You're for some reason working under the assumption that people think the 360 is better to begin with.
I wouldn't pay for a 360 *even if it was the same price* as the Wii.
I have been holding out specifically for the Wii. The Wii looked totally revolutionary from the beginning, and is just getting better and better. Nintendo seems way ahead of MS in creating a media portal with the Wii - the 360 has no free browser, weather listings, news service, photo editor, etc. All these features,along with the media player capabilities, make the Wii a good buy even if you don't plan to ever play a game in your life! In comparison, the media extender for the 360 costs money, and there is no browser at all.
Nintendo is going to - Host the game on their servers - Provide bandwidth to download the game - Provide support for problems with the game - Warranty the game - Likely let you play lot sof the classic games with people online
And you won't even pay the price of a Happy meal??? The price of two sports drinks???
I could write a "simple web server" in an hour... as long as it always returned the same hard-coded page no matter what request was fed to it.
Think about it - the request was for a simple web server - they didnt say RFC compliant, they didn't say it had to actually serve files from disk... there should be no need for you to parse pathnames or anything else. Just look for the GET/, and reutrn the page. Refuse all others with a 404, and refuse all other HTTP methods than GET.
Hell the page could be hard-coded in the C++ as well.
People always use this gun analogy and it is (pardon the pun) dead wrong.
The fact of the matter is, a gun is far more likely to kill the owner of the gun, a casual bystander, or someone totally different (when the gun is stolen), than it is a criminal while protecting life or property. The odds of you dying from a gunshot wound increase by a large margin when you own a handgun.
Whether you agree with the practice or not, regulating handguns can at least *BE PROVEN* to reduce these types of deaths of people who have nothing to do with the crime.
Regulating child pornogrpahy on the internet does nothing to protect anyone or reduce anything, because anyone involved in posting it or looking at it is already doing something illegal. There *are* no "innocent bystanders".
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You can use the Xbox as a media center extender, too. So, yes, I can find one for under $100, as you said.
Media Center Extender is not free. Softmod + Myth is. You are excluding the licensing cost of MCE from your equation.
Your magical apt-get trick only works if you're using Debian. Those of us who are running custom embedded hardware, such as the Hauppauge MediaMVP, really don't get that option.
Umm... what? The MediaMVP is not a MythFrontend. It has some ability to play some myth files off some specific myth versions, but it is VASTLY INFERIOR to a real MythFrontend and frankly I don't know why anyone would pay more (see above Xbox post) for a tiny subset of functionality. You can't use MythBrowser, MythGame, MythWeather, MythNews, or the huge variety of other MythTV plutins with the MediaMVp - all you can do is play music and watch videos.
If you were using this as your MythTV solution no wonder you were disappointed! Even it's LiveTV functionality is stunted compared to a real front end.
In your post you were complaining about the protocol being upgraded so your remote boxes were not "up to date". My point is with MythTV and *real* MythFrontend boxes, all your boxes should be always up to date so your post makes no sense.
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You can get any Xbox from eBay for less than $100 and install MythTV on it using a softmod to use as a Myth front end. It has enough CPU power to do everything except play back HD content (it can upscale DVD to HD fine)...
I would like you to find a Windows media Center Extender for less than $100....
And as far as your protocol issue - ssh into the Xbox/Myth frontend, apt-get update- apt-get upgrade. Done. The front end updates when the back end does.
HDTV support: With supported HD capture card, terrestrial broadcast HD and Cable HD are supported (with the exception of encrypted cable HD channels - which cannot be decrypted on any PC PVR)
It is important to note that if your Digicable provider uses a supported set top box (like the Motorola STBs), you don't need an HD capture card to capture HD. You can grab the raw content right off the box using Firewire.
MythTV fully supports several boxes via firewire, it can even change the channels over the firewire so there is no need for messy IR senders.
If I were ROXIO or NERO, I'd be pissed, this looks like a de facto and direct competitor product, and if it's bundled as "part of the OS", it would seem close to the line of leveraging again.
