I believe the Viewsat 9000HD, which is chiefly a satellite receiver, will receive OTA signals. With an added USB hard drive, it is supposed to record them. I don't imagine the interface will be as nice as MythTV, but a commercial product does exist.
Does anyone know where duedil.com gets its Canonical data from? If I am going to fork over $800, I want to perform at least some due diligence. Is Canonical simply going to use my money to pay downs its current liabilities, which were recently about 19,000,000 GBP higher than its current assets?
Many people think Turing cracked Enigma, but this is only partially true.
The Poles were the first to crack Enigma. Turing's lot later cracked naval Enigma. It took the capture of a downed U-boat to crack an updated naval Enigma.
Ten years ago, I predicted a "nudie button," which, instead of removing people from live video, would simply remove their clothing (through interpolation). I do not endorse the use of such a button on your TV's remote control, I merely predict its future existence.
I came up with a similar theory years ago as an excuse not to exercise, for exercising increases one's heart rate. I concluded that exercise would therefore shorten my life. My girlfriend at the time didn't buy my logic. As a step aerobics instructor and science graduate student, she assured me that exercising only temporarily increases one's heart rate and that people who exercise regularly have slower heart rates during the non-exercising parts of their lives. I hate it when people use my own logic against me.
The proper plural of thesis is theses, with a long e sound in the second syllable. Until reading the blurb for this Slashdot article, I have never seen anyone get this wrong.
Some people mispronounce the plural of basis. It is bases, with a long e sound in the second syllable.
What really bugs me are people who mispronounce "processes." Its singular form does not end in "is." It is not a Greek word at all. The proper pronunciation of the plural is with a short e sound in the last syllable. Too many people try to sound educated by making the long e sound in this word. Currently, it backfires and they sound less educated. As English evolves, maybe this incorrect pronunciation will win out; but it would still bug me.
The incentive to incorporate is lessened if you plan on spending all of the cash generated by the business. For then you would have to report all of the income at graduated personal income tax rates.
If you plan to leave cash in the business and not use it personally right away, then incorporating makes much more sense. Here, the amount of combined personal + corporate taxes in the near term would be smaller. The time value of money in the delay of paying taxes works in your favour. What might the business do with its retained earnings? It could invest in assets to grow its own business. It could invest in other businesses.
Movie houses hook people into going to theatres The one-price-fits-all strategy tries to keep us from rejecting movies because either the price may be too high from a cost-benefit concern or the price may be too low from a quality concern. Going to a theatre becomes the event and the movie is simply a bonus.
Theatres in my neighbourhood have taken this one step further by offering premium seating, where seats are larger and further apart, as well as being assigned. The premium charged is $2, which, based on a recent interview on the Lang & O'Leary Exchange seems to be working well for them.
This contrasts with concert venues, which charge premiums for the more popular musical acts. Concert venues are less concerned with repeat business as profits are calculated after each show. Movie houses need repeat business in order to pay their enormous fixed costs, with profits calculated each quarter.
I suggest the book: Build Your Own Flight Simulator in C++ I read a version of it over ten years ago, and it helped me keep a perspective on projects. All the code is spoon fed to you.
You might want to download the $20K font pack? Depending on your jurisdiction, using any of the fonts commercially could open you up to a costly lawsuit. The supplied links are now "hot" (i.e. everybody knows about them); you should not want your IP address connected to them.
I'm on my second Eee PC now. The first was a 701 (7" screen). The second is a 1001P (10" screen). The hardware has been well supported in the various kernels because the Eee PC's were popular and ASUS was onside. The hardest part of sourcing a new Linux-flavoured laptop used to be ensuring that all the hardware worked out of the box. It was often best to install a Linux-flavour on an older laptop to help ensure all the hardware worked. However, older laptops had used-battery issues and, of course, older hardware. I welcome these new Linux-friendly laptops. Hopefully other corporations will join the bandwagon.
With a 12C at work and a 48G at home, the only calculators I use (and I use them daily) use RPN. Most of the people I work with don't even try to borrow my calculator(s) because they're afraid of a supposedly steep learning curve.
Please note: the learning curve is rather flat for anyone who even half-understands how calculators work.
We have a similar law in Canada, whereby law enforcement can review a person's web browsing (and email?) for up to two years.
I see a business model for selling anonymous web browsing via proxy servers. Commercial proxy servers already exist to get around Hulu barriers and the like. If such servers market themselves as "anonymous," they should find more paying customers.
Ian McKellen (Number 2) had a laptop with a see-through screen in AMC's version of The Prisoner. I only remember it from one scene; I am unsure in which of the six episodes (no pun intended) it appeared. It looked cool, and I've wanted one ever since.
Apparently, I can now get one. However, I am sure that it won't be a slick as Number 2's.
If you are into monster slugathon fantasy war games, Titan is among the best. It was reprinted last year, but more importantly for you, it's available online through Sourceforge: http://colossus.sourceforge.net/
Colossus is a java version. Titan is a game for 2 - 6 players. Colossus can be played against crude AI, which is OK for learning the game.
