Are you using Netscape to make your posts? I mean, before IE ate them for lunch, they were to dominant browser. If they had not re-written Netscape from scratch then most people would still be using it. While IE was adding new features, Netscape was re-writing their software from scratch trying to get existing ones working and got killed by delays, bugs, and bloat they thought they were getting rid of. And Mozilla and Webkit are not both rendering engines. I think you meant Gecko. I view Webkit and Gecko as components of the larger code base. It is not clear if Webkit is better yet, but it is more rare to write something from scratch and have it be successful when there is a working popular piece of code out in the wild that can be re-factored.
Just pointing out history, you can take it or leave it for what it is worth.
I can see why they made the decision, but re-writing the project from scratch was the death of the project right there. As also seen with Netscape, you never ever take a working code base and decide to re-develop it from scratch. Even if it is really really junked up, if it is popular, it will survive the re-factoring or transition little by little to a new language or platform (or UI or what ever). And then you can slap a fancy 2.0 moniker on it.
As another poster has noted, if you set it up and run it Mythtv just works. If you jack with your installation and install updates or new features, then you will be messing with it. (like you would anything that you constantly change)
The difference between Mythtv and paying for a solution is just in the raw power of what you are able to do. My setup has multiple diskless computers at all the tv's in the house served from a central machine and everyone can watch a different recorded program at the same time without commercials (it just automagically skips them). And when away from home you can set programs with a web browser or even stream your music or recorded programs over the web. People have made all kinds of really great add ons to it.
I love it, and could not go back to a barebones and probably DRM'ed PVR package. The Microsoft one stopped recording shows when a network set the broadcast flag recently. I will stick with Mythtv. YMMV.
The most successful strategy I have had for legacy code that I have inherited is encapsulation of the old code into a new framework. I first attempt to build a black box wrapper with an API for what ever the legacy code did (wrap 5000 line loops, etc). Then as I can or need to change it, I take the black box and break it into proper libraries or readable functions (or start over). Have been able to do this for some really large bases of code and have a working system while I re-factored the mess a little at a time.
Actually, these companies are very sensitive to their brands. If you start getting everyone to say Sony sucks and it affects their sales, they will change their behavior. Look at what EA is doing with Spore and DRM.
Really if you want to stop the RIAA you need to start posting hate on the companies that support it. Once you start to hurt their brands and people stop buying their products, because of the negative press, and the RIAA will cease to exist. Everyone hates the RIAA, but no one hates those who fund it yet. So hate on these companies
SONY
WARNER
EMI
UNIVERSAL...
Developers are what make an OS. If you attract the developers to your platform then they will think of things that you never even dreamed of. It is like getting a huge group of software engineers for free to help sell your product. Think of Windows if it only had Word, Excel, and Outlook (and paint).
If I was developing for smartphones that would be the deal breaker for me. Invest a lot of time and effort into some great app and then Apple just up and decides to reject it, because they want to sell theirs with no competition (or they just don't like it)? No way I would work on that platform.
it is bloat. All the random strings to dll's and objects that are never deleted. All of the other random crap that is put in the registry that everyone is afraid to delete because it is voodoo. If you corrupt the registry and cannot get one of the custom software fixes to work you are hosed. On Linux, if you can get to the file system, you can fix it.
wine is able to mimic it's behavior. And everything on linux acts like a file. Have something like that for legacy programs and a protected area for files in the new system.
I hope that everyone that bought Spore joins this lawsuit. Any additional revenue that EA thought they were going to get from the DRM (and that is a big if) has more than been eclipsed by what they are getting ready to pay their lawyers. Hitting EA in the pocketbook is a sure fire way to get them to change their policies and get rid of DRM all together.
Really if you want to stop the RIAA you need to start posting hate on the companies that support it. Once you start to hurt their brands and people stop buying their products because of the negative press, and the RIAA will cease to exist. Everyone hates the RIAA, but no one hates those who fund it yet. So hate on these companies.
stock is like printing money for a company. When they buy back their stock there are less shares out in the wild so they hope the price will go up. If the current price of the stock is significantly less than what they think it is worth, it is a no brainier to buy it back and they get more influence over the company as well (less investors to complain about problems).
What is exactly "act suspicious" anyway. This reminds me of the cola wars in the 80s where you would stand in line and try the blind taste test sodas. Of course, the one they wanted you to pick was from the soda company doing the taste test, plastered on all of the banners, and you would get a prize if you picked that one. Guess what the results always were like that they put in the tv commercials?
I used ipower when I needed a website and they included email for the domain. It included email forwarding that I setup to send to Gmail. Gmail has a feature that you can set an alias and for email you receive that has that domain, you can reply as that email address. For ~$100 per year it was a good deal (but it included a lamp stack that I used for the web page).
ebay in a slimey way, bought their stake in Craigslist from a former Craigslist Employee. Craig would buy them back if he could and Craigslist Stock is not publicly traded so the likelihood of ebay taking over Craigslist is slim and none.
I am very much paying attention. Obama voted for telecom immunity. Obama selected Biden for VP who is a strong supporter of the Patriot Act. The more decisions that Obama makes for the lobbyists and rich establishment, the less it matters who is elected.
Google should build an ebay competitor, this seems really ripe for one. I stopped using ebay and now use craigslist or network and do not know a single person that is currently happy using them and most have outright stopped using ebay.
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Are you using Netscape to make your posts? I mean, before IE ate them for lunch, they were to dominant browser. If they had not re-written Netscape from scratch then most people would still be using it. While IE was adding new features, Netscape was re-writing their software from scratch trying to get existing ones working and got killed by delays, bugs, and bloat they thought they were getting rid of. And Mozilla and Webkit are not both rendering engines. I think you meant Gecko. I view Webkit and Gecko as components of the larger code base. It is not clear if Webkit is better yet, but it is more rare to write something from scratch and have it be successful when there is a working popular piece of code out in the wild that can be re-factored.
