But is this legal? I'd like to watch my legally purchased DVDs on my Linux box, but it seems I have to break the law by using the decss routines to do it.
Say what you will about MS.... But Dungeon Siege is to Diablo II what Quake was to Doom. Fully 3D. Better graphics, characters, game play and story. Plus the ability to control a large group instead of just one character.
Except that I could play Diablo II just fine through a firewall performing NAT, but the MS Direct Play crap didn't work at all unless I opened inbound ports and did manual static mappings. Screw that. I threw the game away after getting bored with the single player game and just went back to Diablo II.
Its also cheaper as I don't have to fork out for "new" technology. If I was you I'd be saving my money for the coming recession....;-)
There is no recession. The economy is booming. Talk of a recession is perpetrated by liberal anti-war hippies looking for an excuse they can pin on our President. The left-coast geeks are committing suicide by the thousands outside the halls of our unemployment offices in their attempts to loot our national treasury of precious funds. I will take you to a San Francisco homeless shelter where our jobs program have completely eliminated all poverty... IN ONE HOUR!
When you say PC, you mean the machine you have right now on your desk, right? You don't mean the machine that will be available in 2005, because those are two very, and probably incompatible to some extent, things.
2005 is only 2 years away. It's not like we're talking different decades. I can run Windows XP just fine on a machine I purchased in 1999 which is now 4 years old. So yes, I very much do expect Windows 2005 to run on my current machine.
Every day, someone builds a shorter wavelength blue laser, and someone else builds a better compression algorithm, or even a better copy-prevention scheme. How long until the DVD format is revamped or replaced? Will the new players play the old discs?
Honestly? I think you're forgetting the crucial thing. Once you convert the old analog tape into a digital format you can store it anywhere and make unlimited "perfect" copies. Will MPEG-2 be around in 20 years? Most likely. It won't be the newest and greatest codec to use but you'll still be able to read and/or transcode it. So, make your DVD collection now and in 10 years re-evaluate what the current situation is as far as storage media.
The XBOX will now come with a monitor, an HP label, and Windows XP. Yay!
Microsoft is never going to be really successful until they tap the huge potential market of monthly subscription based services. Why sell Windows XP for a one-time fee when you can charge people $5-$10/month for the privilege of running their computer? Hell, TiVo people pay this to get guide information, why wouldn't it work for Microsoft who is providing you an entire operating system, patches and upgrades, and maybe some other value added services like online content via MSN.com?
How about we focus on getting things out into space first, then we worry about being able to get pr0n to them?
Why else would they need Internet access if it wasn't to view pornography? I'm sure they could find a much more efficient way to transmit telemetry, messages, and video than the Internet you know. Porn on the other hand... It's harder to justify to the tax payers why the astronauts need a high speed porn network uplink. If you say it's for Internet access then they will usually buy it.
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Really? Wow. I thought XP hasn't been out for more than a year or two at most? And Win95 sure didn't have a journaling filesystem.
NT 3.5 did though. Quit sticking your foot in your mouth. Concede the stupid point already. Yes, Windows NT had a journaling file system before Linux did, mainly because it needed it. All those reboots due to crashes really hose up your filesystem you know. Having a journaling filesystem helps you recover easier.
Like somebody else said, that's a bad analogy. It's more like replacing the radiator with your new Zalman radiator, it not being hooked up correctly causing your engine to fry and YOU demanding your engine be replaced under the original manufacturer's warranty. Wait until the warranty is up and then start putting your custom shit on it like everyone else. For example, if you bought a TiVo would you crack it open on day 1 to replace the hard disks with larger ones and thus void your warranty? Probably huh?
It's also much slower compared to a PIII or even a Celeron of similar clock speed. People complain they can barely decode and play DVDs on the highest speed Via Eden processors. It seemed nice at first for a HTPC, but Linux support is apparently quite lacking so I went the micro-atx route and went with an Athlon. Should be interesting to keep it quiet and cool. Hopefully those Zalman flower coolers actually work.;-)
Are they doing this because we all laughed about their stupid United Linux distribution? This seems a far cry from the Caldera days. What kind of asshats are running SCO these days?
