those shows that only take up space on the root disk where it doesnt use a single bit from the volume the video is recorded to
I have a refrigerator I'd like to sell you. It has a vertical divider in it, the left half is for your food and the right half is for my food.
It's ok though. My food doesn't take up any of the space for your food so you you aren't losing anything.
Data space is not physical space. If you sell me a fridge that wastes ten cubic feet of my living space, that is real loss. If TiVo sells you a device with "80 hours" of space on it, not telling you about the extra hour squeezed in behind the scenes, you have lost nothing material. In fact, that small bit of space subsidizes a portion of the unit cost. In fact, you've GAINED SOMETHING.
Why aren't you going apeshit because Intel sold you a processor artifically limited to a percentage of its true capability? What about the speed governor that's part of the automobile you drive? You know, my CRT monitor looks like there's some wasted space between the tube itself and the case. Sony's going to get a piece of my mind, LET ME TELL YOU!
If you buy a TiVo, you're getting what they're selling you. Remember that. They sold you an 80-hour PVR that just HAPPENS to use a hard drive that can hold slightly more. Stop thinking of it as an affront to your righs as a consumer. Almost everything you have is artifically limited in some way or another, whether it's in the name of efficiency, safety, reliability, or (God forbid!) helping the company provide a product to you at a lower price.
What new features are there that really make me go "wow!"
1) Promised speed. The current 800 isn't so great a leap, but the specs to 3200 are, shall we say, DAMN FAST.
2) Link length. 100 m? That's more than anyone needs for, well, anything. Still, the old limits were a bit small for some things, like my old workplace's FireWire network for swapping big A/V projects. We needed two or three repeaters for one run, and that was rather annoying.
3) Loops are now allowed. Before, a logical loop was a bog no-no. Now, Apple says you can have redundant connections for added reliability. COOL, I say. It's a rather unique topology, and these are all features USB can't come close to.
Anybody remember if you can run IP over FireWire like you can under FC?
Unibrain offers a product to do just that. IIRC, it encapsulates IP through normal FireWire frames. I don't know if it encapsulates the ethernet layer too, but it may. They offer products for both Windows and Mac platforms.
WinXP has some sort of IEEE 1394 networking built in, but I don't know if it's IP-based.
I wonder if they will ever make the Apple laptops able to share out there HD like the old Duo systems.
You're talking about FireWire Target Mode. Most Apple models with built-in FireWire support it, the only exceptions are a few first-gen units like the Blue-and-White G3s. You hold the 't' key as you start up a computer, and it operates as a FireWire hard disk until you power it off.
A normal glow-in-the-dark face uses the aforementioned tritium+phosphor combination to produce the glow. Such a watch face would surely put off the count the watch was getting and/or expose the wearer to more radiation than he/she would otherwise experience. Do you think a person who would be in the market for a watch like this would want an extra source of radiation nearby?
I'm really not sure about why you got bitchslapped. Anyhow...try BeOS. Use a live query or two, and you'll see a system that works very well in action. There is a project to bring BFS to Linux, and this sounds like the sort of thing they could hook into.
What (economical) solution is there to public transportation in the rural midwest? Really? In most of Europe and Japan (which I assume you have in mind) populations are so dense that it makes economic sense for people to travel together. Here, you can easily have every person on a street heading to a location twenty miles away for work each day. How would a bus or train help that? It would not and could not. The best you can hope for is carpooling.
You have no constitutional right to be able to drive a car on public roads. It is a privledge. If you wish to drive a car on public roads, you are required to be liscenced to do so, and are required to register your vehicle.
Yet the government has no constitutional ability to deprive you of life, liberty, or the pursuit of a job. In this modern life, for most people, a vehicle for personal transportation is a need, not a want. I am fortunate enough to live within ten block of my workplace, and even closer to my school. Still, without roomies that have vehicles, I would have to use a taxi for all of life's little necessities such as trips to the grocery and discount stores.
I think a harsh reality of today's life in the US is that, in order to be a normal member of society, one must own a car. The only persons exempt from that are mostly residents of very dense population centers. There once whas a time when it was a privilege to drive. The legal system still sees it that way, as you know. As I see it, though, it is about time for the privilege to become a right.
