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10 Million BSD Users Respectfully Disagree
Silly Anonymous Coward Troll, stats are for ids.
With an installed base up from zero five years ago to about 10 Millon today and with another million added each quarter, the users of Mac OS X as well as any real armchair operating system aficionados would be surprised to hear that *BSD is anything but alive and kicking. It's certainly growing faster than any Un*x has ever grown in the past, and has a larger installed user base than any *nix ever.
Regarding the number of NetBSD posts to Usenet... good grief. This correlation can be easily explained by other factors. Most likely, NetBSD users are more mature both technically and emotionally, and don't participate in Usenet any longer. Perhaps they're too busy shipping gazillions of embedded devices to bother with a forum with such a poor signal to noise ratio as Usenet. They probably also have more education, drive nicer cars, and have 1.2 girlfriends (vs. 0.1 for the average AC Troll) . -
Pretty High Res Photos and Video, oooh, ahhhh
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Re:MPG science
Aerodynamic drag is the main reason why hybrids often have better fuel economy numbers in stop & go traffic than during a steady speed highway cruise. (Aerodynamic drag quadruples when velocity is doubled)
Probably the best example of this phenomenon is the Ford Escape hybrid that Achieved 38 MPG during a 37 Hour non-stop driving test on a single tank of gas in Manhattan -
Money has already exchanged hands
Theoretically, this could be the big one for GPL violations, as money has already exchanged hands and the product is 'out there' in the real world.
The VX30 technology has been purchased by (among others) the HFPA, creators of the Golden Globe awards. The technology is being used on their website and has been for a some time. (And here is the press release made by MXS at the time of the sale.)
At the time of the CherryOS debacle, someone on here mentioned that VX30 looked like a GPL ripoff too, but I thought that was just typical
/. energy making five from two and two. Now it turns out that their flagship product is probably a GPL violation, it will be very interesting to see how MXS deals with the coming lawsuits. -
Re:Where do the $5,000 toilet seats go?This appears to be wasteful spending.
Someone probably said the same thing about ARPANET.
I wonder what congressional district the defense company is located in?
Edward J. Markey (Ranking Democrat on the Telecommunications and Internet subcommittee)
Raytheon is based in Waltham, Massachussetts, but they have offices everywhere. Canada, Japan, Oz...
And they are Linux friendly.And where in the field will this be used?
One use might be a virtual sand table. Not everything the military does is 'in the field'.Am I the only one who gets scared when I imagine what a room in the pentagon might look like, with Generals wearing special glasses, and moving projected data off walls?
Probably.
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Digging Deeper...Here's a link to their Press Release: Wells Fargo: All ATMs Now Web-Enabled, All Banking Stores With Online Stations (from March 1st)
And a tidbit about some new features:
Wells Fargo's webATM(R) machines feature six language screen options; customizable fast-cash amounts and MyATM(R) receipt preferences; access to 22 financial accounts; the highest level of security; and colorful, large font touch-screens that make it easier to navigate from screen to screen.
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sigh
Yet another great decision from G4. Of course we probably shouldn't be surprised since their original business plan could be summarized as "TV for people who don't watch TV".
Doorknobs.
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Re:No Live Broadcast
Interesting that no one seems to have made note of what I thought was the most important announcement - iPod integration with the audio systems from several car manufacturers. I use iTunes but don't have an iPod. I would get one in a second if my car supported this feature.Another thought, what does this mean for satellite radio?
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Re:Military Simulation
I believe this is the press release you're referring to.
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Re:Can they levy a tax on spammers?
Not only that, but his plan to "privatize" social security is founded on the same principles.
In short, he wants to phase in a system where part of your social security taxes go into a private account that you can choose how to invest, and the rest go to the general public fund.
So, what is going to happen is that the amount of money currently moving into the social security fund will drop, the money moving out will continue to rise with the number of people retiring and living longer. Things won't really even out until those who are 16 when the program is implemented retire. The only way to fix this gap is to raise taxes or cut spending elsewhere. Of course, Bush won't raise taxes or cut spending, so when finally get a president with the guts to do that, he'll be portrayed as a horrible person who wants to stick his hands in our pockets and rob us. When the real thief is the person that created the deficit in the first place.
