require a few centimeters of distance to read the smart cards. The hackers can read them at 69 feet. But their readers are big, costly and fill the backpack of the bright yong woman waiting for her ride in front of your business.
Egad! Of course these things are on standby; this was the solution to wasting more than 50x MORE power when people left them on all the time. Any mention of "standby power waste" must, by interplanetary law, be always followed by this sentence: "Which, of course, was the power-saving solution after we found that the majority of Earth people did not, and would not, turn these appliances off."
Sigh. As with much "news" and "science," what appears to be an easy answer is often incomplete if not faulty. (We often take it as truth because it is published.)
If you take a bunch of corn and quarter it, thus removing the hull pressure entirely, much if it will still POP. Why? How? Huh!
This "discovery" adds nothing new to knowledge. Kind of like many items in journals. It was wrong 30 years ago and it is wrong now. The theory of popping is not yet firm.
Perhaps we could call it the High Temperature Uncertainty Principle?
You are correct, I am not that old. It was 5MB.
A few years later at Comdex we saw two 500MB drives hooked together on a table (they took up about the size of a small card table) and together they made up a Gigabyte. We were impressed.
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Replay TV is the best. It is a Video Recorder that does everything that a Tivo does with much less intrusion. If you buy an older model on ebay in the 5500 series, you can get the model that automagically skips most commercials. It will talk to your cable box, and if you buy one with the lifetime subscription ($299) it will give you weeks of TV scheduling ahead of time. You also can go to Source Forge and download the driver that lets you take out the 40 Gig drive and put in a 300 Gig and record mucho hours of video. Oh yes, if interfaces nicely with your PC using DVArchive. You can use your LAN to capture the video and watch it from your PC. It also finds video shows and movies on the subjects you like.
I have always wondered how to spell dad-gummit. Thanks!
You make some excellent points. Right now I do not have time to offer a long reply, but on the matter of writing and history check out www.chinamuseums.com The Chinese have an unbroken record because in their doings they seem to have kept a reverence for their past and not trashed it. Regarding the esteemed Bishop Usher, my argument is not that he is wrong, but that he made some arbitrary assumptions which are unsupported by the original religious literature he was attempting to define. There are many, but in essence I believe there are three major steps of reason which are unsupported. 1. He just assumed that the "days" spoken of in the Hebrew Bible were chronologically the same as the modern interpretation of "day." Just as translators choose to term the Greek word for "age" and "era" and "world" (same Greek word) as "world" and thus making thousands of years of followers worry about the end of the world rather than the end of an era. It is my belief that this paradigm colors all of our western thinking regarding the end of the world coming soon and rolling up creation. Keep in mind that Star Trek Next Gen gets a lot of flack for showing a future filled with many enlightened and rational people. Not all certainly, but a significant percentage. These rational people apparently take care of the poor, honor personal freedoms, and believe that morality is essential to humanity. This does not square well with the end-of-the-worlders. It is only a new era. 2. Even more astounding is the six day assessment of the Genesis Story. The first three days of which passed prior to the creation of the sun. This interpretation of a "day" is based upon an assumption that somehow the Almighty was constrained by a planetary relationship which was not yet created. While it cannot be proved false, it is only a conjecture. Even the Biblical text itself has some days being 1,000 years long. It is my humble belief that I have absolutely no idea of the actual length in modern counting of the time period which may have passed according to that creation story. If the early "days" were a billion earth years long it would make just as much sense biblicaly and yet not contradict the information which we have gathered through scientific means due to humanity's powers of reason and logic, which, I believe, were also created by the same Divine agency. 3. Amazingly, all religions have a creation story, not just the western mainstream religions. The Indigenous peoples of North America, South America and Australia have creation stories which parallel the western faiths. While vastly different in physical details they all have the central theme that the universe was created by intention and by a higher power, that humanity all originated from the same substance of the Earth, and the Almighty revealed to humanity certain moral ways of living which effectively create the difference between what is right and what is wrong. This indicates to me that the stories of the creation of the Earth and the lessens therefrom are not physical histories but spiritual truths. As spiritual truths they are eternal, make coherent sense, and are amazingly in agreement. As physical histories they do not match much observed phenomena and are of little use. The confusion, to my way of thinking, is that we have limited the meaning of our Wisdom Literature and thus created a spurious difference between science and religion. Science is about what we have learned regarding that which was created previously, while religion is about what people need to do and become for their future advancement. Our society has them reversed. The problem with the 6,000 year assumption is that it limits the power of God to do only what we assume to have been correct, that it assumes certain timescales which we cannot know, and ignores all written histories and inscribed artifacts from our ancestors which clearly show we have been on this Earth for far longer. Best Regards,
