This is a product of the fact that people want to be able to reclaim their time. That is to say, letting a box push information to them at it's own speed is a waste of time and doesn't give them exactly what they want.
The number one example of that is American Idol (don't laugh, my wife likes it). 90% of the live results show is bullshit leading up to "But first, we need to take a commercial break". They must have at least 15 minutes of commercials in a half hour show. With a PVR you just watch it an hour later and fast forward through the commercials. Hour long shows take around 40 minutes to watch. You're saving tons of time.
I switched to TaxCut when they pulled these shenanigans and I am quite happy with the program. The only down side is I have to run it on an old Windoze computer.
I switched to TaxCut last year (because of the DRM fiasco) and found it to be absolutely horrible. I've gone back to TurboTax this year and saved myself from pulling out my hair. Any piece of crap software can do a basic 1040-EZ, but if you start getting complicated deducations and business income then TaxCut takes a shit on you and sucks.
Do we hate DR-DOS or like it this week? Caldera is SCO now right? So these are guys that used to work for the company that became SCO? So, we should hate DR-DOS... I think.
Come on, this is ridiculous. Fusion is impossible. If it was possible, it would stand everything we know to date upon it's head.
Umm, fusion is most certainly NOT impossible. Stand outside tomorrow around noon and look up at the sky. See that big burning thing that hurts your eyes? That's a nuclear fusion reaction.
Bread and circuses. I voted for the guy and I want him out more than anyone at this point. I can't stand politicians that like right to my face about some major issue. You wanna get a blowjob? Fine, but don't lie about it. You want to bomb Iraq cause they tried to kill your daddy? Fine, but don't lie to me about it and say they have WMD. Assclown.
So I went to numerous cd clubs and bought around 400 cds of music and spent every night ripping all that music in and zoning out.
Wow, you're like the RIAA posterboy aren't you? I haven't bought 40 CDs in my entire life, much less 400! I guess some people like audio stimulation. I've been listening to the same 10-15 CDs in my car for the last 8 years and don't mind the supposed lack of variety. It's enough to keep me entertained from point A to point B.
When I want to watch TV I just sit down and choose something to watch from the 120 hours of assorted programs that are sitting on the box at any time without caring when the show was actually scheduled,
The only downside I've had with mine is that I've recorded so much TV I'm starting to see a pattern. There's nothing good on.:-) I've seen basically every episode of all my favorite shows so the only thing left is to wait tediously for the 4-5 hours per week of new content I'm interested in to stream in. Basically that leaves a LOT of time to either watch reruns or use the Internet.
ev1servers.net features as one of Microsoft's case studies. It's possible that there's some kind of Microsoft/SCO/EV1Servers connection...
EV1 is a major dedicated hosting company. Microsoft Windows dedicated servers are probably a huge part of their business. There's no conspiracy there. If you were to buy 3000 Microsoft Windows servers you'd probably be a case study too. Or a head case.. something like that.
Well, unless he put it on his American Express card, I doubt it. Do you think you can just charge back a million dollar (or whatever) services purchase?:-)
Are there any advantages to taking the guts of your X-Box out of it's original case and putting it into some tricked out custom transparent case with neon lighting? No, not really. Bored people do odd things. Gopher has zero use anymore with HTTP and other protocols. It's obsolete.
Many MythTV users have asked the listings providers to provide a pay service to get the listings in a sensible format instead of site scraping - the listings providers just don't want to know about it.
They are working on it: Zap2it Labs. I don't know if MythTV can currently import the data, but from what I've heard the quality of the information they provide over the normal screen-scraping process is much better so they're working on updating mythfilldatabase to support it. I would imagine this would get rid of the requirement for the hokey xmltv stuff which 99% of the time is the reason MythTV breaks mid-release. i.e. Zap2it changes their website one character, xmltv needs to release an entirely new version, MythTV doesn't work right with it so they need a new version, etc. It's a pain in the ass. If we could get the xml stream right from Zap2it in a non-changing format then everyone is happy. I'd gladly pay $5/month for guide data directly from Zap2it provided it was a single fee and not "per-box" or some other stupid licensing.
By the way, for what it's worth, my MythTV 0.14 setup has been the most stable I've ever had. Dual PVR-250 tuners in a dedicated backend system running Debian Sid with 600 gigs of space (4x200GB drives raid-5). The frontend is a Via Epia M10000 Nehemiah box running Minimyth (boots via PXE over the network from a TFTP server so it's entirely diskless and potentially silent, although the Nehemiah board has a CPU fan, others don't. Plug the hardware MPEG-2 decoding on the board works really well now with the latest Minimyth and the open source drivers for the chipset. It's a fun project if you're looking for another reason to get back into playing with Linux other than setting up yet-another Samba or Apache server. If you are squeamish about messing with Linux though, do everyone a favor and stick with your lame TiVo.:-)
Well, whenever you append "&partner=[Anything]" you are in...
Well I wish Slashdot would append that to the links by default. They link to the god damn NY Times so much that they might as well use a partner link. Thankfully kind people like yourself usually post a link within a few comments as long as the moderators don't come along and delete your posts.
