The fact that Tivo is doing this violates the basic concept behind why the boxes are selling at all.
Since you don't own a TiVo, and I do, this really makes me laugh. If you knew anything about how these ads worked, or even how TiVo worked, you might not have your panties in quite the twist.
Big whoop. P2P becomes the latest transport mechanism for viruses. It's not exploiting a hole in Kazaa, it's just sharing a folder with virus-infected executables labeled with intriguing names that are likely to be downloaded by Kazaa users.
If these users are then dumb enough to run an executable file they download from an unknown source, they will be infected.
While in the olden days of CGI everyone would have their own copy of cgi-lib.pl, now PERL has this functionality built in -- we just do stuff like do stuff like "my $query = new CGI;"
This is not true, actually. In this last line, you're using the CGI module by Lincoln Stein, instead of the cgi-lib.pl module. Neither are built into Perl.
That will make the Java runtime slow(er) though because all requests have to time out (unless you're running a webserver).
Errr no. Java is multi-threaded. Obviously they must be doing this in another thread, or every time someone uses this thing behind a firewall or off a network, it would block. I don't think so.
Can someone tell me, what do being a geek and being a fantacy freak have in common?
In addition to Star Wars, I love a hundred other movies.
What does loving Star Wars have to do with being a "fantasy freak"?
Get real guys.
Yes guys, get real... by staying inside and coding instead of going out with a girlfriend or even a bunch of your buddies to see Star Wars, ogle Natalie Portman's perky nipples, etc.
Yes, which requires constantly re-syncing the devices. The devices will probably often go out of sync from people manually controlling the devices on the faceplate. It sounds cumbersome to me.
It's very simple. Just use the remote to control your devices, and don't mess with them manually. You bought this remote so you don't need to interact with them physically, why would you keep doing that?
My friend has a Pronto. When we're done watching TV, TiVo, or DVD, he just hits the off button, and all the devices are turned off, and the lights are turned back on in the room. Simple.
He presses pause, and things pause, and the lights are turned on in a dim fashion.
Very cool. Sounds like this thing works the same, but with some physical buttons which I think Pronto lacks.
Not to mention, they support a broad range of OS' very well: Windows, Linux, MacOSX, and at one time BeOS.
Ouch, you touched on a sore subject. nVidia didn't do shit for the BeOS drivers.
I think the guys at Be who created the drivers for nvidia cards (mostly Leo Schwab, I think) had to rely on what little information was publically available, and "a little bird" (as Leo put it) to get the unified driver done. Even so, it never had any 3D capabilities, nor even DVI support (which I constantly pestered Leo about).
I'm hoping OpenBeOS can get to a point where it has enough clout to warrant better support from nVidia!
Yes, laptops will get smaller and smaller, but they're forever going to be constrained by screen size and (to a lesser extent) power. I don't think we'll ever see a laptop with a 17" screen that fits in your pocket.
Yes, portable computers with physical screens are constrained by screen size. That's why there will be a shift to virtual screens that are projected onto your retinas (or viewable through projection glasses), for ultimate portability. It's only a matter of time before this technology is perfected.
One valid argument against legalised heroin is that sometimes people's choices harm others. For instance, if I end up having to foot the medical bills of heroin users, then it *is* my business what other people do in the privacy of their own homes. So, along with legal drugs I would also support education to warn people of dangers.
In a libertarian society that legalizes heroin and other drugs, you would not be paying the medical bills of heroin users. Either someone that knows them would pay their bills, or they'd get charity from people that like to help those on drugs, or they'd die. A much better deterrent to drugs is their awful reality, rather than trying to make them hard to get (which doesn't work).
I don't know about you, but I'm a TimeWarner customer already. I use their digital cable service. Since TW is an investor in TiVo, I was begging them to integrate TiVo into their digital cable box a couple years ago. They didn't. So I bought a TiVo anyway, and now I feed the S-Video output from the digital cable box into it.
How exactly is TW gonna force me to use their box without ad skipping? If they've got video outputs on the box, which they will, then I can continue to use TiVo.
Simple as that.
If they want to offer me an integrated cable/PVR, well I'll look into that as well, but without ad-skipping, I'll be skipping that!
When AtheOS was "outed," it was really far along. Especially when you consider it was all written by one person.
Similarly, OpenBeOS was impressive because it garnered a big crowd working on it rather quickly, and working code soon followed, to the chagrin of many. (There's already much work done on the kernel, via NewOS, BFS, the network stack, the GUI implementation, various preference and utility apps, and much more.)
AtheOS was a new OS built for fun (seemingly) by a guy that was impressed (but maybe not directly influenced) by BeOS. More power to him.
OpenBeOS is being built by fans of BeOS who want to see an open source version that can live on in binary compatability (for the first releases), and eventually progress beyond what Be, Inc. did (RIP).
