I'm one of the people caught in this. Yes, ReplayTV dropped the price, and from my call with them, Replay seems to be trying to blame the retailers (I find it hard to believe, considering EVERY retailer had this wrong)
My ReplayTV 5504 has a big green sticker on it saying 3 years of service included. There's paperwork inside saying 3 years of service included. The webpage (at circuit city) I ordered it off of said there were 3 years of service included.
Let me compare this to someone that happened recently. As everyone knows, Western Digital recently cut the warranty on most of their hard drives from 3 years to 1 year. This would be like Western Digital claiming that the hard drive on all hard drives sold after 11/1/03 was 1 year-even if the box and everything else said 3 years. Not only that, but they issue this information on 11/15/03-and apply it retroactively to people who purchased the unit after 11/1/03.
I know I personally will be writing the FTC and BBB. To take away a feature which is specifically printed on the box is just wrong, and has to be illegal.
It seems to be a common misconception that WOL doesn't work across the internet. WOL works across the internet just fine. I've used DSLReport's web based utility here and it works perfectly.
As far as I know, nothing from Apple is made in the USA. I know the clamshell iBooks were made in Taiwan. I know my iPod wasn't made in the US (though where escapes me) I don't think ANYTHING Apple makes is made in the US. I'll probably get modded flamebait for this, but the main reason Apple products cost so much is because Apple fans will pay that much. The best description I ever saw of Apple is that "Apple isn't a hardware or software company-it's a cult" (shameless ripped from an old/. post)
First off the iPod does NOT have a lithium ion battery. It has a Lithium Polymer battery. The battery is similar to a LiOn (Lithium Ion) battery, however, they can be made basically any shape, whereas LiOn batteries are much less flexible for shape requirements. On the iPod, the battery itself has no electronics. All the monitoring circuitry is intigrated into the iPod motherboard itself-the battery is the battery and a connector-that's all. No electronics at all. The iBook, along with essentially all modern laptop batteries are Lithium Ion batteries. These batteries are not that expensive, however, all laptop companies really mark up the prices of the batteries. Almost all modern Cell Phones use LiOn batteries (with the exception of a few new ones that have Lithium Polymer batteries)- identicle to the ones that Laptops use. As to the iPod battery lasting such a short time, all I can say is it is poor design. I currently own a 10GB 3rd generation iPod, which has been used very little (about 25 minutes a day) and the battery treated as good as possible (often recharged, never drained fully, basically cared for in the ideal manner for a Lithium Polymer battery) After owning this iPod for about 6 months, I find the battery doesn't charge up all the way anymore. I have a friend with a 8 month old 1st generation iPod. This is actually his second unit. His first unit had poor battery life the day it arrived. Apple replaced it-about 7 months later the iPod only has a battery life of 4 hours. Yet another friend had a 2nd gen 10GB iPod-that iPod had the battery fail when it was about 8 months old also. Basically, the iPod's batteries fail constantly. They are a huge design issue with them. Apple needs to admit there is a problem, and offer a reasonably priced replacement (Apple could sell that battery for $30 and make a profit) Oh, one more thing-even if your iPod is still under it's original 1 year warranty, if it is older than 6 months old, you have to pay $30!!! shipping for it. All in all, the iPod is a nice idea, having owned and used 2, the size is great, but it is overpriced and it does have issues, and the battery is a HUGE issue-I personally don't see myself purchasing another iPod-They cost too much for how little time they last. I will be looking to their competitors.
I think it's a matter of cost. ISDN is available (almost?) everywhere in the US. However, there are high costs to go along with it. Most places charge 1 cent per minute per B channel (64kbits/second) or $1.20/hour. Add the $50 or so per month base line cost, and most likely your ISP charges you more to dial into an ISDN line, and you can easily be paying a few hundred $ in a month for internet access.
Both. Without the GPL, you have no right to make or distribute copies of the software. Your acceptance of the GPL gives you the right to make and distribute copies of the software. If you don't follow the GPL, you have no right to copy/distribute the software and it becomes a copyright violation.
I live on a college campus with a high number of geeks. Last year when Slammer first reared its head, it brought our network to it's knees. We couldn't even do anything on the local LAN, much less get out to the Internet. It was so strange, because everyone came out of their dorm rooms and seemed bored that evening.
