I don't know where you shop but I've seen plenty of TV tuner cards in the $20-$40 range, any of them should work fine.
This is true. I guess I was only considering the creme of the crop Hauppage 250, which includes a hardware decoder/encoder (I think it's both, not sure though).
Do Tivos allow you to watch a show you taped on 1 tivo on another? I don't think the older ones do, but it would really suck if the new ones don't still.
The new ones do.
BTW, I'm considering building a MythTV box *first*, so I can see if it will pass the girlfriend test and be used instead of a Tivo. I would hate to pay $12/mo just for freakin program guides and not have the burn-to-DVD option.
I'll tell you what _this_ consumer wants: an ISP where you pay per megabyte. Unlimited time online, but you pay per megabyte.
That could possibly be the worst thing that could happen. That would undermine the entire internet.
There are so many bad things about it, that I assume you have no idea what your talking about. That would essentially remove the "commons" of the internet (which is basically the main reason it's flourished like it has) and convert it to a 100% producer-consumer model, where we are all consumers that feed off our corporate masters.
In other words, you wish to say goodbye to freedom of information!
good god man. The tv tuner cards alone are $150 EACH. Xboxes are $150. Misc PC parts are hundreds of dollars.
Why not just buy two TiVos and be done with it?
Also, with satellite, wouldn't each tuner card require it's own receiver box? That's another $5/7 per month for each both, and that's only assuming you got them for free on a promotion.
I've installed XP only once, but just like when I have a telnet/ftp/etc service on a Linux box I turned the message service off, It's not rocket science.
No, not the Messenger Service, but Windows Messenger (aka.Net messenger, aka MSN Messenger). It starts all the time and there is no easy way to remove it.
If you are going to apply those rules to one OS you've got to apply it to all OS's. So what you are proposing is that no Linux distro can include any webbrowser of anykind because it's bundling.
If Linux was declared a monopoly by the Supreme Court and was actually a corporation that would benefit from using it's monopoly power to push it's own product, then yes. Monopolies are, by law, held to a different set of rules than the underdog. And it's for good reason--Or should I bring up the AT&T case again?
But since Linux is neither a monopoly or even a company at all, it really doesn't matter. (Of course you can always remove a browser from Linux, but you don't like it when I talk about uninstalling...)
Then you also must not understand the power of "bundling", why it is bad for competition, and why it was a key reason MS was convicted of abusing their monopoly power to gain advantages in other areas of the market.
does having it installed in anyway force the user to ever even using it, does having it installed do anything other than make it convenient for the user out of the box?
Have you installed Windows XP and seen Windows Messenger forced on you at every boot? With no easy way to remove? This is called abusing your monopoly. Just google on the phrase "remove windows messenger xp" and see how convenient people consider this bundling.
I sure as hell would like to be able to use an IE-free windows (as in: unembedded, gone, zip) but I can't, so I have to deal with all the security issues that it exposes. I'm sure some businesses would like to uninstall it as well.
It's not only about "I can't uninstall it." It's about MS using their market dominance to slowly force their products on the world. It doesn't matter if ONE PERSON chooses not to use IE. Since they forced it on every Windows user, a big percentage just use it because it's there, and now look at the result of awful IE-only broken code. Web programmers that choose not to use it THEMSELVES, still have to deal with the result of the public using it. You're telling me that wasn't caused by bundling? Give me a break.
So if it's a problem that MS includes a media player, why isn't it a problem for everybody else?
Because when MS "includes" something, they weld it in to the point that it can't be removed PERIOD, without bringing the whole OS to it's knees. When Linux includes Mozilla, you can completely remove it, install your favorite browser, and the OS still runs. AMAZING!
How anyone cannot understand the difference here is beyond me.
In any case, Toyota and Nissan have been putting out sports cars that Americans have to build 8 cylinders just to keep pace with.
I forgot to mention that the only reason they build them with less cylinders, is because they are taxed by the size of the engine over there. Otherwise, they'd have been building more V8's or bigger, just as other countries have.
They've done some *great* work in keeping the size low but power up in order to keep them cost effective. My favorite example being the Subaru WRX STi with a 2.0 flat four putting out 300hp. That's pretty intense. It would be interesting to see what Japanese motors would look like if this limit wasn't artificially imposed on them.
See, I don't have any problem with imports. Sorry if my post came across that way.
I just think the *S2000* is silly, since it has no torque. I respect the fact that it has a tiny engine that is capable of producting very fast times, but what fun is it when you have to rev it to 9000 to get those times? IMO, torque is where the fun lies!
