You may not want to actually edit something on your fondleslab due to it being an entirely inappropriate interface. However, you would certainly want to be able to view any sort of document that you are likely to come across. Even as a basic viewer, a real office app is much better than some crippled thing intended to be nothing more than a viewer.
> All you need is a 3 column database for fuck's sake. Zip code....shows what you know.
At least a state-wide tax rate for all residents of that state done in a uniform manner would be somewhat manageable.
Although, this is ultimately a clear violation of the powers of the federal government. For once, this is an area where the ICC is actually applicable and is not just being beaten until it fits the square peg they want to cram it into this week.
> But stores have had to deal with this before the Internet anyway.
Yeah. For a SINGLE jurisdiction: the one they happen to be sitting in.
> You had mail order catalogs and you had to pay sales tax when you used them.
Ummm. No. Were you born yesterday? I mean really.
The "mail order tax scofflaw" problem has existed for a very long time. In some respects, Amazon is nothing more than an extension of the mail order operations from the 1880s. The catalogs are just snazzier.
> And that the Linux people try to convince themselves > that they aren't cheapskates, because they paid more > than the Windows people as though that "proves" something.
For Bundle #1 & #3 I only paid the suggested amount.
Although even that was much higher than the averages for any platform.
For #2, I paid a much larger amount but I treated it as a veiled charitable contribution.
It's fascinating how some people just fixate on the games as if there were no other elements to this.
> Yeah, I love the people who claim that a movie isn't worth 8 dollars at Best Buy so they'll just pirate it....or just stream it from Amazon as some sort of subscription with a flat monthly rate and a marginal cost of zero.
How much is all of this going to cost us? Generic cloud based storage certainly cheap. You would be better off just buying more spinny disks for the money.
Can I take my stuff with me if I ever decide I don't like Amazon or iTunes?
> A 1TB drive will hold a whole 33 bluerays....and will fit in your pocket.
OTOH, spinny drives are up to 3TB now and will continue to get larger. NAS devices continue to get simpler, cheaper and more widespread.
If you are paranoid enough to worry about your media being lost in a fire, you can just duplicate it. Although in the future you might not even need to do that. You might be able to recover your lost media from friends or family.
Then again, in either case how do you really prove that you ever "owned" something.
Cloud based pipe dreams never do a good job of addressing that.
Except wireless networks are crap, expensive and have bandwidth caps.
Meanwhile storage densities continue to increase. If you don't have a fetish for a particular fetish, you can easily find devices with 10 times the amount of local storage. When you go off the grid or the network goes to crap, that extra local storage comes in very handy.
No. It's an ARM that is groaning slow. That's probably part of the whole "walled garden" thing. When you are able to compute freely, it is quite easy to exceed the limitations of the hardware.
Also, it's easy to seem fast when you're the modern equivalent of a mid-80s Mac.
> Stop torturing her with the chinese-app-drip and > just buy her an iPad to give her the freedom she > deserves to be able to work the device yourself > without your help.
It's not the device or the OS, it's the user.
If they can't fend for themselves with WinDOS or Linux or MacOS, giving them the magical tablet isn't going to help.
>> I wouldn't worry about your PC, the tablets >> will still require a PC if just to store stuff > > Not once USB host adapters and Wi-Fi NAS devices become > common. Imagine a future model of iPad not designed to > require iTunes. It can store stuff on a Time Capsule or other > NAS, on a USB hard drive, or on a leased FTP server. What > will its users need a PC for?
Then the iPad has become a PC. Will Apple really allow that to happen? Doubtful.
Something like Android may allow for such a thing.
The main advantage of the PC has always been that the user is in full control of it.
Already, even iDevices are far more capable than Apple allows them to be.
> I'm not quite sure why you used quotes on teacher
How can you be a teacher and be that ignorant?
Teaching (outside of a University setting) is something that involves it's own specialized major rather than any requirement to have a background in the subject that you teach. It is the norm to have no academic or industry experience in what you are teaching.
No. The ass is anyone that tries to conflate a teacher and an engineer.
...that's all fine so long as your network holds out and the available "pull" choices suit you.
"Broadcast" is still remarkably more efficient in terms of network bandwidth. Decentralizing the "pull" part will likely make a lot of sense for a good time to come.
Although, I think the real problem with the DVR concept is that a good portion of the target audience really doesn't care and really don't mind the commercials or being at the mercy of the network schedule. Otherwise Tivo Corp would have a much easier time competing against inferior cable provider DVRs.
This really seems like a desperate attempt by Tivo to remain relevant.
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You may not want to actually edit something on your fondleslab due to it being an entirely inappropriate interface. However, you would certainly want to be able to view any sort of document that you are likely to come across. Even as a basic viewer, a real office app is much better than some crippled thing intended to be nothing more than a viewer.
> All you need is a 3 column database for fuck's sake. Zip code. ...shows what you know.
At least a state-wide tax rate for all residents of that state done in a uniform manner would be somewhat manageable.
Although, this is ultimately a clear violation of the powers of the federal government. For once, this is an area where the ICC is actually applicable and is not just being beaten until it fits the square peg they want to cram it into this week.
> But stores have had to deal with this before the Internet anyway.
Yeah. For a SINGLE jurisdiction: the one they happen to be sitting in.
> You had mail order catalogs and you had to pay sales tax when you used them.
Ummm. No. Were you born yesterday? I mean really.
The "mail order tax scofflaw" problem has existed for a very long time. In
some respects, Amazon is nothing more than an extension of the mail order
operations from the 1880s. The catalogs are just snazzier.
...way for Senators to completely miss the point.
It's not the lack of a sales tax that gives online retailers a considerable advantage over the corner store.
