I watch a couple things on Comedy Central, and the occasional thing on Nickelodeon if nothing better is on. (Spongebob and the Fairy Godparents are OK-ish on an otherwise bad TV day)
Other than that I can't think of anything wirth while on those networks. I got bored of Enterprise pretty quick and they canceled Jake 2.0, so they can take UPN without any fuss. I haven't looked at MTV or VH1 in years, and I don't think I have any use for the others on the list either. I'd be worried about ABC and Alias, but luckily I don't see that on your list.
I'm not currently and have never been a Dish subscriber, but have been looking into the dish stuff and have hoped to get one sometime in the next couple of months now, and I have been favoring them to DirectTV. Now I have to ponder if I can live without Southpark and the Daily Show or if they alone are worth whatever "premium" price they may now require for the network...
> no evidence that the SCO campaign is in any way helping MS or even that it will.
(conspiracy theory)
OK, think about this. People will obviously get sick of being sued by SCO, and not want to be SCO's customers any more. You thing AutoZone will do business with them again?
Now, some of these sick of SCO people may still be nervous about the Linux situation, and not want to get into or stay in that "problem area" until the lawsuits are sorted out and they know for sure who "wins". So people want to avoid SCO, some of them will want to avoid Linux for the time being, and end up buying into Microsoft products.
Sounds like the open windows manager half the people here at work use, the rest of us have CDE. The owm guys have a little pager with proportionally scaled replresentations of the other virtual desktops and application windows represented as proportionally sized grey boxes. I'm not sure how old owm is, but I've worked here for over 5 years so it goes back to at least january 1999...
I don't see anything new in the abstract shown in parent post, where is the new thing MS is doing?
So, what if I'm on my way to pick up the babe of the evening and swish some listerine to freshen up before I leave to pick her up? Mr. Car says "sorry, there's some strong stuff on your breath, you can't drive". Man, this is going to encourage bad breath, which is going to discourage dating. Well, guess all Americans will soon know what the life of a slashdotter feels like.:)
P.S. I don't drink, why would I need one of these things?
I also agree about the tax exempt and political loopholes. I gave a little to a local police organization after 9-11, and now get calls from quite a few police and fireman orgaonizations. Sorry dudes, I cannot afford to fund every single one of your charities. No, not even your low-level contribution of $10 to everyone that calls. I've since chosen to give to a cancer research group that helped my grandfather for a number of years as his oncologist (sp??) is one of the researchers there. Everyone else, I wish I was rich, but I'm not so please leave me alone!!
Nor do I care to hear the lies politicians tell. I walked away from my answering machine when Bush's tape deck called me 4 years ago. Ain't gonna be no different this time around. I got an email from Gore that I didn't read. I voted for Nader, and he didn't harass me like the rest...
This just seems to be encouraging people to cuss and swear and suffer from anxiety more than we did before... Will we all start being foul-mouthed people in general now, after associating it with being "truely" helpful to us?
Weren't MS making a big deal about the next Xbox was going to evolve into something that would take over as central control of your home theater experience? How are they going to do things that I'd associate with that, such as PVR, if there is no hard drive? Or would leaving out the hard drive give MS back the control they are losing due to software installed via ModChip taking their Xbox-1 control away from them??
>Actually, I think the problem here really is that you are not BRUTUALLY honest. If you are serious >about wanting to run an honest business, why don't you go all out? In your advertisements you should >point out the blatant lies of your competitors.
Don't we get enough of this from the politicians? Especially with the campaigns going on right now?? As soon as companies turn to mudslinging each other like the jokers in DC (or wanting to be in DC) do, I'll stop paying attention...
I'd love to see things made easier to install and configure. I've been tinkering toward a PVR box for quite sme time, and even had it running under Win2000 for a while, but it kept locking up and rebooting itself. Went through at least three hardware configurations to get that far to. Then I decided to give Linux a try, and had to change a number of things around yet again due to driver issues with the parts I had, but it still don't go. I'm not your average computer dummy, but Linux is still smarter than I am I guess... Perhaps I shouldn't have got talked into Gentoo, but at the times I tried Debian, I couldn't get it configured for my Radeon card, Red Hat back then didn't have MythTV packages and I couldn't get it compiled myself, and now somehow Gentoo doesn't like me, and I've got an expensive box with about 1/3 of an OS installed. Hurray!