I find it amazing that while telling us that "privatizing" social security is putting our money in our control, what it is really doing is the government is not only forcing me to pay for everyone else's well-being, they're forcing me to invest some of my own money.
I wonder if the government will only allow me to invest in funds they approve of and don't violate their morals.
A few interesting links related to political parties and economics
Federal Deficit by Political Party
Jobs by President and Party
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First Wireless Broadband City
I was about to submit this story, oh well. One thing I found interesting was that in their press release they delcare Seattle the "First Wireless Broadband City" which an ExtremeTech article addresses from the start.
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Amazon's technology is cited in the application!
Seriously, there's a reference in patent application to the article "Amazon.com Catapults Electronic Commerce to Next Level With Powerful New Features", dated September 23, 1997 -- barely two weeks after the patent filing date. And the odds are good that it took Amazon.com a lot longer than two weeks to develop, test, and deploy that functionality.
But wait it gets better... reading further in the PR blurb, we see that their group filtering technology was based on an existing product, called Grouplens. I assume that this is the same kind of functionality that Cendant is claiming as their own work; if so, surely Grouplens must have something to say as far as prior art goes...
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Re:Called the 888 Number
A Press Release spells out their roll out plans. It's not available yet, but it is more than a pipe dream in a number of areas. (and from what I've noticed, Verizon has actually been keeping with programs announced in PRs lately.)
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VT spanked by NASA
In a new development, NASA and SGI have just announced that they have just finished building the first phase of this week's fastest supercomputer in the world. This particular Linux based monster is only partially complete, but the operating portion is already at 42.7 TeraFlops, spanking VT's Mac cluster quite handily by a factor of nearly 10.
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Re:How is this "voter intimidation"?
Democrats were only accused of doing this by the Republicans and only laptops (the easiest and most valuable hardware to steal) were taken, quickly from an office where they were plainly visible from the street.
Engaging in vandalism against Bush offices by teenagers is not quite as bad as tearing up valid registrations.
Criminally negligent op-ed pieces do not facts make.
Accusing a group of committing illegal activities with no evidence is a typical Republican tactic.
Press releases aimed at creating a non-existant scandal and failing are pretty weak as a source.
Finally, defrauding a company by making up fake voter registrations to earn more money in a $9 per hour job is not making people think they are registered when they are not.
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Re:How is this "voter intimidation"?
Yeah, it's not like the Democrats ever engage in criminal activities aimed at defrauding and intimidating their way into office.
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Tell me again that Slashdot isn't biased...
...to the left. Voter fraud goes on in every election, by lots of people in both parties. And it's not like there's been a lack of stories about Democratic voter fraud. And pointing this out DOES NOT ENDORSE IT. All voter fraud should be punished. But it's a damn disgrace (and a big help to the Democratic party) to only point it out when it helps Republicans. Since Slashdot won't report it when Dem s do it, here's a recent sampler:
- Attempted Democratic Voter Fraud In Nashville
- Voter Fraud In South Dakota
- Colorado To Tackle Voter Fraud Fears
- Rendell will send monitors to elections offices
- ACORN Voter Registration Fraud Allegations Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg, Says Employment Policies Institute
And lets not forget the revelation that the Democratic Party plans a pre-emptive strike by alleging voter fraud in close races, even if there's absolutely no proof of it.
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Re:Cheaper Solutions
You mention Icebergs and maritime activity. But most drug smugler boats are less than 8 feet above water at the top while most icebergs and any ships worth tracking are at least 40 feet at the top. Can the radar work with such a small profile?
Manufacturers claim it can:
- AMS says that their system can track small high-speed craft.
- Raytheon claims that it has proof-of-concept that their system can detect "go-fast boats, fishing boats, large support vessels, rigid hull inflatable boats, jet skis, as well as small, low flying aircraft and helicopters" (link).
Whether it works reliably is the big question, but then you're unlikely to encounter a RHIB at 500km offshore. One would expect conventional radar to provide additional resolution closer to shore. -
Re:Let me get this straightDoesn't it sound a little hypocritical when you censor a news story that disagrees with your political views?
