So what if I haul that old, dusty analog TV out of the attic, switch it on and tune it to one of these new applications?
I have no idea but you just made me think, instead of recycling all of these old televisions, if somebody has one in great condition and keeps it, it would probably be worth something major decades from now. Or at least it would make an interesting museum piece. Or maybe it would just be old crap. Never mind.
Are you sure? All I've ever heard was the sports car will be the expensive one so the family car will be affordable. But I didn't hear that from "official" sources. I heard it from that guy I'm with, and people posting in Slashdot like you.
By the way, my car is approximately a 30-mpg car with a 10-gallon tank. It costs about $55000 less than the Tesla. But I must admit, I don't have a 17-inch touchscreen built into the car.
I'd like to hear them explain how, for chips meant to be used in the USA, Samsung decided it would be more practical to build a factory here. But every American company decided it would be cheaper to use factories elsewhere and have them shipped here. It kind of seems like there's nothing impractical about having a factory here. They just want to make sure no American company builds anything.
If it's nothing more than a method for switching between automatic and manual driving, then why isn't KITT from Knight Rider prior art? Or maybe nobody had a chance to show that to the patent examiners because the patents are secret.
Please. They choose Google because no matter what they choose, it's automatically Google. They type in the search bar, it goes to Google. They type in the address bar, it goes to Google without even telling them. They click the magnifying glass on their phone, it goes to google. They search on their game system, it goes to Google. I realize there are some phones and web browsers that don't use Google. But in general, people choose Google because it's the only thing they see.
That's a funny definition of "Touch" - yes it responds to your finger, but there isn't anything physical there to push against, so it's no more a touch interface than Kinect is.
There are times I have referred to reggae as "hip hop", all SUV's as Jeeps, and all mp3 players as iPods. It's not that I didn't know their real names. It's just that sometimes I think it's more important to say something people will understand.
That is a handy type of repellant, but will the Ants become immune to it after a while and hence wreck the Spiders? I would hope they do a chemical variant that is to a kilter enough in the composition that it warrants the spider's own webs to require these ants to evolve their own defenses against it.
I don't know. I suppose a trait that makes ants stay away from spider webs is more likely to keep an ant alive than kill one. Maybe it's more likely that the ants who stray into spider webs will be killed off instead of the ones who avoid them.
No, we'd rather put the tax on blank CD's and give the Department of Justice to the Recording Industry so they are effectively a part of the government.
I can't help but think there's a connection between (Ford uses Microsoft software for the car audio & display) and (Ford becomes the first company to issue a patch so users can upgrade their car's software).
I think I have had maybe 4 or 5 cellphones in my life. The EVO 3D I have now is the only one I ever paid for. The first one was free when we opened the account, and each one after that was passed on to me by my brother or sister. Both of them always get the newest "smartphone" that comes out so they always have one to hand down to me. And they have phones lying around to spare, as do I. So yes people put those things away and yes, at least some people pass them on to other people. But the only time I've ever seen somebody throw one away was on "Life According to Liz" on MTV, when "Liz" threw hers in the river because she was on a date with a guy.
Such services aren't viable if, when everybody starts to use all of the bandwidth they paid for, the ISP shuts it down and starts saying the customers are abusing the system.
If they want me to buy a new TV, they should basically add all of the things that have been taken away in the name of "intellectual property" or whatever they call it when they don't want you to copy a show. I want a TV with a working video out port. I'd like a TV that can play video from a USB key at native resolution, or stream it from the router. I'd like a TV in the United States that has its own hard drive.
And how about some features that make me actually able to view what I want easier. I'd like a TV whose internet capability let me go to any website I want and add any RSS feed I want, not limiting me to their "partners". I'm never ever going to look at USA Today's RSS feed. Also, if you can put Opera Mobile on a DSi and a Phone, you can put it on a TV.
