Is there a similar method to do this on Windows or Linux? I was considering buying a USB2 HDTV tuner for my laptop, but if I can just hook up to a regular HD cable box that would be nice.
Although I'm sure this could be seen as a slippery slope - using this logic it could be seen as being OK to borrow a stolen car from the guy who stole it, because you didn't technically steal it yourself.
Not the same. There you're possessing stolen property, and the other party also committed a crime.
A better analogy would be comparing this to a child who wants to go somewhere. He/she can't legally drive, so he/she asks a parent to take them somewhere.
According to the DMCA, I can't legally break CSS when in this country. I can, however, ask someone else who can legally do this to do it for me.
I tried with just http://http and it still did it.
I noticed in my status bar, there was a quick flash of a google URL, so I tried searching for "http" on google, and there the answer was
The 'fox seems to be running an "I'm feeling Lucky" search on the non-existant name. I have googlebar, so I'm not sure if this is native behavior or added in.
Back in the Napster days, you could use a program called Wrapster, which let you embed multiple files inside valid ID3 tags.
It still seems to be available from http://www.unwrapper.com/, but the newer version has a search toolbar in the package, so I wouldn't trust it. They still have an archive of the older, safe versions.
I think that the regulations are just fine for omnidirectional installations. However if I am using a pair of old dishes for a point-to-point link, I should be able to use as much power as I can without nuking animals that stray in to the path of the beam.
Did a fresh install of XP Pro the day after getting it, installed drivers from the included CD. Everything works fine
I have since replaced the 802.11g drivers with upgraded ones from Broadcom (needed LEAP support) and installed newer ATI Catalysts using DriverHeaven's mobile mod tool.
I agree that their drivers are bloated, but mine were easily replaceable.
"Just like Netscape jumping from 4 to 6 to match IE6"
From the Ars Technica interview with Scott Collins: "We had a 'Netscape 5' that was within weeks of being ready to go, and this person said that we needed to ship something based on Gecko within 6 months instead.....And we didn't get out a 5.0, and that cost of us everything."
Netscape 5 was almost done, but one PHB convinced the other Netscape execs that trashing it and releasing a Gecko-based browser (Netscape 6) would be better.
One more example of how one idiot can trash a whole company. By the time that Netscape 6 was out, all but the die-hards had switched to IE or Opera.
"I don't even want to talk about the Xbox "bloat saves" that can't even be copied to a memory card."
I have a wide selection of Xbox games. Only one of my saves cannot fit on a memory card, and that one is from a Morrowind game that got waaay out of control. Even this save is only around 600 blocks. The 8MB memory card is 531 IIRC.
Name a Xbox game that regularly saves larger than 8MB. Even the save I mentioned above is only that large due to the huge amount of junk I've collected in game (I'm a pack rat for Daedric and Glass gear).
DirectPad Pro for windows does this nicely. Schematics on the site.
Note: due to use of parallel port, NT/2K/XP may not properly support it. I cannot test, as my laptop (only XP box) has no parallel port). My NES controller works great on an old 98 box tho.
(Site is a mirror, as unfortunately EFP stopped support/development long ago)
post something weird in PHP, it's an inappropriate language. post same thing in Perl, suddenly it's the best program ever./me goes to write an OS as a perl one-liner that will get me the respect of/.;-P
That arguement works for USB 1.0/1.1, but what purpose does USB2 serve aside from dividing the market? Firewire had already proven its greatness for hard drives, scanners, and video. Here comes USB2, and guess what? It is only used for the exact same things!
Firewire did it first and better.
OTOH, now most devices support both, and Firewire 800 has shown up on a few Ath64 mobos, so I guess I'm bitching about nothing...
Hey what happens if you attach a device compatible with both Firewire and USB2 to both ports on your PC?
Good comparo. As much as many people flamed your choice of case, I think it was a good pick since it is the closest to the G5 case that us PC people have.
On the other hand, there is no way to accurately compare a homebrew PC to a Mac. G5s are high end machines, best compared to the likes of Alienware and VoodooPC.
I built an Alienware Roswell using their customizer tool and compared it to a G5.
