I do. I saved ~$100/month by axing Comcast and downloading torrents of all my favorite shows.
I built an HTPC for ~$600. I use MediaPortal to do playback. The plugins for it do an amazing job of automatically associating files with episodes, downloading art, keeping track of which episodes you've watched, etc. Similar stuff for Movies too. Throw in a Harmony remote and it's even wife-friendly enough that I don't have to do anything. I highly recommend it.
It does? News to me. It's been 2 years since I tried xbmc, and when I last tried it, a fairly decent machine struggled with HD playback while Mediaportal (and MPC and others that used avivo and purevideo). I did a quick search before posting to make sure I wasn't mistaken and saw this:
> Note! Developers wanted! XBMC does not yet support any listed methods of hardware accelerated video decoding.
at http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Hardware_Accelerated_Video_Decoding
So I didn't do more digging...but that page hasn't been updated so 2009, so my bad.
I highly recommend MediaPortal http://www.team-mediaportal.com/
The setup is significant, but once you have it going, it's great. You can use hardware accelerated h264 decoding (whereas Boxee, XBMC and many others are software only). The plugins for it have great, poweful support for automatically matching Movies and TV shows based on regexps and online lookups of the filenames.
Some screenshots can be found: http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/ http://code.google.com/p/mptvseries/
And too bad the ad is incredibly forgettable and badly done. Most people will not even pay attention to it.
It's a waste of time to put that on the air, the money is better spent elsewhere... Like paying to get a real in your face ad made, they need to not hold any punches, they need to be blunt.
The provider (Akamai) is quite capable of handling international traffic to the site, it's the customer (Bush' political team) who are using Akamai's services to specifically deny non-US visitors.
ie: They're only doing what they've been told to do, it's not because they're not capable.
IMO it's not as illegitimate as the previous stories seemed to imply, provided you use a sensible list of address (jobs@company.com for example), and not a grep of Usenet addresses.
Well even if the states lose, at least the RIAA will have a mother of a legal bill to pay. Serves them right, the bastards.
Maybe the record industry should learn from radio - play the music for free, make your money on advertising. Charge a minimal fee for the CDs (like $3-5), and cover them with superlame ads, which can be ripped off after purchase. They could still offer the pricey $15 CDs without any ads on them, for those who don't want to risk mucking up their precious CD inserts (or whatever they're called - the thingies with the lyrics and band pictures and all that in the inside of the jewel case) by tearing off the ads. Just a thought.
"And there was much rejoicing". -- I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.
IBM sure is pushing Linux, huh? They even started a program with my school to have some of our seniors work on their projects for our senior design project (equivelant to a thesis or whatever - you need to do one to graduate).
One of these was porting second teir applications for Linux to the S/390. I have two friends working at IBM this summer doing just that. Not only are these students getting to do an interesting senior project for a real world problem, they're also getting paid pretty nicely.
I used to have a fairly low opinion of IBM, but their recent actions have me rethinking. Not only are they interested in supporting a great OS, but they're doing good things in the education realm too. -- I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.
Not neccessarily the NSA, but obviously some branch of the government (FBI, CIA, Army, Navy, whoever) had to be in charge of encryption, or at least _some_ branch had _some_ people working on encryption. It wouldn't be shocking, to me at least, for the government to act in such a paranoid manner.
But, as you bring up, how can the US Patent office assign a patent to an ogranization that didn't exist when it was filed? -- I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.
Well, at the time I'm sure he thought that an Engima clone might be useful to the government should war ever break out and encoding of messages would be in big demand. If he could corner the market on encryption, he could get a lot of gov't $$$.
My guess to the lateness of the patent is the NSA thought encryption should be controlled solely by them, and so they just wrapped the thing up in red tape and left it. Why wait 'til 2000 to let it be patented though? Why not 10-20 years ago when computers were clearly far superior in encryption methods?
Maybe the NSA feared if it relied solely on computer encryption, and if some computer catastrophe (massive power loss to the US, some uber-computer virus or something) they should hang on to more old fashioned means of encryption, just in case.
Or maybe it's almost 5 and I should go home.
-- I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.
I know of at least one browser, iCab for the Mac that allows you to filter images based on several factors: server the image is coming from, path of the url, filename, etc. All of this is customizable, and comes with several known ad companies' domain's blocked out already.
I use it to filter banner ads, but after reading this article, I realize it could also be used to stop WebBugs. The rest of iCab is so-so, BTW. It crashes a lot randomly. Although a new version just came out today (1.2) and I have yet to try it.
Anyone want to add this to Netscape?:) -- I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.
The problem with artists on non-major labels is that it's hard to hear their music. It sucks spending around $15 on a CD, and it turns out you don't like it. That's where napster's supposed to come in...
Slightly offtopic:
I'm not big into CDs as I know the artists get a very small percentage of the gross. However, I pay quite a lot, and often travel pretty far to see my favorite artists in concert. Does the RIAA or any other organization get a cut from concerts (excluding like, the event people of the stadium/club/whatever)? -- I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.
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I do. I saved ~$100/month by axing Comcast and downloading torrents of all my favorite shows.
