Meh, we already understand the effects of legalization. When alcohol was pushed underground, deaths resulting from alcohol poisoning skyrocketed, and organized crime was invented. Meanwhile, actual alcohol consumption didn't really decrease. Sounds awfully similar to the situation with illegal drugs, doesn't it?
Of course, the ban on alcohol was eventually lifted, and these problems began to fade away (not entirely... that kind of damage is difficult to reverse). Weird we, as a society, didn't learn anything from that lesson.
You better be a tea totaller, then. Alcohol has destroyed more lives than any other drug I can think of. Funny we don't hear people screaming to imprison drunks, though...
Sure, Tivos have controls in place to stop you from modifying the OS, but they've always been easily defeated, and Tivo has never really done anything to stop it... Helped in some cases even. Tivo has *always* been friendly to people who want to expand their systems. You can even add DVD burners to the SD ones. The required drivers even "happen to be" on the hard drive already. I bet they did that by accident...
Well that's nice. Can you add additional tuners (I have two and will probably add a third)? What about adding storage (real expansion, as in adding drives to an LVM or something similar, not just replacing the stock drive)? Can it do RAID, so you don't lose the content you've collected? Can you play back downloaded content? What about music you've ripped from your CDs? I'm sure I could go on.
Point being, yes, I'm sure Tivo does the job for some. But to claim it's expandable is, I think, a little disingenuous. Can you hack around it's built-in protections to do a few limited things you're really not supposed to. I'm sure you can. But that's really not the same thing.
It was a complete headache to keep running well. I don't know anybody with a MythTV setup that isn't constantly fiddling with it.
Well, you do now. I rarely touch my Myth box, unless I'm adding new gear.
Additionally, the hardware to get a good multi-tuner rig going was expensive.
That depends. If you're planning to do SD, the tuners themselves can be had for $50 a pop (I use PVR-150s). But, yes, the price of a chassis, motherboard, etc, does add up. A basic Myth rig probably costs $500. I bet I've sunk three times that into my setup, but then again, I don't have a basic Myth rig.:) Regardless, I don't recall ever claiming that Myth was cheaper. Just that it is infinitely more flexible, powerful, and customizable.
More than "buying" (they give you a free series 2 with a one year signup) a Series 2 Tivo and paying the fee for 3 years, and the box was still bigger, louder, and uglier.
Meh, that's what a split FE/BE setup is for. My backend is big, loud, and ugly, and built from scavenged parts. My primary FE is an ultra-quiet VIA board in an attractive (IMHO) Antec Fusion case. Of course, now that my system is built, adding new FEs is relatively inexpensive, and they can all access the same library of content.
When I got my HDTV and the Myth box couldn't support it, it pushed me back over the edge to Tivo.
Agreed, this is where Myth gets complicated and, for many, impractical. Getting video gear and a CPU that can decode 1080p takes a bit of work. And even then, you're limited to OTA content or whatever comes out unencrypted over your STBs firewire link.
OTOH, I haven't jumped on the HD bandwagon yet, and probably won't for another year (I'm planning to build a front projection home theatre... until then, HD can wait). Once I do, I may switch to a Dish network provider, at which point I will, ahh... modify, my box, so I can retrieve decryped HD over a firewire link.
I see you still don't get it. This isn't about liquid water existing for some brief epoch in Martian history. This is about large quanities of liquid water existing for extended periods of time on the martian surface. Long enough to shape the landscape, trigger chemical reactions, and maybe, just maybe, provide a favourable environment for the formation of life. Given that no other planet in the solar system, aside from Earth, can boast such conditions (Europa is probably closest, though it's primary heated by gravitational tidal forces, rather than solar energy), I'd say it's a pretty remarkable discovery.