Just pointing out history, you can take it or leave it for what it is worth.
I can see why they made the decision, but re-writing the project from scratch was the death of the project right there. As also seen with Netscape, you never ever take a working code base and decide to re-develop it from scratch. Even if it is really really junked up, if it is popular, it will survive the re-factoring or transition little by little to a new language or platform (or UI or what ever). And then you can slap a fancy 2.0 moniker on it.
The whole point is that it is a MMO. If you play with others in a fleet with specialization then the playing field is leveled.
Your problem may be using Access as a database. Ouch.
As another poster has noted, if you set it up and run it Mythtv just works. If you jack with your installation and install updates or new features, then you will be messing with it. (like you would anything that you constantly change)
The difference between Mythtv and paying for a solution is just in the raw power of what you are able to do. My setup has multiple diskless computers at all the tv's in the house served from a central machine and everyone can watch a different recorded program at the same time without commercials (it just automagically skips them). And when away from home you can set programs with a web browser or even stream your music or recorded programs over the web. People have made all kinds of really great add ons to it.
I love it, and could not go back to a barebones and probably DRM'ed PVR package. The Microsoft one stopped recording shows when a network set the broadcast flag recently. I will stick with Mythtv. YMMV.
The most successful strategy I have had for legacy code that I have inherited is encapsulation of the old code into a new framework. I first attempt to build a black box wrapper with an API for what ever the legacy code did (wrap 5000 line loops, etc). Then as I can or need to change it, I take the black box and break it into proper libraries or readable functions (or start over). Have been able to do this for some really large bases of code and have a working system while I re-factored the mess a little at a time.
Actually, these companies are very sensitive to their brands. If you start getting everyone to say Sony sucks and it affects their sales, they will change their behavior. Look at what EA is doing with Spore and DRM.
Really if you want to stop the RIAA you need to start posting hate on the companies that support it. Once you start to hurt their brands and people stop buying their products, because of the negative press, and the RIAA will cease to exist. Everyone hates the RIAA, but no one hates those who fund it yet. So hate on these companies SONY WARNER EMI UNIVERSAL ...
Developers are what make an OS. If you attract the developers to your platform then they will think of things that you never even dreamed of. It is like getting a huge group of software engineers for free to help sell your product. Think of Windows if it only had Word, Excel, and Outlook (and paint).
If I was developing for smartphones that would be the deal breaker for me. Invest a lot of time and effort into some great app and then Apple just up and decides to reject it, because they want to sell theirs with no competition (or they just don't like it)? No way I would work on that platform.
it is bloat. All the random strings to dll's and objects that are never deleted. All of the other random crap that is put in the registry that everyone is afraid to delete because it is voodoo. If you corrupt the registry and cannot get one of the custom software fixes to work you are hosed. On Linux, if you can get to the file system, you can fix it.
wine is able to mimic it's behavior. And everything on linux acts like a file. Have something like that for legacy programs and a protected area for files in the new system.
I hope that everyone that bought Spore joins this lawsuit. Any additional revenue that EA thought they were going to get from the DRM (and that is a big if) has more than been eclipsed by what they are getting ready to pay their lawyers. Hitting EA in the pocketbook is a sure fire way to get them to change their policies and get rid of DRM all together.
They should get rid of the registry all together. It is a wasteland of bloat and causes more problems than it solves.
Really if you want to stop the RIAA you need to start posting hate on the companies that support it. Once you start to hurt their brands and people stop buying their products because of the negative press, and the RIAA will cease to exist. Everyone hates the RIAA, but no one hates those who fund it yet. So hate on these companies.
...
SONY
WARNER
EMI
UNIVERSAL
stock is like printing money for a company. When they buy back their stock there are less shares out in the wild so they hope the price will go up. If the current price of the stock is significantly less than what they think it is worth, it is a no brainier to buy it back and they get more influence over the company as well (less investors to complain about problems).
What is exactly "act suspicious" anyway. This reminds me of the cola wars in the 80s where you would stand in line and try the blind taste test sodas. Of course, the one they wanted you to pick was from the soda company doing the taste test, plastered on all of the banners, and you would get a prize if you picked that one. Guess what the results always were like that they put in the tv commercials?
Wish I had mod points. This is spot on.
I used ipower when I needed a website and they included email for the domain. It included email forwarding that I setup to send to Gmail. Gmail has a feature that you can set an alias and for email you receive that has that domain, you can reply as that email address. For ~$100 per year it was a good deal (but it included a lamp stack that I used for the web page).
ebay in a slimey way, bought their stake in Craigslist from a former Craigslist Employee. Craig would buy them back if he could and Craigslist Stock is not publicly traded so the likelihood of ebay taking over Craigslist is slim and none.
This would require for Microsoft to make regular people and not big Media Corporations their Customer again though.
But Windows 7 is rumored to need a minimum of 8Gb of ram. They are skipping the 4Gb configuration for the wow factor.
I am very much paying attention. Obama voted for telecom immunity. Obama selected Biden for VP who is a strong supporter of the Patriot Act. The more decisions that Obama makes for the lobbyists and rich establishment, the less it matters who is elected.
Google should build an ebay competitor, this seems really ripe for one. I stopped using ebay and now use craigslist or network and do not know a single person that is currently happy using them and most have outright stopped using ebay.
Sony vendor lock-in so they can do this stuff at their whim? Forget it. I will never own a console, they are just an over priced bad deal.