Does it still need to connect to the phone lines these days?
Yes and no. The latest Tivo boxes can operate over ethernet or 802.11, but you still need to set the box up over a phone line (which really sucks). My wife and I got a Tivo for Christmas from my parents and had to set it up at their house because we have no landline. But once it's set up it works great using a wireless adapter.
There is still a downside though. Tivo series 2 boxes are supposed to have USB 2.0, but the Tivo software only has USB 1.1 drivers. So even if you connect the ethernet adapter to a 100 Mb network or if you put in an 802.11g adapter, Tivo2Go stuff only transfers at USB 1.1 speeds which is horribly slow when transferring multi-gigabyte TV shows.
Well, what happens when you purchase iLife from Apple in California and have to pay the California Sales Tax, but then since you live in Wisconsin you have to pay an additional %5 on top of the tax you already paid?
That's the problem that I see with stuff like this. You're going to start getting double taxed - once for purchasing in one state and again for using it in the state you live in.
No more new taxes, no more increases in taxes. The government needs to make due with what it has (which is already an enormous amount of money).
If anyone is interested, simdtech.org is probably the best resource you can find for AltiVec (or any other SIMD) programming. They have a number of tutorials and technical resources and the mailing list is the best there is. Motorola, Apple, and IBM engineers frequent the list so you can get help and information directly from the guys that created AltiVec as well as from those who program for it.
Not necessarily. Just because the code will be running on PPC processors doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be seeing a lot of games for the Mac platform. The bigger problem is the libraries and operating systems the games will be running on.
Yes, it will be a good thing to have people optimizing code specifically for PPC processors. More people will likely be learning AltiVec and writing code for it. And the code will hopefully be optimized well for the PPC platform taking its strengths and weaknesses into account. But that doesn't make a Mac port easy or practical. Games for the NeXT XBox will be coded to Windows APIs (Win32, DirectX, etc.) and so they'll probably be much easier to port to Windows. They may not be optimized as well for x86 processors, but it'll be much easier to get the games running.
If anything there'll probably be more opportunities for people with PPC and AltiVec optimization experience (assuming they want to work in the sweat-shop environment the gaming industry provides).
If you'd actually read what this is all about then you'd have find out that this is a cross-platform library for SIMD programming. You program in standard C++ using std::valarray and you get code optimized for Altivec and MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3 without having to do anything else. You don't need to worry about coding to two different libraries on two different platforms nor do you have to worry about learning the platform-specific C intrinsics, alignment issues, head/tail cases, etc.
SIMD programming becomes as easy as this:
float af1 [] = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}; stdext::valarray <float> v1 (af1, 10);// construct from first 10 elements of af1 stdext::valarray <float> v2 (10, 3.0f);// construct with 10 repeats of 3.0f stdext::valarray <float> v3 (10);// construct with 10 repeats of 0.0f
v3 = sin (v1) * cos (v2) + sin (v2) * cos (v1);
He claims that the above code is 17.4x faster than Codewarrior MSL C++, 11.6x faster than gcc libstdc++ and 9.5x faster than Visual C++.
Macstl also provides a cross-platform syntax for using vector registers that is similar to using the native C intrinsics on each platform. So while not all of the native operations are available, his cross-platform "vec" API allows you to write cross-platform code without having to learn both the Altivec and MMX/SSE intrinsics (which is a good solution for someone who knows one platform but not the other).
So, my question is: could an std::valarray specialization for processor-supported types serve as a basis for portable SIMD support in C++?
That's exactly what this is. If you read the part on his website about valarray then you'll see that it does extensive SIMD optimizations for valarray for both Altivec and MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3 platforms. He's even added "parallelized algorithms such as integer division, trigonometric functions and complex number arithmetic" which you'd have to code yourself in either assembly or using the C-based intrinsics if you wanted do the SIMD programming by hand.
So basically, this allows you to code using std::valarray using normal C++ and then plug this in under the hood to get a nice speed boost.
A better resource for Altivec and SIMD in general is the SIMDtech.org website and Altivec mailing list. There are tutorials and technical manuals available and the email list is indispensable. While the mailing list is mostly geared towards Altivec optimizations and discussions all SIMD discussion is welcome, including MMX/SSE. There are Apple engineers that read and contribute to the list as well as Motorola/Freescale engineers. It's probably the single best resource available to Altivec programmers and you get to talk directly to the Wizards that created it.
