So $300.00 is small? It's 1/2 the price of an ok second TV. Or 25/mo. added to your existing cable bill. On top of that it's 16.95 a month - still two dollars more, and for what? software updates and tv listings? What is TiVO *really* giving you for 16.95/mo. that didn't already come with the box you bought?
I also have no idea how much the dual cable cards are going to cost from a cable company - but it's probably not super cheap (FiOS is available in very limited areas) Can you get two of them? You will need two to record two channels.
All in for a 1 year contract: $41.95/month.
That's roughly the price of a Direct TV subscription. o.O
It's the principal of it. More importantly though - who's to say that it won't become more intrusive in the future. You have no say - and TiVo certainly doesn't want you giving them suggestions.
The thing is - Tivo at the time of switch couldn't even offer me a reasonable solution so it's more or less a moot point.
I had Series 2 TiVo for about a year and a half. It was OK. I've always questioned the value of the "service" though. What are you getting for 12.95 a month? TiVo is basically TV guide on crack. The fact that I could store my shows on my computer was of almost no value to as the TiVo 802.11 "g" adapter can actually only transmit @ 10 Mb/s because that is the maximum speed of the TiVo. It takes almost as much time to transfer as it does to watch the show. The "intelligent" recording is rarely that. Frequently TiVo fills its drive with a bunch of stuff that is largely uninteresting - that then needs to be deleted. Great more work to make room for shows I *do* want to watch. Of course there is the auto delete feature but it doesn't make room if you want to record something. A real blow to any sort of justification for a "service" fee was the introduction of the "promotion" on the TiVo primary page. The little star has "information" that I might want about say taking an RV trip across America. Ah, no? Then TiVo would add buttons from time to time to some of the user screens advertising things such as the virtues of the Sony Bravia HD TV's. Great, TiVo I'm glad that you have a shiny new marketing platform - but now I want my service fee back! Sometime during the time that I acquired my TiVo and the time that I left, they started the "you get the box with the service fee" deal. It is a bit of a better deal but not that much better. Also, TiVo support is absolutely the worst thing in the world. Navigating around on their site just gives the impression that they want their users and people trolling forums to answer all their customer questions for them.
So I get an HD set, and I'm a cable guy so I'm looking around at what my options are. TiVo wants me to spend 800 bucks on their (then current) HD recorder. Riiiight, not so much. I talk to my provider and here is what they will give me:
HD DVR - 1080i(p?) recording. 160 GB drive. Two tuner record and watch capability. Show listings. No advertisements in the UI. And it comes with HDMI Out and Optical audio out of the box. All for the fabulous low price of 5.95/mo with no money down. As an added bonus, it requires only three cables to hookup to a good HD TV - HDMI, Power Cord and Coax feed from the cable company.
I fail to see how TiVo can possibly remain relevant in the face of this overwhelming opposition. In my mind there is no way that that $300 and a monthly service fee can compete with the Cable guys option. As a personal point of irritation, paying for a service (apart from TV, which is a whole separate conversation) and then being advertised to is simply unacceptable.
My thought for TiVo when I made the switch is that TiVo needs to exit the hardware business ASAP and start licensing their technologies to the cable companies. I imagine a model similar to Direct TV would be good. The cable boxes that I've gotten from RCN and Comcast both could use some UI improvements (RCN is def. not as good as Comcast).
Either that or sell me a box and don't ask me for any more cash.
While this is probably great for Scaled from a cash perspective - it is truly saddening for the space industry. Scaled has been for nearly the last decade pushing into areas where private firms have not been able to go in the past. They innovated and created a workable solution for "mass" sub orbital flights. Ultimately the next steps are going to be push to LEO - and beyond. I fear however that the innovation and creative problem solving that has defined Scaled to date is no longer going to continue. Despite the company's best wishes - they will no longer have the ability to take the risks and make the decisions necessary to continue innovating.
