just host them in your own datacenter, not at google. This makes administration and scaling pretty much effortless, I would think. I assume that google sells an appliance for exactly this? If not they are missing a huge opportunity.
How well does myth now deal with HD on cable providers, like comcast?
Rather than fight the system, and spend the money on tuners, backend hardware, etc, I just got comcast's HDDVR. It works well enough (the only way I can even attempt to watch the few shows I'm interested in viewing on my schedule.. otherwise the cost of cable isn't worth it).
I have my house wired with audio/video/cat5 jacks in each room. So, I really don't need to spend the money on front end systems in each of those rooms. IR receiver to IR transmitter over cat 5 to control the DVR. S-video out on the DVR downsamples to a regular TV (I'm not about to buy a bunch of flat panels while my old sets work just fine in the basement, bedroom, etc), so I can watch DVR stuff anywhere in the house, even stuff recorded on high-def channels.
The disadvantage with my setup is every room in the house can only watch one thing at a time (from the dvr...cable is fine, of course). Which is fine for me. But...if I wanted to I could connect video or cat5 to any number of sources in the future via the patch panels in the basement.
Cost was wiring (which I wanted to do for whole house audio for my soundbridge anyway), and a $50 distribution amp from radio shack. And I got to use all of my old equipment and not have to buy or build anything for a media server or multiple front ends (which have the requirement of being *silent*).
It'd be nice to have a system where I could save and organize things indefinitely, but really, I have other ways of doing some of that and it just doesn't seem like the effort to me, when the scientific atlanta box is "good enough" IOW, the consumer appliances have somewhat caught up, with the advantage of supporting HDTV and Digital channels with no effort and no tricks with IR and stuff.
It's just that the companies who have people working on them keep them to themselves. For example, I did a lot of linux-based stuff for a well-known company in the building products industry. Since their business is not software, and they want to keep a competitive edge, why would they release this to the public? What's irritating, however, is when that software is not really related to their core business, but they won't let you release it as open source anyway.
Out of curiosity, what makes expensive shoes better than cheap shoes? I don't think I've ever spent more than $30-40 on a pair of shoes, and I tend to wear them at least a couple years before they wear out. I do a lot of walking too, so if my shoes were not up to the task I think I'd notice. What do you get for your extra $100?
I spent $250 on my sidi dominators. They have now lasted me 5 years of abuse in the dirt, rocks, and mud, and still going strong. Cheaper cycling shoes I'm lucky to get one season out of, and have even broke at the cleat.
Obviously these are special purpose shoes, but shoes nontheless. Definitely worth the cost. They also fit better and are stiffer than other shoes on the market. The ratchet straps are a good thing as well.
OTOH, the version with the replaceable soles are total crap. The sole is designed to wear fast and you spend far too much on replacements.
And if you want to go with an even more loose definition of 'shoe' there are ski and board boots. $50 isn't going to get you anything you'll enjoy wearing for several hours at a time while putting significant strain on your arches.
People pay that kind of price for artwork. This could just be considered artwork for the phone. What's the difference, other than it being useless (like artwork?). Indeed, there are sites on the internet (digital blasphemy) where you pay for nothing but a picture. How is this any different, and somehow wrong?
If you think this thing is worth $1000, by all means, you should be able to buy it. People spend tons of money on all kinds of worthless crap, why should stuff for your already overpriced gadget be any different?
Jocks play games with balls (baseball, football, tennis, golf, etc) Athletes play sports. (cycling, running, swimming, snowboarding, skiing, skydiving, etc)
In any given group, I'd say the latter has more intelligent people participating.
My George Carlin-esque definition is that if you use a ball, it's a game, not a sport.
I'd just be happy if firefox 3 would run on my trusty, stable Mandrake 10.2 box. It's the only piece of software I've installed that will not run due to dependence on newer pango/cairo things. Gosh, even the latest pidgin compiles fine on this system.
Especially when it is so easy and cheap to produce and distribute one's own 'CD' these days. The artists don't need the labels, and should sell CDs at cost (say, $5?), or give them away as promotional material while making their money performing. That's how all the local bands I go to see do it.
... on psu's vm/cms system. I think our client was written in REXX.
In my boxes of college papers and tests, I still have an archive of rec.humor.funny and alt.folklore.computer on floppy.
I witnessed the BOFH posts their first time around. I also saw Ramero's 'bow down and suck my knob, pitiful doom god' when it first aired, but I can't remember the group, but it was before the split that included.games. Then there were the links to the ftp sites (http wasn't around yet), where I became fascinated with the PC Demo scene. A few years later, it was the constant flamewar between Mike Vandeman, usenet kook, and the residents of rec.bicycle.off-road. The group became moderated because of that, and died soon after.