Don't think I'm suggesting the government should not have the ability to take away or suspend that right - the law still needs to provide for reasonable protection of other persons as well. I'm just saying the fact it's a privilege is held over a person's head now, with little room for recourse - after all, driving is a freedom given by the good grace of the state; you have no reasonable expectation of it.
It is far too easy for the state to take that privilege away from those who aren't willing to jump through hoops, and that needs to change. IMHO.
Being a LiveJournal whore (less of one lately, though) I CAN'T AGREE MORE about keeping old entries around. I get rather annoyed when a person destroys their journal, because they really don't know what they're losing. It could matter a lot in a few years, though.
I go through the same thing as you; my old entries are a constant source of surprise for me. Other people have voiced the same ideas as well.
One computer from 50 years ago...wow. So, that implies a failure rate of what over the course of 50 years? I know there are many more than just that one computer left, but really, how many computers of that vintage are still in operating condition? Not many, I'd guess.
So, realistically, we can expect "not many" of the current computers to survive 50 years, especially without the regular maintenance I'm sure that old beast receives.
It's just like humans, really. The life expectancy goes up as a person gets older. Sort of a "made it this far, will probably make it farther" thing.
When you've got Sarah McLaughlin, Mozart, Dead Kennedies, Suicidal Tendencies, Reverand Horton Heat and Johnny Cash on the same CD, there isn't a person in the world who won't make fun of you.
Yeah, I see your point.
Who the fuck puts Johnny Cash last on a CD like that? It's just basic mix(tape)ology.
I did overshoot, but not really by accident - I just set the shirt to be the white point, as that was the simplest way to get the picture approximately right with minimal effort;)
There is also Dolby Digital 5.1 support as well as USB 2.0 and Firewire support...Since the decoder is onboard, it should be easy to get the Jackrabbit32 to run under Linux I would imagine.
What, you think the DVD alliance suddenly decided to allow a manufacturer to create a device with unencrypted output over FireWire? Nuh-uh. This thing will be accessed over the FireWire/USB2 ports the exact same as any other FireWire/USB2 drive. The decoder will only be useful when you're using the analog outputs on the drive; the PC-component portion of the thing will act as any other RPC2 drive, I imagine.
This may not even solve the problem. There will still be the Palladium chipset on the motherboard, and depending on te architecture, it will not accept some third-party BIOS. Even if we say this solves the problem for a select few people, let's be realistic - it does NOT solve the problem for most. I don't have the hardware to flash a BIOS, and I doubt I would spend the money to do so. The only way this could be beneficial to everyman is if organizations sprung up to sell/install "Windows Mod Chips" and such, but I have a feeling the authorities would go after something like that/very/ quickly, unlike the somewhat-legally-gray PlayStation mods.
With our own BIOS, we can now destroy a link even if the OS becomes mandated to contain DRM by law....and I'm sure the big companies (or whoever signs software) will be GLAD to approve your software to re-flash the BIOS...
MS used a "proprietary" format as well, with their backwards-spinning discs and all.
It's just easier to mod an XBox to play DVD media spun clockwise than it is to mod a GCN to play full-sized discs. That's what MS gets for making a system that doesn't just play games.
We can punish the entertainment industry by not buying their products....We forced software manufacurers to give up copy protection in the Commodore 64 days...We can do it again.
It worked in those days because the average C64 user was well-informed. These days, your average computer user is not. Know why? Now, a computer is a mass market, while in the 80s it was much more of a niche. The only people that had a computer were people that specifically wanted one.
Anymore, a person gets a computer so they can get/send cute pictures of newborn kids and have their older children write papers. They know nothing about the market or what their computer is truly capable of doing.
If Americans don't take the time to figure out why they should or shouldn't vote for a specific Republican or Democrat, let alone VOTE every year, why do you think they would take the time to determine the exact limitations imposed on them by the content industry?
