I'm not sure if this occurred to you or not, but reading a mailing list isn't likely to be a balanced source of both positive and negative information. There aren't all that many users that write to the mailing list and say "I built my Myth box, it works great and I'm really happy!". They just watch their TV in bliss. What you get is the people complaining with problems.
If you have Sys Admin'd you'll be able to set up Myth. I did it - it took a lot of time, but now that it's setup properly, it works great. If you aren't into spending the time and tweaking, by all means, get a Tivo. If you enjoy dinkering around, you can handle Myth. The main thing that took me so long was I was trying to re-use cheap, old hardware. Get stuff that works. That means a Hauppauge PVR card and an NVidia video card with binary drivers. ATI cards are a nightmare to get the TV out working properly.
Question: What if it's the *same* codec, i.e. AAC? Will the quality be similar to the original? I'm sure it will lose something, but I'm curious how much.
OK, awesome. Thanks for the clarification. I beleive it will be scrambled, and will need the outputs of the STB.
I didn't know that Myth could select the right input automagically. Cool.
I don't have HD yet, but you won't be able to record HD coming out of the S-Video of the STB right? If it outputs DVI or HDMI and there were a tuner card that took that as an input, maybe it would work. Or can you get HD from the FireWire?
I'm actually building a Myth box right now and one of my goals is to record NHL Center Ice. I don't even have digital cable yet, just analog, so I'm a little unclear on it.
How come you can't use the Coax-out (or composite or S-Video or whatever) of the Set Top Box and keep your Myth box always on Channel 3, and record whatever output? I had assumed I'd be able to record Center Ice that way. Do you mean not being able to record it in HD? I guess that does make sense. But you should be able to record Std Def right?
All the Ice melting off Greenland might suck if you live in Venice, New Orleans, or some other port town that is mostly below sea level, but it's the best news ever if you've invested in any arctic real estate.
Give me a break. If the Greenland ice shelf melted, it would submerge maybe 40-50% of Florida. You saw the fuss created for 100,000 Katrina refugees? Imagine 200 million of them, worldwide.
You've got to be kidding. The design of a speed skating oval and the quality of the ice is an absolute science. The design of Calgary's speedskating oval was a massive engineering accomplishment, and a huge revolution. It was the fastest ice in the world. Until Salt Lake's facility was built, almost all of the world records had been set in Calgary. Salt Lake copied and improved upon the design, even employing the same engineers to design it I believe. I unfortunately have no knowledge about the oval in Torino.
Ha ha. But really, I agree with the original poster. I like the Spotlight approach more than the Google Desktop approach. (I haven't used Windows, and therefore GDS in a while, so I might be out of date). Spotlight easily allows you to search for a file name and open/launch it immediately. Windows file/folder search is ridiculously slow in comparison.
I certainly don't agree with "expect the worst", that's exactly what's wrong. One must be prepared for the worst, not expect it.
I don't agree with your interpretation. I think "expect the worst" implies "be prepared for the worst". By expecting the worst you aren't left helpless if that actually occurs. I know what you mean, literally, but by saying "hope for the best" I don't think it's telling you to be totally pessimistic.
With regards to 1), Google is one of the only companies in the world that does not provide any guidance in earnings estimates, nor does it provide warnings.
With regards to 2), the founders have each sold enough to have well over $1 billion cash, liquid. They should be pretty safe.
The people who generally make real money in on IPO are the investment bankers and venture capitalists, not the founders.
If you don't call over a billion dollars cash "making real money", then sure.
I have a Canadian driver's license with my brithdate in that format. When I get ID'ed with it in California the people stare at it for a good 2 minutes before figuring out where the year is. "Wow, that's ass backwards!" "Well, actually, the rest of the world.... never mind."
Get real. That guy signed an NDA and posted sensitive financial information on his blog that was cleary marked as confidential. He deserved everything he got. This wasn't typical "my free latte was so great this morning", this was material information.
What the hell? Those are not ads. It's a new feature where Google will give a direct link to specific subsites if they are the most popular and believe you may be looking for them instead of the front page. It's the same sort of stuff as the caclulator, the spelling suggestions, etc. Google calls them "OneBoxes".
I read a stat in Harper's that the estimated combined ad revenue of Google and Yahoo in 2005 matches that of the big three TV networks - ABC, NBC, CBS, in prime time ad slots. And I'll give you one guess as to which one is growing faster.
Is it just me, or is it already fairly easy to do location-based ads? Have you ever seen those porn sites where they say there are Hot Girls Looking For F**k Buddies in $your_city? I guess they could do it more finely-grained then at the city level.
It's also odd he mentioned that Firefox should retain the last URL when opening a new window - this is perhaps the IE feature I hate the most, with a passion. Often I'm simply viewing a large site and want to spawn a clean window (since there are no tabs) - it has to reload the whole thing over again.
How about this for a compromise. If you select New Tab from the menu, or Ctrl-T, it is blank. If you open it up from a middle-click, it contains the history. That would be very useful to me.
Man, you are getting ripped off. Badly. I think I went to school with you and probably graduated from the same engineering class as you. Your GPA is even pretty decent.
