The latest versions of MythTV apparently support the HDHomeRun PRIME which uses a Cable Card and can record 3 HD channels (and supports a Switched-Digital Video device via USB). MythTV accesses/controls the device via the LAN. I thought about going this route, but it only works if the CCI bit is Copy-Freely and Cox is reportedly random in their use of Copy-Freely/Once. and I didn't want to deal with it.
Consumers want a Roku/Fire/Mythbox/AppleTV-like function that lets them play video on their TV with a convenient UI.
I had a MythTV box (2 analog tuners) for 9 years and it did everything I wanted. Unfortunately, Cox recently went "all digital" and I didn't want to have to deal with their (apparently) random employment of Copy-Once so I got a 4-tuner, 1-TB Tivo Bolt. It's actually pretty nice, but wish I had local system access so I could code up a few web pages and CGI scripts, like I did for MythTV. (sigh)
C'mon, you're not that aspie that you don't understand the concept of exaggerations.
Nope. I've just been around long enough to know how ridiculous some hardware can be and am not assuming you're joking. I'm *sure* someone out there actually has a mouse with 20 buttons on it -- probably that they custom built -- or will want one after reading your post. Just you wait. Someone is going to ask where you got it.:-)
If a bluetooth headset pulls that kind of amperage out of a battery, then it's clearly a very shitty bluetooth headset and would never pass UL, and very likely would never be sold.
Garbage lithium batteries + huge electrical load + proximity of face = blown up face. Why is this hard to understand?
Wrong detail on which to focus genius. The example device (bluetooth headset) was simply meant to be an innocuous device not associated with what the GP implied by mentioning "sugar, being lazy, and making bad choices". It could be any non-cigarette type thing. But you're correct in that the e-cig draws a higher immediate load than most other electronics.
Sure, lets criminalize sugar, being lazy, and making bad choices while we're at it.
It's not the nicotine that's exploding, but the battery so it's not really the "bad choice" to which you're alluding. What if that battery was in a bluetooth headset and it blew someone's head off for just listening to the radio? Would you still be so condescending?
66 whole reports?! Why, we need a law immediately! Someone call Congress!
Since you're the self-appointed arbiter, please specify the minimum number of people injured / killed before any action (or even investigation) should be taken on a possibly faulty or poorly designed consumer product? Is it okay for 66, but not 100... While I assume you were joking, there *are* people that think like that.
You know they used to have this thing back in Shakespeare's day called "irony", where the audience was supposed to understand a character's words in way that was different than the character intended them to be understood.
People stopped using "irony" because it was stupid; it makes stuff too hard to understand.
It all started when Alanis Morissette made people think it had to do with rain on your wedding day... (sigh)
As it is I have Netflix (canceled my DVD after the price hike) and amazon because I want prime anyhow. But it galls me to then have to shell out for HBO to see one show (GOT). And Starz to see one show (Black sails). etc... Splintered content.
Stop caring so much about watching TV. Problem solved.
Next Generation Identification System (NGIS), and it is an amalgamation of biometric records accumulated from people who have been through one of a number of biometric collection processes.
Like Google's Project Abacus on Android phones. (You laugh; just wait.)
""The more I worked with the NSA, the more respect I had for them as far as staying within the bounds of what they were authorized to do."
Given the furor that was raised due to Snowden's revelations in 2013, it doesn't surprise me that - in 2014 - the NSA was sticking to the letter of the law with regards to their operations.
... While an outsider was actually watching them work. "Remember. Everyone on their best, most legal, behavior while Geoff's here."
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The latest versions of MythTV apparently support the HDHomeRun PRIME which uses a Cable Card and can record 3 HD channels (and supports a Switched-Digital Video device via USB). MythTV accesses/controls the device via the LAN. I thought about going this route, but it only works if the CCI bit is Copy-Freely and Cox is reportedly random in their use of Copy-Freely/Once. and I didn't want to deal with it.
Consumers want a Roku/Fire/Mythbox/AppleTV-like function that lets them play video on their TV with a convenient UI.
I had a MythTV box (2 analog tuners) for 9 years and it did everything I wanted. Unfortunately, Cox recently went "all digital" and I didn't want to have to deal with their (apparently) random employment of Copy-Once so I got a 4-tuner, 1-TB Tivo Bolt. It's actually pretty nice, but wish I had local system access so I could code up a few web pages and CGI scripts, like I did for MythTV. (sigh)
C'mon, you're not that aspie that you don't understand the concept of exaggerations.