A. This is not a "news story". It is a 90 minute Swift boat smear commercial for Bush, uninterrupted by other commercials, being presented under the guise of news.
B. The right to a free press is restricted to those with printing presses. Sinclair does not own the public airwaves it will use to broadcast this garbage. Any right-wing media conglomerate is free to express its opinions under First Amendment protection, using cable, a web site, or a bullhorn- once its broadcast license has been revoked in accordance with the law. Broadcasting an infomercial for the president on public airwaves is a blatant violation of McCain-Feingold. Amazingly, the FCC under Michael Powell shows no interest in enforcing the law in this case.
C. There is a conflict of interest here. One of Sinclair's wholly owned subsidiaries (Jadoo Power Systems) has just been awarded a contract to develop power systems for the US Special Operations Command. The other major investor in Jadoo is Contango Capital Management, located in Houston TX, whose Managing Partner is John Berger who used to manage energy trading books for Enron Corporation and who also served as an advisor to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 2002 and 2003. This stinks to high heaven.
D. In case you didn't think he was an asshat, the CEO of Sinclair made the following statement on CNN this morning:
However, the accusations coming from Terry McAuliffe and others, is it because they are some elements of this that may reflect poorly on John Kerry? That it's somehow an in-kind contribution of George Bush?
If you use that logic and reasoning, that means every car bomb in Iraq would be an in-kind contribution to John Kerry. Weak job performance ratings that came out last month would have been an in- kind contribution to John Kerry. And that's just nonsense.
This is news. I can't change the fact that these people decided to come forward today. The networks had this opportunity over a month ago to speak with these people. They chose to suppress them. They chose to ignore them. They are acting like Holocaust deniers, pretending these men don't exist.
So press coverage of car bombs and unemployment statistics is equivalent to unfair free campaign commercials for Kerry. And the rest of the press are "Holocaust deniers" for denying partisan political hacks a forum from which they can make baseless thirty-year-old accusations on the eve of a close election.
This from the same media conglomerate that back in April suppressed Nightline's reading of the names of soldiers killed in Iraq because it was "contrary to the public interest." Riiiight. -
Yeah, it's Roland the Plogger again
This is getting really annoying. Either put the bozo in his own section or stop posting his stupid ads. Or at least edit them to reference the original story, not the Plogged version. This is like being subscribed to PR Newswire.
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Weightlessness
The coaster [...] shoots over a 129-foot hill, which the company says will make riders feel weightless.
I'm not so sure that weightlessness is something that should be mass-marketed. They don't call it the Vomit Comet for nothing.If you go on this thing, look around at the other people, and choose somewhere smart to sit. See video here while it lasts.
yo.
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Re:2GB is a lot on one stick of ram
Won't more ram eventually become unnecessary with all the bottlenecks computers have?
No... err... rather, something will fundamentally change.
Instead of having a hierarchy of memory (hard drive, ram, cache, etc), you'll see RAM and flash merge into a "universal memory". Everything will come on a single chip - processor and storage. RAM won't be required since the on board storage will be both quick and nonvolatile.
Currently, as much as 75 percent of a processor's area is used for cache memory. This is a number that is increasing, too. This is because RAM is too electrically "distant" from the main processor to be of any high-performance use. The near-term solution has been to pile on lots of cache memory in order to make up for it.
Recently, Ovonyx licensed their phase-change technology to Nanochip. Now, the phase-change technology is the same thing that is currently used in CD/DVD-RWs. With this implementation, they'll be programming and reading the material electronically instead of optically. Since they'll be doing it with MEMS and atomic probes, the density will reach levels of 1 terabit/square inch (125 gigabytes) and will do so very quickly. For more information, see HP's probe storage page. As a side note, HP and Nanochip are just a couple miles apart so it is rumored that Nanochip is hiding the HP plan at this point. Commercialization in 2006 isn't too far off. Also note that Microsoft is an investor in Nanochip as well. Bill Gates mentioned at Cebit that terabit chips will be here "very soon". Something to think about. -
Re:$30M for more insect robots? Sounds like pork.
We realy should be doing better than this. We should at least have Aibo-type robots running (or at least trotting) over real terrain by now. It's embarassing.
