How do I cross the divide of getting a complete receiver. I can buy lots of NTSC TV's for under $200. Digital on the other hand seems to be home theatre stuff ONLY. Even huge chunks of that do not come with the receiver. (some are nice and come with a analog soon to be obsolete tuner) All the industry fighting over DRM and IP control has made the standard a fast moving target. Nobody is building receivers for the masses until the dust settles. I've been looking to replace my older 20 inch set. I've been not wanting to get a set with a soon to be obsolete tuner. I found NOTHING in this size that will receive over the air digital TV. Try it. Go into your local Wal-Mart or whatever and look for a portable TV under 25 inch on diaplay that you can walk up to and tune in the local PBS or FOX station in HDTV or even DTV. Exclude anything needing a subscription to a satelite signal. Is your list greater than 0 yet?
I know what you mean. I switched. Windows comes with a small handful of timewaster games. Minesweeper, and a few card games. Linux on the other hand....
I don't think he wants money for this one. Think real hard. What could a politician want more than money.
OK Time is up.. VOTES Can you think of a better way to get them? They may be out voted on the floor, but they will bet there next term when much of the others will not be.
I'm glad they are using the metric of demand verses sales. On the surface, it looks like hey have reduced piracy by having more people properly buy licenses for all their closed source software. This assumption can be wrong. I feel that properly intertepeted, it clearly shows that with the rise of open source, piracy decreases. Competion which breaks a monopoly does reduce the piracy of a monopolists product. An affordable product that works better does reduce the demand for a high priced alternative. The very real legal risks in the EULA of closed source software are a great reason not to pirate the closed source. OSS products now are low cost and low legal risk. Did sales increase or demand drop? They must be hiding the fact sales did not increase to meet the demand otherwise they would have been proud to report it.
Let's face it, demand is down for closed source. OSS is a legal alternative to high prices and piracy. Good job BSA convincing us casual copying is bad and helping draw excelent free publicity to the open source movement. It's the best publicity stunt you have done for us. Thank You Very Much!
I geocache. I have also placed two caches. One is in a park. You can get to it in a wheelchair without ever getting into the grass or dirt. I had traffic in mind. I placed it so casual passerby would not find it. It's been there since 7/23/2001. It was last logged as found May 12th. I think it's still there. I don't think kids or other casual passerby have seen it. Otherwise thay may easly have taken it. It's a box that only contains coins. Obviously it has to be out of sight. Visit Geocaching.com. Look up "Tiny" One of them is mine. There are several clones. I have found some great parks I wouldn't have otherwise found except by caching. Maybe that is the problem. I no longer have to use the park with entrance/parking fee's. I have a choice of great alternatives.
I'm guilty of the other user problem. I stick in a bigger hard drive. I reinstall the older OS because the hardware doesn't support a newer one and I'm not spending twice the price of the HD on an OS when the original one works and is paid for. Do the words no longer supported mean anything? Your old one may have been fully updated and patched until the hard drive gets replaced. The OS can be reinstalled, but reinstalling the no longer avalable patches could be a challange. Too bad most patches only directly install and are not saved first. Having a CD of the OS and a CD of all the patches for a reinstall would be nice, but the system was never set up that way.
I love those little boxes. They even provide HP JetDirectand IPP. You can take your ancient Laserjet series II or III or even your inkjet and connect them to the parallel version and use them as JetDirect or IPP printers anywhere on the LAN. They also support IPP. They are also fully configurable with a web browser and the configuration is password protected. I have 3 on my home LAN. The parallel version eliminates a cable by attaching directly to the printer without a cable. It's as if the printer was manufactured as a LAN printer. Plug in a LAN cable and wall wart and the printer ready to configure and use on a LAN. Win and Linux boxes connect to them with no problems. IF I remember properly, they could also be a DHCP server. They can configure as a Novell Network Printer. That little box does a lot.
Have you noticed that trying to get royalties for Happy Birthday has almost eliminated it? I simply no longer hear it. Lots of artists are going to learn from this. If they try to squeeze every penny out of every work, they will shrink into oblivion. However, those who provide quality free stuff will become popular and people will seek more good product and look for to buy. With the Internet, free online samples are more important than radio airtime. Radio simply can't be more than a promo device for the least common denominator. Searchable online content is much better for reaching your audiance. Get the stuff online where it can be sampled and discovered. Paying $1.00 per song and/or $20/month doesn't cut it. That only works for stuff you already heard and are ready to buy. (Classic Rock- Floyd, Beatles, Cars, REO, etc.)
