I'm curious as to these few people who say everyone they know has problems with their tivo yada yada. Why haven't I met any of these people why haven't I experienced any of this and why is there never a resolution for them. Including just returning the obviously defective unit. I guess that just one of those unanswered questions much like the old why are their trolls on slashdot question.
If you look at the sheets he was reffering to you would see that actual revenues are approxamatly 5 million per quarter currently. Just for a quicky of why they are still in a loss mode they were obligated to provide NBC with about 5 million for advertising not to long ago. I would recomend you read their filing in full to get the real picture instead of excerpts given out by people who may or may not be qualified to give you the synopsis of the report. http://biz.yahoo.com/e/011217/tivo.html
You reading the same stats I am. I'm reading that they have shown losses since they atarted and peaking in their losses 3 months ending January 31 of 2001 and tappering off ever since while revenues still rose. I could be crazy but I'm pretty sure it's just you.
Their are subscription hacks that have been done and are being done in areas were Tivo itself is not able to provide the guide data. For those of use who are able to follow directions and feel comfortable hakcing the tivos bringing the units online in the unlikely event Tivo goes under would not be a problem. I don't know why people bring this up the only company that has show they have this problem is replay via their press releases and various people dropping their "technology".
I'm thinking you are the poster child for needing to stay in school.
249.95 / 9.95 ~= 26 months which I'm closing in on this figure with my current Tivo. Now looks at it at 199.95 nad your aproxamatly 20 months I'm over that now. This hardly makes for a scam just more choices for us.
I can't believe they put something like that in their service agreement and put that all service fees are non refundable. It saddens me to see that and one can only hope they wake up and offer something a bit more fair with reguards to the being able to terminate your account.
As for the last part of your post I don't think that with a cast flow of 1 million a month they are going to be going under any time soon. they might have to restructure to meet demands of the service and restructure their own expectations of market performance but it's a bit domesdayish to say a company that has show itself to be so strong in this industry is "going under".
Uhm, beavis did you miss the short bus today. Put them side-by-side and the replay 4000 hardly owns as you put it. The only benefit in the replay is the broadband connection. Also your comments of Sonic doing the updates for free scream ignorance. They hardly do it for free if you look at their prices you see the price for the service is built into the cost of the units themselves. That's why they seem so much more expensive than Tivos for comparable features at first glance.
Has nothing to do with how clever you are it has a lot to do with how much you know about digital systems and how they behave. You can after all know every file setting and registry entry in Win95 and still no jack squat about computing if you don't know the difference between a nand gate and a pop tart.
Or you could just use the piece that makes most of those 360 degree cams work. That nice little bowl shapped mirror atachment that goes just in front of the lens. the little convex mirror will produce an excelent 360 degree panorama.
Microsoft is using their market share in the PC world to leverage their way into the console world. This is what MS has right now that they will use to dominate the console world if they can. They have an OS that is used by more than 50% of the current market. They have numerous other technologies they have either bought for pennies on the dollar from competitors they have squeezed out of the market, or they have straight stolen a few and made them their own.
How do you compete with this 800lbs gorilla that has no remorse and eats its own kind on a daily basis. You find the one thing they are scared of and pair it up in your arsenal. You make sure they know you have it and aren't afraid to leverage it as well to help erode their current business if they encroach to far into yours.
So when you ask why just take a look at the marketplace.
As a Linux user myself I can only hope with a player like Sony backing Linux on their consoles as we move towards the age of networked terminals we get to see more and more applications developed for Linux.
If you read the article it clearly states it comes with a 40 GB hard drive. I'm guessing you didn't. So you would have also missed the part about a USB keyboard and mouse and the whole monitor adaptor thing aming your PS/2 a fully functional linux workstation.
I can't belive I haven't seen this before but if we need any evidence that java is being used for way to much crap this is it.
Also the only reason you would have problems in VHDL is if you didn't understand how it works. When I got started in it I found I had to forget all the programming I learned and move into describing my circuts instead of trying to program their behavior. You'll find this type of mindset works well with VHDL/ABEL/Verilog.
