Don't watch much 700 club do you. And as a whole Muslims don't threaten death either, its just a very voacal MINORITY of them that do.
Actually, in certain areas, the moderates are the minority. For example, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and certain parts in Pakistan. However, this isn't to say that Islam is a bad religion even at its extremes. Even Christianity was pretty bad just 500 years ago. You know we used to burn people at the stake, outlaw science, ban plays, execute adulterers, and basically force anything that man did to be related with the Church.
Heck, we mass murdered Pagans, Muslims, Cathars, Jews, Aztecs, other non-conforming Christians and pretty much any other group of people that didn't agree with religion.
However, as Western civilization progressed through the 1700's-to the 1900's we stopped killing each other over religion and the after life became less of an important topic. War became more of a thing of National Policy and usually was over economics rather than those people happened to believe in something else at the time.
Now the reason this happened wasn't because a jolly Church leader came alone and said "Hey guys... I think all this killing may not be in the lines of Jesus Christ's teachings. Maybe we should be nice guys and treat other cultures with respect."
It happened because of economic reasons. After the 1700's the west started seeing an Industrial, scientific, and agricultural revolution. People were able to work and make a living without starving or dying of the plague.
People were more concerned about "I need to get to the factory on time so I can make 5 extra gold pieces to buy those nice pair of boots and feed my family." than "Damn... I'm poor, starving, and having nothing to do. My priest told me that bastard needs to convert to my religion so I'm to go to his lands and kill him..."
Truth of the matter is that these people in this nations are poor and suffering. Even though Saudi Arabia and Iran have some of the highest incomes from oil in the world, their 75% of their people are living below the poverty level.
If you were unemployed, disenfranchised, and everyone else was too... I think that is a breeding ground for religious extremism. Its not Islam... It could be any religion. If these people had educations and a job to go to and a western quality of living (you know... TVs, internet, washing machines, and all the other things Americans take for granted), I doubt they'd find so many people to follow these lines.
But you'll still have the nut job like we do in the states like Patterson, but you wouldn't see mass demonstrations.
I mean, when you have a 9 to 5 job... Who has time to go protest.
Or how about just the psychological trauma to see your grandma or parents rotting in the ditch close to your hut? Not very pleasant I suppose. "Oops, checked on paw-paw this morning -- looks like the maggots finallay got to him... bless his heart!"
Actually, burial is a rather modern tradition. In fact, I think it is a more of a Christian one. The earliest religions like Zoroastrianism actually left bodies out to be eaten in open pits. Most other cultures burned their bodies such as the Greeks, Romans, and Chinese in funeral pyres. The Egyptians were relativiley unique in their beliefs in preserving the body with the mumification methods and you have to remember this was done only for the very wealthy.
Early Christians on the other hand believed that the body had to be perserved in order to be around for judgment day, but as protestantism came about, cremation came back as an acceptable form of burial in modern times.
Perhaps because the PHDs you mention are too busy studying things that you, who does not have a college education, could never do.
Personally, I'm split about higher education. I would love to get a PHD in Physics, but I wouldn't use that to get a job. Why? Because I want to get that to better understand how the universe works and not flash it to get a job.
Secondly, it appears that corporations wish to make their employees do more than just what they are hired to do. Even if I had a degree in Quantum Physics, it would be my really benefit me to understand basic computer skills.
Lets say I need to do research on a project I have a deadline on Friday. Unfortunatley, the network is down in our office and I'm getting that error above. Well I call our tech which our company outsourced to india and they say they can come out next monday to fix it.
Now I can either try to fix it myself or wait til monday missing my friday deadline (which I will get blamed for anyones).
Yes this is an extreme and unlikley situation, but today's workforce requires people to do more than their specialty. They need to learn new skills on the fly and do things they never thought they would be doing in College.
Program or Programme? Color or Colour? Gray or Grey?
Secondly, which version of English are you working with? English US? Or English UK? Or maybe Kenya English. What if we are writing for an audience of Texans vs an audience of Candians.
