"This makes it pretty clear what was intended - keep government entirely out of everyone's religious affairs"
Uh...no. You've already contradicted yourself with the example of human sacrifice. Preventing "religious" human sacrifice most certainly is the government interfering with religion.
Thomas Jefferson was not founding dictator of the United States. He was only one of the founding fathers and only one president.
But, back to your comment. Are you truly claiming government and religion cannot co-exist? That's not what the founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, said. You're quoting from one little letter written as a private citizien, not as a founding father or President. After he wrote that letter he called for opening prayers to God before the various governmental meetings. His own state, Virginia, required a person to be a trinity-believing Christian to hold public office.
For that matter, what does the first amendment to the Constitution state? The WHOLE amendment, that is. It says Congress shall make no law which endorses or prohibits free expressions of faith, right?
The idea that religious expressions are prohibited in any kind of government-funded activity most certainly IS a prohibition of free speech and expression of faith.
There is a huge difference between preventing religious discrimination or enforcing a state religion and preventing relious expression. You're confusing the two.
"I've stated it here before, and I'll state it again. The first 'settlers' from Europe fled here to get AWAY from being forced into a particular religion."
Wrong, that's a myth. They came to America from where? The Netherlands. There was no state religion int he Netherlands. They came to America, in large part, to excape what they saw as corrupting decadence in the society of the Netherlands.
You're also wrong about the faith fo the founding fathers. Read their own writings, not those of a so-called modern hisotry book or an email from a friend. Sorry, bud, the majority were Christians.
Interestingly, you've NOT quoted Thomas Jefferson saying the most important book to have in school was the Bible nor have you quoted him caling for opening prayers to God before the governmental meetings.
Thomas Jefferson didn't believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. He was only one of the founding fathers.
If you're going to chose a founding father to put in the position of sole source, better to go with George Washington. Remember him? The man who could have been king but chose to go back to his farm. Read his diaries and letters, they're full of references to the father God and Christ.
Funny thing about original documents, they have a way of disproving propaganda.
Lots of speculation. Is that how you cover up for lack of knowledge? Assuming you are making mention of the December 2004 tsunami, your whole sceanario falls apart when you examine the truth that warning was provided. The failure to warn wasn't from U.S. monitors, it was local governments.
Of course, the commenters aren't reading the articles. Then they'd have to acknowledge the U.S. government is ceasing a project and reducing spending. If they admitted the government is reducing spending by eliminating an unnecessary program, it wouldn't play into their paranoia. "Brown shirts", indeed! Now, if we can just get rid of that underground helium storage project which goes back to WWII...
Kyoto has nothing to do with the environment. It is an attempt to squash North American industry.
It excludes China and India from any kind of emissions controls. China consumes more material than the U.S., exclusive of oil. They burn 40% more coal without scrubbers. How many times has Slashdot linked to articles about the toxic stuff coming out of the electronics disassembly operations in China?
Europe already exceeds its allocated emissions. Oops. Guess they should stop driving and making electricity, huh?
Take a real look at where pollution actually comes from. Parroting watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside) propaganda is very irresponsible.
Don't hold your breath or waste time hoping the U.S. will have anything to do with the Kyoto thing.
Just out of curiosity, and in an attempt to deflect the bs which seems to be infiltrating this thread...
Just exactly what would the odds have been that you could have owned such a business under Saddam's rule? Would you have been able to post here at Slashdot?
"most of them are 18 year old kids, fresh out of high school and straight out of the boot camp."
Wrong, BIG TIME wrong. Boot camp is only where training starts. Enlisted folks come out of boot camp knowing very, very little of the actual skills they would use. They've learned the bare basics like how to salute and walk in a straight line. They get quite a bit more training after boot camp.
The idea that an 18 year old high school kid is dumped into a combat zone is ludicrous.
