I have the distinct feeling that the RIAA is simply going to scan for Kazaa users and then try to sue them whether or not they actually file trade MP3s. If someone is file trading 800 porn files, do you really think the end user will fight that in court? What if a minister is sharing that many porno MPEGs? He'll pay the hush money, err, I mean "settlement." The RIAA will try to associate Kazaa and others with only MP3 trading, not with any other non-music file format.
Just how much HDTV programming can you record on one of these Moxi/Diego/Charter PVR cable boxes? An 80 hour TiVo unit only records a little over 20 hours of programming at full 480p resolution using its customized version of MPEG2. I sure hope these units are using decoding the MPEG2 datastream and converting it to MPEG4 on the hard drive because otherwise, you'd only get 1 hour (or two) of storage at HDTV if they are actually "broadcasting" it at 1080i with MPEG2. So another question is, is Charter broadcasting at 1080i or 720p for their version of HDTV? And in other news, Comcast in Sacramento is now advertising HDTV in our market...
Uhm...to use the XF551, wouldn't he have to load Atari DOS 2.5? And wouldn't that force him to turn off the computer and reboot it? He's gonna have to copy that text line for line by hand unless he has a printer currently attached...
Its called the SIO Port (Serial Input Output Interface). It wasn't weird; it was brilliant. The Atari employee who created it now works for Intel. And coincidentally, he created USB and is co-owner of the patent.
...I'm still waiting for my chance to win the golden challace from the "Swordquest" RPG series on the Atari 2600... Atari promised that back in, what, 1983? Maybe there'll be an update in the next edition of Atari Age Magazine...
With all the focus Dreamworks is receiving fo rendering *Sinbad* completely with Linux systems, I must ask why you haven't ported your entire product line for the Linux market? Windows is in decline. Perhaps if you would continue supporting OSX your programmers would improve their skills enough to hack it in the post-Windows era of user-friendly Unix deriviative operating systems... Otherwise, your company is going to be the next Digital Research, Ashton-Tate, Borland, or WordPerfect Inc. Seems to me, its only a matter of time before you get "Gimp*ed."
...will the G5 cruch SETI@home faster than an x86 based solution? Because you know I want to be the first to establish formal contact with the Zeta Riticulans, the Nordic Aliens, or the Time Lords...:)
Netscape 7.1 is based on Mozilla 1.4 which is the last version of that tree. Mozilla Firebird (Phoenix) is the future of Mozilla and that is what I use. AOL Netscape should've waited for the next release of Firebird and based 7.1 on it instead...
I hope they can extract a large fee from that evil eminating from Arkansas [*cough cough* Wal-Mart]...and you thought I was going to write "Tyson Foods"...
Since Apple is saving 25-35% per PPC970 purchased from IBM vs. the prices they are paying for existing G4s, it only makes sense for Apple to do a top-to-bottom rollout for the 64 bit chips. We all thought Apple would ship PowerMacs starting with the 1.2ghz PPC970, but instead, they will start at 1.6. It would be ideal for Apple to introduce the 1.2 PPC970 at the low range eMac line to keep it more than spec competitive at the *low end*...
>Keep in mind that OSX has MIDI capability built->in - unlike any other OS.
Uhm, no. Try the Atari ST line of computers, starting with the 520ST in 1985. Built in MIDI, with the ports built in (MIDI In and MIDI Out)...and the OS supported it natively...
What you meant to say is that OS X is the only *modern* platform that supports MIDI natively... and I'm not counting the open source updates to Atari's TOS operating system either...
$50 a month for unlimited local and long distance; call waiting, caller ID including on call waiting, call forwarding, and some other feature. I like using my landline because even if I use my cordless, my head doesn't hurt after using the phone, unlike with my mobile phone. And just the satisfaction in knowing that my money is in no way going to SBC's profits brings a smile to my face. I look forward to telephone service via Comcast Cable next year. The Baby Bells are as good as dead...and not in a Whedon-esque version of *dead* either...