Finally, some basic hardware improvements would be really useful. It would be nice if, when I turn the TV off, it turns all the way off (not just blanking the screen and turning off the backlight). How about making every single button a discrete command (video one, two, and 3 as opposed to just a video button that switches between them all, power on and off as opposed to a toggle button, let the remote set an absolute volume level even). Speaking of volume levels, I just can't explain how good it would be if I could set a gain level that adjusts the volume slightly for each channel separately so I don't get blown out of the seat when I switch from the low volume channel to the high volume channel. Maybe that's a feature better left to the cable box. And maybe this isn't necessary but I'd appreciate if I could set the color of the led indicators the way people can set the color of the lights on car radios. Why does my standby light have to be red?
[Steve Jobs Voice] Oh, and there's one more thing. Make the TV have freaking rounded corners.
For me, basically it hasn't mattered in years how good the remote is that comes with a device, because the only time it was going to get used was while I was setting up my learning Sony remote. I recently got a Harmony one and that actually made it so I never had to pick up the original cable remote. I think the point about Apple's simplistic controls, and those crappy mice, remains true, but I just felt like chirping about how we live in a time where all you have to do is find one good remote and you don't have to worry about what comes with your electronic device.
For me, I'd probably do well with a Mac. But I do have some software that is either Windows only or the Windows version is better. I use Dreamweaver and Fireworks a lot, and will probably use Photoshop if Adobe kills Fireworks. And I have some specialty 3D software that has plugins that are Windows-only. Then there are the usual things like the internet and pictures and videos. And since all of that can be done just as well on the PC as the Mac, it would be insane for me to spend a thousand dollars on a MacBook that is functionally equivalent to the $400 Acer laptop I have now. For those who would say Acer is crap, I've had some battery issues that would cause me to agree but I've also seen the screens go out on my daughters' "loaner" Macbooks and, their CD drives that wouldn't eject certain discs. They've had more issues than me.
As for Linux, well none of the aforementioned software works on Linux. Death blow. I did notice that when my cousin brought me a keyboard her workplace was giving away, it had all kinds of special buttons and even a volume control knob. I plugged it into an old laptop running maybe Fedora 10 and every single button and knob was working with no setup. But it never got my graphics hardware or printer quite right.
So to summarize, I'm still on Windows because it costs less than Mac and does more than Windows and Mac, at least for my purposes. For what it's worth, lately I'm on my android phone more than the computer and since I got it, there are some days I don't even turn the laptop on. If anything has me done with Windows forever, it will probably be Android.
I personally think he's doing it because Google owns YouTube and really doesn't want ISP's to be able to charge them for how much bandwidth their viewers use.
I'm thinking it has something to do with cars not being guaranteed to stay in a straight line, and maybe something about kids & pets getting electrocuted.
I have a rather unique situation. I've got an old Dell laptop that can only read DVD's. It can't read CD's. I can't say for certain this is the reason, but it was around the time I put in an Amerie CD (one of the "sony rootkit" CD's) that my Combo Drive started losing the ability to handle compact disc. I tried to fix the problem by installing a firmware upgrade and don't know for sure if the problem was the cd, a bad firmware upgrade, or something else. But I am one of the few people on the planet who occasionally want to install software and can't because it's only available on CD. For instance, the Windows CD that came with the computer in the first place.
For that reason, I went from dual booting to only running Linux on that computer, just because I can install Linux from a DVD and don't have Windows XP on DVD.
That happened to me with Centipede. The centipede would get to the bottom of the screen in a fraction of a second. Oddly enough, it wasn't until I read the above post about the turbo button today, that I realized what the button was good for.
But they could switch from (AT&T & Verizon) to Sprint because at the moment, Sprint has no bandwidth cap on the "unlimited" internet. And if one of those two gets better than Sprint later, they could switch back. There aren't as many options as with banks but it's possible to play the game.
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So what if I haul that old, dusty analog TV out of the attic, switch it on and tune it to one of these new applications?
I have no idea but you just made me think, instead of recycling all of these old televisions, if somebody has one in great condition and keeps it, it would probably be worth something major decades from now. Or at least it would make an interesting museum piece. Or maybe it would just be old crap. Never mind.
