Wich is why Wacom has BOTH mice and pens for most of their Digitizers now! http://www.wacom.com/graphire/index.cfm I have one of those... And it is GREAT! I can use a mouse for most apps, and when I want to work in a graphic app, I grab the pen and now it acts as a Digitizer! Best of all the mouse and pen DO NOT NEED Batteries! The digitizer powers the mouse and pen Wirelessly!
The other issue I have with this fancy LCD Touch product (Aside for everything else that was mentioned by others)... Is that it will NOT work with my 17" screen! It is just too large.
Great idea, except for one flaw (The **AA's blindness)! The **AA's do not care about the changes in the P2P trafic. ANY decrease in sales they will ust claim is because people are piriting their products. Even if the P2P traffic was only 10% of what it was before, they would CONTINUE to blaim the P2P traffic for the 50% decrease in sales. The **AA's have embraced a new buisness model. Gouge the people that they find using P2P to cover the sales figures that they had a wet dream about last night.
* All numbers above are examples, and are not ment/designed to be taken as fact.
This is both good and bad. It would be great if a device needed an update because of a mistake. HOWEVER using this as a way to "Fix it later" so you can rush something to marked before it is ready, That is CRAP! There is enough bad software out there that they promise to fix, and never do. There are also devices that list features "Will be available soon" via software, and that never happens either! (I am referring to a video capture card that promised to have a TV guide app, but they stopped making the device after 6 months, and NEVER added the TV GUIDE!!!!)
In the US we have to wait for shows like Doctor Who. The us is currently about 18 months behind on Doctor Who! And I know there is no real excuse for it! At one point we were only a week behind. The suddenly for a year and a half there was NO Doctor Who to be had!
So this works BOTH ways! I am a HUGE Doctor Who fan. So it sucks that the BEST way to see it is over BitTorrent networks.
You are right, Bush does not paint a positive face on America, or it's people.
I am tempted to make Shirts that say "I'm not with him" and below a hand pointing at a pic of Bush.
(Oh as for being labled a Terrorist, they are running behind, Soo many anti-bush comments everywhere, they have decided to take them in the order they were posted online. SO I should be save for the next 50 years. I expect to be hear from them when I turn 83)
He has no clue what he is doing! He has no idea what his stand on anythign is untill his speech writer hand's him a pice of paper. And he does not even try to HIDE that! Does he practice before any speech he gives? No Does he even read the speech before he gives it publicly? NO!
G.W. Bush is really a meat puppet, everyone in politics seems to have their hand shoved inside him pulling strings. They seem to be taking turns with him now, but he is one of the worst presidents ever!
Now if you will excuse me, I have to get ready for HomeLand Security to come over. Aparently they now think I am a terrorist (See above statements) and I am about to be jailed without being told why. And there is no telling how long I am going to be held.
Bingo! This patent troll is going to loose. The Atari 2600, 7800, Commodore 64, and the Nintendo Entertainment System and many had Joystick ports. The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainmen t_System was out years before that patent was filed. So sense prior "art" exists, then they do not have a leg to stand on!
Personally I think that if a patent is found (In court) that it is not valid, it should be taken from the patent whores and givin to the Public Domain.
I wonder if it is possible to file for a patent, and donate it to the public domain directly. Then "Patent Heros" could file for simple, and basic patents, and then just give them to the public, where they belong!
My $180 gaming router does that already. I have noticed less lag in games sense I got a gaming router. It has a QOS feature that gives games and VOIP priority over all other internet communications.
The ZUNE will not work with the current MS Music Store, and it will not work with the future OS. What kinda stupidity is this??? Just give a middle finger to most of the people who WANT this product why don't you!
How can an of those types of people (Sans the ones on "Vacation" even afford a $600.00 system!!!!
After the fist fights over the XBOX on release day, I do not even want to try to get a WII this year. I'll ask for one for my Birthday if I really feel I want it.
