Perhaps you should consider that these people all realized what this meant for them. That folks such as yourself would now cast an uneasy eye their way and begin doing things like kicking them off of airplane flights because of the way they look or dress. Do you recall the man who was killed shortly after 9-11 for no other reason than the fact that he wore a turban? Perhaps it was acts such as that on their minds. Realize that Bin Laden used their religion to justify a truly horrible act of aggression, it's quite possible that these people were discussing it much like we might if Billy Graham or Jesse Jackson did something equally stupid and claimed responsibility for having killed many people of another faith in their homeland. If you lived in that same homeland wouldn't YOU feel uneasy about it? If you were of that faith and devout wouldn't YOU feel uneasy about what a supposed leader had done?
I work with Muslims too and when this occurred they were horrified and aggrieved just like the rest of us. What you saw was their humanity, not some secret plot. That they discussed it on a language you didn't understand had less to do with you and more to do with the fact that it was likely a language they knew better and could express feelings in more easily. Maybe they didn't want you to hear them discussing the very serious religious implications of what this man had just done in their name. He called them to holy war and while certainly many answered quite a few more did NOT and I'm sure that there was discussion abut this...
Yup, and they will autorenew you too - even if the expiration on the card has passed. Yes, they did it to me! The card is now long gone and so is my "gold" membership and I doubt I'll ever buy another after the experience I had trying to cancel this one. Thankfully Sony doesn't have any such details from me...
Implement this and in a flash you'll see throttling and bandwidth caps galore - bet on it! That said, I might actually use my 360 more often if this were deployed and it gave me more control than I have now with cable and my Tivo...
It should, I have the old Dual Tuner model that used two inputs and it worked - each tuner is addressed separately.
That said, I have not been using my tuner for awhile so before jumping in with both feet check out the forums and make sure folks aren't bitching. XBMC is still maturing for stuff like this so be sure that all features you want are there. The HDHomeruns are pretty cool devices no matter what - especially considering the price! I'd like to get a good Myth setup going and use one as a DVR backend for my XBMC boxes. Currently I just pull from my TiVO:-)
The HDHomerun is supported. For more than that and particularly DVR support you'll need to run a Myth backend. No way are the devs going to reinvent THAT wheel! They have stated this more than once BTW.
All of the MCE remotes I have support an Info button as I recall. They're cheap but often contain buttons you don't need. The best ones give you direct access to Movies and Music with dedicated buttons. I'll be ordering a pair of these myself though as I'd prefer RF, we'll see how they work out...
You do realize that a Ferrari is a physical thing that must be built and incurs heavy cost for each car vs a movie or MP3 that can be copied endlessly for far less than the original cost to build right? Digital bits aren't quite the same thing as physical property.
The GPL is a license same as any other. While there may be politics those aren't in the license which is a legal document as clear as any other license. If you want to use the code, read the license, comply, and use it. Ignore the politics as those don't actually force you to do anything.
Then it sounds like you need to create the functionality all by yourself or pay a team of people to do it and pass that cost onto your customers. Seems fair...
So.... commercial company gets benefit of tons of hours of labor and troubleshooting but isn't okay when it requires giving something back and you don't like it? Which commercial software company do you work for? Why should people who want their code improved upon and used by others allow a commercial company to take it, use it, make money, and not give back? What you seem to favor is BSD licensing which certainly Apple is okay to use, the folks on the SAMBA team chose not to support that apparently, why is it a problem?
GPLv3 does NOT *prevent* a company from using it but it does sharply restrict their ability to do things like TiVO did which was a major reason for the GPL rewrite. What TiVO did was something no one had thought of and was in the eyes of many pretty underhanded, so it's now been stopped. Oh well!
I purchased an IBM Thinkpad off of eBay, it was lightly used. when I received it the machine had been rebuilt using the stored image on the drive and prompted me for all of the usual setup stuff blah blah.
Imagine my surprise when I found the second partition FILLED with medical files! The previous owner was apparently a plastic surgeon and there were many before\after pictures of breast augmentation, various maladies being remedied, and more than one poor burn patient. Yes, there was information that could have probably been used to directly identify these people but honestly all I ever looked over were a few of the pictures.
