I have seven televisions in my house, shared amongst my family. Right now, they all are connected to cable and only two of them have cable boxes. The rest are cable-ready, meaning I don't need to purchase or rent another cable box from the company to get a picture and sound on my TV. I'm very happy with the current setup.
In 6 years, I imagine most of the televisions in our house will still be in service. TVs last a long time, and I'm not concerned with the "latest and greatest" stuff as long as I can watch the occasional show or Yankee game.
What I want to know is, what happens in 6 years when stations quit broadcasting in their current format. Will my non-cable-box-connected, normal, cable-ready televisions still be fine? Or will I have to toss them and buy new ones, something that'll probably end up costing a couple thousand dollars if I have to replace 5 or more sets. If the latter turns out to be the case, I can assure you that I and *millions* of other Americans will be incredibly pissed off.
I'm not sure this whole thing was planned out right, except maybe with the question, "How can the electronics and television industries make a shitload of money in one fell swoop?" being the only objective. What of the millions of people who can't *afford* new HDTVs or the little box to convert down to "normal" broadcast signals of today? Do they get told, "Sorry, you're fucked"? There are plenty of people out there that simply will not stand for this, if the options are either buy a new television or give up TV.
Do I have my facts messed up? Is this really what's going to happen in a scant 6 years' time? If so, it's going to backfire bigtime. Expect to see common analog signals being broadcast far into the future alongside HDTV signals, until the marketshare of people with older, "inferior" TVs is such that ignoring them and turning off the analog broadcast towers for good is more cosf-effective than not.
If I'm wrong, someone please enlighten me.
- A.P. --
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Have fun proving the source is on my machine and suing me, DVD people. Have fun!
It's your own damned fault. Treat customers like cattle, and they're going to respond like this. Treat us with a little respect, release some linux sources (or a binary) for a DVD player, and we'd all be much, much happier. Oh, well. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- A.P. --
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I don't understand why people on slashdot feel compelled to let us know that they have absolutely no interest in whatever's being talked about. Big friggin' deal!
For what it's worth, though, my (brand) new 21" Sony 520GS monitor weighs about as much as and has a shorter throw (less depth) than my old 17" Goldstar monitor did. Takes up less desk space and runs at 16x12. Plus it cost me $500. Can't go wrong with that.
- A.P. --
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They should make separate roads for the morons who insist on rummaging around in their cars, putting on makeup, talking on the phone, eating, or changing their CDs while driving. That way, they can all kill themselves off and leave the rest of us the hell out of it.
There are several studies on the 'net that prove pretty conclusively that driving is impaired (and accident rates, consequently, rise) when people are distracted. (Yes, I know, that seems pretty common sense, but, hell, so does waiting until you get home to make a phone call.)
Stupid people piss me off.
- A.P. --
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It's not like that would have taken very long at all to crack. Hell, it only took a few months to crack 56-bit DES, 40 bits would be a cinch on today's hardware. Let it run overnight and you've got yourself a fistful of cracked, valid CSS keys.
Bottom line: It would've been cracked anyway eventually. Xing just hastened the process.
- A.P. --
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Yes, these are indeed drivers for the dxr2 cards. Very cool. BUT: For now, it'll only output to a TV connected to the card. It can't do VGA overlay. This is apparently a coordinated effort (or will be) with linuxtv.org, so I would expect to see some announcements from them soon. Also, you're gonna need the Windows drivers so you can snatch the DVD microcode from them -- hooray for copyrights -- so don't throw out that CD-Rom full of windows drivers just yet. Other than that, this looks like an enormous step forward for DVD on Linux, which has been too long in coming.
- A.P. --
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...this patent, or the fact that, whenever a story about patents gets posted to slashdot, people take it upon themselves to act like retards and say, "I patented air and water and sunlight, you all owe me a billion dollars!" or other inane shit like that. Can we have a mature, grown-up discussion about this rather than acting like a bunch of kids?
