[mythtv-users] Where to find Myth Setup Information?

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Jacob Mansfield <cyberjacob at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/11 20:11, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> Jacob, that's a bit harsh.
>>
>> mark's messages were undeniably offensive, but (to me) they read as
>> the kind of offense generated by ignorance rather than being
>> intentionally insulting.  He clearly has no idea what's involved in
>> large application development and responding to his ignorance in this
>> way isn't helpful.
>
> I think it's not that he doesn't know, it's that he doesn't care
>
> --
> Jacob Mansfield
> Programmer

Trust me, people who don't call themselves "Programmer" can vastly
underestimate (or in some cases vastly overestimate) how hard
something can be to implement on a computer.  Things that require a
lot of work often seem like they should be easy and vice versa.  There
are countless examples of that.

The oldest example that comes to mind was one of those
what-life-will-be-like-in-the-future prediction shows that I saw that
was probably filmed around 1955.  They said that in the future, cars
would drive themselves, as all the routine work of steering and
avoiding obstacles would be handled by a machine, but they did point
out that a human being would still be required to set the route by
detailing which roads to make and where to turn to get from point A to
point B.  They even showed some mock-up of how this was supposed to
work with a big table with a backlit map on the surface and an
enthusiastic young man manipulating some sort of level arm to set
waypoints at every turn.  This was a classic example of simultaneously
mistaking hard for easy and (relatively) easy for hard.

And it still happens today.  I saw an insightful post of Slashdot
regarding the topic of the $2,000 bounty placed on open source drivers
for the Microsoft Kinect.  It said something like: "Nobody would ever
write that for $2,000.  That's no where near close to enough money.
Someone might do it for free, but not for $2K."

And that's where MythTV is.  It strives for nothing less than
realizing the myth of Technological Convergence.  This is hard.
Really hard.  But people honestly don't realize that, as all the
little details that need to be handled aren't even visible as problems
to most people.

Eric