We will most likley see Scaled develop into a robust provider for Sub Orbital flights but I doubt that they will attempt to push further.
In your virtualization example - there are mnay more varibales to isolate before you can declare "virtualization is slow". To conclude this based on a remote employee on a new server with a configuration that may or may not be the same is a bit of reach.
If there is an exisiting network that "works" and then a new device is put into use on the network - and then the network breaks... it is reasonable to conclude either the device is a potential source for the issue.
While details are sparse I suspect the Apple network stack was trying to do something completly valid, and the cisco routers were screwing it up.
However, the iPhone was involved as he cites thanks to Apple and Cisco tech support.
Before you try to pass your FUD as information to the rest of the world you ought to read the links that you are linking to.
I'll address security as the rest of the "design" arguments and functionality are more subjective.
So Gosling says that C/C++ Interop is a huge security risk? No not really. Overall it's not a security risk this to some extent has been proven over the last 6 years. When is the last time a severe and exploitable vulnerabilty has been published for.NET? In addition,.NET has mechanisms to protected untrusted code from taking truly damaging actions. However, you can have a look at the latest news out of the java camp regarding the JVM and how wonderful it is. You've also linked to a shill that was just fishing for some PR complaining that the UI for UAC could be spoofed. The only way for the spoof to work however was under a very elaborate set of circumstances. There are three or four actions that a user would have to take (and not in their normal order) before the exploit would work. Finally you have an article about Symantec complaining that Vista is not safe. Right, and you would expect anything different from a company that makes their money from the fact that users don't know how to use and protect their computers properly?
No, it's not safe or secure. Most banking web sites have a standard login form. Any joker who can install a keystroke logger can gain access to your account. Lately they are using more techniques to verify your identity such as personal challenge and response questions. However these too are futile, as the questions remain static. In general it just creates more road blocks for the end user without providing a measureable level of protection. The site key feature from BOA is helpful in detecting phishing attacks, but the increased security around "verification questions" is mostly useless.
Ultimately they are stop gap measures when you think about the only "real" way to truly verify the authenticating users identity. If the bank really wanted to "secure" their site they would use two factor authentication for all of their customers. RSA securID comes to mind. But there are other tools out there that can provide a similar level of protection.
The fact is that the bank does not want to deploy and maintain the infrastructure to truly provide security - so they place the onus on the end user instead.
The banks are passing the buck, and that's the bottom line.
IMO it's about time ppl had to take responsibility for their system.
I agree - however, to mandate that an end user must be "inspected" and "certified" to transact with them is absurd. It's not like the bank comes to your house to ensure that your locks are up to their code, and they will keep people from entering and trying to steal your checks, or account information.
The bottom line is that the bank can't or won't spend the money to provide a reasonable level of security for their online bankers. It's not our problem that they can't figure out how to protect their web site from being used fraudulently.
You aren't really qualified to evaluate the virtues of Windows vs. Ubuntu. The reason is simple: you are biased and not well informed.
You see windows XP has been available for the last oh, 6 years? Yet you've only "upgraded" in the last 4 months? There is also another completely different operating system with a bunch of new features called Vista, but I don't suppose you'll be getting around to that until about 2011.
"All the manager had to do was say the EULA says "xyz," - they did say that - twice.
Developing addins for Express edition is a violation of the EULA. The manager stated that he made numerous attempts to resolve the situation. They explained that companies are not permitted to ship addins for Express. Jamie ignored them.
As the manager says after "close to two years of trying to avoid escalating this situation, we felt compelled to deliver our message in a different form".
If you are using test cases chances are you are a professional developer. In addition in the spirit of Express you should probably be writing your own test case engine and not using someone elses.
Jamies actions are clearly not in the "spirt" of the express edition, they are also legally out of bounds - it's unfortunate that he was so difficult about the situation.
