But if people use Bit Torrent, and the server is acting as the seed, that 6TB will still be there to be used, but with all the users seeding as they download (and after they're complete), that 6TB would last much longer.
And why exactly would I want to donate my upstream bandwidth to the movie company when I'm going to be undoubtably paying for their product on top of it anyway? No, I like the system we have no. Stick the movie on a web site and let people download it. My $20 for a movie should more than cover the cost of the download and distribution costs while still affording them a tidy profit.
Chances of there being a paypal option for this service?
I don't think so.
Most of us don't want anything to do with Paypal. Credit cards are a much better payment method for online transactions like this since almost all of them come with some form of buyer protection and dispute process. Paypal on the other hand is more than happy to screw BOTH parties out of their money if they choose to.
Of course, if the past Olympics, Asian Games, and other efforts are any indication, many Koreans are trying to disregard the directions altogether - most refer to the country as "Korea," no bloody North, South, C, or D.
That's a bit confusing when there are two distinct countries there with entirely different systems of government. How about we call the one to the north "North Korea" and the one to the south "South Korea". That way we can more easily tell them apart.
Why so long? You want to know a little secret from one satisfied MythTV user to a potential user? Seperate your backend system from the front end you're going to hook up to your TV. It'll add more to the cost but you will appreciate it in the long run. I use a plain old AMD Athlon 1.4 GHZ system with 512MB of RAM and two Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 cards on the backend and a little diskless book-sized system on the frontend using a Via EPIA M10000 motherboard and MiniMyth.
The advantage to going this way is that the backend can be very low-end (a PIII-500MHz or slower would be sufficient) since the MPEG2 encoding is done on the Hauppauge cards. The frontends are also pretty low end (mine is around 1GHz) but they have built in MPEG2 decoder hardware on the motherboard so they use very little CPU while playing back video.
If you run Debian unstable you can get pre-built packages from Matt Zimmerman's web site, so the hard part is getting the IVTV drivers working so you can capture video from the PVR 250 cards. It's well documented and they've stabilized a lot in the last 2 years. My setup has been running without any problems since March when I finally traced back some issue I was having with 0-byte size recordings to an IRQ sharing conflict. Once I disabled the USB and parallel ports I wasn't using and put each tuner on a separate IRQ in the BIOS it's been rock solid. Once you get the capture cards working, mythtv itself is simple to setup. apt-get install the packages, follow the setup prompts, and then run the mythtv setup program to configure your tuners, setup your guide data download preferences (North America uses the free Zap2It Labs Data Direct service that downloads listings in a nice XML format (labs.zap2it.com).
I've been using MythTV for two and a half years now and I honestly never get jealous of TiVo or ReplayTV users. If anything I pity them for being locked into a proprietary pay service with their video locked on a hard drive which forces you to jump through hoops to get at it.
I guess I grossly overpaid on my dual core AMD64 3800+ relic which I built just today.
You probably did. In a year you can probably buy that same chip for less than half of what you paid for it today. Imagine if cars were like that. $40k BMW today or wait until it's last year's model (still brand new not previously titled) and it'd be only $20k. Only a rich moron would buy the brand new model.
I'd imagine that the Romans did the same kind of thinking about Rome.
Of course they did. It's also the reason they were so soft and easy to conquer. When people get content they get weak. When people get weak they get conquered. It has been like that for hundreds of thousands of years and no matter how civilized we feel we are today, all it takes is some minor little disaster (in the relative magnitude of the history of the earth) like a hurricane and suddenly all civilization breaks down in a region and people turn into savages, looting, raping, and killing their fellow human beings.
I was of course joking when I said the USA will last 5000.. I'd be suprised if we last another 200 at the rate we are going. Americans are getting too content and lazy and are not actively taking a part in reigning in their corrupt government which has been increasingly falling under the control of corporations.
But assume for one second that the United States were to go the way of the USSR, or at the very least, begin to decline in (financial) power.
