I have a PVR, the Humax 9200T. It allows me to record etc from digital tv/radio.
I can transfer those recordings from it to a pc via a USB connection, unfortunately whenever I want to transfer those it means connecting my laptop upto it. Because of the PVR's location in a cabinet it is a bit of hassle.
With a wireless usb adapter it essentially means I can transfer those recordings to my laptop/desktop pc with the minimum of hassle.
Has anyone else noticed Microsofts gradual decrease in providing updates?
For example, NT 4 had 6 service packs and number 7 was not released. But supposedly was pretty much complete, number 7 added a bunch of features that were supposedly in Windows 2000.. and with the release of Windows 2000 just around the corner.. why would they want to make 2000 less appealing?
Also, notice that 2000 has just 4 service packs..
And it's looking more like XP will be getting just 3 by the end of life period, now... either Microsoft have absolutely amazing QA which means they're fixing all the bugs in their OS's by the last service pack or they want to force people onto their newest OS with the promises of bug fixes etc.
This is disheartening, they're trying to force people into a perpetual upgrade cycle and are being very successful at it too. I guess we can only hope that stuff like Linux and OpenOffice start making some inroads to at least reduce the price of Windows to help reduce the pressure on people who are locked into MS solutions.
This can be reduced somewhat by making the internet zone very restricted and simply making a whitelist of sites and put them in the trusted sites list.
It doesn't solve everything like the recent WMF exploit but it does stop what I lovingly refer to as "dumbfuck user" syndrome, which exhibits such symptoms as the inability to read, lack of intelligence and an inherent lack of cognitive reasoning.
Unforunately the company I work at are currently locked into some bespoke software that REQUIRES lock admin rights. I'm currently trying my utmost to get all windows machines onto XP so I can atleast get IE and Outlook running in reduced priveleges mode using dropmyrights. (if anyone knows of a way to do the same under Win 2k please let me know)
The estate of Terry Nation (the people who own the rights to the Daleks after Nation died in '97) demanded very little in the way of changes to the looks of the daleks. The BBC tried to get them to update the daleks for the 21st century but they wouldn't budge.
Hence why they still look like they do, HOWEVER.. there are a number of Dalek surprises in the new Dr. Who series, so don't be so quick to knock them. (over.. *cough* sorry)
The special effects as a whole on the Dr. Who series vary from okay to excellent.
Special mention should be made of the episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances", which quite frankly are the best scifi episodes i've seen in years bar none, not only for the special effects but for the incredible writing and directing.
Digital photography and tv's are significantly different, for normal consumer cameras I think they're reaching the good enough stage, however for amateur photographers (and professionals) we're always wanting the next big thing because greater resolution gives us greater detail along with better cameras that give greater ISO and colour accuracy.
Also, partly because we want to print stuff out to quite large prints.. A lot of stuff I photograph I print to A4, however at work (I work at a printer) we have a B0 (if memory serves correctly) which i'm itching to use for photos from my new camera. This (829KB) is one of quite a few photos that I took when on holiday in Australia that got me into photography, at the time I used a consumer level camera. Those are good enough to print to A4 but if I were to print them to B0 they'd be quite blocky.
And yes I know there is quite a bit of noise in the sky, it was a ten second exposure on new years eve in Sydney. (lots of smoke from the fireworks which add to the haze)
I'm more interested in hearing when they start packing full seasons of standard-definition content onto a single disc that they can sell for a reasonable price, instead of the >$100 prices that some sets have been going for. (I.e. $338 for CSI on Amazon [amazon.com])
Don't count on it, it's the profit motive. I can guarantee you with blu-ray/hd-dvd you'll still get a few episodes per disc and they'll still charge you a small fortune to get entire seasons. Same with the special editions and re-releases of old films, they'll re-release them and still charge a fortune even though they've recouped the cost of making the film a thousand fold. It's capitalism.
I think the movie studios (tv etc) are going to start hitting a wall soon.
Think about it, after hi-def what comes next? (and don't say internet distribution etc only, people want things they can actually own in their hands)
First it was video cassettes, then dvd and now hi-definition.. each with a definitive quality increase over their predecessor. Now however with high definition they've pretty much hit the wall, people don't need or won't want to buy super-high-deluxe-definition unless they've got a projector which projects the video onto a ridiculously large area. It will reach a point where it'll be "good enough", you can already see a lot of people commenting about how they don't see the point of hi-def dvd (which people will eventually go over to) when dvd suits them fine.
