Circuit city seems to be trying to redefine itself as more of a computer store then a home theater/stereo store. I like the idea actually, they take the heavy commision television salesmen and push them to selling computers.
Here is where the great idea comes in. Circuit city takes some of that linux knowlege and creates a HTPC based on linux. They take any of the free pvr packages, brand them into their own image, bundle some infrared controllers and you have a top notch home theater in a box. Gateway had a great set top media center but they stopped it, I dont think it was being sold in the right channel. I think Circuit City could pull it off though. They could actually have one of these powering their home theater instead of best buy putting media center computers next to... the other computers.
Its an interesting concept. NPR claims to be totally unbiased. They have shows like "all things considered". And honestly they do a good job at it, but personally their new reports seem to have a more condescending tone then what I hear on clear channel newscasts.
I'll admit when I have mod points and i'm on my last day I go to my friends lists and pick from their litter. That XP embedded thing really frustrates me though. Everyone before me was yapping linux linux, and its a good solution. But its just not the only one either.
I got modded up. I got modded up for complete BS I made up in my head. People are still rolling in because its a +5. Does this make me feel special? Kinda, but it also angrys me how much moderation affects peoples response. Why? Because I didn't follow the "Linux rocks, Windows sucks" rule. That pisses me off, so this is to prove that this weeks moderators are morons. How dare I suggest an operating system the guy is already familiar with and direct him to some experts that can supply him with the hardware at a really good price and even help him create his custom operating system image. Mr librarian wants to become a systems administrator!
ha ha, your offtopic. Seriously though I have no idea how many jobs IBM let go. I know IBM laid off jobs and somewhere between now and sept 11th I saw the number 50,000. Ergo IBM laid off 50,000 honest american workers. I dont mean to troll, I just hate statistics. But anways, I guess moderators are mostly republican. (So if I get modded down you'll know why.)...This is funner then I thought.
Didn't they lay of 50,000 over the past 5 years? So 50,000 american jobs leave. 18,000 jobs come back, but only 6,000 american? "Lift your chin up so I can punch you in the face."
Soon to be parted again 9 months after Matrix online goes bust. By the time it comes out people will be more interested in I robot then Matrix.
No offense to the Matrix franchise. But they milked it like mad, and its not even the fact that they exausted it, but that was along time ago and nobody is really talking about the Matrix anymore. If it was just a WB tv show people would stay interested.
But who's gonna pick Matrix online over World of warcraft?
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
Replace your windows shell with some nice snazzy fullscreen interface, use flash even. All you need to do is setup some login system, username and password would... work, but fingerpring scanner would be cooler (which still needs the login as a backup). Launching games is as simple as daemon command prompt mounts. But MOST importantly copy all the profile data from their account (stored on a server) so they dont have to rebuild their keybinds. And safe the profile when they are dont. By profile I mean the.cfg files for the different games, not the windows profile.
Another thing, decorate the hell out of the place. Gameworks is really cool and I bet you can get some really great looking stuff if your creative about it.
Chicks serving drinks in elf suits is important too, I only bring this up last because I assume you already planned for that. But in case you didn't...
XP embedded is just a slimmed down version of XP. It has some extra features like disk write protection where nothing gets written to the hard drive, next reboot the system is restored. Third party programs have been around forever to do this, it just makes it easier when its already done for you. Drivers shouldn't work any different on XPE vs XP. There were some limitations on directx but I think those are gone now. Perhaps you had some trouble using the devices through RDP. But I wouldn't use RDP in this case, XPe has full media player 9 and IE (yes, firefox too). Its not a ce.net system. But my real concern is why the hell your modded offtopic.
Let me give a shout out to my homies at Thinsoft. I dont recomend them.
We had a server go down running that was running BeTwin, we wanted to fix the problem remotely using one of the backup machines. But Thinsoft wouldn't authorize the backup computer. I dont mean the software, we called them up and they said no. I think we actually ended up purchasing another license. But we were done with them and moved on to 2003 servers.
PCP eh? is that pee see pee? Or should I ask for it by the other name? I wanna get this right, I'm afriad if I dont sound knowledgeable enough I wont get a good deal.