And in other news, the MSN search system finds web pages reporting the factual truth that the Xbox is more successful than the Playstation2, OpenOffice prints documents in pig latin, and Linux originates from North Korea...
Ford Mustangs are nowhere as near as popular as Hondas, at least here in NorCal. That didn't stop the Mustang from reaching the #4 spot on that list...
Considering the increasing popularity of open source alternatives amongst government circles in other European Union member states, this effort will be a waste. I'm sure its a safe bet it will become a European Commission code to use open source platforms such as Linux for member state governments...if such legislation is sent to the European Parliament, all of the greens/socialists/leftists/anarchists/communists and crazy French peasant tractor driver respresentatives (MEPs) will vote gleefully for an act aimed at punishing an American cash-cow such as Microsoft.
Considering Honda is near the top of the *Top 10* list of most popular cars stolen in the U.S., they should be working on better standard theft-detection systems...you know, a radar system that gauges the threat level of passerbys and raises the terror code level in the car's computer... approaching threat level orange (or is it blue?)...
Sure, he swiped his alias from the famous character on *Moonlighting* portrayed by Bruce Willis, but man could that guy write great shareware games. His version of Monopoly on the Atari ST was incredibly fun...and it would cheat too! But then the entity known then as Parker Bros. got mad, sued him, and he disappeared. Actually, I think the game was *freeware* come to think of it... If anyone has any info on what the guy is doing now, I'd appreciate it...
If someone bought a computer and the ports read USB 2.0 but are only 1.1, that is either fraud or at the very least, misrepresentation? Where are the trial lawyers (so they can earn millions and we can get a settlement check for $0.50) when you need them?
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What videogame enthusiast didn't like *Cloak and Dagger* or *D.A.R.R.Y.L.*? Those were full-on Atari commercials...
Something crashed there. The government covered it up. How many times have they [the government] lied about it? First it was a weather balloon. Nobody bought it. Then, scientists on the government dole came out in the early 90s and said it was a secret program to use balloons to monitor potential atomic testing by the U.S.S.R. Nobody bought that excuse either. Then, the Air Force said the *alien bodies* were actually dummies used in testing human conditions at high altitudes (ie. ejecting at high altitudes), yet the tests didn't start for 5 plus years AFTER the *Roswell Incident.* Read frikkin' Chuck Yeager's autobiography for chriss sakes. He writes about how the military had plans for military installations on the Moon AND Mars and the military brass were so cheesed off when NASA was created. Since when does the military take no for an answer to anything? I think the quote from Senator Goldwater on Hanger 18 is indicative of the "conspiracy." He was asked what was inside the infamous hanger, and he said never to ask that question to him again. There maybe a lot of nuts in the conspiracy industry, but you skeptics are the *Planters Peanuts* of the bunch. You people may know how to code Linux, but you certainly don't know your history. Crack open a book and you'll see that our country was born from a conspiracy, not the quest for democracy. Sheesh...
I've been hoping AOL would do this for a long time. All they have to do to abide the FCC/FTC regulations is to open up AIM to one single competitor. Now that AIM and ICQ will be sharing messaging, AOL should spin off Miralibis (sic) and AOL instantly escapes the stupid regulations placed upon it at the behest of "fair competitor" Bill Gates and his Republican campaign contributions. ICQ becomes a competitor. AOL should keep the IM patents and give a perpetual license to ICQ, however revoking it if ICQ opens up to Microsoft without AOL's permission. Surely a European cell phone company would like to have ICQ's brand since it is so big over there. Or perhaps ICQ could become the preferred instant messaging client bundled with SuSE Linux distributions...or even fit in Sun's plan of offering corporate instant messaging via Solaris... With AOL escaping regulators, this sets up a powerplay with Microsoft over intellectual property and the eventual payoff to get MSN to interoperate with AIM. I smell more than $750 million this time around...
