This reminds me of the following quote from a 1995 FOCUS interview with Bill G.: Gates:
No. I'm saying: We don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won't get a single person to say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis.
What is interesting is that I did the oposite with my Panny(LCD). I run my Motorola STB at 1080i - which (strangly) gives a better picture than at 720p.
Now if XM would offer the ability to configure personalized online streams to be broadcast over XM - that would be cool. So that I could listen to my favorite online radio stations in my car.
The plus about comcast is OnDemand - while you can simulate that with TiVo - the quality is better, plus you have a higher capacity than TiVo since the stuff is stored on the server. The minus is that the content does not change as frequently as I would like.
They do have some cool stuff like Atom TV.
I found that if you have old cableing in your house - make sure they replace it when they put it digital cable. Also quite a few chanels are not digital quality. The plus on that is that you don't need a DVR to watch them - just plug them in any TV and at least you'll have the basics. I wish they would rebroadcast ALL (not just the premium) analog channels in digital.
Oh... we need more HDTV channels and content. I now have 7 and I hate when I have to switch to the lower res.
Well My server at home is still housed in a 1992 Gateway 2000 AT Tower - same power supply - running for 12 years most of it 24x7. I better go and see if the are any MTBF figures for it. Beside the powersupply and floppy everything else has been upgraded:)
Now that more and more cable companies are broadcasting cable content in HDTV quality, does anyone have (or know of) a DVR solution with TIVO capabilities that will capture HDTV signals and make them watchable on a large widescreen TV? All I've read so far were pretty horrific reports on almost unusable recording quality by current standalone units.
To solve the problem of undesired residue on the screen the manufacturer could add a slider on the bottom of the unit that the user would slide from one side to the other - erasing the content:).
What we refered to in that poll was actually - digital human communication. Which today has evolved quite a bit - but not to the point that we thought it would. All I was saying was that it was interesting that we discussed this in 1990 and that it still hasn't realized.
In 1990 we did a poll at our local BBS in Croatia - on how BBS-ing will look in the year 2000. One user suggested the same as you did. Glasses that would integrate wireless communication. It hasn't been relized yet - and we are 2 years overdue. Let's see how long it takes.
Actually Slashdot users are usually a bit more on the leading edge than the general Internet population, so it might be interesting how these statitistics look like.
How about adding a page to slashdot to show current/past statistics of browsers that are used to access SlashDot? A link from the main page would also be nice!
I know that some on-line database systems use ficticious records to prevent data theft. Could this be one of these cases? Did anyone verify the existance of this pattent from another source?
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This reminds me of the following quote from a 1995 FOCUS interview with Bill G.:
Gates:
No. I'm saying: We don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won't get a single person to say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis.
"Mostly Harmless"
What is interesting is that I did the oposite with my Panny(LCD). I run my Motorola STB at 1080i - which (strangly) gives a better picture than at 720p.
In the eighties I could fit a wordprocessor onto a floppy.
Do you plan your personal (family) budget the same way you plan the nations (federal) budget?
Now if XM would offer the ability to configure personalized online streams to be broadcast over XM - that would be cool. So that I could listen to my favorite online radio stations in my car.
Too late
A C-17 can land on a carrier as well.
The plus about comcast is OnDemand - while you can simulate that with TiVo - the quality is better, plus you have a higher capacity than TiVo since the stuff is stored on the server. The minus is that the content does not change as frequently as I would like. ... we need more HDTV channels and content. I now have 7 and I hate when I have to switch to the lower res.
They do have some cool stuff like Atom TV.
I found that if you have old cableing in your house - make sure they replace it when they put it digital cable. Also quite a few chanels are not digital quality. The plus on that is that you don't need a DVR to watch them - just plug them in any TV and at least you'll have the basics. I wish they would rebroadcast ALL (not just the premium) analog channels in digital. Oh
Well My server at home is still housed in a 1992 Gateway 2000 AT Tower - same power supply - running for 12 years most of it 24x7. I better go and see if the are any MTBF figures for it. Beside the powersupply and floppy everything else has been upgraded :)
They are from GERMANY. Not from the US!!!!
Now that more and more cable companies are broadcasting cable content in HDTV quality, does anyone have (or know of) a DVR solution with TIVO capabilities that will capture HDTV signals and make them watchable on a large widescreen TV? All I've read so far were pretty horrific reports on almost unusable recording quality by current standalone units.
http://david.tribble.com/text/cdiffs.htm
And a TURBO sticker on the butt.
The question is did he eat beans before the flight?
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I thought high end PCs started at 4.77MHz
To solve the problem of undesired residue on the screen the manufacturer could add a slider on the bottom of the unit that the user would slide from one side to the other - erasing the content :).
I guess I need to go back to 1st grade.
fine = five
I guess beeing fine puts /. close to the point where its time to enter 1st grade. Time to learn how to read, write and socially behave ... YUK :)
Isn't the answer to question 2 presented as the answer to question 3?
What we refered to in that poll was actually - digital human communication. Which today has evolved quite a bit - but not to the point that we thought it would. All I was saying was that it was interesting that we discussed this in 1990 and that it still hasn't realized.
In 1990 we did a poll at our local BBS in Croatia - on how BBS-ing will look in the year 2000. One user suggested the same as you did. Glasses that would integrate wireless communication. It hasn't been relized yet - and we are 2 years overdue. Let's see how long it takes.
Actually Slashdot users are usually a bit more on the leading edge than the general Internet population, so it might be interesting how these statitistics look like.
How about adding a page to slashdot to show current/past statistics of browsers that are used to access SlashDot? A link from the main page would also be nice!
I know that some on-line database systems use ficticious records to prevent data theft. Could
this be one of these cases? Did anyone verify the existance of this pattent from another source?