> Makes you wonder if current Linux PVR apps are just too much of a pain to get working well?
They are for me, but I'm not a Linux kernel hacker level guy. It'd be real nice if someone spent some more time dumming down the install/config process of a lot of things for the rest of us.
I've seen OS4 running on a couple machines, an AmigaOne and an A3000 (68K version for developers), I'm not sure I'm ready to believe it'll ship end of January to end-users, not even as a pubic beta. Maybe they will send out what there is to send out just so they can say they did, but there's still some kinks needing ironed out before I'd be happy to see it in the hands of the general public Amiga users.
> In the article, the RIAA "enforcers" claim they don't try to create the idea that they're a police > force. Why, then, would a victim say that, "They said they were police from the recording industry or > something, and next time they'd take me away in handcuffs."?
Well, while they may not actually say they're some sort of police force, they're obviously as heck trying to encourage people to come to that conclusion on their own, and sounds like they do nothing to specifically deny they are an official police force. Plus, I myself would take being told they have the right to take someone away in handcuffs next time, that is specifically implying they are an official police force.
Why? Who else has the legal right to come into someone's home or place of business and take that person away in handcuffs? Only the actual real-life police and federal agents right?
So anyone saying they have the right to take a guy away in handcuffs is implicitly telling that guy they are the police.
While I think they are goin gin the right direction by going after people involved with making money off illegal copies, I don't like their methodology of impersonating on-duty police officers.
If they were accompanied by a real-life on-duty police officer in the right jurisdiction, and that guy alone was doing the talking about handcuffs and such, that'd make more sense. Having a subpeona (sp??) along for the ride with the real cop makes even more sense. But with no subpeona and no real cop, it reaks of impersonation, whether they actually say they are cops or not, the snazzy costumes are obviously intended to confuse the particular people they are visiting.
I got this, I'm in Maryland. But they want to be able to advertize the fastest maximum speed, you still may not have the right to use this maximum speed constantly.
I just got back from visiting my family for the holidays, who all live >= 300 miles away. Got back to my place and my PC is dead, won't boot, won't even get to the BIOS.:/ Seems the fan I had cooling my hard drive seized up and the motor in it burnt, but hard drive seems to spin up OK. But still no BIOS screen or even memory check, the monitor never gets a signal at all. Man, I really really hate PCs. Can't even blame this one on Windows yet, as it doesn't even look for any drives now. So I'll probably have a few hours today alone trying to revive the thing... What a freakin' happy new year this is turning out to be already!
I had to quit caffiene a few years ago,,I apparently developed a sort of allergy or something to it, getting heart palpitations and chest pains from it now. Weird, it happened all ofa sudden, and had drank a few cans oc cola or Mountain Dew a day for years in college... Yes, you get headaches if you go cold turkey. Yes, some caffiene is about the only thing short-term to get rid of these headaches. But if you come off it gradually, froma few cans of soda a day to one a day for a couple weeks, then to none, I was fine. Now, if I have the occasional can of soda I'll probably get a headache after a day or two, and I take a half can or so to ease off it, and I'm fine again. But I've gotten used to Sprite, Sierra Mist, and decaf colas, so don't have the problem very often anymore. Never did like coffee, so don't care about that, and decaf cola and iced tea is fine with me, it's all that diet stuff I won't go near.:)
I've never understood how offshoring would makea spammer safe. It seems to me we should be going after the company whose product/service is advertized as much as the guy actually pressing the send button. For example, I keep getting spams for Circuit City stuff, they haven't learned from my 4+ year boycott of them that I don't want them to email me. We should be able to consider Circuit City to be an accomplice to the actual emailer, as they are the company that bought the "ad". Thus, Circuit City is as liable for the harrassment as the emailer is, and when the ad says or links to Circuit City, we know they are involved, regardless of whether a Chinese mail server was used or not.
