If I'm "sitting down to watch a show" I agree completely, I don't wanna see ads. But every once in a while I do the live TV thing on my MythTV box and I usually can't be bothered to skip the commercials (I'd have to pause to get about 15-20 minutes into the buffer). And I don't really care that much unless I really dislike the commercials, so I see how this could possibly get a few more eyeballs.
Besides, every once in a rare while, there's a very good commercial.
I don't mean this to the advertisers, I mean to everyone else. As soon as web builders stop thinking it's a valid web design decision, then *complete* popup blockers can utterly kill the annoying popup ads' viability.
I have the "Popups Must Die" extension for Firefox and I currently have almost *70* exceptions in my prefs, after only a few months surfing.
Slowly the big OSes are moving to a DB-oriented filesystem in one way or another anyway. Google Desktop and Spotlight on the Mac are already indexing the file store, and in some cases creating virtual folders (a SQL view, basically). I haven't heard much about WinFS.
We really need metadata, and there are also differing implementations (or nonimplementations) in filesystems for that now.
So what we have now is a fairly simple data store with other DB features tacked on after the fact.
It only takes a bit of extra thought to extend the idea to include stored procedures and triggers... there's a lot of potential to it.
"the database will become integrated into the operating system."
I wonder if he means a database-oriented filesystem? There's no real reason to stop there... system and application configuration data in a database would be great.
As much as I love PostgreSQL, I think it might be kinda heavy for that kind of implementation.
I think you'll find MythTV is remarkably complete in itself. Another poster mentioned KnoppMyth, which includes MythPhone (A SIP videophone client), MythWeb (essential) MythGame, Samba, NFS, etc...
The only thing I'd add after is ProjectX for fixing buggy IVTV captures and DVDStyler for authoring discs.
I installed MythStreamTV which was cool but I never use it, so I don't know if it was worth the effort.
Carbon Leaf has had a few of their albums available, straight through Amazon. For example, Echo Echo
(there are more, dig around)
And at concerts on etree.org he definitely says "spread the word by any means possible" -- though now they're with a "real" label, maybe the latest album doesn't fall under that license.
2 might not work. When I got my Palm, I asked if the extended warranty would cover the screen breaking, and they said no (Future Shop). So it covers basically nothing that needs covering.
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Can I insall it vicariously?
Anyone?
If I'm "sitting down to watch a show" I agree completely, I don't wanna see ads. But every once in a while I do the live TV thing on my MythTV box and I usually can't be bothered to skip the commercials (I'd have to pause to get about 15-20 minutes into the buffer). And I don't really care that much unless I really dislike the commercials, so I see how this could possibly get a few more eyeballs.
Besides, every once in a rare while, there's a very good commercial.
Oh... my... goodness. That was absolutely fabulous.
I'd say Peanut butter is more of a staple than a condiment.
Sure quite a few turn out to be true, some cool ones too.
They don't really try to disprove myths, they try VERY HARD to make them happen. Especially when there's explosions involved.
I think Steve released a video-capable iPod to shut people the heck up.
For that, thank you Steve.
(P.S. Why not make all the new iPods the FrontRow remote?)
I don't mean this to the advertisers, I mean to everyone else. As soon as web builders stop thinking it's a valid web design decision, then *complete* popup blockers can utterly kill the annoying popup ads' viability.
I have the "Popups Must Die" extension for Firefox and I currently have almost *70* exceptions in my prefs, after only a few months surfing.
The library just called, they want you to turn in your card...
Slowly the big OSes are moving to a DB-oriented filesystem in one way or another anyway. Google Desktop and Spotlight on the Mac are already indexing the file store, and in some cases creating virtual folders (a SQL view, basically). I haven't heard much about WinFS.
We really need metadata, and there are also differing implementations (or nonimplementations) in filesystems for that now.
So what we have now is a fairly simple data store with other DB features tacked on after the fact.
It only takes a bit of extra thought to extend the idea to include stored procedures and triggers... there's a lot of potential to it.
Yes, only more so.
The registry is a strange beast. The hugest problem with it is corruptability. Another problem is finding anything within that mess.
So, if we had an ACID-compliant registry in a queriable DB would it really be that bad?
"the database will become integrated into the operating system."
I wonder if he means a database-oriented filesystem? There's no real reason to stop there... system and application configuration data in a database would be great.
As much as I love PostgreSQL, I think it might be kinda heavy for that kind of implementation.
DOH
Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!
I think you'll find MythTV is remarkably complete in itself. Another poster mentioned KnoppMyth, which includes MythPhone (A SIP videophone client), MythWeb (essential) MythGame, Samba, NFS, etc...
The only thing I'd add after is ProjectX for fixing buggy IVTV captures and DVDStyler for authoring discs.
I installed MythStreamTV which was cool but I never use it, so I don't know if it was worth the effort.
Carbon Leaf has had a few of their albums available, straight through Amazon. For example, Echo Echo
(there are more, dig around)
And at concerts on etree.org he definitely says "spread the word by any means possible" -- though now they're with a "real" label, maybe the latest album doesn't fall under that license.
Their music was a great discovery for me.
Thanks, I thought it was just me that thought that book actually ruined the whole series...
You trust Pocket Word[pad] with your documents?
BTW, Palms come with Documents To Go out of the box, and they support native files, so no conversion necessary.
...I've been trying to find out exactly what DCC specifies, but from my skimming, I don't think anything as high-level as Gnome is part of DCC.
Couldn't they start with DCC and plug any Gnome they want on top of it? Or KDE/fluxbox/XFCE/whatever instead?
It's the same WinME/Win2k PRO split disaster all over again.
Why do you call me an idiot when I didn't buy the extended warranty?
2 might not work. When I got my Palm, I asked if the extended warranty would cover the screen breaking, and they said no (Future Shop). So it covers basically nothing that needs covering.
Things haven't changed that much... check out this scan of a 1995 flyer from Toys 'R Us. (I swiped the link from Digg, you might have seen it already)
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=949302
They're Canadian prices, but the prices typically adjust to about the same.
Hopefully he's one of the mostly nice ones...
Nope, many thousands of hackaday and digg readers got to this site 2 days before slashdot.
I'm definitely no hardcore gamer, but I've found games like those in the Rayman series are not simple games. It was very satisfying to finish those!
I'd say it's probably hit and miss, depending on the developer. The easy ones just tend to sell more.
Email it to support@codejedi.com, he'll probably have it fixed in the next alpha build in a week or so!