I was down for around 36 hours myself. After getting access again and going to their setup page mentioned in an e-mail, I saw that they claim maximum download as 1.5mbps, and upload at 128kbps. So I'm guessing what your seeing may be because of that. That really sucks, I've had downloads in the 400K range also.
First, how is 24/96 not more range? DVD-Audio can have 24/96 for all channels, with 24/192 for stereo. Second, if its done well, its wonderful. All the discs I have contain both multi-channel and stereo mixes, or the multi-channel mix can be downconverted to stereo for those that prefer it. Multi-channel can be overused just as stereo can be. Its a new medium for music, and will take time for people to use wisely, but calling it gimmicky crap when you don't even know the details about it is unfair.
SACD was also meant to be multi-channel all along. Its just that the first players were stereo units only. I can't say for certain on the discs, but I believe they've mostly been 5.1 and were being downconverted by the players.
Keep in mind that X10.com and X10 components are not one in the same. Many manufacturers make X10 products now. So you don't have to boycott all X10 components, just boycott X10.com.
Check their web site, I recently received notice of a sale on TiVos, but I don't know if its still available. I'd recommend a 20 or 30 hour unit. Get the 20 if you definitely plan to hack it, whereas the 30 I find to be quite capable for my needs, and I only occasionally wish for a bit more space. I wouldn't bother with the 60 because it would just be a lot cheaper to buy a smaller one and hack it, and the 60 may have two drives which means you don't gain as much when hacking because you'd end up with the equivalent of a 30 hour hacked unit with a lot of extra cost.
The Marantz RC-2000 Mk. 2 comes close to this. Its setup to support 10 different devices. Each device has the whole array of standard buttons, keypad, cursors, play controls, channel and volume, which can be operated by feel. In addition to that there is an LCD with 8 buttons next to it. Each device gets four pages of buttons, and the LCD is used for labeling them. In all you get 32 hard buttons, and 32 soft buttons for each device. Thus you can do the major controls by feel, and customize the LCD for less used options. I've yet to find a remote that had features I couldn't put into it.
The downside is the remote costs about $200 (although I haven't priced them for some time), its a bit bulky and not that great for one handed operation.
I occasionally get a brief pause, and I mean brief, and that's the only glitch. But that could be the satelite or something else. Anyways, my point is it sounds like your's has issues. If its under warranty, get it fixed. Mine got hit by lightning after I had it for 2.5 months, and they replaced the whole thing for free. That goes against their policy, but they did it anyways. Now that's service.
Remote Central has reviews, forums, and for those that can use them all sorts of custom files. Its the best source for any information relating to remotes.
Hindsight is always 20/20. Does anybody have any evidence that the CIA knew bin Laden would turn against us once he no longer had the Soviets for an enemy? Hell, now that Khadaffi is sucking up to us, that shows that anyone can change.
I got to thinking that they don't like the song "America" because it has to do with others coming to America. You look at some of these choices, and they seem to be saying anyone different is bad. Apparently since some Muslims did this, they assume all Muslims are terrorists, or at least want to enforce that stereotype and that's why they are cutting "Walk Like an Egyptian". This is the stupidest reaction I've seen so far to the attacks, well maybe not as bad as Falwell and Robertson, but its damn close.
Still, he didn't break an American law while he was in America. They did not arrest him for speaking about the software, they arrested him for writing the software, which he did in Russia, not in America. A lot of other analogies are already in this thread relating to this, and they are all real good. It doesn't make sense that we can arrest tourists who broke our laws in their country. If that were legal, then most Americans shouldn't travel abroad, especially to the Middle East.
I swear that this past Friday the first part of the show involved speaking with a few people involved in this case and Dr. Felten's. In fact, they even spoke of their meeting with the Attorney General's office. I think it was only covered for fifteen minutes or so, but it was on there.
I agree whole-heartedly on these books. I read Writing Solid Code shortly after I entered the real world. It made a huge difference in the way I code. Code Complete is also an excellent resource. These guys may be from the Great Satan, but they know their stuff.