I'm a relative newcomer to the list and it's been an invaluable resource as I've optimized with Altivec.
I don't believe that Microsoft ever intended to push OS/2 even if apps couldn't run in protected mode. Microsoft was going to push Windows no matter how crappie or inferior it was to OS/2. Their flirtation with OS/2 (telling people that it was the future and that they should support it) only made other large developers of the time, namely Wordperfect, spend their time on creating OS/2 versions of their software instead of Windows versions.
When Microsoft put their full push into Windows they were able to put MS Word (along with their other apps) out ahead of everyone else and drive Wordperfect into obscurity. That's not to say that Wordperfect didn't expect this. I used to work with a former Wordperfect executive and they knew full well what Microsoft was up to but they thought that the combination of Wordperfect and IBM would be able to beat Microsoft and so they put pretty much everything into OS/2. By the time they realized that OS/2 wasn't going to catch on it was too late, and the rest is history.
So will Yahoo! use this "service" to track what web pages you view and what you're interested in when you view them? A quick preview of their terms of service links to their privacy policy which states:
Yahoo! collects personal information when you register with Yahoo!, when you use Yahoo! products or services, when you visit Yahoo! pages or the pages of certain Yahoo! partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Yahoo! may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
So Yahoo! will be tracking what you view and what you search for when you view it.
...movie/music/game video sampler UMD disc including multiple non-interactive game demos...
So for $250 you get a portable game system with game demos that you can't even play. It seems like you should at least bundle something that people can play with. What good is a game demo that you can't play?
Following my own link and reading a bit more it seems that Apple has already addressed issues like Web Services and even Patent litigation against the licensor (Apple).
Regarding Services (Major Changes in Apple Public Source License 2.0):
1. Licensees will only be required to release source code of Modifications they "Externally Deploy" (new Section 1.4, and Sections 2.1, 2.2). "External Deployment" is defined to cover the external distribution of APSL'ed code or use of APSL'ed code to provide a service (including content delivery) to a third party through electronic communication with that party.
Regarding Patent Litigation:
5. The Termination clause relating to patent suits (Section 12.1(c)) has been narrowed such that the license will terminate only if a licensee _initiates_ an action for patent infringement against Apple. It will not terminate in cases where Apple first sues the licensee and they file a countersuit.
So #5 seems to cover litigious bastards such as the SCO Group, except only for patent litigation. It'd be interesting if at some point this was updated to include copyright infringement litigation as well. And #1 seems to cover Web Services. Maybe Mr. Moglen will reference the APSL in revising the GPL.
The issue of Web services has to be considered, he said. Some in the community are calling for a strong copyleft license with code that is used and changed to be returned to all. Others want the opposite.
"I do not believe that we will be reach consensus on this front, so I believe the license will have to accommodate options as to the question of Web services, but this must be squared with the ideological pursuit of freedom," he said.
I thought that this was interesting. So if a change like this were made it would make the GPL similar to the initial versions of Apple's Public Source License. In the first versions of that license you were required to submit any source code changes you made even if you didn't redistribute the software and only used it internally. My understanding is that if you're a Web Services company and you use modified GPL software, you don't need to contribute back the modifications you've made as long as you don't redistribute your modified software to anyone.
I doubt that the GPL will ever adopt this requirement, but it's interesting that some in the community want this.
Actually the Cube has proven to be pretty good at cooling judging by the number of processor,video and hard drive/CD/DVD upgrades for it.
You can get up to a 1.7 GHz G4 processor upgrade and there was even a Dual 800 MHz G4 upgrade offered at one point. Some people have been able to put in nVidia GeForce 3 and ATI Radeon 8500, 9000 Pro and 9200 graphics cards in these things. Not to mention you can put a full-size hard drive into it.
The Cube will probably end up being a lot more upgradable than the Mini, but the Mini sure has a better price.
The headline seems a bit misleading to me since there's only a few quotes from Linus in there:
"Software patents are clearly a problem, and I think it's a problem that the open source community has been pretty aware of for the last five years," said Torvalds. "The good news is that a lot of proprietary vendors are starting to see it as a problem as well."
The last one is pretty good though:
Torvalds was reluctant to make predictions though. "I'm the anti-visionary. I distrust people with visions," he said. "You don't see what's right in front of your face and you don't see the technical issues that face everyday users."