The problem is that English is a virus language. It is mutable and extremely changable with a venacular that has more varients then there are languages in the world (most likely). Latin was easy because it had a specific set of rules and if you learn German, it is very easy to follow and it makes sense.
However, English is just bastard language and perhaps it is one of the reasons the UK and then later the US became the world powers that they did because of the ability to express ideas that are not currently in the language.
Could even a well knoweldged University professors in 1500's England find the words to describe the modern internet? Besides the word magic and devil majik and "Thine box permutes animated art! Prithy fair creature bless me with thine knowledge" and then get the reply "internet, lol!";)
So we are faced with the problem: "What is proper English?" Well whatever is proper to you at the time and the majority who you live with I suppose. It won't be the same in 50 years that is for sure.
Of course, I'll test for other things as well. Unfortunately, this may be a humbling experience for some applicants.
Unfortunatley, after 5 years of this hiring practice, you'll end up with 25 English PHD's working on the 50th rough draft of a technical manual of a product that has yet to see a line of code written for.
Although, it will be a very well written technical manual.;)
Some things are mathematically impossible to parallelize. Also limitations caused by enforcing cache coherency, communications interconnects, and resource access synchronization/serialization create bottlenecks in parallel systems.
If this so-called law were to continue unabated for a couple of centuries, the number of transistors in a chip would exceed the number of atoms on planet earth. Clearly, a limit is going to be reached well before that happens.
I'd can't seem to find the source right now (its burried someone on wiki about human over population) but...
If the rate of human births to that of the population remains the same, there will be more humans than (guestimated) number of atoms of the universe in about 17,000 years.
Now explain to me how there can be more humans than atoms in the universe and I'll explain to you how to divide infinity by zero.;)
But seriously, Moore's 'Law' holds true because it is a self fufilling prophecy. However, this is a good thing, because better the computers and the 'moore' of them the more money I get paid in IT these days and the sooner I get virtual sex when I am 60 years from now and butt ugly.
YOU STOLE MY F***ING CLOUD SONG! I'M GOING TO FIND YOU AND KILL YOU F***ING A***HOLES! AARRRRGH!!
Yep;) Anyhooos.... If you know what I'm talking about then you do. Or not, but look up Cloud Song on google. Quite a laugh. (Had to type this to get past filter).
Is this really due to the brain "working on" problems in your sleep?
I've actually woken up due to someone else, noise, disturbance and I'll wake in a half sleep to find my mind doing something such as solving a computer problem or even code or math.
This has always struck me as odd because I wasn't concioussly aware of it in my dreams and it takes me a moment to realize I am awake.
Of course I had a girlfriend tell me that one night I was talking in my sleep trying to get her to click on the start button so we could go to settings and control panel. (I know... girlfriend on slashdot... yeah yeah... it happens) Of course that might have been just me having a nightmare about doing tech support.
Many jobs today require Internet access. But are you seriously going to tell me that day laborers or fast food restaurant workers are going to need access to the Internet in order to do their jobs?
Did you go to college to be a fast food or a manual minimum wage laborer? Do you expect to raise a family on your job at McDonalds or retail? If you want to better yourself and get a decent paying job at an office you will have to learn how to use a computer. Even blue collar jobs are increasingly requiring hands on knowledge with computers. I'm sure I'll get a call from a guy in a shop who needs to help with his excel file for his inventory in the next week or so.
Probably for a very long time. Unless banks can find a way to print money over the Internet, ATMs and physical banks will need to continue to exist.
Right, but do you really want to waste time in line at the bank. Do you want to carry wads of cash around or do you just want to use your Debit card to pay for your groceries so you don't even have to deal with change or running out of cash while out and about. You can't avoid internet banking, but you'll be wasting your free time.
Its not that hard to fill out a W-2 form. And even with tax programs, you are still going to need to enter the same information. If your taxes are a bit more complex, those programs are very useful, but not everyone is going to need that.
Are you serious? If you aren't using a computer to do your taxes, chances are you are loosing money in your return. I went to H&R Block and it was packed the other week. The reason I went is because I'm running a business but how many of those people could have saved time and the cost of having prepared taxes by doing them online... for free.
