Grefox --
Prepubescent dweebies are the speed bumps on the way to a good tournament win.
With any luck, you can taunt them with their incredibly bad play and take all their chips when you have a hand.
I'm always dissapointed when someone beats me to busting out a prepubescent dweebie! They are almost like free rebuys.:-):-)
I envy your implied closeness to a casino; the closest one for me is 2.5 hours away. Since my poker playing stints rarely exceed 1.5 hours, the commute alone would eat all my play time.
One would assume lots of players are online for the same reason.
Grumling... dead on the comments. "Back in my day, we had to learn morse code using two nails, a stick and a battery made from a pickle! And we liked it!"
p.s. My openbsd box is named 'linksys' just to add some surrealism to the lives of those looking for a free ride.
Southwestern Bell customer:
I cut my phone line down to $15/mo or so; no services (call fowarding, call waiting, no long distance.
It serves only as a hard backup for VOIP failures, and for "real" 911 service, ADT Alarm service, and satellite dishes that need to dialout.
Everything else goes over Vonage, with simulring forwarded to my cell.
Pretty soon, I'll have a Sipura 3000 which automatically switches between PSTN and VOIP in case of power failure, so that all phones in the house will pass the wife test.
And no matter what, when you dial 911, it is routed over PSTN.
Theo would just like to say GNU/thanks to RMS for
his GNU/special GNU/award, and is going to have a lovely GNU/beer in GNU/RMS's honor.
Thank is GNU/all.
I prefer the Really Good News bible... there's
no print, you just lick the pages.
But seriously, told that joke once at a Sunday
School class party, and the guy who laughed
the loudest quickly checked himself and turned
beet red.
Agreed -- Stargate shows a nice story arc.
Unfortunately, they have started (in my opinion) to rely a little too heavily on "Wheel of Time" tactics
-- Apophis is dead!
No he's not.
But he is now!
No he's not.
Rotate between that and the "replicators are gone!"
"No they aren't" ad naseum and it's getting a little stale.
Having said that, I think SG1 -- much more so than Enterprise -- might engage an external hardcore scifi writer like Bova, Brin, or Bear rather than descending into the egotistical crapfest ST:Voyager and other Braga shows became.
Sorry if it sounds fanboyish but SG1 would do very nicely with a decent sci-fi writer adding some new material.
And on a personal note, now that I've switched to a high fiber diet my cholesteral has returned to normal and my "Brennon Braga storyline's" are coming out much fluffier.
There goes another one now. Something to do with anti-particle muons and the holo emitter found in Bellana's belly button.
Heard it here first?
Sorry, I heard it first on the web/digest version of comp.risks... http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks
Excellent place to read about the risks of modern computing equipment and the risks to society
by using same usually from mistakes like the 16 bit counter.
The MCE boxes aren't 100% problem free, but as I've posted elsewhere they pass the wife test!
My original box was built with the "gold-standard" Hauppauge 250, a 1.5GHz PC and was connected to one of my DirecTV tuners.
Worked a treat, even though frankly 1.5GHz was at the bottom end of what MCE needed. MythTV, Freevo and others make much better use of your CPU if
you are resource constrained.
Upgraded to a Fry's speical 3GHz P-IV box, but
the Hauppauge PVR-250 wouldn't bloody work no matter what I did with my VIA chipset mobo.
Cancelled the satellite dish ($80/mo for what??) and stopped watching TV altogether for months.
Eventually rebuilt the MCE box with an Aver M-150 (the one meant for MCE) and it worked like a champ, but with poor reception due to an indoor antenna. Didn't matter since most MCE use was from downloaded media anyway. (MCE can be used without a tuner as a playback only system, BTW.)
Decided to move to HDTV and purchased a Fusion HTDV Fusion III QAM card. Despite the "QAM" part of the name (yes it tunes digital cable), I'm just using it for Over The Air (OTA) time-shifting.
Only, thanks to identical chipsets on the Aver and Fusion Cards, driver conflicts keep both from working at once. Sigh.
In case you are wondering the upgrade from MCE 2004 to 2005 added OTA HTDV time-shifting, but at a price -- you still must have a seperate analog tuner card in your system. MCE waits until the analog setup is completed to say 'Oh, you have a digital card! Want to set that up too?' Supposedly it'll be fixed one of these days,
but until then you can't have a 'digital only' setup.
