That's cool- I will of course look before I leap etc, and i might build one myself. I'm buying a shiny new PC before I go for any new PVR wing-ding as I'm going freelance doing multimedia production (3D animation, video production, DVD-ROM production and and using flash& actionscript to string it all together) so I'll just have to see how the money goes _^^
Who else are they saving? People you would have accidentally hit and killed while flying out the windshield of your car?
Yes, smartass.
If you're a driver, an 80 kilo adult doing even 30 miles per hour (a low guestimate for a passenger in, say a 50mph crash into a static object) hitting the back of your seat might fracture your skull, snap your spine, break ribs, puncture a lung- you name it.
Human bodies travelling quickly in small spaces cause damage. In Ireland, there's a history of highly graphic safer driving commercials- one of which that demonstrates the damage an unrestrained passenger can do in a two-collision accident: Link or search for 'damage seatbelt commerical' on google. I couldn't find the advert anywhere online.
Also, you don't have to be flying out the window to cause injury to another passenger. I found an aussie advert that's a lot less graphic than the one we have.
Thanks very much, man- the systems look excellent, and if they're open source then I guess I can upgrade the hardware without voiding the warranty. I'd have to get the money together, but I think I could be onto a winner here.
No that's cool- I can take a look and decide if I like what I see. I'm Irish so the scheduling options that are generally available aren't much good to me, unless someone's providing stuff for both UK and Ireland (there are only 6-7 extra Irish stations over here so they might do). I could use a player with an integrated burner, too as Hard Disks have a *slight* tendency to fill up when I'm around.
The GParent poster was talking about two parent cars where the kid is dumped in the back. If airbags are absent or have the off-switch that is in a lot of modern cars, single-adult journeys should probably be made with the child in a rear-facing seat in the passenger's place.
Hehe, sounds a bit like chunks of my summers too (though i'm only 23, and Irish so basically it pissed rain half the time, though the weather was okay when it wasn't actually rainin) when we'd have a summer scheme at the locak high school where we played sports & games every day for like 3 weeks of the summer, then I'd be off to my cousin's houses in the countryside for a week or so at a time etc.
I don't think there are more paedophilac people around than there were years ago- I think that there may, however, be more people acting on their unnatural urges, and of course there's more exposure when someone does commit an indecent/murderous act. Sensationalist news reporting and 24 hr rolling news has a lot to answer for. Maybe they should be report on the lost youths of western children. I don't think that'd sell papers though:o'
OK mr. a/c- I'd suggest that a screaming child beside you is less distracing than one that is in the back seat, because a quick glance will tell you that no, in fact they're not being strangled to death or abducted by someone hiding in the back seat, and have instead lost their dummy/pacifier. Also, the child will be much more likely to remain calm if they've got their parent more-orless facing them just 2 feet away, instead of facing away from them in the front seet.
Maybe someone should commission a report into the effects of a parent facing away from and ignoring a child for long periods in a car. God knows, there have been stupider child & family research projects launched.
Also, you could recode your recorded videos to MPEG-4 so that you can dock your 'pod on the tivo and take your programmes with you. This would of course be perfectly legal, like home taping. It wouldn't, of couse sit well with media so will (probably) never happen.
What i would like though is a PVR unit like my Philips PVR, but one that has a network jack on the back to allow netowrk access to the hard disk, and playing of content via the network. Are there any PVRs out there like that, or has the DMCA in the USA gotten there first?
Fuck man, you just reminded me that I did this very thing when I was 5 or 6 years old- I used to get up in the back window of the car and just lie there. This thought now scares the living shit out of me as I can only imagine what'd have happened had we had even a small crash. A child in that window will strike any rear seat passengers in the back of the neck, possibly en-route to the back of the front passenger's seats (if they're lucky) and if they're really unlucky they'll somehow strike a combination of the dashboard and the windscreen.
Also,
'What's the deal? This never hurt any of us growing up....just seems that the govt. is trying to legislate everything.'
Let me fix that for you.
'This never hurt any of us who never had an accident and are alive now to talk about it'
See the first paragraph for a reason why legislation is a good idea on this one. Seatbelts save lives, and not just those of the wearer.
This is making me kinda angry at my parents (but not in a freudian way) for letting me do that.:o'
BTW most modern airbag systems have a big red/orange switch that switches off the airbag in the front passenger seat to enable the growing number of single parents to actually tend to their child in the passenger seat, rather than abandoning them in the back.
Um, I think he may have been inferring that an adult should joining the complaining child in the back seat. This would at the very least stop them from disturbing the driver, and to maybe help them have a better time and stop being bored/upset in the first place. It might also encourage the parent to spend more actual time interacting with their child.
