I use it quite a bit. Like I said, I replaced it once after two years. A lot of people replace their Tivo Hard Drives more often than that (and I got a newer revision of the model I asked for.) It isn't like I am saving the entire Heroes series forever.
If I could I would get a Series 3. Tivo has by far the best interface and features of all the DVR options (in my own personal opinion) but I would rather stick to something that can play back my XVid downloads and more (which is a media center comp with cable cards, even if it has to be based on vista.)
And if I want to download movies/tv shows, Apple TVs are $300. And I'm sure somebody will figure out how to put Linux on that soon enough and there will be xvid support.
but they aren't $800 upfront and $16/month (I think we pay $16/month for box rental and DVR service together)
I can forgo scheduling online... and the passport system isn't that bad... getting replacement boxes is easy around here (had to trade one in a month ago for crappy encoding quality with too many MPEG artifacts, but that was after having it for a year and a half (or more.))
If I want to watch stuff from my computer on my TV, I'll just hook my computer up to the damn TV. Or use this nice 20.1" LCD I bought that plays downloaded stuff just fine..
It has optical out and there are those music channels. I don't use my TV for music anyways.
And I can live without RSS feeds, and having to tune to the weather channel and waiting a few minutes to see the local weather scroll along the bottom of the screen.
I see no reason why someone would need to buy a Tivo or build a MythTV for basic home usage. Not saying I don't want a Series 3, I do, but for around here... worthless.
At my parent's house they just use Time Warner's HD Cable Box. Has a good 160GB of storage, interface is fine, and the monthly price is comparable to TiVO. No need for cablecard/ir-blaster/etc and there are 2 tuners and on demand video (although they never use it)
No... They would upgrade their infrastructure if there was any major market demand for it.. and thus people were willing to pay for it.
There isn't... and thus they aren't...
Well, maybe YOU want more bandwidth, but I know that in my household we never use even a fraction of our quite nice cable modem bandwidth, even with 4 computers going.
I do some freelance work for a hosting company in Chicago. Their network has more than enough bandwidth to serve all of their bandwidth-chuging clients... yet if they have 2Gbps (number out of the air) of bandwidth that customers have purchased, they are NEVER going to hit over say 1.25Gbps... it just doesn't work like that... and if everybody had gigabit lines on your block, it would be the same...
No. I wouldn't want Google to do an ISP. No matter what, ISPs are always stuck with idiots who have no idea how to fix things. No sense tarnishing Google's reputation due to the inevitable.
Blizzard useto have a great reputation. Now they incorporate a ton of spyware that looks at your computer's every process, in the name of "reducing cheating." And their customer support is sub-par at best, banning paying users at a whim.
I mean, these are the guys who made the Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo series! They invented (or at least implemented one of the first major) online multiplayer gaming matchmaking network! But they got stuck doing some "evil" things, even if they are "necessary evils."
Yes, but there is no reason for Mozilla to develop just to make more money. They develop to make a better product because that was the intent all along. The corporation is just a convenient way to do more than you could with a Nonprofit. In fact, all the stock in the corporation is owned by the nonprofit.
And last I checked Mozilla, Inc didn't have a funding problem thanks to Google
You guys are going to slam him no matter what he says
IE 7 is a great product and is a step in the right direction. Considering the pressure that I'm sure management put on this team to get it done ASAP the shipped product is quite nice.
I have no problem using it on Windows along with Firefox. In some cases I prefer it.
No matter what all browsers will lack some features or miss a few standards. Firefox and IE will never be the same because they are not the same product and do not have the same goals.
These answers are not bullshit. The/. community's obvious hatred of Microsoft makes these comments bullshit.
The point of the lab is probably not the introduction of a new operating system. And most high schools offer Computer Science or at least computer courses to introduce students to the basics of programing or at least how a computer works. Introduce Linux there, not in a lab for students to type papers in word and do excel spreadsheets, which they have a 99% chance of having to use someday, many times for things that will end up making the money necessary to employ the linux techs.
The only way that I have seen it done is using Novell or Microsoft's Server Software. Both of which are pricey. Although you may be able to find something from them for a smaller lab.
Kids reading this: Load quake 2 onto USB or CD-Rs and dump it into a directory you and your friends have access to. Keep a word document open and alt tab as needed./fuck myspace surfing at school
I would love to see this kid expelled... ACLU picks it up, tries to get it to the Appellate level, and finally this School District/MySpace crap that everybody is talking about would be handled...
