it fell off from the side/bottom of the big orange tank and it went out/down and away from the shuttle. so from the video, it seems it didnt hit the shuttle or anything
Okay, I'm being a bit of a pedant here, but you're misusing a term, as a lot of people do.
The Space Shuttle, also known as STS, comprises the external tank ("the big organge tank" in your parlance), the orbiter ("the white planey thing"), the solid rocket boosters ("the big white candley things"), and the main engines ("the three flamey things"). You mean the object did not hit the orbiter, not that it did not hit the shuttle (ignoring the fact that the parent was talking about a different object, of course).
Think of its (the possessive) the same way you think of mine, yours, hers, his, ours, and theirs. Pronouns are NOT nouns and possessive pronouns do NOT have apostrophes. Its is not the only one, it is not an exception, and therefore it is not an unintuitive gotcha.
Are we just putting apostrophes anywhere we damn well please now? It's bad enough when people think "it's" is a proper possessive (it isn't), but now you're just sticking them places to your heart's content?
Most milk is vitamin D fortified, and you can easily get the vitamin D your body needs by drinking a couple of glasses of milk every day, in between liters of Mountain Dew. And it's good for you in other ways anyway.
Not very accurate? The license agreement clearly states that the tool cannot distinguish between legally and illegally obtained movies and music and that it will therefore detect the presence of all such files. It does exactly what it says it does.
This may not be what the MPAA or their intended audience thinks the most desirable behavior, and if they could easily make it detect the difference between copyright violations and legal content, I'm sure they would, but for the Slashdot blurb to call the software "not accurate" is, well, not accurate.
Get a life, Slashdorks. You keep modding +5 the same stupid, snide patent jokes every single time any Amazon/Bezos story is posted. It was funny, oh, maybe six years ago. Grow up and move on.
Because any twit knows Amazon has only been in business for 10 years, and that's what the article is saying. It was their biggest season EVER, which it damn well better have been or they're doing something seriously wrong.
Those of us who deliberately do not closely follow the news on the shows we watch (personally, I want to be surprised by the evolution of the characters) would appreciate not having this kind of information plastered all over Slashdot's front page.
TiVo has had self-healing Linux systems out there for five years now. There are virtually no complaints of TiVo software failure (hard drives certainly go bad from time to time, but very rarely does the OS get itself into a state it can't fix), so the notion that self-healing systems are still years off is silly. They may not be extremely advanced yet, but they're certainly out there.
Why does Slashdot keep covering people who waste time installing PearPC and OSX on various already-incredibly-slow pieces of aging hardware? Is Slashdot really this hard up for quality story material?
Getting a web server to run on an Atari 800 is kind of cool. Modding a Roomba to deliver your Dr Pepper is nifty. Getting OSX to run on the slowest piece of hardware you can get Linux to run on is tired and boring.
The reviewer is wrong. The Hughes HR10-250 most certainly can output to non-HDCP-compliant sets. In fact, it even comes with a HDMI-to-DVI cable in the box. Just last night I was watching HD stuff on my 20" Dell LCD, using the (non-HDCP) DVI input.
However, if the broadcast flag is ever flipped on (no one's done it yet), then those people using non-HDCP sets will get downres output on DVI.
These kinds of exploits are almost never patchable out in the field, because once the chain of trust is broken, it's broken. It doesn't matter if you break the chain of trust with this kernel and this OS version or with the newest one, because you can use this one to boot the new one. (See references to two-card monte exploits of S2 TiVos. Same idea.)
Once the chain is broken, it's broken forever, until the new hardware rev.
> I found that the command to initialize a new hard drive (if present) is already there along with a comment of "No, we didn't remove this..." So, just plug in the second drive and it should work. No PC necessary!
Wrong. Those commands cause it to add a blessed drive to MFS, not to bless a blank drive. You still need to set up the basic partition table in a PC.
> The secondary reasons are to add features and disk space.
Disk space can be added to TiVos without shell access. Many people have already upgraded their HD TiVos' hard drives, while only a handfull have shell access to them.
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it fell off from the side/bottom of the big orange tank and it went out/down and away from the shuttle. so from the video, it seems it didnt hit the shuttle or anything
Okay, I'm being a bit of a pedant here, but you're misusing a term, as a lot of people do.
