A user on the popular Internet forum "Slash-Dot" known only as "Picass0" does not like the product.
Besides dripping with sarcasm, you post is also incorrect.
I did not say I do not like the product. I just ask the question "Where's the advantage in doing this?" It's a rather high price point for a set top, and It doesn't sound like much more than a plain-label Tivo with some codec support. A Tivo goes for ~$400 last time I was at Best Buy, so I see $1100 going for --- ???
For $1100 dollars I can continue my hippie lifestyle for a year, going from one computer store to the next harrasing windows users without ever showering. I could be just like RMS.
I still encourage you to send you post to ZapMedia.
For less than $1500 I can build a budget box with TV out and Ethernet cards. I could even build it in a component box so it has the right "look". They need to price this lower to attract my interest.
I did a Red Carpet update a few days ago and my Evolution now says it's ver.99 release candidate 1. Just to get rid of the "Thank you for using..." nag screen it's worth the upgrade.
The low power consumption was nice for laptops, but they missed the real target. The code morphing would have made this a great chip for small enterprises with limited resources that need a sandbox that can emulate different platforms, or home users that want to run both PC and Mac. There was the potential to make a real dual-booting machine. But they just sold it to laptop makers.
Most people don't like such limited devices. It's only when people found out you could stick a HD into an I-opener and install the OS of your choice that people got psyched about it.
Take the I-pod - Who needs another MP3 player? "But it's small, you can store other files on it and it's firewire". Only when you start adding features do some of these consumer electronics start attracting interest.
Rather than sell a dedicated internet appliance, add a capability to an established platform, such as PS2. Sony would be able to market the hell out of it. They could sell controllers that have LEDs and hotbuttons for e-mail. Everybody would run out to buy keyboards and mice for the PS2. You just need some storage, OS & software, and preferably a high-bandwidth connection. Now would be a good time for that Linux distro to come out in America. Sony could smack the X-box.
There is simply too much proprietary, third party, technology embedded in it that it would take a lot of time, and probably a lot of cash, to strip away.
Boy, I bet the're gonna be surprised at Berkley to find out they wasted their time stripping out old Bell Lab code. Shucks. No point it moving forward on that whole *BSD thing.
This thing must get pretty warm after an hour of use. I've had a couple of laptop HD drives get pretty damn hot on me. I don't see any vents on this toy. For $400 I'de get cheesed off if it just decided to stop working.
If ever programmer working on KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice, Mozilla, and all of the programs/environments the article says are redundant efforts - if every programmer quit how far ahead would Linux be in the enterprise
Not much further than right now.
The article takes the false assumption that all of the creative energy aimed at the Linux desktop is a resource diverted from core development. Not so. There are programmers who wouldn't know how or have no interest in kernel programming. Not every developer would by default work on system library building, server-related issues, or hardening security.
These so-called side projects and diversions are efforts that re-enforce, not detract from, the growth of Linux.
Nah.... Wesley lost that title a long time ago. You are well insulated from the top of the list. Rick Berman is the most hated person in Star Trek. Followed by Worf's little kid Alexander on DS9. Oh god, then there's Neelix on Voyager. He sucks. And the first guy to nail the hot Vulcan chick on Enterprise, he's going to be hated big time.
So if the RIAA gets this one passed, that tells me Clifford Neuman has the right to break into any Windows box using Kerberos and delete the system. Gee, maybe this isn't so bad after all.
We have yet to respond specifically to the Anthrax attacks. At the time, the Feds have not officially linked the Anthrax to terrorism.
We are bombing as a respose to the Taliban's failure to meet the demands of the US as issued by President Bush on 9-20.
Bush demanded that the Taliban turn over all leaders of bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization to U.S. authorities, close its training camps in the country and surrender "every terrorist and every person in their support structure" to appropriate authorities. Also the US would have unconditionion rights to inpects training camps to insure they were longer in operation. He said the demands were not open to negotiation or discussion.
You might consider that the FBI (especially in the NYC area) has alot to do right now. Ever since 9-11 the FBI has been charged by the President with the task of prevention of further attacks. I imagine the FBI is spread thin between the "Ground Zero" investigation, the hunt for evidence to link a state to these acts, and the pursuit of protecting the public from further attack.
Yes, 2 weeks is a long time, but The Sun employee who died in Florida was the wake up call that made everyone start looking for Anthrax in the mail. That was last weekend when he died.
No matter how much you may think mail sent to you on dead trees is outdated, there are reasons the old fashoined mail is not going away for a good long time.
Postal mail creates jobs
packages - What's the point in all this e-commerce if nobody has anything delivered anymore?
Utility Bills - Until some laws are changed you must be provided with an invoice for your purchase and written notification of money owed.
Taxes - Like anything done by the government, this ones going to be done the old world way for a long time.
