80 GB drive, which equals an estimated 50 hours of digital cable programming (no quality controls a la TiVo or ReplayTV, everything is as-broadcast).
Offtopic, but... The DirecTV Tivos (also mentioned later in your comment) record the digital signal exactly as received from the satellite dish as well. I don't think I'd ever buy a standalone Tivo for this reason (well, that AND I hope to never be a cable subscriber again - DirecTV is MUCH better).
Why did Mozilla need to change the codename from Seamonkey in the first place? Let's just pretend this Firebird thing never happened and go back to calling the "under development" versions Seamonkey and call the release "Mozilla Browser" or "Mozilla Navigator".
One researcher recalls a student, a vegan, who asked if she could just biopsy herself, grow up a steak and eat it. If you want to eat truly victimless meat, perhaps it is time to put yourself on the menu.
This is either really freaking cool or really freaking disturbing. I haven't decided which yet.
If the cable companies could only provide REAL video on demand, I'd drop my current DirecTV+Tivo solution. I mean, give me access to any episode of any of my favorite shows at any time I want. Okay, ANY episode is pushing it - make that any episode of the current season and at least half of the previous season.
Anyhow, my point is - I'd be perfectly willing to pay $1/month per show for this kind of service... If basic cable was $30/month and each "VOD" show was $1/month, I could afford access to around 40 shows for what I'm currently paying!
I'm sure there are technology reasons why this isn't already happening... In the meantime, my Tivo allows me to watch the last episode or two of my favorite shows at any time I want. I don't have to worry about being home and sitting in front of the TV at a particular time. I love it. I don't think I could watch TV without it! Cable VOD solutions will have to at LEAST match what my Tivo currently does for me before they have a chance in the market, IMHO.
Just a quick correction. SG-1 re-runs air on Monday (4 1-hour episodes back-to-back) and then each of those four episodes are shown again throughout the week. One on Tuesday, one on Wednesday, one on Thursday, and one on Friday. Then, the Season 6 re-runs are also on Friday (at least until January when we're supposed to get to see the rest of Season 6).
Anyone know when Season 7 will start? Please don't tell me they plan to show the last half of Season 6 and then re-run the whole thing AGAIN (they've already been through the first half of Season 6 at least twice).
Maybe SciFi and some others should try a subscription model... Like HBO only cheaper because they still have ads (maybe less of them, though). I mean, I'd be willing to pay $2/month more for my cable/satellite in order to have a SciFi channel that continues to make new episodes of Farscape, Invisible Man, and Stargate SG-1 - even if they have commercials in them.
Cool, so now I don't even have to watch any of his fights all season long - I already know that he's the champion. Thanks Slashdot for ruining Battlebots season 5!
I have no idea what UOP stands for (User Operation Permittance? ). In any case, I think the latest hacked Sampo DVD Player firmware (also useable in most of the Apex models) includes a UOP hack. I'm running it on my Apex 660 and can skip directly to the main menu while the FBI warning (or all those friggin ads on the Disney discs) is up. It's WONDERFUL.
And of course, you can disable macrovision, play MP3s (with a much better menu than the original Apex firmware), display JPG images, hook up a hard drive or compact flash unit, play discs from any region, etc. Check out the Nerd-Out forums HERE!
One of the biggest advantages of COM over CORBA is a *big* speed difference when running in-proc, while maintaining the same speed as CORBA as out-proccess & out-machine.
Well, at least the C++ ORB I use (OmniORB - a very nice, highly efficient, open source ORB produced by ATT) is very fast while running in-process. This implies that your comparison only applies to ORBs implemented in such a way as to perform badly under those circumstances.
There seem to be a lot of posts here whining about not being able to rip to MP3s (or how easy it will be to rip to MP3s), etc. I could care less about that, really (I know the MP3s will be available if I want them - no matter what).
What I care about is - can I actually LISTEN to the CDs that I choose to BUY? I don't have a "regular" CD player anywhere in my house. All CDs get played either in the DVD player or occassionally in my Dreamcast. Will I be able to do that with one of these discs? If not, then they'll be going right back to the store - and if they won't refund my purchase price, I WILL throw a nice loud fit about it.
Of course, we only buy maybe 20 CDs each year in this household - I can't imagine we'll make much impact all by ourselves...
> What would it take to get you guys to review a book for adults?
Um, I'm VERY happy to see a review of a book like this that I can buy for my kids. This is the first time I think I've ever seen a web review of a book like this. Where other than Slashdot am I going to find something like this?
