You are making the wrong assumptions.
The data will not be staying on the old digital data storage mediums, it will be moved to the latest digital storage medium. That's why digital is so great. It's easy to copy and manipulate.
At the rate data storage has improved, each time I upgrade to a new larger system I have copied ALL of my legacy data into a (now) small portion of my new system. My data moves to the latest data storage medium. All of my old Apple II programs which used to be on 300 floppies are now using 42 Megabytes in a directory on my hard drive. My Apple II emulator runs much faster than the old Apple II. I expect this to continue at least until I am very old.
It's the perfect size for a simple reason:
The device is meant to play movies off your mounted LAN monster hard drive, but have enough storage to download a small selection and take the box with you for to view elsewhere, or to TRADE/copy videos on another LAN, like your office LAN or your friends LAN, or a LAN party...
> Like most people, you're trying to throw the virtual weight of your 'maybe dollars' around to influence people.
Umm... No I'm not. I'm not trying to influence anybody. I'm stating what product I will buy if it ever becomes available. Wow, you're really not good at this mind reading thing, are you?
> Identify a company that is going in a direction you like and purchase their products.
I think a personal-use orbital-capable vehicle would be really neat. Do I have to buy a Space Shuttle now? It's not what I want, but it's going in a direction I like.
> When the first thoughts of networking computers was realized, the US Government did not say 'well... I'll fund this only if it does super reallistic streaming video.' They decided that they liked the potential that a non-centralized communication system had, so they put their money into developing something that originally could barely send plain text. Look where we are now?
Yeah, they paid for and got exactly the product they wanted. A network that was non-centralized and could be routed around nuclear destruction. Many years later the new technology in it evolved into something even better than what they paid for. I'll buy a PVR that uses network drives and many years later maybe it's descendents will do holograms.
> Bottom line, spend money, don't make vague demands.
Vague? How much more specific can I be? Record and play video on an SMB or NFS mounted disk. Do you want specs for SMB and NFS?
I'll buy it when I can use a SMB or NFS drive over my network to store an amount of video only limited by my hard drives, and I can access the files from my PC (to play on the PC, to extract clips, whatever I feel like doing).
A long time ago I had written a 6502 assembler program on my Apple II that tried to seek track -1 on the floppy drive, then paused a set amount of milliseconds, then did it again.
I got it so I could play songs by the vibration of the drive from the read head banging into the end of it's arm.
Sadly, a toy store owner I spoke to recently told me he sells 40 Lego "kits" like the astronauts, pirates, or Star Wars battle droids for every 1 (ONE) bucket-o-basic blocks.
Because of this, he isn't going to carry the basic blocks anymore. It's not cost-effective for him.
What's wrong with parents? Don't they remember what Legos are for?
> the first rule is never trust anyone at work
> The second rule is never try to make friends with people at work
> Third rule is not to date women from work
I spend over 50% of my waking life at work. I'll be damned if I'll live half my life in paranoia, distrust, and unpleasantness. I've always made friends at work. This has made the work day enjoyable and pleasant, and eliminated a lot of friction. When it's time to move on, I've always gotten my next job through one of those friends who has moved on ahead of me. It's a much smaller industry than you realize, and you will bump into the same people many times in your career. You might as well be friends with some of them.
Oh, and as to your rule #3, my wife and I both disagree with you. If we had stuck to your rule #3 we would never have met.
> Demon in the Freezer
Excellent read! Terrifying stuff.
The article talks a lot about delivery mechanisms, from ICBMS that explode smallpox in the air, to microchip based aerators that spray live smallpox into the air and could fill an airport in a few hours.
But based on our recent experiences with suicide terrorists, has anyone thought about the simplest method of hiding, importing, and distributing the virus?
A suicide terrorist could EAT the virus, and go on vacation in the US, visiting as many places as possible, breathing on as many people as possible.
F*** this is scary! All he would have to do is visit a McDonalds in every big city!
He would have two weeks before he shows symptoms.
I almost hate even SAYING this, spreading the idea. But I'm sure they can think of it on their own.