Unless you really think that weapons all come in giant crates with WEAPONS
No, they get moved in large transport vehicles across the Iraq/Syrian border by Syrian and Iraqi personelle. You don't think that would be a tad conspicuous?
yet show your own paranoia believing that every inch of the earth is under that close of a constant watch
Oh come on, don't be an ass. I said nothing about surveiling the entire planet. However, I think it goes without saying that Iraq was under pretty heavy surveillance during that period, particularly since the US government was *very* interested in finding any evidence of WMDs. Therefore, I find it *highly* unlikely that such weapons could be moved without someone, particularly the US, noticing.
Well, it's not so much about being a video nut, as wanting flexibility. With a traditional DVR, if you record something on that device, you must watch it on that device. But what if you recorded it in your living room and want to watch it in your bedroom or your home theatre, or heck, on your laptop in your backyard? Systems like MythTV make that possible, as the backend storage is separated from the frontend playback engine.
As for storage, my biggest problem came when I realized my wife was recording tons of movies and then watching them quite a while later. My 250GB was suddenly very small... fortunately, since I built my DVR, I just added another 500GB, and voila, problem solved. Plus, in my case, my DVR is really my convergence box... it plays video, music, movies, video games, you name it. So having lots of storage is pretty darn nice. And that content is available from anywhere in the house, so in the end, it also serves as a media NAS.
Anyway, regardless, it comes down to different needs. Clearly, yours are much simpler and filled by your Comcast box. It goes without saying that such a device is a bit simplistic for my needs.:)
Indeed. I had my BE done, using the Wilsonet instructions, in around 45 minutes. The FE took a little longer, mainly because I went with video gear that wasn't terribly well supported, but still pretty friggin' easy. Meanwhile, I had the FE running on my PC in the time it took to compile.
BTW, this was my first, and so far only Myth install.
While they may find a way to make this new power system harder to take down completely, the process of getting it back up after a destructive event would seem to be exponentially more difficult.
So, the question is, how hard is it to take down completely? If the answer is "extremely hard", then who cares if it takes a lot of effort to repair it?
I see you've answered your own question. But in case that's not obvious enough, the answer is: the DVR box provided by the cable co *isn't* good enough for some. They have limited storage, limited media capabilities, a featureset dictated by the cable cos (who are generally more interested in serving their advertisers than their customers), can't be networked together, tend to be buggy and crash-prone, you're tied to support from your cable co (which invariably sucks in the extreme)... I'm sure I could go on.
Meh. If the price for freedom is downconverted HD (captured from an STB), I'll take the lower res. After all, who wants HD content when you're forced to watch SD or upconverted commercials on a device you can expand or modify as you see fit?
Then again, I'm of the opinion that there's little HD content worth paying for, right now, anyway.
But at 10 and 15, I'm calling it way too early to tell how good your parenting will be in the future.
That's certainly not been my experience. IMHO, if it isn't evident your kid is fucked up by 15, odds are you're in good shape. 12-16 is *precisely* the age group when things start to go wrong, if they're going to.
ROFL. Yes, because in a world with spy satellites and so forth, the Russians and Iraqis would be able to collude and move large stockpiles of weapons to Syria without *anybody* noticing.
God, you're as bad as the 9/11 conspiracy theorists... but, such is confirmation bias.
Yes... because I'm sure the goal of this *card game* is to flat out replace a *high school chemistry syllabus*.
Honestly, quit being such a damned pedant. Will a game like this replace a proper chemistry course? No, of course not. Does it still have value? Sure, why not?
If Russia doesn't see any good reason to enforce copyright
Pardon? Russia is enforcing copyright. They have a compulsory licensing scheme set up, just like many other nations (the US included). How is that not "[enforcing] copyright"? You may not like it, but it's up to the citizens of Russia to decide how copyrights will be managed, and that's the scheme that was chosen.
Now, if they are in violation of a Russia-US treaty, that's another matter entirely. However, it's still not the case that US law is being imposed in Russia. Nor is it the case that allofmp3.com is "stealing" or "infringing copyright". They would simply be in violation of a treaty by selling to US consumers.
