Of course you are absolutely right. For as we all know, it is totally unacceptable to observe that something is not particularly valuable unless you make a competing, more valuable product. And you have to make a million dollars, too. In fact, unless you've made a million dollars, you shouldn't even be allowed to post about it.
Thank you, Captain Random Requirement, for reminding me of my obligation.
Nice, in-depth analysis. Oh, by the way, you're retarded.
It's a 1TB HDD system with a *regular* DVD burner (whether it's DVD9 or single layer remains to be seen). DL or not, it should burn DVD5, with disks at a cost of approximately $0.33 USD.
The fact that 1TB does not translate to a convenient number of disks is precisely one of the many reasons why building your own box is a better solution - you can get a proggie like DVD shrink to compress the media for you.
Blu-ray would be better: 50GB per disk, 20 discs to fully replicate the HDD's. I hear Toshi or Sony^H^H^H^H Satan is working on a 100GB BD Disc, which would make it 10 discs. But given that DL discs are still around $6 while DVD5 are 1/20th that, it might actually be a while before BD discs are affordable. And oh, they'll actually have to start selling BD systems regularly, too.
Do me a favor: look in the upper right hand corner of this page.
See that? "News for Nerds." That pretty much rules out "people don't know anything about putting together DVD recorders or computers"
That's the entire point here. With the exception of fantastically rich people who want to piss their money away, people who actually need a 1TB recorder will most likely possess the skill set to build one of their own.
Only more cheaply. So I really don't see a lot of these being sold (which was the point of my original post).
Ya know, I was just gonna not respond back to you because I see what you're saying...but my comment is already at -1, it's a slow work day, and in addition to the fact that I just don't care, I'm really disapponited at the level of stupidity here on/. lately, so here goes:
You responded to my post to call me out on the fact that I was reiterating what I was saying. You followed that by first telling me that you were going to reiterate, and then reiterating, your point. WTF?
Hardly conclusive, since my mother can't use the standard DVD player I got her for Christmas a few years ago:
Her: "Can you come by tonight?"
Me: "Sure. Why?"
Her: "I got the Ladder 49 DVD last week, and I want you to play it for me"
Me: "sigh"
So I think a TIVO is really out of the question for her. If you want further proof, consider that while I was there, I showed her that when she's sending email in OE, and she wants to start a new line after she types Dear Name, all she has to do is hit enter.
In a few years, it will be cheap enough for everyone to buy at Circuit City, but until then, companies can shed these nickels for something this big.
The device in question is being marketed to consumers. So this $2100 behemoth is already being sold to consumers, most likely at the Japanese version of Circuit City. Contrast that to the couple of hundred people spend on Tivo's.
You know, some people like to read the articles before posting about them.
But then again, you are wiser than me. You apparently get your employer to pay for your home electronics equipment, and even more impressive, you can divine my social and financial status from reading a few sentences that I have written.
Rolling (er...growing) your own eggs and tobacco requires quite a bit of time, plus you have to feed the chicken (or maintain the tobacco), so you don't get a lot of return on investment. With a budget of $2100, 30 minutes on zipzoomfly, and 3 hours for assembly once fedex shows up, one can build a box with infinitely more capabilites than what they're offering here, and without any DRM.
Further, what are you going to do when your black box that "just works" "just breaks?" Buy another one at $2100? I'll just replace the broken component and be on my way.
Beginning to see my point now? And if you don't like reading what us "/.'s" have to say, why waste time posting?
Actually, this is a good thing. Now we can sit back and wait for all of the DVD-Jon's of the world to get their hands on them, and then simply adopt the format whose DRM is broken first. The format with the better DRM will be the loser here.
1. Get a Linksys router - you'll end up using it anyways.
2. Log in to the router. Enable the firewall.
3. Connect to internet. Proceed directly to http://www.getfirefox.com.
4. Install Firefox.
5. STFU.
That's what I've got on my laptop here. I will occassionally, in moments of paranoia, install an AV program, run it, and when nothing is found, uninstall it. That's really about all there is to it.
