But I like the ads in the film for one reason. It makes the film more realistic. I'd much rather see them Burger King then a Bobs Burger Wold, or drinking a Pepsi rather then a pepsi can with the word Pepsi removed and Soda put in it's place.
"from my call to their technical support this morning, they aren't planning on giving up any of the GPLed source code they have modified."
How do you know they modified any? If they did, I doubt it's much, or would be of any use to anybody anyway. TiVo's modified code is only to get linux working on that box. All the stuff that makes a TiVo useful is not GPL. My guess is the same would be true for this box.
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Do you really need one? When you do a search on TiVo it will go to stuff starting with that leter or letters, for example, if you're searching for Simpsons, you type S, all programs with S* are shown, then you do I and you get SI*, I usually get what I'm looking for in 3 letters, 5 at the MOST, and that's extreme.
Mostly used locally? I use Gallery, on my publically available server. Most hosting packages offer PHP. Everytime I get back from a trip I just dump the pics and email friends and family. Best thing about it, they can order real prints right from my page.
So are office workers in general.. Try a labor job.. some guy that digs ditches all day, a janitor, pipe layers, factory workers.. I see people posting "people are not robots, they need downtime". For years people were, and still are robots, they work from 8am to 10am, get 15mins for a break, then it's back to work, at noon they get an hour, then it's work again until 5pm.. and unless they're taking a shit then they're working.. usually without headphones because they have to hear the other people they're working with..
Go do anything besides sitting in a cube and you'll be lucky if you get to do any of this..
"The CRW-F1 is the first CD-RW recorder to offer the revolutionary DiscT@2TM Laser Labeling System, which allows graphics and text to be burnt onto CD-R disc, eliminating the need for labels. Customers can put graphics, such as signatures, logos, memorandums, and photo images onto CD-R's unused area after data writing. This unique feature will certainly enhance the CD-R recording experience for many users"
So it will only "draw" on unused parts of the disk, basically taking up space... crap.
If pay for the tickets with a credit card or check they know who you are.
You check in when you get to the airport, they ask for your license, they now know who you are.
You board the plane using a ticket with your name on it, they now know who you are.
There are plenty of ways already that they know who you are on that plane. Same goes for trains. You know why they do this? One for safety, to check to make sure somebody that shouldn't be on the plane isn't. The other is in case the plane crashes or blows up they have a record of who was on the plane so they can make sure you're safe/dead, and make sure your next of kin gets money to compensate for your death. Also, to make sure you get any frequent flyer points coming to you.
People in witness protection have totally new identities. New SSN#'s, names, addresses. If they were to get scanned then they would be entered into the database as their new identity. Besides, the witness protection program kind frowns on people in the program traveling to much.
"The final decision on webcasting rates have been published on the Library of Congress's site. To say the results are disappointing is an understatement. While the rates were effectively cut in half, that still means that to stay on the air, SomaFM will have to pay about $500 a day in fees to the RIAA. Just to expose you to new music that you wouldn't hear anywhere else. Just to help you buy more records. Do they just not get it, or is the RIAA just greedy?"
Okay, now doesn't somafm mostly not play RIAA owned music? If so, then why would he have to pay RIAA. Also, if I make some music, I own the copyright, so I tell somafm that they can play it for free. They wouldn't need to pay the RIAA for that. And if a month from now, I sell it to RIAA then somafm would have to stop playing it, and it's not like they could make somafm pay for the time that they didn't even own the copyright.
Seems funny that all these webcasters claim to be playing independent music. Seems to me that if they're so scared of these fees then they must be playing RIAA music without permission. And any way you slice it, that's illegal, even before CARP fees.
"2. Will not play on your DVD player, Discman, CD-Duplicator (like the kind put out by Sony, Harmon-Kardon, Pioneer, etc), high-end stereo CD player, car CD player, game console (PS, PS2, XBox, etc) or MP3-CD player."
While I can see why it wouldn't play in any DVD player that plays MP3s (because then it would look for a directory structure) I don't see why it wouldn't play in any other DVD player. Why wouldn't one of these CDs play in a Discman or a car CD player? Why not a high-end CD player? I can see why it wouldn't play in an MP3 player or anything that looks for files, but anything that is JUST a CD player, they should play fine.
