Check out http://www.mythtv.org/ it has Live TV and is going thought massive development right now and looking more and more like a replacement for many tivo functions.
This guy is using a very ify setup. Look at some of the other PVR projects like mythtv that have nice menu and can do alot better then what he is doing. This project is like the guy who built a water cooler for his PC using 2 Dollors worth of part not something anyone who known alot about the topic would every do but show hackablty of something like this.
Well I worked for Wal-Mart in the electronic dept and can tell you that you have never seen the wholesale prices on these thing. There were several TV/Vcr/DVD that cost ous more to buy then what we sold them for. Not counting thing like shipping and cost of emplyees to sell. The Idea was is that when they bought a TV you could sell them cables which can have upto 200% mark up plus maybe some black video 40%-60% and maybe a DVD from 20% to 80%. So even thought we may have lost $15 on that TV we would make $2.5 profit from the 10 Pack of Videos and $18 from those 5 DVD you bought well you were there.
As for the minium 15 per store Wal-Mart doesn't due that but I can tell you that Wal-Mart try to make sure you have enf to get thought a sale to the extant that some items would take years to sell the overstock on when Wal-Mart would put something on sale nobody cared about.
I don't known about Danish law but in the US the person that would be screwed is her Poor parents they are the one who would be forced to pay. It does raise 1 Questions how is RIAA and group like it around the world going to deal with the fact that most of the people that are doing fileshare are not adults but teens many under 14 which means that you can't be consider an adult in most states. They will most likely go after there parents for not controlling there children but that could get really ugly which is why the RIAA hasn't been going after the sharing in the US.
Under Comcast Install it for the most part is. Just like any crappy windows software it leaves it dir. config files and a few reg. because they are created after the install but it stops running and disapears. The software isn't spyware. It take a snapshot of you network setup and store it both locally and remotely on a comcast server so that tech support it theory could look at you setting to confirm your configartion is the same. As includes some crappy support software that will try and guide you thought basic repairs that no one uses because those that the instructions would help just call in to support and those that would they to fix it have for the most part already tried all of those fixes.
That software isn't nessacy and most install tech wont install if the sub ask you not to but the installer probly wouldn't known how to setup a pc without installing the software so it would be up to the sub to get there PC working.
Actully it is done more to block those users who don't know what file and Print sharing does and let people all over the world see there info. PS if you aren't running some form of VPN to tunnel access to you server then you should get rooted.
I am soory to let you know but Java is used for many mission critical role's. I have worked at 2 Differnet companys were java based apps were the core to admin systems that made our jobs imposible when dead. We had more problems with the Windows NT Workstations then those Java Apps.
What do you think happens to all the fiber that was layed by a bankrupt company. Somebody buys it for Penny's on the dollor if that much so. ATT or Version or X Company Has all that dark fiber now. IT may take a Year or Two for Fiber to change hands but it still is avaible for sometime to come.
Every Hear of something called the freedom of infomation act. All record for the most part must be made avaible per request by a US Citzen.
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You have never done support have you. I do both windows and mac support and when I ask some users what version of windows they replay windows 97 because the installed office 97 on top of there windows 95 or 98.
By the way who is more arroganent you because you think you known what support tech go thought or this guy who was repeating what is probly a common call for him.
Yes and No. I do tech support all day for windows and also mantain my several PC for Relatives and can tell you that most of the 9x system become unstable after 3 to 6 Months doesn't make a difference what type of Hardware running on. As for 2000 it is much more stable have been running in on several machines for about 1 year and it just works with the normal daily reboots to keep the windows zombies process down. How every it to has problems. Every day I see system less the 6 Month Olds running XP Both Versions that are already unstable. Yes it can be hardware related or that fact that there childen have installed software that made there machines that way but do go telling me that windows it that great because it isn't.
Under This Vain. I used Wordperfect for Linux and it sucked badly. I have been using linix since slackware kernel 1.3 back in the days before slackware had version number and redhat since 4.0 and I needed help getting Wordperfect installed and never ran right.