Books and periodicals - Some people (myself included) prefer to read anything of great length on paper. Also there is a certain pride in owning a handsome book, admiring the cover as you put it away on a shelf, where you will never touch it again.
registered mail - any sort of mail that requires a signature is coming to you the old fashioned way. I know, there's a million technical solutions that would make this work as digital, but your written signature is an important legal tool that people will continue to hit you over the head with forever.
If the day comes when the government says snail mail is going away, watch out. If you think Uncle Sam has opinions about your computer and the software you run now, wait until you see the regulations that will be imposed on email.
One thing that may happen as fallout is small business may get out of the private delivery business. The mail is now going to need to be x-rayed and electronically sniffed. Business such as a Mial Box Express or Joe's overnight delivery are not going to have money for the new array of equiptment that they will be told they must own.
The things that will work to reduce the amount of snail mail - Mail is about to become slower and less reliable. When a pathogen is discovered in the mail, any parcels that may have physically contacted it will need to be destroyed.
People are now uneasy to open a package or parcel they were not expecting. This will make it less likely for advertisements to continue to be sent via mail. Expect to see an increase in Spam, and a relaxation in laws that control it.
The United States and British allies did the right thing today. Way to go, President Bush. I'm glad I voted for you.
I support our right to strike military and terrorist camps in Afghanistan. I hope that civilian casualties can be held to a minimum, but those who are killed die as a result of the Taliban's decisions. I am also pleased we have dropped humanitarian aid for the benefit of the refugees. I hope Afghanistan can be liberated and given back to her people.
For the US to not take action is to invite further attacks. Indeed, those attacks will happen with or without our action. The US must make it understood that the worse we are attacked, the stronger our response, up to and including the use of nuclear weapons. Any nation that would make the mistake of attacking the US with biological agents must pay the ultimate price.
I'm currious from anyone who has used Gnome and switched to KDE: what do you think the advantages are? I'm open minded enough to consider KDE, but want to know what people feel is better. (Please be more specific than Gnome sucks. That's not going to sway me very much.)
Also, anyone reading this who has left KDE for Gnome tell me what made you switch.
I've always thought this Gnome vs. KDE thing was about as dumb as vi vs. emacs.
We could have a much greater understanding of our universe by accelerating monkeys to near-light speeds and smashing them together. But congress cut funding the facility after some animal rights wackos said it wasn't nice. The expensive collider facility had allready been under construction since 1983 and taxpayer were spending 7.5 billion a year to finish construction.
To keep the 45 mile underground facility from going to waste, it has become a federally fundered drag-racing track. But great science could have come from the Monkey collider. But now we'll never know.
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Bellis is the rogue planet in When World Collide
(Raises puzzled eyebrow, scratches forehead.)
Gabbo?
Only six days until Bellis!!!!
A user on the popular Internet forum "Slash-Dot" known only as "Picass0" does not like the product.
Besides dripping with sarcasm, you post is also incorrect.
I did not say I do not like the product. I just ask the question "Where's the advantage in doing this?" It's a rather high price point for a set top, and It doesn't sound like much more than a plain-label Tivo with some codec support. A Tivo goes for ~$400 last time I was at Best Buy, so I see $1100 going for --- ???
For $1100 dollars I can continue my hippie lifestyle for a year, going from one computer store to the next harrasing windows users without ever showering. I could be just like RMS.
I still encourage you to send you post to ZapMedia.
Groovy man...
For less than $1500 I can build a budget box with TV out and Ethernet cards. I could even build it in a component box so it has the right "look". They need to price this lower to attract my interest.
Close but no cigar.
I did a Red Carpet update a few days ago and my Evolution now says it's ver .99 release candidate 1. Just to get rid of the "Thank you for using..." nag screen it's worth the upgrade.
The low power consumption was nice for laptops, but they missed the real target. The code morphing would have made this a great chip for small enterprises with limited resources that need a sandbox that can emulate different platforms, or home users that want to run both PC and Mac. There was the potential to make a real dual-booting machine. But they just sold it to laptop makers.
Real shame.
Thanks Bob.
IBM: OUR 800 pound gorilla.
Remember IBM used to be evil the way Micro$oft is today? How did they pull their heads out?
Take the I-pod - Who needs another MP3 player? "But it's small, you can store other files on it and it's firewire". Only when you start adding features do some of these consumer electronics start attracting interest.
Rather than sell a dedicated internet appliance, add a capability to an established platform, such as PS2. Sony would be able to market the hell out of it. They could sell controllers that have LEDs and hotbuttons for e-mail. Everybody would run out to buy keyboards and mice for the PS2. You just need some storage, OS & software, and preferably a high-bandwidth connection. Now would be a good time for that Linux distro to come out in America. Sony could smack the X-box.
