In similar vain, I'd like to have a PVR that kept track of my most frequently watched channels, and cached ALL of them for the period of an hour or two.
Yes, I realize how system intensive that would probably be. The only downside I've run across owning a PVR is that I can't catch shows that I didn't know were coming on until 15 minutes after they started. Put something like that in, and I'll never have cause for complaint again.
Speaking as an extremely happily married man myself, I can assure you that it's more than okay to use the word "fucking" in casual conversation with my wife.
There are times that we "make love", and there are times that we "fuck", and most of the time we're doing a combination of the two.
Having a deep and meaningful relationship means you don't have to censor yourself to be accepted, or to be loved. I can say whatever nasty thoughts might pop into my head and know that I won't be loved any less for it.
For the record, I have plenty of quiet conversations with my wife, and many of those occur in bed. In no world does good sex have to be to the exclusion of conversation, or vice versa. (Not even at the same time.)
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, however, I think that there's a huge difference between private dissent and public.
For said exec to announce publicly any comments negative to any portion of his business was irresponsible, however true he might have believed it to be. Still, that's a completely different matter than challenging the opinions of his peers and superiors behind closed doors.
or perhaps I've got the situation all wrong. Admittedly, I don't know anything about it.
Bought my one-year old every leapfrog toy age appropriate. Bought her a xylophone, riding toys, a complete play kitchen, dolls, stuffed animals, books, and a plethora of other gifts that were just so cool I had to buy them (even if we did go $250 over our original budget estimate). What's she playing with? The $2 pretend phone one of my cousing picked up at Walmart onsale.
I'm not complaining. The general idea was to buy enough stuff so that at least something would keep her interest... but if I'd only known how easy (and cheaply) I could have gotten off...
My wife and I did something similar. Not really wanting anything ourselves, we bought our new daughter (now one year old) all the toys that we thought she could want/would enjoy, and then spent what we would have spent on each other on the Salvation Army's "Adopt-an-angel" program.
I adopted a 2 year old girl named Kayla, which was actually quite a bit of fun. It was like shopping for a slightly older daughter of mine.
As for my actual vacation, as I type this it's from my cube at work. Unfortunately, the company I work at has volunteer workers working in mills around the country, and they simply must be supported should they crash.
I had the same problem, but in Gnome. You can always change them back. In almost every case I've seen so far, they keey the original icons for ever application installed, it's just not the default icon that they use.
It was quite offputting at first though, when I was showing my wife how easy Linux was, and couldn't figure out what icon meant what. Granted, none of them meant anything to her (except Mozilla, which we were using under Windows), but still.
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Going by that argument, you've invalidated your own point in that RedHat DOES offer multiboot support.
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"It looks to me like the hands would have to be constantly working on keeping the damned thing in the air, how the hell could you fire a weapon etc. with no hands?"
Last I looked, most popular fighter jets took both hands to fly as well.
Ummm... forgive me if I come across as rude, but I'm married, with child, and I'll happily chime in about better managing your finances, but that's not what I'm doing... what I'm doing is telling you to get your priorities straight. You shouldn't have brought a child into this world until you knew you could support them without having to rely on a bonus that you may or may not ever get.
I don't mean to seem overly rough here... I know how hard it is to raise children, and managing your life around a family, but I felt it was my duty to make sure that I could provide for my child before we ventured out to have one.
I think that what the parent was trying to point out though, is that it's likely that they will survive at least long enough for you to recoup your investment. If the monthly service charge is $13, then you only need Tivo to last 19 months (give or take) to have recouped your investment, and arguably, everything after that is free.
Had you already paid for the lifetime subscription, with your two and a half year commitment, you'd already be free, and have paid $143 less dollars than you already have, and not be having to pay $13 next month either.
Don't get me wrong... it's your money, you do with it what you like... but had you gone lifetime out of the gate (and I completely understand why you didn't), then you'd be saving money now.
First of all, I must say congrats. It's a bold move, really, and it won't be without hardship. Still, moving the "future of the nation" onto an open source platform really is a good idea, in my opinion, however, if cost is really your only reason, I'm a little reserved in that they're just going to think of you as a "cheapskate", too cheap to buy a real operating system.
