I hear this meme any time the garbage from the telcos is brought up.
What is the evidence and/or proof that there would be no competition, that no other company would ever build infrastructure? Sure it's the "common sense" reasoning, but you know what they say about common sense. Where did the meme come from? The telcos who benefit to the tune of billions because of the regulation they've bought?
Good reasoning, really. But for me, I've seen Heroes - no need to see it again. Bond movies are cheap at Blockbuster, if I get the urge (and if I don't feel like leaving the house, I didn't need to watch it that bad).
I guess it's just priorities. I do like your other response though - record stuff to see if it's worth watching. That's the best reason I've heard yet... too bad I can't find a good way to bust open the DTV signal.:)
Nothing personal, but seriously, how much of what you watch do you really want to keep forever? How much is worthwhile??
I love the idea of Myth, but I get everything via DirecTV these days (Sunday Ticket) and I really don't care to save shit that I've seen... how much time do you Myth guys spend in front of the tube?:)
I have two of these. Also "button issues" might just be a broken tiny piece of plastic inside. I opened one up and fixed it by jamming a little folded square of paper into the area to hold the clicker in place. That's how much I love mine.:) I just lost a loved keyboard so I'm thinking of ebay'ing a couple more FX's just to have them.
For the 4th button, what do you mean "modern OS's"? You must be talking Windows because I was able to get button 4 running on X a long while ago. In practice, I just don't use it. But support is there.
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I'm with you - I have a pair of Marble FX's that I got years ago and have brought with me to job after job, computer after computer. Best one evar.:)
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I'll tell you why I wouldn't do it: The UI on the cable boxes that I've seen ABSOLUTELY SUCKS HORRIBLE DONKEY BALLS compared to Tivo's.
I try to use any of 'em on Time Warner / ex-Adelphia / Comcast, and they're just horrific. I don't know how anyone puts up with it except that it must work, sort of. There are 400 more buttons on your average crappy cable TV remote and you have to click about 40 specific ones to make shit happen.
I know I'm exaggerating, but Tivo's UI is just so much better it feels like I'm slogging through Win 3.11 for Workgroups when I'm stuck at my parents'....
That's because they're not "legislating from the bench" they're striking down legislation from the bench. There's a difference between creating new law and just getting rid of poorly-designed law.
Hey, why not hand off all your "income" to your government. They can just provide you with everything you need, and since you probably won't need all that money all the time, they can use it to provide services that other people want! It'll be a utopia!
Are we seriously seeing more depression, or are we seeing a greater "ability" to diagnose it?
Seems to me that the "stress" we feel today is nothing in comparison to that of the vast majority of human history, when simply surviving the winter and the next plague would be dicey at best.
And seriously, how long do you think it would take for us to reconstitute our "manufacturing capability" that you believe we've "lost" to them?
We still output more every year than the year before. We're just so frigging productive we don't need the factory space or workers to get it done. In a true emergency, you don't think it'd take more than 6 months to crank up production, do you?
1. When did our current system of government-granted local monopoly become "open" in any sense of that word? Right now __I HAVE A SINGLE PROVIDER__ of land-line service.
2. Everyone knows (or should know) that the worst of all possible scenarios is a government-enforced monopoly over a market but a corporation as the producer. Worst, that is, except for the producer.
3. That said, it's not like there is no overlap between land-line and other communications services. It's not as if you have copper or NOTHING. You have a choice.
4. Feel free to pay old-sk00l Ma Bell prices to Verizon. I'm sure you'll get better service than the rest of us.
5. I suppose next you'll be suggesting a return to horse-drawn carriages, and IBM-provided computers. And the printing press? Been nothing but trouble for illuminators world-wide.
Hey dummy, anti-union "rhetoric" has been around a lot longer than FOX News, and it has nothing to with "better benefits". Garbage rules about seniority that reward time rather than ability, inability to fucking fire someone. That's where the frigging anti-union sentiment comes from. Jealousy? Not in the least.