Why not just have George W just make a law/royal decree that all adware and spyware makers are terrorists! Then he could just imprision them without any due process, and take all their property. This problem of spyware and adware could be cleared up (From the US side anyway) quickly!
Then I better not travel with my Acer Aspire 9550. It has Altek Lansing 2.1 speakers built in. 17" Widescreen display A DVD Burner And even an IR Remote!!! They would snag it right away!
Yes he is trying to make a point. After the Special Edition was made and released the "Original" versions did not exist as far as Lucas was concerned. The ONLY reason that the "Original" is even available on DVD is because the public has been BEGGING for them sense the first DVD player hit the market! So he finally decided to throw us a bone. Too bad it sounds like it is covered in moldy, rancid meat.
I am going to rent this new DVD release before I purchase it. If it is better quality than my THX BOX SET on VHS of the "Original" release then I may get it. However if it is not, then I will be transferring my "Original" to DVD myself.
If the fans had not complained over and over and over, and had not begged and begged and begged he would have NEVER even released this! The reason the original footage was destroyed to make the "Special Edition" was because he thought "Who would ever want to see the original after this!" He also thought he was "Finishing" the trilogy, as he could not do what "He wanted to do" in the first place because the technology was not there. That assumption is much the same as "Who will need more than 640k of memory?" Now we have PDA's that run games that need more than that! Lucas's shortsightedness has possibly destroyed a very important piece of history, and art! Either that or Lucas just did not want to release the "original" on DVD, and did not really care about the final quality of this product.
Either way, Lucas is too full of himself. At one point I would have to see something that had Lucas even remotely attached to it. However now, his name is soo tarnished that he is no more important to me than any other film producer/director. Star Wars was what brought him to the "Top of his field", and he has turned his back on it. Shame on you Lucas, shame!
Someone must be trying desperatly to keep their job. RadioShack is having WEEKLY job fairs advertising that they are hiring! If they would just fire the moron who is waisting resources on interviewing people for jobs when there are none, they could have kept at least 50 of those positions!!!
No the point I was trying to make was that the DNA collection was not needed. And the argument that "If you have nothing to hide" is not valid. If it were then the police would not need Just Cause to search your home. They could just knock on the door and say "Well if you have nothing to hide, then you will let us search your home for no reason." The same goes for cavity searches, DNA samples, you name it! The police did not have a just cause to collect a DNA sample! Just being arrested is not enough!
"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." ~ Benjamin Franklin We are giving up our individual freedoms under the guise of security! However it is not those that we fear that will be encroached upon, it is ourselves!
You are in an airport, going through security Suddenly you are taken to a room, told to strip, and informed that you were about to undergo a body cavity search. As your searcher is applying large amounts of lube to their hand before checking your ASS you protest, their response, "If you have nothing to hide, then you should not be afraid."
There is a difference between having nothing to hide, and BEING VIOLATED! If they had no reason to take DNA then they should not have! What next? We will be told to give DNA samples for a traffic ticket? OR even asked to give DNA samples just for witnessing a crime?
"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." ~ Benjamin Franklin I believe in this statement! And you can SEE IT HAPPENING NOW!!!!!
I can stream TV Shows. I have a 250gig data drive. I can encode directly to DiVx files to save space (My DVD players can play DiVx files) And I get new TV listings automatically, for free.
I am not sure I would want my PVR to automatically update, as some updates have been released with bugs in them. And I know TiVo was talking about adding an option to force people to watch the adverts, blocking your ability to skip commertials. With the DVD Decoder card I have installed I can watch any program on my PC on my big screen TV, and I can fast forward through the commertials.
OK the TiVo does more than I originally thought. (My only experience was with an early one a friend had) However I still have total controll over my box, and have no lingering fees. However not everyone has the $$$ or knowledge to make a DVR from a PC. And not everyone wants that large of a box next to their TV when they can have a VCR sized one recording TV shows. (And yes I have seen the PC in a VCR body mod... LOL)
My problem mainly is the "We want to block your ability to fast forward through commertials".
