I call bollocks. Pure FUD - nobody I have ever heard of has ever run into a problem running an unsigned app on their WM2005 phones, including me. And in spite of what others in this thread has implied, my carrier (Verizon) does not lock the smartphone down either.
I don't think Firewire is actually that common, and I'm not sure where Tepples gets the "supposed to have" requirement from.
He waas talking about CABLE boxes, not sat boxes. Cable cos are actually regulated into providing a working FW port in the US at the moment, but sat companies have no such requirements.
Because that's called a laptop without a battery and is *****' pointless. Sure, it looks cool but once its outdated you throw it away. People don't like that with laptops but they put up with it because its portable. This aint, so why put up with it?
I don't know a single person outside of the geek/IT realm who doesn't go to costco/best buy/etc and buy a whole new computer with a new monitor when the old one is outdated. Not one. The iMac is no different - your new computer comes with a new monitor. Monitors get outdated too ya know, or are you still using the same 14"CRT from 1997? The vast majority of people out there don't care that they won't be able to re-use the monitor as a second display with their shiny new computer - most don't even realize you can do that )or the thought of openeing their shiny new computer and adding a second video card is far too scary for them).
As far as any other types of upgrades go, you've got to be joking, right? Swapping video cards and CPUs? Not a chance - heck, by the time the average user feels a need to upgrade either, the interfaces are different and their mobo is obsolete. Hard drives? That's what externals are for. Have you seen the storage displays at the big bix stores lately? USB/FW drives are selling like crazy because people just want to plug them in without opening their cases...
How in the heck did that get modded informative? The assertation merely links to a paragraph that contains the same assertion without any details, evidence, examples, or background. Jimminy Christmas - the things you folks will accept as 'evidence' and 'proof' these days is mind numbing.
There is no sattelite standard for cablecard, each provider uses their own broadcast/encoding/encryption methods, and no they are not regulated into providing access to the data streams from 3rd party devices. If you want to watch D* or E*, you have do do it via one of their STBs or DVRs (yes, you can chain a dvr behind an STB).
When his site comes back up, please ask if he has any "Grey Poupon"...
No, he emptied out the grey poupon bottle to use as a case for his latest portable playstation mod, which is apparently also doing duty as his webserver at the moment.
Channel stuffing is only one of Dell's tricks to make your quarterly numbers.
Dell doesn't utilize 'channel sales' - it's a direct sales only manufacturer and in some instances acts as a channel for other mfr's. It isn't channgel stuffing if theres' no channel - it's just plain old dumping.
Sure, sure, you can do this with Tivo. But can you also watch those recorded shows over your home network on other PCs? Burn to DVD?
Not to rag on Myth, but yes you can... I watch TiVo recorded programs on my Mac and Windows boxes over the net, burn them to DVD, and with a little hacking (I'd hardly call running a bash script hacking though) I can stream video to my tivo from any PC on my network. All of this without DRM.
Now, back to Myth - I'm sure it's a great application, and I'd probably be using it right now if it werent for the lack of HDTV options on it. I don't get any OTA HDTV where I am, so all HD must come from cable or sat. Now I know most cable cos don't encrypt basic cable HD streams today, but they can and will, at which point my myth box would be obsolete. Same thing with firewire from a cable box - if I can get the right one from my cable co, and as long as they're not encrypting the feed it'll work, but that's not gonna last. Any more permanent HD recording option would require cablecard...
I'm afraid that Myth is one of those techs that is headed for self-destruction at the hands of the content delivery companies and their love of DRM.
A 24" widescreen HDTV is perfectly acceptable for most people most of the time. Heck, a 27" TV used to be considered a 'big' one. Dont get all AVSForum snobbish on me now...
This would make a perfect HTPC for my living room... Think of it - hang a 24" HDTV on your wall and use it 85% of the time (for news, backround tv, etc) then when it's time for a movie, drop down the projection screen and have the same 24" PC feed your HD projector... I've thought about doing this for a while with a Cinema display and an iMac, but honestly this is even slicker!
The Kurobox is the exact same thing as teh linkstation HG (the 'gigabit' one), but as you say, it's open. Check out linkstationwiki.net for details on flashing the linkys.
