I was thinking about it for a minute... This really won't be that difficult to do, in fact, fairly easy using open source software (Namely Linux) and a small general purpose embedded controller...
The database and file structure of the iPod is fairly well documented, so here is the base structure of the project, if some other people want to get one board we could get this done in a matter of weeks from start to finish:
Small Embedded PC with USB host capabilities (I'm thinking something cheap and ARM/XScale based) Add in HFS+ support in the Kernel (Already been done) USB Mass storage driver A few hours worth of specific programing
So, you would have a small box with the embedded controler with a small LCD and a few buttons hooked up the the serial controller of the embedded system along with two USB ports. When you plug two iPods into the ports they are both mounted as USB mass storage devices where you can read the iPod music database file and all the music files. The big problem is, most iPods are going to be too full to properly sync all the music between them, solution; Taking advantage of the fact that Apple now allows you to make on-the-go playlists, you would then be presented two options on the LCD:
1. Copy Playlist 2. Copy entire iPod Useful in the case of say coping a Mini to a 60 gig iPod photo.
Then just check each file to make sure there aren't any duplicates, skip over any files ending in.mp4 and then copy. Update the library of the iPod the files were copied to and you're good to go.
If anyone is interested in making this project happen I would love to help organize it:
To email me take the first initial of my first name and my full last name (From my username, no spaces or underscores) @gmail.com
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is there any technical reason you couldn't port MythTV or Freevo TiVo Series II hardware? It's already Linux based, so shouldn't there at least be binary drivers hardware that would be accessable to a third-party application?
I just checked mine and I can't find the article on the right to board a commercial airliner without proving you are who you say you are. No one is being kept from traveling anonymously, there are still bicycles, buses, Segways, as a passenger in a car, oh, and your feet, heck, you can even charter a private plane without getting your ID checked. You know, honestly if there was an airline that didn't check your ID before boarding I and I am sure most travelers would avoid them at all cost. If I am going to be trapped in aluminum can 33,000 feet in the air I would like some very basic assurance that there was at least an attempt to check that everyone else on the flight is on the level and that dangerous people that wish to board the flight with me were at least inconvenienced a little bit.
So sad to see the product killed by 3COM right before it's release (The product was actually completed and manufacture started when it was killed), but Kerbango was based on the exact same concept, except it actually existed beyond 3D models (Although never released to the public). I was really looking forward to it.
After having some suspicions about a neighbor, I too decided to run her though Google. The search brought up this Article http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Katherine+Saddle r&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=199808 1213325800.JAA00250%40ladder01.news.aol.com&rnum=1 (Her name is Katherine Sadler), the relevent part being
"Another accused hooker, Katherine Saddler, 35, answered the phone at Sunnymede.
"When we have something to say, we'll say it," said Saddler, who was also charged with possession of nine bags of heroin. "
Yep, that was my neighbor. A few more searches resulted in two open arrest warrents for her in NJ, time spent in prison, and several other convictions of assult and death threats. So the moral of the story is, if you have suspicions, it doesn't hurt to take 1 minute to run a quick google search.
Yes, Linux is open, and it is free, but there aren't any distributions designed for cellphones that are open and free. When you license Sybian or Windows for Smartphone, you get EVERYTHING. You get a reference design for the hardware, a GUI, interfaces for common chipsets, LCD drivers specific for cellphones, etc, etc. Yes, I am aware that Motorola has released a Linux smartphone, but all of the important stuff is still closed source. When you use Linux you get an OS. That's it. A Company has to decide if building the rest from scratch is less than just licensing an OS that already finished the hard stuff. I am betting it often won't be.
According to the WSJ article, They have already found a law firm willing to pursue the claim for a contingency fee.
"Mr. Thomas said Bluecurrent intends to seek royalties of $10 to $25 for each time a new computer has software or other settings updated over the Web."
OK, am I the only person that doesn't get it? First a side note, it isn't even a sofa, it is more like a old medical exam table, but I digress. Sofa's traditionally are for more than one occupant, so how would it deal with more than one person on it? Furthermore, ignoring the fact that it would be near impossible to get an accurate identity based only on the weight on a sofa, how is it really useful? My sofa knows I'm on it, what does it do for me? It can't really adjust any preferences for devices around me in a manner that is useful, I use my sofa for tons of diffrent uses, having guests over, reading, watching tv, surfing on my laptop, and all of those are would fail to benfit from my sofa knowing that I personally am on it. It just seems like the solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Considering he already had "sold" these devices, either he had clearly intended to profit off the sale of something illegal, or he had defrauded everyone that had placed an order.
