If you had you would realize there is nothing IBM could do to turn it into an "un-Free product under their control"
That's bullshit. There are ways around the GPL. And who cares if the source is free or not, if IBM succeeds in being the "one true vendor". The kernel will be GPL, nothing else will.
IBM does not believe in OSS or freedom, they never have. They believe in money.
I'm trying to find them but google image search just gives me 90000000 pages of him just standing at the podium announcing iPods. I've seen them though. Woz trying to look sexy is the most hilarious thing I've ever seen.
IIRC, Jobs and Woz were featured in the same article that these Gates' pictures came from. It was some crap about these young folks who were becoming crazy rich messing with all this new computer stuff.
What do you mean "we"? You didn't have anything to do with it. Why are you trying to steal some credit?
And this is old news, I've seen these before. BFD. There are more embarassing pics of Jobs and Wozniak, although I'm sure you could resist *that* cheap shot.
Why dont you replace the Borg icon with one of these? These are much funnier, and would make/. itself look a little less idiotic.
I've been using computers for longer than a week, and I know what kind of company IBM is, and always has been?
Anything evil or wrong MS has ever done, IBM has already done it - and better.
IBM *will* ruin linux. They will manage to turn it into an un-Free product, under their control. Just wait for it. They sure as hell aren't out to help the community at no cost.
Embrace and extend. Vendor lock-in Forced obsolescense Leveraging OS market position to destroy competition
IBM invented all of that. They've been fucking people over in the industry since the 40s.
Heh, they release 500 absolutely useless patents out of the million or so they own (read through the list, it's useless stuff), and all of a sudden you think they're all lovey-dovey and snuggly.
The machine "tells them" which artists are likely to be hits, so they then put the big money behind those artists, promote the shit out of them - and voila they become hits. The machine "tells them" another artist isn't worth the effort, they don't get any promotion, they dont sell any albums. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It's the promotion and marketing that made them "hits", not the machine. You tell people that Ice T is a gritty talented actor and musician with real street cred enough times, people believe it. They stop seeing him as an ugly lisping tone-deaf idiot.
Hell, I could have a #1 album and be a major movie star within a couple years - all I need is a good publicist, and really deep pockets.
Kudo's to the company that built this machine. They're printing money based on the idiocy of the execs.
It's only marginally more effective than a focus group, or a dartboard.
But my point is - publicity and promotion make stars, not a machine.
Get over it. If you think talent will make you famous, you're wrong.
Replay was a me-too product, in the public's eyes. It was the Creative Nomad, whereas TiVo is the "iPod". TiVo is already in the popular lexicon. Brand name can keep them around.
They are not hack-friendly. The TivoToGo content is locked down via DRM. To burn to DVD-R you have to buy another burning app (essentially a kludged version of the same prassi RecordNow burning software everybody rebrands as their own).
The new 40 hour Series 2.5's (the nightlight models) are locked down so the kernel is cryptographically signed, so you can't do anything with it.
It'd be nice for them to play by the spirit of the OS on which they attempted to build their empire - and release all the code that's on the TiVo box, so we can hack them to get listings from XMLTV, or whatever, and keep using them.
Or roll our own, or roll the code into Myth, or whatever. There's some good stuff there (well besides the DRM)
Instead, they'll go bankrupt, and I'll have a nice combination nightlight and paperweight.
I'm not terribly impressed with MCE. I don't care how much they ship, and I don't care if I'm the only guy with a working Myth box. So far I like what I've been able to get out of Myth. No slashbot can accuse me of being a linux zealot, I just like what Myth does so far.
Myth has a long way to go. Out of the box it isn't there. Like I said, I've been working with it a lot, in the code and setup and whatnot. I plan to return anything worthwhile I come up with back to the project, if it's possible.
I'm thinking of a parts list that any dope could go to CompUSA to buy and assemble, and a bootable ISO, that just makes it work. Take all the OS tinkering out of the middle. To me, this is what linux should be, where it belongs - task oriented distros that do what they do, and do it well. Hell, that's what TiVo is.
If you have something like the PVR350, which has encoder and decoder, you don't need much CPU at all to use it simply as a TiVo-like device. I've read P2 266's working, I bet you could go even lower. Hell the Tivo is like a 33mhz MIPS, isn't it?
