I'm pretty sure the person editing this made a big cockup when they changed "Like you don't open a double-A battery, you just plug it in and it does its chemical thing inside of it. You don't ever open it or mess with it." The "it" obviously refers to the Double-A battery, and whoever edited the copy got it wrong.
I have plenty of bandwidth, and my neighbours are hardly networking gurus, so I get a lot more value out of them than they get out of me. Trading a few gig a month of bandwidth for all the dirty viewing habits of three apartments full of people and the ability to dump horse porn on their desktops at will. Good deal if you ask me. Plus it keeps the music industry from pinpointing the source of all the Britney albums I upload.
Sorry to hassle, I still don't get the difference; do your family lose remotes a lot? What is it about someone living with you that makes a universal remote more important?
If you don't live alone, get a HT-specific uhf universal remote and program it to control everything else. Check Remote Central [remotecentral.com] for the latest recommendations and deals. $100-600.
I must know, why can't I have a universal remote if I live alone?
In short, I don't think that the right to anonymity requires that you have the right to be anonymous everywhere. You have the right to have sex with other consenting adults, too, but you don't have the right to have sex with other consenting adults everywhere. (Hey! Get off my car!)
You have built a hotel with a sign out front saying "NO FUCKING", and now there are bugger all guests. Now there's a surprise.
From my father's point of view, I'm "next gen" but I only offer incremental improvements over him....couple of inches taller, better at math, less flab, more fun to be around, but nothing "revolutionary"...I'm still next-gen, though.
You seem to be approaching the need for big disks from a purely sysadmin point of view. In my case, and the case of a lot of friends/family, massive media collections aren't the exception, they're the rule. Between backups, downloads and plain old piracy, a lot of individuals need enormous data storage, as do film makers, musicians, artists etc. The sort of issues *you* face make it clear where your priorities lie, but don't assume that your experience is definitive.
I for one am getting sick of having to navigate between endless stacks of DVD-spindles every time I'm in a house!
Wolfram, wikipedia, whatever are all fine resources for math
I'd hesitate to recommend Wikipedia to someone who has a hard time with math. Some math/science articles I read there, I come away from slightly stupider, and definitely more confused. Wikipedia may be an excellent resource, but its more technical articles tend to be written without sufficient regard for the layperson. I wouldn't start there in this case.
A lot like me, I still play a bit of Madden now and again, but it's the simple stuff that makes the console...I rarely have anyone over to my place who doesn't insist on a quick bowl or hit of tennis.
The original Scotty was Canadian, and Mel Gibson is American, not Australian (look it up). I understand your misgivings (I'm Australian, and I still have "the dingo oit moi boiybee" nightmares), but there's never been a Scottish Scotty, and leave us Aussies out of it:)
I think you're missing her point somewhat...the daughter liked Vista on someone else's PC, which is when she decided she saw value in it. Her mother has clearly been the one picking up the pieces ever since.
National broadcasters using these formats..tsk tsk - I'm an Aussie, and hate having wmv or mp4 only for video download from the ABC, but RealPlayer? Yuk! Poor Brits.
It's just an opinion, but Apple's marketing power seems to be the most amazing feature of the new iPods...I really don't see anything in the current lineup - especially the nano - that makes them interesting technologically. iRiver, Creative, etc etc have comparable, and in my opinion, better players in the 2-8GB range...yet I see 20,000 iPod stories to every non-apple PMD one. Granted, they've released some impressive, slick hardware at various points, but geez, the 4GB nano has a smaller screen and bigger body than the iRiver clix2, yet I've seen two photos on Engadget for that, and almost nothing anywhere else. Does having a big customer base or a first-rate marketing department make the hardware or software any more interesting? I don't think so. I guess I'm in the minority, as I can't make it through the day without seeing iphone and ipod all over my news reader anymore. I'm bored.
BWJones, your spam is getting really annoying, can't you just go for a week without pushing your damn blog in the body of your comment? It's already in your sig, you get modded up plenty, ease up a bit.
No hyperbole at all, annoying you while providing a freel, arguably indispensable service is 'evil'. So now what word are you going to use for something well thought out and utterly horrible...evilsquared? Geez, tone it down a little, people. Evil is about the strongest word we have for bad behaviour & intent, applying it to frigging web ads is a bit much.