When I was growing up, and still to this day, me and my parents don't have a great relationship. I fall into the camp a lot of people mention-me and my parents don't communicate much, as they tend to use information I give them to punish me. My parents were also very overprotective. Sex was just not spoken about, etc.
Well, realising you're gay is mind boggling for a 12 year old. Who do you talk with? I know I thought everyone would hate me. I turned to the internet-did searching, talked to people online, etc. I used the Internet as a support group. I learned how to come out to people in person. This was not something I would even dream of discussing with my parents. (though that's another issue entirely)
Anyway, if my parents had logged my internet traffic, I would not have read the information I had, chatted in the newsgroups I had, etc. Without the support of the Internet community with what I was going through, I'd say it's certainly plausable that I would not be alive today.
Filtering doesn't work either. The kids will still find porn. They will get it from their friends, etc. I know I've bought younger friends porn magazines before, it's no big deal. Out of all my friends, EVERYONE whose parents forbids it looks at porn. My friends whose parents don't care if they look at porn, some of them do look at porn, but some don't. Doesn't seem like forbidding them will do much good. All forbidding them to look at porn will teach them they need to lean how to hack dad's linux box and clear logs, if that.
Growing up is difficult. There are some things that are too embarassing for a teenager to discuss with their parents-the Internet is really useful for these. If you've allowed children to learn from their mistakes, rather than constantly protecting them, they will know how to make smart decisions, what to do and what not to do. You can't protect them forever-there's nothing magical about turning 18. Only making mistakes and learning from them will allow them to grow up.
Along the same lines, as soon as I went off to college, I tried pot, got drunk, etc. Both things I had never done before. They were amusing a few times, then got old, and that was basically the end of them. All my parent's years of protection did nothing-I had to try it on my own and learn from it.
Basically though, if you have a teenage male, it's about 99% certain he will look at porn, be it at your house or at a friends, so just don't even bother trying to restrict his internet connection and it's best for everyone.
I'm not so sure about bubble sheets. I've used them for various things around a pretty good public school and found the following:
1. About 1/2 of the teachers could not follow the directions ON THE SAME SHEET! about how to fill them in. They did things including using crayon, pen, drawing X's through the bubbles, etc.
2. About 25% of the high school students did similar things.
Bubble sheets seem rather simple to me, but I can't believe how many people could not correctly fill them out.
No, actually I meant Apple users. As bad as Windows users are, Mac users are 100 times worse about immediately running out and buying the latest upgrade. Jobs is god!.
When I read the slashdot bit, but before I read the article itself, I thought the article was reffering to the computer Lemmings in the video game. Anyone else think that?
Reading the article, it seems to me like the third exemption makes mod chips for video game consoles legal. It specifically states that it covers current (non-obsolete media) and allows for the circumvention of copy protection when a copy can be made, but not used, without circumventing copy protection. The same exemption also specifically mentions video games.
Also, I could see possibly some help for DeCSS-specifically the section of I believe the first exemption relating to the restriction of fair use.
You're right. I'm a second year student. I'm just taking required courses at this point. I sure hope some of the later classes challenge me, but the courses I'm in right now are just like "this is a switch, a switch does this" etc.
I HATE core requirements.
I imported my math book for my freshman math class last year from England. I bought it from a big UK bookstore (I think it was Allwell) and I paid something like $45 shipped for it to the US. Same edition as the one the bookstore had. Same ISBN number. Hardcover, etc...all in all, identicle to the one I would have bought at the bookstore on campus. The bookstore (and all US bookstores) sell that book for $120 or so, even used it's $80 at the bookstore.
I hate textbooks....99% of the time they are total ripoffs. The only textbooks I own that I think are useful I saw in the college bookstore, and bought used on half.com for my own personal use-not needed for any class.
It's misleading though. They are taking a number that had one meaning, and redefine it. Let me give a rather silly, but similar example. I advertise "FREE FORD MUSTANGS" in the local paper. At the bottom of the ad, I say in small print "A Ford Mustang is actually a fruir often called an orange"
Tell me the courts wouldn't find that misleading?
