TiVo is essentially a single-purpose PC and with the Ethernet hack, and having opened a shell on the TiVo, and with the needed skillz, you could network in the rest via another PC or single-purpose box in the house and write the interfaces you want (I assume that anyone seeking the functionality you're talking about is already set with a home network).
That's the way I want to head (when more money shows up) -- wireless card in the TiVo so it can stay by the display of my choice, eventually reroute mp3s/video through the house.
This is what everybody seems to have really wanted... the old service stays what it is, the new service ensures what you're getting is actually music, makes sure its catalog is there, etc. (probably through mirroring disks of music through the actual Napster services, so it's only semi-p2p).
It's a more efficient market in action... it's up to users whether they want to spend more time (re-dowloading for interrupts or crappy copies), or more money (to Napster2 for clean, efficient copies). Viva the new service, good for all.
Sure, this isn't the best choice for the small cluster-building market, as pointed out, but for those companies that have the money and can ramp up a project faster -- the benefits will trickle down to individuals pretty quickly.
... from design improvements to better customer service to anything that isn't already sequencing genes or beating Garry Kasparov. This sounds cool.
Or a better word would be "obfuscated." Why does my Macrovision DVD player scramble output when it detects a connection to my VCR's *OUT* jack? (I.e., no recording from DVD possible) Had I known that, would I have chosen differently? Yes. But now I need to spend extra on cables, signal amps etc. to make the piece of technology that I bought work *as intended.* What BS. It smacks of false advertising at best, and fraud at worst.
--Jasn
(BTW the other alternative is more drilling, to get at wiring previously done under the assumption that an interference signal wouldn't come from the signal-out jack. !!)
Seems likely that thanks to AT&T investments that i-mode should appear in the US before the end of the year, when it will be welcomed with a nearly silent round of golf claps.
The technology represents the Internet for Japan, where PC access is less common, but Americans have been spoiled with broadband access at work, let alone PC dialups. I don't think the feature set is going to wow anybody here. With eventual buildouts for 3G, maybe the US can have six different wireless networks operating at once! I can understand why CDMA and TDMA and AMPS are the situation now, but that doesn't explain why we would need to repeat similar confusion in the future.
So, professor, couldn't the submission have read "Joystick101.org has my feature on the release of the Playstation II..." ?
Sorry, just my journalism acting up again.
Yeah, these things have been known to happen... as in Slash's own Pudge (Chris N.) causing an uproar over scripting the ballot-stuffing of the All-Star game for Nomahhh. Coincidentally, this in-house instance of poll abuse goes unmentioned here. I guess one is just a silly sports poll and the other one is serious (i.e. MS-related), right?
Enjoy Pudge's semi-smug commenting on his own fracas in the above link.
Hear, hear. I can't think of a single transaction with them, going back years, that didn't have a flaw or screw-up, including a NIC handle problem similar to the one described here. So much so that I consider myself lucky to be "holding" the domains that I do (in whatever sense of the word applies these days).
The scary part is, I did get a response from a human -- after some of my changes not only failed but bungled my records further, I finally called them. Told them (truthfully) I was Administrative Contact for the domain. They found the changes (hung up on authorization), and completed them. Now, any system that is so hopelessly bungled that I am grateful for this insane lapse in security, and then has the gall to charge me a 90 percent markup or so, doesn't deserve to profit -- and probably wouldn't unless it chose to resort to anticompetitive measures. At least back in the early days of the NSF's transfer to them, their collection department was also too screwed up to enforce timely payments.
Wow... I was nearly taken in by this otherwise thoughtful, trenchant commentary, until the advice to check out COSMO! Yeah, that's done a lot for the healthy socialization of women... creating the attitude that great sex is not only a woman's right but likely the most important thing to a loving relationship, and repeatedly suggesting that the "right man" is something to be bagged/trapped rather than dealt with on even terms.
I can only conclude that this is a stealthy post (from a spy for 'their' side (g)) masquerading as good advice, but actually designed to take a generation of geeks out of the dating pool by getting them to cater to the lowest common denominator of relationshipdom... and urging them to shape their conversational topics to fit the "Cosmo girl's" extremely limited universe.
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TiVo is essentially a single-purpose PC and with the Ethernet hack, and having opened a shell on the TiVo, and with the needed skillz, you could network in the rest via another PC or single-purpose box in the house and write the interfaces you want (I assume that anyone seeking the functionality you're talking about is already set with a home network).
That's the way I want to head (when more money shows up) -- wireless card in the TiVo so it can stay by the display of my choice, eventually reroute mp3s/video through the house.
It's a more efficient market in action ... it's up to users whether they want to spend more time (re-dowloading for interrupts or crappy copies), or more money (to Napster2 for clean, efficient copies). Viva the new service, good for all.
--Jasn
(BTW the other alternative is more drilling, to get at wiring previously done under the assumption that an interference signal wouldn't come from the signal-out jack. !!)
The technology represents the Internet for Japan, where PC access is less common, but Americans have been spoiled with broadband access at work, let alone PC dialups. I don't think the feature set is going to wow anybody here. With eventual buildouts for 3G, maybe the US can have six different wireless networks operating at once! I can understand why CDMA and TDMA and AMPS are the situation now, but that doesn't explain why we would need to repeat similar confusion in the future.
So, professor, couldn't the submission have read "Joystick101.org has my feature on the release of the Playstation II..." ?
Sorry, just my journalism acting up again.
Enjoy Pudge's semi-smug commenting on his own fracas in the above link.
The scary part is, I did get a response from a human -- after some of my changes not only failed but bungled my records further, I finally called them. Told them (truthfully) I was Administrative Contact for the domain. They found the changes (hung up on authorization), and completed them. Now, any system that is so hopelessly bungled that I am grateful for this insane lapse in security, and then has the gall to charge me a 90 percent markup or so, doesn't deserve to profit -- and probably wouldn't unless it chose to resort to anticompetitive measures. At least back in the early days of the NSF's transfer to them, their collection department was also too screwed up to enforce timely payments.
Wow ... I was nearly taken in by this otherwise thoughtful, trenchant commentary, until the advice to check out COSMO! Yeah, that's done a lot for the healthy socialization of women ... creating the attitude that great sex is not only a woman's right but likely the most important thing to a loving relationship, and repeatedly suggesting that the "right man" is something to be bagged/trapped rather than dealt with on even terms.
... and urging them to shape their conversational topics to fit the "Cosmo girl's" extremely limited universe.
I can only conclude that this is a stealthy post (from a spy for 'their' side (g)) masquerading as good advice, but actually designed to take a generation of geeks out of the dating pool by getting them to cater to the lowest common denominator of relationshipdom