* a web server * E-mail (SMTP, IMAP) server * DNS server * a file server (SMB, AFP) for internal (with a big hard drive) * ssh access * complete headless setup and configuration * very small (Mac mini sized or smaller) * maybe a print server * wireless access point * maybe VPN from the outside, or site-to-site tunnels * some means to back the whole thing up (easily)
2 suggestions spring to mind - a KuroBox for about $150, or if you'd like it with a drive already installed, a Buffalo Linkstation (newegg link) for just a few buck more. I have a 400GB Gig-E Linkstation that's currently running Debian (took all of 5 minutes to reflash it to deb), and it serves just about every purpose you list above except the WAP... It has 2 USB ports for external storage or printers (hmm, you could probably plug in a usb wifi adapter and get the WAP thing working too), it's very quiet, and is about the size of a mac mini.
Even without the debian re-flash, this box can do a lot of what you list above - it *is* a home server - but apt-get goodness just makes it that much more flexible.
Anyone else find it ironic that/. coverage of a LINUX conference is posted in an MS video format? Sheesh... Now I gotta go get flip4mac installed......
It is like a person who used Linux last in 1994 and today are still saying I used Linux and its interface is horible, having to go to a config file to configure your windows manager is so out of date.
You know what? You're right - I'm guilty of that... I used Linux in June and have been bashing it for config files and a klunky interface ever since. I should either give it another chance or just shut up;-P
Am I the only one that feels like he's reading a website from another time or aprallel universe? I mean, OO.o and Firefox have sufficient market penetration and recongizability (hmm, is that a word?) to reference them without any background, but WTH are Moodle and Octave? And seriously, Moodle? Software names are getting worse and worse...
All this hullabaloo is making me think that Big Entertainment(tm) is really not interested in selling media anymore. Does it REALLY make sense that the only way for 99% of us to view HD movies is to pay the cable/sat provider for HBO-HD? Does it REALLY make sense that we needed 2 new media types and players for HD video when we all know that a 2 hour H.264 encoded HD movie would fit nicely on an old fashioned DVD? No, all that this proving is that BE(tm) wants to make purchasing HD movies difficult for us, and delay it for so long, that we'll accept their 'rental' models...
Frankly, I'm sick of it... I'upgrade my sat reciever to watch NFL in HD this fall, but I have very little desire to waste money on HD movies these days. Back when I was an HT geek I probably woulda considered it, but these days I'm far closer to being joe-sixpack than an HT geek. About the only thing that'll get me to start buying HD movies is when the ITMS starts selling them and I can store them indefinitely on my mini, take them with me on my powerbook, and re-encode them to carry on my vPod. Yeah, guess that make me one of the sheeple...
A sailboat needs a keel because the sail exerts direct force on the mast, which is solidly affixed to the ship above it's center of gravity - a kite design removes some of these problems by adding lift into the equation reducing the tipping effect. Of course the 50 bajillion ton mass of a superfireghter also servers to reduce that tipping effect...
The last time I tried to change the user I ended up losing all my music and Itunes deleted everything. Apple was nice and let me redownload everything with a warning not to do it again
Ok, so you screwed up and Apple fixed it for you...
Anyway if I didn't have work/school I could research everything and fix it and be carefull to get my music back so I dont lose anything.
You mean the arduous task of *copying* the protected AAC files to another computer and *gasp* typing in a username/password combo? Ack - I can see why you must take a sabbatical to research such a thing..
Yes I know Itunes lets you share music on up to 5 computers but still I have to do it right incase I accidently delete the drm for the music.
Errrm, I assume by this you think that the DRM is somehow fragile and will self destruct the songs if you somehow handl it wrong? Nope, not gonna happen. I have protected AAC files all over my network, all I have to do to use them on a new PC is press Play then enter my ITMS login credentials. Oh yeah - only once. For every song. ONCE. How is that fragile?
TivotoGo portable transfer seriously lowers the resolution of your recordings (you didn't expect to get that nice Mpeg-2 quality directly out of the Tivo did you?).
Umm, no I didn't - that's the point of a product that transcodes for a *portable* device. You still have the full resolution version sitting on your PC - TiVoToGo doesn't drop resolution on normal transfers...
Secondly, TTG doesn't use a 'special codec' on DVD burns - if they did it wouldn't work in a DVD player. It simply decrypts the tivo transport stream and uses the same MPEG2 encoded video that's present on your tivo box. I know it's cool to brag about your mythtv box on/., but seriously, do we have to resort to making stuff up about other products to make ourselves even cooler?