Of course, a MythTV box could in theory do so much more: reencode stuff you want to keep in divx in the background, playback any sort of content you want, play games, stream both live tv and content to other clients, put as many tuners in it as there are PCI slots.
I wouldn't compare MythTV to TiVo, I'd be inclined to compare it to Windows MCE. Of course, like all things linux, it's all flexible.
I've been playing with Myth quite a bit, looking to replace my TiVo. I just cant get used to paying 14 bucks a month for the same TV listings I can get for free. That's all their service provides. The fact TiVo won't work without it, is completely artificial.
Nuh uh, it's the boxes lifetime. If the box dies after the warrantee is up, so does the service agreement.
The warrantee is 90 days.
I like the interface on my TiVo, the company are a bunch of jackasses who think it's the middle of the.com boom or something.
Think about it, paying 14 bucks a month for TV listings? That's all the TiVo service provides, other than that, the box is just artificially crippled.
Unless you take the line that I'm paying them for the priveledge of letting them collect my viewing habits to resell to marketters.
Guess I'll get back to working on perfecting my MythTV setup, which I'm already liking better than TiVo. Even with a crappy old frame-grabber card. I'm just holding out for the word that Hauppages PVR500MCE has official ivtv support.
Open the box, screw this DRM'ed TivoToGo crap. Just open an SMB service, or ftp, or some such.
Sell the box at a profit. I'd pay up to 500 bucks for one, that just worked - always, regardless of whether TiVo is still in business. It's still cheaper than rolling my own with MythTV, and a whole lot less of a hassle.
Since that's not what they're going to do, since TivoToGo turned out to be useless - need a custom app to burn to DVD? And it's not out yet? And I'm supposed to buy what is basically the same Prassi/Stomp/Veritas software that I already have three copies of again for another 50 bucks?
Anyways. I like the TiVo interface. Good riddance to the rest of it.
I've been playing with MythTV. As soon as I get it working to my liking, my series 2 TiVo goes up on eBay. I'm getting there, it's nothing but time and effort.
I already know it'll blow TiVo away, it'll stream recorded content and live TV via VideoLan, which I can watch on satellite boxes, which I plan to be no more than some hacked XBoxes. It'll have (at least) two tuners. It'll record to DVD-R without jumping through hoops. It'll grab content from the 'net.
So on an offtopic note, anyone have an idea how support for the Hauppage PVR150MCE and 500MCE is going under ivtv? I got an itch to order the 500MCE (mmm two tuners, two encoders.. all for roughly the price of the 250), becuase it looks like it will be supported soon.. But I don't want to be stuck with a dud.
Because he doesn't like it. So it should be illegal. He probably does like downloading the games for free via suprnova, so that should be legal, right?
Also, because he thinks that TV channels like ESPN are government agencies, and aren't free to licsense whoever the hell they want to use their image.
Yeah, well, welcome to the real world. Where corporations compete.
EA isn't the threat you think it is. I think you'll find that any gaming company has the same stated goals. No one would invest in a company who's long term goal is to be mediocre.
They'll do something stupid and disappear into obscurity for another decade.
Stupid as in pay a ridiculous amount of cash for the ESPN name, which has nothing to do with team names or logos. They just get to use "ESPN" in the game title. Please.
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Considering MS wrote much of the software on it, your latter speculation would be the correct one.
If you had you would realize there is nothing IBM could do to turn it into an "un-Free product under their control"
That's bullshit. There are ways around the GPL. And who cares if the source is free or not, if IBM succeeds in being the "one true vendor". The kernel will be GPL, nothing else will.
IBM does not believe in OSS or freedom, they never have. They believe in money.
That Apple and MSFT compete is pure /. myth. They've always been very cozy with one another. Any "competition" you see is pretty much an illusion.
If Apple wanted to compete with MSFT, they could simply release OSX for the PC, and all of a sudden XP would have real competition.
There's a reason this hasn't, and won't happen, and it isn't because Jobs is afraid of making too much money.
I'm trying to find them but google image search just gives me 90000000 pages of him just standing at the podium announcing iPods. I've seen them though. Woz trying to look sexy is the most hilarious thing I've ever seen.
