I have a TiVo bolt and a Roku 3, and when it comes to running the Plex app the Roku wins hands down. The TiVo app works fine, but the Roku app works so much better. The menus have more options and they drive much faster. Also sometimes the TiVo plex app stumbles on DR rips, especially fast forward and rewind. The Roku plex app never gives us any issues. Couple that with the fact that you have to pay TiVo $15 / month even if you just want to use Plex and I'm going to ditch TiVo.
What is not addressed is whether or not this wipes the free space as well. Recovering deleted files is easy, and if the encryption doesn't fill the device then encrypt then this trick can leave some stuff behind.
Recharge time is 8 hours with a 200-volt power source
Recharge time is dependent on amp-hours, not volts. If you hook up a 200 volt power source that can only deliver 1 amp, you are not going to charge your batteries in 8 hours because that is only 8 amp-hours.
I image that the car is designed around residential wiring, which is usually 12 gauge and rated at 20 amps, so in 8 hours you should get 8*20=160 amp-hours, which at the quoted 200 volts is 32kWatt-hours. Based on $0.10 per kWh, it should cost $3.20 per charge.
I forgot to add you can set the elk up to call your cell phone when the alarm goes off, and you can tie it into the smoke system as well. Now I know that when I get home my house hasn't burned down (we live in the woods, in what is considered Extreme Fire Danger).
I installed an Elk M1 Gold in my house about 2 years ago.
http://www.elkproducts.com/products/m1/m1systems.htm
Wireless sensors have a couple of huge advantages over wired sensors. To start with, I have had the drywall hangers cut wires while wrapping windows. Then what do you do? Also with wireless sensors you don't have small rodents chewing through the wires. You can put sensors in outbuildings and garages as well. I've got them everywhere. The battery life on the sensors is great; roughly 5 to 8 years.
Our backup servers power up nightly, rsync to the live servers, then shut themselves down when the rsync is done. This saves electricity for the server and the AC unit. It is easy to do with BIOS wake on RTC.
It's been a while since I worked there, but when I did their PIP went like this.
You get $100 for filing a good idea with them. Good or bad, file every idea you can think of. They would kick back 4 out of 5 as bad ideas, but every once in a while you'd get an "idea accepted" email, and $100 at the end of the month. There were plenty of "engineers" who would come up with 10 ideas / day, and ended up working on patent ideas more than on their real jobs. I quote "engineers" because lately HP has a bad habit of granting the title of "engineer" to those who have not been formally trained in engineering.
Then you get $1500 if you idea becomes an actual patent application.
I can't remember how much you get if your patent application gets granted a patent number, and I never made it that far.
I'll buy it just to support the model. I figure any time that I can let the RIAA know how I feel it is a good thing. Plus, I like the idea of supporting this sort of business model.
Like others have said, if they do this and if flops it will send a big message and maybe others will shy away from it. If they do this and it works, there might be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for us all.
For the good of music I will support this and hope we all get the pot of gold.
I know I'll get modded down for this, but I don't care.
Look, if you want to fix this stuff there is only one voice that we all have. Get out there and vote. And if you think your vote doesn't count, think again.
If you don't vote, it doesn't count. If you vote Dem, it barely matters... if you vote Rep, it barely matters. There is only one thing that matters.
VOTE THIRD PARTY! I don't care which third party... constitution, green, libertarian, pot smokers... just vote 3rd damnit! We can change this. It will take years of lost elections, but if the whole of you whiners just voted 3rd party it would have a good showing this election and stand a chance of winning next election.
I know a lot of non-netheads who would love an iPod, but fear downloading music from iTunes for who knows what reasons. They still prefer to buy CD's and pay for them to an actual human. I think it has something to do with fears of inputting their personal info into a web form (understandable, really).
I would like to see retailers that have a device that will "stuff" your iPod with the tunes that you want. Kind of like an iTunes brick and mortar store, but really just a machine not unlike those photo printing machines that are everywhere now. Think iPod kiosk. I imagine that if you could just plug your iPod into this device and pick your tunes, and then pay the register that it would get a lot of sales.
