It probably has something to do with that first sentence under the word Slashdot at the top of your screen. You seem to be skipping that sentence in favor of the second sentence. Both are what this site is about, not one over the other.
But using a STAR RADIERS cart?!? I would have given him an old 3D Tic Tac Toe cartridge just to keep him from burning in hell.
A Tungsten gets 320x320 resolution out of a screen which is only.3 inches wider. Having owned a Treo 270 for a year now, I can attest that trying to browse the internet on a 160x160 screen is a massive waste of time and a great way to get a detached retina. I think PalmSprings really screwed the pooch in that department. I'm so glad they put that awesome 680x480 camera on there instead. I'm starting to think maybe giving up a thumbpad to get a screen which can actually render a web site is my only option. I guess it's a Samsung SGH-i500
for me.
You are right. Tivo isn't doing well. No PVR is doing well. While they all fight for the scraps in this dinky market, it is dying out from under them. With DVD recorders coming down in price and with functionality closer to traditional VCR's, they are poised to kill the PVR market because the old folks can't wrap their mind around time shifting. They understand concepts like recording onto a physical thing they can remove from the machine and stack on a shelf. They barely understood VCR's until the VCR+ Guide game out, and DVD recorders pander to this limited understanding.
As far as Replay being sued into bankruptcy twice. You MIGHT argue once, but that's a pretty lame excuse for Tivo to use to not include such groundbreaking and enjoyment-enhancing features as commercial skip and show sharing. I can't believe how some people will flaunt the limitations of their device and extol the controls of their parent company as if it were a virtue. "In my country you can't fileshare, but that's a good thing because I know my goverment does it because they care about me and don't want mean laywers to come and get me in trouble". This WILL create a hot market for older Replay boxes which support these features. Sharing shows with buddies is a great, great thing. I've seen many an episode I've missed because of this feature. Maybe with SonicBlue no longer in control, PlanetReplay.com will be able to get their buddy sharing requests back up (fingers crossed).
One last thing: Speaking of a 30 second advance button in the same context as a commercial skip feature is like saying a DVD player has fast forward because it has chapter advance. They do similar things, but they are not anywhere near the same feature. When commercial advance works (which is about 80%-85% of the time in my experience) you can watch a show without even being near the remote and never see a commercial. And when it doesn't work, it usually doesn't work for that show at all, so you can just treat it like the feature is turned off. I guess it's a shame they're taking it out, but I have mine, so the people who weren't early adopters are the real victims I guess.
That's FREEDOM spy!
But seriously, this is nice progress. I think in 3000 years we might be able to make one big enough to use as a jail cell opening barrier. Then we just need to clone William Shatner so he can test it by running into it and making contorted facial expressions.
That article is about Denon/Marantz considering dropping the COMMERCIAL SKIP feature. The 30 second advance is a different feature and I have not seen any mention of it being changed in any way. This whole Tivo/ReplayTV war needs to stop because PVR's as a market is in a tenuous position at best. Stop fighting over such a small slice of the pie and tell all those who don't own one how awesome it is to have *ANY* PVR. Once the user base is large enough to ensure the success of PVR's, you can go back to your fanboy attempts to slam the unit you do not own. I will say that thanks to my Replay 4040 and the DVArchive software I have been able to make a DVD set of Seinfeld and Freaks and Geeks with nothing more than a broadband connection, a home network, a PC and a $250 DVD burner. Not too shabby.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last time I checked, the uranium used in a nuclear power plant is M-I-N-E-D. And I would be the first to admit that the pollution that comes from coal burning electrical plants is unacceptable, but fission reactors are dangerous. There were other accidents that occured in the USSR besides Chernobyl. That's just the only one we (and unfortunately most of the Russians who lived near those plants) got to hear about. We need to pay more for clean energy rather than let supply and demand force us to use the cheapest solution because the cost is hidden in cancer costs down the road.
