Yeah, good call. I've been copying TV shows from my DirecTivo for about 2 years now if I remember right. A little program called TyTools is a life saver, and the guy who writes it is very good.
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You're right - I don't think Tivo should be trying to make money based of a subscription model, I think they should price them higher and compete on features. Anybody can download a program guide into Myth for free right now, Tivo should just adopt the same plan and sell better-featured hardware at a higher cost. I know I'd pay it.
I'm not saying a global economy is bad by any measure - what I am saying is that the "disposable society" in with we live is very harmful to the world. I've had the same lawn mower for 10 years now. It's a high quality machine that I plan on using for many more years to come. I don't care if it was made in the U.S. or China - but what I do care about is that the resources that were used to manufacture it were not wasted. If I had to buy a new one every year, I would be very disappointed in knowing that valuable resources were wasted every year I had to buy a one. With my mower, the same piece of steel used in the body of the thing has worked great for over a decade now. I feel as badly about wasting resources everytime I need a new car, drink a can of soda out of a can, etc. The world needs to broadly adopt strategies that conserve resources. The problem is usually that captialism is in direct conflict with conservation.
I wish I had mod points to give you right now. You're 100% right - the Wal Mart economy is ruining the planet and giving America an even worse reputation than we have now. I won't shop at Wal Mart, and I wish more people would join me. Lower prices aren't always a good thing.
Yeah, you're right. I only build AMD systems because they run cooler, faster, etc, etc - when compared to the Pentium 4 that is. With this new Intel CPU, things have changed. AMD needs to respond quickly with a good dual core notebook product. Unfortunately, they still haven't mastered the 65 nm process yet - so it will be a while. My question is, is the CoreDuo 64 bit? If not, it seems rather stupid to buy one of these right now.
Unless it was your family member sitting idol at a stop light when some drunk driver smashes into them. With the new lack of safety restraints, your loved one is now completely mangled and left for dead.
I'm just saying it's a theory that seems fine until it hits home.
That's one way to look at it - another is to say that more people drive drunk in a car than on a motorcycle. Or you could take a look at the numbers and probably say that more drivers 16 to 18 drive cars rather than motorcycles. There are a lot of possible explinations for the data - and obviously a lot of different scenarios intertwined into one another. I think making cars less safe is an insane idea, and it would kill thousands of more people each year.
You're wrong about the amateur thing.... The US and Canada, along with other countries, have professional hockey players representing them. During the summer olympics, the NBA allows their players to compete as well. It's up to each invidual country to allow or not allow their athletes on the team.
"They don't even have dual tuners in them so you're stuck watching pre-recorded content while it's recording something unless you put in a splitter to watch live TV."
I have a dual tuner Tivo right now and I love it. It's a DirecTivo of course, the Sony SAT-T60. It doesn't do HD obviously, but the minute they come out with the series 3 HD dual tuner ones, I'm all over it. That means I'll have to drop DirecTV, but since they dissed Tivo, I have no problem with that.
Yeah, I actually have a Tivo, not an HD one, but a standard dual tuner directivo - and I've got it completely hacked. I can transfer anything from TV to my computer via ftp, or streaming, and save it as lossless mpeg2. When I say lossless, I ofcourse mean compared to the format they beamed it into my house from, not from the original source ofcourse. I'm pretty happy with that - but now that I have an HD TV, I'll be working on getting a new Tivo to hack that does HD.
And that's the largest problem, you said analog. I want Digital. But I won't get it unless politics in this country are revamped in the next 5 years. Not going to happen.
The people you know with 64 chips are idiots then. If you own a copy of Windows XP 64, you should have no problem finding 64 bit drivers for most modern hardware, with the exception of some older HP printers:
And for the uneducated and/or ignorant, the 64 bit version of windows STILL RUNS 32 BIT APPS JUST FINE. The only time an app may not function is if it communicates to a hardware device like a printer or CD burner. Which, by the way, CD burning apps like Nero 6 & 7 support just fine. Also, McAfee has a 64 bit verison of their antivirus software, which is included in the SAME installer as the 32 bit version, so no need for 2 seperate installers. I won't even got into detail about all the 64 bit linux distributions which have been out for several years now.
