I have a Tivo too, and in two day's time it goes out of warranty.
At that point, I'll likely put in a bigger hard drive and an wireless ethernet adaptor. You can then download software to control it via a web-based interface - useful, as I could then access it from work (with suitable security of course).
Not sure if you can turn it into a music player though, and I know you can't extract the video streams.
I'm also thinking along the same lines, and my current choice is between Shuttle lines or a mini-ITX with a hardware MPEG2 decoder.
An example of the mini-ITX can be found here, and the same site also contains the Shuttle box I'm thinking about.
Not at all sure which, if any, I'll go for. Quite like the Shuttles as a more general purpose PC, but the mini-ITX is cheap, comes with its own adequate CPU and would fit in a component rack better. Other cases can be had to make it look even more like a hi-fi component.
...just force folks to upgrade or lose functionality
You don't lose functionality by not upgrading. You just don't gain anything new.
Honestly, it's not unreasonable to expect Microsoft to change their base coding level once in a while. And SP3 is free. Yes, I'm aware of the licensing issues but if you don't want to use it, well then stay at the level you're at. You lose nothing.
And my mother might not like it too much either if you killed me for one bad joke.
Err...
Last I checked the law might care too
Detail. Trivia...
Oh all right then, since you came back to fight your corner so nicely I'll let you off:-). But please, fifty Profit! jokes an article is slowly turning me psychotic...
In a free market, there will always be someone willing to provide such services.
No.
Nintendo were leaning on the retailers to ensure that anyone supplying to a cheaper country suddenly got their supply of Nintendo games cut off. There was no-one willing to do this. The second you did, you lost all rights to sell Nintendo stuff.
If people are unable to do so, then that is the case because EU laws/tarrifs/regulations/etc. are the problem.
Exactly the opposite. The EU has laws that enable people to do so and these laws have been used against Nintendo, who were trying to prevent it.
After all, can't the German customer just call up someone in Britain and have them buy it for him and ship it to Germany, and pay him the $50 plus a bit for his troubles?
No - not if no-one's willing to sell it to them. And Nintendo were using their clout with retailers to ensure that no-one was.
If Nintendo sells units for more money in a country with less demand, it's illegal?
Not what the ruling's about. The ruling isn't about price per se, it's about controlling the distribution.
What Nintendo were doing was selling a game for x in the UK, and the same game for x+5 in, say, France. Perfectly legal.
The trouble is that they were then trying to prevent French consumers from buying in Britain and importing directly into France. Now, the EU is an internal free-trade area, so controlling imports between member states is a big no-no.
That's the case. Not the price as such, but the control of distribution across member state boundaries.
Find a few willing Linux developers and write your own.
A good answer. Yes, that's the actual solution to the problem.
The trouble is...when? I have a full time job, a two and half hour each way commute and a nine month-old daughter to look after.
So whilst I accept your point completely, it's simply not practical for me. That's why I'm prepared to pay Intuit for Quicken - it's my time versus their costs. My time is more rare.
Seriously though, I'd thought about trying to use the US version on MacOS X. The problem is that it would also need support for UK tax rules.
Cheers,
Ian
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So, we're not using definition 1 from your dictionary. So what?
Parent I was replying to said he saw no instance that precluded there being more than one universe.
I actually quite like the universe/Universe idea in one of the other replies - that seems to fit nicely. I'd prefer calling these things something else though - continuums perhaps? Maybe that's taken.
Face it, people... you DO NOT NEED ANY Microsoft programs anymore. Unless you are a hard core gamer, you don't even need Windows.
OK then...just find me full-featured replacements for:
Quicken (UK)
Cubase Audio
Premier
Acrobat (full thing, not the reader)
Exchange Server (calendaring, LDAP/IMAP does rest)
and I'll agree. Got any? The Ksomethingorother Quicken-a-like isn't there yet, neither is GnuCash. Cubase Audio? Hmm. Premier? Nope. Acrobat? Not that I'm aware of, though I imagine this has the best chance of having an equivalent. Exchange Server? Nope, that's why the Kroupware project exists.
Nope, sorry. I play zero PC-based games, and I still need Windows. Not even a Mac will do - still no UK version of Quicken (my constant cry...).
Cheers,
Ian
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Not a single one of the five different senses of the word gives even the suggestion that there can not be more than one.
1 : the whole body of things and phenomena observed or postulated
ie. everything. Can't have more than one of those. If more 'things' are being postulated that match what previously we called the universe, then by definition they are subsumed into the current universe and we need a different word to describe what we used to have.
Cheers,
Ian
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By the very nature of the word, an atom cannot be divided.
Yes and no - MW lists three meanings for atom, only the third of which describes the atom as a particle (which may be split). It's true that the other senses of the word preclude splitting any further, but they are other senses of the word.
Cheers,
Ian
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it talks about how inflation predicts multiple universes
This is one of my pet hates. By the very definition of the word, there can only be one universe. Or are the definitions now being changed?