I forgot to add that the Mac platform is probably the best place to have a dual core CPU or even a dual CPU machine. Mac OS X already has excellent dual CPU support and already balances the workload very well among available CPUs. And since Apple has been shipping Dual CPU machines for years application developers have already done a lot to take advantage of Dual CPUs. As a result we, the users, benefit.
Since the dual core freescale supposedly outperforms a G5 at same clock speed, I really would have liked to see the freescale in the new specs.
Not to flame, but I'm interested in where you're getting your information from (benchmarks, reviews, etc). I wouldn't be surprised at all to see a Dual Core G4 outperform a single core/CPU G5 when it comes to apps that are fully MP-aware (threaded properly). But I would be surprised to see a Dual Core G4 outperform a single core G5 on apps that are not threaded. I'd love to see some real world comparisons.
Remember just because it has 2 cores doesn't mean that it's twice as fast. It only means that there's the potential to do more at once if the software can take advantage of it through threading. Here's a great article that explains the problems/challenges software developers are going to face with multi-core CPUs.
Now I'd love to have a dual core CPU in my laptop and I'd love to program for it, but I image Apple would face some of the same challenges trying to get the dual core Freescale CPU into a laptop as they would in getting a G5 into a laptop, namely heat. A dual core G4 is going to be hotter and more power hungry than what they've got now. I'd love to see either the dual core G4 or a G5 in a laptop.
The quality of the pixels you see impacts how you use your computer. After years of experience, Apple engineers have discovered the ideal resolution to display both sharp text and graphics -- a pixel density of about 100 pixels per inch (ppi). Other vendors may offer a larger monitor, but with less resolution, so you end up with fewer pixels, or a smaller monitor with a high resolution that causes eyestrain and headaches. Apple's balanced 100 pixels per inch format is optimized for images, yet allows you to easily work with text in email, Safari and sophisticated type treatments in layouts.
So that would be the reason why they don't make higher resolution displays.
Another advantage that Time Warner's DVRs have over Tivo is the option of viewing/recording HDTV. Tivo's current plans for HDTV are to get something out by 2006! Now, you probably can't record very much HDTV content (20 hours is what they say) but at least they give you the option of having it.
We just got a projector to serve as part of our home theater and I'm not sure how long I'll be able to live with Tivo and standard television when I know that HDTV content is available.
At any rate, theft is not the answer, no matter what you think of the people owning the goods.
And no matter what the RIAA/MPAA think of the people downloading their products, they are not thieves and are not stealing anything. Nothing has been stolen. People are making unauthorized copies, but that is not stealing, it is copyright infringement.
In fact I believe a Judge chided some of the **AA's lawyers for referring to downloaders as thieves. I tried to look up the article, but I couldn't find it. Anyone else know where it is?
Of course this doesn't excuse their behavior, but we should at least understand what it is when we talk about it.
The heatsink for a G5 laptop could power your XBox and double as a grill. Rather than resting your hands below the keyboard you can grill up steak and eggs.
Your description sounds a lot like what OpenDoc used to be:
OpenDoc was initially released to run under Mac OS System 7.5 to provide a document-based, rather than application-based, computing experience. Documents were made of modular parts, which could contain different types of content, such as pictures, spreadsheet information, text or even Quicktime multimedia elements.
OpenDoc's primary distinction from other compound document architectures lay in the depth of its support for dynamic media. OpenDoc containers could include embedded live content, and could perform arbitrary real-time composition of the content. The architecture used a design pattern which insulated container from embedded content using intermediate objects, greatly enhancing interoperability and simplifying testing of part handlers.
OpenDoc really was quite cool. You could literally drag your web browser (CyberDog) into your word-processor in order to embed a live web page into the document you were creating. The embedded web page would also retain all of the functionality (clickable links, forward/backward navigation, bookmarks, history, etc.) that it would have if you were to be viewing it directly from the browser. OpenDoc, though it was a great technology, was killed by Steve Jobs shortly after his return to Apple when they were losing money. You can read a bit more about it here.
Wow I didn't know about that, I'll have to consider getting one for my Mac. It would make a great accessory to a Mini Mac that you wanted to turn into a Home Media Center. Thanks for the link.
Yes that's what they say on their website but reader reports from XLR8YourMac.com show that people have gotten this thing running on machines far less powerful than the Mini. There's a report from a Cube owner with an 800 MHz G4 who said that it works fine. There are also reports from an 800 MHz iMac and PowerBook G4 867 MHz owner.
