You are right, it took me a while to figure that out. People should MOD down the original. But question: Why only spool 5 minutes, why not keep an endless loop? If the drive will hold (for example) 3 hours of footage, always have 3 hours spooled and when the disk is full delete the oldest?
Einstein would be impressed.
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"The cameras continuously record and cache old video in a Tivo-like fashion; tapes will start from three to five minutes before the cop turned on the recorder."
Not sure I understand, this means that after you press "record", the DVR travels three to five minutes backward in time and catches you in the loo a few minutes prior? Surely the video would spool to disk 3 to 5 minutes after it was recorded. Maybe I can use one of these after I get pulled over for speeding to travel back in time and brake in advance...
This is a last attempt by independent business units to make pay phones viable. The fact is that pay phones are very obsolete technology but very expensive to maintain. The business units responsible for them need to find SOME way to survive but ultimately they are a decade behind the curve...
Could someone please...
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I know what Tivo is and how it works but can someone please post a price structure? I've never subscribed and would like to understand what I get for what I pay.
My company keeps putting this on our technology "radar" and I keep having to yoink it. Fact is that IPv6 provides sufficient addresses that every current registered IPv4 address could get an entire IPv4 allocation of addresses without there being a single conflict. Basically, what this means is that if every single valid IP address in the world was converted to a NAT router you could continue to use IPv4 on all your corporate networks and only hubs, routers, and firewalls would need IPv6 addresses. Sure security could be an issue but remember the IPv4 systems are all on corporate networks behind firewalls. Someone please refute this, but I don't understand why IPv6 would ever catch on as anything but a backbone protocol...
What do you mean, you "at the very least want lossless?" Wow that is so kind of you, you will stoop to accept an exact copy of the studio recording, but only for $1 a song. Out of curiosity, what do you expect for $2 a song? The band to show up at your house and serenade you???
Grow up, I get all my music legit. Why do you assume that because people refuse to buy music that means they download it? You know that little thingy in your car with all the knobs? I realize since it's not a computer you prolly have never used it but if you fiddle with the knobs you may hear music come out. Free and clear. No stealing. It's called r-a-d-i-o.....
Apple is not leading the way. They are paying royalties to the same fools who worked so hard to prevent music ever being accessible online.
Herein lies a moral dilemma as I see it. I've long said that if the major labels had offered a good online experience with no copy protection and songs at $1 a pop I would gladly pay. Apple has now done that. However the question I now ask is: "After years of litigation, accusations, predatory pricing, and complete disregard for customers, should I finally return to financing these crooks because after they lost the war they decided to do the right thing?" I suppose the answer is implied in the question. If the RIAA had had the slightest bit of respect for customers it would never have come to this, but quite frankly I've stopped buying music and doubt I'll ever return until someone comes along who cuts the fat cats out of the profits.
Way to go guys, today's strip is hilarious! Please make this a series and find legal ways to stick it to these jerks endlessly until they get the hint.
It seems to me that if hard drive capacities continue to grow at their current rate, in a few years they will have outstripped the porn industry's ability to fill them.
What the hell is "the technology used in microwave ovens?!?" Buttons? Electricity? Light bulbs? Microwaves?? Do journalists even read their own inane statements? Hey, I just harnessed the technology used in keyboards to send an e-mail, it's revolutionary...
Your comment makes no sense. If a single compilation is what you want then you are guaranteed not to get it. The media industry has proven time and again that it makes no sense to release something their customers want when it's easier and more profitable to release many iterations of something you ALMOST want. Hopefully you'll buy them all and make them rich. Star Wars for example, will we ever see a digital DVD compilation? No. Not while you keep buying things piecemeal...
Well historically maximum memory sizes have always been limited by implementations (how long after OS/2 2.0 before you could buy a server with 4.0 GB RAM?). However demand usually pushes supply. When 32GB of RAM becomes needed by the IA32 architecture it's a sure bet that Linux and eventually Windows will catch up to meet the need. The fact that it isn't realistically possible today is immaterial. There is no demand. (Please spare me the examples of theoretical clients...)
1. Napster lets you share music while viewing banner ads. Napster gets sued for everything it has.
2. Napster VCs made money from banner ads. VCs get sued for everything they have.
3. I viewed banner ads that made money for VCs.
1. The Firebase DB people seem to almost openly acknowledge this was a publicity stunt.
2. The mozilla.org people probably should have been more understanding to another open source effort. Code of thieves and all that.
