Ok, a great example would be the law he's proposing in this article. Let's say it doesn't pass - but now the idea is there, and some form of it will keep popping up until it slips through. Whether it passes or not this time, I'm sure it will at some point, and I hold him partially responsible for even suggesting it.
I can't believe this crap is still going on - That would be like when Hatch is moving into a new house, and it turns out his cable is active (from the last owner) and since he didn't pay for new service, and is "stealing" it until he gets hooked up under his name, that AT&T should be able to blow up his TV. This guy is a moron, and I hope he dies a slow, painful death for damage he is doing to this country's already-screwed up laws.
Yeah, you make some great points here about the way this country works in terms of power, etc. I could slap up my own solar panels on my roof in suburban colorado, but as far as wind power goes, I doubt the old HOA will allow me to install a huge windmill on my roof:) I'd love to have some nice solar panels up around my house generating power so I wouldn't have to purchase it from the dirty sources you talk about.
I think that US states like California and Florida need to investigate energy strategies like this as soon as possible. With all these recent improvements with Solar, Wind, and now Tidal energy sources, I'm amazed that the US isn't doing more to utilize them.
Yes I did read the summary and the article. Yes, I realize that my personal information per se isn't being sent anywhere, but as a whole it is. It all comes back to how many people have tivo in my zipcode, and I bet it's not very many.
This is not good. I never planned on having large companies having access to my tv viewing habits. This angers me greatly. But, on the other hand - if it keeps Tivo in business, I guess I'd rather have them stay in business. But I sure would like to see some sort of opt-out feature here.
I actually got my Sony for $275, while the A05 goes for about $50 less than that.... Well, for $50 I'll take both standards any day. And yes, you're right - I'm sure the A05 might make better discs for set top players, but with the players I've tried, I have found that only software affects what plays and what doesn't. I mean, it all seems to depend on how I burn those movies to whether or not they will play - I used one program on both drives, and they both refused to play. I make a slight adjustment on both drives with the software, and both discs now play on my set top players. I currently have a Sony set top player that's a year old and a PS2. My brother n law as a generic off brand dvd player, but only the -R format reads in his no matter how I burn the discs.
I have a pioneer A05 at work and the Sony DRU 500 at home.... and I can tell you that the Pioneer is not worth the money when you can buy Sony for a bit more and have it do both standards.
While I agree with you that DVD-R is the only standard approved by the DVD Forum, I disagree that it will disappear. I wanted it to go away from the start, trust me - but it hasn't, and I had to get a burner that did both standards if I wanted to find the best price on discs. For example, my PS2 will only read specific brands of discs, ie Verbatim. Verbatim makes both DVD-R and DVD+R discs. I can get a 15 pack of DVD-R for $35 - but Best Buy and Sam's Club stopped carrying them, so they are next to impossible to find. I can however buy a 50 spindle DVD+R Verbatim discs at Sam's for $80, and they are very easy to find. So, I don't see your logic about DVD+R going away any time soon.
Ha, you're exactly right. The 85 octane gas is nothing but an excuse to screw us over on the 87 and the 91 gas. Also, you'll be happy to know one thing - auto insurance in this state is about to get a whole lot cheaper if things go like I have heard. The no-fault clause is gone now, so rates may get reasonable very soon. And yeah, the roads are terrible....
This will also be good for people who don't care about watching dvds on their consoles because I bet you'll find a TON of used ps2s on ebay now before the dvd features got upgraded... I'm guessing you'll be able to pick up a used ps2 for about $140 on ebay soon if you can't already.
Right on man - I'm tired of people equating the RIAA with the government. There are plenty of other reasons to have equipment like this that don't involve infringing on copyrights held by the RIAA. It's just too bad that the average person who holds a copyright doesn't have as much say with Congress as the big guys do...
