Wal-Mart sells a portable DVD player with a 4.2" color screen for about $180. Larger models, even from well-known brands, are about $300. That's well under the price of a laptop with a DVD drive, unless you buy a used laptop that's 4 years old.
kpilot works (poorly) with KOrganizer and KAddressbook. This program incorporates these two apps as components, so you may be able to synchronize a Palm OS device with Aethera.
Most of that traffic, I've found, comes from spiders and off-line caching systems. For example, I used to set Internet Explorer to download the Slashdot front page and everything one link away from it. Software that formats web content for use on hand-held devices (AvantGo, for example) works in much the same way.
Slashdot readers are superficial, but not all of them are real people. I'm actually an AI, for example.
Official packages are nice if the distro managers have decided to include your favorite software.
No matter which packaging system you use, you run into problems the first time you stray from the set of packages that are bundled with the distribution. You can download extra.rpm and.deb files and pray they don't mess with your system, or you can download the source and dig through multiple levels of autoconf and gcc errors.
With Windows, I could make a brand-new program and piece together an installer, knowing that it will work out of the box with 99% of the Windows installs out there. With Linux, I have to make 5 or 6 binary packages and beg maintainers to include my software in their master directed graph of dependencies.
I agree. It would be much nicer if there were some kind of document that helped you use your new computer, perhaps one that came in the same box as said computer.
Also, I think that user interfaces could benefit greatly from the use of pictures -- as large as 128 x 128 pixels -- that illustrate the purpose of an application. This would prevent people from making remarks like "is iCal used for managing calorie inputs" because they would be presented with a little picture of a calendar.
I'm sorry that you haven't learned to read or interpret pictures yet. Even Joe User, who you're pathetically trying to imitate in that condescending computer nerd way, knows how to do those things.
And you've been able to turn that damn paperclip off since Microsoft introduced it. Quit bitching about it. It isn't anywhere near as bad as the "Tips of the Day" that no fewer than five KDE applications foist upon me on startup before I click "Don't show tips on startup."
If it behaved like Quicken, it would constantly nag you to pay $80 to unlock the "Premier" edition and advertise every co-branded financial service in existence.
Would you like a Quicken credit card? A Quicken loan? A free credit check? Free credit protector for 30 days? No? Then what do you want?
You want to reconcile your checkbook? Please wait while we charge your credit card to unlock Quicken Premier. Would you like 1045 free hours of AOL with that?
(sigh) I've been using Quicken since version 1, and I still remember the horror the first time I saw banner ads inside a program I paid good money to use.
There is a licensed DVD player for Linux, except that (1) it's only for embedded Linux distros, and (2) Linux zealots are too incensed at the MPAA to pay for it.
The portable TV feature of the TurboExpress required that you buy a TV Tuner add-on. It cost something like $120 (about the cost of a portable TV all by itself) and made the already-large TurboExpress even larger. A similarly-styled and similarly expensive TV Tuner was made for the Game Gear.
Having owned a portable TV, I can safely tell you that it works well only if you live very close to a transmitter and/or have a huge antenna. Seeing that most people didn't want to make these concessions to have a $420 portable television, I'm still not surprised the TurboExpress failed.
Are you retarded? Nintendo was releasing the Gameboy when NEC(?) had a portable Turbographx 16 which played the same games as the console, in color, with 16 bit graphics. Up till a few years ago they were still selling the original gameboy with the same awful graphics.
Nintendo sold the original Game Boy for $90, and it had an excellent line-up of games like Super Mario Land and the first Castlevania game -- both fairly primitive 14 years later, but big sellers in their day. NEC sold the TurboExpress for $300, and had no recognizable games in the US. When your best-known game is "Bonk's Revenge," you're not going to get very many people to plunk down $300 for your new gaming console.
Game Boy has outlasted TurboExpress, Game Gear, Atari Lynx, even Sega Nomad -- Nintendo released a smaller and less expensive product and came out ahead.
It's clear that you just want to bash Microsoft, using childish terms like "Micro$loth" and "Windoze." If Apple had 95% of the market share, people would be exploiting the buffer overrun vulnerabilities that exist in its software.