As for Whether or not Nero would have any success depends on what Nero Did. If that made software that ran as well as there windows version with all the options enabled then I would bye it for about the same as the windows version maybe a little premium. If they made a version that took 2 Hours to install and once installed never worked well and had only the same options as XCD-Roast then yes I wouldn't by nero.
I am sorry but I have to reply. When I first looked a consumer level Digital Camera for $1000.00 dollars your could get a 1.3 Mega Pixel Camera. When I bought mine with a 360 Meg Smart Driver wanted lots of room. It was $1000.00 for 3.x Mega Pixel Camera. I have checked in a while but my guess is that for $1000.00 Dollars you can get a hell of alot better then 3.x Mega Pixel today.
Ever hear of a thing called web proxy's in the case of the one I go thought it reports itself as IE under window nt If I rember my logs right even thought I am using netscape under linux. So there are reasons why IE / windows can show up so High in web trends.
NO true as some who got his First DOS based PC in High School back in 1987. They were used in Corp. type setting and were faster then a typewriter and didnt have to use whiteout anymore. Yes Most Unix and mainframes were used by tech and/or college students but may PC were used by receptions and other support staff althought during that time not many boss's
NO They are an ISP not an NSP. They Only have to answer to there custmers. Whereas an NSP is more like a common carrier. An ISP provides direct access to custmers whereas an NSP provide access to networks like ISP think backbone, granted that line blurs sometime but for the most part they are separt. If UUNet decided it was going to block access to RIAA Network then that might be an issue.
As someone who works for comcast I doubt it by try safeweb and see if you get thought. I haven't recieved any info regarding this so my quess it has been slashdoted.
In the current system, with separate IDs for every agency, there is no way for a cop who looks at your driver's license to also check out your employment history, credit rating, drug prescriptions, criminal records, religious affiliation, or anything else not associated with your driving records. The cop could not call up the AMA and find your drug prescriptions because there is no unique, persistent relationship between your driver's license and medical record. No, I hate to break it to you, but your name, birthdate, address, and phone number are not unique, persistent identifiers.
I don't know about you but in Marland my DL also has my SSN Number assocated with it. In VA your DL Number is your SSN. With that SSN Number they could get access to all of that data anyway but for the most part they Can't due to state and federal regualtions. The Fact is that even if a US Id Card get created it use and the data assocated with it by the gov't will be controled and/or regulated.
It wont stop even more data assocated with it like you SSN Number but that is already being done already. So the idea of a National ID isn't as bad as many say it is.
You happen to be right on this one. I do tech support and I am already starting to see Windows XP Home Systems that are having "bitrot" already. Things like spyware and adware are taken a straight on XP already.
As Someone who owned 2 KFlex Modem and Did Internet Support for an ISP. I can tell you that most X2 and KFlex Modem were upgradable to V90 with the only except I was aware of being the Packaged Bell 56K/X2 Modem that had no flash ram so they couldn't be upgrade.
Actually 2x = 2 times the Standard DVD Speed. The DVD Forum Set a Speed I don't known what that is but a speed and in order for your drive to be called a DVD drive it had to meet or beat that speed. that speed is sometimes Called 1x. CD also have a standard that was set back many years ago and Again a CDrom had to meet that speed in order to be called a Multi-media CD. Those 2 Speed are different so that is why you can see 40x CD that is also a 12x DVD Drive.
Wrong. I had a VCR when the top gun first came out and the reason most videos were so expensive was simple. There weren't that many people who owned a VCR. On my block I was the first to own a VCR. I payed over $80.00 for the First Star War's movie and was paying about $10.00 for one T-90 Blank Video Tape. I owned maybe 10 movie under the heading of beloved movies. Over time volume kicked in and prices came down. I can now pick up a 10 Pack of T-120 for around 9 Bucks at Wal-Mart. And Movies sometime aslow as $2.50 new. Now I own over 500 Movies many I watch maybe once a year but the movie only cost $6.96 and its worth buying at that price.