The human eyeball can only see so much.
It's a pointless technological toy, it's something that all large organisations face. Needless spending.
Like the UK did, the USA needs a comprehensive spending review of its armed forces.
While a mech like this looks cool there are so many impracticalities as to make this utterly useless.
For example, I was planning on buying a new widescreen tv and a psp, but because of the rootkit etc I decided against a Sony tv and i'm probably going to buy either a Nintendo DS or the GPX2.
I wonder, if Sony has lost any sales because of this. Just how much in cash it has cost them?
Yeah, I remember watching a program about evolution (on the BBC I think) it included some fascinating insights into the development of the eye.
It also included one fascinating one about a fish (sorry forgot what it's called) that has eyes (lots of them) that not only can see in much higher detail than our own but also in much greater spectrums of colour than our own.
Fascinating stuff, apparently it has the best eyes around.
You'd think if (as the ID'ers and Creationists would) a greater intelligence designed us then why the heck do we get the two low resolution eyes!
I demand 8 eyes, the ability to see in more colour spectrums and greater resolution!
Support most likely, gap will probably have some support plebs who read from scripts who are only probably trained to support IE and maybe another browser or two like Navigator 4.7 or Firefox. It's incredibly short sighted and not very bright either. But, that's what the business world is very often like.
It's also possible that the people who created the site aren't fully competent (see business world reason above).
I just tried visiting the site myself (with UA switcher extension set to Safari) and was amazed that it wouldn't let me in if I had JS or cookies disabled as well.
This surprised the heck out of me, it's like saying we won't let you browse our shop if we at first ensure we can take note of everything you look at. Would you like it if you went into a gap shop and they stopped you at the door and said you can only enter this shop if you allow a minder to watch everything you do and also do you mind if we look in your bag to make sure you have some money?
It's bad business, even if someone isn't buying. A person just browsing has the chance of returning in the future as a buyer.
Wasn't MS continuing development of the IE engine for MSN for Mac?
I remember hearing something about that a long time ago. I could be wrong, just googled and found this so I guess I must be wrong. But I swear hearing something about them continuing it for paying MSN users.
Or at least a less priveleged account? With a password popup box whenever you want to install drivers etc akin to Mac OS X or somesuch?
Or are they going the same route as before with the default user being an admin?
I'd hope they did, it'd probably help reduce people installing rootkits with certain audio cd's although I doubt it'd eliminate it, there'd still be people who blindly type in their password (if they'd bothered to enter one in the first place).
Also, on a sidenote.. MS aren't exactly standing on the moral superiority high ground here (I skimmed the article), how can they expect programmers to implement this with their programs when by default everyone is a local admin in windows and so far the only program which is supposed to use LUA is IE7 which isn't even released yet?
What does this mean for the AOL browser?
Up to this point it has been using the IE HTML engine, does this mean AOL might switch over to gecko?
Surely Google may have some persuasion powers in what html engine AOL uses in the future.
For example, in order to explain why when they go into space yet experience gravity and no above normal g-force on take off. They were given a talk on the "artificial gravity generators" which give the shuttle an artificial gravity, despite breaking the laws of physics.
The amazing thing is they not only bought that up but everything else, it shows just how gullible (and poorly educated, guess it says lots about the education system) people are.
If I may add to this a bit, even Canon consumer cameras are the best. Easy to use, competitive pricing and excellent picture quality. I think it's pretty much undisputed at the moment that Canon make the best digital cameras bar none.[/canonadvert]
Anyway, People in general are lemmings, they buy what is advertised, what is "recommended" to them by salesmen. It's not true for all people granted, but it's a sad fact that a very large portion of people are like this. I find it sad that people are no longer customers or people, they're consumers.. they consume, they buy what they're told to buy and like the lemmings they are they jump off the cliffs.
And in order to inject some humour into this post they also occasionally blow up after ten seconds with an "Oh no!" just before they see oblivion.
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Try as I might, I'm unable to use any of these three methods to explain Baywatch.
It's the boobs, problem solved.
I have a PVR, the Humax 9200T. It allows me to record etc from digital tv/radio.
I can transfer those recordings from it to a pc via a USB connection, unfortunately whenever I want to transfer those it means connecting my laptop upto it. Because of the PVR's location in a cabinet it is a bit of hassle.
With a wireless usb adapter it essentially means I can transfer those recordings to my laptop/desktop pc with the minimum of hassle.