I don't ever see that happening. The United States is the greatest nation in the history of the world and it will be thriving 5000 years from now because it is a great democratic republic and not a monarchy or dictatorship like other nations have been in years past. Rome would've still been around as a major power if they hadn't gotten soft and outsourced their military to non-Romans.
Seems like we'd be getting a lot more bang for our tax investment dollars if we got rid of NASA and used the money to outsource all of our space project to Russia.
What in the hell is with all the anti-NASA trolling on the Internet sites lately? I find it really strange that on a pro-technology website like Slashdot that there would be such blatantly ignorant people when it comes to a space program.
How wrong you are. The people that care are the ones who were constantly barraged with Mozilla fanboys telling them how much IE sucked and how much more secure Mozilla was. Now that the vulnerabilities are popping up in Firefox like hotcakes the fanboys look like fools./Firefox fanboy
I would suggest brushing up on your English if you plan on conducting business in English speaking countries. I would also highly recommend against attacking a company's network pre-emptively without their express written approval and a solidly established rules of engagement. Anything less is likely to land your ass in jail very quickly. An attacker coming to me offering "consulting services" is akin to a mobster offering his protection to local businesses for a weekly fee. You may very seriously want to consider partnering with someone with some experience establishing, managing, and growing a small business, even if it's not previously computer related experience. The business experience will probably prove invaluable to you and save you a lot of headaches down the road.
It's "Better, Faster, Cheaper". It was Dan Goldin's (former NASA administrator) fantasy that he could achieve all three of these at the same time without realizing you can only really ever pick two at a time. Remember all those cheap robotic Mars missions that crashed into the planet? They were fast and cheap, but they had a low success rate. We can't afford that with human spaceflight so the only options are:
Better and cheaper: takes $90 billion and 20 years to develop
Better and faster: takes $200 billion and 5 years to develop.
The other option is:
Faster and cheaper: takes $90 billion and 5 years to develop.. 50% of the missions end in failure resulting in the loss of the vehicle and all life aboard.
negative. the xbox only supports usb 1.1 which is not fast enough to have a decent PVR.
The XBox makes a pretty good PVR frontend though for MythTV from what I've heard. You still use a backend system to do the actual storage and recording though, but you can throw that in your basement like I did so you don't have it in your livingroom.
A friend who deletes your programs from your TiVo when he feels like it. I have a feeling you haven't tried MythTV lately though. All the features you mentioned (and many more than TiVo has) are in MythTV today. My wife has absolutely no problems using it and any married guy will tell you the wife-acceptance-factor is one of the primary selling points of any consumer electronics device.
Since we're funding this effort with our taxpayer dollars, I'm hopeful that some of the results from this work will lead to the availability of tools us normal folks can use to make sure our precious data can be preserved and passed down from one generation to the next.
It'll probably be some $50 million database system that runs on Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and requires Oracle along with a mish-mash of Visual Basic.NET applications to accept data input and display it. I mean hell, we'll still be running Windows in 2090 so it only makes sense to stick with standards.
Most won't install start menu entries for All Users. Others are worse and install themselves in ways that make them not work at all in a limited user account.
Installations should be done under an administrator account but the application should be RUN under a non-privileged account. If it isn't capable of running as a regular user then that application is broken and you need to file a trouble ticket with the vendor to correct it. Nothing should require administrator privileges to run after installation if proper permissions are setup.
Turning IDN off in Firefox is mighty a stupid solution. Stupid on a planetary scale. A problem should be fixed, not circumvented by removing the functionality.
I disagree. I would wager at least 98% of Firefox users do not need IDN functionality at all. The only thing it's really used for in reality are phishing sites. Unless you regularly interact with foreigners who refuse to conform to the proper ASCII character set in their domain names you shouldn't notice any difference in your browsing at all. When Jesus established the original RFC for domain names he used sensible restrictions, but now with this new IDN garbage we have people using characters that don't even make sense or appear on our keyboards! What villainy is this?