When was the last time a coal powerplant had a catastrophic failure that endangered all who lived near it? The key for any energy creating plant is to keep the size and scale down to a level where your worst case scenario doesn't involve molten uranium plunging down towards the earth's core. My favorite hydrogen stripping power plant idea is to use bacteria. Once the whole world is being powered by microscopic farts we will all be in a better place!
The way I see it, the real meat of the internet is in the United States. Most of the businesses a hacker is going to want to access are here. Any country which does not allow extradition of its citizens to stand trial in US courts (the easiest courts in the world for a defendant)should simply lose its access to the American addresses of the internet until they change their policies. I think once the money starts talking like that, the Russians and others will quickly allow extradition of suspected hackers to keep their access to American internet sites.
Since they are now CREATING bogus files, this would constitute the most original recording they have made in 20 years.
Matt Groening and Fox are taking this to another level. They are now creating pirate Simpsons T-shirts that look great when you buy them at some shady swap-meet, then fall apart in the washing machine... oh, wait, that's what the LICENCED one did...
The solution that would work best would be one where the Govermnment does not collect any money. If every time you send an e-mail it cost you 1 penny that was paid to the RECIPIENT of the e-mail that would be a zero sum game for most of us but would put spammers out of business (not to mention make me about $10 a week based on the spam that I get). The Government comes in where fraud is evident, like when someone's e-mail account gets commandeered to spam. In that case the ISP of the mail account in question would have to pony up the cost. This would serve to make ISP's more accountable to spammers (overseas as well). What about ISP's in other countries who don't play by the rules?(you listening China?) If you don't play by the rules, your IP gets removed from the trough. The users of that ISP will complain enough to force them to comply. Any solution will have loopholes that need to be fixed before they are exploited, but this seems like a fair solution.
Earth is hit by a weapon from an alien world that is bent on the destruction of our little blue marble. Before they have a chance to finish us off, we earthlings send out our best ship to the alien homeworld on a mission to stop them from killing our planet.
If you don't know whether this is the plotline for Enterprise's next season or the first seaon of Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) you aren't alone.
I didn't hear where Berman talked about Captain Archer getting the Cosmic DNA from the Borg Queen on Xindi's neighboring planet Iscandar and bringing it back to Earth before it's too late, but I'm sure he went over it when I was watching the awesome Babylon5 DVDs.
Your V'ger size is WAY off. According to the script for Star Trek - The Motion Picture shot 91, http://www.geocities.com/ussmunchkin/Star_Trek_I.h tm
V'ger is 82 AU's in diameter. An AU (Astronomical Unit) is the distance from the earth to the sun, or 149,597,870.691 km. That would make V'ger a ridiculously immense 12,267,025,396.662 km in size. Yes that's 12 BILLION as in Carl Freakin' Sagan!
I think this size was so ludicrous that they changed the number to make it WAY smaller for the Directors Cut of ST-TMP that came out on DVD last year. I'd like to see that size chart with the 12.2 billion kilometer V'ger on it.
You're wasting your time. Tivo users don't understand that this is old technology. Let them be happy with their "breakthrough". Let them revel that SonicBlue has sold ReplayTV to Marantz. Tivophiles who derive so much enjoyment about SonicBlue's troubles are like a guy who laughs at another guy on the Titanic "haha, your end is sinking". The PVR market is in trouble. Tivo may be on the end of the Titanic that isn't sinking right now, but soon they'll be swimming around like rats just the same. It's too bad that brand loyalty turns people blind to innovation and the health of the very market that they are supporting.
Share stuff from room to room? Done. Share stuff from PVR to computer? Done. Share stuff with anyone else who can play.mpg files? Done. Why should I have to build my own PVR and hassle with interfacing it with Guide software, when SonicBlue's ReplayTV has been able to do these things since the 4000 series? Some people just like to do things the hard way, I suppose...
