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They say they can change TIVO SERVICE. Not your tivo. They can stop doing season passes, stop giving you guide data, whatever they want. But they NEVER claim to be able to disable your tivo.
Replay says they can mess with your replay unit at any time, even disable it.
No new features (or very few), same engine, etc, just new content.
If it was a PC game, it would be released as an addon-pack (just the content, no engine, you'd have to own the first one, sims style), but since that's not feasable (and barely possible without a LOT of forethought) on a console, they're releasing a "new" GTA3.
-It was cheap (30$ a month for everything but hbo/etc). -It was amazing quality (better than my digital cable by a mile) -It had TONS of channels
-It was canned, due to limited possible penetration.:(
You have to have line-of-site from your antenna to the transmitter, and if you don't, you CANT get it.
You have to have a very specific geograpy for this to work. They got like 10% penetration in atlanta, ga, then gave up (number made up off the top of my head, i'm sure someone will correct me).
128mb vs 64 makes maybe 2-3% difference. They've benchmarked the same card (ti4200) with a 128 and 64mb model, and the 64mb model was FASTER due to more expensive ram.
THe BIGGEST difference in all the gf3/gf4 cards is the memory speed.
Graphics are still limited by fill rate in 90% of games, so if you have 10% faster memory, you get 10% faster framerate.
Problem is 10% faster memory costs 20% more, and so on, due to yield concerns.
All the 128mb vs 64mb will let you do is: -run a higher res anti-aliased... but this doesn't matter if you dont have the speed -use more textures... but all textures are now compressed in games (just about all) so they're not even filling up 64mb
So you actually live in a market where clear channel doesn't own all the fm stations?
Lucky! Here in austin, tx, just about every station except the local college one is owned by clear channel, and sounds exactly like their corresponding market channels in every other city.
I bought the sonic blue reciever for 99$, and felt it was a great deal.
This is not aimed at someone who would dream of having a computer with their REAL audio equipment. This is for an audio junkie who wants a nice looking, nice sounding, high quality mp3 storage/playback/burning station to go with their other components.
But for a concrete list of reasons:
-it's already set up. No cobbling together hardware/software with a remote listner to try to get it to do stuff. This already does it OOTB
-it will feed rio recievers. Sure you could hack apache to do it (i have it running at home) but it REALLY is a chore if you're not computer inclined. audio junkies can rip there, and listen anywhere in their house that they have a rio reciever.
-it looks nice. Your computer would not fit in with audio equipment, This does. It has a nice lcd screen, a nice remote, and a nice looking (non computer looking) case. You can get those tiny shuttle cases, or other plastic cases, or make your own, but they still look like a computer.
-it has high quality audio parts. Your soundblaster live/etc can not compare to solid state parts. It's the same reason that professional musicians buy a 1000$ audio input card that "does the same thing" your 90$ sb-audigy does.
It's like the tivo debate... sure you can hack something together that does it all, but a tivo looks nice, works nice, and is already set up for you.
You have a RESIDENTIAL line. They're not going to sue you/disconnect you/etc for using it for some business purposes, but there are no guarantees.
I'm sure they will gladly refund the % of your montly bill for your downtime, but other than that, don't expect anything.
Want to know why a business line is 120$ for a base line when a residential one is 25$? Service expectations and guarantees.
Your residential line is for your convenience. That's why it's cheap. You don't pay much, and you don't expect much.
A business line is expensive. You pay a lot, you expect a lot.
Heh, if slashdot was an auto/truck site: "I use my mazda sport-truck to haul three tons of gravel 5 days a week. I don't want to buy a utility truck, it's too expensive, but mazda said my warranty didn't cover the drivetrain breakdown! What's wrong with them!"
Did you read the article? How did this get modded up to 5?
This has NOTHING TO DO WITH WEB BROWSERS.
This has to do with network programming, specifically replacing the HTTP in SOAP with something more reliable, and more able to handle callbacks.
Think about it... if you want to call a transaction that will take 10 hours to process through SOAP, you have to hold an http connection open for 10 hours.
That is silly! There should be a protocol that allows callbacks for a transaction. I send off "do this for me, give me the result." When it's done, I get a notification back with the result/errorcode/whatever. No need to hold a connection open for the whole time it's processing.
They are not creating anything. All the action happens on mythic's servers. Mythic can decide what can and cannot be done on their servers.
It's nothing at all like typing a book in word. It'd be like you searching for pages on google, and then saying that you can sell those pages because you spent your time searching for them, and you're allowed to sell your time.
