From what I can tell this is still in early production stages. A lot of people are complaining about the case while the head of the project is still working on software and things like power supply.
In the spirit of the Open Source community I though this would be welcomed with open arms. The device is open in every way and yes they offer software downloads.
Do you think that fancy HP device was pretty when they started working on it? I'm sure the early testing was done on parts wired together on a safe table.
Packaging is last. I would say get the machine and fiddle with it [if you can afford it] and try to make it better.
This case is about EchoStar looking for more business.
Of course it would be nice to get a station from another state to see sports games that are blacked out.
On my local cable Reds games were scheduled on ESPN and Fox Sports Net. Fox has the rights to those games, and ESPN was literally blacked out. I lost the whole channel until the game was over.
A local wings and beer place recently got a Bearcats game illegally from another cities broadcast through their Satellite dish. IMHO that was wrong considering the game was blacked out and the school, stadium, and all lost revenue but the bar was making hand over fist.
Blackouts might suck, but taking money from the teams or whatever the case may be, is wrong.
The simple act of putting the source code out there will not guarantee you better results.
Ok, we aren't talking product here buddy. Computers are made to solve problems and it's both science and engineering.
using Mozilla as an example, you're likely to end up being pushed to just scrap it all and rewrite, taking you out of the market for 2+ years and still 95% of the work is done by your own employees.
Scrap it all and rewrite... sometimes it's needed. IANAMD [I am not a mozilla developer] but what I do know is that sometimes a product developed behind closed doors has problems. When the public sees the code then that 5% will either speak up or contribute.
You can't have a good alpha/beta program with out letting out a few secrets*. Usually the more the better. [* Now, you could of course internally test your software but this limits the chances of good code coming from poor people. This is why many closed/proprietary camps use beta programs even still. ]
The point of open source IMHO is trying to develop products which won't fail when you are depending on them. OSS isn't about making cash hand over fist.
You will get failures, forks and re-writes.... but it's all in the name of solving problems.
Osama Bin Ladin has been caught at Newark airport!
I'm 100% serious guys. He was caught boarding a plane with explosives, no one noticed at first because he was dressed as a woman and has shaved his beard. He was wearing a blond wig and was only noticed because he looked to weigh 250+ pounds.
The extra weight was supposed to be a bomb, but upon inspection it was wired wrong and if he had tried to detonate the bomb the wiring would have only shocked his genitals.
Earthlink [yuck] already offers service over my Road Runner [not AT&T - TW].
Of course one has to ask a few questions.
I know where my mail and news servers are. If needed I could go and break into the office if I sent out an e-mail I didn't want to. The servers on the network [proxy, mail, news etc] are about 5 miles from my newer place and only a mile from my old place.
Not only are they geographically closer but are about 5 hops away [remember the cable modem itself is a hop].
Why the fuck would I switch to Earthlink which holds their servers in another state. I know closer isn't better - already some on our ISP have complained [uhhmm, whine'd] about the news servers and would like to use one in Kansas City [still a TW RR server].
I don't see the problem but people are switching over.
I see these deals as not monopolizing but doing what is required by law. Hopefully the cable comes in but there are many choices.
Of course you can get AOL too....
...[actually that isn't all to bad considering its over cable none the less. New customers or current AOL customers would like that setup 10 times better.]
That guy is actually great at marketing because he is still buying commercials to this day and he uses the same tricks on TV.
Seriously - he says to never spend more money than you have to. Opt-in makes sense because you aren't throwing cash down the drain.
[[I never bought that course! I did however get a chance to read a competitors course and it was supposedly the same exact thing. You can learn something if you've got a business or starting one but you can't GRQ. The stuff in the course is similar to the commercials - "Call within the next 5 minutes" - and using codes or coupon numbers you can track when and where your show was watched.]]
Has it been proved that a human being is defined by the molecules it's made up of?
All living things are subject to data encoded in their DNA. While two exact asexually reproduced humans may not think and feel the same they would be the same none the less.
Thinking and feelings are assumed to be developed with experience. DNA provides no such experience.
By measuring who we are by what we can measure I can safely say that we exist and so do complex molecular actions that define us.
The worst part is that he may have made money on this transaction. While getting a file from your favorite P2P maybe illegal because of a silly law it may not be immoral. I think if you are using P2P to make money then you are doing something very wrong.