My other "Common sense" tidbit of anti-malware is to put the router (or any applicable network device) somewhere where you can see the LED's blinking. You wouldn't believe how helpful this is, even though I've only benefitted from this once. I got an email from someone I know one day (actually, I should have read the sender address better, it was my bad), and when I saw the attached.scr file, I honestly thought she was sending me a screensaver...so I (idiotically) saved it to my desktop, copied it to the appropriate Windows folder, and went into display properties to view it (Yeah, I know, I'm an idiot). When the new SS didn't fire up I got suspicious, so I looked over at the router (sitting on my desk), and it was lit up like a Christmas tree. So I turned it off, installed an AV (actually, I got on another 'puter, figured out it was Bagle, and got the Bagle removal tool from McAfee), and voila! Done.
With ALL that help that I gave Bagle on my system, it still only affected me for about 5 seconds.
His post is SO rife with commonalities in medicine, as an employee at a very busy ER, I just can't pass this up:
1. Don't ever fricking take antibiotics unless a physician prescribes them for you.
Come on children, even Dr. Evil went to evil medical school for a reason. Specific antibiotics work on specific bugs. Usually they will get cultures to figure out what bug is causing the problem. In the meantime, they will usually start you out on something they've picked based on their exam and your history...and you know what? That's a hard choice, even for Docs. In the meantime, when you take something you picked off of rxlist.com, you are either feeding your bug or are cross-training it, making it stronger.
Specifically in Pat's case: Cipro, which he took, is a fluoroquinolone. Fluoroquinolones in general are bad choices for treating Actinomycosis.
2. Don't skip sround from doc to doc to doc.
This is just stupid. Wherever you go first, give them two or three chances to fix ya. If it's something emergent, go to the same ED 2 or 3 times, then head to the nearest research-university's ED. Particularly now that HIPAA is law, it's very difficult for different hospital systems to share information. In addition, they ALL have different protocols, which means each specific institution will tackle the same problem differently, and each time you go to a new one, they have to essentially start at the beginning. Pick a good, well-respected facility, and stick with them.
While we're on the subject: ER medicine, because of the astronomical overcrowding nowadays, has adopted a if-they're-gonna-live-then-getem-outta-here policy. If you're even remotely describable as stable, your ass is getting discharged.
3. Let us not underestimate the power of google.
Actinomycosis (NOT actinomyces) is pretty freaking rare. I think it's safe to say that google contains more information than any human/physician can hold in his head. A tip tho: before you take a page you've googled to your doc, search for another, different website (I usually look for 3-5) with the same information. Every site you find with the same info adds legitimacy to the next.
Actually, that wasn't the case. I watched SoAF a few months ago with the Clancy/Director's commentary, and they were talking about how doing even CG to simulate all the SuperBowl action would have still been unbelievable. Basically they felt that with the 5,000 or so people who showed up for filming, they best they could pull off as believable would have been a regular NFL game.
Apparently CG hasn't yet figured out how to properly model Janet Jackson's nipple:)
Wow. Our country IS going down the shitter: people are quoting Michael Moore.
"Why should I have ID?"
I dunno, Jethro, maybe because you just admitted you were operating a motor vehicle?
Having been present at a great many arrests of this sort (I'm a paramedic), I can tell you - this guy asked to be arrested not because he believes in the Constitution, but because he wanted to inflict emotional trauma on the woman by getting himself arrested. Notice how it worked - as soon as the cuffs went on, she started crying. Her reactions are pretty standard for the early stages of battered woman syndrome, and Jethro obviously has had some experience manipulating women's emotions.
For the record: There's no 4th amendment violation here: They didn't ask to search him, they simply asked for ID. If dumbass had ponied up his license they wouldn't have found the knife. Like I said, he was too busy manipulating the woman.
You're not in Russia, but you DO remind me of a bumper sticker from the 60's. America: Love it or leave it. Better you get out now, before they require ID just to leave the country.
If you fit the description of a suspect and are in the vicinity of a crime, I'm with you. But consider this:
"Those who desire to give up freedom, in order to gain security, shall not have, nor do they deserve, either one." --Thomas Jefferson
Are you any safer now than you were before 09/11/2001? Does it bother you than John Ashcroft is using chemical weapons laws to go after meth lab operators? Yes they should be in jail but that is in no way the spirit of THAT law. That's why TJ was absolutely right.
