I purchased one of these back when the Gateway stores were closing for $85. It's OK at best - I certainly don't think the unit deserved an 8/10; I have an Xbox with XBMC and if the Gateway unit got 8/10, XBMC would deserve about 20/10. The Gateway unit:
Only actually plays MPEG 1 & 2 (ie the computer software transcodes Divx and others to MPEG2 upon playback. You can't play Divx from CD's in the player itself)
Doesn't support directories
If you are debating between this and a Mod'd Xbox, the Mod'd Xbox TOTALLY DESTROYS this. If you don't know which end of a soldering iron is hot, well then maybe consider this only if you can't find a friend to mod an Xbox, but honestly, it took about 2 days for this product to bore me and wind up on eBay - XBMC is that much superior to it. I would even say that once it is installed, XBMC is easier to use and has a nicer user interface, so there is virtually no reason to purchase this product - sorry Gateway, but it sucks IMHO.
No it's not. Nessus and some scripts can automatically identify infected machines and quaranteen them completely automatically. In fact, I've seen the same system un-quaranteen machines when they are repaired. Lots of colleges do just that. A mandatory client is overstepping their boundaries. They should scan and quaranteen, but what about when they install a patch that breaks my computer. Can they be legally held responsible? Maybe. What if someone in their service desk exploits their utility to access my computer, are they liabel? I personally think this might be enough to make me consider changing colleges (As an IT major I value my computer highly, ie I'm a geek)
Lately people have been prosecuted for writing a virus, well, whoever wrote this needs to be prosecuted the same way. 1. It is malicious (prevents you from copying the CD as you noramlly would be able to. 2. It silently installs itself, masquarading as a standard Audio CD (I'm sorry, 5" music disc)
How is that different than any other trojan horse?
Perhaps my professors have had poor taste in textbooks, but as a college student entering his third year of college in the IT field, I've found a large number of errors in textbooks costing $100+. I have a few textbooks, which I have purchased for classes, that have so many errors in them I no longer trust any of their content. I'm not saying there aren't good textbooks out there - but I am saying that just because it is published does not mean it is correct.
Microsoft should allow pirated copies to update for a number of reasons. First off, unpatched Windows machines make life worse for EVERYONE, and just makes Microsoft look worse. Secondly, why push people more toward Linux (from MS's point of view)
Personally, I'm using XP Corporate installs at home. Is it legal? No. Do I feel guilty? Not in the least. Why not? Because I actually have MORE LEGIMATE XP PRO LICENSES THAN I HAVE XP PRO INSTALLED ON. I have 3 LEGIMATE XP Pro licenses, and 2 computers with XP Pro installed on them. I just am constantly changing hardware, and activation is a pain, so I install off a corporate CD to avoid it.
I've been meaning to switch my main desktop to Linux anyway (I allready have more Linux boxes than Windows ones) If I couldn't update my XP corp install, it would probably be the push I need to do it...
Back when TechTV (Then ZDTV) first came on the air, I installed a C-band (the big 10 foot dishes) JUST to get ZDTV. When Kate Botello left The ScreenSavers, I feel it went from being a interesting, yet geeky show (a show I HAD to watch - if I was out it was recorded) to a less interesting show. As ZDTV became TechTV, it became dumbed down to the point where I would only catch the show once a month, if that. If only we could have the original days of ZDTV back, that would be great.
I am. And I just bought a 3GHz P4 and a Asus P4C800 which will arrive this week to upgrade. Why? Chipsets. There are NO GOOD CHIPSETS for Athlons. I've personally worked with: VIA - Garbage (Buggy everything) ALI - Garbage (Buggy ACPI, others) SIS - Garbage
AMD760MP - had some bad experiences with it and ultimately gave up on the board.
I haven't used the NVidia or ATI Chipsets, but I've had very bad experiences with everything not made by ServerWorks or Intel. You have to look at compatibility and reliability in addition to price and peformance. When I was shopping around for a mobo and CPU, I looked at the Athlons again, because I wanted to do SMP and 2 Xeon's are too expensive. But there's no good AMD chipsets.
Because with CRT's, the closer you get to the edge of the screen, the greater the distortions (poor convergence, poor focus, poor linearity) become. IE if I stretch the image to the very edge, the convergance will be off in the corner, but if I leave a.25" gap on each side, I have significantly less misconvergance on the edges of the image.
That is the point of Blacklists - you should be complaining to your ISP that they are blacklisted. If they are blacklisted, it means they are hosting spammers and this (customers like you putting pressure on them) is the only way to get them to clean up their act.
Because the better the master is, the better the stamped (mass produced, destined for consumer discs) will be. This means that less error correction is used by your CD/DVD player when reading your disks. This means that they can be read faster in some cases, and will help increase the tolerance to scratches/dust (ECC can be used elsewhere) Ultimately, this means that future technologies can pack bits tighter on discs, as the discs can be made more accurately. In other words, more storage!