Also, technically the Fusion card has both analog and digital tuning capability, but thanks to either limitations in the Fusion driver or MCE the Fusion's analog tuner isn't used by MCE.
Switched analog tuner cards again to the new Hauppauge MCE-150 which *does* work with the VIA chipset mobo and also the Fusion HTDV QAM III thanks to different chipsets between the Hauppauge and the Fusion card. So now I have a two tuner setup; one HTDV, one analog.
Eventually Fusion promises to enable both the analog and HTDV tuner chains in MCE, meaning you'll only need one tuner card or you'll gain an analog tuner. Then again, that may be in MCE 2006.:-)
I'm still using an indoor antenna but switched to a Zenith Silver Sensor from a really crappy TERK
that used to ride on the back of my DirecTV dish.
If you are going HTDV and live close to the antenna(e) serving you (http://www.antennaweb.org)
the Zenith Silver Sensor is your best bet. In fact the FCC uses it as a reference antenna when testing HTDV reception and other antennae.
You have to love pulling in an Over The Air (OTA) digital signal; analog reception is still poor, particularly at the bottom of the VHF band (the SS is a UHF antenna), but I get crystal-clear reception of all my locals on the HTDV card! LOL.
Clearly, I went through a lot of money and a lot of time reloading the OS, changing out tuner cards, fiddling with beta drives from DVICO (the makers of the Fusion card) and buying an new $25 antenna.
In the end it was worth it because the system just plays downloaded media, DVDs or recorded TV effortlessly and the wife likes it.
When Apple comes out with their, I'll definately be eyeing it as the next system purchase. But for now, I'm pretty darn happy.
If you are adventurous and would like to use a slower CPU system, definately consider MythTV. As a Linux-based system it makes excellent use of the hardware. The Hauppauge PVR-350 does MPEG encoding and can present a menu on its TV-out, keeping the system console free for your use. And of course multiple tuners are supported.
Of course, if your only criteria is that it just needs to work with minimal effort on your part, just go buy a Tivo and get it over with.
Finally, anything to build your own system hardware-wise can be purchased easily from newegg.
I would love to see Apple in this space, I'm sure they'd get it right, perhaps not the first time, but their first shot at it would be better than most of what's out there.
Bash MCE all you like, but for me it's the perfect playback platform -- anything recorded or downloaded *cough* torrents *cough* plays back with minimal effort. In other words, it passes the 'the wife test.'
I've used plenty of other platforms including just the native fusion hdtv tuner app that came with my Fusion QAM III HDTV tuner card. The wife says "yuck, techie tv!". She's no technophobe and she's not dumb -- Masters Degree in Microbiology for starters, but she just wants to turn on the TV and press the little 'My Videos' or 'Live TV' button on the remote and have it work.
MCE does that. If Apple ever comes out with a box that does HDTV tuning and playback, and lets me play back all stuff I download in all the random formats you find (xvid, divx, mpeg, indeo, etc)
then bring it on!
Sorry, you are incorrect at least at my Edwards Theatre located Weslayan at I-59 here in Houston, TX.
They run the 'TNT 20' *before* every movie and true to its name, the 'TNT 20' is 20 minutes long.
The "trailers" part of the movie starts at the published movie start time. I have personally timed the trailer blocks using the clocks on pager and cellphone. More than once I've seen a movie start
*15* minutes after the posted start time. That's 35 minutes of commericals my friend.
My wife and I regularly show up 15 minutes late to every movie now to avoid this phenomenon.
We rarely miss any of the movie.
Bad --
IT may be too late to tell you this (because this
thread is so old), but Fusion (www.dvico.com)
makes the Fusion QAM III which decodes QAM-64 and QAM-256 including HDTV.
It doesn't work in Media Center Edition yet, but it works in their own tuner/recorder app.
I use it for OTA HD broadcasts and it works fine.
There are now over 12 million Mac OS X systems in use (source: 23:40 of WWDC keynote). According to Apple, this eclipses shipments by all other UNIX/UNIX-like system vendors. Apple is the single largest vendor of "UNIX-based"[1] systems in the world. (Probably over 13 million now, according to sales since then.)