Well that just means you are not very good at comprehending other people's lifestyles.
You know. I remember seeing BBC story about seeing ATM's in the Gaza strip. One of the more poorer places in the middle east with lack of technological infrastructure. If they have these things, then I'm pretty sure its going to be ubiquitous everywhere else.
Today there are plenty of people who watch very little TV or who don't own CD players, and they are not all crazy wacko Luddites who live in cabins in Montana.
They won't be able to make a living or compete with everyone else who uses the internet.
I'm serious about this. I recently heard a nurse on NPR who worked with the ederly discuss how important it is for them to have online access so they can review the medicare changes and how she learned most of what she knew online. This kind of suprised me since it sounded like this lady had never had to use a computer in her life for her job at this volunteer ederly center.
Like it or not, those who use the internet as a research tool will surpass those who don't use it.
People who use the internet will find it easier to find jobs via Monster.com. Acheive better research results. Get better grades in school. Do their finances better via online banking. Heck, I've talked to car merchanics and even a plumber who uses the internet for their resources.
Look, you can ignore the internet all you want but you will be just shooting yourself in the leg when it comes to living in the 21st century. Walk into a job interview and say you don't know how to use a computer will probaly mean they won't even give you a courtesy call back saying they have chosen someone else.
I'm not saying these people are crazy or even ignorant, but they won't be able to compete with people who have the informational resources and can only take jobs that either are manual labor, food service, or retail. Even those jobs require some computer skills.
Lord Safety Prince Safety King Safety Emperor of Safety Der Safety Fuer Il Safety Duce People's Chairman of Safety Premiere Safety President Safety for Life
As a father of a little girl, I don't want censorship but I also don't want her to be exposing herself and revealing personal information that could be used against her by predators.
I can see your concern, but perhaps it is better to have a sit down talk with her about Internet and shady people. Not just Peds and stalkers, but that people are not always generally nice and sometimes have evil intentions. You know like Scammer and Phisers and even high school boyfriends who won't call after they've taken advantage of her.
The world is filled with bad people and not just Myspace.
Chances are if you block Myspace and get her friends parents to do so as well, it will only lead to a false sense of security. Learning to be careful now and having her gain a sense of a situational awareness will not only be useful when she is young but later in life if she faces a problematic or dangerous situation. Unfortunatley, I have no good advice on how to go about doing this other than maybe to look up reading on child saftey and strangers.
Chances are she'll just as likley be assualted or taken advantage of walk down the street, at school, or at the mall than she will be by someone she meets on myspace. It requires an education rather than ivory tower protectionism.
Remember, the girl that was murdered by the person she met on Myspace was age 27.
Since when is forcing adoption the right thing to do? Is this forced switch really in the best interest of the students? What applications might they have to give up that don't have the equivelent in the open source world.
I dunno. What are the chances that they can get the equivalent application in Korean for Windows?
Also, Koreans tend to have a bit more nationalist spirit than most western nations (remember the whole cloning stem cell debacle). If your choices were a home grown option versus an American company, then I think it would be clear choice.
You're talking about MythTV, and it's quite good. It's difficult to get working in many cases, but most people who like it put up with that because of the flexibility it allows.
Pardon my ignorance, but does MythTV support DivX and any other codecs other than MPeg2? I've been thinking about building a MediaPC and was interested in using MythTV.
Apple specifically tells you to back your songs up the moment you purchase them by burning them onto an audio CD with the iTunes software itself!
Yeah... Ermm... Well, this isn't a great backup method as it sounds. Firstly, you taking a lossy codec and recoding it back to 16-bit 44khz (from whatever audio you original have). Then if you want to get it back to your iPod (after a catostrophic computer crash and you formatted your iPod by accident) you have to re-encode it back to a lossy format (in which you loose a crap load of quality). I've done this way before iTunes when a computer crashed and the only backups of songs were... ermm... audio cds that I burned from Music Match from mp3s. I can tell a difference in the audio when I get it back to MP3 (even at 256kps).