IIRC, Jobs and Woz were featured in the same article that these Gates' pictures came from. It was some crap about these young folks who were becoming crazy rich messing with all this new computer stuff.
We recently found pictures of a...
/. itself look a little less idiotic.
What do you mean "we"? You didn't have anything to do with it. Why are you trying to steal some credit?
And this is old news, I've seen these before. BFD. There are more embarassing pics of Jobs and Wozniak, although I'm sure you could resist *that* cheap shot.
Why dont you replace the Borg icon with one of these? These are much funnier, and would make
I've been using computers for longer than a week, and I know what kind of company IBM is, and always has been?
Anything evil or wrong MS has ever done, IBM has already done it - and better.
IBM *will* ruin linux. They will manage to turn it into an un-Free product, under their control. Just wait for it. They sure as hell aren't out to help the community at no cost.
Apple-esque... HAHHAHAHAH you're so easily duped.
MS's big flaw is a complete lack of innovation.
For example:
Embrace and extend.
Vendor lock-in
Forced obsolescense
Leveraging OS market position to destroy competition
IBM invented all of that. They've been fucking people over in the industry since the 40s.
Heh, they release 500 absolutely useless patents out of the million or so they own (read through the list, it's useless stuff), and all of a sudden you think they're all lovey-dovey and snuggly.
They can bid like everyone else.
With the twin bastions of evil that are of MS and IBM behind them, I'm sure they can't lose.
The machine "tells them" which artists are likely to be hits, so they then put the big money behind those artists, promote the shit out of them - and voila they become hits. The machine "tells them" another artist isn't worth the effort, they don't get any promotion, they dont sell any albums. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It's the promotion and marketing that made them "hits", not the machine. You tell people that Ice T is a gritty talented actor and musician with real street cred enough times, people believe it. They stop seeing him as an ugly lisping tone-deaf idiot.
Hell, I could have a #1 album and be a major movie star within a couple years - all I need is a good publicist, and really deep pockets.
Kudo's to the company that built this machine. They're printing money based on the idiocy of the execs.
It's only marginally more effective than a focus group, or a dartboard.
But my point is - publicity and promotion make stars, not a machine.
Get over it. If you think talent will make you famous, you're wrong.
Replay was a me-too product, in the public's eyes. It was the Creative Nomad, whereas TiVo is the "iPod". TiVo is already in the popular lexicon. Brand name can keep them around.
In theory.
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back."
John Madden
Not to be confused with the great Yogi Berra:
"Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical."
They are not hack-friendly. The TivoToGo content is locked down via DRM. To burn to DVD-R you have to buy another burning app (essentially a kludged version of the same prassi RecordNow burning software everybody rebrands as their own).
The new 40 hour Series 2.5's (the nightlight models) are locked down so the kernel is cryptographically signed, so you can't do anything with it.
No commercial skip. No nothing.
They're as far from hack-friendly as you can get.
It'd be nice for them to play by the spirit of the OS on which they attempted to build their empire - and release all the code that's on the TiVo box, so we can hack them to get listings from XMLTV, or whatever, and keep using them.
Or roll our own, or roll the code into Myth, or whatever. There's some good stuff there (well besides the DRM)
Instead, they'll go bankrupt, and I'll have a nice combination nightlight and paperweight.
This guys on fire!
The ban on self-service gas stations is a highly combustible issue and makes for some heated debates
It's all so punny I forgot to laugh.
I'm not terribly impressed with MCE. I don't care how much they ship, and I don't care if I'm the only guy with a working Myth box. So far I like what I've been able to get out of Myth. No slashbot can accuse me of being a linux zealot, I just like what Myth does so far.
Myth has a long way to go. Out of the box it isn't there. Like I said, I've been working with it a lot, in the code and setup and whatnot. I plan to return anything worthwhile I come up with back to the project, if it's possible.
I'm thinking of a parts list that any dope could go to CompUSA to buy and assemble, and a bootable ISO, that just makes it work. Take all the OS tinkering out of the middle. To me, this is what linux should be, where it belongs - task oriented distros that do what they do, and do it well. Hell, that's what TiVo is.
