Sky don't cut it, AFAIK. BBC do for the Thursday showing (6.45pm) but show it uncut on Friday night.
Of course C4 had the bright idea of show Angel at 6pm (think that's right), which is more violent. The result was often amusing, and invariably baffling. The endings (where the fights normally are) would become a rapid succession of cuts. Perhaps that's what the poster had in mind?
I don't know. The series initially had great geek appeal in the form of Willow, who spent years showing the Sunnydale Water Company that the system holding the sewer plans was hopelessly insecure.
Alas Willow went to college, discovered Wicca, and her laptop gathered dust.
The message for geeks is "you'll grow out of it". And, er, become a lesbian. And become addicted to magic.
Ok. Confusing message. But anti-geek.
(btw the finale demonstrates that you can't fix a bad season in the last episode. Good explosions, mind)
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http://www.macosxhints.com/ rocks for searching, and if you're unclear on the concept, you can post a query and get an answer from someone in the know. Ad free, and on a decently fast server too. Highly recommended if you want to save a tree.
And if you want to kill a tree they even made a Mac OS X Hints Book. O'Reilly seem to be cornering this corner of the market...
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I am kinda left with images of 70+ year old men sitting looking baffled in a half empty house of commons, prodding their neighbours and discussing under hushed voices what tinned meat has to do with these darn fangled computer contraptions.
Aside from the fact that they wouldn't be looking at a half empty house of commons (they sit in the house of lords) you've pretty much got it.
The Lords, though often befuddled and (let's be honest) asleep, do have some very bright people and have prevented some of the worst excesses of the commons throughout the years.
Why do people slap the 'mpeg 4' name on any file which may have once been near a codec that was mentioned in a bar round the corner from some guy who was sacked by a company that was formerly a member MPEG consortium?
And here's a start when you make MP4s: try using the mpeg 4 format. ASF - nope. AVI - ugh, and nope. It's really simple. These guys make something that will get you started.
Sorry - little bug bear of mine. I'll be quiet now:-)
The shared file feature only works for INTRANET LAN's using Rendezvous.
Rendezvous is only for discovery - it essentially tells everyone on the local network "there's a service X running on this machine" (in this case DAAP). That doesn't stop others connecting, they just don't get the convienient discovery.
Indeed. I just recently fully migrated from my abominable Hotmail address to my POP3. I can't believe how bad Hotmail's gotten, between popups, appending service ads to your outgoing mail, changing their login screen to be full of (guess what) ads, and not letting you correctly apply your own spam filters.
Agreed. I've been a hotmail user since the pre-Microsoft days, but now use another account. However you can forward mail easily using Gotmail if you want to keep an eye on it.
I thought this iTunes thing was full of DRM gotchas, such as having to re-buy the songs if your computer died..?
I suspect you're thinking of Windows Media Player. IIRC (and I hope this has changed) WMP kept your key locally and would use DRM on ripped files (unless you switched to ripping to mp3). Computer dies: all ripped music is useless.
(Note that this only hurts innocent users)
iTunes doesn't do either of these things, happily:-) The only 'protected' files are the bought ones, and (copies of?) the keys appear to be held centrally.
Did some of the suggestions remind anyone of the OpenStep frameworks idea?
Frameworks (very roughly) are self contained libraries containing different versions, headers, and documentation. Java jar libraries are somewhat similar.
The problem is that using frameworks requires major changes to the tool chain - autoconf et al, cc, ld etc.
Apple shipped zlib as a framework in OS X 10.0 (IIRC) but getting unix apps to use it was very difficult. Apple now only seem to use frameworks for things above the unix layer.
I suspect there are lessons to be learned from this. As another poster said, evolution rather than revolution is more likely to succeed.
hate to tell you, but i do believe that artists only make about $1/CD anyway:) Courtney Love has spoken out a lot about this, and Steve Albini wrote an extremely interesting paper on it as well...read it a few years ago, so i don't have the link, but i'm sure it's still out there somewhere...
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You apprantly have not been reading the same Tivo comments I have. The automatic downloaded is *hated* here, and many other aspects. Check your glasses perscription, something is really wrong.
Er - I didn't say it was a good thing, did I? I was just explaining what it did - sorry if you thought otherwise. I've got a series 1, and I'd be very unhappy if I couldn't use hacks like tivoweb:-)
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Doesn't Tivo already use a signed Linux kernel to implement some copy protection? The future is today.
Only the series 2 Tivo does this. IIRC the kernel is signed, and the firmware will refuse to boot an unsigned kernel / initrd.img.
It's done to prevent hacking. The hashes of various files are checked, and replacing the kernel could circumvent that check.
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Hey, there's no ELP on the iTunes Music Store! What's up with that?
:-)
John Peel once said "ELP are a waste of talent and electricity."
Their critics were less kind.
(Finally, a chance to use one of my favourite quotes
Works well. I'm running it on GNU/Hurd v1.0. Shame I had to stop playing Duke Nukem Forever to check it out.
Just popping out in my hover car...
I wasn't really going to comment on this, but since it got modded up 5, Insightful...
nForce, nForce2
Ah, thanks. I agree, I made a simple enquiry. Modding seemed - extravagant?
I didn't think PCI-E and hypertransport were in competition, eg: How HyperTransport and PCI Express complement each other. Could you explain why intel chose one over the other?
3... 2... 1...
Go!
Which wintel motherboards have fw 800 and hypertransport? I'd be interested.
Appleinsider is a rumour site, btw.
Here's hoping. But how will Apple react to labels like Dischord who sell records at a reduced price?
Anyway, sounds like good news. I await the details of the deal indies have to make with Apple with interest.
What's missing on Sky/BBC?
Sky don't cut it, AFAIK. BBC do for the Thursday showing (6.45pm) but show it uncut on Friday night.