It's one thing to define something. It's another thing to take something that's common knowledge (the number of bytes in MB, GB, etc) and re/mis-define it.
OK, so what about the person that has EvoX or whatnot on their Xbox or uses XBMP. Basically, someone who has done the soft mod that has the Xbox plugged into their network. This network almost guaranteably has a connection to the internet. So I the Xbox CAN get to the internet. Then I play one of these new Xbox games-THAT ACCESS LIVE EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A LIVE SUBSCRIPTION!!!!! and it auto-updates the Xbox.
I never asked my xbox to go onto MS's network. It did it when I played a game. Oh well, this is why I preffer hardware mods.
With current laws (unless this gets called a circumvention device under the DMCA) it would be legal. This is because the RFID tag will be unlicensed and fall under part 15 of the FCC's rules. Cell phones, on the other hand, are in licensed spectrum, and transmit with much more power than part 15. Part of the requirements for a part 15 device to operate is it must not intentionally cause interference (ie blocking a cell phone) with another, LICSENCED device (so interfering with an RFID tag is OK, cell phone is not) Additionally, most likely power levels greater than part 15 would be required to block a cell phone transmisssion.
So in short, this is legal, call phone blocking isn't.
I stumbled on a setup by accident which works great. I had a IO Gear USB KVM switch, and got a Sound Blaster Extigy. Well, the KVM has USB ports for the keyboard/mouse, then a second set of USB ports which can be switched independantly of the mouse/kb/video.
Extigy. Result of this-I can listen to mp3's on one machine which I'm working on another. I can easily switch which machine the sound card/speakers are hooked to by pressing a few keys on my keyboard. Works GREAT!!!
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ReplayTV is hardly a small company. It is owned by DNAA, the company which ownes Denon and Marantz (think (relatively) high end audio equipment)
I'm one of the people caught in this. Yes, ReplayTV dropped the price, and from my call with them, Replay seems to be trying to blame the retailers (I find it hard to believe, considering EVERY retailer had this wrong) My ReplayTV 5504 has a big green sticker on it saying 3 years of service included. There's paperwork inside saying 3 years of service included. The webpage (at circuit city) I ordered it off of said there were 3 years of service included. Let me compare this to someone that happened recently. As everyone knows, Western Digital recently cut the warranty on most of their hard drives from 3 years to 1 year. This would be like Western Digital claiming that the hard drive on all hard drives sold after 11/1/03 was 1 year-even if the box and everything else said 3 years. Not only that, but they issue this information on 11/15/03-and apply it retroactively to people who purchased the unit after 11/1/03. I know I personally will be writing the FTC and BBB. To take away a feature which is specifically printed on the box is just wrong, and has to be illegal.
It seems to be a common misconception that WOL doesn't work across the internet. WOL works across the internet just fine. I've used DSLReport's web based utility here and it works perfectly.
As far as I know, nothing from Apple is made in the USA. I know the clamshell iBooks were made in Taiwan. I know my iPod wasn't made in the US (though where escapes me) I don't think ANYTHING Apple makes is made in the US. /. post)
I'll probably get modded flamebait for this, but the main reason Apple products cost so much is because Apple fans will pay that much. The best description I ever saw of Apple is that "Apple isn't a hardware or software company-it's a cult" (shameless ripped from an old
First off the iPod does NOT have a lithium ion battery. It has a Lithium Polymer battery. The battery is similar to a LiOn (Lithium Ion) battery, however, they can be made basically any shape, whereas LiOn batteries are much less flexible for shape requirements.
On the iPod, the battery itself has no electronics. All the monitoring circuitry is intigrated into the iPod motherboard itself-the battery is the battery and a connector-that's all. No electronics at all.
The iBook, along with essentially all modern laptop batteries are Lithium Ion batteries. These batteries are not that expensive, however, all laptop companies really mark up the prices of the batteries.
Almost all modern Cell Phones use LiOn batteries (with the exception of a few new ones that have Lithium Polymer batteries)- identicle to the ones that Laptops use.
