If he pays taxes, as an NPR or PBS listener/viewer, he's not a freeloader.
Now, if he were an illegal immigrant working under the table and listening to NPR, he would be. Likewise, if he were on welfare and listens to NPR, he would be.
He has to pay for part of NPR's budget whether or not he chooses to listen, as do you if you are American and pay taxes.
With how cheap storage is, there is no reason not to have hundreds if not thousands of hours of shows hanging around indefinitely.
Exactly. I also rip nearly every DVD I buy and keep them on a hard drive - no having to dig up a DVD when I want to watch it. Right now I am ripping The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (what a pain in the neck, if I knew it was copy protected beyond CSS I'd have not bought it, but downloaded it instead) and will keep it on my hard drive indefinitely, in both native resolution and transcoded to 320x(whatever) for viewing on my PocketPC.
Nope - ATI had an AMC header on its early All-in-Wonder cards so you could connect a second tuner (in the form of the ATI-TV) and record one show while watching another.
Also, more specific to your question, there was nothing stopping you from recording one show while watching another, except for dropped frames from slow throughput to the hard drive. This could be worked around on a SCSI system, but IDE sucked in that regard.
If they had any savvy in the beginning, they'd have opted for a "Powered by Tivo!" logo in the guide, on the box, and on the remote. Instead, they effectively locked themselves out of the market.
I mean, how would that hurt Comcast, Cox, or Adelphia?
Adelphia DVR! | Comcast DVR | Cox DVR Powered by Tivo
Adelphia, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, etc. would be able to focus on their branding, and give nod to Tivo's back end for the substantial licensing and hardware discounts. Not only that, with the market penetration cable companies enjoy, Tivo would have achieved a much greater penetration, much more quickly.
What about upgrade cycles? Not a problem. People would eventually want to have more than 40/80/160/300 hours' worth of capacity as time goes on. I know I'd want all nine seasons' worth of Stargate, all four (five? four?) seasons of Futurama on it, PLUS the ability to record more stuff as desired.
But then, hindsight is 20/20. Tivo lost out, and IMHO the patent isn't worth crap since video capture cards have been around since before Tivo existed, some even with guides. Prior art, from ATI, Matrix, Nvidia, Hauppauge, and many others.
I wouldn't - not until I can copy the timeshifted show to my (Linux) PC, PocketPC. or a CD or DVD so I can watch it while at the office, traveling, or whaever. Also, I will be the one who decides when it gets deleted, not the broadcast network, and certainly not Tivo.
Until then, it'll be ATI Media Center and MythTV for me.
1. Remove hard drive, install in a known-clean Windows box
2. give Administrator ownership of the system restore directory
3. Run a FULL scan of the drive using multiple tools, in safe mode:
- Ad-Aware
- Spybot S&D
- Microsoft AntiSpyware (I hate to say this but M$'s antispyware program is a great product)
- ClamAV
- A commercial AntiVirus program
4. Reinstall HDD into original machine, run Microsoft's MRT
This way, even stealth rootkits can be removed, providing there is a signature for it. If you boot from that drive, the latest-generation rootkits can completely hide themselves from the system, even if you have signatures to detect them. Thankfully they're not so widespread yet, but give the script kiddies a few more months and they will be.
The moment Google is convicted of being a monopoly abusing its position and uses its advantage to unfairly squelch competition through price fixing, and then triples or quadruples prices after the competition is rendered impotent, come back and make that argument. Until that day, the point you're raising does not apply to Google.
The first account you create is an admin account, much like Windows XP Home (and incidentally some of the more "user friendly" Linux distributions (such as Linspire, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, etc). There is NOTHING stopping you from RTFM for the most basic info and creating new accounts for day-to-day productivity tasks on a *nix variant.
While this admittedly won't stop apache from getting hit by a worm, but if apache is properly configured it's living in a chroot jail and won't affect anything outside of ITS account, and a clamdscan will address most if not all apache infections.
Aside from idiots who chmod -R 777/, OS X would remain relatively easy to recover from malware were it to become widespread. YOu might have to delete $home in some cases but being basically a Unix variant, the system itself should be relatively immune from a system-wide infection.
This presumes of course you don't log into OS X as admin or root on a regular basis, but only for *gasp* administrative tasks.
