Man , I got banned from touching any computer in my school my sophomore year because i had circumvented network security (oooh, i used a msdos boot disk and a righteous use of the F8 key to bypass boot sequences) and was "writing hacker code" in BASIC!!!! In reality, I had not bypassed any security other than to have access to executing files and was trying to learn how to perform complex math functions in BASIC to expediate the electronics equations I could do on paper bu was trying to save time and redundancy. Schools are actually TERRIFIED that you will learn something other than the lies they teach you.
why delete the mp3's, if you OWN the album, you OWN the right to copy them for personal use. It's twits like you who don't even realize "they" are trying to take this right away.
yeah, and there are how many OTHER video stores BESIDES blockbuster? I haven't rented from blockbuster in over 5 years. I support my local video stores. Blockbuster is just a fraction of movie rental traffic.
or maybe i'm not. in fact, i'm out of college with an engineering degree. I'm not self-important, I'm concerned about the sheeple, of which I count myself for I too succumb to the many methods of programming (hell, I'm HERE aren't I?)
so, just like/. you'd have to have stupid "moderators" come fuck everything up because they're pissed that you beat them/are beating them.
this, of course is an attempt at humor, which normally automatically gets anyone a +2 minimum, but this is at the expense of/.'s moderation system, so go ahead you wretched moderators, prove my point in my on-topic comparison, i feel the mod points falling out from under me as i type:).
Yuo didn't answer the question. I will repeat it for you. Once the infrastructure is in place, why would it cost more to Xfer 1GB vs 100MB? My network hub cost me $400, My computer $3000, various Cables/software $1000, ISP for one year $600. Okay, so I have ~$5,000 dollars invested in my new gaming server thingy. Now, I charge my friends to come over and connect to my LAN/Server and play games online. Let's say I charge a $25 a month subscription fee for my Lan/Server access. (BTW, I am fully aware of all legal implications, non-scalar model, etc. etc., this is just a rough example to prove this point)Now, let's say that I suceesfully hook into 25 customers. They sign a one year contract. That's 300 per person in a year. That year I would profit ~$2500. Now, if they used their membership rights everyday or once a month, how did this affect my costs and/or profits?
What is bad? The word "program". If I'm gonna be programmed (they call it that for a REASON), I want to dislike the programming, therefore making myself harder to program. BTW, I don't watch very much TV AT ALL (except the simpsons). When I DO watch TV it appears exactly as it is; programming. I can sit through any sit com and tell you specific moral/ethical objectives male/female societal roles, etc. etc. they are programming people with. Or maybe, I'm really paranoid?
actually, it was pretty on topic, somebody just couldn't handle their ego being raked over the coals. how is noting that a picture of an object, whose size is in question, has no other object placed within it's vicinity to help the viewer gauge that object's size off topic? it's no more off-topic than the comment including the link to the picture! (BTW, the penis jokes were a test of the moderation system which has proven itself to be worthless and slanting, and spinning, and whoa, i just got myself modded down again didn't i?)
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we all know looks can be deceiving, and this screams, "I'm Deceptive As Fuck!!!". Please, for god's sake, put something (ruler, cmdrtaco's penis, P4, etc.)next to that so we can get a RELATIVE feel for how big it is (definitely how much BIGGER it is than cmdrtaco's penis).
instead of trying to figure out die size differences i did the math they give you in the F'ING ARTICLE, which you should F'ing READ. Lessee, they currently get 180 P4's off a silicone wafer, and they only get 47 McKinnley's off the same wafer. So, the new chip should be ROUGHLY 4 times the size of a P4. definitely larger than that P75 I would have gladly rescued (unless you burned it up:))
wow, what a comparison. UltimateTV (which I've never heard of, thx) versus XBox (the most anticipated console EVER) sales. Now, I do find it interesting that the bundled concept went kaput, but Ummmm, why drop UTV because XBox is doing good? That's apples vs oranges.
