The XServe is a server - and 50% of this benchmark test is rating how fast it opens up files in Photoshop? WHO CARES! Its a server, tell me how much faster it is at routing mail, serving files through apache, backing up data, etc. benchmark it doing things that a server does!
This benchmark is useless IMHO.
Its decent, but I would scarecely call it a PVR
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DishPVR 721 Review
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I have An Echostar PVR system and I consider it to be garbage... they've been pushing these out a lot lately, but quite frankly the problem with them is that compared to Tivo, the software system is about as primitive as a VCR.
You cannot select favorite shows for it to record.
You cannot get a listing of all the episodes of the show to show up in the future.
The system is not show sensitive. If you simply press the record button on the software - it will keep recording for all time until it runs out of space.
It is a very noisy piece of hardware.
You're still stuck with the already crappy DishNetwork viewing guide.
The only thing the device has going for it is that it doesn't cost you anything on a monthly basis.
Since the majority of Americans believe in a higher being, a person who states the pledge of allegience is pledging allegience to a country 'under God.' The pledge of allegience does not state that a person has to believe in God in any way.
Clearly the moron who passed this failed english. "I pledge allegience to..." and what follows is a description of what the person is pledging allegience to.
DUH DUH DUH!
They aren't making the system more modular - they're stuff is still their. All that has happened is that they allow other applications to set themselves as the default, which other applications already have the ability to do!
The fact that anyone would see this as making Windows modular simply defies logic!
It is just odd that Wired would take IE as the only browser in their performance tests without looking at the others.
Mozilla RC1 is noticably faster than IE on my TiBook 550 and Chimera is at least twice as fast as Mozilla.
I've never used OmniWeb which most Mac users swear by, but IE on the Mac is a good bit slower than IE on Windows - but I would easily say that Chimera is the fastest browser I've use on ANY platform.
Right - attacking the corporation is a pointless endeavor. If you aren't interacting with the copyright owner then there will continue to be issues. If the independent artist can't be heard on the radio or on the net to the extent that they can make a living - you can bet that the situation we're talking about has a 0% chance of changing because you're assuming that the goal of a business is to care about the consumer.
If you think a single word you say will change RIAA or MPAA you are sadly mistaken as they are acting on behalf of all these companies you want to take rights from. As long as artist turn over their rights to corporations - the problem will exist.
Appeal to the artists!
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I get so tired of seeing Slashdot users all wound up about the same thing over and over again and attempting to come up with a solution that relates to only the consumer and the corporation that sold the goods.
This in itself will not solve the problem nor will anything be accomplished in this manner. Corporations have legal rights and have to enforce those rights. And that's fine, they should. What people don't seem to realize for some bizarre reason is that the content PRODUCERS are the ones that give these rights to the corporations. When they transfer rights over to the corporations - its over, stop complaining... nothing will change. What needs to happen is that the ARTISTS need to establish a relationship with the CONSUMERS such that the artist retains the rights and has the ability to implement fair-use. If an artist wants to grant you specific rights to copy stuff for free and such - you must get that from the ARTIST.
Too many times we have heard tales of starving artist through corporation and such to sway legislation to stop people from making copies. If the corporations never have the rights transferred to them, this becomes unnecessary as the artist can make money themselves OR through a corporation that could be given LIMITED publishing rights. This is when the tide will turn, and not before - because corporations do and should have rights to protect anything they own and right now they own the rights to the content we want to copy. Until that changes, we the people are screwed and can't do much about it.... legally anyways.
You are unfortunately incorrect. The owner can (and in these cases) does give up the rights to a piece of work when they transfer those rights to a record company to produce and publish a piece of work.
The solution is not with the consumers, it is with the ARTISTS. When the artist no longer give up those rights, they are empowered to implement fair use and give us the rights we desire.
A corporation by nature is about making profit and will not be concerned specifically with fair use. The problem must be tacked at the correct level - and going after the corporations isn't it.
But still not really seeing it for several reasons:
1) There would only be a small number of used books out there.
2) As a consumer I would want a used copy of certain books if I could find them (especially on release day) so anything that denies me those savings puts me at a disadvantage
3) The economy of scale doesn't seem to really make much of a difference I guess between this and say students buying used books when they register for class.
Guess I just won't get this one. Amazon should be able to do the same thing eBay can and sell used merchandise as it comes into inventory. If I'm buying an OpenGL programming book - or some other professional reference, I want a new one. If I'm just taking a gander at like.NET and CLR - I just want it as cheap as I can get it.
What exactly does the Author's Guild want, people to not be able to buy used books at all?
When I purchased the book I purchased material that I should be able to sell whenever and *whereever* I please. This whole thing seems to be suffering from a bout of favoritism. Are they telling Mom&Pop used book stores to close? Are they petitioning ebay to prevent the sale of books? They seem to be going after a company who is only doing what everyone else is doing.
