They should have known that the only object with the thrust capable of such a feat is the Annihilatrix. Which was absolutely NOT made to push the Earth into the Sun.
Honestly, I focused on the TV part of MythTV because that's the part I use. I haven't used the Music plugin for quite some time, and I don't use MythVideo too much either. MythMusic wasn't very good when I last used it, I hope this new UI library will allow themers to make some better user interfaces for Mythmusic.
We just got one at work, you can click with your thumb and drag with your pointer it works just like it did with a button. You can also click and drag with just your pointer but you can't move it as far. I wasn't sure how I would like these but I can see that if I had one, after getting used to the clickpad, I would get very frustrated with using a laptop with normal buttons.
What's that? It doesn't have a headphone jack, it can't play movies, it also cannot tether and is locked in to a carrier? Wow.. sounds like a real iPhone killer to me.
What's that?
No replaceable battery?
I'll go back and forth about this one, without a replaceable battery the devices can be smaller which makes a nicer looking product, but I could see how you might like to have a second battery for long trips. Personally I've never had a problem with it on either of my iPods or my iPhone.
Proprietary charging/data connector?
Which has tons of 3rd party support and has extra pins for extra functionality.
Restrictive "mono" bluetooth support?
From what I've heard stereo bluetooth is low bandwidth and low quality, but I've never listened to it so I wouldn't know.
Can't use non-Apple headsets?
I know you can use non-Apple bluetooth headsets with the iPhone, do you mean wired?
Doesn't sync to Linux?
Haven't tried this, I'm sure someone with figure it out.
Have to jailbreak it to return function other handsets have by default?
What function?
Ridiculously-restrictive AppStore?
These denials are pretty bad.
Can't install my own applications without a signed NDA and key?
True.
Fragile glass face?
It's probably more breakable but it's also more scratch resistant, I like it better than the screen on my treo.
No proper keyboard?
I can type faster on my iPhone than I could on the Treo, you just type as fast as you can and the iPhone will correct nearly every mistake.
Camera can't record video?
True
No memory card support?
Also True.
Capacitive touchscreen (not resistive)?
Is this a bad thing? I suppose you can't use a stylus with it, but you don't need to either.
I'm not saying that Apple or the iPhone is perfect, but it's quite a bit better than the Treo. You are right that it does kill the Star-Tac, or at least it would've if the Star-Tac wasn't long dead.
HD Recording with MythTV has gotten better recently. Hauppauge released an HDTV tuner called the HD PVR which can record HD from component (not as good as pure digital but still very good). It comes with an IR Blaster, but cable companies are required by the FCC to provide an HD box with a working firewire port when it's requested, which can be used for much more reliable channel changes. Of course the support for this tuner is not included in the current stable release but it's getting close.
From what I understand (a friend of mine has fios) all the channels on fios are unencrypted, other than the premium channels and pay per view. So you wouldn't actually need the cable card, and it would work great with an hdhomerun and mythtv. Just record everything with the tivo or mythtv and HBO with your fios dvr. Too bad it's not offered in my area, the only unencrypted HD available are the local stations.
Well, to be fair, it makes you guilty of a federal crime if you break into your rental dwelling (since you don't actually own the property, you just have the right to use it). Not true, actually you do own the DVD and the copy of the content contained on it. Copyright gives the copyright holder the right to restrict what you can do with your property.
By the way, before anyone says Kazaa is pure as the driven snow, keep in mind that the Grokster case pretty firmly established that it IS their responsiblilty as far as US law is concerned to police copyright infringement on their network. From what I understand, all the Grokster decision said was that a file sharing network couldn't advertise the ability to get download copy-written music for free. I haven't heard anything about them having to police their network.
It's not so much that Tivo isn't interested in supporting satellite, but the satellite companies not giving Tivo access to support them. MythTv will not be able to access the digital feed from a satellite box either. The only way Tivo or MythTV can use a satellite box is through the s-video out.
I'd imagine most people are actually complaining about getting their hardware working with MythTV, not installing MythTV. Installing it whether from source or packages is pretty simple or at least on par with compiling or installing any other packages.