The previous owner lived in Canada, I in the US. I was in a quandary as to what to do. In my mind this was a "data spill" and the data had been mishandled but the only person who had seen it was me. I wasn't sure if I should notify someone official, simply notify the previous owner, or just format the drive. I spoke to some friends and they too had all sorts of conflicting ideas. However when someone began asking if they could see or copy the data because they were curious I decided to put an end to it and securely formatted the drive. I decided I didn't want the hassle, that it was an innocent mistake, and that since I had been THE only person to see it that it wasn't worth going to big trouble or getting someone into trouble. I also realized that at least one of my friends was creepier than I'd realized. Had it been a US doctor I might have had legal obligations though.
Certainly taught a lesson though - the rebuild disks don't touch anything but the primary partition - d'oh!
FWIW - the individual files are NOT split across multiple disks so recovery is actually not that bad. Swapping a mobo is indeed not hard, I have done that when I moved from IDE to SATA - just have a screenshot of the hardware page so you get the drives in order.
Lastly, if you have PCIE or even PCI slots you have room for more ports. They may not be uber fast and will bottleneck during a parity swap but for streaming HD video and music it's not a problem.
The idea wasn't to rewrite anything Myth does but to build an interface that could use all sorts of back-ends. Myth being one of them. I ahven't looked into that recently but if they have made progress I'm ALL ears! Especially if they can use an HDHomerun tuner!:-)
Whoa! When did they start doing that? Can they still use DVDProfiler as an input? If so I may find myself dumping Ember! I used MyMovies ages ago but stopped when I got more serious with Profiler and XBMC. This could be very cool - thanks!
Heck, I don't even do that! The NAS I use just grows and absorbs larger drives! Run out of room? Swap out one of the smaller drives for the latest largest one bought on sale, done. unRAID, which I've used for years, provides me with protection, power savings, and ability to expand pretty easily. The only issue I ever have is when I have to grow both a data drive and a parity drive, that's two steps and takes longer but my parity drives are all 2TB now and I don't think 3TB is going to be usable for awhile.
I collect lots of ISO for Linux, TV shows, Music, Movies, and yeah eBooks too although those are tiny. Disk is cheap, why wouldn't you hang onto stuff? It's better resolution and clarity than anything streaming for sure!
For movies and TV shows, even music, XBMC handles this well and lets me do various sorts of my library. I use Ember on Windows to look up and create NFO files for the media. Not perfect and obviously doesn't cover all needs but it's a start and is a good front-end.
Talking about how he didn't like guns so in a big emergency he would work with others blah blah. A friend turned to me and says "You know what I call him? Prey!"
Odd, it was just the other day that I was hearing about a game maker having to release multiple version of their game for Android owing to the fact that they found it ran differently on different versions or hardware....
The author in question even speaks to this if you read his blog much. Publishing houses do a shit job of publicizing his print books and he did much touring himself in order to try and drum up sales - time that took away from writing more books. He has now retired from the touring and is spending his time writing as he desires. Publishers don't have any idea as to how to publicize eBooks either. All of the services needed to publish a book are readily available now, he has had some very good posts discussing this if you read through the history of his blog - good reading BTW.
Go read his damned blog! He has sales figures for many of his books up and while it's true that sales taper off they don't drop off a cliff like his PAPER books do when they get pulled from the shelf. This is a guy who has published books in paper with big publishing houses, seen himself getting screwed, and found a better way. Even better - he has books that the big houses rejected(!) that he is now selling and making a living off of! He's no dummy and this IS sustainable for him. He never thought he'd be making a really good living at this - but now he is and he is man enough to show others how to do it too. He even highlights other authors to try and get them exposure - he's a class act IMO. Very cool...
Read this guy's blog - he gives a great deal of detail on exactly this. He runs the numbers, he shares his details, and he also highlights the work of others and who he uses to do his art etc. I'm a huge fan of his guy even if I don't buy his books because he's showing the way to others - my hat's off to him!
Kindle supports ePub just fine via Caliber. MANY of the books on my unit began life as ePub format. The DRM has been trashed too so IMO the Kindle is an awesome buy. One thing not widely known too is that if you have multiple Kindle on the same account they can all share books freely among them - awesome for a family IMO.
