This promotion is aimed at finding if music fans would be interested in buying a package with both audio and video instead of just plain audio.
Sure we are... why just the other day I bought the new Jurassic 5, Foo Fighters, and Queens of the Stone Age CDs. All came with a bonus DVD, and the album didn't cost any extra... even with the extra disc. In fact, the QotSA album was only $8 the first week it was on sale.
Funny thing is, none of these DVDs will deteriorate. So why would I want this again, oh beloved Record Industry?
I don't? Oh, ok. That's what I thought.
Re:(semi-ot): tv/radio capture in linux?
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I've been wanting a radio capture card for a while (For Car Talk, Bob&Tom, etc...) and I've noticed most of them are part of TV tuner cards. Anyone know of one that works well under linux? Uder $50 would be nice...
Video4Linux drivers support a number of FM tuners. I thought it would be cool to have a linux PVR for catching various radio talk shows that I miss (Car Talk is one of them... it's on way to early Saturdays in my area)
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Okay, this is what you do:
1. buy an ethernet card for your Tivo http://9thtee.com/
2. Install it, and the software that comes with it
3. Add the module noscramble.o (find it on the dealdatabase.com forums)
4. Install TyTool on your computer to extract the mpeg-2 video to your PC(find it on the aforementioned forums)
5. Add a VideoLan server into the mix to serve up the video to any of your PCs!
I wonder when they're coming out with the new Vic-20?
Be careful what you wish for... The CommodoreOne is already in development. Individual Computers (makers of the Catweasel, featured on/. a few days ago) has signed on to sell the board when it goes into production.
Within days or a few months these capacitors build up hydrogen gas and blow the rubber bung out the end of the capacitor, leaking electolyte and causing havoc.
Yes, this will leave a bung hole in your capacitor.
Sounds like they are just trying to get some extra coin out of Nintendo
They should be able to get about 10 or so coins out by punching directly under certain "?" bricks. If they're lucky maybe they'll get a power-up mushroom or an invincibility star!
Note: all the devices you have just described use some sort of presure-sensitive input mechanism. It remains to be seen if the electro-magnetic mechanism used on these Tablet PCs will be any better, but it will be different.
I don't know why people think a keyboard is such a bad thing. I can type much better than I can write, and I expect that goes for most PC users under the age of 50.
That's quite an assumption you're making there. I know quite a few people that can take notes better than they can type on a keyboard, especially a subnote keyboard with extra small keys.
While I will concede that they are not really revolutionary or anything, I think it's a nice concept. I especially like the "slate" PC, although I haven't seen any specs on those yet. All these PCs should have a hardware button on the screen that allows an instant switch between landscape and portrait layouts. Sounds like a more full-featured eBook-reading platform.
Will I buy one? Certainly not at the ~$4500 price point I've seen in some articles on the Acer. They'll need to get the price down before I consider one. Anyway, I'm waiting for the iSlate/iTablet/iWhatever from Apple that will do the same thing. (pleasePleasePlease!)
OS X runs fine on G3-based machines, even some of the older ones.
I just upgraded a "conference room" Mac at work--an original "Beige G3" (first generation) to 10.2. $500 beefed up the hardware as far as the old platform would go, but I could have done it with less. The ol' G3 is now a G4 550 with 768 megs of RAM, a 20 gig HD and a Radeon 7000 PCI Mac edition. The OS runs pretty smoothly... not as smooth as new G4 hardware, but not bad considering the age of the original hardware.
people have had to hack a working X server onto the platform
So what's stopping the open source community from building an open source desktop rendering system like Quartz, and then implementing an X layer overtop of it?
I'm going to go read all my back issues of Popular Science, I'll find a robot lawn mower or two.
Since I don't have back issues of Popular Science (and I'm pretty lazy), I'll just search for one on Slashdot. How about this Internet-enabled lawnmowing robot?
The last article I read about these on/. said that they were planning on bringing out kits to mimic the cars from "The Fast and The Furious", so you won't have to wait long!
Knowing how much Windows users like their Solitaire, I recommend PySol. Written in Python and Tk, it has over 200 unique soliatire games. My mother-in-law is addicted to Spider solitaire and absolutely loves PySol.
