Then why did Sun push anti-AIX SCO FUD with their Wall Street Journal ad saying "Unfortunately, our friends in Blue have a problem with licensing contracts that could make things very expensive for anyone running AIX"?
Heck, a PDF of the ad is still up on Sun's web site here.
Wasn't Sun one of the SCO licensees? Maybe they're just reaping some karma here.
The disadvantage is the lack of quality control. I keep a lot on my TiVo, and use the quality setting quite a bit to manage space. Cooking shows? Basic. Action flicks? High or Best. Most stuff? Medium. Requiring everything to be at (effectively) Best means that-- while quality is better-- you lose space.
Er, no. DirecTV is already doing VBR based on the channel for you, and they have a much more expensive MPEG encoder. PPV movies are pre-encoded at very high bitrates; Food Network gets left-over bit slop.
Also, note that DTV's "perfect" quality setting averages about the bit rate of "Basic" on a standalone unit. (my 120GB unit gets "up to 108 hours"...and probably has well over 80 on it right now).
Lots of older buildings mean not all of them have wireless coverage yet--but the interactive campus map shows which ones do.
Of course, since that list says MIT is in Boston (it isn't), perhaps they're trying to use WiFi in the old Boston location, which MIT hasn't used in almost 100 years....
The DirecTiVo box is great, since it can record two things at once and has no quality loss (the MPEG encoder is the uplink facility at Castle Rock...).
I was particularly annoyed by ATTWS publishing magazine ads showing a guy using a PowerBook G4 with one of their cards, and then finding out that as I feared, it was just the usual "hey look we need a photo of a guy with a laptop for the ad, go get the ad agency to take a photo with one of their laptops" bogosity.
I have noticed that the DirecTivo has been giving me the message that I only have two days of program guide left. However, since it has given me this message for over a month and still works, I am not particularly worried about it.
That's a known bug which has also shown up on our DirecTiVo -- even though our line is plugged in. I can't find the TiVo Community Forum thread that discusses it at the moment, though.
This is not how it works for me. I have two Macs (a G5 and an iBook) both running Panther and thus iChatAV. One has a camera, the other is a laptop with a built-in microphone but no camera. I can do audio between the two, but cannot do one-way video.
I've done almost the same thing (G4 desktop with iSight to G4 laptop, one way video) and it worked fine.
I lived in Northern Virginia (Reston) and had ComCast for both cable and cable modem. I also had DirecTV for about 8 months. Overall, I LOVED ComCast in comparison on one feature alone, and that's the set-top box software. ComCast's cable box had an excellent, easy-to-use guide that was a hundred times better than DirecTVs. I found DirecTV's interface very annoying to use.
Note that with DirecTV you have a choice of receivers. The DirecTiVo units don't have the delays you described, and have either a DTV or TiVo style guide display.
he PVR that comes with a service is not an advantage for either. The reason being that you REALLY want to get a TiVo. Everything sucks in comparison (mileage may vary).
The DirecTV DVR is a TiVo (ok, now it's "powered by TiVo"). It also has two satellite tuners so you can record two shows at once (and even watch a third, previously recorded, show). It also records the digital stream directly, so no recompression to worry about.
As for rain fade, install it well (or get a good pro install) and you will rarely if ever have a problem IME. The stronger your signal is on a clear day, the more margin you will have when it rains. (Also, make sure the dish is well secured and/or shielded from strong winds if you have 'em.) From Boston, we only get rain fade once or twice a year at most, and no snow fade (the dish surface is vertical enough that it slides right off).
The iPod, back to the original 5GB unit, came with a sticker on it saying "Don't steal music." Dell's shown their incredible creativity and lack of any me-too-ism by putting a sticker on the Dell DJ that says..."Please do not steal music."
OK, one point for including "the magic word" -- but if you're going to copy Apple, why stop with packaging stickers, and leave out the useful bits like making it work when you plug it in to a hub?
The IBM BladeServer JS20 is a dual processor G5 system on a blade. Admittedly, they're limited to 1.6GHz instead of the 2GHz of the Apple desktops or XServe G5, but when you can pack 14 of them into a 7U chassis, it may still be a better choice.
Clue has to be the best game, since it teaches you the best household objects you can use to kill people, as well as helping young children to realize that you should never ask the police for help when solving a murder.
Yeah, it's amazing that you can win by accusing yourself of doing it, but only if you're sure you were the murderer....
I second the mention of Kill Doctor Lucky, though I will point out that you aren't trying to kill the other players, just make sure they don't see you kill the eponymous Doctor.