There's probably some catch I'm missing, but if you purchased one of these disks, then immediately copied it, as long as you retained your original (now unreadable) disk wouldn't your copy be legal? It was always my understanding that it was legal to make a backup copy of DVD's (hence products like DVDXCopy) provided you owned the originals. Since you own the original and it's no longer readable, your backup would be legal, right?
I know this patent is obvious, but here's another example of prior art. At my college most departments give students email accounts on their own servers For example, my email account is %username%@it.rit.edu and my department's web page is http://it.rit.edu
Other departments do it also, such as the CS department. Best I can tell this system was put in place in early 1999, predating this patent by 4 years.
I absolutely hate TurnItIn.com, but sadly many teachers at my school use it. I have never cheated in my life, but as others have mentioned, I feel I have to prove my innocence. I'm wondering if I have legal grounds to sue them, as every paper I have submitted to them has had the following attached to the bottom: Copyright (C)2003-2004 (My Name). All Rights Reserved. Any unauthorized use, reproduction or storage, either electronic or printed, in whole or in part, without written or verbal permission, is a violation of international copyright laws. Permission for TurnItIn.com and/or iParadigms.com to retain a copy of this work for more than 14 days, or to incorporate this work into their database(s) is explicitly DENIED. They have terms and conditions people automatically agree to when they use TurnItIn.com, it would seem my terms for them receiving my papers would be valid, as they will obviously ignore them and retain my papers.
I asked the rep about Linux on this and he told me that all their engineers run Linux and they actually had Linux running on it before Windows. That said, they won't officially support Linux, BUT they will provide any necessary drivers to run Linux on it.
No it's not an RS232 port. It's a propritary port. The unit comes with a cable that's about 3 feet long that breaks it out into other ports such as Ethernet, USB, VGA (and some others, I don't remember the details) This thing is AWSOME! I saw it at CES and I'm seriously thinking of getting one when they come out. It is truely amazing. The only thing I'm not sure of is the screen seemed prone to getting damaged. They also claimed they had it running off the same battery at CES all day and it was still running (so several hour battery life) Not sure if the pictures on this site show it (it's slashdotted) as none of the other pictures I've seen show this, but the screen slides up about 1/2 way to reveal a little QWERTY keyboard.
Slashdot Mirror
I purchased one of these back when the Gateway stores were closing for $85. It's OK at best - I certainly don't think the unit deserved an 8/10; I have an Xbox with XBMC and if the Gateway unit got 8/10, XBMC would deserve about 20/10. The Gateway unit: Only actually plays MPEG 1 & 2 (ie the computer software transcodes Divx and others to MPEG2 upon playback. You can't play Divx from CD's in the player itself) Doesn't support directories If you are debating between this and a Mod'd Xbox, the Mod'd Xbox TOTALLY DESTROYS this. If you don't know which end of a soldering iron is hot, well then maybe consider this only if you can't find a friend to mod an Xbox, but honestly, it took about 2 days for this product to bore me and wind up on eBay - XBMC is that much superior to it. I would even say that once it is installed, XBMC is easier to use and has a nicer user interface, so there is virtually no reason to purchase this product - sorry Gateway, but it sucks IMHO.
No it's not. Nessus and some scripts can automatically identify infected machines and quaranteen them completely automatically. In fact, I've seen the same system un-quaranteen machines when they are repaired. Lots of colleges do just that.
A mandatory client is overstepping their boundaries. They should scan and quaranteen, but what about when they install a patch that breaks my computer. Can they be legally held responsible? Maybe. What if someone in their service desk exploits their utility to access my computer, are they liabel?
I personally think this might be enough to make me consider changing colleges (As an IT major I value my computer highly, ie I'm a geek)
Lately people have been prosecuted for writing a virus, well, whoever wrote this needs to be prosecuted the same way.
1. It is malicious (prevents you from copying the CD as you noramlly would be able to.
2. It silently installs itself, masquarading as a
standard Audio CD (I'm sorry, 5" music disc)
How is that different than any other trojan horse?
Perhaps my professors have had poor taste in textbooks, but as a college student entering his third year of college in the IT field, I've found a large number of errors in textbooks costing $100+. I have a few textbooks, which I have purchased for classes, that have so many errors in them I no longer trust any of their content.
I'm not saying there aren't good textbooks out there - but I am saying that just because it is published does not mean it is correct.
They should have used better birth control :-)
I agree it was much better when it was TechTV, but I would like to point out that The ScreenSavers has been on TechTV/ZDTV since day one
You could always send them an endless loop of goatse and tubgirl :-)
Microsoft should allow pirated copies to update for a number of reasons. First off, unpatched Windows machines make life worse for EVERYONE, and just makes Microsoft look worse. Secondly, why push people more toward Linux (from MS's point of view) Personally, I'm using XP Corporate installs at home. Is it legal? No. Do I feel guilty? Not in the least. Why not? Because I actually have MORE LEGIMATE XP PRO LICENSES THAN I HAVE XP PRO INSTALLED ON. I have 3 LEGIMATE XP Pro licenses, and 2 computers with XP Pro installed on them. I just am constantly changing hardware, and activation is a pain, so I install off a corporate CD to avoid it. I've been meaning to switch my main desktop to Linux anyway (I allready have more Linux boxes than Windows ones) If I couldn't update my XP corp install, it would probably be the push I need to do it...
