Ok, but I can put as big of a drive into my Tivo as I want, and I can archive shows to DVD via Tivo Desktop and a DVD burning utility, unless of course, I have one of the Tivo boxes that comes with a DVD burner, in which case, I can do it right from the box.
Now...what in the world makes their Tivo branded netword adapter different than any other one? Is there now a special connection on the newer Tivo's...on my old series 2, I just plugged in a Linksys USB wireless....
Its always been a driver support issue. The vendors are constantly changing their chipsets, etc with a small hardware revision number change, not always apparent looking at the packaging. The whole reason why Tivo came out with their own branded adapter was to have one that doesn't change and is always compatible with Tivo.
The Tivo wireless adapter also has some additional processing capabilities which offloads processing from Tivo's low-power processor, which I believe is how they handle things like WPA, for example.
Note that these are 2 separate things. Blocked caller ID shows up as "anonymous" or "blocked" on most caller ID boxes and would be otherwise available at the callers disgression. Unknown (or number not available" means that the data is not present (ie, a switch somewhere "ate" it or was never transmitted (such as by a PBX)).
It is possible to block receiving calls from a "blocked" site, and the caller should receive a message stating that they should unblock caller ID to call. It is not possible to block unknown calls (with Verizon's current rules, at least).
I've been testing my company's software on Vista for the past few weeks. I've never been a Microsoft hater, but Vista is pretty damn bad with UAC enabled, especially for a developer. Try overwriting a file in the Program Files directory. You get 3 separate confirmation prompts for one operation. Open Visual Studio 2005 (with the last service packs, including the Vista-specific update). You get a specific message that you should run VS as Administrator (it is not sufficient to be logged in to the system with a user who is in the administrator group). Now, even better, try opening a Visual Studio solution file as administrator -- there is a "Run as administrator" option for executables, but not an "Open as administrator" option for documents. Try editing an OS config file -- same problem. Thats unacceptable -- even worse, it alienates developers. Even though I'll need to be running Windows (XP) most of the time, I just put in an order for my new machine at work, and its a MacBook Pro (thank you Boot Camp and Parallels).
That fits me as well. Been listening to Dream Theater since 92 (Images and Words days). Symphony X is pretty good as well. Too much of Shadow Gallery stuff sounds alike. I was at the Dream Theater show in NYC where they recorded Score... was something to see the band up there with a 30 piece symphony! Of course, you also need the classics -- Rush and Pink Floyd... Spock's Beard (in the Neal Morse days -- unfortunately they have gone down hill (IMO) since he left) -- though those are starting to get more into the pure Prog Rock instead of Prog Metal.
Set a tablet PC in front of a treadmill, and read Slashdot while running? While thats better than nothing, its still probably not as good as getting in front of that treadmill without reading. Odds pare pretty good that your heart rate isn't going to hit the 65%-85% range that you would get without needing to concentrate at looking down at a steady object with small print. It always kills me to see people on the treadmill, elypical, etc reading away and barely breaking a sweat.
No matter what people think about who should or should not pay, this was Stop & Shop's fault. The Globe article only slightly mentioned (was covered better on the news last night) that someone basically walked off with the PIN boxes, hacked them, and reinstalled. I know that there are ideas in some of these replies as to which business pays for stolen credit card usage, but Stop & Shop has got to do better than letting someone walk off with their equipment.
No, but they will _WANT_ to move their content there. I think that most sites would have a much easier time. Legit xxx sites want their sites to be filtered from child access. It makes their legal threats much lower. They will want to keep their.com as a front-end, but keep all XXX content there.
Not that I don't think that this virtualization limitation is a bunch of bull, but the article does specifically say:
"Microsoft said developers who obtain Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Home Premium through their MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscription may use those programs within a virtual machine to assist them in designing, developing, testing and demonstrating their programs."
Exactly, the ballot that I used (Waltam, MA) was a large legal sized semi-rigid sheet (8.5x14) that had large bubbles for you to fill in with a permanent marker. The ballot was fed in to a (non Diebold) machine which counts the votes, and STORES the sheet of paper for recounts. Thats all we are asking for (well, that and a reputable company).