Hmm, interesting theory, but considering this is not a new development, I find it highly unlikely. Borland has stated for some time that they would be releasing this version, in fact I believe it was known before the initial release of Kylix. So I imagine that if they are losing money on Kylix (whereas their financials show they are making money in general) its really too soon to give up. After all, anytime you spend a good amount of time developing a new product, it needs to be on sale for more than a few months before you realize a profit.
Sorry, My Bad, I meant to put in breaks, not bolds. I'll get it straight next time.
Still, you equate copyrights with tyranny. I'm ok with calling the DMCA tyrannical, but not copyrights in general. Hell, that's part of good old capitalism, something I'm in support of.
Look, I like free software, but lets face it, its a pain in the butt sometimes to find decent free software. For the most part, if you purchase some software, there is someone to stand behind it and provide adequate support. Granted I may have better experiences with that because my company actually stands behind their product. And heck, considering we sell support contracts to people without forcing upgrades on them, we could possibly get by with giving away our software. But I don't like that too much because the more profit we make, the more money I take home. I don't think that makes me bad, just normal.
Its going to be a long, long time before the major corporations move to free software, because they need someone to stand behind it. And you don't get that with free software very much. Sure you can pay Redhat for tech support, but what if you add someone else's free software to that? You'll have to find someone else to support it.
In short, free software is not the end all be all of software, and I doubt it ever will be. And furthermore, I hope it doesn't take over. Because if it does, that means a lot of programmers are going to be out of work. The fact is companies employ a lot of programmers making non-free software. If they have to switch over to charging only for support, then those fees are either going to be huge (eliminating the advantage of free software) so they can also cover the programmers salaries, or cut the programmers. And since it would appear that a number of people that write free code are doing it in their free time, if they all the sudden can't get jobs because no one wants to pay for software, I'll bet they give up that free development since it ended their livelihood.
In a way, the non-free software supports the free software. By employing the programmers, they can afford to spend their free time developing free code. But if no one can get paid for developing code, fewer people are going to enter this market, and we'll end up with fewer developers.
I agree with you completely. I need to pay the rent, if the Free software people have their way, how will I? If anybody can just copy my employer's software, who is going to pay for it? And if they don't pay for it, how can my employer stay in business? Sorry if I'm a greedy bastard, but I need my paycheck.
Saying that we can't copyright anything fucks up the entire economy. We'll lose the artists, authors, composers and song writers, and anybody else who produces something that can be easily duplicated.
Just because there's no cost in duplicating something, doesn't mean there was no cost in creating it in the first place. People need to be and should be compensated for their work unless they voluntarily give it away.
Your analogy is incorrect. Bitrate is very significant in this case. If one was done at 64, one at 256 and another using variable bit rate, the test would hardly be fair. Also, what if one used a higher rate than others were even capable of?
In a wine tasting you expect that the wine is being served in the same manner, or in a manner that is appropriate for that wine, and that it also has been stored previously. If they weren't the tasters would most likely be outraged.
In all testing you have to have whatever is being compared done so equally.
There's always the NASA Channel that shows every launch. Before I got Dish I found out that my local cable service broadcast NASA on a public access channel from time to time. Also I recall I seeing coverage on Discovery Science, and I wouldn't be surprised if Discovery Wings covers them also. And in the not to distant past I've seen coverage on CNN and CNN Headline News. So there's plenty of TV coverage if you just make an effort to look for it.
I agree that Kodak makes some awful software, so I wonder whose fault this really is. I've got a DC-265 and under Win98 it was a pain to use, however under Win2k (which last I checked Kodak doesn't support for my camera) its a joy. I plug it in, go into imaging, acquire from the camera and save them where I want. Its much quicker than Kodak's software.
However, if MS is doing this to all cameras, then I see a real problem there. I'd prefer to have some choice in what software I use, but I definitely don't want to be coerced into using MS software because nothing else can be made to work as well.
Micrografx has a division that sells a a vector drawing app called Illustrator2. I believe in the past it was just Illustrator. More info is available here.
This division was once called InterCAP and was previously a part of InterGraph, and I believe they've been selling this product for many years. I doubt its older than Adobe's, but why is it ok for them to do it but not killustrator?
