The courts allege that Intel made at least one arrangement in Germany to ensure that PC manufacturers could only use their products. Well, that's a typical licensing agreement: you only get a license to use their products, not possess them.
Oh, you meant Intel said the PC manufacturers could only use their products? I read it with implied emphasis on "use" instead of "their".
So the PC manufacturers can only use their products, not Intel's products? Well, is Intel obligated to sell to anyone who can pay? Or am I confusing not only the emphasis but also the pronoun association?
Players will assume the role of a passenger on the ill-fated Oceanic flight 815 who survives the crash Darn, I was hoping to get to play as a Sleestak, and have on-line multiplayer games of Capture the Pylons.
Acquisition by Symantec killed Central Point Software. The DMCA buried it.
They made Copy ][ Plus for the Apple II series and other similarly named software for other platforms. C2+ was the essential piece of software at my high school, for students and teachers alike, back when copy protection itself was an art form (double spiral tracks on 5.25" floppies), not like the typical, "If this block on the disk is readable, refuse to run," protections of later years. (However, 8.2 was much better than 9.0. For some reason the UI became sluggish.)
Nowadays, such software is completely illegal under the DMCA.
I like to see it when my friends' kids play these old games...hoping it might show them that game PLAY is more important often than graphics or sound. "You mean you have to use your hands?" "That's like a baby's toy!"
Currently with my treo i can type out a phone number by feel while driving, or type out a text with the phone in my pocket. Also the buttons give you a confirmation that you gave input, as you can feel the button go down. Without being able to feel a keyboard it seems like typing could be a pain.
Also, when you're using the stereo headset, you can click and double-click the microphone button to answer, hang up, pause and jump to the next track. I know I've had phone conversations where I've wanted the other end of the conversation to jump to the next track at the push of a button.
There's a natural response to a lack of CO2 in the atmosphere: it's called a forest fire.
And if you don't have any forests, there's lots of other combustibles around just waiting to be lit by (name a word with four consecutive consonants) lightning.
It was also a demonstration on an episode of Mr. Wizard or Mr. Wizard's World, whichever one was on Nickelodeon when it was young. The harder you pushed the lead on the lead (heh), the lower the resistance and the brighter the bulb.
Nerds need to stop getting stabbed with pencils. Shh, don't tell the authorities that. We don't need the nanny state banning normal pencils from schools lest they be used as shivs, spending taxpayer money on special bendable pencils. (Someone who knows how those work should update the wiki.)
The real question is - has anyone cracked the encryption so that you can just move that external drive over to your PC and do what you want with the recorded shows? There's no guarantee that the TiVo will not span recordings between the internal and external drives, making many, most, or even all of the recordings stored on the external drive be partial recordings. Any extraction you'd want to do with the drives as a pair. (So much for using external drives for off-line storage as well: removal divorces the drives and any remarriage treats the external drive as blank.)
Earlier solutions such as that used on DirecTiVos just hacked the TiVo software to store recordings as unencrypted. TiVoization as decried in GPLv3 prevents such modification in modern units. Exploiting TiVoToGo is a more effective crack, but will be disabled for HD content. (I wonder if SD digital content will be transferable.)
I'm more interested in any progress in cracking 5C encryption over Firewire.
Is there a box that does this? That is, a "VCR" with a hard drive instead of tape? That's all I really want. No monthly anything A used Series1 TiVo will do this. Best bet is a Philips-brand TiVo that is not also DirecTV receiver. Check the pawn shops. Though it will need to make periodic calls to update its clock, that service is free (though possibly long distance if 1-800 access isn't grandfathered).
Three of my TiVos are Philips Series1, and one of them (the 20hr) has never been signed up for service.
Except didn't it start this month that cable companies could no longer provide all-in-one boxes and had to start using boxes that use CableCARDs? This was to force them to rely on them and thus make sure they work for everyone. (Due to the lack of bi-di cards, the on-demand and PPV communications would be handled by the box portion.)
they'd have a 30-second skip (without a hack) I wouldn't call it a "hack". It's more like a backdoor, easter-egg, or undocumented feature. The only problems are (1) they don't market it and (2) it has to be reset if power is lost (UPS) or the unit otherwise reboots.
The TimeWarner SA 8300 is a load of garbage as well. The interface is terrible and it hangs on occasion. It gets confused on HDMI output and blacks the screen when it flakes on HDCP connections. It gets a black screen and becomes nonresponsive a lot, especially when recording two HD channels.