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Check out http://www.mythtv.org/ it has Live TV and is going thought massive development right now and looking more and more like a replacement for many tivo functions.
This guy is using a very ify setup. Look at some of the other PVR projects like mythtv that have nice menu and can do alot better then what he is doing. This project is like the guy who built a water cooler for his PC using 2 Dollors worth of part not something anyone who known alot about the topic would every do but show hackablty of something like this.
Well I worked for Wal-Mart in the electronic dept and can tell you that you have never seen the wholesale prices on these thing. There were several TV/Vcr/DVD that cost ous more to buy then what we sold them for. Not counting thing like shipping and cost of emplyees to sell. The Idea was is that when they bought a TV you could sell them cables which can have upto 200% mark up plus maybe some black video 40%-60% and maybe a DVD from 20% to 80%. So even thought we may have lost $15 on that TV we would make $2.5 profit from the 10 Pack of Videos and $18 from those 5 DVD you bought well you were there.
As for the minium 15 per store Wal-Mart doesn't due that but I can tell you that Wal-Mart try to make sure you have enf to get thought a sale to the extant that some items would take years to sell the overstock on when Wal-Mart would put something on sale nobody cared about.
I don't known about Danish law but in the US the person that would be screwed is her Poor parents they are the one who would be forced to pay. It does raise 1 Questions how is RIAA and group like it around the world going to deal with the fact that most of the people that are doing fileshare are not adults but teens many under 14 which means that you can't be consider an adult in most states. They will most likely go after there parents for not controlling there children but that could get really ugly which is why the RIAA hasn't been going after the sharing in the US.
Under Comcast Install it for the most part is. Just like any crappy windows software it leaves it dir. config files and a few reg. because they are created after the install but it stops running and disapears. The software isn't spyware. It take a snapshot of you network setup and store it both locally and remotely on a comcast server so that tech support it theory could look at you setting to confirm your configartion is the same. As includes some crappy support software that will try and guide you thought basic repairs that no one uses because those that the instructions would help just call in to support and those that would they to fix it have for the most part already tried all of those fixes.
That software isn't nessacy and most install tech wont install if the sub ask you not to but the installer probly wouldn't known how to setup a pc without installing the software so it would be up to the sub to get there PC working.
Doesn't work under netscape.
Actully it is done more to block those users who don't know what file and Print sharing does and let people all over the world see there info. PS if you aren't running some form of VPN to tunnel access to you server then you should get rooted.
I am soory to let you know but Java is used for many mission critical role's. I have worked at 2 Differnet companys were java based apps were the core to admin systems that made our jobs imposible when dead. We had more problems with the Windows NT Workstations then those Java Apps.
What do you think happens to all the fiber that was layed by a bankrupt company. Somebody buys it for Penny's on the dollor if that much so. ATT or Version or X Company Has all that dark fiber now. IT may take a Year or Two for Fiber to change hands but it still is avaible for sometime to come.
Not that I by either of your numbers but there are other OS then Linux. Solarous(sp?) user GNOME so both of your statments could be correct.
Every Hear of something called the freedom of infomation act. All record for the most part must be made avaible per request by a US Citzen.
You have never done support have you. I do both windows and mac support and when I ask some users what version of windows they replay windows 97 because the installed office 97 on top of there windows 95 or 98.
By the way who is more arroganent you because you think you known what support tech go thought or this guy who was repeating what is probly a common call for him.
Yes and No. I do tech support all day for windows and also mantain my several PC for Relatives and can tell you that most of the 9x system become unstable after 3 to 6 Months doesn't make a difference what type of Hardware running on. As for 2000 it is much more stable have been running in on several machines for about 1 year and it just works with the normal daily reboots to keep the windows zombies process down. How every it to has problems. Every day I see system less the 6 Month Olds running XP Both Versions that are already unstable. Yes it can be hardware related or that fact that there childen have installed software that made there machines that way but do go telling me that windows it that great because it isn't.