I need to have this stuff ready cause I just finished download- err, This guy I know bought a game for xbox, and it was all buggy and stuff so I downloaded the pc version that can be patched, I mean HE downloaded it, uh. So anyway I may need to get ahold of this magic dust so I can bust my way out of handcuffs and go leaping across rooftops.
The suggestions really start to get redundant, I would have stopped at 5.
Hot off the "Tivo vs poor customer support at Best Buy" article... Kinda funny they use the 1st generation screenshot for media center.
Regardless I have a Tivo in the living room and a Media Center in the bedroom. I just like the media center better so i'll respond with my own biased opinion.
But i'd love someone to actually bundle a remote and IR blaster to plug into their computer to work with one of the free linux PVR's.
Offer support for recording high-definition TV as soon as possible, including an immediate announcement of an anticipated delivery date. Offer quad (four) tuners - two for regular broadcasts and two for HDTV. There should never be recording conflicts.
Its in the next beta. But microsoft isn't as sharing with details on the beta, or maybe nobody seems to know how to ask.
Provide easy support for 16:9 widescreen video display, including the development of a generic display driver that will display the Media Center software correctly on almost any 16:9 display. Forcing a plasmato display in 4:3 format for extended periods of time creates screen burn.
Maybe you should fire up that windows update, 16:9 support is great in MCE 2004
Develop simple drag-and-drop archiving of shows to DVD. Words like codecs and drivers and DivX and Sonic DVD and memory buffer error should not be a part of the process.
Agreed, Although the third party support in Media Center is beyond anything Tivo has. Tivo hacks be damned nobody has written a plugin that you can use on tivo while watching TV.
Media Center should handle large media libraries better. In the "instant on" world of today, media libraries (especially music) must be indexed and optimized to create instant entertainment. At present Media Center does not handle large digital media libraries well. Create a "My Radio" option and a "My Radio" guide. If I would like to listen to KFOG's "Live at the Archives" on Wednesday morning at 3 a.m., so be it. If I would like to get a season pass to Howard Stern, great. These files should be saved to MP3 and be portable.
The radio feature is very crippled, but I think this is based on the fact that online radio stations will be the smarter choice for future development. As for large media, media center handles large lists of recorded tv a WHOLE lot better then my Tivo. Especially when making multiple recordings. And their interface for music is... really good?
Improve stability. Media Center should be as stable and error-free as TiVo's Linux-based system.
Damn true, but the only errors I have is download guide data, I dont know if its Media Center's database or they just keep getting corrupt data from their guide source. But it happens alot. Others dont seem to have this problem. But its running windows so it must be unstable, right?
Provide ratings and preferences in the user profile rather than in the files or players. They must also create some kind of suggestions feature similar to Tivo for television and music. One huge step that Microsoft took in the right direction was creating a music ratings feature. At present these ratings must be the same for all users of a computer. If I like Nirvana and my wife prefers Alan Jackson then we are out of luck.
Microsoft telling you what you want to watch? Nobody is falling for that one. Music is strongly tied for all users. But an interesting feature is the My Videos collection can by global, or per user, music and recorded tv will be there very soon.
Provide ratings and simple filtering capabilities for digital photos. If I want to show pictures of John and Alan and Pete and Bob while they are over for dinner then the filter tool in "my pictures" should allows for me to do this. Put them in a folder, your not going to type in "john and alan" with a remote. This idea wouldn't make it on a
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Circuit city seems to be trying to redefine itself as more of a computer store then a home theater/stereo store. I like the idea actually, they take the heavy commision television salesmen and push them to selling computers.
Here is where the great idea comes in. Circuit city takes some of that linux knowlege and creates a HTPC based on linux. They take any of the free pvr packages, brand them into their own image, bundle some infrared controllers and you have a top notch home theater in a box. Gateway had a great set top media center but they stopped it, I dont think it was being sold in the right channel. I think Circuit City could pull it off though. They could actually have one of these powering their home theater instead of best buy putting media center computers next to... the other computers.