They can still use "Mozilla Firebird" and "Firebird Browser" name perfectly legally, so why don't the people at Mozilla do the upstanding thing and stop blocking on the issue, and just end the issue
I'm not sure why this is even an issue. Like you said, why don't the Mozilla projects just add Mozilla to the front of them? Mozilla Firebird, Mozilla Camino, etc. Then Mozilla would just be Mozilla. They'd get the added benefit of Mozilla brand recognition. I tell a lot of people about Camino (formerly Chimera) on MacOS X and they haved no idea what it is until I say something like "It's basically Mozilla Lite with an Aqua interface".
Come on! No Linux gamer with his stuffed penguin would say that it is possible for him to be satisfied with what is commercially available for Linux.
The only thing that is more pathetic than a Mac gamer is someone who claims to be a Linux gamer. Let's face it, if you want to play games then you need to run Windows. Like people in the TiVo thread keep saying... why waste time building a homebrew PVR when you can just buy a TiVo? Use the best product for the job. Windows is the absolute best OS out there for gaming at this point unless you want to play on a console.
I wish there was more interesting stuff on Slashdot instead of things that should be on some gamer site. Like maybe an article on whether it's better to build a PVR or to just buy a TiVo. Or maybe one comparing TiVos to ReplayTV.
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I'd like to see an open source PVR software package with TiVo-like abilities and user-supplied listings... like the old CDDB before it got corpritized. It would be a lot of work, but I think it could work if there were enough users.
Well, if you've got a Debian Linux box sitting around and a supported tuner, just apt-get mythtv.:-) It was pretty simple to setup and I've got my computer in the basement recording shows for me all the time. The trouble is finding time to go down and watch them. I really need to work on a front end machine for my living room to make it worthwhile to do this.
And isn't the whole purpose of TV to get as many people as possible to watch your program? Why would they want to prevent you from trading episodes with others?
Absolutely not. The whole purpose of TV is to get as many people as possible to watch the ads during your program. It has always been that way since the first day a "sponsor" stuck their name on a television or radio program decades ago. The content is just something you use to draw people to look at your ads. Since trading shows among your friends (most likely with the ads cut out) doesn't draw any ad revenue, to the TV networks it technically IS stealing from them. I still hate advertising no matter what form it takes. There's gotta be a better way to make money on something.
Well, now that ReplayTV's future is secured, why would you choose TiVo over a ReplayTV? Just curious. I'm debating whether to build or buy a PVR myself. ReplayTV seems to be a much better choice. Built-in ethernet, show sharing, easy to stream your shows across the net, etc. TiVos don't seem to offer this stuff unless you "hack" it.
But seriously, how many add-ons does it have to have before buy it? mp3 and ogg decoding? programmable from any computer? hackable? Id be happy if it does what it does efficiently and reliably. What's the facination with bloating products, adding unnecessary features?
Because my receiver only has so many inputs/outputs. If I can replace my DVD player, CD changer, VCR, and an MP3 player with one box, why not? As it is my CD changer has died, my VCR is an old Sony and sucks (color is all screwed up), and I wanted to get an Audiotron to play my MP3s anyway. MythTV satisfies almost everything except playing DVDs it'd probably be easy to write a plugin to interface to do that (if there isn't one already).
Well, some of us would fill up an 80GB disk in a couple of weeks or a month tops. Since there doesn't seem to be any "official" method of archiving shows off onto CD-R or DVD-R or even another computer's hard drive, I don't think TiVo's are a viable alternative for a lot of us. By the time I price out a 80GB TiVo, and lifetime registration, I could've just built a PC and ran MythTV to get much more functionality... playing mp3's, Divx, DVDs, browsing the web, etc.
I made a tough decision a while back, to put my only tv-tuner into a windows box that sits in the living room. Reasoning is that most guests don't know Linux, and I don't have the time or patience to even teach them the basics of KDE or the like. You all know it's true...
Teach them what about KDE? You mean people that pop in for a few hours, eat your food, drink your beer, and then leave? Or do you mean houseguests that stay for a week? If it's the former then it seems that most people would just need a web browser anyway. What's the difference whether they use IE or Mozilla? Screw guests, your TV recording experience is of prime importance.;-)
This whole voting issue would've been solved if the US Government would've bought into Sun's Java smartcards and implemented a national ID card. That way you could just either go to a polling place or even an Internet site and vote using your smart card to authenticate your identity. Voting fraud could be completely eliminated and we'd finally have voter accountability. No more dead people voting in elections or people voting more than once.