The POINT of the post was that PVR marketing. As an aside i pointed out that a geek with MULTIPLE computers could do this np. As a matter of fact I built a computer into my home theater a long time agao for several reasons, and believe me this is no poor man's PVR. what kind of computer capable of theatre sound, video, recording, etc. etc. etc. costs less than a TiVo for christ's sake?!?! The computer is definitely not cheaper for this task. It's just if you've already learned the true enjoyment of a pc centred home entertainment you were doing PVR before TiVo. BTW, the most beautiful part of my system is that it's a full fledged home entertainment center with or without the computer. My DVD player digital out stream goes right into my vid-cap card yee-haa!! All my MP3's gett played on a killer system, I can surf, game, type, whatnot on a 36 inch flat screen WITH killer sound. I mean what's to lose here? Tivo Can't touch that and you call it Poor Man's? Get a clue.
The Tivo and PVR's have shitty marketing IMHO. Primary candidates are geeks, who generally have computers (read plural); and these folks can do the TiVo thing anyway; why buy the unit? Bundle WebTV with TiVo and i think you might have a winner for john q. public.
this has actually been done with much older portable computers (not called laptops then because they'd roast your nuts if you put them in your lap) the one i'm thinking about was called a lunchbox computer. the KB was slight;ly smaller version of a standard qwerty and the CPU was a separate box and so was the monitor. All these pieces snapped together ina rectangular cube with a handle on top, ala lunchbox. (albeit a 15lb lunchbox). the same concept could be applied today but that would require a major deviation from the current form factor which is pretty much one board with all components sitting on top of that board. The price of doing this includes designing the new form factor and marketing it because you'd really want to people to help recoup the fact that you changed your entire manufacturing process to revamp the way laptops look. it could be done, but not by me:)
All this does is conform what i knew already, I"M NOT GOING INTO OUTER SPACE, or even close to it for that matter, hell, i've never even been in a plane. Just wait till you can't fly in an airplane until they confirm you don't lie, hack, drink, do drugs that are deemed illegal, or, for god's sake, have a criminal record. All of which i have done or do (i don't lie anymore, at least)
Implausible? About as implausible as the REALITY of a TiVo. Let's see, I have this here device with a freaking OS and a hard drive that can intercept video, record it, and play it back with whole slew of user contol. Wow, what a concpet, I might be able to improve on that by putting a different OS on the thing and adding a DVD drive. Yeah, sounds REAL implausible. Hell, give me a TiVo and a screwdriver, and a couple of weeks to build thing and I'll show you how implausible it is. I'm currently pulling off the same trick with my computer which i use for a million OTHER things. (Opens FACEBUNG (nice one) and spews contents all over AC)
What we need is an OSS hardware circumvention of MPEG, period. MPEG is great but why should we have to pay to use a freaking format? It's not like we're being given a choice. A hardware solution I'd propose would be a player capable of reading current DVD/VCD/CD/RW but also of playing many formats (.avi,.mov,.whatever) from either a disk, ethernet, external streaming source (USB?). While this can be easily implememnted using a computer as the center of your Home Entertainment, a more consumer-friendly version needs to be available. Considering the hardware requirements of this machine, you could definitely add a hard drive for time-shifting. Also, the OS (Linux?) would need to be flexible enough to allow for patches/updates/plugins toa llow for the new video formats this would definitely spawn. If MPEG had a market saturated with cheaper and free formats of comparable/better quality, this "use fee" would be much more of an intelligent shopper's choice than a force-fed, proprietary, DMCA-creating....rant rant rant.
haha I KNOW i got modded down for not ever being modded down. stupid bitches, mod this one down too you stupid fucks. as much as i add interesting commentary and have never trolled and the 1 time i call a moderation into question i get modded as a troll, haha laughable (that's okay, one day i'll have mod points too, that is the point isn't it to use you mod points to exact revenge?)
this is funny? +3 funny? you lost me there, while humorous, did it deserve a modding of any caliber? oh, yeah, this must be flamebait, mod away. (Amazing cynicism from someone who has yet to be modded down but is still disgusted at the apparent idiocy of MOST mods)
27 contesting vehicles. Wonder what kind of budget you get? I'm thinking ~$2000. But, anyway, you CAN supplement their contribution. Soooo, if you've got a spare hummer laying around they'll be helping you deck it out.:)
if you RTFA (which apparently you did with a lack of attention) you'd know that it's gonna be manned because your three man team requires a person with diving/racing skills/experience.
