I finally got a TiVo earlier this year. I wish I would have bought one the day they hit $300/40 hrs. It's just great, plain and simple. Remember the first day you got broadband? How much better it was than dialing up? Even if you had a big pipe at work, how great it was to have an always-on super-fast connection at home? TiVo is like that. Even though you know the benefits--pause & rewind live TV, super-easy recording--you just don't know how good it is until you experience it first-hand. Just like sex--you can hear all about it, you can tell yourself, "Yup, I bet it'll be pretty good" and be right, but you just don't know how good until you do it. (Although, unlike sex, I can just about guarantee the first time with a TiVo will be great.) I don't know how else to describe it.
Fellow TiVo owners, mod me up so the nonbelievers can be enlightened.:-)
They'er $250 now. Get one, start enjoying the benefits, and in 2 years (which is how long it'll take for HDTV to really be common and worthwhile), upgrade. $10/month ain't too bad. And why worry about a TiVo being HDTV-ready anyway? Do you have an HDTV right now?
And in case anyone doesn't know, the reason that two projects could come up with the same (odd) name, it's because 'Gentoo' is a type of penguin. So, when you name your project after a common thing, it's a risk you take.
I agree. All QE does is speed up all the eye candy (drop shadows, semitransparent titlebars of inactive windows, etc.) that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Not saying it's evil or shouldn't exist, in fact, I'm *glad* Apple finally delivered something to make OS X responsive, assuming you've got a suitable video card.
Prices on small-screen dvd players have dropped for just this reason. (well, technology marches on, moore's law, etc., but I don't think they would have dropped their prices if laptops weren't catching up.) 5" units are around $250-300 now.
That was also one of the better episodes of Futurama-Fry ate an old sandwich from a vending machine in a truck-stop bathroom. The rest of the gang shrinks down and goes inside to kill the parasites. Dr. Ziodberg comes riding in on a spermatazoa and says "You'll never guess where I've been!" In any case, I'd love to see that episode of [TZ|OL] you describe. Plus, as far as the article goes, that was also pretty much the subject of Crichton's Prey.
As much as we love to bash AOL, they *do* have the resources to put something of a dent into spam. If they wanted the goodwill of the community (btw, thanks for mozilla and winamp) they could easily buy it--just start sending out flocks and flocks of lawyers to sue as many spammers as possible under the spam laws of every state that has them. Kinda like doing pro-bono work for the Internet community. Not sure if it'd be enough to stop all the open relays in Europe and Asia, but I imagine that most of the spam I get for mortgages and herbal viagra originate in the US, even if they come via overseeas servers.
If they wanted to, of course. I doubt they will. Oh well. A boy can dream.
So far it seems to handle tabs better. I had v.67 and it would usually mess up tabs a bit--draw the borders wrong (overlapping in wierd ways) and leave more than one drawn in the lighter color to suggest the active tab. Seems fixed so far. Still no support for the 4-year-old fieldset tag, though. Too bad, it's handy in forms.
And it still screws up sending text messages from this AT&T page. Type text into the sender and subject box and it only shows 1 character at a time. Type into the message box and it streams backwards! Hit 'send' and the recipient gets the last letter of the sender's name, the last letter of the subject, and the message is indeed backwards. I'm sure it has something to do with the wacky JS they use to count characters.
At first I thought good idea, then realized it wouldn't work--it would lead to the question "what part of the post was incorrect?" better to reply with the relevant facts, preferrably soon enough to get modded up.:-)
and don't forget that, pound for pound, fat contains 9 times the caloric content of sugar!
bzzt, wrong. (ahem.)
Carbs & protien: 4 calories/gram
Alcohol: 7 cal/g
Fat: 9 cal/g
So, you're kinda right, there is a '9' in there, so maybe you just had a typo, but the proper ratio is 2.25x. Not ragging on you, just wanted to make sure future readers knew the proper facts.
And I'm not positive but I think the ratios hold up when you switch to Imperial measurements.;-)
All I know is that tapes, which sell for less than CDs, cost more than CDs to make (just count the number of parts, many of which are moving, all of which have to be assembled) but, since they are still being sold, must still be profitable. So the labels make much more profit per CD than they do per tape. I don't know if the retailer makes a higher, lower, or equal percentage on CDs than tapes, I just know that *somebody* is taking home lotsa money on each CD.
