Why haven't you hacked your Tivo? I have a DirecTV unit upgraded with a 200gb drive and USB2 support. I'm able to download shows, strip out commercials, and burn to DVD or compress for a portable using.
It wasn't that hard, especially for anyone who's ever put together a PC and used a unix command line.
Apple actually has attempted a game console before, and it failed. Check out the Apple Pippin.
Teh Steve is more likely to build his own system rather than buy Nintendo but after trying before and failing, I don't think it's a risk Apple is going to be willing to make.
After climbing in bed with Intel, any new console will probably be x86 based, leaving Apple in the same predicament as MicroSoft with the original XBox -- The parts will still be expensive 3 years later, since they cannot realize lower costs from process advancement.
Several years ago, I had a Toshiba Tecra 740. It was top of the line - Pentium 166 MMX, 13.3" LCD, it even came with a small video camera and capture card.
It weighed 8.5 lbs. I will never get something that heavy again. Combined with the power adapter, extra battery, etc. it was probably closer to 15 lbs. of gear to lug around.
After about a month of carrying it around, I replaced it with a lighter system. 8.5 lbs doesn't seem like alot until you're carrying it (and accessories) everywhere with you.
There was a row a few years back when medical records from the UCSF hospital were being help hostage by the Indian company doing transcriptions? SF Gate has an article about it.
Any sensitive or proprietary information should not be handled by a company outside the country. Federal laws such as HIPPA just plain don't apply beyond the borders (duh) and law enforcement can be powerless.
Using VNC over an SSH can be much faster than XForwarding. For instance, when you have a high latency link or the application has 32-bit icons.
Using a VNC desktop and squashing the color depth down gives a huge speed up.
It can also help when you're moving from meeting to meeting. I leave a VNC session running with a few apps, and I can connect to it from various physical locations, even if my IP changes or I have to turn off my laptop. Try that with X forwarding.
I rode through OR on a motorcycle. None of the gas station attendants attempted to pump gas for me, but they all insisted sliding my card through the on-pump reader and selecting the grade of gas before handing the nozzle to me.
Why does this remind me of Cool Colt, the menthol-flavored malt liquor? It's like an exec saw that Red Bull was selling well and decided to mix it in with a Bud.
Seems a hasty prediction, in that "monitors today" are not, in most instances, what will be used with Longhorn.
I don't know about that. Up until late last year, I was using a 20" monitor that I've had since 1997. In Decenber, I finally broke down and bought a pair of 18" LCD monitors - Mostly because a second CRT would not fit on my desk. That's a 7 year lifespan for one component. I went through several PCs without upgrading the display.
I imagine that I'll still be using the same LCD displays in 2 or 3 years. That's why I was comfortable shelling out the cash for them in the first place.
Agreed. Very few people run sun software on x86 hardware in a production environment. Most of it is for testing, and/or just checking it out to see what it's about.
Don't run solaris on x86 arch because it's supposedly better. On x86, there are much better OS's. If you really want an SVR4-ish nix, use a bsd or something. I don't know of any popular ones other than solaris. Whatever.
We use Solaris x86 at my current job, running on 4x4 Dell boxes and 2x1 no-name boxes. We also have a bunch of boxes running Linux and BSD, but these are not for production.
The main reason for running x86 is that it will scale to more processors better than Linux. (This is especially true when the system was built, back in '99.) The software that we run is heavily multi-threaded, and Solaris has better thread support. It's really as simple as that.
And yes, we've tested Linux (RH7.3) vs. Solaris (2.7) on identical hardware. Solaris won.
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Then there are the other albums which are intented to be listened to on random, like TMBG's "Apollo 18".
Because of the Fingertips tracks (each is about 10 seconds long) the album is $25 to buy from iTMS, or $38 if you buy individual tracks.
Why haven't you hacked your Tivo? I have a DirecTV unit upgraded with a 200gb drive and USB2 support. I'm able to download shows, strip out commercials, and burn to DVD or compress for a portable using.
It wasn't that hard, especially for anyone who's ever put together a PC and used a unix command line.
Apple actually has attempted a game console before, and it failed. Check out the Apple Pippin.