If you have a 64 bit chip and you couldn't find drivers for modern based hardware, you didn't try hard enough, or at all for that matter. Windows Vista will be 64 bit by default, yet include a legacy 32 bit version as well that won't have all the features of the 64 bit version, such as requiring signed drivers. All you have to do is google for the info, and you will find it.
"Firefox, from what I hear, is an eminently usable Web browser, and Internet Explorer is hardly critical to most Web applications. Yet, only a relatively small fraction of users make the effort to switch."
From what you hear?!?? It's free, runs on any OS you would want it to, and it's a small easy download. Why wouldn't you try it for yourself?
I've thought about this, and it won't work using webmail. Here's why:
1) For starters, it's more than email. It syncs Outlook contacts and calendar items, but yes - I know there are plenty of PDA/phone alternatives for those functions - but it's nice they sync wirelessly. If you make a change in Outlook, it syncs through the air. Very cool.
2) You said Webmail, which is nice when you turn it on and login to check yourself. The BB is nice because you don't have to check, it checks for you. It shows a message icon when you get a new one. It can also ring, vibrate, or light up when you get a new message. No webmail app is going to do that for you.
3) You can then email people just like you can with Outlook directly from your Address book / contacts, which I already mentioned sync wirelessly.
If somebody can come up with a good alternative to BB, let me know - I'm all ears.
Yes, I've been hearing for 2 yrs now how right around the corner Intel will release a 64 bit notebook chip. It hasn't happened yet, and anybody who bought a computer this year from Dell, IBM, and a host of others that their notebooks are not 64 bit and unable to run the latest windows release next year.
64 bit computing is not overhyped - it's a necessity to those of us who like to do video editing. More memory equals faster work. The AMD64 memory controller allows for huge amounts of RAM to be used.
Intel has been going around the last 2 years telling people 64 bit computing isn't needed yet. Tell that to Lucas's studios at Skywalker Ranch or any other multimedia professional.
It would be nice if you had the option to have a portable workstation like that with 64 bit capabilities from the likes of Dell and company.
Yes, but the fact remains that the current shipping Pentium M chips are NOT 64 bit, which is completely retarded. I don't care if it uses less power or is a bit faster than the Turion if it won't be able to run natively compiled 64 bit apps next year. I would expect a computer that I purchase this year be capable of running the 64 bit of Windows Vista. Anything less is a waste of money in my opinion. I would be all over the Pentium M because it is a bit faster and cooler than AMD's products - but it has that MAJOR flaw, and Intel has done nothing to correct that for 2 years now. Sure, the next chip will be 64 bit - but for all the people buying Dell laptops right now are completely screwed. That's a fact I find very hard to overlook.
I'm running a Gigabyte Nforce 4 Ultra motherboard for my AMD X2 cpu. I have a RAID 5 setup on it with 3 drives. This motherboard doesn't have active cooling on the chipset, and the temp reading on it reguarly hits 70C. That bothers me, mainly because I'm thinking that if the motherboard dies, I'm SOL with my data right? If I understand right, I should probably get myself a dedicated SATA RAID card and dump the motherboard solution in case the board dies, correct? I have this board:
Yeah - I had one in November or December 1997, and I got it used off of Ebay. So, in order for me to get it used, somebody must have had it before me. Sure, I paid $300 for the thing and it wrote at 2x and was an external SCSI drive, but it worked great switching between my Mac and Windows PCs.
It's called a warrant. There is nothing wrong with acquiring a warrant BEFORE you snoop on somebody. The court will make you have a reason. If the suspect gave money to a terrorist org or did something that makes him a suspect, they can get a damn warrant. That system has worked well for the justice system for many, many years now. There is no reason to dump the system just because the president says so.
