Actually, This works out very well.
I have actually bought and paid for each of the OS's released by MS since 3.1
(pirated 95... said this is cool and bought it)
Now thanks to all of this DRM garbage, usage restrictions, and just general suckage I will not feel bad at all when I download the version that has been cracked to not have DRM, not phone home, and that I can gennerally use however the fsck I want...
First you get the money,
Then you get the SUGAR,
Then you get the power,
then you get the women!
One of the few paths that leads to / ends with a REAL woman in the life of a nerd:(
I have a mythTV box AND a tivo (wife had one with lifetime sub when we got married).
MythTV has come a long way (congrats to the whole team), but as to which is better, you need to evaluate your needs.
When I moved in with my wife first thing I did was upgrade drive and hack the Tivo... as any good slashdotter would. At that time the tivo only really supported video sharing after hacking, and being able to watch on other computers, or send tv shows TO the tivo (either from mythbox or pc) was the most important feature to me (besids season pass)... Back then MythTV ruled hands down... since to get the same functionality you needed to hack Tivo anyway.
Fast forward a few years... I actually UN-hacked the Tivo a while back (left huge drive in though) because the developers actually listened to the community and now provide the ability to share things through the network (both out of and into the tivo), play MP3, picture slideshows... pretty much everything except playing MAME/SNES roms.
If you want the fun of building a Myth box, or want it to be a file server/torrent box, then of course Myth wins hands down.
But... if all you want is for the machine to record all (or just new) episodes of a show, play MP3s, see picture slideshows, watch recorded videos on your pc (or other boxes in the house), or put divx "home movies" INTO the box to watch on your big screen tv... Tivo can provide a pretty simple solution that does the job just as well, or maybe even better...
Actually you can have a bit of fun with the real mail spammers by mailing random things back to them in those nice, prepaid, stamped envelopes.
I have noticed a decline in the amount of junk mail I get since I started mailing their own mailings back, food wrappers, slices of american cheese, bannana peels,... back to them.
.... I would NOT advise you to try flour/baking soda !!!
I worked for a lab that did the automated testing of airbag controllers and though you are all jumping to the "Evil" conclusion (and putting on tinfoil hats) this is really not the case.
Though I will concede these records stay arround for use if some really serious accident were to occur, and some insurance agency with really deep pockets wanted to get the evidence, it could... but that is not why these are in the airbag controller in the first place (that is where the EDR or event data recorder lived on the vehicles I tested controllers for lived)
The reason these are in your vehicle is actually very simple. Think of all the scenarios that occur in a car. Gravel raod, railroad tracks, potholes, ect... you do not want your airbags going off just because you hit a minor bump in the road, or even if you "crash" but at a very low speed (like backing into a pole). The conditions you want to fire the airbags is a very precise set of circumstances. With newer cars that have curtian and many other airbags too, it also wants to take into account "is the car upside down" and such. In order to make the most accurate assessment possible, and thus have the least false positives possible, as much data must be recorded for consideration as possible.... RPM, Orientations, TIRE PRESSURE,... the list is long. The catch is only 10 seconds or so is usually kept.... just enough for a crash/pre-crash record.... I know this is slashdot, and we (yes me too) usually assume it is the government/big brother watching and trying to control us, but for a change, this is nothing but trying to make cars as safe as can be. It just so happens a side effect of this is allowing insurance agencies to get a better glimpse of what was really going on... but really, is honesty ever really a bad thing? If somebody rear ends you, and said they were going 25mph, and your accelerometer/ their EDR said they were going 50mph wouldn't you want that to be known by the judge? If not... enjoy you will probably be enjoying your airbags a lot more if you live on bumpy roads or near train tracks.
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
Anon stats, not a problem.
IF that then pisses off network admins and they disable fast forward, or put small commercials INTO the fast forward... ... I will find myself at dealdatabase and other such sites waiting for the smart people to disable that "feature" for me.
hacking the tivo was once worth it to get a lot of extra functionality out of the box. Tivo saw this and build almost everything I wanted into the software (eventually) so I un-hacked it and have been running for quite a while (other than LARGE hd)... but mess with the ad skip (Select play select 30 select) and it will be re-hacked REALLY quick.
if we know for sure it's coming ahead of time the update can be blocked too... This should be watched very closely
Blizzard,
I hate to be the one who has to tell you this, but people are still going to whine about the game being improperly balanced or their character class being underpowered. as soon as somebody in WOW loses a dual/pvp combat it must have been because their class is unbalanced.
