I don't have cable. And if I did, I might be in the same situation as my brother, who can't get Fox in HD for some reason even though the rest of the channels work. Or I might be like my BFF whose DirectTV gets channels 4.1, 5.1, and 19.1 but won't get 4.2, 5.2, 19.2 and the rest of the subchannels. All three of us would benefit from airwaves either due to lack of services or inept service providers. And since I know you're all dying to know, 4 is Fox, 5 is CBS, and 19 is PBS in Kansas City.
I think one food possibility here is that anybody who makes hardware for the Vietnamese market is going to have to make a Linux driver now. That means any of that hardware, which is also sold outside of Vietnam, is going to have a Linux driver somewhere. Maybe iPods are popular enough in Vietnam for a Linux iTunes...
The absolute best thing they could do is replace the stock firmware with something that filters the copyright flag. Also, even if you have HDTV you might be able to use one. My brother's TV has picture-in-picture but only one tuner. A DTV box would make a good tuner for the PIP.
I think, (assuming the video plays at the right resolution and frame rate, without slowing down the playing device) it doesn't matter if DRM is there or not on a rented video. What drives me crazy is how much waste there is in the LCD televisions. I am considering buying a Samsung LN40A750 television. The thing has a gigabyte of memory and an ethernet port. And what do they do with this? They have some built-in games and a list of recipes. It also has RSS support built in. But the only RSS feeds you can subscribe to are those provided by USA Today. Why not let users select what RSS feeds they want? The TV could probably pick up video podcasts and have a gigabyte of memory to store them. And if there were an SDK, I could probably think of a few more things to do with a gigabyte of space than just recipes. They could probably fit Opera in there with room to spare. And the thing has a USB port, which means you could actually download and save files. The fact, that they took basically a computer without a keyboard and are limiting it to just a television, really drives me up the wall in a similar way as the X-Box did when they called it a video game system. I hope the deal they worked out with USA Today is more valuable to them than the value lost by restricting all of that hardware.
Maybe RealityMaster, like me, prefers to see physics in action rather than a computer simulation of physics. That applies to pinball, player pianos, flight simulators, and everything else.
If I knew without a doubt that they would not go after people under 18, I would have my three oldest daughters set up as seeders tonight. We'd live in a world where teens seed everything and the rest of us are leechers who pay our teens' internet bills.
The most interesting part of having the volume of the speech proportional to the size of the text would be in sales ads. Things like "on sale now" or "bad credit is not a problem" would be yelled out while all of the fine print would be whispered and almost impossible to hear.
For me, it helps for "smart playlists". I have iTunes set to automatically put recently added and recently played music on my iPod. The recently played list would get out of date if the iPod couldn't track when the music was played. And I agree with this guy. I use my iPod as a clock more often than I use my cellphone.
[I'm not your average joe MS basher] But I've got to say: this is just typical.
That definitely sounds like the average Microsoft basher. I think I hate Microsoft more than most, and hate Zune as much as you. Even so, I just wish my iPod and Fedora installations would only fuck up one day out of every four years.
So now we have one guy who says employees should use the obscure methods because it will keep the company more dependent on the employees while we have another guy who says managers should avoid the obscure parts because it makes them too dependent on the employees...
I personally think, people testing software (such as Firefox) on devices with much more capability than the machines it's most likely to run on, are the reason a lot of software packages run sluggish and have unrealistic system requirements. I'm one of those people who have always said to make the developers run the software on computers that just meet the minimum system requirements. Not to develop it on those systems, but to run it on those systems before giving themselves that pat on the back. Even better would be to have their boss run it on the minimal system before evaluating the developer's work.
I say we copyright a recording of repeated agonizing screams, get a woolly mammoth to stomp them in the balls, and sue them for copyright infringement.
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Now that I've thought about it, if I just spent 30 years paying for that lawn, I might tell some people to get off it...
So what does ASCAP do?
The same goes for Mozart, Bach, & Beethoven. The only thing teens know about them is old people keep bringing them up.
They certainly have no place on Slashdot...