"3. Using this CD in any of the devices above may damage that equipment."
Except for the stupid Apple stuff that says you have to take apart the whole computer to get the CD (untrue, just hold down a key when you power up, disk comes out) I haven't heard a confirmed report of these CDs actually causing any damage to the equipment (i.e. hardware)
Newer Macs no longer have that hole for paperclips. But the poster is right, if you hold down either the mouse buttor or some key on the keyboard it will pop the CD out before booting.
If you notice I said for insurance reasons. So you can take a pic of the vehicals so in case the jackoff you hit decides to take a hammer to his car and cause MORE damage you can prove that it wasn't you.. This happened to me.
Digital's version of the Kodak Disc camera.:) Not bad as a spare or backup. They had some sample images in the review, not bad considering. I got a cheapo camera like this Agfa something. No LCD, no zoom, it was like $70. I'd still use it but if there's motion then it's blurry, that was the only problem. Otherwise the pictures were great. Good spare to keep in the car in case of accidents (either passing one, or getting into one for insurance reasons) or you see something wacky.
I remember going to a Star Trek convention and one of the things was the actual captians chair was suppose to be there. But they ended up not showing it because somebody stole part of it. (I heard the arm of the chair). Makes me wonder how legit it is.
You can get a PCMCIA WiFi card for $70, that's not bad. It would make more sense to use that too. Since wouldn't using the Bluetooth require some hacking around? I don't know if you can do TCP/IP over Bluetooth without messing around, but as long as you have the drivers for the WiFi card it will work like a charm with no modifications.
"Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it.
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either. "
Hahaha, Lunar Embassy. I know a guy that bought some land from him on the moon, he swears that it's legit. Despite the nice "This is a novelty gift" printed on the bottom of his deed.
Perhaps if people wanted that information they should go to Freshmeat. After all, that's what the site is for, and they also allow comments so you could see how well it was recived.
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How do you know they modified any? If they did, I doubt it's much, or would be of any use to anybody anyway. TiVo's modified code is only to get linux working on that box. All the stuff that makes a TiVo useful is not GPL. My guess is the same would be true for this box.
Go do anything besides sitting in a cube and you'll be lucky if you get to do any of this..
So it will only "draw" on unused parts of the disk, basically taking up space... crap.
You check in when you get to the airport, they ask for your license, they now know who you are.
You board the plane using a ticket with your name on it, they now know who you are.
There are plenty of ways already that they know who you are on that plane. Same goes for trains. You know why they do this? One for safety, to check to make sure somebody that shouldn't be on the plane isn't. The other is in case the plane crashes or blows up they have a record of who was on the plane so they can make sure you're safe/dead, and make sure your next of kin gets money to compensate for your death. Also, to make sure you get any frequent flyer points coming to you.
Okay, now doesn't somafm mostly not play RIAA owned music? If so, then why would he have to pay RIAA. Also, if I make some music, I own the copyright, so I tell somafm that they can play it for free. They wouldn't need to pay the RIAA for that. And if a month from now, I sell it to RIAA then somafm would have to stop playing it, and it's not like they could make somafm pay for the time that they didn't even own the copyright.
Seems funny that all these webcasters claim to be playing independent music. Seems to me that if they're so scared of these fees then they must be playing RIAA music without permission. And any way you slice it, that's illegal, even before CARP fees.
While I can see why it wouldn't play in any DVD player that plays MP3s (because then it would look for a directory structure) I don't see why it wouldn't play in any other DVD player. Why wouldn't one of these CDs play in a Discman or a car CD player? Why not a high-end CD player? I can see why it wouldn't play in an MP3 player or anything that looks for files, but anything that is JUST a CD player, they should play fine.
"3. Using this CD in any of the devices above may damage that equipment."
Except for the stupid Apple stuff that says you have to take apart the whole computer to get the CD (untrue, just hold down a key when you power up, disk comes out) I haven't heard a confirmed report of these CDs actually causing any damage to the equipment (i.e. hardware)
This actually isn't true..
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"Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it.
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either. "
Wow, so like 2850 or so? That's a LONG time ;-)