What I'm saying is that for a lot of people it is not "downloading" that they want, it is digital format that they are after. Provide them an easy to use digital format in a brick and mortar store and it just might work.
It is a good point that the future will bring new input devices that will require completely rethinking the way we expect users to input data. The new multi-touch inputs are just one good example. How do you process multiple "onchange" events at the same time? What sorts of deadlocks and race conditions will we see when onchange1 is interrupted by onchange2? I'm sure many "web apps" (is that a most hated word?) already have these problems, but they are never evident because a user can not click on two controls fast enough to cause the error to actually be evident.
I guess the point is, no matter how good of a programmer you are, there always future actions that you can not anticipate that will come up and bite you in the ass. This has nothing to do with whether or not you follow the standards.
I'm sure a lot of you guys already know this, but for those that don't...
The SR-71 Blackbird was originally named the RS-71, but it was renamed when Lyndon Johnson accidentally rearranged the letters during his 1964 announcement of the existence of the SR-71 (which he was supposed to call RS-71). Anyway... airplane history for ya'll.
Outsourcing and "Getting out of the business" are totally different things. When HP outsourced laptops to Taiwan, nobody said they were getting out of the laptop business. In fact, they were just about to take off.
Does VoIP work that well for you? Where I live (Southern Oregon) a VoIP call has such horrible lag that you end up talking over each other. It is like using CB radio... end each sentence in 'over'.
I guess what I want to know is is there VoIP service out there that can match the instant speed and clarity of POTS? It sure can't here.
I'm waiting for a nuclear engineer to show up and tell us how water can get in, but gamma particles can not. This is not a jab at nuclear engineers, I'm truly interested.
As much as I hate M$... and I really hate M$ a lot... I am a U.S. Citizen and Microsoft is a North American company bringing money into the U.S. from other countries. I realize that Mexico is a small percentage of the U.S. exports, but still, when I worked at HP we courted to them because they were a good export base (about 4% of our sales were in Mexico). Lets face it, we need exports to stay competitive.
So I am torn on this topic. I love Linux and free open source software and I want M$ to die a fast death, yet I want U.S. exports to remain high. I realize that U.S. made laptops are really made in Asia (Compal, Quantus, etc.), but there is still a nice cut made for our economy (such as my salary).
I have to say that when the whole of this is considered, it is a net negative for the U.S. That is just my $0.02.
As a small business owner, I can attest to the fact that many of my clients will blindly pay the bills I send them, without questioning a thing. I service their computers throughout the month, racking up between 10 and 30 hours, and then send them a bill that simply says "30 hours service * $60.00 / hour" and they pay it. I have never been asked to explain myself. I can probably make up whatever numbers I want.
I was wondering how long before the crooks realized that most businessmen do not have the time or patience to study their bills.
I can understand making plastic from sugar based polymers, because it may yield some new and interesting properties, as well as be able to break down over time. Imagine if all the plastic in landfills was able to breakdown in 20 years. That seems like a good thing.
Using sugars to make fuel, however, just seems like perpetuating an already out of control problem. Internal combustion is a very inefficient way to convert matter into energy. And like previous posters stated, it still creates CO2. I am pretty sure sugar based fuel will never be a big thing, as corn oil based biodiesel is already here. As far as alternative fuels go, this is not exactly what I'm hoping to see the future bring.
Having dug up some dirty old web sites on friends, I'm sure we all know about the wayback machine at http://www.archive.org/web/web.php.
I wonder if these goons also create a robots.txt file on the server that they are trying to clean up? It would be hard to remove content from the wayback machine that you do not own.
I wonder what the gov'ment will do when people with electric cars who charge off of solar start showing up. Do they tax us for being green just because we are using the roads? Do we get punished like this guy? It seems the whole road tax system is going to have to be revamped in the coming years.
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I'm sure that I've told you this before, but:
const int one = 65536;
Is wrong. If you add 1 to 65,535 in a 16 bit unsigned integer you get 0, not 1.
Like others have said, just don't connect it to your network and all of those concerns go away. I'm not sure I see the problem here.