In a nutshell, where do I go to find new music? How do I sample it without buying it first? I've bought too much junk I never listen to. I do have some I listen to all the time when relaxing. Anybody heard of Christopher Peacock on Pure and Simple Records? I like the Forte series. I've never heard any of his works on the radio. I found his stuff in a gift shop where they had headphones connected to a jukebox thing. We need the Internet version of that sample box. There was no fees and I could listen to any track on any CD in the store. I have six of his CD's. 30 second highly compressed intro clips on the Internet just doesn't do it for finding new music. It's OK for stuff I've heard before to verify a song is the one I thought it was, but not for discovering new material.
A good quality 70's or 80's vintage receiver will do the trick taking care of the low level and RIAA equalization. Most have a magnetic cartridge phono input and will provide line out to the record jacks for the tape deck. If you have the turntable, you also have the receiver don't you? Unless you need to do lots of scratch and pop filtering, CDex is a great program for ripping both CD's and Vinyl. Under tools, use Record. It works great.
It's been recalled. See the download link in the story. It was not to be released.
A cut and paste from the ex-download page;
NOTICE OF UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE
An unauthorized copy of Nullsoft's copyrighted software was briefly posted on this website on or about Wednesday May 28, 2003. The software was identified as "WASTE" (the "Software") and includes the files "waste-setup.exe", "waste-source.zip", "waste-source.tar.gz" and any additional files contained in these files.
Nullsoft is the exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in the Software. The posting of the Software on this website was not authorized by Nullsoft.
If you downloaded or otherwise obtained a copy of the Software, you acquired no lawful rights to the Software and must destroy any and all copies of the Software, including by deleting it from your computer. Any license that you may believe you acquired with the Software is void, revoked and terminated.
Any reproduction, distribution, display or other use of the Software by you is unauthorized and an infringement of Nullsoft's copyright in the Software as well as a potential violation of other laws.
Why do you view the BIOS as being able to do nothing without the host os?
In many places, the host OS is required to dial the ISP. Remember less than 50% of home computers has broadband and rely on dial-up. A stolen one might not be connected to a broadband service. The BIOS would be unable to connect before the OS loaded.
At that time, the computer can be disabled, all data on its hard drive wiped clean, or an IP trace put on the connection to determine the physical location of the system.
I hope they use more than just an IP trace. Tracing it behind a corporate firewall or McDonalds WAP could be hard. I guess it's a start.
A good router will do the trick. Refuse to pass any packets from the IP's of your home machines to/from the WAP. This is most easly done by denying all packets from/to the WAP except your network WAN router's gateway address. Ususaly it's defaulted to 192.168.1.1
This might be true if you have a static IP using a network card with a MAC address, But I still use dial up. I get assigned a new IP each time I call in. My modem does not have a MAC address. I can forge any address of any user on the domain (or make up one). You may be able to detect the Domain ISP I use, but my identity could be a little more difficult. Especialy so if I call in on a rented/borrowed cell phone with a false login. (No I don't do this so don't flame away. I've tried to trace obnoxious spammers and this is part of what you run into.)
Metered bandwidth will come to those already priced out of the all you can eat plan.
I'm still on dial up. I don't use that much bandwidth. Now if someone could give me an always on connection so I don't have to redial to read the next slashdot link for the same price as dialup, I would sign up right away. Not everyone is into lots of large file transfers and could use a price break. Trying to wean the high bandwidth users will happen after the variable rate plan is in place to entice the dial up users to always on connections. Only then can they drop the expensive to support all you can eat service or jack up the rate to encourage volentary migration. Sure they will loose some to the competition, but what they retain is much more profitable. The abusers will pony up, quit, become someone elses problem, or curtail use to manage costs.
Sometimes the free razors could be used for something else and users never subscribe to get the blades. Two examples come to mind. Free Cue Cats from Digital Convergance, and (dicounted) Microsoft's X-Box. Between all the mods availiable, the subscription to the original business plans are a little off.
Digital Convergance is just about history as the users of the bar code readers didn't flock to the service so the advertising dollars (selling Cue Codes) dried up. Their website has an interesting note. If you have a Cue Cat, hang on to it. They have future plans for it. They still have hope for the blades end of the business. From their website: If you have a Cue Cat, save it. The patents and technology created by DigitalConvergence will again be available for business and consumer use.
X-box is fighting mod chips which permit copied games to be played and using the console as something other than a game console. (Linux Box & media center)
I realy hate unwanted hitchhikers that install an installer without asking. If I have to uninstall the "Install AOL" program again, I'm going to have some serious words with my ex-software vendor.
