Because slashdot is a predominant US based website. If I quoted the Imperial Gallons 90% of the replies to my statement would be "OMG TEIHR GALLON IS BIGGER".
Back then Apple wasn't the Sexy Apple it was today. There was no OS X. Just a funny looking AIO Blue iMac. Jobs came out and said, "Oh by they way, No ADB, No Serial, No Parallel".
It didn't happen over night, but it was when I started noticing stuff coming out. PCs had had USB for a few years, but it wasn't until Apple included a USB only computer that USB stuff started coming out. Sure it was 'over priced and expensive' and ~3% of the market bore that. But then the PC users started liking their USB keyboards over the PS/2.
Meanwhile the MacBook Air has NO CD drive, includes a boot USB stick as 'recovery' but 90% of motherboards made today still have that damn space taken up by PS/2, serial and/or parallel. It's only been recent that some motherboards allow you to flash BIOS and stuff other than having a floppy disk. Apple is way ahead of the curve on that. I'd love to see a cheap, legacy free MicroATX motherboard on NewEgg.
So if Jobs can 'trick' 8% of the market into over priced NAND on the iPod, iPhone and iPad or into the SSD, good for him.
How good is the programming language to setup and use? Back when GV was new I registered (xxx) xx-HOUSE. I have 1-wire setup throughout the house for stuff like the furnace. Garage door, etc.
I want to be able to dial into my Asterisk box and enter my pass code and see if the garage door is open (and optionally close it). Set thermostat temp, etc.
The Lupo 3L was a special-edition made with the intent of being the world's first car in series production consuming as little as 3 litres of fuel per 100 kilometres (78 miles per US gallon or 94 miles per Imperial gallon). To achieve this the 3L was significantly changed from the standard Lupo to include: 1.2 litre 3-cylinder diesel engine with turbocharger and direct injection (61 hp, 140 Nm) Use of light-weight aluminum and magnesium alloys for doors, bonnet, rear-hatch, seat frames, engine block, wheels, suspension system etc. to achieve a weight of only 830 kg (1,830 lb) Tiptronic gearbox Engine start/stop automatic to avoid long idling periods Low rolling resistance tires Battery location moved to boot for better weight distribution During the period of series production of the Lupo 3L, Volkswagen also presented the 1L Concept, a prototype made with the objective of proving the capability of producing a roadworthy vehicle consuming only 1 litre of fuel per 100 kilometres (235 miles per US gallon).
You mean like VW's TSI engine. The one that's won the International Engine of the Year Awards for 5 years running and was voted the International Engine of the Year and Best Green Engine in 2009?
If NBC, ABC, FOX, etc released an "NBC DVR" program that ran on Linux, even if they put ads in it, I wouldn't care. Make a plugin for XBMC.
I want it to be Fast. (Torrent, Server based or Hybrid of the two). I want to be able to watch the shows I like.
It's really not that hard. GoogleTV would have been a way to do this. Hell I've even caught up on episodes of shows on their websites when I was at work. But I don't normally watch TV on my laptop, I want it on my TV.
Astraweb does have an affiliate program, I'm not signed up.
100% scot free legal (in the USA). You're not uploading anything with Usenet (different story if you use torrents, which sick beard does support). You request the file from them, they send it. Unless someone can correct me, no one has ever been successfully sued in the US for downloading stuff. It's all uploads.
A "to go" solution would be to toss this on an external hard drive or what I used to do was had my XBOX in an easy to carry bag FTPd some movies over and went over to friends houses. The G1 Apple TV is much smaller and easier to transport and runs XBMC great.
Yes, it does cost money, but once you get a job, $25 every 4 months and a 1 time fee of $10 (for NZBmatrix or NZBs'r'us') is worth it. I don't have cable TV or even an arial. I get DRM free, commercial free TV shows. For some time I even had a setup that converted them for viewing on my iPod Touch.
180GB should get you 263 SD Movies/HD 1 hour TV shows (~700MB) or ~1000 30 minute SD TV shows (around 183MB/each.) ~500 1 hour SD TV shows. (Around 370MB/each).