As to the iPod battery lasting such a short time, all I can say is it is poor design. I currently own a 10GB 3rd generation iPod, which has been used very little (about 25 minutes a day) and the battery treated as good as possible (often recharged, never drained fully, basically cared for in the ideal manner for a Lithium Polymer battery) After owning this iPod for about 6 months, I find the battery doesn't charge up all the way anymore. I have a friend with a 8 month old 1st generation iPod. This is actually his second unit. His first unit had poor battery life the day it arrived. Apple replaced it-about 7 months later the iPod only has a battery life of 4 hours. Yet another friend had a 2nd gen 10GB iPod-that iPod had the battery fail when it was about 8 months old also.
Basically, the iPod's batteries fail constantly. They are a huge design issue with them. Apple needs to admit there is a problem, and offer a reasonably priced replacement (Apple could sell that battery for $30 and make a profit)
Oh, one more thing-even if your iPod is still under it's original 1 year warranty, if it is older than 6 months old, you have to pay $30!!! shipping for it.
All in all, the iPod is a nice idea, having owned and used 2, the size is great, but it is overpriced and it does have issues, and the battery is a HUGE issue-I personally don't see myself purchasing another iPod-They cost too much for how little time they last. I will be looking to their competitors.
I think it's a matter of cost. ISDN is available (almost?) everywhere in the US. However, there are high costs to go along with it. Most places charge 1 cent per minute per B channel (64kbits/second) or $1.20/hour. Add the $50 or so per month base line cost, and most likely your ISP charges you more to dial into an ISDN line, and you can easily be paying a few hundred $ in a month for internet access.
Both. Without the GPL, you have no right to make or distribute copies of the software. Your acceptance of the GPL gives you the right to make and distribute copies of the software. If you don't follow the GPL, you have no right to copy/distribute the software and it becomes a copyright violation.
I live on a college campus with a high number of geeks. Last year when Slammer first reared its head, it brought our network to it's knees. We couldn't even do anything on the local LAN, much less get out to the Internet. It was so strange, because everyone came out of their dorm rooms and seemed bored that evening.
When I was growing up, and still to this day, me and my parents don't have a great relationship. I fall into the camp a lot of people mention-me and my parents don't communicate much, as they tend to use information I give them to punish me. My parents were also very overprotective. Sex was just not spoken about, etc. Well, realising you're gay is mind boggling for a 12 year old. Who do you talk with? I know I thought everyone would hate me. I turned to the internet-did searching, talked to people online, etc. I used the Internet as a support group. I learned how to come out to people in person. This was not something I would even dream of discussing with my parents. (though that's another issue entirely)
Anyway, if my parents had logged my internet traffic, I would not have read the information I had, chatted in the newsgroups I had, etc. Without the support of the Internet community with what I was going through, I'd say it's certainly plausable that I would not be alive today.
Filtering doesn't work either. The kids will still find porn. They will get it from their friends, etc. I know I've bought younger friends porn magazines before, it's no big deal. Out of all my friends, EVERYONE whose parents forbids it looks at porn. My friends whose parents don't care if they look at porn, some of them do look at porn, but some don't. Doesn't seem like forbidding them will do much good. All forbidding them to look at porn will teach them they need to lean how to hack dad's linux box and clear logs, if that.
Growing up is difficult. There are some things that are too embarassing for a teenager to discuss with their parents-the Internet is really useful for these. If you've allowed children to learn from their mistakes, rather than constantly protecting them, they will know how to make smart decisions, what to do and what not to do. You can't protect them forever-there's nothing magical about turning 18. Only making mistakes and learning from them will allow them to grow up.
Along the same lines, as soon as I went off to college, I tried pot, got drunk, etc. Both things I had never done before. They were amusing a few times, then got old, and that was basically the end of them. All my parent's years of protection did nothing-I had to try it on my own and learn from it.
Basically though, if you have a teenage male, it's about 99% certain he will look at porn, be it at your house or at a friends, so just don't even bother trying to restrict his internet connection and it's best for everyone.
Yes. All those devices are ESD sensative
I'm not so sure about bubble sheets. I've used them for various things around a pretty good public school and found the following:
1. About 1/2 of the teachers could not follow the directions ON THE SAME SHEET! about how to fill them in. They did things including using crayon, pen, drawing X's through the bubbles, etc.
