Yeah, I know about the more advanced ones (I have a F11) but I am assuming that they are not asking for anything more than the very basic model because of cost concerns.
Of course, I really love the heart rate monitor aspect of my Garmin 705 for cycling which records various statistics by the second for playback though it doesn't have the "Own*" type functionality (I think because of licensing issues of the algorithms).
If only this is what a capability of the heart rate, it could make sense. You are thinking something like an EKG/EEG. A heart rate monitor that they are most likely referring to would be something like one sold by http://www.polarusa.com/us-en/ where the basic model just tells you your current heart rate. Nothing about detecting rhythm, etc. Its just how many beats/minute your heart is pumping.
If you've ever been unfortunate enough to listen to the people he is mocking, you'd understand. O'Reilly and Limbaugh are miserable attempts at human beings that he is parodying.
As they say around here -- good luck with that. And besides, you are probably dead by the time it goes to court. And, its cheaper for the (for profit) insurance company to pay out the 1 case that happens to sue and win and deny coverage to (your guess it) increase their profits.
BTW, those losers who are "wasting your retirement funds" -- you mean the ones in your 401(k). How good is the "free market" doing for those these days. Oh, sorry... I forgot, those were run by greedy overpaid bankers.
And you have a choice today? I'm tired of this false argument. If you have any sort of health care insurance, its a decision between your (for profit) insurance company and NOBODY. Your insurance company doesn't want it, you don't get it.
I don't know. I just switched from Verizon to an iPhone and everyone I talk to tells me that my iPhone sounds clearer. And my house is in a Verizon dead-zone (I live about 10 miles outside of Boston -- there should be no dead zones that close to such a large technology based city).
Still have not dealt with customer service, but its not like Verizon's service was particularly great. And it was also from a big telco.
Well, I'm pretty sure that the reason that Netflix only worked on Series 3 boxes is the codec that Netflix uses to encode their movies. Blockbuster's must be using MPEG2 because I think that is all that series 2 has the hardware to handle.
unfortunately, while they are using the cable card in their cable boxes for access, there is still software in their cable boxes that is doing 2-way communication and other functionality, so while cablecard gets you access, it won't be until tru2way until there is true 2-way support where you can get On-Demand, etc. There are tuning adapters which are an external device to allow something like Tivo to support switched video, but of course, because their boxes use cablecard _and_ bi-directonal communication, they don't require the external adapter.
I'm going though this headache now. I called up Comcrap to order an m-stream CableCard, and the idiot sales person had no idea what I was talking about. I asked for a supervisor, who claimed that they only had m-stream cards in California. I told her to put on my work request that I wanted an m-stream card. I called sales later in the day, and she even called down to dispatch to verify that my work order had a request for an m-stream card. Very nice and knowledgeable installer comes out with 2 s-stream cards. He says, of course they have m-cards. His dispatcher made a note on my account saying that I requested an M-stream card and they should have delivered one. They had suggested that hopefully Comcast would just not charge me for the second card, but after talking with their billing department, the person said while they could do that, I would be better off getting an m-stream card so that I don't have problems every month, so now they are bringing out a m-stream card.
Of course, Comcrap is now charging you the same monthly fee as a stupid damn box, because they are calling it a "digital outlet" fee.
Not that I love Comcast and their Comcraptic service, but this is also happening in areas where they are not monopolies, and they actually do try upgrade in these areas. We have 2 cable providers and FIOS and yet somehow, their bandwidth is still not infinite.
BTW, implementing SDV is in fact upgrading their infrastructure. Its not free for them. And it makes sense. Why send out 500 channels when only 50 are being used?
There, provided the obligatory Slashdot post fixing service right back at ya.
I was FURIOUS! SDV totally defeats the ENTIRE purpose of cable cards. There was nothing TiVo could do about it. And I wasted countless hours on the phone with clueless "support" techs at Cox and with them coming to my house. Their only suggestion? Throw away all my equipment and rent the "wonderful" Cox "DVR". And after weeks of this nightmare, Cox suddenly stopped using SDV on the new HD channels and everything returned to normal. Why? Who knows? They wouldn't say. Perhaps a lot of people like me were complaining? (Every person using anything with a cable card was affected). Perhaps Cox even had problems with their own equipment.