Where does Cosmoes fit in to things? This guy forked AtheOS against the original author's wishes (welcome to the world of Open Source, Kurt), in order to... what? Run BeOS apps on Linux? Run AtheOS apps on Linux? Run BeOS apps on AtheOS? Run MacOS X apps on Linux?
Honestly I'm trying to figure out what the goals are; I don't mean to be negative. If the guy is just doing this like Kurt, to have fun, then great... Otherwise, why promote this thing so much when virtually nothing is done? He admits the most of the hard stuff is waiting to be done. Instead of doing an interview, announcing the code fork, etc, why not start coding and announce it when you've got something to show for it?
If you're in the market for a really nice house, the fact that it's in a "gated community" is an extreme perk, because it limits the amount of traffic (esp. unknown traffic) going around your house. If the gate is guarded by a person, it's even better.
Each id game is pretty much a tech demo for what we should expect to see in the intervening years between games- I don't expect much out of Doom III- but it's a harbinger of the next Half-Life.
Speak for yourself. For many people that enjoy deathmatch over single player, the id Software games are king. I still prefer Quake 3 Arena over any other for deathmatch.
Erastothenes comfortably sat in Greece with a stick and theorized (correctly) about the nature of the world. Columbus ponied up his own ass and sailed over a horizon where, to the best of his knowledge, nobody'd ever been. He risked himself to experience that world. Ya can see the same difference today between astronomers and astronauts.
Without astronomers, there would be no astronauts!
Slashdot Mirror
The fact that Tivo is doing this violates the basic concept behind why the boxes are selling at all.
Since you don't own a TiVo, and I do, this really makes me laugh. If you knew anything about how these ads worked, or even how TiVo worked, you might not have your panties in quite the twist.
Now only if you could type clearly as well.
Yes this is true but ALOT of end users dont know any better or arent smart enough not to or just dont care.
If you mean "A LOT," you are correct. (I don't know what "ALOT" is, though... is it anything like "ALITTLE?")
I know they always say all the time not to do it but I still have end users trying to open virus e-mails
Then if you maintain that network you need to setup a filter to delete executable attachments from incoming/outgoing email!
Big whoop. P2P becomes the latest transport mechanism for viruses. It's not exploiting a hole in Kazaa, it's just sharing a folder with virus-infected executables labeled with intriguing names that are likely to be downloaded by Kazaa users.
If these users are then dumb enough to run an executable file they download from an unknown source, they will be infected.
Wow.
While in the olden days of CGI everyone would have their own copy of cgi-lib.pl, now PERL has this functionality built in -- we just do stuff like do stuff like "my $query = new CGI;"
This is not true, actually. In this last line, you're using the CGI module by Lincoln Stein, instead of the cgi-lib.pl module. Neither are built into Perl.
That will make the Java runtime slow(er) though because all requests have to time out (unless you're running a webserver).
Errr no. Java is multi-threaded. Obviously they must be doing this in another thread, or every time someone uses this thing behind a firewall or off a network, it would block. I don't think so.
imrworldwide.com 127.0.0.1
Whoops, I reversed it, use this instead:
127.0.0.1 imrworldwide.com
Can someone tell me, what do being a geek and being a fantacy freak have in common?
In addition to Star Wars, I love a hundred other movies.
What does loving Star Wars have to do with being a "fantasy freak"?
Get real guys.
Yes guys, get real... by staying inside and coding instead of going out with a girlfriend or even a bunch of your buddies to see Star Wars, ogle Natalie Portman's perky nipples, etc.
Friggin math geek.
In W2K/XP, look in winnt\system32\drivers\etc for a file called hosts. Add this line:
imrworldwide.com 127.0.0.1
Save. Reboot. (Or kill the java/browser processes and restart them.)
That's horrible wording in the poll... I skipped work to see the movie, but I sure didn't "miss" work!
Yeah, if someone knew I watched a lot of Junkyard Wars, Iron Chef, and Enterprise, why they could... er, they could, um...
They might then be able to target advertisements specifically to your tastes, which obvious is terrible because errr, uhhhh...
Oh fuck it.
Yes, which requires constantly re-syncing the devices. The devices will probably often go out of sync from people manually controlling the devices on the faceplate. It sounds cumbersome to me.
It's very simple. Just use the remote to control your devices, and don't mess with them manually. You bought this remote so you don't need to interact with them physically, why would you keep doing that?
My friend has a Pronto. When we're done watching TV, TiVo, or DVD, he just hits the off button, and all the devices are turned off, and the lights are turned back on in the room. Simple.
He presses pause, and things pause, and the lights are turned on in a dim fashion.
Very cool. Sounds like this thing works the same, but with some physical buttons which I think Pronto lacks.
Not to mention, they support a broad range of OS' very well: Windows, Linux, MacOSX, and at one time BeOS.
Ouch, you touched on a sore subject. nVidia didn't do shit for the BeOS drivers.
