I was never a big TV viewer in fact, last year I didn't watch TV for close to 6 months, mostly because of netflix. This year I decided to get a decent cable package since I was living alone. When the PVR first came out, I did not see the value as a casual TV viewer who never recorded television programs.
After reading and hearing so much about PVR's, I decided the time was right to try one out. The main problem was that I only had a cell phone so it looked like the replaytv was my only option. After doing some digging, I found that the Tivo series 2 works with a few USB network adapters. I decided to go with Tivo since I preferred the interface, plus it is the stronger of the two companies.
I received my Tivo a week ago today, and I can not stop watching television. The amount of TV I watch has doubled because with the Tivo. I can find interesting programs to watch, where before I would only have a small chance of stumbling on the program accidentally. I FF through probably 1/2 the commercials , but there are plenty of times when I don't.
My potential exposure to advertisers has doubled since purchasing my Tivo. I'm watching programs I normally wouldn't see because of the time-slot. With the scheduling features, I'm catching many live programs that I would not watch if the Tivo guide wasn't available plus I can't FF the commercials. The short sidedness of established industries to recognize the value of disruptive technologies has been well documented, and the cable industry's aversion towards the PVR is a classic example. The companies that are first to embrace the PVR will succeed.
What does commercialization have to do with the Internet backbone being in fewer hands, shouldn't the title be "Growing Backbone Consolidation threatens Net Security. The last thing we need is G.W. thinking that their are comunists on slashdot. We will all be branded as terrorists.
I tend to upgrade my pc every xmas: new motherboard, processor, faster ram, and occasionally my vid card. Two years ago I built an athlon 1100 system with scsi, last year I decided to build an xp 1900 system and replace the cheetah drives with el cheapo integrated raid on a soyo dragon. This year, myself, along with a lot of other people, seem to be waiting until Q1/Q2 2003 for
Hammer
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There are a lots of motherboards that support sata now, but I have yet to find a true sata drive out(cuda V soon). Lots of people are waiting for hammer, I was tempted to upgrade to xp 2800 with the asus nforce 2 board, but i decided this year to examine my cpu usage for a week with my XP 2100.
The were only very rare instances where my cpu hit 100% utilization for a long period of time, mainly compiling and seti so those are probably the only activites that would benefit from an upgrade besides games, which with the ps2 network adaptor I playing console games online rather than say unreal tournament, since there has no real revolutionary fps since half-life, just graphic improvements.
Just because someone has an expensive house or drives a nice car, doesn't mean they have a net worth of a million dollars. One can have very little in the way of assets but can still get mortgages and auto loans. Generally, people who emphasize how much their possessions cost, are the type of people who bought everything on credit. Considering this guy has filed for personal bankruptcy before, he is probably highly leveraged.
Spam is obviously a profitable activity and the writer of the article is trying to emphasize the "millionaire" aspect, but I doubt this guy is a true millionaire.
I love the "deals of the day section" where they advertise a 256 meg stick of PC 2100 for $99! What a deal! Pricewatch has them for under 60 shipped. Gratned that's generic, kingston is available for $67, but this company should be sued for offering crappy deals, not DMCA violations.
Lindows had a real chance because it had plenty of funding and an excellent salesmen in Michael Robertson. I had high hopes for Lindows, but it is quite obvious that the main goals Lindows set out to acheive (windows compatiblity and ease of use) have not been met.
If Lindows spent the time to work on creating a quality distro they might have become a viable contender, but instead they chose to try and turnout half-ass software in order to show some sales made off of momentum from their PR machine.
Too bad most of their PR that has anything to do with tech is just complete BS. The best is the version numbering, Version 3.0 in less than a year of development?
So can anyone tell me where the best place to download MAME roms? I've found several dead links on websites and P2P searches on kazza and gnutella turn up console roms only. I was contemplating building a mame cabinet with an old slot-a athlon 600 system i built for my father 3 years ago.
Anyone remember the Timex Datalink?. It wasn't a full fledged PDA, but it was really cool back in 1996. The watch would read bars on the monitor to dowload information from the PC. It was a nice way to keep track of phone numbers and Appointments.
It should be noted that the Replay TV 5000 supports USB 802.11b adaptors. I decided to pick one of these up since it can use the net instead of requiring a phone line like Tivo
As mentioned in previous posts, the specification posted has nothing to do with Gnutella, Sharazea is just stealing a widely recognized name, this specification has nothing to do with Gnutella. If your interested in real gnutella development go to the Gnutella Developers Forum. There are quite a few open source clients available, the most popular being Limewire and Gnucleus.
I've been playing around with the limewire source for ahwile, it is well documented and there is no spyware in the open source version. I love how people complain about Limewire and spyware, when it is open source. Anyone can take the gpled limewire source and package it without spyware without having to reverse engineer it like closed source KaZaa.
Is fantastic with the PS2 network adaptor, plus the ps2 network adaptor is only $40 and for most games online play will remain free, Sony has decided rightly to let each game developer decide if they want to charge, right now all the games on the ps2 that have online play are free, but I'm sure they will be charging for games like Everquest when it is done.