I support P2P, I don't support abuse. I don't support people making money off of the Artists. That is supposedly the fear of the RIAA, but we know they care about the bottom line only.
Did this guy do this? He did buy the CD's first, but he kept a copy when he sold them. Digital copies. That violates Fair Use, considering it's obviously not 'fair'.
If a movie I want to see isn't on your widescreen format then I will watch it anyways.
I think the solution would be to produce more wide screen televisions. As we move to digital broadcasts the question needs to be asked: Why are our televisions shaped so 20th century?
Even if there is more to us than this body, we are made of same building blocks of life as all other life on this planet.
If it wasn't for nucleic acids, tiny machine like molecules - we wouldn't be here.
Scientifically all life on this planet started trying to compete and consume all organic molecules. In turn they developed some pretty cool tools such as chloroplasts, mitochondria and other tools to deal with the environment around us.
When a hospital holds my records they are holding them because they are required by law. They need to keep information on everything that happens between patient and doctor.
You may tell your doctor you are on a certain prescribed drug [maybe your family doctor prescribed it]. If he takes that note down because it may save your life it has now become a matter of record at the hospital. If the situation was reversed then your doctor may take note of a drug that was prescribed during a hospital visit.
In many states medical records can't be destroyed. The hospital keeps the records because it is in their best interest. They want to clear themselves of further litigation. If it wasn't required - they are taking it upon themselves to keep the records. Either way I haven't yet surrendered my rights as a patient.
The subject isn't where the records are kept, but the confidentiality you are currently provided under the status quo. Even with the connected world we live in most records are still kept in folders, and copies are made on a Xerox machine and not at a laser printer.
I currently have some of my records under lock and key with the county government because of a medical program they have. Under current law I must sign in advance to very specific releases of information. If they want to know milestones in treatment it's not assumed that they can call upon this information at anytime. Even though they are the ones keeping the records and providing some medical treatment.
Gateway uses a company to make it's motherboards - one such board I've bought over e-bay. [Jabil is the maker] The board is nice and as far as I can tell it isn't in another system anywhere outside of Gateway and overstock that is being sold on e-bay. Works good and beat my in the box mobo in a benchmark [almost the same specs except an extra, empty, memory slot].
You need to think of your 'nameplate' as the one who bought the parts wholesale or dictated a design for those parts. The nameplate watched the market, got deals and tried to put together a good system.
This isn't always true, but the laptop market is somewhat generic and mass produced.
It's not hard, look at the outside and inside of a laptop - they are all pretty much the same. Your desktop systems vary in so many ways that some models from your 'nameplate' may be similar to other models from other nameplates.
I'm in favor of Red Hat, Mandrake, Ximian, whoever answering up with for pay solutions every now and then.
There maybe a market to get people over from the MS camp. Answering an MS solution sometimes with a Linux based, although non-free solution. IT managers don't switch now because it's "free" anyways.
If its a good product then let it stand on it's own and then let it pay for other free development.
I think the idea would be to create new DVD's and release the image file on the underground or for the smart people give us mp3 files.
This way you burn a legal copy - keep your original safe - and watch your new commentary either in your Component DVD player [given it can read your discs] or your PC.
If making DVD discs you could make another track - but if you like VCD as I do [runs almost everywhere] you could just make a 60 cent two disc set. I know of many free programs that will put an mp3 to an mpeg - hell you could even make a MPEG-2 with some.
Seems pretty easy, I've had a great idea about The Matrix but I won't say it here.....
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From what I can tell this is still in early production stages. A lot of people are complaining about the case while the head of the project is still working on software and things like power supply.
In the spirit of the Open Source community I though this would be welcomed with open arms. The device is open in every way and yes they offer software downloads.
Do you think that fancy HP device was pretty when they started working on it? I'm sure the early testing was done on parts wired together on a safe table.
Packaging is last. I would say get the machine and fiddle with it [if you can afford it] and try to make it better.
As I look at my component stereo [tv and dvd player] it's all black.
So what is your problem again?
I don't think this is what it will look like when it comes out though.
Off topic on April fools day?
I love that we can meta-moderate.
This case is about EchoStar looking for more business.
Of course it would be nice to get a station from another state to see sports games that are blacked out.