Right - but if you had to buy Nvidia hardware to use the software, then a royalty could be paid for each device, not for each software download/install. Surely that could be built into the price of the card if it's not already and nobody would notice. And yes, I realize not everybody who uses the hardware needs this - but it seems overpriced to pay $20 for each copy.
You obviously didn't carefully read my post - I think it's greedy to charge for the damn codec to use the hardware you already paid for. I never said they couldn't charge whatever they wanted for the gear, they obviously charge a ton of money for it. Then on top of that, you pay for a DVD codec. It doesn't make sense.
I believe the point of that original statement was concerning the H.264 and DVD codec improvements compared to their main competitor, Nvidia. As you may or may not know, Nvidia charges money for their DVD codec:
I will never buy another ATI product again because I've been burned so badly by drivers in the past - however, I'll give ATI credit for not following in the greedy footsteps of their competitor, Nvidia. Charging for a DVD codec that's optimized for their hardware is just stupid. It's not bad enough they charge hundreds of dollars for the hardware? I applaud ATI for this move.
I want to know how many of those units sold were replacements for the shitty first generation ones that died on people! I've had 3 PS1 consoles and also 2 PS2 consoles. Crappy lasers make crappy console parts.
"Each instantiation will be unique, personalized for a particular machine and Internet address; encrypted to discourage hacking; and expires after a few hours. After that you'll have to download a new copy."
And that will be the official end of me every buying a game again as long as I live. Under no circumstances will I pay for software usuage with that type of model. I simply won't do it. That also goes for things like MS Office 12, Windows, whatever. If I can't purchase a disc/drive/etc that contains a copy of the software that I'm free to use OFFLINE, then I'm done with non-free, non-opensource software. Windows XP is hard enough to deal with, having to activate it over the net or phone - but if I had to do that everytime I used the damn thing...
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Yeah, good call. I've been copying TV shows from my DirecTivo for about 2 years now if I remember right. A little program called TyTools is a life saver, and the guy who writes it is very good.
You're right - I don't think Tivo should be trying to make money based of a subscription model, I think they should price them higher and compete on features. Anybody can download a program guide into Myth for free right now, Tivo should just adopt the same plan and sell better-featured hardware at a higher cost. I know I'd pay it.
I'm not saying a global economy is bad by any measure - what I am saying is that the "disposable society" in with we live is very harmful to the world. I've had the same lawn mower for 10 years now. It's a high quality machine that I plan on using for many more years to come. I don't care if it was made in the U.S. or China - but what I do care about is that the resources that were used to manufacture it were not wasted. If I had to buy a new one every year, I would be very disappointed in knowing that valuable resources were wasted every year I had to buy a one. With my mower, the same piece of steel used in the body of the thing has worked great for over a decade now. I feel as badly about wasting resources everytime I need a new car, drink a can of soda out of a can, etc. The world needs to broadly adopt strategies that conserve resources. The problem is usually that captialism is in direct conflict with conservation.
I wish I had mod points to give you right now. You're 100% right - the Wal Mart economy is ruining the planet and giving America an even worse reputation than we have now. I won't shop at Wal Mart, and I wish more people would join me. Lower prices aren't always a good thing.
Yeah, you're right. I only build AMD systems because they run cooler, faster, etc, etc - when compared to the Pentium 4 that is. With this new Intel CPU, things have changed. AMD needs to respond quickly with a good dual core notebook product. Unfortunately, they still haven't mastered the 65 nm process yet - so it will be a while. My question is, is the CoreDuo 64 bit? If not, it seems rather stupid to buy one of these right now.
"On the bright side, all possible ideas will be public domain by 2047."
Not if our wonderful U.S. government keeps extending the length of patents.
Unless it was your family member sitting idol at a stop light when some drunk driver smashes into them. With the new lack of safety restraints, your loved one is now completely mangled and left for dead.
I'm just saying it's a theory that seems fine until it hits home.