THANK YOU SLASHDOT!
As for you, OPP - Why don't you leave Slashdot and stick to some "News for nerds who are adults and don't ever plan to have children" site or something.
I've got the Star Control 3 CD sitting here next to my comptuer. I never spent much time playing it, though. Just didn't have nearly the feel of Star Control 2 (I think SC2 was the last PC game I ever played all the way to the end). Primarily, I think I missed the cool music!
Anyone actually getting this software to work? I'm running under Win2k -- I got the non screensaver version to work, but I just don't understand what it's supposed to be doing (It keeps giving weird error messages when I try to get it to do something).
As for the screensaver, it crashes regularly so I don't know if it's making any progress or not. Hopefully the Slashdot attention will convince these guys that it's worthwhile to improve this program's stability a bit (or maybe someone else will think it's a cool idea and develop something similar).
-Zak
> Read that again. That just guarantees you the > right to distribute programs that you use THEIR > compiling tools to create. It isn't saying you > can ONLY distribute things in binary executable > format, but that you are allowed to.
Um, it DOES say ONLY. Read it again:
"You may reproduce and distribute, in executable form only, programs which you create using the Software"
I remember when I started out with BASIC on my TRS-80 Color Computer. I was only like 6 or 7 years old and was amazing people that had no idea about computers.
Nowadays, I don't know... My first non-BASIC language on a "real" computer (my 8088) was Turbo Pascal. They still teach that in a lot of high schools... That's what I'd probably recommend, but maybe that was easier for me because I had already been programming in BASIC for five or six years by that time.
I'm interested in hearing opinions as well... I have a two year old that loves playing with my computer. I'd really like to get her interested in something other than games.
The question I have, related to the original question, is: How to replace WinAMP + linerec.dll + shoutcast.dll with a Linux solution. I don't care if the Shoutcast server is running on Linux, Win32, or whatever. Or even if it's Shoutcast for that matter (could be any software that will relay what I'm playing to the rest of the world via "standard" http streaming audio).
The first piece of the puzzle would be the real-time encoding to low bit-rate MP3 files. How can I read the line-in in Linux? Next, how can I take that line-in and pipe it to l3enc (or something faster -- and something that supports the smaller bitrates too) to create MP3 files in realtime? Next, how do I take that output of l3enc and feed it to Shoutcast server (or whatever server)?
Looks like three steps need to be accomplished. Those first two haven't been discussed at all...
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Yeah, aparently "Hi-Speed" is even more full than "Full-Speed" !
Why did Mozilla need to change the codename from Seamonkey in the first place? Let's just pretend this Firebird thing never happened and go back to calling the "under development" versions Seamonkey and call the release "Mozilla Browser" or "Mozilla Navigator".
There's also ShoutGrab for recording MP3 streams:
http://ostermiller.org/shoutgrab/
This is either really freaking cool or really freaking disturbing. I haven't decided which yet.
-Zak
If the cable companies could only provide REAL video on demand, I'd drop my current DirecTV+Tivo solution. I mean, give me access to any episode of any of my favorite shows at any time I want. Okay, ANY episode is pushing it - make that any episode of the current season and at least half of the previous season.
Anyhow, my point is - I'd be perfectly willing to pay $1/month per show for this kind of service... If basic cable was $30/month and each "VOD" show was $1/month, I could afford access to around 40 shows for what I'm currently paying!
I'm sure there are technology reasons why this isn't already happening... In the meantime, my Tivo allows me to watch the last episode or two of my favorite shows at any time I want. I don't have to worry about being home and sitting in front of the TV at a particular time. I love it. I don't think I could watch TV without it! Cable VOD solutions will have to at LEAST match what my Tivo currently does for me before they have a chance in the market, IMHO.
-Zak
Just a quick correction. SG-1 re-runs air on Monday (4 1-hour episodes back-to-back) and then each of those four episodes are shown again throughout the week. One on Tuesday, one on Wednesday, one on Thursday, and one on Friday. Then, the Season 6 re-runs are also on Friday (at least until January when we're supposed to get to see the rest of Season 6).
Anyone know when Season 7 will start? Please don't tell me they plan to show the last half of Season 6 and then re-run the whole thing AGAIN (they've already been through the first half of Season 6 at least twice).
Maybe SciFi and some others should try a subscription model... Like HBO only cheaper because they still have ads (maybe less of them, though). I mean, I'd be willing to pay $2/month more for my cable/satellite in order to have a SciFi channel that continues to make new episodes of Farscape, Invisible Man, and Stargate SG-1 - even if they have commercials in them.
