I dunno where Intel is going with this, but I don't think that specialized technology is needed for it. MythTV or otherofferings (for all sorts of platforms) are all that's really required.
Well, nVidia is now shipping cards (I think 6600GT and/or 6800) with component outputs, so if you have a lot of cash laying around, you can get those cards and have component output from Myth to your TV through the Geforce. That has the added bonus of being able to use MythGame for like Doom 3 and UT2k4 and whatnot. Sounds like your TV is on the fancy side, so with a wireless keyboard and mouse that might be a cool setup.
My current setup is a Geforce2 doing SVideo or RCA output depending on what TV I'm using. Works pretty well, but obviously not at component video quality levels.
If you decide to go the Geforce 6 route, do some research first. nVidia has excellent drivers, but I've run into issues with TV output before (on Geforce4 cards), so make sure those component outputs work well in Linux and such.
How much would a new telescope cost? I mean, $1 billion is a lot for repair costs -- if a new one costs somewhere around there, why not just replace hubble altogether?
Its approaching 4:1 now. Its absolutely abysmal. This place is the earthly implementation of hell, except for on a limited budget so that they couldn't even afford to put it in a decent location.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Pirates are dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Pirates community when IDC confirmed that Pirates' market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all outlaws. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Pirates have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Pirates are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by faling dead last in the recent Literature Network coolness test.
You don't need to be Hattori Hanzo to predict Pirates' future. The hand writing is on the wall: Pirates face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Pirates because Pirates are dying. Things are looking very bad for Pirates. As many of us are already aware, Pirates continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Sea Pirates are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Sea Pirates Jordan Hubbard and Long John Silver only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Sea Pirates are dying.
All major surveys show that Pirates have steadily declined in market share. Pirates are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If Pirates are to survive at all they will be among outlaw dilettante dabblers. Pirates continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Pirates are dead.
Do you know how TV ratings work? They don't have magical transmitters in everybody's televisions that beam info on what you're watching back to the station. A company (most of the time Nielsen Media Research) signs up 5,000 (or, as some sources say, 25,000) households in the US to install devices (like specialized set-top boxes) that keep track of what the users watch and then dial home at night and report it to Nielsen. From that data, it extrapolates viewership numbers and ratings for the entire United States using statistical sampling.
What I'm trying to say is that when I download Stargate or Battlestar Galactica off the net, the viewership number that's reported to networks and advertisers doesn't drop, since I'm not one of Nielsen's informers. And I have a feeling that people who are Nielsen informers feel more loyalty to watch the shows, and wouldn't download them off the net as much. Now, that last part is just a random guess, but regardless of whether its accurate or not, the fact remains that me, the grandparent poster, or you (most likely) downloading a show has absolutely 0 effect on its ratings. So, the show will be on TV, will get released on DVD, and there will be stuff to watch.
Ok dude, what devices DO clearly state they support Linux? That was a rhetorical question, by the way. I know some devices exist that list Linux as a supported OS (for example, a lot of nVidia cards have Linux listed on the box), but just because something doesn't list Linux doesn't mean it doesn't work with Linux.
For example, my digital camera has that same list of supported OSes, but guess what? I can use it in Linux. Same with my USB stick, my mouse, my keyboard, the wireless card, and the DVD burner. Hell, I'm sure my mouse pad didn't even list Linux, and it seems to work just fine!
Interestingly enough, every single time I hear (or say) the joke, its 78.something, which leads me to believe that the statistic isn't fabricated (or made up on the spot or whatever variation of the joke you use), but actually an accurate number which was quoted and put into a joke.
Of course, the above post is completely fabricated.
GPS isn't that accurate. I think its accurate to within a meter for military applications, and less so for civilian. Are you saying that gravitational force from the moon moves land by over a meter? (I'm genuinely curious)
Well, I'd imagine that there would be a problem of then having to pay royalties for both formats if you want to release a something like that. Plus, if the competition gets really intense, Toshiba or Sony might just disallow anyone using their format to release such double-sided, double-format disks.
Well, there's QEmu, and Bochs, which can run Windows in Linux and so on. However, they are full CPU emulators, and are as such much much slower than VMWare. If all you're using VMWare for is like Outlook in Windows (and some organizations I know do exactly that), then these solutions might suffice, but for anything else VMWare wins hands-down.
When you install Gentoo, do you learn anything? No, you just copy-paste command after command from the install howto until you're done. With other distros, you're forced to use the graphical installers which some say hide too much of the system from you. But they really don't, compared with the Gentoo install which just involves copying stuff from a web document. Hopefully other distros will continue to have decent installers and don't end up being boring hours-long sessions of copying text back and forth.
Uh, that's nowhere near what the grandparent has. All it does is allow through already established packets and things related to them. But that won't open ports for things running under the a torrent user, which is what the grandparent's setup sounds like it does (I might be wrong about that, though).