A tea party is right. We should get a bunch of old P2, load 'em with windows and toss 'em overboard. And then send down the scuba divers so we're not actively polluting navigable waters:) , but the point would remain....
Well like I said, I do see the value in having a Tivo (greatest invention ever). I honestly am remembering the days when throwing together bits in a box to see if you could create a great new machine from spare parts was a good use of spare time.;)
Okay, so maybe this is asking for trouble, but I read stuff like this and my first impulse is to ask "what's the point?"
I can understand wanting to download stuff to a local computer and use it. No big deal there. I can understand modifying my DirecTivo to let me pull stuff down and save it for later.
But really... why do I want to save it for later? Why do I need to buy a gigantic HD and store hundreds of DVDs? (Really, why ever bother buying a damn DVD at all?)
I want to do a MythTV box, I really do. If nothing else, I'd love to put a server in my basement and use terminals elsewhere to get at it (or wireless laptops).
But in the end, I'd rather just go outside and play in the garden, or go canoeing, or do a little woodworking, or staying on the machine, go argue with people in my favorite forums.
I just don't see the need to DO a central media server. Is that wrong?:)
Totally curious now: What software have you had to download? I guess I'm not as bleeding edge as I used to be, but I can't think of anything recently that wasn't in portage...
Also, sure, emerge --search is slow, but eix solved that little issue. So I needed to download and use eix not emerge for everything, that's okay.
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And leave me out of it.
I hear this meme any time the garbage from the telcos is brought up.
What is the evidence and/or proof that there would be no competition, that no other company would ever build infrastructure? Sure it's the "common sense" reasoning, but you know what they say about common sense. Where did the meme come from? The telcos who benefit to the tune of billions because of the regulation they've bought?
Good reasoning, really. But for me, I've seen Heroes - no need to see it again. Bond movies are cheap at Blockbuster, if I get the urge (and if I don't feel like leaving the house, I didn't need to watch it that bad).
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I guess it's just priorities. I do like your other response though - record stuff to see if it's worth watching. That's the best reason I've heard yet... too bad I can't find a good way to bust open the DTV signal.
Nothing personal, but seriously, how much of what you watch do you really want to keep forever? How much is worthwhile??
:)
I love the idea of Myth, but I get everything via DirecTV these days (Sunday Ticket) and I really don't care to save shit that I've seen... how much time do you Myth guys spend in front of the tube?
I have two of these. Also "button issues" might just be a broken tiny piece of plastic inside. I opened one up and fixed it by jamming a little folded square of paper into the area to hold the clicker in place. That's how much I love mine. :) I just lost a loved keyboard so I'm thinking of ebay'ing a couple more FX's just to have them.
For the 4th button, what do you mean "modern OS's"? You must be talking Windows because I was able to get button 4 running on X a long while ago. In practice, I just don't use it. But support is there.
I'm with you - I have a pair of Marble FX's that I got years ago and have brought with me to job after job, computer after computer. Best one evar. :)
I'll tell you why I wouldn't do it: The UI on the cable boxes that I've seen ABSOLUTELY SUCKS HORRIBLE DONKEY BALLS compared to Tivo's.
I try to use any of 'em on Time Warner / ex-Adelphia / Comcast, and they're just horrific. I don't know how anyone puts up with it except that it must work, sort of. There are 400 more buttons on your average crappy cable TV remote and you have to click about 40 specific ones to make shit happen.
I know I'm exaggerating, but Tivo's UI is just so much better it feels like I'm slogging through Win 3.11 for Workgroups when I'm stuck at my parents'....
I find it astounding that you guys can suggest with a straight face that it "cost you nothing"........
Nope. Not when the cost of it is taken from me by force. No advantage at all.
Seems to me cable channels like Bravo don't "pander", as you say.
That's because they're not "legislating from the bench" they're striking down legislation from the bench. There's a difference between creating new law and just getting rid of poorly-designed law.
Jeebus what an attitude.....