Heh, the only thing that google'd add would be context sensitive text ads on the side of the screen that you can click to send to your google inbox- so when you're watching Lost you'll get ads for GPS units, Sex and the city would give you speed dating, sex toys and Gucci and of course 24 will give you Duct Tape, Plastic sheeting and freeze dried food.
On the other hand, the State of the Union address from Pinnochio himself would give you one way tickets to Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Paris and London. Basically anywhere saner.
Some wouldn't ven if they hit you and you were sprawled all over their windsreen (or somehow impaled on their bullbars). They're called taxi drivers.
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I think that the people who hold the purse strings at western game publishing houses are too afraid to spend money on a new idea, however creative that idea may be.
I think it's partly the consumer's fault- they'll rush right out and buy a million copies of ISS Pro, or Project Gotham Racing, but they won't lavish the same money on Oddworld:Stranger's wrath (I'm still reeling from playing that last summer), Forza Motorsport (which kick's Gran Turismo's simulation ass, and had play over xbox live) or Lumines for the PSP.
They can't really be blamed though- when crap like L.A. Rush (which sponsors Pimp my Ride here in europe) and every other indistinguishable sequel are pushed at them through ads on television and in magazines - just so bosses can reclaim the cash they spent on making a steamin pile of predictable shit.
If every game (or movie, or album for that ) was given advertising in accordance to what it deserved or now novel it was, rather than how desperate the management are to at least make their money back, then a lot of smaller, original game producers out there would make more money than the original ones, and people would buy more, better games.
Personally I spend my money where the quality is- in the sense that if there are no great games around, then I won't buy any- but if three come out at once I'll get them all. The same goes for movies too, where I won't go to the cinema if there's nothing worthwhile on , but might go three times in a week if there are a few good movies around. It's sore on my wallet though:o.
The CCP was a communist party until about 10 minutes after Mao took control, then all of that got pissed right out the window and became the Mao dictatorship, and that's all it was until the old fuck croaked it after killing more than 70 million people. Something of a record. I'm sure Stalin was jealous.
There's nothing communist about China, or the Chinese Communist Party. It's just a fucking facade and has been since Mao had anything to do with it.
I wonder if you can allow access to your own calendar via the iCal standard. So if you're using a calendaring client such as Lighting or Sunbird you can view your own calendar.
Having said that, who needs a calendar client anymore? Web 2.0 anyone?
Dude, i ordered my iMac yesterday, I'm not joking.
I'm not quite able to give up commerical software (I need the heavy commerical multimedia apps), but I'm going freelance as a multimedia developer and ditching windows in favour of the way of the Mac, now that I'm working for myself.
BTW has anyone heard anything about the new Intel/Mac workstations? I'm having to go with a 20" iMac but will get a workstation after they decide to launch. Someone at apple please just walk up to me and sell me one now!
If the companies get their shit together, maybe we'll get a situation where normal digital cameras can use a cellphone as a modem (maybe using 802.11g or the new wide-band bluetooth standard) to connect and send photos via 3G services, rather than having the phone on the camera, which is always going to be a compromise.
At the very least we should be able to send the photo to the phone for viewing, or take the card from the camera and put it into the phone for viewing and sending, as is the case with Sony (boo!) digicams and the Sony-Ericcsson (yay!) P910i phone I have.
I use Canon cameras though, so I'm excluded from being able to do that. Stupid memory sticks:o(
Being able to send an image is a much-used excuse for having the camera on the phone, but if the phone can act as a gateway for a proper camera, then that's a better situation.
I'd quite like to see phones becoming much more like universal gateways for your peronsal devices- so your phone, camera, headset and laptop can use it. Such things are possible with sony cameras, phones, bluetooth laptops and bluetooth headsets, but universality would be key.
Yea that's where I got the quote. Clancy's characters also talk at length about how the movement of the laser through the atmosphere when tracking the target horizontally means that the beam constantly has a new patch of atmosphere to cut through, making delivering power to the target difficult etc. I always liked Clancy's stuff for that- the technical side etc.
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I found the advert mentioned in my above post and a few other road safety ads like it on youtube.
= seatbelt
= seatbelt
= seatbelt
= seatbelt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqAj1dAdxOY&search
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvht1d5GVHk&search
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvht1d5GVHk&search
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWygwnAo3zs&search
That's cool- I will of course look before I leap etc, and i might build one myself. I'm buying a shiny new PC before I go for any new PVR wing-ding as I'm going freelance doing multimedia production (3D animation, video production, DVD-ROM production and and using flash& actionscript to string it all together) so I'll just have to see how the money goes _^^
Who else are they saving? People you would have accidentally hit and killed while flying out the windshield of your car?