Now, I don't mean to pick on this one company and leave out others, but they in particular keep getting themselves a renewed subscription on my boycott list, and I can't think of any other particular company that keeps doing this at the moment. But I do think that the people buying this form of advertizement should be accountable as well as the emailer.
I've been working on putting such a thing together for a while now, over a year. And I've gone through a few iterations of machine trying to get what I want happening to happen.
I started with a Radeon AllInWonder 8500DV and Windows98SE. The machine, granted, was a bit slow as a 450MHz K6-2+, 256MB memory, Via chipset and Soundblaster Live 5.1 card. Well, trouble ensued, rumors of Via chipsets not liking SBLive cards and SBLive cards not liking Radeon cards flew, recording seemed reasonable with only a few % frames dropped, but playback was very odd. After a few minutes playback, the audio and video were slightly out of synch, making any show resemble an old chinese kung fu movie dubbed to english audio, and the variance grew as time went on during playback. Not acceptable.
Got a faster CPU, using a 550MHz K6-2, same problems. Changed motherboards, Athlon XP 1700+ with Via chipset (hadn't realized this might have been a problem yet) with 512MB memory now, and same thing. I dodn't see any frames dropped during record anymore, but playback couldn't keep audio and video in synch, still using the ATI Multimedia Center stuff that came with the card.
OK, now I start trying to get smart, swap the motherboard for one with SIS chipset which was said to not have the Via problems, same CPU, and a Santa Cruz sound card. SAME FREAKIN PROBLEM!! Audio and video wouldn't stay synched. Then I upgraded from Win98SE to Win2000, but no help. Then I got an Audigy2 card, hoping it was somehow the audio card and/or drivers at fault, but again no help. I had both an AIW 8500DV and AIW 7500 at this point as well, no combination would make things good.
So, what to do, I'm on my third PC for this project... So I Start looking for other software to try, and ended up buying showshifter for Windows. That had zero audio/video synch problems, it was great! Same hardware, playback problems vanished! But all was not perfect, the system kept hanging solid, requiring a reset button to get things rebooted and running again. Why did Win200 allow anything to hang the machine? Was Showshifter at fault? Something else? I had no idea, but it was unacceptable.
Time to try Linux.
So, I had my hardware already configured, I just wanted to change the OS and find some Linux PVR software, and mythtv sounded cool. But guess what! Can't use an ATI AllInWonder Radeon card, apparently the Gatos driver that claims to be Video4Linux compatible is said to not work with myth, and can't work with myth. Great. I just left the whole thing sit for a few months hoping drivers would get sorted out, to no avail.
Lesson learned: When wanting to use Linux, figure out what software you want to use FIRST. Then find out what Linux distributions have easy support for that software and get one of those distributions of the OS. Then figure out what hardware is supported, and buy suitable hardware.
I now have the Athlon XP 1700+, 512MB RAM, Santa Cruz (couldn't get Audigy 2 working in Linux even with the supposed support in the CVS emu10k1 driver), WinTV PVR-250 card, along with the giant hard drives and such. I tried using the Radeon just as a display but couldn't get the Radeon drivers working right in Linux, so changed that to an Nvidia GF 5200 something or other card, as I've heard great things about Nvidia supporting Linux.
Hardware all seemed to work as well as it ever has under Windows 2000, and now I'm on to installing Linux. I'm trying Gentoo this time. I tried Red Hat and Debian in the past. Red Hat installed easy, but at the time didn't have any RPMs for MythTV, though I understand it does now, too bad it's been abandoned by its developers. Debian - well, I never did get ATI drivers working with it, didn't want to be stuck with the generic VESA drivers, and gave up a while back before I got the Nvidia card. Now I'm on to Gentoo, mostly because some guys at work like it and know it, so I have someone to give me help, and there's a MythTV package for it.
Still don't have Linux running, still haven't got to where I can install Myth, wish me luck...
>What if my cellphone has a camera? My favorite >quote from an LA city attorney: 'If you carry one >of these into a movie theater, you have to ask >yourself, "Do I feel lucky?"'"