So while Elgato might not give you support if you run it on a slower machine it sounds like it does work.
Follow the link in my original post to the Elgato EyeTV 500 product page. It's a Firewire HDTV tuner that now works with HDTV over the air as well as over Cable. I've also heard that most and possibly all HDTV tuners or cable boxes have a Firewire port out. If that is the case then you can just plug it into your Mac's Firewire port and view and record the HDTV content. You can't change the channels through your Mac though.
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Does it still need to connect to the phone lines these days?
Yes and no. The latest Tivo boxes can operate over ethernet or 802.11, but you still need to set the box up over a phone line (which really sucks). My wife and I got a Tivo for Christmas from my parents and had to set it up at their house because we have no landline. But once it's set up it works great using a wireless adapter.
There is still a downside though. Tivo series 2 boxes are supposed to have USB 2.0, but the Tivo software only has USB 1.1 drivers. So even if you connect the ethernet adapter to a 100 Mb network or if you put in an 802.11g adapter, Tivo2Go stuff only transfers at USB 1.1 speeds which is horribly slow when transferring multi-gigabyte TV shows.
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Well, what happens when you purchase iLife from Apple in California and have to pay the California Sales Tax, but then since you live in Wisconsin you have to pay an additional %5 on top of the tax you already paid?
That's the problem that I see with stuff like this. You're going to start getting double taxed - once for purchasing in one state and again for using it in the state you live in.
No more new taxes, no more increases in taxes. The government needs to make due with what it has (which is already an enormous amount of money).
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If anyone is interested, simdtech.org is probably the best resource you can find for AltiVec (or any other SIMD) programming. They have a number of tutorials and technical resources and the mailing list is the best there is. Motorola, Apple, and IBM engineers frequent the list so you can get help and information directly from the guys that created AltiVec as well as from those who program for it.
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Not necessarily. Just because the code will be running on PPC processors doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be seeing a lot of games for the Mac platform. The bigger problem is the libraries and operating systems the games will be running on.
Yes, it will be a good thing to have people optimizing code specifically for PPC processors. More people will likely be learning AltiVec and writing code for it. And the code will hopefully be optimized well for the PPC platform taking its strengths and weaknesses into account. But that doesn't make a Mac port easy or practical. Games for the NeXT XBox will be coded to Windows APIs (Win32, DirectX, etc.) and so they'll probably be much easier to port to Windows. They may not be optimized as well for x86 processors, but it'll be much easier to get the games running.
If anything there'll probably be more opportunities for people with PPC and AltiVec optimization experience (assuming they want to work in the sweat-shop environment the gaming industry provides).
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SIMD programming becomes as easy as this:He claims that the above code is 17.4x faster than Codewarrior MSL C++, 11.6x faster than gcc libstdc++ and 9.5x faster than Visual C++.
Macstl also provides a cross-platform syntax for using vector registers that is similar to using the native C intrinsics on each platform. So while not all of the native operations are available, his cross-platform "vec" API allows you to write cross-platform code without having to learn both the Altivec and MMX/SSE intrinsics (which is a good solution for someone who knows one platform but not the other).
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So, my question is: could an std::valarray specialization for processor-supported types serve as a basis for portable SIMD support in C++?
That's exactly what this is. If you read the part on his website about valarray then you'll see that it does extensive SIMD optimizations for valarray for both Altivec and MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3 platforms. He's even added "parallelized algorithms such as integer division, trigonometric functions and complex number arithmetic" which you'd have to code yourself in either assembly or using the C-based intrinsics if you wanted do the SIMD programming by hand.
So basically, this allows you to code using std::valarray using normal C++ and then plug this in under the hood to get a nice speed boost.
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A better resource for Altivec and SIMD in general is the SIMDtech.org website and Altivec mailing list. There are tutorials and technical manuals available and the email list is indispensable. While the mailing list is mostly geared towards Altivec optimizations and discussions all SIMD discussion is welcome, including MMX/SSE. There are Apple engineers that read and contribute to the list as well as Motorola/Freescale engineers. It's probably the single best resource available to Altivec programmers and you get to talk directly to the Wizards that created it.
I'm a relative newcomer to the list and it's been an invaluable resource as I've optimized with Altivec.