- A.P. --
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...that's still only, what, 75 or so points off the Dow? Nowadays, a loss of 75 is hardly news. Nobody would care if they base their buy/sell decisions solely on the level of the DJIA.
- A.P. --
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integrity In*teg"ri*ty, n. [L. integritas: cf. F. int['e]grit['e]. See Integer, and cf. Entirety.] Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
Hey, the previous poster was honest about his desire to "pirate" movies and watch them without paying for them. As for moral soundness: morality is subjective. Perhaps he feels that what he's doing is correct. Who are you to argue his morals are wrong? I personally find him to be a man of integrity. Don't you?
For our next lesson, class, we'll be looking up "corporate lapdog".
- A.P. --
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Hey, you're the one that gave the same "that's life" defense in regards to paying $20 for a CD.
Either way, it's a threadbare argument. I'll continue downloading MP3s and VCDs though, if you don't mind. Or even if you do mind. I don't particularly care. That's life too, isn't it?
-A.P. --
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I don't know why I'm dignifying what you said with a response, but I'm just interested in knowing who you think finds nothing wrong with child pornography.
Most countries have outlawed murder and some have even outlawed assault and battery. Are you suggesting these laws and others like them are legislating morality? Because, if so, you really are stupid. Small wonder you chose to post anonymously.
-A.P. --
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Even if it's not "real" child porn made with 100% child, how can you prove it? If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
Even if it's "fake child porn", all it does is encourage other pornographers and those that want to download child porn. It's sick, disgusting, and perverse and to think of it as anything other than that makes me suspicious of whoever does.
I'm sorry if you disagree.
- A.P. --
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SGI's Cray line of supercomputers -- which I'd imagine this would be -- run a specialized UNIX os which is highly tuned for multiple processors (Unicos). There's absolutely no way on this planet they'd pull that out and toss Linux in, especially given that Linux can barely handle eight processors as it is, let alone *hundreds*.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux. But let's be realistic here. That article contained little to no factual data. The only thing they're running on is conjecture -- SGI has expressed interest in Linux in the past, so they're assuming this hundred-million-dollar multi-teraflop machine will run it? I'll believe it when I see it.
I'll bet you, unless SGI come up with some sort of Beowulf solution instead of their time-tested Cray supercomputers, we'll be seeing yet another Unicos machine at the top of the "World's Fastest Supercomputers" list in a few years.
- A.P. --
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The obvious connotation here is that NT is unstable and takes a long time to reboot. Especially since the page (a Linux advocacy page apparently) says sweepingly "Anyone who has ever dealt with Windows NT as a server can attest to the fact that its reboots are numerous and slow".
Nothing wrong with a statement of fact.
-A.P. --
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Nobody said it was a measure of the quality of an OS. They're just looking for the NT machine that takes the longest to reboot. Grow up.
By the way, "parallelizing" doesn't take any time at all. In fact, when fsck "parallelizes", it checks more than one drive at once. If you've got four drives, it'll check all four at once instead of one at a time.
- A.P. --
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Canned air is, like, $5 a bottle, at best. Holding it upside-down and spraying the "liquid air" uses a lot more of it than holding it in the intended, upright position. So you'll maybe get 10 sodas out of it before your can runs out of air. Simple arithmetic shows that you've saved exactly $0.00.
- A.P. --
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...tend to taste like piss mixed with battery acid, in my experience. Not that I've ever tasted piss or battery acid, but I imagine that's pretty much how they'd taste.
- A.P. --
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Anyone who forces themselves to do "the different thing" to maintain an image of rebelliousness, or of "being apart from the crowd" generally is self-important and pretty shallow. Anyone who sees success as a failure, of sorts, really doesn't have it all going on upstairs, IMO. Most of us use Linux because it works, I hope, not because it's not what the status quo uses. - A.P. --
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It wouldn't be illegal, by this law, to do that. Whether or not Microsoft would still threaten to sue you and bury you in legal fees is another matter entirely, but you're at least in the clear as far as this particular law is concerned.