Yea, so preventing someone from possibly recording a few seconds of a movie (what camera phone could possibly be useful for recording a whole movie?) is more important than having cellphones around in case someone has a heart attack. What, everyone left their cellphone in the car like a good and considerate human being? Too bad for the almost dead guy, he'll have to wait an extra 2 or more minutes for help while someone finds a pay phone or theater employee to go find an office phone...
I'm speaking as someone that does not have and does not want a cell phone. (I don't use the phone often enough to be worth it and I don't like the contracts) I just don't get why this number portability thing is supposed to be such a big deal. They're saying that just because it's now possible to take your phone number with you that everyone will be switching carriers. Why? I know people happy with their service, and I also know people that want to switch and don't give a rat's hairy butt about keeping their number, they just want out of their carrier as soon as their contract is up, regardless of other consequences like the minor inconvenience of changing numbers.
Can someone please explain why the media feels the need to make it sound like 95% of people will switch real soon now just because of the number portability thing and no other reason whatsoever??? I just don't get it, and if I was unhappy with a company I'd switch, the number situation either way would not affect my decision to change at all, nor to stay with a company I'm happy with. I just don't see it as being at all relevent to switching or not myself.
Why exactly do they not want me to know what the prices are? I'm not going to get up early and wait in a really long line on the off chance that one of the sale items may possibly interest me. So guess what? Since I don't know for sure that anything I might be interested in is on sale, I'm not going, and they also lose sales on any other regular price items I might get while I'm there for the sale. Hey, if they make it hard/inconvenient/annoying to shop, it means they don't want my money, and I can certainly oblinge them in that.
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> Who watches those channels anyway?
I watch a couple things on Comedy Central, and the occasional thing on Nickelodeon if nothing better is on. (Spongebob and the Fairy Godparents are OK-ish on an otherwise bad TV day)
Other than that I can't think of anything wirth while on those networks. I got bored of Enterprise pretty quick and they canceled Jake 2.0, so they can take UPN without any fuss. I haven't looked at MTV or VH1 in years, and I don't think I have any use for the others on the list either. I'd be worried about ABC and Alias, but luckily I don't see that on your list.
I'm not currently and have never been a Dish subscriber, but have been looking into the dish stuff and have hoped to get one sometime in the next couple of months now, and I have been favoring them to DirectTV. Now I have to ponder if I can live without Southpark and the Daily Show or if they alone are worth whatever "premium" price they may now require for the network...
> no evidence that the SCO campaign is in any way helping MS or even that it will.
(conspiracy theory)
OK, think about this. People will obviously get sick of being sued by SCO, and not want to be SCO's customers any more. You thing AutoZone will do business with them again?
Now, some of these sick of SCO people may still be nervous about the Linux situation, and not want to get into or stay in that "problem area" until the lawsuits are sorted out and they know for sure who "wins". So people want to avoid SCO, some of them will want to avoid Linux for the time being, and end up buying into Microsoft products.
You don't think this isn't helping MS??
(/conspiracy theory)
Sounds like the open windows manager half the people here at work use, the rest of us have CDE. The owm guys have a little pager with proportionally scaled replresentations of the other virtual desktops and application windows represented as proportionally sized grey boxes. I'm not sure how old owm is, but I've worked here for over 5 years so it goes back to at least january 1999...
I don't see anything new in the abstract shown in parent post, where is the new thing MS is doing?
Porn spammers would add pheremones to their emails, to try and increase the number of takers on their offers.
The people that spam selling sweets for Valentines day and such could add candy smells, and a similar use for flower shops...
As far as non-commercial advertizement use, can't think of anything...
Though the guys at Cartoon Network would have a fit over the Dexter's Lab character...
So, what if I'm on my way to pick up the babe of the evening and swish some listerine to freshen up before I leave to pick her up? Mr. Car says "sorry, there's some strong stuff on your breath, you can't drive". Man, this is going to encourage bad breath, which is going to discourage dating. Well, guess all Americans will soon know what the life of a slashdotter feels like. :)
P.S. I don't drink, why would I need one of these things?