Yeah, well, that's what happens when ever widening management ass settles into that molded executive chair. Unless there's tall dollars in it, nobody gives a shit, which explains the general fuckitude of everything worthwhile in society.
There are great things that could be done that will make absolutely NO MONEY but nobody will do them because they have to pay for their statement purchases.
The fact that people would buy a vehicle to make a "statement" just about perfectly describes everything that is wrong with current society. -
Unique/one-time use credit card numbers
MBNA has ShopSafe
Citibank has Virtual Account Numbers
Discover has Discover Deskshop
even American Express...
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Re:they forgot the second part of the name...
You're not in the demographic for this player. You're an apple fan boy - you subscribed (based soley upon your response here) to the whole iLife bullshit that Jobs is pushing. While it's a neat idea, it's a highly marginalized utopian dream that will only be reality for elitists. A real digital life style would enable all things electronic to sync and talk to each other - not just apple producs. To Apple's defense, though, we have the opening of Rendezvous...and...little else.
Assuming you really DO want an mp3 player that does all that, but only with a small percentage of computers out there, then the iPod is the only answer for you. Personally, I wanted an mp3 player that was cheaper, didn't look like a large gel-cap full of milk, and i could transfer songs to from any computer using just about any operating system i wanted, without any hastle. So i got the Rio Karma. It was the right solution for my problem. Not to mention it's ability to play more Codecs (MP3, Ogg, FLAC, and WMA), with better sound quality than the iPod (google around, the actual tests are out there). As i am not a slave to one operating system, one brand, one codec, and certainly not one single computer, the iPod just ain't my cup 'o tea.
And as far as the iTunes Music Store goes...fuck that noise. I don't want DRM-encumbered filth on my comp. audiolunchbox for me. Better artists there, anyway. -
Number One in Brand Awareness though!
I read the other day that Sony is tops in what consumers see as a "best brand." Up there with Coke, Dell, and others. Another metric here shows Sony at the top of the consumer electronics heap too...
More proof that your average consumer is dumb as a post. (Joe Dirt anyone?)... -
Dear DarlDear Darl. Just saw your press release
: "...SCO...notified BayStar that is ready to deliver $13,000,000 in cash, constituting the balance of the repurchase consideration, upon receipt from BayStar of its wire transfer instructions."Please wire transfer the funds to our PayPal account - SCOsux@BayStar.com - Thanx!
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Let's try again with links intactI should have tried it with links intact:
Okay, so it's been tough, but you've finally managed to stop yourself from taking Dell up on its kind offer to crush your iPod into a thin paste in exchange for $100 off one of its own stellar music players. Good for you. Only now you're finding yourself tempted by those new players that Sony introduced yesterday-- in particular the NW-HD1 Network Walkman. As faithful viewer Mike Scherer pointed out, MacMinute reports that the NW-HD1 (catchy name) has a 20 GB hard drive, but weighs only 4 ounces-- almost thirty percent less than a 20 GB iPod, and only about half an ounce more than a miniPod with a mere 4 GB storage capacity. Trust us, size does matter, as through-the-roof miniPod sales will attest; Dell's player is a clunky slab by comparison, and when we had the misfortune to encounter a 40 GB Nomad Zen last weekend, we mistook the thing for a brick wrapped in tin foil.
Oh, but the temptation doesn't stop at size; whereas the iPod claims 8 hours of use per battery charge, the NW-HD1 boasts 30. What's more, since a 20 GB iPod goes for $399 and Sony's minuscule new player will sell for "less than $400", pricing will likely be a dead heat. So let's recap, here; for the same price as an iPod, Sony offers a smaller and lighter player with gallons more juice per charge, the same size hard disk, and-- did we mention this?-- the ability to store 8,000 more songs. Really! See? Apple claims its 20 GB iPod will put 5,000 songs in your pocket, while Sony's press release insists that the NW-HD1 will hold "up to 13,000 four-minute songs." No wonder you're feeling tempted.
