As an owner of a PS3, an Xbox 360, and a Tivo HD, I think the Tivo solution is the most viable.
The PS3 and the Xbox are game systems that can play TV. They are not 24/7 appliances like a DVR. A Tivo is on all the time, and everyone I know is familiar with how to use it.
If you're not a gamer, you will not be purchasing a game system to watch online Movies.
I tried out the Netflix player on my Tivo HD last night. The picture was very clear on my HDTV, and the sound was pretty good. People want to complain about the selection, but they do have a lot of TV series available for instant viewing. I like the Tivo interface better than the Xbox 360 application. Overall, I'm very impressed, its yet another reason why Tivo is still the best DVR option available.
So far the comments on this thread consist of "I could hack together some system for x% of the Sun price."
The goal of this product is to compete with Netapp. If you've ever experienced Netapp licensing/pricing, this Sun solution is a bargain. People seem to be forgetting that this is a storage appliance.
RMS took his arguments a bit far by singling out consumer apps, but "cloud computing" in general is the most overhyped technology. First off, its not even a new concept, and secondly its really just another spin on outsourcing.
Like any form of outsourcing, there are big costs associated with cloud computing, that the pushers tend to glare over. Sure, its great for some poor web 2.0 startup, but its not an option for companies that actually depend on latency and uptime, or happen to truely care about their data.
"Vastly Superior, " because the way to deal with lossless encoding is to use a proprietary format developed by Apple. How is Apple Lossless superior to FLAC?
Want to have a good laugh, do a Slashdot search for Lindows.. The original pitch was that it would be a Linux distribution that could run Window's applications just as easily as Linux applications. Most people here recognized that it was, b.s. from the getgo, since the technical challenges of doing such a distribution were much greater than Lindow's developer resources. Plus, the Lindows CEO Michael Robertson was more of a "pitch guy" than someone who actually knows how to deliver a robust software product.
It would actually have some new features. Instead, Slashcode is just a clusterfuck to maintain and enhance. PERL has its uses, but you don't see many people writing content management systems in PERL anymore. Hmmm, I wonder why...
I've executed many whois domain searches in the past, only to find the domain I looked at registered the next day. There are a few ways to avoid this problem:
Register a domain as soon as you search for it
Avoid using registry based WHOIS tools.
The ICANN requirements for becoming a registrar are VERY weak. There are a lot of disreputable operations out there who could be colluding with domain prospectors. Even with the bigger registry operations, its still possible for people to get access to the whois queries. You have no idea what that web whois box is actually querying, and there is no privacy guarantee.
Not all RIAA music is Justin Timberlake-equese crap. I happen to mostly listen to modern/hard rock. Quite a few of the bands that I like (Nickelback) are signed to RIAA members.
This has to be joke! There is no way someone could consider using Nickelback as an example of quality RIAA music.
5.1 was announced yesterday, along with a swarm of press releases. Its funny how Redhat doesn't mention Xen anywhere, and you really have to dig to find out its just Xen. The Redhat press releases and marketing make it sound like they developed their own virtualization layer.
Many of other distros have included Xen for quite some time.
I only tested a few, but it looks like Akamai and Novell are not running plone at the core webserver level. They might be using plone for some sections, but its not what your getting when you hit novell.com or akamai.com.
Datacenter 1 is going down due to a license violation. Please contact licensing@cisco.com or rerun the genuine datacenter advantage tool.
Cisco might still be able to get away with having proprietary networking gear, but there is no way most organizations will move to proprietary for entire data centers.
Seriously, how did this get to the front page? What is newsworthy about the link? 60% of the page is advertising/links bundled with a few small paragraphs of mindless speculation.
Its not about a data plan, the story is that in order to use WIFI on your phone(a non AT&T network feature), you will be forced to sign up for an expensive data plan. The iphone's feature set is dependent on your network contract, even if that feature doesn't use the network.