There are people out there that will complain that their mage can not win a sword fight with a paladin.
That is the nature of a MMO... people will complain.
you can either do what SOE did and continually change the game listening to the complainers, slowly making the people who liked the game as it initially was quit (and you will eventually be left with a GREAT warcraft-starwars galaxies clone),
OR you could take a stand and tell the people if they dont like to get beaten by paladins, make a paladin, and when you dont like getting beaten by rogues, make a rogue. If you still cant deal with it point them at the box and say it is rated for teens and up, and suggest they go play some bob the builder.
If the SWG is pre all their pathing to make the game more "fun" it is useless. Most of the people who would want to buy it already had bought the extra few addons.
If the game is post "game enhancing" patches then is is useless because nobody WANTS to play. This seems like a waste of energy on SOE's part.
Maybe they should pump the extra money into something like SWGEmu will have going soon so some of us could play the game it we once knew and loved.
That would probably depend on the buisness
If Coke were able to find out the recipes for all it's compeditor's colas then they could release
Coke-P - coke that taste's just like Pepsi
Pondwater - Coke that taste's like RC-Cola
Maybe your proprietary secrets are the customers themselves... do you want telemarketers (or worse) stealing your information from another company?
Guild wars is NOT the same as an MMO.
It is more like Diablo only the chatroom happens to be in a graphical town.
In a true MMO you can encounter real people almost anywhere you go.
I was looking forward to Dungeons and Dragons online, until I beta tested it and found out it was like guild wars (which by the way I DO like... it's just not an mmo)
... If only somebody would write a messenger program that could talk to any of the main ones that would solve all the problems... They could call it GAIM or even Trillian.
If an artist painted a picture of a bunch of naked dogs playing cards.
It was then replicated and sold worldwide.
*(Except the states where there can be no nakedness in games/movies or anywhere that might give kids the impression that people BESIDES brothers and sisters ever grow up and reproduce)
I but a copy while I'm a single guy and hang it for years. All is well....years go by
I now have a wife and am about to have a kid and decide I like the picture but it isn't "family" appropriate.
I take this to another artist and say "here is $$$ put some clothes on the dogs please".
I hang the new picture in my house.
Has this now been outlawed because it hurts the artist's vision for the naked dogs or is the entire reason they were told to stop because of the stupid you can't decrypt a dvd law? The article doesn't say anything about that....... guess i better repaint the Guns into all the pictures that I paid an artist to replace with walkie talkies when I decided guns were offensive!
There have been dumber things proposed that actually made it.......
the DMCA
the FCC... and now it is looking like the Broadcast flag may be close behind
In times when you can be sued for content you left out of software because somebody hacks it and puts it in, no ideas are TOO stupid to make it through congress
TivoToGo has been arround for a while... completly free for qute a while and already included the ability to do everything EXCEPT to the mobile devices without third party software.
What they also didnt say, and what I do most of all is go the OPPOSITE route using TivoToGo....... you can use a third party program to encode divx avi files into mpeg and put them in your "tivo download" folder on your pc. then you can upload all of those backup movies or tvshows from your hard drive on your computer to the tivo. (on tivo your computer shows up on the now playing list)... even on a wireless B network (all my tivo NIC supports) shows download to tivo faster than I watch them.
... If somebody makes a message say "you stole my phone give it back" pop up on my phone i would ignore it too if i thought that it was bought and paid for on the level. She may just think somebody is playing a joke on her. It might sound stupid... but you can't assume she ISN'T stupid
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Actually, This works out very well.
I have actually bought and paid for each of the OS's released by MS since 3.1
(pirated 95... said this is cool and bought it)
Now thanks to all of this DRM garbage, usage restrictions, and just general suckage I will not feel bad at all when I download the version that has been cracked to not have DRM, not phone home, and that I can gennerally use however the fsck I want...
Thanks MS for helping me justify my piracy!