Well, it's cold shower time, kiddies. First of all, any sort of song capacity comparison is a joke, since a 20 GB hard drive is a 20 GB hard drive. Sony's drives aren't enchanted by a dusting of magical pixie dust before leaving the factory or anything. (At least, if they are, you'd expect Sony to play that up as a differentiating factor.) The difference in numbers here is that Apple bases its song count on 128 Kbps AAC files, while Sony's tally assumes "songs recorded at 48 kilobits per second." Yes, 48 Kbps. Considering how many people whine that even 128 Kbps AAC files don't sound good enough, we're going to go out on a limb and assume that 48 Kbps songs in any format are probably going to sound like a portable handheld AM radio playing from the bottom of a well while a few dozen people pop bubble wrap nearby.
And here's the real deal-breaker: about that format? Turns out that Sony's decided to go with its proprietary ATRAC3 format... and nothing else. While Apple pushes AAC pretty heavily (it's the only thing it sells at the iTunes Music Store), at least the iPod can also play AIFF files, WAVs, the new Apple Lossless format, and probably most importantly of all, good ol' MP3s. If you get an NW-HD1, though, you'll have to transcode your entire music library into ATRAC3 before you can carry it around with you, and believe us when we tell you that you're not going to want to do that.
See, aside from the time you'd have to invest, there's the little matter of the fact that, quality-wise, the ATRAC3 format apparently sucks eggs whole through a Crazy Straw. For evidence, we point you towards the results of Roberto Amorim's l
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PRN Newswire press release
Here's a link to the press release. It has more details than the link in the main article. http://www.prnewswire.com
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Re:Alarmist or facetious?
Sorry to keep replying to myself. But I would be remiss if I didn't point out that Earthlink intentionally tried to mislead the press & the public when they trumpeted their results by creating their own definitition of spyware. Only 0.35 real spyware programs er computer, by the way. Here's Earthlink's original press release, and the actual report. I still blame the press for dropping the ball, anyone who bothered to read the actual report would know that the press release & headline is a bunch of hot air.
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Re:This is marketing BS
Did you read the article or is it just not in there? Either way, it is available as of *today*:
www.prnewswire.com
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Re:It's precisely BECAUSE of the time!
It seems timing is everything. SCO just announced their 2Q conference call.
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Analysts (and SCO)
Everytime something happens in the SCucks case, Pretenderle and Didiot come out of the blue corner.
Well, as far as SCO is concerned, there seems to be only one analyst caring to give his opinion. It is "sell".
And his advice seems to be good: even though, SCO has made some press release and arranged for other news to try to get the investor's interest, their stock continues to plummet.
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Analysts (and SCO)
Everytime something happens in the SCucks case, Pretenderle and Didiot come out of the blue corner.
Well, as far as SCO is concerned, there seems to be only one analyst caring to give his opinion. It is "sell".
And his advice seems to be good: even though, SCO has made some press release and arranged for other news to try to get the investor's interest, their stock continues to plummet.
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Articles in English
Here is Reuter's take on this and the news release at Biz Ink.
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Why they'd be doing this now?
Talk on the boards is that the breaches are due to SCO not revealing the entire story regarding their claimed 'ownership' of UNIX SysV. Notice SCO now states that UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
In any case, looks like you live by the sword you die by the sword. It was after all Darl who stated "Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with". None of this using contracts to clarify just what each other's purposes are, and being a record of an agreement, they're to be used as weapons. SCO's breaches are what will come bite them on the ass, and nothing will save them with a contract that they can't hide way back in the muddying of time. $20million worth of redeemed stock is $20million SCO can't use against Linux, Customers, Ex Customers or whoever else has tried to be nice to them in the past.
It's only a few hour's drive to Lindon from here. I wonder if I should go watch the fireworks.
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Alpine's iPod ready Head Unit
Alpine is coming out with a HU this summer that will allow you to plug your iPod in, and store it in any location (glove box, center console, trunk, etc..) and the HU will display the song info and allow you to control the iPod. Google for more information, here is a quick link to their press release.
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Re:Stock value?
Don't know exactly, but my first suspicion would be the buyback program. Choice quote (click link for source):
"'Some critics believe the buyback frenzy was nothing more than executives seeking to maximize their own wealth. 'They boost the price in the short term and then sell their shares,' says Kathleen M. Kahle..."
Definetely check that Groklaw link for more information. I'm just a programmer, so really, I don't know what I'm talking about. But the buyback program seems like a good place to start.