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> If so, ill give $1 to the first distro to supports the xbox arch.
$1? Ooooo! I'll get our team working on it right away!
Ok, for those of us not as far down the path of enlightenment, how?
Specifically,
what stereo-component style silent-running case,
what OS (like I have to ask here on/.:-) ),
what hardware for TV out, Audio out, Audio in, CDRW, infrared remote control,
what software to manage playlists on a LCD or on the TV,
what setup to play files on it's internal HD or across the LAN on your PC or SAN?
I'm sure I left out some critical details...
I've looked at all the links that/.ers like to post for "how to build the ultimate A/V box" and I see more questions than answers! There is always some critical component left out of any of these descriptions that makes the spec "an exercise left to the reader".
That's it, I won. I got 50 karma points in my obsessive little hunt.
Now I'm goint to join a 12 step program to try and regain my life. No More Slashdot! The Ctrl and R keys on my keyboard show visible wear from reloading Slashdot for new things to read.
Go ahead and mod this down. That's like getting 'EXTENDED PLAY' time! I get to go after some more points!
"Ok Maam, here is your X-Box. Your kids are gonna love it! Before I ring this up, would you like to buy any of these accessories? We have this killer game controller, this broadband access module, and oh this liquid cooling system!"
How the F*#& is a comment about Alan Cox, censored changelogs, Senator Hollings, and DCMA, and the SSSCA ***OFFTOPIC****?!
My joke is a TOPICAL COMMENT. Let me spell it out for you since you are obviously comprehension impaired:
Alan Cox has made a "joke" with his overly dramatic reaction to the censorship caused directly and indirectly by laws such as the DCMA and SSSCA.
This is the TOPIC.
My "joke" facetiously claims that Senator Hollings who has proposed the draconian SSSCA would react to Alan Cox's joke by AGREEING with Alan Cox and withdrawing his proposal.
My point is that the congressmen who are voting on these laws will NEVER SEE Alan Cox's statement.
This is use of sarcasm and irony.
Perhaps my point will amuse some. Perhaps it will motivate others to bring the topic closer to Congress's ears. Perhaps, as in the moderator who thought this was offtopic, some will scratch their heads and go "Huh? Who be dis Senator who I dont be knowing about? Dis am offtopical to wut I be reading."
In related news today Senator Fritz Hollings, author of the SSSCA proposal, recanted stating:
"I just downloaded the latest 2.2.20pre10 and found censored changelogs! This will seriously impact my l33t hax0r activities. I finally see how my SSSSCA proposal will impact freedom. I am official withdrawing my proposal effective immeditely."
Apparently Alan Cox's plan to publicly demonstrate the absurdity of the DCMA and SSSCA in a place that would hit congress where it hurts has paid off.
Here is a sampling of today's headlines on Slashdot. See if you can spot the problem:
-Lucent's New Chip Is Just One Molecule Thick
-Sprint ION's $100/mo, 8Mbps Home Service Tanks
-Researchers At Lucent Announce One Molecule IC
-Developers: SkyOS Now Runs Linux Binaries Natively
-Molecule Sized Transistors
-TiVo Gets In Deeper With Sony
-Bell Labs announced single-molecule length organic transistors
-Ask Slashdot: Neighborhood Area Networks?
-New Era of Molecular-Scale Electronics
-Consonants Not Required
Slashdot Mirror
>two copys of The Hobbit*
> *One copy to read, another to keep under the mousepad for luck.
Don't you mean:
One copy to read, one copy to find them,
One copy for luck and under the mousepad bind them.
You are making the wrong assumptions.
The data will not be staying on the old digital data storage mediums, it will be moved to the latest digital storage medium. That's why digital is so great. It's easy to copy and manipulate.
At the rate data storage has improved, each time I upgrade to a new larger system I have copied ALL of my legacy data into a (now) small portion of my new system. My data moves to the latest data storage medium. All of my old Apple II programs which used to be on 300 floppies are now using 42 Megabytes in a directory on my hard drive. My Apple II emulator runs much faster than the old Apple II. I expect this to continue at least until I am very old.
