Ok i've made it halfway through the responses here
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Is Linux Dead?
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And all I have to ask is how many peole read this article? It doesn't seem to be what the post suggests at all. Where are the editors that love to deny other stories in favor of stuff like this? Granted the last few paragraphs seem out fo place in this article but on the whole the piece did not seem to lack in an objective viewpoint. Who knows maybe I read the wrong article.
Very much a model of how it should be done.
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Inside the Cult of TiVo
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The amount of people out there who have the technical know how to hack these things to a point of costing Tivo money is very very small in proportion to the amount of people who own the product. Given this why would they focus their energies on suppressing these hacks when they could focus on improving and selling more of their products.
If Dish Network spent money like this instead of on stings, lobbying and developing ecms don't you think they would have a better service to show for it. By that I mean from a consumer point of view and not an investors.
Why try and reinvent the wheel. You can use something like gqcam vidcat or any number of other programs for grabbing the image without having to build out a capture interface into a perl script. Check out freshmeat.net for other programs that might fit what your looking for. Try checking if the id card printer support PS or PCL this way you may be able to get away without chaving a specific driver for the printer.
Ok I've seen way to many of these posts dogging anything less that 900MHz or 2.4GHz. First to clarify why we like higher frequencies better. High Q circuits or the relationship between the cuttoff and ideal resonance gives us less interference with larger bandwidths at higher frequencies with less power lost. This is great for the ever shrinking world of electronics were we want less power loss cause we like batteries to last longer, smaller wavelengths shorter antennas/permeates through more structures easier... This however does not mean that circuits with a lower Q value like those you would find with the same bandwidth at a lower frequency lack any ability to reproduce the audible spectrum. Granted it does require more electronics to filter out things like harmonics and possible outside interference but that doesn't mean it will sound any worse that a 2.4GHz products. It is simply cheaper to make consumer goods like this and assume it is of a quality that is acceptable enough to be sold at a particular price point.
What I would recommend is you find a product that you can test out before purchasing or has a liberal enough return policy that you could use the product and decide if it works for you because a poorly designed 2.4GH product could sound far worse that a well designed 87-108MH product.
To examine what I'm talking about here further just search for resonant circuits on google.
See what happens when lazy golf playing no nothings end up controlling an industry because when they kiss ass they aren't afraid to tickle some nuts along the way. Music industry is the same way. They got comfortable bullshitting everyone else for so long that this revolution in technology just bit them square in the ass. It is not the job of legislators to manage the recording industry or the movie industry or even commercial television and I for one am tired of these lazy asses complaining every time there is a possible threat to their income streams especially when it is something dealing with fair use and our rights being taken away as Americans because some a-hole with money to burn can afford to shmooze up with a couple of lawmakers were he makes the old hard luck case about the state of affairs so that laws can be passed that protect the interests of a few people while removing the rights of millions of others. The real pisser is that we as Americans just sit here and take it because we don't care, are too lazy, or simply don't know any better. We try and do something about the DMCA and thousands of voices are crushed by a few who cite phony statistics and make up industry losses to justify unfair laws that allow monopolies to run rampant. In the left corner we have Microsoft in the right corner we have the American people. Look who got so many circles run around them that we still don't what the hell happened. I hope that the industry as we know it dies a horrible death. Not that I wish public television to be gone but I do think there are people out there who would do it better and for less money if given the chance. I think the programming would be less about training people to consume and more about entertaining them and possibly educating them. This is what we need not just some d-head getting laws passed that empower the few at the expense of the majority.
I for one will not pay 250 more a year for the "privilege" of fast-forwarding commercials. No more than I will put my thumbprint on a check for some bank that obviously has issues to begin with if they are treating the people their customers owe money to as criminals. This is almost like the phone companies wanting to charge extra monies to people who by post-it notes because it enables them to keep a number handy so they don't call information for phone numbers any more.
The point you make there is very true. However, if you came up with a way of doing something that was better than anyone had ever done it before would you not feel obligated to spread this information so others could benefit from it? This is the basis behind most all Open Source Software development. These people really enjoy what they do and are passionate about what they work on. Now would you fault them for being excited about what they are doing and wanting to share this excitement with others? This is the true free software community and expecting them to represent themselves in a way that is conducive to our mass consumption mentalities may be asking a bit much.