You also don't seem to know the truth of what happened in Abu Gharib prison. The photos in question didn't have a wide circulation. The whole thing was subject to a classified investigation pretty soon after it happened (and those photos were taken right after a riot was quelled, the people in the photos were primarily violent rioters, not people randomly picked off the street.) The photos were leaked by people who were being investigated, very likely in an attempt to taint the investigation so they wouldn't be prosecuted.
Don't be so quick to assume any polling is truly accurate. It's all a function of how you ask the questions and who you ask.
Zogby isn't the most accurate polling organization, to put it mildly. Follow the money. It's not that hard to see who funds Zogby and the histories of his people. "How to lie with statistics" must be on their required reading list.
70%/50% think attacks on the U.S. forces are justified? That smells of high BS.
Exactly what were the questions asked and do you truly understand the dialects? The truth of the situation doesn't match your claims. 60% turnout for public elections wouldn't have happened if your assertions were true. Nor, for that matter, would the U.S. military survive.
"U.S. forces" who are attacked include the people who are bringing plumbing, food, infrastructure, schools and safety to the Iraqis. If you ask "should the crusading American occupiers be thrown out" you'd get a very different answer than if you asked "should the people bringing you fresh water be killed."
Don't forget the number of people still at large who are, essentially, the same as the Nazi Wolverines after the end of WWII. What happened to all of the Saddam secret police folks? Did they somehow magically turn into benevolent producers for the good of the society or are they trying to escape responsibility for the things they've done?
6 months from now, if you were to look back at what you just typed, you'd see it's as wrong as predictions of slaughter of the allied forces.
When the dust settles, ISPs will no more be liable for what is communicated over their systems than the telephone carriers are responsible to monitor conversations or book stores are responsible for libelous content.
Use your noggin' and think this through. If the carriers are responsible to determine the legality of content, regardless of type of common carrier, communication will revert to pre-electronic era technologies. It's one thing to have a chemical sniffer inspecting sealed packages, quite another to determine legality of content.
This is as ridiculous an assertion as the Democrats screaming that every container and vessel would have to be inspected at American ports. The cost in incursion on traffic would be monumental that it can't be done.
Communist Germany collapsed, in part, because of the overhead of trying to monitor all communication. The Stasi had half the population spying on the other half. Think about it...
Filesharing is probably the LEAST possible aspect for the SDK. Every TiVo recording is unique so there's no standard "base" to fall back on. If you want to share a file, you'll pull it from the TiVo and put it on a PC running some form of sharing client.
The SDK is about taking a smart electronci VCR and turning it into a PC peripheral.
I've noticed that sometimes the guide data isn't up to date. There can be last-minute changes (something "big" happens) or maybe a local affiliate changes their schedule but doesn't inform anyone. This happens with one of our PBS stations.
Augmenting the TiVo guide data with data from other listing methods has been kicked around quite a bit. If you're in the U.K., you can use DigiGuide.
Seems like a no-brainer.
For that matter, there's really no reason to force all the heavy lifting onto the TiVos themselves. The SDK just might give a way to interface with the stored user configs and scheduling info. If so, there are a lot of nice possibilities.
For a while, there was some work on a buddy rating system where you'd enable a buddy list to influence suggested recordings. That would be a nice development. Imagine a genre-based autorecording based on collected ratings from fan sites.
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You're thinking of a perfect match to IMDB. A title search could be done and the results displayed as an overlayed list from which the user picks a match. Alternately, any additional info could be used to make a strongly weighted guess as to the best match which would be displayed with a single-button way for the user to see a list of the other matches with variable sorting (% hit, release date, maybe something else.)
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TWP will give a bunch of the items on that list like undelete, negative offsets, etc. The list has some duplicates.
$50 after rebate is too much for a 40G TiVo? C'mon, that's just silly.
Lots of people who complain about HD probably don't know the MPEG4 standardization which is going on right now. Look at what is happening with the satellite providers and you'll see just how close things are to being stable. A mistep on standards at this point could be monstrously expensive for any company, be they makers of DVRs or disc burners.
There are ways to do DVD burning. However, think about the data rate required. The TiVos weren't designed for that, they're basically drivers for some dedicated MPEG2 chips, not wide buses.