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Perhaps you should consider that these people all realized what this meant for them. That folks such as yourself would now cast an uneasy eye their way and begin doing things like kicking them off of airplane flights because of the way they look or dress. Do you recall the man who was killed shortly after 9-11 for no other reason than the fact that he wore a turban? Perhaps it was acts such as that on their minds. Realize that Bin Laden used their religion to justify a truly horrible act of aggression, it's quite possible that these people were discussing it much like we might if Billy Graham or Jesse Jackson did something equally stupid and claimed responsibility for having killed many people of another faith in their homeland. If you lived in that same homeland wouldn't YOU feel uneasy about it? If you were of that faith and devout wouldn't YOU feel uneasy about what a supposed leader had done?
I work with Muslims too and when this occurred they were horrified and aggrieved just like the rest of us. What you saw was their humanity, not some secret plot. That they discussed it on a language you didn't understand had less to do with you and more to do with the fact that it was likely a language they knew better and could express feelings in more easily. Maybe they didn't want you to hear them discussing the very serious religious implications of what this man had just done in their name. He called them to holy war and while certainly many answered quite a few more did NOT and I'm sure that there was discussion abut this...
Yup, and they will autorenew you too - even if the expiration on the card has passed. Yes, they did it to me! The card is now long gone and so is my "gold" membership and I doubt I'll ever buy another after the experience I had trying to cancel this one. Thankfully Sony doesn't have any such details from me...
Implement this and in a flash you'll see throttling and bandwidth caps galore - bet on it! That said, I might actually use my 360 more often if this were deployed and it gave me more control than I have now with cable and my Tivo...
It should, I have the old Dual Tuner model that used two inputs and it worked - each tuner is addressed separately.
That said, I have not been using my tuner for awhile so before jumping in with both feet check out the forums and make sure folks aren't bitching. XBMC is still maturing for stuff like this so be sure that all features you want are there. The HDHomeruns are pretty cool devices no matter what - especially considering the price! I'd like to get a good Myth setup going and use one as a DVR backend for my XBMC boxes. Currently I just pull from my TiVO :-)
The HDHomerun is supported. For more than that and particularly DVR support you'll need to run a Myth backend. No way are the devs going to reinvent THAT wheel! They have stated this more than once BTW.
All of the MCE remotes I have support an Info button as I recall. They're cheap but often contain buttons you don't need. The best ones give you direct access to Movies and Music with dedicated buttons. I'll be ordering a pair of these myself though as I'd prefer RF, we'll see how they work out...
Duh, program it to use MCE keycodes, no XML required. I have programmed two Harmony using an old MCE remote and they work well.
That said, 2x of these new remotes will likely follow me home soon :-)
You do realize that a Ferrari is a physical thing that must be built and incurs heavy cost for each car vs a movie or MP3 that can be copied endlessly for far less than the original cost to build right? Digital bits aren't quite the same thing as physical property.
The GPL is a license same as any other. While there may be politics those aren't in the license which is a legal document as clear as any other license. If you want to use the code, read the license, comply, and use it. Ignore the politics as those don't actually force you to do anything.
Then it sounds like you need to create the functionality all by yourself or pay a team of people to do it and pass that cost onto your customers. Seems fair...
Perhaps the point wasn't to make money?
So.... commercial company gets benefit of tons of hours of labor and troubleshooting but isn't okay when it requires giving something back and you don't like it? Which commercial software company do you work for? Why should people who want their code improved upon and used by others allow a commercial company to take it, use it, make money, and not give back? What you seem to favor is BSD licensing which certainly Apple is okay to use, the folks on the SAMBA team chose not to support that apparently, why is it a problem?
GPLv3 does NOT *prevent* a company from using it but it does sharply restrict their ability to do things like TiVO did which was a major reason for the GPL rewrite. What TiVO did was something no one had thought of and was in the eyes of many pretty underhanded, so it's now been stopped. Oh well!
I purchased an IBM Thinkpad off of eBay, it was lightly used. when I received it the machine had been rebuilt using the stored image on the drive and prompted me for all of the usual setup stuff blah blah.
Imagine my surprise when I found the second partition FILLED with medical files! The previous owner was apparently a plastic surgeon and there were many before\after pictures of breast augmentation, various maladies being remedied, and more than one poor burn patient. Yes, there was information that could have probably been used to directly identify these people but honestly all I ever looked over were a few of the pictures.