Back when TechTV (Then ZDTV) first came on the air, I installed a C-band (the big 10 foot dishes) JUST to get ZDTV.
When Kate Botello left The ScreenSavers, I feel it went from being a interesting, yet geeky show (a show I HAD to watch - if I was out it was recorded) to a less interesting show. As ZDTV became TechTV, it became dumbed down to the point where I would only catch the show once a month, if that.
If only we could have the original days of ZDTV back, that would be great.
I am. And I just bought a 3GHz P4 and a Asus P4C800 which will arrive this week to upgrade.
Why? Chipsets. There are NO GOOD CHIPSETS for Athlons.
I've personally worked with:
VIA - Garbage (Buggy everything)
ALI - Garbage (Buggy ACPI, others)
SIS - Garbage
AMD760MP - had some bad experiences with it and ultimately gave up on the board.
I haven't used the NVidia or ATI Chipsets, but I've had very bad experiences with everything not made by ServerWorks or Intel. You have to look at compatibility and reliability in addition to price and peformance.
When I was shopping around for a mobo and CPU, I looked at the Athlons again, because I wanted to do SMP and 2 Xeon's are too expensive. But there's no good AMD chipsets.
Because with CRT's, the closer you get to the edge of the screen, the greater the distortions (poor convergence, poor focus, poor linearity) become. IE if I stretch the image to the very edge, the convergance will be off in the corner, but if I leave a .25" gap on each side, I have significantly less misconvergance on the edges of the image.
That is the point of Blacklists - you should be complaining to your ISP that they are blacklisted. If they are blacklisted, it means they are hosting spammers and this (customers like you putting pressure on them) is the only way to get them to clean up their act.
3Ware Escalade series. Relatively inexpensive, rock solid, vendor Linux support.
Iomega is saying they plan to release REV AutoLoaders later this year
Because the better the master is, the better the stamped (mass produced, destined for consumer discs) will be. This means that less error correction is used by your CD/DVD player when reading your disks. This means that they can be read faster in some cases, and will help increase the tolerance to scratches/dust (ECC can be used elsewhere)
Ultimately, this means that future technologies can pack bits tighter on discs, as the discs can be made more accurately. In other words, more storage!
Xbox Media Center That application alone is worth the $150 for an Xbox console.
Media Player Classic, available from here can open video from a device (such as a camcorder) and show realtime video across firewire.
Get a C-band system. Al-A-Cart has been the way of life there forever. Not to mention premium channels are far cheaper...
Cap it 512 Kbit/sec, not 256Kbit/sec
I know that's not totally right - I've seen AmEx numbers start 37. It seems to be in the right direction though.
There's probably some catch I'm missing, but if you purchased one of these disks, then immediately copied it, as long as you retained your original (now unreadable) disk wouldn't your copy be legal? It was always my understanding that it was legal to make a backup copy of DVD's (hence products like DVDXCopy) provided you owned the originals. Since you own the original and it's no longer readable, your backup would be legal, right?
I know this patent is obvious, but here's another example of prior art. At my college most departments give students email accounts on their own servers For example, my email account is %username%@it.rit.edu and my department's web page is http://it.rit.edu Other departments do it also, such as the CS department. Best I can tell this system was put in place in early 1999, predating this patent by 4 years.
I absolutely hate TurnItIn.com, but sadly many teachers at my school use it. I have never cheated in my life, but as others have mentioned, I feel I have to prove my innocence.
I'm wondering if I have legal grounds to sue them, as every paper I have submitted to them has had the following attached to the bottom:
Copyright (C)2003-2004 (My Name). All Rights Reserved.
Any unauthorized use, reproduction or storage, either electronic or printed, in whole or in part, without written or verbal permission, is a violation of international copyright laws.
Permission for TurnItIn.com and/or iParadigms.com to retain a copy of this work for more than 14 days, or to incorporate this work into their database(s) is explicitly DENIED.
They have terms and conditions people automatically agree to when they use TurnItIn.com, it would seem my terms for them receiving my papers would be valid, as they will obviously ignore them and retain my papers.
I asked the rep about Linux on this and he told me that all their engineers run Linux and they actually had Linux running on it before Windows. That said, they won't officially support Linux, BUT they will provide any necessary drivers to run Linux on it.
No it's not an RS232 port. It's a propritary port. The unit comes with a cable that's about 3 feet long that breaks it out into other ports such as Ethernet, USB, VGA (and some others, I don't remember the details)
This thing is AWSOME! I saw it at CES and I'm seriously thinking of getting one when they come out. It is truely amazing. The only thing I'm not sure of is the screen seemed prone to getting damaged. They also claimed they had it running off the same battery at CES all day and it was still running (so several hour battery life)
Not sure if the pictures on this site show it (it's slashdotted) as none of the other pictures I've seen show this, but the screen slides up about 1/2 way to reveal a little QWERTY keyboard.