American consumers are rather like sheep in that regard, and they believe mostly what they hear. Since the marketing material is all they have to go on, they'll continue to buy "DVD-Quality Video!" "More RAM for your MegaHertz!" and "Now With SuperSpiffy Technology!"
It will also feature some form of link cable support for multiplayer gaming. You know, the GBA has four controller ports on it, coincidentally the same number the GBA link cable supports...and a TV has enough screen real-estate for four GBA screens. You'd probably have to scale down the resolution a bit, so somegames could start to look rather nasty...but I bet it could be a decent feature for a lot of games.
The product will also come with a disc, presumably used to boot up the GameCube and prepare it for use with the peripheral. LAAAAAAME. Extra hassle is never good, and in this case a user has to put in a disc (which can get lost or broken) and a game pak. Extra steps are never fun.
The unit will not have full compatibility with the entire back catalog of Nintendo portable software, but no specific incompatibility problems have been announced at this time. Double LAME. I would expect the inner-workings of the GB series to be understood well enough to emulate perfectly.
What happens when you have cross-contamination from plants that have been engineered to be resistant? Monsanto, for example, is well-known for both its GM plants and the herbicide Roundup. They manufacture Roundup-resistant plants so you can use both products at the same time. (Otherwise, Roundup would do hell to your crops.)
So, if you have a GM crop next to a natural (for sake of argument, though pretty much anything will be affected by at least selective breeding) field, they will probably cross-contaminate. You can't kill the rogue GM plants qith normal herbicides, so the farmer has to put more time and effort into getting rid of plants his neighbor put there.
What is needed with GM crops is a "kill" gene. All grain and pollen produced should be sterile. Once again, Monsanto rears their ugly heads. Search for "monsanto" and "terminator" to see why that is not such a good idea.
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I have a refrigerator I'd like to sell you. It has a vertical divider in it, the left half is for your food and the right half is for my food.
It's ok though. My food doesn't take up any of the space for your food so you you aren't losing anything.
Data space is not physical space. If you sell me a fridge that wastes ten cubic feet of my living space, that is real loss. If TiVo sells you a device with "80 hours" of space on it, not telling you about the extra hour squeezed in behind the scenes, you have lost nothing material. In fact, that small bit of space subsidizes a portion of the unit cost. In fact, you've GAINED SOMETHING.
Why aren't you going apeshit because Intel sold you a processor artifically limited to a percentage of its true capability? What about the speed governor that's part of the automobile you drive? You know, my CRT monitor looks like there's some wasted space between the tube itself and the case. Sony's going to get a piece of my mind, LET ME TELL YOU!
If you buy a TiVo, you're getting what they're selling you. Remember that. They sold you an 80-hour PVR that just HAPPENS to use a hard drive that can hold slightly more. Stop thinking of it as an affront to your righs as a consumer. Almost everything you have is artifically limited in some way or another, whether it's in the name of efficiency, safety, reliability, or (God forbid!) helping the company provide a product to you at a lower price.
...but a shark on beer is a Beer Engineer.
What new features are there that really make me go "wow!"
1) Promised speed. The current 800 isn't so great a leap, but the specs to 3200 are, shall we say, DAMN FAST.
2) Link length. 100 m? That's more than anyone needs for, well, anything. Still, the old limits were a bit small for some things, like my old workplace's FireWire network for swapping big A/V projects. We needed two or three repeaters for one run, and that was rather annoying.
3) Loops are now allowed. Before, a logical loop was a bog no-no. Now, Apple says you can have redundant connections for added reliability. COOL, I say. It's a rather unique topology, and these are all features USB can't come close to.
Anybody remember if you can run IP over FireWire like you can under FC?
Unibrain offers a product to do just that. IIRC, it encapsulates IP through normal FireWire frames. I don't know if it encapsulates the ethernet layer too, but it may. They offer products for both Windows and Mac platforms.
WinXP has some sort of IEEE 1394 networking built in, but I don't know if it's IP-based.
I wonder if they will ever make the Apple laptops able to share out there HD like the old Duo systems.
You're talking about FireWire Target Mode. Most Apple models with built-in FireWire support it, the only exceptions are a few first-gen units like the Blue-and-White G3s. You hold the 't' key as you start up a computer, and it operates as a FireWire hard disk until you power it off.