I'd be plenty happy with something like a RSX Type-S, but the S2000 is just going too far. You got to have SOME torque or you might as well get a superbike.
The problem with the S2000 is the torque--the lack of any.
As Motor Trend said (paraphrasing) "the car is capable of going fast, but only if you treat it like you hate it." Then they described how to get any decent speeds out of it, you basically have to drop the clutch at it's screaming high redline (9000?). They actually did a test where they drove it w/o dropping the clutch at the redline and it's 0-60 times were like that of a minivan.
I'll take a V8 or straight 6 with some torque over that any day...
ince when are you suppossed to let several thousand people die as two flaming towers collapse and just go on as if nothing had happened? You fight back. You kill every damned one of those sons of bitches. It really fuckin' irks me when the liberals here on slashdot have more hatred for Darl McBride than Osama bin Laden. At least Darl isn't a mass murderer.
Since when has Osama Bin Laden been hiding in Iraq?
You're the kind of person that thinks that AT&T should have been allowed to control all the worlds telephones like they did in their golden age. If that wasn't stopped, we'd still be having the same problems they had when telephones first became common--you had to be on the same network to talk to anyone, just like the IM network is now.
How anyone can argue FOR this position is beyond me. Capitalism isn't about taking everything over to the point that competition doesn't stand a chance. It's about making the best product you can for the most profit you can, while staying within the boundaries of the law. This is the entire reason the anti-trust laws came into effect. It is GOOD for the public to put a stop to power abusive monopolies. If the anti-trust laws didn't exist, it would be possible for one company to get into a position to rule over everything like Kings and there would be little to no hope of it ever changing, and innovation and freedom would suffer like never before.
I should have noted that indeed, this *would* be a reasonable thing to trust if the people patching it could actually SEE THE CODE and didn't have to rely on total hack jobs.
Yeah, just install the reverse-engineered, hopefully working this time (unlike the last time where our patch actually made things worse), third party patch from this non-trusted source.
Yeah, I was thinking this guy is a little too anal. You can throw RAM, etc, in a big box, rummage through the stuff frequently, and still have nothing go bad. At a previous job, our spare parts area was nothing more than a big cabinet with some shelves of strewn about parts. Almost nothing in a box or bag, and yet I can't remember a single part going bad.
Not that I condone this sort of disarray or careless storage attitude--I'm just saying the parts don't break easily anymore.
It had nothing to do with Linux.
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I would agree that the Linux install could be easier, but that's not the problem here. The problem is the guy isn't comfortable building a computer.
He didn't even know what a hard drive jumper was until he tried it and the BIOS didn't recognize the drive. He even put a picture of the jumper diagram on his site! Wow, how informative. I mean, the label is on the drive itself!
Clearly, he is not the type to build a computer on his own.
If you try a third time the machine will lock down. To unlock it you need to get a service call from the manufacturer who will also notify the authorities.
Sounds like it's time for a trip to the local Kinko's!
1.) When a link has a target=_blank it opens a new browser instead of a new tab. Cannot express how much this annoys me.
Easily fixed with a user.js preference.
2.) You cannot save a series of tabs to always open everytime you restart the browser.
Opens tabs you want to use, then
Tools -> options -> general -> user current pages
3.) Can't disable gif animation.
Also located in options.
4.) Cannot turn on the tab bar by default or always have it on
Fixed with the TBE or Tab browser preferences extensions
5.) Doesn't have zoom feature or a "always use my stylesheet" feature like opera (this is incredibly handy when dealing with sites that insist on impossible-to-read-text)
I use this daily. "CTRL +" to increase, "CTRL -" to decrease and "CTRL 0" to reset to default. I believe this has been in Mozilla suite for a loooong time now, and it's been in Mozilla Firebird since it was created.
6.) cannot change it's indentity like you can in Opera to, say, IE 6.xx -- this is becoming less and less of a deal as fewer websites I go to at least "require" IE 6.x.
There are two or three extentions that let you change this on the fly.
It seems to me that everything you listed can be done...You just need to check out the first link I gave to texturizer and look at the tips (kind of RTFM), and then click on the extentions link on the side and fill in any gaps.
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So you have no modem/network card/floppy/cd drive in your machine, eh?
Must be pretty limiting!
I just tried it in MPC and yes, you can pause the video with the space bar.
Too bad it won't pass the test of the other scads of exploits for IE.
I don't know where you shop but I've seen plenty of TV tuner cards in the $20-$40 range, any of them should work fine.
This is true. I guess I was only considering the creme of the crop Hauppage 250, which includes a hardware decoder/encoder (I think it's both, not sure though).