The previous owner lived in Canada, I in the US. I was in a quandary as to what to do. In my mind this was a "data spill" and the data had been mishandled but the only person who had seen it was me. I wasn't sure if I should notify someone official, simply notify the previous owner, or just format the drive. I spoke to some friends and they too had all sorts of conflicting ideas. However when someone began asking if they could see or copy the data because they were curious I decided to put an end to it and securely formatted the drive. I decided I didn't want the hassle, that it was an innocent mistake, and that since I had been THE only person to see it that it wasn't worth going to big trouble or getting someone into trouble. I also realized that at least one of my friends was creepier than I'd realized. Had it been a US doctor I might have had legal obligations though.
Certainly taught a lesson though - the rebuild disks don't touch anything but the primary partition - d'oh!
FWIW - the individual files are NOT split across multiple disks so recovery is actually not that bad. Swapping a mobo is indeed not hard, I have done that when I moved from IDE to SATA - just have a screenshot of the hardware page so you get the drives in order.
Lastly, if you have PCIE or even PCI slots you have room for more ports. They may not be uber fast and will bottleneck during a parity swap but for streaming HD video and music it's not a problem.
Hope that was helpful :-)
The idea wasn't to rewrite anything Myth does but to build an interface that could use all sorts of back-ends. Myth being one of them. I ahven't looked into that recently but if they have made progress I'm ALL ears! Especially if they can use an HDHomerun tuner! :-)
Whoa! When did they start doing that? Can they still use DVDProfiler as an input? If so I may find myself dumping Ember! I used MyMovies ages ago but stopped when I got more serious with Profiler and XBMC. This could be very cool - thanks!
Heck, I don't even do that! The NAS I use just grows and absorbs larger drives! Run out of room? Swap out one of the smaller drives for the latest largest one bought on sale, done. unRAID, which I've used for years, provides me with protection, power savings, and ability to expand pretty easily. The only issue I ever have is when I have to grow both a data drive and a parity drive, that's two steps and takes longer but my parity drives are all 2TB now and I don't think 3TB is going to be usable for awhile.
I collect lots of ISO for Linux, TV shows, Music, Movies, and yeah eBooks too although those are tiny. Disk is cheap, why wouldn't you hang onto stuff? It's better resolution and clarity than anything streaming for sure!
For movies and TV shows, even music, XBMC handles this well and lets me do various sorts of my library. I use Ember on Windows to look up and create NFO files for the media. Not perfect and obviously doesn't cover all needs but it's a start and is a good front-end.
Talking about how he didn't like guns so in a big emergency he would work with others blah blah. A friend turned to me and says "You know what I call him? Prey!"
Odd, it was just the other day that I was hearing about a game maker having to release multiple version of their game for Android owing to the fact that they found it ran differently on different versions or hardware....
The author in question even speaks to this if you read his blog much. Publishing houses do a shit job of publicizing his print books and he did much touring himself in order to try and drum up sales - time that took away from writing more books. He has now retired from the touring and is spending his time writing as he desires. Publishers don't have any idea as to how to publicize eBooks either. All of the services needed to publish a book are readily available now, he has had some very good posts discussing this if you read through the history of his blog - good reading BTW.
Reminds me of another industry - the music industry!
Go read his damned blog! He has sales figures for many of his books up and while it's true that sales taper off they don't drop off a cliff like his PAPER books do when they get pulled from the shelf. This is a guy who has published books in paper with big publishing houses, seen himself getting screwed, and found a better way. Even better - he has books that the big houses rejected(!) that he is now selling and making a living off of! He's no dummy and this IS sustainable for him. He never thought he'd be making a really good living at this - but now he is and he is man enough to show others how to do it too. He even highlights other authors to try and get them exposure - he's a class act IMO. Very cool...
Read this guy's blog - he gives a great deal of detail on exactly this. He runs the numbers, he shares his details, and he also highlights the work of others and who he uses to do his art etc. I'm a huge fan of his guy even if I don't buy his books because he's showing the way to others - my hat's off to him!
Kindle supports ePub just fine via Caliber. MANY of the books on my unit began life as ePub format. The DRM has been trashed too so IMO the Kindle is an awesome buy. One thing not widely known too is that if you have multiple Kindle on the same account they can all share books freely among them - awesome for a family IMO.