(PS I always use the robber from Settlers of Catan for the Doctor Lucky token.)
surely licenced betting shops can't be so thin on the ground
Yeah, they can be. They don't exist over here the same way that, say, Ladbroke's or the other high street bookies do in the UK. Y'see, in most jurisdictions in the US, they're illegal.
The iPod also supports USB 2.0. USB + FireWire > USB.
this device is a USB mass storage device. This means that while the company only supports tranferring from a windows machine, it'll work from any system that adheres to the USB mass storage standards. So you should be able to use it on your mac just fine.
With a nice auto-synchronizing jukebox app that tracks play counts, last-played time, ratings, and supports on-the-go playlist creation?
So it's only got 20 gigs of music. Unless you've got hours upon hours of music, then that's simply not going to be an issue.
So, that's more than 20GB then. Right. Oh, and a bunch of that is non-DRM 128kbps AAC, which the iRiver won't play....
The original poster said it beat the iPod in "all aspects". I showed where it didn't, and the rebuttal you gave is basically "well, okay, so it does beat the iRiver in ways that don't matter"...which doesn't back up the "all aspects" assertion.
the iriver IHP-120. It beats the Ipod in all aspects
Hmm... iRiver's web site says it's 20GB (half the size of the top of the line iPod), "Operating System
WIN98SE/ME/2000/XP" (no Mac support), and USB 2.0 (no sign of FireWire support).
Those are three pretty clear aspects where it doesn't beat the iPod.
Yeah, there's an external battery pack option. Too bad it's from Belkin, I don't want my iPod to start playing commercials at me when I'm on a long plane flight.
Yeah, just as soon as they get their D.C. office up and running.
Seriously, what's the point of being based in SF?
That's where the board thought they should be?
They had a DC office, several years ago. Note that 501(c)3 organizations aren't allowed to lobby, so it's not as useful as you think it is to have one.
The EFF also works with organizations that do have DC offices...not everyone has to be there.
Am I the only one who thinks that, at this very moment, a RIAA lawyer will be drafting notes that use your comment as the centrepiece for a legal motion to get this MIT project shut down?
This is not some random student project. MIT has intellectual property lawyers.
innovative legitimate music-buying options
Music need not be purchased to be heard. MIT has paid ASCAP et al for blanket transmission licenses, like radio stations use. (BTW, the campus radio station, WMBR, used to be called the "Tech Broadcasting System" or WTBS, until some guy in Atlanta bought the call letters from them...now it stands for Walker Memorial Basement Radio, for its location.)
See their FAQ, particularly the questions "Is this really legal? How?" and "Did you have lawyers look at this?"
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Hey, at least the W20 hairball never happened. It could be worse. (Wonder if it would have been called "Transparent Hair-izon"... heh.)
How about the Tower Records building (now a Virgin Megastore), just across the river, in Boston? Gehry. Seriously.
(Okay, it was a redesign and not a new building, but still....)
Then why did Sun push anti-AIX SCO FUD with their Wall Street Journal ad saying "Unfortunately, our friends in Blue have a problem with licensing contracts that could make things very expensive for anyone running AIX"?
Heck, a PDF of the ad is still up on Sun's web site here.
Wasn't Sun one of the SCO licensees? Maybe they're just reaping some karma here.
The disadvantage is the lack of quality control. I keep a lot on my TiVo, and use the quality setting quite a bit to manage space. Cooking shows? Basic. Action flicks? High or Best. Most stuff? Medium. Requiring everything to be at (effectively) Best means that-- while quality is better-- you lose space. Er, no. DirecTV is already doing VBR based on the channel for you, and they have a much more expensive MPEG encoder. PPV movies are pre-encoded at very high bitrates; Food Network gets left-over bit slop. Also, note that DTV's "perfect" quality setting averages about the bit rate of "Basic" on a standalone unit. (my 120GB unit gets "up to 108 hours"...and probably has well over 80 on it right now).
Lots of older buildings mean not all of them have wireless coverage yet--but the interactive campus map shows which ones do. Of course, since that list says MIT is in Boston (it isn't), perhaps they're trying to use WiFi in the old Boston location, which MIT hasn't used in almost 100 years....
The DirecTiVo box is great, since it can record two things at once and has no quality loss (the MPEG encoder is the uplink facility at Castle Rock...).
I was particularly annoyed by ATTWS publishing magazine ads showing a guy using a PowerBook G4 with one of their cards, and then finding out that as I feared, it was just the usual "hey look we need a photo of a guy with a laptop for the ad, go get the ad agency to take a photo with one of their laptops" bogosity.
