Actually if you cancel the TiVo service, you still have a PVR, don't you? I mean, you can still record programs by entering the dates & times; you can still pause & rewind live TV -- right?
It's not quite a paperweight. The TiVo works without the subscription, it's just not as fun. Your $300 in equipment will still be there, but your service will disapper when your monthly service charge disappears.
I bought my girlfriend an iBook for her birthday and I've been trying to duplicate all the Linux functionality she's used to from our desktop (e.g. I put KDE-games and the Gimp on it, etc) but the one thing we both miss is fish://.
I don't know why Apple didn't include something like fish:// -- it's sheer brilliance (much like Exposé is brilliant). I briefly considered writing a protocol translator for her laptop so Finder would think it was accessing SMB shares when it was really using ssh. Instead, I've decided to just go with Fugu. It does the job -- I just really miss the integration.:(
SCO suing IBM is probably one of the best defenses for the Free and Open Source Software movement.
Every serious business and legal analyst knows that IBM will defeat SCO's attacks and in the end the GPL is going to come out with some shiny new armor. I couldn't think of a more mismatched suit, a plaintiff so brazen or a defendant so well armed as the case of SCO suing IBM. The F/OSS movement couldn't ask for a better legal champion.
Of course, IBM doesn't promote F/OSS out of the goodness of its heart, it makes millions in sales every year because of F/OSS. But just because it's in IBM's business interests doesn't make it's protections of the GPL any less valid. IBM also sees a chance to right a wrong it made two decades ago when it agreed to Microsoft's terms of licensing the operating system to run its personal computers (instead of buying it outright).
F/OSS programmers aren't being used by IBM any more than IBM's lawyers are being used by F/OSS programmers. It's a symbiotic relationship -- or to use the PHB speak, a "strategic partnership."
I realize this is probably an unpopular opinion to have on slashdot, but I don't think most people understand that someone has to pay the hosting fees, bandwidth, editing time, content, etc.
So here's how the so called "FREE" sites (those that are remaining on the net anyway) work. They exist because of advertising. As "evil" as ads may be, they pay the bills for Slashdot, The Onion, IMDb, Yahoo, etc.
Not to get all MPAA on you, but when you block the ads, you're hurting the site. Not only that, but you're encouraging "innovation" on the advertisers side to keep you from blocking the ads. This leads to a mixing of advertising and content, so that the web pages start becoming all flash or all pictures so you can't filter out certain images without breaking the whole site for yourself.
Want to keep the subscription sites down and keep the free web up? Leave the banner ads be. Hell, click on them once in a while. If the advertisers and website are satisfied with how their ads are doing, they'll be less aggressive and less likely to piss you off.
Consumer Reports is great. They don't accept advertising, the magazine is published by a non-profit company and they actually buy every product they test (no freebies or special "demo" models). It makes them incredibly trustworthy and unbiased.
Linux Journal is a great magazine too. Their articles are incredibly rich in technical details - and the coverage isn't just linux kernel focused. They also have great articles about system administration tools, embedded systems, new hardware and general open source software development. They do accept advertising, but the ads are actually useful and relevant -- embedded h/w suppliers, cluster computing manufacturers, hosting providers, etc. I'm sure this is all preaching to the choir, though.
The GPL isn't viral. At least not any more than any other software license. It simply states that if you link your code to GPL'd code and distribute your new program, your code must be licensed under the GPL as well. Contrast that to Microsoft's EULA for their Mobile Internet Toolkit code which prohibits you from combining their code with ANY open source code, regardless of license. Forget the distribution clause, Microsoft's code can't even be combined with open source code in house.
But when it comes to Linux and free software, Microsoft wants you to think that if you even look at GPL'd code then your whole company could be "infected." And forget about downloading open source programs -- once their in, you might as well file chapter 11.
It's complete and total bullshit. "Bust the Linux Myths" indeed.
I find it really funny that Microsoft feels the need to bust the Linux "myths." As I recall, most of the "myths" about Linux were started by Microsoft's FUD campaign. The myth that Linux has no support. The myth that no business applications are written for Linux. The myth that the GPL is "viral." Many of these were started by comments or press releases by Microsoft employees.
The US Navy tried to use Windows NT as a "ship operating system" a few years back and it died in the water because of an O.S. crash. It had to be towed back to the ship yard.
