Slashdot Mirror
Mac PVR Coming Soon
mgrochmal writes "One of the items bouncing around the rumor mills is EyeTV, a TiVo-like device for Apple computers. Made by El Gato Software, it hooks up to one of the Mac's USB ports and captures MPEG-1 video, with a choice between a VideoCD-compatible recording, or a higher quality recording. You can read about a preview build of it, as well as read a comparison between it and a TiVo." It doesn't come with a hard drive; and here I was, thinking I wouldn't fill up my new 160GB hard drive any time soon. Silly me.
Q. What did the hurricane say to the coconut tree ? ... ... ... ... ... ...
A. Hold on to your nuts, this is going to be a hell of a blowjob !
Q. Whats the difference between a nigger and a tyre ?
A. Tyres don't sing when you put chains on them
Q. Why did the Irisman refuse to be a Jehovas Witness ?
A. Because he didn't see the accident
Q. Why do Iraquians carry shit in their wallets ?
A. For identification.
Q. How do you get a kleenex to dance ?
A. Blow a boogie into it.
Q. Why did the poof get fired from the job at the spermbank ?
A. He was caught drinking on the job
Q. Whats the definition of a perfect woman ?
A. a) Three feet tall with a round hole for a mouth and a flat head so that you can put a pint of beer on it. b) The sports model has pullback ears and her teeth fold in. c) The economy model fucks all night and at midnight turn into a roastbeef sandwich and a sixpack.
Q. How do you get four poofs on a barstool ?
A. Turn it upside-down
Q. Why don't Westindian cheerleadergirls do the splits ?
A. They would stick to the floor !
Q. Why do blacks wear widebrimmed hats ?
A. To prevent birds from shitting on their lips.
Q. Why do blacks wear platform shoes ?
A. To stop their knuckles from dragging on the ground.
Q. What do elephants use for tampoons ?
A. Sheep.
Q. How do you say "fuck off" in jewish ?
A. "Trust me!"
Q. Whats the definition of jewish foreplay ?
A. Two hours of begging.
Q. What do you get if you cross Bo Derek with a nigger ?
A. 10 of spades
Q. What do you do in case of fallout ?
A. Put it back in and take shorter strokes !
Q. What has six legs and eats pussy ?
A. You, me and Billy Jean King.
Q. What's the brown stuff between the elephants toes ?
A. Slow natives.
Q. What's better than roses on your piano ?
A. Two lips on your organ
Q. What do you get if you cross a nigger with a gorilla ?
A. A dumb gorilla.
The only thing in the page source is this:
4 6"></object>
:)
<object ID="dosIE-doe" CLASSID="CLSID:00022613-0000-0000-C000-0000000000
Nothing happened in Moz 1.1/WinXP, but IE6 died immediately. Cute
(no, it's not goatse)
-JismTroll, posting at zero thanks to Slashdot's new karma system!
All I want to know is,
Will it have one mouse button or two???
Well, I see slashdot content still self-moderates itself to about 33.33333% crap, while 99.9999% of the ads appearing on the site are for SourceForge. No one in their right mind would waste advertising dollars on a site that - by its own moderation system - contains over 1/3 crap that isn't worth reading.
Good job with the new 2-posts per day moderation system, Commander "Taco", if that really is your name.
Mod me down you censor-cowards, I don't care.
http://www.archos.com/us/products/product_jbmm.htm l
:-). If it works as advertised, I might want one.
It's a 20 GB mp3 player with support for firewire, usb 2.0. Drooling yet? Well it also has extension modules for turning it in a camcorder and a pvr and compact flash reader (to copy photos to the hd). Pretty cool price too
Jilles
Credits: dmg
Yet again the Linux so-called elite, backed up by their pseudo intellectual cohorts of the w3c conspire to ruin Linux's chances in the marketplace by sowing confusion and complexity. As someone with years of experience in the marketing world, I am constantly amazed at the willingness of the W3C and other bodies to pollute the acronym space with their content free "TLAs".
Basic marketing 101 (and an undergrad course in psychology) would tell them that the normal person is only capable of remembering approximately 7 items of data in their short-term memory, but now we have to remember HTTP, HTML, XML, XSL, DTD, PHP, SSL, DSL, ADSL, ISDN, Perl, etc etc etc
This is a text book example of the tail wagging the dog from a marketing perspective.
I have been following the standardisation of the web for many many months now, but one thing has become clear, E-commerce will NEVER become popular so long as there are so many confusing acronyms involved. The guys in charge of marketing Linux absolutely MUST work to reduce the number of acronyms. One possible solution would be to merge those protocols which are not all that different. For example, why not merge XML with SGML ? (they could call it XSGML or SXGML or perhaps XMSGML), they seem to address the same problems. Or would that be too simplistic a solution for their pampered elitist ivy-league minds to comprehend ?
If something is not done URGENTLY, and I mean URGENTLY, Linux (and other more experimental derivatives such as FreeBSD) can never hope to be taken seriously as an e-commerce platform by the people who count - the accountants.
The miracle of Linux is that anyone actually runs it at all, considering one seems to require a masters in computer science to install it! (contrast this with NT4 which was so easy to install, we let our receptionist upgrade her own machine).
As usual my "open source" advice is free. Hopefully this time my valuable advice will be taken into account the next time the w3c smell an acronym brewing.
Finally, in conclusion, as an American, I am saddened that the Internet seems to have been commandeered by a European based protocol. Was America so short of talent we had to buy the HTML protocol from Tom Berners-Lee at CERN ?
Think of the security implications of the worlds strongest economy, running an e-commerce protocol developed by a foreigner from Socialist Europe. Remember the wall has not been down for that long. Who knows what kind of trojans might be lurking within the depths of these complicated protocols.
I am afraid I am behind Al Gore on this point, how can this be necessary in the home of smart corporations such as Microsoft and Intel ? The answer is the vast subsidies given by European socialist governments to fund development of the HTML specification.
The solution is clear. The federal government should mandate and strongly subsidise the use of Microsoft software for all US corporations involved in e-commerce. Only with a US-developed set of protocols can we be assured of the security of our transactions.
- posted by poopbot: news for turds, stuff that splatters
3oKMchOeiI
I'm thinking of building a dedicated linux based PVR, but I know very little about video capture. All I want to do is timeshift broadcast TV. I know there are many capture cards, and when I read the specs I don't get a feel for what is the most important. I think that I'm moving towards a hauppauge winTV-pci because that is in my pricerange. However, I'm not sure that a P2-266 (my spare box) is up to the encoding challenge in a reasonable amount of time.
Can anyone point me to a very generic linux PVR project or page?
Thx!
(no, I don't want a TiVo)
stock FraUD mired ?companIE? worldcom welched on sum 80 milion buks of iNTerest paymeNTs yesterday. kewl huh?
.com? for an old fiend?
hay buddIE, can you spare a
Read this
With love, klerck
Have you hugged your moderator today?