While you can sell your time, you can't sell something that doesn't belong to you.
If you did, you would have gotten the message (TiVo has an area marked with an email icon where they can send you messages about service), marked super important, ON YOUR TIVO (so you can't say you used a fake email to register), that explained the privacy policy changes.
1. They are all anonymous. They are not correlating users to data, they're just uploading raw data. TiVo has been honest in all their other areas, so I see no reason to doubt them here (they'll even still give you phone support if you admit you hacked your tivo, and try to help you get it working again, including triggering server flags to auto-re-download the original software/etc. How many companies can you say that about?)
2. You can opt out. If you call the service number, give them your account number, you can tell them to leave you out of stats. This was also explained in the message.
Finally, Phillips has NOTHING AT ALL to do with tivo service, which is where the logs are going. Contacting phillips about tivo usage stats is like contacting Dell to complain about getting porn ads over ICQ.
The US and japan PS2's (first run models at least) do NOT have macrovision on Component video output.
Sony had to pay a large fine for this, and tried (pretty effectivly) to bury the story.
The new model JAP ps2's (and the new model US ones once they come out) (the ones that already have an IR port for dvd playback) have fixed the problem.
The Europe ones were released before they had a fix, so they had to simply disable it in software for DVD playback.
I don't think katz actually saw the movie, I think he got a friend's grumpy grandfather to see it and tell him what it was.
This movie can be compared to one thing, and one thing only:
An entire movie made off of the bruce lee spoof in kentucky fried movie.
If you like naked gun/etc, you'll like this. If you don't, then what the fuck are you seeing a movie called "Kung Pow" for?
Two people walked out in the middle of the movie.
The other 60 of us in the theatre were falling on the floor we were laughing so much!
This movie is about one thing, and one thing only:
PHOTOSHOPPING.
You know all those pictures of person X put into background Y? This is an entire movie of it.
They took an old, REALLY BAD, 1970's kung fu film, and with a TON a greenscreen and computer wizardry, as well as some really bad dubbing, made their own movie out of it.
Only the main character is "real." All of the other people/scenes/etc were from the cheezy old kung fu film. In the credits they show you some of the wizardry (before and after shots) and it's REALLY amazing.
There is tons of changed faces, added people, time change bizzarement.
You know when you and your friends are drunk, 2am, watching a kung fu movie and you start adding your own lines, and acting out parts? That's this movie.
If you're into the photoshopping scene, you've GOT to check out this movie. Maybe wait for dvd if you're not into silly-stupid-drunken-funny humour, but check it out.
I am eagerly awaiting the DVD... I hope they show more of the before/after/in progress stuff. It's amazing to see a scene of the original, then watch it again to see a completely new scene made out of it, with new people/etc added in.
HERE'S MY SCALE OF 1-10 ratings:
SOPHISTICATED WIT: 0
JUST REALLY FUCKING FUNNY: 10
PLOT: N/A
TECHINCAL WIZARDRY: 10
ACTING: N/A
WACKYNESS: 10
MY overall score: 9
Like I said, if you like:
-kentucky fried movie (bruce lee segment)
-naked gun
-crazy mad editing
you'll love this movie.
If you're not into at least 2 of the 3 above, you'll hate it.
Price. Currently priced at $320 at fry's.
15 inch viewable, same as a 17inch monitor, which would cost you about $150 for a nice one.
5-7 times? My ass
Picture quality I played unrealTournament and Q3 all the time on it, as well as counterstrike. There was only slight ghosting with bright lens flare lights against a black background, otherwise perfect.
No bad pixels on mine. We bought 20 for work, 1 had 2 bad pixels, the other 19 were perfect.
Also, they claim a 120degree viewing angle. It was easily at LEAST 100 degrees. Viewing angle was never noticed, until I felt like testing it wiht a protractor.
Weight I can carry two in each hand if I grip them by the neck. Try that with a 15 inch monitor, let alone 17 inch. While in boxes, I carried 5 at a time in my arms. They are LIGHT. even the 17 inch ones are easily carriable.
Durability Dropping your lcd can result in scratching the face. Dropping your monitor results in it imploding.
To be honst, BOTH are bad here, but I'd guess that an LCD would fare better from a typical "desk height" drop.
Compatibility I want to not sound like trollbait, but you are a fucking liar, and a bad one at that.
2/3 or more of the LCD's on the market right now use a normal analog VGA connector.
The other 1/3 use DVI, with a DVI->VGA connector included in case you don't have a DVI video card yet.