Then how come all the Apple fanboys on Slashdot ddidn't cry foul when Apple started shipping iLife with all their Mac's?
It's not a "weird loophole " - it's something that ties the economys of those 3 countries together.
Anyone who thinks this poassport thing is going to come and go without problems is seriously deluding themselves. If it goes ahead as planned it's going to cause *massive* economic problems on all sides.
Do you *even know* how many Americans living in border towns *work* in Canada every day? There are businesses that actually straddle the border. Hell, there is a street in northern New Brunswick, where all the houses are on Canadian soil, but to get onto the street, you have to pass through the American border! You want these people to show a passport to pick up their mail??
Show me where I can get a copy of V for Vendetta for $14.
Sure, *some* moves are the same as their DVD prices. But some are less.
Mostly the new releases are cheaper than new release DVDs. The older stuff, well youc an get that in the bargain bins at Walmart, sure.. but you have to *find them* first.
Look at the coverage area, then look at the Wikipedia entry - 131 square km in the city. The WiFi covers at least 25% of the city, or 33 square KM.
The only way this Toronto network could be called the "largest" would be if it was by population livig in the blanketed area. Not much of an achievement IMO.
A TOE is exactly that, a TCP Offload Engine. I tis not a replacement for a networking stack - what it does is assists in the constructoion and destruction of packets in the TCp protocol. it doe snothing for other protocols, such a UDP, ICMP, IGMP, etc.
This card is a complete top to bottom stack (as complete as Linux's stack is, since it *is* Linux's stack). The host OS's networking layer is totally bypassed and all commands are given to the card's stack. It's not really the same thing as TOE at all.
If you did a double take at the spec's of the Killer NIC's NPU you weren't alone. It's dramatically overkill for common networking processing that the card will encounter. That doesn't mean it's useless, however. Far from it, as a matter of fact. The Killer NIC is actually running an onboard Linux build that handles all its networking duties, and, best of all, is entirely accessible to the end user via console prompt or with what Bigfoot Networks is calling Flexible Network Applications (FNA).
Now, does it run *IN* Linux? Probably not.
This is a pretty cool concept - a self-contained VM in hardware to handle your whole networking stack.
It could have potential security benefits as well, in that it would likely be impossible to use say a buffer overflow exploit in a networking protocol with this card, because the overflow would occur *inside the VM*. All that would happen is your NIC would suddenly die - not *great*, but better than having your machine compromized. The host OS could probably even detect this lockup and 'reboot' the VM on the card.
You could could still nerver perform this attack in practice because you can't just walk into a voting area and start disassmebling the machine without people noticing!
This is like saying all house locks are vulnerable to attack because you can break them open with a crowbar.
Yes, any computer that you have physical access to you can hack, but can you hack a payphone to cough up its coins in 4 minutes??
Sure I can. I take out a crowbar, pry the coin box out, get coins, replace damaged coin box with a new one.
What's that you say, I am operating outside the norm of someone seeing what i am doing? So is the example of this so called 'hack". No one could perform this "hack" in a real situation because you can't just casually walk into a voting area and start disassembling the terminal.
You can get hihg quality HDMI cables from monoprice.com for $12 or less.
Only a complete retard would pay $100 for a cable meant to deliver a purely digital signal. Then again these are the same people Monster-brand products are amrketed to, so nothing surprises me.
If you get your HD from digi cable or dish (which 90% of HDTV owners do), then the signal has already been compressed in MPEG2 or MPEG4 on it's way down the pipe.
Then again, this thing is just adding in another compress/decompress cycle - not good IMO.
So... if you have physical access to the machine, you can take it apart and alter it to hack into it(yes, that is what they did. RTFA).
How is this news? The same can be said of any computer system.
You have to at least operate under the assumption that these machines are audited before and after the electoral process, just like the ballot boxes were... if not, then *there* is the flaw in the system. The flaw isn't "hey, I can open this computer and alter it to change how it functions", it is "I can open this computer without anyone else knowing".