Nope. I've just been around long enough to know how ridiculous some hardware can be and am not assuming you're joking. I'm *sure* someone out there actually has a mouse with 20 buttons on it -- probably that they custom built -- or will want one after reading your post. Just you wait. Someone is going to ask where you got it. :-)
but there is little to no support for programmable mice (you know the kind, with the 20 buttons)
Twenty buttons on a mouse? At point, wouldn't it just be easier to mount an LED on the bottom of your keyboard and use *that* as your mouse?
Samsung has probably been too busy updating their Smart TV software to deliver (unwanted) ads.
... getting poor people to access the Internet is equally important.
"Getting" or "enabling" ? The former sounds like it's for your benefit, the latter for theirs. Which is Jimmy - and Mark (Zuckerberg).
... the need to build tens of billions of connected sensor devices ...
There is no "need" for the IoT. We've been getting along fine w/o it and don't really see any point to 99% of it.
Thanks anyway Narbeh.
No party invitations, no updates from my friends, people stop talking to you, because you're not on Facebook.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Trump. Facebook. Angry Birds the Movie. Idiocracy is here.
Trump, Angry Birds - redundant?
Perhaps the funniest thing ever said on /.
But what if the USB flash drives were somehow attached to a turtle that was trained to swim back to the nearest airport?
Or sharks
Millennials don't know what we didn't teach them... maybe Slashdot should write something teaching them what we've learned over the years.
Ya, because old people trying to teach young people (who, like, seriously guys, know *everything*) always goes over so well :-)
Now if they'd just get off my fucking lawn - 'cause I'm trying to mow it ...
... non-descript 'reasonable' jury ...
A company owned by Larry Ellison wants to use the word "reasonable"?
If a bluetooth headset pulls that kind of amperage out of a battery, then it's clearly a very shitty bluetooth headset and would never pass UL, and very likely would never be sold.
Garbage lithium batteries + huge electrical load + proximity of face = blown up face. Why is this hard to understand?
Wrong detail on which to focus genius. The example device (bluetooth headset) was simply meant to be an innocuous device not associated with what the GP implied by mentioning "sugar, being lazy, and making bad choices". It could be any non-cigarette type thing. But you're correct in that the e-cig draws a higher immediate load than most other electronics.
Sure, lets criminalize sugar, being lazy, and making bad choices while we're at it.
It's not the nicotine that's exploding, but the battery so it's not really the "bad choice" to which you're alluding. What if that battery was in a bluetooth headset and it blew someone's head off for just listening to the radio? Would you still be so condescending?
66 whole reports?! Why, we need a law immediately! Someone call Congress!
Since you're the self-appointed arbiter, please specify the minimum number of people injured / killed before any action (or even investigation) should be taken on a possibly faulty or poorly designed consumer product? Is it okay for 66, but not 100 ... While I assume you were joking, there *are* people that think like that.
Displaying an ad based on a word I say is the biggest waste of advertising money I can think of.
Actually, displaying an ad based on a word you say is the holy grail for advertisers.
Turn the feature on while watching Deadpool. Not sure what ads you'll get but messing with their metrics sounds like fun.
What smartphone business? From May 23, 2016: Windows Phone Market Share Sinks Below 1 Percent
Otherwise I could just file a patent for a time machine. Now no one can create a time machine in the next twenty years without my permission.
They'll just travel back in time and either (a) create prior art and/or (b) file a patent before you - the results will likely be paradoxical.
You know they used to have this thing back in Shakespeare's day called "irony", where the audience was supposed to understand a character's words in way that was different than the character intended them to be understood.
People stopped using "irony" because it was stupid; it makes stuff too hard to understand.
It all started when Alanis Morissette made people think it had to do with rain on your wedding day... (sigh)
It's common sense presumably. Except that the judges and juries in East Texas haven't seen that movie yet.
Whew. That was close. You used the phrase "common sense" and the word Texas in two different sentences.
As it is I have Netflix (canceled my DVD after the price hike) and amazon because I want prime anyhow. But it galls me to then have to shell out for HBO to see one show (GOT). And Starz to see one show (Black sails). etc... Splintered content.
Stop caring so much about watching TV. Problem solved.
Next Generation Identification System (NGIS), and it is an amalgamation of biometric records accumulated from people who have been through one of a number of biometric collection processes.
Like Google's Project Abacus on Android phones. (You laugh; just wait.)
GOD will punish the whole USA if Clinton wins. She serves the DEVIL. Yes, Lucifer himself is her master.
Wait. She works for Ted Cruz? Now I'm *really* confused.
""The more I worked with the NSA, the more respect I had for them as far as staying within the bounds of what they were authorized to do."
Given the furor that was raised due to Snowden's revelations in 2013, it doesn't surprise me that - in 2014 - the NSA was sticking to the letter of the law with regards to their operations.