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Does anyone know if Sun now supports webstart on 64bit linux?
openSUSE 11.1, the next major version of the company's community-driven Linux distribution, is scheduled for release on December 17.
It runs just fine for me using Firefox on the Mac.
The PS3 and the Xbox are game systems that can play TV. They are not 24/7 appliances like a DVR. A Tivo is on all the time, and everyone I know is familiar with how to use it.
If you're not a gamer, you will not be purchasing a game system to watch online Movies.
I tried out the Netflix player on my Tivo HD last night. The picture was very clear on my HDTV, and the sound was pretty good. People want to complain about the selection, but they do have a lot of TV series available for instant viewing. I like the Tivo interface better than the Xbox 360 application. Overall, I'm very impressed, its yet another reason why Tivo is still the best DVR option available.
Get your facts straight, Tivo never had a relationship with Dish network.
WOL would be considered a security risk in most enterprise computing environments.
The goal of this product is to compete with Netapp. If you've ever experienced Netapp licensing/pricing, this Sun solution is a bargain. People seem to be forgetting that this is a storage appliance.
SETI != cloud computing. Seti is distributed computing. Cloud computing is remote hosting + virtualization + configuration management.
RMS took his arguments a bit far by singling out consumer apps, but "cloud computing" in general is the most overhyped technology. First off, its not even a new concept, and secondly its really just another spin on outsourcing. Like any form of outsourcing, there are big costs associated with cloud computing, that the pushers tend to glare over. Sure, its great for some poor web 2.0 startup, but its not an option for companies that actually depend on latency and uptime, or happen to truely care about their data.
"Vastly Superior, " because the way to deal with lossless encoding is to use a proprietary format developed by Apple. How is Apple Lossless superior to FLAC?
What I meant to say: there is no reason you need to exercise in your house.
Seriously, there is reason you need to exercise in your house. Get out, go jog, get a bike, join a gym. Who knows, you might meet a female.
Want to have a good laugh, do a Slashdot search for Lindows.. The original pitch was that it would be a Linux distribution that could run Window's applications just as easily as Linux applications. Most people here recognized that it was, b.s. from the getgo, since the technical challenges of doing such a distribution were much greater than Lindow's developer resources. Plus, the Lindows CEO Michael Robertson was more of a "pitch guy" than someone who actually knows how to deliver a robust software product.
It would actually have some new features. Instead, Slashcode is just a clusterfuck to maintain and enhance. PERL has its uses, but you don't see many people writing content management systems in PERL anymore. Hmmm, I wonder why...
The 2000 McCain is the first politician I ever donated money too. The 2008 McCain is an empty shell of that person who I supported in 2000.
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Actually most of bigger squatting operations don't pay a dime on a per name basis. They hold the name for 30 days, then release it at no cost.
- Register a domain as soon as you search for it
- Avoid using registry based WHOIS tools.
The ICANN requirements for becoming a registrar are VERY weak. There are a lot of disreputable operations out there who could be colluding with domain prospectors. Even with the bigger registry operations, its still possible for people to get access to the whois queries. You have no idea what that web whois box is actually querying, and there is no privacy guarantee.This has to be joke! There is no way someone could consider using Nickelback as an example of quality RIAA music.
Many of other distros have included Xen for quite some time.
I only tested a few, but it looks like Akamai and Novell are not running plone at the core webserver level. They might be using plone for some sections, but its not what your getting when you hit novell.com or akamai.com.
Cisco might still be able to get away with having proprietary networking gear, but there is no way most organizations will move to proprietary for entire data centers.
Seriously, how did this get to the front page? What is newsworthy about the link? 60% of the page is advertising/links bundled with a few small paragraphs of mindless speculation.
Its not about a data plan, the story is that in order to use WIFI on your phone(a non AT&T network feature), you will be forced to sign up for an expensive data plan. The iphone's feature set is dependent on your network contract, even if that feature doesn't use the network.