The person who submitted their ballot in front of me in line had an error on their form, and the polling place worker told her that they needed to fill in a new form. Simple, quick, easy.
I'd like to make a slight contradiction (maybe just comment) on your statement. Many people deal directly with the results of science based on human evolution. Every little pill that they pop and doctors office that they visit was developed/trained based on testing on animals that we evolved from. Thats (part of) why testing on mice, monkeys, etc is done prior to human tests -- because we are genetically related to them because we evolved from them.
I just would love to invite people who don't beleive in science to skip out on accepting medical care developed because of evolution. Just ask them if they want to be treated in the hospital based on evolutionary theory (true, they won't have anywhere else to turn, but let them find this out). Don't refuse care, just ask them if they want to benefit from that research.
Its similar to a comment I read in an editorial somewhere about stem cell research. If you are so morally turned off by stem cell research, if you get a disease that is cured (in the future) because of stem cell research (which will happen, in the US or at this point, more likely outside of the US) refuse the treatment.
There are similar ways to do this in any "real" language. There are parameters available in ADO, ADO.Net, ODBC, JDBC, and just about whatever other database interface that exist.
Working in the QA department for a database vendor ( -- shameless plug -- Intersystems Cache --) I can tell you that working with parameters is not all that much more difficult than blind SQL. Most languages can create bound parameters in a single extra line of code.
Note that the statement about being much faster really does depend on the architecture of the backend database -- Most databases will parse the SQL input and have an internal statement cache that handles them all the same. Some of the client drivers (xDBC, ADO, etc) have their own pre-parsers as well (which would not be immune to SQL Injection) which will internally parameterize the incoming SQL
Of course, the article is very well/.ed, so I can't read the article, but from the description, this is different. I am sitting on my D600 right now, with dual-monitor support, but the secondary video is NOT being generated by a video card in the docking port. The docking port has a VGA monitor connector that behaves as a secondary display, but it is still hooked up to the same video card and sharing the same video memory as the built-in LCD panel.
My Inspiron 8600 (and parents 8500) both have the same docking ports (and same dock, for that matter) as my Latitude D600 . They are pretty much identical to the Latitude D800, other than not having gigabit ethernet, no smart card slot and having a choice of graphics card.
You know, I was going to say the same. These requirements seem fairly modest. My machine from 3 years ago (Athalon 2100 (aka 1.73GHz), 1GB RAM, Radeon 9000 w/ 128MB)) is up to their 'premium' status. It may have been high end at the time, but this is still a 3 year old machine.
Would a year old machine really not have this available?
As I said, I am sure that there are sites out there that want to keep children from obtaining their material, either for their own ideals, or from a business point of view where children obtaining their material costs them money, either in credit-card fees (or refuted charges), or fines (I mean, sites that have must be 18 to enter, not sites with educational/medical/whatever material).
Remember, this issue isn't as clear as the religious 'right' (now there is an absurd combination of words) or as the everything must be freely available people make it out to be.
There are times when parents have the right to regulate what their children see, while adults have every right to see what they want.
My question is this. Why wouldn't a company who knowingly agrees that they are selling adult content NOT want to store their adult content in a.xxx domain. Have some sort of front end-page at their current site, then have that link to.xxx (which parental filtering software would trivially block)?
As it is, their sites have an enterance page which asks if you are 18 or older, so they acknowledge that they have adult content. This way, it would be easier to filter out the people that they want filtered out. I would imagine that their lives would be easier if they didn't have to worry as much about filtering, just for easier credit-card processing and less worry about people complaining about their children making purchases which they should not have made.
Comcast has one already in use in households around the country. The Comcast box is fine, it's the software interface that currently sucks. Once they get that nailed (and I believe they will) they are going to be the powerhouse in PVR's.
Well, you have that part right, and the first part wrong. Their interface sucks. As referred to in the article, their interface is going to be fixed by Tivo porting their software directly to the Comcast box. Therfore, Comcast stays as a major player, running Tivo's software.