Are you tired of being teased about your inferior "equipment"? Do the other guys have wider (throughput) cables than you? Does it feel like high school gym class all over again?
Well, we can't change school, but we can help you stack up now.
Introducing USB 2.0 Full Speed stickers. Yes, for the low, low price of $49.95 we can upgrade your "equipment" to USB 2.0. Just install our special, and patented stickers on a prominent place of your case, and enjoy all* the benefits that USB 2.0 offers.
* All does not include most of the features of USB 2.0, including higher though put.
Speaking as someone with ADD, it isn't always a bad thing, just as long as you train yourself to control it and use it to your advantage. For the most part, it keeps you from having a "normal" baseline as far as dividing your time up, but this isn't always a bad problem. Two examples:
Multitasking: That need for constant stimulation can also keep you focused and on top of many things at once, having cocurrent projects going on, and several tasks. The juggling is incredibly easy, alibit very confusing to those you have to work with. The main problem is it can be difficult to finish when they become tedious, as they often do, but it can be overcome.
Hyperfocus: Another tendency those with ADD, and something I would never want to give up. It is just the rush of getting working on something, be it finishing up that coding project, or writing paper. You are able to tune out every distraction, even those important ones like food and sleep and ride the rush until you finish the part of the project that has you motivated, again, the problem is follow though, but you learn to cope.
Just because Motorola has developed a faster PowerPC, it does not automatically mean that Apple will be using it. PowerPCs are used in other systems, particuarly embedded applications where a majority of PPCs end up.
With the exception of some very light DRM (Completely removed by dragging a protected AAC into Toast, it turns it into an AIFF), Apple makes it very clear that the file is yours. It never has to phone in, you can burn it to as many CDs as you want, and most importantly, you can put it on a portable player. I think the portable player is the most important key here. I haven't messed with CDs in quite awhile, in fact, my new car doesn't even have a CD player, just a good old line in thanks to BlitzSafe. The ability to burn a CD is very weak to me, I read it as "We will sort of allow you to do what you want with your files, but we will make damn sure it is wildly inconvient." That just doesn't fly with me. I think the only way that the Real model would work is if they would partner with Creative or Rio give the ability to download to download to a portable player instead of a CD.
Everyone please come down, this is self-regulating capitalism in action. It is well known fact that there are little to no margins in printers themselves. The way Dell is going to make up what is more than likely a loss on the printer itself is to sell printer cartridges. Think of it as a loan, they sell you the printer at or below cost so the consumer does not have to bite the bullet and pay for the full cost of the printer (And the manufactures profit). Consumers like it that way! People like a cheap upfront cost!
It is the exact same way with cellphones, look at the cost of a unlocked (gsm) cellphone compared to the cost of getting the same phone under contract with a cellphone provider that locks you into the use of that one provider. Granted, some people do go for the unlocked phones, but the vast majority are fine with a locked phone from the provider because it is the same phone but much cheaper. Same with DirecTV who eat a loss of somewhere around $200 for each reciever they sell. Oh, and it only works with DirecTV.
If there was a market for printers that used some sort of universal cartrage, someone would make it thanks to capitalism. If you want something close get a laser, there is much less focus on consumables in that market, but of course you are going to pay a much higher upfront cost. (I have a laser and personally I wouldn't use anything else)
If you don't like it don't buy an ink jet printer, and/or make the market known for a inkjet printer that is not subsidised and uses an open design for cartriges, but frankly gripping at length at how Dell is trying to screw the consumer with a perfectly legitiment business model (And one that most consumers like) is not productive and gets quite tiresome.
Easy, the level of ink is already monitored by the printer so all you have to do is burn it into a PROM in the cartridge. If you refill it it still reads from the PROM as empty, thus doesn't work. Of course, this could easily be bypassed by reverse engineering and replac... Oh wait, that is illegal...
I don't feel terribly bright. I am at a hotel right now, and the first thing I did was get on the hotel highspeed internet connection provided by Arescom. They seem to have an interesting system here. Every other hotel that I have stayed at has either provided a RJ-45 jack on the wall (e.g. Wayport) or a special box connected to the phone system (e.g. STSN). Here, they actually provide a DSL modem in every room. Well, just as I posted that comment, I looked up at my menu bar and noticed that an 802.11b network was at full signal strength. Turns out that they do provide a wireless network for in room use that was not mentioned anywhere in the hotel information. As I am on the 4th floor and have full signal strength, I know it can't be bleed through from the lobby, so this is quite interesting. I have never stayed at a hotel that provides such access, and I have to say, I like it.
