"With the release of Windows Vista, using your PC to watch and record TV has become a whole lot easier. Now, for the first time, Windows Media Center comes bundled with Home Premium and Ultimate versions of the standard Desktop operating system. However, Vista is pricey, and its form and function are of course dictated by Microsoft. If you want full control over your Home Theater PC, and don't want to have to pay Microsoft for it, then Linux is a more than capable alternative base for building a system of your own."
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Member since:2005-08-18
Seriosuly, take a chill pill. The kind of moron i was responding to obviously lives in "Shitsville" and does not think the world extends beyond his/her limited horizon. This does in no way mean all Americans are like this.
The world is fed up with the "U.S.A, U.S.A, U.S.A" attitude of some Americans,
Sure, it feels as old as the Americans who constantly seem to think their country is the center of the universe and that their laws apply globally.
Isn't it a wonderful irony that many of those corporations are American?
Member since:2005-12-09
I may get burned hard for this, but I feel compelled to point out a few things here that are both Linux, computing in general, and America:
IBM, MicroSoft, Apple, Cisco, AT&T, MIT, DARPA, ARPANET, and, um, UNIX. Also, for argument's sake, the telephone and microwave signal communications could be added.
Americans are probably too patrotic for our own good, but it's not like we just showed up at the party and started bolting down the punch.
Member since:2007-02-17
Americans seriously need to realise that America is not the be all and end all. American laws do not apply globally, despite the fact that many Americans apperntly think they do, and American government and big business would like to apply their law even where it doesn't apply.
Apparently, and ironically, American big business seems to think that American laws only apply globally in order to profit American big business, and American big business seems to believe that no technology could possibly originate in any place other than America.
American big business seems to believe that America's own laws do not apply to American big business interests if it happens that some profit may go overseas:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Australian-government-def...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/CSIRO-hit-with-wifi-patent-suit...
... this is the sort of thing that really, really riles people from other countries about the apparent utterly self-centred and profit-at-all-costs behaviour of Americans. Apparently, everyone on the planet has to pay Americans for artificial scarcity, but America is not liable for the same cost going in another direction ...
... America seems to believe that it can patent all software ideas and algorithms, for example, and then just expects the rest of the world to endlessly hand over money to America, like a big, one-way siphon ...
... or so it seems to be the attitude. How is anyone supposed to think otherwise in the face of examples such as these?
Edited 2007-08-29 10:34
Member since:2006-02-05
The comment that started this was certainly narrow-minded and inaccurate, if not an intentional troll (it worked if it was). But money talks everywhere; greedy corporations don't only exist in America. I work for a German company, and American companies have nothing on them in the greed department. Further, they only think that Germans know anything -- we Americans (and other nationalities, I imagine) can't possibly be experts.
The software patent nonsense, DMCA, etc. are not some of America's better contributions to humanity, and I hope they don't find their way to the rest of the world. But if there's money to be made, don't bet on it.
Returning to topic...I set up Myth, and as someone else here commented, it was fairly easy to install. But there is such a dizzying array of configuration options I finally gave up and figured I'd only change them if I had to. But I got it to play live video pretty quickly.
Windows Media Center came on my laptop, but I was unimpressed (I'll have to go check out that Media Portal however). The LinuxMCE looks interesting, for the home automation features, as does Sage, for the "place-shifting" (TV in hotels sometimes sucks, and internet access is usually free now).
Lots of options...
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2005-07-06
I am American and I swear, one idiot from America makes a dumb comment and the rest of the world thinks we are all like that.
I don't think all Hispanics are stupid when I hear one say something stupid, or Germans, or French or whomever.
I am really getting fed up with the anti American vibe on this site.
When I hear "Shitville, USA", to me that shows an incredible disdain for a country that you most likely have never been to or experienced.
Yes, some of our laws suck, but it seems that by many we are looked upon at a level lower then china or north korea where where the governments allow their own people to be exploited by massive coorporations to an extreme that almost borders on slavery.
Sorry, I know much of this was off topic, but this is really getting old. I love this site, but when people show intense anger towards Americans (ie "shitville America") just simply for the fact that our laws are different and somebody from here (America) happens to post about those laws.
Do you not post from where you are at?....... I am an American, and we will post about the laws that apply to me just as you post according to the laws that apply to you.
Edited 2007-08-29 08:49