I recently ordered a Dimension 8400 for my parents, and while the system did not come with an XP CD, there was a start menu item to create one. It created a clean XP-SP2 install media with some of the Dell drivers already integrated (for the SATA controller, etc).
While it would be nice to have an obvious icon pointing to it, it was there. It did have the unfortunate side effect of deleting itself once created, however, process explorer made it very obvious as to where to find the ISO file it was using.
I'm sorry, but I have to call BS here. This is the same crap that got us here in the first place. Being moral/ethical has nothing to do with being religious. There are plenty of people who are "moral" that are not religious, and certainly enough people who are religious who are not moral.
After all, lets look at the Muslim extremist. They justify terrorism by stating that they are following their religious teaching. According to your arguement, they are benefiting for moral codes?
Lets look at Pat Robbertson. He prayed for people do die? Is that moral?
Lets look at Rush Limbaugh. He's a druggie, even worse, a hypocritical druggie.
Lets look at Tom DeLay. He's been admonished by the ethics committee how many times?
Lets look at Cheney. He's for torture!!! Is that moral?
As this whole creationalism BS is becoming more "prominent", I think its time for doctors and hospitals to start including documentation and waivers stating that all treatment has been tested using evolutionary resources -- testing on other primates, etc.
Lets see if we can't start to use Darwin by having true survival of the fittest (mentally, in this case) and let the (mentally) weak die off.
If you don't want to believe in science, let them stop gaining the benefits of science.
It depends on which series 2 Tivo unit you have. The first gen series 2 boxes (the AT&T branded ones, and the 60GB (TSN beginning with 140) were USB 1.1. The 2nd gen series 2 (40/80/140 hour), "nightlight" Tivos, and everything else are USB 2.0. Tivo has slowly been updating its software to support the USB 2.0 boxes (to support G, I suppose)
Well, you can't really blame Tivo if wireless networking is slow. They have slowly been adding G support, but the problem is, all of the wireless G devices that keep on changing chipsets (quielty). Also, remember with wireless, (B for example) which is 11MBps, its a shared 11MBps, so if you are transfering to a machine also on wireless, you are instantly down to 5.5MBps. Using wired ethernet, its better than real-time for medium quality video. Keep in mind, it is already doing some level of transcoding when transfering clips from Tivo computer, so it makes sense that transfers to iPod would not be too much worse.
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Ok, but I can put as big of a drive into my Tivo as I want, and I can archive shows to DVD via Tivo Desktop and a DVD burning utility, unless of course, I have one of the Tivo boxes that comes with a DVD burner, in which case, I can do it right from the box.
Its always been a driver support issue. The vendors are constantly changing their chipsets, etc with a small hardware revision number change, not always apparent looking at the packaging. The whole reason why Tivo came out with their own branded adapter was to have one that doesn't change and is always compatible with Tivo.
The Tivo wireless adapter also has some additional processing capabilities which offloads processing from Tivo's low-power processor, which I believe is how they handle things like WPA, for example.
Note that these are 2 separate things. Blocked caller ID shows up as "anonymous" or "blocked" on most caller ID boxes and would be otherwise available at the callers disgression. Unknown (or number not available" means that the data is not present (ie, a switch somewhere "ate" it or was never transmitted (such as by a PBX)).
It is possible to block receiving calls from a "blocked" site, and the caller should receive a message stating that they should unblock caller ID to call. It is not possible to block unknown calls (with Verizon's current rules, at least).
I've been testing my company's software on Vista for the past few weeks. I've never been a Microsoft hater, but Vista is pretty damn bad with UAC enabled, especially for a developer. Try overwriting a file in the Program Files directory. You get 3 separate confirmation prompts for one operation. Open Visual Studio 2005 (with the last service packs, including the Vista-specific update). You get a specific message that you should run VS as Administrator (it is not sufficient to be logged in to the system with a user who is in the administrator group). Now, even better, try opening a Visual Studio solution file as administrator -- there is a "Run as administrator" option for executables, but not an "Open as administrator" option for documents. Try editing an OS config file -- same problem. Thats unacceptable -- even worse, it alienates developers. Even though I'll need to be running Windows (XP) most of the time, I just put in an order for my new machine at work, and its a MacBook Pro (thank you Boot Camp and Parallels).
