They're the ones who threw a hissy-fit over the Kindle's text-to-speech capabilities when they were announced maintaining that it constituted a "public performance" and is a violation of copyright. (and a big "ffff-ank you" to the slimeball record/collection agency lawyers who got the ball rolling on that one...)
I have an Atari 400 I still drag out from time to time when I get an itch to play the "definitive" (to me at least!) versions of Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Defender. Bought as a Xmas present when I was 9 which puts it at 28 years old.:)
I also still have my old Apple ][ bought 4 years later with the "CP/M card" and a 300 baud modem. Hmm... I think I'm going to have to some surfing tonight!;)
astroturtle
You can put together a home video security system on the cheap if you can hang a webcam somewhere usefull. I'm running Suse 9.1 on a Celeron 433 with a measley 128MB of ram and a software called motion that does motion detection and can save video or individual images to disk (or off-site) when it does.
When I travel I have the webcam pointed at the enterance and setup to ftp any captured frames to another server. When I'm home I put the software in streaming mode, point the webcam out the window and broadcast my view:
Many European countries have had a system similar to this in place for years. In Portugal it's called the PMB. Unfortunately, as far as I know, many of these systems were (maybe still are - I moved about 1.5 years ago) incompatible.
Slashdot Mirror
They're the ones who threw a hissy-fit over the Kindle's text-to-speech capabilities when they were announced maintaining that it constituted a "public performance" and is a violation of copyright. (and a big "ffff-ank you" to the slimeball record/collection agency lawyers who got the ball rolling on that one...)
Check out:
Amazon Gives In To Ridiculous Authors Guild Claim: Allows Authors To Block Text-To-Speech
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090227/1759173928.shtml
and
Disappointing: Obama Administration Won't Support Treaty For Helping Blind Get Digital Books
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090529/1917545057.shtml
for more...
1 $ now > 1 life later. :(
(Homegoing 1989 - Del Rey Books)
And next we'll engineer them to _want_ to be eaten. *sheesh*
YES, DAMN IT. YES!
They even have a nice virtual tour: http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/tour/default.asp
(BTW I did mention it was definitive to me.)
Later,
astroturtle
I have an Atari 400 I still drag out from time to time when I get an itch to play the "definitive" (to me at least!) versions of Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Defender. Bought as a Xmas present when I was 9 which puts it at 28 years old. :)
I also still have my old Apple ][ bought 4 years later with the "CP/M card" and a 300 baud modem. Hmm... I think I'm going to have to some surfing tonight! ;)
astroturtle
You can put together a home video security system on the cheap if you can hang a webcam somewhere usefull. I'm running Suse 9.1 on a Celeron 433 with a measley 128MB of ram and a software called motion that does motion detection and can save video or individual images to disk (or off-site) when it does.
When I travel I have the webcam pointed at the enterance and setup to ftp any captured frames to another server. When I'm home I put the software in streaming mode, point the webcam out the window and broadcast my view:
http://astroturtle.dyndns.org/
This won't prevent your mom's car getting broken into but I'll give you some ammo to hand over to the cops!
More linux video resorces here: http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
Good luck,
--
Luis Esteves
http://www.astroturtle.com
Many European countries have had a system similar to this in place for years. In Portugal it's called the PMB. Unfortunately, as far as I know, many of these systems were (maybe still are - I moved about 1.5 years ago) incompatible.