As for the hardships, the only thing that I can really tell you is to try and dual boot both for a while. See what will work for them, and what won't. Make sure that you're not doing anything more to them than inconveniencing them. If there are things that they NEED but won't work on Linux, then wait. I'm sure they'll get it soon enough (or there's always the idea of you developing it for them, assuming adequate know-how).
Try and slowly migrate them to Linux, if possible, and make sure that you know how to fix anything they might be able to break. Linux isn't any good if you've got a flock of users doing their best to break it, and you can't undo their mistakes. Again assuming proper know-how, try not to just throw them into it.
Lucky for me, I got into Linux shortly before my daughter was born (she's just now 1 year old, as of 11/11), and plan to bring her up in a completely open source home. We've also seriously cut back on our TV watching and movie-going, and looked for more (in my opinion hippie-esque) traditional methods of entertainment and learning, including yearly museum memberships and the like. Anyway, I'm rambling now, but long story short, I think it's a noble thing you're doing, and I wish you the best.
Ah. That does make more sense, but again, there's almost nothing that can be posted to limewire that doesn't have a copywright on it somehow or another.
I mean, technically, this post, as soon as I'm done with it, is copywrighted, as it will then be a physical manifestation of my thoughts and/or ideas.
Now, if I were to transcribe it and share it via p2p, you downloading it is by no means illegal, since it will have my express permission to be transmitted. So, again, going by your argument alone, it would indicate that 100% of the traffic on limewire is illegal, which is not at all true.
Actually, it'll probably be $4 in Memphis, just because that's their rate. They'll just have a higher profit on it.
By the way, you might want to check out Schwans which does grocery delivery here in Memphis. It might not suffice for all of your needs, but it might cut down on the amount of items you have to carry on the bus.
There ARE some copyrighted works that are legal to distribute over p2p networks, so I don't really see where you're going with this. As I stated, I use LimeWire all the time and do so with complete legality. If I were to download RedHat over p2p, that would be every bit as legal as downloading my own text.
I doubt that's entirely true. The company that I work at (to remain nameless) is implementing RFID product tracking currently. The only intended use of RFID though, is basically to be able to track packages throughout a warehouse. Replace the barcode printers and scanners and people with RFID. When a box hits the end of an assembly line, the system knows. When the box hits a pallette, the system knows. When the pallette hits the truck, when the truck hits the store, and when the box is unloaded from the truck, the system knows. After that, they don't know jack. Each box (not item) has an RFID, because, basically, it doesn't make sense to put add a 5 cent cost per item, when it's just as easy to add 5 cents to a pack of 50 items and achieve the same result.
The system doesn't care what happens to the product after it hits the store, and it doesn't care where each item goes afterwards, but instead is used to inventory warehouses, monitor shipping and delivery and whatnot. To a degree, it might be able to predict number of boxes needed to produce, but that would be an extension of its intended use that we don't plan to implement.
That said, I see a lot of talk around here about these being used for national IDs and chip-in-the-head implants, and whatnot, and in all honesty, I don't think that's what this announcement is about. I'm not saying it won't evolve that direction, and I think a little bit of paranoia is a good thing to have, but I don't see that happening here.
Well, considering that just about every physical (data) manifestation of any thoughts or ideas falls under copywright, then it's probably safe to assume that nobody has ever downloading anything from anywhere that wasn't copywrighted, using your logic.
That said, I've (legally) used Limewire et al. on numerous occasions to download MP3s of CDs that I already own, MP3s that I have the author's express permission to have, and MP3s of indie bands who encourage their music be downloaded via p2p. Of note, I have never downloaded anything on LimeWire that would get me in any trouble with anyone, especially the RIAA.
I don't agree. I have a DVD-burner that I use for nightly / weekly backups. The amount of data that I back up routinely surpasses the capacity of a CD-ROM drive. Yes, another hard drive might serve my needs better, but I wanted something I could take offsite in the event of a hard drive failure.
Plus, it's handy to take my videos of the daughter and move them to DVD, allowing me to send them to my father across the country.