This should not however be construed as my support for Ogg Vorbis compression. I feel it is better in many ways but, it doesn't currently fit into many peoples lifestyle and as such it is better suited as a platform for spurring further development into audio compression in hopes of delivering a compression codec that is on an order of magnitude better vs. the 10% smaller 50% better quality you see quoted in so many places with the later being almost a purely subjective term.
I do agree 100% here in that we should not make the mistake of using the passion of an open source developer as guides to how we should be living our lives. After all just because they understand the complexities of the mathematical problems they solve with computing doesn't mean they automatically have the comforts of a well-balanced life.
Speaking of bugs he hardly deserved that thrashing. I kinda thought bit lossy was pretty funny.
Your trashing him for not being unable to tell the difference between the original and compressed versions discounts the possibility that his brain is just better at filling in those holes and missing pieces than yours might be. This may make the experience quite pleasurable to him whereas you might find it very unpleasant.
Also you use this factoid of a 128kbps sound source which you should know, judging by the corrections you so roughly made, is not an accurate meter for judging a systems ability to reproduce the original sound wave.
I agree that was kind of lame of him to convert from mp3 to ogg with the only reasoning being the apparent perceived bragging rights, which he even uses in this post, about how all his CDs are in ogg. You do realize it is even lamer for you to talk down to him because he is not as 37337 as you.
Now the question you should ask is; why is a sun codemonkey making a post like this? Obviously working for large fortune 500 companies has taught him nothing about ROI and how that relates to hardware manufactures and how long it will be till they see a profit and thus look at making improvements to an existing product line. Reworking how they currently do things cost money and in a perceived economic lull they are unlikely to take any huge jumps.
My guess is that you will see the ogg players first in the high end mp3 hardware (like the iPod) causing mp3 only hardware to drop making it difficult to move the more expensive units as Joe nobody hasn't the faintest about the differences between ogg and mp3. He just knows he can download music off the Internet put it in this device and listen to it like a cd "cool".
Course that's just my two cents take it or leave it shove it or sheave it.
If tools like AIM or applications like realplayer are brining your network to it's knees maybe the blame doesn't just lay with the employees. The thing I would do in a situation were everyone wanted to watch streaming video over the web is just throttle their bandwidth down to about 2 or 3k per second. This speed should be good enough for web browsing but not for streaming video. Make it so it isn't worth it to even try and watch video and if they move to audio I would throttle down all realplayer transports to about 1k per second. This would be a decent deterrent to the practice while maintaining the ability to use the network for legitimate purposes.
I can see the whitepaper forming now. Title Corporate Espionage with a Furby. I if something like that might have happened during the tech boom. I mean it wouldn't be very hard to place a small transmitter inside a furby pass it off as a gift to a company ceo and sit back and motitor everything that goes on in his office. Also might not have been that uncommon during the tech boom to recieve a gift like a furby.
Think of it this way, 911 wouldnt have happened if we had better security, right now we have next to none because everyone wants their privacy at the superbowl, or the movie theather, or on a highway on route 46.
B.S. If people had done their jobs 911 wouldn't have happened. Consider at least 4 of the people who committed the acts were already on a government watch list for terrorism. Given this the problem is obviously not, as you implied, the inability of government to track or keep track of criminals. They already have the ability and the means. Also you propose a military state were government controls everything outside your front door. I for one could not live in a country like this. I think your need to take away the rights of others to satisfy your own fears would best be dealt with by some serious psychotherapy.
And how would you do this? Not that it can't be done, but with a content management system? Wouldn't it be easier to just learn C and write a module for apache to do it adding more value to apache.
I could imagine one day having walls papered with this stuff and being able to adjust the brightness of a room and having it be uniform across the entire room.
Let me help you out seeing as how you've obviously been rejected too much.
Now, the article is written by "Emma Young of Blackpool", newscientist.com is registered in the UK, and the conference is get this "British Psychological Society in Blackpool, Lancashire, UK". That being said I'm sure it's apparent for most with IQs above a rodent why my comment was phrased the way it was. It was meant as a joke being the people in the UK must believe whatever you tell them. Now if you want a biography of this "scientist" let me know I can post a follow up on that also as I had to figure out what in the hell this article was about, were the bias was, and what the motivation was. So I ended up doing a bit more than just read the article.