Yes, smartass.
If you're a driver, an 80 kilo adult doing even 30 miles per hour (a low guestimate for a passenger in, say a 50mph crash into a static object) hitting the back of your seat might fracture your skull, snap your spine, break ribs, puncture a lung- you name it.
Human bodies travelling quickly in small spaces cause damage. In Ireland, there's a history of highly graphic safer driving commercials- one of which that demonstrates the damage an unrestrained passenger can do in a two-collision accident: Link or search for 'damage seatbelt commerical' on google. I couldn't find the advert anywhere online.
Also, you don't have to be flying out the window to cause injury to another passenger. I found an aussie advert that's a lot less graphic than the one we have.
New South Wales Advert
The bottom line: buckle up, selfish.
Thanks very much, man- the systems look excellent, and if they're open source then I guess I can upgrade the hardware without voiding the warranty. I'd have to get the money together, but I think I could be onto a winner here.
No that's cool- I can take a look and decide if I like what I see. I'm Irish so the scheduling options that are generally available aren't much good to me, unless someone's providing stuff for both UK and Ireland (there are only 6-7 extra Irish stations over here so they might do). I could use a player with an integrated burner, too as Hard Disks have a *slight* tendency to fill up when I'm around.
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My current recorder is a philips HDD/DVD recorder, which works very well and has a 6 hour buffer that it records your instant replay info into. It works extremely well and it's going to be hard to replace it, but I think i can:
http://www.consumer.philips.com/consumer/catalog/
*sigh*
The GParent poster was talking about two parent cars where the kid is dumped in the back. If airbags are absent or have the off-switch that is in a lot of modern cars, single-adult journeys should probably be made with the child in a rear-facing seat in the passenger's place.
Can you buy a PVR-type standalone device that fits with the architecture though? That's what I'm really after for conventience you see :o'
Hehe, sounds a bit like chunks of my summers too (though i'm only 23, and Irish so basically it pissed rain half the time, though the weather was okay when it wasn't actually rainin) when we'd have a summer scheme at the locak high school where we played sports & games every day for like 3 weeks of the summer, then I'd be off to my cousin's houses in the countryside for a week or so at a time etc.
:o'
I don't think there are more paedophilac people around than there were years ago- I think that there may, however, be more people acting on their unnatural urges, and of course there's more exposure when someone does commit an indecent/murderous act. Sensationalist news reporting and 24 hr rolling news has a lot to answer for. Maybe they should be report on the lost youths of western children. I don't think that'd sell papers though
OK mr. a/c- I'd suggest that a screaming child beside you is less distracing than one that is in the back seat, because a quick glance will tell you that no, in fact they're not being strangled to death or abducted by someone hiding in the back seat, and have instead lost their dummy/pacifier. Also, the child will be much more likely to remain calm if they've got their parent more-orless facing them just 2 feet away, instead of facing away from them in the front seet.
Maybe someone should commission a report into the effects of a parent facing away from and ignoring a child for long periods in a car. God knows, there have been stupider child & family research projects launched.
^ sorry I meant sit well with media moguls, not sit well with media.
Also, you could recode your recorded videos to MPEG-4 so that you can dock your 'pod on the tivo and take your programmes with you. This would of course be perfectly legal, like home taping. It wouldn't, of couse sit well with media so will (probably) never happen.
What i would like though is a PVR unit like my Philips PVR, but one that has a network jack on the back to allow netowrk access to the hard disk, and playing of content via the network. Are there any PVRs out there like that, or has the DMCA in the USA gotten there first?
Fuck man, you just reminded me that I did this very thing when I was 5 or 6 years old- I used to get up in the back window of the car and just lie there. This thought now scares the living shit out of me as I can only imagine what'd have happened had we had even a small crash. A child in that window will strike any rear seat passengers in the back of the neck, possibly en-route to the back of the front passenger's seats (if they're lucky) and if they're really unlucky they'll somehow strike a combination of the dashboard and the windscreen.
:o'
Also,
'What's the deal? This never hurt any of us growing up....just seems that the govt. is trying to legislate everything.'
Let me fix that for you.
'This never hurt any of us who never had an accident and are alive now to talk about it'
See the first paragraph for a reason why legislation is a good idea on this one. Seatbelts save lives, and not just those of the wearer.
This is making me kinda angry at my parents (but not in a freudian way) for letting me do that.
BTW most modern airbag systems have a big red/orange switch that switches off the airbag in the front passenger seat to enable the growing number of single parents to actually tend to their child in the passenger seat, rather than abandoning them in the back.
