I have never used tivo, so my quetion is this:
What advantages does it have over having a good tv tuner/capture card and a large hard disk? Surely it cannot be that big of a deal configure the hardware and write an app to encode tv shows to divx, mpeg2... That is what I would do if I wasn't stuck with an old Ixmicro tv card and a dual ppro machine (i need to upgrade:p).
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I think Janeway also violated the Parallel Universe Prime Directive- seems she stole the ablative shield technology from Batman. Geez.
I believe Doug was trying to make the point that having more than one window environment lessens the focus of developer resources.
Ever wanted to run a gnome app in kde?
Though closing the gap between the social strata online cannot be a bad thing, I still find myself waxing nostalgic for the halcyon days of '94 when the www was new and not so commercialized. Now the "info superhighway" seems a lot like TV, a medium of mediocrity and homogeneity of thought, with notable exceptions, of course.
I am another screwed 3dfx investor. At this point, I think my investment is almost totally gone. I am seriously thinking about voting (with my admittedly measly number of shares) against any deal. I mean, the people who are getting money out of this are the same ones who mismanaged the company in the first place. Any other thoughts?
go to www.x-entertainment.com
They have it in real format, among other atrocities, like the 1980 Star Wars- Sesame Street crossover.
Don't blame me if you are feeling suicidal after you watch this shit:). It's so bad I clicked it off after 2 minutes.
Star Wars Episode II: The Castration of Jar-Jar Binks
Star Wars Episode II: Asses of Ire ("..you're a jedi fucker, yes it's true, nobody fucks jedis quite like you!..")
Star Wars Episode II: Anakin Gets A Spanking
Star Wars Episode II: Amidala's Innocence Lost
Star Wars Episode II: More Over-Hyped SW Shit
Star Wars Episode II: The Wrath of Hamill
So true.. Right now the information industry is kind of like the automobile industry at the turn of the century. Eventually people will realize how saturated the market is, and companies will die off or consolidate. After all, how many auto companies are still around in the US? In 60 years, do not be surprised if the same thing has happened to the current crop of tech companies.
As to the ridiculous stock price of VA and others, what goes up must come down. Maybe not soon, but it will happen eventually. I realize the market is driven by complete idiots these days(day traders, mutual funds), but for a company to maintain a value of over a billion dollars when its revenues total a few million will not last forever.
On another note, I find it laughable how the linux goons are trying their damnedest to cash in. I guess communists would abandon their ideals for a wad of cash given the chance.
This is exactly what happens to Peter Weller in this flick. An artificial image of a military commander gives bogus commands and reports. See this if you are Philip Dick fan.
Anybody know what chipset is used in IBM's Etherjet pcmcia 10bT card? Or any technical info about it at all? I'd like to get it working with linux or Be. I can't be the only person frustrated with this card.
Ok boys and girls, all the things you need for todays experiment are common household items. Needed: 1. packet of dehydrated Sea Monkeys 2. water 3. glass container. Alrighty, you know what to do now. Put the water into the container and then add dehydrated sea monkeys. Presto! Instant life. Wasn't that fun?
Next, children, for bonus points, get the sea monkey to swim through hoops, roll over and worship you. See? the fun never stops.
time for another religion vs science vs common sense flame war to break out on Slapdash, with all the zealots preaching and the impugned lashing out... wheee, open the floodgates
I was watching a "Doctor" of Creation "Science" on the local podunk religion station. He was attempting to exploit perceived holes in the fossil records. He went on to explain that dinosaurs and man coexisted at one time in history, but man eventually hunted dinosaurs out of existence (survival of the fittest...heheheh). He illogically proved this argument by saying that there are legends of man encountering "dragons" all over the globe-- so those mythical dragons were actually dinosaurs...
Needless to say, I laughed my ass off until I felt the sinking feeling that this guy took himself seriously. Then it dawned on me that other people might be watching and actually swallowing this tripe.
