I've got one of the Hauppauge WinTV cards and use xawtv for watching TV. It's even got image capture and video record functions, but I find that the video capture is a little lacking. Though, maybe I just don't have the right libraries or settings.
I must say that I was quite impressed with xawtv, too. With the kernel driver installed and all, it was pretty simple to get it working with the xvideo extension.
So they give different results. Good. If every search engine gave the same results, there wouldn't be any need for more than one. For example: Yahoo! or Google for searches?
Besides, this is still just a beta. No use in discrediting it until it's out of beta.
This reminds me that when I purchased something from 2600.com, it's acutally just a Yahoo! store. So, they've got my credit card number and address/phone/etc. Hopefully 2600 will go about setting up their own store sometime soon, or at least find a better host.
Also, in case people don't draw the connection, signing up for a Geocities site also signs you up for Yahoo!, so you, too, will want to change these settings.
Actually, this is exactly what I had hoped. My thinking is that if I read the book and then watch the movie rather than see the movie and then read the book, I will get to be in on the inside jokes bandied (sp?) around here. Right now, I feel rather left out. Besides, if I see the movie, I likely won't want to waste my time reading the book, and we need to spend money to support our weak economy.;-)
Besides, there's nothing bad about reading a good book, which I haven't done in too long.
I predict that the next three Slashdot stories will go as follows:
One DVD To Find Them Announcement of the The Two Towers DVD
One DVD To Bring Them All Announcement of the The Return of the King DVD
And in the Darkness Bind Them Announcement of the entire set on DVD.
[Aside] Actually, I really need to get around to reading the FoTR book so I can see the movie. This may even be one of the things that finally gets me to get a DVD drive (if I can find one that's easy to make RPC-1/region-free)... May...[/Aside]
You would expect to pay over $350 for this product alone.
But we're giving it to you for half that... No! Wait! Not $175, but *$100*. And that's it!
Ha ha ha! I lie again! We're giving you this extra whatchamajig as an added bonus.
So, you're getting the regular product, plus the add-on whatchamajig for only $100. That's an over $500 value!
_And_ if you call within the next 15 minutes, we'll give you a free 1 year subscription to Doodad's and Whatchamajigs Illustrated!!
What a VALUE!!!
However, if you think that would work, I think you're kidding yourself. Microsoft and others are VERY good at marketing. Remember that.. Microsoft is a marketing company that sells software.
333hr MTBF means that they fail (on average) every 333 hours?
Hm... 333 hours / 24 hours/day ~ 13 days.
So, you've got to replace your drives every two weeks or so? Hahaha.
Please, tell me I'm reading this wrong.
*/me reads article*
Ah, they're just not recommending them for low-end servers anymore. Maybe they want people to buy their SCSI drives for a bit more for those cases. That'd probably be the smart thing to begin with except that, with the proliferation of home networking equipment, more and more people will want to build servers and they will not want or need to spend over $10k on them for their family of 4 to share files.
What if, then, they said: "So, now that you can get AOL on your PC that runs Linux, you won't need that Free AIM client (gaim, naim, kit, etc.) You can just use the REAL THING!"
And then they will ban the 3rd-party clients from their networks, and the 3rd party clients will have eternal updates.
Maybe the non-AOL AIM clients should get an auto-update feature so that updates of that sort could get out as quickly as possible (1 client grabs update, sends it to people on it's buddy-list that are using a client of it's type. They do the same. Opt-in, of course.)
Maybe your karma is too high now. You know, the system tries to pick the most "average" users. Karma not too high, not too low... Reads comments, but doesn't read like crazy and such. It could just be coincidence.
Then again, unless you're checking the No Score +1 Bonus box, your karma isn't above 25. You might just try mailing Rob or Jeff about it. Just remember to be civil or your mail will just be deleted.
Either way, removing moderating rights seems an odd "punishment". I'd think they'd just bitchslap you.
However, if the opensource project takes on the dimensions that Apache, MySQL, or mozilla do--you almost be sure that someone will catch on that "freeing up disk space" = rm -rf/.
It's nitpicking, but people would notice that regardless of the status of the source. Either way they'd go: "Hmmm, I have way more disk free than I should! Oh crap!"
