I mean, we still have Star Trek V: The Final Frontier on DVD and VHS. People, if you really want to see the worst of the series (this from a die hard Trekkie) watch Star Trek V, you'll want to shoot yer eye out!
I write reviews occasionally on products I get off of Amazon.com or other sites. usually though only when I really hate a product.
There is some form of meta-moderation, You can click the 'is this review helpful' link and say whether you liked it or not. The 'power reviewers' I tend to ignore and mark 'didn't help' because all they do is continue to try to get you to buy the product, at least on Amazon.com
now that both of the major Dish based companies use PVRs, and market them, they have another avenue to attack them.
Just like their other attack ads about 'get the whole story' they can add that the set top box that gives you freedom to record multiple shows at once fries an egg on top of it! Oh now, why ever shall I keep this device.
As a dual tuner DirecTV user, I can finally say FORK the broadcast companies that move good TV shows 'against' each other in competition to force me to pick one over the other.
not with my TiVo they don't.
I have a dual tuner DirecTV and a regular TiVo, I can record 3 shows at once if needed.
A company you do business with has been forking you over a barrell on price, the instant that they realize you found something less expensive, they drop their price.
What amazes me, is that after KNOWING you've been forked over a barrel for months, years, DECADES, you go back to that vendor with open arms.
Speaking from experience. I am a technical sales specialist. We come in with our LIST price and it's LESS than the competitor is giving them. They just go back to the Competitor who drops it to 2% below our LIST price and they think they got a deal.
There aren't hundreds of posts bashing TiVo for profiling. Oh wait, that's because people can't even pretend to read the article because it requires a SUBSCRIPTION! heh.
Folks, there's gotta be a point here where you stop villifying Mr. Gates and realize that Microsoft is a company, not one person.
I doubt Gates got up this morning, checked slashdot and decided that Windows Media Player ported to one of his products is a bad thing.
Microsoft will probably sell a few more XBOX machines because there are people out there that like to tinker, and then they'll scream foul when some new kick butt feature of the XBOX comes out that immediately disables their XBOX or doesn't allow it to work a la live.
I'm always surprised at the number of geeks or opensource types that purchase a Microsoft product just to hack it to make it do something in the linux world. You're supporting Microsoft still whether you like it or not.
Come on, buy a Gamecube. Make it run linux. Or buy the PS2 and their Linux kit and port something to it! Forget Microsoft's XBOX and let it fade away into obscurity like the 3GO, the NEC Turbographx, the NeoGeo and all the other failed (marketing wise) game systems.
It always amazes me when I read the responses to any type of DRM project on any form of media.
Group #1 - Don't Buy it, They're all evil, we don't need this. You're all fools and posers because you bought on DVD!
Groupe #2 - They're just like Group #1, except the instant something great comes out in that format, the run like lemmings. (AOTC release, Harry Potter, Whatever)
Group #3 - They DRTFA and post all sorts of juxtapositions from just reading the main blurb on slashdot and start ranting and raving about how evil the media companies are.
Group #4 - Screams and yells about this is a final sign the 'evil media industry' or 'insert four letter abbreviation related to music or video' is dying and has no clue, and that file sharing rules.
Group #5 - The ever productive group, they immediately announce it will be hacked and on this weeks version of Napster with in seconds of release.
Group #6 is the group that never posts. These are the people that buy CDs of bands they like, buy DVDs of movies they like, and use them like they're intended too. They rip MP3s for their lates MP3 gadget and listen to them in class, on the road, travelling, at work, whatever while the original copy is in a CD Changer at home not being used (as the fair use law once upon a time were intended). This same group have TiVos or ReplayTV's and they watch their shows, skipping over the commercials. They don't hack their TiVo to get the shows off and post them on the internet. They heard of Napster, looked around, saw some songs that prompted them to go find the CD and purchase it. They think DIVX encoding sucks because the quality is so low and it reminds them too much of Circuit City's Pay as you go attempt.
Unfortunately, since Group #6 is so quiet, nothing correct ever gets done. The blather from groups 1 - 5 drowns out the real consumer, making it so that when DRM is out next year, it'll destroy the want or need for portable digital players, CD drives in the computer, and any other advanced feature. Driving the computer industry into yet another tailspin because consumers won't want to upgrade their computer because it won't play CDs or DVDs anymore without charging them a fortune.
Not to mention us Mac & Linux users who will have been left out in the cold alltogether now. Those of us that are legitimate fair use users that is.