They both have 3 year warranties, the same HD, same amount of RAM, similar clocked 64 bit CPUs, nice cases, and professional construction.
The PC has a faster DVD writer, registered RAM, and a workstation class video card. A quick check of pricewatch says that the extra cost of these parts is around $650.
Everybody expecting the G5 to be more expensive, even with the extra parts in the PC?
WRONG!
Alienware Roswell 4500: $4768 Power Mac Dual G5 2.5GHz: $3669
Even counting the $650 in extra parts, this still puts the G5 as roughly $500 cheaper as compared to Alienware's equivalent machine.
For those who care, here's the system specs:
[1] Roswell(TM) 4500
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Warranty: 3-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support with Onsite Service Case: Alienware® Full-Tower Case (420-Watt PS) - Space Black Power Supply: Enermax EG465P-VE 24P 460 Watt Power Supply Motherboard: Tyan Tiger K8W S2875 Dual Opteron Motherboard Processor/s: Dual AMD Opteron(TM) 250 2.4 GHz 64-Bit Video Card: ATI FireGL(TM) X2 256t 8x AGP w/Dual DVI Memory: Corsair 1GB DDR PC3200 Registered ECC Server System Drive: High Performance - Serial ATA - 160GB Seagate Barracuda® 7,200 RPM Optical Drive One: Plextor PX-712A 12x DVD±R/W Drive Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround Network Connection: Integrated High Performance Intel® Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Keyboard: Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard - Space Black Mouse: Microsoft® IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0 - USB Additional Controller: SIIG® Firewire 800 3-Port PCI Controller Free Alienware T-Shirt: Free Alienware® T-Shirt - Black Automated Support: AlienAutopsy: Automated Technical Support Request System
Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5GHz 160GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm 8x SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) 1GB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 2x512 Mac OS X - U.S. English ATI Radeon 9800 XT w/256MB DDR SDRAM Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. English APP for Power Mac (w/ or w/o display) - Enrollment Kit
Criticism is welcome and encouraged. If you think I should have compared against a different OEM, feel free to recommend.
It is Canon's (and everyone else's) right to release products with artificial limitations. They are not evil for doing this. As has been pointed out, this practice helps cover R&D costs.
On the other hand, it's Canon's risk to do this. If I was going to buy the more expensive camera, but discovered this first and bought the cheaper one, it's their loss. I own the hardware and can do what I want with it. It's not wrong for me to modify something I own (although the DMCA may make it illegal depending on how the limit is implemented).
If I then want to tell the world, I can do so if I want to. Free speech doesn't stop just because it could hurt a corporation's profits. (Again, the DMCA may say otherwise, but I don't give a shit)
Simply put, Canon can continue releasing limited cameras and Microsoft can keep producing limited Xboxes, but once I pay for the hardware, I can modify it as I see fit to gain back the restricted features.
look at PearPC...it just barely emulates a G3 and that's still enough to run OS X on it.
however, since I haven't heard any success stories of MacOS on any other non-Apple PPC hardware (except obviously the old clones) i would still have my doubts...
Slashdot Mirror
The second coming of Jesus.
And then - Duke Nukem Forever will at last be mine!
Don't even put DNF in the same class as the second coming.
DNF might actually happen.
just like powermac has always been very expensive and headless
The G3 All-In-One basically became the iMac.
The 20th Anniversary Macintosh could also be thought of as a relative of the modern LCD-equipped iMac.
Others to look at would be the Performa/Power Mac 5000 series.
Apple's been making all-in-ones since long before the iMac. The first Macintosh systems were AiO models.
Is there a similar method to do this on Windows or Linux? I was considering buying a USB2 HDTV tuner for my laptop, but if I can just hook up to a regular HD cable box that would be nice.
hehe...so that's where the RIAA gets its numbers ;P
Missed it by a bit.
It's about distribution.
I can copy a copyrighted work all I want. I just can't sell or give those copies to anyone.
Same with trademarks. I can make as many items using trademarks as I want to, I just can't distribute them.
Again, same with patents.
