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Quick, somebody open up a futures market so I can place my bet on how fast our homeless population declines in the U.S.... If you thought El Paso and Enron were blood-thirsty before, watch out now!
SuSE needs to jump in on this lawsuit instead of coattailing it. Sure, they helped out in the German market, but the German goverment was going to side with them regardless (and the German legal system was automatically hostile to SCO's claims). The big enchelada (sic) is the U.S. market. So SuSE needs to jump in asap because they have just as much to lose as Red Hat does. I can understand Mandrake not wanting to get involved (ie. a direct legal suit against SCO) since they are on such shaky financial ground but they also need to file a friend of the court brief on behalf of the merits of Red Hat's complaint. SCO should also be expelled from UnitedLinux. Its too bad Sun has an interest in SCO's success, because StarOffice/Open Office certainly could use the spiritual help of that OSS legal fund.
...is actually recorded on the latest Kenny Loggins album. The Universe will collapse upon itself if one single person besides *The Loggins* actually listens to it...and if you rip it to an MP3, the RIAA will file a subpoena against you because they will claim they own the copyright to the recording...
The only cell phone company that won't offer AIM access on their phones because they'd rather push SMS and Yahoo Messenger (because of SBC's partnership with Yahoo on dialup and DSL)... Their reception stinks here in NorCal... they charge money to access your voicemail from a landline... and if you don't save your contract paperwork, they'll claim you signed up for a 2 year contract when you only signed up for 1... The only good thing they have going for them is they are GSM based, but then again, so is AT&T...
True. But that is a PC-centric experience. I could build a Freevo or any of the other open source DVR projects, but I really do not want a PC sitting next to my television in my living room. The TiVo makes too much noise as it is!
You forgot one thing. You don't have to buy the Home Media Option for remote scheduling via the web if you are an AOL subscriber. You can program your TiVo through the AOL program scheduling. Its no longer in Beta. The only problem is, you cannot program it if you are logging through the AOL webpage, say from work. You have to be signed in through the actual AOL software, although I'm sure they will change this to accommodate the people accessing AOL through their mobile phones...
Yes, but you are missing out on the Home Media Option* that all the other TiVo Series2 units can add on for the nominal fee of $100...:) I cannot understand why DirecTV won't offer this when it would be more money in their coffers...
...I wholeheartedly agree with you on that. Some of my friends wouldn't buy a TiVo because they didn't want anybody knowing what they watched. I was just the opposite; I wanted something to counter the Nielsens since so many of my favorite shows over the years have been cancelled because those morons didn't watch the same things... It boggles my mind how something like "Touched by an Angel" can remain on the air for eons (because of Nielsen ratings) but "Angel" on the WB is always in danger of cancellation because of the same folks...
the funny thing is, VCRs cost more than this price when they were introduced (or reintroduced if you are counting the Ampex stuff) in the late 70s... And $2000 in 1978 currency is a lot more than $1640 in 2003 currency...:)
It would make even more sense if the cable companies would "broadcast" their digital cable signal in MPEG4 instead of MPEG2...but seeing the fact that they have been so slow to eliminate the real bandwidth hog (analog cable), I won't hold my breath waiting for such an improvement...
I have a TiVo 80 hour unit and you can only get about 23 hours tops of broadcast quality (480p) video... So unless the Time Warner DVR box has leapfrogged the DVR market and is using MPEG4 instead of MPEG2, it isn't possible without dropping the resolution down to VHS quality resolution (which is what the 80 hour TiVo figure is based upon)...
This comment did not deserve to be downgraded in points and listed as "flamebait." Crack open a history book and find out for yourself which Native American leader died (in the late 19th Century) at the hands of the BIA and their Indian Police allies over a skirmish to remove his second wife from his home. Therefore, my comment on the BIA and polygamy was appropriate and NOT flamebait...
