And this is how Microsoft has prevented him from running pirated games and/or Linux on his XBox. The MTBF of the hard drive probably closely matches the point where the average XBox owner has reached their limit of pre-packaged games for his/her unit and is looking to do more with it.
Fortunately, it still works as a door-stop.
Or maybe it's just a forced upgrade. Nah, Microsoft would never do anything like that.
for 99% of the people out there making your own PVR is not an option.
Then we need to improve the process. Provide a BoM and a live CD. Find a way to hack an XBox into this functionality since they're all going to become obsolete when XBox-Next comes out. Provide a stable channel guide. If it's still difficult, then there are likely more than a few talented people working to make it better.
Buy a TiVo lately? Sometime in the next few months, your machine will quietly download a patch that makes it respond to a new copy protection scheme from software maker Macrovision.
To reduce functionality after you've bought a unit sounds like fraud. Bait & switch. Like buying a fast sports car, and then having them download a patch into your engine computer that speed limits it to 85MPH so that the car company won't be sued for selling fast cars. I'd be looking for a class action lawyer to sue the pants off of TiVo if my box suddenly stopped doing something it used to do -- regardless of any license agreement that may have come with it.
And it's such a great way to advertise to new customers. Buy the new TiVo. It does less than the old model!
Now my question is: will this apply to my Dish Network PVR?
But FF is not just a problem as a browser; its potential as a platform is significant.
This was the Netscape threat of 5 years ago. That Java enabled apps running under Netscape would destroy Microsoft/Windows because any platform that that could support Netscape would run everything else as well.
Didn't happen then. Don't hold your breath yet now.
Alvin will be replaced by a larger vehicle that will come into service in 2008.
So what happens if we lose another H-Bomb between now and then? Why not overlap? And not just for H-Bomb reasons.
Do you really expect me to believe that there is so little to see down deep in our oceans that one vehicle at a time is enough to satisfy all the requests for its services?
How relevant today is Pascal? How much business work, or work of any sort that someone else pays for, is still done in it? What modern compilers/IDE's are available. To my mind, Pascal is as dated as line numbered BASIC, and I haven't seen an job ad looking for a Pascal programmer since before the Dot Com boom started. And I lived near UCSD when UCSD Pascal was the way to learn programming.
The way to stop software piracy in low-cost computers is to include the OS in ROM on the system board.
Of course, the only way I'd even consider supporting this idea if it allowed me to order the OS of my choice at purchase time.
Then again, maybe just the software licence(s) need to be included in ROM, and that ROM soldered on the MB. It's a thought.
Disclaimer: I don't mind ensuring that only licensed software is run. I just don't want the Windows Monopoly to force me to buy yet another copy of Windows with every new PC, when I already own more legal copies than I have hardware to run them on.
one recent study reports that people are deleting MP3s faster than they are downloading them.
So what's the RIAA's beef? MP3s are the most widely used interchange format for music downloads. People aren't keeping this "illegal" music. In fact, this "illegal" music is being destroyed faster than it's being created. The RIAA should be Ecstatic. They're winning now. So why do they still have any problems?
The Internet is going to die in 1993 because the public has access to it!
No, sorry. The Internet is going to die in 1997 because AOL users have access to it!!
Oops, sorry. The Internet is going to die in 1999 because of the load placed on it by Dot.Com startups!!!
Uh, sorry. The Internet is going to die in 2001 because of the Dot.Com bust and no more money for infrastructure!!!!
Uh, nevermind but, the Internet is going to die in 2004 because of the whole world getting on with broadband and we're running out of IP addresses!!!!!
Small miscalculation. But now I assure you that the Internet is going to die in 2006 because of spam!!!!!!
I do well with two monitors at work, and has been pointed out by others, additional display hardware is cheap.
My standard configuration is to use one as my programming window. This way I can maximize that one easily and create the most amount of space for toolbars and other sub-windows.
The second monitor contains my Outlook, SQL Server Enterprise manager (when I'm programming VB on the main monitor), help files (when needed), and occasionally Notepad for cut,edit,paste.
It's also great for Photoshop. All your pallets on one screen, and the full-screen image on the second (hopefully better) monitor.
All this beats the heck out of Alt-Tab all the time.
And one other benefit, I often develop for users running lower resolutions. I can do my development on the hi-res setting, and preview the results at the user's resolution without a lot of awkward switching of screen properties.
The only downsides have been cost (essentially free, because who doesn't have an extra monitor and display card, or 3, kicking around), space (get yourself a decent workarea for Heaven's sake), and power (get real, or turn off the second one when you don't need it).
All in all, much cheaper than an Apple Theater-view, much as I'd enjoy that.
And for Christmas 2006 they will release the next new, extended, bonus, ultra edition that includes all the characters (*cough* Tom Bombadil) still missing from the original trilogy.
Pre-orders being accepted now. Comes with its own bookcase to holds all the DVD's.
I am amazed, and disappointed that U.S. authorities in a U.S. court can force siezure of equipment in any other country.
I might make an exception for terrorism, which needs to be fought long, fully, and completely -- however this appears to have been nothing of that sort.
Banding can be altered from one printer to another by adjusting the laser intensity, how long each laser pulse lasts and the precise positioning of a small motor that steers the laser beam inside the printer.
There go my high-quality Photoshop prints. And just when color lasers were getting good enough and cheap enough to consider.
made small custom mutations to the font each document was printed...very difficult for anyone to add or replace pages without being detectable as a later change to the original document.
Just have your own, custom True Type font -- and remember not to embed it in any of your documents. Sounds like security through obscurity however, since it works best when you don't suspect it's being used.
Of course, if they redo the entire document with their revisions, the font will fully match and you're left arguing over the validity of the font used.