Of course C4 had the bright idea of show Angel at 6pm (think that's right), which is more violent. The result was often amusing, and invariably baffling. The endings (where the fights normally are) would become a rapid succession of cuts. Perhaps that's what the poster had in mind?
It has everything that appeals to geeks.
I don't know. The series initially had great geek appeal in the form of Willow, who spent years showing the Sunnydale Water Company that the system holding the sewer plans was hopelessly insecure.
Alas Willow went to college, discovered Wicca, and her laptop gathered dust.
The message for geeks is "you'll grow out of it". And, er, become a lesbian. And become addicted to magic.
Ok. Confusing message. But anti-geek.
(btw the finale demonstrates that you can't fix a bad season in the last episode. Good explosions, mind)
But, didn't Google originate out of Stanford?
Yep. Originally called Backrub, curiously.
http://www.macosxhints.com/ rocks for searching, and if you're unclear on the concept, you can post a query and get an answer from someone in the know. Ad free, and on a decently fast server too. Highly recommended if you want to save a tree.
And if you want to kill a tree they even made a Mac OS X Hints Book. O'Reilly seem to be cornering this corner of the market...
I am kinda left with images of 70+ year old men sitting looking baffled in a half empty house of commons, prodding their neighbours and discussing under hushed voices what tinned meat has to do with these darn fangled computer contraptions.
Aside from the fact that they wouldn't be looking at a half empty house of commons (they sit in the house of lords) you've pretty much got it.
The Lords, though often befuddled and (let's be honest) asleep, do have some very bright people and have prevented some of the worst excesses of the commons throughout the years.
Final breakdown.
:-)
And all wrapped in ASF file format. Oh dear.
Why do people slap the 'mpeg 4' name on any file which may have once been near a codec that was mentioned in a bar round the corner from some guy who was sacked by a company that was formerly a member MPEG consortium?
And here's a start when you make MP4s: try using the mpeg 4 format. ASF - nope. AVI - ugh, and nope. It's really simple. These guys make something that will get you started.
Sorry - little bug bear of mine. I'll be quiet now
...the IgNobel Award Commitee want a word.
:-)
It's this kind of cutting edge research (sponsored by Diet Coke tm) that has made our reasearch in the UK the envy of the IgNobel world
The shared file feature only works for INTRANET LAN's using Rendezvous.
Rendezvous is only for discovery - it essentially tells everyone on the local network "there's a service X running on this machine" (in this case DAAP). That doesn't stop others connecting, they just don't get the convienient discovery.
Don't worry, I've got .uk blocked as well!
:-)
Clever. Additionally removing Scunthorpe, Peeover and hundreds of other dubious place names from your mailbox
Indeed. I just recently fully migrated from my abominable Hotmail address to my POP3. I can't believe how bad Hotmail's gotten, between popups, appending service ads to your outgoing mail, changing their login screen to be full of (guess what) ads, and not letting you correctly apply your own spam filters.
Agreed. I've been a hotmail user since the pre-Microsoft days, but now use another account. However you can forward mail easily using Gotmail if you want to keep an eye on it.
I thought this iTunes thing was full of DRM gotchas, such as having to re-buy the songs if your computer died..?
:-) The only 'protected' files are the bought ones, and (copies of?) the keys appear to be held centrally.
I suspect you're thinking of Windows Media Player. IIRC (and I hope this has changed) WMP kept your key locally and would use DRM on ripped files (unless you switched to ripping to mp3). Computer dies: all ripped music is useless.
(Note that this only hurts innocent users)
iTunes doesn't do either of these things, happily
Did some of the suggestions remind anyone of the OpenStep frameworks idea?
Frameworks (very roughly) are self contained libraries containing different versions, headers, and documentation. Java jar libraries are somewhat similar.
The problem is that using frameworks requires major changes to the tool chain - autoconf et al, cc, ld etc.
Apple shipped zlib as a framework in OS X 10.0 (IIRC) but getting unix apps to use it was very difficult. Apple now only seem to use frameworks for things above the unix layer.
I suspect there are lessons to be learned from this. As another poster said, evolution rather than revolution is more likely to succeed.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency [amazon.co.uk] was written by Douglas Adams. It is more or less the same plot as Shada...
:-)
Not quite the same - but if you add in City Of Death then you pretty much have the rest of the plot
hate to tell you, but i do believe that artists only make about $1/CD anyway :) Courtney Love has spoken out a lot about this, and Steve Albini wrote an extremely interesting paper on it as well...read it a few years ago, so i don't have the link, but i'm sure it's still out there somewhere...
Ask and you shall receive:
The Problem With Music by Steve Albini.
Well worth reading.
You apprantly have not been reading the same Tivo comments I have. The automatic downloaded is *hated* here, and many other aspects. Check your glasses perscription, something is really wrong.
:-)
Er - I didn't say it was a good thing, did I? I was just explaining what it did - sorry if you thought otherwise. I've got a series 1, and I'd be very unhappy if I couldn't use hacks like tivoweb
Doesn't Tivo already use a signed Linux kernel to implement some copy protection? The future is today.
Only the series 2 Tivo does this. IIRC the kernel is signed, and the firmware will refuse to boot an unsigned kernel / initrd.img.
It's done to prevent hacking. The hashes of various files are checked, and replacing the kernel could circumvent that check.
I believe it's using python and wxWindows for the front end, so I assume it will work fine.
Nuts - misread the set up. Actually I think this may be possible with rendezvous. The packets wouldn't need to be routed to the neighbours.
With cable modems, IIRC, you're on the same subnet as your neighbours.
Does that sound plausible?
PS I don't think this has anything to do with Rendezvous.
Agreed. Rendezvous broadcasts must never be routed, but AppleTalk packets can. Maybe this can be set on the base station?