Perhaps Sony was not dumb enough to use their own batteries in the laptop when they saw the problems Dell was having with them.
First you get the money, :(
Then you get the SUGAR,
Then you get the power,
then you get the women!
One of the few paths that leads to / ends with a REAL woman in the life of a nerd
I have a mythTV box AND a tivo (wife had one with lifetime sub when we got married).
MythTV has come a long way (congrats to the whole team), but as to which is better, you need to evaluate your needs.
When I moved in with my wife first thing I did was upgrade drive and hack the Tivo... as any good slashdotter would. At that time the tivo only really supported video sharing after hacking, and being able to watch on other computers, or send tv shows TO the tivo (either from mythbox or pc) was the most important feature to me (besids season pass)... Back then MythTV ruled hands down... since to get the same functionality you needed to hack Tivo anyway.
Fast forward a few years... I actually UN-hacked the Tivo a while back (left huge drive in though) because the developers actually listened to the community and now provide the ability to share things through the network (both out of and into the tivo), play MP3, picture slideshows... pretty much everything except playing MAME/SNES roms.
If you want the fun of building a Myth box, or want it to be a file server/torrent box, then of course Myth wins hands down.
But... if all you want is for the machine to record all (or just new) episodes of a show, play MP3s, see picture slideshows, watch recorded videos on your pc (or other boxes in the house), or put divx "home movies" INTO the box to watch on your big screen tv... Tivo can provide a pretty simple solution that does the job just as well, or maybe even better...
Actually you can have a bit of fun with the real mail spammers by mailing random things back to them in those nice, prepaid, stamped envelopes. I have noticed a decline in the amount of junk mail I get since I started mailing their own mailings back, food wrappers, slices of american cheese, bannana peels, ... back to them.
.... I would NOT advise you to try flour/baking soda !!!
I worked for a lab that did the automated testing of airbag controllers and though you are all jumping to the "Evil" conclusion (and putting on tinfoil hats) this is really not the case. Though I will concede these records stay arround for use if some really serious accident were to occur, and some insurance agency with really deep pockets wanted to get the evidence, it could... but that is not why these are in the airbag controller in the first place (that is where the EDR or event data recorder lived on the vehicles I tested controllers for lived) The reason these are in your vehicle is actually very simple. Think of all the scenarios that occur in a car. Gravel raod, railroad tracks, potholes, ect... you do not want your airbags going off just because you hit a minor bump in the road, or even if you "crash" but at a very low speed (like backing into a pole). The conditions you want to fire the airbags is a very precise set of circumstances. With newer cars that have curtian and many other airbags too, it also wants to take into account "is the car upside down" and such. In order to make the most accurate assessment possible, and thus have the least false positives possible, as much data must be recorded for consideration as possible.... RPM, Orientations, TIRE PRESSURE, ... the list is long. The catch is only 10 seconds or so is usually kept.... just enough for a crash/pre-crash record.... I know this is slashdot, and we (yes me too) usually assume it is the government/big brother watching and trying to control us, but for a change, this is nothing but trying to make cars as safe as can be. It just so happens a side effect of this is allowing insurance agencies to get a better glimpse of what was really going on... but really, is honesty ever really a bad thing? If somebody rear ends you, and said they were going 25mph, and your accelerometer/ their EDR said they were going 50mph wouldn't you want that to be known by the judge? If not... enjoy you will probably be enjoying your airbags a lot more if you live on bumpy roads or near train tracks.
Space is big. Really big.
You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is.
I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
I cried when I pre-ordered and payed 50$ for Fable, and had it beat before the end of the night!
Anon stats, not a problem.
... I will find myself at dealdatabase and other such sites waiting for the smart people to disable that "feature" for me.
IF that then pisses off network admins and they disable fast forward, or put small commercials INTO the fast forward...
hacking the tivo was once worth it to get a lot of extra functionality out of the box. Tivo saw this and build almost everything I wanted into the software (eventually) so I un-hacked it and have been running for quite a while (other than LARGE hd)... but mess with the ad skip (Select play select 30 select) and it will be re-hacked REALLY quick.
if we know for sure it's coming ahead of time the update can be blocked too... This should be watched very closely
MySpace Became self aware at 00:00:01 7/24/06.... realized that it was MySpace, and commited the first ever AI suicide.