Hrm a company run on the premise that if they can just do what the shareholders want they will all have their jobs tomorrow. Based off the decission here I would think these people having been in the forefront for so long have lost touch with their constomer base and are in preparation to loose a ton of money in a short period of time. While looking at possible lawsuits and all sorts of other fun stuff.
I thought the benifits of mergers were you could offer your customers more for less. Not that all management gets to put a sack of money in their garage and the companies will make it up by squeezing it out of their customers.
What? We are taught all throughout school how to simplify equations. Most seventh graders if taught logic could deduce "demorgans laws". Bit wise operations are not some sort of black magic anymore. Most people can be taught these items very easily. It is a bad example even thought it probably works for people who don't know what they are.
I think I better example would be learning how to break problems into smaller pieces so they can each be handled in the most efficient manner possible. They have classes in various methodologies for problem analysis but none can really teach you how to break problem into smaller chunks. This type of skill comes more slowly that anything they teach you directly in college. Yet I think it is one of the most valuable because you learn to break up a seemingly unsolvable problems into small solvable chunks and co-ordinate their combination into the final solution. With this skill set you can never find yourself out of work.
But we know this doesn't work because your week link is the server that does have access to the credit card info. So then you create a way for the credit card db to poll the webserver for cc info and run one of the scaning services on your machine weekly to check for remote exploits on your webserver to detect possible man in the middle attacks.
I would setup a single sytem without any open ports whatsoever. I would then use something like gpg to store encrypted data submited by the user of the website in a predefined dir on the server in question. So you get the cc info and imidiatly put it in a gpg file where only the server has the key. Then run an hourly job to grab files from the webserver via sftp. And decrypt them and store them to a data base on your server. This would be simple enough to setup and impossible to do anything except grab cc numbers from the webserver.
You wouldn't happen to know of a website that describes this would you? I found information describing the manchester encoding and it seems simple enough. But I can't seem to find anything describing the link integrity beyond just cursory it's there type stuff.
I would use a modified form of that liquid styrofoam to operate in low pressure environments. Then the bot could build a "net" of the styrofoam and when it feels he mass is at a predefined point or x time has passed it would jettison it off towards the atmosphere to burn up and build a new net without requiring a reentry and re-equipment with a new net.
What about the uname command wouldn't it be fairly easy to put something like
CUR_OS=`uname`
if test "$CUR_OS" == "Linux"
then
<paste linux parms here>
else
<paste solaris parms here>
fi
It seems to me this would be fairly easy if you already have two working implimentations of each to just make a file like this for mast all the files you currently have that run as shell scripts. You could even create them with a nice shell script by mounting the two dirs then running something like.
filelist=".bashrc.cshrc.tcshrc etc..."
for file in filelist
do
echo "CUR_OS=\`uname\`" >./newfiles/$file
echo "if test \"\$CUR_OS\" == \"Linux\" >>./newfiles/$file
echo " then" >>./newfiles/$file
cat./linux/$file >>./newfiles/$file
echo " else" >>./newfiles/$file
cat./solaris/$file >>./newfiles/$file
echo " fi" >>./newfiles/$file
done
Seems like it wouldn't be that hard or complicated. You could even use something like this to set MOUNT_PARMS for linux as well as one for linux then call automount $MOUNT_PARMS and have it run just like you want.
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The chassis itself is weight resistant to 7 tons. Now what that translates to in real world I don't have a clue but I would imagine it would haul around the average 250lbs techie without problem. I think the only thing you would worry about are the motors used and if they would burn out faster due to the forces on the coils. They say they are aircraft quality. I wonder if anyone know what they can handle?
Yea the last sentence should read nothing to prevent them from screwing you around. There is something to be said for that preview button now if I could pause that submit form reflex.
It's the lazy companies and demanding shareholders etc... Companies are pressured to increase profits and it is a whole lot easier to sqeeze a bit more money out of a current user base than it is to do new and interesting things. Whats the incentive to provide value to the customer in a controled monopoly. I'm sure there is a lot of incentive for them to squeeze you out of every penny you have. So what should really get you is that there is nothing to prevent you from screwing you around because the officials we eect are not passing the laws required to prevent these sort of things from happening and creating competition in the marketplace.
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I gota say I would love a free $2000 machine even if it doesn't have all the features of my tivo.