That fits me as well. Been listening to Dream Theater since 92 (Images and Words days). Symphony X is pretty good as well. Too much of Shadow Gallery stuff sounds alike. I was at the Dream Theater show in NYC where they recorded Score... was something to see the band up there with a 30 piece symphony! Of course, you also need the classics -- Rush and Pink Floyd... Spock's Beard (in the Neal Morse days -- unfortunately they have gone down hill (IMO) since he left) -- though those are starting to get more into the pure Prog Rock instead of Prog Metal.
No matter what people think about who should or should not pay, this was Stop & Shop's fault. The Globe article only slightly mentioned (was covered better on the news last night) that someone basically walked off with the PIN boxes, hacked them, and reinstalled. I know that there are ideas in some of these replies as to which business pays for stolen credit card usage, but Stop & Shop has got to do better than letting someone walk off with their equipment.
No, but they will _WANT_ to move their content there. I think that most sites would have a much easier time. Legit xxx sites want their sites to be filtered from child access. It makes their legal threats much lower. They will want to keep their .com as a front-end, but keep all XXX content there.
Not that I don't think that this virtualization limitation is a bunch of bull, but the article does specifically say:
"Microsoft said developers who obtain Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Home Premium through their MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscription may use those programs within a virtual machine to assist them in designing, developing, testing and demonstrating their programs."
Exactly, the ballot that I used (Waltam, MA) was a large legal sized semi-rigid sheet (8.5x14) that had large bubbles for you to fill in with a permanent marker. The ballot was fed in to a (non Diebold) machine which counts the votes, and STORES the sheet of paper for recounts. Thats all we are asking for (well, that and a reputable company).
The person who submitted their ballot in front of me in line had an error on their form, and the polling place worker told her that they needed to fill in a new form. Simple, quick, easy.
I'd like to make a slight contradiction (maybe just comment) on your statement. Many people deal directly with the results of science based on human evolution. Every little pill that they pop and doctors office that they visit was developed/trained based on testing on animals that we evolved from. Thats (part of) why testing on mice, monkeys, etc is done prior to human tests -- because we are genetically related to them because we evolved from them.
I just would love to invite people who don't beleive in science to skip out on accepting medical care developed because of evolution. Just ask them if they want to be treated in the hospital based on evolutionary theory (true, they won't have anywhere else to turn, but let them find this out). Don't refuse care, just ask them if they want to benefit from that research.
Its similar to a comment I read in an editorial somewhere about stem cell research. If you are so morally turned off by stem cell research, if you get a disease that is cured (in the future) because of stem cell research (which will happen, in the US or at this point, more likely outside of the US) refuse the treatment.
There are similar ways to do this in any "real" language. There are parameters available in ADO, ADO.Net, ODBC, JDBC, and just about whatever other database interface that exist.
Working in the QA department for a database vendor ( -- shameless plug -- Intersystems Cache --) I can tell you that working with parameters is not all that much more difficult than blind SQL. Most languages can create bound parameters in a single extra line of code.
Note that the statement about being much faster really does depend on the architecture of the backend database -- Most databases will parse the SQL input and have an internal statement cache that handles them all the same. Some of the client drivers (xDBC, ADO, etc) have their own pre-parsers as well (which would not be immune to SQL Injection) which will internally parameterize the incoming SQL
Thats possible. This is a work machine, so I wasn't involved in ordering it or the dock. Didn't realize that they had multiple products availabe.
Of course, the article is very well /.ed, so I can't read the article, but from the description, this is different. I am sitting on my D600 right now, with dual-monitor support, but the secondary video is NOT being generated by a video card in the docking port. The docking port has a VGA monitor connector that behaves as a secondary display, but it is still hooked up to the same video card and sharing the same video memory as the built-in LCD panel.
My Inspiron 8600 (and parents 8500) both have the same docking ports (and same dock, for that matter) as my Latitude D600 . They are pretty much identical to the Latitude D800, other than not having gigabit ethernet, no smart card slot and having a choice of graphics card.