I also agree about the tax exempt and political loopholes. I gave a little to a local police organization after 9-11, and now get calls from quite a few police and fireman orgaonizations. Sorry dudes, I cannot afford to fund every single one of your charities. No, not even your low-level contribution of $10 to everyone that calls. I've since chosen to give to a cancer research group that helped my grandfather for a number of years as his oncologist (sp??) is one of the researchers there. Everyone else, I wish I was rich, but I'm not so please leave me alone!!
Nor do I care to hear the lies politicians tell. I walked away from my answering machine when Bush's tape deck called me 4 years ago. Ain't gonna be no different this time around. I got an email from Gore that I didn't read. I voted for Nader, and he didn't harass me like the rest...
This just seems to be encouraging people to cuss and swear and suffer from anxiety more than we did before... Will we all start being foul-mouthed people in general now, after associating it with being "truely" helpful to us?
Weren't MS making a big deal about the next Xbox was going to evolve into something that would take over as central control of your home theater experience? How are they going to do things that I'd associate with that, such as PVR, if there is no hard drive? Or would leaving out the hard drive give MS back the control they are losing due to software installed via ModChip taking their Xbox-1 control away from them??
Exactly. This way, it'll just be a Mac in a fancy box. :)
>Actually, I think the problem here really is that you are not BRUTUALLY honest. If you are serious
>about wanting to run an honest business, why don't you go all out? In your advertisements you should
>point out the blatant lies of your competitors.
Don't we get enough of this from the politicians? Especially with the campaigns going on right now?? As soon as companies turn to mudslinging each other like the jokers in DC (or wanting to be in DC) do, I'll stop paying attention...
Sorry dude, but there's far too much prior art for your petent to be valid. :)
I'd love to see things made easier to install and configure. I've been tinkering toward a PVR box for quite sme time, and even had it running under Win2000 for a while, but it kept locking up and rebooting itself. Went through at least three hardware configurations to get that far to. Then I decided to give Linux a try, and had to change a number of things around yet again due to driver issues with the parts I had, but it still don't go. I'm not your average computer dummy, but Linux is still smarter than I am I guess... Perhaps I shouldn't have got talked into Gentoo, but at the times I tried Debian, I couldn't get it configured for my Radeon card, Red Hat back then didn't have MythTV packages and I couldn't get it compiled myself, and now somehow Gentoo doesn't like me, and I've got an expensive box with about 1/3 of an OS installed. Hurray!
> Makes you wonder if current Linux PVR apps are just too much of a pain to get working well?
They are for me, but I'm not a Linux kernel hacker level guy. It'd be real nice if someone spent some more time dumming down the install/config process of a lot of things for the rest of us.
I've seen OS4 running on a couple machines, an AmigaOne and an A3000 (68K version for developers), I'm not sure I'm ready to believe it'll ship end of January to end-users, not even as a pubic beta. Maybe they will send out what there is to send out just so they can say they did, but there's still some kinks needing ironed out before I'd be happy to see it in the hands of the general public Amiga users.
> In the article, the RIAA "enforcers" claim they don't try to create the idea that they're a police
> force. Why, then, would a victim say that, "They said they were police from the recording industry or
> something, and next time they'd take me away in handcuffs."?
Well, while they may not actually say they're some sort of police force, they're obviously as heck trying to encourage people to come to that conclusion on their own, and sounds like they do nothing to specifically deny they are an official police force. Plus, I myself would take being told they have the right to take someone away in handcuffs next time, that is specifically implying they are an official police force.
Why? Who else has the legal right to come into someone's home or place of business and take that person away in handcuffs? Only the actual real-life police and federal agents right?
So anyone saying they have the right to take a guy away in handcuffs is implicitly telling that guy they are the police.
While I think they are goin gin the right direction by going after people involved with making money off illegal copies, I don't like their methodology of impersonating on-duty police officers.
