DVR doesn't always require a subscription. I've been happily using my lifetime-subscription enabled Replay 5040 for years now. The company died long ago, but programming guide still works. Maybe it won't work 10 years from now, but even if it dies tomorrow I will have gotten my grand-total $300 out of it. No DRM. No broadcast flag. Auto commercial skip. Upload and download shows with no hacking.
Can't find one? Ebay. Prefer a new unit? How about a prebuilt MythTV box?
The destruction of the concept that parents should educate their children
I've never understood this point of view. My parents never really taught us anything academic directly.
Both my sister and I did a lot better than my parents in school. I've seen my parents write, and I can tell you we're a lot better at it. My dad didn't go to college, my mom has a 2-year nursing degree. Meanwhile, my sister and I both have our Master's. We both chose subjects that they had no interest or talent in (music and comp sci).
What they did do is encourage us to do the right thing. To study, to read, to think for ourselves. They valued education, and made sure we had the opportunity. I think that did a lot more than my dad trying to help me do some physics homework (which he didn't!).
People seem to think that as parents you have to do something RIGHT THEN. Let me tell you something: by the time you have kids, you've already made your major life choices and set your values. You've already decided if you really want to spend time with your kids or if they're just fashion accessories. Comically, there's actually very little you can do after they're born, that will make a big difference in their lives.
In short, how your kids turn out more depend more on who you *are*, than what you do.
I was awash with those, too. The target company changes week to week, and they are innocent. Go to rulesemporium and there's a ruleset for pump 'n dump stocks. Works great. Combine that with SURBL (God, I love them) and you'll be in good shape.
I've thought about it. My father doesn't know or care about the size. I'm the one who sees that it's a 6MB powerpoint file.
And if I wrote a rule that sends it back (I'm not sure if TB can do that) then the idiot forward-bot would probably just send it out AGAIN!
There's a setting to do this automatically! Excellent.
I set up my father with Thunderbird, and for the most part he's happy with it. The problem is he has this one friend who is a "forwarder" -- you know the type of person. The person who forwards everything they find to everyone they know every day of their lives. (Why are people this stupid?)
So he has to delete megabytes of mail every day. After about a year of that, TB got so slow that it would take 30 seconds to start up. That's over his patience threshold, so he thought mail was broken.
Did he find "Compact Folders"? No, he decided to go to Account Settings and change the POP/SMTP server fields randomly and hope it would fix it. Which made it go from slow to... completely broken.
I added a rule to move this guys stuff into the trash for him. Saves him a step. Now all I need is auto-compact.
Actually, using the registry can be easier. When you want to go look at the whole picture, it's much easier to to look at all of them in one place than the load 30 different programs and hope, pray, hunt, and try to find the magic "Please don't load useless shit on startup" checkbox... if it exists.
Not necessarily. In the US, it's usually the venue's responsibility to get the proper ASCAP/BMI blanket licenses. It might have been illegal, but it's probably not your fault. About all you have to do is provide a songlist to the client, and I've never once been asked.
You also may be confusing performance and making a record. Here in the US you pay a fee for the rights record and distribute a song to the publisher. This has zero to do with performance. It's based on the number of records/CDs you print, and unless you're selling millions, it's not a lot of cash - pennies per track.
To nitpick, just playing someone else's song isn't a cover. A cover, to me, is when you play the song identically to the original, like a tribute band. If you make a jazzy bossa-nova arrangement of "Paranoid Android", it's not a cover. (There is one, and it's actually quite good!)
I had thought about that, but things were so far along that I wasn't going to pull over. This wasn't "oh, my wife just went into labor, we'll have a baby in a few hours", this was "the baby's head is popping out".
You know cops, they pull you over, stop, and 10 minutes later they saunter over to the car. The baby was born, out, done, over, only a few minutes after we got in the hospital.
Perhaps we could have called 911 if we got tailed to explain the situation, but then again, me dialing a cell phone at 90mph didn't seem very safe.
Roger that. It's not just a TV cliche. It happened to me.
My wife almost had our last baby in the car, only by about 5 minutes. Thankfully, we were driving at 4am, so there was no traffic to deal with. If it was 5pm instead of 5am, I would hate to have been behind one these arrogant losers who think it's their job to police you, or daydreaming clods who are simply not aware of anything other than the trees and/or cell phone buddy.
