This is exactly why I think replaytv was so much better a product.
Not only did it have great features like commerical skip (until the we practically sued to death and tivo grabbed share). But with lots of extensibility like the great oss dvarchive where you create watch, archive and control your networked replaytv boxes, I always think it is a shame that tivo with the cuter name and better marketing campaign which caught so much of the market share.
I strongly suggest people think about checking out the competition, all the hacker types I know prefer it. But now that tivo has the market, they really don't care what consumers want as long as they sell more units. Tivo has become synonymous with pvr; and utimately we the consumers are really loosing out.
Actually it is a federal offense since it would be considered counterfeiting, but what is even more interesting is the security that have in place to stop that.
Remember when it first came out and the cards were blue? Apparently a bunch of people figured out that you could dupe 50$ of value to used ones, and sell them to idiots on the platform. They would swipe it to show the dope there was a value and get cash for it.
I sat in on a security lecture once where the expert discussed the complexities of preventing unauthorized use in a system that big. Basically every time you swipe it writes back to your card and a log at that turnstyle. Every 5 minutes or so that log is uploaded to a regional center and that in turn is uploaded to a central location. They then can detect detect things like if a card is used in more than one location, or if more than once in n minutes. If one of these potentially illegal conditions exist the system can add your card to a blacklist and push it back out to the turnstyles all in under 11 minutes.
The cooler thing is that then when you use a modified card that was blacklisted the little color lights on the opposite side flash yellow or red instead of green. Alerting the police who like to stand and watch people try to jujmp or squeeze by to pick you up.
I thought it was a brilliant use of a relativly old and low-security technology.
I used my 15 gig ipod for about 2 months with my xp box until my g5 came. I had no problems I just reformatted with the ipod update utility which wiped and restored it to factory cleanliness (minus a few scratches).
Someone with windows could format their ipods the same way but in reverse. A simple search on the apple support site yielded these instructions on how to do so.
Have you not seen the sequel to Breakin', Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo? The film portrayed a group of motivated break dancing youths trying to raise money to save their community center.
While some might say you missed the single most fascinating film produced by Hollywood in the year 1984, they would of course be wrong.
This is just an over simplification. Just because they can be used in unison, don't not make them the same. It is somewhat like claiming all science in the US is really based on the fundimetals of English because of the papers scientists write.
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Am I the only one that reads this and thinks, beam me up scotty? I mean isn't that the point of a transporter? Instant clone, but somewhere else?
Well it would be if it was for the fact that it is for xp.
This is exactly why I think replaytv was so much better a product.
Not only did it have great features like commerical skip (until the we practically sued to death and tivo grabbed share). But with lots of extensibility like the great oss dvarchive where you create watch, archive and control your networked replaytv boxes, I always think it is a shame that tivo with the cuter name and better marketing campaign which caught so much of the market share.
I strongly suggest people think about checking out the competition, all the hacker types I know prefer it. But now that tivo has the market, they really don't care what consumers want as long as they sell more units. Tivo has become synonymous with pvr; and utimately we the consumers are really loosing out.
Actually it is a federal offense since it would be considered counterfeiting, but what is even more interesting is the security that have in place to stop that.
Remember when it first came out and the cards were blue? Apparently a bunch of people figured out that you could dupe 50$ of value to used ones, and sell them to idiots on the platform. They would swipe it to show the dope there was a value and get cash for it.
I sat in on a security lecture once where the expert discussed the complexities of preventing unauthorized use in a system that big. Basically every time you swipe it writes back to your card and a log at that turnstyle. Every 5 minutes or so that log is uploaded to a regional center and that in turn is uploaded to a central location. They then can detect detect things like if a card is used in more than one location, or if more than once in n minutes. If one of these potentially illegal conditions exist the system can add your card to a blacklist and push it back out to the turnstyles all in under 11 minutes.
The cooler thing is that then when you use a modified card that was blacklisted the little color lights on the opposite side flash yellow or red instead of green. Alerting the police who like to stand and watch people try to jujmp or squeeze by to pick you up.
I thought it was a brilliant use of a relativly old and low-security technology.
I used my 15 gig ipod for about 2 months with my xp box until my g5 came. I had no problems I just reformatted with the ipod update utility which wiped and restored it to factory cleanliness (minus a few scratches).
Someone with windows could format their ipods the same way but in reverse. A simple search on the apple support site yielded these instructions on how to do so.
Have you not seen the sequel to Breakin', Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo? The film portrayed a group of motivated break dancing youths trying to raise money to save their community center. While some might say you missed the single most fascinating film produced by Hollywood in the year 1984, they would of course be wrong.
This is just an over simplification. Just because they can be used in unison, don't not make them the same. It is somewhat like claiming all science in the US is really based on the fundimetals of English because of the papers scientists write.