Just for simplicity, say a tape costs $5 to make and sells for $10. CDs cost less and sell for more, so let's say those values are $4 and $15. Each tape sold makes $5 profit, each CD sold earns $11. Quite a difference.
Remember, you can look in the bins in the front of the store and buy generic classical CDs for $4-5 each, and I guarantee no one is losing money on those.
Wait, why am I guessing? I have, in my hand, a catalog from discmakers.com. I can get 25,000 burned, silkscreened CDs in jewel boxes with a 1 page color insert in 7 days for $17,250. That's $0.69 per CD. (The price drops from $3.38 for 500 to $0.99 for 5,000.)
Of course, we're talking about manufacturing costs, not the price of getting the talent, recording them, mixing, promoting, etc etc etc. But still...
So, you can see how those classical CDs are so cheap: no cost for rights to the music, get the Podunk Symphony Orchestra and Highwire Act to perform some Mozart or Bach, pay some sound guy a few grand to take a break from making tire ads to master it for you, get some pressed, and start filling the bins.
I feel the same way. I just got that fancy silver-box edition a couple months ago. I've only watched it once. Shit, I'll *never* be able to save up for a big plasma at this rate.:-(
So, let's see--I can have an HDTV and no media, or a bunch of HD media and a plain TV...
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True, it might not be an inherent flaw in USB itself (although the way it shares bandwidth, as opposed to how something like firewire works, also bugs me) but if no vendor can write good drivers for it, what's the difference?
1 more story: I used to have an AST Century City--nice little legacy-free PIII/500, USB-only, 6"x9"x12". Neat little unit. (pic) USB only. I could turn it on with a USB keyboard in, get into the BIOS, and navigate around. OK, so the BIOS sees the KB, shouldn't be any problem, right? Wrong. Let it boot into various OSs (including some Linuxes) and poof! no keyboard.
>>save shows as files, move them over a network, let you edit them, burn to CD or DVD, etc. >Doesn't the Tivo let you do that?
Save shows as files--by that I meant, save it as an editable file that could be opened in Premier/VideoWave/whatever. Nope. They're stored in some secret format.
Move over a network--well, now, yes, and before, sorta, if you hacked it. ReplayTVs could do that, I think.
Edit--see above.
Burn--gotta be a file first, right? Unless you pipe the signal via S-Video to one of those DVD burners they're selling now.
I've been pursuing this for years. My last ATI purchase--a PCI TV Wonder (non-VE) came sorta close--captured 352x240 MPEG1 and could make VCDs (70 minutes, OK for shows, bad for movies). That was the last in a line that started with a 7100/80 AV Mac, then a 7600/120 AV, an ATI All-In-Wonder (4 MB PCI), 300 MHz G3 AV, and an ATI All-In-Wonder Pro (8 MB AGP). My quest continues...
I'm just happy the DV camera I have now acts as a bridge (AV in, Firewire out in real-time) before everyone started removing that feature from their cameras. TV -> Camera -> PowerMac w/ DVD burner is good enough for now. All I want to do is skip that digital -> analog -> digital step.:-)
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Besides, USB sucks ass. It often 'forgets' about things you have attached, on all platforms. My favorite example: I'm on my nice dual-G4 PowerMac. All of a sudden, the keyboard stops working. The mouse (which is plugged into the KB) works fine, so all the connections are fine. Wnplug the KB, plug it back in, poof! -- works. True story. Happens overy couple months. Not to mention my friend who had a USB modem--the computer would forget that it was attached and disconnect him *while* he was online! And not just online, I'm talking mid-download. Try to redial, sorry, no modem connected. Unplug, replug, dial, and it works.
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Except for the $3000 XServe, which has--da diddi dAAAH!--an RS-232 port.
