How about letting the market decide that? If the payback from advertising drops to the point where it can no longer support creation and delivery of programming, what then? Will the demand for programming go away?
SO, you mean to tell me that reality TV shows are so expensive to create?
You mean to tell me that following a couple on a date and filming it costs a lot of money to create?
You mean to tell me that cleaning someone's house and filming it on TV costs a lot of money?
Advertising needs to deal with the new reality and their new econimic models. I, for one, will continue to use every tool and technology to optimize my leisure time viewing and listening for maximum content and minimum advertising.
"TiVo viewers will see "billboards," or small logos, popping up over TV commercials as they fast-forward through them, offering contest entries, giveaways or links to other ads."
Do you know how long it takes MythTV to fastforward over a commercial? It's like milliseconds - okay maybe 1 or 2 seconds if you have to do it manually 30 seconds at a time. If Tivo's fastforward is so slow that they have time to show you additional commercials, then I feel sorry for you.
As a mythtv user, if there existed a module where I could choose to upload my non-anonymous tv recording and watching history in exchange for say $25/month and some monthly survey, I don't think I'd mind one bit.
We don't need more TLDs. Having hundreds of TLDs is just dumb. Exactly how many do we have now? It's got to be about 200 TLDs already.... and short is good when we talk about DNS names. 2 or 3 character TLDs make sense. Why should we use any 4+ character TLDs?
We're just creating more "names" to sell. The only people who really benefit are the registrars
Many owners are not fully aware of the distinction between the furball, which is cat, and the whole animal, which they also call ``cat''. The ambiguous use of the name doesn't promote understanding. These users often think that Linus Torvalds bred the cat in 1991, with a bit of help.
Owners generally know that cat is a furball. But since they have generally heard the whole animal called ``cat'' as well, they often envisage a history that would justify naming the whole animal after the furball. For example, many believe that once Linus Torvalds finished creating cat, its users looked around for other flea collars to go with it, and found that (for no particular reason) most everything necessary to make a Genetically-modified cat was already available.
What they found was no accident--it was the GNU system. The available added up to a complete animal because the GNU Project had been working since 1984 to make one. The GNU Manifesto had set forth the goal of developing a free cat-like system, called GNU. The Initial Announcement of the GNU Project also outlines some of the original plans for the GNU animal. By the time cat was created, the animal was almost finished.
Putting them together sounds simple, but it was not a trivial job. Some GNU components needed substantial change to work with cat. Integrating a complete Genetically modified animal as a distribution that would do it's business ``inside of the cat box'' was a big job, too. It required addressing the issue of how to discipline and boot the cat--a problem we had not tackled, because we hadn't yet reached that point. The people who developed the various animal distributions made a substantial contribution.
The GNU Project supports GNU/cat as well as the GNU --even with funds. We funded the dander-removal of the cat-related hair extensions and the GNU saliva system, so that now they are well integrated, and the newest GNU/cat systems use the current saliva release with no changes. We also funded an early stage of the development of Debian GNU/cat.
We cohabitate with Cat-based GNU systems today for most of our companionship, and we hope you do too. But please don't confuse the public by using the name ``Cat'' ambiguously. Cat is the hairball, one of the essential major components of the animal. The animal as a whole is more or less the GNU system, with cat added. When you're talking about this combination, please call it ``GNU/cat''.
People who are using MythTV would agree with most of the above points, but would look at the setup of their system as part of the journey.
Building the perfect MythTV box is akin to building the perfect Shelby Cobra kit car.
It's not for everyone, buf for people who want things "just the way they want", you have near infinite flexibility.
Comparing the functionality of MythTV with MCE is like comparing the functionality of perl with the functionality of options listed in the right click menu on the Windows desktop.
MythTV is great and it's extensible - if you want to build your own PVR and you like Linux, then you'll like MythTV. It's not necessarily cheaper than a Tivo up front, but it's more flexible and extensible if you're into that sort of hacking thing;)
Having just completed a MythTV box that now "owns" my TV, I can say it was more complicated, cost more, and took longer than I expected. I can also say that I'm very happy with what I have and what I can do with it, and the potential to add new features and functionality.
Installing MythTV takes some time. I recommend using one of the distros/guides below. Following these, most clueful people should be able to get MythTV running.
I don't get it either. It's like vrml - everyone thought it was cool, but the problem was... vmrl is a crummy game engine - there's nothing to shoot at;)
Imagine getting 3D popups on your 3D desktop!