That being said, I personally prefer my hacked tivo with vserver on the box and VLC as my PC viewer (see, I can brag about l33tne$$ too). I transcode (yes, and lower the 'resolution' - *gasp*) for my portable using pocket divx encoder or ffmpeg. My Mom on the other hand is quite happy with TTG for ipod transfers.
Is Microsoft supposed to have a "WINDOWS ONLY LOL ROXR" policy on any electronic device down the copy machines?
Actually, as someone who is currently working with MS as a potential customer, this *is* a big deal. MS does have a very strong bias and written policies about using Windows everywhere they can. I could point to several compromises thay've had to make to do this as well, but I like my job. If a project/product cannot be done with windows, it can be justified anyway, but it's an uphill battle. In most cases, the fact that an appliance runs Linux makes it an even harder battle - things like switches/routers etc that run RTOSs like VxWorks get by with no problems, but throw in a management or monitoring solution based on linux and your job is much much harder.
If you've got a bag that'll carry a three-ring binder, it'll fit a 12" Apple laptop.
Which has been discontinued... Parent probably should have said that Apple apparently abandoned that market with the move to macbooks, but the point is still valid.
Perhaps your boredom was due to the fact you should have been reading them in third grade rather than junior high? These books set a pretty low bar for their target market... I recall reading them in second and third grade along with the Encyclopedia Brown mysteries and my Hardy Boys collection. Not at all boring when you're in teh right age group.
$0.99 is far above my threshhold for a lossy, DRM-laden song. I realize that as long as Apple has to pay the record companies on the order of $0.70/song, the price will never become reasonable. Considering the low distribution cost to the record companies, they could sell these at half the cost and make a LOT more money -- on volume.
But that's not gonna happen.
I don't think so. See, you represent one end of the bell curve we'll call 'cheapskate' and the fact is, no matter what the price were set to, someone will fall further along that curve than you and claim that everyone is missing out on huge profits by not dropping the price in half.
The reality is that given the enormous success of the iTMS, it seems that Jobs et all were spot on with their pricing model (which one would assume was arrived at after much research). Reality check - nobody sells a BILLION of anything that's outrageously overpriced...
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I call bollocks. Pure FUD - nobody I have ever heard of has ever run into a problem running an unsigned app on their WM2005 phones, including me. And in spite of what others in this thread has implied, my carrier (Verizon) does not lock the smartphone down either.
I don't know a single person outside of the geek/IT realm who doesn't go to costco/best buy/etc and buy a whole new computer with a new monitor when the old one is outdated. Not one. The iMac is no different - your new computer comes with a new monitor. Monitors get outdated too ya know, or are you still using the same 14"CRT from 1997? The vast majority of people out there don't care that they won't be able to re-use the monitor as a second display with their shiny new computer - most don't even realize you can do that )or the thought of openeing their shiny new computer and adding a second video card is far too scary for them).
As far as any other types of upgrades go, you've got to be joking, right? Swapping video cards and CPUs? Not a chance - heck, by the time the average user feels a need to upgrade either, the interfaces are different and their mobo is obsolete. Hard drives? That's what externals are for. Have you seen the storage displays at the big bix stores lately? USB/FW drives are selling like crazy because people just want to plug them in without opening their cases...
There is no sattelite standard for cablecard, each provider uses their own broadcast/encoding/encryption methods, and no they are not regulated into providing access to the data streams from 3rd party devices. If you want to watch D* or E*, you have do do it via one of their STBs or DVRs (yes, you can chain a dvr behind an STB).
Not to rag on Myth, but yes you can... I watch TiVo recorded programs on my Mac and Windows boxes over the net, burn them to DVD, and with a little hacking (I'd hardly call running a bash script hacking though) I can stream video to my tivo from any PC on my network. All of this without DRM.
Now, back to Myth - I'm sure it's a great application, and I'd probably be using it right now if it werent for the lack of HDTV options on it. I don't get any OTA HDTV where I am, so all HD must come from cable or sat. Now I know most cable cos don't encrypt basic cable HD streams today, but they can and will, at which point my myth box would be obsolete. Same thing with firewire from a cable box - if I can get the right one from my cable co, and as long as they're not encrypting the feed it'll work, but that's not gonna last. Any more permanent HD recording option would require cablecard...