I wasn't even thinking of that angle...ah, band camp: where tomorrow's leades go to DESTROY their feet...
The 17" model is 1440x900 resolution, 16:10 aspect ratio
I dunno, I've always thought of it as more of an 8:5 ratio.
Probably trolling, you are, but...
A normal glow-in-the-dark face uses the aforementioned tritium+phosphor combination to produce the glow. Such a watch face would surely put off the count the watch was getting and/or expose the wearer to more radiation than he/she would otherwise experience. Do you think a person who would be in the market for a watch like this would want an extra source of radiation nearby?
I'm really not sure about why you got bitchslapped. Anyhow...try BeOS. Use a live query or two, and you'll see a system that works very well in action. There is a project to bring BFS to Linux, and this sounds like the sort of thing they could hook into.
What (economical) solution is there to public transportation in the rural midwest? Really? In most of Europe and Japan (which I assume you have in mind) populations are so dense that it makes economic sense for people to travel together. Here, you can easily have every person on a street heading to a location twenty miles away for work each day. How would a bus or train help that? It would not and could not. The best you can hope for is carpooling.
You have no constitutional right to be able to drive a car on public roads. It is a privledge. If you wish to drive a car on public roads, you are required to be liscenced to do so, and are required to register your vehicle.
Yet the government has no constitutional ability to deprive you of life, liberty, or the pursuit of a job. In this modern life, for most people, a vehicle for personal transportation is a need, not a want. I am fortunate enough to live within ten block of my workplace, and even closer to my school. Still, without roomies that have vehicles, I would have to use a taxi for all of life's little necessities such as trips to the grocery and discount stores.
I think a harsh reality of today's life in the US is that, in order to be a normal member of society, one must own a car. The only persons exempt from that are mostly residents of very dense population centers. There once whas a time when it was a privilege to drive. The legal system still sees it that way, as you know. As I see it, though, it is about time for the privilege to become a right.
Don't think I'm suggesting the government should not have the ability to take away or suspend that right - the law still needs to provide for reasonable protection of other persons as well. I'm just saying the fact it's a privilege is held over a person's head now, with little room for recourse - after all, driving is a freedom given by the good grace of the state; you have no reasonable expectation of it.
It is far too easy for the state to take that privilege away from those who aren't willing to jump through hoops, and that needs to change. IMHO.
Being a LiveJournal whore (less of one lately, though) I CAN'T AGREE MORE about keeping old entries around. I get rather annoyed when a person destroys their journal, because they really don't know what they're losing. It could matter a lot in a few years, though.
I go through the same thing as you; my old entries are a constant source of surprise for me. Other people have voiced the same ideas as well.
Which particular issues are you talking about?
I'm honestly a bit fuzzy, because one, I play the game on other platforms (Dreamcast etc.) and because WWP has been relatively trouble-free for me.
One computer from 50 years ago...wow. So, that implies a failure rate of what over the course of 50 years? I know there are many more than just that one computer left, but really, how many computers of that vintage are still in operating condition? Not many, I'd guess.
So, realistically, we can expect "not many" of the current computers to survive 50 years, especially without the regular maintenance I'm sure that old beast receives.
It's just like humans, really. The life expectancy goes up as a person gets older. Sort of a "made it this far, will probably make it farther" thing.
When you've got Sarah McLaughlin, Mozart, Dead Kennedies, Suicidal Tendencies, Reverand Horton Heat and Johnny Cash on the same CD, there isn't a person in the world who won't make fun of you.
Yeah, I see your point.
Who the fuck puts Johnny Cash last on a CD like that? It's just basic mix(tape)ology.
=)
I did overshoot, but not really by accident - I just set the shirt to be the white point, as that was the simplest way to get the picture approximately right with minimal effort ;)
Um, yeah you do need color management for video. Bigtime.
Otherwise THIS happens!
=)
Some people wasted time telling you HOW to do it...I took the time to do it.
Comparison image
Look at that, tell me if you think it's a pretty clear illustration. I certainly do.