The Space Shuttle, also known as STS, comprises the external tank ("the big organge tank" in your parlance), the orbiter ("the white planey thing"), the solid rocket boosters ("the big white candley things"), and the main engines ("the three flamey things"). You mean the object did not hit the orbiter, not that it did not hit the shuttle (ignoring the fact that the parent was talking about a different object, of course).
Is their a reason that this is new? Because back in January I used it to do research for a paper.
Obviously not an English paper.
I wonder if consumers will be happy waiting for hours while their movie is delivered? ... Something about the business model just doesn't add up to me.
Funny, Netflix seems to doing just fine with the "be happy waiting a few days" business model. Why do you think a few hours is a worse one?
Think of its (the possessive) the same way you think of mine, yours, hers, his, ours, and theirs. Pronouns are NOT nouns and possessive pronouns do NOT have apostrophes. Its is not the only one, it is not an exception, and therefore it is not an unintuitive gotcha.
Are we just putting apostrophes anywhere we damn well please now? It's bad enough when people think "it's" is a proper possessive (it isn't), but now you're just sticking them places to your heart's content?
The Angry Flower can help you. See rule 3. http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
Most milk is vitamin D fortified, and you can easily get the vitamin D your body needs by drinking a couple of glasses of milk every day, in between liters of Mountain Dew. And it's good for you in other ways anyway.
"From Macrovision, the folks whom recently mandated..."
Whom? Don't try to sound intelligent when you aren't.
And don't even get me started on "pain staking."
Yeah, yeah. Troll -1.
Not very accurate? The license agreement clearly states that the tool cannot distinguish between legally and illegally obtained movies and music and that it will therefore detect the presence of all such files. It does exactly what it says it does.
This may not be what the MPAA or their intended audience thinks the most desirable behavior, and if they could easily make it detect the difference between copyright violations and legal content, I'm sure they would, but for the Slashdot blurb to call the software "not accurate" is, well, not accurate.
Get a life, Slashdorks. You keep modding +5 the same stupid, snide patent jokes every single time any Amazon/Bezos story is posted. It was funny, oh, maybe six years ago. Grow up and move on.
Because any twit knows Amazon has only been in business for 10 years, and that's what the article is saying. It was their biggest season EVER, which it damn well better have been or they're doing something seriously wrong.
Those of us who deliberately do not closely follow the news on the shows we watch (personally, I want to be surprised by the evolution of the characters) would appreciate not having this kind of information plastered all over Slashdot's front page.
TiVo has had self-healing Linux systems out there for five years now. There are virtually no complaints of TiVo software failure (hard drives certainly go bad from time to time, but very rarely does the OS get itself into a state it can't fix), so the notion that self-healing systems are still years off is silly. They may not be extremely advanced yet, but they're certainly out there.
Why does Slashdot keep covering people who waste time installing PearPC and OSX on various already-incredibly-slow pieces of aging hardware? Is Slashdot really this hard up for quality story material?
Getting a web server to run on an Atari 800 is kind of cool. Modding a Roomba to deliver your Dr Pepper is nifty. Getting OSX to run on the slowest piece of hardware you can get Linux to run on is tired and boring.
Don't make me start reading CNN for my news.
The reviewer is wrong. The Hughes HR10-250 most certainly can output to non-HDCP-compliant sets. In fact, it even comes with a HDMI-to-DVI cable in the box. Just last night I was watching HD stuff on my 20" Dell LCD, using the (non-HDCP) DVI input.
However, if the broadcast flag is ever flipped on (no one's done it yet), then those people using non-HDCP sets will get downres output on DVI.
These kinds of exploits are almost never patchable out in the field, because once the chain of trust is broken, it's broken. It doesn't matter if you break the chain of trust with this kernel and this OS version or with the newest one, because you can use this one to boot the new one. (See references to two-card monte exploits of S2 TiVos. Same idea.)
Once the chain is broken, it's broken forever, until the new hardware rev.
> I found that the command to initialize a new hard drive (if present) is already there along with a comment of "No, we didn't remove this..." So, just plug in the second drive and it should work. No PC necessary!
Wrong. Those commands cause it to add a blessed drive to MFS, not to bless a blank drive. You still need to set up the basic partition table in a PC.
> The secondary reasons are to add features and disk space.
Disk space can be added to TiVos without shell access. Many people have already upgraded their HD TiVos' hard drives, while only a handfull have shell access to them.
Run a web server on it for remote programming, extract digital video from it, and most important, IRC from it.
They *did* need to patent it so someone else wouldn't. What they *didn't* need to do was
legally enforce it.