I have a TiVo bolt and a Roku 3, and when it comes to running the Plex app the Roku wins hands down. The TiVo app works fine, but the Roku app works so much better. The menus have more options and they drive much faster. Also sometimes the TiVo plex app stumbles on DR rips, especially fast forward and rewind. The Roku plex app never gives us any issues. Couple that with the fact that you have to pay TiVo $15 / month even if you just want to use Plex and I'm going to ditch TiVo.
What is not addressed is whether or not this wipes the free space as well. Recovering deleted files is easy, and if the encryption doesn't fill the device then encrypt then this trick can leave some stuff behind.
Everything in life is an opt out model.
I'm going to quote you on my website unless you tell me not to.
I'm going to copy this music for my friend, unless you tell me not to.
I'm going to project a movie for my block party unless you tell me not to.
Recharge time is 8 hours with a 200-volt power source
Recharge time is dependent on amp-hours, not volts. If you hook up a 200 volt power source that can only deliver 1 amp, you are not going to charge your batteries in 8 hours because that is only 8 amp-hours.
I image that the car is designed around residential wiring, which is usually 12 gauge and rated at 20 amps, so in 8 hours you should get 8*20=160 amp-hours, which at the quoted 200 volts is 32kWatt-hours. Based on $0.10 per kWh, it should cost $3.20 per charge.
I forgot to add you can set the elk up to call your cell phone when the alarm goes off, and you can tie it into the smoke system as well. Now I know that when I get home my house hasn't burned down (we live in the woods, in what is considered Extreme Fire Danger).
I installed an Elk M1 Gold in my house about 2 years ago. http://www.elkproducts.com/products/m1/m1systems.htm Wireless sensors have a couple of huge advantages over wired sensors. To start with, I have had the drywall hangers cut wires while wrapping windows. Then what do you do? Also with wireless sensors you don't have small rodents chewing through the wires. You can put sensors in outbuildings and garages as well. I've got them everywhere. The battery life on the sensors is great; roughly 5 to 8 years.
Our backup servers power up nightly, rsync to the live servers, then shut themselves down when the rsync is done. This saves electricity for the server and the AC unit. It is easy to do with BIOS wake on RTC.
It's been a while since I worked there, but when I did their PIP went like this.
You get $100 for filing a good idea with them. Good or bad, file every idea you can think of. They would kick back 4 out of 5 as bad ideas, but every once in a while you'd get an "idea accepted" email, and $100 at the end of the month. There were plenty of "engineers" who would come up with 10 ideas / day, and ended up working on patent ideas more than on their real jobs. I quote "engineers" because lately HP has a bad habit of granting the title of "engineer" to those who have not been formally trained in engineering.
Then you get $1500 if you idea becomes an actual patent application.
I can't remember how much you get if your patent application gets granted a patent number, and I never made it that far.
I'll buy it just to support the model. I figure any time that I can let the RIAA know how I feel it is a good thing. Plus, I like the idea of supporting this sort of business model.
Like others have said, if they do this and if flops it will send a big message and maybe others will shy away from it. If they do this and it works, there might be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for us all.
For the good of music I will support this and hope we all get the pot of gold.
I know I'll get modded down for this, but I don't care.
Look, if you want to fix this stuff there is only one voice that we all have. Get out there and vote. And if you think your vote doesn't count, think again.
If you don't vote, it doesn't count. If you vote Dem, it barely matters... if you vote Rep, it barely matters. There is only one thing that matters.
VOTE THIRD PARTY! I don't care which third party... constitution, green, libertarian, pot smokers... just vote 3rd damnit! We can change this. It will take years of lost elections, but if the whole of you whiners just voted 3rd party it would have a good showing this election and stand a chance of winning next election.
There, I said it.
I know a lot of non-netheads who would love an iPod, but fear downloading music from iTunes for who knows what reasons. They still prefer to buy CD's and pay for them to an actual human. I think it has something to do with fears of inputting their personal info into a web form (understandable, really).
I would like to see retailers that have a device that will "stuff" your iPod with the tunes that you want. Kind of like an iTunes brick and mortar store, but really just a machine not unlike those photo printing machines that are everywhere now. Think iPod kiosk. I imagine that if you could just plug your iPod into this device and pick your tunes, and then pay the register that it would get a lot of sales.