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I was down for around 36 hours myself. After getting access again and going to their setup page mentioned in an e-mail, I saw that they claim maximum download as 1.5mbps, and upload at 128kbps. So I'm guessing what your seeing may be because of that. That really sucks, I've had downloads in the 400K range also.
First, how is 24/96 not more range? DVD-Audio can have 24/96 for all channels, with 24/192 for stereo. Second, if its done well, its wonderful. All the discs I have contain both multi-channel and stereo mixes, or the multi-channel mix can be downconverted to stereo for those that prefer it. Multi-channel can be overused just as stereo can be. Its a new medium for music, and will take time for people to use wisely, but calling it gimmicky crap when you don't even know the details about it is unfair.
SACD was also meant to be multi-channel all along. Its just that the first players were stereo units only. I can't say for certain on the discs, but I believe they've mostly been 5.1 and were being downconverted by the players.
Witches weigh as much as a duck because they're both made out of wood. Everybody knows that.
Keep in mind that X10.com and X10 components are not one in the same. Many manufacturers make X10 products now. So you don't have to boycott all X10 components, just boycott X10.com.
Check their web site, I recently received notice of a sale on TiVos, but I don't know if its still available. I'd recommend a 20 or 30 hour unit. Get the 20 if you definitely plan to hack it, whereas the 30 I find to be quite capable for my needs, and I only occasionally wish for a bit more space. I wouldn't bother with the 60 because it would just be a lot cheaper to buy a smaller one and hack it, and the 60 may have two drives which means you don't gain as much when hacking because you'd end up with the equivalent of a 30 hour hacked unit with a lot of extra cost.
The Marantz RC-2000 Mk. 2 comes close to this. Its setup to support 10 different devices. Each device has the whole array of standard buttons, keypad, cursors, play controls, channel and volume, which can be operated by feel. In addition to that there is an LCD with 8 buttons next to it. Each device gets four pages of buttons, and the LCD is used for labeling them. In all you get 32 hard buttons, and 32 soft buttons for each device. Thus you can do the major controls by feel, and customize the LCD for less used options. I've yet to find a remote that had features I couldn't put into it.
The downside is the remote costs about $200 (although I haven't priced them for some time), its a bit bulky and not that great for one handed operation.
I occasionally get a brief pause, and I mean brief, and that's the only glitch. But that could be the satelite or something else. Anyways, my point is it sounds like your's has issues. If its under warranty, get it fixed. Mine got hit by lightning after I had it for 2.5 months, and they replaced the whole thing for free. That goes against their policy, but they did it anyways. Now that's service.
Remote Central has reviews, forums, and for those that can use them all sorts of custom files. Its the best source for any information relating to remotes.
Hindsight is always 20/20. Does anybody have any evidence that the CIA knew bin Laden would turn against us once he no longer had the Soviets for an enemy? Hell, now that Khadaffi is sucking up to us, that shows that anyone can change.
I got to thinking that they don't like the song "America" because it has to do with others coming to America. You look at some of these choices, and they seem to be saying anyone different is bad. Apparently since some Muslims did this, they assume all Muslims are terrorists, or at least want to enforce that stereotype and that's why they are cutting "Walk Like an Egyptian". This is the stupidest reaction I've seen so far to the attacks, well maybe not as bad as Falwell and Robertson, but its damn close.
That was Hitler's attempt at a counter attack, not the joke the British used against the Germans.
Still, he didn't break an American law while he was in America. They did not arrest him for speaking about the software, they arrested him for writing the software, which he did in Russia, not in America. A lot of other analogies are already in this thread relating to this, and they are all real good. It doesn't make sense that we can arrest tourists who broke our laws in their country. If that were legal, then most Americans shouldn't travel abroad, especially to the Middle East.
I swear that this past Friday the first part of the show involved speaking with a few people involved in this case and Dr. Felten's. In fact, they even spoke of their meeting with the Attorney General's office. I think it was only covered for fifteen minutes or so, but it was on there.
I agree whole-heartedly on these books. I read Writing Solid Code shortly after I entered the real world. It made a huge difference in the way I code. Code Complete is also an excellent resource. These guys may be from the Great Satan, but they know their stuff.
