Well, no, the boxes would still be useful. You could still use them to pause/rewind live television, but you'd lose the really cool automatic recording/season pass stuff that the subscription provides. They'd basically just end up being the same as a ReplayTV if that ever happened.
IIRC, TiVo uses a special type of hard drive that is specifically tuned to read and write simultaneously. It's not a standard HDD, so I don't think you could just drop in another one. (that would be neat, though)
Well, I believe you can make a quality SF show on a low budget, if done right. I'm a big fan of Red Dwarf. (although living here in the States makes it a little more difficult to watch. Public broadcasting mostly.) I think they did a very good job with the sets before they got a larger budget and started adding all the computer animation. In fact, I think some of the sets looked even more realistic than some seen on Star Trek. And this is a comedy!
its never been a one step process and never will unlike windows.
Never say never, especially when referring to Linux. Microsoft can only dream of Windows improving itself as fast as Linux, who's to say this won't be streamlined better later on? If it's a source of annoyance (and believe me, it is) it will be fixed.
Where's the WebTV bashing? All he said was it was for people who didn't want to learn how to use a computer to browse the web and send email. That's exactly how it's being marketed!
webtv's browser's way more ergonomic than nescape or ie
Perhaps, but less functional. And nobody ever said Netscape was a good browser--it's just the best we have. Mozilla is a nice browser, though, and I would use it over WebTV's any day. And no matter what WebTV does with it's browser, it will always by definition be less functional because it's not connected to a computer. Not being able to download stuff would be neutering a rather nontrivial coolness of having the Internet.
Yes, but if they're trying to give it gaming capabilities, it's certainly understandable that they'd get companies to port their games to it... and that would mean more games for Linux:) That's not it's main purpose, though, so it wouldn't necessarily fling Linux into the gaming industry. If all you want it for is web browsing, email and perhaps music, then Linux is certainly the way to go. And, hey, we have Quake3 and UT, so it's not a total loss!
Uh-oh. God, I hope this comes out real far down the road, then. Can you imagine the catastrophe of giving all those people an alpha-version browser to use? I love Mozilla, but it's certainly not ready yet.
Actually, that's a rather widely accepted abbreviation in the Linux/Open Source community. It's even in the Jargon File.
And who says hating Microsoft makes you ignorant? Most if not all Linux users started out on Dos/Windows. If it was adequate for them, why would they switch? We've all found one reason or another to dislike Windows, and after being a Linux user for some time, you grow to resent Windows being pushed on everyone like that. I think that's where a lot of the animosity towards MS comes from.
Yeah, certainly not. If you have a computer powerful enough to play decent games, it would be rather stupid to buy a console. Personally, I don't like joystick-based games at all, but you can certainly buy one for your PC if you want--with a console you're stuck with what they give you, pretty much. And once your console goes out of style--tough luck. Can't upgrade.
I just can't imagine playing Quake3 on a console with a joystick-based controller... that would suck. You just can't beat a mouse.
A database can only be copyrighted if a nontrivial amount of work went into creating it... we're talking about a simple file with a list of addresses. Not worth copyrighting. And I question whether something like a directory is truly copyrighted, since anyone could reproduce entries from it verbatim and no one would probably do anything about it.
For those who live in larger cities like New York or near the Valley, I can see why you might think threre's too many expos, but they all seem to stick near the coasts! This june I'm gonna be going down to LinuxFest in Kansas City, which should be cool (I hear ESR's gonna speak), but it's the only one I could make it to! Even then it's a three-hour drive. I don't have the means to hop a plane to New York next LinuxWorld, but I'd really like to participate. Hopefully as Linux grows in popularity, they will be more evenly spread out.
When did this discussion suddenly become about web browsers and not operating systems? I don't care how deeply M$ buries IE into Windows, it's still an application, not part of the OS. We're talking about having to reboot the OS all the time, not some badly written application. I don't recall anyone ever claiming Netscape was good.
FYI, there is a reason why Netscape blows so hard; it's compiled with Motif statically linked in. If they had done dynamic links with GTK and/or Qt, it would be much better. I think Mozilla will do all three, but I'm gonna let that app mature a bit more before I use it as an example.
You're missing the point. In the real world, when you steal something, you are depriving someone else of that property. Online, however, you're not. The concept of stealing is deeply rooted in the action of depriving someone of property that isn't yours, but online that doesn't happen; thus, it's a gray area. It's certainly unethical, especially for music--artists deserve to be compensated for their works. However, it is not the artists who are at a loss in this situation, it's the RIAA--and it's a little hard to feel sorry for them.