I couldn't agree more. RAID is definitely where it's at. Now, my approach (for home use) was to go with RAID-1 + LVM, for it's flexibility (basically a flexible RAID-10). Granted, it's much less space efficient, and the odds of a catastrophic failure increase as you add additional mirrors, but the ability to mix and match drive sizes (I have a 250GB mirror and a 500GB mirror in my setup, currently), and add/remove mirrors to the LVM easily is quite nice (yeah, I know you can resize RAID-5, but it's significantly harder, and I don't believe you can do it online).
Uhh... you do realize that it was only a few Deskstar models that were affect, and that was back in the day when they were owned by *a completely different company*, right?
Frankly, IMHO, there is no bad brand. Every manufacturer has had bad lines and good lines. Some people have had a notoriously bad time with Seagate. Others say WD is hands down the worst. Then there's the Maxtor haters. And why is this? Because every brand has bad lines, or bad batches. It's as simple as that.
So what's the answer? Do your research. Then build a RAID, preferably with drives from different batches.
It's tricky, isn't it? After all, they're operating entirely out of Russia, with no American subsidiaries, so how is it they can be violating US law? What if, say, a Mexican radio station broadcasts to US citizens? How is that any different?
Regardless, that doesn't change the fact that they aren't simply "stealing"... they are operating within the bounds of Russian copyright law. Whether or not they should be allowed to sell to non-Russian customers is a separate question.
Wait wait... the absence of crimes utilizing automatic weapons is the reason we should make them easy to acquire? That's bizarre reasoning if I've ever heard it.
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And, of course, your right to not live in fear of being attacked by a vigilante? Nice...
Meh, we already understand the effects of legalization. When alcohol was pushed underground, deaths resulting from alcohol poisoning skyrocketed, and organized crime was invented. Meanwhile, actual alcohol consumption didn't really decrease. Sounds awfully similar to the situation with illegal drugs, doesn't it?
Of course, the ban on alcohol was eventually lifted, and these problems began to fade away (not entirely... that kind of damage is difficult to reverse). Weird we, as a society, didn't learn anything from that lesson.
You better be a tea totaller, then. Alcohol has destroyed more lives than any other drug I can think of. Funny we don't hear people screaming to imprison drunks, though...
Sure, Tivos have controls in place to stop you from modifying the OS, but they've always been easily defeated, and Tivo has never really done anything to stop it... Helped in some cases even. Tivo has *always* been friendly to people who want to expand their systems. You can even add DVD burners to the SD ones. The required drivers even "happen to be" on the hard drive already. I bet they did that by accident...
:) Regardless, I don't recall ever claiming that Myth was cheaper. Just that it is infinitely more flexible, powerful, and customizable.
Well that's nice. Can you add additional tuners (I have two and will probably add a third)? What about adding storage (real expansion, as in adding drives to an LVM or something similar, not just replacing the stock drive)? Can it do RAID, so you don't lose the content you've collected? Can you play back downloaded content? What about music you've ripped from your CDs? I'm sure I could go on.
Point being, yes, I'm sure Tivo does the job for some. But to claim it's expandable is, I think, a little disingenuous. Can you hack around it's built-in protections to do a few limited things you're really not supposed to. I'm sure you can. But that's really not the same thing.
It was a complete headache to keep running well. I don't know anybody with a MythTV setup that isn't constantly fiddling with it.
Well, you do now. I rarely touch my Myth box, unless I'm adding new gear.
Additionally, the hardware to get a good multi-tuner rig going was expensive.
That depends. If you're planning to do SD, the tuners themselves can be had for $50 a pop (I use PVR-150s). But, yes, the price of a chassis, motherboard, etc, does add up. A basic Myth rig probably costs $500. I bet I've sunk three times that into my setup, but then again, I don't have a basic Myth rig.
More than "buying" (they give you a free series 2 with a one year signup) a Series 2 Tivo and paying the fee for 3 years, and the box was still bigger, louder, and uglier.