OK.....your position is that cops should be "sensitive" and "nice" and "cool" to wife beaters? WTF is up with that? Better to have him snap on the cop who can kick his ass, than snap on his wife in a year or two and blow her brains out before he decides to kill himself.
Cops don't have to be fucking cool to people. I believe strongly in personal freedoms, have no respect for John "my Head is up my" Ashcroft, but oh how I long for the days when people looked at cops with a sense of awe and respect.
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It doesn't work on American vehicles, either.
I tried embedding the following code in the ECU of my Dodge RAM 1500:
#ifndef HEMI #define HEMI #endif
Alas, this failed to transform it into a Hemi. I looked...the tops of the cylinders are still flat:(
I can summarize Wolfram's book even more succinctly: Simple rules can generate complex behavior.
No shit, Sherlock.
Why it took him 1,200 pages to make the above statement, is beyond my comprehension.
During the hype surrounding the book, he was making grand statements, e.g., "I now understand the why the laws of thermodynamics are the way they are," but I didn't get that from the book, nor have I seen any advancements in that particular arena.
Not to mention, I could have written the first chapter with a perl script, where you insert a random sentence in between repeated sentences of "By using the programs I develop in this book." Honestly - the first chapter should have been titled, "Me and My Ginormous Ego."
I have used both PS and Gimp each for about four years now, making 5 or 6 wallpapers a week, editing images for website upload, etc. Gimp is orders of magnitude easier to use.
Want to switch to Beizer without having to click on its icon? Hit "b". Want bucket fill instead? "B". And so on. Plus, if you hover over the icon in Gimp, it tells you what the shortcut is. Not so in PS, where I still don't know what the damned shortcuts are.
The _really_ big thing that Gimp has over PS is obvious for anyone who makes a lot of images. PS bitches each and every time you close a file without saving it in the native PSD format...this is exceptionally frigging annoying. What's worse, anytime you try and save a newly created file, it defaults to trying to save as PSD, so instead of being abot to simply type in the name you want for the file and choosing the format by typing the extension, you have to take the mouse and scroll down to the format you want. What's still worse than that is that if you try and save a previous file in a different format, it adds the word "copy" to the filename, which takes even more time to fix. Nor can you select the default image file format in which you would like to save.
Continuing on, one of the nice things in Gimp is that right-clicking in ANY image window brings up the menu, whereas if you've got an image on the far right of the screen in PS and you want to get to the menu, your ass is dragging the mouse all the way back over the screen.
I've heard people say that there things you can do in PS that you can't do in Gimp. Yes you can - it's called Script-Fu. Any functionality that exists in PS that is not included in Gimp, can be extended to Gimp via Script-Fu.
As a last example: in EVERY program I've ever used, ctl-Z is undo. PS, for some ungodly reason, breaks this rule. Ctl-z in PS is last undo, then to go back more, you have to add alt to that recipe. Why? If I wanted to redo the step I undid, I'd hit ctl-r for Chrissake.
I could go on and on about PS annoyances, but I'm starting to get pissy.
In short, Gimp's UI is about 50x more efficient than PS, and this is coming from someone who has used both of them quite extensively.
About the only thing I use PS for anymore is when I need a font that I don't have on my FreeBSD box. An upgrade to the latest gnome will fix that as soon as I get around to it, which will mean the end of the road for me and PS.
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Of course you are absolutely right. For as we all know, it is totally unacceptable to observe that something is not particularly valuable unless you make a competing, more valuable product. And you have to make a million dollars, too. In fact, unless you've made a million dollars, you shouldn't even be allowed to post about it.
Thank you, Captain Random Requirement, for reminding me of my obligation.
Nice, in-depth analysis. Oh, by the way, you're retarded.
It's a 1TB HDD system with a *regular* DVD burner (whether it's DVD9 or single layer remains to be seen). DL or not, it should burn DVD5, with disks at a cost of approximately $0.33 USD.
