Don't most (if not all) satellite and CATV receivers have parental control features now?
If you can't be bothered to talk to your children about what they're watching and why, just use the mandated V-chip in your TV set along with the parental control features of your receivers and LEAVE MY CABLE ALONE!
Also, if your support call is the direct result of a bug in the product, they'll refund the per incident cost. I had that happen with a DHCP server bug back in the NT 4.0 days.
I use this to remove the DRM from my legally purchased iTMS files so I can play them on my Phatbox in my car and on my Media Center PC. I'm not distributing them to friends, I'm just doing what I would have otherwise done by burning to CD then ripping back to HD.
Probably still illegal nonetheless, but I really don't feel very 37331 when I do it.
The court's decision rested in part on Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court case striking down anti-sodomy laws. Under Lawrence, said the court, 'upholding the public sense of morality is not even a legitimate state interest.'"
I know this will be slightly off-topic, but...
Being a gay man that would really like to marry his partner, this is phenomenal. I'm tired of being told that I'm immoral, I can't adopt children, get married, etc because it's not in the State's interest (which is to encourage procreation, apparently).
Yes, but the software/hardware isn't quite ready for this. Car navigation and such works well with voice prompts because it has a very limited vocabulary it understands.
Try and tell your computer to find something like these artists: Balligomingo, Fischerspooner, Hoobastank, Kraftwerk, etc.
Heck, I own a Kenwood Keg (aka Phatbox) - it uses voice prompts to tell me what I'm hearing. It can't pronounce Bjork correctly, what makes you think it would understand me saying Bjork to it? The Phatbox uses AT&T's Natural Voice engine for TTS, which is a pretty damned good TTS engine, and it's not perfect.
The Keg's interface works well - it speaks to me (announcing track title, artist, album and playlist), I hit a button on the remote control or I use my steering wheel controls. I can hit those buttons without looking away from the road.
Think current IVR systems. They have a hard enough time understanding you. I can't imagine in a car with extra distractions (road noise, engine noise, etc)
I'm hoping they fixed their quality problems on the 6600GT line. Between myself and a friend, 5 cards so far, all with bad video RAM. Go ahead, fire up 3DMark and see if your screen pixelates...
I ended up getting a Radeon X700 Pro instead, and I had said I'd never buy another ATI card because of their crappy drivers.
That's exactly how the Phatbox works. AT&T Natural Voice creates very small wav files which are compressed and put on the hard drive. You can interrupt it to your hearts content.:)
Don't buy the Phatnoise model - they can't mark down their own MSRP.
Kenwood makes a model called the Keg, which I got for $299. Also, various car manufacturers sell it as an option for cheap (VW, Audi for example, and Mazda signed a deal with Phatnoise also).
Have you ever used a Phatbox? I have one in my car, it's a 20gb hard drive based player that announces things. You can read the display if you want, but since it speaks to you (literally) you can do without the screen. Great for driving. No reason that an iPod can't do the same, especially if you craft your playlists correctly. The Phatbox can navigate via playlists, artists, albums and genre, like the iPod.
Disclaimer: I am not an employee of Phatnoise, I'm just a very, very satisfied customer.
If you have four things you want to record total (two airing at 8, the other two at 9), then yes, this is a problem. I run into it a lot with my dual tuner DirecTiVo.
Wait. They've managed to not piss off their customers? I don't think you've talked to enough of their customers.
I bought it to play against my coworkers. I can't install it and use it. It _requires_ an outbound UDP connection on a wierd port. Before anyone makes a comment about playing it at work, we're _allowed_ to where I work. Our corporate security policy has rules about it (after 5 pm, only legal software, yadda yadda yadda), but our bosses will play Warcraft III and such with us. It makes for a great stress reliever or team building exercise.
So, I did it at home instead. Install took 45 minutes (5 CDs?! Gimme a damned DVD!) then Steam took 20 minutes to get "registered" then another 25 minutes to "unlock" the binaries.
Everyone I work with is pissed off about how Steam works.
Funny, because the management at my company plays the games with us. It's called a team building exercise, and a great morale booster. I'm in the software development business, BTW.
The other catch to that is I take my laptop with me almost everywhere. It would be nice to be able to take The Sims or Warcraft with me, but they don't play well under Linux.... I can't haul my GameCube with me too:)
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Wait a minute.
Haven't people been authenticating across a network as long as wide area networks have existed, or am I missing something here?
I know WANs predate me (and I'm 27). These guys are on crack.
I'd reccommend getting some experience to increase your marketability as opposed to another degree.
I know when I interview possible engineer candidates, I'm looking more for experience than education.
What are you wanting to do? Your write up was very vague.
Don't most (if not all) satellite and CATV receivers have parental control features now?
If you can't be bothered to talk to your children about what they're watching and why, just use the mandated V-chip in your TV set along with the parental control features of your receivers and LEAVE MY CABLE ALONE!
Also, if your support call is the direct result of a bug in the product, they'll refund the per incident cost. I had that happen with a DHCP server bug back in the NT 4.0 days.
Anyone ever heard of http://www.digipen.edu/ before? They're in Redmond, pretty much across the street from a Microsoft office.
