The PVR 350 is not worth it to me until Hauppauge gets off its butt and makes the video decompression work under linux.
I go the $29 route myself. In fact my computer is recording a show at this moment. I don't see the point of paying $150 for a hardware compressor when a CPU powerful enough to do the job costs half of that. Plus I can use any new gee-whiz codec that comes along.
That said, the only problem with Solaris/Intel is it's driver support.
That's also the only Solaris/Intel problem specificially mentioned by Linus in the interview, and the precise reason he called Solaris/Intel a joke.
I happen to be very receptive to this argument, because my biggest problem with Linux is hardware support.
Most of the Linux kernel code is drivers. It's relatively easy to provide stability and integration for only a small base of hardware.
Sun hardware support should be better than Linux, not worse, since closed source and and stable api take away two of the biggest reasons vendors won't support linux.
The only real losses are PA-RISC and Alpha, both of which could be resucitated
I'm wondering why so many people are still loyal to the Alpha and speak of it as if it were a current design. Sure it was faster than a P2 233 way back when, but why does that matter now?
Here's an interesting article on DUI - and how far our founding principles can be bent in such circumstances. I'm not really taking a side on this (and for that matter I don't even drink), but it's interesting to hear both sides.
As for the Supreme Court, no doubt they have the final word on what's legal. But that doesn't always mean they're right.
Actually I seem to remember reading that the number one cause of accidents is people gawking at other accidents.
Oh yeah, right up there with all the other #1 causes of accidents such as aggressive driving, speeding, DUI, and talking on cellphones, which together account for 457% of all accidents on US roadways.
There are a few things that i would count as it's downsides...i often find that i upload almost as much as i download
If it makes you feel any better, your participation is exactly why bittorrent works at all... the one thing that set Bittorret apart from the other p2p protocols was addressing the problem of leeching.
On the other hand, yes, it's uneconomical. In an efficient system, files would be served from nodes on data centers right near the backbone. P2P sends data up to the backbone and back down again, thus doubling the required bandwidth. (Transfer over the backbone itself is almost free; you can buy web hosting at $5/mo for 45 GB of data transfers, try getting that deal to your desktop!)
You know, I just realized something: if you buy a product from Microsoft that they are selling solely as a security product, does that mean you can sue them up the wazoo (and win) if it fails to protect your computer?
Why, no, it means they'll sell you another layer of security programs to protect the security programs that were supposed to protect the OS that was supposed to protect your computer in the first place! Remember the Gary Busey helmet protector protector protector?
Sorry, but leaving a TB of data down for a week until the next scheduled maintenance is not my idea of a solution.
You don't get it. No data is down at all. 80 GB of storage may go down, but the data is already replicated in the other bricks, and accessed in exactly the same way before and after the failure. And scheduled maintainence probably isn't next week, it may be four years from now when the agglomeration dwindles to 75% operational and you junk the whole thing in an upgrade.
Not if each GPU gets only half the memory bandwith it would have with a dedicated memory bank. The two GPUs will surely be accessing the same areas of texture memory for the most part.
I've owned a Palm III, a Palm V, a m515, now a (Palm-OS) Sony TH55, and I'm telling you... I don't think palm is going to make it. I think they will go out of business.
Is there are market for people such as yourself who just want the basics? Sure. But Casio will satisfy that market for $19.99.
Then there's the high-end. To run a whole company based on handhelds, I say you have to own this territory.
Unfortunately, Palm is falling flat. From the Palm V to the m515 was about 3 years and hardly any improvement at all.
So I went over to this Sony TH55, chosing to stick with PalmOS because I have some beloved Palm apps (DateBK) and didn't want the hassle of switching. It has wifi, half-vga screen, camera, microphone... the possibilities are endless. Unfortunately the software, starting with the PalmOS, just doesn't live up to it. The memo pad is STILL limited to 4096 bytes - insane. I was eager to develop apps for this and what do I find? Developer documentation and SDKs for the camera and WiFi are very difficult to find, and different between the Clie and Palm models. Even the onscreen Silkscreen area is managed inconsistently between the two.