The link referenced in the/. article seems to be dead, but Google found it's new location.
In fact, I tend to have the reverse problem as the topic poster. I HATE using ^C/^V in Windows to copy and paste. When I highlight the text, I'm saying COPY THIS TEXT. When I click the middle mouse button, I want to paste it. In Unix I can copy and paste with one hand; in Windows it takes two.
Fortunately I don't have to use Windows all that much.
The court just handed AgriBusiness a big tool they can use to stomp out Mom & Pop farmers.
Just throw a few seeds or spread a few spores or spray a special coat of some patented genes on some of your competitor's fields (surreptitiously of course, maybe hire someone else to do it); and they'll lose all their crops.
After all, you can't be sure where all the cross pollenation occured, so you'll have to wipe out the entire crop and burn the field to be sure it's gone. While AgriBusiness could afford to fight this, after all they own hundreds of different fields and could lose a crop or two in the name of competition, small/independent farmers would stand no chance.
The main benefit to the Mac is the flawless hardware integration -- the beautiful/powerful OS is just gravy. The lack of commodity h/w support does mean you pay more, but it also means you get more reliability.
Apple will never support this application because they wouldn't want to deal with all the h/w headaches. Running OS X on x86 will never be more than a hobby.
Even Paul Wolfowitz isn't dumb enough to try to challenge a country with declared nuclear weapons. Remember all that nuclear weapon surface testing France did in the South Pacific during the 90's? Once a country declares itself a nuclear power, it radically changes the landscape in debating military tactics.
Talk of parking an aircraft carrier off the coast of France is just that, talk. Any security strategist with half a brain knows you don't try intimidation tactics with a declared nuclear power.
Needs more cameras to be legal...
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D) use infrared ranging and embedded cameras to detect and report the license number of anyone speeding on the road;
In many states, you need to photograph the face of the person driving in addition to the license plate. These little markers would need some sort of WiFi coordination with a camera positioned higher up in order to capture the drivers face.
My only concern would be with night time. Unless these would only be used on highways with street lights, I can imagine all sorts of safety problems with a firing flash bulb in the face of a speeding driver. Red-light cameras don't have this problem because they're usually positioned in bright light areas and are used in low-speed situations.
While I appreciate the efforts of the S&R teams, I'm not sure turning the woods into some sort of giant, laser-protected bank vault will help in tracking a missing hiker.
What if an animal were to cross a beam? Or if a transmitter fell down, or stopped reporting? You'd still be searching all over the place to try to find the missing person.
I think the better approach would be, as some users have suggested, voluntary RFID tags, or maybe "help" buttons installed in highly visible and easily accessible locations.
I certainly appreciate people's rights to make fake looking money for promotional or political purposes, but I'm astonished by how many people forget that counterfeiting is a federal crime.
Some people use their photo printers to make near duplicate dollar bills to put in vending machines and are then surprised when the secret service shows up at their door.
Counterfeiting (in any denomination) is a serious crime. One that is punishable by serving jail time in a federal penitentiary.
Doesn't anyone else see the correlation between Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming governor of California, the Yankees losing the World Series to the Florida Marlins and the repeated solar flares? I'm counting at least 3 horsemen of the apocalypse here.
I listen to NPR every day (I'm a contributing member). But occasionally I feel like listening to some popular music. I have a CD changer in my car, but sometimes it's nice to let someone else choose the playlist and just go along with it.
Seattle has a great commercial radio station called The Mountain. They're incredibly esoteric (Jazz, Rock, Blues, Pop, R&B). They play new and old music. It's great because I can't stand MTV but I want to hear what new songs are out there. And sometimes I just feel like listening to an old favorite. I usually end up buying new CD's after I hear a couple songs from it on the radio (sometimes they play half an album).
Ok, I know I'm starting to sound like a commercial now, so I'll shut up about the station. The point is -- music on the radio is anything but dead. It still has incredible sound quality and a pretty diverse playlist (even if it means music from more than one station). It's also helpful for people who don't feel like listening to the top 40 over and over and over.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Which has been held by the Supreme Court to mean that what is unconstitutional for congress to legislate is also unconstitutional for a government agency or agent (acting on behalf of the govt) to practice.
e.g.
