" but if you assume that kidnapping might occur 1 in 1000 (if even that much?), you can likely purchase kidnap insurance if the market was free to police kidnappings competitively."
Yea! So we can look forward to kidnapping insurance fraud in your ideal world?
I'm not defending the strong arm tactics of the FBI in the situation, but throwing out the baby with the bathwater seems a bit extreme.
1. Find item on Freecycle located within a 10-minute drive of your house 2. Agree to pick up item in 5 days 3. Post a 4-day auction for the item on EBay 4. If no bids, don't bother to cancel the pickup. Just be an ass and leave the offerer hanging. Don't respond to any emails 5. If successful bid, go get item and send it to bidder 6. Profit!
>Ecological change is usually on the order of hundreds of thousands of years.
Dr Rex: "But, you see, kids, we dinosaurs don't have anything to worry about since ecological change takes plenty of time.. we'll have a chance to adapt. I mean, fast ecological change is totally unrealistic.. you'd require a comet hitting the earth or something."
Little velociraptor in the back of the class: "Umm, sir, what's that large flaming ball descending from the sky at this very moment?"
Wow! I was expecting something along the lines of "I bought a XXXX for $nnn at Best Buy" That reply was above and beyond the call. Very informative indeed.
My reply wasn't necessarily directed exactly toward you, but more of a commentary on the fact thar Republicans have such a term as RINO. Though you did apply a similar term to Lieberman.
And I'm with you on the political parties issue, though I doubt elminating them entirely will do the trick. Most Americans wouldn't be able to choose a candidate if they weren't neatly compartmentalized.
"The Republicans coined a term for this kind of politician as they also have a few mavericks who refuse to toe the party line...they call 'em RINOs (Republicans In Name Only). We have a DINO in Mr. Lieberman."
Yes. God forbid a politician think for him or her self, instead of doing what they are told. It's politicians like Lieberman (not that I'm a big fan) and McCain who stand up for what they believe in *despite* party affiliation that keeps me from losing respect for the political process entirely.
Going OT now, but I've been contemplating doing the same for my parents slide collection. What brand/model slide scanner did you use, and how did they turn out?
"The REAL geek solution is to have clocks that synchonize themselves" CHECK! "I've got a fairly complex camera, and I know how to use every feature of that" CHECK!
Uh oh, hold on:
"My wife is in charge of switching all of the clocks in the house and car during daylight savings changes" BZZT! "my cable TV system is just too damn complicated... I let my daughter take care of that" BZZT! "I'm the idiot who has to give up the remote control, because I fuck it up each time" BZZT!
Excellent work, grasshopper, but you still have much learning to do:-)
I don't see how a screw up by an attendant and an intentional price switch by this kid are at all similar, unless the gas station attendant "accidentally" mispriced the gas for his own benefit, and then failed to reset the price afterwards.
You are comparing apples to aardvarks. Tivo functionality can be changed at will by the folks at Tivo. The feature you love today may be replaced by the feature you hate tomorrow.
A Myth box is yours, and no one from the outside will mess with it.
So, yes, in $ terms the Tivo is cheaper if you have to go out and buy all the Myth parts from scratch (but most of us have parts lying around we could use) but you are getting something over which you have complete control, whereas the Tivo is controlled by Tivo.
If you have the inclination to build a myth box, then you can just as easily hack a Tivo to add functionality, and prevent anyone from messing with it (software updates can be blocked)
According to MythTV website, you need a PIII, 800MHz with 512 MB of RAM to do software MPEG encoding/decoding, but you can get away with less if you want to put and MPEG card in there. I didn't realize most people had this stuff just lying around, but maybe that's just me. Of course, you might want it to like a nice piece of A/V equipment rather than just an ugly beige box crappy PC case, so you'd presumably want to spend some money on that too.
Have you actually built a Myth box? Would anyone who has care to respond with what equipment they owned already/had to buy, so we can get a legitimate cost comparison?
Ob. Disclaimer: I stopped watching broadcast TV about 10 years ago. I did borrow the firefly DVD set from the library, though, but I will wave my hands and claim that does not count.;)
Oh, I think I read about you in The Onion a while ago;)
You really cannnot compare the two. TiVo is a special-purpose, locked down consumer device. A livingroom PC can do that, plus serve music to your stereo, play games, web surf (with wireless mouse/keyboard), fileserve, and whatever else gets dreamed up next month (mine is also a webserver, email server, and network gateway with QoS so VOIP works fine no matter what)
Granted MythTV etc may offer more features from the get go, but the Tivo is *hardly* "locked down". Tons of hacks exist for it (and yes, it runs Linux). There are entire communities dedicated to hacking it (Tivocommunity.com for noobs and dealdatabase.com for the hardcore)
Tivo out of the box (unless you have the DirecTV version) already supports playing MP3s, sharing photos, networking with other Tivos for sharing shows, etc.
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I'm starting to think the RIAA "investigators" pick people at random from the phone book ...
Indeed, and once we see a lawsuit against Navin R. Johnson, well know for sure.