Um, I think he may have been inferring that an adult should joining the complaining child in the back seat. This would at the very least stop them from disturbing the driver, and to maybe help them have a better time and stop being bored/upset in the first place. It might also encourage the parent to spend more actual time interacting with their child.
Heh, the only thing that google'd add would be context sensitive text ads on the side of the screen that you can click to send to your google inbox- so when you're watching Lost you'll get ads for GPS units, Sex and the city would give you speed dating, sex toys and Gucci and of course 24 will give you Duct Tape, Plastic sheeting and freeze dried food.
On the other hand, the State of the Union address from Pinnochio himself would give you one way tickets to Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Paris and London. Basically anywhere saner.
Some wouldn't ven if they hit you and you were sprawled all over their windsreen (or somehow impaled on their bullbars). They're called taxi drivers.
I think that the people who hold the purse strings at western game publishing houses are too afraid to spend money on a new idea, however creative that idea may be.
:o.
I think it's partly the consumer's fault- they'll rush right out and buy a million copies of ISS Pro, or Project Gotham Racing, but they won't lavish the same money on Oddworld:Stranger's wrath (I'm still reeling from playing that last summer), Forza Motorsport (which kick's Gran Turismo's simulation ass, and had play over xbox live) or Lumines for the PSP.
They can't really be blamed though- when crap like L.A. Rush (which sponsors Pimp my Ride here in europe) and every other indistinguishable sequel are pushed at them through ads on television and in magazines - just so bosses can reclaim the cash they spent on making a steamin pile of predictable shit.
If every game (or movie, or album for that ) was given advertising in accordance to what it deserved or now novel it was, rather than how desperate the management are to at least make their money back, then a lot of smaller, original game producers out there would make more money than the original ones, and people would buy more, better games.
Personally I spend my money where the quality is- in the sense that if there are no great games around, then I won't buy any- but if three come out at once I'll get them all. The same goes for movies too, where I won't go to the cinema if there's nothing worthwhile on , but might go three times in a week if there are a few good movies around. It's sore on my wallet though
The CCP was a communist party until about 10 minutes after Mao took control, then all of that got pissed right out the window and became the Mao dictatorship, and that's all it was until the old fuck croaked it after killing more than 70 million people. Something of a record. I'm sure Stalin was jealous.
There's nothing communist about China, or the Chinese Communist Party. It's just a fucking facade and has been since Mao had anything to do with it.
'www.openoffice.org' Did you mean 'http://office.microsoft.com'?
now we can have 'Free, as in beer' and 'Expensive, as in synthenol'.
Synthenol Cristal? I'll take 4 cases.
I wonder if you can allow access to your own calendar via the iCal standard. So if you're using a calendaring client such as Lighting or Sunbird you can view your own calendar.
Having said that, who needs a calendar client anymore? Web 2.0 anyone?
Dude, i ordered my iMac yesterday, I'm not joking.
I'm not quite able to give up commerical software (I need the heavy commerical multimedia apps), but I'm going freelance as a multimedia developer and ditching windows in favour of the way of the Mac, now that I'm working for myself.
BTW has anyone heard anything about the new Intel/Mac workstations? I'm having to go with a 20" iMac but will get a workstation after they decide to launch. Someone at apple please just walk up to me and sell me one now!
You stole the post right outta my brain, and right off the keyboards of every l33t3r out there who fancies a go at the encryption system.
If the companies get their shit together, maybe we'll get a situation where normal digital cameras can use a cellphone as a modem (maybe using 802.11g or the new wide-band bluetooth standard) to connect and send photos via 3G services, rather than having the phone on the camera, which is always going to be a compromise.
:o(
At the very least we should be able to send the photo to the phone for viewing, or take the card from the camera and put it into the phone for viewing and sending, as is the case with Sony (boo!) digicams and the Sony-Ericcsson (yay!) P910i phone I have.
I use Canon cameras though, so I'm excluded from being able to do that. Stupid memory sticks
Being able to send an image is a much-used excuse for having the camera on the phone, but if the phone can act as a gateway for a proper camera, then that's a better situation.
I'd quite like to see phones becoming much more like universal gateways for your peronsal devices- so your phone, camera, headset and laptop can use it. Such things are possible with sony cameras, phones, bluetooth laptops and bluetooth headsets, but universality would be key.
Oh noes, I've been rumbled :o)
Yea that's where I got the quote. Clancy's characters also talk at length about how the movement of the laser through the atmosphere when tracking the target horizontally means that the beam constantly has a new patch of atmosphere to cut through, making delivering power to the target difficult etc. I always liked Clancy's stuff for that- the technical side etc.