Interesting thought experiment.. "The death of microsoft". One of those "It's a Wonderful life" -type scenarios. Poof! Microsoft is gone. Windows no longer exists, there is no Microsoft office. Everyone walks into work on Monday and presses power to find nothing happens because their MBR is blank..
For the love of God man, think of Tech support/Help Desk before you go making wishes like that!!
I call shenanigans.. I still see the red flag from time to time, always from the local fox affiliate (Fox 25 Boston) via Comcast cable in Woburn, MA. Almost always on Futurama, the Simpsons, and Family Guy.
I really wish they would sell the Meganne over here in the states.. Renault got a bad reputation here in the 80s, but on a recent trip to France I got to drive one and I liked it. It would be perfect for my commute here in the Boston area. I think its mostly styling I like though, that rear window glass is just neat looking. The other thing that annoys me about US/Euro car differences is that Europe always seems to get more features at a comparable price, and newer/better technology more quickly than the US will deploy it. The Toyota Carolla I drove in France (definately not a Corolla from the US) had all the features that come in our "Lexus" brand. At the very least the US could adopt fender mounted turn signals.. it is such an obvious concept that I don't understand why we don't mandate it here.
Set the dial prefix to ",#401", that's comma, pound sign, four zero one.
Guided setup will then use your USB adapter.
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Umm, not going to try to "convert" you, but I want to point out that a phone line hasn't been required for almost two years. In fact, my Tivos have never been on a phone line, and I wouldn't even know if the modems didn't work.
Because Tivo is dropping the ball.. Updates few and far between that are intended to give me some limited interoperability between my Tivo and my PC and it's attached devices.
Why all that middleman-type slow, unreliable communication? Let me store my MP3s and digital video files directly on the PVR. Let me hook my MP3 player up to it and sync up my podcasts. Let me burn DVDs and CDs straight from the box. Let me hook up external storage, and give it decent network throughput and actually let me access the damn thing over the network for moving my files around. Give it HD output/recording capability. With HD the resolution isn't bad, so let me use a bluetooth KB and mouse and surf the web on my TV. Give it some rudimentary gaming capability (Tetris type stuff).
Okay, now I want all that in a small, somewhat stylish box that doesn't guzzle electricity. I also want a familiar interface, ease of use, and I want it to work out of the box. Also, I want a decent price point.. something just shy of all of the above put together (a bit of a package deal)..
Looking around the only logical answers to the above are a Mac Mini PVR/Media Center, or an ITX/MicroATX MythTV box. The Mac would have the polished Apple interface and most likely not take me forever to set up.
Tivo wants me to do everything through my PC and through their dreadfully slow network interface... plus they've closed the box and keep adding "features" that reduce its value to me (the "red flag" still makes an appearance on Fox channels for me.) Their new features are slow in coming, buggy, and slow. I was as rabid about Tivo as I was about Apple in the series 1 "Happy Hacking!" days. Now they repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot. I would happily throw all three of my Tivos out the window for an equal or greater Apple box if it would allow me to do things straight from the PVR, without the PC middleman.. and hopefully liveable or missing DRM (dreaming, I know.)
Reread the parent.. I paid too much attention to the last paragraph and not to the phrase "on a P2P network"..
A "WTF?" on my part. I'll go beat myself with a clue bat now.
(Fortunately, Fluffy is safe.)
Your kidding me, right? You think that people, press included, have only known about NSA unwarrented wiretaps for the past year or so? A quick search of google groups shows usenet postings about Eschelon and Carnivore going back to the early 90s. The problem is that when you try to explain to most people what the ramifications of programs like these are, they generally either sort you into the 'tin-foil hat' crowd, or feel that if it does exist, it is 'Necessary'. What we are experiencing now is main stream coverage of old news. Then again, most people don't grasp the concept that their cell phone is a radio transmitter and not equivelent to a wired telephone, either.
Glad to see your second post.. I was going to say "show me one of these magical linears".. heh..
