For those of you considering building yourself a MythTV system for recording your TV shows with, I just finished scribbling up an executive (i.e., "small words only") overview of how MythTV works to stop some of the really stupid questions from being repeated over and over in #MythTV-users.
It even has a nice picture for the functionally-illiterate.
VerizonMath: Verizon doesn't know Dollars from Cents
Topic: Miscellaneous
6:09 am EST, Dec 9, 2006
Yep. I saw this as well, and basically, I am astonished that that many people can't manage a problem that would be the sort of thing you'd give a third grade student as a math problem for their unit conversion homework.
Remember playing with all those little green army men when you were a kid (before they had to be taken off the market because of parents who didn't realize you shouldn't give them to two-year-olds)?
Ever stage your own mock riots with them?
Didn't want to have your army mean fleeing the giant mutant Pooh threatening to destroy the city?
Now there's hope! Now you can get your very own crop of fleeing victims figurines!
Here's someone on an auction site with zero feedback, claiming to have an unlimited supply of Nintendo Wiis for sale for a mere $275 per.
Su-u-u-u-u-u-u-ure he does.
As of 7:47am, November 25th, 43 morons have already fallen prey to his rather obvious fraud. Let's all bookmark this and check back around Dec 10th to see how many feedbacks of "THAT @#$@ @#$$%! RIPPED ME THE @!#$@$ OFF! I HOPE HE #@$@$! IN THE @##$@ @#$@!!!" there are.
Well, it seems that the artificial scarcity bubble has burst in Second Life.
The people working on libsecondlife created a library that was then used to make a program called CopyBot, which can and will duplicate pretty much anything a user sees in SecondLife, regardless of how many LindenBucks they were trying to sell it to you for.
Well, now that the cat is out of the bag, vendors in SecondLife are closing up shop right and left because if they display their products for purchase, they can then be quickly and exactingly copied.
This is pretty much a disaster for the people who've been trying (for whatever reason) to make a living by selling what amounts to crude virtual artwork by creating entirely artificial scarcity. Now evil "thieves" can rip off "their designs" without them having any control over it whatsoever.
But you know what... I really couldn't give a rat's ass.
I might be inspired to give a (copied) rat's ass if I could go 100 yards in any direction in the system without seeing knockoff clothing taken from Poser demos, lingerie straight out of the pages of Victoria's Secret cataclogs, sunglasses which are very obviously detailed copies of Oakley designs, avatars of very copyrighted and trademarked things like Bart Simpson, Space Ghost, and characters from Naruto, uselessly non-functional things like Motorola cell phones and iPods had their designs cloned. ...even Mario the Italian plumber and the yellow AIM "running guy" (I even own a copy of this one because I was interested in the cell-shading trick done) wasn't safe from these people.
Frankly, I think it's just a shame that a group of people that refused to police itself (and by this I mean people who were stealing the majority of their content in the first place) didn't get what was coming to it sooner.
For those people living in high-EMI areas (like the inside of a microwave oven testing facility, or a suburban apartment complex) now there's a quick and easy solution for reducing speed-sapping EMI interference with WiFi transmissions. ...and it comes in an easy-to-use spray bottle!
WiFi Speed Spray clears up pesky EMI with just a few spritzes in the air. Nothing is known at this time if they're planning on releasing follow up products with designer fragrances, but here's hoping...