IIRC, OOo uses the same type of 'formula language' as word perfect did back when I actually did work where I had to write equations. I don't do that type of writing anymore, so can't comment more than I noticed this cool aspect of OOo.
Why are we not punishing those who actually broke the law by issuing the order? Especially when complying with the law is not difficult? I fully agree with what you said. Sure, the right thing to do would have been to simply state 'not without a warrant' but what choice did they really have?
So why not follow the law in the first place? Getting the warrant, as I understand it, is trivial, and could have even been done later.
Law was broken. End of story. This current round of bullshit is an attempt by the administration to 1) pardon itself for illegal activity, and 2) cover up what they did.
Is this the type of power you really want to allow government to give itself? What's next?
...and not the fsckers who ordered the damned thing without a warrant?
Yes, they were wrong, but look at the position they were in. Damned no matter what they did.
Who really needs to answer for this is Bush and company. Especially when it was so #!@$!@ easy to comply with the damned law, and they still refused.
This election won't fix anything, no matter who is in office it will be more of the same. Many things will be even worse under the democrats. Special interest groups?
if control interfaces and APIs would become standardized.
Everything is designed for i$foo. My head unit can read mp3s from a flash drive, but it doesn't do it optimally unless you use their software to put stuff on there (kenwood).
I also own a sansa, which I love. It was $100, so I don't care if I break it of lose it (the point of a portable player that doesn't do anything else). And I don't need anything special to put the music on it. It's just a mass storage device to my OS (which isn't OSX or M$).
It sure would be nice if I could just plug my sansa into my car, or anybody else's, and queue up the music. I'm sure apple's patenting makes this a dream. Instead, I have things in 3 locations: the home server, the sansa, and the hard drive that stays in the car, and if I want to control something out of the box, the only option is Apple hardware, which doesn't easily interface with anything else that I use computer-wise.
...but how about forcing them to open up the ports they block to my mail server while they are at it? I'm paying for access to the internet. I'll take care of my own firewalling, thanks.
Wouldn't it be cool if there were some technology out there that allowed people to post to all types of hierarchical 'forums', and to control what posts they see, and even rank them by what they like to read? That would kick ass! They could call it "network news" or something.
Slashdot Mirror
Like when you read slashdot?
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead...
And neither attacked us or posed any threat to us. Where is the guy who *did* attack us?
There are ways:
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-08/Krawetz/Whitepaper/bh-dc-08-krawetz-WP.pdf
just host them in your own datacenter, not at google. This makes administration and scaling pretty much effortless, I would think. I assume that google sells an appliance for exactly this? If not they are missing a huge opportunity.
How well does myth now deal with HD on cable providers, like comcast?
Rather than fight the system, and spend the money on tuners, backend hardware, etc, I just got comcast's HDDVR. It works well enough (the only way I can even attempt to watch the few shows I'm interested in viewing on my schedule .. otherwise the cost of cable isn't worth it).
I have my house wired with audio/video/cat5 jacks in each room. So, I really don't need to spend the money on front end systems in each of those rooms. IR receiver to IR transmitter over cat 5 to control the DVR. S-video out on the DVR downsamples to a regular TV (I'm not about to buy a bunch of flat panels while my old sets work just fine in the basement, bedroom, etc), so I can watch DVR stuff anywhere in the house, even stuff recorded on high-def channels.
The disadvantage with my setup is every room in the house can only watch one thing at a time (from the dvr...cable is fine, of course). Which is fine for me. But...if I wanted to I could connect video or cat5 to any number of sources in the future via the patch panels in the basement.
Cost was wiring (which I wanted to do for whole house audio for my soundbridge anyway), and a $50 distribution amp from radio shack. And I got to use all of my old equipment and not have to buy or build anything for a media server or multiple front ends (which have the requirement of being *silent*).
It'd be nice to have a system where I could save and organize things indefinitely, but really, I have other ways of doing some of that and it just doesn't seem like the effort to me, when the scientific atlanta box is "good enough" IOW, the consumer appliances have somewhat caught up, with the advantage of supporting HDTV and Digital channels with no effort and no tricks with IR and stuff.
It's just that the companies who have people working on them keep them to themselves. For example, I did a lot of linux-based stuff for a well-known company in the building products industry. Since their business is not software, and they want to keep a competitive edge, why would they release this to the public? What's irritating, however, is when that software is not really related to their core business, but they won't let you release it as open source anyway.
I spent $250 on my sidi dominators. They have now lasted me 5 years of abuse in the dirt, rocks, and mud, and still going strong. Cheaper cycling shoes I'm lucky to get one season out of, and have even broke at the cleat.
Obviously these are special purpose shoes, but shoes nontheless. Definitely worth the cost. They also fit better and are stiffer than other shoes on the market. The ratchet straps are a good thing as well.