Copyrights, patents, and trademarks are all about control of distribution.
Although I'm sure this could be seen as a slippery slope - using this logic it could be seen as being OK to borrow a stolen car from the guy who stole it, because you didn't technically steal it yourself.
Not the same. There you're possessing stolen property, and the other party also committed a crime.
A better analogy would be comparing this to a child who wants to go somewhere. He/she can't legally drive, so he/she asks a parent to take them somewhere.
According to the DMCA, I can't legally break CSS when in this country. I can, however, ask someone else who can legally do this to do it for me.
And BeOS has had them for years in BFS. Called "live queries"
According to this page some of the old Be developers worked on this part.
as it is its pretty hard to pirate a copy of Panther from CD
.dmg format using Bittorrent...
And here I am looking at my Panther discs I grabbed in
Booted fine and installed in my iMac 233.
It does that for me too.
I tried with just http://http and it still did it.
I noticed in my status bar, there was a quick flash of a google URL, so I tried searching for "http" on google, and there the answer was
The 'fox seems to be running an "I'm feeling Lucky" search on the non-existant name. I have googlebar, so I'm not sure if this is native behavior or added in.
Back in the Napster days, you could use a program called Wrapster, which let you embed multiple files inside valid ID3 tags.
It still seems to be available from http://www.unwrapper.com/, but the newer version has a search toolbar in the package, so I wouldn't trust it. They still have an archive of the older, safe versions.
I think that the regulations are just fine for omnidirectional installations. However if I am using a pair of old dishes for a point-to-point link, I should be able to use as much power as I can without nuking animals that stray in to the path of the beam.
Just for a counterpoint:
Compaq Presario R3000T notebook
Did a fresh install of XP Pro the day after getting it, installed drivers from the included CD. Everything works fine
I have since replaced the 802.11g drivers with upgraded ones from Broadcom (needed LEAP support) and installed newer ATI Catalysts using DriverHeaven's mobile mod tool.
I agree that their drivers are bloated, but mine were easily replaceable.
One of their new scanner/inkjet combos has a ~120MB download for the driver. Installed it is far more.
Nearly impossible to remove this thing too. The uninstaller leaves a lot of crap.
"Just like Netscape jumping from 4 to 6 to match IE6"
From the Ars Technica interview with Scott Collins:
"We had a 'Netscape 5' that was within weeks of being ready to go, and this person said that we needed to ship something based on Gecko within 6 months instead.....And we didn't get out a 5.0, and that cost of us everything."
Netscape 5 was almost done, but one PHB convinced the other Netscape execs that trashing it and releasing a Gecko-based browser (Netscape 6) would be better.
One more example of how one idiot can trash a whole company. By the time that Netscape 6 was out, all but the die-hards had switched to IE or Opera.
"I don't even want to talk about the Xbox "bloat saves" that can't even be copied to a memory card."
I have a wide selection of Xbox games. Only one of my saves cannot fit on a memory card, and that one is from a Morrowind game that got waaay out of control. Even this save is only around 600 blocks. The 8MB memory card is 531 IIRC.
Name a Xbox game that regularly saves larger than 8MB. Even the save I mentioned above is only that large due to the huge amount of junk I've collected in game (I'm a pack rat for Daedric and Glass gear).
DirectPad Pro for windows does this nicely. Schematics on the site.
Note: due to use of parallel port, NT/2K/XP may not properly support it. I cannot test, as my laptop (only XP box) has no parallel port). My NES controller works great on an old 98 box tho.
(Site is a mirror, as unfortunately EFP stopped support/development long ago)
it's the same old thing...
/me goes to write an OS as a perl one-liner /. ;-P
post something weird in PHP, it's an inappropriate language.
post same thing in Perl, suddenly it's the best program ever.
that will get me the respect of
That arguement works for USB 1.0/1.1, but what purpose does USB2 serve aside from dividing the market? Firewire had already proven its greatness for hard drives, scanners, and video. Here comes USB2, and guess what? It is only used for the exact same things!
Firewire did it first and better.
OTOH, now most devices support both, and Firewire 800 has shown up on a few Ath64 mobos, so I guess I'm bitching about nothing...