And the district has to know that if they expell him they will end up with a lawsuit...
They start censoring individual keywords there is going to be no quality control, since obviously they can't work with every keyword that entered on google or in the toolbar.
If there is an automated way, what is there to prove that a competitor is not doing it?
Anyways for "This is Hot" the actual producer of the video is a Minneapolis-based video house called MAKE (they have done a ton of commercials you have probably seen if you are in the US.
Anyways, their hosted version is of better quality than the ones of the FirefoxFlicks site. Check it Out (note: Will try to re size your browser)
AT&T's backbone can handle the WoW load (assuming Blizzard doesn't keep all of their servers in one physical location, which they don't) the question really becomes "Can Blizzard's Servers Handle xyz"
I'm going to take a wild guess (that is based in some fact) that they use Windows servers. Which is fine, Windows Server 2003 isn't that horrible of an OS. But how in the hell do they develop these things on one individual server. They announced on the official site awhile ago tht they were deploying new servers on "updated hardware." So this means that the hardware was dated when they opened the 20 servers the previous month?
Isn't EFNET able to run on 500Mhz servers (well, multiple 500Mhz servers.) Of course, none of them use Windows (I don't believe, correct me if I am wrong) but it is the same concept: sending a TON of information between people in a TON of channels. I'm sure blizzard's servers are much more complex, but lets think about what data is necessary to send: User Location, Location of other NPCs nearby, chat in specific zones, chat server side, chat, chat, plaintext communication, chat, chat. Etc. All of the character location is client side (see: Client Side Cheats) so I just don't get it. How can they not keep these god damn things up?
Now I understand downtime every week. Or unannounced downtime during the week, but come on. One thing a lot of people have mentioned is the fact that there is a waiting list to get into the servers. I would imagine this isn't hardware/software side but simply an effort to not overload the servers and have every NPC on the server dead in 5 minutes because the population is too high. I would rather wait 20 minutes (perhaps with a big beep when I have a spot) if it means I will have an acceptable gameplay experience when doing quests, rather than fight with each and every other user on the map over 20 Crazy Murlocks (aren't they all crazy?)
Per Windows Statements: Unofficial WoW servers all run on Windows. The servers themselves aren't amazingly complex if someone reversed engineered it in about a month. Literally, they reverse engineered them IN A MONTH. Most of the actual game play is client-side. Although I believe they use an absolute ton of memory.
It would have been nice if the actual blizzard tech team said something to the/. community in their last interview, instead of their PR team replying to everything.
I was just about to say... pay a few bucks and use one at a golf place nearby.
I am hardly rich and play golf. You don't need a lot of money to play, get a friend to borrow clubs and go out to the driving range for a day. Although spending money on a really nice driver and taking that to the range is a ton of fun./sucks at golf
The fan on gfx cards is always set to "FULL ON" most of the time. I have an Antel TruePower 2.0 (great investment in a Power Supply) that has a "FAN" line of power (yellow-ish line) and I got a mod so that I can connect that line to my gfx card. The card fan runs relative to the overall heat of the computer and I have NEVER had a problem with the card overheating.
As long as you keep all of your fans on that "Fan" power line everything just purrs... I have 4 standard fans, the standard Gigabyte northbridge fan, and a GPU fan all on the "Fan line" The CPU cooler is reasonably loud (it is the only one you can hear) but it is more of a purr than anything else. That cooler works so great that I can actually touch my finger to it and it won't hurt (when idle.)
I'm proud of my fan setup. Now if only I could do the cords so that they aren't all over the place. Is there a tape that is good for this? Electrical tape?
This season Henderson used an iMac... (on 24)
Like people said, free stuff to set designers, set designers like the look, include it in.
Just like how 24 must have had Dell give them a ton of server cases for product places. 24's set designers must have kept them..
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The XBox 360 will not have an HD-DVD drive in it... not the next version at least... and the next version may be the last version..
I use it quite a bit. Like I said, I replaced it once after two years. A lot of people replace their Tivo Hard Drives more often than that (and I got a newer revision of the model I asked for.) It isn't like I am saving the entire Heroes series forever.