How would this prevent spybots from figuring out you have MP3s on your hard drive? Does it generate a fraudulent IP address for your hard drive separate from your actual connection? And if that's the case, how would it interoperate with the P2P client software? I can understand downloading a file and moving it to an non-shared folder on the encrypted hard rive, but then the user doing that will be a file leech and potentially blocked from a lot of files on the networks. What about the mobo chipset identifier; is there a way to mask its identity so the RIAA and other snoopers cannot simply track down owners of these mobos and single them out? It appears the Slashdot effect has taken its toll on Abit's site for the product...
Interesting points.:) Just for your info though, the GC/GBA link up was an idea again "borrowed" from Atari. Before Atari Corp. went belly up, they planned on touting the linking abilities between the Jaguar and the Lynx. The plan was to use the Lynx as a "smart" controller for Jaguar games. For example, you could use the Lynx's LCD screen to do secret things on without divulging it to your competition whereas traditionally, your buddy could see your moves on the split screen mode on the television. The Jaguar console wise could be networked with four (or was it 8) other Jaguars with their own monitors as long as you hooked up the third party superbox called "The Catbox." But only "Battlesphere" supported it since Atari itself fell apart (for the second time) in 1996... I will admit to being an Atarian, but not a Nintendo-troll... a Nintendtroll...:)
I respectfully disagree with your assertion of Nintendo being the great sage innovator of the videogame industry. The Wavebird was great from a marketing standpoint, but making a controller that operates on the 900mhz frequency range is not exactly revolutionary. The GBA Link Cable is definitely not trend-setting. The Atari Lynx came with the Comlynx cable (which operated at MIDI transfer specs) that you could connect up to 8 Lynx machines together for tournament play. The GBA cable is for two (2) users. The biggest thing it can do is transfer "mini games" between users. That is not impressive. When the Lynx was known as the "Handy" under development, it was designed so that only one machine would need a game cartridge, and a maximum of 16 handhelds could use the very same cartridge to play off of. Of course, Atari figured out that wasn't a very good business model for making money so they scrapped that plan. The Lynx hit the market in 1989. The Gameboy Advance(d) is not even backlit in 2003; yet the Atari Lynx was in 1989. Some hardware synergy. The point remains, if Nintendo dumped their hardware and concentrated on software, they'd be far more successful. Nintendo could sell Metroid and the Mario Bros. titles for the 55 million PS2s (or even the 9 million Xboxes) instead of trying to prop up their hardware exclusivity at 8 million units. You do the math... Don't compare their potential success to the weaknesses of Sega being strictly third-party because Sega has been plagued with terrible software as of late...
Get it right. I'm not a Trekkie, I like Doctor Who. I bathe daily, if not more. And I have no trouble with the opposite sex; in fact, I just kicked your mom out the door. Grow up, quit being a *grape smuggler* and wear some boxer shorts for a change, yo...
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to shed a tear over people file trading Busta Rhymes material, or just about any rap for that matter. Its time our society stops labeling rappers as "artists" (for the most part). So if file traders prevent people like Suge Knight and P Diddy (or 50 Cent)from making a fortune, so be it. Pitty though, since it is my opinion that Dr. Dre is talented...
...since according to the panelist (reptoids.com)on "Conspiracy Zone" claimed Reptilian (Reptoids) aliens call the shots at MiB, I want to make sure the law protects me from them as well. Gee, I thought they were known as the Zeta Riticulans; I sure hope the law protects against the Kappa and Lambda Riticulans as well...:)
We had to shred everything and we were instructed not to share/cooperate the information we collected with the FBI, the CIA, or most importantly, the INS...
The point is, Sony is accustomed to making profit even on the console sale alone. Whereas Microsoft loses $100 to $150 per Xbox sale. Nintendo makes money on the Gameboys because they have never been on the bleeding-edge, ie. they are cheap to manufacture. This Sony handheld is going to be very costly to manufacture and Sony will definitely lose money per sale.
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Quick, somebody open up a futures market so I can place my bet on how fast our homeless population declines in the U.S. ... If you thought El Paso and Enron were blood-thirsty before, watch out now!