The fact that 1TB does not translate to a convenient number of disks is precisely one of the many reasons why building your own box is a better solution - you can get a proggie like DVD shrink to compress the media for you.
Blu-ray would be better: 50GB per disk, 20 discs to fully replicate the HDD's. I hear Toshi or Sony^H^H^H^H Satan is working on a 100GB BD Disc, which would make it 10 discs. But given that DL discs are still around $6 while DVD5 are 1/20th that, it might actually be a while before BD discs are affordable. And oh, they'll actually have to start selling BD systems regularly, too.
Do me a favor: look in the upper right hand corner of this page.
See that? "News for Nerds." That pretty much rules out "people don't know anything about putting together DVD recorders or computers"
That's the entire point here. With the exception of fantastically rich people who want to piss their money away, people who actually need a 1TB recorder will most likely possess the skill set to build one of their own.
Only more cheaply. So I really don't see a lot of these being sold (which was the point of my original post).
Ya know, I was just gonna not respond back to you because I see what you're saying...but my comment is already at -1, it's a slow work day, and in addition to the fact that I just don't care, I'm really disapponited at the level of stupidity here on /. lately, so here goes:
You responded to my post to call me out on the fact that I was reiterating what I was saying. You followed that by first telling me that you were going to reiterate, and then reiterating, your point. WTF?
Hardly conclusive, since my mother can't use the standard DVD player I got her for Christmas a few years ago:
Her: "Can you come by tonight?"
Me: "Sure. Why?"
Her: "I got the Ladder 49 DVD last week, and I want you to play it for me"
Me: "sigh"
So I think a TIVO is really out of the question for her. If you want further proof, consider that while I was there, I showed her that when she's sending email in OE, and she wants to start a new line after she types Dear Name, all she has to do is hit enter.
It's a sad, silly story, but you *did* ask.
In a few years, it will be cheap enough for everyone to buy at Circuit City, but until then, companies can shed these nickels for something this big.
The device in question is being marketed to consumers. So this $2100 behemoth is already being sold to consumers, most likely at the Japanese version of Circuit City. Contrast that to the couple of hundred people spend on Tivo's.
You know, some people like to read the articles before posting about them.
But then again, you are wiser than me. You apparently get your employer to pay for your home electronics equipment, and even more impressive, you can divine my social and financial status from reading a few sentences that I have written.
And your point is?
Rolling (er...growing) your own eggs and tobacco requires quite a bit of time, plus you have to feed the chicken (or maintain the tobacco), so you don't get a lot of return on investment. With a budget of $2100, 30 minutes on zipzoomfly, and 3 hours for assembly once fedex shows up, one can build a box with infinitely more capabilites than what they're offering here, and without any DRM.
Further, what are you going to do when your black box that "just works" "just breaks?" Buy another one at $2100? I'll just replace the broken component and be on my way.
Beginning to see my point now? And if you don't like reading what us "/.'s" have to say, why waste time posting?
...230,000 yen, ~= $2100. For $2100, I can build my own damn recorder.
Actually, this is a good thing. Now we can sit back and wait for all of the DVD-Jon's of the world to get their hands on them, and then simply adopt the format whose DRM is broken first. The format with the better DRM will be the loser here.
All good ideas...you're right on with the voice recognition, but every time I use it, I end up thinking that it STILL has a LONG way to go.
Ever thought that typing faster with less wrist/finger movements might be better than typing slower with more?
I agree, but you don't even need to patch it.
.scr file, I honestly thought she was sending me a screensaver...so I (idiotically) saved it to my desktop, copied it to the appropriate Windows folder, and went into display properties to view it (Yeah, I know, I'm an idiot). When the new SS didn't fire up I got suspicious, so I looked over at the router (sitting on my desk), and it was lit up like a Christmas tree. So I turned it off, installed an AV (actually, I got on another 'puter, figured out it was Bagle, and got the Bagle removal tool from McAfee), and voila! Done.
1. Get a Linksys router - you'll end up using it anyways.
2. Log in to the router. Enable the firewall.
3. Connect to internet. Proceed directly to http://www.getfirefox.com.
4. Install Firefox.
5. STFU.
That's what I've got on my laptop here. I will occassionally, in moments of paranoia, install an AV program, run it, and when nothing is found, uninstall it. That's really about all there is to it.