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4.x can run on the DTiVo boxes so you can do all the HMO stuff.
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I won't post the links but it IS possible to imitate an HD VCR and get raw transport streams from some tuners.
You seem confused about season passes. Modifying the ToDo list wrt priority as it relates to upcoming shows is a function inside the TiVo, not TWP. TWP gives you some really nice ways to sort the list. TWP gives you the ability to sort the list however you want then save it.
TWP also gives you the ability to save the season passes, wish lists, etc. and transfer that data to another box or back it up.
Viewing the contents of the box via a web browser instead of the TV screen is incredibly helpful when you've got large drives. TWP also shows the episode titles, TiVo's on-screen display doesn't do that.
TWP isn't a complete replacement for the remote control, it's a darn good complement, though.
As was just pointed out to me over at the TiVo hackers hangout, there's a direct connection between the SDK and JavaHMO. I'll slink off and shut up now, suitably embarassed.
Sending recordings from one box to another is provided through HMO or the hacked variants. You can also server streams from a PC or Mac to TiVos. Want something really cool? Set up one of the modified Sony 400-disc carousels with a DVD reader on a PC and serve streams to your TiVos. How's that for a jukebox?
Yeah, right, it's so hard to pull streams of the S2s that it takes all of 10 minutes to hack. The DEAL is so easy to do if you want your DATA and BASE your googling properly.
Think about that. Are you seriously proposing DirecTV is going to cut off everyone with DirecTiVo hardware? That doesn't make any sense. They're still advertising the DirecTiVos units daily on DirecTV. What does that tell you?
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"This makes it pretty clear what was intended - keep government entirely out of everyone's religious affairs"
Uh...no. You've already contradicted yourself with the example of human sacrifice. Preventing "religious" human sacrifice most certainly is the government interfering with religion.
Thomas Jefferson was not founding dictator of the United States. He was only one of the founding fathers and only one president.
But, back to your comment. Are you truly claiming government and religion cannot co-exist? That's not what the founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, said. You're quoting from one little letter written as a private citizien, not as a founding father or President. After he wrote that letter he called for opening prayers to God before the various governmental meetings. His own state, Virginia, required a person to be a trinity-believing Christian to hold public office.
For that matter, what does the first amendment to the Constitution state? The WHOLE amendment, that is. It says Congress shall make no law which endorses or prohibits free expressions of faith, right?
The idea that religious expressions are prohibited in any kind of government-funded activity most certainly IS a prohibition of free speech and expression of faith.
There is a huge difference between preventing religious discrimination or enforcing a state religion and preventing relious expression. You're confusing the two.
You're Dowdifying historical fact.
"I've stated it here before, and I'll state it again. The first 'settlers' from Europe fled here to get AWAY from being forced into a particular religion."
Wrong, that's a myth. They came to America from where? The Netherlands. There was no state religion int he Netherlands. They came to America, in large part, to excape what they saw as corrupting decadence in the society of the Netherlands.
You're also wrong about the faith fo the founding fathers. Read their own writings, not those of a so-called modern hisotry book or an email from a friend. Sorry, bud, the majority were Christians.
Interestingly, you've NOT quoted Thomas Jefferson saying the most important book to have in school was the Bible nor have you quoted him caling for opening prayers to God before the governmental meetings.
Thomas Jefferson didn't believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. He was only one of the founding fathers.
If you're going to chose a founding father to put in the position of sole source, better to go with George Washington. Remember him? The man who could have been king but chose to go back to his farm. Read his diaries and letters, they're full of references to the father God and Christ.
Funny thing about original documents, they have a way of disproving propaganda.
Lots of speculation. Is that how you cover up for lack of knowledge? Assuming you are making mention of the December 2004 tsunami, your whole sceanario falls apart when you examine the truth that warning was provided. The failure to warn wasn't from U.S. monitors, it was local governments.