Meh, that's what a split FE/BE setup is for. My backend is big, loud, and ugly, and built from scavenged parts. My primary FE is an ultra-quiet VIA board in an attractive (IMHO) Antec Fusion case. Of course, now that my system is built, adding new FEs is relatively inexpensive, and they can all access the same library of content.
When I got my HDTV and the Myth box couldn't support it, it pushed me back over the edge to Tivo.
Agreed, this is where Myth gets complicated and, for many, impractical. Getting video gear and a CPU that can decode 1080p takes a bit of work. And even then, you're limited to OTA content or whatever comes out unencrypted over your STBs firewire link.
OTOH, I haven't jumped on the HD bandwagon yet, and probably won't for another year (I'm planning to build a front projection home theatre... until then, HD can wait). Once I do, I may switch to a Dish network provider, at which point I will, ahh... modify, my box, so I can retrieve decryped HD over a firewire link.
I see you still don't get it. This isn't about liquid water existing for some brief epoch in Martian history. This is about large quanities of liquid water existing for extended periods of time on the martian surface. Long enough to shape the landscape, trigger chemical reactions, and maybe, just maybe, provide a favourable environment for the formation of life. Given that no other planet in the solar system, aside from Earth, can boast such conditions (Europa is probably closest, though it's primary heated by gravitational tidal forces, rather than solar energy), I'd say it's a pretty remarkable discovery.
Unless you really think that weapons all come in giant crates with WEAPONS
No, they get moved in large transport vehicles across the Iraq/Syrian border by Syrian and Iraqi personelle. You don't think that would be a tad conspicuous?
yet show your own paranoia believing that every inch of the earth is under that close of a constant watch
Oh come on, don't be an ass. I said nothing about surveiling the entire planet. However, I think it goes without saying that Iraq was under pretty heavy surveillance during that period, particularly since the US government was *very* interested in finding any evidence of WMDs. Therefore, I find it *highly* unlikely that such weapons could be moved without someone, particularly the US, noticing.
Well, it's not so much about being a video nut, as wanting flexibility. With a traditional DVR, if you record something on that device, you must watch it on that device. But what if you recorded it in your living room and want to watch it in your bedroom or your home theatre, or heck, on your laptop in your backyard? Systems like MythTV make that possible, as the backend storage is separated from the frontend playback engine.
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As for storage, my biggest problem came when I realized my wife was recording tons of movies and then watching them quite a while later. My 250GB was suddenly very small... fortunately, since I built my DVR, I just added another 500GB, and voila, problem solved. Plus, in my case, my DVR is really my convergence box... it plays video, music, movies, video games, you name it. So having lots of storage is pretty darn nice. And that content is available from anywhere in the house, so in the end, it also serves as a media NAS.
Anyway, regardless, it comes down to different needs. Clearly, yours are much simpler and filled by your Comcast box. It goes without saying that such a device is a bit simplistic for my needs.
Indeed. I had my BE done, using the Wilsonet instructions, in around 45 minutes. The FE took a little longer, mainly because I went with video gear that wasn't terribly well supported, but still pretty friggin' easy. Meanwhile, I had the FE running on my PC in the time it took to compile.
BTW, this was my first, and so far only Myth install.
While they may find a way to make this new power system harder to take down completely, the process of getting it back up after a destructive event would seem to be exponentially more difficult.
So, the question is, how hard is it to take down completely? If the answer is "extremely hard", then who cares if it takes a lot of effort to repair it?
By all accounts, MediaPortal is also a very nice, free PVR package for Windows.
does for me, anyway
I see you've answered your own question. But in case that's not obvious enough, the answer is: the DVR box provided by the cable co *isn't* good enough for some. They have limited storage, limited media capabilities, a featureset dictated by the cable cos (who are generally more interested in serving their advertisers than their customers), can't be networked together, tend to be buggy and crash-prone, you're tied to support from your cable co (which invariably sucks in the extreme)... I'm sure I could go on.