I built an HTPC for ~$600. I use MediaPortal to do playback. The plugins for it do an amazing job of automatically associating files with episodes, downloading art, keeping track of which episodes you've watched, etc. Similar stuff for Movies too. Throw in a Harmony remote and it's even wife-friendly enough that I don't have to do anything. I highly recommend it.
It does? News to me. It's been 2 years since I tried xbmc, and when I last tried it, a fairly decent machine struggled with HD playback while Mediaportal (and MPC and others that used avivo and purevideo). I did a quick search before posting to make sure I wasn't mistaken and saw this:
> Note! Developers wanted! XBMC does not yet support any listed methods of hardware accelerated video decoding.
at
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Hardware_Accelerated_Video_Decoding
So I didn't do more digging...but that page hasn't been updated so 2009, so my bad.
I highly recommend MediaPortal http://www.team-mediaportal.com/
The setup is significant, but once you have it going, it's great. You can use hardware accelerated h264 decoding (whereas Boxee, XBMC and many others are software only). The plugins for it have great, poweful support for automatically matching Movies and TV shows based on regexps and online lookups of the filenames.
Some screenshots can be found:
http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/
http://code.google.com/p/mptvseries/
Argh, hit submit too soon. Reference: IT Crowd
0 lbs, 0 kgs. Duh. The internet doesn't weigh anything.
That cat idea may not work.
Clearly they missed the (re)release of RE4 for the Wii last year, where one can be beheaded by a chainsaw, among other family friendly things.
Come on people. Really?
And too bad the ad is incredibly forgettable and badly done. Most people will not even pay attention to it.
It's a waste of time to put that on the air, the money is better spent elsewhere... Like paying to get a real in your face ad made, they need to not hold any punches, they need to be blunt.
Maybe they should hire these guys.
And Rayman and RE4 (although it's a rerelease on the Wii, it's much much much better with the Wiimote than on the other systems).
Seriously. http://marathon.bungie.org/Story/
Try the administrative contact for the site.
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Bush-Cheney '04, Inc. (35436379O) Chuck@georgewbush.com
P.O. Box 10648
Arlington, VA 22210
US
703-647-2700
The provider (Akamai) is quite capable of handling international traffic to the site, it's the customer (Bush' political team) who are using Akamai's services to specifically deny non-US visitors.
ie: They're only doing what they've been told to do, it's not because they're not capable.
You can install X11 on OS X if you want to have all of the above features.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/
Well, Akamai seems to be hiring:
Check out Craig's list and their website
Try there?
Headaches. Do YOU want to store 100 or 300 or 800 or whatever passwords for each session you have?
I'm using vsftpd in Debian, it's pretty nice. Supposed to be secure, although I haven't seen any stats/docs to support that one way or the other.
What about jobs@apple.com?
Does that go to Steve or HR? :o
Maybe the record industry should learn from radio - play the music for free, make your money on advertising. Charge a minimal fee for the CDs (like $3-5), and cover them with superlame ads, which can be ripped off after purchase. They could still offer the pricey $15 CDs without any ads on them, for those who don't want to risk mucking up their precious CD inserts (or whatever they're called - the thingies with the lyrics and band pictures and all that in the inside of the jewel case) by tearing off the ads. Just a thought.
"And there was much rejoicing".
--
I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.
One of these was porting second teir applications for Linux to the S/390. I have two friends working at IBM this summer doing just that. Not only are these students getting to do an interesting senior project for a real world problem, they're also getting paid pretty nicely.
I used to have a fairly low opinion of IBM, but their recent actions have me rethinking. Not only are they interested in supporting a great OS, but they're doing good things in the education realm too.
--
I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.
But, as you bring up, how can the US Patent office assign a patent to an ogranization that didn't exist when it was filed?
--
I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.
My guess to the lateness of the patent is the NSA thought encryption should be controlled solely by them, and so they just wrapped the thing up in red tape and left it. Why wait 'til 2000 to let it be patented though? Why not 10-20 years ago when computers were clearly far superior in encryption methods?
Maybe the NSA feared if it relied solely on computer encryption, and if some computer catastrophe (massive power loss to the US, some uber-computer virus or something) they should hang on to more old fashioned means of encryption, just in case.
Or maybe it's almost 5 and I should go home.
--
I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.
I know of at least one browser, iCab for the Mac that allows you to filter images based on several factors: server the image is coming from, path of the url, filename, etc. All of this is customizable, and comes with several known ad companies' domain's blocked out already. :)
I use it to filter banner ads, but after reading this article, I realize it could also be used to stop WebBugs. The rest of iCab is so-so, BTW. It crashes a lot randomly. Although a new version just came out today (1.2) and I have yet to try it. Anyone want to add this to Netscape?
--
I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.
The problem with artists on non-major labels is that it's hard to hear their music. It sucks spending around $15 on a CD, and it turns out you don't like it. That's where napster's supposed to come in...
Slightly offtopic:
I'm not big into CDs as I know the artists get a very small percentage of the gross. However, I pay quite a lot, and often travel pretty far to see my favorite artists in concert. Does the RIAA or any other organization get a cut from concerts (excluding like, the event people of the stadium/club/whatever)?
--
I don't follow the pack, but I'll follow a really cute girl.