Just yesterday, I saw my first (and last?) tv ad that had the little C:) in the bottom corner and a little chirp at the beginning of the ad. MMM please let my tv decide where I go on the internet!
I guess I'm not particularly important to the RIAA... on a quick glance, it looks like less than 25% of the CDs/records that I own are even on those lists!
Well, sorry folks I was just trying to be a little funny. The story said they had patented watching one program while recording another, something we've all done for years. I made an admittedly weak joke, and now I'm a dickcheese who doesn't bother to follow links before I open my fat mouth.
I find it amusing that everyone cries about how thin or obvious patents are until it's something they like. Then it's 'go Tivo!'. Is the idea of tivo really that novel, or is it just a fiddly refinement/enumeration of something that is painfully obvious? I can practically guarantee that sometime prior to that patent's filing date, I used my tv capture card to record video while I was looking at another video on the same computer. And I'm pretty sure that low resolution and frame drops made me think that hardware compression would sure make it work better. The details of the programming are irrelevant, I'd guess they'll use this patent try to go after anyone who markets a PVR regardless of technique.
The little box I've got in my stereo system at home rips new cds while I'm listening to other music. Gee ya think I could patent it?
Most patents nowadays are bunk. Not innovation, just 'calling dibs'.
MSI NetPC Concerto III (MS-6215). They look to be a bit difficult to find, about $300 with no cpu/ram/drives, but nice and tiny. I don't know about underclocking or OS support, but the nice thing abot this one is that it has 2 PCI slots on a riser- something you don't see on many of the NLX boards. Builtin 10/100, sound, TV out, IR header and 2 1394 ports(good for webcams and uploading off the DV camcorder, not to mention portable drives). Those PCI slots would be good for putting in higher fidelity sound or hardware DVD decoding.
Anyone had any experience with this particular box? the $300 bare price is a bit offputting, but it's so nice and tiny.
Nice guess, but I've been all through that. Latest drivers, good 80-pin cable. The fact is that the drive I replaced it with does ata66 just fine with the same drivers and cable. I even ran maxtors program to set the max udma and forced it to be 33, still no go.
Not to mention that when the first drive went I actually heard it through the floor. Sounded like my ols POS pontiac did when it threw a rod. Problem being, I spent more on the drive!
The only hard drive I've ever had fail so abruptly, and with so little warning, that I lost every bit of data on it was your treasured DiamondMax Plus. The replacement they sent me? well, it works fine in PIO mode, but enable uDMA and it locks the machine, and yes I've tried it with two different motherboards and an add-in udma controller. it wont even do 33 much less 66. After the hassle I had getting the first drive replaced, I'm not even going to bother trying to get this one replaced. I'll just never buy another Maxtor and never recommend them. I wouldn't even try one of these 'sturdy' ones even if they sold them 2-for-one with a bundled raid1 card.
....my copy of "The Carl Stalling Project" from tape to CD (in which it is not available)....
Off topic, but I bought my copy of The Carl Stalling Project on CD.
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Typical foreigner, can't even spell typical.;-)
Typial american. so scared of your tiny penis, that you feel the need to drive around in tanks. be a man, be tough, drive a small car and dont give a damn about accidents.
Actually, I drive a Jetta. Infer what you like about my penis size from that, but it is at least made out of metal. I'd plow through that thing like your gigantic penis plows through your favorite crusty sock every night, leaving a cloud of styrofoam, decompressing air, and body parts. (And I probably wouldn't give a damn)
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I once had a toy car, must be nearly 20 years ago now, that you pumped up and it had a little 2-stroke piston engine that ran off the stored compression.
I always thought it would be a good idea to extend that technique to bigger vehicles, but I figure that you face some of the same safety concerns that flywheel vehicles currently have. What happens in an accident? The article says that the car weighs only a few hundred Kg, it'd fold like tissue paper in a wreck, and what if the air tanks breached?
What I don't get is this:
(from the article) "And any journalist can interview the athletes..."
I've seen the local sports drone interviewing local athletes at the games, so how is this different from a newspaper asking an athlete 'What did you write in your diary today?'
I can see the problem if some 'unliscensed' media outlet set up "'s Wonderful World of Olympic Excitement" and streamed video, and sold tshirts etc, but I don't think a running diary in the Spoonerville Post equates to the same thing at all
For that matter, Why isn't the MPAA going after Xing for tacit distribution of the code (the key at least)? The actual implementation is dog simple once the key is there.