Besides before TiVo how did they determine who watched what?
Why does that no longer work?;)
Does TiVo sell or give away that information? Sell
Do they offer customers an option to opt-out of this logging? Do they offer discounts to those who do participate? Do they inform EVERY customer that their viewing habbits will be logged and used? Or is it burried in the fine print?
If TiVo came out and told people, "We will be tracking your viewing habbits when you use our devices, but only if you set the device to do so. By default it is off. And we will be selling that information, however to compensate you we will offer you $5.00 off of your monthly subscription." Then that would be fine with me. HOWEVER they are not doing that, therefore I say NO!
Besides with my HomeBuilt PVR I can use any computer connected to my network to watch a TV show. And so can anyone else in the house. We can all be watching different shows at the same time, and still be recording 2 other shows at once. If I want to keep a show, I can burn it onto a CD or DVD. TiVo can't do that!
That is exactly why I have built a PC to record my TV Shows. It saves them as MPG and DiVx files. I can fast forward whatever I want and can tell CBS and everyone else to stick it.
Best of all, NO viewing or tracking data is sent to ANYONE! If TiVo want's to sell Viewing data, they should make the service for the boxes FREE! ATI provides FREE TV Guide listings and software with ALL their TV Tuner products, and have done so sense the FIRST All-In-Wonder card! I hate duble dippers! "We will charge our customers to get tv listings, AND we will charge the TV Stations for the viewer data we collect from our boxes. Mwahahahahahah!"
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Wich is why Wacom has BOTH mice and pens for most of their Digitizers now!
http://www.wacom.com/graphire/index.cfm
I have one of those... And it is GREAT! I can use a mouse for most apps, and when I want to work in a graphic app, I grab the pen and now it acts as a Digitizer! Best of all the mouse and pen DO NOT NEED Batteries! The digitizer powers the mouse and pen Wirelessly!
The other issue I have with this fancy LCD Touch product (Aside for everything else that was mentioned by others)... Is that it will NOT work with my 17" screen! It is just too large.
As long as there are fan-boys, followers, and those who treat their browser as a religious icon there will be Browser Wars!
Great idea, except for one flaw (The **AA's blindness)! The **AA's do not care about the changes in the P2P trafic. ANY decrease in sales they will ust claim is because people are piriting their products. Even if the P2P traffic was only 10% of what it was before, they would CONTINUE to blaim the P2P traffic for the 50% decrease in sales. The **AA's have embraced a new buisness model. Gouge the people that they find using P2P to cover the sales figures that they had a wet dream about last night.
* All numbers above are examples, and are not ment/designed to be taken as fact.
This is both good and bad. It would be great if a device needed an update because of a mistake. HOWEVER using this as a way to "Fix it later" so you can rush something to marked before it is ready, That is CRAP! There is enough bad software out there that they promise to fix, and never do. There are also devices that list features "Will be available soon" via software, and that never happens either! (I am referring to a video capture card that promised to have a TV guide app, but they stopped making the device after 6 months, and NEVER added the TV GUIDE!!!!)
In the US we have to wait for shows like Doctor Who. The us is currently about 18 months behind on Doctor Who! And I know there is no real excuse for it! At one point we were only a week behind. The suddenly for a year and a half there was NO Doctor Who to be had!
So this works BOTH ways! I am a HUGE Doctor Who fan. So it sucks that the BEST way to see it is over BitTorrent networks.
You are right, Bush does not paint a positive face on America, or it's people.
I am tempted to make Shirts that say "I'm not with him" and below a hand pointing at a pic of Bush.
(Oh as for being labled a Terrorist, they are running behind, Soo many anti-bush comments everywhere, they have decided to take them in the order they were posted online. SO I should be save for the next 50 years. I expect to be hear from them when I turn 83)
He has no clue what he is doing! He has no idea what his stand on anythign is untill his speech writer hand's him a pice of paper. And he does not even try to HIDE that! Does he practice before any speech he gives? No Does he even read the speech before he gives it publicly? NO!