Also worth noting is that DVI is handled on the card. No drivers needed, so long as your video card is supported in linux. Examples of cards with DVI output (on some model cards) are geforce2, geforce3, and ati's radeon. No drivers or setup are necessary.
OLED DOES HAVE BENEFITS, but you mentioned none of them here.
The main ones are brightness and power usage. OLED uses something like 1/10 of the power that LCD does, and is (to get super-techincal) a shit-ton brighter.
If you VPN in to work once a day to check email and grab a file, you're not a business customer.
Just like the phone company does NOT make you get a business class line (at 100$ or more a month) because you call in to check your voicemail, or call in to do a conferance call, from time to time.
If the majority of your usage is business, then yes, suck it up and pay for business class. But if you use it for normal stuff, with the occasional business usage, then you should not be charged a business rate.
I doubt anyone here is defending the guy who works from home every day from boston and his office is in new york, it's the guy who doesn't wnat to drive to work to grab a file.
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"Governments" get money from TAXES.
My tax dollars going to "free" broadband does NOT make it free.
What you meant to say is "Internet COULD be socialized"...
Here's the big difference:
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They say they can change TIVO SERVICE. Not your tivo. They can stop doing season passes, stop giving you guide data, whatever they want. But they NEVER claim to be able to disable your tivo.
Replay says they can mess with your replay unit at any time, even disable it.
THAT is the difference.
This is essentially GTA3 in a new city.
No new features (or very few), same engine, etc, just new content.
If it was a PC game, it would be released as an addon-pack (just the content, no engine, you'd have to own the first one, sims style), but since that's not feasable (and barely possible without a LOT of forethought) on a console, they're releasing a "new" GTA3.
Make sense?
It was called "americast."
:(
-It was cheap (30$ a month for everything but hbo/etc).
-It was amazing quality (better than my digital cable by a mile)
-It had TONS of channels
-It was canned, due to limited possible penetration.
You have to have line-of-site from your antenna to the transmitter, and if you don't, you CANT get it.
You have to have a very specific geograpy for this to work. They got like 10% penetration in atlanta, ga, then gave up (number made up off the top of my head, i'm sure someone will correct me).
Following the analogy, though, can you buy a volvo with a ford engine from the dealer?
Nope.
http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_4918 17.html
check up on facts first
that's one of many links pointing out they were dropped by searching "nsync star wars" in google.
I had one of the original hercules cards, mainly got it for flight simulator. Thank god for 4 colors of orange...
:)
But what's funny is right now I have a 1.1ghz athlon gaming machine with...
A hercules geforce2mx
talk about brand loyalty
Someone give this guy the "clueless" sticker.
128mb vs 64 makes maybe 2-3% difference. They've benchmarked the same card (ti4200) with a 128 and 64mb model, and the 64mb model was FASTER due to more expensive ram.
THe BIGGEST difference in all the gf3/gf4 cards is the memory speed.
Graphics are still limited by fill rate in 90% of games, so if you have 10% faster memory, you get 10% faster framerate.
Problem is 10% faster memory costs 20% more, and so on, due to yield concerns.
All the 128mb vs 64mb will let you do is:
-run a higher res anti-aliased... but this doesn't matter if you dont have the speed
-use more textures... but all textures are now compressed in games (just about all) so they're not even filling up 64mb
Look into terminal services for XP.
It gives you x-like functionality, and is REALLY snappy.
Instead of vnc, which is BASICALLY screenshots sent over the wire, it operates on an API level.
I know you're being silly, and I'd mod you +1 funny if I hadn't lost my mod rights in "the big fiasco" (i'm sure everyone knows what that one is).
BUT...
What they mean is it's illegal to sell it for the purpose of food, not illegal to eat it.
So you actually live in a market where clear channel doesn't own all the fm stations?
Lucky!
Here in austin, tx, just about every station except the local college one is owned by clear channel, and sounds exactly like their corresponding market channels in every other city.
I think this IS way overprices.
I bought the sonic blue reciever for 99$, and felt it was a great deal.
This is not aimed at someone who would dream of having a computer with their REAL audio equipment. This is for an audio junkie who wants a nice looking, nice sounding, high quality mp3 storage/playback/burning station to go with their other components.
But for a concrete list of reasons:
-it's already set up. No cobbling together hardware/software with a remote listner to try to get it to do stuff. This already does it OOTB
-it will feed rio recievers. Sure you could hack apache to do it (i have it running at home) but it REALLY is a chore if you're not computer inclined. audio junkies can rip there, and listen anywhere in their house that they have a rio reciever.