This will be resolved in a few weeks/months by a Tuning Adaptor/Tuning Resolver -- I forget which is the new name and which is the old name. Its basically a device that will plug in to the USB port of the TivoHD coax port. It is still unknown, however, what pricing will be for them -- monthly rental, straight out purchase, etc.
SDV is not at all evil, it is actually quite necessary to get more channels out of existing bandwidth. Its just a few months too early!
Picture your Tivo now, with its great recording software. Compare that to the crappy software your cable company uses on their DVR. Well, the OCAP part of the CableCard 2.0 standard requires all hardware be running the cable company's software. In other words, your Tivo would have to be running Comcast/Cox/whoever's horrid interface instead of the standard one. At least, that's how I understand it.
Actually, I believe its pretty much the opposite. Although nobody quite knows whether Tivo's tru2way support will be on TivoHD (in cooperation with a Tuning Resolver/Tuning Adaptor -- I forget which is the new name and which is the old name), or some new hardware, tru2way will allow Tivo to have a box running Tivo software for standard Tivo interface, and then "hosting" software for OnDemand and other tru2way apps -- you still potentially get the bad interface for tru2way, but get Tivo for DVR. Tivo may even be able to front-end the OnDemand type stuff like the OnDemand interface that exists on ComcastTivo (which depending on who you listen to is already based on a subset of tru2way). The OnDemand interface on ComcastTivo is much better (IMO) than the standard interface.
Well, cheap DVD players can be had for under $50 today, and started out above the $500 range, so there is no reason to believe it won't (yes, I'm ignoring your region code issue).
Check out someone's comment at EngadgetHD where someone went back into internet archives and compared prices for DVD+2years to BluRay+2 years, which is about where we are, and both priced up about equally.
The price thing was artificial. It was because Toshiba, the only (real) HD-DVD manufacturer cut prices and was taking huge losses on selling the things. The prices on BluRay will come down naturally as technology improves and because of real competition between hardware vendors.
Ok, so the article didn't mention the important part that the House wants to hold the president accountable for his actions. Its not one-sided, its taking it easy on idiot-boy's insistence that his people have to follow the law. Stating both of these actions make the House look even better!
Now, its just up to the House to enforce the contempt of Congress charges themselves, as the Justice Department isn't going to do its job in enforcing them (I read _somewhere_ that Congress does have some sort of enforcement capabilities for cases like this when Justice won't do their job).
Instead of devices that further lock you into one provider, I think that cable companies should be forced to come up with ways to allow their subscribers to get the content they have recorded onto their devices easily -- no reformatting, no slow downloading (TiVo via wifi), etc. Isn't this the point of this tru2way -- it doesn't lock you into one provider. I think that just because Comcast is part of the announcement, it isn't going to tie you to Comcast.
So the question is, is this just CableCard 2.0 rebranded? The article mentions that this has been in the works for a long time, etc, etc, so maybe it is? One can only hope.
There is an airplane mode switch in the settings. So of course, its described in an obvious way in the documentation that you should use airplane mode when you are on a boat? To me, turning the iPhone to airplane mode is a mode to use on an airplane.
Funny, because a lot of times, I find it to be the opposite. While I'm no huge MS fan, I think that Intellisense is much more refined in VS2005 -- and its simple things that make it such... ones that nobody else did, but its obvious once you see it. For example, the fact that when you hit DOT in VS, it goes to the last used property/method rather than the first one in an alphabetical list. I think that quite a few times, I want to refer to the last property that I uses, rather than having to scroll to it. Simple things like that.
It also seems much more of a pain to open an eclipse project on a different machine (at least with the Perforce plugin) than with Visual Studio (I just recently had to have someone else set up one of my Eclipse projects on their new machine, and we got into some sort of recursive look where Eclipse ended up creating subdirectories until it hit an NTFS limit for directory depth (which was a royal pain to clean up -- XP's fault, but still).
I think that much of it is preference, but each can (and should) learn from the other.
I'm anxious to see how X-Code (current and "leopard" release) compare... I've just started using a Mac as my primary development machine (and thanks to Parallels, I can run VS for existing dotnet and C++ development) as well as Eclipse on the Mac. I have not yet figured out how to begin integrating our existing Unix build scripts into X-Code to use it...