Secondly, this is a big painful bitch to go back and rename all the mp3s since chances are the cds you burned aren't the exact albums and they don't match anything on Gracenote/CDDB etc and you have manually guess what each track is from and type the song and artist etct in the mp3 tag and file name.
A really big big royal pain in the ass when your computer crashes and you have a dead hard drive.
I believe you can backup the auido to a data disc of AACs or mp3s, however this does not remove the DRM from the files. So you still can't get the files to non-iPod audio devices and if you hose your computer and reinstall and in the process appear to hose you iTunes account those DRM'd files on your backup cds might be worthless.
Personally, I buy cds and rip them at highest quality (huge mp3s) so I can play them on my iPod and share out my iTunes folder to my Turtlebeach Audio Tron so I can listen them on my stereo. The Audiotron can't read DRM'd iTunes files so its kind of pointless for me to buy from there even though I have been tempted on trying to get a song out of my head. Chances are the next day I've gone to the local indie record store and bought it anyways.
The only thing I can see DRM doing for me is removing features with my listening experience and forcing me to buy the same song twice.
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Don't watch much 700 club do you. And as a whole Muslims don't threaten death either, its just a very voacal MINORITY of them that do.
Actually, in certain areas, the moderates are the minority. For example, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and certain parts in Pakistan. However, this isn't to say that Islam is a bad religion even at its extremes. Even Christianity was pretty bad just 500 years ago. You know we used to burn people at the stake, outlaw science, ban plays, execute adulterers, and basically force anything that man did to be related with the Church.
Heck, we mass murdered Pagans, Muslims, Cathars, Jews, Aztecs, other non-conforming Christians and pretty much any other group of people that didn't agree with religion.
However, as Western civilization progressed through the 1700's-to the 1900's we stopped killing each other over religion and the after life became less of an important topic. War became more of a thing of National Policy and usually was over economics rather than those people happened to believe in something else at the time.
Now the reason this happened wasn't because a jolly Church leader came alone and said "Hey guys... I think all this killing may not be in the lines of Jesus Christ's teachings. Maybe we should be nice guys and treat other cultures with respect."
It happened because of economic reasons. After the 1700's the west started seeing an Industrial, scientific, and agricultural revolution. People were able to work and make a living without starving or dying of the plague.
People were more concerned about "I need to get to the factory on time so I can make 5 extra gold pieces to buy those nice pair of boots and feed my family." than "Damn... I'm poor, starving, and having nothing to do. My priest told me that bastard needs to convert to my religion so I'm to go to his lands and kill him..."
Truth of the matter is that these people in this nations are poor and suffering. Even though Saudi Arabia and Iran have some of the highest incomes from oil in the world, their 75% of their people are living below the poverty level.
If you were unemployed, disenfranchised, and everyone else was too... I think that is a breeding ground for religious extremism. Its not Islam... It could be any religion. If these people had educations and a job to go to and a western quality of living (you know... TVs, internet, washing machines, and all the other things Americans take for granted), I doubt they'd find so many people to follow these lines.
But you'll still have the nut job like we do in the states like Patterson, but you wouldn't see mass demonstrations.
I mean, when you have a 9 to 5 job... Who has time to go protest.
for the fact that "they" represent a larger portion of "the entire world" than we do.
Unless you happen to be Buddhist.
Or how about just the psychological trauma to see your grandma or parents rotting in the ditch close to your hut? Not very pleasant I suppose. "Oops, checked on paw-paw this morning -- looks like the maggots finallay got to him... bless his heart!"
Actually, burial is a rather modern tradition. In fact, I think it is a more of a Christian one. The earliest religions like Zoroastrianism actually left bodies out to be eaten in open pits. Most other cultures burned their bodies such as the Greeks, Romans, and Chinese in funeral pyres. The Egyptians were relativiley unique in their beliefs in preserving the body with the mumification methods and you have to remember this was done only for the very wealthy.
Early Christians on the other hand believed that the body had to be perserved in order to be around for judgment day, but as protestantism came about, cremation came back as an acceptable form of burial in modern times.
Perhaps because the PHDs you mention are too busy studying things that you, who does not have a college education, could never do.