I released Ron 3.0 under the GPL January 6th using a unique series of nucleotide bases. Examination of Bruce 2.0's code reveals disturbing similarities. Once this post gets the/. community whipped into a frenzy, I will contact Mr Perens and ask him to rectify the situation.
>Yes, doing it in the aftermath might have been nicer, though. Maybe I screwed up.
Maybe? There's no question you screwed up, and you should publicly apologise to Be. So what if they used your insignificant little scrap of code, you wanted other people to use it anyway, or else you wouldn't have gpled it.
If you back over my mailbox, I'm going to at least ask you to fix it before I retaliate. Be backed over your mailbox on their way to work. You taped a note to their front door asking them to correct their mistake, and then chucked a firebomb through the window without even waiting for them to come home and read your note.
I think you're just hungry for publicity and don't care how many fires you start to get people to look at you.
>How much money is Pinkerton going to lose over this? Ah, the sweet giant sucking sound of cash registers being emptied as more and more schools bail out of Wave...
No, a flood of bogus reports won't bother Pinkerton in the slightest, since they probably get paid by the call. It'll just end up costing you the taxpayer. Remember, they said they just collect and turn over the information. The correct place to fight this is in the school board or state legislature or wherever this hare-brained scheme was dreamed up.
I bought it, but... I swear that it had been recommended to me by a friend. After I had finished it, I told the guy who(I thought)had recommened it to me that I'd finally read it, and he said "Huh? I've never read that book..". I have no idea who actually infected me, but I've been spreading it ever since.
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Just yesterday, I saw my first (and last?) tv ad that had the little C:) in the bottom corner and a little chirp at the beginning of the ad. MMM please let my tv decide where I go on the internet!
I guess I'm not particularly important to the RIAA... on a quick glance, it looks like less than 25% of the CDs/records that I own are even on those lists!
Well, they're targeting fleet sales for now, they won't even put a decade on mass acceptance. Probably not until gasoline is $10 a gallon
Here, of course is a link to The Filthy Critic.
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BRING IT ON!!!
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Well, sorry folks I was just trying to be a little funny. The story said they had patented watching one program while recording another, something we've all done for years. I made an admittedly weak joke, and now I'm a dickcheese who doesn't bother to follow links before I open my fat mouth.
I find it amusing that everyone cries about how thin or obvious patents are until it's something they like. Then it's 'go Tivo!'. Is the idea of tivo really that novel, or is it just a fiddly refinement/enumeration of something that is painfully obvious? I can practically guarantee that sometime prior to that patent's filing date, I used my tv capture card to record video while I was looking at another video on the same computer. And I'm pretty sure that low resolution and frame drops made me think that hardware compression would sure make it work better. The details of the programming are irrelevant, I'd guess they'll use this patent try to go after anyone who markets a PVR regardless of technique.
The little box I've got in my stereo system at home rips new cds while I'm listening to other music. Gee ya think I could patent it?
Most patents nowadays are bunk. Not innovation, just 'calling dibs'.
Oh crap! I taped Voyager while I watched a ball game last night! Am I in trouble?
I won't watch it! I promise!
Hey! I released this code under the GPL:
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
}
Your work is quite plainly derivative of mine, therefore you MUST release it also under the GPL!
Interestingly, their voicemail product (which sucks, btw) presumably uses the same engine, and passes any word you want.
actually I guess that's not all that interesting.
MSI NetPC Concerto III (MS-6215). They look to be a bit difficult to find, about $300 with no cpu/ram/drives, but nice and tiny. I don't know about underclocking or OS support, but the nice thing abot this one is that it has 2 PCI slots on a riser- something you don't see on many of the NLX boards. Builtin 10/100, sound, TV out, IR header and 2 1394 ports(good for webcams and uploading off the DV camcorder, not to mention portable drives). Those PCI slots would be good for putting in higher fidelity sound or hardware DVD decoding.
Anyone had any experience with this particular box? the $300 bare price is a bit offputting, but it's so nice and tiny.
>Windows only? Are they using proprietary authentication?
nah, internal winmodem. and it's not 'always on', you have to keep redialing.