I don't have cable. And if I did, I might be in the same situation as my brother, who can't get Fox in HD for some reason even though the rest of the channels work. Or I might be like my BFF whose DirectTV gets channels 4.1, 5.1, and 19.1 but won't get 4.2, 5.2, 19.2 and the rest of the subchannels. All three of us would benefit from airwaves either due to lack of services or inept service providers. And since I know you're all dying to know, 4 is Fox, 5 is CBS, and 19 is PBS in Kansas City.
I still think it's money. Religion is more of an excuse to do it than anything else.
I think one food possibility here is that anybody who makes hardware for the Vietnamese market is going to have to make a Linux driver now. That means any of that hardware, which is also sold outside of Vietnam, is going to have a Linux driver somewhere. Maybe iPods are popular enough in Vietnam for a Linux iTunes...
I think you missed the point of the post.
Can you really blame #4 on Amazon?
Just use lots of TVs. Each one is one pixel.
Just to stick it to the DTV crowd, make sure the sculpture is 1,920 TV's wide and 1,080 TV's high.
It won't work fine after February, WILL IT???
True, but only because the situation was forced by the government and whoever moves them. It's a clear case of planned obsolescence.
The absolute best thing they could do is replace the stock firmware with something that filters the copyright flag. Also, even if you have HDTV you might be able to use one. My brother's TV has picture-in-picture but only one tuner. A DTV box would make a good tuner for the PIP.
I think, (assuming the video plays at the right resolution and frame rate, without slowing down the playing device) it doesn't matter if DRM is there or not on a rented video. What drives me crazy is how much waste there is in the LCD televisions. I am considering buying a Samsung LN40A750 television. The thing has a gigabyte of memory and an ethernet port. And what do they do with this? They have some built-in games and a list of recipes. It also has RSS support built in. But the only RSS feeds you can subscribe to are those provided by USA Today. Why not let users select what RSS feeds they want? The TV could probably pick up video podcasts and have a gigabyte of memory to store them. And if there were an SDK, I could probably think of a few more things to do with a gigabyte of space than just recipes. They could probably fit Opera in there with room to spare. And the thing has a USB port, which means you could actually download and save files. The fact, that they took basically a computer without a keyboard and are limiting it to just a television, really drives me up the wall in a similar way as the X-Box did when they called it a video game system. I hope the deal they worked out with USA Today is more valuable to them than the value lost by restricting all of that hardware.
Maybe RealityMaster, like me, prefers to see physics in action rather than a computer simulation of physics. That applies to pinball, player pianos, flight simulators, and everything else.
If I knew without a doubt that they would not go after people under 18, I would have my three oldest daughters set up as seeders tonight. We'd live in a world where teens seed everything and the rest of us are leechers who pay our teens' internet bills.
We'll get right on that...
The most interesting part of having the volume of the speech proportional to the size of the text would be in sales ads. Things like "on sale now" or "bad credit is not a problem" would be yelled out while all of the fine print would be whispered and almost impossible to hear.
So are you guys saying AT&T isn't always the best cellphone service out there?
For me, it helps for "smart playlists". I have iTunes set to automatically put recently added and recently played music on my iPod. The recently played list would get out of date if the iPod couldn't track when the music was played. And I agree with this guy. I use my iPod as a clock more often than I use my cellphone.
That definitely sounds like the average Microsoft basher. I think I hate Microsoft more than most, and hate Zune as much as you. Even so, I just wish my iPod and Fedora installations would only fuck up one day out of every four years.
So now we have one guy who says employees should use the obscure methods because it will keep the company more dependent on the employees while we have another guy who says managers should avoid the obscure parts because it makes them too dependent on the employees...
So you can play games, send faxes through your modem, and use your webcam and printer...
I personally think, people testing software (such as Firefox) on devices with much more capability than the machines it's most likely to run on, are the reason a lot of software packages run sluggish and have unrealistic system requirements. I'm one of those people who have always said to make the developers run the software on computers that just meet the minimum system requirements. Not to develop it on those systems, but to run it on those systems before giving themselves that pat on the back. Even better would be to have their boss run it on the minimal system before evaluating the developer's work.
What should we think if everyone else is using Mac or Windows?
I say we copyright a recording of repeated agonizing screams, get a woolly mammoth to stomp them in the balls, and sue them for copyright infringement.