Anyone tried to play Ultima One for the PC lately?
Hmm, I don't have that one, however Adventure works great. I used to play it in the 70's on a PDP/11 Adventure came with my new copy of Slackware. I still get stuck in Wits End.
most houses are RG56 and not even RG8, which is what is recommended
FYI, those cable types are not compatible with each other. Television cable has a nominal impedance of about 75 ohm. It is the common TV and Video impedance. RG8 on the other hand is used by Ham Radio operators and CB'ers. It is 50 ohm. It is also the same impedance as it's skinny cousin used in 10 base ethernet RG58. I have seen RG8 used in place of RG58 because it has lower loss and can be used to stretch the ethernet spec for the maximum length of a segment. I've seen it used to run between buildings as a cheap replacement for optical cable with good results. (been there and done that to connect hubs)
My question is who is recommending RG8 for video use? It's the wrong impedance. Could you have possibly meant RG6 or RG11 which is low loss 75 ohm cable? www.mjsales.net/dbscoax.htm
Connecting a 50 ohm cable to a 75 ohm cable will cause an impedance mismatch and a reflection on the cable. This can cause color smearing and chanels with poor reception in the analog world. This can cause jitter and packet loss in the digital world. Don't mix 50 and 75 ohm systems.
Zone alarm on a users machine is not a replacement for a corporate firewall. Nothing on a users machine should be able to mess with the corprorate firewall. Some of your blocked ports should be blocked at your router/firewall, not by a users software package.
Somehow I think repeaters on towers contribute to the sucess of the feat. Now try it with 50 mW repeaters, none of which are on a tower. Oh, all antennas have to be hand made. Add to the mix, this is all done by unlisenced techs and have a short timeline to make it all happen. Hams with 100 watt repeaters on towers took years before the first coast to coast link. Now you expect a bunch of non technical (RF tech) to pull it off? I don't see it happening soon.
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In response to your sig..
;-)
What the hell are you and everyone else doing wrong?
They connect to the internet. An office LAN not connected to the internet doesn't count.
How do I cross the divide of getting a complete receiver. I can buy lots of NTSC TV's for under $200. Digital on the other hand seems to be home theatre stuff ONLY. Even huge chunks of that do not come with the receiver. (some are nice and come with a analog soon to be obsolete tuner)
All the industry fighting over DRM and IP control has made the standard a fast moving target. Nobody is building receivers for the masses until the dust settles.
I've been looking to replace my older 20 inch set. I've been not wanting to get a set with a soon to be obsolete tuner. I found NOTHING in this size that will receive over the air digital TV. Try it. Go into your local Wal-Mart or whatever and look for a portable TV under 25 inch on diaplay that you can walk up to and tune in the local PBS or FOX station in HDTV or even DTV. Exclude anything needing a subscription to a satelite signal.
Is your list greater than 0 yet?
just making sure that no real work will get done
I know what you mean. I switched. Windows comes with a small handful of timewaster games. Minesweeper, and a few card games. Linux on the other hand....
I don't think he wants money for this one. Think real hard. What could a politician want more than money.
OK Time is up.. VOTES
Can you think of a better way to get them?
They may be out voted on the floor, but they will bet there next term when much of the others will not be.
How would you advertise this? MS .... millions at once?
I'm glad they are using the metric of demand verses sales. On the surface, it looks like hey have reduced piracy by having more people properly buy licenses for all their closed source software. This assumption can be wrong. I feel that properly intertepeted, it clearly shows that with the rise of open source, piracy decreases. Competion which breaks a monopoly does reduce the piracy of a monopolists product. An affordable product that works better does reduce the demand for a high priced alternative. The very real legal risks in the EULA of closed source software are a great reason not to pirate the closed source. OSS products now are low cost and low legal risk. Did sales increase or demand drop? They must be hiding the fact sales did not increase to meet the demand otherwise they would have been proud to report it.
Let's face it, demand is down for closed source. OSS is a legal alternative to high prices and piracy. Good job BSA convincing us casual copying is bad and helping draw excelent free publicity to the open source movement. It's the best publicity stunt you have done for us. Thank You Very Much!