I would have thought that maybe having.. 4 or 5 "Free demo songs" and spanning one track from jazz, one classical, one pop-rock and one pop-pop... so people can see something they like and better hear how this newfangled online music actually sounds good on their PC...
Did WinMX suddenly shrivel up and disappear? P2P networks are there to sample the songs before your buy them remember? Go download the songs off of Kazaa or with WinMX/Gnutella/whatever, and then decide if you like them enough to buy them. Quit letting the RIAA and Clear Channel dictate what Americans sample via radio airplay.
If enough people refuse to share, the network becomes *useless* because nobody is there from which to download. It kills the point of peer to peer file sharing.
Well, to be honest, anyone with half a brain in the US that is looking to trade copyrighted material has stopped sharing. It's simply not worth ruining your life over a bunch of crappy songs. There's still plenty to leech from Europe and morons in the US who think they are untouchable though so keep downloading.
say i have abracadabra.com and you have abracadabra.net - which one of us gets abracadabra.mail? Or are we talking abracadabra.com.mail and abracadabra.org.mail?
Or if everyone just implemented SMTP-SPF this would all be irrelevent.
After all, they do OWN Ximian now, that does kinda put them in the GNOME support realm.
That's too bad. I spent years running GNOME and finally got tired of it crashing all the time a few months ago and decided to switch to KDE. It's such a much more pleasantly well-architected environment. Kudos to the KDE developers, you did a great job. All the apps seem to just come together much cleaner, the taskbar integration with programs is much better, etc. For example, Gabber's GNOME taskbar integration doesn't work (supposed to put notification status on the panel), but Psi's works great with KDE. Not to flame either party since they've done a great job with their respective platforms, but KDE just seems to be more polished.
I'll be dead in 100 years so what good will it do me. I'm not seeing a plus to being dead and owning a domain.
This is obviously aimed at companies. I'm sure IBM, GM, Ford, Microsoft, etc. have no intentions of going anywhere and $1000-$3000 for 100 years of domain registration comes out of petty cash for them.
In the nuclear age, having the most powerful military in the world is like being the best boxer in a gunfight.
Well then I guess it's fortunate we have one of the largest nuclear arsenals (if not the largest) on the planet then. Woohoo. Fsck with us, we'll blow you off the map.
The hardest thing in the world is returning an ATM / Credit card. I found one next to a machine from an Alaskian credit union, and I being in washington. I thought to my self, "Hey, I will do the honest thing and try to get this card back to the owner".
I found an ATM card on the ground of the bank it was issued from once and just decided to put it in a bank envelope and stick it in the night deposit box. I hope the guy got it back. It was either that or go on a spending spree since the card doubles as a MasterCard debit card. I guess I'm too honest.
What would you do with a probably $100-$150 paperweight with just Ethernet/serial port connectivity?
Throw it away and buy a new one. Did you just wake up and discover we've gone to a disposable consumer electronics society? If your TV dies you buy a new one. If your radio dies you buy a new one. If your motherboard dies you buy a new one. Be glad you can still replace the motherboard as a component instead of the entire computer being tied to it as a disposable item. Besides, $100-$150 isn't really a lot of money anymore
This is a news article about a search engine, and it would be INTERESTING to know what everyone's favorite search engine is.
Well duh, it's obviously Google. I wasn't even aware there are any other search engines anymore. I figured they went out of business because Google Pwn3d them years ago.
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The number one example of that is American Idol (don't laugh, my wife likes it). 90% of the live results show is bullshit leading up to "But first, we need to take a commercial break". They must have at least 15 minutes of commercials in a half hour show. With a PVR you just watch it an hour later and fast forward through the commercials. Hour long shows take around 40 minutes to watch. You're saving tons of time.
I switched to TaxCut last year (because of the DRM fiasco) and found it to be absolutely horrible. I've gone back to TurboTax this year and saved myself from pulling out my hair. Any piece of crap software can do a basic 1040-EZ, but if you start getting complicated deducations and business income then TaxCut takes a shit on you and sucks.
In what way? I haven't tried it yet, but now I'm curious so I'll have to try it even though my taxes are long since done and filed.
Slashdot should definitely invest in a SCO Linux license this April 1st. Perhaps get OSDN to indemnify all the Linux users.
Do we hate DR-DOS or like it this week? Caldera is SCO now right? So these are guys that used to work for the company that became SCO? So, we should hate DR-DOS... I think.
Umm, fusion is most certainly NOT impossible. Stand outside tomorrow around noon and look up at the sky. See that big burning thing that hurts your eyes? That's a nuclear fusion reaction.
Bread and circuses. I voted for the guy and I want him out more than anyone at this point. I can't stand politicians that like right to my face about some major issue. You wanna get a blowjob? Fine, but don't lie about it. You want to bomb Iraq cause they tried to kill your daddy? Fine, but don't lie to me about it and say they have WMD. Assclown.
Wow, you're like the RIAA posterboy aren't you? I haven't bought 40 CDs in my entire life, much less 400! I guess some people like audio stimulation. I've been listening to the same 10-15 CDs in my car for the last 8 years and don't mind the supposed lack of variety. It's enough to keep me entertained from point A to point B.