The other advantage Sony has is the PS2 network adaptor also has a modem, since not that many people have broadband. Its a shame that MS didn't look at the history of online gaming services, because from what I hear they are depending heavily on Xbox live for the games unit. I guess they never heard of the Imagination network, the Total Entertainment Network, Mplayer, and others that are out of business too. I guess they also didn't realize that Sony is kicking their ass in the console market and making the xBox online play cost more than the ps2, is not going to help their chances of gaining market share.
Stating that they use a mac, but how is Apple a better company that Microsoft? OSX is not free and surely Apple has been just as protective if not more when it comes to it's intellectual property and Trademarks. People seem to be reading too much Wired, buying a product from a particlur company doesn't mean your part of some "movement."
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It seems that, with their latest scheme, it reduces their motivation to release newer/better products.
I might agree with you, but remember the biggest complaint in the previous scheme was unecessary upgrades? MS can't seem to win, first they catch fire for too many upgrades with little value, now they are critized for not upgrading.
I bet there are a lot of sysadmins out there who would prefer to pay MS not to release "upgrades."
Why she thinks pornography is bad with a face like that. She doesn't even need to dress up for Halloween. When I saw her face the first thing that popped in my head was "Monty Python and The Holy Grail:"
A slashdot story for everytime a movie is leaked? I can understand Star Wars, but Harry Potter? What is the criteria for allowing leaked movie news to be posted on slashdot since its a pretty common event anymore? I can see the stories now, "Ya Ya Sisterhood 2 LEAKED!"
I've been using Evolution for almost a year now and I am not missing outlook one bit. Evolution was the reason why I was able to switch to Linux on the desktop. However; one thing that irks me about Evolution is when you hit delete, it does not move the message to the trash like a normal e-mail client, instead the message is "marked" and then you need to "expunge" the e-mail, which instead of moving it to the trash it permenantly erases the message. Does any evolution user here know how to change it so delete moves a message to the trash?
This is version 1.1, not 1.2. From a useability standpoint shouldn't evolution's delete function like most other e-mail clients?
Obviously if the player is not going to be available till after Jan 03, they were trying for this holiday season but missed, which is not a good sign especially in a lousy economy in a mp3 portable market that is already saturated with competitors. I looked at the company page, these guys are going from CD Cleaners to Mp3 portables? CD Cleaners are a dumb product, but I love the marketing strategy of these companies.
I hate how every time I go in to EB, they try to push a "game doctor" on me. Like I'm going to Pay $30 for a device to clean CD's when I can do it myself for little or no cost.
With At&T, I pay $5 for every 2 megs of bandwidth used. If I buy this card, it would cost me $15 just to download all the porn spam I get every morning. Unless the bandwidth costs get reasonable, I won't buy it. What happens if I accidently click on a goatse link? Can I send someone an invoice?
<recording studios> Lets make a site that is ridiculously restrictive so that when most people come to it, they will be forced to either upgrade or go away. This way when can point to movielink and say, "We tried, but the pirates do not want to pay for anything." Then we will be able to convince congress to force mandatory drm. </recording studios>
a very MINOR operation by the car manufacturers could give each automobile a distinct magnetic signature, similar to a magnetic VIN. I dont think I'd want them able to track My driving habits..
Wouldn't it be very easy to alter this signature? I'm sure it could be hacked fairly easily. If people want privacy, they can dive the millons of perfectly good used cars. If such a scheme was implemented, which is probably highly unlikely, unless Ashcroft becomes president.
Well when I worked for a local pa dialup isp circa 96, I would say nearly 90% of our users were only connected for less than an hour a month and during that time they would check e-mail and browse the web a little.
I bet most of these broadband isps have business plans that depend on most of the users using the service very sparingly, but when non-techies start leaving P2P programs on, their bandwidth costs go through the roof. Broadband costs MONEY, the #1 goal of an ISP is to make a PROFIT, not share pr0n with the rest of the world.
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After reading and hearing so much about PVR's, I decided the time was right to try one out. The main problem was that I only had a cell phone so it looked like the replaytv was my only option. After doing some digging, I found that the Tivo series 2 works with a few USB network adapters. I decided to go with Tivo since I preferred the interface, plus it is the stronger of the two companies.
I received my Tivo a week ago today, and I can not stop watching television. The amount of TV I watch has doubled because with the Tivo. I can find interesting programs to watch, where before I would only have a small chance of stumbling on the program accidentally. I FF through probably 1/2 the commercials , but there are plenty of times when I don't.
My potential exposure to advertisers has doubled since purchasing my Tivo. I'm watching programs I normally wouldn't see because of the time-slot. With the scheduling features, I'm catching many live programs that I would not watch if the Tivo guide wasn't available plus I can't FF the commercials. The short sidedness of established industries to recognize the value of disruptive technologies has been well documented, and the cable industry's aversion towards the PVR is a classic example. The companies that are first to embrace the PVR will succeed.
"Secure, Efficient and Easy C programming in 24hrs"
Accidental submit, Why does the submit button need to be next to the preview button? It should be after the drop down list or have forced preview.
