OK, I have been leisurely looking at the Media center options now and have a few questions maybe some of you can answer. Do TIVOs provide a way to access the content that is recorded on the drive? So I could say take a football game I recorded band put it on a DVD? Does X-Box media center provide access to the files recorded so I could access and burn to a DVD for later viewing?
Are there many TV shows out there that have copy protection or can I basically record anything that I can view on my TV?
And also, I have a Motorala DCT-6200 digital cable box that has usb and firewire ports. Anybody know what these are for? Can I record content from them?
I guess some of these questions may be better asked in AVS Forum, but I figure someone in here may have some quick answers to them.
This post reminds me of the philosophical question of whether or not true altruism exists. Even if I am performing charitable activities that seem to gain me nothing, one could argue that I am doing it because I like to do it or it makes me happy.
I would imagine in a similar way, you could argue that crime for crimes sake doesn't exist.
Where did you get this stat that they would have a mass equal to the mass of this planet? I don't think just getting rid of the predators would allow this to happen. Other problems would arise like where to get nutrients from, hell, even where to land when they got tired.
So how about the war on Iraq, has he flip flopped at all on that? Like from the time he said something to the effect of if you don't agree with the war in Iraq then don't vote for me (Democratic primaries).
Insightful the parent comment is not. Big name sports programs MAKE their schools enourmous amounts of money. For instance why do you think such a big deal was made about reorganzing the ACC last year. A conference football championship alone, one game, can bring in $12M to the conference and thereby the schools. Big name football programs pack 100k+ seat stadiums 6+ times a year.
Also, a good sports program gets the alumni excited. This then brings the schools more money through booster clubs and donations. Think many people would argue (though maybe not here on slashdot) with your statment that sports programs are pointless and not beneficial.
Seems to me that everything we do in life it to have more fun. Why is technology beneficial to us, because it makes our lives more "fun" or gives us more time to have fun. If it weren't fun why would we want all this technology to extend our boring lives.
The silly notion that we know exactly what to do is also wrong. State your opinion, but don't state that it is fact. This is a good subject, where anybody that states that they "are" right, is probably wrong.
The whole point is we can be ignorant and act like social status has zero effect on educational performance or we can realize that the wrongs of the past have to be corrected some way.
Personally, I am not for reparations, but I think something has to be done to level the playing field. I am not so arrogant to not realize that part of the reason I did so well in school is that I had a comfortable house to go home to and stability in my life.
People who act like there is a level playing field now are lying. Yes, maybe racism isn't such a problem in hiring, but the dire economic circumstances that we have put people in make it much more difficult for people to get to the point where they can be at that hiring table. You can say it isn't fair to penalize people for things they didn't do, the white student enrolling didn't own slaves, but also, the black student enrolling didn't have a choice to the circumstance he was born into (sorry if this sounds racist at all, it really wasn't meant to be)
It behooves all of us to not have entire races living in poverty. If you want to look at it in fiscal terms, poverty breeds crime, not race. And we all pay for crime. Some estute people may say but "Oh, West Virginia is impoverished but doesn't suffer high crime rates", but it is also different when there is land available for people to live on.
Good thing you respond to comments from "certain Americans" with insults on all Americans. I know you have read./ for a while, because you have mastered the anti-American sentiment.
Would be an interesting activity to perform some kind of integration on the light intensity coming from different regions to get a crude estimate of how much energy is used in each region. I know there would be many inaccuracies and that all energy sinks don't emit light, but it would be interesting to see how close you would get to the measured numbers.
Give me a break, of course the conservatives did this because they love the negative publicity they would have to know it would bring. This being modded to the point of interesting is rediculous, all it is is an easy jab against the Bush administration. Most conspiracy theories are rediculous, but this one may take the cake. Maybe, just maybe, there is a way to explain how besides the ever so popular way of bashing the Bush administration. I have no idea how the list works, but maybe it formulates risk based on conditions that include driving records (don't know why it would, unless the had they made the criterion exactly to stop Ted Kennedy from flying!!)
Though worded a little agressively, I agree. Slower doesn't always equate to safer, sometimes people who drive a little faster are much more attentive. If one scans the road they can determine very well the intentions of other drivers and react accordingly.
no the original poser was saying that a software engineer was the only one you could get without at least a BS. He was referring to other engineers such as electrical, mechanical, aerospace,... You get the point.