The third book, of all of them has me most interested to see how they're going to pull it off.
The Dementors were some of the most nasty, vile things I'd ever read about and they were rather grusome in their torment. I'm very interested to see how they pull this off.
Book 4 should be two movies in it's own right, That one should be really interesting.
I am using a Powerbook G4 550Mhz running Mac OS X 10.2.1.
I moved from an Athlon 1.33GHz Desktop running RedHat 7.3 with Ximian Desktop, and I also use a IBM Thinkpad T21 running Windows 2000 for work.
the only slowness I seem to notice in my daily usage (email, web surfing, some documents, photo printing) is the load times, and I attribute this to my 4200 RPM hard disk.
Evolution took a while to load on my 1.33Ghz with a 7200RPM Disk drive too. And my Thinkpad is equally doggy.
I don't ever find myself switching off my Powerbook for my thinkpad to do something because of speed. They sit side by side on my desk. The powerbook is in the center.
The comment of 'restricting API to large commercial entities...'
Couldn't a Open Source backing vendor, such as Big Blue or the more Microsoft than they'll admit HP/Compaq get the API and use it any way that want?
Meaning Big Blue can license the API, and then using that license help the samba team develop any / all connection information that they need?
I mean not all code need be opensource. If Samba has a 'plug-in' type design done for it where you can purchase a 'SMB' file system plug-in for, then you could connect to MS Servers long enough to migrate people off of them.
We should think of methods to migration now, not overpowering them with a better product in most cases. That was Microsoft's main way of getting into the infrastructure, they built big ass migration tools. F&P for Netware, Quicken to MS Money conversion, those type of things.
...I purchased a SACD of a Joe Satriani CD I didn't have to check it out.
Only to discover that SACD doesn't use the Optical Out of my DVD player and my nice and expensive pre-amplifier doesn't have the seperate inputs I need, so I need to buy two sets of 3-pair cables, another 'analog bypass' device, and hook that all up.
Any one want an unused Joe Satriani SACD?
Seriously though, I'll probably get around to doing it all, but to spend $500 to check out a format gets me on the 'wife will kill you' page of things.
I'd rather buy another distributed.net compute node.
The Soujournor rover was the first use of Chipkill Memory from IBM. It's now in a good portion of Serverworks chipsets that are in most vendor's servers (IBM, HP, Dell, Others).
Kinda cool saying that a portion of your servers memory controller 'came from Mars'
Contrary to what is being stated here, the SIGNAL is what is changing, the TELEVISION does NOT have to change.
Sure, your VCR will be outmoded, but, last I checked mine is a big ass clock.
There will be set top boxes for those people not wishing to spend their hard earned, or non-existant income on a brand spanking new 16:9 television. These boxes will take a 1080i, 720p, 480p, or whatever signal they decide on and down-convert it to good old 480i (AKA NTSC).
You can then plug in a cable from this box, to your regular 1950s color televisor console television should you so desire.
Or, cable companies/broadcasters have the option of taking a HDTV bandwidth frequency that should hold a 1080i signal, but they wills end 2 - 3 480i shows through it. Not every show will benefit from HDTV. Hell, last I checked up until a few years ago all of our old shows are still 480i/NTSC/PAL so it's not like broadcasting reruns of Seinfeld or Star Trek is going to get anything out of 1080i broadcast. So we can have channels of 480i being multiplexed into the HDTV.
So don't lament and throw away your television yet. It'll be decades before you have to get rid of yours.
Me, I just bought a HDTV capable Sony 57" Widescreen. But I watch lots of DVDs, and I have DSS HDTV.
It almost sounds like Andromeda's plot but from the crew's viewpoint there at first.
I'm honestly looking forward to seeing it, because I need to desperately fill the hole in my life on Friday since Farscape is gone for the rest of the year, and then only a meager few episodes next winter. Bummer.
I'm hoping it'll be better than the previous show that time slot area, Dark Angel. I was disapointed it was canceled, but I saw the reason. It was getting kinda lame.
They stood in shape of a heart, that is a symbol for love. Not a symbol for the heart attack.
If it was a symbol for a heart attack it would have been a picture of a REAL heart, and the warriors would be stepping in/stepping out and then suddenly stop.
A form of a cross is a respect to a particular brand of religion. If they were going to symbolize the actuall crucifiction someone would have to be a nail and be driven 'into' the cross.