Blizzard,
I hate to be the one who has to tell you this, but people are still going to whine about the game being improperly balanced or their character class being underpowered. as soon as somebody in WOW loses a dual/pvp combat it must have been because their class is unbalanced.
There are people out there that will complain that their mage can not win a sword fight with a paladin.
That is the nature of a MMO... people will complain.
you can either do what SOE did and continually change the game listening to the complainers, slowly making the people who liked the game as it initially was quit (and you will eventually be left with a GREAT warcraft-starwars galaxies clone),
OR you could take a stand and tell the people if they dont like to get beaten by paladins, make a paladin, and when you dont like getting beaten by rogues, make a rogue. If you still cant deal with it point them at the box and say it is rated for teens and up, and suggest they go play some bob the builder.
This should be so simple, even a caveman could do it.
..... I'm sorry. we had no idea you people were still arround!
If the SWG is pre all their pathing to make the game more "fun" it is useless. Most of the people who would want to buy it already had bought the extra few addons.
If the game is post "game enhancing" patches then is is useless because nobody WANTS to play. This seems like a waste of energy on SOE's part.
Maybe they should pump the extra money into something like SWGEmu will have going soon so some of us could play the game it we once knew and loved.
That would probably depend on the buisness
If Coke were able to find out the recipes for all it's compeditor's colas then they could release
Coke-P - coke that taste's just like Pepsi
Pondwater - Coke that taste's like RC-Cola
Maybe your proprietary secrets are the customers themselves... do you want telemarketers (or worse) stealing your information from another company?
Guild wars is NOT the same as an MMO.
It is more like Diablo only the chatroom happens to be in a graphical town.
In a true MMO you can encounter real people almost anywhere you go.
I was looking forward to Dungeons and Dragons online, until I beta tested it and found out it was like guild wars (which by the way I DO like... it's just not an mmo)
...It is amazing that Rats even have any health problems anymore. Seems like every week they have some miracle cure for the Rats!
... What you saw was not a space station. It was in fact some swamp gas reflecting the light of Venus. Nothing to see here, move along!
... If only somebody would write a messenger program that could talk to any of the main ones that would solve all the problems... They could call it GAIM or even Trillian.
If an artist painted a picture of a bunch of naked dogs playing cards. It was then replicated and sold worldwide. *(Except the states where there can be no nakedness in games/movies or anywhere that might give kids the impression that people BESIDES brothers and sisters ever grow up and reproduce) I but a copy while I'm a single guy and hang it for years. All is well. ...years go by
I now have a wife and am about to have a kid and decide I like the picture but it isn't "family" appropriate.
I take this to another artist and say "here is $$$ put some clothes on the dogs please".
I hang the new picture in my house.
Has this now been outlawed because it hurts the artist's vision for the naked dogs or is the entire reason they were told to stop because of the stupid you can't decrypt a dvd law? The article doesn't say anything about that... .... guess i better repaint the Guns into all the pictures that I paid an artist to replace with walkie talkies when I decided guns were offensive!
There have been dumber things proposed that actually made it.... ...
the DMCA
the FCC ... and now it is looking like the Broadcast flag may be close behind
In times when you can be sued for content you left out of software because somebody hacks it and puts it in, no ideas are TOO stupid to make it through congress
TivoToGo has been arround for a while... completly free for qute a while and already included the ability to do everything EXCEPT to the mobile devices without third party software. What they also didnt say, and what I do most of all is go the OPPOSITE route using TivoToGo.... ... you can use a third party program to encode divx avi files into mpeg and put them in your "tivo download" folder on your pc. then you can upload all of those backup movies or tvshows from your hard drive on your computer to the tivo. (on tivo your computer shows up on the now playing list) ... even on a wireless B network (all my tivo NIC supports) shows download to tivo faster than I watch them.
E-ticket Check-in Kiosks. All you need is the credit card "you" bought the ticket with.
... If somebody makes a message say "you stole my phone give it back" pop up on my phone i would ignore it too if i thought that it was bought and paid for on the level. She may just think somebody is playing a joke on her. It might sound stupid... but you can't assume she ISN'T stupid