If you ONLY used it for TV shows and you watched 5 hour long dramas a week and 5 30 minute sit coms. Assuming a season of shows is 20 episodes, that 180GB block should last you almost 3 years.
Sickbeard makes one hell of a DVR program. (When paired with sabnzbd or a torrent program).
$25 for a 180GB block from Astraweb has lasted me since August and I haven't even burned through 1/2 of it yet. (I used to have the $10/month unlimited until I realized how much I really didn't use it). Programs available within a few minutes of the show ending. 30 minute TV shows take 2-3 minutes. Hour long never take longer than 10. (Heck when I saturate my cable I can have a movie in 8 minutes).
XBMC makes one hell of a nice front end. I come home from school or work and just browse to the 'latest episodes' and watch something.
Slashdot Mirror
Changing the start time has also been shown to increase scores dramatically. Best of all. It's "FREE". Instead of 7/8 - 3. Do 10-5.
Don't most studies show kids get into the most amount of trouble (sex, drugs, rock and roll) after school before parents are home?
Start them at 10. They'll sleep until class starts. Wake up, be awake in class and be home when their parents get home.
Anyone else imagine this guy in his office just sitting there going "Enhance"
Hate to break it to you, your mom isn't reading "fantasy and horror" books.
You don't sell it back to the book store.
You sell it directly to someone else.
Yes, the bookstore blows on buy back.
Because slashdot is a predominant US based website. If I quoted the Imperial Gallons 90% of the replies to my statement would be "OMG TEIHR GALLON IS BIGGER".
Just like with USB?
Back then Apple wasn't the Sexy Apple it was today. There was no OS X. Just a funny looking AIO Blue iMac. Jobs came out and said, "Oh by they way, No ADB, No Serial, No Parallel".
It didn't happen over night, but it was when I started noticing stuff coming out. PCs had had USB for a few years, but it wasn't until Apple included a USB only computer that USB stuff started coming out. Sure it was 'over priced and expensive' and ~3% of the market bore that. But then the PC users started liking their USB keyboards over the PS/2.
Meanwhile the MacBook Air has NO CD drive, includes a boot USB stick as 'recovery' but 90% of motherboards made today still have that damn space taken up by PS/2, serial and/or parallel. It's only been recent that some motherboards allow you to flash BIOS and stuff other than having a floppy disk. Apple is way ahead of the curve on that. I'd love to see a cheap, legacy free MicroATX motherboard on NewEgg.
So if Jobs can 'trick' 8% of the market into over priced NAND on the iPod, iPhone and iPad or into the SSD, good for him.
How good is the programming language to setup and use? Back when GV was new I registered (xxx) xx-HOUSE. I have 1-wire setup throughout the house for stuff like the furnace. Garage door, etc.
I want to be able to dial into my Asterisk box and enter my pass code and see if the garage door is open (and optionally close it). Set thermostat temp, etc.
My TDI is at 250k. Numerous people on TDIClub have run theirs to 300k+ with no problems.
Then again it's unamerican to think long term.
BS. I drive a diesel car. You don't look for it because you don't have a one. It's never been a pain, even when we drove through NYC.
Will people let this old "-1. Diesel" die?
Were you awake in 1999?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo
The Lupo 3L was a special-edition made with the intent of being the world's first car in series production consuming as little as 3 litres of fuel per 100 kilometres (78 miles per US gallon or 94 miles per Imperial gallon). To achieve this the 3L was significantly changed from the standard Lupo to include:
1.2 litre 3-cylinder diesel engine with turbocharger and direct injection (61 hp, 140 Nm)
Use of light-weight aluminum and magnesium alloys for doors, bonnet, rear-hatch, seat frames, engine block, wheels, suspension system etc. to achieve a weight of only 830 kg (1,830 lb)
Tiptronic gearbox
Engine start/stop automatic to avoid long idling periods
Low rolling resistance tires
Battery location moved to boot for better weight distribution
During the period of series production of the Lupo 3L, Volkswagen also presented the 1L Concept, a prototype made with the objective of proving the capability of producing a roadworthy vehicle consuming only 1 litre of fuel per 100 kilometres (235 miles per US gallon).