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Here's a link to the press release itselfhttp://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT
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/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gateway, Inc. (NYSE: GTW) said today that after reviewing strategic options for its network of 188 company-operated retail stores, it is planning to close the stores on April 9. Gateway also said it is pursuing wider retail distribution of its products in the U.S. and abroad. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020930/LAM05 0LOGO ) The company will continue direct sales of Gateway products to consumers and businesses via http://www.gateway.com and 1-800-Gateway. As a result of Gateway's decision, approximately 2,500 retail positions will be eliminated during the month of April as store operations wind down. Gateway will provide more detail on its brand and channel strategies, as well as any revenue and cost implications of closing the stores, when it announces its first quarter financial results April 29. -
Re:Sco still dropping
Yeah, but business monkeys (finally) caught up with the techies. I think the curtains have fallen (at last). It's just a matter of time before they reach their 2$ level again (just my 2 cents). More important, every time they announce a new lawsuit, the stock drops even more, instead of rising as in the previous months. They even have to buy their own stock back, a well known mechanism to superficially elevate stock value. Meanwhile, I still think that the top of sco earned a lot of money with their maneuvres. I'm no stock wizard, but I know you can even make money on a falling stock...
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Re:Absolute must have
And while on the subject of digital camcorders, lets not forget that digital cameras are more than adequate for most people, these days. Just today, Canon announced their Powershot S1 IS which comes equipped with "DV quality" movie recording and digital image stabilization. Add an 8GB Flash Card and you've got 8 hours of DV recording capability.
Who could ask for anything more? While, certainly... the flash can be expensive but if you can afford to lug the laptop along, a cheap 512MB card will provide most with more than adequate storage capability.
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Nielsen, SchmielsenAs others have pointed out, this is old news. Take a gander:
Investor's Business Daily (body-cavity search required) said on Jan 15, 2004 that "... Nielsen has been tracking TiVo use since August 2002, but it hasn't released any findings publicly."
USAToday is featuring TiVo popularity information in their television listings: "On Wednesday January 28 USA TODAY unveils an enhanced package of television ratings coverage in the LIFE section, including a monthly listing of the Top 10 most rated programs based on an analysis of anonymous, aggregate data from 20,000 TiVo households."
And you can read more about Nielsen partnering with TiVo from a while back.
TiVo reporting aggregate TV viewing habits is no different from cable companies being able to tell what channels you're choosing to watch on your digital cable box, from websites gathering referrer and browser information from visitors, or movie studios talking about what the largest grossing movies were over the weekend.
I welcome TiVo's use of aggregate (*not personalized*) gathering of data for reporting to the networks. With luck, this could result in the networks deciding to keep certain shows that have high record/replay/time-shift value instead of cancelling them because nobody wants to watch those shows exactly when the networks choose to air them. If my TiVo usage can help dictate the types of shows that the networks will (or won't) air, then this is a win for all of us.
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PR Newswire
Here's the story straight from the horses mouth: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT
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Alpine/iPod integration
Alpine has announced that they will demonstrating at CES the first solution that allows users to connect/control their iPod through their in-car system. They'll be able to view playlist, artists, songs, etc. through the Alpine's receiver buttons. And the connector will also charge the iPod. To get more info, write to ipodready@alpine-usa.com.
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Re:Why?
"Why would I get a mini ipod when I can get a rio karma for 260 dollars."
Better question: Why is Rio offering a new 4GB Nitrus model today for the same price as the iPod mini?
As you said, if you want Rio, get a Karma, if you want a 4GB model, get an iPod mini. Sounds like the Nitrus isn't going to do much. -
New 4 GB Nitrus, $249http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT
= 104&STORY=/www/story/01-06-2004/0002083798There's a new Rio Nitrus coming out offering 4 GB capacity for $249, according to the above press release. I'd imagine it uses the same technology as Apple's offering and will probably end up at the same street price.
It looks like a nice alternative for fans of non-Apple music stores and USB 2.0.
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bbspot on walmartGetting back to the bbspot article (oh yeah, that old thing at the beginning of the thread) I personally found the review of walmart's service to be incomplete. It fails to point out in any substantial way that the service was clearly launched (less than one week ago) as a "test phase" prior to a full launch planned for the spring.