The State of Missouri cannot pass a law outlawing Christianity
The city of Boston cannot require all residents to be Catholic
And a public school teachers cannot lead their classes in prayer
What I don't understand is why so many people are threatened by the notion of a secular government?
The Seattle Cinerama is just as wide as most IMAX screens, but not as tall -- meaning you can enjoy BIG SCREEN theatrical run movies without the pan and scan that you have to put up with IMAX screens. This was the theater people were camping outside of 2 years ago in anticipation of Episode II -- and while the movie may not have been worth it, the screen certainly is. Hell, you could watch me doing my laundry on the Cinerama screen and it would be exciting.
Don't get me wrong, IMAX is great. The Boeing-IMAX theater in the Pacific Science center does some very exciting large-format movies. But when it comes to theatrical releases, I prefer to see them at the Cinerama when I can.
The latest version of Xine supports the codec used in the Revolutions trailer. D/L it, install it and watch the Revolutions trailer in all its full screen glory!:)
The NIST suggestion is just confusing for too many users. How many times do you actually hear someone say "mebibyte?"
IMHO drive/memory sizes should follow the established Unix convention.
1k = 2^10 bit = 1024 bit (prounced "kay")
1M = 2^20 bit = 1 048 576 bit (pronounced "meg")
1G = 2^30 bit = 1 073 741 824 bit (pronounced "gig")
Stop treating the phrases "kay","meg" and "gig" as SI prefixes, because they're not. None of the other metric units abbreviate the prefixes like that, so there's no need to interpret them as impinging on the SI standard. Likewise, when you're speaking in the context of computers, there's no need to specify "bytes" all the time. It's redundant and everyone already knows the units.
This alternative is more in convention with what users say and expect. You say, "It has 3 gigs of RAM." No one says, "It has 3 Gigabytes of RAM" unless they're selling you the computer.
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It's not quite a paperweight. The TiVo works without the subscription, it's just not as fun. Your $300 in equipment will still be there, but your service will disapper when your monthly service charge disappears.
I don't know why Apple didn't include something like fish:// -- it's sheer brilliance (much like Exposé is brilliant). I briefly considered writing a protocol translator for her laptop so Finder would think it was accessing SMB shares when it was really using ssh. Instead, I've decided to just go with Fugu. It does the job -- I just really miss the integration. :(
Every serious business and legal analyst knows that IBM will defeat SCO's attacks and in the end the GPL is going to come out with some shiny new armor. I couldn't think of a more mismatched suit, a plaintiff so brazen or a defendant so well armed as the case of SCO suing IBM. The F/OSS movement couldn't ask for a better legal champion.
Of course, IBM doesn't promote F/OSS out of the goodness of its heart, it makes millions in sales every year because of F/OSS. But just because it's in IBM's business interests doesn't make it's protections of the GPL any less valid. IBM also sees a chance to right a wrong it made two decades ago when it agreed to Microsoft's terms of licensing the operating system to run its personal computers (instead of buying it outright).
F/OSS programmers aren't being used by IBM any more than IBM's lawyers are being used by F/OSS programmers. It's a symbiotic relationship -- or to use the PHB speak, a "strategic partnership."
Not to get all MPAA on you, but when you block the ads, you're hurting the site. Not only that, but you're encouraging "innovation" on the advertisers side to keep you from blocking the ads. This leads to a mixing of advertising and content, so that the web pages start becoming all flash or all pictures so you can't filter out certain images without breaking the whole site for yourself.
Want to keep the subscription sites down and keep the free web up? Leave the banner ads be. Hell, click on them once in a while. If the advertisers and website are satisfied with how their ads are doing, they'll be less aggressive and less likely to piss you off.
Linux Journal is a great magazine too. Their articles are incredibly rich in technical details - and the coverage isn't just linux kernel focused. They also have great articles about system administration tools, embedded systems, new hardware and general open source software development. They do accept advertising, but the ads are actually useful and relevant -- embedded h/w suppliers, cluster computing manufacturers, hosting providers, etc. I'm sure this is all preaching to the choir, though.
But when it comes to Linux and free software, Microsoft wants you to think that if you even look at GPL'd code then your whole company could be "infected." And forget about downloading open source programs -- once their in, you might as well file chapter 11.
It's complete and total bullshit. "Bust the Linux Myths" indeed.