I know that the big detriment (in my opinion) to corporation-donated housing is that my job and my wife's are not anywhere near each other. Okay, okay, my wife doesn't actually work anymore, but back when she did, and we bought our first home, our primary goal was to get one that was halfway between both of our jobs. We ended up buying a home that was less than a minute away from her job, and 30 minutes away from mine. My guess is that the gas she saved on travel, I used up in the extra miles on my trip.
Still though, it'd be great if the company I worked at now offered nearby or connecting housing, but if my wife still worked, I know that would be the largest impetus to our actually utilizing said housing.
Also, I'd have a hard time living in a facility that I may or may not like.
Even the opposite approach would be acceptable, as long as everything were modularized enough to be able to disable quickly.
Turn everything on, if you must, but give me the option to turn it off if I need to. Give a lightweight option, at the very least. That way, inexperienced users wouldn't have to turn anything on, and more experienced users could turn things off. Best of both worlds. In short though, I totally agree.
Wha I'm dying to hear though is Jack's new band. I don't even know their name, really, but my friends (knowing how big an Olivians freak I am) keep telling me where and when they're playing, but inevitably, I'm always preoccupied.:-\
I tend to do all my purchasing at either Last Chance or the Shangri-La, though admittedly I haven't been there in over a year.
I dunno if you're into the Oblivians at all (Memphis-based), but one of them worked at Shangri-La, and hence, always had Oblivians albums in stock. Once he stopped working there, I haven't had much reason to go back.
If there's anything that's "news" about this, it's that it's rechargeable. I've had the Logitech Cordless Freedom keyboard/mouse combo since Christmas of last year (Thank you ThinkGeek!), but it's kind of a pain in the ass making sure to always have batteries charged for it.
I'm not saying that the battery life isn't long enough, but having to change the batteries at all is a pain.
The rechargeability is greatly appealing, to people like me at least.
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Wow. Fast-forwarding sure would suck.
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In similar vain, I'd like to have a PVR that kept track of my most frequently watched channels, and cached ALL of them for the period of an hour or two.
Yes, I realize how system intensive that would probably be. The only downside I've run across owning a PVR is that I can't catch shows that I didn't know were coming on until 15 minutes after they started. Put something like that in, and I'll never have cause for complaint again.
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Wow. What a narrow view of reality.
Speaking as an extremely happily married man myself, I can assure you that it's more than okay to use the word "fucking" in casual conversation with my wife.
There are times that we "make love", and there are times that we "fuck", and most of the time we're doing a combination of the two.
Having a deep and meaningful relationship means you don't have to censor yourself to be accepted, or to be loved. I can say whatever nasty thoughts might pop into my head and know that I won't be loved any less for it.
For the record, I have plenty of quiet conversations with my wife, and many of those occur in bed. In no world does good sex have to be to the exclusion of conversation, or vice versa. (Not even at the same time.)
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I'm not necessarily disagreeing, however, I think that there's a huge difference between private dissent and public.
For said exec to announce publicly any comments negative to any portion of his business was irresponsible, however true he might have believed it to be. Still, that's a completely different matter than challenging the opinions of his peers and superiors behind closed doors.
or perhaps I've got the situation all wrong. Admittedly, I don't know anything about it.
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Bought my one-year old every leapfrog toy age appropriate. Bought her a xylophone, riding toys, a complete play kitchen, dolls, stuffed animals, books, and a plethora of other gifts that were just so cool I had to buy them (even if we did go $250 over our original budget estimate). What's she playing with? The $2 pretend phone one of my cousing picked up at Walmart onsale.
I'm not complaining. The general idea was to buy enough stuff so that at least something would keep her interest... but if I'd only known how easy (and cheaply) I could have gotten off...
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My wife and I did something similar. Not really wanting anything ourselves, we bought our new daughter (now one year old) all the toys that we thought she could want/would enjoy, and then spent what we would have spent on each other on the Salvation Army's "Adopt-an-angel" program.
I adopted a 2 year old girl named Kayla, which was actually quite a bit of fun. It was like shopping for a slightly older daughter of mine.
As for my actual vacation, as I type this it's from my cube at work. Unfortunately, the company I work at has volunteer workers working in mills around the country, and they simply must be supported should they crash.