That phrase is clarifying items already specified in the GPL. The GPL excludes linking. If you don't believe me email RMS, or do a Google search. I don't have any more time to debate with someone unwilling to do simple research.
This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
Public License instead of this License.
Yeah, but if a GPL web browser connected to it to view a web page, that would be causing Apache to be voilaitng withe GPL since it is communicating with a GPL app over a socket!
Pipes, temp files, sockets, none of these are covered by the GPL. The GPL covers explicitly *linking only*. If a GPL'ed piece of software could not communicate with a closed source piece of software over a socket or pipe, the Apache web server would not exist.
To be specific - I am pretty sure the drivers use either a UNIX socket or a named pipe.
Background - my fiancee needs a new laptop. I have been trying to push her towards a MAc with OSX - but the is a really novie user. She likes what is familliar, and she is familliar with Windows.
She asked me if the could run Windows on a Mac, and I said it can. But when we were looking more into it, she asked why we were thiking about paying much more for a Mac when she is onlyy ever going to run Windows on it.
I did not have an answer. And this is why Boot Camp is a big waste of time - unless you are a hardcore gamer who loves OSX, it is next to useless. Either you are going to be in Windows most of the time, or OSX most of the time. And if it is Windows - why did you buy a Mac *at all*? The hardware and OS integration argument is irrelevant cause it is running Windows. Same for all the great OSX software. So you are basically down to "because it looks pretty".
What Apple needs to work on is the ability to run Windows apps *inside OSX* without rebooting. You would think this would not be that difficult now that mac is X86 based - they should be able to contract codeeavers to work with them in porting Wine over and enhancing it if needed.
Once people can run their Windows apps *inside* OSX, there will be no need to reboot into Windows. Then there is *real reason* to get a Mac for people who want one.
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You're for some reason working under the assumption that people think the 360 is better to begin with.
I wouldn't pay for a 360 *even if it was the same price* as the Wii.
I have been holding out specifically for the Wii. The Wii looked totally revolutionary from the beginning, and is just getting better and better. Nintendo seems way ahead of MS in creating a media portal with the Wii - the 360 has no free browser, weather listings, news service, photo editor, etc. All these features,along with the media player capabilities, make the Wii a good buy even if you don't plan to ever play a game in your life! In comparison, the media extender for the 360 costs money, and there is no browser at all.
Honestly, i don't know what some people *expect*.
Nintendo is going to
- Host the game on their servers
- Provide bandwidth to download the game
- Provide support for problems with the game
- Warranty the game
- Likely let you play lot sof the classic games with people online
And you won't even pay the price of a Happy meal??? The price of two sports drinks???
I could write a "simple web server" in an hour... as long as it always returned the same hard-coded page no matter what request was fed to it.
/, and reutrn the page. Refuse all others with a 404, and refuse all other HTTP methods than GET.
Think about it - the request was for a simple web server - they didnt say RFC compliant, they didn't say it had to actually serve files from disk... there should be no need for you to parse pathnames or anything else. Just look for the GET
Hell the page could be hard-coded in the C++ as well.
People always use this gun analogy and it is (pardon the pun) dead wrong.
The fact of the matter is, a gun is far more likely to kill the owner of the gun, a casual bystander, or someone totally different (when the gun is stolen), than it is a criminal while protecting life or property. The odds of you dying from a gunshot wound increase by a large margin when you own a handgun.
Whether you agree with the practice or not, regulating handguns can at least *BE PROVEN* to reduce these types of deaths of people who have nothing to do with the crime.
Regulating child pornogrpahy on the internet does nothing to protect anyone or reduce anything, because anyone involved in posting it or looking at it is already doing something illegal. There *are* no "innocent bystanders".
You can use the Xbox as a media center extender, too. So, yes, I can find one for under $100, as you said.
Media Center Extender is not free. Softmod + Myth is. You are excluding the licensing cost of MCE from your equation.
Your magical apt-get trick only works if you're using Debian. Those of us who are running custom embedded hardware, such as the Hauppauge MediaMVP, really don't get that option.