Having stayed at a few Marriott's with the wired in room access, it is everything that it is advertised as. Fast, stable, and easy to setup, just open a browser and click a button. They even let you check your front desk messages and bill on the hotel intranet website. I also found the pricing fairly reasonable at $10 a night, less than a PPV movie.
But, as I have a wireless network at home, wireless access has really grown on me. I have always assumed that concrete walls and metal doors make hotel wide wi-fi access for in room use more expensive, it would be very welcome. Has any hotel implemented such a system, or are there any other technical limitations that I have missed that make implimenting such a system too difficult?
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Motherboard? I think that would be much more interesting, and open up new choices for us. Several companies have released PPC based motherboards for Linux and Amiga, so is there any reason that one of these boards couldn't be running OS X with appropriate drivers and Darwin modifications? PPC bins should run and with more recent computers a ROM isn't needed.
Even with lifetime service, the total cost is only $150 more, which gets you better software, free upgrades for the life of the product, support, guide listings,better hardware and a UI. The time that it would take to put this together is worth much more to me than $150. YMMV though. As for replacing the hard drive, it is next to painless. At this point it is practically automated, just boot your computer using an ISO image that you burn, hit a few buttons and replace the drive.
So, for $100 more than the cost of a TiVo, which are now at $199 with a $50 rebate, he built a box that has 5 hours less recording time, a worse encoder,a fraction of the features, and how do you even begin to discribe the UI? Non-existant? I will stick to my TiVos.
Can you say clocks and watches? The cost to replace all the clocks and watches would be in the billions. It is not possible. I am not going to throw my Rolex away just so our time can metric. And exactly how are you going to do a metric analog clock?
How exactly is this news? I am sure that many of you find Buffy to be a great show. There are many shows that I find to be great that have not won Emmys. Unless you are going to run a story on every show snubbed by the Emmys, please do not post this as news, as this is pure opinion that Buffy wss unfairly not chosen for the emmy.
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I was thinking about it for a minute... This really won't be that difficult to do, in fact, fairly easy using open source software (Namely Linux) and a small general purpose embedded controller...
.mp4 and then copy. Update the library of the iPod the files were copied to and you're good to go.
The database and file structure of the iPod is fairly well documented, so here is the base structure of the project, if some other people want to get one board we could get this done in a matter of weeks from start to finish:
Small Embedded PC with USB host capabilities (I'm thinking something cheap and ARM/XScale based)
Add in HFS+ support in the Kernel (Already been done)
USB Mass storage driver
A few hours worth of specific programing
So, you would have a small box with the embedded controler with a small LCD and a few buttons hooked up the the serial controller of the embedded system along with two USB ports. When you plug two iPods into the ports they are both mounted as USB mass storage devices where you can read the iPod music database file and all the music files. The big problem is, most iPods are going to be too full to properly sync all the music between them, solution; Taking advantage of the fact that Apple now allows you to make on-the-go playlists, you would then be presented two options on the LCD:
1. Copy Playlist
2. Copy entire iPod Useful in the case of say coping a Mini to a 60 gig iPod photo.
Then just check each file to make sure there aren't any duplicates, skip over any files ending in
If anyone is interested in making this project happen I would love to help organize it:
To email me take the first initial of my first name and my full last name (From my username, no spaces or underscores) @gmail.com
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is there any technical reason you couldn't port MythTV or Freevo TiVo Series II hardware? It's already Linux based, so shouldn't there at least be binary drivers hardware that would be accessable to a third-party application?
I just checked mine and I can't find the article on the right to board a commercial airliner without proving you are who you say you are. No one is being kept from traveling anonymously, there are still bicycles, buses, Segways, as a passenger in a car, oh, and your feet, heck, you can even charter a private plane without getting your ID checked. You know, honestly if there was an airline that didn't check your ID before boarding I and I am sure most travelers would avoid them at all cost. If I am going to be trapped in aluminum can 33,000 feet in the air I would like some very basic assurance that there was at least an attempt to check that everyone else on the flight is on the level and that dangerous people that wish to board the flight with me were at least inconvenienced a little bit.
So what you are saying is the new AIBO is going to take Li-S batteries?