I didn't want to drive fast, but I had to drive 90mph because the contractions were two minutes apart in the car. I decided then that if a cop saw me, I'd ignore him and let him chase me. I'd rather go to jail for an evening than have the baby in the car.
Holy fuck, I had no idea it was that dangerous. I always try to use scissors, but many of those packages have defeated them, I've fallen back on using a serrated knife. I'm going to keep my tin-snips in the kitches from now on. Thanks for the heads up.
I think you meant apostrophe's. The letter s is scary, and we need a warning when it end's a word. But sometime's I use it at the end anyway, just to be saf'e!
Microsoft introduced the "squiggly" line for on-the-fly spell check.
Hardly. I remember using Timeworks desktop publisher which had this feature on an Atari ST. This was the late 80s, around the time Word 1.0 was out. Maybe even before.
Microsoft introduced the ability to edit and recompile C code while debugging it.
Not even that. The debugger I work on had compiled patch points years before Visual Studio did. It's not exactly the same, but very similar.
I had the same thing happen to me. I got my license suspended when I was 21 for 30 days over some speeding tickets. When buying booze, I had my freaking *passport* refused, which is a whole lot harder to fake than a state driver's license. (This was in the 90s when licenses were easily altered with a bit of chalk, art pencils, and fixative.)
The funny thing is that the liquor stores never carded me, only the grocery stores.
Give the guy some credit. FTFA, Steve took an existing identification protocol and worked on the server and database to make the updates happen faster. From what I remember, there is also another revision of the protocol to address those shortcomings. You just don't see it, since it's not free code.
I always thought government sanctioning of marriage really didn't have as much to do with direct encouragement of childbearing, as much as it does with creating stability. You're less likely to go out and shoot people when you have a family.
I agree. It would be better if all law was defined in terms of civil unions and then marriage could be just be a ceremony with no legal benefits or penalites (there ARE penalties, let us not forget). But it seems that will never happen. It's just too loaded a term and too enshrined in religion to ever be practical. This is why I believe in civil unions as the only really way to solve the problem.
All marriage benefits should be defined in terms civil unions, and civil unions should entail legal obligations that create long-term stability (see above). So no, you cannot civilly unify with your 3 mistresses or daughter or dog or fireplace and get a tax break. (Think I'm joking? Because that's what next: sisters are starting to complain that they don't get the rights of gay couples.)
The funny thing about political statistics is that there are a near-infinite number to pick from.
Just like baseball: "Look out, Dave Juggo leads the league with a.463 OBA against left-handers on Thursdays before the all-star break, when down by 2-7 points and when the count is 1-2, and the opposing team has either 2 or 5 people on the DL for more than three weeks... uh, but only when at home."
Each additional qualification to a statistic makes it less meaningful.
Sorry.. is the GPL that much tougher to comprehend than, for example, the Windows EULA?
Apparently so, because you are totally confused too.
They are completely different. One governs development, the other governs use. To develop apps for Windows you don't read the EULA. To use GPL apps you don't read the GPL. Come on! The GPL is not a EULA, despite what the Firefox installer does.
Right, I heard this bit on the radio this morning, and they way they reported it aligns with your reading, not the poster's. It said that student's confidence IN MATH correlates with lower scores.
My 3-year old was in nasty mood few days ago, tripped and whacked his head into the frame of our truck as he was whining and stomping around. Sliced his forehead open. You know head-wounds, they look scary bleeding all over the place, but usually not serious. He went to the ER and got 4 stitches.
That did more to teach him to stop running around blindly and being careless than 2 years of saying "watch where you're going". It was really was inevitable the way he was acting.
It also had a good effect on our 4-year old, who just about in tears just watching him. After all, in his mind, all that blood probably looks like his baby brother was about to die. He needed some reassurance that everything was fine.
There are many parents, male and female, who get really upset when their kids barely get a scratch. I see them all the time at the preschool. Those kids are going to be nutcases when they grow up.
I said to my wife: "well, he's broken in now!" She laughed.
When you run a KDE app outside of KDE, it dutifully starts a pile of daemons in the background and runs your app. When you exit, it then closes all those daemons.
GNOME does the same, except the part about cleaning up. Run a GNOME app on a box that you rarely log into, and you find a various GNOME daemons sitting around forlonly, like lost little children. Oh, little gconfd and gnome-settings-daemon! Where's your mommy? Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I'll take you to her right now.