If I could I would get a Series 3. Tivo has by far the best interface and features of all the DVR options (in my own personal opinion) but I would rather stick to something that can play back my XVid downloads and more (which is a media center comp with cable cards, even if it has to be based on vista.)
And if I want to download movies/tv shows, Apple TVs are $300. And I'm sure somebody will figure out how to put Linux on that soon enough and there will be xvid support.
Yeah...
but they aren't $800 upfront and $16/month (I think we pay $16/month for box rental and DVR service together)
I can forgo scheduling online... and the passport system isn't that bad... getting replacement boxes is easy around here (had to trade one in a month ago for crappy encoding quality with too many MPEG artifacts, but that was after having it for a year and a half (or more.))
If I want to watch stuff from my computer on my TV, I'll just hook my computer up to the damn TV. Or use this nice 20.1" LCD I bought that plays downloaded stuff just fine..
It has optical out and there are those music channels. I don't use my TV for music anyways.
And I can live without RSS feeds, and having to tune to the weather channel and waiting a few minutes to see the local weather scroll along the bottom of the screen.
I see no reason why someone would need to buy a Tivo or build a MythTV for basic home usage. Not saying I don't want a Series 3, I do, but for around here... worthless.
At my parent's house they just use Time Warner's HD Cable Box. Has a good 160GB of storage, interface is fine, and the monthly price is comparable to TiVO. No need for cablecard/ir-blaster/etc and there are 2 tuners and on demand video (although they never use it)
No... They would upgrade their infrastructure if there was any major market demand for it.. and thus people were willing to pay for it.
There isn't... and thus they aren't...
Well, maybe YOU want more bandwidth, but I know that in my household we never use even a fraction of our quite nice cable modem bandwidth, even with 4 computers going.
I do some freelance work for a hosting company in Chicago. Their network has more than enough bandwidth to serve all of their bandwidth-chuging clients... yet if they have 2Gbps (number out of the air) of bandwidth that customers have purchased, they are NEVER going to hit over say 1.25Gbps... it just doesn't work like that... and if everybody had gigabit lines on your block, it would be the same...
Remove anonymous posting and put ads on the search results to hire paid full-time expert researchers
No. I wouldn't want Google to do an ISP. No matter what, ISPs are always stuck with idiots who have no idea how to fix things. No sense tarnishing Google's reputation due to the inevitable.
Blizzard useto have a great reputation. Now they incorporate a ton of spyware that looks at your computer's every process, in the name of "reducing cheating." And their customer support is sub-par at best, banning paying users at a whim.
I mean, these are the guys who made the Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo series! They invented (or at least implemented one of the first major) online multiplayer gaming matchmaking network! But they got stuck doing some "evil" things, even if they are "necessary evils."
and a happy new year...
filled with more of this shit
Need to give a late gift? Give an EFF Membership! Eff.org is the place for you.
Play Quake3 at 12093109283091823091820938109283091823 fps?
Yes, but there is no reason for Mozilla to develop just to make more money. They develop to make a better product because that was the intent all along. The corporation is just a convenient way to do more than you could with a Nonprofit. In fact, all the stock in the corporation is owned by the nonprofit.
And last I checked Mozilla, Inc didn't have a funding problem thanks to Google
That is exactly what I was thinking
/. community's obvious hatred of Microsoft makes these comments bullshit.
You guys are going to slam him no matter what he says
IE 7 is a great product and is a step in the right direction. Considering the pressure that I'm sure management put on this team to get it done ASAP the shipped product is quite nice.
I have no problem using it on Windows along with Firefox. In some cases I prefer it.
No matter what all browsers will lack some features or miss a few standards. Firefox and IE will never be the same because they are not the same product and do not have the same goals.
These answers are not bullshit. The
The point of the lab is probably not the introduction of a new operating system. And most high schools offer Computer Science or at least computer courses to introduce students to the basics of programing or at least how a computer works. Introduce Linux there, not in a lab for students to type papers in word and do excel spreadsheets, which they have a 99% chance of having to use someday, many times for things that will end up making the money necessary to employ the linux techs.
Yes. Because you know, Linux is going to take over the workplace and OpenOffice is going to cause a revolt.
Linux skills are pointless for 95% of today's high school students.
The only way that I have seen it done is using Novell or Microsoft's Server Software. Both of which are pricey. Although you may be able to find something from them for a smaller lab.