Vote YES on nationalized smart cards for identification people!!! We need a strong PKI system here in the US to use for voting AND to replace antiquated notions of things like social security numbers being authenticators to your credit.
Precisely. Although NATs *are* a bad solution to the shortage of IPs, they can actually be pretty handy. My desktop has port-forwarding for the ports I want to get at from the public, but anything else won't get through. Not total security, of course, but it makes things *way* safer.
Hell, how much safer can you get? A NAT box denies all inbound connections by default since they're not in its state table. For all intents and purposes it's just a cheapy stateful packet filtering box that happens to do some protocol inspection on certain things like FTP to adjust the port commands inside the command channel, rewrite checksums on the headers, etc.
for the basic $40 a month, you will have a pre-filtered connection to ONE pc allowed. (probably already nat'ed at the ISP's end)
It certainly makes sense. Why waste IP addresses for people just browsing the web? An ISP could put hundreds if not thousands of people on dialup or DSL behind one NAT overloaded IP address. Hell, I know we do here at work. Then if you want inbound connections as well you need to fork over business-class rates.
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But is this legal? I'd like to watch my legally purchased DVDs on my Linux box, but it seems I have to break the law by using the decss routines to do it.
Except that I could play Diablo II just fine through a firewall performing NAT, but the MS Direct Play crap didn't work at all unless I opened inbound ports and did manual static mappings. Screw that. I threw the game away after getting bored with the single player game and just went back to Diablo II.
There is no recession. The economy is booming. Talk of a recession is perpetrated by liberal anti-war hippies looking for an excuse they can pin on our President. The left-coast geeks are committing suicide by the thousands outside the halls of our unemployment offices in their attempts to loot our national treasury of precious funds. I will take you to a San Francisco homeless shelter where our jobs program have completely eliminated all poverty... IN ONE HOUR!
2005 is only 2 years away. It's not like we're talking different decades. I can run Windows XP just fine on a machine I purchased in 1999 which is now 4 years old. So yes, I very much do expect Windows 2005 to run on my current machine.
It seems highly unlikely a car built piecemeal over 20 different years of stolen parts would ever work correctly. I think this guy is full of shit.
Honestly? I think you're forgetting the crucial thing. Once you convert the old analog tape into a digital format you can store it anywhere and make unlimited "perfect" copies. Will MPEG-2 be around in 20 years? Most likely. It won't be the newest and greatest codec to use but you'll still be able to read and/or transcode it. So, make your DVD collection now and in 10 years re-evaluate what the current situation is as far as storage media.
Microsoft is never going to be really successful until they tap the huge potential market of monthly subscription based services. Why sell Windows XP for a one-time fee when you can charge people $5-$10/month for the privilege of running their computer? Hell, TiVo people pay this to get guide information, why wouldn't it work for Microsoft who is providing you an entire operating system, patches and upgrades, and maybe some other value added services like online content via MSN.com?
Why else would they need Internet access if it wasn't to view pornography? I'm sure they could find a much more efficient way to transmit telemetry, messages, and video than the Internet you know. Porn on the other hand... It's harder to justify to the tax payers why the astronauts need a high speed porn network uplink. If you say it's for Internet access then they will usually buy it.
NT 3.5 did though. Quit sticking your foot in your mouth. Concede the stupid point already. Yes, Windows NT had a journaling file system before Linux did, mainly because it needed it. All those reboots due to crashes really hose up your filesystem you know. Having a journaling filesystem helps you recover easier.
Like somebody else said, that's a bad analogy. It's more like replacing the radiator with your new Zalman radiator, it not being hooked up correctly causing your engine to fry and YOU demanding your engine be replaced under the original manufacturer's warranty. Wait until the warranty is up and then start putting your custom shit on it like everyone else. For example, if you bought a TiVo would you crack it open on day 1 to replace the hard disks with larger ones and thus void your warranty? Probably huh?