But, seriously, does anyone even produce an ATX/BTX Linear? Obviously I'm not talking physical form factor, I'm talking about motherboard/system output specs.
Umm.. Same PSU here, P4 505 (2.66Ghz/566Mhz FSB), 1 SATA Drive, a 9600, 2 120mm fans, DVD-R, and a water pump Is between 90-120 Watts depending on load, confirmed with my multimeter. 120-160 when overclocking. "Spikes" up near 200 or so when the drives spin up. Assuming I should shoot for 50% of rated capacity for reliability, that means even my crappy set up needs a "400W" PSU.
Your processor alone should pull more than 50W..
I'm no physics expert, but from popularly distributed "knowledge" I assume two things *could* be true:
1) The matter of which I'm made was created billions of years ago when very dense, heavy atoms degraded into many more, much less dense atoms as stars colided and glaxies formed, etc.
2) Particles split off from a common source are "entangled", at least some of the time, resulting in the sort of quantum mechanics confusion that measuring the state of one particle changes the state of another, possibly beyond the speed of light, possibly instantly, no matter the distance between the two particles.
Assuming these two things, is it then, possible, that every movement I make, or, indeed, even thoughts I have (as they cause neurochemical activity) causes an instantaneous, correlated change in a group of particles somewhere in the universe which originated from the same heavy atoms my less dense ones broke free of?
If that is the case, what is the probability that those "entangled" particles are in similar configuration to the configuration my particular collection is in.. in other words, am I being mirrored somewhere?
Quantum Mechanics seems to be a pandoras box of thought exercises.. Personally, I am of the opinion that there will eventually be a much simpler theory put forth that explains all of these phenomena, however, we will have to wait for the next great mind to conceive it. QM is just too messy for me to accept. I find the issues with Locality especially troubling, and generally think that if Einstein couldn't think around it, then there is probably something wrong with it, given his history of thinking in new and different ways.
Anyways, geeks of slashdot, where does my above "mirror me" scenario break down? To me, I must have something wrong.
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Interesting thought experiment.. "The death of microsoft". One of those "It's a Wonderful life" -type scenarios. Poof! Microsoft is gone. Windows no longer exists, there is no Microsoft office. Everyone walks into work on Monday and presses power to find nothing happens because their MBR is blank..
For the love of God man, think of Tech support/Help Desk before you go making wishes like that!!
I call shenanigans.. I still see the red flag from time to time, always from the local fox affiliate (Fox 25 Boston) via Comcast cable in Woburn, MA. Almost always on Futurama, the Simpsons, and Family Guy.
I really wish they would sell the Meganne over here in the states.. Renault got a bad reputation here in the 80s, but on a recent trip to France I got to drive one and I liked it. It would be perfect for my commute here in the Boston area. I think its mostly styling I like though, that rear window glass is just neat looking. The other thing that annoys me about US/Euro car differences is that Europe always seems to get more features at a comparable price, and newer/better technology more quickly than the US will deploy it. The Toyota Carolla I drove in France (definately not a Corolla from the US) had all the features that come in our "Lexus" brand. At the very least the US could adopt fender mounted turn signals.. it is such an obvious concept that I don't understand why we don't mandate it here.
Set the dial prefix to ",#401", that's comma, pound sign, four zero one. Guided setup will then use your USB adapter.
Umm, not going to try to "convert" you, but I want to point out that a phone line hasn't been required for almost two years. In fact, my Tivos have never been on a phone line, and I wouldn't even know if the modems didn't work.