I'm glad this is coming up in the discussion, because it's something I've recently started to notice, in the context of technology. In Australia, our two big parties are fighting it out over who's going to bring enormous bandwidth to more of the masses. Knowing a wee bit about the subject, I've been staggered by the inability of our MSM to even notice that neither plan includes a single extra submarine cable...basically they're both looking at giving the whole population fibre to the node, or to the home, but have no plans to increase the bandwidth available to the nation as a whole, which is really what we need more than anything. I hear about how all of us will have 12mbps, but not much about sitting in latency hell for three days waiting to get to the head of the queue so you can check your email, which is what will happen when we all get super-duper internets with no increased capacity at a national level.
Having noted that, I've been referring various folk with various skills to news stories that I'm iffy about, and there's a near-complete consensus that the media has not a fucking clue what it's talking about.
You get a communications degree then you go directly into the field, reporting on anything BUT your field, which is communication.
I've had three goes at (k)ubuntu now, and fuckups with xorg have driven me back to Windows every time - I've posted about this a few times, the simple inability of ubuntu to find my native resolution, and the need to manually edit configuration files is a killer for beginners. This is great news, now I will be bothered to re-use the dead 30GB partition that currently boots to a blank screen, which it's done ever since I added 1440x900 to the display modes in kubuntu.
I work as an independent IT contractor to a huge media retailer in Australia, and part of my job involves grabbing an enormous amount of data (catalogues, etc) from various suppliers in various formats, and making these data fit our internal system - I have to receive & send this stuff from home, where I do my work. All told, I go through ~60GB a month, and need a fast connection to satisfy the demands of a company that wants to be accurate to one minute ago. So thanks for your complete ignorance, but that's what it is. Think Steam, LEGAL movie downloads, ITMS, Linux distros, the list of large, legal files is never-ending.
Colour me unimpressed. First track, and it pauses every 30 seconds for 2-3 seconds (I have 24mb/s of downstream), and the interface is kinda sucky. Still, on the political front, great news.
If you can read or see a bunch of Shakespeare's works and get nothing relevant or educational out of them, you probably live in a small, opaque metal box with breathing holes and no possibility of human contact. Fictional works in general can be extremely educational, and very much relevant to life. Their value doesn't simply come from the accuracy of the science, that's really not the point.
Your life as a 'professional young adult' sounds awfully dull, I wonder at what point you'll have won whatever race you're running and enjoy life. I'm a 32 year old IT professional doing a degree in linguistics & philosophy, I have a partner who's a lecturer and also doing her PhD, and we spend a great deal of time doing things that are purely 'fun'. I have an excellent understanding of basic physics, and I thought Die Hard 4.0 was an very enjoyable stupid movie full of awesome things going BOOM! I mean, physics aside, let's talk about the biology of that kung-fu chick. She took a couple of full-speed hits from an SUV with Bruce Fucking Willis at the wheel, and her hair didn't even frizz up. I imagine anyone with enough brains to pursue a career in science, engineering, medicine, etc would be able to put Die Hard aside when they hit their exams...anyone with a brain knows that John McCain operates outside of normal time and space.
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I'm pretty sure the person editing this made a big cockup when they changed "Like you don't open a double-A battery, you just plug it in and it does its chemical thing inside of it. You don't ever open it or mess with it." The "it" obviously refers to the Double-A battery, and whoever edited the copy got it wrong.
I have plenty of bandwidth, and my neighbours are hardly networking gurus, so I get a lot more value out of them than they get out of me. Trading a few gig a month of bandwidth for all the dirty viewing habits of three apartments full of people and the ability to dump horse porn on their desktops at will. Good deal if you ask me. Plus it keeps the music industry from pinpointing the source of all the Britney albums I upload.
Sorry to hassle, I still don't get the difference; do your family lose remotes a lot? What is it about someone living with you that makes a universal remote more important?
Did you just add footnotes to actually back up your claim on a slashdot discussion? *rubs eyes* You're going to destroy this site's reputation.
From my father's point of view, I'm "next gen" but I only offer incremental improvements over him....couple of inches taller, better at math, less flab, more fun to be around, but nothing "revolutionary"...I'm still next-gen, though.
I for one am getting sick of having to navigate between endless stacks of DVD-spindles every time I'm in a house!
A lot like me, I still play a bit of Madden now and again, but it's the simple stuff that makes the console...I rarely have anyone over to my place who doesn't insist on a quick bowl or hit of tennis.