Hey what happens if you attach a device compatible with both Firewire and USB2 to both ports on your PC?
I think IBM tried this with Quake 2 in one of their "grid computing" experiments...
Aah...here we go...
Good comparo. As much as many people flamed your choice of case, I think it was a good pick since it is the closest to the G5 case that us PC people have.
On the other hand, there is no way to accurately compare a homebrew PC to a Mac. G5s are high end machines, best compared to the likes of Alienware and VoodooPC.
I built an Alienware Roswell using their customizer tool and compared it to a G5.
They both have 3 year warranties, the same HD, same amount of RAM, similar clocked 64 bit CPUs, nice cases, and professional construction.
The PC has a faster DVD writer, registered RAM, and a workstation class video card. A quick check of pricewatch says that the extra cost of these parts is around $650.
Everybody expecting the G5 to be more expensive, even with the extra parts in the PC?
WRONG!
Alienware Roswell 4500: $4768
Power Mac Dual G5 2.5GHz: $3669
Even counting the $650 in extra parts, this still puts the G5 as roughly $500 cheaper as compared to Alienware's equivalent machine.
For those who care, here's the system specs:
[1] Roswell(TM) 4500
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
Warranty: 3-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support with Onsite Service
Case: Alienware® Full-Tower Case (420-Watt PS) - Space Black
Power Supply: Enermax EG465P-VE 24P 460 Watt Power Supply
Motherboard: Tyan Tiger K8W S2875 Dual Opteron Motherboard
Processor/s: Dual AMD Opteron(TM) 250 2.4 GHz 64-Bit
Video Card: ATI FireGL(TM) X2 256t 8x AGP w/Dual DVI
Memory: Corsair 1GB DDR PC3200 Registered ECC Server
System Drive: High Performance - Serial ATA - 160GB Seagate Barracuda® 7,200 RPM
Optical Drive One: Plextor PX-712A 12x DVD±R/W Drive
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround
Network Connection: Integrated High Performance Intel® Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Keyboard: Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard - Space Black
Mouse: Microsoft® IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0 - USB
Additional Controller: SIIG® Firewire 800 3-Port PCI Controller
Free Alienware T-Shirt: Free Alienware® T-Shirt - Black
Automated Support: AlienAutopsy: Automated Technical Support Request System
Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5GHz
160GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
8x SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
1GB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 2x512
Mac OS X - U.S. English
ATI Radeon 9800 XT w/256MB DDR SDRAM
Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. English
APP for Power Mac (w/ or w/o display) - Enrollment Kit
Criticism is welcome and encouraged. If you think I should have compared against a different OEM, feel free to recommend.
this could be reall sweet on platforms supporting using a web page as a wallpaper
$1600 LAPTOP
;P
Plays UT2004 at 1680x1050 easily
Gotta love the value of a Radeon 9600 Mobile
http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTA4NjI5Mj kyN0o4ZEZBRUdjWHJfMV8xX2wuanBn
Just saw this a few minutes ago. Not tech related, but still quite amusing.
You almost got it.
It is Canon's (and everyone else's) right to release products with artificial limitations. They are not evil for doing this. As has been pointed out, this practice helps cover R&D costs.
On the other hand, it's Canon's risk to do this. If I was going to buy the more expensive camera, but discovered this first and bought the cheaper one, it's their loss. I own the hardware and can do what I want with it. It's not wrong for me to modify something I own (although the DMCA may make it illegal depending on how the limit is implemented).
If I then want to tell the world, I can do so if I want to. Free speech doesn't stop just because it could hurt a corporation's profits. (Again, the DMCA may say otherwise, but I don't give a shit)
Simply put, Canon can continue releasing limited cameras and Microsoft can keep producing limited Xboxes, but once I pay for the hardware, I can modify it as I see fit to gain back the restricted features.
look at PearPC...it just barely emulates a G3 and that's still enough to run OS X on it.
however, since I haven't heard any success stories of MacOS on any other non-Apple PPC hardware (except obviously the old clones) i would still have my doubts...