Umm... what? The MediaMVP is not a MythFrontend. It has some ability to play some myth files off some specific myth versions, but it is VASTLY INFERIOR to a real MythFrontend and frankly I don't know why anyone would pay more (see above Xbox post) for a tiny subset of functionality. You can't use MythBrowser, MythGame, MythWeather, MythNews, or the huge variety of other MythTV plutins with the MediaMVp - all you can do is play music and watch videos.
If you were using this as your MythTV solution no wonder you were disappointed! Even it's LiveTV functionality is stunted compared to a real front end.
In your post you were complaining about the protocol being upgraded so your remote boxes were not "up to date". My point is with MythTV and *real* MythFrontend boxes, all your boxes should be always up to date so your post makes no sense.
You can get any Xbox from eBay for less than $100 and install MythTV on it using a softmod to use as a Myth front end. It has enough CPU power to do everything except play back HD content (it can upscale DVD to HD fine)...
I would like you to find a Windows media Center Extender for less than $100....
And as far as your protocol issue - ssh into the Xbox/Myth frontend, apt-get update- apt-get upgrade. Done. The front end updates when the back end does.
HDTV support: With supported HD capture card, terrestrial broadcast HD and Cable HD are supported (with the exception of encrypted cable HD channels - which cannot be decrypted on any PC PVR)
It is important to note that if your Digicable provider uses a supported set top box (like the Motorola STBs), you don't need an HD capture card to capture HD. You can grab the raw content right off the box using Firewire.
MythTV fully supports several boxes via firewire, it can even change the channels over the firewire so there is no need for messy IR senders.
If I were ROXIO or NERO, I'd be pissed, this looks like a de facto and direct competitor product, and if it's bundled as "part of the OS", it would seem close to the line of leveraging again.
Then how come all the Apple fanboys on Slashdot ddidn't cry foul when Apple started shipping iLife with all their Mac's?
It's not a "weird loophole " - it's something that ties the economys of those 3 countries together. Anyone who thinks this poassport thing is going to come and go without problems is seriously deluding themselves. If it goes ahead as planned it's going to cause *massive* economic problems on all sides. Do you *even know* how many Americans living in border towns *work* in Canada every day? There are businesses that actually straddle the border. Hell, there is a street in northern New Brunswick, where all the houses are on Canadian soil, but to get onto the street, you have to pass through the American border! You want these people to show a passport to pick up their mail??
Show me where I can get a copy of V for Vendetta for $14.
Sure, *some* moves are the same as their DVD prices. But some are less.
Mostly the new releases are cheaper than new release DVDs. The older stuff, well youc an get that in the bargain bins at Walmart, sure.. but you have to *find them* first.
I find that hard to believe... the tiny city where I live has a WiFi network at least 5 times that size.
Look at the coverage area, then look at the Wikipedia entry - 131 square km in the city. The WiFi covers at least 25% of the city, or 33 square KM.
The only way this Toronto network could be called the "largest" would be if it was by population livig in the blanketed area. Not much of an achievement IMO.
'HD Premium Component Cable' for $59.99 and a 'S-Video Premium AV Cable' for $39.99."
... and the day after launch you will be able to buy 3rd party cables for $10 each on eBay.
Does anyone *serourls buy into* this cable bullshit? Who spends > $20 on a piece of wire?
A TOE is exactly that, a TCP Offload Engine. I tis not a replacement for a networking stack - what it does is assists in the constructoion and destruction of packets in the TCp protocol. it doe snothing for other protocols, such a UDP, ICMP, IGMP, etc.
This card is a complete top to bottom stack (as complete as Linux's stack is, since it *is* Linux's stack). The host OS's networking layer is totally bypassed and all commands are given to the card's stack. It's not really the same thing as TOE at all.
The whole point of the thing is **there is no OS TCP/IP stack**.
The whole networking stack runs directly on the card. 100% of all networking load is offloaded from your main CPU onto the CPU on the card.
It is **supposed** to 'intercept incoming 'ping' requests and respond from it's TCP/IP stack immediately'.
Yes it runs Linux...