G.W. Bush is really a meat puppet, everyone in politics seems to have their hand shoved inside him pulling strings. They seem to be taking turns with him now, but he is one of the worst presidents ever!
Now if you will excuse me, I have to get ready for HomeLand Security to come over. Aparently they now think I am a terrorist (See above statements) and I am about to be jailed without being told why. And there is no telling how long I am going to be held.
Bingo! This patent troll is going to loose. The Atari 2600, 7800, Commodore 64, and the Nintendo Entertainment System and many had Joystick ports. The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainmen t_System was out years before that patent was filed. So sense prior "art" exists, then they do not have a leg to stand on!
Personally I think that if a patent is found (In court) that it is not valid, it should be taken from the patent whores and givin to the Public Domain.
I wonder if it is possible to file for a patent, and donate it to the public domain directly. Then "Patent Heros" could file for simple, and basic patents, and then just give them to the public, where they belong!
My $180 gaming router does that already. I have noticed less lag in games sense I got a gaming router. It has a QOS feature that gives games and VOIP priority over all other internet communications.
That's the one that programmed me for evil!!!!!!
The ZUNE will not work with the current MS Music Store, and it will not work with the future OS. What kinda stupidity is this??? Just give a middle finger to most of the people who WANT this product why don't you!
How can an of those types of people (Sans the ones on "Vacation" even afford a $600.00 system!!!! After the fist fights over the XBOX on release day, I do not even want to try to get a WII this year. I'll ask for one for my Birthday if I really feel I want it.
Why not just have George W just make a law/royal decree that all adware and spyware makers are terrorists! Then he could just imprision them without any due process, and take all their property. This problem of spyware and adware could be cleared up (From the US side anyway) quickly!
He should have had a CLUE and made a little pan out of foil, instead of just dumping the egg into the heatsync grill.
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I mean EVERYONE has to have seen the "How to cook with XP" page!
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.h
People who ruin these things should never have had them in the first place.
I guess some people have money to spare tho.
Then I better not travel with my Acer Aspire 9550.
It has Altek Lansing 2.1 speakers built in.
17" Widescreen display
A DVD Burner
And even an IR Remote!!!
They would snag it right away!
Leela: Oh Lord! Teeth do not belong in your pants Professor.
' s_Hurdles7 .htm
Farnsworth: Well I can't keep them in my mouth. They're nuclear powered!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Leela
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/futurama/futurama50
Yes he is trying to make a point. After the Special Edition was made and released the "Original" versions did not exist as far as Lucas was concerned. The ONLY reason that the "Original" is even available on DVD is because the public has been BEGGING for them sense the first DVD player hit the market! So he finally decided to throw us a bone. Too bad it sounds like it is covered in moldy, rancid meat.
I am going to rent this new DVD release before I purchase it. If it is better quality than my THX BOX SET on VHS of the "Original" release then I may get it. However if it is not, then I will be transferring my "Original" to DVD myself.
If the fans had not complained over and over and over, and had not begged and begged and begged he would have NEVER even released this! The reason the original footage was destroyed to make the "Special Edition" was because he thought "Who would ever want to see the original after this!" He also thought he was "Finishing" the trilogy, as he could not do what "He wanted to do" in the first place because the technology was not there. That assumption is much the same as "Who will need more than 640k of memory?" Now we have PDA's that run games that need more than that! Lucas's shortsightedness has possibly destroyed a very important piece of history, and art!
Either that or Lucas just did not want to release the "original" on DVD, and did not really care about the final quality of this product.
Either way, Lucas is too full of himself. At one point I would have to see something that had Lucas even remotely attached to it. However now, his name is soo tarnished that he is no more important to me than any other film producer/director. Star Wars was what brought him to the "Top of his field", and he has turned his back on it. Shame on you Lucas, shame!