Remember when Apex came out (intentionally or not) with the DVD player that let you turn off Macrovision? Now Apex is a decent company (they make a tv with a built-in DVD player that has a pretty good picture; saw one running as a demo/kiosk at Home Depot, of all places) but before that device, no one knew who they were. As much as I love (my) Tivo, I'm willing to bet (and hoping!) that some little company who doesn't care about hollywood's feelings/DRM/etc will come out with some little box that does everything a tivo does and more--save shows as files, move them over a network, let you edit them, burn to CD or DVD, etc. The technology cannot be stopped. Same with MP3 players. For a while, no one wanted them to exist, then the Rio came out, now everyone from Apple to Sony makes them.
and yes, I know about homebrewed tivos, but they're still pricey, take luck to assemble, and have relatively clunky UIs. but that's the thing--just like everything else, they'll get smoother, cheaper, etc. and either people will start making them commonly and easily or someone will start OEMing them.
My $.02: add Mozilla's advanced prefs to Phoenix. (I'm sure that'll happen.) Use Phoenix's good looking default theme. Leave the 'Home' button in the top row of buttons, along with back, reload, etc. Otherwise, keep up the good work!
This is false and deceptive, and is nowhere near legitimate free speech.
The whole point of the 1st amendment is to protect speech others may not find 'legitimate'. Repeat after me: popular speech doesn't need to be protected! And flase and deceptive are hardly relevant here since, as another poster pointed out, you don't pay *anything* to stumble onto a site. OK, 5 seconds of your life, then you learn to use a search engine and not just type 'common-word-or-brand' into the location bar because it's not 1996 anymore.
Yes, whitehouse.com might surprise a few people but, to be honest, it sticks to what the founders of the Internet had in mind--anyone paying attention would know that the house the President lives in should be a.gov, not a.com!
Besides, rabid nutjobs like ESR, the ACLU, and the NRA are needed to maintain balance. Rabid nutjobs pull hard enough that, even when you ignore half of what they say, you're still better off for having had them around, than just letting everything you hold near and dear be torn away by those in positions of power.
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I finally got a TiVo earlier this year. I wish I would have bought one the day they hit $300/40 hrs. It's just great, plain and simple. Remember the first day you got broadband? How much better it was than dialing up? Even if you had a big pipe at work, how great it was to have an always-on super-fast connection at home? TiVo is like that. Even though you know the benefits--pause & rewind live TV, super-easy recording--you just don't know how good it is until you experience it first-hand. Just like sex--you can hear all about it, you can tell yourself, "Yup, I bet it'll be pretty good" and be right, but you just don't know how good until you do it. (Although, unlike sex, I can just about guarantee the first time with a TiVo will be great.) I don't know how else to describe it.
:-)
Fellow TiVo owners, mod me up so the nonbelievers can be enlightened.
They'er $250 now. Get one, start enjoying the benefits, and in 2 years (which is how long it'll take for HDTV to really be common and worthwhile), upgrade. $10/month ain't too bad. And why worry about a TiVo being HDTV-ready anyway? Do you have an HDTV right now?
Personally, I won't bother to find out first hand until they slap a recordable DVD drive in there.
Then you're missing out. No reason for me to try to convince you, you've obviously already made up your mind. You'll see, some day.
-----another TiVo fanatic
And in case anyone doesn't know, the reason that two projects could come up with the same (odd) name, it's because 'Gentoo' is a type of penguin. So, when you name your project after a common thing, it's a risk you take.
See you at the First European Firebird Conference in May in Fulda, Germany
Cool, a whole conference dedicated to my favorite browser!
Just kidding, Mark. I hope this gets resolved soon.
I agree. All QE does is speed up all the eye candy (drop shadows, semitransparent titlebars of inactive windows, etc.) that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Not saying it's evil or shouldn't exist, in fact, I'm *glad* Apple finally delivered something to make OS X responsive, assuming you've got a suitable video card.
here is the ultimate case for you. (more info here.) or maybe try this. Enjoy.
Prices on small-screen dvd players have dropped for just this reason. (well, technology marches on, moore's law, etc., but I don't think they would have dropped their prices if laptops weren't catching up.) 5" units are around $250-300 now.
Nope, not me. I personally hate each and every one of their 22M subscribers. ;-)
That was also one of the better episodes of Futurama-Fry ate an old sandwich from a vending machine in a truck-stop bathroom. The rest of the gang shrinks down and goes inside to kill the parasites. Dr. Ziodberg comes riding in on a spermatazoa and says "You'll never guess where I've been!" In any case, I'd love to see that episode of [TZ|OL] you describe. Plus, as far as the article goes, that was also pretty much the subject of Crichton's Prey.