Are you sure? All I've ever heard was the sports car will be the expensive one so the family car will be affordable. But I didn't hear that from "official" sources. I heard it from that guy I'm with, and people posting in Slashdot like you.
By the way, my car is approximately a 30-mpg car with a 10-gallon tank. It costs about $55000 less than the Tesla. But I must admit, I don't have a 17-inch touchscreen built into the car.
I'd like to hear them explain how, for chips meant to be used in the USA, Samsung decided it would be more practical to build a factory here. But every American company decided it would be cheaper to use factories elsewhere and have them shipped here. It kind of seems like there's nothing impractical about having a factory here. They just want to make sure no American company builds anything.
If it's nothing more than a method for switching between automatic and manual driving, then why isn't KITT from Knight Rider prior art? Or maybe nobody had a chance to show that to the patent examiners because the patents are secret.
PEOPLE ACTIVELY CHOOSE GOOGLE
Please. They choose Google because no matter what they choose, it's automatically Google. They type in the search bar, it goes to Google. They type in the address bar, it goes to Google without even telling them. They click the magnifying glass on their phone, it goes to google. They search on their game system, it goes to Google. I realize there are some phones and web browsers that don't use Google. But in general, people choose Google because it's the only thing they see.
Does the box have rounded corners?
That's a funny definition of "Touch" - yes it responds to your finger, but there isn't anything physical there to push against, so it's no more a touch interface than Kinect is.
There are times I have referred to reggae as "hip hop", all SUV's as Jeeps, and all mp3 players as iPods. It's not that I didn't know their real names. It's just that sometimes I think it's more important to say something people will understand.
That is a handy type of repellant, but will the Ants become immune to it after a while and hence wreck the Spiders? I would hope they do a chemical variant that is to a kilter enough in the composition that it warrants the spider's own webs to require these ants to evolve their own defenses against it.
I don't know. I suppose a trait that makes ants stay away from spider webs is more likely to keep an ant alive than kill one. Maybe it's more likely that the ants who stray into spider webs will be killed off instead of the ones who avoid them.
Unless you're blind...
No, we'd rather put the tax on blank CD's and give the Department of Justice to the Recording Industry so they are effectively a part of the government.
I can't help but think there's a connection between (Ford uses Microsoft software for the car audio & display) and (Ford becomes the first company to issue a patch so users can upgrade their car's software).
I think I have had maybe 4 or 5 cellphones in my life. The EVO 3D I have now is the only one I ever paid for. The first one was free when we opened the account, and each one after that was passed on to me by my brother or sister. Both of them always get the newest "smartphone" that comes out so they always have one to hand down to me. And they have phones lying around to spare, as do I. So yes people put those things away and yes, at least some people pass them on to other people. But the only time I've ever seen somebody throw one away was on "Life According to Liz" on MTV, when "Liz" threw hers in the river because she was on a date with a guy.
Such services aren't viable if, when everybody starts to use all of the bandwidth they paid for, the ISP shuts it down and starts saying the customers are abusing the system.
If they want me to buy a new TV, they should basically add all of the things that have been taken away in the name of "intellectual property" or whatever they call it when they don't want you to copy a show. I want a TV with a working video out port. I'd like a TV that can play video from a USB key at native resolution, or stream it from the router. I'd like a TV in the United States that has its own hard drive.
And how about some features that make me actually able to view what I want easier. I'd like a TV whose internet capability let me go to any website I want and add any RSS feed I want, not limiting me to their "partners". I'm never ever going to look at USA Today's RSS feed. Also, if you can put Opera Mobile on a DSi and a Phone, you can put it on a TV.