Personally, I'm split about higher education. I would love to get a PHD in Physics, but I wouldn't use that to get a job. Why? Because I want to get that to better understand how the universe works and not flash it to get a job.
Secondly, it appears that corporations wish to make their employees do more than just what they are hired to do. Even if I had a degree in Quantum Physics, it would be my really benefit me to understand basic computer skills.
Lets say I need to do research on a project I have a deadline on Friday. Unfortunatley, the network is down in our office and I'm getting that error above. Well I call our tech which our company outsourced to india and they say they can come out next monday to fix it.
Now I can either try to fix it myself or wait til monday missing my friday deadline (which I will get blamed for anyones).
Yes this is an extreme and unlikley situation, but today's workforce requires people to do more than their specialty. They need to learn new skills on the fly and do things they never thought they would be doing in College.
When you are "staring" out, you kneed too lern howe too spel rite.
Dude! He is the one giving the job interview. The last thing you'd want to do is point out his spelling mistakes.
If you've never listened to it how do you know it needs to be a "much, much better act"?
Good point. I'd take a listen, but it'd cost me $7 so I'll never know.
It's capitalism. Deal with it.
I think he is dealing with it... By um... Not purchasing the services... And spending the money on something else of more value.
That is capitalism too ya know.
i dont care how silly and untrue that statement is .. you are insulting my race, and culture with a bigotted statement.
Since when did race have anything to do with religion?
Other than chances are you are born that way... You can change your beliefs, but you can't change your race. (Well... Unless you are Micheal Jackson)
Secondly, when did nationality have anything to with religion either. Hell, I can change too that if I find a nice woman in another nation.
I respect other races because that is something none of us have the power to change and were aren't responsible for who we were born as.
And I respect other people's right to believe and say what they want. You know freedom of religion and speach you...
But that doesn't remove my right to disagree with those beliefs.
Sure the grandparent was probaly an ignorant fool for saying what he just said, but I will fight for his right to say it and you right to disagree.
But I'm going to disagree with religion, nationality, and race being tied together without any chance of seperation.
Program or Programme?
;)
Color or Colour?
Gray or Grey?
Secondly, which version of English are you working with? English US? Or English UK? Or maybe Kenya English. What if we are writing for an audience of Texans vs an audience of Candians.
The problem is that English is a virus language. It is mutable and extremely changable with a venacular that has more varients then there are languages in the world (most likely). Latin was easy because it had a specific set of rules and if you learn German, it is very easy to follow and it makes sense.
However, English is just bastard language and perhaps it is one of the reasons the UK and then later the US became the world powers that they did because of the ability to express ideas that are not currently in the language.
Could even a well knoweldged University professors in 1500's England find the words to describe the modern internet? Besides the word magic and devil majik and "Thine box permutes animated art! Prithy fair creature bless me with thine knowledge" and then get the reply "internet, lol!"
So we are faced with the problem: "What is proper English?" Well whatever is proper to you at the time and the majority who you live with I suppose. It won't be the same in 50 years that is for sure.
Of course, I'll test for other things as well. Unfortunately, this may be a humbling experience for some applicants.
;)
Unfortunatley, after 5 years of this hiring practice, you'll end up with 25 English PHD's working on the 50th rough draft of a technical manual of a product that has yet to see a line of code written for.
Although, it will be a very well written technical manual.
Some things are mathematically impossible to parallelize. Also limitations caused by enforcing cache coherency, communications interconnects, and resource access synchronization/serialization create bottlenecks in parallel systems.
Explain the human mind, then.
If this so-called law were to continue unabated for a couple of centuries, the number of transistors in a chip would exceed the number of atoms on planet earth. Clearly, a limit is going to be reached well before that happens.
;)
I'd can't seem to find the source right now (its burried someone on wiki about human over population) but...
If the rate of human births to that of the population remains the same, there will be more humans than (guestimated) number of atoms of the universe in about 17,000 years.
Now explain to me how there can be more humans than atoms in the universe and I'll explain to you how to divide infinity by zero.