Excellent opinions. One issue with predicting the future is that most futurists (in fact probably many of the 700 experts polled) are not expert on the future --but on the past. Indeed, the way one becomes an "expert" is to learn something well that already existed. Thus, their visions of the future are formed just like the rest of us, by science fiction movies. The bigger the gross of the movie, the more like the future we think it is. This is the power of suggestion, not futurism. (OK, really good books count too.) The future of humanity will be formed from elemental principles that we cannot resist, all else consists of trends and affectations. Some folks think that these elemental principles must be only material, and are attracted to the 'global warming will change it all' religion. Others think that the principles are only from their personal view of what their vision of God wants. These form a cluster of fanatical religions seeking to impose their personal understanding of God's will, as was eloquently stated by misanthrope101. However, one thing is sure, that the worldview from the year 1020 CE would never have predicted anything that exists today. We are thinking too small, time is much larger than our predictions. Humanity is evolving upward as an organic unity and is still in the early days of its awareness. We have barely 9,000 years of written history (Much to the horror of those who believe we have only been here for 6,000 years based upon the infallible Bishop Usher.) and yet we want to go to the stars, cure sickness, end poverty, and most of us would like the peoples of Earth to be at peace and have justice prevail. Certainly there are loud groups that want otherwise and CNN and Fox feast on these exceptions in their ratings-gathering fear mongering. However, the overwhelmingly vast masses of Earth want to live in peace and raise a family without fear. The desire for freedom from fear is soon to be an elemental force that will shake the planet. But that is not the future, it is a small step driven by elemental forces. Think of how we will be after our turbulent adolescence in 1,000 more years. How about 10,000 more years? That's the future! Some doubt our continuation as a species mostly because that is the plot in the Si-Fi movies they see and what the fear mongers repeat. How easily the "experts" are led by reporters and politicians even after our experience as a species for perhaps 500 thousands of years has clearly shown that humanity has remarkable abilities to learn, adapt, and change based on need. I vote for the creativity of the human race, something that has never failed before and shows absolutely no sign of failing now as Slashdot attests hourly.
Good comments. Refine your requirements; you need to consider what you are protecting, and what are the threats you are concerned with. Sure server rooms are sensitive, but your boss can go to jail if the financial records are not valid. Your company can get big fines if health information is disclosed improperly, and there are always the GAAP rules to prevent fraud.
The physical layout can be modified to enhance security and the ease of establishing it. However, do not pay for security that is not required. If you rely on biometric ID (and some of the new fingerprint readers are quite sophisticated and beyond the gummy-bear hack) do not burden your folks with a card. And yes you will need a physical back-up when the power goes down. But if the power is down your risk in some cases is less. If you send everybody home your risk is often less if the building is secure physically. Consider the threat model of each situation and plan accordingly.
By the way, the small, cheap card readers the vender sells you will require a few centimeters of distance to read the smart cards. The hackers can read them at 69 feet. But their readers are big, costly and fill the backpack of the bright yong woman waiting for her ride in front of your business.
Egad! Of course these things are on standby; this was the solution to wasting more than 50x MORE power when people left them on all the time. Any mention of "standby power waste" must, by interplanetary law, be always followed by this sentence: "Which, of course, was the power-saving solution after we found that the majority of Earth people did not, and would not, turn these appliances off."
Sigh. As with much "news" and "science," what appears to be an easy answer is often incomplete if not faulty. (We often take it as truth because it is published.) If you take a bunch of corn and quarter it, thus removing the hull pressure entirely, much if it will still POP. Why? How? Huh! This "discovery" adds nothing new to knowledge. Kind of like many items in journals. It was wrong 30 years ago and it is wrong now. The theory of popping is not yet firm. Perhaps we could call it the High Temperature Uncertainty Principle?
You are correct, I am not that old. It was 5MB. A few years later at Comdex we saw two 500MB drives hooked together on a table (they took up about the size of a small card table) and together they made up a Gigabyte. We were impressed.
It was not that many years ago.... OK, it was a long time, when Radio Shack was selling a 5K Tandy hard drive (the size of two shoeboxes) for $5,000.