They release them about once a month. It's still beta. Just recently, nTune actually started to work. If you check out the number of issues that have been fixed and are still outstanding - it's pretty incredible that they haven't gotten into some sort of legal trouble for advertising their product as something it's not e.g. Vista Ready or even SLI capable. You can't overclock it and there are no performance monitoring tools (this new build includes some support but it crashes a lot).
The parent is basically right on - if you do any highend stuff it's going to be hit or miss.
"but as a game disc format that provides game developers with plenty of storage space to build highly detailed game worlds without the need for multiple discs."
This is total garbage. Swapping disks isn't that difficult and happens infrequently if done correctly.
Everytime we get a larger format, we get a slower drive. The PS2 when it came out wasn't as fast as it's CD counter parts. And the blue-ray and hd drives are not as fast as DVD drives now.
It's all a gimmick - Sony wants to push their format. Unfortunately the didn't recognize that general consumer is unwilling to bankroll the rollout of their next generation format.
Blueray is a choice and not a standard at this point, as a consumer I object to paying for technology that may or may not emerge as the prevailing format simply because sony thinks it's best. In addition sony's drive quality is not what it used to be (PS2 spin of death).
Overall the justifications for rolling out Blue-ray in the PS3 just don't hold water.
As the owener of a 1080p set and an HD-DVD player and a viewer of comcast's HD cable offering. There is absolutely a difference between 1080i and 1080p.
Obviously broadcast quality is going to be of a lower bit rate than those that are found on an HD-DVD but the difference is still significant. Even in upconverted DVD's such as the italian job it's easy to see the "flicker" that is associated with the film version and some of the theater nuances begin to come through. It's pretty amazing.
Sure am glad I just upgraded to Vista and Office 2007:
Mitigating Factors for Animated Cursor Vulnerability
Customers who are using Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista are protected from currently known web based attacks due to Internet Explorer 7.0 protected mode. For more information on Internet Explorer Protected Mode see the following Web Site.
By default, Outlook 2007 uses Microsoft Word to display e-mail messages which protects customers from the HTML e-mail preview and attack vector.
I think the important thing here to note is that MS is actually delivering on it's promise to deliver a more secure OS and set of applications for users.
I would say that AMD has let Intel lead in that segment. There are very few SKU's associated with the AMD's mobile segment. Being a smaller company, AMD chose to attack the server market first with the Opteron, and the high end PC market with the FX line. Both of those lines are driving innovation at AMD. The 3XXX 4XXX 5XXX and 6XXX lines as well as the turions are all reduced implementations of their server chips.
Intel has a lot of cash, and the ability to invest in expensive processes earlier than most. Certainly, earlier than AMD.
However, it's worth noting, that these are clearly AMD ideas. * On die memory controller - AMD's idea - and it's been in use for quite a while now * Embedded GPU - a rip off of the AMD fusion idea, announced shortly after the aquisition of AMD.
Intel is no longer leading as they have in yeas past - they are copying and looting their competition shamelessly. It appears that they are "leading" when point in fact it's simply not the case - had AMD not realeased the Athlon64 we would all still be using single processor NetBurst processors.
"Virtualized machine (hyperthreading disabled) Disabling hyperthreading had negligible effect on the virtualized machine. In our test, the capacity increased a tiny amount to 403 simultaneous users. The difference between this result and the virtualized machine with hyperthreading enabled, however, is smaller than the margin of error for these tests -- more testing would be required before concluding the performance was better in the virtualized machine with hyperthreading disabled. "
The hyperthreaded capacity was 350. So my question is how is a 15% gain in clients served a "tiny amount"?
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"Small initial cash outlay"
So $300.00 is small? It's 1/2 the price of an ok second TV. Or 25/mo. added to your existing cable bill. On top of that it's 16.95 a month - still two dollars more, and for what? software updates and tv listings? What is TiVO *really* giving you for 16.95/mo. that didn't already come with the box you bought?
I also have no idea how much the dual cable cards are going to cost from a cable company - but it's probably not super cheap (FiOS is available in very limited areas) Can you get two of them? You will need two to record two channels.