SuSE needs to jump in on this lawsuit instead of coattailing it. Sure, they helped out in the German market, but the German goverment was going to side with them regardless (and the German legal system was automatically hostile to SCO's claims). The big enchelada (sic) is the U.S. market. So SuSE needs to jump in asap because they have just as much to lose as Red Hat does. I can understand Mandrake not wanting to get involved (ie. a direct legal suit against SCO) since they are on such shaky financial ground but they also need to file a friend of the court brief on behalf of the merits of Red Hat's complaint. SCO should also be expelled from UnitedLinux. Its too bad Sun has an interest in SCO's success, because StarOffice/Open Office certainly could use the spiritual help of that OSS legal fund.
...is actually recorded on the latest Kenny Loggins album. The Universe will collapse upon itself if one single person besides *The Loggins* actually listens to it...and if you rip it to an MP3, the RIAA will file a subpoena against you because they will claim they own the copyright to the recording...
The only cell phone company that won't offer AIM access on their phones because they'd rather push SMS and Yahoo Messenger (because of SBC's partnership with Yahoo on dialup and DSL)... Their reception stinks here in NorCal... they charge money to access your voicemail from a landline... and if you don't save your contract paperwork, they'll claim you signed up for a 2 year contract when you only signed up for 1... The only good thing they have going for them is they are GSM based, but then again, so is AT&T...
True. But that is a PC-centric experience. I could build a Freevo or any of the other open source DVR projects, but I really do not want a PC sitting next to my television in my living room. The TiVo makes too much noise as it is!
You forgot one thing. You don't have to buy the Home Media Option for remote scheduling via the web if you are an AOL subscriber. You can program your TiVo through the AOL program scheduling. Its no longer in Beta. The only problem is, you cannot program it if you are logging through the AOL webpage, say from work. You have to be signed in through the actual AOL software, although I'm sure they will change this to accommodate the people accessing AOL through their mobile phones...
Yes, but you are missing out on the Home Media Option* that all the other TiVo Series2 units can add on for the nominal fee of $100... :) I cannot understand why DirecTV won't offer this when it would be more money in their coffers...
...I wholeheartedly agree with you on that. Some of my friends wouldn't buy a TiVo because they didn't want anybody knowing what they watched. I was just the opposite; I wanted something to counter the Nielsens since so many of my favorite shows over the years have been cancelled because those morons didn't watch the same things... It boggles my mind how something like "Touched by an Angel" can remain on the air for eons (because of Nielsen ratings) but "Angel" on the WB is always in danger of cancellation because of the same folks...
the funny thing is, VCRs cost more than this price when they were introduced (or reintroduced if you are counting the Ampex stuff) in the late 70s... And $2000 in 1978 currency is a lot more than $1640 in 2003 currency... :)
It would make even more sense if the cable companies would "broadcast" their digital cable signal in MPEG4 instead of MPEG2...but seeing the fact that they have been so slow to eliminate the real bandwidth hog (analog cable), I won't hold my breath waiting for such an improvement...
I have a TiVo 80 hour unit and you can only get about 23 hours tops of broadcast quality (480p) video... So unless the Time Warner DVR box has leapfrogged the DVR market and is using MPEG4 instead of MPEG2, it isn't possible without dropping the resolution down to VHS quality resolution (which is what the 80 hour TiVo figure is based upon)...
This comment did not deserve to be downgraded in points and listed as "flamebait." Crack open a history book and find out for yourself which Native American leader died (in the late 19th Century) at the hands of the BIA and their Indian Police allies over a skirmish to remove his second wife from his home. Therefore, my comment on the BIA and polygamy was appropriate and NOT flamebait...
yeah, they [the BIA] put the kabosh on polygamy in Native American tribes too. Damn them! :)
How would this prevent spybots from figuring out you have MP3s on your hard drive? Does it generate a fraudulent IP address for your hard drive separate from your actual connection? And if that's the case, how would it interoperate with the P2P client software? I can understand downloading a file and moving it to an non-shared folder on the encrypted hard rive, but then the user doing that will be a file leech and potentially blocked from a lot of files on the networks. What about the mobo chipset identifier; is there a way to mask its identity so the RIAA and other snoopers cannot simply track down owners of these mobos and single them out? It appears the Slashdot effect has taken its toll on Abit's site for the product...
