It outputs to my TV, records what I want, and I can watch DVD, DIVX, VCD, MP3, CD, etc. PLUS I can watch any recorded show on any moachine on my network. What do I get for the other $750
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Lineo was far too specialized for their own good.
I used to work for one of the biggest technology companies, and one of the projects I was working with was a device that was used an imbedded OS. WindRiver was used at first, then after their licencing became far too expensive, they went to Linux. Not having the expertise themselves to develop everything, they went to Red Had. I am not trying to say that RH is everything, but they offered everything this project needed, and at a decent price. If RH didn't get our account, that's OK, as they have other businesses to keep them going.
Lineo does not have that kind of diversification. They are/were far to specialized for their own good.
They are all rivers. Willamete, Klamath and Deschutes are all rivers in Oregon, as is the Yamhill.
I was working at another division for the company in question, and the products we developed were all named for cities in the United States. I was asked to come up with some potential names for upcoming projects. I searched for the worst names possible. My favorite: Bald Knob. Sadly, it didn't make it.
Clearly the car is hackable, and there is nothing preventing you to hack it.
The issue is not that it is not hackalbe, but it's not easy to hack. No, you can't just order some doo-dah from JC Whittney and expect it to be a simple mod. OK, so a 1976 Pinto was an easy hack, but your 2001 Civic isn't. Sounds like you need to sharpen your pencil and go deeper into the hack.
In the old days of electronics, almost everything came with schematics. You could open your TV and there was the schematics of the set pasted to the inside of the case. With a little amount of knowledge you could figure out where to tap in to put in a composite video signal. Computers were pretty public about their innards as well... I used the schematics from my VIC-20 reference manual to figure out how to mount a switch that allowed me to put RAM into block 5 so I could copy ^H^H^H^H Archive cartriges. Computers and other consumer electronic items no longer have the publicly available schematics, yet they are hacked all the time.
Some IPS with the @Home tag use @Home for the email, and webhosting, but not for network feed.
While you may still have a network feed, you can't say that you won't be screwed. If you use and @HOME email address, which most @HOME users use, you are not in Candy Land.
While it is not as severe as losing your pipe, losing email can be a very bad thing.
Of course they are going to release Replay - they don't have much of a choice.
They have invested truck loads of money in R&D into many products that have not seen the light of day. Their investment in RePlay was a gamble... and did not have a diverse enough product line that would absorb a failure from the Replay investment.
If they didn't release it, it is likely they would be toast. They are hoping that the strategy used with the Rio works for them. If they lose the suit, they are toast as well. If they win, they stay alive.
The cornerstone for Polaroid's business was their patents on instant film technology. No other company could compete in that market because of it. When Kodak attempted to enter the market in the 1970's, Poloroid stopped them, as they were violating their patents.
Because they had no competition, they didn't diversify. Actually they did, but it was too little, too late. Sure, they add low end 35mm cameras, 35mm film and digital cameras to their product line, but they couldn't establish a leadership role in any of these market segments. They still relied on their instant film business as a core.
New technology killed their own older, proprietory technology. Had they tried to embrace other technologies earlier (like been in the 35mm market about 10 years before) they might have build enough diversity on "open" technology to carry them through the predictable demise of their proprietory technology.
Polaroid should be a lesson for other technology companies: continue to innovate or else!
I disagree with ClearChannel's taste and decorum as well. There are many songs that I don't find distasteful, and would play them on my radio stations, if I had any.
ClearChannel made a call as to the tone they want to set for their stations. They are free to do so. They made a bad call. They are free to to that as well.
Look, I don't condone their choice. I don't like the way they run their business, or the product their radio has become. I do, however, celebrate that they have the abilty to make choices, even the ones I don't like.
I am not a ClearChannel fan. Far from it. Nor am I one that lets freedoms slip through my hands without a fight.
That being said, I think the censorship aspect is a matter of perception. I believe that ClearChannel is working from the perspective of taste and decorum. They aren't banning them from existence, they are just saying that they won't play them. They hold the FCC licence, and they get to make the call for programming.
If you are a DJ or other "on-air personality" it is perception of censorship. They aren't allowed to play anything and everything they want.
ClearChannel is just saying that, right now, they don't want their stations playing X right now. As the licence holders, they have that right. Their employees don't have a right to say or do anything they want while on the air; it is not a venue for their free speech. If the FCC gave ClearChannel a list of banned songs, that would be censorship.