If one considers that the foundation of our economy is based on barter through currency - what they Author's Guild is proposing actually goes against the whole idea of capitalism and the consumers/businesses right to sell goods.
But like most things that come out of the popular press, the truth is far from the reality.
Java has actually been gathering strength and momentum in many areas which is somewhat odd for a dead or dying platform. Java is currently the principal platform for deploying into the mobile market with many announcements for Nokia, Nextel, Sprint with services based around Java technology. C# and PocketPC/WindowsCE are nearly non-existant in this space.
The application server market is consolidating and the remaining players are still making a bundle of money as corporations are still investing heavily in the market - which tends to prevent a technology from dying.
More players are involved with Java and dedicated to its success such as IBM. IBM has bet heavily on Java and since they STILL deploy more servers and machines than anyone else - Java will be around for many years yet - hell OS/2 is STILL around in many ATM banking applications.
Confused journalist who don't actually work in the field are always quick to look at one or two events and claim to predict the future - I recall that the XBox should be mopping the floor with PS2 and Gamecube at this very moment. After all, most of them believe Microsoft is the second coming and that it cannot be beaten at anything, so I tend to ignore their predictions as they are generally baseless and without any evidence other than "Microsoft is coming - everything else will lose because that's the way its happened in the past".
Oh brother... I remember hearing this same argument back during the days of Direct3D. Why is it that people who seem to know the least about the topic always spread FUD and ignorance to the community? I've just never understood such negativity. Well Anomolous Cow Herd I would simply advise you to educate yourself some more on Java in particular on JNI because it is quite possible for someone do do a game in Java (especially JDK1.4) that uses the same feature set as OpenGL or Direct3D and is quite "playable."
Personally I won't really miss them much. It was an interesting application but was terrible to use compared to the more 'professional' applications. Its too bad really. Maybe this will hilight the need to make profit to some of the others.
I don't have any issue with adding to an open source library and keeping those modifications free and clear and in the public eye.
Its in the case where using open source software requires that my application in its entirety become open source when I have issues.
As such the only license that I generally deal with is LGPL. It allows me to add stuff to libraries that I use and donate that work to the public but allows me to close parts of my application if I want to put them on the shelf. I've LGPL'd a bunch of code myself - if someone wants it - cool, just make sure that any changes you make are available to myself and anyone else... but if you want to include it in your application... that's fine, I don't need the source to the rest of your application... to me that's almost silly.
AOL displayed it last year at E3 when Sony was showing off their PS2 harddrive combo thiny. All of this stuff runs in the Linux layer. There was also a version of RealPlayer running... looked nice and ran well.
It's almost funny that they are going to stay around a few more years *just* to spend those twilight years in court. Since the company has dissolved and sold most of its IP to Palm there isn't much chance that Be will come back, but it will be interesting to see what happens to the money they may win in any legal proceedings against Microsoft.
Just because the press is free doesn't mean that they feel obligated to cover every atrocity that happens. Is not that they aren't known about - its because producers don't want to show it. A news organization isn't really all that democratic, if a producer decides that X gets shown - that's what gets shown. Take a tour of your local TV station and ask them how what they show relates the people who own/run the news organizations.
It is not the role of the courts to protect Windows as a stable platform no more than it is the role of the courts to protects competitors of Microsoft. So you'll have to sing that tired song somewhere else Microsoft.
In terms of the dissenting states, they are well within their rights as representatives of citizens of the United States to make sweeping national requests. If we followed this Microsoft logic, noone would be able to make a national case about Microsoft. Now show your operating system source that you foolishly want to keep claiming as evidence so we can get on with this.
The only thing is that, Microsoft already knows this and has known if for some time. Microsoft knows they won't be able to survive on Windows alone in the future - enter.NET. The whole thing behind.NET is about controlling the infrastructure that all these machines connect to. Thankfully our friends at the MONO project will help this along by making sure that.NET will be runnable on all platforms and thus open the door for Microsoft to control infrastructure without even having to develop the software for that infrastructure. Therein is the beauty of OpenSource.... don't *really* want to support a platform, make you spec open and people will do the work for you for free.
Microsoft isn't stupid, and they are very good about executing on a plan - anyone who thinks that Microsoft will be harmed by the cheapening of PCs is simply fooling themselves, because those PCs will be connecting to Comcast backbones, assorted Fiber backbones, and server systems that Microsoft will have a large stake and control in - and because most people here crap on RedHat, AOL, and anything else here that makes money (and thereby competes with Microsoft to slow or temper their movements) - Microsoft is on the road to accomplishing what they've set out to do.
Well the precedent is that the game companies would have to advertise that the content is copy protected - which I don't think they would have any issue doing.