Not sure our copyright law gives you the right to have a copy on your computer, your iPod, your computer at work, etc. Could you provide a pointer to the law that says you can have multiple copies on multiple devices? Copyright law doesn't give you any rights it only takes them away. You don't need a law that says you can have multiple copies on multiple devices unless there's law that says you can't. In the US everything is legal unless there's a law against it.
No, when you purchase a dvd you are purchasing a licence for that copy alone, and that with very limited rights (no public performance, no redistribution etc).
Here's where you're wrong. You're not purchasing a license you're purchasing a copy of a movie. The limitations you are talking about are not licensing limitations, but are a little known set of laws called Copywrite.
Exactly, they've always done this. In fact you can disable the data collection in your account on Tivo's site, at least you could a couple years ago before I switched to MythTV (I had to throw that in).
I just wanted to point out that if you think the iPhone is vaporware then you don't seem to know the definition of vaporware.
You see, a product is considered vaporware when that product is announced and then the release date constantly slips causing the eventual release of that product to be called into question.
Things that are vaporware: Duke Nukem Forever and the Phantom Game Console, even Windows Vista could have been called vaporware at one point because the release date did constantly slip and it was possible it might not be released at all (at least not in the form that it was originally intended to be).
The iPhone is not vaporware because it has a solid release date and there is no reason to believe that it won't be released.
As for the one-button mouse, I do hope that when Apple designs new PowerB... um... Macbook models, they'll add the second button. Control-click isn't a particularly natural gesture. At the same time, it's not a dealbreaker for me as it is for many people.
Just to point out, on new Mac Laptops, touching the trackpad with two fingers and hitting the button also does a control-click.
Sealand, underneath the water, Sealand, at the bottom of the sea.
Sealand: A show about the inner workings of an underwater research lab in the year 2020.
Sealand 2021: Sealand's comedic counterpart. Taking place in the year 2021, after a year under the sea the crew of sealand has slowly begun to go insane...hilarity ensues.
I'd have to say that ever since I started using the Mac the Fullscreen button on Windows really pisses me off. I wish it would work more like the Mac. I prefer to be able to see all my open windows at a glance and fullscreen mode blocks that. I can see how it might useful on a small screen (like on small laptop screens or older displays) but on larger screens it just hogs up all the screen space.
Don't you mean "It happened in the NFL several years ago when one of the oldest franchises literally snuck out of the city and moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis."?
About 3 years ago actually. It was called the core box. It came with a case, motherboard, and power supply, and I added a radeon 7500, 80 gig hard drive, 1 GB of RAM, and an 800 Mhz G4. It still runs great.
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While I think The Way of Kings would be a little too much for an 8-year old, Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz books would be great for him.
As opposed to tame bacteria?
Of course, he means as opposed to cultured bacteria that you purposely added to your beer:
http://www.whitelabs.com/beer/bacteria.html
They should have known that the only object with the thrust capable of such a feat is the Annihilatrix. Which was absolutely NOT made to push the Earth into the Sun.
Honestly, I focused on the TV part of MythTV because that's the part I use. I haven't used the Music plugin for quite some time, and I don't use MythVideo too much either. MythMusic wasn't very good when I last used it, I hope this new UI library will allow themers to make some better user interfaces for Mythmusic.
Probably not, unless Apple designs their own non-standard usb chipset. USB and Firewire are quite different in their design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#USB_compared_with_FireWire
We just got one at work, you can click with your thumb and drag with your pointer it works just like it did with a button. You can also click and drag with just your pointer but you can't move it as far.
I wasn't sure how I would like these but I can see that if I had one, after getting used to the clickpad, I would get very frustrated with using a laptop with normal buttons.
What's that?
I'll go back and forth about this one, without a replaceable battery the devices can be smaller which makes a nicer looking product, but I could see how you might like to have a second battery for long trips. Personally I've never had a problem with it on either of my iPods or my iPhone.
Proprietary charging/data connector?
Which has tons of 3rd party support and has extra pins for extra functionality.
Restrictive "mono" bluetooth support?
From what I've heard stereo bluetooth is low bandwidth and low quality, but I've never listened to it so I wouldn't know.
Can't use non-Apple headsets?
I know you can use non-Apple bluetooth headsets with the iPhone, do you mean wired?
Doesn't sync to Linux?
Haven't tried this, I'm sure someone with figure it out.
Have to jailbreak it to return function other handsets have by default?