That's one way to look at it - another is to say that more people drive drunk in a car than on a motorcycle. Or you could take a look at the numbers and probably say that more drivers 16 to 18 drive cars rather than motorcycles. There are a lot of possible explinations for the data - and obviously a lot of different scenarios intertwined into one another. I think making cars less safe is an insane idea, and it would kill thousands of more people each year.
You're wrong about the amateur thing.... The US and Canada, along with other countries, have professional hockey players representing them. During the summer olympics, the NBA allows their players to compete as well. It's up to each invidual country to allow or not allow their athletes on the team.
"They don't even have dual tuners in them so you're stuck watching pre-recorded content while it's recording something unless you put in a splitter to watch live TV."
I have a dual tuner Tivo right now and I love it. It's a DirecTivo of course, the Sony SAT-T60. It doesn't do HD obviously, but the minute they come out with the series 3 HD dual tuner ones, I'm all over it. That means I'll have to drop DirecTV, but since they dissed Tivo, I have no problem with that.
Yeah, I actually have a Tivo, not an HD one, but a standard dual tuner directivo - and I've got it completely hacked. I can transfer anything from TV to my computer via ftp, or streaming, and save it as lossless mpeg2. When I say lossless, I ofcourse mean compared to the format they beamed it into my house from, not from the original source ofcourse. I'm pretty happy with that - but now that I have an HD TV, I'll be working on getting a new Tivo to hack that does HD.
And that's the largest problem, you said analog. I want Digital. But I won't get it unless politics in this country are revamped in the next 5 years. Not going to happen.
The people you know with 64 chips are idiots then. If you own a copy of Windows XP 64, you should have no problem finding 64 bit drivers for most modern hardware, with the exception of some older HP printers:
m d_6.69.html
e ptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=367
s m/network_software/universalprintdriver_overview.h tml
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_81.98.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_winxp64_a
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?d
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/pscmisc/vac/us/en/
And for the uneducated and/or ignorant, the 64 bit version of windows STILL RUNS 32 BIT APPS JUST FINE. The only time an app may not function is if it communicates to a hardware device like a printer or CD burner. Which, by the way, CD burning apps like Nero 6 & 7 support just fine. Also, McAfee has a 64 bit verison of their antivirus software, which is included in the SAME installer as the 32 bit version, so no need for 2 seperate installers. I won't even got into detail about all the 64 bit linux distributions which have been out for several years now.
If you have a 64 bit chip and you couldn't find drivers for modern based hardware, you didn't try hard enough, or at all for that matter. Windows Vista will be 64 bit by default, yet include a legacy 32 bit version as well that won't have all the features of the 64 bit version, such as requiring signed drivers. All you have to do is google for the info, and you will find it.
"Firefox, from what I hear, is an eminently usable Web browser, and Internet Explorer is hardly critical to most Web applications. Yet, only a relatively small fraction of users make the effort to switch."
From what you hear?!?? It's free, runs on any OS you would want it to, and it's a small easy download. Why wouldn't you try it for yourself?
I've thought about this, and it won't work using webmail. Here's why:
1) For starters, it's more than email. It syncs Outlook contacts and calendar items, but yes - I know there are plenty of PDA/phone alternatives for those functions - but it's nice they sync wirelessly. If you make a change in Outlook, it syncs through the air. Very cool.
2) You said Webmail, which is nice when you turn it on and login to check yourself. The BB is nice because you don't have to check, it checks for you. It shows a message icon when you get a new one. It can also ring, vibrate, or light up when you get a new message. No webmail app is going to do that for you.
3) You can then email people just like you can with Outlook directly from your Address book / contacts, which I already mentioned sync wirelessly.
If somebody can come up with a good alternative to BB, let me know - I'm all ears.
Yes, I've been hearing for 2 yrs now how right around the corner Intel will release a 64 bit notebook chip. It hasn't happened yet, and anybody who bought a computer this year from Dell, IBM, and a host of others that their notebooks are not 64 bit and unable to run the latest windows release next year.