2. About 25% of the high school students did similar things.
Bubble sheets seem rather simple to me, but I can't believe how many people could not correctly fill them out.
No, actually I meant Apple users. As bad as Windows users are, Mac users are 100 times worse about immediately running out and buying the latest upgrade. Jobs is god!.
When I read the slashdot bit, but before I read the article itself, I thought the article was reffering to the computer Lemmings in the video game. Anyone else think that?
Reading the article, it seems to me like the third exemption makes mod chips for video game consoles legal. It specifically states that it covers current (non-obsolete media) and allows for the circumvention of copy protection when a copy can be made, but not used, without circumventing copy protection. The same exemption also specifically mentions video games.
Also, I could see possibly some help for DeCSS-specifically the section of I believe the first exemption relating to the restriction of fair use.
You're right. I'm a second year student. I'm just taking required courses at this point. I sure hope some of the later classes challenge me, but the courses I'm in right now are just like "this is a switch, a switch does this" etc. I HATE core requirements.
I imported my math book for my freshman math class last year from England. I bought it from a big UK bookstore (I think it was Allwell) and I paid something like $45 shipped for it to the US. Same edition as the one the bookstore had. Same ISBN number. Hardcover, etc...all in all, identicle to the one I would have bought at the bookstore on campus. The bookstore (and all US bookstores) sell that book for $120 or so, even used it's $80 at the bookstore.
I hate textbooks....99% of the time they are total ripoffs. The only textbooks I own that I think are useful I saw in the college bookstore, and bought used on half.com for my own personal use-not needed for any class.
Actually, that's a good idea. However, a quick trip to the camer store and a $10 filter later and the tapers would be back at it.
A source that stores the video in an analog component format (seperate R, G and B) like I believe BetaCam SP does, would not have those artifacts.
This I can't understand-it has to be a flaw in your setup, as it's my understanding that the CD format pre-dates SCMS
It's misleading though. They are taking a number that had one meaning, and redefine it. Let me give a rather silly, but similar example. I advertise "FREE FORD MUSTANGS" in the local paper. At the bottom of the ad, I say in small print "A Ford Mustang is actually a fruir often called an orange" Tell me the courts wouldn't find that misleading? It's one thing to define something. It's another thing to take something that's common knowledge (the number of bytes in MB, GB, etc) and re/mis-define it.
Two Xboxes for Network Play XBox Media Player EvoX INSTALL LINUX UPDATES Who knows what else There's lots of reasons
OK, so what about the person that has EvoX or whatnot on their Xbox or uses XBMP. Basically, someone who has done the soft mod that has the Xbox plugged into their network. This network almost guaranteably has a connection to the internet. So I the Xbox CAN get to the internet. Then I play one of these new Xbox games-THAT ACCESS LIVE EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A LIVE SUBSCRIPTION!!!!! and it auto-updates the Xbox. I never asked my xbox to go onto MS's network. It did it when I played a game. Oh well, this is why I preffer hardware mods.
It's rather irrevellent, as DVD is not HD, only SD. DVHS is the only consumer (And barely at that) method of recording an HD signal today.
With current laws (unless this gets called a circumvention device under the DMCA) it would be legal. This is because the RFID tag will be unlicensed and fall under part 15 of the FCC's rules. Cell phones, on the other hand, are in licensed spectrum, and transmit with much more power than part 15. Part of the requirements for a part 15 device to operate is it must not intentionally cause interference (ie blocking a cell phone) with another, LICSENCED device (so interfering with an RFID tag is OK, cell phone is not) Additionally, most likely power levels greater than part 15 would be required to block a cell phone transmisssion. So in short, this is legal, call phone blocking isn't.
I stumbled on a setup by accident which works great. I had a IO Gear USB KVM switch, and got a Sound Blaster Extigy. Well, the KVM has USB ports for the keyboard/mouse, then a second set of USB ports which can be switched independantly of the mouse/kb/video. Extigy. Result of this-I can listen to mp3's on one machine which I'm working on another. I can easily switch which machine the sound card/speakers are hooked to by pressing a few keys on my keyboard. Works GREAT!!!