Hey, why not hand off all your "income" to your government. They can just provide you with everything you need, and since you probably won't need all that money all the time, they can use it to provide services that other people want! It'll be a utopia!
Aye carumba...
Are we seriously seeing more depression, or are we seeing a greater "ability" to diagnose it?
Seems to me that the "stress" we feel today is nothing in comparison to that of the vast majority of human history, when simply surviving the winter and the next plague would be dicey at best.
Humans most certainly aren't endangered, though. Nor do we run around killing the hundred year old codgers by blowing them up with projectiles...
Other living things are worth protecting precisely because we CAN protect them.
And seriously, how long do you think it would take for us to reconstitute our "manufacturing capability" that you believe we've "lost" to them?
We still output more every year than the year before. We're just so frigging productive we don't need the factory space or workers to get it done. In a true emergency, you don't think it'd take more than 6 months to crank up production, do you?
Try to fire someone in the NYC school system. Sure you can. Years later.
Give me a break. There's a reason people don't like unions and it's not because we don't know "the truth"...
You never hear Americans complaining about the CIA? Are you deaf or just playing stupid? My guess would be the latter.
1. When did our current system of government-granted local monopoly become "open" in any sense of that word? Right now __I HAVE A SINGLE PROVIDER__ of land-line service.
2. Everyone knows (or should know) that the worst of all possible scenarios is a government-enforced monopoly over a market but a corporation as the producer. Worst, that is, except for the producer.
3. That said, it's not like there is no overlap between land-line and other communications services. It's not as if you have copper or NOTHING. You have a choice.
4. Feel free to pay old-sk00l Ma Bell prices to Verizon. I'm sure you'll get better service than the rest of us.
5. I suppose next you'll be suggesting a return to horse-drawn carriages, and IBM-provided computers. And the printing press? Been nothing but trouble for illuminators world-wide.
Hey dummy, anti-union "rhetoric" has been around a lot longer than FOX News, and it has nothing to with "better benefits". Garbage rules about seniority that reward time rather than ability, inability to fucking fire someone. That's where the frigging anti-union sentiment comes from. Jealousy? Not in the least.
And that makes it right because..... ?
:) , but the point would remain....
A tea party is right. We should get a bunch of old P2, load 'em with windows and toss 'em overboard. And then send down the scuba divers so we're not actively polluting navigable waters
Wait, they don't ALREADY collect enough in taxes? They need MORE? Too many pet projects that need coerced dollars, I guess.
Surely, you must be joking. Alas, no.
Well like I said, I do see the value in having a Tivo (greatest invention ever). I honestly am remembering the days when throwing together bits in a box to see if you could create a great new machine from spare parts was a good use of spare time. ;)
Let's use our pea-sized little brains for a moment and realize that I am fishing for reasons.
And by the way: Winter != holed up in a crappy little house with nothing to do outdoors.
Okay, so maybe this is asking for trouble, but I read stuff like this and my first impulse is to ask "what's the point?"
:)
I can understand wanting to download stuff to a local computer and use it. No big deal there. I can understand modifying my DirecTivo to let me pull stuff down and save it for later.
But really... why do I want to save it for later? Why do I need to buy a gigantic HD and store hundreds of DVDs? (Really, why ever bother buying a damn DVD at all?)
I want to do a MythTV box, I really do. If nothing else, I'd love to put a server in my basement and use terminals elsewhere to get at it (or wireless laptops).
But in the end, I'd rather just go outside and play in the garden, or go canoeing, or do a little woodworking, or staying on the machine, go argue with people in my favorite forums.
I just don't see the need to DO a central media server. Is that wrong?
Most informative /. post evar. Thank you, sir.
Totally curious now: What software have you had to download? I guess I'm not as bleeding edge as I used to be, but I can't think of anything recently that wasn't in portage...
Also, sure, emerge --search is slow, but eix solved that little issue. So I needed to download and use eix not emerge for everything, that's okay.