It appears that the Linux community isn't happy when one of their own does good. I mean calling Red Hat the Microsoft of Linux is just deplorable.
In a manner of speaking, their success is what gave Microsoft it's success. They were at the right place at the right time. Say all the bad things you want about Microsoft in many ways, but in all honesty, prior to Windows 95, configuring PCs was not a walk in the park.
You had QEMM with it's Error 13s (Remember, you had three options, reboot, reboot and reboot), you had PCMCIA Card services that took half of your 640K of base memory after you loaded all the drivers for Netware or to mount an NFS share.
But now, you don't have to spend days on the web looking for answers, you put in a CD, follow the prompts, and off you go. So we must now hate Red Hat for doing good.
Got married, used her mom's ring that had a chip on it, the setting was bigger than the diamond.
I got a band that cost $70.
We stayed together. On our 5th anniversary we each got each other the bands. She screwed up (I don't like yellow gold, white gold or platinum, she got me yellow gold), but I got her what she wanted. Platinum band, three stone diamond.
She is happy. I'm out a chunk of change, but I'll live.
Seriously, I'm not flaming or trolling. I have an iMac, and I have intel hardware. I've run Linux on Intel Hardware, and I've run OS X.
Why would I want to replace a unix based OS with an excellent user interface, support for things like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and heck even Flash/Shockwave plugins. None of this is on Linux (unfortunately)
Now, on the XServe, this could be cool, but on a iBook, PowerBook, iMac or Power Mac I just don't get it.
Surfed to the link and now there are 'pictures removed' and a note that the Palm lawyers called them wanting the high-res pictures with the SN of the unit to find out who's beta unit it is, and how to sue them for it.
So apparently it may be a real item, not a photochop.
Slashdot Mirror
I mean, we still have Star Trek V: The Final Frontier on DVD and VHS. People, if you really want to see the worst of the series (this from a die hard Trekkie) watch Star Trek V, you'll want to shoot yer eye out!
I write reviews occasionally on products I get off of Amazon.com or other sites. usually though only when I really hate a product.
There is some form of meta-moderation, You can click the 'is this review helpful' link and say whether you liked it or not. The 'power reviewers' I tend to ignore and mark 'didn't help' because all they do is continue to try to get you to buy the product, at least on Amazon.com
...The genius running IBM at the same time OS/2 was doing well made some pretty stupid remarks about the internet as well.
:)
Doing well is a relative term, it was doing well as far as I was concerned because I used it
So far, I always seem to like the underdogs. OS/2, Linux, Mac OS X....
sigh.
now that both of the major Dish based companies use PVRs, and market them, they have another avenue to attack them.
Just like their other attack ads about 'get the whole story' they can add that the set top box that gives you freedom to record multiple shows at once fries an egg on top of it! Oh now, why ever shall I keep this device.
As a dual tuner DirecTV user, I can finally say FORK the broadcast companies that move good TV shows 'against' each other in competition to force me to pick one over the other.
not with my TiVo they don't.
I have a dual tuner DirecTV and a regular TiVo, I can record 3 shows at once if needed.
A company you do business with has been forking you over a barrell on price, the instant that they realize you found something less expensive, they drop their price.
What amazes me, is that after KNOWING you've been forked over a barrel for months, years, DECADES, you go back to that vendor with open arms.
Speaking from experience. I am a technical sales specialist. We come in with our LIST price and it's LESS than the competitor is giving them. They just go back to the Competitor who drops it to 2% below our LIST price and they think they got a deal.
Un-Forking believeable.
There aren't hundreds of posts bashing TiVo for profiling. Oh wait, that's because people can't even pretend to read the article because it requires a SUBSCRIPTION! heh.
Folks, there's gotta be a point here where you stop villifying Mr. Gates and realize that Microsoft is a company, not one person.
I doubt Gates got up this morning, checked slashdot and decided that Windows Media Player ported to one of his products is a bad thing.
Microsoft will probably sell a few more XBOX machines because there are people out there that like to tinker, and then they'll scream foul when some new kick butt feature of the XBOX comes out that immediately disables their XBOX or doesn't allow it to work a la live.
I'm always surprised at the number of geeks or opensource types that purchase a Microsoft product just to hack it to make it do something in the linux world. You're supporting Microsoft still whether you like it or not.
Come on, buy a Gamecube. Make it run linux. Or buy the PS2 and their Linux kit and port something to it! Forget Microsoft's XBOX and let it fade away into obscurity like the 3GO, the NEC Turbographx, the NeoGeo and all the other failed (marketing wise) game systems.