I know of one company which continually gets rooted, but they INSIST on running as admin all the time, AND chmod -R 777 / -- why? because they don't LIKE security. They dislike the inconvenience of not sharing out / and having to drop files only in certain folders. *knock knock* McFly, anyone home? THey don't want their machines rooted, they're tired of seeing the mouse cursors move and applications being used if they happen to be there off-hours, and yet they refuse to take most basic precautions and take advantage of OS X's security architecture - instead they work to defeat it, intentionally so, and then blame IT folks because they can't solve the problem. They've gotten to the point where no mac-savvy people will do work for them, and if I know them well, it'd take a reformat/reinstall of EVERY box at this point to get their network cleaned up again.
When it hits the shelves I plan to buy it and install it on a PC, and Apple will lose nothing.
In fact, they will have gained a customer. I like OS X, but I HATE, repeat HATE their hardware. The hardware may be very, very compatible with OS X, but the reliability? Sorry, I see WAY too many G5 tower and iMac failures to respect the quality argument.
Sure, their cases (well, some of them) are the best-looking in the market (now that SGI has turned their cases into gamer-box-looking atrocities), but their power supplies are known to be crap, the motherboards are not much better, and if you look at the laptops, well, they have the highest failure rate in the industry according to several surveys - even when HP, Dell, and Toshiba's low-end crap are included in the stats. I'd rather build the highest-quality whitebox I possibly can, using a nice quiet case like Antec's Sonata II, then I can have a nice quiet OS X computing experience in a fairly OK-looking-but-very-well-built-and-extremely-quiet chassis.
What will apple have lost? Nothing. What will have they gained? A software sale - with more likely to follow as they release followup versions.
I won't buy a Mac for personal use. I will buy one or two for the office because I pretty much have to.
re: Ooooh, a search engine! How innovative, Google. I mean, given Yahoo!, Altavista and what not, a *search* engine?
In its onset, Google was groundbreaking because evaluating the "importance" of sites based almost entirely on hyperlinks WAS innovative when AltaVista, then search-engine king, was flooded with META tag and content spammers - unfortunately doorway pages and link farms was breaking Google severely for a while (they still are to some extent) until they started placing a bit more weight on relavent content AND got better about detecting doorway pages.
Is it foolproof? of course not - last night I was looking for reviews on flight computer watches and came across a record label (whose name is confusingly similar to Capitol Records, by the way) which was using doorway pages and javascript redirects (and of course cloaking) - to that, I have to ask: why the hell would I be interested in a music label when trying to research the Pulsar and Citizen flight computer watches?
All the same, it's generally better than previous search engine technology. Yahoo has surpassed Google in some areas for search results in many areas because Google's automated detection of linkfarms and doorway pages is so imperfect, but I'd bet it's a matter of short time before they come up with the next great way to detect that sort of thing. As far as cloaking detection goes, there is a simple solution: create a new robot which parses pages more like a typical browser with an MSIE or Firefox user agent, sample 10% to 15% of indexed web sites (I mean 10% to 15% of each site) using that robot, and that robot should query the sites through consumer ISPs such as Verizon, Comcast, Cox, SBC, and so forth (to hit the sites from IP ranges outside of Google's allocation), and scrape the pages and make sure that the content actually matches - then they can be the likes of TrafficPower (or whatever those fucks are calling themselves THIS week) and permanently ban people using deceptive schemes from ever getting back into the index.
Now as far as Google's offering music: They should become an independent label. They have the visibility (isn't their search engine share somewhere between 70% and 90% of Internet users globally?) for market penetration - practically FREE advertising, and many independent bands simply looking for a distributor produce their own albums and just need a good distributor and a company which can produce the glass CD for duplication. Google can certainly handle all of that with extreme ease, and the likes of Sprawl*Mart, Worst Buy, Circuit Slum, and other shops will certainly want to offer Google labeled-bands so they can get a share of at least the tangible sales (I know I'd want a CD along with all the artwork rather than a download). Google can do this very competitively, and if they do it right, they can dominate the market WITHOUT the artists even having to get involved in forking 50% of their take over to Artist Rights Society to avoid getting raped by the labels. That is of course, Google intends to continue backing their "Do No Evil" motto.
Napoleon has a better chance of taking Russia during wintertime than the US does going to 'war' with the entire world wide web and winning. How do you even begin a war on the internet?
But see, the F-22 is SHINY plus in 25-35 years they'll sell them off to the elite as surplus aircraft for use in aerobatic exhibitions. Minus hardpoints and avionics, of course.
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The intended purpose of this environment is to promote artistic efforts in order that the public will benefit by having a larger body of creative works.
Furthermore, you do not even have to infer the intent but read it in black and white!
So much for the "new world order" and "1,000 points of light" crap being just fun-to-read conspiracy theories. I need to re-read "En Route to Global Occupation" and "Behold a Pale Horse" again.