Single largest vendor of "UNIX-based" systems in the world on a per-year basis, perhaps. I don't
think Apple's sales have eclipsed all the UNIX hardware ever sold by Sun, Digital, HP, etc, which is what your comparison sounds like.
Uh, I asked people to petition the producers
of celebrity poker on Wil's behalf a while back.
http://www.wptfan.com/article.php?story=2004030413 5021834
My post didn't get a lot of serious responses, but he did make it on to Celebrity Poker.
He mentions it on his blog but says the episode hasn't aired
yet, so he's mum on the outcome.
More interesting are his blog entries about his poker trips, they aren't on the par with TiltBoys stories simply because he's not a hooligan. But he is a great writer.
http://www.tiltboys.com/trip-reports/six-sigmas-ou t/
LOL, I hear a lot of noise and fury, but see no light.
Sorry my friend... I have been a UNIX Sysadmin since
1984 and I can promise you, there are *very* few situations where a vendor honestly needs root.
In my humble opinion, needing root to install or fix software is the mark of poorly written software and/or an inexperienced admin.
I mean we are talking about application software here, not OS level stuff like new disk drivers, or volume management software.
Exactly right.
Vendors never *need* root on our box. They often *want* it because it makes their job and their life easier.
With properly applied permissions, there is very little a vendor cannot do just using the application owner id. The exception being if their app server
binds to ports 1024 and they need a restart.
Anything else, like oh adjusting permissions of files they don't own, applying OS patches, rebooting the box, killing processes they don't own, etc, etc aren't things I want my vendors
doing *anyway*. Depending on the size of your shop, you may have controls or processes in place that require approvals before any of that works gets done, so why let the vendor go around your process if you can't?
LOL, I (no pun intended) feel your pain.
The first doctor to treat me for a looooong term (5+ years) low grade pain I'd been suffering
said (no kidding) pulled muscle.
I gave up and went away, but 6 months later (after she left the staff of this teaching clinic) tried again... 1 CAT scan later I was diagnosied with
diverticulitis.
The funny part I heard on the radio this morning was Michael Powell denying his family connections
had anything to do with his appointment.
I would have more respect for him if he had combined his answer 'look at my resume' with an acknowledgement that all political appointments are just that -- political.
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Grefox -- Prepubescent dweebies are the speed bumps on the way to a good tournament win. With any luck, you can taunt them with their incredibly bad play and take all their chips when you have a hand. I'm always dissapointed when someone beats me to busting out a prepubescent dweebie! They are almost like free rebuys. :-) :-)
I envy your implied closeness to a casino; the closest one for me is 2.5 hours away. Since my poker playing stints rarely exceed 1.5 hours, the commute alone would eat all my play time.
One would assume lots of players are online for the same reason.
Grumling... dead on the comments. "Back in my day, we had to learn morse code using two nails, a stick and a battery made from a pickle! And we liked it!" p.s. My openbsd box is named 'linksys' just to add some surrealism to the lives of those looking for a free ride.
Southwestern Bell customer: I cut my phone line down to $15/mo or so; no services (call fowarding, call waiting, no long distance. It serves only as a hard backup for VOIP failures, and for "real" 911 service, ADT Alarm service, and satellite dishes that need to dialout. Everything else goes over Vonage, with simulring forwarded to my cell. Pretty soon, I'll have a Sipura 3000 which automatically switches between PSTN and VOIP in case of power failure, so that all phones in the house will pass the wife test. And no matter what, when you dial 911, it is routed over PSTN.
yeah, ditto. Same reasoning, same result... intuit's management hasn't changed, why would their attitude change?
Theo would just like to say GNU/thanks to RMS for his GNU/special GNU/award, and is going to have a lovely GNU/beer in GNU/RMS's honor. Thank is GNU/all.
I prefer the Really Good News bible... there's no print, you just lick the pages. But seriously, told that joke once at a Sunday School class party, and the guy who laughed the loudest quickly checked himself and turned beet red.