Ok, lets imagine, just for fun, that the US isn't using any of its own oil. Where would we put it all? Flush it down the toilets? 8.84 million barrels per day is quite a bit of oil to flush, or to store anywhere.
Now, if we look around the DOE's site a bit more, we find this, and it looks like the US is using 20 million barrels per day, and importing 11.1. Drawing upon our grade school math skills, we deduce that since the US is using up 20 million barrels and importing 11.1, that there's 8.9 million barrels that the US is using but not importing. Now, that sounds awfully like the 8.84 million that the US is producing. Looks like its using them, too! Or wait, maybe its getting those 8.9 million barrels from stored oil?
Well, lets check that out. Is the US using stored oil on a daily basis? Our search leads us to this page, where we scroll down to the section labeled "Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)" and read that the US indeed does have some 653 million barrels stored, but is not using them nor will be using them unless there is an energy emergency.
So, to recap: the US is using 20 million barrels per day, importing 11.1 million, and not using any that are in storage. So, its using roughly 8.9 million barrels that it has to produce by itself, which, accounting for rounding weirdness, ends up matching pretty well with the given 8.84 million barrels per day production rate.
So no, I don't "See!" that the US is sitting on its oil. In fact, I see that the US is using its own oil, and using it for over 40% of its energy needs. In fact, if you read the section named "Imports/Exports" on the page previously linked, you'll see that the US uses more of its own oil than any other country's (but not all others put together, obviously).
WTF are you talking about? Ever heard of Rockefeller? The man got his oil mostly from the US (not sure about his later years, though. I think he eventually expanded outside of the US). In fact, if you look here, the US is the second-largest producer of oil, right behind Saudi Arabia. The difference is that we use up our oil and thus don't appear on the exporting charts.
So no, the US isn't sitting on some magical unused pool of oil. Its using it quite rapidly.
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I dunno where Intel is going with this, but I don't think that specialized technology is needed for it. MythTV or other offerings (for all sorts of platforms) are all that's really required.
Well, nVidia is now shipping cards (I think 6600GT and/or 6800) with component outputs, so if you have a lot of cash laying around, you can get those cards and have component output from Myth to your TV through the Geforce. That has the added bonus of being able to use MythGame for like Doom 3 and UT2k4 and whatnot. Sounds like your TV is on the fancy side, so with a wireless keyboard and mouse that might be a cool setup.
My current setup is a Geforce2 doing SVideo or RCA output depending on what TV I'm using. Works pretty well, but obviously not at component video quality levels.
If you decide to go the Geforce 6 route, do some research first. nVidia has excellent drivers, but I've run into issues with TV output before (on Geforce4 cards), so make sure those component outputs work well in Linux and such.
Would that by any chance be an actual screenshot? That'd be so awesome.
How much would a new telescope cost? I mean, $1 billion is a lot for repair costs -- if a new one costs somewhere around there, why not just replace hubble altogether?
Its approaching 4:1 now. Its absolutely abysmal. This place is the earthly implementation of hell, except for on a limited budget so that they couldn't even afford to put it in a decent location.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Pirates are dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Pirates community when IDC confirmed that Pirates' market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all outlaws. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Pirates have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Pirates are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by faling dead last in the recent Literature Network coolness test.
You don't need to be Hattori Hanzo to predict Pirates' future. The hand writing is on the wall: Pirates face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Pirates because Pirates are dying. Things are looking very bad for Pirates. As many of us are already aware, Pirates continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Sea Pirates are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Sea Pirates Jordan Hubbard and Long John Silver only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Sea Pirates are dying.
All major surveys show that Pirates have steadily declined in market share. Pirates are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If Pirates are to survive at all they will be among outlaw dilettante dabblers. Pirates continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Pirates are dead.
Fact: Pirates are dying.
Forgot to include sources. HowStuffWorks' blurb on ratings is here and Nielsen's site is here.
Do you know how TV ratings work? They don't have magical transmitters in everybody's televisions that beam info on what you're watching back to the station. A company (most of the time Nielsen Media Research) signs up 5,000 (or, as some sources say, 25,000) households in the US to install devices (like specialized set-top boxes) that keep track of what the users watch and then dial home at night and report it to Nielsen. From that data, it extrapolates viewership numbers and ratings for the entire United States using statistical sampling.
What I'm trying to say is that when I download Stargate or Battlestar Galactica off the net, the viewership number that's reported to networks and advertisers doesn't drop, since I'm not one of Nielsen's informers. And I have a feeling that people who are Nielsen informers feel more loyalty to watch the shows, and wouldn't download them off the net as much. Now, that last part is just a random guess, but regardless of whether its accurate or not, the fact remains that me, the grandparent poster, or you (most likely) downloading a show has absolutely 0 effect on its ratings. So, the show will be on TV, will get released on DVD, and there will be stuff to watch.
