Does USB 1.1 have the bandwidth to store HDTV signals into MPEG-1? I have used a WinTV USB Tuner before for video capture, and I must say the framrates weren't that good.
I would like to see a firewire or USB 2.0 device that is platform independent. That way I would never miss another episode of Smallville again.
After reviewing the giFT site I believe it shows a lot of potential. The only thing that seemed to bother me was the simple availability of IP addresses gathered from the client. IP addresses = ISP = Account Name = RIAA & MPAA & everyone else knocking on your door. But its still very much in development.
However some issues arise, say I write a patch for their program, and they incorporate it. If some then buys a 'commercial license' they are selling MY patch under a non Free license...
That is a very good question. What happens when someone makes a patch for a piece of GPL software and the parent company incorporates it into its tree. Is the patcher compensated? Are they legally able to turn around and sell their product? Or do they get away with selling "support" and not the actual product?
Since I started using my computer years ago, my handwriting has gotten steadily worse. Even when labeling CD's I get my wife to do it so it can be read. I'm actually embarassed to write anything. I swear 3rd graders have more legible handwriting then I have. Now I'm sad.
It would be nice to have this in a laptop. I was sitting in the Minneapolis airport for a few hours this morning, and I was noticing all the laptops that are in an airport. Now Minneapolis has 802.11b access through most of the terminals, but the cost is 10 dollars for a day. Now if I could pay for 3G access on my monthly phone bill, and be able to use it on my laptop at no extra charge from anywhere in the country.
I hope that Kazaa and company can put a decent fight, I really hate seeing the Media industry telling people what they can and can not do with their products. I don't promote piracy, but I should be able to watch my DVDs wherever I want on whatever I want, Listen to my music wherever I want, in the car, on the way to work, in the bathroom. They are encouragin companies like Microsoft to include DRM in all of their products to stop me from moving my CD/ MP3 collection to another product.
I do believe everyting is in the Defense Spending Plan that comes down every year, and that includes Military pay, Weapons, R&D, and things of that nature.
'This gives legitimacy to KaZaA'. So does this mean that RIAA/MPAA is going to get off of KaZaA's back about the terabytes of MP3z and Movies and Pr0n that are available on the system? I don't think so. They will be after them more now, since they know that the service has some influx of revenue.
Well acording to DFAS the payrate of an E2 is about 1200 a month which comes out to a little over 7 dollars an hour. In my opinion thats still not very much money, even when you may live on base, but you still have to pay your phone bill, almost all units make you have a phone in case of recalls. What about a car, you supervisor won't come and get you every morning, what about high insurance rates, I know when I was an airmen living in Colorado (one of the highest states for auto insurace) I was broke all the time. We are not talking about a lot of money. Other branches offer other benefits like paying off student loans, and things of that nature.
There has been talk for years about adjusting pay scales according to what your designation is, but it will never happen, cause how much are you going to pay the guys that actually go out and risk their lives in the field, should they get more then the programmer in his climate controlled server room? One poster explained how he went on to become an officer, and make more money. Yes the military pays 75% of your tuition, but it doesn't cover books or lab fees, that alone gets very expensive, and tough to handle on an airmens pay. Why would someone want to stay in for crappy pay, living in a 8X12 closet with a roomate who sheds like sasquatch, when they can go out and get a job at Mcdonalds, thats 9-5, no recalls, and offers almost the same benefits (ie. TA, insurance).
I think I actually read something about this in the Air Force Times (you can pick one up on most military bases). There is usually so much propoganda in there that its nothing but slop but sometimes they have something interesting. This is one of the reasons I got out of the AF, they spend all their money on R&D instead of paying the troops what they deserve to get paid.
There are Airmen (E4 and below) that make almost nothing and are in charge of thousand user networks, or several million LOC systems. It drives me crazy.
Known Bugs & Issues -------------------
- Users with "large fonts" installed may notice font size differences in the player.
- Rhapsody may freeze at the end of the burning process
- Launching radio stations may result in a pause before the programming begins
- Users running IE 6.0 may crash Rhapsody by clicking on links before the page has loaded
- The HTML area redraws slowly when Rhapsody is resized
Who releases software that is known to crash when a link is selected. And the HTML redraw is horribly slow, not to mention this thing is currently using 27MB of memory.
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What are the specs for your divx box? Does it capture and encode into Divx or play back only?
Does USB 1.1 have the bandwidth to store HDTV signals into MPEG-1? I have used a WinTV USB Tuner before for video capture, and I must say the framrates weren't that good.
I would like to see a firewire or USB 2.0 device that is platform independent. That way I would never miss another episode of Smallville again.
I was going to build a Linux PVR, but this sounds interesting. Any chances of Linux controlling software?
After reviewing the giFT site I believe it shows a lot of potential. The only thing that seemed to bother me was the simple availability of IP addresses gathered from the client. IP addresses = ISP = Account Name = RIAA & MPAA & everyone else knocking on your door. But its still very much in development.