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Man , I got banned from touching any computer in my school my sophomore year because i had circumvented network security (oooh, i used a msdos boot disk and a righteous use of the F8 key to bypass boot sequences) and was "writing hacker code" in BASIC!!!! In reality, I had not bypassed any security other than to have access to executing files and was trying to learn how to perform complex math functions in BASIC to expediate the electronics equations I could do on paper bu was trying to save time and redundancy. Schools are actually TERRIFIED that you will learn something other than the lies they teach you.
why delete the mp3's, if you OWN the album, you OWN the right to copy them for personal use. It's twits like you who don't even realize "they" are trying to take this right away.
my thoughts exactly, how about a SmoothWall up front and a halted firewall behind?
yeah, and there are how many OTHER video stores BESIDES blockbuster? I haven't rented from blockbuster in over 5 years. I support my local video stores. Blockbuster is just a fraction of movie rental traffic.
personally, i think the simpsons are a form of counter-culture programming much like reading phrack or hightimes.
or maybe i'm not. in fact, i'm out of college with an engineering degree. I'm not self-important, I'm concerned about the sheeple, of which I count myself for I too succumb to the many methods of programming (hell, I'm HERE aren't I?)
so, just like /. you'd have to have stupid "moderators" come fuck everything up because they're pissed that you beat them/are beating them.
this, of course is an attempt at humor, which normally automatically gets anyone a +2 minimum, but this is at the expense of /.'s moderation system, so go ahead you wretched moderators, prove my point in my on-topic comparison, i feel the mod points falling out from under me as i type :).
Yuo didn't answer the question. I will repeat it for you. Once the infrastructure is in place, why would it cost more to Xfer 1GB vs 100MB? My network hub cost me $400, My computer $3000, various Cables/software $1000, ISP for one year $600. Okay, so I have ~$5,000 dollars invested in my new gaming server thingy. Now, I charge my friends to come over and connect to my LAN/Server and play games online. Let's say I charge a $25 a month subscription fee for my Lan/Server access. (BTW, I am fully aware of all legal implications, non-scalar model, etc. etc., this is just a rough example to prove this point)Now, let's say that I suceesfully hook into 25 customers. They sign a one year contract. That's 300 per person in a year. That year I would profit ~$2500. Now, if they used their membership rights everyday or once a month, how did this affect my costs and/or profits?
What is bad? The word "program". If I'm gonna be programmed (they call it that for a REASON), I want to dislike the programming, therefore making myself harder to program. BTW, I don't watch very much TV AT ALL (except the simpsons). When I DO watch TV it appears exactly as it is; programming. I can sit through any sit com and tell you specific moral/ethical objectives male/female societal roles, etc. etc. they are programming people with. Or maybe, I'm really paranoid?
actually, it was pretty on topic, somebody just couldn't handle their ego being raked over the coals. how is noting that a picture of an object, whose size is in question, has no other object placed within it's vicinity to help the viewer gauge that object's size off topic? it's no more off-topic than the comment including the link to the picture! (BTW, the penis jokes were a test of the moderation system which has proven itself to be worthless and slanting, and spinning, and whoa, i just got myself modded down again didn't i?)
we all know looks can be deceiving, and this screams, "I'm Deceptive As Fuck!!!". Please, for god's sake, put something (ruler, cmdrtaco's penis, P4, etc.)next to that so we can get a RELATIVE feel for how big it is (definitely how much BIGGER it is than cmdrtaco's penis).
instead of trying to figure out die size differences i did the math they give you in the F'ING ARTICLE, which you should F'ing READ. Lessee, they currently get 180 P4's off a silicone wafer, and they only get 47 McKinnley's off the same wafer. So, the new chip should be ROUGHLY 4 times the size of a P4. definitely larger than that P75 I would have gladly rescued (unless you burned it up :))
wow, what a comparison. UltimateTV (which I've never heard of, thx) versus XBox (the most anticipated console EVER) sales. Now, I do find it interesting that the bundled concept went kaput, but Ummmm, why drop UTV because XBox is doing good? That's apples vs oranges.
exactly... of course when i said this it wasn't interesting, i got flamed :)
The POINT of the post was that PVR marketing. As an aside i pointed out that a geek with MULTIPLE computers could do this np. As a matter of fact I built a computer into my home theater a long time agao for several reasons, and believe me this is no poor man's PVR. what kind of computer capable of theatre sound, video, recording, etc. etc. etc. costs less than a TiVo for christ's sake?!?! The computer is definitely not cheaper for this task. It's just if you've already learned the true enjoyment of a pc centred home entertainment you were doing PVR before TiVo. BTW, the most beautiful part of my system is that it's a full fledged home entertainment center with or without the computer. My DVD player digital out stream goes right into my vid-cap card yee-haa!! All my MP3's gett played on a killer system, I can surf, game, type, whatnot on a 36 inch flat screen WITH killer sound. I mean what's to lose here? Tivo Can't touch that and you call it Poor Man's? Get a clue.