The only downside I've had with mine is that I've recorded so much TV I'm starting to see a pattern. There's nothing good on. :-) I've seen basically every episode of all my favorite shows so the only thing left is to wait tediously for the 4-5 hours per week of new content I'm interested in to stream in. Basically that leaves a LOT of time to either watch reruns or use the Internet.
EV1 is a major dedicated hosting company. Microsoft Windows dedicated servers are probably a huge part of their business. There's no conspiracy there. If you were to buy 3000 Microsoft Windows servers you'd probably be a case study too. Or a head case.. something like that.
Well, unless he put it on his American Express card, I doubt it. Do you think you can just charge back a million dollar (or whatever) services purchase? :-)
Are there any advantages to taking the guts of your X-Box out of it's original case and putting it into some tricked out custom transparent case with neon lighting? No, not really. Bored people do odd things. Gopher has zero use anymore with HTTP and other protocols. It's obsolete.
They are working on it: Zap2it Labs. I don't know if MythTV can currently import the data, but from what I've heard the quality of the information they provide over the normal screen-scraping process is much better so they're working on updating mythfilldatabase to support it. I would imagine this would get rid of the requirement for the hokey xmltv stuff which 99% of the time is the reason MythTV breaks mid-release. i.e. Zap2it changes their website one character, xmltv needs to release an entirely new version, MythTV doesn't work right with it so they need a new version, etc. It's a pain in the ass. If we could get the xml stream right from Zap2it in a non-changing format then everyone is happy. I'd gladly pay $5/month for guide data directly from Zap2it provided it was a single fee and not "per-box" or some other stupid licensing.
By the way, for what it's worth, my MythTV 0.14 setup has been the most stable I've ever had. Dual PVR-250 tuners in a dedicated backend system running Debian Sid with 600 gigs of space (4x200GB drives raid-5). The frontend is a Via Epia M10000 Nehemiah box running Minimyth (boots via PXE over the network from a TFTP server so it's entirely diskless and potentially silent, although the Nehemiah board has a CPU fan, others don't. Plug the hardware MPEG-2 decoding on the board works really well now with the latest Minimyth and the open source drivers for the chipset. It's a fun project if you're looking for another reason to get back into playing with Linux other than setting up yet-another Samba or Apache server. If you are squeamish about messing with Linux though, do everyone a favor and stick with your lame TiVo. :-)
Well I wish Slashdot would append that to the links by default. They link to the god damn NY Times so much that they might as well use a partner link. Thankfully kind people like yourself usually post a link within a few comments as long as the moderators don't come along and delete your posts.
Did WinMX suddenly shrivel up and disappear? P2P networks are there to sample the songs before your buy them remember? Go download the songs off of Kazaa or with WinMX/Gnutella/whatever, and then decide if you like them enough to buy them. Quit letting the RIAA and Clear Channel dictate what Americans sample via radio airplay.
Well, to be honest, anyone with half a brain in the US that is looking to trade copyrighted material has stopped sharing. It's simply not worth ruining your life over a bunch of crappy songs. There's still plenty to leech from Europe and morons in the US who think they are untouchable though so keep downloading.
Or if everyone just implemented SMTP-SPF this would all be irrelevent.
That's too bad. I spent years running GNOME and finally got tired of it crashing all the time a few months ago and decided to switch to KDE. It's such a much more pleasantly well-architected environment. Kudos to the KDE developers, you did a great job. All the apps seem to just come together much cleaner, the taskbar integration with programs is much better, etc. For example, Gabber's GNOME taskbar integration doesn't work (supposed to put notification status on the panel), but Psi's works great with KDE. Not to flame either party since they've done a great job with their respective platforms, but KDE just seems to be more polished.
This is obviously aimed at companies. I'm sure IBM, GM, Ford, Microsoft, etc. have no intentions of going anywhere and $1000-$3000 for 100 years of domain registration comes out of petty cash for them.
Good point. DNS will likely be replaced by a huge globally distributed Active Directory implementation by then.
Well then I guess it's fortunate we have one of the largest nuclear arsenals (if not the largest) on the planet then. Woohoo. Fsck with us, we'll blow you off the map.
Remember, it's spelled x86-64.
x86-64 is the AMD architecture that they ripped off of Intel! (or at least it will be in 6 months when Intel's PR department gets done with it).
I found an ATM card on the ground of the bank it was issued from once and just decided to put it in a bank envelope and stick it in the night deposit box. I hope the guy got it back. It was either that or go on a spending spree since the card doubles as a MasterCard debit card. I guess I'm too honest.
Throw it away and buy a new one. Did you just wake up and discover we've gone to a disposable consumer electronics society? If your TV dies you buy a new one. If your radio dies you buy a new one. If your motherboard dies you buy a new one. Be glad you can still replace the motherboard as a component instead of the entire computer being tied to it as a disposable item. Besides, $100-$150 isn't really a lot of money anymore
Well duh, it's obviously Google. I wasn't even aware there are any other search engines anymore. I figured they went out of business because Google Pwn3d them years ago.