It's also much slower compared to a PIII or even a Celeron of similar clock speed. People complain they can barely decode and play DVDs on the highest speed Via Eden processors. It seemed nice at first for a HTPC, but Linux support is apparently quite lacking so I went the micro-atx route and went with an Athlon. Should be interesting to keep it quiet and cool. Hopefully those Zalman flower coolers actually work. ;-)
Are they doing this because we all laughed about their stupid United Linux distribution? This seems a far cry from the Caldera days. What kind of asshats are running SCO these days?
See? That shit is falling off left and right. Maybe they should find some better material.
I'm not sure why this is even an issue. Like you said, why don't the Mozilla projects just add Mozilla to the front of them? Mozilla Firebird, Mozilla Camino, etc. Then Mozilla would just be Mozilla. They'd get the added benefit of Mozilla brand recognition. I tell a lot of people about Camino (formerly Chimera) on MacOS X and they haved no idea what it is until I say something like "It's basically Mozilla Lite with an Aqua interface".
The only thing that is more pathetic than a Mac gamer is someone who claims to be a Linux gamer. Let's face it, if you want to play games then you need to run Windows. Like people in the TiVo thread keep saying... why waste time building a homebrew PVR when you can just buy a TiVo? Use the best product for the job. Windows is the absolute best OS out there for gaming at this point unless you want to play on a console.
I wish there was more interesting stuff on Slashdot instead of things that should be on some gamer site. Like maybe an article on whether it's better to build a PVR or to just buy a TiVo. Or maybe one comparing TiVos to ReplayTV.
Well, if you've got a Debian Linux box sitting around and a supported tuner, just apt-get mythtv. :-) It was pretty simple to setup and I've got my computer in the basement recording shows for me all the time. The trouble is finding time to go down and watch them. I really need to work on a front end machine for my living room to make it worthwhile to do this.
Absolutely not. The whole purpose of TV is to get as many people as possible to watch the ads during your program. It has always been that way since the first day a "sponsor" stuck their name on a television or radio program decades ago. The content is just something you use to draw people to look at your ads. Since trading shows among your friends (most likely with the ads cut out) doesn't draw any ad revenue, to the TV networks it technically IS stealing from them. I still hate advertising no matter what form it takes. There's gotta be a better way to make money on something.
Well, now that ReplayTV's future is secured, why would you choose TiVo over a ReplayTV? Just curious. I'm debating whether to build or buy a PVR myself. ReplayTV seems to be a much better choice. Built-in ethernet, show sharing, easy to stream your shows across the net, etc. TiVos don't seem to offer this stuff unless you "hack" it.
Because my receiver only has so many inputs/outputs. If I can replace my DVD player, CD changer, VCR, and an MP3 player with one box, why not? As it is my CD changer has died, my VCR is an old Sony and sucks (color is all screwed up), and I wanted to get an Audiotron to play my MP3s anyway. MythTV satisfies almost everything except playing DVDs it'd probably be easy to write a plugin to interface to do that (if there isn't one already).
Well, some of us would fill up an 80GB disk in a couple of weeks or a month tops. Since there doesn't seem to be any "official" method of archiving shows off onto CD-R or DVD-R or even another computer's hard drive, I don't think TiVo's are a viable alternative for a lot of us. By the time I price out a 80GB TiVo, and lifetime registration, I could've just built a PC and ran MythTV to get much more functionality... playing mp3's, Divx, DVDs, browsing the web, etc.
Teach them what about KDE? You mean people that pop in for a few hours, eat your food, drink your beer, and then leave? Or do you mean houseguests that stay for a week? If it's the former then it seems that most people would just need a web browser anyway. What's the difference whether they use IE or Mozilla? Screw guests, your TV recording experience is of prime importance. ;-)
Vote YES on nationalized smart cards for identification people!!! We need a strong PKI system here in the US to use for voting AND to replace antiquated notions of things like social security numbers being authenticators to your credit.
Hell, how much safer can you get? A NAT box denies all inbound connections by default since they're not in its state table. For all intents and purposes it's just a cheapy stateful packet filtering box that happens to do some protocol inspection on certain things like FTP to adjust the port commands inside the command channel, rewrite checksums on the headers, etc.
It certainly makes sense. Why waste IP addresses for people just browsing the web? An ISP could put hundreds if not thousands of people on dialup or DSL behind one NAT overloaded IP address. Hell, I know we do here at work. Then if you want inbound connections as well you need to fork over business-class rates.