64 bit computing is not overhyped - it's a necessity to those of us who like to do video editing. More memory equals faster work. The AMD64 memory controller allows for huge amounts of RAM to be used.
Intel has been going around the last 2 years telling people 64 bit computing isn't needed yet. Tell that to Lucas's studios at Skywalker Ranch or any other multimedia professional.
It would be nice if you had the option to have a portable workstation like that with 64 bit capabilities from the likes of Dell and company.
Yes, but the fact remains that the current shipping Pentium M chips are NOT 64 bit, which is completely retarded. I don't care if it uses less power or is a bit faster than the Turion if it won't be able to run natively compiled 64 bit apps next year. I would expect a computer that I purchase this year be capable of running the 64 bit of Windows Vista. Anything less is a waste of money in my opinion. I would be all over the Pentium M because it is a bit faster and cooler than AMD's products - but it has that MAJOR flaw, and Intel has done nothing to correct that for 2 years now. Sure, the next chip will be 64 bit - but for all the people buying Dell laptops right now are completely screwed. That's a fact I find very hard to overlook.
I'm running a Gigabyte Nforce 4 Ultra motherboard for my AMD X2 cpu. I have a RAID 5 setup on it with 3 drives. This motherboard doesn't have active cooling on the chipset, and the temp reading on it reguarly hits 70C. That bothers me, mainly because I'm thinking that if the motherboard dies, I'm SOL with my data right? If I understand right, I should probably get myself a dedicated SATA RAID card and dump the motherboard solution in case the board dies, correct? I have this board:
u cts_GA-K8N%20Ultra-9.htm
http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Prod
Yeah - I had one in November or December 1997, and I got it used off of Ebay. So, in order for me to get it used, somebody must have had it before me. Sure, I paid $300 for the thing and it wrote at 2x and was an external SCSI drive, but it worked great switching between my Mac and Windows PCs.
It's called a warrant. There is nothing wrong with acquiring a warrant BEFORE you snoop on somebody. The court will make you have a reason. If the suspect gave money to a terrorist org or did something that makes him a suspect, they can get a damn warrant. That system has worked well for the justice system for many, many years now. There is no reason to dump the system just because the president says so.
Right - but if you had to buy Nvidia hardware to use the software, then a royalty could be paid for each device, not for each software download/install. Surely that could be built into the price of the card if it's not already and nobody would notice. And yes, I realize not everybody who uses the hardware needs this - but it seems overpriced to pay $20 for each copy.
You obviously didn't carefully read my post - I think it's greedy to charge for the damn codec to use the hardware you already paid for. I never said they couldn't charge whatever they wanted for the gear, they obviously charge a ton of money for it. Then on top of that, you pay for a DVD codec. It doesn't make sense.
I believe the point of that original statement was concerning the H.264 and DVD codec improvements compared to their main competitor, Nvidia. As you may or may not know, Nvidia charges money for their DVD codec:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder.html
I will never buy another ATI product again because I've been burned so badly by drivers in the past - however, I'll give ATI credit for not following in the greedy footsteps of their competitor, Nvidia. Charging for a DVD codec that's optimized for their hardware is just stupid. It's not bad enough they charge hundreds of dollars for the hardware? I applaud ATI for this move.
I want to know how many of those units sold were replacements for the shitty first generation ones that died on people! I've had 3 PS1 consoles and also 2 PS2 consoles. Crappy lasers make crappy console parts.
"Each instantiation will be unique, personalized for a particular machine and Internet address; encrypted to discourage hacking; and expires after a few hours. After that you'll have to download a new copy."
And that will be the official end of me every buying a game again as long as I live. Under no circumstances will I pay for software usuage with that type of model. I simply won't do it. That also goes for things like MS Office 12, Windows, whatever. If I can't purchase a disc/drive/etc that contains a copy of the software that I'm free to use OFFLINE, then I'm done with non-free, non-opensource software. Windows XP is hard enough to deal with, having to activate it over the net or phone - but if I had to do that everytime I used the damn thing...