He seems to have confused high resolution and high quality. Getting a high resolution image is easy. That hard part is getting a high quality image. While the 2000x2000 pixel image size is somewhat impressive, I have seen better results with $300 1.5 megapixel cameras.
I think what they mean is using AOL in the sense that MovieFone.com is part of AOL. AOL would own a website that would have a guide on it. Users would go to that site already for program guide information, and there would be an option to set a recording for the TiVo. Just a guess though.
The price increase does not effect the DirecTV Receivers with TiVo service, and they are offering a discount of $50 on lifetime service off the regular price of $250 for current stand alone boxes.
"-No copyright infringment suit can be brought against someone making home digital recordings."
The DMCA forbids the bypassing of copy protection, which the record companys plan on putting on every disc. Does that mean that the record companys can't do anything about someone making the copy for personal fair use of they break the DCMA?
While filtering may be a diffrent story on in library, what about on a plane? In such a confined space, surely there would be very vocal objections to someone looking up hate sites and pornography in clear few of children, and those why may be offended. This, in my mind, is enough to damper the whole idea. Who, and how would filtering be controlled?
Isn't it a tad bit hypocritical to criticize companys like AOL for owning so much of the traffic when this is what VA has done with your site? The way I see it is that the consolidation has kept many organizations alive that wouldn't be otherwise. And just because they are owned by the a larger company mean that they lack journalistic integrity? Freshmeat, News Forge, Slashdot, Source Forge and Themes.org used to be independent before being bought by VA. Would they still be around now without being bought? Maybe, but I doubt it considering the advertising shake up. The control has not be gained from nefarious means, just out of survival.
CoolTown is an HP program out of HP Labs., A cross between R&D/Think Tank, much like Xerox PARC, Its goal is to find way to integrate technology into our every day lives, as shown by this project. To quote HP:
Cooltown is our vision of a technology future where people, places, and things are first class citizens of the connected world, wired and wireless - a place where e-services meet the physical world, where humans are mobile, devices and services are federated and context-aware, and everything has a web presence.
The cooltown vision of a responsive world of mobile services requires clear, creative thinking about technology. For several years, HP Labs has been working at the intersection of nomadicity, appliances, networking, and the web. Our model for this research is one of open collaboration and partnership with others who share similar goals. Creating a cooltown ecosystem requires vision and technology, but above all else it takes a community of like-minded people who believe in open participation, investing in the web, and creating real solutions that add value to people's lives. Our goal is to help bring that community together, to openly share ideas and implementations, and to make a real contribution to the web and to the world.
This is just one of many projects that have come, and will come out of this program. Hopefully HP will do something more useful with them then Xerox did with PARC, but I digress...
What is special here? Why is this notable at all? I don't really follow the comparison to the iPod. As noted, it has half the battery life, a USB connection, is larger, and is missing all the great Apple industrial design. The only thing that I have seen in this article is the comparison to the Handspring Treo name, and maybe the form factor.
I would really like to see software publishers move to a licensing system based on households. Many families have multiple computers now, (My family has more then 6) and I find it unreasonable that you would need to license separate copies of expensive software for each computer, considering that it is unlikely that the software is going to be used by more then one user at a time, or in the case of an operating system, it will truly be a lost sale. Case in point, Microsoft Office. The retail version is priced at over $400 USD. I want to have a copy on each of my home computers, so 6*$400= $2400 USD for software that is rarely, if ever going to be used concurrently? I think that the more reasonable method for licensing would be to offer a household license. An example of this would be for Windows XP, the $90 family license would change into the Microsoft Household License. The $90 would cover every computer that was contained in your residence. While I understand that it would be difficult to verify that the computers were actually in the same household, that type of privacy is a pre-existing problem. This would just be a method for families to hold a legitimate license to their software without paying though their nose for it.
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He seems to have confused high resolution and high quality. Getting a high resolution image is easy. That hard part is getting a high quality image. While the 2000x2000 pixel image size is somewhat impressive, I have seen better results with $300 1.5 megapixel cameras.
I think what they mean is using AOL in the sense that MovieFone.com is part of AOL. AOL would own a website that would have a guide on it. Users would go to that site already for program guide information, and there would be an option to set a recording for the TiVo. Just a guess though.