On my local cable Reds games were scheduled on ESPN and Fox Sports Net. Fox has the rights to those games, and ESPN was literally blacked out. I lost the whole channel until the game was over.
A local wings and beer place recently got a Bearcats game illegally from another cities broadcast through their Satellite dish. IMHO that was wrong considering the game was blacked out and the school, stadium, and all lost revenue but the bar was making hand over fist.
Blackouts might suck, but taking money from the teams or whatever the case may be, is wrong.
The simple act of putting the source code out there will not guarantee you better results.
Ok, we aren't talking product here buddy. Computers are made to solve problems and it's both science and engineering.
using Mozilla as an example, you're likely to end up being pushed to just scrap it all and rewrite, taking you out of the market for 2+ years and still 95% of the work is done by your own employees.
Scrap it all and rewrite... sometimes it's needed. IANAMD [I am not a mozilla developer] but what I do know is that sometimes a product developed behind closed doors has problems. When the public sees the code then that 5% will either speak up or contribute.
You can't have a good alpha/beta program with out letting out a few secrets*. Usually the more the better. [* Now, you could of course internally test your software but this limits the chances of good code coming from poor people. This is why many closed/proprietary camps use beta programs even still. ]
The point of open source IMHO is trying to develop products which won't fail when you are depending on them. OSS isn't about making cash hand over fist.
You will get failures, forks and re-writes.... but it's all in the name of solving problems.
Exactly.
.NET Studio.
Open the OS and it's functions. Don't charge for that - they still own the development branch of the OS.
So, if you do want to compile the OS or make changes you will need to buy their Visual
Costs more than the OS
One more monopoly I guess.
I understand that it's a national thing [duh].
I was just wondering....
How does slashdot get these sites to put up these articles?
I guess that is why all the hardware reviews come from Tom.
Slashvertisements have begun.
Osama Bin Ladin has been caught at Newark airport!
I'm 100% serious guys. He was caught boarding a plane with explosives, no one noticed at first because he was dressed as a woman and has shaved his beard. He was wearing a blond wig and was only noticed because he looked to weigh 250+ pounds.
The extra weight was supposed to be a bomb, but upon inspection it was wired wrong and if he had tried to detonate the bomb the wiring would have only shocked his genitals.
The funny thing is, I've seen a review that said this game was one of the worst games ever.
It came down to horrible control and even worse it only lasts about 5 minutes until it's old.
Well worth the price.
Inside Inside
Inside Inside
Inside Inside
Inside Inside
Inside Inside
Inside Inside
Take that you dirty fucking bastards!
I'm Inside you.
Earthlink [yuck] already offers service over my Road Runner [not AT&T - TW].
Of course one has to ask a few questions.
I know where my mail and news servers are. If needed I could go and break into the office if I sent out an e-mail I didn't want to. The servers on the network [proxy, mail, news etc] are about 5 miles from my newer place and only a mile from my old place.
Not only are they geographically closer but are about 5 hops away [remember the cable modem itself is a hop].
Why the fuck would I switch to Earthlink which holds their servers in another state. I know closer isn't better - already some on our ISP have complained [uhhmm, whine'd] about the news servers and would like to use one in Kansas City [still a TW RR server].
I don't see the problem but people are switching over.
I see these deals as not monopolizing but doing what is required by law. Hopefully the cable comes in but there are many choices.
Of course you can get AOL too....
...[actually that isn't all to bad considering its over cable none the less. New customers or current AOL customers would like that setup 10 times better.]
Ever seen those Don Lapre tapes on TV?
That guy is actually great at marketing because he is still buying commercials to this day and he uses the same tricks on TV.
Seriously - he says to never spend more money than you have to. Opt-in makes sense because you aren't throwing cash down the drain.
[[I never bought that course! I did however get a chance to read a competitors course and it was supposedly the same exact thing. You can learn something if you've got a business or starting one but you can't GRQ. The stuff in the course is similar to the commercials - "Call within the next 5 minutes" - and using codes or coupon numbers you can track when and where your show was watched.]]
Although finally having a legit copy of XP Pro was a nice bonus as well :)
College seems like a fun place.
Has it been proved that a human being is defined by the molecules it's made up of?
All living things are subject to data encoded in their DNA. While two exact asexually reproduced humans may not think and feel the same they would be the same none the less.