Half a clue will tell you the money to pay those refferal fees aren't comming out of the pockets or salaries of the Executives at amazon or yahoo. It's comming from increased costs for products and services via their site. Guess who pays for products and services on their sites.
Point this has a large impact on the way advertising is done on the internet. The whole idea that the software was free and no one is hurt by them doing this is without merit. The other that people only use morpheus for piracy also lacks any substance.
New study shows British scientists who eat shit for breakfast make better more accurate observations in their case studies.
Seriously this has got to be some ploy no serious researcher is going to release results under a tag line like that unless they work for the National Enquirer. The amount of unknown variables here are very significant and the amount of research done here hardly scratches the surface. Even the most unreasonable can probably agree that people act differently after being rejected. Given that it would be far easier to assume that people may in fact act dumber after being rejected but to jump off the deep end and report rejection makes you dumber is a fairly large accusation and without anything to back it up hardly makes for a new story. Who runs NEW Scientist anyway and how did this make it past their editors or lack there of.
Oh and I'm guessing they use the defense to anyone who objects to their findings that they must have been rejected too much. HaHA got some cure all medicine bottles I'll sell you and the fountain of youth is in my backyard, make an offer and it's yours.
I think he is reffering to his mad assembly skills. And you can put the little assembly program into memory and you should see the b8 yada yada as the interpreted assembly.
Read my post a few times and maybe you will better understand it and my reasoning for using the old monthly rate instead of the new one. Seemed obvious to me but obviously this is lost on some.
Tivo has been offering rebates like this as well tardo. So even if you look at your scenario your looking at 50 bucks more for the tivo and you have free lifetime service as well. Plus season passes/VBR/Software Updates/Wish Lists/Tivo Picks and a few other negligable things over the showstopper. Plus that doens't even include the possibility of a rebate on the Tivo which I'm sure you will see come the holidays. Also you might be better off looking at a newer ReplayTV vs the showstoper as the showstopper has been discontinued and about the only thing you get with it is the guide data. Bottom line baring the specials that both companies offer from tim to time the Tivo is cheaper for units that have the same recording space.
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And all I have to ask is how many peole read this article? It doesn't seem to be what the post suggests at all. Where are the editors that love to deny other stories in favor of stuff like this? Granted the last few paragraphs seem out fo place in this article but on the whole the piece did not seem to lack in an objective viewpoint. Who knows maybe I read the wrong article.
The amount of people out there who have the technical know how to hack these things to a point of costing Tivo money is very very small in proportion to the amount of people who own the product. Given this why would they focus their energies on suppressing these hacks when they could focus on improving and selling more of their products.
If Dish Network spent money like this instead of on stings, lobbying and developing ecms don't you think they would have a better service to show for it. By that I mean from a consumer point of view and not an investors.
Why try and reinvent the wheel. You can use something like gqcam vidcat or any number of other programs for grabbing the image without having to build out a capture interface into a perl script. Check out freshmeat.net for other programs that might fit what your looking for. Try checking if the id card printer support PS or PCL this way you may be able to get away without chaving a specific driver for the printer.
Ok I've seen way to many of these posts dogging anything less that 900MHz or 2.4GHz. First to clarify why we like higher frequencies better. High Q circuits or the relationship between the cuttoff and ideal resonance gives us less interference with larger bandwidths at higher frequencies with less power lost. This is great for the ever shrinking world of electronics were we want less power loss cause we like batteries to last longer, smaller wavelengths shorter antennas/permeates through more structures easier... This however does not mean that circuits with a lower Q value like those you would find with the same bandwidth at a lower frequency lack any ability to reproduce the audible spectrum. Granted it does require more electronics to filter out things like harmonics and possible outside interference but that doesn't mean it will sound any worse that a 2.4GHz products. It is simply cheaper to make consumer goods like this and assume it is of a quality that is acceptable enough to be sold at a particular price point.
What I would recommend is you find a product that you can test out before purchasing or has a liberal enough return policy that you could use the product and decide if it works for you because a poorly designed 2.4GH product could sound far worse that a well designed 87-108MH product.
To examine what I'm talking about here further just search for resonant circuits on google.