Apple's iMovie isn't opensource, and it had a problem like this.
But remember that compiling from source doesn't mean Jack Shit if you don't know what the resulting binary is going to do. Heck, the configure script could say:
Freeing up disk space...
and do a little rm -rf / . Course, that would only hurt you if you ran it as root, but how many people bother to run the configure as a regular user? Well, I know one.
You could think of it this way, compiling Windows XP from source wouldn't make it any stabler or any more secure.
Of course, if by "compiling it from source", you mean "reading every line of code and comprehending it and then compiling it", well, then, you're right.
People used to do this in a programming class I took in high school. They'd write "Erase Me" in Sharpie on the dry-erase board. (ha...ha) So, someone would just have to get out the window cleaner and erase it.
If you don't have Java installed, but you do have Xscreensaver installed, you can just run the `ccurve' hack. It looks quite similar to these Kock curves.
For foo's sake, hire a real editor, not a Perl hacker who ended up running a web site with 250000 readers, and have everything which goes on the front page run by them first. We all know how readable most Perl is - we need someone who's good at writing English!
I dunno. I thought that part of the charm of the place was the inanity. Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, Jeff "Hemos" Bates, John "CowboyNeal" Pater, Nate "Mixmaster" Oostendo[rp] (yes, some people CAN spell your name) etc. are just "regular guys". Sure, they've got quite an audience, but that doesn't mean the place has to be ultra-serious. Sort of like some anime I've seen. It's just *goofy* and preposterous; and that's what's so great about it!
But, that's not to say that it's always just a bunch of dorks trying to be the first to post to a new story. There are acutal story readers and people who think seriously about whatever are the stories of the day. Just look at the Hall of Fame (and raise your threshhold!).
Sometimes, it's fun just to do something relaxing. Reading Slashdot is so. People who are smart and (mostly) think similarly read and post here. It's fun and relaxing (for me, at least) to read that in which they are interested and what they have to say about it. It seems to me that (unless they got a REALLY good one) a serious editor would remove the fun and put correct spelling and grammar in its place.
So, I think the ads do suck. However, that still will not urge me to subscribe[1]. I can easily scroll by them. The one thing I would reiterate (someone else said it earlier) is that they are poorly placed; like you just plopped them in there. However, they don't really break up the page too much, which is nice.
Hopefully the editors will be able to answer the questions of most people pretty satisfactorily this afternoon.
[1] Completely off-topic: Things are going to get pretty nutty if I have to pay to connect, pay to get any information, pay, pay, pay. It's like the only people making any money are the ones handling the equipment (important as it may be) that transmits intagible bits. Sort of like everyone having to pay the power company or phone company. Funny that some of the most expensive things to regular people are intangible...
Well, poop, maybe they can buy the design off him and that would be his prize. He certainly deserves something other than just a cool case. A job with the Antec Enclosures Dept, perhaps.
This guy might want to contact Antec-Europe about their Casemod Contest. His box might actually fit in the "Others" category...
Minimalist: Minor mod, extra fan or handle Artist: Typically not cutting the case, instead the case becomes a canvas Exhibitionist: Windows, showing the guts of the system Decorator: Matches case to coordinate with a room/desk Sponsor: Case with stickers, logos, etc Others: If your case doesn't match the above
Women who associate with males frequently find that their periods become shorter and more regular....
Funny that our (okay, womens') bodies seem to be the worst places for reproduction (the trip the sperm take being so acidic and all, and this shorter menstrual cycle when women are around men) and yet there are still over 6,000,000,000 of us -- living now. Add in all the contraceptives, and it's pretty amazing that anyone ever gets pregnant.
However, it's a good thing that it wasn't easier, or we'd be swimming in people-goo by now!
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While he's at it, he can give his father, as a young boy, a Christmas present:
"Yahoo"
I've got one of the Hauppauge WinTV cards and use xawtv for watching TV. It's even got image capture and video record functions, but I find that the video capture is a little lacking. Though, maybe I just don't have the right libraries or settings.
I must say that I was quite impressed with xawtv, too. With the kernel driver installed and all, it was pretty simple to get it working with the xvideo extension.
So they give different results. Good. If every search engine gave the same results, there wouldn't be any need for more than one. For example: Yahoo! or Google for searches?