Its an interesting concept. NPR claims to be totally unbiased. They have shows like "all things considered". And honestly they do a good job at it, but personally their new reports seem to have a more condescending tone then what I hear on clear channel newscasts.
I'll admit when I have mod points and i'm on my last day I go to my friends lists and pick from their litter.
That XP embedded thing really frustrates me though. Everyone before me was yapping linux linux, and its a good solution. But its just not the only one either.
I got modded up.
I got modded up for complete BS I made up in my head.
People are still rolling in because its a +5.
Does this make me feel special? Kinda, but it also angrys me how much moderation affects peoples response.
Why?
Because I didn't follow the "Linux rocks, Windows sucks" rule. That pisses me off, so this is to prove that this weeks moderators are morons. How dare I suggest an operating system the guy is already familiar with and direct him to some experts that can supply him with the hardware at a really good price and even help him create his custom operating system image. Mr librarian wants to become a systems administrator!
OMG you right, you so smart.
What? no, i'm absolutly unbiased and verified my facts.
Yes I agree that when I no longer need files I can usually delete them without any problems. However this is not always the case.
tehehehe.....
I was gonna mention AO. I can't argue against free leets.
I lied, I got +5. You challenged with proof you get -1.
Whatever party they are, they are really "special"
Maybe we will even out in a few days, but the article will be off the front page and everyone will think i'm right.
Yea? HR Beats Trickery.
Yup, Hungry Losers.
Hardly A New Demographic.
Im not your parent, but thanks for the edutainment.
ha ha, your offtopic. ...This is funner then I thought.
Seriously though I have no idea how many jobs IBM let go. I know IBM laid off jobs and somewhere between now and sept 11th I saw the number 50,000. Ergo IBM laid off 50,000 honest american workers. I dont mean to troll, I just hate statistics. But anways, I guess moderators are mostly republican. (So if I get modded down you'll know why.)
Didn't they lay of 50,000 over the past 5 years?
So 50,000 american jobs leave. 18,000 jobs come back, but only 6,000 american? "Lift your chin up so I can punch you in the face."
Soon to be parted again 9 months after Matrix online goes bust.
By the time it comes out people will be more interested in I robot then Matrix.
No offense to the Matrix franchise. But they milked it like mad, and its not even the fact that they exausted it, but that was along time ago and nobody is really talking about the Matrix anymore. If it was just a WB tv show people would stay interested.
But who's gonna pick Matrix online over World of warcraft?
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
Replace your windows shell with some nice snazzy fullscreen interface, use flash even. All you need to do is setup some login system, username and password would... work, but fingerpring scanner would be cooler (which still needs the login as a backup). Launching games is as simple as daemon command prompt mounts. But MOST importantly copy all the profile data from their account (stored on a server) so they dont have to rebuild their keybinds. And safe the profile when they are dont. By profile I mean the .cfg files for the different games, not the windows profile.
Another thing, decorate the hell out of the place. Gameworks is really cool and I bet you can get some really great looking stuff if your creative about it.
Chicks serving drinks in elf suits is important too, I only bring this up last because I assume you already planned for that. But in case you didn't...
Does tux racer run on BSD?
Thats what I was holding out for before I switch.
eeek,
If you happen to get a better antenna could you be arrested for having WMD?
Here is the fix:
http
might take a while... and I could use some help...
XP embedded is just a slimmed down version of XP. It has some extra features like disk write protection where nothing gets written to the hard drive, next reboot the system is restored. Third party programs have been around forever to do this, it just makes it easier when its already done for you.
Drivers shouldn't work any different on XPE vs XP. There were some limitations on directx but I think those are gone now. Perhaps you had some trouble using the devices through RDP. But I wouldn't use RDP in this case, XPe has full media player 9 and IE (yes, firefox too). Its not a ce.net system.
But my real concern is why the hell your modded offtopic.
Let me give a shout out to my homies at Thinsoft.
I dont recomend them.
We had a server go down running that was running BeTwin, we wanted to fix the problem remotely using one of the backup machines. But Thinsoft wouldn't authorize the backup computer. I dont mean the software, we called them up and they said no. I think we actually ended up purchasing another license. But we were done with them and moved on to 2003 servers.