- A.P. --
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In 6 years, I imagine most of the televisions in our house will still be in service. TVs last a long time, and I'm not concerned with the "latest and greatest" stuff as long as I can watch the occasional show or Yankee game.
What I want to know is, what happens in 6 years when stations quit broadcasting in their current format. Will my non-cable-box-connected, normal, cable-ready televisions still be fine? Or will I have to toss them and buy new ones, something that'll probably end up costing a couple thousand dollars if I have to replace 5 or more sets. If the latter turns out to be the case, I can assure you that I and *millions* of other Americans will be incredibly pissed off.
I'm not sure this whole thing was planned out right, except maybe with the question, "How can the electronics and television industries make a shitload of money in one fell swoop?" being the only objective. What of the millions of people who can't *afford* new HDTVs or the little box to convert down to "normal" broadcast signals of today? Do they get told, "Sorry, you're fucked"? There are plenty of people out there that simply will not stand for this, if the options are either buy a new television or give up TV.
Do I have my facts messed up? Is this really what's going to happen in a scant 6 years' time? If so, it's going to backfire bigtime. Expect to see common analog signals being broadcast far into the future alongside HDTV signals, until the marketshare of people with older, "inferior" TVs is such that ignoring them and turning off the analog broadcast towers for good is more cosf-effective than not.
If I'm wrong, someone please enlighten me.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
It's your own damned fault. Treat customers like cattle, and they're going to respond like this. Treat us with a little respect, release some linux sources (or a binary) for a DVD player, and we'd all be much, much happier. Oh, well. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
For what it's worth, though, my (brand) new 21" Sony 520GS monitor weighs about as much as and has a shorter throw (less depth) than my old 17" Goldstar monitor did. Takes up less desk space and runs at 16x12. Plus it cost me $500. Can't go wrong with that.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
- A.P.
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There are several studies on the 'net that prove pretty conclusively that driving is impaired (and accident rates, consequently, rise) when people are distracted. (Yes, I know, that seems pretty common sense, but, hell, so does waiting until you get home to make a phone call.)
Stupid people piss me off.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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Bottom line: It would've been cracked anyway eventually. Xing just hastened the process.
- A.P.
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How is this anything other than a superficial gesture of human rights?
-A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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Hey, the previous poster was honest about his desire to "pirate" movies and watch them without paying for them. As for moral soundness: morality is subjective. Perhaps he feels that what he's doing is correct. Who are you to argue his morals are wrong? I personally find him to be a man of integrity. Don't you?
For our next lesson, class, we'll be looking up "corporate lapdog".
- A.P.
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Either way, it's a threadbare argument. I'll continue downloading MP3s and VCDs though, if you don't mind. Or even if you do mind. I don't particularly care. That's life too, isn't it?
-A.P.
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Most countries have outlawed murder and some have even outlawed assault and battery. Are you suggesting these laws and others like them are legislating morality? Because, if so, you really are stupid. Small wonder you chose to post anonymously.
-A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Even if it's "fake child porn", all it does is encourage other pornographers and those that want to download child porn. It's sick, disgusting, and perverse and to think of it as anything other than that makes me suspicious of whoever does.
I'm sorry if you disagree.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux. But let's be realistic here. That article contained little to no factual data. The only thing they're running on is conjecture -- SGI has expressed interest in Linux in the past, so they're assuming this hundred-million-dollar multi-teraflop machine will run it? I'll believe it when I see it.
I'll bet you, unless SGI come up with some sort of Beowulf solution instead of their time-tested Cray supercomputers, we'll be seeing yet another Unicos machine at the top of the "World's Fastest Supercomputers" list in a few years.
- A.P.
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I'll pay the extra cash for Pepsi which doesn't much taste like arse.
- A.P.
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Nothing wrong with a statement of fact.
-A.P.
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By the way, "parallelizing" doesn't take any time at all. In fact, when fsck "parallelizes", it checks more than one drive at once. If you've got four drives, it'll check all four at once instead of one at a time.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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I imagine OS/2 will start to see better sales.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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