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The XServe is a server - and 50% of this benchmark test is rating how fast it opens up files in Photoshop? WHO CARES! Its a server, tell me how much faster it is at routing mail, serving files through apache, backing up data, etc. benchmark it doing things that a server does! This benchmark is useless IMHO.
I have An Echostar PVR system and I consider it to be garbage... they've been pushing these out a lot lately, but quite frankly the problem with them is that compared to Tivo, the software system is about as primitive as a VCR. You cannot select favorite shows for it to record. You cannot get a listing of all the episodes of the show to show up in the future. The system is not show sensitive. If you simply press the record button on the software - it will keep recording for all time until it runs out of space. It is a very noisy piece of hardware. You're still stuck with the already crappy DishNetwork viewing guide. The only thing the device has going for it is that it doesn't cost you anything on a monthly basis.
Since the majority of Americans believe in a higher being, a person who states the pledge of allegience is pledging allegience to a country 'under God.' The pledge of allegience does not state that a person has to believe in God in any way. Clearly the moron who passed this failed english. "I pledge allegience to ..." and what follows is a description of what the person is pledging allegience to.
DUH DUH DUH!
Billions of dollars in the bank and not one copy of Microsoft Antivirus? :)
They aren't making the system more modular - they're stuff is still their. All that has happened is that they allow other applications to set themselves as the default, which other applications already have the ability to do!
The fact that anyone would see this as making Windows modular simply defies logic!
It is just odd that Wired would take IE as the only browser in their performance tests without looking at the others.
Mozilla RC1 is noticably faster than IE on my TiBook 550 and Chimera is at least twice as fast as Mozilla.
I've never used OmniWeb which most Mac users swear by, but IE on the Mac is a good bit slower than IE on Windows - but I would easily say that Chimera is the fastest browser I've use on ANY platform.
Right - attacking the corporation is a pointless endeavor. If you aren't interacting with the copyright owner then there will continue to be issues. If the independent artist can't be heard on the radio or on the net to the extent that they can make a living - you can bet that the situation we're talking about has a 0% chance of changing because you're assuming that the goal of a business is to care about the consumer.
If you think a single word you say will change RIAA or MPAA you are sadly mistaken as they are acting on behalf of all these companies you want to take rights from. As long as artist turn over their rights to corporations - the problem will exist.
I get so tired of seeing Slashdot users all wound up about the same thing over and over again and attempting to come up with a solution that relates to only the consumer and the corporation that sold the goods.
This in itself will not solve the problem nor will anything be accomplished in this manner. Corporations have legal rights and have to enforce those rights. And that's fine, they should. What people don't seem to realize for some bizarre reason is that the content PRODUCERS are the ones that give these rights to the corporations. When they transfer rights over to the corporations - its over, stop complaining... nothing will change. What needs to happen is that the ARTISTS need to establish a relationship with the CONSUMERS such that the artist retains the rights and has the ability to implement fair-use. If an artist wants to grant you specific rights to copy stuff for free and such - you must get that from the ARTIST.
Too many times we have heard tales of starving artist through corporation and such to sway legislation to stop people from making copies. If the corporations never have the rights transferred to them, this becomes unnecessary as the artist can make money themselves OR through a corporation that could be given LIMITED publishing rights. This is when the tide will turn, and not before - because corporations do and should have rights to protect anything they own and right now they own the rights to the content we want to copy. Until that changes, we the people are screwed and can't do much about it.... legally anyways.
You are unfortunately incorrect. The owner can (and in these cases) does give up the rights to a piece of work when they transfer those rights to a record company to produce and publish a piece of work.
The solution is not with the consumers, it is with the ARTISTS. When the artist no longer give up those rights, they are empowered to implement fair use and give us the rights we desire.
A corporation by nature is about making profit and will not be concerned specifically with fair use. The problem must be tacked at the correct level - and going after the corporations isn't it.
But still not really seeing it for several reasons:
.NET and CLR - I just want it as cheap as I can get it.
1) There would only be a small number of used books out there.
2) As a consumer I would want a used copy of certain books if I could find them (especially on release day) so anything that denies me those savings puts me at a disadvantage
3) The economy of scale doesn't seem to really make much of a difference I guess between this and say students buying used books when they register for class.
Guess I just won't get this one. Amazon should be able to do the same thing eBay can and sell used merchandise as it comes into inventory. If I'm buying an OpenGL programming book - or some other professional reference, I want a new one. If I'm just taking a gander at like
What's wrong with that?
What exactly does the Author's Guild want, people to not be able to buy used books at all?
When I purchased the book I purchased material that I should be able to sell whenever and *whereever* I please. This whole thing seems to be suffering from a bout of favoritism. Are they telling Mom&Pop used book stores to close? Are they petitioning ebay to prevent the sale of books? They seem to be going after a company who is only doing what everyone else is doing.
If one considers that the foundation of our economy is based on barter through currency - what they Author's Guild is proposing actually goes against the whole idea of capitalism and the consumers/businesses right to sell goods.