The Tivo and PVR's have shitty marketing IMHO. Primary candidates are geeks, who generally have computers (read plural); and these folks can do the TiVo thing anyway; why buy the unit? Bundle WebTV with TiVo and i think you might have a winner for john q. public.
this has actually been done with much older portable computers (not called laptops then because they'd roast your nuts if you put them in your lap) the one i'm thinking about was called a lunchbox computer. the KB was slight;ly smaller version of a standard qwerty and the CPU was a separate box and so was the monitor. All these pieces snapped together ina rectangular cube with a handle on top, ala lunchbox. (albeit a 15lb lunchbox). the same concept could be applied today but that would require a major deviation from the current form factor which is pretty much one board with all components sitting on top of that board. The price of doing this includes designing the new form factor and marketing it because you'd really want to people to help recoup the fact that you changed your entire manufacturing process to revamp the way laptops look. it could be done, but not by me :)
All this does is conform what i knew already, I"M NOT GOING INTO OUTER SPACE, or even close to it for that matter, hell, i've never even been in a plane. Just wait till you can't fly in an airplane until they confirm you don't lie, hack, drink, do drugs that are deemed illegal, or, for god's sake, have a criminal record. All of which i have done or do (i don't lie anymore, at least)
That's great, and once their codec is finalized you can add/download/port it to the expandable machine i describe.
Implausible? About as implausible as the REALITY of a TiVo. Let's see, I have this here device with a freaking OS and a hard drive that can intercept video, record it, and play it back with whole slew of user contol. Wow, what a concpet, I might be able to improve on that by putting a different OS on the thing and adding a DVD drive. Yeah, sounds REAL implausible. Hell, give me a TiVo and a screwdriver, and a couple of weeks to build thing and I'll show you how implausible it is. I'm currently pulling off the same trick with my computer which i use for a million OTHER things. (Opens FACEBUNG (nice one) and spews contents all over AC)
What we need is an OSS hardware circumvention of MPEG, period. MPEG is great but why should we have to pay to use a freaking format? It's not like we're being given a choice. A hardware solution I'd propose would be a player capable of reading current DVD/VCD/CD/RW but also of playing many formats (.avi,.mov,.whatever) from either a disk, ethernet, external streaming source (USB?). While this can be easily implememnted using a computer as the center of your Home Entertainment, a more consumer-friendly version needs to be available. Considering the hardware requirements of this machine, you could definitely add a hard drive for time-shifting. Also, the OS (Linux?) would need to be flexible enough to allow for patches/updates/plugins toa llow for the new video formats this would definitely spawn. If MPEG had a market saturated with cheaper and free formats of comparable/better quality, this "use fee" would be much more of an intelligent shopper's choice than a force-fed, proprietary, DMCA-creating....rant rant rant.
haha I KNOW i got modded down for not ever being modded down. stupid bitches, mod this one down too you stupid fucks. as much as i add interesting commentary and have never trolled and the 1 time i call a moderation into question i get modded as a troll, haha laughable (that's okay, one day i'll have mod points too, that is the point isn't it to use you mod points to exact revenge?)
this is funny? +3 funny? you lost me there, while humorous, did it deserve a modding of any caliber? oh, yeah, this must be flamebait, mod away. (Amazing cynicism from someone who has yet to be modded down but is still disgusted at the apparent idiocy of MOST mods)
27 contesting vehicles. Wonder what kind of budget you get? I'm thinking ~$2000. But, anyway, you CAN supplement their contribution. Soooo, if you've got a spare hummer laying around they'll be helping you deck it out. :)
if you RTFA (which apparently you did with a lack of attention) you'd know that it's gonna be manned because your three man team requires a person with diving/racing skills/experience.