If you did a double take at the spec's of the Killer NIC's NPU you weren't alone. It's dramatically overkill for common networking processing that the card will encounter. That doesn't mean it's useless, however. Far from it, as a matter of fact. The Killer NIC is actually running an onboard Linux build that handles all its networking duties, and, best of all, is entirely accessible to the end user via console prompt or with what Bigfoot Networks is calling Flexible Network Applications (FNA).
Now, does it run *IN* Linux? Probably not.
This is a pretty cool concept - a self-contained VM in hardware to handle your whole networking stack.
It could have potential security benefits as well, in that it would likely be impossible to use say a buffer overflow exploit in a networking protocol with this card, because the overflow would occur *inside the VM*. All that would happen is your NIC would suddenly die - not *great*, but better than having your machine compromized. The host OS could probably even detect this lockup and 'reboot' the VM on the card.
You could could still nerver perform this attack in practice because you can't just walk into a voting area and start disassmebling the machine without people noticing!
This is like saying all house locks are vulnerable to attack because you can break them open with a crowbar.
Yes, any computer that you have physical access to you can hack, but can you hack a payphone to cough up its coins in 4 minutes??
Sure I can. I take out a crowbar, pry the coin box out, get coins, replace damaged coin box with a new one.
What's that you say, I am operating outside the norm of someone seeing what i am doing? So is the example of this so called 'hack". No one could perform this "hack" in a real situation because you can't just casually walk into a voting area and start disassembling the terminal.
Only a complete retard would pay $100 for a cable meant to deliver a purely digital signal. Then again these are the same people Monster-brand products are amrketed to, so nothing surprises me.
If you get your HD from digi cable or dish (which 90% of HDTV owners do), then the signal has already been compressed in MPEG2 or MPEG4 on it's way down the pipe.
Then again, this thing is just adding in another compress/decompress cycle - not good IMO.
So... if you have physical access to the machine, you can take it apart and alter it to hack into it(yes, that is what they did. RTFA).
How is this news? The same can be said of any computer system.
You have to at least operate under the assumption that these machines are audited before and after the electoral process, just like the ballot boxes were... if not, then *there* is the flaw in the system. The flaw isn't "hey, I can open this computer and alter it to change how it functions", it is "I can open this computer without anyone else knowing".
That phrase is clarifying items already specified in the GPL. The GPL excludes linking. If you don't believe me email RMS, or do a Google search. I don't have any more time to debate with someone unwilling to do simple research.
This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
Yeah, but if a GPL web browser connected to it to view a web page, that would be causing Apache to be voilaitng withe GPL since it is communicating with a GPL app over a socket!
Pipes, temp files, sockets, none of these are covered by the GPL. The GPL covers explicitly *linking only*. If a GPL'ed piece of software could not communicate with a closed source piece of software over a socket or pipe, the Apache web server would not exist.
To be specific - I am pretty sure the drivers use either a UNIX socket or a named pipe.
Background - my fiancee needs a new laptop. I have been trying to push her towards a MAc with OSX - but the is a really novie user. She likes what is familliar, and she is familliar with Windows.
She asked me if the could run Windows on a Mac, and I said it can. But when we were looking more into it, she asked why we were thiking about paying much more for a Mac when she is onlyy ever going to run Windows on it.
I did not have an answer. And this is why Boot Camp is a big waste of time - unless you are a hardcore gamer who loves OSX, it is next to useless. Either you are going to be in Windows most of the time, or OSX most of the time. And if it is Windows - why did you buy a Mac *at all*? The hardware and OS integration argument is irrelevant cause it is running Windows. Same for all the great OSX software. So you are basically down to "because it looks pretty".
What Apple needs to work on is the ability to run Windows apps *inside OSX* without rebooting. You would think this would not be that difficult now that mac is X86 based - they should be able to contract codeeavers to work with them in porting Wine over and enhancing it if needed.
Once people can run their Windows apps *inside* OSX, there will be no need to reboot into Windows. Then there is *real reason* to get a Mac for people who want one.