The original Scotty was Canadian, and Mel Gibson is American, not Australian (look it up). I understand your misgivings (I'm Australian, and I still have "the dingo oit moi boiybee" nightmares), but there's never been a Scottish Scotty, and leave us Aussies out of it :)
I think you're missing her point somewhat...the daughter liked Vista on someone else's PC, which is when she decided she saw value in it. Her mother has clearly been the one picking up the pieces ever since.
National broadcasters using these formats..tsk tsk - I'm an Aussie, and hate having wmv or mp4 only for video download from the ABC, but RealPlayer? Yuk! Poor Brits.
If /. can support as many ipod/iphone stories as it does, surely this warrants the front page.
It's just an opinion, but Apple's marketing power seems to be the most amazing feature of the new iPods...I really don't see anything in the current lineup - especially the nano - that makes them interesting technologically. iRiver, Creative, etc etc have comparable, and in my opinion, better players in the 2-8GB range...yet I see 20,000 iPod stories to every non-apple PMD one. Granted, they've released some impressive, slick hardware at various points, but geez, the 4GB nano has a smaller screen and bigger body than the iRiver clix2, yet I've seen two photos on Engadget for that, and almost nothing anywhere else. Does having a big customer base or a first-rate marketing department make the hardware or software any more interesting? I don't think so. I guess I'm in the minority, as I can't make it through the day without seeing iphone and ipod all over my news reader anymore. I'm bored.
BWJones, your spam is getting really annoying, can't you just go for a week without pushing your damn blog in the body of your comment? It's already in your sig, you get modded up plenty, ease up a bit.
No hyperbole at all, annoying you while providing a freel, arguably indispensable service is 'evil'. So now what word are you going to use for something well thought out and utterly horrible...evilsquared? Geez, tone it down a little, people. Evil is about the strongest word we have for bad behaviour & intent, applying it to frigging web ads is a bit much.
Having noted that, I've been referring various folk with various skills to news stories that I'm iffy about, and there's a near-complete consensus that the media has not a fucking clue what it's talking about.
You get a communications degree then you go directly into the field, reporting on anything BUT your field, which is communication.
I've had three goes at (k)ubuntu now, and fuckups with xorg have driven me back to Windows every time - I've posted about this a few times, the simple inability of ubuntu to find my native resolution, and the need to manually edit configuration files is a killer for beginners. This is great news, now I will be bothered to re-use the dead 30GB partition that currently boots to a blank screen, which it's done ever since I added 1440x900 to the display modes in kubuntu.
I work as an independent IT contractor to a huge media retailer in Australia, and part of my job involves grabbing an enormous amount of data (catalogues, etc) from various suppliers in various formats, and making these data fit our internal system - I have to receive & send this stuff from home, where I do my work.
All told, I go through ~60GB a month, and need a fast connection to satisfy the demands of a company that wants to be accurate to one minute ago. So thanks for your complete ignorance, but that's what it is. Think Steam, LEGAL movie downloads, ITMS, Linux distros, the list of large, legal files is never-ending.
Colour me unimpressed. First track, and it pauses every 30 seconds for 2-3 seconds (I have 24mb/s of downstream), and the interface is kinda sucky. Still, on the political front, great news.
so...fucking...cool
If you can read or see a bunch of Shakespeare's works and get nothing relevant or educational out of them, you probably live in a small, opaque metal box with breathing holes and no possibility of human contact. Fictional works in general can be extremely educational, and very much relevant to life. Their value doesn't simply come from the accuracy of the science, that's really not the point. Your life as a 'professional young adult' sounds awfully dull, I wonder at what point you'll have won whatever race you're running and enjoy life. I'm a 32 year old IT professional doing a degree in linguistics & philosophy, I have a partner who's a lecturer and also doing her PhD, and we spend a great deal of time doing things that are purely 'fun'. I have an excellent understanding of basic physics, and I thought Die Hard 4.0 was an very enjoyable stupid movie full of awesome things going BOOM! I mean, physics aside, let's talk about the biology of that kung-fu chick. She took a couple of full-speed hits from an SUV with Bruce Fucking Willis at the wheel, and her hair didn't even frizz up. I imagine anyone with enough brains to pursue a career in science, engineering, medicine, etc would be able to put Die Hard aside when they hit their exams...anyone with a brain knows that John McCain operates outside of normal time and space.
And of course, since you're here in Aus, you're already being tracked via automated bridge tolling, and have been for years.
From the various comments above, I estimate that downloading the paperless bill to your iPhone could cost up to $85.70