For now, unless you (that's you, gregarican) can see the code, it's just security through unpopularity.
Unless you want to use equally childish terms like "Crapple" and "OS Sux," please stop replying.
The government concerns itself with the actual well-being of the citizens of the U.S.
GNU, on the other hand, consists of a loosely-associated group of zealots who run around yelling at people who don't use their name in vain. Unless you speak their language and laugh at their woefully outdated jokes, they judge you to be unworthy.
In short: the U.S. government matters. GNU does not.
They tested it with Windows XP, but I don't think it comes bundled with the unit. At only $281, I don't think it includes any OS. As for a "traditional monitor interface," you can hook it up to a monitor (VGA out) or a television (TV out).
The custom LCD, they say, only works when the system is powered off.
One of the biggest hang-ups with DVRs is that some of them could automatically skip commercials. My ReplayTV 5040 does a passable job of skipping commercials: about 80% effective overall, so 20% of shows must be fast-forwarded manually. Sometimes, during those 20%, I get lazy and watch the commercials anyway.
ReplayTV's old owners, SonicBlue, faced litigation from many large TV networks over their ad blocking, so the forthcoming 5500 series will not have the automatic commercial skip functionality. TiVo's investors include some players in the TV programming industry, so TiVo has never supported automatic commercial skip. (Source: PVR Compare)
ReplayTV caved in to industry pressure. TiVo is part-owned by big industry players. Of course, these new set-top boxes will have feature sets dictated by content providers.
Don't like it? Build a Linux-based DVR, which should be feature-complete by the time The Simpsons' 16th season premieres.
Read the names of people complaining about their right to steal music and movies, then compare with the names of people complaining about companies stealing GPLed code. They're not the same.
Slashdot is full of knee-jerk reactions, but they don't come from the same people. Blocking a particularly whine-filled category such as Your Rights Online will lessen your angst quite a bit.
It's not fair use to download entire songs, albums, or other large portions of copyrighted works for archival purposes.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Are people downloading gigabytes of MP3s for criticism? Are they downloading them for comment? For news reporting? For teaching? For scholarship? For research?
Millions of people (not necessarily you, xenobyte) are downloading MP3s because they don't want to buy the CDs. It's not fair use to cite tired lines like "The RIAA exploits artists" or "I'm not buying a CD for just two tracks I like."
Fair Use is not an excuse to download whatever you want for whatever you want. As a lawyer, I can tell you: citing Fair Use for your MP3 collection doesn't hold water.
You've never heard of mandatory broadcasting licensing? (which includes royalties paid via Performing Rights Societies paid to the composer) Did radio stations suddenly shift to playing 30 second song samples without telling anyone?
It is against the law to publicly distribute copyright material without the copyright holder's consent. Radio stations pay their ASCAP fees to obtain the copyright holder's consent.
You've never heard that tape swapping via analog tape is fair use not requiring permission of the copyright owner?
It is against the law to publicly distribute copyright material without the copyright holder's consent. Tape swapping is not as great a threat as MP3 swapping to copyright holders because (i) it takes a non-trivial amount of effort to duplicate tapes, and (ii) tapes degrade in quality as they are duplicated many times, whereas MP3s can be shared very easily and without subsequent loss of quality.
Stop parroting anti-RIAA propaganda if you want to be taken seriously.
Please explain what gives you the "right" to publicly share copyrighted material without the copyright holder's consent.
I can understand the reasoning behind downloading a track from a CD you bought (the CD broke, it's copy protected, etc) but there is no rational justification for downloading copyrighted materials just because you want them for free.
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portable DVD players are still way expensive.
Wal-Mart sells a portable DVD player with a 4.2" color screen for about $180. Larger models, even from well-known brands, are about $300. That's well under the price of a laptop with a DVD drive, unless you buy a used laptop that's 4 years old.
kpilot works (poorly) with KOrganizer and KAddressbook. This program incorporates these two apps as components, so you may be able to synchronize a Palm OS device with Aethera.