But like most things that come out of the popular press, the truth is far from the reality. Java has actually been gathering strength and momentum in many areas which is somewhat odd for a dead or dying platform. Java is currently the principal platform for deploying into the mobile market with many announcements for Nokia, Nextel, Sprint with services based around Java technology. C# and PocketPC/WindowsCE are nearly non-existant in this space. The application server market is consolidating and the remaining players are still making a bundle of money as corporations are still investing heavily in the market - which tends to prevent a technology from dying. More players are involved with Java and dedicated to its success such as IBM. IBM has bet heavily on Java and since they STILL deploy more servers and machines than anyone else - Java will be around for many years yet - hell OS/2 is STILL around in many ATM banking applications. Confused journalist who don't actually work in the field are always quick to look at one or two events and claim to predict the future - I recall that the XBox should be mopping the floor with PS2 and Gamecube at this very moment. After all, most of them believe Microsoft is the second coming and that it cannot be beaten at anything, so I tend to ignore their predictions as they are generally baseless and without any evidence other than "Microsoft is coming - everything else will lose because that's the way its happened in the past".
Oh brother... I remember hearing this same argument back during the days of Direct3D. Why is it that people who seem to know the least about the topic always spread FUD and ignorance to the community? I've just never understood such negativity. Well Anomolous Cow Herd I would simply advise you to educate yourself some more on Java in particular on JNI because it is quite possible for someone do do a game in Java (especially JDK1.4) that uses the same feature set as OpenGL or Direct3D and is quite "playable."
Personally I won't really miss them much. It was an interesting application but was terrible to use compared to the more 'professional' applications. Its too bad really. Maybe this will hilight the need to make profit to some of the others.
I don't have any issue with adding to an open source library and keeping those modifications free and clear and in the public eye. Its in the case where using open source software requires that my application in its entirety become open source when I have issues. As such the only license that I generally deal with is LGPL. It allows me to add stuff to libraries that I use and donate that work to the public but allows me to close parts of my application if I want to put them on the shelf. I've LGPL'd a bunch of code myself - if someone wants it - cool, just make sure that any changes you make are available to myself and anyone else... but if you want to include it in your application... that's fine, I don't need the source to the rest of your application... to me that's almost silly.
AOL displayed it last year at E3 when Sony was showing off their PS2 harddrive combo thiny. All of this stuff runs in the Linux layer. There was also a version of RealPlayer running... looked nice and ran well.
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http://db.ascii24.com/buyer/news/game/ 2001/05/18/626203-000.html
It's almost funny that they are going to stay around a few more years *just* to spend those twilight years in court. Since the company has dissolved and sold most of its IP to Palm there isn't much chance that Be will come back, but it will be interesting to see what happens to the money they may win in any legal proceedings against Microsoft.
but I wonder if it stuff cuts the roof of your mouth :D
The Organian Neutral Zone is actually a patch of space between all three parties.
Just because the press is free doesn't mean that they feel obligated to cover every atrocity that happens. Is not that they aren't known about - its because producers don't want to show it. A news organization isn't really all that democratic, if a producer decides that X gets shown - that's what gets shown. Take a tour of your local TV station and ask them how what they show relates the people who own/run the news organizations.
It is not the role of the courts to protect Windows as a stable platform no more than it is the role of the courts to protects competitors of Microsoft. So you'll have to sing that tired song somewhere else Microsoft.
In terms of the dissenting states, they are well within their rights as representatives of citizens of the United States to make sweeping national requests. If we followed this Microsoft logic, noone would be able to make a national case about Microsoft. Now show your operating system source that you foolishly want to keep claiming as evidence so we can get on with this.
The only thing is that, Microsoft already knows this and has known if for some time. Microsoft knows they won't be able to survive on Windows alone in the future - enter .NET. The whole thing behind .NET is about controlling the infrastructure that all these machines connect to. Thankfully our friends at the MONO project will help this along by making sure that .NET will be runnable on all platforms and thus open the door for Microsoft to control infrastructure without even having to develop the software for that infrastructure. Therein is the beauty of OpenSource.... don't *really* want to support a platform, make you spec open and people will do the work for you for free.
Microsoft isn't stupid, and they are very good about executing on a plan - anyone who thinks that Microsoft will be harmed by the cheapening of PCs is simply fooling themselves, because those PCs will be connecting to Comcast backbones, assorted Fiber backbones, and server systems that Microsoft will have a large stake and control in - and because most people here crap on RedHat, AOL, and anything else here that makes money (and thereby competes with Microsoft to slow or temper their movements) - Microsoft is on the road to accomplishing what they've set out to do.
IM clients have always been free so there is no cultural change.
Well the precedent is that the game companies would have to advertise that the content is copy protected - which I don't think they would have any issue doing.