Thank you to people who enlightened us all about intranet usefulness. I posted my opinion, it went to 4, Interesting, and generated a few explanations of how DHTML is useful.
Well quite. Bit stunned to find you'd gone to zero to be honest - the very number of counterpoints you generated (I posted one) showed that at least some people found it interesting.
DHTML is used extensively for in-house custom development. I can assure you that DHTML is used for an awful lot more than ads, though that may well be all you see of it on the public internet.
There is only one word, and the word is Kryptonite.
Or "some unspecified magic tool", as my parent post noted I'd fixed the King with...
Yes, but it discusses a 'smackdown', which I take to mean a straight fight. Plus Kryptonite has become a really uninteresting plot line, done to death a thousand times...
Far back in the mists of time, or sixteen years ago if you're being less poetic, I was a DM'ing my first set of D&D games. I created the Eruvia continent for the setting, and populated it with various goodies, nasties and a chief baddy - The King.
The King was a stunningly powerful lych, and it soon became clear that if this guy drifted in to the game, the balance of power was ended. Put simply - the King was too strong, and ruined all the games because players went up against him and just instanteneously died.
I'm not deeply into comics, but Superman seems to be that character to me. In Superman they've created a superhero who is just too strong to be beaten.
I fixed my game world by arranging for the King to die courtesy of some unspecified magic tool. The games became interesting again. Similarly, I was encouraged a while ago that Superman was to be killed off, but apparently they've wimped out of that and brought him back to life.
I suppose then my pick would be Superman. But it's not a pick I make with any great enthusiasm. It's an unbalanced character.
you will not like a hyperthreading machine. In our tests...things that runs slower...video encoding, audio encoding, quite a number of apps with real multi-threading built in.
Hmm. Now that's seriously disappointing - video encoding is what I mainly had in mind. That and a tiny amount of Photoshop - I can live without dual-CPU for that though, as my Photoshop usage isn't that high.
There are other things I do with it - I run various virtual machines using Virtual PC for Windows, and I like the isolation that running on a dual-cpu gives me. Even if the virtual machine starts chewing its way through my CPU power, it generally only starts massacring one at once, thus leaving my native OS and GUI nice and responsive. I'd be looking for a hyperthreaded machine to give me the same advantage. Does that sound likely?
I was torn between building another dual-CPU box (currently on twin 533Mhz Celerons with an ABit BP6 board), or going the small form-factor route. Now I can do both.
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Err...I think the word is 'tangential'. Barely.
Cheers,
Ian
At that point, I'll likely put in a bigger hard drive and an wireless ethernet adaptor. You can then download software to control it via a web-based interface - useful, as I could then access it from work (with suitable security of course).
Not sure if you can turn it into a music player though, and I know you can't extract the video streams.
Cheers,
Ian
An example of the mini-ITX can be found here, and the same site also contains the Shuttle box I'm thinking about.
Not at all sure which, if any, I'll go for. Quite like the Shuttles as a more general purpose PC, but the mini-ITX is cheap, comes with its own adequate CPU and would fit in a component rack better. Other cases can be had to make it look even more like a hi-fi component.
Cheers,
Ian
Actually, I think one bug mentioned there was supposed to apply to current versions.
Cheers,
Ian
You don't lose functionality by not upgrading. You just don't gain anything new.
Honestly, it's not unreasonable to expect Microsoft to change their base coding level once in a while. And SP3 is free. Yes, I'm aware of the licensing issues but if you don't want to use it, well then stay at the level you're at. You lose nothing.
Cheers,
Ian
Well...if you're being picky about it...
And my mother might not like it too much either if you killed me for one bad joke.
Err...
Last I checked the law might care too
Detail. Trivia...
Oh all right then, since you came back to fight your corner so nicely I'll let you off :-). But please, fifty Profit! jokes an article is slowly turning me psychotic...
Cheers,
Ian
You know, I'm normally a fairly reasonable person as I hope my posting record will support.
Despite that however, would anyone mind if I personally came over and strung up the next person to post a "3. Profit!" mail? Anyone...?
No. Didn't think anyone would mind.
Cheers,
Ian
No.
Nintendo were leaning on the retailers to ensure that anyone supplying to a cheaper country suddenly got their supply of Nintendo games cut off. There was no-one willing to do this. The second you did, you lost all rights to sell Nintendo stuff.
If people are unable to do so, then that is the case because EU laws/tarrifs/regulations/etc. are the problem.
Exactly the opposite. The EU has laws that enable people to do so and these laws have been used against Nintendo, who were trying to prevent it.
Cheers,
Ian
No - not if no-one's willing to sell it to them. And Nintendo were using their clout with retailers to ensure that no-one was.
That's the entire point of the case.
Cheers,
Ian
Not what the ruling's about. The ruling isn't about price per se, it's about controlling the distribution.