You know, I was going to say the same. These requirements seem fairly modest. My machine from 3 years ago (Athalon 2100 (aka 1.73GHz), 1GB RAM, Radeon 9000 w/ 128MB)) is up to their 'premium' status. It may have been high end at the time, but this is still a 3 year old machine.
Would a year old machine really not have this available?
As I said, I am sure that there are sites out there that want to keep children from obtaining their material, either for their own ideals, or from a business point of view where children obtaining their material costs them money, either in credit-card fees (or refuted charges), or fines (I mean, sites that have must be 18 to enter, not sites with educational/medical/whatever material).
Remember, this issue isn't as clear as the religious 'right' (now there is an absurd combination of words) or as the everything must be freely available people make it out to be.
There are times when parents have the right to regulate what their children see, while adults have every right to see what they want.
My question is this. Why wouldn't a company who knowingly agrees that they are selling adult content NOT want to store their adult content in a .xxx domain. Have some sort of front end-page at their current site, then have that link to .xxx (which parental filtering software would trivially block)?
As it is, their sites have an enterance page which asks if you are 18 or older, so they acknowledge that they have adult content. This way, it would be easier to filter out the people that they want filtered out. I would imagine that their lives would be easier if they didn't have to worry as much about filtering, just for easier credit-card processing and less worry about people complaining about their children making purchases which they should not have made.
Well, you have that part right, and the first part wrong. Their interface sucks. As referred to in the article, their interface is going to be fixed by Tivo porting their software directly to the Comcast box. Therfore, Comcast stays as a major player, running Tivo's software.
I recently ordered a Dimension 8400 for my parents, and while the system did not come with an XP CD, there was a start menu item to create one. It created a clean XP-SP2 install media with some of the Dell drivers already integrated (for the SATA controller, etc).
While it would be nice to have an obvious icon pointing to it, it was there. It did have the unfortunate side effect of deleting itself once created, however, process explorer made it very obvious as to where to find the ISO file it was using.
I'm sorry, but I have to call BS here. This is the same crap that got us here in the first place. Being moral/ethical has nothing to do with being religious. There are plenty of people who are "moral" that are not religious, and certainly enough people who are religious who are not moral.
After all, lets look at the Muslim extremist. They justify terrorism by stating that they are following their religious teaching. According to your arguement, they are benefiting for moral codes?
Lets look at Pat Robbertson. He prayed for people do die? Is that moral?
Lets look at Rush Limbaugh. He's a druggie, even worse, a hypocritical druggie.
Lets look at Tom DeLay. He's been admonished by the ethics committee how many times?
Lets look at Cheney. He's for torture!!! Is that moral?
As this whole creationalism BS is becoming more "prominent", I think its time for doctors and hospitals to start including documentation and waivers stating that all treatment has been tested using evolutionary resources -- testing on other primates, etc.
Lets see if we can't start to use Darwin by having true survival of the fittest (mentally, in this case) and let the (mentally) weak die off.
If you don't want to believe in science, let them stop gaining the benefits of science.
I'm not certain, but my guess is, based on Tivo's supported network adaptors list, TSNs 110, 130 and 140 are USB 1.1, all others are USB 2.0.
It depends on which series 2 Tivo unit you have. The first gen series 2 boxes (the AT&T branded ones, and the 60GB (TSN beginning with 140) were USB 1.1. The 2nd gen series 2 (40/80/140 hour), "nightlight" Tivos, and everything else are USB 2.0. Tivo has slowly been updating its software to support the USB 2.0 boxes (to support G, I suppose)
Well, you can't really blame Tivo if wireless networking is slow. They have slowly been adding G support, but the problem is, all of the wireless G devices that keep on changing chipsets (quielty). Also, remember with wireless, (B for example) which is 11MBps, its a shared 11MBps, so if you are transfering to a machine also on wireless, you are instantly down to 5.5MBps. Using wired ethernet, its better than real-time for medium quality video. Keep in mind, it is already doing some level of transcoding when transfering clips from Tivo computer, so it makes sense that transfers to iPod would not be too much worse.