well this apparently: Home entertainment system for playing software designed for play in home computer
Which in more detail is: A dedicated apparatus for playing unmodified prerecorded software in a home computer system, and more particularly an apparatus, housed in a home entertainment system chassis, for playing in a home entertainment environment the existing body of interactive multimedia software that has been formatted and published for compatibility with standard personal computer platforms such as the MPC CD-ROM platform. Video and audio output signals are generated in response to the processing of the multimedia software program, which are fed to the home entertainment system for presentation to an audience. A further aspect is the provision of a "drop & play" feature which automatically initiates playing of multimedia software in a sequence that appears to be similar to playing audio Cds, i.e., without requiring any further action from a user after selecting play. This feature is in part provided by a table containing installation information for each of numerous multimedia software titles; entries in this table are preferably indexed by an identifier that can be uniquely derived from a given CD-ROM or other published multimedia media such as a diskette.
non clickable link cos its 5am here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm &r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5721951.WKU.&OS=PN/5721951&RS=PN/ 5721951%20
So they appear to have patented a the ability to be able to put a pc game into the cosole & have it run automagically
I dont know about the Walmart PC's, but the Lindows PC from evesham in the UK come with a modem, still no monitor though
not that that matters to me though - if i were to get one (theyre £250 over here though) the pci slot would be getting a tv out graphic card to make a nice cheap box for my divx collection;)
with the state of the US judicial system these days, i wouldnt be surprised if it did have the click statement at the end - it might explain why MSFT have managed to get away with so much over the past ?? years
disclaimer: I'm NOT american, so im allowed to make fun of them;)
'Any way you can' in my case means buying the albums (twice in one case *drools over Vitalogy on 12"*),buying the one concert i went to (and getting a vcd of it as well) then getting all the others from p2p/ftp etc
I did have a huge collection of live/rare covers by PJ, all thanks to napster, until partition magic decided to die whilst resizing my music partition to fit linux on, but thats another story........ - About a week after this happened, napster was effectivley shut down & ive never been able to get them back....
Im not too sure what thier stance on p2p etc is, but they released all the live concerts for their last tour - all 70-odd of them!
the good thing about these releases is that there is NO COPYRIGHT anywhere on the cds - Pearl Jam even encouraged copying them between friends & p2p
iirc, their words were something like this:
We're releasing these so anyone can hear our shows - buy the one you went to but beg,steal copy the others if you want them
Theyre also very friendly about personal camcorders at their show & have a HUGE fanbase of vcd traders of their shows - http://www.theskyiscrape.com/
'on the whole most of the "extra" material was usually cut because it adds nothing to the film anyway.'
In LotR:FotR, there was a HUGE amount of the book cut out, not because it added nothing to the film, but because the film would have been ridicously long.
For Example: on FotR, Galadriel's gift-giving scene. (not Gif-Giving as the article says;), galadriel gives the hobbits elven brooches, which are later used to help find the two captured hobbits. Im not sure how peter jackson is going to get round this one as afaik (havent seen the film in a while), hes made no mention of these brooches outside the extra dvd only features..
'Comes with a "Junior" remote that changes the channels and the volume but nothing else to give to my parents when they visit'
i dunno about the rest, but my parents have a sony tv from bout 5 yrs ago that does this - the remote itself is double sided & has a single sided cover that clips over the side you dont want to use
Also the sony video remote has a folding cover that covers all the more complicated funcs, leaving just the stop/play/pause/ffw etc buttons
I dunno if this box has em (/.'ed) but in the shuttle one of these boxes they use a pci riser card to put the pci cards parallel to the motherboard - i was wondering if anyone knew of anywhere that sold these separatly?? (im lookin for one to make a mp3 box in a shorter case)
Puggs
The videos are on sky in the UK
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I dunno if the music channel 'Q' is shown in the US or not, but here in the UK the two songs in the article have been 'available for selection' for weeks . They've done a few others as well (Britney & Eminem for example).
just a random thought - would a company still qualify for the MS OEM reduction, if they sold an OS-less pc, but included a cd of a linux distro, without actually installing it?
Whilst working for BNFL, they showed me a video of a train doing about 100mph into one of their flasks - It hardly had a scratch on it & the train was demolished:) - funniest thing i ever saw IIRC, they also dropped one from pretty high up - same result
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No (s)he means this one:
;)
Darl C Mcbride
1799 Vintage Oak Ln
Salt Lake City, UT
(801) 424-2006
Of course, if your boss says you Must Use Windows, there's not a whole lot you can do. But perhaps this would be an acceptible compromise.
Apart from run Windows in VirtualPC on the OS X thats running in MacOnLinux?
^_~
£15/hr?
I only paid £6 for an hour in one of the Road Chef service stations (Strensham i think, but they all have WiFi now)
They were asking £15 for 24hr
OK OK I take it back.
;)
No software's perfect
OK, so how many of you Apple owners saw this, and reached instantly for the Software Update with glee?
:)
.sig - ... And Mac OS X just gets out of the way, letting you do what you wanted to do...
And how many thought the same when the latest Windows Bloat Patch ^W^WUpdate came along? not many? thought as much
oh the joys of being a proud owner or a 12" PB.....
hmm maybe I need to update my
Whats patentable?