But seriously, Moore's 'Law' holds true because it is a self fufilling prophecy. However, this is a good thing, because better the computers and the 'moore' of them the more money I get paid in IT these days and the sooner I get virtual sex when I am 60 years from now and butt ugly.
Any open USB/Firewire port is a potentially huge threat to your whole system's security.
Superglue
(You'd think I'd be joking but there are places that do this)
YOU STOLE MY F***ING CLOUD SONG! I'M GOING TO FIND YOU AND KILL YOU F***ING A***HOLES! AARRRRGH!!
;) Anyhooos.... If you know what I'm talking about then you do. Or not, but look up Cloud Song on google. Quite a laugh. (Had to type this to get past filter).
Yep
Is this really due to the brain "working on" problems in your sleep?
I've actually woken up due to someone else, noise, disturbance and I'll wake in a half sleep to find my mind doing something such as solving a computer problem or even code or math.
This has always struck me as odd because I wasn't concioussly aware of it in my dreams and it takes me a moment to realize I am awake.
Of course I had a girlfriend tell me that one night I was talking in my sleep trying to get her to click on the start button so we could go to settings and control panel. (I know... girlfriend on slashdot... yeah yeah... it happens) Of course that might have been just me having a nightmare about doing tech support.
Many jobs today require Internet access. But are you seriously going to tell me that day laborers or fast food restaurant workers are going to need access to the Internet in order to do their jobs?
Did you go to college to be a fast food or a manual minimum wage laborer? Do you expect to raise a family on your job at McDonalds or retail? If you want to better yourself and get a decent paying job at an office you will have to learn how to use a computer. Even blue collar jobs are increasingly requiring hands on knowledge with computers. I'm sure I'll get a call from a guy in a shop who needs to help with his excel file for his inventory in the next week or so.
Probably for a very long time. Unless banks can find a way to print money over the Internet, ATMs and physical banks will need to continue to exist.
Right, but do you really want to waste time in line at the bank. Do you want to carry wads of cash around or do you just want to use your Debit card to pay for your groceries so you don't even have to deal with change or running out of cash while out and about. You can't avoid internet banking, but you'll be wasting your free time.
Its not that hard to fill out a W-2 form. And even with tax programs, you are still going to need to enter the same information. If your taxes are a bit more complex, those programs are very useful, but not everyone is going to need that.
Are you serious? If you aren't using a computer to do your taxes, chances are you are loosing money in your return. I went to H&R Block and it was packed the other week. The reason I went is because I'm running a business but how many of those people could have saved time and the cost of having prepared taxes by doing them online... for free.
Well that just means you are not very good at comprehending other people's lifestyles.
You know. I remember seeing BBC story about seeing ATM's in the Gaza strip. One of the more poorer places in the middle east with lack of technological infrastructure. If they have these things, then I'm pretty sure its going to be ubiquitous everywhere else.
Today there are plenty of people who watch very little TV or who don't own CD players, and they are not all crazy wacko Luddites who live in cabins in Montana.
They won't be able to make a living or compete with everyone else who uses the internet.
I'm serious about this. I recently heard a nurse on NPR who worked with the ederly discuss how important it is for them to have online access so they can review the medicare changes and how she learned most of what she knew online. This kind of suprised me since it sounded like this lady had never had to use a computer in her life for her job at this volunteer ederly center.
Like it or not, those who use the internet as a research tool will surpass those who don't use it.
People who use the internet will find it easier to find jobs via Monster.com. Acheive better research results. Get better grades in school. Do their finances better via online banking. Heck, I've talked to car merchanics and even a plumber who uses the internet for their resources.
Look, you can ignore the internet all you want but you will be just shooting yourself in the leg when it comes to living in the 21st century. Walk into a job interview and say you don't know how to use a computer will probaly mean they won't even give you a courtesy call back saying they have chosen someone else.
I'm not saying these people are crazy or even ignorant, but they won't be able to compete with people who have the informational resources and can only take jobs that either are manual labor, food service, or retail. Even those jobs require some computer skills.
What it is with this Administration and Czars?