Not everything uses or supports bluetooth.
Has anyone else noticed Microsofts gradual decrease in providing updates?
For example, NT 4 had 6 service packs and number 7 was not released. But supposedly was pretty much complete, number 7 added a bunch of features that were supposedly in Windows 2000.. and with the release of Windows 2000 just around the corner.. why would they want to make 2000 less appealing?
Also, notice that 2000 has just 4 service packs..
And it's looking more like XP will be getting just 3 by the end of life period, now... either Microsoft have absolutely amazing QA which means they're fixing all the bugs in their OS's by the last service pack or they want to force people onto their newest OS with the promises of bug fixes etc.
This is disheartening, they're trying to force people into a perpetual upgrade cycle and are being very successful at it too. I guess we can only hope that stuff like Linux and OpenOffice start making some inroads to at least reduce the price of Windows to help reduce the pressure on people who are locked into MS solutions.
Side effects?
I wonder what would happen to someone who was taking it and got shown goatse...
The founding fathers are rising up from their graves?!
Time to get my shotgun and LP's to kill zombie Franklin.
I seem to be suffering a bit from DUS at the moment. Hangs head in shame at all the grammar and spelling mistakes...
In my defense, it is 2am here.
This can be reduced somewhat by making the internet zone very restricted and simply making a whitelist of sites and put them in the trusted sites list.
It doesn't solve everything like the recent WMF exploit but it does stop what I lovingly refer to as "dumbfuck user" syndrome, which exhibits such symptoms as the inability to read, lack of intelligence and an inherent lack of cognitive reasoning.
Unforunately the company I work at are currently locked into some bespoke software that REQUIRES lock admin rights. I'm currently trying my utmost to get all windows machines onto XP so I can atleast get IE and Outlook running in reduced priveleges mode using dropmyrights. (if anyone knows of a way to do the same under Win 2k please let me know)
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
The estate of Terry Nation (the people who own the rights to the Daleks after Nation died in '97) demanded very little in the way of changes to the looks of the daleks. The BBC tried to get them to update the daleks for the 21st century but they wouldn't budge.
Hence why they still look like they do, HOWEVER.. there are a number of Dalek surprises in the new Dr. Who series, so don't be so quick to knock them. (over.. *cough* sorry)
The special effects as a whole on the Dr. Who series vary from okay to excellent.
Special mention should be made of the episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances", which quite frankly are the best scifi episodes i've seen in years bar none, not only for the special effects but for the incredible writing and directing.
Digital photography and tv's are significantly different, for normal consumer cameras I think they're reaching the good enough stage, however for amateur photographers (and professionals) we're always wanting the next big thing because greater resolution gives us greater detail along with better cameras that give greater ISO and colour accuracy.
Also, partly because we want to print stuff out to quite large prints.. A lot of stuff I photograph I print to A4, however at work (I work at a printer) we have a B0 (if memory serves correctly) which i'm itching to use for photos from my new camera.
This (829KB) is one of quite a few photos that I took when on holiday in Australia that got me into photography, at the time I used a consumer level camera. Those are good enough to print to A4 but if I were to print them to B0 they'd be quite blocky.
And yes I know there is quite a bit of noise in the sky, it was a ten second exposure on new years eve in Sydney. (lots of smoke from the fireworks which add to the haze)
I'm more interested in hearing when they start packing full seasons of standard-definition content onto a single disc that they can sell for a reasonable price, instead of the >$100 prices that some sets have been going for. (I.e. $338 for CSI on Amazon [amazon.com])
Don't count on it, it's the profit motive. I can guarantee you with blu-ray/hd-dvd you'll still get a few episodes per disc and they'll still charge you a small fortune to get entire seasons. Same with the special editions and re-releases of old films, they'll re-release them and still charge a fortune even though they've recouped the cost of making the film a thousand fold. It's capitalism.
I think the movie studios (tv etc) are going to start hitting a wall soon.
Think about it, after hi-def what comes next? (and don't say internet distribution etc only, people want things they can actually own in their hands)
First it was video cassettes, then dvd and now hi-definition.. each with a definitive quality increase over their predecessor. Now however with high definition they've pretty much hit the wall, people don't need or won't want to buy super-high-deluxe-definition unless they've got a projector which projects the video onto a ridiculously large area.
It will reach a point where it'll be "good enough", you can already see a lot of people commenting about how they don't see the point of hi-def dvd (which people will eventually go over to) when dvd suits them fine.