Trom? Do you mean Rom: Spaceknight? I don't remember a comic or character named Trom, though.
Oh man, Rom was the best! I remember when I was starting my comic book collection I was able to get the entire line of Rom comic books for pennies on the dollar. That's a life saver for a 12 year old without a lot of money wanting to build an extensive comic book collection BTW! Ah, back in the days when I thought more was better.
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And why exactly would I want to donate my upstream bandwidth to the movie company when I'm going to be undoubtably paying for their product on top of it anyway? No, I like the system we have no. Stick the movie on a web site and let people download it. My $20 for a movie should more than cover the cost of the download and distribution costs while still affording them a tidy profit.
Why would a Linux user need a 3D graphics card? This kind of card is for people that play video games on Windows.
Most of us don't want anything to do with Paypal. Credit cards are a much better payment method for online transactions like this since almost all of them come with some form of buyer protection and dispute process. Paypal on the other hand is more than happy to screw BOTH parties out of their money if they choose to.
That's a bit confusing when there are two distinct countries there with entirely different systems of government. How about we call the one to the north "North Korea" and the one to the south "South Korea". That way we can more easily tell them apart.
Why so long? You want to know a little secret from one satisfied MythTV user to a potential user? Seperate your backend system from the front end you're going to hook up to your TV. It'll add more to the cost but you will appreciate it in the long run. I use a plain old AMD Athlon 1.4 GHZ system with 512MB of RAM and two Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 cards on the backend and a little diskless book-sized system on the frontend using a Via EPIA M10000 motherboard and MiniMyth.
The advantage to going this way is that the backend can be very low-end (a PIII-500MHz or slower would be sufficient) since the MPEG2 encoding is done on the Hauppauge cards. The frontends are also pretty low end (mine is around 1GHz) but they have built in MPEG2 decoder hardware on the motherboard so they use very little CPU while playing back video.
If you run Debian unstable you can get pre-built packages from Matt Zimmerman's web site, so the hard part is getting the IVTV drivers working so you can capture video from the PVR 250 cards. It's well documented and they've stabilized a lot in the last 2 years. My setup has been running without any problems since March when I finally traced back some issue I was having with 0-byte size recordings to an IRQ sharing conflict. Once I disabled the USB and parallel ports I wasn't using and put each tuner on a separate IRQ in the BIOS it's been rock solid. Once you get the capture cards working, mythtv itself is simple to setup. apt-get install the packages, follow the setup prompts, and then run the mythtv setup program to configure your tuners, setup your guide data download preferences (North America uses the free Zap2It Labs Data Direct service that downloads listings in a nice XML format (labs.zap2it.com).
I've been using MythTV for two and a half years now and I honestly never get jealous of TiVo or ReplayTV users. If anything I pity them for being locked into a proprietary pay service with their video locked on a hard drive which forces you to jump through hoops to get at it.
You probably did. In a year you can probably buy that same chip for less than half of what you paid for it today. Imagine if cars were like that. $40k BMW today or wait until it's last year's model (still brand new not previously titled) and it'd be only $20k. Only a rich moron would buy the brand new model.
Must be nice to live in a rich well-off neighborhood. Around here I don't think more than 20% of my neighbors even have a computer.
Of course they did. It's also the reason they were so soft and easy to conquer. When people get content they get weak. When people get weak they get conquered. It has been like that for hundreds of thousands of years and no matter how civilized we feel we are today, all it takes is some minor little disaster (in the relative magnitude of the history of the earth) like a hurricane and suddenly all civilization breaks down in a region and people turn into savages, looting, raping, and killing their fellow human beings.
I was of course joking when I said the USA will last 5000.. I'd be suprised if we last another 200 at the rate we are going. Americans are getting too content and lazy and are not actively taking a part in reigning in their corrupt government which has been increasingly falling under the control of corporations.
