I'm also on my last cassette player, which I'll probably keep forever since there is no way for me to know when it dies. All the tapes I care about have been digitized already. I figured hardware improves slower than tape degrades, so I did it a few years ago. Makes me sad that converting videotape ran into a roadblock, although now I have a world-class cutting-edge VHS pirate rig.
Wow, the first thing about Vista that makes me look forward to it. The XP ones work ok, but when you've got corporate security measures to implement it makes my knees weak with dread.
No big IT department that I've ever worked for would even consider deploying a just-released OS. There are dozens of compatability issues that need to be addressed, budget needs to be approved, security testing, ad nauseum.
I'm luckily in a "department of one" right now, but my plant's parent company just approved XP sp2 in February. They had to upgrade SAP, docuvault, vpn client, and many other things.
No way are they going to go through all that again until Vista has been out, and probably a service pack or two under it's belt.
Anything plugging into echostar, directv, or digital cable has a digital tuner. All of these options offer pvrs. Of course, you're locked into using their software.
As long as the new cards being sold are compliant the MPAA will be happy. The old ones will break or become obsolete soon enough. If they're smart they'll make it a felony to buy or sell these and troll on ebay.
I'm sure there will be a way around it. Driver mods or offshore software. That doesn't mean it isn't evil.
I'm guessing it'd work like video capture. You'd have a really tough time finding equipment that isn't broken by design.
When I was getting a capture card just for composite video I simply gave up on finding one that didn't respect macrovision. I've got some tapes that aren't out on dvd that I'd like to use, and I had to buy a box (I got a time base corrector) to capture them.
So if/when this passes, expect new tuner cards to have broken drivers. There will probably be a way around it, but the casual user will be unable to build/buy a unencumbered dvr.
This is especially irritating when there are 10-100 characters after the cutoff. I've seen some that were actually shorter by a few characters after "expanding."
well USENET is still popular, especially with the automated tools they've got now. (there are still a few gopher servers left too)
It made me sad when someone was telling me about this stuff they "downloaded off USENET" and I started waxing nostalgic about the good ol days. They'd never heard of alt.discordia or alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork or anything. They didn't even know about newsgroups. They just had a GUI that scraped binaries. Oh well, progress!
ok, if we're being pedantic, it's eDonkey2000 or eD2k. I think of it as 2000 electronic Donkeys (or mules) winding their way through the internet bringing me supplies.
Remember when everything cool and new had '2000' in the title? It was very futuristic.
I suspect there is huge temptation for the game companies to "farm". They can do it instantly then sell through fronts. A few cases of this getting publicity (or even affecting the ingame economy) would kill the real money for bitmoney market.
I program for a living and pay taxes. Doctors pay taxes. Even astrologers pay taxes. If it's income, it is subject to the income tax.
You're just able to get away with cheating on your taxes. If you ever make enough at this to get noticed during an audit you should consider filing it as a business. At least then you could write off expenses.
I mistakenly read network as wireless. I can't install cat5 at my house. It was built in 1896 and the walls are a nightmare. I stay out of them and hope for no more boiler leaks.
One fine day I'll be forced to rip them all out and replumb, rewire, and replaster everything. [gets depressed]
Pretty cool. I considered wireless, but the cost difference was pretty big. I wasn't planning to buy a game box, so your combination wouldn't have helped me. Things are advancing rapidly enough I don't want to put much effort or money into it.
My friend wired his house for audio, ethernet, and coax a few years ago. It took him several weekends and thousands of dollars. (he installed a wiring panel with patch bay and everything) I'm glad I waited!
I used to use your primitive method. Now I skip the step of burning a dvd. I got a $15 tv-out graphics card, ran 50 foot composite/audio cables to my tv.
It looks good, I save time burning discs, and I don't have any more inexplicably ruined dvd-rw blanks. I don't know why it was happening, but I had about a 5% failure rate with each reuse.
Now I can show.avi or whatever on my tv without the SLOW process of converting to dvd compliant format, or watch visualizations with music, or change channels to see if my download is done, etc.
I was referring to replacing an 80GB drive, which isn't currently feasable. If you used a few GB for the OS and frequently used files you could get away with running the harddrive very little, which makes sense.
The user will see the increased security every time they change providers, change jobs, change coffeeshops (at a minimum) so it won't be out of the ordinary.