Most of that traffic, I've found, comes from spiders and off-line caching systems. For example, I used to set Internet Explorer to download the Slashdot front page and everything one link away from it. Software that formats web content for use on hand-held devices (AvantGo, for example) works in much the same way.
Slashdot readers are superficial, but not all of them are real people. I'm actually an AI, for example.
All the real hardware geeks are in Michigan, which won't be fully on-line until late Sunday.
Pi is exactly 3!
I've never owned a Mac.
Please stop talking.
Official packages are nice if the distro managers have decided to include your favorite software.
.rpm and .deb files and pray they don't mess with your system, or you can download the source and dig through multiple levels of autoconf and gcc errors.
No matter which packaging system you use, you run into problems the first time you stray from the set of packages that are bundled with the distribution. You can download extra
With Windows, I could make a brand-new program and piece together an installer, knowing that it will work out of the box with 99% of the Windows installs out there. With Linux, I have to make 5 or 6 binary packages and beg maintainers to include my software in their master directed graph of dependencies.
I agree. It would be much nicer if there were some kind of document that helped you use your new computer, perhaps one that came in the same box as said computer.
Also, I think that user interfaces could benefit greatly from the use of pictures -- as large as 128 x 128 pixels -- that illustrate the purpose of an application. This would prevent people from making remarks like "is iCal used for managing calorie inputs" because they would be presented with a little picture of a calendar.
I'm sorry that you haven't learned to read or interpret pictures yet. Even Joe User, who you're pathetically trying to imitate in that condescending computer nerd way, knows how to do those things.
So switch back to the "Classic" Start Menu.
And you've been able to turn that damn paperclip off since Microsoft introduced it. Quit bitching about it. It isn't anywhere near as bad as the "Tips of the Day" that no fewer than five KDE applications foist upon me on startup before I click "Don't show tips on startup."
That's TurboTax.
If it behaved like Quicken, it would constantly nag you to pay $80 to unlock the "Premier" edition and advertise every co-branded financial service in existence.
Would you like a Quicken credit card? A Quicken loan? A free credit check? Free credit protector for 30 days? No? Then what do you want?
You want to reconcile your checkbook? Please wait while we charge your credit card to unlock Quicken Premier. Would you like 1045 free hours of AOL with that?
(sigh) I've been using Quicken since version 1, and I still remember the horror the first time I saw banner ads inside a program I paid good money to use.
There is a licensed DVD player for Linux, except that (1) it's only for embedded Linux distros, and (2) Linux zealots are too incensed at the MPAA to pay for it.
The portable TV feature of the TurboExpress required that you buy a TV Tuner add-on. It cost something like $120 (about the cost of a portable TV all by itself) and made the already-large TurboExpress even larger. A similarly-styled and similarly expensive TV Tuner was made for the Game Gear.
Having owned a portable TV, I can safely tell you that it works well only if you live very close to a transmitter and/or have a huge antenna. Seeing that most people didn't want to make these concessions to have a $420 portable television, I'm still not surprised the TurboExpress failed.
Incidentally, you can buy a TV Tuner for Game Boy Advance if you really want one.
Are you retarded? Nintendo was releasing the Gameboy when NEC(?) had a portable Turbographx 16 which played the same games as the console, in color, with 16 bit graphics. Up till a few years ago they were still selling the original gameboy with the same awful graphics.
Nintendo sold the original Game Boy for $90, and it had an excellent line-up of games like Super Mario Land and the first Castlevania game -- both fairly primitive 14 years later, but big sellers in their day. NEC sold the TurboExpress for $300, and had no recognizable games in the US. When your best-known game is "Bonk's Revenge," you're not going to get very many people to plunk down $300 for your new gaming console.
Game Boy has outlasted TurboExpress, Game Gear, Atari Lynx, even Sega Nomad -- Nintendo released a smaller and less expensive product and came out ahead.
Bink.nu has some REALLY big pictures of the new Intellimice on their site, and there are some more reasonable-sized images at warp2search.
It's clear that you just want to bash Microsoft, using childish terms like "Micro$loth" and "Windoze." If Apple had 95% of the market share, people would be exploiting the buffer overrun vulnerabilities that exist in its software.