* sigh *
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I had the same problem, but in Gnome. You can always change them back. In almost every case I've seen so far, they keey the original icons for ever application installed, it's just not the default icon that they use.
It was quite offputting at first though, when I was showing my wife how easy Linux was, and couldn't figure out what icon meant what. Granted, none of them meant anything to her (except Mozilla, which we were using under Windows), but still.
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Going by that argument, you've invalidated your own point in that RedHat DOES offer multiboot support.
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"It looks to me like the hands would have to be constantly working on keeping the damned thing in the air, how the hell could you fire a weapon etc. with no hands?"
Last I looked, most popular fighter jets took both hands to fly as well.
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Heaven forbid he stop listening to what he likes and start listening to what's on the radio.
The thought just makes me nauseous.
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Ummm... forgive me if I come across as rude, but I'm married, with child, and I'll happily chime in about better managing your finances, but that's not what I'm doing... what I'm doing is telling you to get your priorities straight. You shouldn't have brought a child into this world until you knew you could support them without having to rely on a bonus that you may or may not ever get.
I don't mean to seem overly rough here... I know how hard it is to raise children, and managing your life around a family, but I felt it was my duty to make sure that I could provide for my child before we ventured out to have one.
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I think that what the parent was trying to point out though, is that it's likely that they will survive at least long enough for you to recoup your investment. If the monthly service charge is $13, then you only need Tivo to last 19 months (give or take) to have recouped your investment, and arguably, everything after that is free.
Had you already paid for the lifetime subscription, with your two and a half year commitment, you'd already be free, and have paid $143 less dollars than you already have, and not be having to pay $13 next month either.
Don't get me wrong... it's your money, you do with it what you like... but had you gone lifetime out of the gate (and I completely understand why you didn't), then you'd be saving money now.
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First of all, I must say congrats. It's a bold move, really, and it won't be without hardship. Still, moving the "future of the nation" onto an open source platform really is a good idea, in my opinion, however, if cost is really your only reason, I'm a little reserved in that they're just going to think of you as a "cheapskate", too cheap to buy a real operating system.
As for the hardships, the only thing that I can really tell you is to try and dual boot both for a while. See what will work for them, and what won't. Make sure that you're not doing anything more to them than inconveniencing them. If there are things that they NEED but won't work on Linux, then wait. I'm sure they'll get it soon enough (or there's always the idea of you developing it for them, assuming adequate know-how).
Try and slowly migrate them to Linux, if possible, and make sure that you know how to fix anything they might be able to break. Linux isn't any good if you've got a flock of users doing their best to break it, and you can't undo their mistakes. Again assuming proper know-how, try not to just throw them into it.
Lucky for me, I got into Linux shortly before my daughter was born (she's just now 1 year old, as of 11/11), and plan to bring her up in a completely open source home. We've also seriously cut back on our TV watching and movie-going, and looked for more (in my opinion hippie-esque) traditional methods of entertainment and learning, including yearly museum memberships and the like. Anyway, I'm rambling now, but long story short, I think it's a noble thing you're doing, and I wish you the best.
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Ah. That does make more sense, but again, there's almost nothing that can be posted to limewire that doesn't have a copywright on it somehow or another.
I mean, technically, this post, as soon as I'm done with it, is copywrighted, as it will then be a physical manifestation of my thoughts and/or ideas.
Now, if I were to transcribe it and share it via p2p, you downloading it is by no means illegal, since it will have my express permission to be transmitted. So, again, going by your argument alone, it would indicate that 100% of the traffic on limewire is illegal, which is not at all true.
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Actually, it'll probably be $4 in Memphis, just because that's their rate. They'll just have a higher profit on it.
By the way, you might want to check out Schwans which does grocery delivery here in Memphis. It might not suffice for all of your needs, but it might cut down on the amount of items you have to carry on the bus.
Just trying to help.
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There ARE some copyrighted works that are legal to distribute over p2p networks, so I don't really see where you're going with this. As I stated, I use LimeWire all the time and do so with complete legality. If I were to download RedHat over p2p, that would be every bit as legal as downloading my own text.