Agreed -- Stargate shows a nice story arc. Unfortunately, they have started (in my opinion) to rely a little too heavily on "Wheel of Time" tactics -- Apophis is dead! No he's not. But he is now! No he's not. Rotate between that and the "replicators are gone!" "No they aren't" ad naseum and it's getting a little stale. Having said that, I think SG1 -- much more so than Enterprise -- might engage an external hardcore scifi writer like Bova, Brin, or Bear rather than descending into the egotistical crapfest ST:Voyager and other Braga shows became. Sorry if it sounds fanboyish but SG1 would do very nicely with a decent sci-fi writer adding some new material. And on a personal note, now that I've switched to a high fiber diet my cholesteral has returned to normal and my "Brennon Braga storyline's" are coming out much fluffier. There goes another one now. Something to do with anti-particle muons and the holo emitter found in Bellana's belly button.
Comair has roughly 1,100 flights, with an average of 3 crew members per flight.
That's 3,300 changes in a day if everyone's affected by the weather which is close to 10% of your counter's limit.
Heard it here first? Sorry, I heard it first on the web/digest version of comp.risks... http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks Excellent place to read about the risks of modern computing equipment and the risks to society by using same usually from mistakes like the 16 bit counter.
My original box was built with the "gold-standard" Hauppauge 250, a 1.5GHz PC and was connected to one of my DirecTV tuners. Worked a treat, even though frankly 1.5GHz was at the bottom end of what MCE needed. MythTV, Freevo and others make much better use of your CPU if you are resource constrained.
Upgraded to a Fry's speical 3GHz P-IV box, but the Hauppauge PVR-250 wouldn't bloody work no matter what I did with my VIA chipset mobo.
Cancelled the satellite dish ($80/mo for what??) and stopped watching TV altogether for months.
Eventually rebuilt the MCE box with an Aver M-150 (the one meant for MCE) and it worked like a champ, but with poor reception due to an indoor antenna. Didn't matter since most MCE use was from downloaded media anyway. (MCE can be used without a tuner as a playback only system, BTW.)
Decided to move to HDTV and purchased a Fusion HTDV Fusion III QAM card. Despite the "QAM" part of the name (yes it tunes digital cable), I'm just using it for Over The Air (OTA) time-shifting. Only, thanks to identical chipsets on the Aver and Fusion Cards, driver conflicts keep both from working at once. Sigh.
In case you are wondering the upgrade from MCE 2004 to 2005 added OTA HTDV time-shifting, but at a price -- you still must have a seperate analog tuner card in your system. MCE waits until the analog setup is completed to say 'Oh, you have a digital card! Want to set that up too?' Supposedly it'll be fixed one of these days, but until then you can't have a 'digital only' setup.
Also, technically the Fusion card has both analog and digital tuning capability, but thanks to either limitations in the Fusion driver or MCE the Fusion's analog tuner isn't used by MCE.
Switched analog tuner cards again to the new Hauppauge MCE-150 which *does* work with the VIA chipset mobo and also the Fusion HTDV QAM III thanks to different chipsets between the Hauppauge and the Fusion card. So now I have a two tuner setup; one HTDV, one analog.
Eventually Fusion promises to enable both the analog and HTDV tuner chains in MCE, meaning you'll only need one tuner card or you'll gain an analog tuner. Then again, that may be in MCE 2006. :-)
I'm still using an indoor antenna but switched to a Zenith Silver Sensor from a really crappy TERK that used to ride on the back of my DirecTV dish. If you are going HTDV and live close to the antenna(e) serving you (http://www.antennaweb.org) the Zenith Silver Sensor is your best bet. In fact the FCC uses it as a reference antenna when testing HTDV reception and other antennae.
You have to love pulling in an Over The Air (OTA) digital signal; analog reception is still poor, particularly at the bottom of the VHF band (the SS is a UHF antenna), but I get crystal-clear reception of all my locals on the HTDV card! LOL.
Clearly, I went through a lot of money and a lot of time reloading the OS, changing out tuner cards, fiddling with beta drives from DVICO (the makers of the Fusion card) and buying an new $25 antenna.
In the end it was worth it because the system just plays downloaded media, DVDs or recorded TV effortlessly and the wife likes it.
When Apple comes out with their, I'll definately be eyeing it as the next system purchase. But for now, I'm pretty darn happy.
If you are adventurous and would like to use a slower CPU system, definately consider MythTV. As a Linux-based system it makes excellent use of the hardware. The Hauppauge PVR-350 does MPEG encoding and can present a menu on its TV-out, keeping the system console free for your use. And of course multiple tuners are supported.
Of course, if your only criteria is that it just needs to work with minimal effort on your part, just go buy a Tivo and get it over with.