The biggest problem with Titan occurs when a person is eliminated early on and has little to do until someone else is eliminated. Computer play eliminates this problem because the players need not be in the same room.
About a dozen years ago, I read a book on handwriting analysis. While initially thinking the text was going to provide me with a good laugh (by being full of bunk), I actually learned a few things. (Note that I still put little weight into reading personality traits in the way people form their loops.)
However, the way we join letters can identify us. We have 26 x 26 ways to join pairs of lower-case letters together. The ways to join letters increases when we include upper-case letters. Each of us has our own style of forming and joining letters.
Samples of our writing (or print-writing for many people today) provide a form of fingerprint.
Now for the most valuable lesson:
If you want to print something anonymously with a pen:
Form your letters with lines that do not intersect and do not let your letters touch each other.
(The fewer intersecting lines in our penning, the more anonymous our writing.)
Two years ago, I got my 67-year-old mother online with a Debian (stable) box for web browsing, emailing, and printing. At least twice in these two years, she has come across web pages warning that her operating system has been infected with a virus. The web pages make it look like she has an infected Windows system - similar to the link from the NYT web page.
I reassure her each time that her computer has not been infected, and it is not likely to ever be infected so long as she is careful with her password. I would like Firefox (or in her case IceWeasel) to have a plugin to avoid loading pages that look like Windows Explorer. This would save people like my mother and businesses like the NYT from undue stress.
Seriously now, the study has some merit. Other than getting better at the game, these youngsters were performing difficult repetitive tasks akin to musicians learning to play instruments. The key is in the age of the learning. If a child is young enough, his or her brain increases in size and density. Check out: http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/23/27/9240
A bank could dole out thumb drives to its customers, which thumb drives could boot up into an O/S [hopefully not within a VM] that only allows Internet access to the bank's website. Passwords could change every minute with use of a RSA key chain (eTrade facilitates minute-by-minute password changing).
It would be nice if the thumb drives were read only; perhaps some sort of dongle might work.
This would make me feel more secure in my online bank transactions.
Slashdot Mirror
I believe the Viewsat 9000HD, which is chiefly a satellite receiver, will receive OTA signals. With an added USB hard drive, it is supposed to record them. I don't imagine the interface will be as nice as MythTV, but a commercial product does exist.
Does anyone know where duedil.com gets its Canonical data from?
If I am going to fork over $800, I want to perform at least some due diligence. Is Canonical simply going to use my money to pay downs its current liabilities, which were recently about 19,000,000 GBP higher than its current assets?
https://www.duedil.com/company/06870835/canonical-group-limited
Many people think Turing cracked Enigma, but this is only partially true.
The Poles were the first to crack Enigma. Turing's lot later cracked naval Enigma. It took the capture of a downed U-boat to crack an updated naval Enigma.
Buy a consumer-grade router, but use a UPS to ensure it receives clean power. Dirty power kills these things.
I find Internet cafés most helpful for tourists. It doesn't make sense to (try to) pass laws against them. I was in London recently and could web browse easily enough with my tablet. When it came time to compose an email, I was very happy to find an Internet café with computers having full size keyboards.
Ten years ago, I predicted a "nudie button," which, instead of removing people from live video, would simply remove their clothing (through interpolation). I do not endorse the use of such a button on your TV's remote control, I merely predict its future existence.
I came up with a similar theory years ago as an excuse not to exercise, for exercising increases one's heart rate. I concluded that exercise would therefore shorten my life. My girlfriend at the time didn't buy my logic. As a step aerobics instructor and science graduate student, she assured me that exercising only temporarily increases one's heart rate and that people who exercise regularly have slower heart rates during the non-exercising parts of their lives. I hate it when people use my own logic against me.
It's the old hire the guy who hacked you scenario:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2013/01/21/montreal-dawson-college-hack-hamed-al-khabaz.html
This is the same in most industries. A degree from any number of schools gets one an interview. Experience and ability gets one a job.
The proper plural of thesis is theses, with a long e sound in the second syllable.
Until reading the blurb for this Slashdot article, I have never seen anyone get this wrong.
Some people mispronounce the plural of basis. It is bases, with a long e sound in the second syllable.
What really bugs me are people who mispronounce "processes." Its singular form does not end in "is." It is not a Greek word at all. The proper pronunciation of the plural is with a short e sound in the last syllable. Too many people try to sound educated by making the long e sound in this word. Currently, it backfires and they sound less educated. As English evolves, maybe this incorrect pronunciation will win out; but it would still bug me.
The incentive to incorporate is lessened if you plan on spending all of the cash generated by the business. For then you would have to report all of the income at graduated personal income tax rates.
If you plan to leave cash in the business and not use it personally right away, then incorporating makes much more sense. Here, the amount of combined personal + corporate taxes in the near term would be smaller. The time value of money in the delay of paying taxes works in your favour. What might the business do with its retained earnings? It could invest in assets to grow its own business. It could invest in other businesses.