I geocache. I have also placed two caches. One is in a park. You can get to it in a wheelchair without ever getting into the grass or dirt. I had traffic in mind. I placed it so casual passerby would not find it. It's been there since 7/23/2001. It was last logged as found May 12th. I think it's still there. I don't think kids or other casual passerby have seen it. Otherwise thay may easly have taken it. It's a box that only contains coins. Obviously it has to be out of sight. Visit Geocaching.com. Look up "Tiny" One of them is mine. There are several clones. I have found some great parks I wouldn't have otherwise found except by caching. Maybe that is the problem. I no longer have to use the park with entrance/parking fee's. I have a choice of great alternatives.
I'm guilty of the other user problem. I stick in a bigger hard drive. I reinstall the older OS because the hardware doesn't support a newer one and I'm not spending twice the price of the HD on an OS when the original one works and is paid for. Do the words no longer supported mean anything? Your old one may have been fully updated and patched until the hard drive gets replaced. The OS can be reinstalled, but reinstalling the no longer avalable patches could be a challange.
Too bad most patches only directly install and are not saved first. Having a CD of the OS and a CD of all the patches for a reinstall would be nice, but the system was never set up that way.
I love those little boxes. They even provide HP JetDirectand IPP. You can take your ancient Laserjet series II or III or even your inkjet and connect them to the parallel version and use them as JetDirect or IPP printers anywhere on the LAN. They also support IPP. They are also fully configurable with a web browser and the configuration is password protected. I have 3 on my home LAN. The parallel version eliminates a cable by attaching directly to the printer without a cable. It's as if the printer was manufactured as a LAN printer. Plug in a LAN cable and wall wart and the printer ready to configure and use on a LAN. Win and Linux boxes connect to them with no problems. IF I remember properly, they could also be a DHCP server. They can configure as a Novell Network Printer. That little box does a lot.
Have you noticed that trying to get royalties for Happy Birthday has almost eliminated it? I simply no longer hear it. Lots of artists are going to learn from this. If they try to squeeze every penny out of every work, they will shrink into oblivion. However, those who provide quality free stuff will become popular and people will seek more good product and look for to buy. With the Internet, free online samples are more important than radio airtime. Radio simply can't be more than a promo device for the least common denominator. Searchable online content is much better for reaching your audiance. Get the stuff online where it can be sampled and discovered. Paying $1.00 per song and/or $20/month doesn't cut it. That only works for stuff you already heard and are ready to buy. (Classic Rock- Floyd, Beatles, Cars, REO, etc.)
In a nutshell, where do I go to find new music? How do I sample it without buying it first? I've bought too much junk I never listen to. I do have some I listen to all the time when relaxing. Anybody heard of Christopher Peacock on Pure and Simple Records? I like the Forte series. I've never heard any of his works on the radio. I found his stuff in a gift shop where they had headphones connected to a jukebox thing. We need the Internet version of that sample box. There was no fees and I could listen to any track on any CD in the store. I have six of his CD's. 30 second highly compressed intro clips on the Internet just doesn't do it for finding new music. It's OK for stuff I've heard before to verify a song is the one I thought it was, but not for discovering new material.
A good quality 70's or 80's vintage receiver will do the trick taking care of the low level and RIAA equalization. Most have a magnetic cartridge phono input and will provide line out to the record jacks for the tape deck. If you have the turntable, you also have the receiver don't you?
Unless you need to do lots of scratch and pop filtering, CDex is a great program for ripping both CD's and Vinyl. Under tools, use Record. It works great.
It's been recalled. See the download link in the story. It was not to be released.
A cut and paste from the ex-download page;
NOTICE OF UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE
An unauthorized copy of Nullsoft's copyrighted software was briefly posted on this website on or about Wednesday May 28, 2003. The software was identified as "WASTE" (the "Software") and includes the files "waste-setup.exe", "waste-source.zip", "waste-source.tar.gz" and any additional files contained in these files.
Nullsoft is the exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in the Software. The posting of the Software on this website was not authorized by Nullsoft.
If you downloaded or otherwise obtained a copy of the Software, you acquired no lawful rights to the Software and must destroy any and all copies of the Software, including by deleting it from your computer. Any license that you may believe you acquired with the Software is void, revoked and terminated.
Any reproduction, distribution, display or other use of the Software by you is unauthorized and an infringement of Nullsoft's copyright in the Software as well as a potential violation of other laws.
Thank you.
Nullsoft
I thought the storyline would involve the chaos of Patrick and Sponge Bob inviting Bart and Lisa out jellyfishing.
Why do you view the BIOS as being able to do nothing without the host os?
In many places, the host OS is required to dial the ISP. Remember less than 50% of home computers has broadband and rely on dial-up. A stolen one might not be connected to a broadband service. The BIOS would be unable to connect before the OS loaded.