Of course, the commenters aren't reading the articles. Then they'd have to acknowledge the U.S. government is ceasing a project and reducing spending. If they admitted the government is reducing spending by eliminating an unnecessary program, it wouldn't play into their paranoia. "Brown shirts", indeed! Now, if we can just get rid of that underground helium storage project which goes back to WWII...
If slashdot editors were savants, they wouldn't repost the same flippin' articles all the time.
Well, then again, maybe their savants at reposting their own articles and those of hackaday.
Kyoto has nothing to do with the environment. It is an attempt to squash North American industry.
It excludes China and India from any kind of emissions controls. China consumes more material than the U.S., exclusive of oil. They burn 40% more coal without scrubbers. How many times has Slashdot linked to articles about the toxic stuff coming out of the electronics disassembly operations in China?
Europe already exceeds its allocated emissions. Oops. Guess they should stop driving and making electricity, huh?
Take a real look at where pollution actually comes from. Parroting watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside) propaganda is very irresponsible.
Don't hold your breath or waste time hoping the U.S. will have anything to do with the Kyoto thing.
Just out of curiosity, and in an attempt to deflect the bs which seems to be infiltrating this thread...
Just exactly what would the odds have been that you could have owned such a business under Saddam's rule? Would you have been able to post here at Slashdot?
You've never been in the military, have you?
"most of them are 18 year old kids, fresh out of high school and straight out of the boot camp."
Wrong, BIG TIME wrong. Boot camp is only where training starts. Enlisted folks come out of boot camp knowing very, very little of the actual skills they would use. They've learned the bare basics like how to salute and walk in a straight line. They get quite a bit more training after boot camp.
The idea that an 18 year old high school kid is dumped into a combat zone is ludicrous.
You also don't seem to know the truth of what happened in Abu Gharib prison. The photos in question didn't have a wide circulation. The whole thing was subject to a classified investigation pretty soon after it happened (and those photos were taken right after a riot was quelled, the people in the photos were primarily violent rioters, not people randomly picked off the street.) The photos were leaked by people who were being investigated, very likely in an attempt to taint the investigation so they wouldn't be prosecuted.
Don't be so quick to assume any polling is truly accurate. It's all a function of how you ask the questions and who you ask.
Zogby isn't the most accurate polling organization, to put it mildly. Follow the money. It's not that hard to see who funds Zogby and the histories of his people. "How to lie with statistics" must be on their required reading list.
70%/50% think attacks on the U.S. forces are justified? That smells of high BS.
Exactly what were the questions asked and do you truly understand the dialects? The truth of the situation doesn't match your claims. 60% turnout for public elections wouldn't have happened if your assertions were true. Nor, for that matter, would the U.S. military survive.
"U.S. forces" who are attacked include the people who are bringing plumbing, food, infrastructure, schools and safety to the Iraqis. If you ask "should the crusading American occupiers be thrown out" you'd get a very different answer than if you asked "should the people bringing you fresh water be killed."
Don't forget the number of people still at large who are, essentially, the same as the Nazi Wolverines after the end of WWII. What happened to all of the Saddam secret police folks? Did they somehow magically turn into benevolent producers for the good of the society or are they trying to escape responsibility for the things they've done?
6 months from now, if you were to look back at what you just typed, you'd see it's as wrong as predictions of slaughter of the allied forces.
When the dust settles, ISPs will no more be liable for what is communicated over their systems than the telephone carriers are responsible to monitor conversations or book stores are responsible for libelous content.
Use your noggin' and think this through. If the carriers are responsible to determine the legality of content, regardless of type of common carrier, communication will revert to pre-electronic era technologies. It's one thing to have a chemical sniffer inspecting sealed packages, quite another to determine legality of content.
This is as ridiculous an assertion as the Democrats screaming that every container and vessel would have to be inspected at American ports. The cost in incursion on traffic would be monumental that it can't be done.
Communist Germany collapsed, in part, because of the overhead of trying to monitor all communication. The Stasi had half the population spying on the other half. Think about it...
Yeah, I'm rooting for them, actually.
