Is the battery life mentioned anywhere? If it is I missed it.
Couldn't find any exact info other than the following in the press release:
"It has a rechargeable lithium polymer battery with power management providing support for a day's worth of activities"
The first one was once when I turned my chair a little too fast and managed to knock my knee sideways into the computer standing under my desk. I hear a metallic thud, and then lots of smoke started coming out of the computer. I killed the power right away and cleared the room of smoke.
After the smoke had settled, I discovered that the hard drive cage (which I had unscrewed and never fastened again) had dropped to the "floor" of the big tower cage and shorted the cable to the internal speaker. Thus the large amount of smoke... The speaker cable has almost melted and left some black marks on the floor of the case... Amazingly and luckily nothing else was damaged.
The second mistake was just plain stupid - I decided to reset the BIOS on a brand new motherboard for my PVR, and shorted the pins on the motherboard just like I was supposed to... THe computer was turned off, but I did however forget to turn off the PSU, meaning the mobo was still powered when I cleared the BIOS (that would never had happened pre-ATX boards). The BIOS was fried and the board was turned totally unusable...
Average Number Of TV Channels Receivable
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2002 102.1
2003 100.4
I can see an easy explanation to why this number has stopped at about 100... People simply don't want more than 100 (or 99) channels to avoid having to press THREE buttons on their remotes to select channel.
Besides, who has the energy to hit "channel+" 100+ times to cycle through them all?
Atleast that site hasn't been Slashdotted, and is sure to load quickly.:)
For those of you wanting to get started...
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Linux PVRs Highlighted
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MythTV is really mature nowadays, and thanks to Jarod Wilsons HOWTO (where he goes through the MythTV install and the entire hardware configuring process step-by-step), even a relative Linux newbie (are there any of those around here?:) can get MythTV working in a matter of hours. Highly recommended.
There are also IRC channels (#mythtv and #mythtv-users on Freenode) and very active and helpful mailing lists to ask for help if you get stuck (at some point or another, you will!).
One thing that shouldn't be forgotten when comparing MythTV with TiVo is the cool possibility of a client-server system with MythTV.
You can have a noisy ugly backend server with lots of TV tuners and storage space stuffed away in your closet, and then have small, noiseless/quiet frontends in every room of the house.
The advantage is obvious - people can watch live TV (different channels, only limited by the number of TV tuners) or recordings in every room of the house, and the overall noise level and power consumption is lower since you only need to power up the front ends when you actually want to watch something.
The only thing running 24/7 is the backend server, and if you're using hardware MPEG cards, the load is very low, meaning MythTV can co-exist with any other services you might be running on your server...
Re:A flashdrive that security will take away.
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But I want to know why the SwissFlame isn't allowed for sale in the US.
I bet someone found a way to apply the DMCA to the knife, since it can be used to store MP3 files...
Funny that it's not allowed, cause this little thing should fall under the second amendment, shouldn't it?
Well I'm certain of one thing - the day I have kids old enough to read email I'm gonna make sure their mailboxes are VERY well protected from spam.
I sure wouldn't want them to see all the "My father fscked me", "farm girls get it from their dogs" and "See Lolita get raped by russian soldiers" spams I get daily. Bleh.
Hotel rooms should basically have a nice bed and nice bath. Personally, if I am going on vacation, I want to spend as much time OUT of the hotel room as possible
Well, this is true for tourists like you and me, but I'm quite sure that business travelers don't spend their entire nights outside... They probably want to relax in their room after spending ours in endless meetings, and an addition of a massage chair and a 42" plasma TV probably is a nice bonus.
But still, a few years ago you'd have to buy the disc again in such cases. Nowadays you just burn again from the original. 100% legitimate of course, but it is costing them turnover compared to the old days.
No - a few years ago, people had tape decks in their cars... And they played tapes copied from their original tapes and original CD's... Where's the difference?
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I think not - the still-image resolution is 800x600! I guess that was ultra-high in the nineties, but surely not nowadays.