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I have the distinct feeling that the RIAA is simply going to scan for Kazaa users and then try to sue them whether or not they actually file trade MP3s. If someone is file trading 800 porn files, do you really think the end user will fight that in court? What if a minister is sharing that many porno MPEGs? He'll pay the hush money, err, I mean "settlement." The RIAA will try to associate Kazaa and others with only MP3 trading, not with any other non-music file format.
Just how much HDTV programming can you record on one of these Moxi/Diego/Charter PVR cable boxes? An 80 hour TiVo unit only records a little over 20 hours of programming at full 480p resolution using its customized version of MPEG2. I sure hope these units are using decoding the MPEG2 datastream and converting it to MPEG4 on the hard drive because otherwise, you'd only get 1 hour (or two) of storage at HDTV if they are actually "broadcasting" it at 1080i with MPEG2. So another question is, is Charter broadcasting at 1080i or 720p for their version of HDTV? And in other news, Comcast in Sacramento is now advertising HDTV in our market...
1400XL or a 1450XLD run on Ebay these days? Those were da bomb like Phantoms...
Uhm...to use the XF551, wouldn't he have to load Atari DOS 2.5? And wouldn't that force him to turn off the computer and reboot it? He's gonna have to copy that text line for line by hand unless he has a printer currently attached...
Its called the SIO Port (Serial Input Output Interface). It wasn't weird; it was brilliant. The Atari employee who created it now works for Intel. And coincidentally, he created USB and is co-owner of the patent.
I saw the film this weekend... :) Of course, it was a tike that wanted to see it...
...I'm still waiting for my chance to win the golden challace from the "Swordquest" RPG series on the Atari 2600... Atari promised that back in, what, 1983? Maybe there'll be an update in the next edition of Atari Age Magazine...
With all the focus Dreamworks is receiving fo rendering *Sinbad* completely with Linux systems, I must ask why you haven't ported your entire product line for the Linux market? Windows is in decline. Perhaps if you would continue supporting OSX your programmers would improve their skills enough to hack it in the post-Windows era of user-friendly Unix deriviative operating systems... Otherwise, your company is going to be the next Digital Research, Ashton-Tate, Borland, or WordPerfect Inc. Seems to me, its only a matter of time before you get "Gimp*ed."
...will the G5 cruch SETI@home faster than an x86 based solution? Because you know I want to be the first to establish formal contact with the Zeta Riticulans, the Nordic Aliens, or the Time Lords... :)
...since our lovely TiVo DVRs are powered by Linux...would make sense...
Netscape 7.1 is based on Mozilla 1.4 which is the last version of that tree. Mozilla Firebird (Phoenix) is the future of Mozilla and that is what I use. AOL Netscape should've waited for the next release of Firebird and based 7.1 on it instead...
I hope they can extract a large fee from that evil eminating from Arkansas [*cough cough* Wal-Mart]...and you thought I was going to write "Tyson Foods"...
Since Apple is saving 25-35% per PPC970 purchased from IBM vs. the prices they are paying for existing G4s, it only makes sense for Apple to do a top-to-bottom rollout for the 64 bit chips. We all thought Apple would ship PowerMacs starting with the 1.2ghz PPC970, but instead, they will start at 1.6. It would be ideal for Apple to introduce the 1.2 PPC970 at the low range eMac line to keep it more than spec competitive at the *low end*...
>Keep in mind that OSX has MIDI capability built->in - unlike any other OS. Uhm, no. Try the Atari ST line of computers, starting with the 520ST in 1985. Built in MIDI, with the ports built in (MIDI In and MIDI Out)...and the OS supported it natively... What you meant to say is that OS X is the only *modern* platform that supports MIDI natively... and I'm not counting the open source updates to Atari's TOS operating system either...
$50 a month for unlimited local and long distance; call waiting, caller ID including on call waiting, call forwarding, and some other feature. I like using my landline because even if I use my cordless, my head doesn't hurt after using the phone, unlike with my mobile phone. And just the satisfaction in knowing that my money is in no way going to SBC's profits brings a smile to my face. I look forward to telephone service via Comcast Cable next year. The Baby Bells are as good as dead...and not in a Whedon-esque version of *dead* either...