" but if you assume that kidnapping might occur 1 in 1000 (if even that much?), you can likely purchase kidnap insurance if the market was free to police kidnappings competitively."
Yea! So we can look forward to kidnapping insurance fraud in your ideal world?
I'm not defending the strong arm tactics of the FBI in the situation, but throwing out the baby with the bathwater seems a bit extreme.
I steal all my music from the internet
1. Find item on Freecycle located within a 10-minute drive of your house
2. Agree to pick up item in 5 days
3. Post a 4-day auction for the item on EBay
4. If no bids, don't bother to cancel the pickup. Just be an ass and leave the offerer hanging. Don't respond to any emails
5. If successful bid, go get item and send it to bidder
6. Profit!
No, I'm not bitter.
does it run Linux?
*ducks*
I'm going to make a tinfoil condom for my Speedpass after lunch.
"Don't expose yourself"
Seeing this is slashdot and all, I'll second that remark
"Hey, I presume that you guys use no firewall now. And you have Windows servers on the netowork! What kind of city is that?"
Troy?
>Ecological change is usually on the order of hundreds of thousands of years.
Dr Rex: "But, you see, kids, we dinosaurs don't have anything to worry about since ecological change takes plenty of time.. we'll have a chance to adapt. I mean, fast ecological change is totally unrealistic.. you'd require a comet hitting the earth or something."
Little velociraptor in the back of the class: "Umm, sir, what's that large flaming ball descending from the sky at this very moment?"
If only dinosaurs were built like the Toyota Tacoma
Wow! I was expecting something along the lines of "I bought a XXXX for $nnn at Best Buy"
That reply was above and beyond the call. Very informative indeed.
Thank you kindly,
Mark
My reply wasn't necessarily directed exactly toward you, but more of a commentary on the fact thar Republicans have such a term as RINO.
Though you did apply a similar term to Lieberman.
And I'm with you on the political parties issue, though I doubt elminating them entirely will do the trick. Most Americans
wouldn't be able to choose a candidate if they weren't neatly compartmentalized.
"The Republicans coined a term for this kind of politician as they also have a few mavericks who refuse to toe the party line...they call 'em RINOs (Republicans In Name Only). We have a DINO in Mr. Lieberman."
Yes. God forbid a politician think for him or her self, instead of doing what they are told.
It's politicians like Lieberman (not that I'm a big fan) and McCain who stand up for what they believe in *despite* party affiliation that keeps me from losing respect for the political process entirely.
Going OT now, but I've been contemplating doing the same for my parents slide collection.
What brand/model slide scanner did you use, and how did they turn out?
You forgot "snozzberry"
"Imagine a beowulf cluster of these"
Yeah, but you skipped right over the obvious "But does it run.... oh nevermind" joke.
BTW, you misspelled "karma". I've got some to burn as well. Can I get a -1 Spelling Nazi?
"We must act immediately to close the Stupid Gap!"
I assume you mean "Stupidity Gap".
Yes, apparently it's worse than we thought.
Geek huh... lets see:Uh oh, hold on:
Excellent work, grasshopper, but you still have much learning to do
"One day I'll get around to making a window for my CDROM, so that I can see what's going on when there's no CD inside."
Excellent. Maybe this same technology can be applied to a refrigerator so we can see what happens when the door is closed.
"It just refused to load for me."
Maybe your interest in the story was deemed statistically insignificant.
I don't see how a screw up by an attendant and an intentional price switch by this kid are at all similar, unless the gas station attendant "accidentally" mispriced the gas for his own benefit, and then failed to reset the price afterwards.
I see. I was thrown off by the OReilly book Tivo Hacks which states
No, you're just reading it wrong.
"You won't see hacks in this book that involve modifying Series 2 software"
Translation:
You won't see hacks in *this* book that involve modifying Series 2 software, but you will when you buy our next book, "Tivo Hacks, 2nd edition"
According to MythTV website, you need a PIII, 800MHz with 512 MB of RAM to do software MPEG encoding/decoding, but you can get away with less if you want to put and MPEG card in there. I didn't realize most people had this stuff just lying around, but maybe that's just me. Of course, you might want it to like a nice piece of A/V equipment rather than just an ugly beige box crappy PC case, so you'd presumably want to spend some money on that too.
Have you actually built a Myth box? Would anyone who has care to respond with what equipment they owned already/had to buy, so we can get a legitimate cost comparison?
Oh, I think I read about you in The Onion a while ago
You really cannnot compare the two. TiVo is a special-purpose, locked down consumer device. A livingroom PC can do that, plus serve music to your stereo, play games, web surf (with wireless mouse/keyboard), fileserve, and whatever else gets dreamed up next month (mine is also a webserver, email server, and network gateway with QoS so VOIP works fine no matter what)
Granted MythTV etc may offer more features from the get go, but the Tivo is *hardly* "locked down". Tons of hacks exist for it (and yes, it runs Linux). There are entire communities dedicated to hacking it (Tivocommunity.com for noobs and dealdatabase.com for the hardcore)
Tivo out of the box (unless you have the DirecTV version) already supports playing MP3s, sharing photos, networking with other Tivos for sharing shows, etc.