Nice guess, but I've been all through that. Latest drivers, good 80-pin cable. The fact is that the drive I replaced it with does ata66 just fine with the same drivers and cable. I even ran maxtors program to set the max udma and forced it to be 33, still no go.
Not to mention that when the first drive went I actually heard it through the floor. Sounded like my ols POS pontiac did when it threw a rod. Problem being, I spent more on the drive!
The only hard drive I've ever had fail so abruptly, and with so little warning, that I lost every bit of data on it was your treasured DiamondMax Plus. The replacement they sent me? well, it works fine in PIO mode, but enable uDMA and it locks the machine, and yes I've tried it with two different motherboards and an add-in udma controller. it wont even do 33 much less 66. After the hassle I had getting the first drive replaced, I'm not even going to bother trying to get this one replaced. I'll just never buy another Maxtor and never recommend them. I wouldn't even try one of these 'sturdy' ones even if they sold them 2-for-one with a bundled raid1 card.
....my copy of "The Carl Stalling Project" from tape to CD (in which it is not available). ...
Off topic, but I bought my copy of The Carl Stalling Project on CD.
Actually, I drive a Jetta. Infer what you like about my penis size from that, but it is at least made out of metal. I'd plow through that thing like your gigantic penis plows through your favorite crusty sock every night, leaving a cloud of styrofoam, decompressing air, and body parts. (And I probably wouldn't give a damn)
I once had a toy car, must be nearly 20 years ago now, that you pumped up and it had a little 2-stroke piston engine that ran off the stored compression.
I always thought it would be a good idea to extend that technique to bigger vehicles, but I figure that you face some of the same safety concerns that flywheel vehicles currently have. What happens in an accident? The article says that the car weighs only a few hundred Kg, it'd fold like tissue paper in a wreck, and what if the air tanks breached?
What I don't get is this:
(from the article) "And any journalist can interview the athletes..."
I've seen the local sports drone interviewing local athletes at the games, so how is this different from a newspaper asking an athlete 'What did you write in your diary today?'
I can see the problem if some 'unliscensed' media outlet set up "'s Wonderful World of Olympic Excitement" and streamed video, and sold tshirts etc, but I don't think a running diary in the Spoonerville Post equates to the same thing at all
money.
>Considering it's already as large as a fridge, there is lots of surface area to absorb sunlight.
Photovoltaic solar power has a pitiful efficiency. A fridge entirely covered with the best PV cells wouldn't even be able to power itself.
For that matter, Why isn't the MPAA going after Xing for tacit distribution of the code (the key at least)? The actual implementation is dog simple once the key is there.
I released Ron 3.0 under the GPL January 6th using a unique series of nucleotide bases. Examination of Bruce 2.0's code reveals disturbing similarities. Once this post gets the /. community whipped into a frenzy, I will contact Mr Perens and ask him to rectify the situation.
Doesn't generating a signal based on the quantum state of subatomic particles constitute an observation thereof and therefore collapse the state?
>I quite delibrately made an example of them
>Yes, doing it in the aftermath might have been nicer, though. Maybe I screwed up.
Maybe? There's no question you screwed up, and you should publicly apologise to Be. So what if they used your insignificant little scrap of code, you wanted other people to use it anyway, or else you wouldn't have gpled it.
If you back over my mailbox, I'm going to at least ask you to fix it before I retaliate. Be backed over your mailbox on their way to work. You taped a note to their front door asking them to correct their mistake, and then chucked a firebomb through the window without even waiting for them to come home and read your note.
I think you're just hungry for publicity and don't care how many fires you start to get people to look at you.
>How much money is Pinkerton going to lose over this? Ah, the sweet giant sucking sound of cash registers being emptied as more and more schools bail out of Wave...
No, a flood of bogus reports won't bother Pinkerton in the slightest, since they probably get paid by the call. It'll just end up costing you the taxpayer. Remember, they said they just collect and turn over the information.
The correct place to fight this is in the school board or state legislature or wherever this hare-brained scheme was dreamed up.
I bought it, but... I swear that it had been recommended to me by a friend. After I had finished it, I told the guy who(I thought)had recommened it to me that I'd finally read it, and he said "Huh? I've never read that book..". I have no idea who actually infected me, but I've been spreading it ever since.