Spice Networks has a HDTV porn channel on DirecTV, Spice HD.
http://www.directv.com/see/landing/spicehd.html
So sad to see the product killed by 3COM right before it's release (The product was actually completed and manufacture started when it was killed), but Kerbango was based on the exact same concept, except it actually existed beyond 3D models (Although never released to the public). I was really looking forward to it.
http://www.gadgetcentral.com/kerbango_intro.html
After having some suspicions about a neighbor, I too decided to run her though Google. The search brought up this Article http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Katherine+Saddle r&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=199808 1213325800.JAA00250%40ladder01.news.aol.com&rnum=1 (Her name is Katherine Sadler), the relevent part being
"Another accused hooker, Katherine Saddler, 35, answered the phone at Sunnymede.
"When we have something to say, we'll say it," said Saddler, who was also
charged with possession of nine bags of heroin. "
Yep, that was my neighbor. A few more searches resulted in two open arrest warrents for her in NJ, time spent in prison, and several other convictions of assult and death threats. So the moral of the story is, if you have suspicions, it doesn't hurt to take 1 minute to run a quick google search.
Yes, Linux is open, and it is free, but there aren't any distributions designed for cellphones that are open and free. When you license Sybian or Windows for Smartphone, you get EVERYTHING. You get a reference design for the hardware, a GUI, interfaces for common chipsets, LCD drivers specific for cellphones, etc, etc. Yes, I am aware that Motorola has released a Linux smartphone, but all of the important stuff is still closed source. When you use Linux you get an OS. That's it. A Company has to decide if building the rest from scratch is less than just licensing an OS that already finished the hard stuff. I am betting it often won't be.
According to the WSJ article, They have already found a law firm willing to pursue the claim for a contingency fee.
"Mr. Thomas said Bluecurrent intends to seek royalties of $10 to $25 for each time a new computer has software or other settings updated over the Web."
OK, am I the only person that doesn't get it? First a side note, it isn't even a sofa, it is more like a old medical exam table, but I digress. Sofa's traditionally are for more than one occupant, so how would it deal with more than one person on it? Furthermore, ignoring the fact that it would be near impossible to get an accurate identity based only on the weight on a sofa, how is it really useful? My sofa knows I'm on it, what does it do for me? It can't really adjust any preferences for devices around me in a manner that is useful, I use my sofa for tons of diffrent uses, having guests over, reading, watching tv, surfing on my laptop, and all of those are would fail to benfit from my sofa knowing that I personally am on it. It just seems like the solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Considering he already had "sold" these devices, either he had clearly intended to profit off the sale of something illegal, or he had defrauded everyone that had placed an order.
Am I missing something?
Are you tired of being teased about your inferior "equipment"? Do the other guys have wider (throughput) cables than you? Does it feel like high school gym class all over again?
Well, we can't change school, but we can help you stack up now.
Introducing USB 2.0 Full Speed stickers. Yes, for the low, low price of $49.95 we can upgrade your "equipment" to USB 2.0. Just install our special, and patented stickers on a prominent place of your case, and enjoy all* the benefits that USB 2.0 offers.
* All does not include most of the features of USB 2.0, including higher though put.
Speaking as someone with ADD, it isn't always a bad thing, just as long as you train yourself to control it and use it to your advantage. For the most part, it keeps you from having a "normal" baseline as far as dividing your time up, but this isn't always a bad problem. Two examples:
Multitasking: That need for constant stimulation can also keep you focused and on top of many things at once, having cocurrent projects going on, and several tasks. The juggling is incredibly easy, alibit very confusing to those you have to work with. The main problem is it can be difficult to finish when they become tedious, as they often do, but it can be overcome.
Hyperfocus: Another tendency those with ADD, and something I would never want to give up. It is just the rush of getting working on something, be it finishing up that coding project, or writing paper. You are able to tune out every distraction, even those important ones like food and sleep and ride the rush until you finish the part of the project that has you motivated, again, the problem is follow though, but you learn to cope.
Just because Motorola has developed a faster PowerPC, it does not automatically mean that Apple will be using it. PowerPCs are used in other systems, particuarly embedded applications where a majority of PPCs end up.
With the exception of some very light DRM (Completely removed by dragging a protected AAC into Toast, it turns it into an AIFF), Apple makes it very clear that the file is yours. It never has to phone in, you can burn it to as many CDs as you want, and most importantly, you can put it on a portable player. I think the portable player is the most important key here. I haven't messed with CDs in quite awhile, in fact, my new car doesn't even have a CD player, just a good old line in thanks to BlitzSafe. The ability to burn a CD is very weak to me, I read it as "We will sort of allow you to do what you want with your files, but we will make damn sure it is wildly inconvient." That just doesn't fly with me. I think the only way that the Real model would work is if they would partner with Creative or Rio give the ability to download to download to a portable player instead of a CD.