T O1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm &r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5721951.WKU.&OS=PN/5721951&RS=PN/ 5721951%20
well this apparently: Home entertainment system for playing software designed for play in home computer
Which in more detail is:
A dedicated apparatus for playing unmodified prerecorded software in a home computer system, and more particularly an apparatus, housed in a home entertainment system chassis, for playing in a home entertainment environment the existing body of interactive multimedia software that has been formatted and published for compatibility with standard personal computer platforms such as the MPC CD-ROM platform. Video and audio output signals are generated in response to the processing of the multimedia software program, which are fed to the home entertainment system for presentation to an audience. A further aspect is the provision of a "drop & play" feature which automatically initiates playing of multimedia software in a sequence that appears to be similar to playing audio Cds, i.e., without requiring any further action from a user after selecting play. This feature is in part provided by a table containing installation information for each of numerous multimedia software titles; entries in this table are preferably indexed by an identifier that can be uniquely derived from a given CD-ROM or other published multimedia media such as a diskette.
non clickable link cos its 5am here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P
So they appear to have patented a the ability to be able to put a pc game into the cosole & have it run automagically
If only mplayer could get a definitive release and become a bit easier to install...
/path/to/movie/of/choice.avi
easier to install?? redhat8 with apt-get was pretty easy for me
apt-get install mplayer win32codecs ffmpeg mplayer-skins
mplayer -fs
I dont know about the Walmart PC's, but the Lindows PC from evesham in the UK come with a modem, still no monitor though
;)
not that that matters to me though - if i were to get one (theyre £250 over here though) the pci slot would be getting a tv out graphic card to make a nice cheap box for my divx collection
lol
;)
with the state of the US judicial system these days, i wouldnt be surprised if it did have the click statement at the end - it might explain why MSFT have managed to get away with so much over the past ?? years
disclaimer: I'm NOT american, so im allowed to make fun of them
'Honda has even included an Mp3 player in the dash of the new Accord. It only plays mp3 cds though - no hard drive.'
;) .... just so long as it doesnt skip/stop/error quite as much as my mp3-discman does at the moment
WOW!
Looks like my next car's gonna be a honda then
Yeah, that sounds like Eddie ^_^
'Any way you can' in my case means buying the albums (twice in one case *drools over Vitalogy on 12"*),buying the one concert i went to (and getting a vcd of it as well) then getting all the others from p2p/ftp etc
I did have a huge collection of live/rare covers by PJ, all thanks to napster, until partition magic decided to die whilst resizing my music partition to fit linux on, but thats another story........ - About a week after this happened, napster was effectivley shut down & ive never been able to get them back....
Im not too sure what thier stance on p2p etc is, but they released all the live concerts for their last tour - all 70-odd of them! the good thing about these releases is that there is NO COPYRIGHT anywhere on the cds - Pearl Jam even encouraged copying them between friends & p2p iirc, their words were something like this: We're releasing these so anyone can hear our shows - buy the one you went to but beg,steal copy the others if you want them Theyre also very friendly about personal camcorders at their show & have a HUGE fanbase of vcd traders of their shows - http://www.theskyiscrape.com/
looks at his own spam^H^H^H^Hhotmail email:
58% used -
4 messages to me (real emails)
153 spam - in the last week
i keep mine for 1 person who cant seem to figure out how to send my emails to a different address
dont they do that already?
Its not quite CDDB, but a windows app that edits id3 tag from file names & vice-versa
http://www.id3-tagit.de
Download
'on the whole most of the "extra" material was usually cut because it adds nothing to the film anyway.'
;), galadriel gives the hobbits elven brooches, which are later used to help find the two captured hobbits. Im not sure how peter jackson is going to get round this one as afaik (havent seen the film in a while), hes made no mention of these brooches outside the extra dvd only features..
In LotR:FotR, there was a HUGE amount of the book cut out, not because it added nothing to the film, but because the film would have been ridicously long.
For Example: on FotR, Galadriel's gift-giving scene. (not Gif-Giving as the article says
'The L7HD stores audio in Sony's own Atrac3 format rather than the more common MP3 format.'
how can this be an mp3/cd player, when it only playr Atrac3/cd??
'Comes with a "Junior" remote that changes the channels and the volume but nothing else to give to my parents when they visit'
i dunno about the rest, but my parents have a sony tv from bout 5 yrs ago that does this - the remote itself is double sided & has a single sided cover that clips over the side you dont want to use
Also the sony video remote has a folding cover that covers all the more complicated funcs, leaving just the stop/play/pause/ffw etc buttons
*** Off-topic ***
Slighty off topic i know but here goes anyways..
I dunno if this box has em (/.'ed) but in the shuttle one of these boxes they use a pci riser card to put the pci cards parallel to the motherboard - i was wondering if anyone knew of anywhere that sold these separatly?? (im lookin for one to make a mp3 box in a shorter case)
Puggs
I dunno if the music channel 'Q' is shown in the US or not, but here in the UK the two songs in the article have been 'available for selection' for weeks . They've done a few others as well (Britney & Eminem for example).
Maybe they should try it then - id love to see Microsofts response to Walmart stopping selling anything MS
Maybe it'd make BillG realise that he (& MS) arent the centre of the world
just a random thought - would a company still qualify for the MS OEM reduction, if they sold an OS-less pc, but included a cd of a linux distro, without actually installing it?
lol - they never told me about that part
;)
wonder why?
Damn right about the UK movements...
:) - funniest thing i ever saw
Whilst working for BNFL, they showed me a video of a train doing about 100mph into one of their flasks - It hardly had a scratch on it & the train was demolished
IIRC, they also dropped one from pretty high up - same result
I Doubt anyone will read this, but the Angels are actually as mis-translation. They should be be called Disciples, as they are the messengers from God