Keep looking. Don't get complacent. Network - go out for lunch with old bosses or co-workers. Tell everyone you know you are looking for work. At least you are not working at Future Shop or whatever, but still, $13/hr is pathetic.
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Both the summary and the article said "at least" 4.6 billion. Learn to read.
If you have Sys Admin'd you'll be able to set up Myth. I did it - it took a lot of time, but now that it's setup properly, it works great. If you aren't into spending the time and tweaking, by all means, get a Tivo. If you enjoy dinkering around, you can handle Myth. The main thing that took me so long was I was trying to re-use cheap, old hardware. Get stuff that works. That means a Hauppauge PVR card and an NVidia video card with binary drivers. ATI cards are a nightmare to get the TV out working properly.
Question: What if it's the *same* codec, i.e. AAC? Will the quality be similar to the original? I'm sure it will lose something, but I'm curious how much.
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I didn't know that Myth could select the right input automagically. Cool.
I don't have HD yet, but you won't be able to record HD coming out of the S-Video of the STB right? If it outputs DVI or HDMI and there were a tuner card that took that as an input, maybe it would work. Or can you get HD from the FireWire?
I'm actually building a Myth box right now and one of my goals is to record NHL Center Ice. I don't even have digital cable yet, just analog, so I'm a little unclear on it.
How come you can't use the Coax-out (or composite or S-Video or whatever) of the Set Top Box and keep your Myth box always on Channel 3, and record whatever output? I had assumed I'd be able to record Center Ice that way. Do you mean not being able to record it in HD? I guess that does make sense. But you should be able to record Std Def right?
Thanks!
Congratulations on having your completely off-topic post modded up to 5.
Our Carmack, who art in Texas,
hallowed be thy textures.
Thy software come, thy games be done,
on my b0xen as it is at E3.
Give us this day, our daily FPS.
And forgive us our camping,
as we gun down those who camp against us.
Lead us not into a spawn site,
but just give me the damn BFG.
For the gaming market, the GeForce,
and the booth babes are yours, now and until payday.
Give me a break. If the Greenland ice shelf melted, it would submerge maybe 40-50% of Florida. You saw the fuss created for 100,000 Katrina refugees? Imagine 200 million of them, worldwide.
Or the 8800 people losing their jobs! Some of whom I'm sure are Slashdot geeks.
You've got to be kidding. The design of a speed skating oval and the quality of the ice is an absolute science. The design of Calgary's speedskating oval was a massive engineering accomplishment, and a huge revolution. It was the fastest ice in the world. Until Salt Lake's facility was built, almost all of the world records had been set in Calgary. Salt Lake copied and improved upon the design, even employing the same engineers to design it I believe. I unfortunately have no knowledge about the oval in Torino.
Ha ha. But really, I agree with the original poster. I like the Spotlight approach more than the Google Desktop approach. (I haven't used Windows, and therefore GDS in a while, so I might be out of date). Spotlight easily allows you to search for a file name and open/launch it immediately. Windows file/folder search is ridiculously slow in comparison.
I don't agree with your interpretation. I think "expect the worst" implies "be prepared for the worst". By expecting the worst you aren't left helpless if that actually occurs. I know what you mean, literally, but by saying "hope for the best" I don't think it's telling you to be totally pessimistic.
With regards to 2), the founders have each sold enough to have well over $1 billion cash, liquid. They should be pretty safe.
The people who generally make real money in on IPO are the investment bankers and venture capitalists, not the founders. If you don't call over a billion dollars cash "making real money", then sure.
I have a Canadian driver's license with my brithdate in that format. When I get ID'ed with it in California the people stare at it for a good 2 minutes before figuring out where the year is. "Wow, that's ass backwards!" "Well, actually, the rest of the world.... never mind."
Absolutely not. They will all stop blogging en masse and the blogosphere will cease to exist. What a brilliant question.
Get real. That guy signed an NDA and posted sensitive financial information on his blog that was cleary marked as confidential. He deserved everything he got. This wasn't typical "my free latte was so great this morning", this was material information.
What the hell? Those are not ads. It's a new feature where Google will give a direct link to specific subsites if they are the most popular and believe you may be looking for them instead of the front page. It's the same sort of stuff as the caclulator, the spelling suggestions, etc. Google calls them "OneBoxes".
My 1000th comment! And oddly relevant.
Is it just me, or is it already fairly easy to do location-based ads? Have you ever seen those porn sites where they say there are Hot Girls Looking For F**k Buddies in $your_city? I guess they could do it more finely-grained then at the city level.
How about this for a compromise. If you select New Tab from the menu, or Ctrl-T, it is blank. If you open it up from a middle-click, it contains the history. That would be very useful to me.
Could this possibly be a genuine instance of "begging the question"?
Advice: If you want the latest Google news before Slashdot posts it, read the Google blog.
Keep looking. Don't get complacent. Network - go out for lunch with old bosses or co-workers. Tell everyone you know you are looking for work. At least you are not working at Future Shop or whatever, but still, $13/hr is pathetic.