I have tried accessing slasdot from my cell phone before but my browser said it ran out of memory. Have the people at slashdot ever considered making a cell phone friendly version?
In my locality at least, you don't walk out the voting stations with a copy of your scantron ballot either. I have no idea why things are this way, but I'll just make up a scenario.
Say someone threatens you if you don't vote for a person of their choosing. If you cannot get proof of who you voted for, at least you can lie to them and say that you voted for the person of their choosing even though you didn't. It keeps the election process more secret. With this in mind, maybe what the Diebold machines should do though is print a receipt that is stored in a safe in the election booth, so results can be verified.
I don't know if people are worried this "receipt" would not represent what they selected or what. But even with the scantron type ballots they use now, you have no way of knowing that the scanner correctly reported what you wanted.
Well, as an engineer, i know that most are not required to have a license to work. I am not sure, but I believe that is only in civil engineering because it is believed they can effect peoples well being more than other engineers (not sure why).
With that said, why aren't tuners available that would unleash all the digital content streaming into my cable jack. Are there legal issues, because if I bought a digital tuner, why would I even let the cable company know that I was receiving digital content and pay the extra cost (unless they use an external filter to filter out the digital channel spectrum). Or do they encrypt the channels in some fasion? I have no idea, just curious because you would wonder why they would not increase the channel capability of this card they designed.
then this is an argument of semantics. I know the demodulation technique is the same. But until I can get the same channels available through my cable box, it does not decode like my cable box (to use the original posters words, yes even though it uses the same decoding technique for a subset of channels) With that said, the original poster probably did RTFA (which was my point to begin with) and realized that this card will receive 0 percent of the digital content that currently is only available to receive with his digital cable box. In other words, his complaint though not strictly correctly worded is a valid complaint.
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OK, I have been leisurely looking at the Media center options now and have a few questions maybe some of you can answer. Do TIVOs provide a way to access the content that is recorded on the drive? So I could say take a football game I recorded band put it on a DVD? Does X-Box media center provide access to the files recorded so I could access and burn to a DVD for later viewing?
Are there many TV shows out there that have copy protection or can I basically record anything that I can view on my TV?
And also, I have a Motorala DCT-6200 digital cable box that has usb and firewire ports. Anybody know what these are for? Can I record content from them?
I guess some of these questions may be better asked in AVS Forum, but I figure someone in here may have some quick answers to them.
Or 100 Democrats. May be a new metric. 4 TFlops = 100 BOD (Brains of Democrats).
This post reminds me of the philosophical question of whether or not true altruism exists. Even if I am performing charitable activities that seem to gain me nothing, one could argue that I am doing it because I like to do it or it makes me happy.
I would imagine in a similar way, you could argue that crime for crimes sake doesn't exist.
Can't Al Gore do anything right? No wonder he is so pissed off now.
Where did you get this stat that they would have a mass equal to the mass of this planet? I don't think just getting rid of the predators would allow this to happen. Other problems would arise like where to get nutrients from, hell, even where to land when they got tired.
So how about the war on Iraq, has he flip flopped at all on that? Like from the time he said something to the effect of if you don't agree with the war in Iraq then don't vote for me (Democratic primaries).
I give up. You make zero sense. Guess I am without free thought.
Insightful the parent comment is not. Big name sports programs MAKE their schools enourmous amounts of money. For instance why do you think such a big deal was made about reorganzing the ACC last year. A conference football championship alone, one game, can bring in $12M to the conference and thereby the schools. Big name football programs pack 100k+ seat stadiums 6+ times a year.
Also, a good sports program gets the alumni excited. This then brings the schools more money through booster clubs and donations. Think many people would argue (though maybe not here on slashdot) with your statment that sports programs are pointless and not beneficial.
Is this post suppost to have some kind of meaning? If so, I sure can't decipher it.
Seems to me that everything we do in life it to have more fun. Why is technology beneficial to us, because it makes our lives more "fun" or gives us more time to have fun. If it weren't fun why would we want all this technology to extend our boring lives.
The silly notion that we know exactly what to do is also wrong. State your opinion, but don't state that it is fact. This is a good subject, where anybody that states that they "are" right, is probably wrong.