What Nintendo were doing was selling a game for x in the UK, and the same game for x+5 in, say, France. Perfectly legal.
The trouble is that they were then trying to prevent French consumers from buying in Britain and importing directly into France. Now, the EU is an internal free-trade area, so controlling imports between member states is a big no-no.
That's the case. Not the price as such, but the control of distribution across member state boundaries.
Cheers,
Ian
A good answer. Yes, that's the actual solution to the problem.
The trouble is...when? I have a full time job, a two and half hour each way commute and a nine month-old daughter to look after.
So whilst I accept your point completely, it's simply not practical for me. That's why I'm prepared to pay Intuit for Quicken - it's my time versus their costs. My time is more rare.
Cheers,
Ian
Seriously though, I'd thought about trying to use the US version on MacOS X. The problem is that it would also need support for UK tax rules.
Cheers,
Ian
Parent I was replying to said he saw no instance that precluded there being more than one universe.
I actually quite like the universe/Universe idea in one of the other replies - that seems to fit nicely. I'd prefer calling these things something else though - continuums perhaps? Maybe that's taken.
Cheers,
Ian
OK then...just find me full-featured replacements for:
- Quicken (UK)
- Cubase Audio
- Premier
- Acrobat (full thing, not the reader)
- Exchange Server (calendaring, LDAP/IMAP does rest)
and I'll agree. Got any? The Ksomethingorother Quicken-a-like isn't there yet, neither is GnuCash. Cubase Audio? Hmm. Premier? Nope. Acrobat? Not that I'm aware of, though I imagine this has the best chance of having an equivalent. Exchange Server? Nope, that's why the Kroupware project exists.Nope, sorry. I play zero PC-based games, and I still need Windows. Not even a Mac will do - still no UK version of Quicken (my constant cry...).
Cheers,
Ian
1 : the whole body of things and phenomena observed or postulated
ie. everything. Can't have more than one of those. If more 'things' are being postulated that match what previously we called the universe, then by definition they are subsumed into the current universe and we need a different word to describe what we used to have.
Cheers,
Ian
Yes and no - MW lists three meanings for atom, only the third of which describes the atom as a particle (which may be split). It's true that the other senses of the word preclude splitting any further, but they are other senses of the word.
Cheers,
Ian
This is one of my pet hates. By the very definition of the word, there can only be one universe. Or are the definitions now being changed?
Cheers,
Ian
Well quite. Bit stunned to find you'd gone to zero to be honest - the very number of counterpoints you generated (I posted one) showed that at least some people found it interesting.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Or "some unspecified magic tool", as my parent post noted I'd fixed the King with...
Yes, but it discusses a 'smackdown', which I take to mean a straight fight. Plus Kryptonite has become a really uninteresting plot line, done to death a thousand times...
I take your point though.
Cheers,
Ian
Far back in the mists of time, or sixteen years ago if you're being less poetic, I was a DM'ing my first set of D&D games. I created the Eruvia continent for the setting, and populated it with various goodies, nasties and a chief baddy - The King.
The King was a stunningly powerful lych, and it soon became clear that if this guy drifted in to the game, the balance of power was ended. Put simply - the King was too strong, and ruined all the games because players went up against him and just instanteneously died.
I'm not deeply into comics, but Superman seems to be that character to me. In Superman they've created a superhero who is just too strong to be beaten.
I fixed my game world by arranging for the King to die courtesy of some unspecified magic tool. The games became interesting again. Similarly, I was encouraged a while ago that Superman was to be killed off, but apparently they've wimped out of that and brought him back to life.
I suppose then my pick would be Superman. But it's not a pick I make with any great enthusiasm. It's an unbalanced character.
Cheers,
Ian
Hmm. Now that's seriously disappointing - video encoding is what I mainly had in mind. That and a tiny amount of Photoshop - I can live without dual-CPU for that though, as my Photoshop usage isn't that high.
There are other things I do with it - I run various virtual machines using Virtual PC for Windows, and I like the isolation that running on a dual-cpu gives me. Even if the virtual machine starts chewing its way through my CPU power, it generally only starts massacring one at once, thus leaving my native OS and GUI nice and responsive. I'd be looking for a hyperthreaded machine to give me the same advantage. Does that sound likely?
Cheers,
Ian
I was torn between building another dual-CPU box (currently on twin 533Mhz Celerons with an ABit BP6 board), or going the small form-factor route. Now I can do both.
More at Shuttle's site.
Cheers,
Ian
It most definitely can't. The SID was, and is, a masterpiece of a chip. The main reason that it is impossible to emulate well is its analog filters.
That's why gear like the SIDStation exists - it's a professional music tool to get analog synth sounds that the current digital tools just lack.
Cheers,
Ian
(Oh - for proof? Try listening to Ghost and Goblins on a real SID, then on an emulator. They have never got it right)
Nope - closing it to the educated is what they're trying to do now... :-)
Cheers,
Ian