What I'm saying is that for a lot of people it is not "downloading" that they want, it is digital format that they are after. Provide them an easy to use digital format in a brick and mortar store and it just might work.
It is a good point that the future will bring new input devices that will require completely rethinking the way we expect users to input data. The new multi-touch inputs are just one good example. How do you process multiple "onchange" events at the same time? What sorts of deadlocks and race conditions will we see when onchange1 is interrupted by onchange2? I'm sure many "web apps" (is that a most hated word?) already have these problems, but they are never evident because a user can not click on two controls fast enough to cause the error to actually be evident. I guess the point is, no matter how good of a programmer you are, there always future actions that you can not anticipate that will come up and bite you in the ass. This has nothing to do with whether or not you follow the standards.
I'm sure a lot of you guys already know this, but for those that don't...
The SR-71 Blackbird was originally named the RS-71, but it was renamed when Lyndon Johnson accidentally rearranged the letters during his 1964 announcement of the existence of the SR-71 (which he was supposed to call RS-71). Anyway... airplane history for ya'll.
Outsourcing and "Getting out of the business" are totally different things. When HP outsourced laptops to Taiwan, nobody said they were getting out of the laptop business. In fact, they were just about to take off.
Does VoIP work that well for you? Where I live (Southern Oregon) a VoIP call has such horrible lag that you end up talking over each other. It is like using CB radio... end each sentence in 'over'.
I guess what I want to know is is there VoIP service out there that can match the instant speed and clarity of POTS? It sure can't here.
I'm waiting for a nuclear engineer to show up and tell us how water can get in, but gamma particles can not. This is not a jab at nuclear engineers, I'm truly interested.
As much as I hate M$... and I really hate M$ a lot... I am a U.S. Citizen and Microsoft is a North American company bringing money into the U.S. from other countries. I realize that Mexico is a small percentage of the U.S. exports, but still, when I worked at HP we courted to them because they were a good export base (about 4% of our sales were in Mexico). Lets face it, we need exports to stay competitive.
So I am torn on this topic. I love Linux and free open source software and I want M$ to die a fast death, yet I want U.S. exports to remain high. I realize that U.S. made laptops are really made in Asia (Compal, Quantus, etc.), but there is still a nice cut made for our economy (such as my salary).
I have to say that when the whole of this is considered, it is a net negative for the U.S. That is just my $0.02.
As a small business owner, I can attest to the fact that many of my clients will blindly pay the bills I send them, without questioning a thing. I service their computers throughout the month, racking up between 10 and 30 hours, and then send them a bill that simply says "30 hours service * $60.00 / hour" and they pay it. I have never been asked to explain myself. I can probably make up whatever numbers I want.
I was wondering how long before the crooks realized that most businessmen do not have the time or patience to study their bills.
I can understand making plastic from sugar based polymers, because it may yield some new and interesting properties, as well as be able to break down over time. Imagine if all the plastic in landfills was able to breakdown in 20 years. That seems like a good thing.
Using sugars to make fuel, however, just seems like perpetuating an already out of control problem. Internal combustion is a very inefficient way to convert matter into energy. And like previous posters stated, it still creates CO2. I am pretty sure sugar based fuel will never be a big thing, as corn oil based biodiesel is already here. As far as alternative fuels go, this is not exactly what I'm hoping to see the future bring.
I walk down the street and see 100s of people who appear to be predominantly junk DNA.
Having dug up some dirty old web sites on friends, I'm sure we all know about the wayback machine at http://www.archive.org/web/web.php.
I wonder if these goons also create a robots.txt file on the server that they are trying to clean up? It would be hard to remove content from the wayback machine that you do not own.
I wonder what the gov'ment will do when people with electric cars who charge off of solar start showing up. Do they tax us for being green just because we are using the roads? Do we get punished like this guy? It seems the whole road tax system is going to have to be revamped in the coming years.
Does anyone else get hungry when they smell biodiesel exhaust? Reminds me of McDonald's.