And with all this extra functionality, reduced application stability comes with the territory. Yet PalmOS still seems to have no memory protection; resets are a fairly regular occurance. Even the "find" function crashes it frequently!
IMHO Palm has lost. The Cellphone companies will take the bulk of the business, and don't really need Palm. The rest will go to WinCE.
For the moment, yes. But if this box were allowed to exist, it could be easily undercut even now. Within 2-3 years there could be similar boxes for $400, and it would be awfully hard to protest at that point. And the MPAA has virtually nothing to gain from this product.
I guess you are saying all Chinese-made laptops are the same. I don't believe it. I pay more for Thinkpads because I've had such good luck with them. I still have a 233 Mhz thinkpad that sees daily use, because the screen and keyboard are great. The T40 I'm using right now came with a 3 year warranty, not all companies will do that. I'll be sad if Thinkpads go down the tubes.
Yes, I'd like to get cheap RAM, but not at the expense of quality, innovation or stability.
Somehow I don't think price fixing will bolster quality and innovation. And I don't see stability in itself as a good.
As I understand it, the market is dominated by four major players. Will there be three now? Will it eventually become even more of a monopoly? I hope not. It would be to our detriment.
That's no reason to allow price fixing. Id argue price fixing is a form of monopoly, since all the producers act as one to collectively manipulate the market price - in essense forming a monopoly. I'm not worried about the number of producers. Sure the barrier to entry is high, but it's a huge market too. And as few a two competitors is enough to keep things competitive, so long as they really hate each other:) (Intel vs AMD).
In essense, pleading guilty and paying the fines is just good business, in the same way that paying a $35 parking ticket in NYC while on a $2,500 service call is just good business... Sad.
Well wait a minute, what about the 6 months of jail time? That seems like a real punishment, if they actually end up serving it. And if they all serve it at once, it won't be too good for business!
You know what looks disconcerting ot me, there is apparently no way to generate more lift. You pop a balloon, it's gone. You can't do a burn like in a hot air balloon.
I don't know if this is possible, but if you descended from denser air to less dense air, it seems you would lose boyancy. That could be quite a pickle:)
A person who is not affiliated with the government or current administration in any official capacity says that it's his opinion that there needs to be accountability related to the internet and our networking infrastructure, since we greatly, greatly depend on it, so that it isn't a ridiculously easy point of attack, for which even short periods of massive outages can equate to billions of lost virtual dollars, and you're saying that this is "just the first step in limiting people's free speech rights"?
Yes. If the moneygrubbers want a proprietary secure network for their very important business, let them build one. Otherwise they can share with the rest of us. As for this supposed "digital Pearl Harbor" that's supposed to keep us cowering in fear and running to legislation for protection, pull the other one.
"Access to networks like the World Wide Web might need to be limited to those who can show they take security seriously, he said."
Savor the remarkable ignorance and stupidity of that statement, will you? As if we could pass some worldwide mandate that only people who pass our standards can access the WWW. At best, we could cut the US off from the Internet and make our own playpen. It won't happen.
Reading this page is almost making me hope linux never gets popular! It's amazing that the "free software" and "freeware" (crapware) communities have remained so distinct. Having the source code really lays all the cards out on the table.
My homebrew PVR *always* stops a minute short by design, I never miss anything.
If the shows start substantively overlapping, it will affect live viewers as much or more than TiVo users. A human can only watch one show at once, just like a TiVo. (Of course a human WITH a TiVo can finish one show while recording the start of another, then catch up on the second by skipping commercials:) For this reason, I think the trend will be limited.
Can't you sue them for the expenses you incurred because of them?
I don't belive so. You can sue them if they violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act, but this only requires them to fix problems when you alert them; they have no liability for harming you with false information until you take action to make them stop.
In other words, they profit by selling information about you, yet the burden to keep their database accurate is upon you, and you are liable for the inaccuracies.