The hash has been verified to be the same on multiple TiVo units.
There is also Dolby Digital 5.1 support as well as USB 2.0 and Firewire support...Since the decoder is onboard, it should be easy to get the Jackrabbit32 to run under Linux I would imagine.
What, you think the DVD alliance suddenly decided to allow a manufacturer to create a device with unencrypted output over FireWire? Nuh-uh. This thing will be accessed over the FireWire/USB2 ports the exact same as any other FireWire/USB2 drive. The decoder will only be useful when you're using the analog outputs on the drive; the PC-component portion of the thing will act as any other RPC2 drive, I imagine.
This may not even solve the problem. There will still be the Palladium chipset on the motherboard, and depending on te architecture, it will not accept some third-party BIOS. Even if we say this solves the problem for a select few people, let's be realistic - it does NOT solve the problem for most. I don't have the hardware to flash a BIOS, and I doubt I would spend the money to do so. The only way this could be beneficial to everyman is if organizations sprung up to sell/install "Windows Mod Chips" and such, but I have a feeling the authorities would go after something like that /very/ quickly, unlike the somewhat-legally-gray PlayStation mods.
With our own BIOS, we can now destroy a link even if the OS becomes mandated to contain DRM by law. ...and I'm sure the big companies (or whoever signs software) will be GLAD to approve your software to re-flash the BIOS...
MS used a "proprietary" format as well, with their backwards-spinning discs and all.
It's just easier to mod an XBox to play DVD media spun clockwise than it is to mod a GCN to play full-sized discs. That's what MS gets for making a system that doesn't just play games.
We can punish the entertainment industry by not buying their products....We forced software manufacurers to give up copy protection in the Commodore 64 days...We can do it again.
It worked in those days because the average C64 user was well-informed. These days, your average computer user is not. Know why? Now, a computer is a mass market, while in the 80s it was much more of a niche. The only people that had a computer were people that specifically wanted one.
Anymore, a person gets a computer so they can get/send cute pictures of newborn kids and have their older children write papers. They know nothing about the market or what their computer is truly capable of doing.
If Americans don't take the time to figure out why they should or shouldn't vote for a specific Republican or Democrat, let alone VOTE every year, why do you think they would take the time to determine the exact limitations imposed on them by the content industry?
American consumers are rather like sheep in that regard, and they believe mostly what they hear. Since the marketing material is all they have to go on, they'll continue to buy "DVD-Quality Video!" "More RAM for your MegaHertz!" and "Now With SuperSpiffy Technology!"
It will also feature some form of link cable support for multiplayer gaming.
You know, the GBA has four controller ports on it, coincidentally the same number the GBA link cable supports...and a TV has enough screen real-estate for four GBA screens. You'd probably have to scale down the resolution a bit, so somegames could start to look rather nasty...but I bet it could be a decent feature for a lot of games.
The product will also come with a disc, presumably used to boot up the GameCube and prepare it for use with the peripheral.
LAAAAAAME. Extra hassle is never good, and in this case a user has to put in a disc (which can get lost or broken) and a game pak. Extra steps are never fun.
The unit will not have full compatibility with the entire back catalog of Nintendo portable software, but no specific incompatibility problems have been announced at this time.
Double LAME. I would expect the inner-workings of the GB series to be understood well enough to emulate perfectly.
What happens when you have cross-contamination from plants that have been engineered to be resistant? Monsanto, for example, is well-known for both its GM plants and the herbicide Roundup. They manufacture Roundup-resistant plants so you can use both products at the same time. (Otherwise, Roundup would do hell to your crops.)
So, if you have a GM crop next to a natural (for sake of argument, though pretty much anything will be affected by at least selective breeding) field, they will probably cross-contaminate. You can't kill the rogue GM plants qith normal herbicides, so the farmer has to put more time and effort into getting rid of plants his neighbor put there.
What is needed with GM crops is a "kill" gene. All grain and pollen produced should be sterile.
Once again, Monsanto rears their ugly heads. Search for "monsanto" and "terminator" to see why that is not such a good idea.