Because Tivo is dropping the ball.. Updates few and far between that are intended to give me some limited interoperability between my Tivo and my PC and it's attached devices. Why all that middleman-type slow, unreliable communication? Let me store my MP3s and digital video files directly on the PVR. Let me hook my MP3 player up to it and sync up my podcasts. Let me burn DVDs and CDs straight from the box. Let me hook up external storage, and give it decent network throughput and actually let me access the damn thing over the network for moving my files around. Give it HD output/recording capability. With HD the resolution isn't bad, so let me use a bluetooth KB and mouse and surf the web on my TV. Give it some rudimentary gaming capability (Tetris type stuff). Okay, now I want all that in a small, somewhat stylish box that doesn't guzzle electricity. I also want a familiar interface, ease of use, and I want it to work out of the box. Also, I want a decent price point.. something just shy of all of the above put together (a bit of a package deal).. Looking around the only logical answers to the above are a Mac Mini PVR/Media Center, or an ITX/MicroATX MythTV box. The Mac would have the polished Apple interface and most likely not take me forever to set up. Tivo wants me to do everything through my PC and through their dreadfully slow network interface... plus they've closed the box and keep adding "features" that reduce its value to me (the "red flag" still makes an appearance on Fox channels for me.) Their new features are slow in coming, buggy, and slow. I was as rabid about Tivo as I was about Apple in the series 1 "Happy Hacking!" days. Now they repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot. I would happily throw all three of my Tivos out the window for an equal or greater Apple box if it would allow me to do things straight from the PVR, without the PC middleman.. and hopefully liveable or missing DRM (dreaming, I know.)
Reread the parent.. I paid too much attention to the last paragraph and not to the phrase "on a P2P network".. A "WTF?" on my part. I'll go beat myself with a clue bat now. (Fortunately, Fluffy is safe.)
Isn't this Tor?
Your kidding me, right? You think that people, press included, have only known about NSA unwarrented wiretaps for the past year or so? A quick search of google groups shows usenet postings about Eschelon and Carnivore going back to the early 90s. The problem is that when you try to explain to most people what the ramifications of programs like these are, they generally either sort you into the 'tin-foil hat' crowd, or feel that if it does exist, it is 'Necessary'. What we are experiencing now is main stream coverage of old news. Then again, most people don't grasp the concept that their cell phone is a radio transmitter and not equivelent to a wired telephone, either.
Glad to see your second post.. I was going to say "show me one of these magical linears" .. heh..
But, seriously, does anyone even produce an ATX/BTX Linear? Obviously I'm not talking physical form factor, I'm talking about motherboard/system output specs.
Umm.. Same PSU here, P4 505 (2.66Ghz/566Mhz FSB), 1 SATA Drive, a 9600, 2 120mm fans, DVD-R, and a water pump Is between 90-120 Watts depending on load, confirmed with my multimeter. 120-160 when overclocking. "Spikes" up near 200 or so when the drives spin up. Assuming I should shoot for 50% of rated capacity for reliability, that means even my crappy set up needs a "400W" PSU. Your processor alone should pull more than 50W..
Uhh.. wait.. 1000 Watts @ 12V = 83.333... Amps 4200 Watts @ 42V = 100.00 Amps
I'm no physics expert, but from popularly distributed "knowledge" I assume two things *could* be true: 1) The matter of which I'm made was created billions of years ago when very dense, heavy atoms degraded into many more, much less dense atoms as stars colided and glaxies formed, etc. 2) Particles split off from a common source are "entangled", at least some of the time, resulting in the sort of quantum mechanics confusion that measuring the state of one particle changes the state of another, possibly beyond the speed of light, possibly instantly, no matter the distance between the two particles. Assuming these two things, is it then, possible, that every movement I make, or, indeed, even thoughts I have (as they cause neurochemical activity) causes an instantaneous, correlated change in a group of particles somewhere in the universe which originated from the same heavy atoms my less dense ones broke free of? If that is the case, what is the probability that those "entangled" particles are in similar configuration to the configuration my particular collection is in.. in other words, am I being mirrored somewhere? Quantum Mechanics seems to be a pandoras box of thought exercises.. Personally, I am of the opinion that there will eventually be a much simpler theory put forth that explains all of these phenomena, however, we will have to wait for the next great mind to conceive it. QM is just too messy for me to accept. I find the issues with Locality especially troubling, and generally think that if Einstein couldn't think around it, then there is probably something wrong with it, given his history of thinking in new and different ways. Anyways, geeks of slashdot, where does my above "mirror me" scenario break down? To me, I must have something wrong.