First have her to talk to people that do some of the possible jobs in real life. I had good math skills and I was set that I was going to do computing when I was 10, it turned out that after talking to a few people about it, it was not what I thought it was. Eventually, I became a scientist and I'm very happy with it.
The same happens in the other direction, her idea of science and engineering might not be in touch with reality. Have her talk to some people that actually do science. Give her role models, women in science and engineering would go a long way on removing the image that everything is nerdy about it.
Next, the best advice I received when I was in high school came from my uncle. Take a major in a field that is wide enough that you can choose later what your career path is going to look like. If she is good she'll continue on to grad school and specialize in whatever she likes once she is more mature to make such a decision.
Finally, forget MIT she'll be miserable, if she hates a nerd environment it's like sending her to hell. Consider other options, Harvard for instance has a more normal (read not nerdy) group of students still excellent at what they do including science. A more rounded education will serve her well, as long as she does not give up on the skills she does have. A good university will provide internship opportunities in a wide range of things where she can try things out.
At the end of the day, all you can do is advise, it'll be her decision.
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I asked about this, here is the answer I got:
"...this is due to software based MPEG4 encoding and the CPU overhead. Future versions of the product will have MPEG2 HW encoding which will allow pause live TV. We opted to support MPEG4 encoding since it is more flexible, lower bit rate, but high quality and this will work better when we stream video over a home network."
So not now, but yes in the future... shall we overflow them with requests?
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You guys are really missing the point of this device. It's true it's similar to TIVO/ReplayTV but go and read everything in the web site: -This is a PVR and DVD player. The only TIVO that has this is the fancy panasonic for 1000$ that hasn't come out yet. -It's also a cdwriter and can be upgraded to a DVD writer in due time. -It's network transparent even for Windows/Mac people, no extra usb ethernet needed. -It's expandable without having to hack it, you can add two hard drives bought of the shelf. I'd put it in the infinite expandable category just for that. BTW the extra space will look like one volume. -It's standard linux, it has a web server, samba, etc. So it replaces whatever old box that you have lying around as a server, storage or whatever else. -You can access the interface which seems nicely done both directly and remotely via a web server. -As a plus it has all kinds of media playing capabilties: video, audio, photos. -The one linked is the analog one, there is also a digital version for 100$ bucks more.
Finally, and very importantly they give you the SDK for producing your own software, they seem keen on open source and people developing their own little apps. So if you think a feature is missing, heck you can go and program it yourself. Isn't that the most important feature?
That's on the positive side. The one thing that it seems to lack is replay as it records. But that should be fixable if we overflow their mailboxes with requests;-)
Disclaimer: I don't work for them or knew anything about them until I read this post but I've been waiting for just this since forever. It has everything I wanted in a tivo.
I also have a sony 505, z505rx and z505ls to be precise.. So my.02 here..
-Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 install beautifully with a network installation. Just copy the cds to a directory in a different machine and use the USB floppy with the network image. You can also install from the cdrom if you use the pcmcia floppy.. I think you have to do F2 and give the magic line expert ide2=0x180,0x386. That seem to work on my but I didn't do a full install that way.
-Progeny 1.0: I had the same prob as you. I still had to follow on them.
-Redhat 7.1: flawless install with the magic line again. But then.. it's so ugly and it has lacks apps. I feel that I can't go back to it after MDK8.
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First have her to talk to people that do some of the possible jobs in real life. I had good math skills and I was set that I was going to do computing when I was 10, it turned out that after talking to a few people about it, it was not what I thought it was. Eventually, I became a scientist and I'm very happy with it.
The same happens in the other direction, her idea of science and engineering might not be in touch with reality. Have her talk to some people that actually do science. Give her role models, women in science and engineering would go a long way on removing the image that everything is nerdy about it.
Next, the best advice I received when I was in high school came from my uncle. Take a major in a field that is wide enough that you can choose later what your career path is going to look like. If she is good she'll continue on to grad school and specialize in whatever she likes once she is more mature to make such a decision.
Finally, forget MIT she'll be miserable, if she hates a nerd environment it's like sending her to hell. Consider other options, Harvard for instance has a more normal (read not nerdy) group of students still excellent at what they do including science. A more rounded education will serve her well, as long as she does not give up on the skills she does have. A good university will provide internship opportunities in a wide range of things where she can try things out.
At the end of the day, all you can do is advise, it'll be her decision.
I asked about this, here is the answer I got:
"...this is due to software based MPEG4 encoding and the
CPU overhead. Future versions of the product will have MPEG2 HW encoding which will allow pause live TV. We opted to support MPEG4 encoding since it is more flexible, lower bit rate, but high quality and this will work better when we stream video over a home network."
So not now, but yes in the future... shall we overflow them with requests?
You guys are really missing the point of this device. It's true it's similar to TIVO/ReplayTV but go and read everything in the web site:
;-)
-This is a PVR and DVD player. The only TIVO that has this is the fancy panasonic for 1000$ that hasn't come out yet.
-It's also a cdwriter and can be upgraded to a DVD writer in due time.
-It's network transparent even for Windows/Mac people, no extra usb ethernet needed.
-It's expandable without having to hack it, you can add two hard drives bought of the shelf. I'd put it in the infinite expandable category just for that. BTW the extra space will look like one volume.
-It's standard linux, it has a web server, samba, etc. So it replaces whatever old box that you have lying around as a server, storage or whatever else.
-You can access the interface which seems nicely done both directly and remotely via a web server.
-As a plus it has all kinds of media playing capabilties: video, audio, photos.
-The one linked is the analog one, there is also a digital version for 100$ bucks more.
Finally, and very importantly they give you the SDK for producing your own software, they seem keen on open source and people developing their own little apps. So if you think a feature is missing, heck you can go and program it yourself. Isn't that the most important feature?
That's on the positive side. The one thing that it seems to lack is replay as it records. But that should be fixable if we overflow their mailboxes with requests
Disclaimer: I don't work for them or knew anything about them until I read this post but I've been waiting for just this since forever. It has everything I wanted in a tivo.
Platy
I also have a sony 505, z505rx and z505ls to be precise.. So my .02 here..
-Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 install beautifully with a network installation. Just copy the cds to a directory in a different machine and use the USB floppy with the network image. You can also install from the cdrom if you use the pcmcia floppy.. I think you have to do F2 and give the magic line expert ide2=0x180,0x386. That seem to work on my but I didn't do a full install that way.
-Progeny 1.0: I had the same prob as you. I still had to follow on them.
-Redhat 7.1: flawless install with the magic line again. But then.. it's so ugly and it has lacks apps. I feel that I can't go back to it after MDK8.
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