-it looks nice. Your computer would not fit in with audio equipment, This does. It has a nice lcd screen, a nice remote, and a nice looking (non computer looking) case. You can get those tiny shuttle cases, or other plastic cases, or make your own, but they still look like a computer.
-it has high quality audio parts. Your soundblaster live/etc can not compare to solid state parts. It's the same reason that professional musicians buy a 1000$ audio input card that "does the same thing" your 90$ sb-audigy does.
It's like the tivo debate... sure you can hack something together that does it all, but a tivo looks nice, works nice, and is already set up for you.
You missed what he was saying.
:P)
He's not saying they wouldn't refund the 10$ of his 40$ a month bill for 4 days of downtime.
He's saying they woudln't compensate him for the work he was unable to do while the connection was down (ie damages).
(I THINK that's what he meant, that's how I took it
You have a RESIDENTIAL line. They're not going to sue you/disconnect you/etc for using it for some business purposes, but there are no guarantees.
I'm sure they will gladly refund the % of your montly bill for your downtime, but other than that, don't expect anything.
Want to know why a business line is 120$ for a base line when a residential one is 25$? Service expectations and guarantees.
Your residential line is for your convenience. That's why it's cheap. You don't pay much, and you don't expect much.
A business line is expensive. You pay a lot, you expect a lot.
Heh, if slashdot was an auto/truck site:
"I use my mazda sport-truck to haul three tons of gravel 5 days a week. I don't want to buy a utility truck, it's too expensive, but mazda said my warranty didn't cover the drivetrain breakdown! What's wrong with them!"
Did you read the article?
How did this get modded up to 5?
This has NOTHING TO DO WITH WEB BROWSERS.
This has to do with network programming, specifically replacing the HTTP in SOAP with something more reliable, and more able to handle callbacks.
Think about it... if you want to call a transaction that will take 10 hours to process through SOAP, you have to hold an http connection open for 10 hours.
That is silly! There should be a protocol that allows callbacks for a transaction. I send off "do this for me, give me the result." When it's done, I get a notification back with the result/errorcode/whatever. No need to hold a connection open for the whole time it's processing.
Instructions for the future:
READ
COMPREHEND
POST
In that order.
The part you're obviously missing is that bnetd also let people bypass the cd-key check.
This means unauthorized (for beta, non-beta people, for the real game, people who didn't buy the game) people can now play online.
You're missing the point.
They are not creating anything. All the action happens on mythic's servers. Mythic can decide what can and cannot be done on their servers.
It's nothing at all like typing a book in word. It'd be like you searching for pages on google, and then saying that you can sell those pages because you spent your time searching for them, and you're allowed to sell your time.
While you can sell your time, you can't sell something that doesn't belong to you.
You have to have a credit card to play.
A credit card is allowed as proof of being over 18 (i know you can get one under 18). So someone had to enter their CC number and click "i agree".
I doubt you have a TiVo.
If you did, you would have gotten the message (TiVo has an area marked with an email icon where they can send you messages about service), marked super important, ON YOUR TIVO (so you can't say you used a fake email to register), that explained the privacy policy changes.
1. They are all anonymous. They are not correlating users to data, they're just uploading raw data. TiVo has been honest in all their other areas, so I see no reason to doubt them here (they'll even still give you phone support if you admit you hacked your tivo, and try to help you get it working again, including triggering server flags to auto-re-download the original software/etc. How many companies can you say that about?)
2. You can opt out. If you call the service number, give them your account number, you can tell them to leave you out of stats. This was also explained in the message.
Finally, Phillips has NOTHING AT ALL to do with tivo service, which is where the logs are going. Contacting phillips about tivo usage stats is like contacting Dell to complain about getting porn ads over ICQ.
Do some research before you troll.
They're actually telling the truth.
The US and japan PS2's (first run models at least) do NOT have macrovision on Component video output.
Sony had to pay a large fine for this, and tried (pretty effectivly) to bury the story.
The new model JAP ps2's (and the new model US ones once they come out) (the ones that already have an IR port for dvd playback) have fixed the problem.
The Europe ones were released before they had a fix, so they had to simply disable it in software for DVD playback.
I don't think katz actually saw the movie, I think he got a friend's grumpy grandfather to see it and tell him what it was.
This movie can be compared to one thing, and one thing only:
An entire movie made off of the bruce lee spoof in kentucky fried movie.
If you like naked gun/etc, you'll like this. If you don't, then what the fuck are you seeing a movie called "Kung Pow" for?