Teh Steve is more likely to build his own system rather than buy Nintendo but after trying before and failing, I don't think it's a risk Apple is going to be willing to make.
After climbing in bed with Intel, any new console will probably be x86 based, leaving Apple in the same predicament as MicroSoft with the original XBox -- The parts will still be expensive 3 years later, since they cannot realize lower costs from process advancement.
If you'd read the article, you'd know that the non-volitile memory only works with Windows Vista.
On 2000 or XP, the drive will act like a normal drive, albeit with more cache.
So did some versions of the Nissan 300ZX.
Many people who did track days would disable this feature, as it would "fade" under track conditions.
Several years ago, I had a Toshiba Tecra 740. It was top of the line - Pentium 166 MMX, 13.3" LCD, it even came with a small video camera and capture card.
It weighed 8.5 lbs. I will never get something that heavy again. Combined with the power adapter, extra battery, etc. it was probably closer to 15 lbs. of gear to lug around.
After about a month of carrying it around, I replaced it with a lighter system. 8.5 lbs doesn't seem like alot until you're carrying it (and accessories) everywhere with you.
There was a row a few years back when medical records from the UCSF hospital were being help hostage by the Indian company doing transcriptions? SF Gate has an article about it.
Any sensitive or proprietary information should not be handled by a company outside the country. Federal laws such as HIPPA just plain don't apply beyond the borders (duh) and law enforcement can be powerless.
Using VNC over an SSH can be much faster than XForwarding. For instance, when you have a high latency link or the application has 32-bit icons.
Using a VNC desktop and squashing the color depth down gives a huge speed up.
It can also help when you're moving from meeting to meeting. I leave a VNC session running with a few apps, and I can connect to it from various physical locations, even if my IP changes or I have to turn off my laptop. Try that with X forwarding.
I rode through OR on a motorcycle. None of the gas station attendants attempted to pump gas for me, but they all insisted sliding my card through the on-pump reader and selecting the grade of gas before handing the nozzle to me.
Wouldn't that be the iJet or PowerJet?
A Martian day is not the same as a Terran day. On top of that, the sun is not up for the entire day.
My Series2 DirecTivo was $100, vs. free for the normal tuner. Only the HDTV unit is $1000.
Comcast costs about $35/mo for cable in my area. DirecTV is $39/mo. Tivo adds another $5/mo to my DTV bill, vs. $15/mo for a stand-alone Tivo.
My Tivo can record 2 channels at the same time, I don't know about the Comcast PVR.
The costs are really about the same.
Why does this remind me of Cool Colt, the menthol-flavored malt liquor? It's like an exec saw that Red Bull was selling well and decided to mix it in with a Bud.
I had my parents K6 200 running XP on a 4gb drive. It needed more RAM than it did with 98, but worked fine.
I imagine that I'll still be using the same LCD displays in 2 or 3 years. That's why I was comfortable shelling out the cash for them in the first place.
Check it out here or just grab the torrent file here.
I saw one of the IBM monitors at a tech conference. Images were beautiful. You could hardly see the pixels.
I jumped out of the demo loop they had running to the Windows desktop. Even with the font size set to "Extra Large", it was difficult to read.
Agreed. Very few people run sun software on x86 hardware in a production environment. Most of it is for testing, and/or just checking it out to see what it's about.
Don't run solaris on x86 arch because it's supposedly better. On x86, there are much better OS's. If you really want an SVR4-ish nix, use a bsd or something. I don't know of any popular ones other than solaris. Whatever.
We use Solaris x86 at my current job, running on 4x4 Dell boxes and 2x1 no-name boxes. We also have a bunch of boxes running Linux and BSD, but these are not for production.
The main reason for running x86 is that it will scale to more processors better than Linux. (This is especially true when the system was built, back in '99.) The software that we run is heavily multi-threaded, and Solaris has better thread support. It's really as simple as that.
And yes, we've tested Linux (RH7.3) vs. Solaris (2.7) on identical hardware. Solaris won.
Why not have Perl 6 compile to Java bytecode? The VM is already written for multiple platforms.
Yes, but who's going to need more that 640k?