/fuck myspace surfing at school
Kids reading this: Load quake 2 onto USB or CD-Rs and dump it into a directory you and your friends have access to. Keep a word document open and alt tab as needed.
Good to know it isn't a big truck, otherwise we would be SOL
I would love to see this kid expelled... ACLU picks it up, tries to get it to the Appellate level, and finally this School District/MySpace crap that everybody is talking about would be handled...
And the district has to know that if they expell him they will end up with a lawsuit...
They start censoring individual keywords there is going to be no quality control, since obviously they can't work with every keyword that entered on google or in the toolbar.
If there is an automated way, what is there to prove that a competitor is not doing it?
or why they never mention if it is a universal binary or not...
I wonder of Ed Wood is a Wii player. /thought of that movie //edward scissorhands is better
Youtube has horrid video quality, in my opinion.
Anyways for "This is Hot" the actual producer of the video is a Minneapolis-based video house called MAKE (they have done a ton of commercials you have probably seen if you are in the US.
Anyways, their hosted version is of better quality than the ones of the FirefoxFlicks site. Check it Out (note: Will try to re size your browser)
AT&T's backbone can handle the WoW load (assuming Blizzard doesn't keep all of their servers in one physical location, which they don't) the question really becomes "Can Blizzard's Servers Handle xyz"
I'm going to take a wild guess (that is based in some fact) that they use Windows servers. Which is fine, Windows Server 2003 isn't that horrible of an OS. But how in the hell do they develop these things on one individual server. They announced on the official site awhile ago tht they were deploying new servers on "updated hardware." So this means that the hardware was dated when they opened the 20 servers the previous month?
Isn't EFNET able to run on 500Mhz servers (well, multiple 500Mhz servers.) Of course, none of them use Windows (I don't believe, correct me if I am wrong) but it is the same concept: sending a TON of information between people in a TON of channels. I'm sure blizzard's servers are much more complex, but lets think about what data is necessary to send: User Location, Location of other NPCs nearby, chat in specific zones, chat server side, chat, chat, plaintext communication, chat, chat. Etc. All of the character location is client side (see: Client Side Cheats) so I just don't get it. How can they not keep these god damn things up?
Now I understand downtime every week. Or unannounced downtime during the week, but come on. One thing a lot of people have mentioned is the fact that there is a waiting list to get into the servers. I would imagine this isn't hardware/software side but simply an effort to not overload the servers and have every NPC on the server dead in 5 minutes because the population is too high. I would rather wait 20 minutes (perhaps with a big beep when I have a spot) if it means I will have an acceptable gameplay experience when doing quests, rather than fight with each and every other user on the map over 20 Crazy Murlocks (aren't they all crazy?)
Per Windows Statements: Unofficial WoW servers all run on Windows. The servers themselves aren't amazingly complex if someone reversed engineered it in about a month. Literally, they reverse engineered them IN A MONTH. Most of the actual game play is client-side. Although I believe they use an absolute ton of memory.
It would have been nice if the actual blizzard tech team said something to the /. community in their last interview, instead of their PR team replying to everything.
Bah.
I was just about to say... pay a few bucks and use one at a golf place nearby.
/sucks at golf
I am hardly rich and play golf. You don't need a lot of money to play, get a friend to borrow clubs and go out to the driving range for a day. Although spending money on a really nice driver and taking that to the range is a ton of fun.
The fan on gfx cards is always set to "FULL ON" most of the time. I have an Antel TruePower 2.0 (great investment in a Power Supply) that has a "FAN" line of power (yellow-ish line) and I got a mod so that I can connect that line to my gfx card. The card fan runs relative to the overall heat of the computer and I have NEVER had a problem with the card overheating.
As long as you keep all of your fans on that "Fan" power line everything just purrs... I have 4 standard fans, the standard Gigabyte northbridge fan, and a GPU fan all on the "Fan line" The CPU cooler is reasonably loud (it is the only one you can hear) but it is more of a purr than anything else. That cooler works so great that I can actually touch my finger to it and it won't hurt (when idle.)
I'm proud of my fan setup. Now if only I could do the cords so that they aren't all over the place. Is there a tape that is good for this? Electrical tape?
Almost positive it is Scissorhands
This season Henderson used an iMac... (on 24) Like people said, free stuff to set designers, set designers like the look, include it in. Just like how 24 must have had Dell give them a ton of server cases for product places. 24's set designers must have kept them..