Do Tivos allow you to watch a show you taped on 1 tivo on another? I don't think the older ones do, but it would really suck if the new ones don't still.
The new ones do.
BTW, I'm considering building a MythTV box *first*, so I can see if it will pass the girlfriend test and be used instead of a Tivo. I would hate to pay $12/mo just for freakin program guides and not have the burn-to-DVD option.
I'll tell you what _this_ consumer wants: an ISP where you pay per megabyte. Unlimited time online, but you pay per megabyte.
That could possibly be the worst thing that could happen. That would undermine the entire internet.
There are so many bad things about it, that I assume you have no idea what your talking about. That would essentially remove the "commons" of the internet (which is basically the main reason it's flourished like it has) and convert it to a 100% producer-consumer model, where we are all consumers that feed off our corporate masters.
In other words, you wish to say goodbye to freedom of information!
good god man. The tv tuner cards alone are $150 EACH. Xboxes are $150. Misc PC parts are hundreds of dollars.
Why not just buy two TiVos and be done with it?
Also, with satellite, wouldn't each tuner card require it's own receiver box? That's another $5/7 per month for each both, and that's only assuming you got them for free on a promotion.
I've installed XP only once, but just like when I have a telnet/ftp/etc service on a Linux box I turned the message service off, It's not rocket science.
.Net messenger, aka MSN Messenger). It starts all the time and there is no easy way to remove it.
No, not the Messenger Service, but Windows Messenger (aka
If you are going to apply those rules to one OS you've got to apply it to all OS's. So what you are proposing is that no Linux distro can include any webbrowser of anykind because it's bundling.
If Linux was declared a monopoly by the Supreme Court and was actually a corporation that would benefit from using it's monopoly power to push it's own product, then yes. Monopolies are, by law, held to a different set of rules than the underdog. And it's for good reason--Or should I bring up the AT&T case again?
But since Linux is neither a monopoly or even a company at all, it really doesn't matter. (Of course you can always remove a browser from Linux, but you don't like it when I talk about uninstalling...)
Then you also must not understand the power of "bundling", why it is bad for competition, and why it was a key reason MS was convicted of abusing their monopoly power to gain advantages in other areas of the market.
does having it installed in anyway force the user to ever even using it, does having it installed do anything other than make it convenient for the user out of the box?
Have you installed Windows XP and seen Windows Messenger forced on you at every boot? With no easy way to remove? This is called abusing your monopoly. Just google on the phrase "remove windows messenger xp" and see how convenient people consider this bundling.
I sure as hell would like to be able to use an IE-free windows (as in: unembedded, gone, zip) but I can't, so I have to deal with all the security issues that it exposes. I'm sure some businesses would like to uninstall it as well.
It's not only about "I can't uninstall it." It's about MS using their market dominance to slowly force their products on the world. It doesn't matter if ONE PERSON chooses not to use IE. Since they forced it on every Windows user, a big percentage just use it because it's there, and now look at the result of awful IE-only broken code. Web programmers that choose not to use it THEMSELVES, still have to deal with the result of the public using it. You're telling me that wasn't caused by bundling? Give me a break.
I'm sure Windows would be more costly, but the article did say Amazon was moving from Sun to Linux, not from Windows to Linux.
So if it's a problem that MS includes a media player, why isn't it a problem for everybody else?
Because when MS "includes" something, they weld it in to the point that it can't be removed PERIOD, without bringing the whole OS to it's knees. When Linux includes Mozilla, you can completely remove it, install your favorite browser, and the OS still runs. AMAZING!
How anyone cannot understand the difference here is beyond me.
In any case, Toyota and Nissan have been putting out sports cars that Americans have to build 8 cylinders just to keep pace with.
I forgot to mention that the only reason they build them with less cylinders, is because they are taxed by the size of the engine over there. Otherwise, they'd have been building more V8's or bigger, just as other countries have.
They've done some *great* work in keeping the size low but power up in order to keep them cost effective. My favorite example being the Subaru WRX STi with a 2.0 flat four putting out 300hp. That's pretty intense. It would be interesting to see what Japanese motors would look like if this limit wasn't artificially imposed on them.
See, I don't have any problem with imports. Sorry if my post came across that way.
I just think the *S2000* is silly, since it has no torque. I respect the fact that it has a tiny engine that is capable of producting very fast times, but what fun is it when you have to rev it to 9000 to get those times? IMO, torque is where the fun lies!
I'd be plenty happy with something like a RSX Type-S, but the S2000 is just going too far. You got to have SOME torque or you might as well get a superbike.