Once the Canadian IRS equivalent finds out about this $30,000 and goes after him I don't think you'll find this hobby so attractive. He wasn't busted with 400+ copies of Japanese games. He was selling copies of games that would work on an unchipped PS2 if they had been bought legally. I don't think anyone who mods PS2s and even sells the chips to others under the radar has anything to worry about, it's idiots like this who are blatantly stealing from software companies who will go down and go down hard.
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But using a STAR RADIERS cart?!? I would have given him an old 3D Tic Tac Toe cartridge just to keep him from burning in hell.
A Tungsten gets 320x320 resolution out of a screen which is only .3 inches wider. Having owned a Treo 270 for a year now, I can attest that trying to browse the internet on a 160x160 screen is a massive waste of time and a great way to get a detached retina. I think PalmSprings really screwed the pooch in that department. I'm so glad they put that awesome 680x480 camera on there instead. I'm starting to think maybe giving up a thumbpad to get a screen which can actually render a web site is my only option. I guess it's a Samsung SGH-i500
for me.
As far as Replay being sued into bankruptcy twice. You MIGHT argue once, but that's a pretty lame excuse for Tivo to use to not include such groundbreaking and enjoyment-enhancing features as commercial skip and show sharing. I can't believe how some people will flaunt the limitations of their device and extol the controls of their parent company as if it were a virtue. "In my country you can't fileshare, but that's a good thing because I know my goverment does it because they care about me and don't want mean laywers to come and get me in trouble". This WILL create a hot market for older Replay boxes which support these features. Sharing shows with buddies is a great, great thing. I've seen many an episode I've missed because of this feature. Maybe with SonicBlue no longer in control, PlanetReplay.com will be able to get their buddy sharing requests back up (fingers crossed).
One last thing: Speaking of a 30 second advance button in the same context as a commercial skip feature is like saying a DVD player has fast forward because it has chapter advance. They do similar things, but they are not anywhere near the same feature. When commercial advance works (which is about 80%-85% of the time in my experience) you can watch a show without even being near the remote and never see a commercial. And when it doesn't work, it usually doesn't work for that show at all, so you can just treat it like the feature is turned off. I guess it's a shame they're taking it out, but I have mine, so the people who weren't early adopters are the real victims I guess.
That's FREEDOM spy! But seriously, this is nice progress. I think in 3000 years we might be able to make one big enough to use as a jail cell opening barrier. Then we just need to clone William Shatner so he can test it by running into it and making contorted facial expressions.
I think I will remake Andy Warhol's 8 hour epic "Empire" SHOT-FOR-SHOT!
That article is about Denon/Marantz considering dropping the COMMERCIAL SKIP feature. The 30 second advance is a different feature and I have not seen any mention of it being changed in any way. This whole Tivo/ReplayTV war needs to stop because PVR's as a market is in a tenuous position at best. Stop fighting over such a small slice of the pie and tell all those who don't own one how awesome it is to have *ANY* PVR. Once the user base is large enough to ensure the success of PVR's, you can go back to your fanboy attempts to slam the unit you do not own. I will say that thanks to my Replay 4040 and the DVArchive software I have been able to make a DVD set of Seinfeld and Freaks and Geeks with nothing more than a broadband connection, a home network, a PC and a $250 DVD burner. Not too shabby.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last time I checked, the uranium used in a nuclear power plant is M-I-N-E-D. And I would be the first to admit that the pollution that comes from coal burning electrical plants is unacceptable, but fission reactors are dangerous. There were other accidents that occured in the USSR besides Chernobyl. That's just the only one we (and unfortunately most of the Russians who lived near those plants) got to hear about. We need to pay more for clean energy rather than let supply and demand force us to use the cheapest solution because the cost is hidden in cancer costs down the road.
When was the last time a coal powerplant had a catastrophic failure that endangered all who lived near it? The key for any energy creating plant is to keep the size and scale down to a level where your worst case scenario doesn't involve molten uranium plunging down towards the earth's core. My favorite hydrogen stripping power plant idea is to use bacteria. Once the whole world is being powered by microscopic farts we will all be in a better place!