Well, I don't know how it is in Canada, but at least the HMV store in Boston (if its still here, I have no idea) was always obscenely overpriced. In Harvard Square, I could walk into Newbury Comics and pay $12 for a CD, walk into Tower and pay $17 for the same CD, then walk into HMV and pay $20 for the same CD.
If thats the way it was in Canada, I would say thats their problem.
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Yeah, I know about the more advanced ones (I have a F11) but I am assuming that they are not asking for anything more than the very basic model because of cost concerns.
Of course, I really love the heart rate monitor aspect of my Garmin 705 for cycling which records various statistics by the second for playback though it doesn't have the "Own*" type functionality (I think because of licensing issues of the algorithms).
So I forgot the work "monitor" -- it should have been very obvious.
If only this is what a capability of the heart rate, it could make sense. You are thinking something like an EKG/EEG. A heart rate monitor that they are most likely referring to would be something like one sold by http://www.polarusa.com/us-en/ where the basic model just tells you your current heart rate. Nothing about detecting rhythm, etc. Its just how many beats/minute your heart is pumping.
I don't know that I have ever met a native New Englander that has any idea how to drive (especially in the snow)! At least nowhere near Boston.
If you've ever been unfortunate enough to listen to the people he is mocking, you'd understand. O'Reilly and Limbaugh are miserable attempts at human beings that he is parodying.
As they say around here -- good luck with that. And besides, you are probably dead by the time it goes to court. And, its cheaper for the (for profit) insurance company to pay out the 1 case that happens to sue and win and deny coverage to (your guess it) increase their profits.
BTW, those losers who are "wasting your retirement funds" -- you mean the ones in your 401(k). How good is the "free market" doing for those these days. Oh, sorry... I forgot, those were run by greedy overpaid bankers.
And you have a choice today? I'm tired of this false argument. If you have any sort of health care insurance, its a decision between your (for profit) insurance company and NOBODY. Your insurance company doesn't want it, you don't get it.
I'd rather have a trip to the DMV than mafia.
I don't know. I just switched from Verizon to an iPhone and everyone I talk to tells me that my iPhone sounds clearer. And my house is in a Verizon dead-zone (I live about 10 miles outside of Boston -- there should be no dead zones that close to such a large technology based city).
Still have not dealt with customer service, but its not like Verizon's service was particularly great. And it was also from a big telco.
Like the Storm? I tried to use the Storm and it was awful. I switched to AT&T and the iPhone.
Well, I'm pretty sure that the reason that Netflix only worked on Series 3 boxes is the codec that Netflix uses to encode their movies. Blockbuster's must be using MPEG2 because I think that is all that series 2 has the hardware to handle.
unfortunately, while they are using the cable card in their cable boxes for access, there is still software in their cable boxes that is doing 2-way communication and other functionality, so while cablecard gets you access, it won't be until tru2way until there is true 2-way support where you can get On-Demand, etc. There are tuning adapters which are an external device to allow something like Tivo to support switched video, but of course, because their boxes use cablecard _and_ bi-directonal communication, they don't require the external adapter.
I'm going though this headache now. I called up Comcrap to order an m-stream CableCard, and the idiot sales person had no idea what I was talking about. I asked for a supervisor, who claimed that they only had m-stream cards in California. I told her to put on my work request that I wanted an m-stream card. I called sales later in the day, and she even called down to dispatch to verify that my work order had a request for an m-stream card. Very nice and knowledgeable installer comes out with 2 s-stream cards. He says, of course they have m-cards. His dispatcher made a note on my account saying that I requested an M-stream card and they should have delivered one. They had suggested that hopefully Comcast would just not charge me for the second card, but after talking with their billing department, the person said while they could do that, I would be better off getting an m-stream card so that I don't have problems every month, so now they are bringing out a m-stream card.
Of course, Comcrap is now charging you the same monthly fee as a stupid damn box, because they are calling it a "digital outlet" fee.
That is series 2. Thats why Netflix is only on series 3, where the newer codec ARE supported.
The hardware in the Series 2 simply can't do the work. Netflix is using a codec that isn't supported there.