Is that the Passport or Mystro software? I'm told the Mystro software is so craptacular that in one city where it is running as beta software, they are in negotiations with the city about what reparations TWC are going to give to customers for failure to deliver DVR service.
Even the non-DVR cable boxes running Mystro are incompatible with TiVo Suggestions, crashing if it tries to change channels at the same time the channel you're leaving has a new program starting, i.e. on the hour or half-hour. (Suggestions have no padding option.) The asynchronous update of the OSD bar with new data screws up the attempt to change channels, resulting in tuning the wrong channel, not changing channels at all, or a crash and shutdown requiring turning it back on manually.
Why can't they just license the tivo software?
They want to own the entire solution themselves and not be beholden to anybody. Passport was licensed software; Mystro is TWC's own development.
Sadly, the TIVO won't do on demand or pay per view stuff.
I don't miss those, and if I did, I'd use a cable box connected to a Series2 TiVo to access them.
Many wired adapters work as well, but only needed for the Series2. Series3 already has a port for wired access. Series1 doesn't have features that would use it, but internal cards are available.
I have a series 2 also and it can transfer shows over the network, so I can keep every episode of BSG and a bunch of movies and such. That's very cool, except for the fact that the transfer rate is slow. You have to wait an hour for enough of a 2 hour movie to transfer so that you can start watching.
At lot depends on what you're transferring. If I've recorded downconverted HD Star Trek, it is all-boxed (letterboxed and pillarboxed), and when transferred it finishes well before I'm done watching it. Recorded over S-Video, the bars are completely black and compress very well with the variable bit-rate (VBR) recording the TiVo uses.
While the Series3 doesn't have to use USB-Ethernet adapters, any speed benefits of the Series3 dedicated Ethernet port will likely be curtailed by the adapters of any Series2 units sharing with it. I've also seen 30-minute podcasts take well over an hour to transfer, and you don't have the option to play them until they're finished.
Crankygeeks and DL.TV are recent new offerings to TiVos. So far, all podcasts are limited to storing at most 10 episodes and cannot be transferred to other TiVos, VCRs, or DVDs, possibly due to viewer tracking requirements for billing the podcasters.
doubtful. the lifetime subscriptions, at least a few years ago, were for the lifetime of the box--not the user. They still occasionally offer the ability to transfer lifetime service from one box to another. I think they have such an offer running right now, though when I saw it it was for a new dual-tuner Series2, not the Series3, and unless its from a grandfathered Series1, it has always been a transfer to a new unit, not one you already own.
I've transfered lifetime service from non-grandfathered Series1 units to Series2 units through such an offer. It made sense as the Series1 units don't even require service, so I could drop service from them and still use them for manual timed records, which the Series2 and newer units do not allow without service.
There's already a backdoor to enable the external Serial ATA (eSATA) on the current Series3 model. People have hooked up a single 750 GB eSATA drive to the existing 250 GB internal SATA drive for a 1 TB TiVo (in metric units).
I'm thinking about getting an eSATA RAID enclosure for this, but I don't know if there's an upper capacity limit. (Others have hooked up such a RAID enclosure as a replacement for the internal drive.)
720p delivers 6 times as many pixels per second and 1080i delivers almost 7 times as many pixels per second as SD.
720p delivers 3 times as many pixels per [full] frame as SD.
But of course, TiVo records compressed signals, be it the exact compressed digital stream it receives via ATSC or CableCard, or its own compression of analog SD channels.
Those rumours were created a year ago, he is confirmed dead now. Did you even read the article? I didn't, because I've never heard of adurah.com either, and I make it a point not to follow random links from off-topic postings. Who knows what browser exploits might be lurking there.
I've heard complaints about that that it doesn't work for all controllers and is a bit sluggish for use with GH. I'm going to wait for PS3-specific hardware.
My PS3 is expected to arrive tomorrow, so I'm not that familiar with its features yet. I even transposed a couple letters and thought was talking about X-Windows BitMapped (XBM) graphics files.
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Oh, you meant Intel said the PC manufacturers could only use their products? I read it with implied emphasis on "use" instead of "their".
So the PC manufacturers can only use their products, not Intel's products? Well, is Intel obligated to sell to anyone who can pay? Or am I confusing not only the emphasis but also the pronoun association?