I was over at my cousin's place last week, and he bought one of those massive 60 inch wide screen tvs. I thought it was pretty damn cool, until I noticed something disturbing - even when we were watching something on ABC, NBC, or any other major network on TV in widescreen, we still had the black lines at the top of the screen like you would on a square tv. He has DirecTV, and all I could think is that this had something to do with the DirecTV feed, but I have no idea. I didn't get to see a DVD played on it, so I don't know how it worked like that. But, the widescreen stuff displaying like that on TV made me not want a big TV because the actors faces were all scrunched up, and you still had that annoying black space on the screen. I thought the point of the widescreen tv was to eliminate that crap. We messed around with all the display settings on the TV, but never thought to mess with the directv settings.
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. I had to laugh when I read that post. Does that mean the PS2 are Xbox are also supporting piracy by having network adapters?
It's sick that taxpayer dollars were spent on liberating Iraq - only to force the newly "freed" citizens to abide by things like U.S. copyright laws. So, all that tax money was spent to deepen the pockets of big business that have the privelage of setting up monopolies over there. Who the hell died and made the Bush administration king of Iraq? Oh, right. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for ousting Sadamm and freeing the people - but there is no way in hell we should be worrying about things like copyright laws when people don't even have enough food to eat because we took down their functioning government.
I completely feel your man. I installed Red Hat 8.0, and was insanely ticked to find out that the included RPM for apache 2.0.40 would not work with MX! Even though Red Hat back-ports most of the new fixes into their apache builds, CFMX was not smart enough to figure out it had been modified. I had to uninstall Apache, PHP, and everything else that was dependent upon Apache, and build my own. There's a reason I use a distro's RPMS people!! It saves me a ton of time, but when CFMX wouldn't work with it, I had no choice. I eventually got the updater 2 package to work with Apache 2.0.44... one day after fighting with it and finally getting it to work, I got an email that updater 3 is out!?! I haven't bothered installing it yet because I've already spent waaayyy too much time messing with it. It's just not worth it - stick with CF 5.0 and Apache 1.3.X!!
I've used apache 2.0.40 and 2.0.44. I use PHP and ColdFusion with apache on Red Hat Linux. Every freaking time I upgrade apache, I have to completely recompile most modules with it. And even once you get past that, there are some stability issues with PHP. I compiled in support for Apache 2.0.44 with PHP 4.3.1. So far, it's been a nightmare. PHP will randomly corrupt data that I insert into mysql tables. You may think it might be a mysql problem, but if I use the same database with Apache 1.3.27 and PHP 4.1, everything is cool. So, unless you have to switch, don't yet. They will work out the bugs, and then when they do, you know 2.0.X is gonna rock and become yet another legendary product put out by the Apache group.
I think you're exactly right - if we could just start using more solar, hydro, and geothermal to produce a lot more hydrogen, it would be very easy to switch to something else rather than replace millions of automobiles in exchange for something else. The only thing that scares me about hydrogen is the explosion part.... Car wrecks could definitely get a lot scarier.
And when the battery goes dead, bye-bye data. Stuff like this scares me. I'm concerned enough about losing all my data on a current hard disk that can exist without power - if I had to keep my machine pumped full of electricity all the time, I'd be even more paranoid about losing stuff at random.
I purchased a DirecTivo last year with a DirecTV dish and some other stuff for $390. I bought an open box item from Circuit City. On the price tag for the Tivo unit in huge ass letters it read "Before $100 rebate from Sony". I bought the damned thing, extremely happy with my purchase for a supposed $289. I filled out all the proper forms exactly as Circuit City instructed me, and sent them in with the bar code from the box. 3 months later, I got a note from Sony claiming I had forgotten the bar code.... I was super pissed because I know I sent it in. But, fortunately for me, I saved the Tivo box and it had a second bar code on it! So, I took the letter they sent, included the new bar code, and sent it all back in. That was over a year ago. I have yet to recieve my rebate. Fcsk Sony, fsck Circuit City, and fcsk rebates.
Slashdot Mirror
Ooh, ooh, call on me! Is price a good enough reason??
Ha ha, that's a great analogy, I like it. Better be careful, the government might decided you need to have an amputation performed in the near future!