If they were accompanied by a real-life on-duty police officer in the right jurisdiction, and that guy alone was doing the talking about handcuffs and such, that'd make more sense. Having a subpeona (sp??) along for the ride with the real cop makes even more sense. But with no subpeona and no real cop, it reaks of impersonation, whether they actually say they are cops or not, the snazzy costumes are obviously intended to confuse the particular people they are visiting.
I got this, I'm in Maryland. But they want to be able to advertize the fastest maximum speed, you still may not have the right to use this maximum speed constantly.
So, does the caffeine content of Jolt cola cancel out the high sugar content then??
I just got back from visiting my family for the holidays, who all live >= 300 miles away. Got back to my place and my PC is dead, won't boot, won't even get to the BIOS. :/ Seems the fan I had cooling my hard drive seized up and the motor in it burnt, but hard drive seems to spin up OK. But still no BIOS screen or even memory check, the monitor never gets a signal at all. Man, I really really hate PCs. Can't even blame this one on Windows yet, as it doesn't even look for any drives now. So I'll probably have a few hours today alone trying to revive the thing... What a freakin' happy new year this is turning out to be already!
I had to quit caffiene a few years ago, ,I apparently developed a sort of allergy or something to it, getting heart palpitations and chest pains from it now. Weird, it happened all ofa sudden, and had drank a few cans oc cola or Mountain Dew a day for years in college... Yes, you get headaches if you go cold turkey. Yes, some caffiene is about the only thing short-term to get rid of these headaches. But if you come off it gradually, froma few cans of soda a day to one a day for a couple weeks, then to none, I was fine. Now, if I have the occasional can of soda I'll probably get a headache after a day or two, and I take a half can or so to ease off it, and I'm fine again. But I've gotten used to Sprite, Sierra Mist, and decaf colas, so don't have the problem very often anymore. Never did like coffee, so don't care about that, and decaf cola and iced tea is fine with me, it's all that diet stuff I won't go near. :)
I've never understood how offshoring would makea spammer safe. It seems to me we should be going after the company whose product/service is advertized as much as the guy actually pressing the send button. For example, I keep getting spams for Circuit City stuff, they haven't learned from my 4+ year boycott of them that I don't want them to email me. We should be able to consider Circuit City to be an accomplice to the actual emailer, as they are the company that bought the "ad". Thus, Circuit City is as liable for the harrassment as the emailer is, and when the ad says or links to Circuit City, we know they are involved, regardless of whether a Chinese mail server was used or not.
Now, I don't mean to pick on this one company and leave out others, but they in particular keep getting themselves a renewed subscription on my boycott list, and I can't think of any other particular company that keeps doing this at the moment. But I do think that the people buying this form of advertizement should be accountable as well as the emailer.
I've been working on putting such a thing together for a while now, over a year. And I've gone through a few iterations of machine trying to get what I want happening to happen.
I started with a Radeon AllInWonder 8500DV and Windows98SE. The machine, granted, was a bit slow as a 450MHz K6-2+, 256MB memory, Via chipset and Soundblaster Live 5.1 card. Well, trouble ensued, rumors of Via chipsets not liking SBLive cards and SBLive cards not liking Radeon cards flew, recording seemed reasonable with only a few % frames dropped, but playback was very odd. After a few minutes playback, the audio and video were slightly out of synch, making any show resemble an old chinese kung fu movie dubbed to english audio, and the variance grew as time went on during playback. Not acceptable.
Got a faster CPU, using a 550MHz K6-2, same problems. Changed motherboards, Athlon XP 1700+ with Via chipset (hadn't realized this might have been a problem yet) with 512MB memory now, and same thing. I dodn't see any frames dropped during record anymore, but playback couldn't keep audio and video in synch, still using the ATI Multimedia Center stuff that came with the card.
OK, now I start trying to get smart, swap the motherboard for one with SIS chipset which was said to not have the Via problems, same CPU, and a Santa Cruz sound card. SAME FREAKIN PROBLEM!! Audio and video wouldn't stay synched. Then I upgraded from Win98SE to Win2000, but no help. Then I got an Audigy2 card, hoping it was somehow the audio card and/or drivers at fault, but again no help. I had both an AIW 8500DV and AIW 7500 at this point as well, no combination would make things good.