If you have something like the PVR350, which has encoder and decoder, you don't need much CPU at all to use it simply as a TiVo-like device. I've read P2 266's working, I bet you could go even lower. Hell the Tivo is like a 33mhz MIPS, isn't it?
Of course, a MythTV box could in theory do so much more: reencode stuff you want to keep in divx in the background, playback any sort of content you want, play games, stream both live tv and content to other clients, put as many tuners in it as there are PCI slots.
I wouldn't compare MythTV to TiVo, I'd be inclined to compare it to Windows MCE. Of course, like all things linux, it's all flexible.
I've been playing with Myth quite a bit, looking to replace my TiVo. I just cant get used to paying 14 bucks a month for the same TV listings I can get for free. That's all their service provides. The fact TiVo won't work without it, is completely artificial.
Nuh uh, it's the boxes lifetime. If the box dies after the warrantee is up, so does the service agreement.
.com boom or something.
The warrantee is 90 days.
I like the interface on my TiVo, the company are a bunch of jackasses who think it's the middle of the
Think about it, paying 14 bucks a month for TV listings? That's all the TiVo service provides, other than that, the box is just artificially crippled.
Unless you take the line that I'm paying them for the priveledge of letting them collect my viewing habits to resell to marketters.
Guess I'll get back to working on perfecting my MythTV setup, which I'm already liking better than TiVo. Even with a crappy old frame-grabber card. I'm just holding out for the word that Hauppages PVR500MCE has official ivtv support.
Ditch the service.
Open the box, screw this DRM'ed TivoToGo crap. Just open an SMB service, or ftp, or some such.
Sell the box at a profit. I'd pay up to 500 bucks for one, that just worked - always, regardless of whether TiVo is still in business. It's still cheaper than rolling my own with MythTV, and a whole lot less of a hassle.
Since that's not what they're going to do, since TivoToGo turned out to be useless - need a custom app to burn to DVD? And it's not out yet? And I'm supposed to buy what is basically the same Prassi/Stomp/Veritas software that I already have three copies of again for another 50 bucks?
Anyways. I like the TiVo interface. Good riddance to the rest of it.
I've been playing with MythTV. As soon as I get it working to my liking, my series 2 TiVo goes up on eBay. I'm getting there, it's nothing but time and effort.
I already know it'll blow TiVo away, it'll stream recorded content and live TV via VideoLan, which I can watch on satellite boxes, which I plan to be no more than some hacked XBoxes. It'll have (at least) two tuners. It'll record to DVD-R without jumping through hoops. It'll grab content from the 'net.
So on an offtopic note, anyone have an idea how support for the Hauppage PVR150MCE and 500MCE is going under ivtv? I got an itch to order the 500MCE (mmm two tuners, two encoders.. all for roughly the price of the 250), becuase it looks like it will be supported soon.. But I don't want to be stuck with a dud.
Because he doesn't like it. So it should be illegal. He probably does like downloading the games for free via suprnova, so that should be legal, right?
Also, because he thinks that TV channels like ESPN are government agencies, and aren't free to licsense whoever the hell they want to use their image.
Yeah, well, welcome to the real world. Where corporations compete.
EA isn't the threat you think it is. I think you'll find that any gaming company has the same stated goals. No one would invest in a company who's long term goal is to be mediocre.
They'll do something stupid and disappear into obscurity for another decade.
Stupid as in pay a ridiculous amount of cash for the ESPN name, which has nothing to do with team names or logos. They just get to use "ESPN" in the game title. Please.
Randy Moss mooned EA and went home in the middle of the third quarter.
And his stupid ass team choked and lost me 20 bucks.
My favorite Madden quote (forget about who): "Here's a guy, who - when he runs - he goes faster!"
You buy a media center PC and special edition DVDs that have a copy of the movie in high definition WMV9.
I know one of the Terminator 2 editions has this, at least.
Or you use it on your PC as the logical successor to DVI.
Yeah, that too.
But realistically, the rules only apply to digital copies. Not analog.
You can capture over your component outputs all day and all night.
The way I see it, if they're (the FCC) going to mandate HDCP and HDMI, they must also mandate component video and analog audio out.
In Soviet Russia, same joke keeps using you!
And I, for one, welcome our same-joke using overlords, as they pour hot grits down Natalie Portmans pants.
???
Profit?