Ok, a great example would be the law he's proposing in this article. Let's say it doesn't pass - but now the idea is there, and some form of it will keep popping up until it slips through. Whether it passes or not this time, I'm sure it will at some point, and I hold him partially responsible for even suggesting it.
I can't believe this crap is still going on - That would be like when Hatch is moving into a new house, and it turns out his cable is active (from the last owner) and since he didn't pay for new service, and is "stealing" it until he gets hooked up under his name, that AT&T should be able to blow up his TV. This guy is a moron, and I hope he dies a slow, painful death for damage he is doing to this country's already-screwed up laws.
Yeah, you make some great points here about the way this country works in terms of power, etc. I could slap up my own solar panels on my roof in suburban colorado, but as far as wind power goes, I doubt the old HOA will allow me to install a huge windmill on my roof :) I'd love to have some nice solar panels up around my house generating power so I wouldn't have to purchase it from the dirty sources you talk about.
I think that US states like California and Florida need to investigate energy strategies like this as soon as possible. With all these recent improvements with Solar, Wind, and now Tidal energy sources, I'm amazed that the US isn't doing more to utilize them.
Yes I did read the summary and the article. Yes, I realize that my personal information per se isn't being sent anywhere, but as a whole it is. It all comes back to how many people have tivo in my zipcode, and I bet it's not very many.
You know what? You're wrong. I care, and I care that that information is being sent to people I don't know about.
This is not good. I never planned on having large companies having access to my tv viewing habits. This angers me greatly. But, on the other hand - if it keeps Tivo in business, I guess I'd rather have them stay in business. But I sure would like to see some sort of opt-out feature here.
I actually got my Sony for $275, while the A05 goes for about $50 less than that.... Well, for $50 I'll take both standards any day. And yes, you're right - I'm sure the A05 might make better discs for set top players, but with the players I've tried, I have found that only software affects what plays and what doesn't. I mean, it all seems to depend on how I burn those movies to whether or not they will play - I used one program on both drives, and they both refused to play. I make a slight adjustment on both drives with the software, and both discs now play on my set top players. I currently have a Sony set top player that's a year old and a PS2. My brother n law as a generic off brand dvd player, but only the -R format reads in his no matter how I burn the discs.
$16 plus $10 equals $36? No wonder I flunked math...
I have a pioneer A05 at work and the Sony DRU 500 at home.... and I can tell you that the Pioneer is not worth the money when you can buy Sony for a bit more and have it do both standards.
While I agree with you that DVD-R is the only standard approved by the DVD Forum, I disagree that it will disappear. I wanted it to go away from the start, trust me - but it hasn't, and I had to get a burner that did both standards if I wanted to find the best price on discs. For example, my PS2 will only read specific brands of discs, ie Verbatim. Verbatim makes both DVD-R and DVD+R discs. I can get a 15 pack of DVD-R for $35 - but Best Buy and Sam's Club stopped carrying them, so they are next to impossible to find. I can however buy a 50 spindle DVD+R Verbatim discs at Sam's for $80, and they are very easy to find. So, I don't see your logic about DVD+R going away any time soon.
Ha, you're exactly right. The 85 octane gas is nothing but an excuse to screw us over on the 87 and the 91 gas. Also, you'll be happy to know one thing - auto insurance in this state is about to get a whole lot cheaper if things go like I have heard. The no-fault clause is gone now, so rates may get reasonable very soon. And yeah, the roads are terrible....
This will also be good for people who don't care about watching dvds on their consoles because I bet you'll find a TON of used ps2s on ebay now before the dvd features got upgraded... I'm guessing you'll be able to pick up a used ps2 for about $140 on ebay soon if you can't already.
Right on man - I'm tired of people equating the RIAA with the government. There are plenty of other reasons to have equipment like this that don't involve infringing on copyrights held by the RIAA. It's just too bad that the average person who holds a copyright doesn't have as much say with Congress as the big guys do...
