That is the worst UI convention ever (holding a button longer to activate a different function). Whoever thought of that should be dragged out into the street and shot.
Sorry, I'm just pissed off at having to do this on my Divx player. You wanna see that cool explosion again, but you don't quite hold it for the full 2 seconds, and it skips back to the beginning.
It is true that taking the time to format and submit a link tends to garner mods, especially if vaguely relevant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything probably isn't relevant enough to cut it.
They have some interesting policies. Their bandwidth caps are soft, and well-publicized, but what they don't tell you is that they measure months based on 30 days, not based on the calendar. I tend to do more downloading at the end of the month (oh, look, I have 30GB left *clicks furiously*), but I've had to space it out since I got a call complaining that I had used 120GB in a 30 day period. According to their records that I could see, I'd used around 60GB at the end of one month, and another 60GB at the beginning of the next. They put those together on a per-day basis and used that to ding me.
Fortunately, their caps are high enough that I don't often run into trouble.
This machine is capable of running XP...but I wouldn't want to. Microsoft will probably win on the technicalities, but (IMO) ethically, they're in the wrong.
If they'd brought this out years, before Youtube and before illegally torrenting shows for free became so widespread, they might have had a winner. Watching a few ads first is probably sufficiently minor that a lot of people would just live with it...if the ad-free alternatives weren't as easy or easier. Now, pretty much anyone that knows what BitTorrent means, knows where and how to get the illegal stuff, and there's nothing BitTorrent, Inc. can do that can compete with that.
If they ever decided to make something like this, in which the WiFi could be used to access the hard drive in the Zune, for use as a small portable NAS (for everything from wirelessly syncing media to it, to showing up in My Computer as a wireless hard drive for transferring data), along with a bit of Outlook integration (contacts and email reading), I'd be there. It should be technically capable of doing all this now, it just needs the software and a bit of vision.
The Resource CD doesn't actually do anything, though. It runs 'diagnostics' for hours, and then reports back things your BIOS would tell you immediately (SMART status, temperature, etc.). A friend of a friend who worked for Dell support told me the technicians were instructed to tell the customers to run these 'diagnostics' to get them off the phones, reducing average call times (by forcing the customer to make multiple shorter calls rather than one longer one).
Um, I never said it was. The RAID array is just how the drives are arranged inside the backup server, and is irrelevant to what I said (my method will work just fine without RAID). Try reading what I said again, and don't get so excited when you see the R word.
Depends on how you do it. My backup solution has a hard drive (well, a RAID array) that is replaced every year. The year-old drives then either get handed down to my gaming PC (on which a hard drive failure isn't especially critical), or they get wiped and sold. Upgrading the backup drives yearly keeps decently new drives where the new-ness is important, and I get bigger drives cheaper to accommodate my growing storage needs. Plus, they stay powered up regularly to prevent them dying from lack of use. I've found that drives generally tend to die in the first two weeks, or else they survive the year and more...I haven't lost any important data yet, this way.
I'm honestly surprised I haven't heard more interest in hacking the Apple TV. To me, it seems ideal for running something like XBMC or Linux (if the USB port can be accessed). If I could stream DVDs to it from my computer, and other media, like a MythTV frontend, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Something really fast, say with HyperTransport links to dedicated hardware coprocessors designed to encode MPEG, DivX/Xvid, H264, VC1, and whatever other codecs take a long time to encode (FPGA's that can be updated down the road to support newer codecs?). I want to be able to click "export video to iPod", and have it immediately pop up "Done", regardless of video format.
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Google-click sounds like it should be fighting Superman. Or transforming into a truck.
So he won't fight back?
That is the worst UI convention ever (holding a button longer to activate a different function). Whoever thought of that should be dragged out into the street and shot.
Sorry, I'm just pissed off at having to do this on my Divx player. You wanna see that cool explosion again, but you don't quite hold it for the full 2 seconds, and it skips back to the beginning.
It is true that taking the time to format and submit a link tends to garner mods, especially if vaguely relevant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything probably isn't relevant enough to cut it.
It's funny, though.