The Purdue researchers are overcoming that problem with software that causes a printer to embed its own unique "extrinsic signature" in a printed document, regardless of which printer cartridge is in a machine..."We will actually modify the way the printer puts marks on the paper,"
W00t, my fortune is made. I ought to be able to sell my pre-embedded ID LaserJet on eBay for what it cost me now to the paranoid of the world. Bids start tomorrow at $900!
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Fortunately, it still works as a door-stop.
Or maybe it's just a forced upgrade. Nah, Microsoft would never do anything like that.
Not that most people don't loop over the same problem continuously, however step 5 was lost to the Slashdot 120-character limit for sigs.
I always wondered where the class action lawyers (the only ones who profit from the cases) find their suckers.
Even if only the lawyers profited, it would be worth it for punishing TiVo in the process.
Of course, this is after I've returned my now defective TiVo for a full (and if necessary, small claims court mandated) refund.
Then we need to improve the process. Provide a BoM and a live CD. Find a way to hack an XBox into this functionality since they're all going to become obsolete when XBox-Next comes out. Provide a stable channel guide. If it's still difficult, then there are likely more than a few talented people working to make it better.
To reduce functionality after you've bought a unit sounds like fraud. Bait & switch. Like buying a fast sports car, and then having them download a patch into your engine computer that speed limits it to 85MPH so that the car company won't be sued for selling fast cars. I'd be looking for a class action lawyer to sue the pants off of TiVo if my box suddenly stopped doing something it used to do -- regardless of any license agreement that may have come with it.
And it's such a great way to advertise to new customers. Buy the new TiVo. It does less than the old model!
Now my question is: will this apply to my Dish Network PVR?
Or /. it!
This was the Netscape threat of 5 years ago. That Java enabled apps running under Netscape would destroy Microsoft/Windows because any platform that that could support Netscape would run everything else as well.
Didn't happen then. Don't hold your breath yet now.
So what happens if we lose another H-Bomb between now and then? Why not overlap? And not just for H-Bomb reasons.
Do you really expect me to believe that there is so little to see down deep in our oceans that one vehicle at a time is enough to satisfy all the requests for its services?
Only if the right brain didn't know what the left brain was doing at the time.
How relevant today is Pascal? How much business work, or work of any sort that someone else pays for, is still done in it? What modern compilers/IDE's are available. To my mind, Pascal is as dated as line numbered BASIC, and I haven't seen an job ad looking for a Pascal programmer since before the Dot Com boom started. And I lived near UCSD when UCSD Pascal was the way to learn programming.
"The first alien race we meet will be the one we build ourselves." --DB_Story
Of course, the only way I'd even consider supporting this idea if it allowed me to order the OS of my choice at purchase time.
Then again, maybe just the software licence(s) need to be included in ROM, and that ROM soldered on the MB. It's a thought.
Disclaimer: I don't mind ensuring that only licensed software is run. I just don't want the Windows Monopoly to force me to buy yet another copy of Windows with every new PC, when I already own more legal copies than I have hardware to run them on.
So what's the RIAA's beef? MP3s are the most widely used interchange format for music downloads. People aren't keeping this "illegal" music. In fact, this "illegal" music is being destroyed faster than it's being created. The RIAA should be Ecstatic. They're winning now. So why do they still have any problems?
No, sorry. The Internet is going to die in 1997 because AOL users have access to it!!
Oops, sorry. The Internet is going to die in 1999 because of the load placed on it by Dot.Com startups!!!
Uh, sorry. The Internet is going to die in 2001 because of the Dot.Com bust and no more money for infrastructure!!!!
Uh, nevermind but, the Internet is going to die in 2004 because of the whole world getting on with broadband and we're running out of IP addresses!!!!!
Small miscalculation. But now I assure you that the Internet is going to die in 2006 because of spam!!!!!!
NOW PROVE ME WRONG!!!!!!!
In the 1-point type that so many of my spam e-mails contain.
My standard configuration is to use one as my programming window. This way I can maximize that one easily and create the most amount of space for toolbars and other sub-windows.
The second monitor contains my Outlook, SQL Server Enterprise manager (when I'm programming VB on the main monitor), help files (when needed), and occasionally Notepad for cut,edit,paste.
It's also great for Photoshop. All your pallets on one screen, and the full-screen image on the second (hopefully better) monitor.
All this beats the heck out of Alt-Tab all the time.
And one other benefit, I often develop for users running lower resolutions. I can do my development on the hi-res setting, and preview the results at the user's resolution without a lot of awkward switching of screen properties.
The only downsides have been cost (essentially free, because who doesn't have an extra monitor and display card, or 3, kicking around), space (get yourself a decent workarea for Heaven's sake), and power (get real, or turn off the second one when you don't need it).
All in all, much cheaper than an Apple Theater-view, much as I'd enjoy that.
Pre-orders being accepted now. Comes with its own bookcase to holds all the DVD's.
There may be 249 regular pills, but somewhere there must be a funny pill in there somewhere!
I might make an exception for terrorism, which needs to be fought long, fully, and completely -- however this appears to have been nothing of that sort.
When I run my country, that won't be allowed.
Isn't this exactly the problem that Freenet was designed to solve?
There go my high-quality Photoshop prints. And just when color lasers were getting good enough and cheap enough to consider.
Just have your own, custom True Type font -- and remember not to embed it in any of your documents. Sounds like security through obscurity however, since it works best when you don't suspect it's being used.
Of course, if they redo the entire document with their revisions, the font will fully match and you're left arguing over the validity of the font used.
Oh, CBS is doing that already!
W00t, my fortune is made. I ought to be able to sell my pre-embedded ID LaserJet on eBay for what it cost me now to the paranoid of the world. Bids start tomorrow at $900!
Boy are you out of date. SMS, the only way to message in class.