"Since when is a company making profit in trouble?"
Not that I read the article or anything, but if you spend $40 to make $41, you're pretty much better of putting your investment/captial money into a savings account.
" Even if this is done in the background it will likely degrade the PVR's performance and reduce the picture quality of the DVD being backed up."
Um, no, it won't reduce the picture quality of the DVD being backed up. You might be thinking of video the thing might be trying to capture and encode in real time. That could be affected, but that's more of a prioritization issue really. Pause or slow the encode and the capture will go just fine.
I'm not arguing with your whole post, just wanted to clarify this point you made.:)
Five years later, there'll be an OSS carbon copy that'll spark an epic debate on Slashdot about just how involved users should be with their computers!
"Thus the only version of the game I can run on my system is a pirate version."
I hear ya man. I replaced my laptop with a Tablet PC. One of the ways they made this thing mobile was to not include an optical drive. I've got a stack of games I could play on the previous machine, but not this one now. I dont enjoy the idea of downloading a cracked copy and then being told I'm a theif.
"Oh ho. So a kid who walks up to your car and tries the doorhandles is not guilty of anything untoward?"
No, he is not. I agree that he should be informed that it's not cool, but he doesn't need to have boot up his arse or to be called guilty of anything. Frankly, kids are curious. I've tried doorhandles before, it had nothing to do with me being up to no good. I was just curious if people really locked their cars.
"As another poster mentioned, spontaneous rebooting is due to a 'feature' in Windows XP whereby the computer reboots rather than showing the proper BSOD."
Some dude used this little detail to try to tell me my computer was secretly unstable. Like I wouldn't notice that all my apps etc are closed. Moron.
For some yes, for a lot of others, no. If XP or 2k ever caused me to lose a multi-day-long-render, you bet ur ass I'd toss it without a second thought.
"Might as well print your own bogus money. You could even print a $699 bill. Put Darl's picture in the center. "In Laywers We Trust" or similar. That would cost you nothing, except time."
Slashdot Mirror
"Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows will have a base install size of 99 terabytes"
RedHat 12 will come in 6 of these discs!
"My whole sex life is based on a floppy... Wait... That didn't sound right..."
;)
Claim it was a 9 inch floppy, then distract people from looking up the capacity of those dinosaurs.
'A lifetime of sex can be recorded on one disk without that much encryption. It just sounds like "Yes Yes Yes Yes""
;)
Sounds like somebody's been copying and pasting to his disc a lot.
"I'm hoping its the thin end of the wedge."
;)
Bet you're not the first database fan to wish for that.
(I love out of context comments.)
"I love PostgreSQL!"
Sadly, since their affections are misplaced, this is the last generation of PostgreSQL lovers.
"Check out the display! It has /. on it!"
Gee, I wonder if somebody'll make a joke about how it stopped working a minute later and it'll be modded up as windows innuendo.
"Software for the Grass Roots"
I nominate Windows XP. Ya'all seen the default wallpaper that comes with it, right?
"Since when is a company making profit in trouble?"
Not that I read the article or anything, but if you spend $40 to make $41, you're pretty much better of putting your investment/captial money into a savings account.
Billions? With a b?
"10 - Sony Playstation popularized, N64 fails"
30+ million units sold != failure.
" Even if this is done in the background it will likely degrade the PVR's performance and reduce the picture quality of the DVD being backed up."
:)
Um, no, it won't reduce the picture quality of the DVD being backed up. You might be thinking of video the thing might be trying to capture and encode in real time. That could be affected, but that's more of a prioritization issue really. Pause or slow the encode and the capture will go just fine.
I'm not arguing with your whole post, just wanted to clarify this point you made.
What was wrong with Coneheads?
"Worst movie ever. True."
Not by a long shot. It's well above Episode I.
"Indeed, they are using it for Longhorn."
Five years later, there'll be an OSS carbon copy that'll spark an epic debate on Slashdot about just how involved users should be with their computers!
"The good of mankind is pir^H^H^Hstea^H^H^H^Hcopyright infringement ?"
Innocent until proven guilty.
"We don't use DRM for copyright enforcement. The system doesn't treat you like a criminal."
Thank you.
"Thus the only version of the game I can run on my system is a pirate version."
I hear ya man. I replaced my laptop with a Tablet PC. One of the ways they made this thing mobile was to not include an optical drive. I've got a stack of games I could play on the previous machine, but not this one now. I dont enjoy the idea of downloading a cracked copy and then being told I'm a theif.
"Unless there's actually something they do BETTER than the competition then they aren't going to appeal to anyone."
iTunes.
"Oh ho. So a kid who walks up to your car and tries the doorhandles is not guilty of anything untoward?"
No, he is not. I agree that he should be informed that it's not cool, but he doesn't need to have boot up his arse or to be called guilty of anything. Frankly, kids are curious. I've tried doorhandles before, it had nothing to do with me being up to no good. I was just curious if people really locked their cars.
"I got a headache just reading the headline. Give us old fogies a break, we're used to seeing the hash mark at the beginning of the line..."
Confused me too!
"Cocoa# No such channel"
"As another poster mentioned, spontaneous rebooting is due to a 'feature' in Windows XP whereby the computer reboots rather than showing the proper BSOD."
Some dude used this little detail to try to tell me my computer was secretly unstable. Like I wouldn't notice that all my apps etc are closed. Moron.
"That is (Score: +5 Slap-stick Humour), right?"
For some yes, for a lot of others, no. If XP or 2k ever caused me to lose a multi-day-long-render, you bet ur ass I'd toss it without a second thought.
"I have a metal plate in my head. Every time I use the microwave, I piss my pants and forget my name."
I sing folk songs.
"Name one film that didnt have a black character acting as a home boy gangsta wise cracking rapper."
Dinosaur?
"Might as well print your own bogus money. You could even print a $699 bill. Put Darl's picture in the center. "In Laywers We Trust" or similar. That would cost you nothing, except time."
Send it postage due.