Well the runners up were:
Lord Safety
Prince Safety
King Safety
Emperor of Safety
Der Safety Fuer
Il Safety Duce
People's Chairman of Safety
Premiere Safety
President Safety for Life
As a father of a little girl, I don't want censorship but I also don't want her to be exposing herself and revealing personal information that could be used against her by predators.
I can see your concern, but perhaps it is better to have a sit down talk with her about Internet and shady people. Not just Peds and stalkers, but that people are not always generally nice and sometimes have evil intentions. You know like Scammer and Phisers and even high school boyfriends who won't call after they've taken advantage of her.
The world is filled with bad people and not just Myspace.
Chances are if you block Myspace and get her friends parents to do so as well, it will only lead to a false sense of security. Learning to be careful now and having her gain a sense of a situational awareness will not only be useful when she is young but later in life if she faces a problematic or dangerous situation. Unfortunatley, I have no good advice on how to go about doing this other than maybe to look up reading on child saftey and strangers.
Chances are she'll just as likley be assualted or taken advantage of walk down the street, at school, or at the mall than she will be by someone she meets on myspace. It requires an education rather than ivory tower protectionism.
Remember, the girl that was murdered by the person she met on Myspace was age 27.
Hardly a girl at all.
Since when is forcing adoption the right thing to do? Is this forced switch really in the best interest of the students? What applications might they have to give up that don't have the equivelent in the open source world.
I dunno. What are the chances that they can get the equivalent application in Korean for Windows?
Also, Koreans tend to have a bit more nationalist spirit than most western nations (remember the whole cloning stem cell debacle). If your choices were a home grown option versus an American company, then I think it would be clear choice.
You're talking about MythTV, and it's quite good. It's difficult to get working in many cases, but most people who like it put up with that because of the flexibility it allows.
Pardon my ignorance, but does MythTV support DivX and any other codecs other than MPeg2? I've been thinking about building a MediaPC and was interested in using MythTV.
Where's the Mac Mini?
:(
No Video out
Unless there is some adapter I'm not aware of.
Microsoft doesn't run around posting news stories every time they get something to boot.
;)
Well that is mostly because every time they do get something to boot, the box gets infected in 90 seconds with an internet worm virus.
True, but this does.
Hey, thats cool, but doesn't that violate the DMCA? Well then again that never stopped anyone...
Apple specifically tells you to back your songs up the moment you purchase them by burning them onto an audio CD with the iTunes software itself!
Yeah... Ermm... Well, this isn't a great backup method as it sounds. Firstly, you taking a lossy codec and recoding it back to 16-bit 44khz (from whatever audio you original have). Then if you want to get it back to your iPod (after a catostrophic computer crash and you formatted your iPod by accident) you have to re-encode it back to a lossy format (in which you loose a crap load of quality). I've done this way before iTunes when a computer crashed and the only backups of songs were... ermm... audio cds that I burned from Music Match from mp3s. I can tell a difference in the audio when I get it back to MP3 (even at 256kps).
Secondly, this is a big painful bitch to go back and rename all the mp3s since chances are the cds you burned aren't the exact albums and they don't match anything on Gracenote/CDDB etc and you have manually guess what each track is from and type the song and artist etct in the mp3 tag and file name.
A really big big royal pain in the ass when your computer crashes and you have a dead hard drive.
I believe you can backup the auido to a data disc of AACs or mp3s, however this does not remove the DRM from the files. So you still can't get the files to non-iPod audio devices and if you hose your computer and reinstall and in the process appear to hose you iTunes account those DRM'd files on your backup cds might be worthless.
Personally, I buy cds and rip them at highest quality (huge mp3s) so I can play them on my iPod and share out my iTunes folder to my Turtlebeach Audio Tron so I can listen them on my stereo. The Audiotron can't read DRM'd iTunes files so its kind of pointless for me to buy from there even though I have been tempted on trying to get a song out of my head. Chances are the next day I've gone to the local indie record store and bought it anyways.
The only thing I can see DRM doing for me is removing features with my listening experience and forcing me to buy the same song twice.
No thanks. I'll be old fashioned for right now.