Err, "a device you can't expand or modify as you see fit".
Meh. If the price for freedom is downconverted HD (captured from an STB), I'll take the lower res. After all, who wants HD content when you're forced to watch SD or upconverted commercials on a device you can expand or modify as you see fit?
Then again, I'm of the opinion that there's little HD content worth paying for, right now, anyway.
But at 10 and 15, I'm calling it way too early to tell how good your parenting will be in the future.
That's certainly not been my experience. IMHO, if it isn't evident your kid is fucked up by 15, odds are you're in good shape. 12-16 is *precisely* the age group when things start to go wrong, if they're going to.
Well, no, since the "owner" is receiving no income from the item in question, there is no tax to levy.
hen who owned Bob before Alice enslaved him? Hopefully, you're smart enough to realize it's Bob
Wrong. The answer is Bob's parents. And, as it happens, it's not unusual, all over the world, for children to be sold into slavery by their parents.
Care to try again?
ROFL. Yes, because in a world with spy satellites and so forth, the Russians and Iraqis would be able to collude and move large stockpiles of weapons to Syria without *anybody* noticing.
God, you're as bad as the 9/11 conspiracy theorists... but, such is confirmation bias.
A high school chemistry syllabus
Yes... because I'm sure the goal of this *card game* is to flat out replace a *high school chemistry syllabus*.
Honestly, quit being such a damned pedant. Will a game like this replace a proper chemistry course? No, of course not. Does it still have value? Sure, why not?
If Russia doesn't see any good reason to enforce copyright
Pardon? Russia is enforcing copyright. They have a compulsory licensing scheme set up, just like many other nations (the US included). How is that not "[enforcing] copyright"? You may not like it, but it's up to the citizens of Russia to decide how copyrights will be managed, and that's the scheme that was chosen.
Now, if they are in violation of a Russia-US treaty, that's another matter entirely. However, it's still not the case that US law is being imposed in Russia. Nor is it the case that allofmp3.com is "stealing" or "infringing copyright". They would simply be in violation of a treaty by selling to US consumers.
I couldn't agree more. RAID is definitely where it's at. Now, my approach (for home use) was to go with RAID-1 + LVM, for it's flexibility (basically a flexible RAID-10). Granted, it's much less space efficient, and the odds of a catastrophic failure increase as you add additional mirrors, but the ability to mix and match drive sizes (I have a 250GB mirror and a 500GB mirror in my setup, currently), and add/remove mirrors to the LVM easily is quite nice (yeah, I know you can resize RAID-5, but it's significantly harder, and I don't believe you can do it online).
Uhh... you do realize that it was only a few Deskstar models that were affect, and that was back in the day when they were owned by *a completely different company*, right?
Frankly, IMHO, there is no bad brand. Every manufacturer has had bad lines and good lines. Some people have had a notoriously bad time with Seagate. Others say WD is hands down the worst. Then there's the Maxtor haters. And why is this? Because every brand has bad lines, or bad batches. It's as simple as that.
So what's the answer? Do your research. Then build a RAID, preferably with drives from different batches.
Wow, I totally forgot about that... thanks for the headsup. Suddenly, I have another 30GB available on my 700GB MythTV volume.
It's tricky, isn't it? After all, they're operating entirely out of Russia, with no American subsidiaries, so how is it they can be violating US law? What if, say, a Mexican radio station broadcasts to US citizens? How is that any different?
Regardless, that doesn't change the fact that they aren't simply "stealing"... they are operating within the bounds of Russian copyright law. Whether or not they should be allowed to sell to non-Russian customers is a separate question.
Wait wait... the absence of crimes utilizing automatic weapons is the reason we should make them easy to acquire? That's bizarre reasoning if I've ever heard it.
Are those allocated or in-use pages? There's a big difference, you know.