I'm afraid that Myth is one of those techs that is headed for self-destruction at the hands of the content delivery companies and their love of DRM.
A 24" widescreen HDTV is perfectly acceptable for most people most of the time. Heck, a 27" TV used to be considered a 'big' one. Dont get all AVSForum snobbish on me now...
This would make a perfect HTPC for my living room... Think of it - hang a 24" HDTV on your wall and use it 85% of the time (for news, backround tv, etc) then when it's time for a movie, drop down the projection screen and have the same 24" PC feed your HD projector... I've thought about doing this for a while with a Cinema display and an iMac, but honestly this is even slicker!
The Kurobox is the exact same thing as teh linkstation HG (the 'gigabit' one), but as you say, it's open. Check out linkstationwiki.net for details on flashing the linkys.
2 suggestions spring to mind - a KuroBox for about $150, or if you'd like it with a drive already installed, a Buffalo Linkstation (newegg link) for just a few buck more. I have a 400GB Gig-E Linkstation that's currently running Debian (took all of 5 minutes to reflash it to deb), and it serves just about every purpose you list above except the WAP... It has 2 USB ports for external storage or printers (hmm, you could probably plug in a usb wifi adapter and get the WAP thing working too), it's very quiet, and is about the size of a mac mini.
Even without the debian re-flash, this box can do a lot of what you list above - it *is* a home server - but apt-get goodness just makes it that much more flexible.
Anyone else find it ironic that /. coverage of a LINUX conference is posted in an MS video format? Sheesh... Now I gotta go get flip4mac installed......
You know what? You're right - I'm guilty of that... I used Linux in June and have been bashing it for config files and a klunky interface ever since. I should either give it another chance or just shut up
I kid I kid...
Am I the only one that feels like he's reading a website from another time or aprallel universe? I mean, OO.o and Firefox have sufficient market penetration and recongizability (hmm, is that a word?) to reference them without any background, but WTH are Moodle and Octave? And seriously, Moodle? Software names are getting worse and worse...
Frankly, I'm sick of it... I'upgrade my sat reciever to watch NFL in HD this fall, but I have very little desire to waste money on HD movies these days. Back when I was an HT geek I probably woulda considered it, but these days I'm far closer to being joe-sixpack than an HT geek. About the only thing that'll get me to start buying HD movies is when the ITMS starts selling them and I can store them indefinitely on my mini, take them with me on my powerbook, and re-encode them to carry on my vPod. Yeah, guess that make me one of the sheeple...
No, this is completely different from Knoppix... It's not a LiveCD, it's an image based install. The two are entirely different beasts.
A sailboat needs a keel because the sail exerts direct force on the mast, which is solidly affixed to the ship above it's center of gravity - a kite design removes some of these problems by adding lift into the equation reducing the tipping effect. Of course the 50 bajillion ton mass of a superfireghter also servers to reduce that tipping effect...
Secondly, TTG doesn't use a 'special codec' on DVD burns - if they did it wouldn't work in a DVD player. It simply decrypts the tivo transport stream and uses the same MPEG2 encoded video that's present on your tivo box. I know it's cool to brag about your mythtv box on /., but seriously, do we have to resort to making stuff up about other products to make ourselves even cooler?
That being said, I personally prefer my hacked tivo with vserver on the box and VLC as my PC viewer (see, I can brag about l33tne$$ too). I transcode (yes, and lower the 'resolution' - *gasp*) for my portable using pocket divx encoder or ffmpeg. My Mom on the other hand is quite happy with TTG for ipod transfers.
Perhaps your boredom was due to the fact you should have been reading them in third grade rather than junior high? These books set a pretty low bar for their target market... I recall reading them in second and third grade along with the Encyclopedia Brown mysteries and my Hardy Boys collection. Not at all boring when you're in teh right age group.
I don't think so. See, you represent one end of the bell curve we'll call 'cheapskate' and the fact is, no matter what the price were set to, someone will fall further along that curve than you and claim that everyone is missing out on huge profits by not dropping the price in half.
The reality is that given the enormous success of the iTMS, it seems that Jobs et all were spot on with their pricing model (which one would assume was arrived at after much research). Reality check - nobody sells a BILLION of anything that's outrageously overpriced...