Am I the only one?
Cool, so now I don't even have to watch any of his fights all season long - I already know that he's the champion. Thanks Slashdot for ruining Battlebots season 5!
I have no idea what UOP stands for (User Operation Permittance? ). In any case, I think the latest hacked Sampo DVD Player firmware (also useable in most of the Apex models) includes a UOP hack. I'm running it on my Apex 660 and can skip directly to the main menu while the FBI warning (or all those friggin ads on the Disney discs) is up. It's WONDERFUL.
And of course, you can disable macrovision, play MP3s (with a much better menu than the original Apex firmware), display JPG images, hook up a hard drive or compact flash unit, play discs from any region, etc. Check out the Nerd-Out forums HERE!
There seem to be a lot of posts here whining about not being able to rip to MP3s (or how easy it will be to rip to MP3s), etc. I could care less about that, really (I know the MP3s will be available if I want them - no matter what).
What I care about is - can I actually LISTEN to the CDs that I choose to BUY? I don't have a "regular" CD player anywhere in my house. All CDs get played either in the DVD player or occassionally in my Dreamcast. Will I be able to do that with one of these discs? If not, then they'll be going right back to the store - and if they won't refund my purchase price, I WILL throw a nice loud fit about it.
Of course, we only buy maybe 20 CDs each year in this household - I can't imagine we'll make much impact all by ourselves...
-Zak
> What would it take to get you guys to review a book for adults?
Um, I'm VERY happy to see a review of a book like this that I can buy for my kids. This is the first time I think I've ever seen a web review of a book like this. Where other than Slashdot am I going to find something like this?
THANK YOU SLASHDOT!
As for you, OPP - Why don't you leave Slashdot and stick to some "News for nerds who are adults and don't ever plan to have children" site or something.
I've got the Star Control 3 CD sitting here next to my comptuer. I never spent much time playing it, though. Just didn't have nearly the feel of Star Control 2 (I think SC2 was the last PC game I ever played all the way to the end). Primarily, I think I missed the cool music!
-Zak
Anyone actually getting this software to work? I'm running under Win2k -- I got the non screensaver version to work, but I just don't understand what it's supposed to be doing (It keeps giving weird error messages when I try to get it to do something). As for the screensaver, it crashes regularly so I don't know if it's making any progress or not. Hopefully the Slashdot attention will convince these guys that it's worthwhile to improve this program's stability a bit (or maybe someone else will think it's a cool idea and develop something similar). -Zak
Didn't the original message say that this was Borland C++ Builder 3.0? The latest version is C++ Builder 5.0 -- has anyone checked the license on it??
I think their intention was to cover the auto-generated code, not all of the code. However, that's not how the quoted part of the license reads...
-Zak
> Read that again. That just guarantees you the
> right to distribute programs that you use THEIR
> compiling tools to create. It isn't saying you
> can ONLY distribute things in binary executable
> format, but that you are allowed to.
Um, it DOES say ONLY. Read it again:
"You may reproduce and distribute, in executable form only, programs which you create using the Software"
-Zak
I remember when I started out with BASIC on my TRS-80 Color Computer. I was only like 6 or 7 years old and was amazing people that had no idea about computers.
Nowadays, I don't know... My first non-BASIC language on a "real" computer (my 8088) was Turbo Pascal. They still teach that in a lot of high schools... That's what I'd probably recommend, but maybe that was easier for me because I had already been programming in BASIC for five or six years by that time.
I'm interested in hearing opinions as well... I have a two year old that loves playing with my computer. I'd really like to get her interested in something other than games.
--Zak
Does anyone have the song in MP4 format instead of EXE?
The question I have, related to the original question, is: How to replace WinAMP + linerec.dll + shoutcast.dll with a Linux solution. I don't care if the Shoutcast server is running on Linux, Win32, or whatever. Or even if it's Shoutcast for that matter (could be any software that will relay what I'm playing to the rest of the world via "standard" http streaming audio).
The first piece of the puzzle would be the real-time encoding to low bit-rate MP3 files. How can I read the line-in in Linux? Next, how can I take that line-in and pipe it to l3enc (or something faster -- and something that supports the smaller bitrates too) to create MP3 files in realtime? Next, how do I take that output of l3enc and feed it to Shoutcast server (or whatever server)?
Looks like three steps need to be accomplished. Those first two haven't been discussed at all...