I don't ever see that happening. The United States is the greatest nation in the history of the world and it will be thriving 5000 years from now because it is a great democratic republic and not a monarchy or dictatorship like other nations have been in years past. Rome would've still been around as a major power if they hadn't gotten soft and outsourced their military to non-Romans.
What in the hell is with all the anti-NASA trolling on the Internet sites lately? I find it really strange that on a pro-technology website like Slashdot that there would be such blatantly ignorant people when it comes to a space program.
How wrong you are. The people that care are the ones who were constantly barraged with Mozilla fanboys telling them how much IE sucked and how much more secure Mozilla was. Now that the vulnerabilities are popping up in Firefox like hotcakes the fanboys look like fools. /Firefox fanboy
Redundant on an Ask Slashdot post? Sheesh. You guys really are being picky.
I would suggest brushing up on your English if you plan on conducting business in English speaking countries. I would also highly recommend against attacking a company's network pre-emptively without their express written approval and a solidly established rules of engagement. Anything less is likely to land your ass in jail very quickly. An attacker coming to me offering "consulting services" is akin to a mobster offering his protection to local businesses for a weekly fee. You may very seriously want to consider partnering with someone with some experience establishing, managing, and growing a small business, even if it's not previously computer related experience. The business experience will probably prove invaluable to you and save you a lot of headaches down the road.
Just around 17k on my MacOS Tiger machine with gcc 4.0. Stripped down to 14k.
If you want to continue to rely on the old DES algorithm then use 3DES. I imagine Microsoft won't be removing that anytime soon.
It's "Better, Faster, Cheaper". It was Dan Goldin's (former NASA administrator) fantasy that he could achieve all three of these at the same time without realizing you can only really ever pick two at a time. Remember all those cheap robotic Mars missions that crashed into the planet? They were fast and cheap, but they had a low success rate. We can't afford that with human spaceflight so the only options are: Better and cheaper: takes $90 billion and 20 years to develop Better and faster: takes $200 billion and 5 years to develop. The other option is: Faster and cheaper: takes $90 billion and 5 years to develop.. 50% of the missions end in failure resulting in the loss of the vehicle and all life aboard.
The XBox makes a pretty good PVR frontend though for MythTV from what I've heard. You still use a backend system to do the actual storage and recording though, but you can throw that in your basement like I did so you don't have it in your livingroom.
A friend who deletes your programs from your TiVo when he feels like it. I have a feeling you haven't tried MythTV lately though. All the features you mentioned (and many more than TiVo has) are in MythTV today. My wife has absolutely no problems using it and any married guy will tell you the wife-acceptance-factor is one of the primary selling points of any consumer electronics device.
That's what backups are for. Damn people these days with their 500GB hard drives and no backups. You get what you deserve.
It'll probably be some $50 million database system that runs on Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and requires Oracle along with a mish-mash of Visual Basic .NET applications to accept data input and display it. I mean hell, we'll still be running Windows in 2090 so it only makes sense to stick with standards.
Installations should be done under an administrator account but the application should be RUN under a non-privileged account. If it isn't capable of running as a regular user then that application is broken and you need to file a trouble ticket with the vendor to correct it. Nothing should require administrator privileges to run after installation if proper permissions are setup.
The USA landed the first men on the moon in 1969. I'm suprised you haven't heard of it.
Woops, I meant Jon.. Jon Postel. Common mistake.
I disagree. I would wager at least 98% of Firefox users do not need IDN functionality at all. The only thing it's really used for in reality are phishing sites. Unless you regularly interact with foreigners who refuse to conform to the proper ASCII character set in their domain names you shouldn't notice any difference in your browsing at all. When Jesus established the original RFC for domain names he used sensible restrictions, but now with this new IDN garbage we have people using characters that don't even make sense or appear on our keyboards! What villainy is this?
Oh man, Rom was the best! I remember when I was starting my comic book collection I was able to get the entire line of Rom comic books for pennies on the dollar. That's a life saver for a 12 year old without a lot of money wanting to build an extensive comic book collection BTW! Ah, back in the days when I thought more was better.