My other "Common sense" tidbit of anti-malware is to put the router (or any applicable network device) somewhere where you can see the LED's blinking. You wouldn't believe how helpful this is, even though I've only benefitted from this once. I got an email from someone I know one day (actually, I should have read the sender address better, it was my bad), and when I saw the attached
With ALL that help that I gave Bagle on my system, it still only affected me for about 5 seconds.
His post is SO rife with commonalities in medicine, as an employee at a very busy ER, I just can't pass this up:
1. Don't ever fricking take antibiotics unless a physician prescribes them for you.
Come on children, even Dr. Evil went to evil medical school for a reason. Specific antibiotics work on specific bugs. Usually they will get cultures to figure out what bug is causing the problem. In the meantime, they will usually start you out on something they've picked based on their exam and your history...and you know what? That's a hard choice, even for Docs. In the meantime, when you take something you picked off of rxlist.com, you are either feeding your bug or are cross-training it, making it stronger.
Specifically in Pat's case: Cipro, which he took, is a fluoroquinolone. Fluoroquinolones in general are bad choices for treating Actinomycosis.
2. Don't skip sround from doc to doc to doc.
This is just stupid. Wherever you go first, give them two or three chances to fix ya. If it's something emergent, go to the same ED 2 or 3 times, then head to the nearest research-university's ED. Particularly now that HIPAA is law, it's very difficult for different hospital systems to share information. In addition, they ALL have different protocols, which means each specific institution will tackle the same problem differently, and each time you go to a new one, they have to essentially start at the beginning. Pick a good, well-respected facility, and stick with them.
While we're on the subject: ER medicine, because of the astronomical overcrowding nowadays, has adopted a if-they're-gonna-live-then-getem-outta-here policy. If you're even remotely describable as stable, your ass is getting discharged.
3. Let us not underestimate the power of google.
Actinomycosis (NOT actinomyces) is pretty freaking rare. I think it's safe to say that google contains more information than any human/physician can hold in his head. A tip tho: before you take a page you've googled to your doc, search for another, different website (I usually look for 3-5) with the same information. Every site you find with the same info adds legitimacy to the next.
from Ballmer:
"My 12-year-old at home doesn't want to hear that he can't put all the music that he wants in all of the places that he would like it," he joked.
Translation:
"When I tried to use my kid's iPod on a recent family trip, my son told me to shove my Barry Manilow CD up my ass."
But, this demo was so long ago, by now I thought every nerd on earth knew about it. I am surprised Slashdot posted it as news.
:)
I'm surprised too. Scott McNealy watched Disclosure, stole the idea, and voila! News Story
Yes you can. New engine or not, your Land Rover is STILL a yuppy car :)
Actually, that wasn't the case. I watched SoAF a few months ago with the Clancy/Director's commentary, and they were talking about how doing even CG to simulate all the SuperBowl action would have still been unbelievable. Basically they felt that with the 5,000 or so people who showed up for filming, they best they could pull off as believable would have been a regular NFL game.
:)
Apparently CG hasn't yet figured out how to properly model Janet Jackson's nipple
You install the software, boot it for the first time, run its virus scanner, which uninstalls said software. Nice, Huh?
Thanks for the correction - I always get their wigs confused :)
Wow. Our country IS going down the shitter: people are quoting Michael Moore.
"Why should I have ID?"
I dunno, Jethro, maybe because you just admitted you were operating a motor vehicle?
Having been present at a great many arrests of this sort (I'm a paramedic), I can tell you - this guy asked to be arrested not because he believes in the Constitution, but because he wanted to inflict emotional trauma on the woman by getting himself arrested. Notice how it worked - as soon as the cuffs went on, she started crying. Her reactions are pretty standard for the early stages of battered woman syndrome, and Jethro obviously has had some experience manipulating women's emotions.
For the record: There's no 4th amendment violation here: They didn't ask to search him, they simply asked for ID. If dumbass had ponied up his license they wouldn't have found the knife. Like I said, he was too busy manipulating the woman.