Download Asterisk@Home and try it out. Here is what you'll get:
- Asterisk with preconfigured scripts typical for most companies (you just need to define the calling plan via a point-and-click interface). You get a call queue monitor (Flash Operator Panel) that puts any conventional PBX ACD monitor to shame, a web interface to voice mail, extremely detailed call logs, (theoretically) unlimited expansion capability, all pre-integrated with a quasi-open-source CRM (SugarCRM).
Ever set up a conventional PBX? It takes longer and you will NOT get a point-and-face interface, but an interface of beeps, or if you're very lucky, voice prompts. No visuals.
It seems to me that the Open Source community beat IBM to the punch with the world's first Internet Telephony SUITE. No, it wasn't asterisk, which as you mentioned is just a framework, but by the Asterisk@Home folks, who built a complete SUITE on CentOS. All open source all the way through, with the exception of SugarCRM which is not true open source.
Asterisk in and of itself is not a solution. I agree with you there. Asterisk@Home is a solution. IN other words, Asterisk + FreePBX + FOP + ARI + SugarCRM is a solution - or if you object to SugarCRM's non-Open status, you can use vTiger as your CRM solution instead.
Of course, you'll probably still claim it's not a solution, either not having read the sites I pointed you to, or being an IBM or 3Com employee involved with "IBM's and 3COM's plan for the first internet telephony suite" - which is typical considering that IBM pushes open source when it suits them, and ignores its existence when it suits them in their desire to claim to be first.
Disclaimer: I am NOT a member of the Asterisk@Home development team, nor Digium, nor any of the other components of the suite. I just happen to think it's a great solution after having spent quite a while evaluating various PBX solutions.
Let me introduce you to Asterisk@Home which is uber-easy to configure (get your PBX up and running in an hour or two!), or if the "@Home" name is too objectionable for your PHB, the shiny Asterisk@Work logo so you can convince him that an open source project is suited for business use.
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If he pays taxes, as an NPR or PBS listener/viewer, he's not a freeloader.
Now, if he were an illegal immigrant working under the table and listening to NPR, he would be.
Likewise, if he were on welfare and listens to NPR, he would be.
He has to pay for part of NPR's budget whether or not he chooses to listen, as do you if you are American and pay taxes.
Why the hell was that modded informative when it is flat-out wrong?
Starting with, oh, I don't know, maybe. . . not throttling their most loyal customers?
If you buy an Intel-based Mac, what is illegal about dual-booting another OS on it in the first place, hmmmm?
Exactly. I also rip nearly every DVD I buy and keep them on a hard drive - no having to dig up a DVD when I want to watch it. Right now I am ripping The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (what a pain in the neck, if I knew it was copy protected beyond CSS I'd have not bought it, but downloaded it instead) and will keep it on my hard drive indefinitely, in both native resolution and transcoded to 320x(whatever) for viewing on my PocketPC.
Nope - ATI had an AMC header on its early All-in-Wonder cards so you could connect a second tuner (in the form of the ATI-TV) and record one show while watching another.
Also, more specific to your question, there was nothing stopping you from recording one show while watching another, except for dropped frames from slow throughput to the hard drive. This could be worked around on a SCSI system, but IDE sucked in that regard.
I'd believe $39 for total cost of manufacture and <$100 for a basic DVR with DVD or DVD-RW drive, but not $39 to the end customer.
If they had any savvy in the beginning, they'd have opted for a "Powered by Tivo!" logo in the guide, on the box, and on the remote. Instead, they effectively locked themselves out of the market.
I mean, how would that hurt Comcast, Cox, or Adelphia?
Adelphia DVR! | Comcast DVR | Cox DVR
Powered by Tivo
Adelphia, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, etc. would be able to focus on their branding, and give nod to Tivo's back end for the substantial licensing and hardware discounts. Not only that, with the market penetration cable companies enjoy, Tivo would have achieved a much greater penetration, much more quickly.
What about upgrade cycles? Not a problem. People would eventually want to have more than 40/80/160/300 hours' worth of capacity as time goes on. I know I'd want all nine seasons' worth of Stargate, all four (five? four?) seasons of Futurama on it, PLUS the ability to record more stuff as desired.
But then, hindsight is 20/20. Tivo lost out, and IMHO the patent isn't worth crap since video capture cards have been around since before Tivo existed, some even with guides. Prior art, from ATI, Matrix, Nvidia, Hauppauge, and many others.