I'm curious as to these few people who say everyone they know has problems with their tivo yada yada. Why haven't I met any of these people why haven't I experienced any of this and why is there never a resolution for them. Including just returning the obviously defective unit. I guess that just one of those unanswered questions much like the old why are their trolls on slashdot question.
Or you could pay for the lifetime service and be done with it. I guess you just prove that some people are to dumb to deal with alternative options.
If you look at the sheets he was reffering to you would see that actual revenues are approxamatly 5 million per quarter currently. Just for a quicky of why they are still in a loss mode they were obligated to provide NBC with about 5 million for advertising not to long ago. I would recomend you read their filing in full to get the real picture instead of excerpts given out by people who may or may not be qualified to give you the synopsis of the report.
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/011217/tivo.html
You reading the same stats I am. I'm reading that they have shown losses since they atarted and peaking in their losses 3 months ending January 31 of 2001 and tappering off ever since while revenues still rose. I could be crazy but I'm pretty sure it's just you.
Their are subscription hacks that have been done and are being done in areas were Tivo itself is not able to provide the guide data. For those of use who are able to follow directions and feel comfortable hakcing the tivos bringing the units online in the unlikely event Tivo goes under would not be a problem. I don't know why people bring this up the only company that has show they have this problem is replay via their press releases and various people dropping their "technology".
I'm thinking you are the poster child for needing to stay in school.
249.95 / 9.95 ~= 26 months which I'm closing in on this figure with my current Tivo. Now looks at it at 199.95 nad your aproxamatly 20 months I'm over that now. This hardly makes for a scam just more choices for us.
I can't believe they put something like that in their service agreement and put that all service fees are non refundable. It saddens me to see that and one can only hope they wake up and offer something a bit more fair with reguards to the being able to terminate your account.
As for the last part of your post I don't think that with a cast flow of 1 million a month they are going to be going under any time soon. they might have to restructure to meet demands of the service and restructure their own expectations of market performance but it's a bit domesdayish to say a company that has show itself to be so strong in this industry is "going under".
Uhm, beavis did you miss the short bus today. Put them side-by-side and the replay 4000 hardly owns as you put it. The only benefit in the replay is the broadband connection. Also your comments of Sonic doing the updates for free scream ignorance. They hardly do it for free if you look at their prices you see the price for the service is built into the cost of the units themselves. That's why they seem so much more expensive than Tivos for comparable features at first glance.
Has nothing to do with how clever you are it has a lot to do with how much you know about digital systems and how they behave. You can after all know every file setting and registry entry in Win95 and still no jack squat about computing if you don't know the difference between a nand gate and a pop tart.
I think the appropriate question here is : Who employs you?
Or you could just use the piece that makes most of those 360 degree cams work. That nice little bowl shapped mirror atachment that goes just in front of the lens. the little convex mirror will produce an excelent 360 degree panorama.
Follow the money.
Microsoft is using their market share in the PC world to leverage their way into the console world. This is what MS has right now that they will use to dominate the console world if they can. They have an OS that is used by more than 50% of the current market. They have numerous other technologies they have either bought for pennies on the dollar from competitors they have squeezed out of the market, or they have straight stolen a few and made them their own.
How do you compete with this 800lbs gorilla that has no remorse and eats its own kind on a daily basis. You find the one thing they are scared of and pair it up in your arsenal. You make sure they know you have it and aren't afraid to leverage it as well to help erode their current business if they encroach to far into yours.
So when you ask why just take a look at the marketplace.
As a Linux user myself I can only hope with a player like Sony backing Linux on their consoles as we move towards the age of networked terminals we get to see more and more applications developed for Linux.
If you read the article it clearly states it comes with a 40 GB hard drive. I'm guessing you didn't. So you would have also missed the part about a USB keyboard and mouse and the whole monitor adaptor thing aming your PS/2 a fully functional linux workstation.
I can't belive I haven't seen this before but if we need any evidence that java is being used for way to much crap this is it.
Also the only reason you would have problems in VHDL is if you didn't understand how it works. When I got started in it I found I had to forget all the programming I learned and move into describing my circuts instead of trying to program their behavior. You'll find this type of mindset works well with VHDL/ABEL/Verilog.