Imagine being able to view your spam email in transparent windows that are tilted at 45` towards the horizon!
Imagine all of the additional mouse work you'll be doing so that you can rotate your windows in 3d!
Imagine the new computer that you're going to need to buy so you can use your 3d desktop!
before you pro photographers spend lots of extra cash on CF cards, you may want to check the speed of the CF slot IN YOUR CAMERA.
For example, I believe the Canon Digital Rebel's CF slot can only write or read at 1x or 2x. So buying a 40x card doesn't help you when you're taking pictures.
It does however help you when you take the card out of the camera, and plug it into a usb2 card reader on your computer to get the 1.5gb+ of photos off...
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How about letting the market decide that? If the payback from advertising drops to the point where it can no longer support creation and delivery of programming, what then? Will the demand for programming go away?
SO, you mean to tell me that reality TV shows are so expensive to create?
You mean to tell me that following a couple on a date and filming it costs a lot of money to create?
You mean to tell me that cleaning someone's house and filming it on TV costs a lot of money?
Advertising needs to deal with the new reality and their new econimic models. I, for one, will continue to use every tool and technology to optimize my leisure time viewing and listening for maximum content and minimum advertising.
"TiVo viewers will see "billboards," or small logos, popping up over TV commercials as they fast-forward through them, offering contest entries, giveaways or links to other ads."
Do you know how long it takes MythTV to fastforward over a commercial? It's like milliseconds - okay maybe 1 or 2 seconds if you have to do it manually 30 seconds at a time. If Tivo's fastforward is so slow that they have time to show you additional commercials, then I feel sorry for you.
As a mythtv user, if there existed a module where I could choose to upload my non-anonymous tv recording and watching history in exchange for say $25/month and some monthly survey, I don't think I'd mind one bit.
Gotta have sixty fingers to create a new file, and two more if the filename includes a capital letter.
Everyone know that EMACS stands for [Escape][Meta][Alt][Control][Shift]
--
Honk if your keyboard has a [meta] and [alt] key
I discovered Picasa a few months ago, and I really love it. It's the best massive photo collectio browser I've run across yet for Windows.
If only there was a similar application for Linux, or... better yet for the web.
Also, be aware that when trying to save printouts of pictures, that printouts from comsumer inkjet printers *do* fade over time.
I love Awasu - wish they had it for Linux.
http://www.awasu.com
As much as I like wikis, in corporate environments, I'd say they're frowned upon as being cluttered, messy, and chaotic.
Some people would call the features of a wiki a disavantage...
"you mean anyone can deface the website?"
"who approved this content?"
"all these links are confusing to everyone - can we have less content?"
"the site needs to look like this other site - we have corporate website standards"
We don't need more TLDs. Having hundreds of TLDs is just dumb. Exactly how many do we have now? It's got to be about 200 TLDs already. ... and short is good when we talk about DNS names. 2 or 3 character TLDs make sense. Why should we use any 4+ character TLDs?
We're just creating more "names" to sell. The only people who really benefit are the registrars
how about that? then you could have...
... and of course the major companies would have to protect their brands, so we'd have
my.goatse
wild.goatse
slashdot.goatse
coke.goatse
microsoft.goatse
Many owners are not fully aware of the distinction between the furball, which is cat, and the whole animal, which they also call ``cat''. The ambiguous use of the name doesn't promote understanding. These users often think that Linus Torvalds bred the cat in 1991, with a bit of help.
Owners generally know that cat is a furball. But since they have generally heard the whole animal called ``cat'' as well, they often envisage a history that would justify naming the whole animal after the furball. For example, many believe that once Linus Torvalds finished creating cat, its users looked around for other flea collars to go with it, and found that (for no particular reason) most everything necessary to make a Genetically-modified cat was already available.
What they found was no accident--it was the GNU system. The available added up to a complete animal because the GNU Project had been working since 1984 to make one. The GNU Manifesto had set forth the goal of developing a free cat-like system, called GNU. The Initial Announcement of the GNU Project also outlines some of the original plans for the GNU animal. By the time cat was created, the animal was almost finished.
Putting them together sounds simple, but it was not a trivial job. Some GNU components needed substantial change to work with cat. Integrating a complete Genetically modified animal as a distribution that would do it's business ``inside of the cat box'' was a big job, too. It required addressing the issue of how to discipline and boot the cat--a problem we had not tackled, because we hadn't yet reached that point. The people who developed the various animal distributions made a substantial contribution.