Two people walked out in the middle of the movie.
The other 60 of us in the theatre were falling on the floor we were laughing so much!
This movie is about one thing, and one thing only:
PHOTOSHOPPING.
You know all those pictures of person X put into background Y? This is an entire movie of it.
They took an old, REALLY BAD, 1970's kung fu film, and with a TON a greenscreen and computer wizardry, as well as some really bad dubbing, made their own movie out of it.
Only the main character is "real." All of the other people/scenes/etc were from the cheezy old kung fu film. In the credits they show you some of the wizardry (before and after shots) and it's REALLY amazing.
There is tons of changed faces, added people, time change bizzarement.
You know when you and your friends are drunk, 2am, watching a kung fu movie and you start adding your own lines, and acting out parts? That's this movie.
If you're into the photoshopping scene, you've GOT to check out this movie. Maybe wait for dvd if you're not into silly-stupid-drunken-funny humour, but check it out.
I am eagerly awaiting the DVD... I hope they show more of the before/after/in progress stuff. It's amazing to see a scene of the original, then watch it again to see a completely new scene made out of it, with new people/etc added in.
HERE'S MY SCALE OF 1-10 ratings:
SOPHISTICATED WIT: 0
JUST REALLY FUCKING FUNNY: 10
PLOT: N/A
TECHINCAL WIZARDRY: 10
ACTING: N/A
WACKYNESS: 10
MY overall score: 9
Like I said, if you like:
-kentucky fried movie (bruce lee segment)
-naked gun
-crazy mad editing
you'll love this movie.
If you're not into at least 2 of the 3 above, you'll hate it.
This stuff is always cool. Relativity is neat in that it lets you bend rules without breaking anything.
Hence you can go faster than light, but you're not really....
All too confusing, but nice to read about.
Have you used an LCD in the last two year2?
No?
I've personally used the viewsonic VG150.
Price.
Currently priced at $320 at fry's.
15 inch viewable, same as a 17inch monitor, which would cost you about $150 for a nice one.
5-7 times? My ass
Picture quality
I played unrealTournament and Q3 all the time on it, as well as counterstrike. There was only slight ghosting with bright lens flare lights against a black background, otherwise perfect.
No bad pixels on mine. We bought 20 for work, 1 had 2 bad pixels, the other 19 were perfect.
Also, they claim a 120degree viewing angle. It was easily at LEAST 100 degrees. Viewing angle was never noticed, until I felt like testing it wiht a protractor.
Weight
I can carry two in each hand if I grip them by the neck. Try that with a 15 inch monitor, let alone 17 inch. While in boxes, I carried 5 at a time in my arms. They are LIGHT. even the 17 inch ones are easily carriable.
Durability
Dropping your lcd can result in scratching the face. Dropping your monitor results in it imploding.
To be honst, BOTH are bad here, but I'd guess that an LCD would fare better from a typical "desk height" drop.
Compatibility
I want to not sound like trollbait, but you are a fucking liar, and a bad one at that.
2/3 or more of the LCD's on the market right now use a normal analog VGA connector.
The other 1/3 use DVI, with a DVI->VGA connector included in case you don't have a DVI video card yet.
Also worth noting is that DVI is handled on the card. No drivers needed, so long as your video card is supported in linux. Examples of cards with DVI output (on some model cards) are geforce2, geforce3, and ati's radeon. No drivers or setup are necessary.
OLED DOES HAVE BENEFITS, but you mentioned none of them here.
The main ones are brightness and power usage. OLED uses something like 1/10 of the power that LCD does, and is (to get super-techincal) a shit-ton brighter.
Nice FUD there!
READ THE ARTICLE.
This is adding windows media AUDIO support to dvd players that already play audio-cd's and burned cd's full of mp3's.
Why would they need an extra processor to decode the VIDEO of an AUDIO file?
I don't know about you, but none of my mp3's have any video on them, and neither do any wma's I happen to run across.
You're missing the point.
If you VPN in to work once a day to check email and grab a file, you're not a business customer.
Just like the phone company does NOT make you get a business class line (at 100$ or more a month) because you call in to check your voicemail, or call in to do a conferance call, from time to time.
If the majority of your usage is business, then yes, suck it up and pay for business class. But if you use it for normal stuff, with the occasional business usage, then you should not be charged a business rate.
I doubt anyone here is defending the guy who works from home every day from boston and his office is in new york, it's the guy who doesn't wnat to drive to work to grab a file.