Everyone please come down, this is self-regulating capitalism in action. It is well known fact that there are little to no margins in printers themselves. The way Dell is going to make up what is more than likely a loss on the printer itself is to sell printer cartridges. Think of it as a loan, they sell you the printer at or below cost so the consumer does not have to bite the bullet and pay for the full cost of the printer (And the manufactures profit). Consumers like it that way! People like a cheap upfront cost!
It is the exact same way with cellphones, look at the cost of a unlocked (gsm) cellphone compared to the cost of getting the same phone under contract with a cellphone provider that locks you into the use of that one provider. Granted, some people do go for the unlocked phones, but the vast majority are fine with a locked phone from the provider because it is the same phone but much cheaper. Same with DirecTV who eat a loss of somewhere around $200 for each reciever they sell. Oh, and it only works with DirecTV.
If there was a market for printers that used some sort of universal cartrage, someone would make it thanks to capitalism. If you want something close get a laser, there is much less focus on consumables in that market, but of course you are going to pay a much higher upfront cost. (I have a laser and personally I wouldn't use anything else)
If you don't like it don't buy an ink jet printer, and/or make the market known for a inkjet printer that is not subsidised and uses an open design for cartriges, but frankly gripping at length at how Dell is trying to screw the consumer with a perfectly legitiment business model (And one that most consumers like) is not productive and gets quite tiresome.
Easy, the level of ink is already monitored by the printer so all you have to do is burn it into a PROM in the cartridge. If you refill it it still reads from the PROM as empty, thus doesn't work. Of course, this could easily be bypassed by reverse engineering and replac... Oh wait, that is illegal...
I don't feel terribly bright. I am at a hotel right now, and the first thing I did was get on the hotel highspeed internet connection provided by Arescom. They seem to have an interesting system here. Every other hotel that I have stayed at has either provided a RJ-45 jack on the wall (e.g. Wayport) or a special box connected to the phone system (e.g. STSN). Here, they actually provide a DSL modem in every room. Well, just as I posted that comment, I looked up at my menu bar and noticed that an 802.11b network was at full signal strength. Turns out that they do provide a wireless network for in room use that was not mentioned anywhere in the hotel information. As I am on the 4th floor and have full signal strength, I know it can't be bleed through from the lobby, so this is quite interesting. I have never stayed at a hotel that provides such access, and I have to say, I like it.
Having stayed at a few Marriott's with the wired in room access, it is everything that it is advertised as. Fast, stable, and easy to setup, just open a browser and click a button. They even let you check your front desk messages and bill on the hotel intranet website. I also found the pricing fairly reasonable at $10 a night, less than a PPV movie.
But, as I have a wireless network at home, wireless access has really grown on me. I have always assumed that concrete walls and metal doors make hotel wide wi-fi access for in room use more expensive, it would be very welcome. Has any hotel implemented such a system, or are there any other technical limitations that I have missed that make implimenting such a system too difficult?
Motherboard? I think that would be much more interesting, and open up new choices for us. Several companies have released PPC based motherboards for Linux and Amiga, so is there any reason that one of these boards couldn't be running OS X with appropriate drivers and Darwin modifications? PPC bins should run and with more recent computers a ROM isn't needed.
Even with lifetime service, the total cost is only $150 more, which gets you better software, free upgrades for the life of the product, support, guide listings,better hardware and a UI. The time that it would take to put this together is worth much more to me than $150. YMMV though. As for replacing the hard drive, it is next to painless. At this point it is practically automated, just boot your computer using an ISO image that you burn, hit a few buttons and replace the drive.
So, for $100 more than the cost of a TiVo, which are now at $199 with a $50 rebate, he built a box that has 5 hours less recording time, a worse encoder,a fraction of the features, and how do you even begin to discribe the UI? Non-existant? I will stick to my TiVos.
Here is the page on the FCC website on the approval of the device.
/ forms/reports/Search_Form.hts?fetchfrom=0&form=Gen eric_Search&mode=edit&show_records=50&grantee_code =QHO&product_code=HPN1600
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/oet
The relevent PhoneScoop page is here: http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?id=179
Photos, a users guide, and other information is avalible.
Can you say clocks and watches? The cost to replace all the clocks and watches would be in the billions. It is not possible. I am not going to throw my Rolex away just so our time can metric. And exactly how are you going to do a metric analog clock?
How exactly is this news? I am sure that many of you find Buffy to be a great show. There are many shows that I find to be great that have not won Emmys. Unless you are going to run a story on every show snubbed by the Emmys, please do not post this as news, as this is pure opinion that Buffy wss unfairly not chosen for the emmy.