Wow! I should be able to fit my entire DVD collection on just a couple of these babies! (For archival purposes, of course.)
Time for an update to the BSOD screensaver. We need that Green Screen of Death, especially if it does a GL floating thing.
Boy, I bet the're gonna be surprised at Berkley to find out they wasted their time stripping out old Bell Lab code. Shucks. No point it moving forward on that whole *BSD thing.
This thing must get pretty warm after an hour of use. I've had a couple of laptop HD drives get pretty damn hot on me. I don't see any vents on this toy. For $400 I'de get cheesed off if it just decided to stop working.
Maybe more people would study chemesty if they followed the example of Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics.
If ever programmer working on KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice, Mozilla, and all of the programs/environments the article says are redundant efforts - if every programmer quit how far ahead would Linux be in the enterprise
Not much further than right now.
The article takes the false assumption that all of the creative energy aimed at the Linux desktop is a resource diverted from core development. Not so. There are programmers who wouldn't know how or have no interest in kernel programming. Not every developer would by default work on system library building, server-related issues, or hardening security.
These so-called side projects and diversions are efforts that re-enforce, not detract from, the growth of Linux.
Nah.... Wesley lost that title a long time ago. You are well insulated from the top of the list. Rick Berman is the most hated person in Star Trek. Followed by Worf's little kid Alexander on DS9. Oh god, then there's Neelix on Voyager. He sucks. And the first guy to nail the hot Vulcan chick on Enterprise, he's going to be hated big time.
Hey AC -
Nimda. Code Red. Sircam. (Insert your script kiddie VB script of the week here)
You have an interesting concept of security. Get yourself IP tables packet filtering or a stateful firewall and then come back.
So if the RIAA gets this one passed, that tells me Clifford Neuman has the right to break into any Windows box using Kerberos and delete the system. Gee, maybe this isn't so bad after all.
We are bombing as a respose to the Taliban's failure to meet the demands of the US as issued by President Bush on 9-20.
Bush demanded that the Taliban turn over all leaders of bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization to U.S. authorities, close its training camps in the country and surrender "every terrorist and every person in their support structure" to appropriate authorities. Also the US would have unconditionion rights to inpects training camps to insure they were longer in operation. He said the demands were not open to negotiation or discussion.
Yes, 2 weeks is a long time, but The Sun employee who died in Florida was the wake up call that made everyone start looking for Anthrax in the mail. That was last weekend when he died.
If the day comes when the government says snail mail is going away, watch out. If you think Uncle Sam has opinions about your computer and the software you run now, wait until you see the regulations that will be imposed on email.
One thing that may happen as fallout is small business may get out of the private delivery business. The mail is now going to need to be x-rayed and electronically sniffed. Business such as a Mial Box Express or Joe's overnight delivery are not going to have money for the new array of equiptment that they will be told they must own.
The things that will work to reduce the amount of snail mail - Mail is about to become slower and less reliable. When a pathogen is discovered in the mail, any parcels that may have physically contacted it will need to be destroyed.
People are now uneasy to open a package or parcel they were not expecting. This will make it less likely for advertisements to continue to be sent via mail. Expect to see an increase in Spam, and a relaxation in laws that control it.
The United States and British allies did the right thing today. Way to go, President Bush. I'm glad I voted for you.
I support our right to strike military and terrorist camps in Afghanistan. I hope that civilian casualties can be held to a minimum, but those who are killed die as a result of the Taliban's decisions. I am also pleased we have dropped humanitarian aid for the benefit of the refugees. I hope Afghanistan can be liberated and given back to her people.
For the US to not take action is to invite further attacks. Indeed, those attacks will happen with or without our action. The US must make it understood that the worse we are attacked, the stronger our response, up to and including the use of nuclear weapons. Any nation that would make the mistake of attacking the US with biological agents must pay the ultimate price.
I'm currious from anyone who has used Gnome and switched to KDE: what do you think the advantages are? I'm open minded enough to consider KDE, but want to know what people feel is better. (Please be more specific than Gnome sucks. That's not going to sway me very much.)
Also, anyone reading this who has left KDE for Gnome tell me what made you switch.
I've always thought this Gnome vs. KDE thing was about as dumb as vi vs. emacs.
They want to build a machine that creates silly black holes but they cut funding to the Superconducting Monkey Collider.
We could have a much greater understanding of our universe by accelerating monkeys to near-light speeds and smashing them together. But congress cut funding the facility after some animal rights wackos said it wasn't nice. The expensive collider facility had allready been under construction since 1983 and taxpayer were spending 7.5 billion a year to finish construction.
To keep the 45 mile underground facility from going to waste, it has become a federally fundered drag-racing track. But great science could have come from the Monkey collider. But now we'll never know.