The way I see it, the real meat of the internet is in the United States. Most of the businesses a hacker is going to want to access are here. Any country which does not allow extradition of its citizens to stand trial in US courts (the easiest courts in the world for a defendant)should simply lose its access to the American addresses of the internet until they change their policies. I think once the money starts talking like that, the Russians and others will quickly allow extradition of suspected hackers to keep their access to American internet sites.
Since they are now CREATING bogus files, this would constitute the most original recording they have made in 20 years. Matt Groening and Fox are taking this to another level. They are now creating pirate Simpsons T-shirts that look great when you buy them at some shady swap-meet, then fall apart in the washing machine... oh, wait, that's what the LICENCED one did...
The solution that would work best would be one where the Govermnment does not collect any money. If every time you send an e-mail it cost you 1 penny that was paid to the RECIPIENT of the e-mail that would be a zero sum game for most of us but would put spammers out of business (not to mention make me about $10 a week based on the spam that I get). The Government comes in where fraud is evident, like when someone's e-mail account gets commandeered to spam. In that case the ISP of the mail account in question would have to pony up the cost. This would serve to make ISP's more accountable to spammers (overseas as well). What about ISP's in other countries who don't play by the rules?(you listening China?) If you don't play by the rules, your IP gets removed from the trough. The users of that ISP will complain enough to force them to comply. Any solution will have loopholes that need to be fixed before they are exploited, but this seems like a fair solution.
Now guess which show this is....
Earth is hit by a weapon from an alien world that is bent on the destruction of our little blue marble. Before they have a chance to finish us off, we earthlings send out our best ship to the alien homeworld on a mission to stop them from killing our planet.
If you don't know whether this is the plotline for Enterprise's next season or the first seaon of Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) you aren't alone.
I didn't hear where Berman talked about Captain Archer getting the Cosmic DNA from the Borg Queen on Xindi's neighboring planet Iscandar and bringing it back to Earth before it's too late, but I'm sure he went over it when I was watching the awesome Babylon5 DVDs.
Your V'ger size is WAY off. According to the script for Star Trek - The Motion Picture shot 91, http://www.geocities.com/ussmunchkin/Star_Trek_I.h tm
V'ger is 82 AU's in diameter. An AU (Astronomical Unit) is the distance from the earth to the sun, or 149,597,870.691 km. That would make V'ger a ridiculously immense 12,267,025,396.662 km in size. Yes that's 12 BILLION as in Carl Freakin' Sagan!
I think this size was so ludicrous that they changed the number to make it WAY smaller for the Directors Cut of ST-TMP that came out on DVD last year. I'd like to see that size chart with the 12.2 billion kilometer V'ger on it.
You're wasting your time. Tivo users don't understand that this is old technology. Let them be happy with their "breakthrough". Let them revel that SonicBlue has sold ReplayTV to Marantz. Tivophiles who derive so much enjoyment about SonicBlue's troubles are like a guy who laughs at another guy on the Titanic "haha, your end is sinking". The PVR market is in trouble. Tivo may be on the end of the Titanic that isn't sinking right now, but soon they'll be swimming around like rats just the same. It's too bad that brand loyalty turns people blind to innovation and the health of the very market that they are supporting.
Share stuff from room to room? Done. Share stuff from PVR to computer? Done. Share stuff with anyone else who can play .mpg files? Done. Why should I have to build my own PVR and hassle with interfacing it with Guide software, when SonicBlue's ReplayTV has been able to do these things since the 4000 series? Some people just like to do things the hard way, I suppose...
Once the Canadian IRS equivalent finds out about this $30,000 and goes after him I don't think you'll find this hobby so attractive. He wasn't busted with 400+ copies of Japanese games. He was selling copies of games that would work on an unchipped PS2 if they had been bought legally. I don't think anyone who mods PS2s and even sells the chips to others under the radar has anything to worry about, it's idiots like this who are blatantly stealing from software companies who will go down and go down hard.