Unfortunately, the site doesn't have an up-to-date py2exe package of it (for non-Windows Python programmers, py2exe allows you to make a Windows EXE of a Python program, including the interpreter). You'll have to Google it to find it.
We wanted to use Blizzard's name and a great game title to enter into the console market.
I'm not super excited about this title, but if you knew anything about the last generation of consoles you would know that Warcraft II and Diablo came out on a number of platforms, including the PSOne. This is not Blizzard's first console game at all.
I'd look forward to a VS fighting game from Capcom that would pit DC characters against Marvel characters (this was rumored a while back but nothing ever came of it... anybody at Capcom listening? Put this out!)
Glad to see that this will sit on the existing IDE channel and not eat up the PCI slot (I just got my TivoNet installed last week!)
Here's what I see as the problem with this much storage:
1st gen. Tivos are *reeeeally* slow. I know when I get a lot of programs on my 80gig Tivo that loading the "Now Showing" menu takes a long time. I can store about 100 hours. Multiply that wait time by 12... you see the problem.
If speed of the interface is not an issue, what about sheer navigation issues? That I know of, the only way to page thru all your recorded programs is by *date*. So for you to effectively keep track of all your programs, you have to remember what date they were recorded on. Someone would really need to revamp the interface in order to allow usefull navigation of older programs (maybe saving programs in folders or something? Automatically putting older TV shows in a folder for that show, movies in a movie folder, etc.)
If these issues can be resolved, I bet quite a few geeks would actually get some use out of 1200 hours of programs.
That's assuming that you'll be using pixel-for-pixel copies of your icons. I imagine that, by the time this is actually affordable, maybe OpenGL accelerated desktops will be a norm. Then all your icons reside as textures on polygons and stretch to the desired size.
Sort of on-topic: I noticed that some (if not all) of the music compo entries at Assembly this year were released in Ogg format. Kudos! Now all I need is support for Ogg in iTunes for my TiBook.
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This promotion is aimed at finding if music fans would be interested in buying a package with both audio and video instead of just plain audio.
Sure we are... why just the other day I bought the new Jurassic 5, Foo Fighters, and Queens of the Stone Age CDs. All came with a bonus DVD, and the album didn't cost any extra... even with the extra disc. In fact, the QotSA album was only $8 the first week it was on sale.
Funny thing is, none of these DVDs will deteriorate. So why would I want this again, oh beloved Record Industry?
I don't? Oh, ok. That's what I thought.
I've been wanting a radio capture card for a while (For Car Talk, Bob&Tom, etc...) and I've noticed most of them are part of TV tuner cards. Anyone know of one that works well under linux? Uder $50 would be nice ...
Video4Linux drivers support a number of FM tuners. I thought it would be cool to have a linux PVR for catching various radio talk shows that I miss (Car Talk is one of them... it's on way to early Saturdays in my area)
Okay, this is what you do:
1. buy an ethernet card for your Tivo http://9thtee.com/
2. Install it, and the software that comes with it
3. Add the module noscramble.o (find it on the dealdatabase.com forums)
4. Install TyTool on your computer to extract the mpeg-2 video to your PC(find it on the aforementioned forums)
5. Add a VideoLan server into the mix to serve up the video to any of your PCs!
I wonder when they're coming out with the new Vic-20?
/. a few days ago) has signed on to sell the board when it goes into production.
/. didn't accept the story about this when I submitted it. I mean, it's a new C=64 being developed by one cute Electrical Engineer (see bottom of page)
Be careful what you wish for... The CommodoreOne is already in development. Individual Computers (makers of the Catweasel, featured on
I still can't believe
Now, sadly, my TiBook is no longer state-of-the-art. I can tell its feelings were hurt: this morning it ask me if it looked fat.
Tell me about it... I paid $3000 earlier this year for the high-end model. The same price gets you much more only 6 months later.
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Within days or a few months these capacitors build up hydrogen gas and blow the rubber bung out the end of the capacitor, leaking electolyte and causing havoc.
Yes, this will leave a bung hole in your capacitor.
Sounds like they are just trying to get some extra coin out of Nintendo
They should be able to get about 10 or so coins out by punching directly under certain "?" bricks. If they're lucky maybe they'll get a power-up mushroom or an invincibility star!