All in for a 1 year contract: $41.95/month.
That's roughly the price of a Direct TV subscription. o.O
It's the principal of it. More importantly though - who's to say that it won't become more intrusive in the future. You have no say - and TiVo certainly doesn't want you giving them suggestions.
The thing is - Tivo at the time of switch couldn't even offer me a reasonable solution so it's more or less a moot point.
I had Series 2 TiVo for about a year and a half. It was OK. I've always questioned the value of the "service" though. What are you getting for 12.95 a month? TiVo is basically TV guide on crack. The fact that I could store my shows on my computer was of almost no value to as the TiVo 802.11 "g" adapter can actually only transmit @ 10 Mb/s because that is the maximum speed of the TiVo. It takes almost as much time to transfer as it does to watch the show. The "intelligent" recording is rarely that. Frequently TiVo fills its drive with a bunch of stuff that is largely uninteresting - that then needs to be deleted. Great more work to make room for shows I *do* want to watch. Of course there is the auto delete feature but it doesn't make room if you want to record something. A real blow to any sort of justification for a "service" fee was the introduction of the "promotion" on the TiVo primary page. The little star has "information" that I might want about say taking an RV trip across America. Ah, no? Then TiVo would add buttons from time to time to some of the user screens advertising things such as the virtues of the Sony Bravia HD TV's. Great, TiVo I'm glad that you have a shiny new marketing platform - but now I want my service fee back! Sometime during the time that I acquired my TiVo and the time that I left, they started the "you get the box with the service fee" deal. It is a bit of a better deal but not that much better. Also, TiVo support is absolutely the worst thing in the world. Navigating around on their site just gives the impression that they want their users and people trolling forums to answer all their customer questions for them.
So I get an HD set, and I'm a cable guy so I'm looking around at what my options are. TiVo wants me to spend 800 bucks on their (then current) HD recorder. Riiiight, not so much. I talk to my provider and here is what they will give me:
HD DVR - 1080i(p?) recording. 160 GB drive. Two tuner record and watch capability. Show listings. No advertisements in the UI. And it comes with HDMI Out and Optical audio out of the box. All for the fabulous low price of 5.95/mo with no money down. As an added bonus, it requires only three cables to hookup to a good HD TV - HDMI, Power Cord and Coax feed from the cable company.
I fail to see how TiVo can possibly remain relevant in the face of this overwhelming opposition. In my mind there is no way that that $300 and a monthly service fee can compete with the Cable guys option. As a personal point of irritation, paying for a service (apart from TV, which is a whole separate conversation) and then being advertised to is simply unacceptable.
My thought for TiVo when I made the switch is that TiVo needs to exit the hardware business ASAP and start licensing their technologies to the cable companies. I imagine a model similar to Direct TV would be good. The cable boxes that I've gotten from RCN and Comcast both could use some UI improvements (RCN is def. not as good as Comcast).
Either that or sell me a box and don't ask me for any more cash.
While this is probably great for Scaled from a cash perspective - it is truly saddening for the space industry. Scaled has been for nearly the last decade pushing into areas where private firms have not been able to go in the past. They innovated and created a workable solution for "mass" sub orbital flights. Ultimately the next steps are going to be push to LEO - and beyond. I fear however that the innovation and creative problem solving that has defined Scaled to date is no longer going to continue. Despite the company's best wishes - they will no longer have the ability to take the risks and make the decisions necessary to continue innovating.
We will most likley see Scaled develop into a robust provider for Sub Orbital flights but I doubt that they will attempt to push further.
In your virtualization example - there are mnay more varibales to isolate before you can declare "virtualization is slow". To conclude this based on a remote employee on a new server with a configuration that may or may not be the same is a bit of reach.
If there is an exisiting network that "works" and then a new device is put into use on the network - and then the network breaks... it is reasonable to conclude either the device is a potential source for the issue.
While details are sparse I suspect the Apple network stack was trying to do something completly valid, and the cisco routers were screwing it up.