The author could have either tried to make a more apples-to-apples comparison by measuring the service against that other other sites on their first week out, or at least summarized at the end of the walmart review making the callout and saying "I should review it again in a few months".
Personally, I'm taking a wait and see approach -- I suspect their catalog and feature set will both grow substantially over the next few months. Yeah, sure, the explicit lyrics will still be edited out, but since I don't listen to much music like that it won't really affect me much.
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Roxio's Response
Roxio Response:
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Roxio
(Nasdaq: ROXI), The Digital Media Company(R), today responded to Optima
Technology's allegations of patent infringement.
We are aware of the Optima '531 patent and the claims within and believe
that any claim of infringement by Roxio's software products is utterly without
merit. At Roxio, we respect the legitimate intellectual property rights of
others but in this instance there is no colorable argument that the claims set
forth in the patent read on any Roxio products. We intend to aggressively
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Full article text, properly formatted, no trollIn its Supplemental Responses to IBM's Second Interrogatories and Second Requests for Documents, SCO gave this answer:
"Insofar as this interrogatory seeks information as to whether plaintiff has ever distributed the code in question or otherwise made it available to the public, SCO has never authorized, approved or knowingly released any part of the subject code that contains or may contain its confidential and proprietary information and/or trade secrets for inclusion in any Linux kernel or as part of any Linux distribution."
Cross your heart and hope to die, SCO? Or cross your fingers behind your back? Let's see what the evidence shows.
SCO has specifically mentioned the following four as being code at issue in this case: JFS, NUMA, RCU, and SMP, and while it is conceivable that the "subject code" they are talking about in this response to IBM's interrogatory is referring to some other code, it seems reasonable to look at the code they have mentioned publicly. Actually, it's more than reasonable. It's our only choice, until they tell us exactly what code they are complaining about with specificity. Is it true that they never "authorized, approved or knowingly released" any of this code for inclusion in any Linux kernel or as part of any Linux distribution?Let's start with JFS. In the case of JFS, they not only distributed Linux with JFS, one of Caldera's employees, Christoph Hellwig, contributed code to JFS, as Groklaw reported on July 18. Here is a snip from that article:
"Here is an email in which he tells an inquirer how to contribute to JFS, including this tidbit: 'I've run native sysvfs tools under linux, but as now that I'm Linux sysvfs maintainer I'm looking into implementing free versions of it. . . . The JFS/Linux core team has setup a CVS commitinfo, but currently I'm the only one who receives it.'
"And here he encourages someone to donate to the main JFS repository at IBM and talks about his role:
"'I'm one of the main commiters to JFS outside IBM and I'm really happy to see more people involved :)
"'First I'd like to encourage you to contribute your userspace changes to the main JFS repository at IBM. For the 1.0.11 release I have added autoconf/automake support to easify portability and a bunch of portablity patches (mostly getting rid of linuxisms) is under way to the Core team.'
"He also posts to the freebsd list as freebsd-fs at freebsd.org.
"Here is the press release when SCO in 2002 released 'SCO Linux Server 4.0 for the Itanium (R) Processor Family' and which mentions that the product is based on United Linux. This SCO page lists JFS as one of its features. . . .
"They are complaining that IBM contributed JFS to Linux, but their own employee, from this evidence, was involved in helping out. On the day IBM announced JFS was being given to Linux, Hellwig is listed as making five contributions to the kernel."And he is listed on this page of JFS contributors. Here is IBM's page on Who Is Using JFS? and it lists United Linux. So they not only released a distro with JFS in it under the GPL, their employee helped make it h
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The Military is working with Sun on several projects. Below is a quote from a news article on PRnewswire.com.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced its alliance with the United States Army Accessions Command (USAAC) on the design and implementation of its document management solution and new iRecruiter portal for the recruitment and training of volunteers and their assignment to units. To help lower costs, improve efficiencies and better support its mission of transforming volunteers into soldiers and officers for the U.S. Army, USAAC chose the Sun Java(TM) System platform for its integrated portal and identity management solution and Sun StorEdge(TM) technology for its document management solution.
This is why they are working on Military grade security.