(I am still a huge fan of Lucas Arts games tho!)
Someone must be trying desperatly to keep their job. RadioShack is having WEEKLY job fairs advertising that they are hiring! If they would just fire the moron who is waisting resources on interviewing people for jobs when there are none, they could have kept at least 50 of those positions!!!
No the point I was trying to make was that the DNA collection was not needed. And the argument that "If you have nothing to hide" is not valid. If it were then the police would not need Just Cause to search your home. They could just knock on the door and say "Well if you have nothing to hide, then you will let us search your home for no reason." The same goes for cavity searches, DNA samples, you name it! The police did not have a just cause to collect a DNA sample! Just being arrested is not enough!
"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." ~ Benjamin Franklin
We are giving up our individual freedoms under the guise of security! However it is not those that we fear that will be encroached upon, it is ourselves!
Think, "Body Cavity Search", not DNA.
That argument is not valid!
You are in an airport, going through security Suddenly you are taken to a room, told to strip, and informed that you were about to undergo a body cavity search. As your searcher is applying large amounts of lube to their hand before checking your ASS you protest, their response, "If you have nothing to hide, then you should not be afraid."
There is a difference between having nothing to hide, and BEING VIOLATED! If they had no reason to take DNA then they should not have! What next? We will be told to give DNA samples for a traffic ticket? OR even asked to give DNA samples just for witnessing a crime?
"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." ~ Benjamin Franklin
I believe in this statement! And you can SEE IT HAPPENING NOW!!!!!
I can stream TV Shows. I have a 250gig data drive. I can encode directly to DiVx files to save space (My DVD players can play DiVx files) And I get new TV listings automatically, for free. I am not sure I would want my PVR to automatically update, as some updates have been released with bugs in them. And I know TiVo was talking about adding an option to force people to watch the adverts, blocking your ability to skip commertials. With the DVD Decoder card I have installed I can watch any program on my PC on my big screen TV, and I can fast forward through the commertials. OK the TiVo does more than I originally thought. (My only experience was with an early one a friend had) However I still have total controll over my box, and have no lingering fees. However not everyone has the $$$ or knowledge to make a DVR from a PC. And not everyone wants that large of a box next to their TV when they can have a VCR sized one recording TV shows. (And yes I have seen the PC in a VCR body mod... LOL)
My problem mainly is the "We want to block your ability to fast forward through commertials". Besides before TiVo how did they determine who watched what? Why does that no longer work? ;)
Does TiVo sell or give away that information? Sell
Do they offer customers an option to opt-out of this logging? Do they offer discounts to those who do participate? Do they inform EVERY customer that their viewing habbits will be logged and used? Or is it burried in the fine print?
If TiVo came out and told people, "We will be tracking your viewing habbits when you use our devices, but only if you set the device to do so. By default it is off. And we will be selling that information, however to compensate you we will offer you $5.00 off of your monthly subscription." Then that would be fine with me. HOWEVER they are not doing that, therefore I say NO!
Besides with my HomeBuilt PVR I can use any computer connected to my network to watch a TV show. And so can anyone else in the house. We can all be watching different shows at the same time, and still be recording 2 other shows at once. If I want to keep a show, I can burn it onto a CD or DVD. TiVo can't do that!
That is exactly why I have built a PC to record my TV Shows. It saves them as MPG and DiVx files. I can fast forward whatever I want and can tell CBS and everyone else to stick it. Best of all, NO viewing or tracking data is sent to ANYONE! If TiVo want's to sell Viewing data, they should make the service for the boxes FREE! ATI provides FREE TV Guide listings and software with ALL their TV Tuner products, and have done so sense the FIRST All-In-Wonder card! I hate duble dippers! "We will charge our customers to get tv listings, AND we will charge the TV Stations for the viewer data we collect from our boxes. Mwahahahahahah!"
Monkey Island RULES!!!