Hey, what's that toolbar you have with Disable, CSS, and Forms on it? That looks like a pretty cool thing.
Nah.. Set up a blog and blog about reading slashdot.
Then try Intellitoast!
Ok dude, what devices DO clearly state they support Linux? That was a rhetorical question, by the way. I know some devices exist that list Linux as a supported OS (for example, a lot of nVidia cards have Linux listed on the box), but just because something doesn't list Linux doesn't mean it doesn't work with Linux.
For example, my digital camera has that same list of supported OSes, but guess what? I can use it in Linux. Same with my USB stick, my mouse, my keyboard, the wireless card, and the DVD burner. Hell, I'm sure my mouse pad didn't even list Linux, and it seems to work just fine!
Interestingly enough, every single time I hear (or say) the joke, its 78.something, which leads me to believe that the statistic isn't fabricated (or made up on the spot or whatever variation of the joke you use), but actually an accurate number which was quoted and put into a joke.
Of course, the above post is completely fabricated.
GPS isn't that accurate. I think its accurate to within a meter for military applications, and less so for civilian. Are you saying that gravitational force from the moon moves land by over a meter? (I'm genuinely curious)
They can't, but the assassins can...
Other than the arguments presented on this thread already, how about:
Palm (now PalmOne/PalmSource) - first widespread PDA producer
Besides the fact that Apple made a PDA waay before Palm, Microsoft just beat Palm out anyways.
Slashdot recently had a story on Audion, which sounds like it might fit your needs. Its freely available from Panic here.
As a disclaimer, I don't use OSX, so I dunno how good this is, but it seems to be more robust than iTunes with some nice features.
Bombing for peace is like screwing for virginity
If you know a better way to make more virgins, I'd like to hear it.
Well, I'd imagine that there would be a problem of then having to pay royalties for both formats if you want to release a something like that. Plus, if the competition gets really intense, Toshiba or Sony might just disallow anyone using their format to release such double-sided, double-format disks.
Its not expanded, its re-re-remastered!
Well, there's QEmu, and Bochs, which can run Windows in Linux and so on. However, they are full CPU emulators, and are as such much much slower than VMWare. If all you're using VMWare for is like Outlook in Windows (and some organizations I know do exactly that), then these solutions might suffice, but for anything else VMWare wins hands-down.
When you install Gentoo, do you learn anything? No, you just copy-paste command after command from the install howto until you're done. With other distros, you're forced to use the graphical installers which some say hide too much of the system from you. But they really don't, compared with the Gentoo install which just involves copying stuff from a web document. Hopefully other distros will continue to have decent installers and don't end up being boring hours-long sessions of copying text back and forth.
Uh, that's nowhere near what the grandparent has. All it does is allow through already established packets and things related to them. But that won't open ports for things running under the a torrent user, which is what the grandparent's setup sounds like it does (I might be wrong about that, though).
Ok, lets imagine, just for fun, that the US isn't using any of its own oil. Where would we put it all? Flush it down the toilets? 8.84 million barrels per day is quite a bit of oil to flush, or to store anywhere.
Now, if we look around the DOE's site a bit more, we find this, and it looks like the US is using 20 million barrels per day, and importing 11.1. Drawing upon our grade school math skills, we deduce that since the US is using up 20 million barrels and importing 11.1, that there's 8.9 million barrels that the US is using but not importing. Now, that sounds awfully like the 8.84 million that the US is producing. Looks like its using them, too! Or wait, maybe its getting those 8.9 million barrels from stored oil?
Well, lets check that out. Is the US using stored oil on a daily basis? Our search leads us to this page, where we scroll down to the section labeled "Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)" and read that the US indeed does have some 653 million barrels stored, but is not using them nor will be using them unless there is an energy emergency.
So, to recap: the US is using 20 million barrels per day, importing 11.1 million, and not using any that are in storage. So, its using roughly 8.9 million barrels that it has to produce by itself, which, accounting for rounding weirdness, ends up matching pretty well with the given 8.84 million barrels per day production rate.
So no, I don't "See!" that the US is sitting on its oil. In fact, I see that the US is using its own oil, and using it for over 40% of its energy needs. In fact, if you read the section named "Imports/Exports" on the page previously linked, you'll see that the US uses more of its own oil than any other country's (but not all others put together, obviously).
WTF are you talking about? Ever heard of Rockefeller? The man got his oil mostly from the US (not sure about his later years, though. I think he eventually expanded outside of the US). In fact, if you look here, the US is the second-largest producer of oil, right behind Saudi Arabia. The difference is that we use up our oil and thus don't appear on the exporting charts.
So no, the US isn't sitting on some magical unused pool of oil. Its using it quite rapidly.