Hrm a company run on the premise that if they can just do what the shareholders want they will all have their jobs tomorrow. Based off the decission here I would think these people having been in the forefront for so long have lost touch with their constomer base and are in preparation to loose a ton of money in a short period of time. While looking at possible lawsuits and all sorts of other fun stuff.
I thought the benifits of mergers were you could offer your customers more for less. Not that all management gets to put a sack of money in their garage and the companies will make it up by squeezing it out of their customers.
What? We are taught all throughout school how to simplify equations. Most seventh graders if taught logic could deduce "demorgans laws". Bit wise operations are not some sort of black magic anymore. Most people can be taught these items very easily. It is a bad example even thought it probably works for people who don't know what they are.
I think I better example would be learning how to break problems into smaller pieces so they can each be handled in the most efficient manner possible. They have classes in various methodologies for problem analysis but none can really teach you how to break problem into smaller chunks. This type of skill comes more slowly that anything they teach you directly in college. Yet I think it is one of the most valuable because you learn to break up a seemingly unsolvable problems into small solvable chunks and co-ordinate their combination into the final solution. With this skill set you can never find yourself out of work.
But we know this doesn't work because your week link is the server that does have access to the credit card info. So then you create a way for the credit card db to poll the webserver for cc info and run one of the scaning services on your machine weekly to check for remote exploits on your webserver to detect possible man in the middle attacks.
I would setup a single sytem without any open ports whatsoever. I would then use something like gpg to store encrypted data submited by the user of the website in a predefined dir on the server in question. So you get the cc info and imidiatly put it in a gpg file where only the server has the key. Then run an hourly job to grab files from the webserver via sftp. And decrypt them and store them to a data base on your server. This would be simple enough to setup and impossible to do anything except grab cc numbers from the webserver.
You wouldn't happen to know of a website that describes this would you? I found information describing the manchester encoding and it seems simple enough. But I can't seem to find anything describing the link integrity beyond just cursory it's there type stuff.
I would use a modified form of that liquid styrofoam to operate in low pressure environments. Then the bot could build a "net" of the styrofoam and when it feels he mass is at a predefined point or x time has passed it would jettison it off towards the atmosphere to burn up and build a new net without requiring a reentry and re-equipment with a new net.
What about the uname command wouldn't it be fairly easy to put something like
.cshrc .tcshrc etc..."
./newfiles/$file
./newfiles/$file
./newfiles/$file
./linux/$file >> ./newfiles/$file
./newfiles/$file
./solaris/$file >> ./newfiles/$file
./newfiles/$file
CUR_OS=`uname`
if test "$CUR_OS" == "Linux"
then
<paste linux parms here>
else
<paste solaris parms here>
fi
It seems to me this would be fairly easy if you already have two working implimentations of each to just make a file like this for mast all the files you currently have that run as shell scripts. You could even create them with a nice shell script by mounting the two dirs then running something like.
filelist=".bashrc
for file in filelist
do
echo "CUR_OS=\`uname\`" >
echo "if test \"\$CUR_OS\" == \"Linux\" >>
echo " then" >>
cat
echo " else" >>
cat
echo " fi" >>
done
Seems like it wouldn't be that hard or complicated. You could even use something like this to set MOUNT_PARMS for linux as well as one for linux then call automount $MOUNT_PARMS and have it run just like you want.
The chassis itself is weight resistant to 7 tons. Now what that translates to in real world I don't have a clue but I would imagine it would haul around the average 250lbs techie without problem. I think the only thing you would worry about are the motors used and if they would burn out faster due to the forces on the coils. They say they are aircraft quality. I wonder if anyone know what they can handle?
Yea the last sentence should read nothing to prevent them from screwing you around. There is something to be said for that preview button now if I could pause that submit form reflex.
It's the lazy companies and demanding shareholders etc... Companies are pressured to increase profits and it is a whole lot easier to sqeeze a bit more money out of a current user base than it is to do new and interesting things. Whats the incentive to provide value to the customer in a controled monopoly. I'm sure there is a lot of incentive for them to squeeze you out of every penny you have. So what should really get you is that there is nothing to prevent you from screwing you around because the officials we eect are not passing the laws required to prevent these sort of things from happening and creating competition in the marketplace.