Will I be listening to any ClearChannel radio stations? No. I don't like their practices, and wish they would go away. But are they practicing censorship? I have to be honest and say no. I believe they are trying to cater to a sensitive public right now.
Say what you want about it, but the WordPerfect office suite for Linux was fairly complete, and a worthy competitor for similar tasks usually accomlished by MS Office.
The future of Linux as a desktop does not rest soley on this "Killer App". The widespread use of Linux as a desktop needs buy-off from management that is not ready for change, some inprovement in UI and in system management for maintainability by low to mid level IT staff, hardware vendors that fully support and endorse Linux desktop machines, IT management willing to make a major, major change, and other software packages that replace already installed propritery software.
Yeah, a good Office clone will help, but the rest isn't quite there yet. I have faith that the day may come, but there is far more to the equation than Office.
The example given of the replacement pully, while very cool, is not as exciting as it seems. As they had that 3-d printing CAD-CAM equipment, of course that is what they used.
For other, less technically inclined companies, a production manager would have a replacement pully fabricated by either an onsite maintainance department, or an on-call machinist. Critical production lines can't wait for the FedEx truck to show up.
It's really cool that this type of technology is implemented, but downtime on the line would be minimized regardless of technologies available.
Squid, for example. If a company uses squid to cache http traffic, is it violating the copyright holders of the material cached?
I think the whole issue is going to boil down to "fair use". I can only hope that there will be a way that caching search engines, such as google, will be viewed as "fair use".
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of fake names like this
I recently put together a box to do the same thing, ut $1500 it was not.
Shuttle S50 - $300
Celeron 1.8 - $100
256MB DDR - $75
80 GB HDD - $85
DVD (w/WinDVD) $50
Hauppage FM-TV tuner w/ remote - $100
SnapSteam SW - $40
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$750
It outputs to my TV, records what I want, and I can watch DVD, DIVX, VCD, MP3, CD, etc. PLUS I can watch any recorded show on any moachine on my network. What do I get for the other $750
Lineo was far too specialized for their own good.
I used to work for one of the biggest technology companies, and one of the projects I was working with was a device that was used an imbedded OS. WindRiver was used at first, then after their licencing became far too expensive, they went to Linux. Not having the expertise themselves to develop everything, they went to Red Had. I am not trying to say that RH is everything, but they offered everything this project needed, and at a decent price. If RH didn't get our account, that's OK, as they have other businesses to keep them going.
Lineo does not have that kind of diversification. They are/were far to specialized for their own good.
...until some company develops some kind of spray that will stabilize these cheesy DVD's.
I wonder if an aerosol based product could be in violation of the DMCA?
They are all rivers. Willamete, Klamath and Deschutes are all rivers in Oregon, as is the Yamhill.
I was working at another division for the company in question, and the products we developed were all named for cities in the United States. I was asked to come up with some potential names for upcoming projects. I searched for the worst names possible. My favorite: Bald Knob. Sadly, it didn't make it.
Clearly the car is hackable, and there is nothing preventing you to hack it.
The issue is not that it is not hackalbe, but it's not easy to hack. No, you can't just order some doo-dah from JC Whittney and expect it to be a simple mod. OK, so a 1976 Pinto was an easy hack, but your 2001 Civic isn't. Sounds like you need to sharpen your pencil and go deeper into the hack.
In the old days of electronics, almost everything came with schematics. You could open your TV and there was the schematics of the set pasted to the inside of the case. With a little amount of knowledge you could figure out where to tap in to put in a composite video signal. Computers were pretty public about their innards as well... I used the schematics from my VIC-20 reference manual to figure out how to mount a switch that allowed me to put RAM into block 5 so I could copy ^H^H^H^H Archive cartriges. Computers and other consumer electronic items no longer have the publicly available schematics, yet they are hacked all the time.
If it was easy, then everyone would be doing it!
Some IPS with the @Home tag use @Home for the email, and webhosting, but not for network feed.
While you may still have a network feed, you can't say that you won't be screwed. If you use and @HOME email address, which most @HOME users use, you are not in Candy Land.
While it is not as severe as losing your pipe, losing email can be a very bad thing.
If you have a service with "@home" in the name, IT EFFECTS YOU!
Example, you are a subcriber to the "foo@home" cable Internet service, in Anywhere, North America, you are among us that are f***ed.
Of course they are going to release Replay - they don't have much of a choice.
They have invested truck loads of money in R&D into many products that have not seen the light of day. Their investment in RePlay was a gamble... and did not have a diverse enough product line that would absorb a failure from the Replay investment.