Cryptonite- hasn't that been outlawed by the DMCA?
I figured that everybody was spelling Kryptonite wrong to get around IP restrictions on DC Comics' trademarks...
Note: all the devices you have just described use some sort of presure-sensitive input mechanism. It remains to be seen if the electro-magnetic mechanism used on these Tablet PCs will be any better, but it will be different.
I don't know why people think a keyboard is such a bad thing. I can type much better than I can write, and I expect that goes for most PC users under the age of 50.
That's quite an assumption you're making there. I know quite a few people that can take notes better than they can type on a keyboard, especially a subnote keyboard with extra small keys.
While I will concede that they are not really revolutionary or anything, I think it's a nice concept. I especially like the "slate" PC, although I haven't seen any specs on those yet. All these PCs should have a hardware button on the screen that allows an instant switch between landscape and portrait layouts. Sounds like a more full-featured eBook-reading platform.
Will I buy one? Certainly not at the ~$4500 price point I've seen in some articles on the Acer. They'll need to get the price down before I consider one. Anyway, I'm waiting for the iSlate/iTablet/iWhatever from Apple that will do the same thing. (pleasePleasePlease!)
Acer just needs to add more RAM and and DVD video into their tablet and this will be a laptop (and portable DVD player) killer product.
That and drop the estimated retail price of $4500 down a bit. That should do it.
The upside of this, of course, is that it won't be necessary to pay for songs that are just "album filler".
The down side is that $8 punk album I just bought would cost $29.69 online.
"Project Gutenberg is dead." -- Sonny Bono
"Sonny Bono is dead." -- Project Gutenberg
OS X runs fine on G3-based machines, even some
of the older ones.
I just upgraded a "conference room" Mac at work--an original "Beige G3" (first generation) to 10.2. $500 beefed up the hardware as far as the old platform would go, but I could have done it with less. The ol' G3 is now a G4 550 with 768 megs of RAM, a 20 gig HD and a Radeon 7000 PCI Mac edition. The OS runs pretty smoothly... not as smooth as new G4 hardware, but not bad considering the age of the original hardware.
people have had to hack a working X server onto the platform
So what's stopping the open source community from building an open source desktop rendering system like Quartz, and then implementing an X layer overtop of it?
Nothing.
I'm going to go read all my back issues of Popular Science, I'll find a robot lawn mower or two.
Since I don't have back issues of Popular Science (and I'm pretty lazy), I'll just search for one on Slashdot. How about this Internet-enabled lawnmowing robot?
THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON!
The last article I read about these on /. said that they were planning on bringing out kits to mimic the cars from "The Fast and The Furious", so you won't have to wait long!
A#()@KDHLSAMB@#KJH!@MDFKJHKJ!BN#@MB!@#KJ*(!r ypted: "I would post encrypted messages to Slashdot")
(Dec
Knowing how much Windows users like their Solitaire, I recommend PySol. Written in Python and Tk, it has over 200 unique soliatire games. My mother-in-law is addicted to Spider solitaire and absolutely loves PySol.
Unfortunately, the site doesn't have an up-to-date py2exe package of it (for non-Windows Python programmers, py2exe allows you to make a Windows EXE of a Python program, including the interpreter). You'll have to Google it to find it.
We wanted to use Blizzard's name and a great game title to enter into the console market.
I'm not super excited about this title, but if you knew anything about the last generation of consoles you would know that Warcraft II and Diablo came out on a number of platforms, including the PSOne. This is not Blizzard's first console game at all.
I'd look forward to a VS fighting game from Capcom that would pit DC characters against Marvel characters (this was rumored a while back but nothing ever came of it... anybody at Capcom listening? Put this out!)
Here's what I see as the problem with this much storage:
If these issues can be resolved, I bet quite a few geeks would actually get some use out of 1200 hours of programs.
That's assuming that you'll be using pixel-for-pixel copies of your icons. I imagine that, by the time this is actually affordable, maybe OpenGL accelerated desktops will be a norm. Then all your icons reside as textures on polygons and stretch to the desired size.
Sort of on-topic: I noticed that some (if not all) of the music compo entries at Assembly this year were released in Ogg format. Kudos! Now all I need is support for Ogg in iTunes for my TiBook.