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I doubt that's entirely true. The company that I work at (to remain nameless) is implementing RFID product tracking currently. The only intended use of RFID though, is basically to be able to track packages throughout a warehouse. Replace the barcode printers and scanners and people with RFID. When a box hits the end of an assembly line, the system knows. When the box hits a pallette, the system knows. When the pallette hits the truck, when the truck hits the store, and when the box is unloaded from the truck, the system knows. After that, they don't know jack. Each box (not item) has an RFID, because, basically, it doesn't make sense to put add a 5 cent cost per item, when it's just as easy to add 5 cents to a pack of 50 items and achieve the same result.
The system doesn't care what happens to the product after it hits the store, and it doesn't care where each item goes afterwards, but instead is used to inventory warehouses, monitor shipping and delivery and whatnot. To a degree, it might be able to predict number of boxes needed to produce, but that would be an extension of its intended use that we don't plan to implement.
That said, I see a lot of talk around here about these being used for national IDs and chip-in-the-head implants, and whatnot, and in all honesty, I don't think that's what this announcement is about. I'm not saying it won't evolve that direction, and I think a little bit of paranoia is a good thing to have, but I don't see that happening here.
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Well, considering that just about every physical (data) manifestation of any thoughts or ideas falls under copywright, then it's probably safe to assume that nobody has ever downloading anything from anywhere that wasn't copywrighted, using your logic.
That said, I've (legally) used Limewire et al. on numerous occasions to download MP3s of CDs that I already own, MP3s that I have the author's express permission to have, and MP3s of indie bands who encourage their music be downloaded via p2p. Of note, I have never downloaded anything on LimeWire that would get me in any trouble with anyone, especially the RIAA.
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I don't agree. I have a DVD-burner that I use for nightly / weekly backups. The amount of data that I back up routinely surpasses the capacity of a CD-ROM drive. Yes, another hard drive might serve my needs better, but I wanted something I could take offsite in the event of a hard drive failure.
Plus, it's handy to take my videos of the daughter and move them to DVD, allowing me to send them to my father across the country.
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I know that the big detriment (in my opinion) to corporation-donated housing is that my job and my wife's are not anywhere near each other. Okay, okay, my wife doesn't actually work anymore, but back when she did, and we bought our first home, our primary goal was to get one that was halfway between both of our jobs. We ended up buying a home that was less than a minute away from her job, and 30 minutes away from mine. My guess is that the gas she saved on travel, I used up in the extra miles on my trip.
Still though, it'd be great if the company I worked at now offered nearby or connecting housing, but if my wife still worked, I know that would be the largest impetus to our actually utilizing said housing.
Also, I'd have a hard time living in a facility that I may or may not like.
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Y'know... one of the things I'm tired of having to do is defend the quality of Playboy articles.
They're pretty fucking good!
Yeah, I was lured in by the pictures, but it wasn't until I actually read an issue that I subscribed.
Besides, if nothing else, there's a Playboy equivalent to a "Your Rights Online" kind of thing, which is worth the price of the subscription.
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Even the opposite approach would be acceptable, as long as everything were modularized enough to be able to disable quickly.
Turn everything on, if you must, but give me the option to turn it off if I need to. Give a lightweight option, at the very least. That way, inexperienced users wouldn't have to turn anything on, and more experienced users could turn things off. Best of both worlds. In short though, I totally agree.
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They're not too shabby actually.
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Wha I'm dying to hear though is Jack's new band. I don't even know their name, really, but my friends (knowing how big an Olivians freak I am) keep telling me where and when they're playing, but inevitably, I'm always preoccupied.
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I tend to do all my purchasing at either Last Chance or the Shangri-La, though admittedly I haven't been there in over a year.
I dunno if you're into the Oblivians at all (Memphis-based), but one of them worked at Shangri-La, and hence, always had Oblivians albums in stock. Once he stopped working there, I haven't had much reason to go back.
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If there's anything that's "news" about this, it's that it's rechargeable. I've had the Logitech Cordless Freedom keyboard/mouse combo since Christmas of last year (Thank you ThinkGeek!), but it's kind of a pain in the ass making sure to always have batteries charged for it.
I'm not saying that the battery life isn't long enough, but having to change the batteries at all is a pain.
The rechargeability is greatly appealing, to people like me at least.
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