Glad to see anti-Americanism running rampent, as my comment was called a troll.
Hmph../. should have an intelligence filter that keeps the stupid from having moderation points. Something should be done, as minority views are always pushed to the margins around here.
...wow.. a government has a database. Go figure. I mean, its not like the they need to have infomration to provide services to people or anything like that.
You privacy people get bent out of shape about anything these days.
Doesn't that mean that the music companies have basically been sticking consumers $5 a pop for the millions of CDs that have been sold?
No, it means consumers are apparently willing to pay that much for a CD, nothing more and nothing less.
Well, actually, it may mean that the record industry had been underchaging of cassettes and records for quite a while, since the increase in price associated with CDs hasn't really killed demand that much.
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What an odd idea... I mean there are thousands of SF books published each year, and only 3 or 4 have ideas that ever come to pass or are even possible. I guess no one remembers the ones that don't work out.
On the upside, I guess "reversing the polarity of the neutron flow" will fix everything in the future, just like on most episodes of Star Trek / Dr. Who
"We fully expect to upset people and our site will probably get hacked," he says. "But what's going on is theft."
Good to see someone tell it like it is and not beat around the bush... I wish these guys tons of luck... I think they are going to have a very good business going here.
I purchased a TiVo about 3 weeks ago and am very impressed with the product. As for the quality at the highest quality level (which will eat up your "30 hour" disk in 9 hours), the quality is identical to the input coming in on my (shitty) cable. The medium quality provides about 16 hours of recording which is more TV than I'll ever get around to watching at one time.
The gear as I understand it is somewhat "standard" in that you should be able to buy it off the shelf, but it is not the sort of thing you'd have lying around. PPC chip, AV hard drive, MPEG card, 56K modem, etc... The real value in the unit is in the TiVo service so that you can tell it "Tape all showings of Space Ghost" without having to program those in.
Anyway for a total cost of $598 ($399 for the unit, $199 for the "lifetime" TiVo service), I think you would have an extremely hard time rolling your own at this point, unless you time isn't worth much, or you just want the challenge of it all. In a few years, which people are throwing out CPU's that have the horsepower to do real time MPEG-2 compression and you are wondering what to do with your puny 75G hard drive, throwing together something like this may be a lot more feasable.
Just cause its free doesn't mean its any good. And just cuase its not free doesn't mean it sucks.
Hell, MS SQL has supported transactions forever... I can't belive MySQL has never gotten around to it... it's barely even a database, its more a data repository that uses a SQL like interface. Not to mention by not supporting transactions it fails to support those Open Standards that those of you around here seem to love so much.
They came for the pedophiles, and I didnt say anyhting. Then they came for the pr0n kings, and I didnt say anything. They came for the MP3 pirates, and I didn't say anything They came for the skr1pt k1dd33z, and I didn't say anything They came for the anarchists, and I didn't say anything
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Glad to see anti-Americanism running rampent, as my comment was called a troll.
/. should have an intelligence filter that keeps the stupid from having moderation points. Something should be done, as minority views are always pushed to the margins around here.
Hmph..
Big deal, let's see an article for every Linux related bug and fix on here for some parity...
Probably for the same reason you don't see the loser at football games yelling "Were #2".
...wow.. a government has a database. Go figure. I mean, its not like the they need to have infomration to provide services to people or anything like that.
You privacy people get bent out of shape about anything these days.
Ah, if we are going by sheer weight of numbers then Windows must have the best UI since the most people use it, by your "logic".
For the fact that users are too stupid not to execute atachments? Sad, very sad...
Well, since space is infititely big, I'm not sure why this would ever be an issue.
but what if you want the latest import Blur or Super Furry Animals single?
Order it from Amazon, they carry damn near everything.
Doesn't that mean that the music companies have basically been sticking consumers $5 a pop for the millions of CDs that have been sold?
No, it means consumers are apparently willing to pay that much for a CD, nothing more and nothing less.
Well, actually, it may mean that the record industry had been underchaging of cassettes and records for quite a while, since the increase in price associated with CDs hasn't really killed demand that much.
Goodbye... no one will miss you.
...First Post shirt cause I'm sure there wouldn't be much demand for a shirt displaying someone pouring hot grits down their pants...
...people want their pirated Metalica songs that badly...
, Metallica has just pissed off 300,000+ fans. Think those people will EVER buy a Metallica CD now.
Well, if they were using Napster, they probably weren't going to buy the CD anyway.
Whats the harm in pissing off a non-customer?
What an odd idea... I mean there are thousands of SF books published each year, and only 3 or 4 have ideas that ever come to pass or are even possible. I guess no one remembers the ones that don't work out.
On the upside, I guess "reversing the polarity of the neutron flow" will fix everything in the future, just like on most episodes of Star Trek / Dr. Who
Yeah, but what is it good for? Besides piracy why would I ever want to dump a DVD to CD?
My point is that its hard to maintain open source packages.
Wow, programming is hard too... who would have thunk it?
The Mac has a much wider selection of OSes than the Alpha platform
Huh?
On Alpha I count:
Tru64 Unix / DEC Unix / whatever the hell its called this week
OpenVMS
Linux
WinNT -- ok discontinued... count as half
*BSD
On Mac I count:
Linux
MacOS
*BSD
From the article:
"We fully expect to upset people and our site will probably get hacked," he says. "But what's going on is theft."
Good to see someone tell it like it is and not beat around the bush... I wish these guys tons of luck... I think they are going to have a very good business going here.
The lifetime of the TiVo unit, not your lifetime, or the lifetime of any nearby stars or anything...
I purchased a TiVo about 3 weeks ago and am very impressed with the product. As for the quality at the highest quality level (which will eat up your "30 hour" disk in 9 hours), the quality is identical to the input coming in on my (shitty) cable. The medium quality provides about 16 hours of recording which is more TV than I'll ever get around to watching at one time.
The gear as I understand it is somewhat "standard" in that you should be able to buy it off the shelf, but it is not the sort of thing you'd have lying around. PPC chip, AV hard drive, MPEG card, 56K modem, etc... The real value in the unit is in the TiVo service so that you can tell it "Tape all showings of Space Ghost" without having to program those in.
Anyway for a total cost of $598 ($399 for the unit, $199 for the "lifetime" TiVo service), I think you would have an extremely hard time rolling your own at this point, unless you time isn't worth much, or you just want the challenge of it all. In a few years, which people are throwing out CPU's that have the horsepower to do real time MPEG-2 compression and you are wondering what to do with your puny 75G hard drive, throwing together something like this may be a lot more feasable.
They have destroyed the distiction between DATA and PROGRAMS in the mind of the user.
Well, really in all fairness, didn't the object-oriented paradigm go quite a ways toward destroying the data / program duality?
Patenting stuff like this first? Don't they have a responsibility? Why are people giving their money to them otherwise?
Just cause its free doesn't mean its any good. And just cuase its not free doesn't mean it sucks.
Hell, MS SQL has supported transactions forever... I can't belive MySQL has never gotten around to it... it's barely even a database, its more a data repository that uses a SQL like interface. Not to mention by not supporting transactions it fails to support those Open Standards that those of you around here seem to love so much.
How about:
They came for the pedophiles,
and I didnt say anyhting.
Then they came for the pr0n kings,
and I didnt say anything.
They came for the MP3 pirates,
and I didn't say anything
They came for the skr1pt k1dd33z,
and I didn't say anything
They came for the anarchists,
and I didn't say anything
And the world was a much nicer place.
Vannevar Bush's device he described in his article "As We May Think" from 1945.
Read about it here