The GNU Project supports GNU/cat as well as the GNU --even with funds. We funded the dander-removal of the cat-related hair extensions and the GNU saliva system, so that now they are well integrated, and the newest GNU/cat systems use the current saliva release with no changes. We also funded an early stage of the development of Debian GNU/cat.
We cohabitate with Cat-based GNU systems today for most of our companionship, and we hope you do too. But please don't confuse the public by using the name ``Cat'' ambiguously. Cat is the hairball, one of the essential major components of the animal. The animal as a whole is more or less the GNU system, with cat added. When you're talking about this combination, please call it ``GNU/cat''.
Everyone must always remember that what we call cat is actually the result of
There's also MythPhone
MythFM Radio, MythRecipe
and MythTivo
People who are using MythTV would agree with most of the above points, but would look at the setup of their system as part of the journey.
Building the perfect MythTV box is akin to building the perfect Shelby Cobra kit car.
It's not for everyone, buf for people who want things "just the way they want", you have near infinite flexibility.
Comparing the functionality of MythTV with MCE is like comparing the functionality of perl with the functionality of options listed in the right click menu on the Windows desktop.
As requested, Good luck!
h -o sx-howto.htmls ts/mythtv/dev/8 3534?search_string=mac%20os%20x;#83534
http://www.users.bigpond.com/pear_computers/myt
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/li
http://www.vyond.com/products.html
$895
But does anyone *really* output their PVR (MS or Myth) to an actual TV?
You're kidding, right?
Here's a small sampling of people using MythTV on Linux output to a TV
Windows - Not to be confused with X-Windows
Direct X - not to be confused with X-Windows
DNS - Dynamic Network Services - not to be confused with real DNS
Visual J++ - not to be confused with Java
.NET - not to be confused with anything relating to internet domains ending with .net
No, they right bad code.
... Aah. Enlightenment on my SPARC 20, those were the days.
This is way funnier than you even know. Anyone who read Mandrake's code or docs was always assaulted by spelling errors.
Even he acknowledged them and said essentially, "who cares?!"
I propose the name IMoogle.
It just sounds so funny.
Last thing we need are more applications that have a generic name preceded by x,g, or k (or i)
Can't you just imagine the discussions about rolling out "Enterprise IMoogle"
1. Does it record the DTV stream directly?
See the links from http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/ to http://www.pchdtv.com
2. Does it manage two tuners?
It can manage as many tuners as you have slots to put them in
I'll second that.
;)
MythTV is great and it's extensible - if you want to build your own PVR and you like Linux, then you'll like MythTV. It's not necessarily cheaper than a Tivo up front, but it's more flexible and extensible if you're into that sort of hacking thing
Having just completed a MythTV box that now "owns" my TV, I can say it was more complicated, cost more, and took longer than I expected. I can also say that I'm very happy with what I have and what I can do with it, and the potential to add new features and functionality.
Installing MythTV takes some time. I recommend using one of the distros/guides below. Following these, most clueful people should be able to get MythTV running.
See:
MythTV Homepage
KnoppMyth - bootable MythTV
Jarod's Fedora/MythTV Homepage
Debian MythTV howto
Gentoo MythTV howto
Lindows 2.0 "leaked"? a version of AOL for Linux that used Netscape
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3078317/
I don't get it either. It's like vrml - everyone thought it was cool, but the problem was... vmrl is a crummy game engine - there's nothing to shoot at ;)
Imagine getting 3D popups on your 3D desktop!
Imagine being able to view your spam email in transparent windows that are tilted at 45` towards the horizon!
Imagine all of the additional mouse work you'll be doing so that you can rotate your windows in 3d!
Imagine the new computer that you're going to need to buy so you can use your 3d desktop!
Bah!
Heard this about a decade ago at Comdex from people working in Las Vegas...
"The typical Comdex attendee brings a white shirt and a twenty dollar bill with them, and during the week, neither gets changed!"
before you pro photographers spend lots of extra cash on CF cards, you may want to check the speed of the CF slot IN YOUR CAMERA.
For example, I believe the Canon Digital Rebel's CF slot can only write or read at 1x or 2x. So buying a 40x card doesn't help you when you're taking pictures.
It does however help you when you take the card out of the camera, and plug it into a usb2 card reader on your computer to get the 1.5gb+ of photos off...