I wouldn't - not until I can copy the timeshifted show to my (Linux) PC, PocketPC. or a CD or DVD so I can watch it while at the office, traveling, or whaever. Also, I will be the one who decides when it gets deleted, not the broadcast network, and certainly not Tivo.
Until then, it'll be ATI Media Center and MythTV for me.
1. Remove hard drive, install in a known-clean Windows box
2. give Administrator ownership of the system restore directory
3. Run a FULL scan of the drive using multiple tools, in safe mode:
- Ad-Aware
- Spybot S&D
- Microsoft AntiSpyware (I hate to say this but M$'s antispyware program is a great product)
- ClamAV
- A commercial AntiVirus program
4. Reinstall HDD into original machine, run Microsoft's MRT
This way, even stealth rootkits can be removed, providing there is a signature for it. If you boot from that drive, the latest-generation rootkits can completely hide themselves from the system, even if you have signatures to detect them. Thankfully they're not so widespread yet, but give the script kiddies a few more months and they will be.
No, it's very different.
The moment Google is convicted of being a monopoly abusing its position and uses its advantage to unfairly squelch competition through price fixing, and then triples or quadruples prices after the competition is rendered impotent, come back and make that argument. Until that day, the point you're raising does not apply to Google.
The first account you create is an admin account, much like Windows XP Home (and incidentally some of the more "user friendly" Linux distributions (such as Linspire, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, etc). There is NOTHING stopping you from RTFM for the most basic info and creating new accounts for day-to-day productivity tasks on a *nix variant.
While this admittedly won't stop apache from getting hit by a worm, but if apache is properly configured it's living in a chroot jail and won't affect anything outside of ITS account, and a clamdscan will address most if not all apache infections.
Aside from idiots who chmod -R 777 /, OS X would remain relatively easy to recover from malware were it to become widespread. YOu might have to delete $home in some cases but being basically a Unix variant, the system itself should be relatively immune from a system-wide infection.
This presumes of course you don't log into OS X as admin or root on a regular basis, but only for *gasp* administrative tasks.
I know of one company which continually gets rooted, but they INSIST on running as admin all the time, AND chmod -R 777 / -- why? because they don't LIKE security. They dislike the inconvenience of not sharing out / and having to drop files only in certain folders. *knock knock* McFly, anyone home? THey don't want their machines rooted, they're tired of seeing the mouse cursors move and applications being used if they happen to be there off-hours, and yet they refuse to take most basic precautions and take advantage of OS X's security architecture - instead they work to defeat it, intentionally so, and then blame IT folks because they can't solve the problem. They've gotten to the point where no mac-savvy people will do work for them, and if I know them well, it'd take a reformat/reinstall of EVERY box at this point to get their network cleaned up again.
When it hits the shelves I plan to buy it and install it on a PC, and Apple will lose nothing.
t chassis.
In fact, they will have gained a customer. I like OS X, but I HATE, repeat HATE their hardware. The hardware may be very, very compatible with OS X, but the reliability? Sorry, I see WAY too many G5 tower and iMac failures to respect the quality argument.
Sure, their cases (well, some of them) are the best-looking in the market (now that SGI has turned their cases into gamer-box-looking atrocities), but their power supplies are known to be crap, the motherboards are not much better, and if you look at the laptops, well, they have the highest failure rate in the industry according to several surveys - even when HP, Dell, and Toshiba's low-end crap are included in the stats. I'd rather build the highest-quality whitebox I possibly can, using a nice quiet case like Antec's Sonata II, then I can have a nice quiet OS X computing experience in a fairly OK-looking-but-very-well-built-and-extremely-quie
What will apple have lost? Nothing.
What will have they gained? A software sale - with more likely to follow as they release followup versions.
I won't buy a Mac for personal use. I will buy one or two for the office because I pretty much have to.
There is porn on the internet? I'm shocked!!
Any Pony porn out there? OMG Ponies!!!
re: Ooooh, a search engine! How innovative, Google. I mean, given Yahoo!, Altavista and what not, a *search* engine?
In its onset, Google was groundbreaking because evaluating the "importance" of sites based almost entirely on hyperlinks WAS innovative when AltaVista, then search-engine king, was flooded with META tag and content spammers - unfortunately doorway pages and link farms was breaking Google severely for a while (they still are to some extent) until they started placing a bit more weight on relavent content AND got better about detecting doorway pages.
Is it foolproof? of course not - last night I was looking for reviews on flight computer watches and came across a record label (whose name is confusingly similar to Capitol Records, by the way) which was using doorway pages and javascript redirects (and of course cloaking) - to that, I have to ask: why the hell would I be interested in a music label when trying to research the Pulsar and Citizen flight computer watches?