It's the perfect size for a simple reason:
The device is meant to play movies off your mounted LAN monster hard drive, but have enough storage to download a small selection and take the box with you for to view elsewhere, or to TRADE/copy videos on another LAN, like your office LAN or your friends LAN, or a LAN party...
> No you won't.
Umm... Yes I will. I thought I was pretty clear.
> Like most people, you're trying to throw the virtual weight of your 'maybe dollars' around to influence people.
Umm... No I'm not. I'm not trying to influence anybody. I'm stating what product I will buy if it ever becomes available. Wow, you're really not good at this mind reading thing, are you?
> Identify a company that is going in a direction you like and purchase their products.
I think a personal-use orbital-capable vehicle would be really neat. Do I have to buy a Space Shuttle now? It's not what I want, but it's going in a direction I like.
> When the first thoughts of networking computers was realized, the US Government did not say 'well... I'll fund this only if it does super reallistic streaming video.' They decided that they liked the potential that a non-centralized communication system had, so they put their money into developing something that originally could barely send plain text. Look where we are now?
Yeah, they paid for and got exactly the product they wanted. A network that was non-centralized and could be routed around nuclear destruction. Many years later the new technology in it evolved into something even better than what they paid for. I'll buy a PVR that uses network drives and many years later maybe it's descendents will do holograms.
> Bottom line, spend money, don't make vague demands.
Vague? How much more specific can I be? Record and play video on an SMB or NFS mounted disk. Do you want specs for SMB and NFS?
Do you always tell people what to do?
I'll buy it when I can use a SMB or NFS drive over my network to store an amount of video only limited by my hard drives, and I can access the files from my PC (to play on the PC, to extract clips, whatever I feel like doing).
A long time ago I had written a 6502 assembler program on my Apple II that tried to seek track -1 on the floppy drive, then paused a set amount of milliseconds, then did it again.
I got it so I could play songs by the vibration of the drive from the read head banging into the end of it's arm.
This did, however, void my warantee.
HAHAHA! Please mod'em up!
Sadly, a toy store owner I spoke to recently told me he sells 40 Lego "kits" like the astronauts, pirates, or Star Wars battle droids for every 1 (ONE) bucket-o-basic blocks.
Because of this, he isn't going to carry the basic blocks anymore. It's not cost-effective for him.
What's wrong with parents? Don't they remember what Legos are for?
> the first rule is never trust anyone at work
> The second rule is never try to make friends with people at work
> Third rule is not to date women from work
I spend over 50% of my waking life at work. I'll be damned if I'll live half my life in paranoia, distrust, and unpleasantness. I've always made friends at work. This has made the work day enjoyable and pleasant, and eliminated a lot of friction. When it's time to move on, I've always gotten my next job through one of those friends who has moved on ahead of me. It's a much smaller industry than you realize, and you will bump into the same people many times in your career. You might as well be friends with some of them.
Oh, and as to your rule #3, my wife and I both disagree with you. If we had stuck to your rule #3 we would never have met.
> Demon in the Freezer
Excellent read! Terrifying stuff.
The article talks a lot about delivery mechanisms, from ICBMS that explode smallpox in the air, to microchip based aerators that spray live smallpox into the air and could fill an airport in a few hours.
But based on our recent experiences with suicide terrorists, has anyone thought about the simplest method of hiding, importing, and distributing the virus?
A suicide terrorist could EAT the virus, and go on vacation in the US, visiting as many places as possible, breathing on as many people as possible.
F*** this is scary! All he would have to do is visit a McDonalds in every big city!
He would have two weeks before he shows symptoms.
I almost hate even SAYING this, spreading the idea. But I'm sure they can think of it on their own.
> If so, ill give $1 to the first distro to supports the xbox arch.
$1? Ooooo! I'll get our team working on it right away!
> easily build a box to do all this
/. :-) ),
/.ers like to post for "how to build the ultimate A/V box" and I see more questions than answers! There is always some critical component left out of any of these descriptions that makes the spec "an exercise left to the reader".
Ok, for those of us not as far down the path of enlightenment, how?