As much as we love to bash AOL, they *do* have the resources to put something of a dent into spam. If they wanted the goodwill of the community (btw, thanks for mozilla and winamp) they could easily buy it--just start sending out flocks and flocks of lawyers to sue as many spammers as possible under the spam laws of every state that has them. Kinda like doing pro-bono work for the Internet community. Not sure if it'd be enough to stop all the open relays in Europe and Asia, but I imagine that most of the spam I get for mortgages and herbal viagra originate in the US, even if they come via overseeas servers.
If they wanted to, of course. I doubt they will. Oh well. A boy can dream.
So far it seems to handle tabs better. I had v.67 and it would usually mess up tabs a bit--draw the borders wrong (overlapping in wierd ways) and leave more than one drawn in the lighter color to suggest the active tab. Seems fixed so far. Still no support for the 4-year-old fieldset tag, though. Too bad, it's handy in forms.
And it still screws up sending text messages from this AT&T page. Type text into the sender and subject box and it only shows 1 character at a time. Type into the message box and it streams backwards! Hit 'send' and the recipient gets the last letter of the sender's name, the last letter of the subject, and the message is indeed backwards. I'm sure it has something to do with the wacky JS they use to count characters.
At first I thought good idea, then realized it wouldn't work--it would lead to the question "what part of the post was incorrect?" better to reply with the relevant facts, preferrably soon enough to get modded up. :-)
and don't forget that, pound for pound, fat contains 9 times the caloric content of sugar!
;-)
bzzt, wrong. (ahem.)
Carbs & protien: 4 calories/gram
Alcohol: 7 cal/g
Fat: 9 cal/g
So, you're kinda right, there is a '9' in there, so maybe you just had a typo, but the proper ratio is 2.25x. Not ragging on you, just wanted to make sure future readers knew the proper facts.
And I'm not positive but I think the ratios hold up when you switch to Imperial measurements.
All I know is that tapes, which sell for less than CDs, cost more than CDs to make (just count the number of parts, many of which are moving, all of which have to be assembled) but, since they are still being sold, must still be profitable. So the labels make much more profit per CD than they do per tape. I don't know if the retailer makes a higher, lower, or equal percentage on CDs than tapes, I just know that *somebody* is taking home lotsa money on each CD.
Just for simplicity, say a tape costs $5 to make and sells for $10. CDs cost less and sell for more, so let's say those values are $4 and $15. Each tape sold makes $5 profit, each CD sold earns $11. Quite a difference.
Remember, you can look in the bins in the front of the store and buy generic classical CDs for $4-5 each, and I guarantee no one is losing money on those.
Wait, why am I guessing? I have, in my hand, a catalog from discmakers.com. I can get 25,000 burned, silkscreened CDs in jewel boxes with a 1 page color insert in 7 days for $17,250. That's $0.69 per CD. (The price drops from $3.38 for 500 to $0.99 for 5,000.)
Of course, we're talking about manufacturing costs, not the price of getting the talent, recording them, mixing, promoting, etc etc etc. But still...
So, you can see how those classical CDs are so cheap: no cost for rights to the music, get the Podunk Symphony Orchestra and Highwire Act to perform some Mozart or Bach, pay some sound guy a few grand to take a break from making tire ads to master it for you, get some pressed, and start filling the bins.
I think Cameron might've kept a couple copies around in a safe place. He's got a couple bucks. :-)
I feel the same way. I just got that fancy silver-box edition a couple months ago. I've only watched it once. Shit, I'll *never* be able to save up for a big plasma at this rate. :-(
So, let's see--I can have an HDTV and no media, or a bunch of HD media and a plain TV...
True, it might not be an inherent flaw in USB itself (although the way it shares bandwidth, as opposed to how something like firewire works, also bugs me) but if no vendor can write good drivers for it, what's the difference?
1 more story: I used to have an AST Century City--nice little legacy-free PIII/500, USB-only, 6"x9"x12". Neat little unit. (pic) USB only. I could turn it on with a USB keyboard in, get into the BIOS, and navigate around. OK, so the BIOS sees the KB, shouldn't be any problem, right? Wrong. Let it boot into various OSs (including some Linuxes) and poof! no keyboard.