Under This Vain. I used Wordperfect for Linux and it sucked badly. I have been using linix since slackware kernel 1.3 back in the days before slackware had version number and redhat since 4.0 and I needed help getting Wordperfect installed and never ran right.
As for Whether or not Nero would have any success depends on what Nero Did. If that made software that ran as well as there windows version with all the options enabled then I would bye it for about the same as the windows version maybe a little premium. If they made a version that took 2 Hours to install and once installed never worked well and had only the same options as XCD-Roast then yes I wouldn't by nero.
I am sorry but I have to reply. When I first looked a consumer level Digital Camera for $1000.00 dollars your could get a 1.3 Mega Pixel Camera. When I bought mine with a 360 Meg Smart Driver wanted lots of room. It was $1000.00 for 3.x Mega Pixel Camera. I have checked in a while but my guess is that for $1000.00 Dollars you can get a hell of alot better then 3.x Mega Pixel today.
Ever hear of a thing called web proxy's in the case of the one I go thought it reports itself as IE under window nt If I rember my logs right even thought I am using netscape under linux. So there are reasons why IE / windows can show up so High in web trends.
NO true as some who got his First DOS based PC in High School back in 1987. They were used in Corp. type setting and were faster then a typewriter and didnt have to use whiteout anymore. Yes Most Unix and mainframes were used by tech and/or college students but may PC were used by receptions and other support staff althought during that time not many boss's
NO They are an ISP not an NSP. They Only have to answer to there custmers. Whereas an NSP is more like a common carrier. An ISP provides direct access to custmers whereas an NSP provide access to networks like ISP think backbone, granted that line blurs sometime but for the most part they are separt. If UUNet decided it was going to block access to RIAA Network then that might be an issue.
As someone who works for comcast I doubt it by try safeweb and see if you get thought. I haven't recieved any info regarding this so my quess it has been slashdoted.
I don't know about you but in Marland my DL also has my SSN Number assocated with it. In VA your DL Number is your SSN. With that SSN Number they could get access to all of that data anyway but for the most part they Can't due to state and federal regualtions. The Fact is that even if a US Id Card get created it use and the data assocated with it by the gov't will be controled and/or regulated.
It wont stop even more data assocated with it like you SSN Number but that is already being done already. So the idea of a National ID isn't as bad as many say it is.
You happen to be right on this one. I do tech support and I am already starting to see Windows XP Home Systems that are having "bitrot" already. Things like spyware and adware are taken a straight on XP already.
One other thing in FreeDos you can run things like Bios updates and diag. utils that can be included on the Floppy Disk.
As Someone who owned 2 KFlex Modem and Did Internet Support for an ISP. I can tell you that most X2 and KFlex Modem were upgradable to V90 with the only except I was aware of being the Packaged Bell 56K/X2 Modem that had no flash ram so they couldn't be upgrade.
Actually 2x = 2 times the Standard DVD Speed. The DVD Forum Set a Speed I don't known what that is but a speed and in order for your drive to be called a DVD drive it had to meet or beat that speed. that speed is sometimes Called 1x. CD also have a standard that was set back many years ago and Again a CDrom had to meet that speed in order to be called a Multi-media CD. Those 2 Speed are different so that is why you can see 40x CD that is also a 12x DVD Drive.
Wrong. I had a VCR when the top gun first came out and the reason most videos were so expensive was simple. There weren't that many people who owned a VCR. On my block I was the first to own a VCR. I payed over $80.00 for the First Star War's movie and was paying about $10.00 for one T-90 Blank Video Tape. I owned maybe 10 movie under the heading of beloved movies. Over time volume kicked in and prices came down. I can now pick up a 10 Pack of T-120 for around 9 Bucks at Wal-Mart. And Movies sometime aslow as $2.50 new. Now I own over 500 Movies many I watch maybe once a year but the movie only cost $6.96 and its worth buying at that price.