The Hush Tech. Silent Mini-ITX PC is pretty darn neat. I want one for a set top box.
What would be better is a case with a dot matrix lcd panel covering the front, front side IR port, and 4 front side usb ports.
Next you run Freevo (because it’s python) and Mnet, and MAME+SNES9X+whatever other game system.
I want a browser with a built in XHTML vaidator built in. It’s UI would be like the SSL icon in the corner of your screen. You could click it and get the W3C validator report for the html in your browser’s buffer.
(this is not going to make sense unless you know the inner workings of mnet or freenet)
Software reads and encodes 1m of video, then publishes those FEC blocks, then the inode block and then waits for the next 1m of video to be published with an inode. Then it publishes a metadata block with the info about this clip (stuff like timecode in UTC, the URI of the channel you are encoding) and then three mnet/freenet URI’s one pointing this 1m of video, the next 1m and prev 1m. So then, anyone can pick up the video stream from that point and follow it either way.
This would be great for allowing people to refer back into time and point their friends at a bit of CNN/FOX/BBC/MyersTV/Whatever.
Reading Stop Acting Like the Entertainment Industry! a rant about how TiVo and ReplayTV are a service not a product, and why it’s risky to buy either.
Why the heck hasn’t someone started building MicoATX DVR linux boxes is beyond me. It wouldn’t take much. Any PC builder could get in on it.
The Pro-peace movement isn’t doing themselves any favors making signs like the one talked about here at USS Clueless.
Pro-War, Pro-Peace, I think I want to join the Pro-“Shut the hell up and act like civilized people” faction.