It always amazes me when I read the responses to any type of DRM project on any form of media.
Group #1 - Don't Buy it, They're all evil, we don't need this. You're all fools and posers because you bought on DVD!
Groupe #2 - They're just like Group #1, except the instant something great comes out in that format, the run like lemmings. (AOTC release, Harry Potter, Whatever)
Group #3 - They DRTFA and post all sorts of juxtapositions from just reading the main blurb on slashdot and start ranting and raving about how evil the media companies are.
Group #4 - Screams and yells about this is a final sign the 'evil media industry' or 'insert four letter abbreviation related to music or video' is dying and has no clue, and that file sharing rules.
Group #5 - The ever productive group, they immediately announce it will be hacked and on this weeks version of Napster with in seconds of release.
Group #6 is the group that never posts. These are the people that buy CDs of bands they like, buy DVDs of movies they like, and use them like they're intended too. They rip MP3s for their lates MP3 gadget and listen to them in class, on the road, travelling, at work, whatever while the original copy is in a CD Changer at home not being used (as the fair use law once upon a time were intended). This same group have TiVos or ReplayTV's and they watch their shows, skipping over the commercials. They don't hack their TiVo to get the shows off and post them on the internet. They heard of Napster, looked around, saw some songs that prompted them to go find the CD and purchase it. They think DIVX encoding sucks because the quality is so low and it reminds them too much of Circuit City's Pay as you go attempt.
Unfortunately, since Group #6 is so quiet, nothing correct ever gets done. The blather from groups 1 - 5 drowns out the real consumer, making it so that when DRM is out next year, it'll destroy the want or need for portable digital players, CD drives in the computer, and any other advanced feature. Driving the computer industry into yet another tailspin because consumers won't want to upgrade their computer because it won't play CDs or DVDs anymore without charging them a fortune.
Not to mention us Mac & Linux users who will have been left out in the cold alltogether now. Those of us that are legitimate fair use users that is.
The third book, of all of them has me most interested to see how they're going to pull it off.
The Dementors were some of the most nasty, vile things I'd ever read about and they were rather grusome in their torment. I'm very interested to see how they pull this off.
Book 4 should be two movies in it's own right, That one should be really interesting.
I am using a Powerbook G4 550Mhz running Mac OS X 10.2.1.
I moved from an Athlon 1.33GHz Desktop running RedHat 7.3 with Ximian Desktop, and I also use a IBM Thinkpad T21 running Windows 2000 for work.
the only slowness I seem to notice in my daily usage (email, web surfing, some documents, photo printing) is the load times, and I attribute this to my 4200 RPM hard disk.
Evolution took a while to load on my 1.33Ghz with a 7200RPM Disk drive too. And my Thinkpad is equally doggy.
I don't ever find myself switching off my Powerbook for my thinkpad to do something because of speed. They sit side by side on my desk. The powerbook is in the center.
The comment of 'restricting API to large commercial entities...'
Couldn't a Open Source backing vendor, such as Big Blue or the more Microsoft than they'll admit HP/Compaq get the API and use it any way that want?
Meaning Big Blue can license the API, and then using that license help the samba team develop any / all connection information that they need?
I mean not all code need be opensource. If Samba has a 'plug-in' type design done for it where you can purchase a 'SMB' file system plug-in for, then you could connect to MS Servers long enough to migrate people off of them.
We should think of methods to migration now, not overpowering them with a better product in most cases. That was Microsoft's main way of getting into the infrastructure, they built big ass migration tools. F&P for Netware, Quicken to MS Money conversion, those type of things.
my $0.02
...I purchased a SACD of a Joe Satriani CD I didn't have to check it out.
Only to discover that SACD doesn't use the Optical Out of my DVD player and my nice and expensive pre-amplifier doesn't have the seperate inputs I need, so I need to buy two sets of 3-pair cables, another 'analog bypass' device, and hook that all up.
Any one want an unused Joe Satriani SACD?
Seriously though, I'll probably get around to doing it all, but to spend $500 to check out a format gets me on the 'wife will kill you' page of things.
I'd rather buy another distributed.net compute node.
The Soujournor rover was the first use of Chipkill Memory from IBM. It's now in a good portion of Serverworks chipsets that are in most vendor's servers (IBM, HP, Dell, Others).