I think mp3.com has shown that it's quite possible that music may go to being all independantly produced and distributed online, without the need of a recording industry, and that's what they're worried about. Mp3 piracy hasn't made a dent in their sales, in fact sales have gone up, so there isn't even any apparent theft being committed.
probably, but I've seen quite a few people say they just walked into the nearest electronics store and bought one, so they're probably not pursuing it.
Have you actually tried to play a DVD run through a VCR? How do you think it prevents it from being recorded? By jacking with the signal. And that disrupts the signal going to the television. Fortunately, you could get a Macrovision filter without too much trouble.
I know you're eyes probably started to glaze as you scrolled down through the loooonnnngg list of replies, but there's one you really should read. The EFF's reply, number 204--excellent. Details exactly what's wrong with the DMCA as it applies to DVDs and other copyrighted works, and brough up a few points that I did even think of:
I was not aware of Copyright law's First Sale Rule, which states that a copyright owner has no control over what happens to a copyrighted work after it's first sale (other than the usual distribution/public display stuff), which is exactly what the DVD CCA is attempting.
DVDs should be considered as a completely different product than VHS, since the experience is so totally different. Okay, I kinda thought of this, but it helped clarify quite a bit.
I wonder how the LoC is gonna react to all of these excellent replies; it's so overwhelming, I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't declare DVDs exempt. Let's all cross our fingers.
I kind of miss my drop-down location bar too. If you look up to the menus, you'll notice one labeled "go". Apparently, that functions the same as the drop-down menu. I hope they're not thinking of using that instead; I like the drop-down menu a lot more.
Okay, if there's a certain feature in IE that we don't like, we have to live with it. But Mozilla is open source, man. Just don't compile it in. Or run in simplebrowser if that's what you prefer. All of these extras can easily be removed, which makes it so much better than any other browser available; you can totally customize it. I can't even uninstall IE. I really don't understand all of this complaining.
Don't forget, Mozilla's Open Source. AOL can't really do much to Mozilla that we can't fix; besides, I don't think they'll even touch the browser itself. The reason they don't use Netscape now is that they need an embeddable browser that they can integrate into their client software. So, Gecko is really all they want. The Mozilla shell we are using now probably won't even be touched.
Besides, I don't think the UI is that bad. It's all a matter of taste, really, and that's where themes come in.
Yes, that is kinda dumb. But I'd rather describe dragging a diskette icon to the trash to eject than to describe unmounting a disk--can you imagine? We'll have to come up with a better way of mounting and unmounting, at least for the GUI. Gnome's mount panel buttons, and automount are steps in the right direction, but they need to be more automatic than that.
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Never say never, especially when referring to Linux. Microsoft can only dream of Windows improving itself as fast as Linux, who's to say this won't be streamlined better later on? If it's a source of annoyance (and believe me, it is) it will be fixed.
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Where's the WebTV bashing? All he said was it was for people who didn't want to learn how to use a computer to browse the web and send email. That's exactly how it's being marketed!
webtv's browser's way more ergonomic than nescape or ie
Perhaps, but less functional. And nobody ever said Netscape was a good browser--it's just the best we have. Mozilla is a nice browser, though, and I would use it over WebTV's any day. And no matter what WebTV does with it's browser, it will always by definition be less functional because it's not connected to a computer. Not being able to download stuff would be neutering a rather nontrivial coolness of having the Internet.
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And who says hating Microsoft makes you ignorant? Most if not all Linux users started out on Dos/Windows. If it was adequate for them, why would they switch? We've all found one reason or another to dislike Windows, and after being a Linux user for some time, you grow to resent Windows being pushed on everyone like that. I think that's where a lot of the animosity towards MS comes from.
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I just can't imagine playing Quake3 on a console with a joystick-based controller... that would suck. You just can't beat a mouse.
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FYI, there is a reason why Netscape blows so hard; it's compiled with Motif statically linked in. If they had done dynamic links with GTK and/or Qt, it would be much better. I think Mozilla will do all three, but I'm gonna let that app mature a bit more before I use it as an example.
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I think mp3.com has shown that it's quite possible that music may go to being all independantly produced and distributed online, without the need of a recording industry, and that's what they're worried about. Mp3 piracy hasn't made a dent in their sales, in fact sales have gone up, so there isn't even any apparent theft being committed.
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I wonder how the LoC is gonna react to all of these excellent replies; it's so overwhelming, I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't declare DVDs exempt. Let's all cross our fingers.
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Besides, I don't think the UI is that bad. It's all a matter of taste, really, and that's where themes come in.
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