At that time, the computer can be disabled, all data on its hard drive wiped clean, or an IP trace put on the connection to determine the physical location of the system.
I hope they use more than just an IP trace. Tracing it behind a corporate firewall or McDonalds WAP could be hard. I guess it's a start.
Time for tin foil underwear!
A good router will do the trick. Refuse to pass any packets from the IP's of your home machines to/from the WAP. This is most easly done by denying all packets from/to the WAP except your network WAN router's gateway address. Ususaly it's defaulted to 192.168.1.1
E-Mail isn't anonymous, and never has been.
/borrowed cell phone with a false login.
This might be true if you have a static IP using a network card with a MAC address, But I still use dial up. I get assigned a new IP each time I call in. My modem does not have a MAC address. I can forge any address of any user on the domain (or make up one). You may be able to detect the Domain ISP I use, but my identity could be a little more difficult. Especialy so if I call in on a rented
(No I don't do this so don't flame away. I've tried to trace obnoxious spammers and this is part of what you run into.)
Metered bandwidth will come to those already priced out of the all you can eat plan.
I'm still on dial up. I don't use that much bandwidth. Now if someone could give me an always on connection so I don't have to redial to read the next slashdot link for the same price as dialup, I would sign up right away. Not everyone is into lots of large file transfers and could use a price break. Trying to wean the high bandwidth users will happen after the variable rate plan is in place to entice the dial up users to always on connections. Only then can they drop the expensive to support all you can eat service or jack up the rate to encourage volentary migration. Sure they will loose some to the competition, but what they retain is much more profitable. The abusers will pony up, quit, become someone elses problem, or curtail use to manage costs.
Sometimes the free razors could be used for something else and users never subscribe to get the blades. Two examples come to mind. Free Cue Cats from Digital Convergance, and (dicounted) Microsoft's X-Box. Between all the mods availiable, the subscription to the original business plans are a little off.
Digital Convergance is just about history as the users of the bar code readers didn't flock to the service so the advertising dollars (selling Cue Codes) dried up. Their website has an interesting note. If you have a Cue Cat, hang on to it. They have future plans for it. They still have hope for the blades end of the business. From their website:
If you have a Cue Cat, save it. The patents and technology created by DigitalConvergence will again be available for business and consumer use.
X-box is fighting mod chips which permit copied games to be played and using the console as something other than a game console. (Linux Box & media center)
I realy hate unwanted hitchhikers that install an installer without asking. If I have to uninstall the "Install AOL" program again, I'm going to have some serious words with my ex-software vendor.
Anyone tried to play Ultima One for the PC lately?
Hmm, I don't have that one, however Adventure works great. I used to play it in the 70's on a PDP/11 Adventure came with my new copy of Slackware. I still get stuck in Wits End.
most houses are RG56 and not even RG8, which is what is recommended
FYI, those cable types are not compatible with each other. Television cable has a nominal impedance of about 75 ohm. It is the common TV and Video impedance. RG8 on the other hand is used by Ham Radio operators and CB'ers. It is 50 ohm. It is also the same impedance as it's skinny cousin used in 10 base ethernet RG58. I have seen RG8 used in place of RG58 because it has lower loss and can be used to stretch the ethernet spec for the maximum length of a segment. I've seen it used to run between buildings as a cheap replacement for optical cable with good results. (been there and done that to connect hubs)
My question is who is recommending RG8 for video use? It's the wrong impedance. Could you have possibly meant RG6 or RG11 which is low loss 75 ohm cable? www.mjsales.net/dbscoax.htm
Connecting a 50 ohm cable to a 75 ohm cable will cause an impedance mismatch and a reflection on the cable. This can cause color smearing and chanels with poor reception in the analog world. This can cause jitter and packet loss in the digital world. Don't mix 50 and 75 ohm systems.
Zone alarm on a users machine is not a replacement for a corporate firewall. Nothing on a users machine should be able to mess with the corprorate firewall. Some of your blocked ports should be blocked at your router/firewall, not by a users software package.
Hell, it's even done with voice repeaters
Somehow I think repeaters on towers contribute to the sucess of the feat. Now try it with 50 mW repeaters, none of which are on a tower. Oh, all antennas have to be hand made. Add to the mix, this is all done by unlisenced techs and have a short timeline to make it all happen. Hams with 100 watt repeaters on towers took years before the first coast to coast link. Now you expect a bunch of non technical (RF tech) to pull it off? I don't see it happening soon.