>>save shows as files, move them over a network, let you edit them, burn to CD or DVD, etc.
:-)
>Doesn't the Tivo let you do that?
Save shows as files--by that I meant, save it as an editable file that could be opened in Premier/VideoWave/whatever. Nope. They're stored in some secret format.
Move over a network--well, now, yes, and before, sorta, if you hacked it. ReplayTVs could do that, I think.
Edit--see above.
Burn--gotta be a file first, right? Unless you pipe the signal via S-Video to one of those DVD burners they're selling now.
I've been pursuing this for years. My last ATI purchase--a PCI TV Wonder (non-VE) came sorta close--captured 352x240 MPEG1 and could make VCDs (70 minutes, OK for shows, bad for movies). That was the last in a line that started with a 7100/80 AV Mac, then a 7600/120 AV, an ATI All-In-Wonder (4 MB PCI), 300 MHz G3 AV, and an ATI All-In-Wonder Pro (8 MB AGP). My quest continues...
I'm just happy the DV camera I have now acts as a bridge (AV in, Firewire out in real-time) before everyone started removing that feature from their cameras. TV -> Camera -> PowerMac w/ DVD burner is good enough for now. All I want to do is skip that digital -> analog -> digital step.
Besides, USB sucks ass. It often 'forgets' about things you have attached, on all platforms. My favorite example: I'm on my nice dual-G4 PowerMac. All of a sudden, the keyboard stops working. The mouse (which is plugged into the KB) works fine, so all the connections are fine. Wnplug the KB, plug it back in, poof! -- works. True story. Happens overy couple months. Not to mention my friend who had a USB modem--the computer would forget that it was attached and disconnect him *while* he was online! And not just online, I'm talking mid-download. Try to redial, sorry, no modem connected. Unplug, replug, dial, and it works.
Except for the $3000 XServe, which has--da diddi dAAAH!--an RS-232 port.
Remember when Apex came out (intentionally or not) with the DVD player that let you turn off Macrovision? Now Apex is a decent company (they make a tv with a built-in DVD player that has a pretty good picture; saw one running as a demo/kiosk at Home Depot, of all places) but before that device, no one knew who they were. As much as I love (my) Tivo, I'm willing to bet (and hoping!) that some little company who doesn't care about hollywood's feelings/DRM/etc will come out with some little box that does everything a tivo does and more--save shows as files, move them over a network, let you edit them, burn to CD or DVD, etc. The technology cannot be stopped. Same with MP3 players. For a while, no one wanted them to exist, then the Rio came out, now everyone from Apple to Sony makes them.
and yes, I know about homebrewed tivos, but they're still pricey, take luck to assemble, and have relatively clunky UIs. but that's the thing--just like everything else, they'll get smoother, cheaper, etc. and either people will start making them commonly and easily or someone will start OEMing them.
Actualy, no, because it's color-coded who typed what. :-)
My $.02: add Mozilla's advanced prefs to Phoenix. (I'm sure that'll happen.) Use Phoenix's good looking default theme. Leave the 'Home' button in the top row of buttons, along with back, reload, etc. Otherwise, keep up the good work!
This is false and deceptive, and is nowhere near legitimate free speech.
.gov, not a .com!
The whole point of the 1st amendment is to protect speech others may not find 'legitimate'. Repeat after me: popular speech doesn't need to be protected! And flase and deceptive are hardly relevant here since, as another poster pointed out, you don't pay *anything* to stumble onto a site. OK, 5 seconds of your life, then you learn to use a search engine and not just type 'common-word-or-brand' into the location bar because it's not 1996 anymore.
Yes, whitehouse.com might surprise a few people but, to be honest, it sticks to what the founders of the Internet had in mind--anyone paying attention would know that the house the President lives in should be a
Besides, rabid nutjobs like ESR, the ACLU, and the NRA are needed to maintain balance. Rabid nutjobs pull hard enough that, even when you ignore half of what they say, you're still better off for having had them around, than just letting everything you hold near and dear be torn away by those in positions of power.