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Acquisition by Symantec killed Central Point Software. The DMCA buried it.
They made Copy ][ Plus for the Apple II series and other similarly named software for other platforms. C2+ was the essential piece of software at my high school, for students and teachers alike, back when copy protection itself was an art form (double spiral tracks on 5.25" floppies), not like the typical, "If this block on the disk is readable, refuse to run," protections of later years. (However, 8.2 was much better than 9.0. For some reason the UI became sluggish.)
Nowadays, such software is completely illegal under the DMCA.
I seem to recall there is one MAME ROM that was specifically released for free, non-commercial distribution. I think it was FHMC Q*Bert.
"That's like a baby's toy!"
There's a natural response to a lack of CO2 in the atmosphere: it's called a forest fire.
And if you don't have any forests, there's lots of other combustibles around just waiting to be lit by (name a word with four consecutive consonants) lightning.
It was also a demonstration on an episode of Mr. Wizard or Mr. Wizard's World, whichever one was on Nickelodeon when it was young. The harder you pushed the lead on the lead (heh), the lower the resistance and the brighter the bulb.
This will work just fine until someone decides to clean the conductors at their card's edge with an eraser.
Earlier solutions such as that used on DirecTiVos just hacked the TiVo software to store recordings as unencrypted. TiVoization as decried in GPLv3 prevents such modification in modern units. Exploiting TiVoToGo is a more effective crack, but will be disabled for HD content. (I wonder if SD digital content will be transferable.)
I'm more interested in any progress in cracking 5C encryption over Firewire.
Three of my TiVos are Philips Series1, and one of them (the 20hr) has never been signed up for service.
Except didn't it start this month that cable companies could no longer provide all-in-one boxes and had to start using boxes that use CableCARDs? This was to force them to rely on them and thus make sure they work for everyone. (Due to the lack of bi-di cards, the on-demand and PPV communications would be handled by the box portion.)
Even the non-DVR cable boxes running Mystro are incompatible with TiVo Suggestions, crashing if it tries to change channels at the same time the channel you're leaving has a new program starting, i.e. on the hour or half-hour. (Suggestions have no padding option.) The asynchronous update of the OSD bar with new data screws up the attempt to change channels, resulting in tuning the wrong channel, not changing channels at all, or a crash and shutdown requiring turning it back on manually. They want to own the entire solution themselves and not be beholden to anybody. Passport was licensed software; Mystro is TWC's own development. I don't miss those, and if I did, I'd use a cable box connected to a Series2 TiVo to access them.
Many wired adapters work as well, but only needed for the Series2. Series3 already has a port for wired access. Series1 doesn't have features that would use it, but internal cards are available.
While the Series3 doesn't have to use USB-Ethernet adapters, any speed benefits of the Series3 dedicated Ethernet port will likely be curtailed by the adapters of any Series2 units sharing with it. I've also seen 30-minute podcasts take well over an hour to transfer, and you don't have the option to play them until they're finished.
Crankygeeks and DL.TV are recent new offerings to TiVos. So far, all podcasts are limited to storing at most 10 episodes and cannot be transferred to other TiVos, VCRs, or DVDs, possibly due to viewer tracking requirements for billing the podcasters.
I've transfered lifetime service from non-grandfathered Series1 units to Series2 units through such an offer. It made sense as the Series1 units don't even require service, so I could drop service from them and still use them for manual timed records, which the Series2 and newer units do not allow without service.
There's already a backdoor to enable the external Serial ATA (eSATA) on the current Series3 model. People have hooked up a single 750 GB eSATA drive to the existing 250 GB internal SATA drive for a 1 TB TiVo (in metric units).
I'm thinking about getting an eSATA RAID enclosure for this, but I don't know if there's an upper capacity limit. (Others have hooked up such a RAID enclosure as a replacement for the internal drive.)
I've heard complaints about that that it doesn't work for all controllers and is a bit sluggish for use with GH. I'm going to wait for PS3-specific hardware.
I assume XMB does not stand for XYBASE Message Broker? That just leaves Xtreme Math Baseball, Xtreme Math BasketBall, or Extreme Message Board as the less likely alternatives to Cross Media Bar (Sony user interface).
My PS3 is expected to arrive tomorrow, so I'm not that familiar with its features yet. I even transposed a couple letters and thought was talking about X-Windows BitMapped (XBM) graphics files.