And in other news, the MSN search system finds web pages reporting the factual truth that the Xbox is more successful than the Playstation2, OpenOffice prints documents in pig latin, and Linux originates from North Korea...
Ford Mustangs are nowhere as near as popular as Hondas, at least here in NorCal. That didn't stop the Mustang from reaching the #4 spot on that list...
Considering the increasing popularity of open source alternatives amongst government circles in other European Union member states, this effort will be a waste. I'm sure its a safe bet it will become a European Commission code to use open source platforms such as Linux for member state governments...if such legislation is sent to the European Parliament, all of the greens/socialists/leftists/anarchists/communists and crazy French peasant tractor driver respresentatives (MEPs) will vote gleefully for an act aimed at punishing an American cash-cow such as Microsoft.
Considering Honda is near the top of the *Top 10* list of most popular cars stolen in the U.S., they should be working on better standard theft-detection systems...you know, a radar system that gauges the threat level of passerbys and raises the terror code level in the car's computer... approaching threat level orange (or is it blue?)...
Sure, he swiped his alias from the famous character on *Moonlighting* portrayed by Bruce Willis, but man could that guy write great shareware games. His version of Monopoly on the Atari ST was incredibly fun...and it would cheat too! But then the entity known then as Parker Bros. got mad, sued him, and he disappeared. Actually, I think the game was *freeware* come to think of it... If anyone has any info on what the guy is doing now, I'd appreciate it...
If someone bought a computer and the ports read USB 2.0 but are only 1.1, that is either fraud or at the very least, misrepresentation? Where are the trial lawyers (so they can earn millions and we can get a settlement check for $0.50) when you need them?
What videogame enthusiast didn't like *Cloak and Dagger* or *D.A.R.R.Y.L.*? Those were full-on Atari commercials...
Something crashed there. The government covered it up. How many times have they [the government] lied about it? First it was a weather balloon. Nobody bought it. Then, scientists on the government dole came out in the early 90s and said it was a secret program to use balloons to monitor potential atomic testing by the U.S.S.R. Nobody bought that excuse either. Then, the Air Force said the *alien bodies* were actually dummies used in testing human conditions at high altitudes (ie. ejecting at high altitudes), yet the tests didn't start for 5 plus years AFTER the *Roswell Incident.* Read frikkin' Chuck Yeager's autobiography for chriss sakes. He writes about how the military had plans for military installations on the Moon AND Mars and the military brass were so cheesed off when NASA was created. Since when does the military take no for an answer to anything? I think the quote from Senator Goldwater on Hanger 18 is indicative of the "conspiracy." He was asked what was inside the infamous hanger, and he said never to ask that question to him again. There maybe a lot of nuts in the conspiracy industry, but you skeptics are the *Planters Peanuts* of the bunch. You people may know how to code Linux, but you certainly don't know your history. Crack open a book and you'll see that our country was born from a conspiracy, not the quest for democracy. Sheesh...
I've been hoping AOL would do this for a long time. All they have to do to abide the FCC/FTC regulations is to open up AIM to one single competitor. Now that AIM and ICQ will be sharing messaging, AOL should spin off Miralibis (sic) and AOL instantly escapes the stupid regulations placed upon it at the behest of "fair competitor" Bill Gates and his Republican campaign contributions. ICQ becomes a competitor. AOL should keep the IM patents and give a perpetual license to ICQ, however revoking it if ICQ opens up to Microsoft without AOL's permission. Surely a European cell phone company would like to have ICQ's brand since it is so big over there. Or perhaps ICQ could become the preferred instant messaging client bundled with SuSE Linux distributions...or even fit in Sun's plan of offering corporate instant messaging via Solaris... With AOL escaping regulators, this sets up a powerplay with Microsoft over intellectual property and the eventual payoff to get MSN to interoperate with AIM. I smell more than $750 million this time around...
You know, so each of us aren't sued by the SCO litigation machine (of no substance)?