For now, unless you (that's you, gregarican) can see the code, it's just security through unpopularity.
Unless you want to use equally childish terms like "Crapple" and "OS Sux," please stop replying.
Micro$loth OTOH is simply repacking the same crap with new window dressing and new subscription schemes to keep revenue coming in.
As opposed to Apple's ingenius scheme:
The government concerns itself with the actual well-being of the citizens of the U.S.
GNU, on the other hand, consists of a loosely-associated group of zealots who run around yelling at people who don't use their name in vain. Unless you speak their language and laugh at their woefully outdated jokes, they judge you to be unworthy.
In short: the U.S. government matters. GNU does not.
They tested it with Windows XP, but I don't think it comes bundled with the unit. At only $281, I don't think it includes any OS. As for a "traditional monitor interface," you can hook it up to a monitor (VGA out) or a television (TV out).
The custom LCD, they say, only works when the system is powered off.
One of the biggest hang-ups with DVRs is that some of them could automatically skip commercials. My ReplayTV 5040 does a passable job of skipping commercials: about 80% effective overall, so 20% of shows must be fast-forwarded manually. Sometimes, during those 20%, I get lazy and watch the commercials anyway.
ReplayTV's old owners, SonicBlue, faced litigation from many large TV networks over their ad blocking, so the forthcoming 5500 series will not have the automatic commercial skip functionality. TiVo's investors include some players in the TV programming industry, so TiVo has never supported automatic commercial skip. (Source: PVR Compare)
ReplayTV caved in to industry pressure. TiVo is part-owned by big industry players. Of course, these new set-top boxes will have feature sets dictated by content providers.
Don't like it? Build a Linux-based DVR, which should be feature-complete by the time The Simpsons' 16th season premieres.
The only "computers" in Vermont have wooden cases and can be tapped to yield maple syrup.
Read the names of people complaining about their right to steal music and movies, then compare with the names of people complaining about companies stealing GPLed code. They're not the same.
Slashdot is full of knee-jerk reactions, but they don't come from the same people. Blocking a particularly whine-filled category such as Your Rights Online will lessen your angst quite a bit.
You explain!
.... yeah and I don't have an incentive to grow potatos unless I can rip up your yard and plant some too.
It is against the law to publicly distribute copyrighted material without the copyright holder's consent.
And before you answer
Right. Could you explain that?
It's not fair use to download entire songs, albums, or other large portions of copyrighted works for archival purposes.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Are people downloading gigabytes of MP3s for criticism? Are they downloading them for comment? For news reporting? For teaching? For scholarship? For research?
Millions of people (not necessarily you, xenobyte) are downloading MP3s because they don't want to buy the CDs. It's not fair use to cite tired lines like "The RIAA exploits artists" or "I'm not buying a CD for just two tracks I like."
Fair Use is not an excuse to download whatever you want for whatever you want. As a lawyer, I can tell you: citing Fair Use for your MP3 collection doesn't hold water.
You've never heard of mandatory broadcasting licensing? (which includes royalties paid via Performing Rights Societies paid to the composer) Did radio stations suddenly shift to playing 30 second song samples without telling anyone?
It is against the law to publicly distribute copyright material without the copyright holder's consent. Radio stations pay their ASCAP fees to obtain the copyright holder's consent.
You've never heard that tape swapping via analog tape is fair use not requiring permission of the copyright owner?
It is against the law to publicly distribute copyright material without the copyright holder's consent. Tape swapping is not as great a threat as MP3 swapping to copyright holders because (i) it takes a non-trivial amount of effort to duplicate tapes, and (ii) tapes degrade in quality as they are duplicated many times, whereas MP3s can be shared very easily and without subsequent loss of quality.
Stop parroting anti-RIAA propaganda if you want to be taken seriously.
Please explain what gives you the "right" to publicly share copyrighted material without the copyright holder's consent.
I can understand the reasoning behind downloading a track from a CD you bought (the CD broke, it's copy protected, etc) but there is no rational justification for downloading copyrighted materials just because you want them for free.