I use this to remove the DRM from my legally purchased iTMS files so I can play them on my Phatbox in my car and on my Media Center PC. I'm not distributing them to friends, I'm just doing what I would have otherwise done by burning to CD then ripping back to HD.
Probably still illegal nonetheless, but I really don't feel very 37331 when I do it.
My 2004 Toyota Solara was made in Tennessee.
The court's decision rested in part on Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court case striking down anti-sodomy laws. Under Lawrence, said the court, 'upholding the public sense of morality is not even a legitimate state interest.'"
I know this will be slightly off-topic, but...
Being a gay man that would really like to marry his partner, this is phenomenal. I'm tired of being told that I'm immoral, I can't adopt children, get married, etc because it's not in the State's interest (which is to encourage procreation, apparently).
Getting off my soapbox now...
Yes, but the software/hardware isn't quite ready for this. Car navigation and such works well with voice prompts because it has a very limited vocabulary it understands.
Try and tell your computer to find something like these artists: Balligomingo, Fischerspooner, Hoobastank, Kraftwerk, etc.
Heck, I own a Kenwood Keg (aka Phatbox) - it uses voice prompts to tell me what I'm hearing. It can't pronounce Bjork correctly, what makes you think it would understand me saying Bjork to it? The Phatbox uses AT&T's Natural Voice engine for TTS, which is a pretty damned good TTS engine, and it's not perfect.
The Keg's interface works well - it speaks to me (announcing track title, artist, album and playlist), I hit a button on the remote control or I use my steering wheel controls. I can hit those buttons without looking away from the road.
Think current IVR systems. They have a hard enough time understanding you. I can't imagine in a car with extra distractions (road noise, engine noise, etc)
I was hoping for a release using Qt 4 - mmm, double buffering....
:)
I'll patiently wait
Just for posterity's sake:
Four dead XFX PCI-E 6600GT's, and an eVGA...
You apparently got lucky with your XFX.
I'm hoping they fixed their quality problems on the 6600GT line. Between myself and a friend, 5 cards so far, all with bad video RAM. Go ahead, fire up 3DMark and see if your screen pixelates...
I ended up getting a Radeon X700 Pro instead, and I had said I'd never buy another ATI card because of their crappy drivers.
That's exactly how the Phatbox works. AT&T Natural Voice creates very small wav files which are compressed and put on the hard drive. You can interrupt it to your hearts content. :)
Don't buy the Phatnoise model - they can't mark down their own MSRP.
Kenwood makes a model called the Keg, which I got for $299. Also, various car manufacturers sell it as an option for cheap (VW, Audi for example, and Mazda signed a deal with Phatnoise also).
Have you ever used a Phatbox? I have one in my car, it's a 20gb hard drive based player that announces things. You can read the display if you want, but since it speaks to you (literally) you can do without the screen. Great for driving. No reason that an iPod can't do the same, especially if you craft your playlists correctly. The Phatbox can navigate via playlists, artists, albums and genre, like the iPod.
Disclaimer: I am not an employee of Phatnoise, I'm just a very, very satisfied customer.
This IS a problem for dual tuner TiVos.
If you have four things you want to record total (two airing at 8, the other two at 9), then yes, this is a problem. I run into it a lot with my dual tuner DirecTiVo.
Wait. They've managed to not piss off their customers? I don't think you've talked to enough of their customers.
I bought it to play against my coworkers. I can't install it and use it. It _requires_ an outbound UDP connection on a wierd port. Before anyone makes a comment about playing it at work, we're _allowed_ to where I work. Our corporate security policy has rules about it (after 5 pm, only legal software, yadda yadda yadda), but our bosses will play Warcraft III and such with us. It makes for a great stress reliever or team building exercise.
So, I did it at home instead. Install took 45 minutes (5 CDs?! Gimme a damned DVD!) then Steam took 20 minutes to get "registered" then another 25 minutes to "unlock" the binaries.
Everyone I work with is pissed off about how Steam works.
Funny, because the management at my company plays the games with us. It's called a team building exercise, and a great morale booster. I'm in the software development business, BTW.
The other catch to that is I take my laptop with me almost everywhere. It would be nice to be able to take The Sims or Warcraft with me, but they don't play well under Linux.... I can't haul my GameCube with me too :)
Wow, that was eliteist.
Anyhow. I'm one of the "professionals" you mentioned and I spent my day surrounded by other "professionals", and guess what? We all play games.
Actually, this would be the third attempt.
I had a DishNetwork DishPlayer - it was the predecessor to Ultimate TV. Single tuner, crashed a lot, etc etc.
According to Trolltech, compiling GPL'ed code using a commercial Qt license is just fine.
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Q: Why is there no Open Source (GNU GPL) version of Qt on Windows ?
A: We have regrettably not found a way of making GPL versions for Windows available without risking the very business model we depend upon to be able to further develop and support Qt.
A: Please note that if you make the source code for your project available and your license allows it, any holder of a commercial Qt Windows license can create binaries for your project.
Same situation :) FreeBSD does it with Linux emulation.
gcc has to do the same thing.
Yes, you can. This is how we create native JVM's for FreeBSD (and have been doing it since the Java 1.3 days).
To quote the Zen Micro site:
2500 songs at 64kbps WMA. 1250 songs at 128kbps MP3. 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Available capacity will be less. Reported capacity will vary.