You're not in Russia, but you DO remind me of a bumper sticker from the 60's. America: Love it or leave it. Better you get out now, before they require ID just to leave the country.
If you fit the description of a suspect and are in the vicinity of a crime, I'm with you. But consider this:
"Those who desire to give up freedom, in order to gain security, shall not have, nor do they deserve, either one." --Thomas Jefferson
Are you any safer now than you were before 09/11/2001? Does it bother you than John Ashcroft is using chemical weapons laws to go after meth lab operators? Yes they should be in jail but that is in no way the spirit of THAT law. That's why TJ was absolutely right.
OK.....your position is that cops should be "sensitive" and "nice" and "cool" to wife beaters? WTF is up with that? Better to have him snap on the cop who can kick his ass, than snap on his wife in a year or two and blow her brains out before he decides to kill himself.
Cops don't have to be fucking cool to people. I believe strongly in personal freedoms, have no respect for John "my Head is up my" Ashcroft, but oh how I long for the days when people looked at cops with a sense of awe and respect.
It doesn't work on American vehicles, either.
:(
I tried embedding the following code in the ECU of my Dodge RAM 1500:
#ifndef HEMI
#define HEMI
#endif
Alas, this failed to transform it into a Hemi. I looked...the tops of the cylinders are still flat
I can summarize Wolfram's book even more succinctly: Simple rules can generate complex behavior.
;-)
No shit, Sherlock.
Why it took him 1,200 pages to make the above statement, is beyond my comprehension.
During the hype surrounding the book, he was making grand statements, e.g., "I now understand the why the laws of thermodynamics are the way they are," but I didn't get that from the book, nor have I seen any advancements in that particular arena.
Not to mention, I could have written the first chapter with a perl script, where you insert a random sentence in between repeated sentences of "By using the programs I develop in this book." Honestly - the first chapter should have been titled, "Me and My Ginormous Ego."
I want my $50 back.
And oh yeah, Matlab is better
I want some of what you've been smoking.
Seriously.
I have used both PS and Gimp each for about four years now, making 5 or 6 wallpapers a week, editing images for website upload, etc. Gimp is orders of magnitude easier to use.
Want to switch to Beizer without having to click on its icon? Hit "b". Want bucket fill instead? "B". And so on. Plus, if you hover over the icon in Gimp, it tells you what the shortcut is. Not so in PS, where I still don't know what the damned shortcuts are.
The _really_ big thing that Gimp has over PS is obvious for anyone who makes a lot of images. PS bitches each and every time you close a file without saving it in the native PSD format...this is exceptionally frigging annoying. What's worse, anytime you try and save a newly created file, it defaults to trying to save as PSD, so instead of being abot to simply type in the name you want for the file and choosing the format by typing the extension, you have to take the mouse and scroll down to the format you want. What's still worse than that is that if you try and save a previous file in a different format, it adds the word "copy" to the filename, which takes even more time to fix. Nor can you select the default image file format in which you would like to save.
Continuing on, one of the nice things in Gimp is that right-clicking in ANY image window brings up the menu, whereas if you've got an image on the far right of the screen in PS and you want to get to the menu, your ass is dragging the mouse all the way back over the screen.
I've heard people say that there things you can do in PS that you can't do in Gimp. Yes you can - it's called Script-Fu. Any functionality that exists in PS that is not included in Gimp, can be extended to Gimp via Script-Fu.
As a last example: in EVERY program I've ever used, ctl-Z is undo. PS, for some ungodly reason, breaks this rule. Ctl-z in PS is last undo, then to go back more, you have to add alt to that recipe. Why? If I wanted to redo the step I undid, I'd hit ctl-r for Chrissake.
I could go on and on about PS annoyances, but I'm starting to get pissy.
In short, Gimp's UI is about 50x more efficient than PS, and this is coming from someone who has used both of them quite extensively.
About the only thing I use PS for anymore is when I need a font that I don't have on my FreeBSD box. An upgrade to the latest gnome will fix that as soon as I get around to it, which will mean the end of the road for me and PS.