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DVR doesn't always require a subscription. I've been happily using my lifetime-subscription enabled Replay 5040 for years now. The company died long ago, but programming guide still works. Maybe it won't work 10 years from now, but even if it dies tomorrow I will have gotten my grand-total $300 out of it. No DRM. No broadcast flag. Auto commercial skip. Upload and download shows with no hacking.
Can't find one? Ebay. Prefer a new unit? How about a prebuilt MythTV box?
The destruction of the concept that parents should educate their children
I've never understood this point of view. My parents never really taught us anything academic directly.
Both my sister and I did a lot better than my parents in school. I've seen my parents write, and I can tell you we're a lot better at it. My dad didn't go to college, my mom has a 2-year nursing degree. Meanwhile, my sister and I both have our Master's. We both chose subjects that they had no interest or talent in (music and comp sci).
What they did do is encourage us to do the right thing. To study, to read, to think for ourselves. They valued education, and made sure we had the opportunity. I think that did a lot more than my dad trying to help me do some physics homework (which he didn't!).
People seem to think that as parents you have to do something RIGHT THEN. Let me tell you something: by the time you have kids, you've already made your major life choices and set your values. You've already decided if you really want to spend time with your kids or if they're just fashion accessories. Comically, there's actually very little you can do after they're born, that will make a big difference in their lives.
In short, how your kids turn out more depend more on who you *are*, than what you do.
I was awash with those, too. The target company changes week to week, and they are innocent. Go to rulesemporium and there's a ruleset for pump 'n dump stocks. Works great. Combine that with SURBL (God, I love them) and you'll be in good shape.
I've thought about it. My father doesn't know or care about the size. I'm the one who sees that it's a 6MB powerpoint file. And if I wrote a rule that sends it back (I'm not sure if TB can do that) then the idiot forward-bot would probably just send it out AGAIN!
There's a setting to do this automatically! Excellent.
I set up my father with Thunderbird, and for the most part he's happy with it. The problem is he has this one friend who is a "forwarder" -- you know the type of person. The person who forwards everything they find to everyone they know every day of their lives. (Why are people this stupid?)
So he has to delete megabytes of mail every day. After about a year of that, TB got so slow that it would take 30 seconds to start up. That's over his patience threshold, so he thought mail was broken.
Did he find "Compact Folders"? No, he decided to go to Account Settings and change the POP/SMTP server fields randomly and hope it would fix it. Which made it go from slow to... completely broken.
I added a rule to move this guys stuff into the trash for him. Saves him a step. Now all I need is auto-compact.
Or, just get Mike Lin's tasty startup control panel.
The obvious thing to do here is offer to give him $100.5000000 in exchange for $1000.50!
Not necessarily. In the US, it's usually the venue's responsibility to get the proper ASCAP/BMI blanket licenses. It might have been illegal, but it's probably not your fault. About all you have to do is provide a songlist to the client, and I've never once been asked.
You also may be confusing performance and making a record. Here in the US you pay a fee for the rights record and distribute a song to the publisher. This has zero to do with performance. It's based on the number of records/CDs you print, and unless you're selling millions, it's not a lot of cash - pennies per track.
To nitpick, just playing someone else's song isn't a cover. A cover, to me, is when you play the song identically to the original, like a tribute band. If you make a jazzy bossa-nova arrangement of "Paranoid Android", it's not a cover. (There is one, and it's actually quite good!)
You know cops, they pull you over, stop, and 10 minutes later they saunter over to the car. The baby was born, out, done, over, only a few minutes after we got in the hospital.
Perhaps we could have called 911 if we got tailed to explain the situation, but then again, me dialing a cell phone at 90mph didn't seem very safe.
I think you'll be pleased to hear that arbitrary overloading is already in the works!
My wife almost had our last baby in the car, only by about 5 minutes. Thankfully, we were driving at 4am, so there was no traffic to deal with. If it was 5pm instead of 5am, I would hate to have been behind one these arrogant losers who think it's their job to police you, or daydreaming clods who are simply not aware of anything other than the trees and/or cell phone buddy.
I didn't want to drive fast, but I had to drive 90mph because the contractions were two minutes apart in the car. I decided then that if a cop saw me, I'd ignore him and let him chase me. I'd rather go to jail for an evening than have the baby in the car.