That having been said I fall firmly in the "don't care" camp. Surely there's an M$ flame to be posted or a *BSD gripe to be aired, we're too busy for this stuff...
Increase your browser history size. Now... Before clicking "submit" look at the little linkies in your article. Purple linkies = BAD. Blue linkies = GOOD.;-)
Just goes to show all this talk about freedom and free software is great when you're arguing with ComandrKeen69 on/. but free speech hits you in the pocket book when you port it to meatspace...
... as has already been pointed out. However more importantly, editors please update the headline to acknowledge the mistake. Lots of people may read the comments, see a single +5 comment pointing out this isn't a Tablet, next to dozens of Anti-MS comments and assume the +5 guy is a crackpot. He is not. This is a Windows Terminal Server device used to control your Windows desktop while walking around the house. It's isn't remotely Tablet PC.
What did the very last guy say in Steve Bellovin's update? The guy from Microsoft? Sorry but my browser came up with a message "Error: content blocked (RFC3514)". Please tell...
The first sentence clearly states "Microsoft is actively courting id Software for the exclusive console rights to Doom III". Duh, no biggie I never really expected a direct PS2 port, did you? It will still come out for PC and Linux but perhaps the only console with a port is XBox. Read the first sentence of the articles you post, at the least.
But are they really your representatives, or are they someone else's? You act as if your righteous indignation will fall on listening ears. Are the representatives you refer to elected by the vocal minority who believe human rights are inviolate, or are they elected by the slack-jawed majority who are having a good-ol' time watching some more yellow-skinned people getting whupped on CNN? Honestly, how many Americans do you think have really read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights? No, really... I mean it. I'm not American and I've read them all and you probably have too. But we're not running America, we're just trying to plug the leaks in the dyke. All the moral grandstanding in the world doesn't mean a thing when we've put idiots at the steering wheel. And I don't mean Dubya, I mean voters.
True, but I said "popularity", not "market share". And I suspect your numbers include PDAs which would obviously give PalmOS and MS and unfair representation...
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You are right, it took me a while to figure that out. People should MOD down the original. But question: Why only spool 5 minutes, why not keep an endless loop? If the drive will hold (for example) 3 hours of footage, always have 3 hours spooled and when the disk is full delete the oldest?
"The cameras continuously record and cache old video in a Tivo-like fashion; tapes will start from three to five minutes before the cop turned on the recorder."
Not sure I understand, this means that after you press "record", the DVR travels three to five minutes backward in time and catches you in the loo a few minutes prior? Surely the video would spool to disk 3 to 5 minutes after it was recorded. Maybe I can use one of these after I get pulled over for speeding to travel back in time and brake in advance...
This is a last attempt by independent business units to make pay phones viable. The fact is that pay phones are very obsolete technology but very expensive to maintain. The business units responsible for them need to find SOME way to survive but ultimately they are a decade behind the curve...
I know what Tivo is and how it works but can someone please post a price structure? I've never subscribed and would like to understand what I get for what I pay.
My company keeps putting this on our technology "radar" and I keep having to yoink it. Fact is that IPv6 provides sufficient addresses that every current registered IPv4 address could get an entire IPv4 allocation of addresses without there being a single conflict. Basically, what this means is that if every single valid IP address in the world was converted to a NAT router you could continue to use IPv4 on all your corporate networks and only hubs, routers, and firewalls would need IPv6 addresses. Sure security could be an issue but remember the IPv4 systems are all on corporate networks behind firewalls. Someone please refute this, but I don't understand why IPv6 would ever catch on as anything but a backbone protocol...
I like how people ask questions, than he answers them. If he does any other interviews than I'll definitely read them. Well, until than!
("Then" and "than" are different words and are not interchangeable. Cool for a CEO maybe, but not too bright.)
What do you mean, you "at the very least want lossless?" Wow that is so kind of you, you will stoop to accept an exact copy of the studio recording, but only for $1 a song. Out of curiosity, what do you expect for $2 a song? The band to show up at your house and serenade you???
Grow up, I get all my music legit. Why do you assume that because people refuse to buy music that means they download it? You know that little thingy in your car with all the knobs? I realize since it's not a computer you prolly have never used it but if you fiddle with the knobs you may hear music come out. Free and clear. No stealing. It's called r-a-d-i-o.....
Apple is not leading the way. They are paying royalties to the same fools who worked so hard to prevent music ever being accessible online.