OTOH, the version with the replaceable soles are total crap. The sole is designed to wear fast and you spend far too much on replacements.
And if you want to go with an even more loose definition of 'shoe' there are ski and board boots. $50 isn't going to get you anything you'll enjoy wearing for several hours at a time while putting significant strain on your arches.
People pay that kind of price for artwork. This could just be considered artwork for the phone. What's the difference, other than it being useless (like artwork?). Indeed, there are sites on the internet (digital blasphemy) where you pay for nothing but a picture. How is this any different, and somehow wrong?
If you think this thing is worth $1000, by all means, you should be able to buy it. People spend tons of money on all kinds of worthless crap, why should stuff for your already overpriced gadget be any different?
Easy:
Jocks play games with balls (baseball, football, tennis, golf, etc)
Athletes play sports. (cycling, running, swimming, snowboarding, skiing, skydiving, etc)
In any given group, I'd say the latter has more intelligent people participating.
My George Carlin-esque definition is that if you use a ball, it's a game, not a sport.
Flame on :-)
If you think it's scary for banks, fire up kismet near a doctor's or lawyer's office sometime.
And while at it, make it a crime to cheat on your s.o, or hurt their feelings in any way by action or inaction.
I'd just be happy if firefox 3 would run on my trusty, stable Mandrake 10.2 box. It's the only piece of software I've installed that will not run due to dependence on newer pango/cairo things. Gosh, even the latest pidgin compiles fine on this system.
Oh well. At least 2.0 is still good for awhile.
Especially when it is so easy and cheap to produce and distribute one's own 'CD' these days. The artists don't need the labels, and should sell CDs at cost (say, $5?), or give them away as promotional material while making their money performing. That's how all the local bands I go to see do it.
See subject.
... on psu's vm/cms system. I think our client was written in REXX.
In my boxes of college papers and tests, I still have an archive of rec.humor.funny and alt.folklore.computer on floppy.
I witnessed the BOFH posts their first time around. I also saw Ramero's 'bow down and suck my knob, pitiful doom god' when it first aired, but I can't remember the group, but it was before the split that included .games. Then there were the links to the ftp sites (http wasn't around yet), where I became fascinated with the PC Demo scene. A few years later, it was the constant flamewar between Mike Vandeman, usenet kook, and the residents of rec.bicycle.off-road. The group became moderated because of that, and died soon after.
Ahh, those were the days.
IIRC, OOo uses the same type of 'formula language' as word perfect did back when I actually did work where I had to write equations. I don't do that type of writing anymore, so can't comment more than I noticed this cool aspect of OOo.
I wish I had mod points.
Why are we not punishing those who actually broke the law by issuing the order? Especially when complying with the law is not difficult? I fully agree with what you said. Sure, the right thing to do would have been to simply state 'not without a warrant' but what choice did they really have?
So why not follow the law in the first place? Getting the warrant, as I understand it, is trivial, and could have even been done later.
Law was broken. End of story. This current round of bullshit is an attempt by the administration to 1) pardon itself for illegal activity, and 2) cover up what they did.
Is this the type of power you really want to allow government to give itself? What's next?
...and not the fsckers who ordered the damned thing without a warrant?
Yes, they were wrong, but look at the position they were in. Damned no matter what they did.
Who really needs to answer for this is Bush and company. Especially when it was so #!@$!@ easy to comply with the damned law, and they still refused.
This election won't fix anything, no matter who is in office it will be more of the same. Many things will be even worse under the democrats. Special interest groups?
if control interfaces and APIs would become standardized.
Everything is designed for i$foo. My head unit can read mp3s from a flash drive, but it doesn't do it optimally unless you use their software to put stuff on there (kenwood).
I also own a sansa, which I love. It was $100, so I don't care if I break it of lose it (the point of a portable player that doesn't do anything else). And I don't need anything special to put the music on it. It's just a mass storage device to my OS (which isn't OSX or M$).
It sure would be nice if I could just plug my sansa into my car, or anybody else's, and queue up the music. I'm sure apple's patenting makes this a dream. Instead, I have things in 3 locations: the home server, the sansa, and the hard drive that stays in the car, and if I want to control something out of the box, the only option is Apple hardware, which doesn't easily interface with anything else that I use computer-wise.
waterproof? I don't think so.
...but how about forcing them to open up the ports they block to my mail server while they are at it? I'm paying for access to the internet. I'll take care of my own firewalling, thanks.
Wouldn't it be cool if there were some technology out there that allowed people to post to all types of hierarchical 'forums', and to control what posts they see, and even rank them by what they like to read? That would kick ass! They could call it "network news" or something.
So open hardware will become more prevalent. There's obviously demand for unrestricted hardware, so somebody will make it.