What does commercialization have to do with the Internet backbone being in fewer hands, shouldn't the title be "Growing Backbone Consolidation threatens Net Security. The last thing we need is G.W. thinking that their are comunists on slashdot. We will all be branded as terrorists.
There are a lots of motherboards that support sata now, but I have yet to find a true sata drive out(cuda V soon). Lots of people are waiting for hammer, I was tempted to upgrade to xp 2800 with the asus nforce 2 board, but i decided this year to examine my cpu usage for a week with my XP 2100.
The were only very rare instances where my cpu hit 100% utilization for a long period of time, mainly compiling and seti so those are probably the only activites that would benefit from an upgrade besides games, which with the ps2 network adaptor I playing console games online rather than say unreal tournament, since there has no real revolutionary fps since half-life, just graphic improvements.
Sounds like a crack dealer who won't sell to anyone under the age of 18.
Spam is obviously a profitable activity and the writer of the article is trying to emphasize the "millionaire" aspect, but I doubt this guy is a true millionaire.
I love the "deals of the day section" where they advertise a 256 meg stick of PC 2100 for $99! What a deal! Pricewatch has them for under 60 shipped. Gratned that's generic, kingston is available for $67, but this company should be sued for offering crappy deals, not DMCA violations.
If Lindows spent the time to work on creating a quality distro they might have become a viable contender, but instead they chose to try and turnout half-ass software in order to show some sales made off of momentum from their PR machine.
Too bad most of their PR that has anything to do with tech is just complete BS. The best is the version numbering, Version 3.0 in less than a year of development?
Lindows.com PR last year.
So can anyone tell me where the best place to download MAME roms? I've found several dead links on websites and P2P searches on kazza and gnutella turn up console roms only. I was contemplating building a mame cabinet with an old slot-a athlon 600 system i built for my father 3 years ago.
Anyone remember the Timex Datalink?. It wasn't a full fledged PDA, but it was really cool back in 1996. The watch would read bars on the monitor to dowload information from the PC. It was a nice way to keep track of phone numbers and Appointments.
It should be noted that the Replay TV 5000 supports USB 802.11b adaptors. I decided to pick one of these up since it can use the net instead of requiring a phone line like Tivo
I've been playing around with the limewire source for ahwile, it is well documented and there is no spyware in the open source version. I love how people complain about Limewire and spyware, when it is open source. Anyone can take the gpled limewire source and package it without spyware without having to reverse engineer it like closed source KaZaa.
The other advantage Sony has is the PS2 network adaptor also has a modem, since not that many people have broadband. Its a shame that MS didn't look at the history of online gaming services, because from what I hear they are depending heavily on Xbox live for the games unit. I guess they never heard of the Imagination network, the Total Entertainment Network, Mplayer, and others that are out of business too. I guess they also didn't realize that Sony is kicking their ass in the console market and making the xBox online play cost more than the ps2, is not going to help their chances of gaining market share.
Stating that they use a mac, but how is Apple a better company that Microsoft? OSX is not free and surely Apple has been just as protective if not more when it comes to it's intellectual property and Trademarks. People seem to be reading too much Wired, buying a product from a particlur company doesn't mean your part of some "movement."
I might agree with you, but remember the biggest complaint in the previous scheme was unecessary upgrades? MS can't seem to win, first they catch fire for too many upgrades with little value, now they are critized for not upgrading.
I bet there are a lot of sysadmins out there who would prefer to pay MS not to release "upgrades."
She's a Witch! She's a Witch! Burn Her! Burn Her!
A slashdot story for everytime a movie is leaked? I can understand Star Wars, but Harry Potter? What is the criteria for allowing leaked movie news to be posted on slashdot since its a pretty common event anymore? I can see the stories now, "Ya Ya Sisterhood 2 LEAKED!"
Thanks for the help guys. The setting works great! Wierd place for it..
This is version 1.1, not 1.2. From a useability standpoint shouldn't evolution's delete function like most other e-mail clients?
I hate how every time I go in to EB, they try to push a "game doctor" on me. Like I'm going to Pay $30 for a device to clean CD's when I can do it myself for little or no cost.
With At&T, I pay $5 for every 2 megs of bandwidth used. If I buy this card, it would cost me $15 just to download all the porn spam I get every morning. Unless the bandwidth costs get reasonable, I won't buy it. What happens if I accidently click on a goatse link? Can I send someone an invoice?
<recording studios>
Lets make a site that is ridiculously restrictive so that when most people come to it, they will be forced to either upgrade or go away. This way when can point to movielink and say, "We tried, but the pirates do not want to pay for anything." Then we will be able to convince congress to force mandatory drm.
</recording studios>
Wouldn't it be very easy to alter this signature? I'm sure it could be hacked fairly easily. If people want privacy, they can dive the millons of perfectly good used cars. If such a scheme was implemented, which is probably highly unlikely, unless Ashcroft becomes president.
I bet most of these broadband isps have business plans that depend on most of the users using the service very sparingly, but when non-techies start leaving P2P programs on, their bandwidth costs go through the roof. Broadband costs MONEY, the #1 goal of an ISP is to make a PROFIT, not share pr0n with the rest of the world.