The whole point is we can be ignorant and act like social status has zero effect on educational performance or we can realize that the wrongs of the past have to be corrected some way.
Personally, I am not for reparations, but I think something has to be done to level the playing field. I am not so arrogant to not realize that part of the reason I did so well in school is that I had a comfortable house to go home to and stability in my life.
People who act like there is a level playing field now are lying. Yes, maybe racism isn't such a problem in hiring, but the dire economic circumstances that we have put people in make it much more difficult for people to get to the point where they can be at that hiring table. You can say it isn't fair to penalize people for things they didn't do, the white student enrolling didn't own slaves, but also, the black student enrolling didn't have a choice to the circumstance he was born into (sorry if this sounds racist at all, it really wasn't meant to be)
It behooves all of us to not have entire races living in poverty. If you want to look at it in fiscal terms, poverty breeds crime, not race. And we all pay for crime. Some estute people may say but "Oh, West Virginia is impoverished but doesn't suffer high crime rates", but it is also different when there is land available for people to live on.
Good thing you respond to comments from "certain Americans" with insults on all Americans. I know you have read ./ for a while, because you have mastered the anti-American sentiment.
You must be from Baltimore. I think Baltimoreans only say "same think" instead of "same thing", don't think they actually write it though.
Would be an interesting activity to perform some kind of integration on the light intensity coming from different regions to get a crude estimate of how much energy is used in each region. I know there would be many inaccuracies and that all energy sinks don't emit light, but it would be interesting to see how close you would get to the measured numbers.
if( Command = "1000!" )
print( 4.0238 x 10^2564 )
end
It is highly optimized code, that is why it computes the number so fast.
Give me a break, of course the conservatives did this because they love the negative publicity they would have to know it would bring. This being modded to the point of interesting is rediculous, all it is is an easy jab against the Bush administration. Most conspiracy theories are rediculous, but this one may take the cake. Maybe, just maybe, there is a way to explain how besides the ever so popular way of bashing the Bush administration. I have no idea how the list works, but maybe it formulates risk based on conditions that include driving records (don't know why it would, unless the had they made the criterion exactly to stop Ted Kennedy from flying!!)
Though worded a little agressively, I agree. Slower doesn't always equate to safer, sometimes people who drive a little faster are much more attentive. If one scans the road they can determine very well the intentions of other drivers and react accordingly.
no the original poser was saying that a software engineer was the only one you could get without at least a BS. He was referring to other engineers such as electrical, mechanical, aerospace,... You get the point.
I have tried accessing slasdot from my cell phone before but my browser said it ran out of memory. Have the people at slashdot ever considered making a cell phone friendly version?
In my locality at least, you don't walk out the voting stations with a copy of your scantron ballot either. I have no idea why things are this way, but I'll just make up a scenario. Say someone threatens you if you don't vote for a person of their choosing. If you cannot get proof of who you voted for, at least you can lie to them and say that you voted for the person of their choosing even though you didn't. It keeps the election process more secret. With this in mind, maybe what the Diebold machines should do though is print a receipt that is stored in a safe in the election booth, so results can be verified. I don't know if people are worried this "receipt" would not represent what they selected or what. But even with the scantron type ballots they use now, you have no way of knowing that the scanner correctly reported what you wanted.
social environment... sorry, found that amusing.
Well, as an engineer, i know that most are not required to have a license to work. I am not sure, but I believe that is only in civil engineering because it is believed they can effect peoples well being more than other engineers (not sure why).
With that said, why aren't tuners available that would unleash all the digital content streaming into my cable jack. Are there legal issues, because if I bought a digital tuner, why would I even let the cable company know that I was receiving digital content and pay the extra cost (unless they use an external filter to filter out the digital channel spectrum). Or do they encrypt the channels in some fasion? I have no idea, just curious because you would wonder why they would not increase the channel capability of this card they designed.
then this is an argument of semantics. I know the demodulation technique is the same. But until I can get the same channels available through my cable box, it does not decode like my cable box (to use the original posters words, yes even though it uses the same decoding technique for a subset of channels) With that said, the original poster probably did RTFA (which was my point to begin with) and realized that this card will receive 0 percent of the digital content that currently is only available to receive with his digital cable box. In other words, his complaint though not strictly correctly worded is a valid complaint.