You mean like VW's TSI engine. The one that's won the International Engine of the Year Awards for 5 years running and was voted the International Engine of the Year and Best Green Engine in 2009?
Completely new thing they have.
Pre detonation doesn't matter. It's a direct injection engine. Fuel isn't injected until it's wanted, like diesels.
Normal gasoline engines have the air/fuel mixture inserted before the compression stroke.
WTF is this news?
VW Polo
70 miles per US gallon highway.
60 MPUSG combined.
50 MPUSG City.
Or. Not illegal. I'm not uploading stuff. (Unless you use torrents).
And I wouldn't exactly call the AppleTV running XBMC "Big ugly computer".
And yes, you can run Linux on it. And all these tools. Server is in another room.
If NBC, ABC, FOX, etc released an "NBC DVR" program that ran on Linux, even if they put ads in it, I wouldn't care. Make a plugin for XBMC.
I want it to be Fast. (Torrent, Server based or Hybrid of the two).
I want to be able to watch the shows I like.
It's really not that hard. GoogleTV would have been a way to do this. Hell I've even caught up on episodes of shows on their websites when I was at work. But I don't normally watch TV on my laptop, I want it on my TV.
Or ignore me and I'll do it this way.
In response to everyone:
Astraweb does have an affiliate program, I'm not signed up.
100% scot free legal (in the USA). You're not uploading anything with Usenet (different story if you use torrents, which sick beard does support). You request the file from them, they send it. Unless someone can correct me, no one has ever been successfully sued in the US for downloading stuff. It's all uploads.
A "to go" solution would be to toss this on an external hard drive or what I used to do was had my XBOX in an easy to carry bag FTPd some movies over and went over to friends houses. The G1 Apple TV is much smaller and easier to transport and runs XBMC great.
Yes, it does cost money, but once you get a job, $25 every 4 months and a 1 time fee of $10 (for NZBmatrix or NZBs'r'us') is worth it. I don't have cable TV or even an arial. I get DRM free, commercial free TV shows. For some time I even had a setup that converted them for viewing on my iPod Touch.
180GB should get you 263 SD Movies/HD 1 hour TV shows (~700MB) or
~1000 30 minute SD TV shows (around 183MB/each.)
~500 1 hour SD TV shows. (Around 370MB/each).
If you ONLY used it for TV shows and you watched 5 hour long dramas a week and 5 30 minute sit coms. Assuming a season of shows is 20 episodes, that 180GB block should last you almost 3 years.
http://www.bin-req.net/ is free and so is EZTV (torrents).
I also use Couch Potato for my Movies.
Sickbeard makes one hell of a DVR program. (When paired with sabnzbd or a torrent program).
$25 for a 180GB block from Astraweb has lasted me since August and I haven't even burned through 1/2 of it yet. (I used to have the $10/month unlimited until I realized how much I really didn't use it). Programs available within a few minutes of the show ending. 30 minute TV shows take 2-3 minutes. Hour long never take longer than 10. (Heck when I saturate my cable I can have a movie in 8 minutes).
XBMC makes one hell of a nice front end. I come home from school or work and just browse to the 'latest episodes' and watch something.
http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/tag/pwnagetool/
Really? Your country spends so much effort pirating even physical cars, factories, etc, you can't be bothered to run a jailbreak?
MacPorts
Fink
Lets not let the tail wag the dog. APT was created on and used initially with Debian.
It's been adapted for numerous other platforms.... including to the iPhone/iPod Touch. It's what Cydia uses.
Fink also uses it for portions of package management.
Would you like to play a game of tic tac toe?
OS X uses FSevents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSEvents
There's even a cool GUI fseventer so you can track what gets written and where.
The $99/year is for developers, not consumers.
They also prefer African American Silicon.
AppFresh
MacUpdate
I would say VersionTracker, but it appears cnet Downloads now owns them and made it as useless as cnet downloads.
I also have MacPorts so:
alias u='sudo port selfupdate;sudo port upgrade outdated;sudo port -f uninstall inactive'