All the same, it's generally better than previous search engine technology. Yahoo has surpassed Google in some areas for search results in many areas because Google's automated detection of linkfarms and doorway pages is so imperfect, but I'd bet it's a matter of short time before they come up with the next great way to detect that sort of thing. As far as cloaking detection goes, there is a simple solution: create a new robot which parses pages more like a typical browser with an MSIE or Firefox user agent, sample 10% to 15% of indexed web sites (I mean 10% to 15% of each site) using that robot, and that robot should query the sites through consumer ISPs such as Verizon, Comcast, Cox, SBC, and so forth (to hit the sites from IP ranges outside of Google's allocation), and scrape the pages and make sure that the content actually matches - then they can be the likes of TrafficPower (or whatever those fucks are calling themselves THIS week) and permanently ban people using deceptive schemes from ever getting back into the index.
Now as far as Google's offering music: They should become an independent label. They have the visibility (isn't their search engine share somewhere between 70% and 90% of Internet users globally?) for market penetration - practically FREE advertising, and many independent bands simply looking for a distributor produce their own albums and just need a good distributor and a company which can produce the glass CD for duplication. Google can certainly handle all of that with extreme ease, and the likes of Sprawl*Mart, Worst Buy, Circuit Slum, and other shops will certainly want to offer Google labeled-bands so they can get a share of at least the tangible sales (I know I'd want a CD along with all the artwork rather than a download). Google can do this very competitively, and if they do it right, they can dominate the market WITHOUT the artists even having to get involved in forking 50% of their take over to Artist Rights Society to avoid getting raped by the labels. That is of course, Google intends to continue backing their "Do No Evil" motto.
First one to invoke Godwin's law loses!
But see, the F-22 is SHINY plus in 25-35 years they'll sell them off to the elite as surplus aircraft for use in aerobatic exhibitions. Minus hardpoints and avionics, of course.
Furthermore, you do not even have to infer the intent but read it in black and white!
So much for the "new world order" and "1,000 points of light" crap being just fun-to-read conspiracy theories. I need to re-read "En Route to Global Occupation" and "Behold a Pale Horse" again.
More like Pinky trying take over the world without Brain. Poit!
. . . but what if Osama won't wear the Nylons?
Download Asterisk@Home and try it out. Here is what you'll get:
- Asterisk with preconfigured scripts typical for most companies (you just need to define the calling plan via a point-and-click interface). You get a call queue monitor (Flash Operator Panel) that puts any conventional PBX ACD monitor to shame, a web interface to voice mail, extremely detailed call logs, (theoretically) unlimited expansion capability, all pre-integrated with a quasi-open-source CRM (SugarCRM).
Ever set up a conventional PBX? It takes longer and you will NOT get a point-and-face interface, but an interface of beeps, or if you're very lucky, voice prompts. No visuals.
It seems to me that the Open Source community beat IBM to the punch with the world's first Internet Telephony SUITE. No, it wasn't asterisk, which as you mentioned is just a framework, but by the Asterisk@Home folks, who built a complete SUITE on CentOS. All open source all the way through, with the exception of SugarCRM which is not true open source.
Asterisk in and of itself is not a solution. I agree with you there.
Asterisk@Home is a solution.
IN other words, Asterisk + FreePBX + FOP + ARI + SugarCRM is a solution - or if you object to SugarCRM's non-Open status, you can use vTiger as your CRM solution instead.
Of course, you'll probably still claim it's not a solution, either not having read the sites I pointed you to, or being an IBM or 3Com employee involved with "IBM's and 3COM's plan for the first internet telephony suite" - which is typical considering that IBM pushes open source when it suits them, and ignores its existence when it suits them in their desire to claim to be first.
Disclaimer: I am NOT a member of the Asterisk@Home development team, nor Digium, nor any of the other components of the suite. I just happen to think it's a great solution after having spent quite a while evaluating various PBX solutions.
Asterisk is too complicated for you to configure? Unable to add the FreePBX web interface? Can't manage to get the Flash Operator Panel working?
Let me introduce you to Asterisk@Home which is uber-easy to configure (get your PBX up and running in an hour or two!), or if the "@Home" name is too objectionable for your PHB, the shiny Asterisk@Work logo so you can convince him that an open source project is suited for business use.
All you had to say was May 1. :)
Perhaps because Sun already has successful Open source and free projects and standards with huge followings.