Specifically,
what stereo-component style silent-running case,
what OS (like I have to ask here on
what hardware for TV out, Audio out, Audio in, CDRW, infrared remote control,
what software to manage playlists on a LCD or on the TV,
what setup to play files on it's internal HD or across the LAN on your PC or SAN?
I'm sure I left out some critical details...
I've looked at all the links that
> ... the choices will be 0, 1, and Maybe :)
This will be very useful in modelling politics.
> young attorneys argue in mute court
If they were mute, how did they argue? In sign language?
Now in a MOOT court they could argue as loudly as they pleased.
/.: GAME OVER!
That's it, I won. I got 50 karma points in my obsessive little hunt.
Now I'm goint to join a 12 step program to try and regain my life. No More Slashdot! The Ctrl and R keys on my keyboard show visible wear from reloading Slashdot for new things to read.
Go ahead and mod this down. That's like getting 'EXTENDED PLAY' time! I get to go after some more points!
/.: WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY AGAIN?
"Ok Maam, here is your X-Box. Your kids are gonna love it! Before I ring this up, would you like to buy any of these accessories? We have this killer game controller, this broadband access module, and oh this liquid cooling system!"
Dear braindead moderator:
<rant>
How the F*#& is a comment about Alan Cox, censored changelogs, Senator Hollings, and DCMA, and the SSSCA ***OFFTOPIC****?!
My joke is a TOPICAL COMMENT. Let me spell it out for you since you are obviously comprehension impaired:
Alan Cox has made a "joke" with his overly dramatic reaction to the censorship caused directly and indirectly by laws such as the DCMA and SSSCA.
This is the TOPIC.
My "joke" facetiously claims that Senator Hollings who has proposed the draconian SSSCA would react to Alan Cox's joke by AGREEING with Alan Cox and withdrawing his proposal.
My point is that the congressmen who are voting on these laws will NEVER SEE Alan Cox's statement.
This is use of sarcasm and irony.
Perhaps my point will amuse some. Perhaps it will motivate others to bring the topic closer to Congress's ears. Perhaps, as in the moderator who thought this was offtopic, some will scratch their heads and go "Huh? Who be dis Senator who I dont be knowing about? Dis am offtopical to wut I be reading."
</rant>
In related news today Senator Fritz Hollings, author of the SSSCA proposal, recanted stating:
"I just downloaded the latest 2.2.20pre10 and found censored changelogs! This will seriously impact my l33t hax0r activities. I finally see how my SSSSCA proposal will impact freedom. I am official withdrawing my proposal effective immeditely."
Apparently Alan Cox's plan to publicly demonstrate the absurdity of the DCMA and SSSCA in a place that would hit congress where it hurts has paid off.
Not to be outdone by the Nepalese, a school in Bhutan has begun to grow PC cases out of melons.
> this guy deserves a statue (or an ice sculpture)
Ummm... how about a wood carving?
:-)
Why would I not be surprised if Senator Hollings ends up with a fat cushy position in the RIAA or MPAA after he's done raping our free markets?
"Quirky" is wearing a starfleet uniform to work.
"Quirky" is NOT playing hookey for a month, not bathing, not showing up until the afternoon, not working on what is important to your employer, and not producing anything useful.
Here is a sampling of today's headlines on Slashdot. See if you can spot the problem:
-Lucent's New Chip Is Just One Molecule Thick
-Sprint ION's $100/mo, 8Mbps Home Service Tanks
-Researchers At Lucent Announce One Molecule IC
-Developers: SkyOS Now Runs Linux Binaries Natively
-Molecule Sized Transistors
-TiVo Gets In Deeper With Sony
-Bell Labs announced single-molecule length organic transistors
-Ask Slashdot: Neighborhood Area Networks?
-New Era of Molecular-Scale Electronics
-Consonants Not Required
MOD THAT DOWN! It HURTS my eyes!
(oh, and mod THIS down too while you're at it.)
Be careful with this!
I can just see it now. You are recounting a traffic accident to a college:
You: "I rammed a sheriff!"
Computer: "Executing: rm -(dash)rf"