The world has trolled you.
Renember when we used to call thin clients "dumb terminals"?
Then they seemed to be uncool.
Now they call them "smart displays". Still uncool mostly.
XP embedded would be a good choice.
These guys can help you out: http://www.visionbank.com/eng/index.html
But, whatever, sounds like you want everyone to congratulate you for wanting to use linux.
now THATS cool!
PCP eh? is that pee see pee? Or should I ask for it by the other name? I wanna get this right, I'm afriad if I dont sound knowledgeable enough I wont get a good deal.
I need to have this stuff ready cause I just finished download- err,
This guy I know bought a game for xbox, and it was all buggy and stuff so I downloaded the pc version that can be patched, I mean HE downloaded it, uh. So anyway I may need to get ahold of this magic dust so I can bust my way out of handcuffs and go leaping across rooftops.
The suggestions really start to get redundant, I would have stopped at 5.
Hot off the "Tivo vs poor customer support at Best Buy" article... Kinda funny they use the 1st generation screenshot for media center.
Regardless I have a Tivo in the living room and a Media Center in the bedroom. I just like the media center better so i'll respond with my own biased opinion.
But i'd love someone to actually bundle a remote and IR blaster to plug into their computer to work with one of the free linux PVR's.
Offer support for recording high-definition TV as soon as possible, including an immediate announcement of an anticipated delivery date.
Offer quad (four) tuners - two for regular broadcasts and two for HDTV. There should never be recording conflicts.
Its in the next beta. But microsoft isn't as sharing with details on the beta, or maybe nobody seems to know how to ask.
Provide easy support for 16:9 widescreen video display, including the development of a generic display driver that will display the Media Center software correctly on almost any 16:9 display. Forcing a plasmato display in 4:3 format for extended periods of time creates screen burn.
Maybe you should fire up that windows update, 16:9 support is great in MCE 2004
Develop simple drag-and-drop archiving of shows to DVD. Words like codecs and drivers and DivX and Sonic DVD and memory buffer error should not be a part of the process.
Agreed, Although the third party support in Media Center is beyond anything Tivo has. Tivo hacks be damned nobody has written a plugin that you can use on tivo while watching TV.
Media Center should handle large media libraries better. In the "instant on" world of today, media libraries (especially music) must be indexed and optimized to create instant entertainment. At present Media Center does not handle large digital media libraries well.
Create a "My Radio" option and a "My Radio" guide. If I would like to listen to KFOG's "Live at the Archives" on Wednesday morning at 3 a.m., so be it. If I would like to get a season pass to Howard Stern, great. These files should be saved to MP3 and be portable.
The radio feature is very crippled, but I think this is based on the fact that online radio stations will be the smarter choice for future development.
As for large media, media center handles large lists of recorded tv a WHOLE lot better then my Tivo. Especially when making multiple recordings. And their interface for music is... really good?
Improve stability. Media Center should be as stable and error-free as TiVo's Linux-based system.
Damn true, but the only errors I have is download guide data, I dont know if its Media Center's database or they just keep getting corrupt data from their guide source. But it happens alot. Others dont seem to have this problem. But its running windows so it must be unstable, right?
Provide ratings and preferences in the user profile rather than in the files or players. They must also create some kind of suggestions feature similar to Tivo for television and music. One huge step that Microsoft took in the right direction was creating a music ratings feature. At present these ratings must be the same for all users of a computer. If I like Nirvana and my wife prefers Alan Jackson then we are out of luck.
Microsoft telling you what you want to watch? Nobody is falling for that one. Music is strongly tied for all users. But an interesting feature is the My Videos collection can by global, or per user, music and recorded tv will be there very soon.
Provide ratings and simple filtering capabilities for digital photos. If I want to show pictures of John and Alan and Pete and Bob while they are over for dinner then the filter tool in "my pictures" should allows for me to do this. Put them in a folder, your not going to type in "john and alan" with a remote. This idea wouldn't make it on a
In other news Regan has announced a "War on piracy".