Thinking and feelings are assumed to be developed with experience. DNA provides no such experience.
By measuring who we are by what we can measure I can safely say that we exist and so do complex molecular actions that define us.
But he ripped his CD's and pawned them.
It would be like copying software and returning it to the store. Copying your movie collection and selling it makes it illegal.
(rip, mix, burn)!=(music piracy)
(rip, resell) !=(music piracy)
The worst part is that he may have made money on this transaction. While getting a file from your favorite P2P maybe illegal because of a silly law it may not be immoral. I think if you are using P2P to make money then you are doing something very wrong.
I support P2P, I don't support abuse. I don't support people making money off of the Artists. That is supposedly the fear of the RIAA, but we know they care about the bottom line only.
Did this guy do this? He did buy the CD's first, but he kept a copy when he sold them. Digital copies. That violates Fair Use, considering it's obviously not 'fair'.
You decide.
Personally, I'm someone that can go either way.
If a movie I want to see isn't on your widescreen format then I will watch it anyways.
I think the solution would be to produce more wide screen televisions. As we move to digital broadcasts the question needs to be asked: Why are our televisions shaped so 20th century?
lol... look at your sig [spamming?]
And also try to get it to resolve.
Sounds like a mafia boss.
"Remind him how smart he is boys"
Even if there is more to us than this body, we are made of same building blocks of life as all other life on this planet.
If it wasn't for nucleic acids, tiny machine like molecules - we wouldn't be here.
Scientifically all life on this planet started trying to compete and consume all organic molecules. In turn they developed some pretty cool tools such as chloroplasts, mitochondria and other tools to deal with the environment around us.
We are machines, but we can study that fact.
I felt like 4096 was too much so I went up to an almost weird number.
Okay, let me end this.
When a hospital holds my records they are holding them because they are required by law. They need to keep information on everything that happens between patient and doctor.
You may tell your doctor you are on a certain prescribed drug [maybe your family doctor prescribed it]. If he takes that note down because it may save your life it has now become a matter of record at the hospital. If the situation was reversed then your doctor may take note of a drug that was prescribed during a hospital visit.
In many states medical records can't be destroyed. The hospital keeps the records because it is in their best interest. They want to clear themselves of further litigation. If it wasn't required - they are taking it upon themselves to keep the records. Either way I haven't yet surrendered my rights as a patient.
The subject isn't where the records are kept, but the confidentiality you are currently provided under the status quo. Even with the connected world we live in most records are still kept in folders, and copies are made on a Xerox machine and not at a laser printer.
I currently have some of my records under lock and key with the county government because of a medical program they have. Under current law I must sign in advance to very specific releases of information. If they want to know milestones in treatment it's not assumed that they can call upon this information at anytime. Even though they are the ones keeping the records and providing some medical treatment.
This is exactly it.
Gateway uses a company to make it's motherboards - one such board I've bought over e-bay. [Jabil is the maker] The board is nice and as far as I can tell it isn't in another system anywhere outside of Gateway and overstock that is being sold on e-bay. Works good and beat my in the box mobo in a benchmark [almost the same specs except an extra, empty, memory slot].
You need to think of your 'nameplate' as the one who bought the parts wholesale or dictated a design for those parts. The nameplate watched the market, got deals and tried to put together a good system.
This isn't always true, but the laptop market is somewhat generic and mass produced.
It's not hard, look at the outside and inside of a laptop - they are all pretty much the same. Your desktop systems vary in so many ways that some models from your 'nameplate' may be similar to other models from other nameplates.
I'm in favor of Red Hat, Mandrake, Ximian, whoever answering up with for pay solutions every now and then.
There maybe a market to get people over from the MS camp. Answering an MS solution sometimes with a Linux based, although non-free solution. IT managers don't switch now because it's "free" anyways.
If its a good product then let it stand on it's own and then let it pay for other free development.
This way you burn a legal copy - keep your original safe - and watch your new commentary either in your Component DVD player [given it can read your discs] or your PC.
If making DVD discs you could make another track - but if you like VCD as I do [runs almost everywhere] you could just make a 60 cent two disc set. I know of many free programs that will put an mp3 to an mpeg - hell you could even make a MPEG-2 with some.
Seems pretty easy, I've had a great idea about The Matrix but I won't say it here.....