However, the iPhone was involved as he cites thanks to Apple and Cisco tech support.
Before you try to pass your FUD as information to the rest of the world you ought to read the links that you are linking to.
.NET? In addition, .NET has mechanisms to protected untrusted code from taking truly damaging actions. However, you can have a look at the latest news out of the java camp regarding the JVM and how wonderful it is. You've also linked to a shill that was just fishing for some PR complaining that the UI for UAC could be spoofed. The only way for the spoof to work however was under a very elaborate set of circumstances. There are three or four actions that a user would have to take (and not in their normal order) before the exploit would work. Finally you have an article about Symantec complaining that Vista is not safe. Right, and you would expect anything different from a company that makes their money from the fact that users don't know how to use and protect their computers properly?
I'll address security as the rest of the "design" arguments and functionality are more subjective.
So Gosling says that C/C++ Interop is a huge security risk? No not really. Overall it's not a security risk this to some extent has been proven over the last 6 years. When is the last time a severe and exploitable vulnerabilty has been published for
I'd prefer that you not use Vista.
No, it's not safe or secure. Most banking web sites have a standard login form. Any joker who can install a keystroke logger can gain access to your account. Lately they are using more techniques to verify your identity such as personal challenge and response questions. However these too are futile, as the questions remain static. In general it just creates more road blocks for the end user without providing a measureable level of protection. The site key feature from BOA is helpful in detecting phishing attacks, but the increased security around "verification questions" is mostly useless.
Ultimately they are stop gap measures when you think about the only "real" way to truly verify the authenticating users identity. If the bank really wanted to "secure" their site they would use two factor authentication for all of their customers. RSA securID comes to mind. But there are other tools out there that can provide a similar level of protection.
The fact is that the bank does not want to deploy and maintain the infrastructure to truly provide security - so they place the onus on the end user instead.
The banks are passing the buck, and that's the bottom line.
IMO it's about time ppl had to take responsibility for their system.
I agree - however, to mandate that an end user must be "inspected" and "certified" to transact with them is absurd. It's not like the bank comes to your house to ensure that your locks are up to their code, and they will keep people from entering and trying to steal your checks, or account information.
The bottom line is that the bank can't or won't spend the money to provide a reasonable level of security for their online bankers. It's not our problem that they can't figure out how to protect their web site from being used fraudulently.
Some have already said this - but the bias level of this article is higher than an out of whack PID controller.
You aren't really qualified to evaluate the virtues of Windows vs. Ubuntu. The reason is simple: you are biased and not well informed.
You see windows XP has been available for the last oh, 6 years? Yet you've only "upgraded" in the last 4 months? There is also another completely different operating system with a bunch of new features called Vista, but I don't suppose you'll be getting around to that until about 2011.
Come on. He can't read the EULA?
If someone says that I'm violating a license agreement - I might just feel inclined to read it.
What are you talking about?
"All the manager had to do was say the EULA says "xyz," - they did say that - twice.
Developing addins for Express edition is a violation of the EULA. The manager stated that he made numerous attempts to resolve the situation. They explained that companies are not permitted to ship addins for Express. Jamie ignored them.
As the manager says after "close to two years of trying to avoid escalating this situation, we felt compelled to deliver our message in a different form".
If you are using test cases chances are you are a professional developer. In addition in the spirit of Express you should probably be writing your own test case engine and not using someone elses.
Jamies actions are clearly not in the "spirt" of the express edition, they are also legally out of bounds - it's unfortunate that he was so difficult about the situation.
They release them about once a month. It's still beta. Just recently, nTune actually started to work. If you check out the number of issues that have been fixed and are still outstanding - it's pretty incredible that they haven't gotten into some sort of legal trouble for advertising their product as something it's not e.g. Vista Ready or even SLI capable. You can't overclock it and there are no performance monitoring tools (this new build includes some support but it crashes a lot).