Interesting points. :) Just for your info though, the GC/GBA link up was an idea again "borrowed" from Atari. Before Atari Corp. went belly up, they planned on touting the linking abilities between the Jaguar and the Lynx. The plan was to use the Lynx as a "smart" controller for Jaguar games. For example, you could use the Lynx's LCD screen to do secret things on without divulging it to your competition whereas traditionally, your buddy could see your moves on the split screen mode on the television. The Jaguar console wise could be networked with four (or was it 8) other Jaguars with their own monitors as long as you hooked up the third party superbox called "The Catbox." But only "Battlesphere" supported it since Atari itself fell apart (for the second time) in 1996... I will admit to being an Atarian, but not a Nintendo-troll... a Nintendtroll... :)
...does that mean SCO owns the intellectual property to the chip?
...which brand performs best with *The Rabbit*?
ps. and just for the record, I own a GameCube and an Xbox. Guess which machine I play most...
I respectfully disagree with your assertion of Nintendo being the great sage innovator of the videogame industry. The Wavebird was great from a marketing standpoint, but making a controller that operates on the 900mhz frequency range is not exactly revolutionary. The GBA Link Cable is definitely not trend-setting. The Atari Lynx came with the Comlynx cable (which operated at MIDI transfer specs) that you could connect up to 8 Lynx machines together for tournament play. The GBA cable is for two (2) users. The biggest thing it can do is transfer "mini games" between users. That is not impressive. When the Lynx was known as the "Handy" under development, it was designed so that only one machine would need a game cartridge, and a maximum of 16 handhelds could use the very same cartridge to play off of. Of course, Atari figured out that wasn't a very good business model for making money so they scrapped that plan. The Lynx hit the market in 1989. The Gameboy Advance(d) is not even backlit in 2003; yet the Atari Lynx was in 1989. Some hardware synergy. The point remains, if Nintendo dumped their hardware and concentrated on software, they'd be far more successful. Nintendo could sell Metroid and the Mario Bros. titles for the 55 million PS2s (or even the 9 million Xboxes) instead of trying to prop up their hardware exclusivity at 8 million units. You do the math... Don't compare their potential success to the weaknesses of Sega being strictly third-party because Sega has been plagued with terrible software as of late...
Get it right. I'm not a Trekkie, I like Doctor Who. I bathe daily, if not more. And I have no trouble with the opposite sex; in fact, I just kicked your mom out the door. Grow up, quit being a *grape smuggler* and wear some boxer shorts for a change, yo...
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to shed a tear over people file trading Busta Rhymes material, or just about any rap for that matter. Its time our society stops labeling rappers as "artists" (for the most part). So if file traders prevent people like Suge Knight and P Diddy (or 50 Cent)from making a fortune, so be it. Pitty though, since it is my opinion that Dr. Dre is talented...
...since according to the panelist (reptoids.com)on "Conspiracy Zone" claimed Reptilian (Reptoids) aliens call the shots at MiB, I want to make sure the law protects me from them as well. Gee, I thought they were known as the Zeta Riticulans; I sure hope the law protects against the Kappa and Lambda Riticulans as well... :)
We had to shred everything and we were instructed not to share/cooperate the information we collected with the FBI, the CIA, or most importantly, the INS...
That's like saying people never buy laptops over desktop PCs... The trend is mobile everything: phones, music, computers and videogames.
The point is, Sony is accustomed to making profit even on the console sale alone. Whereas Microsoft loses $100 to $150 per Xbox sale. Nintendo makes money on the Gameboys because they have never been on the bleeding-edge, ie. they are cheap to manufacture. This Sony handheld is going to be very costly to manufacture and Sony will definitely lose money per sale.