Not that I love Comcast and their Comcraptic service, but this is also happening in areas where they are not monopolies, and they actually do try upgrade in these areas. We have 2 cable providers and FIOS and yet somehow, their bandwidth is still not infinite.
BTW, implementing SDV is in fact upgrading their infrastructure. Its not free for them. And it makes sense. Why send out 500 channels when only 50 are being used?
There, provided the obligatory Slashdot post fixing service right back at ya.
This will be resolved in a few weeks/months by a Tuning Adaptor/Tuning Resolver -- I forget which is the new name and which is the old name. Its basically a device that will plug in to the USB port of the TivoHD coax port. It is still unknown, however, what pricing will be for them -- monthly rental, straight out purchase, etc.
SDV is not at all evil, it is actually quite necessary to get more channels out of existing bandwidth. Its just a few months too early!
Actually, I believe its pretty much the opposite. Although nobody quite knows whether Tivo's tru2way support will be on TivoHD (in cooperation with a Tuning Resolver/Tuning Adaptor -- I forget which is the new name and which is the old name), or some new hardware, tru2way will allow Tivo to have a box running Tivo software for standard Tivo interface, and then "hosting" software for OnDemand and other tru2way apps -- you still potentially get the bad interface for tru2way, but get Tivo for DVR. Tivo may even be able to front-end the OnDemand type stuff like the OnDemand interface that exists on ComcastTivo (which depending on who you listen to is already based on a subset of tru2way). The OnDemand interface on ComcastTivo is much better (IMO) than the standard interface.
Well, cheap DVD players can be had for under $50 today, and started out above the $500 range, so there is no reason to believe it won't (yes, I'm ignoring your region code issue).
Check out someone's comment at EngadgetHD where someone went back into internet archives and compared prices for DVD+2years to BluRay+2 years, which is about where we are, and both priced up about equally.
The price thing was artificial. It was because Toshiba, the only (real) HD-DVD manufacturer cut prices and was taking huge losses on selling the things. The prices on BluRay will come down naturally as technology improves and because of real competition between hardware vendors.
Ok, so the article didn't mention the important part that the House wants to hold the president accountable for his actions. Its not one-sided, its taking it easy on idiot-boy's insistence that his people have to follow the law. Stating both of these actions make the House look even better!
Now, its just up to the House to enforce the contempt of Congress charges themselves, as the Justice Department isn't going to do its job in enforcing them (I read _somewhere_ that Congress does have some sort of enforcement capabilities for cases like this when Justice won't do their job).
So the question is, is this just CableCard 2.0 rebranded? The article mentions that this has been in the works for a long time, etc, etc, so maybe it is? One can only hope.
Funny, because a lot of times, I find it to be the opposite. While I'm no huge MS fan, I think that Intellisense is much more refined in VS2005 -- and its simple things that make it such... ones that nobody else did, but its obvious once you see it. For example, the fact that when you hit DOT in VS, it goes to the last used property/method rather than the first one in an alphabetical list. I think that quite a few times, I want to refer to the last property that I uses, rather than having to scroll to it. Simple things like that.
It also seems much more of a pain to open an eclipse project on a different machine (at least with the Perforce plugin) than with Visual Studio (I just recently had to have someone else set up one of my Eclipse projects on their new machine, and we got into some sort of recursive look where Eclipse ended up creating subdirectories until it hit an NTFS limit for directory depth (which was a royal pain to clean up -- XP's fault, but still).
I think that much of it is preference, but each can (and should) learn from the other.
I'm anxious to see how X-Code (current and "leopard" release) compare... I've just started using a Mac as my primary development machine (and thanks to Parallels, I can run VS for existing dotnet and C++ development) as well as Eclipse on the Mac. I have not yet figured out how to begin integrating our existing Unix build scripts into X-Code to use it...
Well, I don't know how it is in Canada, but at least the HMV store in Boston (if its still here, I have no idea) was always obscenely overpriced. In Harvard Square, I could walk into Newbury Comics and pay $12 for a CD, walk into Tower and pay $17 for the same CD, then walk into HMV and pay $20 for the same CD.
If thats the way it was in Canada, I would say thats their problem.