So, what to do, I'm on my third PC for this project... So I Start looking for other software to try, and ended up buying showshifter for Windows. That had zero audio/video synch problems, it was great! Same hardware, playback problems vanished! But all was not perfect, the system kept hanging solid, requiring a reset button to get things rebooted and running again. Why did Win200 allow anything to hang the machine? Was Showshifter at fault? Something else? I had no idea, but it was unacceptable.
Time to try Linux.
So, I had my hardware already configured, I just wanted to change the OS and find some Linux PVR software, and mythtv sounded cool. But guess what! Can't use an ATI AllInWonder Radeon card, apparently the Gatos driver that claims to be Video4Linux compatible is said to not work with myth, and can't work with myth. Great. I just left the whole thing sit for a few months hoping drivers would get sorted out, to no avail.
Lesson learned: When wanting to use Linux, figure out what software you want to use FIRST. Then find out what Linux distributions have easy support for that software and get one of those distributions of the OS. Then figure out what hardware is supported, and buy suitable hardware.
I now have the Athlon XP 1700+, 512MB RAM, Santa Cruz (couldn't get Audigy 2 working in Linux even with the supposed support in the CVS emu10k1 driver), WinTV PVR-250 card, along with the giant hard drives and such. I tried using the Radeon just as a display but couldn't get the Radeon drivers working right in Linux, so changed that to an Nvidia GF 5200 something or other card, as I've heard great things about Nvidia supporting Linux.
Hardware all seemed to work as well as it ever has under Windows 2000, and now I'm on to installing Linux. I'm trying Gentoo this time. I tried Red Hat and Debian in the past. Red Hat installed easy, but at the time didn't have any RPMs for MythTV, though I understand it does now, too bad it's been abandoned by its developers. Debian - well, I never did get ATI drivers working with it, didn't want to be stuck with the generic VESA drivers, and gave up a while back before I got the Nvidia card. Now I'm on to Gentoo, mostly because some guys at work like it and know it, so I have someone to give me help, and there's a MythTV package for it.
Still don't have Linux running, still haven't got to where I can install Myth, wish me luck...
Those people with a photographic memory will be asked to stop by the free lobotomy station near the exit.
>What if my cellphone has a camera? My favorite
>quote from an LA city attorney: 'If you carry one
>of these into a movie theater, you have to ask
>yourself, "Do I feel lucky?"'"
Yea, so preventing someone from possibly recording a few seconds of a movie (what camera phone could possibly be useful for recording a whole movie?) is more important than having cellphones around in case someone has a heart attack. What, everyone left their cellphone in the car like a good and considerate human being? Too bad for the almost dead guy, he'll have to wait an extra 2 or more minutes for help while someone finds a pay phone or theater employee to go find an office phone...
I'm speaking as someone that does not have and does not want a cell phone. (I don't use the phone often enough to be worth it and I don't like the contracts) I just don't get why this number portability thing is supposed to be such a big deal. They're saying that just because it's now possible to take your phone number with you that everyone will be switching carriers. Why? I know people happy with their service, and I also know people that want to switch and don't give a rat's hairy butt about keeping their number, they just want out of their carrier as soon as their contract is up, regardless of other consequences like the minor inconvenience of changing numbers.
Can someone please explain why the media feels the need to make it sound like 95% of people will switch real soon now just because of the number portability thing and no other reason whatsoever??? I just don't get it, and if I was unhappy with a company I'd switch, the number situation either way would not affect my decision to change at all, nor to stay with a company I'm happy with. I just don't see it as being at all relevent to switching or not myself.
Why exactly do they not want me to know what the prices are? I'm not going to get up early and wait in a really long line on the off chance that one of the sale items may possibly interest me. So guess what? Since I don't know for sure that anything I might be interested in is on sale, I'm not going, and they also lose sales on any other regular price items I might get while I'm there for the sale. Hey, if they make it hard/inconvenient/annoying to shop, it means they don't want my money, and I can certainly oblinge them in that.