What function?
Ridiculously-restrictive AppStore?
These denials are pretty bad.
Can't install my own applications without a signed NDA and key?
True.
Fragile glass face?
It's probably more breakable but it's also more scratch resistant, I like it better than the screen on my treo.
No proper keyboard?
I can type faster on my iPhone than I could on the Treo, you just type as fast as you can and the iPhone will correct nearly every mistake.
Camera can't record video?
True
No memory card support?
Also True.
Capacitive touchscreen (not resistive)?
Is this a bad thing? I suppose you can't use a stylus with it, but you don't need to either.
I'm not saying that Apple or the iPhone is perfect, but it's quite a bit better than the Treo. You are right that it does kill the Star-Tac, or at least it would've if the Star-Tac wasn't long dead.
HD Recording with MythTV has gotten better recently. Hauppauge released an HDTV tuner called the HD PVR which can record HD from component (not as good as pure digital but still very good). It comes with an IR Blaster, but cable companies are required by the FCC to provide an HD box with a working firewire port when it's requested, which can be used for much more reliable channel changes. Of course the support for this tuner is not included in the current stable release but it's getting close.
From what I understand (a friend of mine has fios) all the channels on fios are unencrypted, other than the premium channels and pay per view. So you wouldn't actually need the cable card, and it would work great with an hdhomerun and mythtv. Just record everything with the tivo or mythtv and HBO with your fios dvr. Too bad it's not offered in my area, the only unencrypted HD available are the local stations.
Or, with tapping off, touch the trackpad with 2 fingers and click the button. Tapping the trackpad is incredibly annoying.
ICQ does that, or did it back in the 1996-97 timeframe when I used it.
It's not so much that Tivo isn't interested in supporting satellite, but the satellite companies not giving Tivo access to support them. MythTv will not be able to access the digital feed from a satellite box either. The only way Tivo or MythTV can use a satellite box is through the s-video out.
I'd imagine most people are actually complaining about getting their hardware working with MythTV, not installing MythTV. Installing it whether from source or packages is pretty simple or at least on par with compiling or installing any other packages.
You don't need a law that says you can have multiple copies on multiple devices unless there's law that says you can't. In the US everything is legal unless there's a law against it.
Here's where you're wrong. You're not purchasing a license you're purchasing a copy of a movie. The limitations you are talking about are not licensing limitations, but are a little known set of laws called Copywrite.
Exactly, they've always done this. In fact you can disable the data collection in your account on Tivo's site, at least you could a couple years ago before I switched to MythTV (I had to throw that in).
I just wanted to point out that if you think the iPhone is vaporware then you don't seem to know the definition of vaporware.
You see, a product is considered vaporware when that product is announced and then the release date constantly slips causing the eventual release of that product to be called into question.
Things that are vaporware: Duke Nukem Forever and the Phantom Game Console, even Windows Vista could have been called vaporware at one point because the release date did constantly slip and it was possible it might not be released at all (at least not in the form that it was originally intended to be).
The iPhone is not vaporware because it has a solid release date and there is no reason to believe that it won't be released.
Just to point out, on new Mac Laptops, touching the trackpad with two fingers and hitting the button also does a control-click.
Sealand, underneath the water, Sealand, at the bottom of the sea.
Sealand: A show about the inner workings of an underwater research lab in the year 2020.
Sealand 2021: Sealand's comedic counterpart. Taking place in the year 2021, after a year under the sea the crew of sealand has slowly begun to go insane...hilarity ensues.
Or is that Sealab...
I know this isn't a button but pressing cmd-up will go up one level in the finder.
I'd have to say that ever since I started using the Mac the Fullscreen button on Windows really pisses me off. I wish it would work more like the Mac.
I prefer to be able to see all my open windows at a glance and fullscreen mode blocks that. I can see how it might useful on a small screen (like on small laptop screens or older displays) but on larger screens it just hogs up all the screen space.
Don't you mean "It happened in the NFL several years ago when one of the oldest franchises literally snuck out of the city and moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis."?
About 3 years ago actually. It was called the core box. It came with a case, motherboard, and power supply, and I added a radeon 7500, 80 gig hard drive, 1 GB of RAM, and an 800 Mhz G4. It still runs great.