I knew this holepunch would come in useful again some day!
The price increase does not effect the DirecTV Receivers with TiVo service, and they are offering a discount of $50 on lifetime service off the regular price of $250 for current stand alone boxes.
Here is the orignal (informal) announcement with some Q and A:
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http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread
Here are a few more articles on the subject that IMHO are a bit more substantive:
From BusinessWeek
From M Commerce Times
Some Information on its Problems:
A brief primer from the Ultra Wideband Working Group
And a very in depth look at the history of UWB
-john
"-No copyright infringment suit can be brought against someone making home digital recordings."
The DMCA forbids the bypassing of copy protection, which the record companys plan on putting on every disc. Does that mean that the record companys can't do anything about someone making the copy for personal fair use of they break the DCMA?
-john
This has already been posted on slashdot.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/06/232
-john
While filtering may be a diffrent story on in library, what about on a plane? In such a confined space, surely there would be very vocal objections to someone looking up hate sites and pornography in clear few of children, and those why may be offended. This, in my mind, is enough to damper the whole idea. Who, and how would filtering be controlled?
Isn't it a tad bit hypocritical to criticize companys like AOL for owning so much of the traffic when this is what VA has done with your site? The way I see it is that the consolidation has kept many organizations alive that wouldn't be otherwise. And just because they are owned by the a larger company mean that they lack journalistic integrity? Freshmeat, News Forge, Slashdot, Source Forge and Themes.org used to be independent before being bought by VA. Would they still be around now without being bought? Maybe, but I doubt it considering the advertising shake up. The control has not be gained from nefarious means, just out of survival.
CoolTown is an HP program out of HP Labs., A cross between R&D/Think Tank, much like Xerox PARC, Its goal is to find way to integrate technology into our every day lives, as shown by this project. To quote HP:
Cooltown is our vision of a technology future where people, places, and things are first class citizens of the connected world, wired and wireless - a place where e-services meet the physical world, where humans are mobile, devices and services are federated and context-aware, and everything has a web presence.
The cooltown vision of a responsive world of mobile services requires clear, creative thinking about technology. For several years, HP Labs has been working at the intersection of nomadicity, appliances, networking, and the web. Our model for this research is one of open collaboration and partnership with others who share similar goals. Creating a cooltown ecosystem requires vision and technology, but above all else it takes a community of like-minded people who believe in open participation, investing in the web, and creating real solutions that add value to people's lives. Our goal is to help bring that community together, to openly share ideas and implementations, and to make a real contribution to the web and to the world.
This is just one of many projects that have come, and will come out of this program. Hopefully HP will do something more useful with them then Xerox did with PARC, but I digress...
What is special here? Why is this notable at all? I don't really follow the comparison to the iPod. As noted, it has half the battery life, a USB connection, is larger, and is missing all the great Apple industrial design. The only thing that I have seen in this article is the comparison to the Handspring Treo name, and maybe the form factor.
China is also attempting to launch their own GPS network, and infact, they are actually farther along then the EU, having launched their first sat.
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http://www.spaceandtech.com/digest/flash-articl
There has also been talk of China financing the the Glonass system (Russia's GPS) for their own use.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/gps-00h.html
I would really like to see software publishers move to a licensing system based on households. Many families have multiple computers now, (My family has more then 6) and I find it unreasonable that you would need to license separate copies of expensive software for each computer, considering that it is unlikely that the software is going to be used by more then one user at a time, or in the case of an operating system, it will truly be a lost sale. Case in point, Microsoft Office. The retail version is priced at over $400 USD. I want to have a copy on each of my home computers, so 6*$400= $2400 USD for software that is rarely, if ever going to be used concurrently? I think that the more reasonable method for licensing would be to offer a household license. An example of this would be for Windows XP, the $90 family license would change into the Microsoft Household License. The $90 would cover every computer that was contained in your residence. While I understand that it would be difficult to verify that the computers were actually in the same household, that type of privacy is a pre-existing problem. This would just be a method for families to hold a legitimate license to their software without paying though their nose for it.
If I remember correctly, the first commercial GPS cellphone was the NaviTalk by Garmin . It was released a few years ago, and was recently updated.
-john