Now with Fire explained, children should learn about Earth, Wind, and Water.
flame : Fire
as
solid : Earth
as
gas : Wind
as
liquid : Water
Movie houses hook people into going to theatres The one-price-fits-all strategy tries to keep us from rejecting movies because either the price may be too high from a cost-benefit concern or the price may be too low from a quality concern. Going to a theatre becomes the event and the movie is simply a bonus.
Theatres in my neighbourhood have taken this one step further by offering premium seating, where seats are larger and further apart, as well as being assigned. The premium charged is $2, which, based on a recent interview on the Lang & O'Leary Exchange seems to be working well for them.
This contrasts with concert venues, which charge premiums for the more popular musical acts. Concert venues are less concerned with repeat business as profits are calculated after each show. Movie houses need repeat business in order to pay their enormous fixed costs, with profits calculated each quarter.
I suggest the book: Build Your Own Flight Simulator in C++
I read a version of it over ten years ago, and it helped me keep a perspective on projects.
All the code is spoon fed to you.
Check it out at
http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Own-Flight-Sim/dp/1571690220
You might want to download the $20K font pack?
Depending on your jurisdiction, using any of the fonts commercially could open you up to a costly lawsuit.
The supplied links are now "hot" (i.e. everybody knows about them); you should not want your IP address connected to them.
I'm on my second Eee PC now. The first was a 701 (7" screen). The second is a 1001P (10" screen).
The hardware has been well supported in the various kernels because the Eee PC's were popular and ASUS was onside.
The hardest part of sourcing a new Linux-flavoured laptop used to be ensuring that all the hardware worked out of the box.
It was often best to install a Linux-flavour on an older laptop to help ensure all the hardware worked.
However, older laptops had used-battery issues and, of course, older hardware.
I welcome these new Linux-friendly laptops.
Hopefully other corporations will join the bandwagon.
With a 12C at work and a 48G at home, the only calculators I use (and I use them daily) use RPN.
Most of the people I work with don't even try to borrow my calculator(s) because they're afraid of a supposedly steep learning curve.
Please note: the learning curve is rather flat for anyone who even half-understands how calculators work.
We have a similar law in Canada, whereby law enforcement can review a person's web browsing (and email?) for up to two years.
I see a business model for selling anonymous web browsing via proxy servers.
Commercial proxy servers already exist to get around Hulu barriers and the like.
If such servers market themselves as "anonymous," they should find more paying customers.
Ian McKellen (Number 2) had a laptop with a see-through screen in AMC's version of The Prisoner.
I only remember it from one scene; I am unsure in which of the six episodes (no pun intended) it appeared.
It looked cool, and I've wanted one ever since.
Apparently, I can now get one.
However, I am sure that it won't be a slick as Number 2's.
If you are into monster slugathon fantasy war games, Titan is among the best.
It was reprinted last year, but more importantly for you, it's available online through Sourceforge:
http://colossus.sourceforge.net/
Colossus is a java version.
Titan is a game for 2 - 6 players.
Colossus can be played against crude AI, which is OK for learning the game.
The biggest problem with Titan occurs when a person is eliminated early on and has little to do until someone else is eliminated.
Computer play eliminates this problem because the players need not be in the same room.
About a dozen years ago, I read a book on handwriting analysis.
While initially thinking the text was going to provide me with a good laugh (by being full of bunk), I actually learned a few things.
(Note that I still put little weight into reading personality traits in the way people form their loops.)
However, the way we join letters can identify us.
We have 26 x 26 ways to join pairs of lower-case letters together.
The ways to join letters increases when we include upper-case letters.
Each of us has our own style of forming and joining letters.
Samples of our writing (or print-writing for many people today) provide a form of fingerprint.
Now for the most valuable lesson:
If you want to print something anonymously with a pen:
Form your letters with lines that do not intersect and do not let your letters touch each other.
(The fewer intersecting lines in our penning, the more anonymous our writing.)
Two years ago, I got my 67-year-old mother online with a Debian (stable) box for web browsing, emailing, and printing.
At least twice in these two years, she has come across web pages warning that her operating system has been infected with a virus.
The web pages make it look like she has an infected Windows system - similar to the link from the NYT web page.
I reassure her each time that her computer has not been infected, and it is not likely to ever be infected so long as she is careful with her password.
I would like Firefox (or in her case IceWeasel) to have a plugin to avoid loading pages that look like Windows Explorer.
This would save people like my mother and businesses like the NYT from undue stress.
Seriously now, the study has some merit.
Other than getting better at the game, these youngsters were performing difficult repetitive tasks akin to musicians learning to play instruments. The key is in the age of the learning. If a child is young enough, his or her brain increases in size and density. Check out:
http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/23/27/9240
My dream:
A bank could dole out thumb drives to its customers, which thumb drives could boot up into an O/S [hopefully not within a VM] that only allows Internet access to the bank's website. Passwords could change every minute with use of a RSA key chain (eTrade facilitates minute-by-minute password changing).
It would be nice if the thumb drives were read only; perhaps some sort of dongle might work.
This would make me feel more secure in my online bank transactions.
I wonder how many people are logging into guest accounts right now trying out this "bug."