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I don't believe that Microsoft ever intended to push OS/2 even if apps couldn't run in protected mode. Microsoft was going to push Windows no matter how crappie or inferior it was to OS/2. Their flirtation with OS/2 (telling people that it was the future and that they should support it) only made other large developers of the time, namely Wordperfect, spend their time on creating OS/2 versions of their software instead of Windows versions.
When Microsoft put their full push into Windows they were able to put MS Word (along with their other apps) out ahead of everyone else and drive Wordperfect into obscurity. That's not to say that Wordperfect didn't expect this. I used to work with a former Wordperfect executive and they knew full well what Microsoft was up to but they thought that the combination of Wordperfect and IBM would be able to beat Microsoft and so they put pretty much everything into OS/2. By the time they realized that OS/2 wasn't going to catch on it was too late, and the rest is history.
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So will Yahoo! use this "service" to track what web pages you view and what you're interested in when you view them? A quick preview of their terms of service links to their privacy policy which states:
Yahoo! collects personal information when you register with Yahoo!, when you use Yahoo! products or services, when you visit Yahoo! pages or the pages of certain Yahoo! partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Yahoo! may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
So Yahoo! will be tracking what you view and what you search for when you view it.
Downloader beware.
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...movie/music/game video sampler UMD disc including multiple non-interactive game demos...
So for $250 you get a portable game system with game demos that you can't even play. It seems like you should at least bundle something that people can play with. What good is a game demo that you can't play?
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Following my own link and reading a bit more it seems that Apple has already addressed issues like Web Services and even Patent litigation against the licensor (Apple).
Regarding Services (Major Changes in Apple Public Source License 2.0):
1. Licensees will only be required to release source code of Modifications they "Externally Deploy" (new Section 1.4, and Sections 2.1, 2.2). "External Deployment" is defined to cover the external distribution of APSL'ed code or use of APSL'ed code to provide a service (including content delivery) to a third party through electronic communication with that party.
Regarding Patent Litigation:
5. The Termination clause relating to patent suits (Section 12.1(c)) has been narrowed such that the license will terminate only if a licensee _initiates_ an action for patent infringement against Apple. It will not terminate in cases where Apple first sues the licensee and they file a countersuit.
So #5 seems to cover litigious bastards such as the SCO Group, except only for patent litigation. It'd be interesting if at some point this was updated to include copyright infringement litigation as well. And #1 seems to cover Web Services. Maybe Mr. Moglen will reference the APSL in revising the GPL.
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The issue of Web services has to be considered, he said. Some in the community are calling for a strong copyleft license with code that is used and changed to be returned to all. Others want the opposite.
"I do not believe that we will be reach consensus on this front, so I believe the license will have to accommodate options as to the question of Web services, but this must be squared with the ideological pursuit of freedom," he said.
I thought that this was interesting. So if a change like this were made it would make the GPL similar to the initial versions of Apple's Public Source License. In the first versions of that license you were required to submit any source code changes you made even if you didn't redistribute the software and only used it internally. My understanding is that if you're a Web Services company and you use modified GPL software, you don't need to contribute back the modifications you've made as long as you don't redistribute your modified software to anyone.
I doubt that the GPL will ever adopt this requirement, but it's interesting that some in the community want this.
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Actually the Cube has proven to be pretty good at cooling judging by the number of processor, video and hard drive/CD/DVD upgrades for it.
You can get up to a 1.7 GHz G4 processor upgrade and there was even a Dual 800 MHz G4 upgrade offered at one point. Some people have been able to put in nVidia GeForce 3 and ATI Radeon 8500, 9000 Pro and 9200 graphics cards in these things. Not to mention you can put a full-size hard drive into it.
The Cube will probably end up being a lot more upgradable than the Mini, but the Mini sure has a better price.
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The headline seems a bit misleading to me since there's only a few quotes from Linus in there:
"Software patents are clearly a problem, and I think it's a problem that the open source community has been pretty aware of for the last five years," said Torvalds. "The good news is that a lot of proprietary vendors are starting to see it as a problem as well."
The last one is pretty good though:
Torvalds was reluctant to make predictions though. "I'm the anti-visionary. I distrust people with visions," he said. "You don't see what's right in front of your face and you don't see the technical issues that face everyday users."
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I forgot to add that the Mac platform is probably the best place to have a dual core CPU or even a dual CPU machine. Mac OS X already has excellent dual CPU support and already balances the workload very well among available CPUs. And since Apple has been shipping Dual CPU machines for years application developers have already done a lot to take advantage of Dual CPUs. As a result we, the users, benefit.