Besides, this is still just a beta. No use in discrediting it until it's out of beta.
This reminds me that when I purchased something from 2600.com, it's acutally just a Yahoo! store. So, they've got my credit card number and address/phone/etc. Hopefully 2600 will go about setting up their own store sometime soon, or at least find a better host.
Also, in case people don't draw the connection, signing up for a Geocities site also signs you up for Yahoo!, so you, too, will want to change these settings.
At least you don't live in Canada.
Two syllables: Re-solve
Actually, this is exactly what I had hoped. My thinking is that if I read the book and then watch the movie rather than see the movie and then read the book, I will get to be in on the inside jokes bandied (sp?) around here. Right now, I feel rather left out. Besides, if I see the movie, I likely won't want to waste my time reading the book, and we need to spend money to support our weak economy. ;-)
Besides, there's nothing bad about reading a good book, which I haven't done in too long.
I predict that the next three Slashdot stories will go as follows:
One DVD To Find Them
Announcement of the The Two Towers DVD
One DVD To Bring Them All
Announcement of the The Return of the King DVD
And in the Darkness Bind Them
Announcement of the entire set on DVD.
[Aside] Actually, I really need to get around to reading the FoTR book so I can see the movie. This may even be one of the things that finally gets me to get a DVD drive (if I can find one that's easy to make RPC-1/region-free)... May...[/Aside]
That's just like the infomercials...
You would expect to pay over $350 for this product alone.
But we're giving it to you for half that... No! Wait! Not $175, but *$100*. And that's it!
Ha ha ha! I lie again! We're giving you this extra whatchamajig as an added bonus.
So, you're getting the regular product, plus the add-on whatchamajig for only $100. That's an over $500 value!
_And_ if you call within the next 15 minutes, we'll give you a free 1 year subscription to Doodad's and Whatchamajigs Illustrated!!
What a VALUE!!!
However, if you think that would work, I think you're kidding yourself. Microsoft and others are VERY good at marketing. Remember that.. Microsoft is a marketing company that sells software.
I suspect a well practiced juggler could adjust to the diffences in Space fairly quickly.
Anyone can juggle in space. It's easy!
Throws ball "up".
Tadaaaa!
Remember, this requires new hard drives - something that doesn't exactly happen every day in big business.
:).
That is, unless you're using IBM drives
333hr MTBF means that they fail (on average) every 333 hours?
Hm... 333 hours / 24 hours/day ~ 13 days.
So, you've got to replace your drives every two weeks or so? Hahaha.
Please, tell me I'm reading this wrong.
*/me reads article*
Ah, they're just not recommending them for low-end servers anymore. Maybe they want people to buy their SCSI drives for a bit more for those cases. That'd probably be the smart thing to begin with except that, with the proliferation of home networking equipment, more and more people will want to build servers and they will not want or need to spend over $10k on them for their family of 4 to share files.
Hm. That reminds me why I've unchecked the [ ]Willing to Moderate box. :)
Thanks!
Woops:
http://www.gzip.org/zlib
and the advisory on their site.
(BTW: The 'c' in your link was unnecessary and www.zlib.org resolved to www.gzip.org/zlib)
What if, then, they said: "So, now that you can get AOL on your PC that runs Linux, you won't need that Free AIM client (gaim, naim, kit, etc.) You can just use the REAL THING!"
And then they will ban the 3rd-party clients from their networks, and the 3rd party clients will have eternal updates.
Maybe the non-AOL AIM clients should get an auto-update feature so that updates of that sort could get out as quickly as possible (1 client grabs update, sends it to people on it's buddy-list that are using a client of it's type. They do the same. Opt-in, of course.)
Maybe your karma is too high now. You know, the system tries to pick the most "average" users. Karma not too high, not too low... Reads comments, but doesn't read like crazy and such. It could just be coincidence.
Then again, unless you're checking the No Score +1 Bonus box, your karma isn't above 25. You might just try mailing Rob or Jeff about it. Just remember to be civil or your mail will just be deleted.
Either way, removing moderating rights seems an odd "punishment". I'd think they'd just bitchslap you.