If BofA is paying attention to IP address they might try to watch a range that has many "new" customers suddenly. Might be a public hotspot, might be a fraud server.
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When it dies, I see no reason to buy another.
I'm also on my last cassette player, which I'll probably keep forever since there is no way for me to know when it dies. All the tapes I care about have been digitized already. I figured hardware improves slower than tape degrades, so I did it a few years ago. Makes me sad that converting videotape ran into a roadblock, although now I have a world-class cutting-edge VHS pirate rig.
[sadly drops plan to sell NIB Windows ME on ebay]
Guess I'll donate it to charity.
Wow, the first thing about Vista that makes me look forward to it. The XP ones work ok, but when you've got corporate security measures to implement it makes my knees weak with dread.
I'm luckily in a "department of one" right now, but my plant's parent company just approved XP sp2 in February. They had to upgrade SAP, docuvault, vpn client, and many other things.
No way are they going to go through all that again until Vista has been out, and probably a service pack or two under it's belt.
There is a Sirius S50 receiver mentioned in TFA.
But obviously, these things exist.
Think they can't do it? Try finding an analog capture device that doesn't respect macrovision.
As long as the new cards being sold are compliant the MPAA will be happy. The old ones will break or become obsolete soon enough. If they're smart they'll make it a felony to buy or sell these and troll on ebay.
I'm sure there will be a way around it. Driver mods or offshore software. That doesn't mean it isn't evil.
When I was getting a capture card just for composite video I simply gave up on finding one that didn't respect macrovision. I've got some tapes that aren't out on dvd that I'd like to use, and I had to buy a box (I got a time base corrector) to capture them.
So if/when this passes, expect new tuner cards to have broken drivers. There will probably be a way around it, but the casual user will be unable to build/buy a unencumbered dvr.
This is especially irritating when there are 10-100 characters after the cutoff. I've seen some that were actually shorter by a few characters after "expanding."
It made me sad when someone was telling me about this stuff they "downloaded off USENET" and I started waxing nostalgic about the good ol days. They'd never heard of alt.discordia or alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork or anything. They didn't even know about newsgroups. They just had a GUI that scraped binaries. Oh well, progress!
You forgot USENET, gopher, and xmodem from a bbs.
Remember when everything cool and new had '2000' in the title? It was very futuristic.
I suspect there is huge temptation for the game companies to "farm". They can do it instantly then sell through fronts. A few cases of this getting publicity (or even affecting the ingame economy) would kill the real money for bitmoney market.
I program for a living and pay taxes. Doctors pay taxes. Even astrologers pay taxes. If it's income, it is subject to the income tax.
You're just able to get away with cheating on your taxes. If you ever make enough at this to get noticed during an audit you should consider filing it as a business. At least then you could write off expenses.
One fine day I'll be forced to rip them all out and replumb, rewire, and replaster everything. [gets depressed]
My friend wired his house for audio, ethernet, and coax a few years ago. It took him several weekends and thousands of dollars. (he installed a wiring panel with patch bay and everything) I'm glad I waited!
It looks good, I save time burning discs, and I don't have any more inexplicably ruined dvd-rw blanks. I don't know why it was happening, but I had about a 5% failure rate with each reuse.
Now I can show .avi or whatever on my tv without the SLOW process of converting to dvd compliant format, or watch visualizations with music, or change channels to see if my download is done, etc.
They're live as in not Superbowl ads in April.
$20 says you won't be able to ff thru them much longer if they're going to all this work.
I bet their mailmonkeys have never seen an audiocasette tape. Next time, may I suggest a (rootkit optional) demo disc?
Hmm, I'd get bored faster the slower my computer was. Perhaps I need to rethink my logic.
I learned about bugmenot from a similar post years ago and use it regularly.
I was referring to replacing an 80GB drive, which isn't currently feasable. If you used a few GB for the OS and frequently used files you could get away with running the harddrive very little, which makes sense.
When I read this phrase, it was pure sarcasm. Maybe my attitude colored my interpretation, but I was sure of its humor.
The user will see the increased security every time they change providers, change jobs, change coffeeshops (at a minimum) so it won't be out of the ordinary.
If BofA is paying attention to IP address they might try to watch a range that has many "new" customers suddenly. Might be a public hotspot, might be a fraud server.