Finally, some basic hardware improvements would be really useful. It would be nice if, when I turn the TV off, it turns all the way off (not just blanking the screen and turning off the backlight). How about making every single button a discrete command (video one, two, and 3 as opposed to just a video button that switches between them all, power on and off as opposed to a toggle button, let the remote set an absolute volume level even). Speaking of volume levels, I just can't explain how good it would be if I could set a gain level that adjusts the volume slightly for each channel separately so I don't get blown out of the seat when I switch from the low volume channel to the high volume channel. Maybe that's a feature better left to the cable box. And maybe this isn't necessary but I'd appreciate if I could set the color of the led indicators the way people can set the color of the lights on car radios. Why does my standby light have to be red?
[Steve Jobs Voice] Oh, and there's one more thing. Make the TV have freaking rounded corners.
For me, basically it hasn't mattered in years how good the remote is that comes with a device, because the only time it was going to get used was while I was setting up my learning Sony remote. I recently got a Harmony one and that actually made it so I never had to pick up the original cable remote. I think the point about Apple's simplistic controls, and those crappy mice, remains true, but I just felt like chirping about how we live in a time where all you have to do is find one good remote and you don't have to worry about what comes with your electronic device.
For me, I'd probably do well with a Mac. But I do have some software that is either Windows only or the Windows version is better. I use Dreamweaver and Fireworks a lot, and will probably use Photoshop if Adobe kills Fireworks. And I have some specialty 3D software that has plugins that are Windows-only. Then there are the usual things like the internet and pictures and videos. And since all of that can be done just as well on the PC as the Mac, it would be insane for me to spend a thousand dollars on a MacBook that is functionally equivalent to the $400 Acer laptop I have now. For those who would say Acer is crap, I've had some battery issues that would cause me to agree but I've also seen the screens go out on my daughters' "loaner" Macbooks and, their CD drives that wouldn't eject certain discs. They've had more issues than me.
As for Linux, well none of the aforementioned software works on Linux. Death blow. I did notice that when my cousin brought me a keyboard her workplace was giving away, it had all kinds of special buttons and even a volume control knob. I plugged it into an old laptop running maybe Fedora 10 and every single button and knob was working with no setup. But it never got my graphics hardware or printer quite right.
So to summarize, I'm still on Windows because it costs less than Mac and does more than Windows and Mac, at least for my purposes. For what it's worth, lately I'm on my android phone more than the computer and since I got it, there are some days I don't even turn the laptop on. If anything has me done with Windows forever, it will probably be Android.
I personally think he's doing it because Google owns YouTube and really doesn't want ISP's to be able to charge them for how much bandwidth their viewers use.
I'm thinking it has something to do with cars not being guaranteed to stay in a straight line, and maybe something about kids & pets getting electrocuted.
I wonder if the reason he decided to cut off his payments to her is he realized the statute of limitations had run out...
But you have to hit the turbo button first...
In 100 years when Linux rules all,
Dude I don't normally say this, but today I have a real bad back-ache and I'm in a lot of pain. So could you give me some of what you're smoking?
It's probably just Mike & Ike.
I have a rather unique situation. I've got an old Dell laptop that can only read DVD's. It can't read CD's. I can't say for certain this is the reason, but it was around the time I put in an Amerie CD (one of the "sony rootkit" CD's) that my Combo Drive started losing the ability to handle compact disc. I tried to fix the problem by installing a firmware upgrade and don't know for sure if the problem was the cd, a bad firmware upgrade, or something else. But I am one of the few people on the planet who occasionally want to install software and can't because it's only available on CD. For instance, the Windows CD that came with the computer in the first place.
For that reason, I went from dual booting to only running Linux on that computer, just because I can install Linux from a DVD and don't have Windows XP on DVD.
That happened to me with Centipede. The centipede would get to the bottom of the screen in a fraction of a second. Oddly enough, it wasn't until I read the above post about the turbo button today, that I realized what the button was good for.
But they could switch from (AT&T & Verizon) to Sprint because at the moment, Sprint has no bandwidth cap on the "unlimited" internet. And if one of those two gets better than Sprint later, they could switch back. There aren't as many options as with banks but it's possible to play the game.