However, if the opensource project takes on the dimensions that Apache, MySQL, or mozilla do--you almost be sure that someone will catch on that "freeing up disk space" = rm -rf /.
It's nitpicking, but people would notice that regardless of the status of the source. Either way they'd go: "Hmmm, I have way more disk free than I should! Oh crap!"
Apple's iMovie isn't opensource, and it had a problem like this.
Oh well, not a big deal.
But remember that compiling from source doesn't mean Jack Shit if you don't know what the resulting binary is going to do. Heck, the configure script could say:
Freeing up disk space...
and do a little rm -rf / . Course, that would only hurt you if you ran it as root, but how many people bother to run the configure as a regular user? Well, I know one.
You could think of it this way, compiling Windows XP from source wouldn't make it any stabler or any more secure.
Of course, if by "compiling it from source", you mean "reading every line of code and comprehending it and then compiling it", well, then, you're right.
People used to do this in a programming class I took in high school. They'd write "Erase Me" in Sharpie on the dry-erase board. (ha...ha) So, someone would just have to get out the window cleaner and erase it.
If you don't have Java installed, but you do have Xscreensaver installed, you can just run the `ccurve' hack. It looks quite similar to these Kock curves.
For foo's sake, hire a real editor, not a Perl hacker who ended up running a web site with 250000 readers, and have everything which goes on the front page run by them first. We all know how readable most Perl is - we need someone who's good at writing English!
I dunno. I thought that part of the charm of the place was the inanity. Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, Jeff "Hemos" Bates, John "CowboyNeal" Pater, Nate "Mixmaster" Oostendo[rp] (yes, some people CAN spell your name) etc. are just "regular guys". Sure, they've got quite an audience, but that doesn't mean the place has to be ultra-serious. Sort of like some anime I've seen. It's just *goofy* and preposterous; and that's what's so great about it!
But, that's not to say that it's always just a bunch of dorks trying to be the first to post to a new story. There are acutal story readers and people who think seriously about whatever are the stories of the day. Just look at the Hall of Fame (and raise your threshhold!).
Sometimes, it's fun just to do something relaxing. Reading Slashdot is so. People who are smart and (mostly) think similarly read and post here. It's fun and relaxing (for me, at least) to read that in which they are interested and what they have to say about it. It seems to me that (unless they got a REALLY good one) a serious editor would remove the fun and put correct spelling and grammar in its place.
So, I think the ads do suck. However, that still will not urge me to subscribe[1]. I can easily scroll by them. The one thing I would reiterate (someone else said it earlier) is that they are poorly placed; like you just plopped them in there. However, they don't really break up the page too much, which is nice.
Hopefully the editors will be able to answer the questions of most people pretty satisfactorily this afternoon.
[1] Completely off-topic: Things are going to get pretty nutty if I have to pay to connect, pay to get any information, pay, pay, pay. It's like the only people making any money are the ones handling the equipment (important as it may be) that transmits intagible bits. Sort of like everyone having to pay the power company or phone company. Funny that some of the most expensive things to regular people are intangible...
I wish my Physics class entitled "Electricity and Magnetism" had been de-Gauss'ed.
(As well, I wish my Calculus course could be de-Calculus'ed.)
It could be recycled Antec alumin[i]um ;).
Well, poop, maybe they can buy the design off him and that would be his prize. He certainly deserves something other than just a cool case. A job with the Antec Enclosures Dept, perhaps.
This guy might want to contact Antec-Europe about their Casemod Contest. His box might actually fit in the "Others" category...
Minimalist: Minor mod, extra fan or handle
Artist: Typically not cutting the case, instead the case becomes a canvas
Exhibitionist: Windows, showing the guts of the system
Decorator: Matches case to coordinate with a room/desk
Sponsor: Case with stickers, logos, etc
Others: If your case doesn't match the above
Women who associate with males frequently find that their periods become shorter and more regular....
Funny that our (okay, womens') bodies seem to be the worst places for reproduction (the trip the sperm take being so acidic and all, and this shorter menstrual cycle when women are around men) and yet there are still over 6,000,000,000 of us -- living now. Add in all the contraceptives, and it's pretty amazing that anyone ever gets pregnant.
However, it's a good thing that it wasn't easier, or we'd be swimming in people-goo by now!