How long before we have a BG Technical Guide like the one for Classic ST?
Filesharing is probably the LEAST possible aspect for the SDK. Every TiVo recording is unique so there's no standard "base" to fall back on. If you want to share a file, you'll pull it from the TiVo and put it on a PC running some form of sharing client.
The SDK is about taking a smart electronci VCR and turning it into a PC peripheral.
I've noticed that sometimes the guide data isn't up to date. There can be last-minute changes (something "big" happens) or maybe a local affiliate changes their schedule but doesn't inform anyone. This happens with one of our PBS stations.
Augmenting the TiVo guide data with data from other listing methods has been kicked around quite a bit. If you're in the U.K., you can use DigiGuide.
Seems like a no-brainer.
For that matter, there's really no reason to force all the heavy lifting onto the TiVos themselves. The SDK just might give a way to interface with the stored user configs and scheduling info. If so, there are a lot of nice possibilities.
For a while, there was some work on a buddy rating system where you'd enable a buddy list to influence suggested recordings. That would be a nice development. Imagine a genre-based autorecording based on collected ratings from fan sites.
You're thinking of a perfect match to IMDB. A title search could be done and the results displayed as an overlayed list from which the user picks a match. Alternately, any additional info could be used to make a strongly weighted guess as to the best match which would be displayed with a single-button way for the user to see a list of the other matches with variable sorting (% hit, release date, maybe something else.)
TWP will give a bunch of the items on that list like undelete, negative offsets, etc. The list has some duplicates.
$50 after rebate is too much for a 40G TiVo? C'mon, that's just silly.
Lots of people who complain about HD probably don't know the MPEG4 standardization which is going on right now. Look at what is happening with the satellite providers and you'll see just how close things are to being stable. A mistep on standards at this point could be monstrously expensive for any company, be they makers of DVRs or disc burners.
There are ways to do DVD burning. However, think about the data rate required. The TiVos weren't designed for that, they're basically drivers for some dedicated MPEG2 chips, not wide buses.
4.x can run on the DTiVo boxes so you can do all the HMO stuff.
I won't post the links but it IS possible to imitate an HD VCR and get raw transport streams from some tuners.
I don't think I said TWP was hte end all, be all.
It doesn't let you create a season pass.
You seem confused about season passes. Modifying the ToDo list wrt priority as it relates to upcoming shows is a function inside the TiVo, not TWP. TWP gives you some really nice ways to sort the list. TWP gives you the ability to sort the list however you want then save it.
TWP also gives you the ability to save the season passes, wish lists, etc. and transfer that data to another box or back it up.
Viewing the contents of the box via a web browser instead of the TV screen is incredibly helpful when you've got large drives. TWP also shows the episode titles, TiVo's on-screen display doesn't do that.
TWP isn't a complete replacement for the remote control, it's a darn good complement, though.
As was just pointed out to me over at the TiVo hackers hangout, there's a direct connection between the SDK and JavaHMO. I'll slink off and shut up now, suitably embarassed.
Yeah, there's a direct connection to the JavaHMO project. Maybe this is why there haven't been updates lately.
Uh...you do know the DirecTV HD boxes are out and work with the extraction tools, don't you?
Holy cow! Some a** stole the name javahmo. The whole thing looks like a ripoff of javahmo!!
http://javahmo.sourceforge.net/
Sending recordings from one box to another is provided through HMO or the hacked variants. You can also server streams from a PC or Mac to TiVos. Want something really cool? Set up one of the modified Sony 400-disc carousels with a DVD reader on a PC and serve streams to your TiVos. How's that for a jukebox?
Yeah, right, it's so hard to pull streams of the S2s that it takes all of 10 minutes to hack. The DEAL is so easy to do if you want your DATA and BASE your googling properly.
Think about that. Are you seriously proposing DirecTV is going to cut off everyone with DirecTiVo hardware? That doesn't make any sense. They're still advertising the DirecTiVos units daily on DirecTV. What does that tell you?