Hmm, interesting theory, but considering this is not a new development, I find it highly unlikely. Borland has stated for some time that they would be releasing this version, in fact I believe it was known before the initial release of Kylix. So I imagine that if they are losing money on Kylix (whereas their financials show they are making money in general) its really too soon to give up. After all, anytime you spend a good amount of time developing a new product, it needs to be on sale for more than a few months before you realize a profit.
Still, you equate copyrights with tyranny. I'm ok with calling the DMCA tyrannical, but not copyrights in general. Hell, that's part of good old capitalism, something I'm in support of.
Look, I like free software, but lets face it, its a pain in the butt sometimes to find decent free software. For the most part, if you purchase some software, there is someone to stand behind it and provide adequate support. Granted I may have better experiences with that because my company actually stands behind their product. And heck, considering we sell support contracts to people without forcing upgrades on them, we could possibly get by with giving away our software. But I don't like that too much because the more profit we make, the more money I take home. I don't think that makes me bad, just normal.
Its going to be a long, long time before the major corporations move to free software, because they need someone to stand behind it. And you don't get that with free software very much. Sure you can pay Redhat for tech support, but what if you add someone else's free software to that? You'll have to find someone else to support it.
In short, free software is not the end all be all of software, and I doubt it ever will be. And furthermore, I hope it doesn't take over. Because if it does, that means a lot of programmers are going to be out of work. The fact is companies employ a lot of programmers making non-free software. If they have to switch over to charging only for support, then those fees are either going to be huge (eliminating the advantage of free software) so they can also cover the programmers salaries, or cut the programmers. And since it would appear that a number of people that write free code are doing it in their free time, if they all the sudden can't get jobs because no one wants to pay for software, I'll bet they give up that free development since it ended their livelihood.
In a way, the non-free software supports the free software. By employing the programmers, they can afford to spend their free time developing free code. But if no one can get paid for developing code, fewer people are going to enter this market, and we'll end up with fewer developers.
I agree with you completely. I need to pay the rent, if the Free software people have their way, how will I? If anybody can just copy my employer's software, who is going to pay for it? And if they don't pay for it, how can my employer stay in business? Sorry if I'm a greedy bastard, but I need my paycheck. Saying that we can't copyright anything fucks up the entire economy. We'll lose the artists, authors, composers and song writers, and anybody else who produces something that can be easily duplicated. Just because there's no cost in duplicating something, doesn't mean there was no cost in creating it in the first place. People need to be and should be compensated for their work unless they voluntarily give it away.
Your analogy is incorrect. Bitrate is very significant in this case. If one was done at 64, one at 256 and another using variable bit rate, the test would hardly be fair. Also, what if one used a higher rate than others were even capable of? In a wine tasting you expect that the wine is being served in the same manner, or in a manner that is appropriate for that wine, and that it also has been stored previously. If they weren't the tasters would most likely be outraged. In all testing you have to have whatever is being compared done so equally.
There's always the NASA Channel that shows every launch. Before I got Dish I found out that my local cable service broadcast NASA on a public access channel from time to time. Also I recall I seeing coverage on Discovery Science, and I wouldn't be surprised if Discovery Wings covers them also. And in the not to distant past I've seen coverage on CNN and CNN Headline News. So there's plenty of TV coverage if you just make an effort to look for it.
I agree that Kodak makes some awful software, so I wonder whose fault this really is. I've got a DC-265 and under Win98 it was a pain to use, however under Win2k (which last I checked Kodak doesn't support for my camera) its a joy. I plug it in, go into imaging, acquire from the camera and save them where I want. Its much quicker than Kodak's software. However, if MS is doing this to all cameras, then I see a real problem there. I'd prefer to have some choice in what software I use, but I definitely don't want to be coerced into using MS software because nothing else can be made to work as well.
Micrografx has a division that sells a a vector drawing app called Illustrator2. I believe in the past it was just Illustrator. More info is available here. This division was once called InterCAP and was previously a part of InterGraph, and I believe they've been selling this product for many years. I doubt its older than Adobe's, but why is it ok for them to do it but not killustrator?