The problem with the S2000 is the torque--the lack of any.
As Motor Trend said (paraphrasing) "the car is capable of going fast, but only if you treat it like you hate it." Then they described how to get any decent speeds out of it, you basically have to drop the clutch at it's screaming high redline (9000?). They actually did a test where they drove it w/o dropping the clutch at the redline and it's 0-60 times were like that of a minivan.
I'll take a V8 or straight 6 with some torque over that any day...
No kidding! That one line pretty much invalidated the guy's whole comment!
ince when are you suppossed to let several thousand people die as two flaming towers collapse and just go on as if nothing had happened? You fight back. You kill every damned one of those sons of bitches. It really fuckin' irks me when the liberals here on slashdot have more hatred for Darl McBride than Osama bin Laden. At least Darl isn't a mass murderer.
Since when has Osama Bin Laden been hiding in Iraq?
Maybe you'd rather hear it from the President himself:
"No, we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th."
You're the kind of person that thinks that AT&T should have been allowed to control all the worlds telephones like they did in their golden age. If that wasn't stopped, we'd still be having the same problems they had when telephones first became common--you had to be on the same network to talk to anyone, just like the IM network is now.
How anyone can argue FOR this position is beyond me. Capitalism isn't about taking everything over to the point that competition doesn't stand a chance. It's about making the best product you can for the most profit you can, while staying within the boundaries of the law. This is the entire reason the anti-trust laws came into effect. It is GOOD for the public to put a stop to power abusive monopolies. If the anti-trust laws didn't exist, it would be possible for one company to get into a position to rule over everything like Kings and there would be little to no hope of it ever changing, and innovation and freedom would suffer like never before.
I should have noted that indeed, this *would* be a reasonable thing to trust if the people patching it could actually SEE THE CODE and didn't have to rely on total hack jobs.
Yeah, just install the reverse-engineered, hopefully working this time (unlike the last time where our patch actually made things worse), third party patch from this non-trusted source.
Great idea!
Yeah, I was thinking this guy is a little too anal. You can throw RAM, etc, in a big box, rummage through the stuff frequently, and still have nothing go bad. At a previous job, our spare parts area was nothing more than a big cabinet with some shelves of strewn about parts. Almost nothing in a box or bag, and yet I can't remember a single part going bad.
Not that I condone this sort of disarray or careless storage attitude--I'm just saying the parts don't break easily anymore.
I would agree that the Linux install could be easier, but that's not the problem here. The problem is the guy isn't comfortable building a computer.
He didn't even know what a hard drive jumper was until he tried it and the BIOS didn't recognize the drive. He even put a picture of the jumper diagram on his site! Wow, how informative. I mean, the label is on the drive itself!
Clearly, he is not the type to build a computer on his own.
If you try a third time the machine will lock down. To unlock it you need to get a service call from the manufacturer who will also notify the authorities.
Sounds like it's time for a trip to the local Kinko's!
2: Blaster.
The most popular platform, ran by the most people in the world, etc. is bound to have security holes that get exploited
Apache: 67% of web servers.
IIS: 21% of web servers.
Which web server has had CodeRed, CodeRed II, and nimbda worms wreaking havoc? Was it the most popular software or the Microsoft software?
I'm pretty sure this is all here however...
1.) When a link has a target=_blank it opens a new browser instead of a new tab. Cannot express how much this annoys me.
Easily fixed with a user.js preference.
2.) You cannot save a series of tabs to always open everytime you restart the browser.
Opens tabs you want to use, then
Tools -> options -> general -> user current pages
3.) Can't disable gif animation.
Also located in options.
4.) Cannot turn on the tab bar by default or always have it on
Fixed with the TBE or Tab browser preferences extensions
5.) Doesn't have zoom feature or a "always use my stylesheet" feature like opera (this is incredibly handy when dealing with sites that insist on impossible-to-read-text)
I use this daily. "CTRL +" to increase, "CTRL -" to decrease and "CTRL 0" to reset to default. I believe this has been in Mozilla suite for a loooong time now, and it's been in Mozilla Firebird since it was created.
6.) cannot change it's indentity like you can in Opera to, say, IE 6.xx -- this is becoming less and less of a deal as fewer websites I go to at least "require" IE 6.x.
There are two or three extentions that let you change this on the fly.
It seems to me that everything you listed can be done...You just need to check out the first link I gave to texturizer and look at the tips (kind of RTFM), and then click on the extentions link on the side and fill in any gaps.
Of course you only need "4544574 GB" of shared files to join any of the servers.
Ahh, I see this has been posted here since my last visit. Thanks for the update.