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Comment Look at Home Power Magazine (Score 1) 298

www.homepower.com
They have a print version, but have been offering a PDF version (no DRM) for many years.
The PDF used to be available for free download from the main web page, that seems to have changed so it is now available to subscribers only.
I do not know what CMS (Content Management System) they use but it seems to work for them.
Each subscriber gets a unique download url so I don't think it can be shared.

Alternatively you could just create a FUDL (Fake Unique Download URL) like:
www.example.com/5tsQ7ghs/issue3-2013/
and send those out to each "subscriber", telling them it is for their use only and change the name of the directory to some other goofy name for the next issue.
of course this does not really provide PP (Piracy Proof) content, but I think that has been commented on enough already and I think you should just let that part go.
Make it easy for people that want to pay to get the digital version but make it just a little bit hard to figure it out if you are not a subscriber.

Comment Videos to MP4 (Score 1) 154

finally started digitizing all my home videos (that include work documentation over the years too) to MP4 format. I have at least 100 tapes (8mm and miniDV). I import about 3-4 a day and then let FCP batch process them while I sleep. I can still edit them if I want, but I've already done that with the ones I want. Right now I just want to be able to skim through a 2hr video to find something without sticking the tape into the machine.

Comment Re:They should give people 1mo free HBO to make up (Score 4, Informative) 202

We had an odd problem with the U-Verse phone service where it would not display the Caller ID for my MIL.
My wife won't answer the phone if she can't see the Caller ID, so if it says "UNAVAILABLE" she will let it ring.
I tried to get them to figure out what was wrong and after about 2 hours they figured it out.
The rep was very apologetic and offered to "make it up" to us because we were so "understanding"
He offered 1 month of Free HBO

I asked him what was our obligation after that free month.
He paused.
I asked him if we would then get billed for the second month if we didn't cancel.
"Well, yes" was his reply
I asked him if there was ANY other way he was authorized to "make it up" to us.
He told me there was nothing else.

Comment Re:Good plan, but not for those results (Score 3, Informative) 470

greatly increased my intake of meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, etc. Any time I get hungry, I eat one of those and I feel full immediately.

I was about to post that I can just keep eating those, but on reflection you're right. Those food types do make me feel full up.

Proteins take longer to digest so that's why you feel "full" longer. And it doesn't take a lot either.

Hardware

Submission + - Inventor of the Telecopter dies at 92 (latimes.com)

microcars writes: John D. Silva was the chief engineer for KTLA-TV in 1958 when he outfitted a helicopter with a TV camera and changed television news coverage forever.

He turned a rented Bell helicopter into the Telecopter, essentially a flying TV studio. The first of its kind, it put Channel 5 news at the forefront of live aerial coverage of major events like parades, fires, earthquakes and massive freeway snarls. He had to whittle down 2,000 pounds of television equipment to just 368 pounds so the Bell 47 helicopter could lift off the ground.
The LA Times reports that Silva, whose two Emmy Awards include one in 1974 for developing the Telecopter, died Nov. 27 in Camarillo of complications of pneumonia, his family said. He was 92.

And what did YOU do today?

Comment The Space Child's Mother Goose. (Score 1) 700

Got me interested in concepts that made me want to go to the library at a young age to read science fiction.
How the book got in our house is a mystery to me, when I went back to try to recover it, its existence was denied by the caretakers of my youth.

Probable-Possible, my black hen,
She lays eggs in the Relative When.
She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now
Because she's unable to Postulate How.

Flappity, Floppity, Flip!
The Mouse on the Möbius Strip
The Strip revolved
The Mouse dissolved
In a chronodimensional skip.

Comment Me: call me at Star Star Pound (Score 1) 85

Other person: **# .....this doesn't work
Me: that's OK, try my other line STAR STAR STAR STAR
Other person: **** ...wtf?
Me: No, press the star button twice, then spell STAR twice. It's like 1111 or 0000 only much easier!
Other person: Tell you what, why don't you call me instead?
Me: OK, what's your **ME number?
Other person: **POUNDSAND

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