Finally, anything to build your own system hardware-wise can be purchased easily from newegg.
I would love to see Apple in this space, I'm sure they'd get it right, perhaps not the first time, but their first shot at it would be better than most of what's out there. Bash MCE all you like, but for me it's the perfect playback platform -- anything recorded or downloaded *cough* torrents *cough* plays back with minimal effort. In other words, it passes the 'the wife test.' I've used plenty of other platforms including just the native fusion hdtv tuner app that came with my Fusion QAM III HDTV tuner card. The wife says "yuck, techie tv!". She's no technophobe and she's not dumb -- Masters Degree in Microbiology for starters, but she just wants to turn on the TV and press the little 'My Videos' or 'Live TV' button on the remote and have it work. MCE does that. If Apple ever comes out with a box that does HDTV tuning and playback, and lets me play back all stuff I download in all the random formats you find (xvid, divx, mpeg, indeo, etc) then bring it on!
Sorry, you are incorrect at least at my Edwards Theatre located Weslayan at I-59 here in Houston, TX. They run the 'TNT 20' *before* every movie and true to its name, the 'TNT 20' is 20 minutes long. The "trailers" part of the movie starts at the published movie start time. I have personally timed the trailer blocks using the clocks on pager and cellphone. More than once I've seen a movie start *15* minutes after the posted start time. That's 35 minutes of commericals my friend. My wife and I regularly show up 15 minutes late to every movie now to avoid this phenomenon. We rarely miss any of the movie.
Bad -- IT may be too late to tell you this (because this thread is so old), but Fusion (www.dvico.com) makes the Fusion QAM III which decodes QAM-64 and QAM-256 including HDTV. It doesn't work in Media Center Edition yet, but it works in their own tuner/recorder app. I use it for OTA HD broadcasts and it works fine.
There are now over 12 million Mac OS X systems in use (source: 23:40 of WWDC keynote). According to Apple, this eclipses shipments by all other UNIX/UNIX-like system vendors. Apple is the single largest vendor of "UNIX-based"[1] systems in the world. (Probably over 13 million now, according to sales since then.) Single largest vendor of "UNIX-based" systems in the world on a per-year basis, perhaps. I don't think Apple's sales have eclipsed all the UNIX hardware ever sold by Sun, Digital, HP, etc, which is what your comparison sounds like.
Uh, I asked people to petition the producers of celebrity poker on Wil's behalf a while back. http://www.wptfan.com/article.php?story=2004030413 5021834
My post didn't get a lot of serious responses, but he did make it on to Celebrity Poker.
He mentions it on his blog but says the episode hasn't aired
yet, so he's mum on the outcome.
More interesting are his blog entries about his poker trips, they aren't on the par with TiltBoys stories simply because he's not a hooligan. But he is a great writer.
http://www.tiltboys.com/trip-reports/six-sigmas-ou t/
LOL, I hear a lot of noise and fury, but see no light. Sorry my friend... I have been a UNIX Sysadmin since 1984 and I can promise you, there are *very* few situations where a vendor honestly needs root. In my humble opinion, needing root to install or fix software is the mark of poorly written software and/or an inexperienced admin. I mean we are talking about application software here, not OS level stuff like new disk drivers, or volume management software.
Exactly right. Vendors never *need* root on our box. They often *want* it because it makes their job and their life easier. With properly applied permissions, there is very little a vendor cannot do just using the application owner id. The exception being if their app server binds to ports 1024 and they need a restart. Anything else, like oh adjusting permissions of files they don't own, applying OS patches, rebooting the box, killing processes they don't own, etc, etc aren't things I want my vendors doing *anyway*. Depending on the size of your shop, you may have controls or processes in place that require approvals before any of that works gets done, so why let the vendor go around your process if you can't?
LOL, I (no pun intended) feel your pain. The first doctor to treat me for a looooong term (5+ years) low grade pain I'd been suffering said (no kidding) pulled muscle. I gave up and went away, but 6 months later (after she left the staff of this teaching clinic) tried again... 1 CAT scan later I was diagnosied with diverticulitis.
The funny part I heard on the radio this morning was Michael Powell denying his family connections had anything to do with his appointment. I would have more respect for him if he had combined his answer 'look at my resume' with an acknowledgement that all political appointments are just that -- political.