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I go the $29 route myself. In fact my computer is recording a show at this moment. I don't see the point of paying $150 for a hardware compressor when a CPU powerful enough to do the job costs half of that. Plus I can use any new gee-whiz codec that comes along.
I happen to be very receptive to this argument, because my biggest problem with Linux is hardware support.
Most of the Linux kernel code is drivers. It's relatively easy to provide stability and integration for only a small base of hardware.
Sun hardware support should be better than Linux, not worse, since closed source and and stable api take away two of the biggest reasons vendors won't support linux.
As for the Supreme Court, no doubt they have the final word on what's legal. But that doesn't always mean they're right.
On the other hand, yes, it's uneconomical. In an efficient system, files would be served from nodes on data centers right near the backbone. P2P sends data up to the backbone and back down again, thus doubling the required bandwidth. (Transfer over the backbone itself is almost free; you can buy web hosting at $5/mo for 45 GB of data transfers, try getting that deal to your desktop!)
Not if each GPU gets only half the memory bandwith it would have with a dedicated memory bank. The two GPUs will surely be accessing the same areas of texture memory for the most part.
Is there are market for people such as yourself who just want the basics? Sure. But Casio will satisfy that market for $19.99.
Then there's the high-end. To run a whole company based on handhelds, I say you have to own this territory.
Unfortunately, Palm is falling flat. From the Palm V to the m515 was about 3 years and hardly any improvement at all.
So I went over to this Sony TH55, chosing to stick with PalmOS because I have some beloved Palm apps (DateBK) and didn't want the hassle of switching. It has wifi, half-vga screen, camera, microphone... the possibilities are endless. Unfortunately the software, starting with the PalmOS, just doesn't live up to it. The memo pad is STILL limited to 4096 bytes - insane. I was eager to develop apps for this and what do I find? Developer documentation and SDKs for the camera and WiFi are very difficult to find, and different between the Clie and Palm models. Even the onscreen Silkscreen area is managed inconsistently between the two.
And with all this extra functionality, reduced application stability comes with the territory. Yet PalmOS still seems to have no memory protection; resets are a fairly regular occurance. Even the "find" function crashes it frequently!
IMHO Palm has lost. The Cellphone companies will take the bulk of the business, and don't really need Palm. The rest will go to WinCE.
By that logic, printing books is a bad idea too. There's nothing to stop people from reading them while driving, is there?. Better safe than sorry.
For the moment, yes. But if this box were allowed to exist, it could be easily undercut even now. Within 2-3 years there could be similar boxes for $400, and it would be awfully hard to protest at that point. And the MPAA has virtually nothing to gain from this product.
I guess you are saying all Chinese-made laptops are the same. I don't believe it. I pay more for Thinkpads because I've had such good luck with them. I still have a 233 Mhz thinkpad that sees daily use, because the screen and keyboard are great. The T40 I'm using right now came with a 3 year warranty, not all companies will do that. I'll be sad if Thinkpads go down the tubes.
I'm thinking product placements of Metamucil, Depends undergarments and Viagra.
I don't know if this is possible, but if you descended from denser air to less dense air, it seems you would lose boyancy. That could be quite a pickle :)
The free market does not solve all problems. Dishonesty is one of them.
Name an instance when an accidental release of antibiotics killed tens of thousands of people and you'll have a point.
Reading this page is almost making me hope linux never gets popular! It's amazing that the "free software" and "freeware" (crapware) communities have remained so distinct. Having the source code really lays all the cards out on the table.
If the shows start substantively overlapping, it will affect live viewers as much or more than TiVo users. A human can only watch one show at once, just like a TiVo. (Of course a human WITH a TiVo can finish one show while recording the start of another, then catch up on the second by skipping commercials :) For this reason, I think the trend will be limited.
In other words, they profit by selling information about you, yet the burden to keep their database accurate is upon you, and you are liable for the inaccuracies.
IANAL.