Does it run WinDVD?
It's Good Friday today...any apps with hidden deicide?
*ducks*
Wow, you should be an editor here!
Does this mean better iPod hacks are coming? This is mostly over my head, so I don't know if it's even relevant to iPods or similar devices...
They have some interesting policies. Their bandwidth caps are soft, and well-publicized, but what they don't tell you is that they measure months based on 30 days, not based on the calendar. I tend to do more downloading at the end of the month (oh, look, I have 30GB left *clicks furiously*), but I've had to space it out since I got a call complaining that I had used 120GB in a 30 day period. According to their records that I could see, I'd used around 60GB at the end of one month, and another 60GB at the beginning of the next. They put those together on a per-day basis and used that to ding me.
Fortunately, their caps are high enough that I don't often run into trouble.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/02/25/installing -windows-xp-pro-on-8mhz-pc-with-20mb-ram/
This machine is capable of running XP...but I wouldn't want to. Microsoft will probably win on the technicalities, but (IMO) ethically, they're in the wrong.
If they'd brought this out years, before Youtube and before illegally torrenting shows for free became so widespread, they might have had a winner. Watching a few ads first is probably sufficiently minor that a lot of people would just live with it...if the ad-free alternatives weren't as easy or easier. Now, pretty much anyone that knows what BitTorrent means, knows where and how to get the illegal stuff, and there's nothing BitTorrent, Inc. can do that can compete with that.
I hope they release it in white, and call it the Sony PlayStation 3 E-Tile. It would give my universe a sense of balance.
I'd hardly call 'How to compile this program' hacking.
You can't steal the ether.
Tell that to the junkie who broke into my dentist's office.
If they ever decided to make something like this, in which the WiFi could be used to access the hard drive in the Zune, for use as a small portable NAS (for everything from wirelessly syncing media to it, to showing up in My Computer as a wireless hard drive for transferring data), along with a bit of Outlook integration (contacts and email reading), I'd be there. It should be technically capable of doing all this now, it just needs the software and a bit of vision.
The Resource CD doesn't actually do anything, though. It runs 'diagnostics' for hours, and then reports back things your BIOS would tell you immediately (SMART status, temperature, etc.). A friend of a friend who worked for Dell support told me the technicians were instructed to tell the customers to run these 'diagnostics' to get them off the phones, reducing average call times (by forcing the customer to make multiple shorter calls rather than one longer one).
Um, I never said it was. The RAID array is just how the drives are arranged inside the backup server, and is irrelevant to what I said (my method will work just fine without RAID). Try reading what I said again, and don't get so excited when you see the R word.
Depends on how you do it. My backup solution has a hard drive (well, a RAID array) that is replaced every year. The year-old drives then either get handed down to my gaming PC (on which a hard drive failure isn't especially critical), or they get wiped and sold. Upgrading the backup drives yearly keeps decently new drives where the new-ness is important, and I get bigger drives cheaper to accommodate my growing storage needs. Plus, they stay powered up regularly to prevent them dying from lack of use. I've found that drives generally tend to die in the first two weeks, or else they survive the year and more...I haven't lost any important data yet, this way.
I think the 'temporary' in your definition is pretty apt, considering.
They should pay me for the time I've had to waste dealing with their DRM schemes, trying to listen to music on my MP3 player.
Cheer up! Once you become a Level 12 disabled person, you regain the abilities of your old class with no experience penalty!
I'm honestly surprised I haven't heard more interest in hacking the Apple TV. To me, it seems ideal for running something like XBMC or Linux (if the USB port can be accessed). If I could stream DVDs to it from my computer, and other media, like a MythTV frontend, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Oh cool...I've been meaning to get that looked at.
Next thing you know we'll have corporations determining foreign policy.
They're not already?
Something really fast, say with HyperTransport links to dedicated hardware coprocessors designed to encode MPEG, DivX/Xvid, H264, VC1, and whatever other codecs take a long time to encode (FPGA's that can be updated down the road to support newer codecs?). I want to be able to click "export video to iPod", and have it immediately pop up "Done", regardless of video format.