Couldn't find any exact info other than the following in the press release:
"It has a rechargeable lithium polymer battery with power management providing support for a day's worth of activities"
Doesn't seems to work on the Slashdotted TheTechZone site, unforunately. :/
Here, try for yourselves:i d=79
http://www.thetechzone.com.nyud.net:8090/?m=show&
Never trust a company whose name is based on the word "forge".
The first one was once when I turned my chair a little too fast and managed to knock my knee sideways into the computer standing under my desk. I hear a metallic thud, and then lots of smoke started coming out of the computer. I killed the power right away and cleared the room of smoke.
After the smoke had settled, I discovered that the hard drive cage (which I had unscrewed and never fastened again) had dropped to the "floor" of the big tower cage and shorted the cable to the internal speaker. Thus the large amount of smoke... The speaker cable has almost melted and left some black marks on the floor of the case... Amazingly and luckily nothing else was damaged.
The second mistake was just plain stupid - I decided to reset the BIOS on a brand new motherboard for my PVR, and shorted the pins on the motherboard just like I was supposed to... THe computer was turned off, but I did however forget to turn off the PSU, meaning the mobo was still powered when I cleared the BIOS (that would never had happened pre-ATX boards). The BIOS was fried and the board was turned totally unusable...
Average Number Of TV Channels Receivable
<snip>
2002 102.1
2003 100.4
I can see an easy explanation to why this number has stopped at about 100... People simply don't want more than 100 (or 99) channels to avoid having to press THREE buttons on their remotes to select channel.
Besides, who has the energy to hit "channel+" 100+ times to cycle through them all?
Atleast that site hasn't been Slashdotted, and is sure to load quickly. :)
There are also IRC channels (#mythtv and #mythtv-users on Freenode) and very active and helpful mailing lists to ask for help if you get stuck (at some point or another, you will!).
Does that mean that they actually sued 50 people with high-speed CD burners?
You can have a noisy ugly backend server with lots of TV tuners and storage space stuffed away in your closet, and then have small, noiseless/quiet frontends in every room of the house.
The advantage is obvious - people can watch live TV (different channels, only limited by the number of TV tuners) or recordings in every room of the house, and the overall noise level and power consumption is lower since you only need to power up the front ends when you actually want to watch something.
The only thing running 24/7 is the backend server, and if you're using hardware MPEG cards, the load is very low, meaning MythTV can co-exist with any other services you might be running on your server...
I bet someone found a way to apply the DMCA to the knife, since it can be used to store MP3 files...
Funny that it's not allowed, cause this little thing should fall under the second amendment, shouldn't it?
I feel very strong now...
Considering the lack of massive war scenes in "The Hobbit", maybe they'll be able to make the movie for a sum smaller than the EU's 10 year budget?
But of course, that wouldn't be mentioned on Slashdot...
I sure wouldn't want them to see all the "My father fscked me", "farm girls get it from their dogs" and "See Lolita get raped by russian soldiers" spams I get daily. Bleh.
And just because it looks like a phone doesn't mean it is (at the moment)... The P800 comes to mind.
Well, this is true for tourists like you and me, but I'm quite sure that business travelers don't spend their entire nights outside... They probably want to relax in their room after spending ours in endless meetings, and an addition of a massage chair and a 42" plasma TV probably is a nice bonus.
This must mean that he actually slept during the stay... Who'd waste time sleeping at such a place? :)
Ah, so THIS is why chinese chicken tastes like shit. :)
Bah, big deal!
Back in my days, we used to eat gravel for breakfast. Cold gravel, out of a septic tank!
And our dad would beat us to death with his belt every evening!
(Credit where credit is due: Monty Python.)
No - a few years ago, people had tape decks in their cars... And they played tapes copied from their original tapes and original CD's... Where's the difference?
Not that I'd sacrifice my privacy to get rid of online cheaters, but anyway... :)