While I have your attention, "The New TNN" is becoming "SpikeTV" - a network for men.
Go tell them what YOU want to see, if you are a guy, of course. I hardly see how this could be a bad thing...
Actually I just went there and told them what I don't want to see: that stupid black bar at the bottom of every show. If you also watch TNN, I'd encourage you to do the same. If they get enough comments saying it, they might listen.
Remember that DVD-RAM is the only standard that is reliable for backups, the only one with (optional) data verification, the only one with long life cycles for constant use (100,000 records vs 100-1000 for DVD-/+R/W).
... the only one that has no chance of being read in a standalone player.
Does the never ending stream of AOL CD's mailed in the post not count as spam?
No, it doesn't. Spam is unsolicited e-mail. What AOL does has been going on for long before the term spam came around. It is also different in that there's no forgery, you can return it to sender, etc. Whether AOL should be sending out tons of CDs is certainly debatable, but it is something different from spam.
Why the fuck are you you cable/DSL-providing assclowns so unwilling to control your customers?
I find the idea that the providers are supposed to be in a controlling role offensive. I am the customer, I am paying for the service, I should be resonably free to do what I want with the connection. The attitude you present will lead us down the road of everything being blocked or filtered except for what our provider approves for us.
I agree that something needs to be done about spam, and that the providers should help, but please don't advocate them "controlling" us.
If you wanted to eliminate NAT, the ISP would have to provide an IPv6 address for every network interface in your house, and I'm going to assume they would tack on some sort of surcharge for each additional address.
Why would they have to? They could hand everybody on their network 16 (or 24) bits of subnet and still have untold billions of addresses left over.
Although that's how it should work, the problem is they will find any excuse to charge more for a service, and multiple IPs is a way of doing that. Anything they can tightly control and squeeze some cash out of, they will.
...it's the money. It isn't that they don't want you using VPNs on their service, they don't want you using them on their home service. If you get the service that costs twice as much, you are free to use VPNs. In fact they list it as a feature!
Assuming you have a Japanese font installed, it should "just work." You might have to pick View->Character Coding->Auto-Detect->Japanese for it to figure out you are viewing a Japanese page (i.e., if the character set is incorrect).
If you don't have the Japanese fonts, in Win2K go to the "Regional Options" Control Panel and check Japanese as one of the languages your system should support. This should cause it to copy the fonts from the CD (IIRC).
...and in many counties ISDN has replaced POTS as the dominant home phone system. (Yes, ISDN, the rich flexible multi-facited system...
OK, you've piqued my curiosity. Being in the US, what advantages am I missing out on by not having an ISDN line running to my home instead of my POTS service?
OK, I have a question... I keep hearing MPEG4 is not a codec but a container format (like QuickTime). How then is DivX related to MPEG4, especially since it uses AVI as it's container format?
What? MJPEG is much less efficent than MPEG2 (which is what Tivo uses IIRC). Why would someone switch to it? It isn't like it provides any improvement in picture quality, it just eats more bits. If anything, I'd expect new Tivo units to switch to MPEG4 or MPEG2 VBR.
It's like saying that the future of online music is uncompressed PCM audio streams.
In defense of Gainax, every episode of Nadia starts with "Based on Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." At least they give credit when they adapt a story.:)
Also note that Final Fantasy IX and X have product deals with Coke in Japan. The IX OSTs have the songs from the commercials (instrumental at least), and you can get collectable figurines from X when you buy a coke right now in Japan. (More info here.)
...and there are regulations (which everyone ignores) that stipulate you can only have one TV hooked up to your cable box...
Actually there WERE regulations that prevented that, but they were changed several years ago (early '90s). I've even received FAQ-type stuff with my cable bill, and one of the questions is "Can I have multiple outlets?" and they go on to say you can, and they don't have to be the ones to put them in. Every time this comes up I try to find a good source on it and fail miserably, so maybe someone else has one.
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Actually I just went there and told them what I don't want to see: that stupid black bar at the bottom of every show. If you also watch TNN, I'd encourage you to do the same. If they get enough comments saying it, they might listen.
... the only one that has no chance of being read in a standalone player.
No, it doesn't. Spam is unsolicited e-mail. What AOL does has been going on for long before the term spam came around. It is also different in that there's no forgery, you can return it to sender, etc. Whether AOL should be sending out tons of CDs is certainly debatable, but it is something different from spam.
I'm curious... how did a library that has a BSD-ish license reveal a GPL violation?
Yeah, I thought of that too... hopefully Millennium just forgot to mention the machines would be using headphones.
So it's true; some cartoons do encourage violence...
I find the idea that the providers are supposed to be in a controlling role offensive. I am the customer, I am paying for the service, I should be resonably free to do what I want with the connection. The attitude you present will lead us down the road of everything being blocked or filtered except for what our provider approves for us.
I agree that something needs to be done about spam, and that the providers should help, but please don't advocate them "controlling" us.
...and when using a network transfter protocol that doesn't understand the metadata in question (which is virtually all of them).
If you had read Slashdot this morning you would have. ;)
Actually, the newest version of Preferences Toolbar has just such a feature. :)
Well, here's a one-liner in Perl that'll do it:
Although that's how it should work, the problem is they will find any excuse to charge more for a service, and multiple IPs is a way of doing that. Anything they can tightly control and squeeze some cash out of, they will.
"What about that extra B?"
...it's the money. It isn't that they don't want you using VPNs on their service, they don't want you using them on their home service. If you get the service that costs twice as much, you are free to use VPNs. In fact they list it as a feature!
MacOS X?
That was true of the Series 1 boxes, but TiVo is self-producing (or at least self-branding) some of the Series 2 ones.
Assuming you have a Japanese font installed, it should "just work." You might have to pick View->Character Coding->Auto-Detect->Japanese for it to figure out you are viewing a Japanese page (i.e., if the character set is incorrect).
If you don't have the Japanese fonts, in Win2K go to the "Regional Options" Control Panel and check Japanese as one of the languages your system should support. This should cause it to copy the fonts from the CD (IIRC).
OK, you've piqued my curiosity. Being in the US, what advantages am I missing out on by not having an ISDN line running to my home instead of my POTS service?
The GNU folks, who coined the term (I think), would tend to disagree with you.
Um, couldn't you just use a base station (airport or the like) to do that?
OK, I have a question... I keep hearing MPEG4 is not a codec but a container format (like QuickTime). How then is DivX related to MPEG4, especially since it uses AVI as it's container format?
What? MJPEG is much less efficent than MPEG2 (which is what Tivo uses IIRC). Why would someone switch to it? It isn't like it provides any improvement in picture quality, it just eats more bits. If anything, I'd expect new Tivo units to switch to MPEG4 or MPEG2 VBR.
It's like saying that the future of online music is uncompressed PCM audio streams.
In defense of Gainax, every episode of Nadia starts with "Based on Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." At least they give credit when they adapt a story. :)
Also note that Final Fantasy IX and X have product deals with Coke in Japan. The IX OSTs have the songs from the commercials (instrumental at least), and you can get collectable figurines from X when you buy a coke right now in Japan. (More info here.)
Actually there WERE regulations that prevented that, but they were changed several years ago (early '90s). I've even received FAQ-type stuff with my cable bill, and one of the questions is "Can I have multiple outlets?" and they go on to say you can, and they don't have to be the ones to put them in. Every time this comes up I try to find a good source on it and fail miserably, so maybe someone else has one.