I find it really funny that Microsoft feels the need to bust the Linux "myths." As I recall, most of the "myths" about Linux were started by Microsoft's FUD campaign. The myth that Linux has no support. The myth that no business applications are written for Linux. The myth that the GPL is "viral." Many of these were started by comments or press releases by Microsoft employees.
The link referenced in the /. article seems to be dead, but Google found it's new location.
Fortunately I don't have to use Windows all that much.
He also announced he planned to spam his appeal to every court in the country.
Just throw a few seeds or spread a few spores or spray a special coat of some patented genes on some of your competitor's fields (surreptitiously of course, maybe hire someone else to do it); and they'll lose all their crops.
After all, you can't be sure where all the cross pollenation occured, so you'll have to wipe out the entire crop and burn the field to be sure it's gone. While AgriBusiness could afford to fight this, after all they own hundreds of different fields and could lose a crop or two in the name of competition, small/independent farmers would stand no chance.
Apple will never support this application because they wouldn't want to deal with all the h/w headaches. Running OS X on x86 will never be more than a hobby.
Talk of parking an aircraft carrier off the coast of France is just that, talk. Any security strategist with half a brain knows you don't try intimidation tactics with a declared nuclear power.
My only concern would be with night time. Unless these would only be used on highways with street lights, I can imagine all sorts of safety problems with a firing flash bulb in the face of a speeding driver. Red-light cameras don't have this problem because they're usually positioned in bright light areas and are used in low-speed situations.
What if an animal were to cross a beam? Or if a transmitter fell down, or stopped reporting? You'd still be searching all over the place to try to find the missing person.
I think the better approach would be, as some users have suggested, voluntary RFID tags, or maybe "help" buttons installed in highly visible and easily accessible locations.
The revolution will be televised...
Please check with the MPAA to acquire a license to view the revolution.
Some people use their photo printers to make near duplicate dollar bills to put in vending machines and are then surprised when the secret service shows up at their door.
Counterfeiting (in any denomination) is a serious crime. One that is punishable by serving jail time in a federal penitentiary.
Click here to do something about this.
Doesn't anyone else see the correlation between Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming governor of California, the Yankees losing the World Series to the Florida Marlins and the repeated solar flares? I'm counting at least 3 horsemen of the apocalypse here.
Seattle has a great commercial radio station called The Mountain. They're incredibly esoteric (Jazz, Rock, Blues, Pop, R&B). They play new and old music. It's great because I can't stand MTV but I want to hear what new songs are out there. And sometimes I just feel like listening to an old favorite. I usually end up buying new CD's after I hear a couple songs from it on the radio (sometimes they play half an album).
Ok, I know I'm starting to sound like a commercial now, so I'll shut up about the station. The point is -- music on the radio is anything but dead. It still has incredible sound quality and a pretty diverse playlist (even if it means music from more than one station). It's also helpful for people who don't feel like listening to the top 40 over and over and over.
e.g.
- The State of Missouri cannot pass a law outlawing Christianity
- The city of Boston cannot require all residents to be Catholic
- And a public school teachers cannot lead their classes in prayer
What I don't understand is why so many people are threatened by the notion of a secular government?Don't get me wrong, IMAX is great. The Boeing-IMAX theater in the Pacific Science center does some very exciting large-format movies. But when it comes to theatrical releases, I prefer to see them at the Cinerama when I can.
The latest version of Xine supports the codec used in the Revolutions trailer. D/L it, install it and watch the Revolutions trailer in all its full screen glory! :)
IMHO drive/memory sizes should follow the established Unix convention.
1k = 2^10 bit = 1024 bit (prounced "kay")
1M = 2^20 bit = 1 048 576 bit (pronounced "meg")
1G = 2^30 bit = 1 073 741 824 bit (pronounced "gig")
Stop treating the phrases "kay","meg" and "gig" as SI prefixes, because they're not. None of the other metric units abbreviate the prefixes like that, so there's no need to interpret them as impinging on the SI standard. Likewise, when you're speaking in the context of computers, there's no need to specify "bytes" all the time. It's redundant and everyone already knows the units.
This alternative is more in convention with what users say and expect. You say, "It has 3 gigs of RAM." No one says, "It has 3 Gigabytes of RAM" unless they're selling you the computer.