The question is: why aren't they moving? The answers I've most often heard are: 1) Not enough applications on X yet. 2) Not enough hardware drivers on X yet. 3) Don't like the UI
This is a really bad idea for Apple. I support a large number of Mac people, and they just aren't moving to OS X. They're buying imacs and asking me how to boot it to OS 9 by default. Apple, once again, shooting themselves in the foot.
... Ye Olde Commando Raids. Fill a couple galleys full of pikemen and longbowmen and drop them behind enermy lines. Destroy all his roads on his iron squares. Watch his front lines crumble. That's so cool.
I've been thinking about this since I got my Tivo, and I've come to the conclution that my PVR usage falls into three main uses:
1. Watching shows that I couldn't watch 'cause they're on while I'm working/sleeping. No big loss to the Ad world here. If I didn't have a Tivo anywawy, I wouldn't be watching the show, so now I'm watching the show, but skipping the ads.
2. Watching shows that I missed 'cause I have doing something else. Okay, here they might have a point. If I didn't have a Tivo, I might have stop to watch this show (with commercials), but instead I'm watching it on the Tivo and zapping though the ads. However, more likely I'd still be down the pub, and I'd just miss the show (and ads).
3. (And this is the important one) Watching shows as they're boardcast. If there's something on that I want to watch, I'm going to watch it second for second as it's broadcast. Commercials and all. Anything that's worth watching, that doesn't fall into the two above catagories, I want to watch NOW, not in half an hour. Okay, I might miss the first 5 minutes, rewind, skip one commercial, and catch up. Still, I'm getting my full dose of ads. Plus I can pause it when the phone rings.
Anything good on during Prime Time is always going to have ad money behind it. Not a Big Deal.
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ATI Radion cards work with tv out under linux. That's what I have in my mythtv box.
I don't know about you, but I've still got to support 3.11 installs...
The question is: why aren't they moving? The answers I've most often heard are:
1) Not enough applications on X yet.
2) Not enough hardware drivers on X yet.
3) Don't like the UI
No. 3. Definitely No. 3.
This is a really bad idea for Apple. I support a large number of Mac people, and they just aren't moving to OS X. They're buying imacs and asking me how to boot it to OS 9 by default. Apple, once again, shooting themselves in the foot.
... Ye Olde Commando Raids. Fill a couple galleys full of pikemen and longbowmen and drop them behind enermy lines. Destroy all his roads on his iron squares. Watch his front lines crumble. That's so cool.
I've been thinking about this since I got my Tivo, and I've come to the conclution that my PVR usage falls into three main uses:
1. Watching shows that I couldn't watch 'cause they're on while I'm working/sleeping. No big loss to the Ad world here. If I didn't have a Tivo anywawy, I wouldn't be watching the show, so now I'm watching the show, but skipping the ads.
2. Watching shows that I missed 'cause I have doing something else. Okay, here they might have a point. If I didn't have a Tivo, I might have stop to watch this show (with commercials), but instead I'm watching it on the Tivo and zapping though the ads. However, more likely I'd still be down the pub, and I'd just miss the show (and ads).
3. (And this is the important one) Watching shows as they're boardcast. If there's something on that I want to watch, I'm going to watch it second for second as it's broadcast. Commercials and all. Anything that's worth watching, that doesn't fall into the two above catagories, I want to watch NOW, not in half an hour. Okay, I might miss the first 5 minutes, rewind, skip one commercial, and catch up. Still, I'm getting my full dose of ads. Plus I can pause it when the phone rings.
Anything good on during Prime Time is always going to have ad money behind it. Not a Big Deal.
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Cases suck. Take'm apart, put'm back together in some artistic way. It has to still run though, or it doesn't count. I have a nice 486 running RH 5.2 that I use as a masqurading router. I call it the dustpuppy.
I talk to it. I live alone...
No, you'll hit my car...