About a year or so earlier, on the same channel, the resident conservative talk show hosts interviewed some creation "scientist" who was trying to prove that the dinosaur foot prints in Glen Rose, Texas, were made only a few thousand years ago.
I don't know what mail order company these people got there "degrees" from. Calling these people scientists is like calling a trashman a "waste disposal engineer."
Disclaimer: In America, every body has the right to express their backasswards opinion. If you don't like mine, shove it. Have a nice day.
Really, who will be nice enough to break into my system and send me an endearingly personal email telling me how to plug my security holes? Not gonna happen- whoever finds the holes will exploit them to the fullest and fuck me over.
Frankly, I prefer not to have any uninvited guests.
I completely agree with your article. This time around Star Wars is completely about making money. What other reason is there for Colonel Sanders to jump out of his grave to save the queen?
Really, I think Star Wars has sucked since Return of the Jedi.
On a related note, has anyone read any of the recent 'Wars books? They totally blow. Shameless.
For some odd reason, I thought the use of '?' in lieu of ''' was pretty damn funny... www.ihatestarwars.com
Seems to me this article was written for incendiary purposes only. Just a newpaper columnist writing pulp fiction on a slow news day.
For those of you who haven't seen it yet..
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..Check out www.ihatestarwars.com. Damn funny, in my opinion. I am seriously considering giving The Phantom Menace the same treatment I gave Insurrection- skipping it.
Am I the only one pumped for Wing Commander? It will be cheesy, but the games were enjoyable.
Oh, yeah, there's a new Star Wars trailer before it. Hopefully the prequels will not suck like the special edition films with exception of the Empire Strikes Back- the special edition for it was actually an improvement.
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I have never used tivo, so my quetion is this: :p).
What advantages does it have over having a good tv tuner/capture card and a large hard disk? Surely it cannot be that big of a deal configure the hardware and write an app to encode tv shows to divx, mpeg2... That is what I would do if I wasn't stuck with an old Ixmicro tv card and a dual ppro machine (i need to upgrade
I think Janeway also violated the Parallel Universe Prime Directive- seems she stole the ablative shield technology from Batman. Geez.
I believe Doug was trying to make the point that having more than one window environment lessens the focus of developer resources.
Ever wanted to run a gnome app in kde?
Though closing the gap between the social strata online cannot be a bad thing, I still find myself waxing nostalgic for the halcyon days of '94 when the www was new and not so commercialized. Now the "info superhighway" seems a lot like TV, a medium of mediocrity and homogeneity of thought, with notable exceptions, of course.
Thanks for the heads-up on Miranda. Looks pretty cool.. Hopefully it won't be the memory leak that is the real Win/icq client ;)
I am another screwed 3dfx investor. At this point, I think my investment is almost totally gone. I am seriously thinking about voting (with my admittedly measly number of shares) against any deal. I mean, the people who are getting money out of this are the same ones who mismanaged the company in the first place. Any other thoughts?
go to www.x-entertainment.com :). It's so bad I clicked it off after 2 minutes.
They have it in real format, among other atrocities, like the 1980 Star Wars- Sesame Street crossover.
Don't blame me if you are feeling suicidal after you watch this shit
Star Wars Episode II: The Castration of Jar-Jar Binks
Star Wars Episode II: Asses of Ire ("..you're a jedi fucker, yes it's true, nobody fucks jedis quite like you!..")
Star Wars Episode II: Anakin Gets A Spanking
Star Wars Episode II: Amidala's Innocence Lost
Star Wars Episode II: More Over-Hyped SW Shit
Star Wars Episode II: The Wrath of Hamill
I admit my last comment was whimsical.
So true..
Right now the information industry is kind of like the automobile industry at the turn of the century. Eventually people will realize how saturated the market is, and companies will die off or consolidate. After all, how many auto companies are still around in the US? In 60 years, do not be surprised if the same thing has happened to the current crop of tech companies.