The parent is basically right on - if you do any highend stuff it's going to be hit or miss.
"but as a game disc format that provides game developers with plenty of storage space to build highly detailed game worlds without the need for multiple discs."
This is total garbage. Swapping disks isn't that difficult and happens infrequently if done correctly.
Everytime we get a larger format, we get a slower drive. The PS2 when it came out wasn't as fast as it's CD counter parts. And the blue-ray and hd drives are not as fast as DVD drives now.
It's all a gimmick - Sony wants to push their format. Unfortunately the didn't recognize that general consumer is unwilling to bankroll the rollout of their next generation format.
Blueray is a choice and not a standard at this point, as a consumer I object to paying for technology that may or may not emerge as the prevailing format simply because sony thinks it's best. In addition sony's drive quality is not what it used to be (PS2 spin of death).
Overall the justifications for rolling out Blue-ray in the PS3 just don't hold water.
As the owener of a 1080p set and an HD-DVD player and a viewer of comcast's HD cable offering. There is absolutely a difference between 1080i and 1080p.
Obviously broadcast quality is going to be of a lower bit rate than those that are found on an HD-DVD but the difference is still significant. Even in upconverted DVD's such as the italian job it's easy to see the "flicker" that is associated with the film version and some of the theater nuances begin to come through. It's pretty amazing.
Sure am glad I just upgraded to Vista and Office 2007:
Mitigating Factors for Animated Cursor Vulnerability
Customers who are using Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista are protected from currently known web based attacks due to Internet Explorer 7.0 protected mode. For more information on Internet Explorer Protected Mode see the following Web Site.
By default, Outlook 2007 uses Microsoft Word to display e-mail messages which protects customers from the HTML e-mail preview and attack vector.
I think the important thing here to note is that MS is actually delivering on it's promise to deliver a more secure OS and set of applications for users.
I would say that AMD has let Intel lead in that segment. There are very few SKU's associated with the AMD's mobile segment. Being a smaller company, AMD chose to attack the server market first with the Opteron, and the high end PC market with the FX line. Both of those lines are driving innovation at AMD. The 3XXX 4XXX 5XXX and 6XXX lines as well as the turions are all reduced implementations of their server chips.
Intel has a lot of cash, and the ability to invest in expensive processes earlier than most. Certainly, earlier than AMD.
However, it's worth noting, that these are clearly AMD ideas.
* On die memory controller - AMD's idea - and it's been in use for quite a while now
* Embedded GPU - a rip off of the AMD fusion idea, announced shortly after the aquisition of AMD.
Intel is no longer leading as they have in yeas past - they are copying and looting their competition shamelessly. It appears that they are "leading" when point in fact it's simply not the case - had AMD not realeased the Athlon64 we would all still be using single processor NetBurst processors.
Mod me down!
It's a little early here and my vision was a bit blurry, it is 390 not 350!
"Virtualized machine (hyperthreading disabled)
Disabling hyperthreading had negligible effect on the virtualized machine. In our test, the capacity increased a tiny amount to 403 simultaneous users. The difference between this result and the virtualized machine with hyperthreading enabled, however, is smaller than the margin of error for these tests -- more testing would be required before concluding the performance was better in the virtualized machine with hyperthreading disabled. "
The hyperthreaded capacity was 350. So my question is how is a 15% gain in clients served a "tiny amount"?
yes, I wonder what the 8.5 million number really is. Is it active, paying subscriptions or is it accounts created, including active and expired?
Macromedia isn't much better, they believe in "bugs are ok if we document them".
Also, in certain circumstances the Flash programming environment behaves differently on PC's vs. Macs.
Code is hard enough to get working properly without fighting your development environment.
Welcome our new Genetically Modified Mosquito Overlords.
How is a more durable mosquito an "added benefit"?
Sorry - I should have qualified that with "Adobe Reader", which requires a reboot for every update.
Not to mention a forced reboot after EACH and EVERY patch!
RAWR >:0