Herein lies a moral dilemma as I see it. I've long said that if the major labels had offered a good online experience with no copy protection and songs at $1 a pop I would gladly pay. Apple has now done that. However the question I now ask is: "After years of litigation, accusations, predatory pricing, and complete disregard for customers, should I finally return to financing these crooks because after they lost the war they decided to do the right thing?" I suppose the answer is implied in the question. If the RIAA had had the slightest bit of respect for customers it would never have come to this, but quite frankly I've stopped buying music and doubt I'll ever return until someone comes along who cuts the fat cats out of the profits.
Way to go guys, today's strip is hilarious! Please make this a series and find legal ways to stick it to these jerks endlessly until they get the hint.
It seems to me that if hard drive capacities continue to grow at their current rate, in a few years they will have outstripped the porn industry's ability to fill them.
Pun unintentional...
'nuff said...
What the hell is "the technology used in microwave ovens?!?" Buttons? Electricity? Light bulbs? Microwaves?? Do journalists even read their own inane statements? Hey, I just harnessed the technology used in keyboards to send an e-mail, it's revolutionary...
Your comment makes no sense. If a single compilation is what you want then you are guaranteed not to get it. The media industry has proven time and again that it makes no sense to release something their customers want when it's easier and more profitable to release many iterations of something you ALMOST want. Hopefully you'll buy them all and make them rich. Star Wars for example, will we ever see a digital DVD compilation? No. Not while you keep buying things piecemeal...
Well historically maximum memory sizes have always been limited by implementations (how long after OS/2 2.0 before you could buy a server with 4.0 GB RAM?). However demand usually pushes supply. When 32GB of RAM becomes needed by the IA32 architecture it's a sure bet that Linux and eventually Windows will catch up to meet the need. The fact that it isn't realistically possible today is immaterial. There is no demand. (Please spare me the examples of theoretical clients...)
Lemme verify my logic here...
1. Napster lets you share music while viewing banner ads. Napster gets sued for everything it has.
2. Napster VCs made money from banner ads. VCs get sued for everything they have.
3. I viewed banner ads that made money for VCs.
Holy crap, we're all next...
1. The Firebase DB people seem to almost openly acknowledge this was a publicity stunt.
2. The mozilla.org people probably should have been more understanding to another open source effort. Code of thieves and all that.
That having been said I fall firmly in the "don't care" camp. Surely there's an M$ flame to be posted or a *BSD gripe to be aired, we're too busy for this stuff...
Increase your browser history size. Now... Before clicking "submit" look at the little linkies in your article. Purple linkies = BAD. Blue linkies = GOOD. ;-)
Just goes to show all this talk about freedom and free software is great when you're arguing with ComandrKeen69 on /. but free speech hits you in the pocket book when you port it to meatspace...
... as has already been pointed out. However more importantly, editors please update the headline to acknowledge the mistake. Lots of people may read the comments, see a single +5 comment pointing out this isn't a Tablet, next to dozens of Anti-MS comments and assume the +5 guy is a crackpot. He is not. This is a Windows Terminal Server device used to control your Windows desktop while walking around the house. It's isn't remotely Tablet PC.
What did the very last guy say in Steve Bellovin's update? The guy from Microsoft? Sorry but my browser came up with a message "Error: content blocked (RFC3514)". Please tell...
The first sentence clearly states "Microsoft is actively courting id Software for the exclusive console rights to Doom III". Duh, no biggie I never really expected a direct PS2 port, did you? It will still come out for PC and Linux but perhaps the only console with a port is XBox. Read the first sentence of the articles you post, at the least.
I agree, I'm all for the complete extinction of the human race. But I'm still a big believer in common courtesy, so...
You first.
But are they really your representatives, or are they someone else's? You act as if your righteous indignation will fall on listening ears. Are the representatives you refer to elected by the vocal minority who believe human rights are inviolate, or are they elected by the slack-jawed majority who are having a good-ol' time watching some more yellow-skinned people getting whupped on CNN? Honestly, how many Americans do you think have really read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights? No, really... I mean it. I'm not American and I've read them all and you probably have too. But we're not running America, we're just trying to plug the leaks in the dyke. All the moral grandstanding in the world doesn't mean a thing when we've put idiots at the steering wheel. And I don't mean Dubya, I mean voters.
True, but I said "popularity", not "market share". And I suspect your numbers include PDAs which would obviously give PalmOS and MS and unfair representation...