Shipping costs can tilt the balance back in favor of the corner store.
No. The problem with the corner store is it's just lame and can't compete with any store that has the entire world as it's audience.
No ION at the local Frys? Amazon & NewEgg to the rescue.
> And that the Linux people try to convince themselves
> that they aren't cheapskates, because they paid more
> than the Windows people as though that "proves" something.
For Bundle #1 & #3 I only paid the suggested amount.
Although even that was much higher than the averages for any platform.
For #2, I paid a much larger amount but I treated it as a veiled charitable contribution.
It's fascinating how some people just fixate on the games as if there were no other elements to this.
It's all of that flower power philosophy from RMS.
I wouldn't mind a single download that I could use instead of 5 or 10 of them (hint hint).
Here, paying labor should be a total non-issue.
The computer will do the work for you. You only have to tell it. If you can't BUY a product that will.
The "terrible burden" of backups. You would think it was 1985 and a bunch of Apple II users with a stack of floppy drives whining here.
With a 12TB array being pretty trivial to put together with off the shelf appliances, why not?
> Yeah, I love the people who claim that a movie isn't worth 8 dollars at Best Buy so they'll just pirate it. ...or just stream it from Amazon as some sort of subscription with a flat monthly rate and a marginal cost of zero.
> So you want to store you entire collection on one drive that is just waiting to die on you?
If you've managed to buy 33 BluRay's clearly you can splurge on another drive. Try doing the math.
> And only available on the one computer is it plugged into?
This isn't 1985 anymore.
My content can be accessed as quickly and as widely as the network will allow.
How much is all of this going to cost us? Generic cloud based storage certainly cheap. You would be better off just buying more spinny disks for the money.
Can I take my stuff with me if I ever decide I don't like Amazon or iTunes?
> A 1TB drive will hold a whole 33 bluerays. ...and will fit in your pocket.
OTOH, spinny drives are up to 3TB now and will continue to get larger. NAS devices continue to get simpler, cheaper and more widespread.
If you are paranoid enough to worry about your media being lost in a fire, you can just duplicate it. Although in the future you might not even need to do that. You might be able to recover your lost media from friends or family.
Then again, in either case how do you really prove that you ever "owned" something.
Cloud based pipe dreams never do a good job of addressing that.
> Streaming is nice for when you are on the go
Except wireless networks are crap, expensive and have bandwidth caps.
Meanwhile storage densities continue to increase. If you don't have a fetish for a particular fetish, you can easily find devices with 10 times the amount of local storage. When you go off the grid or the network goes to crap, that extra local storage comes in very handy.
I dunno. Not sure about WinDOS, but my !Mac from ~1985 handled this by just having an iPhone style graphical onscreen keyboard.
> They failed because they were groaning slow
No. It's an ARM that is groaning slow. That's probably part of the whole "walled garden" thing. When you are able to compute freely, it is quite easy to exceed the limitations of the hardware.
Also, it's easy to seem fast when you're the modern equivalent of a mid-80s Mac.
Actually, "the children" are all using Nintendo devices.
> Stop torturing her with the chinese-app-drip and
> just buy her an iPad to give her the freedom she
> deserves to be able to work the device yourself
> without your help.
It's not the device or the OS, it's the user.
If they can't fend for themselves with WinDOS or Linux or MacOS, giving them the magical tablet isn't going to help.
>> I wouldn't worry about your PC, the tablets
>> will still require a PC if just to store stuff
>
> Not once USB host adapters and Wi-Fi NAS devices become
> common. Imagine a future model of iPad not designed to
> require iTunes. It can store stuff on a Time Capsule or other
> NAS, on a USB hard drive, or on a leased FTP server. What
> will its users need a PC for?
Then the iPad has become a PC. Will Apple really allow that to happen? Doubtful.
Something like Android may allow for such a thing.
The main advantage of the PC has always been that the user is in full control of it.
Already, even iDevices are far more capable than Apple allows them to be.
...automatically subscribing to new seasons of old shows.
That only makes sense until you realize that this is a default recurring payment transaction you are advocating here.
When everything is on demand, the fact that "recording rules" don't automatically renew themselves is much less meaningful or relevant.
Besides, thinking of only "season passes" is pretty limited thinking even in terms of a Tivo.
> I'm not quite sure why you used quotes on teacher
How can you be a teacher and be that ignorant?
Teaching (outside of a University setting) is something that involves it's own specialized major rather than any requirement to have a background in the subject that you teach. It is the norm to have no academic or industry experience in what you are teaching.
No. The ass is anyone that tries to conflate a teacher and an engineer.
You would have a compelling point if this were just about Galileo. Except it is not.
> it's not worth the time to set up and maintain my entire online life on my home network. I have a real job
It is really not that big of a deal or much of a bother if you are really anything resembling a geek.
In truth, you will likely actually SAVE TIME AND BOTHER by doing it yourself and being in full control of it.
As "busy" as you are, you probably shouldn't be wasting time on Slashdot.
...that's all fine so long as your network holds out and the available "pull" choices suit you.
"Broadcast" is still remarkably more efficient in terms of network bandwidth. Decentralizing the "pull" part will likely make a lot of sense for a good time to come.
Although, I think the real problem with the DVR concept is that a good portion of the target audience really doesn't care and really don't mind the commercials or being at the mercy of the network schedule. Otherwise Tivo Corp would have a much easier time competing against inferior cable provider DVRs.
This really seems like a desperate attempt by Tivo to remain relevant.
I like how he tries to compare teaching to civil engineering.
I think all of the engineers I know would be gravely insulted by that sort of comparison.
I would like to see the average "teacher" manage to get through ANY single course in the engineering curriculum.