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Since the dual core freescale supposedly outperforms a G5 at same clock speed, I really would have liked to see the freescale in the new specs.
Not to flame, but I'm interested in where you're getting your information from (benchmarks, reviews, etc). I wouldn't be surprised at all to see a Dual Core G4 outperform a single core/CPU G5 when it comes to apps that are fully MP-aware (threaded properly). But I would be surprised to see a Dual Core G4 outperform a single core G5 on apps that are not threaded. I'd love to see some real world comparisons.
Remember just because it has 2 cores doesn't mean that it's twice as fast. It only means that there's the potential to do more at once if the software can take advantage of it through threading. Here's a great article that explains the problems/challenges software developers are going to face with multi-core CPUs.
Now I'd love to have a dual core CPU in my laptop and I'd love to program for it, but I image Apple would face some of the same challenges trying to get the dual core Freescale CPU into a laptop as they would in getting a G5 into a laptop, namely heat. A dual core G4 is going to be hotter and more power hungry than what they've got now. I'd love to see either the dual core G4 or a G5 in a laptop.
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An earlier post proved the following link:
Best Resolution for Images and Words
The quality of the pixels you see impacts how you use your computer. After years of experience, Apple engineers have discovered the ideal resolution to display both sharp text and graphics -- a pixel density of about 100 pixels per inch (ppi). Other vendors may offer a larger monitor, but with less resolution, so you end up with fewer pixels, or a smaller monitor with a high resolution that causes eyestrain and headaches. Apple's balanced 100 pixels per inch format is optimized for images, yet allows you to easily work with text in email, Safari and sophisticated type treatments in layouts.
So that would be the reason why they don't make higher resolution displays.
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Another advantage that Time Warner's DVRs have over Tivo is the option of viewing/recording HDTV. Tivo's current plans for HDTV are to get something out by 2006! Now, you probably can't record very much HDTV content (20 hours is what they say) but at least they give you the option of having it.
We just got a projector to serve as part of our home theater and I'm not sure how long I'll be able to live with Tivo and standard television when I know that HDTV content is available.
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At any rate, theft is not the answer, no matter what you think of the people owning the goods.
And no matter what the RIAA/MPAA think of the people downloading their products, they are not thieves and are not stealing anything. Nothing has been stolen. People are making unauthorized copies, but that is not stealing, it is copyright infringement.
In fact I believe a Judge chided some of the **AA's lawyers for referring to downloaders as thieves. I tried to look up the article, but I couldn't find it. Anyone else know where it is?
Of course this doesn't excuse their behavior, but we should at least understand what it is when we talk about it.
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USB powered??? Drink warmer???
The heatsink for a G5 laptop could power your XBox and double as a grill. Rather than resting your hands below the keyboard you can grill up steak and eggs.
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OpenDoc really was quite cool. You could literally drag your web browser (CyberDog) into your word-processor in order to embed a live web page into the document you were creating. The embedded web page would also retain all of the functionality (clickable links, forward/backward navigation, bookmarks, history, etc.) that it would have if you were to be viewing it directly from the browser. OpenDoc, though it was a great technology, was killed by Steve Jobs shortly after his return to Apple when they were losing money. You can read a bit more about it here.
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Wow I didn't know about that, I'll have to consider getting one for my Mac. It would make a great accessory to a Mini Mac that you wanted to turn into a Home Media Center. Thanks for the link.
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Yes that's what they say on their website but reader reports from XLR8YourMac.com show that people have gotten this thing running on machines far less powerful than the Mini. There's a report from a Cube owner with an 800 MHz G4 who said that it works fine. There are also reports from an 800 MHz iMac and PowerBook G4 867 MHz owner.
So while Elgato might not give you support if you run it on a slower machine it sounds like it does work.
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Well, if you get the Elgato EyeTV 500 HDTV recorder then it comes with an infrared remote.
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Follow the link in my original post to the Elgato EyeTV 500 product page. It's a Firewire HDTV tuner that now works with HDTV over the air as well as over Cable. I've also heard that most and possibly all HDTV tuners or cable boxes have a Firewire port out. If that is the case then you can just plug it into your Mac's Firewire port and view and record the HDTV content. You can't change the channels through your Mac though.
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