I think the guys at Be who created the drivers for nvidia cards (mostly Leo Schwab, I think) had to rely on what little information was publically available, and "a little bird" (as Leo put it) to get the unified driver done. Even so, it never had any 3D capabilities, nor even DVI support (which I constantly pestered Leo about).
I'm hoping OpenBeOS can get to a point where it has enough clout to warrant better support from nVidia!
TiVo Series2 was at Best Buy for $399 I think, for a 60 hour unit. (Maybe it was $299, I can't remember.)
You're going to have a hard time finding a working TiVo for 'relatively cheap', because everyone wants one, and the supply is low right now.
Yes, laptops will get smaller and smaller, but they're forever going to be constrained by screen size and (to a lesser extent) power. I don't think we'll ever see a laptop with a 17" screen that fits in your pocket.
Yes, portable computers with physical screens are constrained by screen size. That's why there will be a shift to virtual screens that are projected onto your retinas (or viewable through projection glasses), for ultimate portability. It's only a matter of time before this technology is perfected.
Slap a type-R sticker on your drive. I did it, and I swear I got an extra MB/sec out of my ATA/100.
I'm thinking of putting a spoiler on it. I figure that's good for at least 850KB/sec. Any recommendations?
Two words: Nitrous Oxide!
One valid argument against legalised heroin is that sometimes people's choices harm others. For instance, if I end up having to foot the medical bills of heroin users, then it *is* my business what other people do in the privacy of their own homes. So, along with legal drugs I would also support education to warn people of dangers.
In a libertarian society that legalizes heroin and other drugs, you would not be paying the medical bills of heroin users. Either someone that knows them would pay their bills, or they'd get charity from people that like to help those on drugs, or they'd die. A much better deterrent to drugs is their awful reality, rather than trying to make them hard to get (which doesn't work).
I don't know about you, but I'm a TimeWarner customer already. I use their digital cable service. Since TW is an investor in TiVo, I was begging them to integrate TiVo into their digital cable box a couple years ago. They didn't. So I bought a TiVo anyway, and now I feed the S-Video output from the digital cable box into it.
How exactly is TW gonna force me to use their box without ad skipping? If they've got video outputs on the box, which they will, then I can continue to use TiVo.
Simple as that.
If they want to offer me an integrated cable/PVR, well I'll look into that as well, but without ad-skipping, I'll be skipping that!
When AtheOS was "outed," it was really far along. Especially when you consider it was all written by one person.
... what? Run BeOS apps on Linux? Run AtheOS apps on Linux? Run BeOS apps on AtheOS? Run MacOS X apps on Linux?
Similarly, OpenBeOS was impressive because it garnered a big crowd working on it rather quickly, and working code soon followed, to the chagrin of many. (There's already much work done on the kernel, via NewOS, BFS, the network stack, the GUI implementation, various preference and utility apps, and much more.)
AtheOS was a new OS built for fun (seemingly) by a guy that was impressed (but maybe not directly influenced) by BeOS. More power to him.
OpenBeOS is being built by fans of BeOS who want to see an open source version that can live on in binary compatability (for the first releases), and eventually progress beyond what Be, Inc. did (RIP).
Where does Cosmoes fit in to things? This guy forked AtheOS against the original author's wishes (welcome to the world of Open Source, Kurt), in order to
Honestly I'm trying to figure out what the goals are; I don't mean to be negative. If the guy is just doing this like Kurt, to have fun, then great... Otherwise, why promote this thing so much when virtually nothing is done? He admits the most of the hard stuff is waiting to be done. Instead of doing an interview, announcing the code fork, etc, why not start coding and announce it when you've got something to show for it?
Except that in Gattica, they were doing it to get rid of (or obtain) DNA samples, not to clean bacteria off the keyboards.
Will the bomb-carriers will have their own swarm of bees trained to kill any bees sniffing around in their vicinity?
Will they also train the bees to viciously swarm and attack the person carrying the bomb?
The type of music used in Moulin Rouge is called a "medley," where several unrelated songs are joined together with music segues.
I believe these "mish mash" songs in this article are something different.
If you're in the market for a really nice house, the fact that it's in a "gated community" is an extreme perk, because it limits the amount of traffic (esp. unknown traffic) going around your house. If the gate is guarded by a person, it's even better.
Each id game is pretty much a tech demo for what we should expect to see in the intervening years between games- I don't expect much out of Doom III- but it's a harbinger of the next Half-Life.
Speak for yourself. For many people that enjoy deathmatch over single player, the id Software games are king. I still prefer Quake 3 Arena over any other for deathmatch.
Erastothenes comfortably sat in Greece with a stick and theorized (correctly) about the nature of the world.
Columbus ponied up his own ass and sailed over a horizon where, to the best of his knowledge, nobody'd ever been. He risked himself to experience that world.
Ya can see the same difference today between astronomers and astronauts.
Without astronomers, there would be no astronauts!