Holy fuck, I had no idea it was that dangerous. I always try to use scissors, but many of those packages have defeated them, I've fallen back on using a serrated knife. I'm going to keep my tin-snips in the kitches from now on. Thanks for the heads up.
I think you meant apostrophe's. The letter s is scary, and we need a warning when it end's a word. But sometime's I use it at the end anyway, just to be saf'e!
Hardly. I remember using Timeworks desktop publisher which had this feature on an Atari ST. This was the late 80s, around the time Word 1.0 was out. Maybe even before.
Microsoft introduced the ability to edit and recompile C code while debugging it.
Not even that. The debugger I work on had compiled patch points years before Visual Studio did. It's not exactly the same, but very similar.
I had the same thing happen to me. I got my license suspended when I was 21 for 30 days over some speeding tickets. When buying booze, I had my freaking *passport* refused, which is a whole lot harder to fake than a state driver's license. (This was in the 90s when licenses were easily altered with a bit of chalk, art pencils, and fixative.)
The funny thing is that the liquor stores never carded me, only the grocery stores.
Personally, I'm up for a no fat people airline. And no smelly people. And no people with brown skin. And no Mormons! Or old people, they're too slow.
Give the guy some credit. FTFA, Steve took an existing identification protocol and worked on the server and database to make the updates happen faster. From what I remember, there is also another revision of the protocol to address those shortcomings. You just don't see it, since it's not free code.
Why bother? Pangaea is not a panacea.
I always thought government sanctioning of marriage really didn't have as much to do with direct encouragement of childbearing, as much as it does with creating stability. You're less likely to go out and shoot people when you have a family.
I agree. It would be better if all law was defined in terms of civil unions and then marriage could be just be a ceremony with no legal benefits or penalites (there ARE penalties, let us not forget). But it seems that will never happen. It's just too loaded a term and too enshrined in religion to ever be practical. This is why I believe in civil unions as the only really way to solve the problem.
All marriage benefits should be defined in terms civil unions, and civil unions should entail legal obligations that create long-term stability (see above). So no, you cannot civilly unify with your 3 mistresses or daughter or dog or fireplace and get a tax break. (Think I'm joking? Because that's what next: sisters are starting to complain that they don't get the rights of gay couples.)
Just like baseball: "Look out, Dave Juggo leads the league with a .463 OBA against left-handers on Thursdays before the all-star break, when down by 2-7 points and when the count is 1-2, and the opposing team has either 2 or 5 people on the DL for more than three weeks... uh, but only when at home."
Each additional qualification to a statistic makes it less meaningful.
Apparently so, because you are totally confused too.
They are completely different. One governs development, the other governs use. To develop apps for Windows you don't read the EULA. To use GPL apps you don't read the GPL. Come on! The GPL is not a EULA, despite what the Firefox installer does.
Keep on doing that, just as long as you don't buy a big-screen TV.
Right, I heard this bit on the radio this morning, and they way they reported it aligns with your reading, not the poster's. It said that student's confidence IN MATH correlates with lower scores.
Right on.
My 3-year old was in nasty mood few days ago, tripped and whacked his head into the frame of our truck as he was whining and stomping around. Sliced his forehead open. You know head-wounds, they look scary bleeding all over the place, but usually not serious. He went to the ER and got 4 stitches.
That did more to teach him to stop running around blindly and being careless than 2 years of saying "watch where you're going". It was really was inevitable the way he was acting.
It also had a good effect on our 4-year old, who just about in tears just watching him. After all, in his mind, all that blood probably looks like his baby brother was about to die. He needed some reassurance that everything was fine.
There are many parents, male and female, who get really upset when their kids barely get a scratch. I see them all the time at the preschool. Those kids are going to be nutcases when they grow up.
I said to my wife: "well, he's broken in now!" She laughed.
When you run a KDE app outside of KDE, it dutifully starts a pile of daemons in the background and runs your app. When you exit, it then closes all those daemons.
GNOME does the same, except the part about cleaning up. Run a GNOME app on a box that you rarely log into, and you find a various GNOME daemons sitting around forlonly, like lost little children. Oh, little gconfd and gnome-settings-daemon! Where's your mommy? Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I'll take you to her right now.
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Right.