See what happens when lazy golf playing no nothings end up controlling an industry because when they kiss ass they aren't afraid to tickle some nuts along the way. Music industry is the same way. They got comfortable bullshitting everyone else for so long that this revolution in technology just bit them square in the ass. It is not the job of legislators to manage the recording industry or the movie industry or even commercial television and I for one am tired of these lazy asses complaining every time there is a possible threat to their income streams especially when it is something dealing with fair use and our rights being taken away as Americans because some a-hole with money to burn can afford to shmooze up with a couple of lawmakers were he makes the old hard luck case about the state of affairs so that laws can be passed that protect the interests of a few people while removing the rights of millions of others. The real pisser is that we as Americans just sit here and take it because we don't care, are too lazy, or simply don't know any better. We try and do something about the DMCA and thousands of voices are crushed by a few who cite phony statistics and make up industry losses to justify unfair laws that allow monopolies to run rampant. In the left corner we have Microsoft in the right corner we have the American people. Look who got so many circles run around them that we still don't what the hell happened. I hope that the industry as we know it dies a horrible death. Not that I wish public television to be gone but I do think there are people out there who would do it better and for less money if given the chance. I think the programming would be less about training people to consume and more about entertaining them and possibly educating them. This is what we need not just some d-head getting laws passed that empower the few at the expense of the majority.
I for one will not pay 250 more a year for the "privilege" of fast-forwarding commercials. No more than I will put my thumbprint on a check for some bank that obviously has issues to begin with if they are treating the people their customers owe money to as criminals. This is almost like the phone companies wanting to charge extra monies to people who by post-it notes because it enables them to keep a number handy so they don't call information for phone numbers any more.
The point you make there is very true. However, if you came up with a way of doing something that was better than anyone had ever done it before would you not feel obligated to spread this information so others could benefit from it? This is the basis behind most all Open Source Software development. These people really enjoy what they do and are passionate about what they work on. Now would you fault them for being excited about what they are doing and wanting to share this excitement with others? This is the true free software community and expecting them to represent themselves in a way that is conducive to our mass consumption mentalities may be asking a bit much.
This should not however be construed as my support for Ogg Vorbis compression. I feel it is better in many ways but, it doesn't currently fit into many peoples lifestyle and as such it is better suited as a platform for spurring further development into audio compression in hopes of delivering a compression codec that is on an order of magnitude better vs. the 10% smaller 50% better quality you see quoted in so many places with the later being almost a purely subjective term.
I do agree 100% here in that we should not make the mistake of using the passion of an open source developer as guides to how we should be living our lives. After all just because they understand the complexities of the mathematical problems they solve with computing doesn't mean they automatically have the comforts of a well-balanced life.
Speaking of bugs he hardly deserved that thrashing. I kinda thought bit lossy was pretty funny.
Your trashing him for not being unable to tell the difference between the original and compressed versions discounts the possibility that his brain is just better at filling in those holes and missing pieces than yours might be. This may make the experience quite pleasurable to him whereas you might find it very unpleasant.
Also you use this factoid of a 128kbps sound source which you should know, judging by the corrections you so roughly made, is not an accurate meter for judging a systems ability to reproduce the original sound wave.
I agree that was kind of lame of him to convert from mp3 to ogg with the only reasoning being the apparent perceived bragging rights, which he even uses in this post, about how all his CDs are in ogg. You do realize it is even lamer for you to talk down to him because he is not as 37337 as you.
Now the question you should ask is; why is a sun codemonkey making a post like this? Obviously working for large fortune 500 companies has taught him nothing about ROI and how that relates to hardware manufactures and how long it will be till they see a profit and thus look at making improvements to an existing product line. Reworking how they currently do things cost money and in a perceived economic lull they are unlikely to take any huge jumps.
My guess is that you will see the ogg players first in the high end mp3 hardware (like the iPod) causing mp3 only hardware to drop making it difficult to move the more expensive units as Joe nobody hasn't the faintest about the differences between ogg and mp3. He just knows he can download music off the Internet put it in this device and listen to it like a cd "cool".
Course that's just my two cents take it or leave it shove it or sheave it.
If tools like AIM or applications like realplayer are brining your network to it's knees maybe the blame doesn't just lay with the employees. The thing I would do in a situation were everyone wanted to watch streaming video over the web is just throttle their bandwidth down to about 2 or 3k per second. This speed should be good enough for web browsing but not for streaming video. Make it so it isn't worth it to even try and watch video and if they move to audio I would throttle down all realplayer transports to about 1k per second. This would be a decent deterrent to the practice while maintaining the ability to use the network for legitimate purposes.