I was over at my cousin's place last week, and he bought one of those massive 60 inch wide screen tvs. I thought it was pretty damn cool, until I noticed something disturbing - even when we were watching something on ABC, NBC, or any other major network on TV in widescreen, we still had the black lines at the top of the screen like you would on a square tv. He has DirecTV, and all I could think is that this had something to do with the DirecTV feed, but I have no idea. I didn't get to see a DVD played on it, so I don't know how it worked like that. But, the widescreen stuff displaying like that on TV made me not want a big TV because the actors faces were all scrunched up, and you still had that annoying black space on the screen. I thought the point of the widescreen tv was to eliminate that crap. We messed around with all the display settings on the TV, but never thought to mess with the directv settings.
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. I had to laugh when I read that post. Does that mean the PS2 are Xbox are also supporting piracy by having network adapters?
It's sick that taxpayer dollars were spent on liberating Iraq - only to force the newly "freed" citizens to abide by things like U.S. copyright laws. So, all that tax money was spent to deepen the pockets of big business that have the privelage of setting up monopolies over there. Who the hell died and made the Bush administration king of Iraq? Oh, right. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for ousting Sadamm and freeing the people - but there is no way in hell we should be worrying about things like copyright laws when people don't even have enough food to eat because we took down their functioning government.
I completely feel your man. I installed Red Hat 8.0, and was insanely ticked to find out that the included RPM for apache 2.0.40 would not work with MX! Even though Red Hat back-ports most of the new fixes into their apache builds, CFMX was not smart enough to figure out it had been modified. I had to uninstall Apache, PHP, and everything else that was dependent upon Apache, and build my own. There's a reason I use a distro's RPMS people!! It saves me a ton of time, but when CFMX wouldn't work with it, I had no choice. I eventually got the updater 2 package to work with Apache 2.0.44... one day after fighting with it and finally getting it to work, I got an email that updater 3 is out!?! I haven't bothered installing it yet because I've already spent waaayyy too much time messing with it. It's just not worth it - stick with CF 5.0 and Apache 1.3.X!!
I've used apache 2.0.40 and 2.0.44. I use PHP and ColdFusion with apache on Red Hat Linux. Every freaking time I upgrade apache, I have to completely recompile most modules with it. And even once you get past that, there are some stability issues with PHP. I compiled in support for Apache 2.0.44 with PHP 4.3.1. So far, it's been a nightmare. PHP will randomly corrupt data that I insert into mysql tables. You may think it might be a mysql problem, but if I use the same database with Apache 1.3.27 and PHP 4.1, everything is cool. So, unless you have to switch, don't yet. They will work out the bugs, and then when they do, you know 2.0.X is gonna rock and become yet another legendary product put out by the Apache group.
I think you're exactly right - if we could just start using more solar, hydro, and geothermal to produce a lot more hydrogen, it would be very easy to switch to something else rather than replace millions of automobiles in exchange for something else. The only thing that scares me about hydrogen is the explosion part.... Car wrecks could definitely get a lot scarier.
And when the battery goes dead, bye-bye data. Stuff like this scares me. I'm concerned enough about losing all my data on a current hard disk that can exist without power - if I had to keep my machine pumped full of electricity all the time, I'd be even more paranoid about losing stuff at random.
I purchased a DirecTivo last year with a DirecTV dish and some other stuff for $390. I bought an open box item from Circuit City. On the price tag for the Tivo unit in huge ass letters it read "Before $100 rebate from Sony". I bought the damned thing, extremely happy with my purchase for a supposed $289. I filled out all the proper forms exactly as Circuit City instructed me, and sent them in with the bar code from the box. 3 months later, I got a note from Sony claiming I had forgotten the bar code.... I was super pissed because I know I sent it in. But, fortunately for me, I saved the Tivo box and it had a second bar code on it! So, I took the letter they sent, included the new bar code, and sent it all back in. That was over a year ago. I have yet to recieve my rebate. Fcsk Sony, fsck Circuit City, and fcsk rebates.
Unreal Tournament