Kinda cool saying that a portion of your servers memory controller 'came from Mars'
Contrary to what is being stated here, the SIGNAL is what is changing, the TELEVISION does NOT have to change.
Sure, your VCR will be outmoded, but, last I checked mine is a big ass clock.
There will be set top boxes for those people not wishing to spend their hard earned, or non-existant income on a brand spanking new 16:9 television. These boxes will take a 1080i, 720p, 480p, or whatever signal they decide on and down-convert it to good old 480i (AKA NTSC).
You can then plug in a cable from this box, to your regular 1950s color televisor console television should you so desire.
Or, cable companies/broadcasters have the option of taking a HDTV bandwidth frequency that should hold a 1080i signal, but they wills end 2 - 3 480i shows through it. Not every show will benefit from HDTV. Hell, last I checked up until a few years ago all of our old shows are still 480i/NTSC/PAL so it's not like broadcasting reruns of Seinfeld or Star Trek is going to get anything out of 1080i broadcast. So we can have channels of 480i being multiplexed into the HDTV.
So don't lament and throw away your television yet. It'll be decades before you have to get rid of yours.
Me, I just bought a HDTV capable Sony 57" Widescreen. But I watch lots of DVDs, and I have DSS HDTV.
It almost sounds like Andromeda's plot but from the crew's viewpoint there at first.
I'm honestly looking forward to seeing it, because I need to desperately fill the hole in my life on Friday since Farscape is gone for the rest of the year, and then only a meager few episodes next winter. Bummer.
I'm hoping it'll be better than the previous show that time slot area, Dark Angel. I was disapointed it was canceled, but I saw the reason. It was getting kinda lame.
No, we'd be stuck with the Macinotsh 128k with MacWord.
Mac came first in your analogy.
And we'd be driving Ford Pinto's
They stood in shape of a heart, that is a symbol for love. Not a symbol for the heart attack.
If it was a symbol for a heart attack it would have been a picture of a REAL heart, and the warriors would be stepping in/stepping out and then suddenly stop.
A form of a cross is a respect to a particular brand of religion. If they were going to symbolize the actuall crucifiction someone would have to be a nail and be driven 'into' the cross.
Look at the articles next time.
Of course, all the glasses will have to be the biggest, ugliest, most obvious looking things on the planet so no one will no to take them.
It appears that the Linux community isn't happy when one of their own does good. I mean calling Red Hat the Microsoft of Linux is just deplorable.
In a manner of speaking, their success is what gave Microsoft it's success. They were at the right place at the right time. Say all the bad things you want about Microsoft in many ways, but in all honesty, prior to Windows 95, configuring PCs was not a walk in the park.
You had QEMM with it's Error 13s (Remember, you had three options, reboot, reboot and reboot), you had PCMCIA Card services that took half of your 640K of base memory after you loaded all the drivers for Netware or to mount an NFS share.
But now, you don't have to spend days on the web looking for answers, you put in a CD, follow the prompts, and off you go. So we must now hate Red Hat for doing good.
What a waste!
How about Mac OS X or OS 9 Browsers, are they affected at all?
What I did.
Got married, used her mom's ring that had a chip on it, the setting was bigger than the diamond.
I got a band that cost $70.
We stayed together. On our 5th anniversary we each got each other the bands. She screwed up (I don't like yellow gold, white gold or platinum, she got me yellow gold), but I got her what she wanted. Platinum band, three stone diamond.
She is happy. I'm out a chunk of change, but I'll live.
Seriously, I'm not flaming or trolling. I have an iMac, and I have intel hardware. I've run Linux on Intel Hardware, and I've run OS X.
Why would I want to replace a unix based OS with an excellent user interface, support for things like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and heck even Flash/Shockwave plugins. None of this is on Linux (unfortunately)
Now, on the XServe, this could be cool, but on a iBook, PowerBook, iMac or Power Mac I just don't get it.
Just think, put a web site in the trunk of a Porsche and whenever the MPAA or RIAA come to shut you down, take off down the road.
:)
Then you can watch yourself live on Worlds Wildest Police Chases via your wireless connection while serving up countless bootleg MP3s & DVDs
Anyone get a mirror before the ISP suspended the page? The ISP for that sight intervenes with a 'Suspended' web page and no details.
Surfed to the link and now there are 'pictures removed' and a note that the Palm lawyers called them wanting the high-res pictures with the SN of the unit to find out who's beta unit it is, and how to sue them for it.
So apparently it may be a real item, not a photochop.