I can see the whitepaper forming now. Title Corporate Espionage with a Furby. I if something like that might have happened during the tech boom. I mean it wouldn't be very hard to place a small transmitter inside a furby pass it off as a gift to a company ceo and sit back and motitor everything that goes on in his office. Also might not have been that uncommon during the tech boom to recieve a gift like a furby.
B.S. If people had done their jobs 911 wouldn't have happened. Consider at least 4 of the people who committed the acts were already on a government watch list for terrorism. Given this the problem is obviously not, as you implied, the inability of government to track or keep track of criminals. They already have the ability and the means. Also you propose a military state were government controls everything outside your front door. I for one could not live in a country like this. I think your need to take away the rights of others to satisfy your own fears would best be dealt with by some serious psychotherapy.
Yea and just wait untill the 4 dummies book comes out. "Managing Einsteins for Dummies" I can see managers buying those up by the pallet.
And how would you do this? Not that it can't be done, but with a content management system? Wouldn't it be easier to just learn C and write a module for apache to do it adding more value to apache.
I could imagine one day having walls papered with this stuff and being able to adjust the brightness of a room and having it be uniform across the entire room.
Let me help you out seeing as how you've obviously been rejected too much.
Now, the article is written by "Emma Young of Blackpool", newscientist.com is registered in the UK, and the conference is get this "British Psychological Society in Blackpool, Lancashire, UK". That being said I'm sure it's apparent for most with IQs above a rodent why my comment was phrased the way it was. It was meant as a joke being the people in the UK must believe whatever you tell them. Now if you want a biography of this "scientist" let me know I can post a follow up on that also as I had to figure out what in the hell this article was about, were the bias was, and what the motivation was. So I ended up doing a bit more than just read the article.
Half a clue will tell you the money to pay those refferal fees aren't comming out of the pockets or salaries of the Executives at amazon or yahoo. It's comming from increased costs for products and services via their site. Guess who pays for products and services on their sites.
Point this has a large impact on the way advertising is done on the internet. The whole idea that the software was free and no one is hurt by them doing this is without merit. The other that people only use morpheus for piracy also lacks any substance.
Damb this sounds like microsoft.
Speaking of editors thats news story not new story.
New study shows British scientists who eat shit for breakfast make better more accurate observations in their case studies.
Seriously this has got to be some ploy no serious researcher is going to release results under a tag line like that unless they work for the National Enquirer. The amount of unknown variables here are very significant and the amount of research done here hardly scratches the surface. Even the most unreasonable can probably agree that people act differently after being rejected. Given that it would be far easier to assume that people may in fact act dumber after being rejected but to jump off the deep end and report rejection makes you dumber is a fairly large accusation and without anything to back it up hardly makes for a new story. Who runs NEW Scientist anyway and how did this make it past their editors or lack there of.
Oh and I'm guessing they use the defense to anyone who objects to their findings that they must have been rejected too much. HaHA got some cure all medicine bottles I'll sell you and the fountain of youth is in my backyard, make an offer and it's yours.
I think he is reffering to his mad assembly skills. And you can put the little assembly program into memory and you should see the b8 yada yada as the interpreted assembly.
Read my post a few times and maybe you will better understand it and my reasoning for using the old monthly rate instead of the new one. Seemed obvious to me but obviously this is lost on some.
BTW the fact you are employed by someone else is the joke there.
Even though they sell their units at a loss to begin with? What the hell kinda buisness model is that.
http://www.atis.org/pub/iitc/ntc/ntc24.doc
This seems to contain the same information in what I found was a tad easier to read although it is in word format so it may not be for everyone.
Boy if you think their burn rate will put them out in a year you need to read up on their financials.
Tivo has been offering rebates like this as well tardo. So even if you look at your scenario your looking at 50 bucks more for the tivo and you have free lifetime service as well. Plus season passes/VBR/Software Updates/Wish Lists/Tivo Picks and a few other negligable things over the showstopper. Plus that doens't even include the possibility of a rebate on the Tivo which I'm sure you will see come the holidays. Also you might be better off looking at a newer ReplayTV vs the showstoper as the showstopper has been discontinued and about the only thing you get with it is the guide data. Bottom line baring the specials that both companies offer from tim to time the Tivo is cheaper for units that have the same recording space.