The human eyeball can only see so much.
All the methods to block ads under Opera using methods like css file etc are all fudges at best.
They need some kind of plugin/extension system akin to Firefox's Extension system and (to a much lesser extent) IE's ActiveX.
It's a pointless technological toy, it's something that all large organisations face. Needless spending.
Like the UK did, the USA needs a comprehensive spending review of its armed forces.
While a mech like this looks cool there are so many impracticalities as to make this utterly useless.
For example, I was planning on buying a new widescreen tv and a psp, but because of the rootkit etc I decided against a Sony tv and i'm probably going to buy either a Nintendo DS or the GPX2.
I wonder, if Sony has lost any sales because of this. Just how much in cash it has cost them?
*Looks carefully at TripMaster Monkey whilst sharpening a knife*...
Hasn't Joss Whedon given up on Firefly? (link lifted straight from digg)
Yeah, I remember watching a program about evolution (on the BBC I think) it included some fascinating insights into the development of the eye.
It also included one fascinating one about a fish (sorry forgot what it's called) that has eyes (lots of them) that not only can see in much higher detail than our own but also in much greater spectrums of colour than our own.
Fascinating stuff, apparently it has the best eyes around.
You'd think if (as the ID'ers and Creationists would) a greater intelligence designed us then why the heck do we get the two low resolution eyes!
I demand 8 eyes, the ability to see in more colour spectrums and greater resolution!
Support most likely, gap will probably have some support plebs who read from scripts who are only probably trained to support IE and maybe another browser or two like Navigator 4.7 or Firefox. It's incredibly short sighted and not very bright either. But, that's what the business world is very often like.
It's also possible that the people who created the site aren't fully competent (see business world reason above).
I just tried visiting the site myself (with UA switcher extension set to Safari) and was amazed that it wouldn't let me in if I had JS or cookies disabled as well.
This surprised the heck out of me, it's like saying we won't let you browse our shop if we at first ensure we can take note of everything you look at. Would you like it if you went into a gap shop and they stopped you at the door and said you can only enter this shop if you allow a minder to watch everything you do and also do you mind if we look in your bag to make sure you have some money?
It's bad business, even if someone isn't buying. A person just browsing has the chance of returning in the future as a buyer.
Wasn't MS continuing development of the IE engine for MSN for Mac?
I remember hearing something about that a long time ago. I could be wrong, just googled and found this so I guess I must be wrong. But I swear hearing something about them continuing it for paying MSN users.
Tell that to people who trip over things.
Plus, I hear the boogey man and the monsters under my bed are all quite certainly wanting to eat me, therefore I keep the light on at all times.
Or at least a less priveleged account? With a password popup box whenever you want to install drivers etc akin to Mac OS X or somesuch?
Or are they going the same route as before with the default user being an admin?
I'd hope they did, it'd probably help reduce people installing rootkits with certain audio cd's although I doubt it'd eliminate it, there'd still be people who blindly type in their password (if they'd bothered to enter one in the first place).
Also, on a sidenote.. MS aren't exactly standing on the moral superiority high ground here (I skimmed the article), how can they expect programmers to implement this with their programs when by default everyone is a local admin in windows and so far the only program which is supposed to use LUA is IE7 which isn't even released yet?
What does this mean for the AOL browser?
Up to this point it has been using the IE HTML engine, does this mean AOL might switch over to gecko?
Surely Google may have some persuasion powers in what html engine AOL uses in the future.
It shows just how gullible people can be.
For example, in order to explain why when they go into space yet experience gravity and no above normal g-force on take off. They were given a talk on the "artificial gravity generators" which give the shuttle an artificial gravity, despite breaking the laws of physics.
The amazing thing is they not only bought that up but everything else, it shows just how gullible (and poorly educated, guess it says lots about the education system) people are.
If I may add to this a bit, even Canon consumer cameras are the best. Easy to use, competitive pricing and excellent picture quality. I think it's pretty much undisputed at the moment that Canon make the best digital cameras bar none.[/canonadvert]
Anyway, People in general are lemmings, they buy what is advertised, what is "recommended" to them by salesmen. It's not true for all people granted, but it's a sad fact that a very large portion of people are like this. I find it sad that people are no longer customers or people, they're consumers.. they consume, they buy what they're told to buy and like the lemmings they are they jump off the cliffs.
And in order to inject some humour into this post they also occasionally blow up after ten seconds with an "Oh no!" just before they see oblivion.