That's a known bug which has also shown up on our DirecTiVo -- even though our line is plugged in. I can't find the TiVo Community Forum thread that discusses it at the moment, though.
I've done almost the same thing (G4 desktop with iSight to G4 laptop, one way video) and it worked fine.
Note that with DirecTV you have a choice of receivers. The DirecTiVo units don't have the delays you described, and have either a DTV or TiVo style guide display.
The DirecTV DVR is a TiVo (ok, now it's "powered by TiVo"). It also has two satellite tuners so you can record two shows at once (and even watch a third, previously recorded, show). It also records the digital stream directly, so no recompression to worry about.
As for rain fade, install it well (or get a good pro install) and you will rarely if ever have a problem IME. The stronger your signal is on a clear day, the more margin you will have when it rains. (Also, make sure the dish is well secured and/or shielded from strong winds if you have 'em.) From Boston, we only get rain fade once or twice a year at most, and no snow fade (the dish surface is vertical enough that it slides right off).
The iPod, back to the original 5GB unit, came with a sticker on it saying "Don't steal music." Dell's shown their incredible creativity and lack of any me-too-ism by putting a sticker on the Dell DJ that says..."Please do not steal music."
OK, one point for including "the magic word" -- but if you're going to copy Apple, why stop with packaging stickers, and leave out the useful bits like making it work when you plug it in to a hub?
Just remember, everything Darl says belongs to SCO, must belong to SCO. Because he says so.
He should know; he's the SCO Miser.
Cincinnati's had issues for a while. In 1977 they elected a new mayor--Jerry Springer.
This was after he'd resigned from the city council after being caught up in a vice investigation...hint, don't pay prostitutes with checks.
The IBM BladeServer JS20 is a dual processor G5 system on a blade. Admittedly, they're limited to 1.6GHz instead of the 2GHz of the Apple desktops or XServe G5, but when you can pack 14 of them into a 7U chassis, it may still be a better choice.
#include <beowulfjoke.h>We only had 0s, also. To get 1s, we had to break them in half ourselves.
I find it amusing that the Boston Globe is covering this when they didn't seem to care when one of their columnists implied attending a conference, but clearly had not.
Yeah, it's amazing that you can win by accusing yourself of doing it, but only if you're sure you were the murderer....
I second the mention of Kill Doctor Lucky, though I will point out that you aren't trying to kill the other players, just make sure they don't see you kill the eponymous Doctor.
(PS I always use the robber from Settlers of Catan for the Doctor Lucky token.)
...the list of email addresses from people who signed up at mp3.com.
Yeah, they can be. They don't exist over here the same way that, say, Ladbroke's or the other high street bookies do in the UK. Y'see, in most jurisdictions in the US, they're illegal.
The iPod also supports USB 2.0. USB + FireWire > USB.
With a nice auto-synchronizing jukebox app that tracks play counts, last-played time, ratings, and supports on-the-go playlist creation?
So, that's more than 20GB then. Right. Oh, and a bunch of that is non-DRM 128kbps AAC, which the iRiver won't play....
The original poster said it beat the iPod in "all aspects". I showed where it didn't, and the rebuttal you gave is basically "well, okay, so it does beat the iRiver in ways that don't matter"...which doesn't back up the "all aspects" assertion.
Hmm... iRiver's web site says it's 20GB (half the size of the top of the line iPod), "Operating System WIN98SE/ME/2000/XP" (no Mac support), and USB 2.0 (no sign of FireWire support).
Those are three pretty clear aspects where it doesn't beat the iPod.
Yeah, there's an external battery pack option. Too bad it's from Belkin, I don't want my iPod to start playing commercials at me when I'm on a long plane flight.
That's where the board thought they should be?
They had a DC office, several years ago. Note that 501(c)3 organizations aren't allowed to lobby, so it's not as useful as you think it is to have one.
The EFF also works with organizations that do have DC offices...not everyone has to be there.
This is not some random student project. MIT has intellectual property lawyers.
Music need not be purchased to be heard. MIT has paid ASCAP et al for blanket transmission licenses, like radio stations use. (BTW, the campus radio station, WMBR, used to be called the "Tech Broadcasting System" or WTBS, until some guy in Atlanta bought the call letters from them...now it stands for Walker Memorial Basement Radio, for its location.)
See their FAQ, particularly the questions "Is this really legal? How?" and "Did you have lawyers look at this?"