If they didn't release it, it is likely they would be toast. They are hoping that the strategy used with the Rio works for them. If they lose the suit, they are toast as well. If they win, they stay alive.
"...Lloyd now has more body surface area saved to get that Windows tattoo he has always wanted!"
Is this the mark of the beast?
You have to hold down the 'shift' key. The standby button will then turn into the 'hibernate' button.
Thank you Microsoft for making this easier, better and more intuitive!
They are the Poloroid Land Corporation.
Polaroid is really a victim of their own patents.
The cornerstone for Polaroid's business was their patents on instant film technology. No other company could compete in that market because of it. When Kodak attempted to enter the market in the 1970's, Poloroid stopped them, as they were violating their patents.
Because they had no competition, they didn't diversify. Actually they did, but it was too little, too late. Sure, they add low end 35mm cameras, 35mm film and digital cameras to their product line, but they couldn't establish a leadership role in any of these market segments. They still relied on their instant film business as a core.
New technology killed their own older, proprietory technology. Had they tried to embrace other technologies earlier (like been in the 35mm market about 10 years before) they might have build enough diversity on "open" technology to carry them through the predictable demise of their proprietory technology.
Polaroid should be a lesson for other technology companies: continue to innovate or else!
My bad.
I stand corrected.
Perhaps he should sue U.S. Comedian "Carrot Top" for stealing his hairstyle.
If there were central government "escrow" crypto escrow, where is the need for a third party Certificate Authority?
All privacy issues aside, I think that VeriSign would not be happy with this arrangement.
I disagree with ClearChannel's taste and decorum as well. There are many songs that I don't find distasteful, and would play them on my radio stations, if I had any.
ClearChannel made a call as to the tone they want to set for their stations. They are free to do so. They made a bad call. They are free to to that as well.
Look, I don't condone their choice. I don't like the way they run their business, or the product their radio has become. I do, however, celebrate that they have the abilty to make choices, even the ones I don't like.
I am not a ClearChannel fan. Far from it. Nor am I one that lets freedoms slip through my hands without a fight.
That being said, I think the censorship aspect is a matter of perception. I believe that ClearChannel is working from the perspective of taste and decorum. They aren't banning them from existence, they are just saying that they won't play them. They hold the FCC licence, and they get to make the call for programming.
If you are a DJ or other "on-air personality" it is perception of censorship. They aren't allowed to play anything and everything they want.
ClearChannel is just saying that, right now, they don't want their stations playing X right now. As the licence holders, they have that right. Their employees don't have a right to say or do anything they want while on the air; it is not a venue for their free speech. If the FCC gave ClearChannel a list of banned songs, that would be censorship.
Will I be listening to any ClearChannel radio stations? No. I don't like their practices, and wish they would go away. But are they practicing censorship? I have to be honest and say no. I believe they are trying to cater to a sensitive public right now.
Corel tried it commercially, and it failed.
Say what you want about it, but the WordPerfect office suite for Linux was fairly complete, and a worthy competitor for similar tasks usually accomlished by MS Office.
The future of Linux as a desktop does not rest soley on this "Killer App". The widespread use of Linux as a desktop needs buy-off from management that is not ready for change, some inprovement in UI and in system management for maintainability by low to mid level IT staff, hardware vendors that fully support and endorse Linux desktop machines, IT management willing to make a major, major change, and other software packages that replace already installed propritery software.
Yeah, a good Office clone will help, but the rest isn't quite there yet. I have faith that the day may come, but there is far more to the equation than Office.
The example given of the replacement pully, while very cool, is not as exciting as it seems. As they had that 3-d printing CAD-CAM equipment, of course that is what they used.
For other, less technically inclined companies, a production manager would have a replacement pully fabricated by either an onsite maintainance department, or an on-call machinist. Critical production lines can't wait for the FedEx truck to show up.
It's really cool that this type of technology is implemented, but downtime on the line would be minimized regardless of technologies available.
Isn't the current Slashcode named "Banjo"?
Appearantly, Banjo is playing a lot of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown".
Charley Pride can perform & sing.
He can perform both kinds of music... Country AND Western!
You could hope that maybe, someday, xbox games will work through a future build of Wine!
Squid, for example. If a company uses squid to cache http traffic, is it violating the copyright holders of the material cached?
I think the whole issue is going to boil down to "fair use". I can only hope that there will be a way that caching search engines, such as google, will be viewed as "fair use".
Perhaps Jeri Ryan could make a guest appearance to help this problem out.