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Comment Re:does anyone still use it? (Score 2, Informative) 329

Although I have not tried it (yet), there is a more complete third-party MythTV plugin for XBMC. You can find it at http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/ and it works for Linux, OS X & Windows

Features:

  • Watch recordings with commercial skipping
  • Watch Live TV
  • Schedule recordings
  • Fanart from tvdb.com, tmdb.com, imdb.com, and Google image seach.
  • TV Guide
  • Upcoming Recordings
  • Supports MythTV 0.21 and 0.22
  • Move commercial flagging jobs to the front of the queue

(Why are <li>'s double line spaced?)

Comment Re:...should we be outraged? (Score 1) 286

So, you should be required to have internet access to purchase and play a singleplayer game that you purchased in a brick and mortar store?

In ten years, every version of Quake and Doom that I own will still work.

I won't be able to play Portal.

Not true. Steam allow you to make backups of your games (something I can't do with most of the games I buy from brick and mortar shops) and restore them, then play in off-line mode which never connects to the Steam servers. I know this because when I moved house, and didn't have the Internet for two weeks, I re-played through Half-Life 2 which I'd bought through Steam.

Steam is not perfect*, but so long as there's off-line mode you can still be playing Portal in ten years time

* The sooner they add the ability to transfer non-duplicate games to other accounts the better!

Comment Re:Don't be evil? (Score 1) 390

From TFS: "Google now owns the idea of having a giant search box in the middle of the page, with two big buttons underneath and several small links nearby"

The altavista page you linked to does not have "two big buttons underneath", it has one button to the right, therefore it cannot be considered as "prior art"

Comment Re:What languages? (Score 1) 1359

Be aware that a lot of right wing New Zealanders constantly talk the country down because it doesn't conform to their vision of a racist free market paradise.

Just for clarity, do you mean "racist-free market paradise" or "racist free-market paradise"?

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