As to the ridiculous stock price of VA and others, what goes up must come down. Maybe not soon, but it will happen eventually. I realize the market is driven by complete idiots these days(day traders, mutual funds), but for a company to maintain a value of over a billion dollars when its revenues total a few million will not last forever.
On another note, I find it laughable how the linux goons are trying their damnedest to cash in. I guess communists would abandon their ideals for a wad of cash given the chance.
Somebody is really jumping the gun with April Fool's jokes with this one.
This is exactly what happens to Peter Weller in this flick. An artificial image of a military commander gives bogus commands and reports.
See this if you are Philip Dick fan.
Stop your bitching people. Prok churned this thing out in about 2 minutes; I was there.
How long did it take your formulate that ridiculous looking perl?
Wanna see my m68hc11 translation code?
Anybody know what chipset is used in IBM's Etherjet pcmcia 10bT card? Or any technical info about it at all? I'd like to get it working with linux or Be. I can't be the only person frustrated with this card.
Ok boys and girls, all the things you need for todays experiment are common household items.
Needed: 1. packet of dehydrated Sea Monkeys
2. water
3. glass container.
Alrighty, you know what to do now. Put the water into the container and then add dehydrated sea monkeys. Presto! Instant life. Wasn't that fun?
Next, children, for bonus points, get the sea monkey to swim through hoops, roll over and worship you. See? the fun never stops.
You do not sound like someone amply qualified to talk about science. But, in your defense, most of the people on Slapdash talk out of their ass.
time for another religion vs science vs common sense flame war to break out on Slapdash, with all the zealots preaching and the impugned lashing out... wheee, open the floodgates
I was watching a "Doctor" of Creation "Science" on the local podunk religion station. He was attempting to exploit perceived holes in the fossil records. He went on to explain that dinosaurs and man coexisted at one time in history, but man eventually hunted dinosaurs out of existence (survival of the fittest...heheheh). He illogically proved this argument by saying that there are legends of man encountering "dragons" all over the globe-- so those mythical dragons were actually dinosaurs...
Needless to say, I laughed my ass off until I felt the sinking feeling that this guy took himself seriously. Then it dawned on me that other people might be watching and actually swallowing this tripe.
About a year or so earlier, on the same channel, the resident conservative talk show hosts interviewed some creation "scientist" who was trying to prove that the dinosaur foot prints in Glen Rose, Texas, were made only a few thousand years ago.
I don't know what mail order company these people got there "degrees" from. Calling these people scientists is like calling a trashman a "waste disposal engineer."
Disclaimer: In America, every body has the right to express their backasswards opinion. If you don't like mine, shove it. Have a nice day.
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Don't you just love it when the ultra conservatives give you a helping hand with marketing?
Really, who will be nice enough to break into my system and send me an endearingly personal email telling me how to plug my security holes? Not gonna happen- whoever finds the holes will exploit them to the fullest and fuck me over.
Frankly, I prefer not to have any uninvited guests.
If somebody is kind enough to alert me of my system insecurity, I will gladly reciprocate the gesture with my boot up their ass.
Why not have computers with and without filtering software at the libraries?
I completely agree with your article.
This time around Star Wars is completely about making money. What other reason is there for Colonel Sanders to jump out of his grave to save the queen?
Really, I think Star Wars has sucked since Return of the Jedi.
On a related note, has anyone read any of the recent 'Wars books? They totally blow. Shameless.
For some odd reason, I thought the use of '?' in lieu of ''' was pretty damn funny...
www.ihatestarwars.com
Seems to me this article was written for incendiary purposes only. Just a newpaper columnist writing pulp fiction on a slow news day.
..Check out www.ihatestarwars.com.
Damn funny, in my opinion.
I am seriously considering giving The Phantom Menace the same treatment I gave Insurrection- skipping it.
Am I the only one pumped for Wing Commander?
It will be cheesy, but the games were enjoyable.
Oh, yeah, there's a new Star Wars trailer before it. Hopefully the prequels will not suck like the special edition films with exception of the Empire Strikes Back- the special edition for it was actually an improvement.