However some issues arise, say I write a patch for their program, and they incorporate it. If some then buys a 'commercial license' they are selling MY patch under a non Free license...
That is a very good question. What happens when someone makes a patch for a piece of GPL software and the parent company incorporates it into its tree. Is the patcher compensated? Are they legally able to turn around and sell their product? Or do they get away with selling "support" and not the actual product?
Now if only the code for the FastTrack system would be released. Perhaps a better protocol could be developed with a mix of Gnutella and FastTrack.
Have you even looked into the legal implications of this. This sounds to me a serious copyright violation.
Since I started using my computer years ago, my handwriting has gotten steadily worse. Even when labeling CD's I get my wife to do it so it can be read. I'm actually embarassed to write anything. I swear 3rd graders have more legible handwriting then I have. Now I'm sad.
When is Microsoft not Hypying one of its products?
yeesus, is it that hard to decode ogg files
Doesn't the OGG codec require a lot more processor power to decode?
I still think I'm going to hold out for the Creative Nomad Zen. A little more expensive. Lets see 20GB.... 128MB. Hmmmmmmmm.
Well does this mean that I can add imaginary degree from Cornell and MIT to my resume?
Apparently they didn't get slashdotted this morning, time for round two. Ding Ding Ding.
Perhaps bluetooth would be better for this sort of scenario, I mean does my toaster need 19Mb of bandwidth.
It would be nice to have this in a laptop. I was sitting in the Minneapolis airport for a few hours this morning, and I was noticing all the laptops that are in an airport. Now Minneapolis has 802.11b access through most of the terminals, but the cost is 10 dollars for a day. Now if I could pay for 3G access on my monthly phone bill, and be able to use it on my laptop at no extra charge from anywhere in the country.
Hey I can't dream can't I
now I can stream it directly to my 3G phone, while waiting in line at the video store.
I hope that Kazaa and company can put a decent fight, I really hate seeing the Media industry telling people what they can and can not do with their products. I don't promote piracy, but I should be able to watch my DVDs wherever I want on whatever I want, Listen to my music wherever I want, in the car, on the way to work, in the bathroom. They are encouragin companies like Microsoft to include DRM in all of their products to stop me from moving my CD/ MP3 collection to another product.
Its enough to drive you crazy.
I do believe everyting is in the Defense Spending Plan that comes down every year, and that includes Military pay, Weapons, R&D, and things of that nature.
'This gives legitimacy to KaZaA'. So does this mean that RIAA/MPAA is going to get off of KaZaA's back about the terabytes of MP3z and Movies and Pr0n that are available on the system? I don't think so. They will be after them more now, since they know that the service has some influx of revenue.
I like to have all of my pr0n named properly
Well acording to DFAS the payrate of an E2 is about 1200 a month which comes out to a little over 7 dollars an hour. In my opinion thats still not very much money, even when you may live on base, but you still have to pay your phone bill, almost all units make you have a phone in case of recalls. What about a car, you supervisor won't come and get you every morning, what about high insurance rates, I know when I was an airmen living in Colorado (one of the highest states for auto insurace) I was broke all the time. We are not talking about a lot of money. Other branches offer other benefits like paying off student loans, and things of that nature.
There has been talk for years about adjusting pay scales according to what your designation is, but it will never happen, cause how much are you going to pay the guys that actually go out and risk their lives in the field, should they get more then the programmer in his climate controlled server room? One poster explained how he went on to become an officer, and make more money. Yes the military pays 75% of your tuition, but it doesn't cover books or lab fees, that alone gets very expensive, and tough to handle on an airmens pay. Why would someone want to stay in for crappy pay, living in a 8X12 closet with a roomate who sheds like sasquatch, when they can go out and get a job at Mcdonalds, thats 9-5, no recalls, and offers almost the same benefits (ie. TA, insurance).
I think I actually read something about this in the Air Force Times (you can pick one up on most military bases). There is usually so much propoganda in there that its nothing but slop but sometimes they have something interesting. This is one of the reasons I got out of the AF, they spend all their money on R&D instead of paying the troops what they deserve to get paid.
There are Airmen (E4 and below) that make almost nothing and are in charge of thousand user networks, or several million LOC systems. It drives me crazy.
Lets see 73in HDTV or 22 inch monitor....... Hang on i'm thinking.
Known Bugs & Issues
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- Users with "large fonts" installed may notice font size differences in the player.
- Rhapsody may freeze at the end of the burning process
- Launching radio stations may result in a pause before the programming begins
- Users running IE 6.0 may crash Rhapsody by clicking on links before the page has loaded
- The HTML area redraws slowly when Rhapsody is resized
Who releases software that is known to crash when a link is selected. And the HTML redraw is horribly slow, not to mention this thing is currently using 27MB of memory.
No if this was posted on a monday morning, it would go down, but Sundays are just slow days.