Regardless of what happened, it wouldn't have ended up in Paypal's pockets, in the long term (although as other/. comments note - it can be in excess of 6 months). Either it gets refunded, or it eventually is unfrozen.
Where is this? I live in the UK and -- thankfully -- have never witnessed it.
It may well deter yobs, but what's the value of that if it also deters *me*? I have a right to be there; maybe a *need* to be there. I really can't stand Vivaldi or Mozart.
I could go for some Shostakovitch, but I suspect that would drive away other people with a perfect right to be there.
On a related note -- I'm 36 and can still hear 'mosquito' pitches. So don't use them to deter youths either.
And what about the law abiding youths who have a perfect right to be there?
If you can't be bothered to learn that you shouldn't update until you know that it won't break it, then you shouldn't have a smartphone in the first place
We have an internal RoR app that's used by quite a few people at once. We tried using JRuby a few months ago, but it just couldn't handle the load as effectively as Matz's Ruby implementation, which itself isn't all that good. This was on the same Solaris server, so I don't think it was a problem with Java or the server.
From our experience, JRuby is just too damn slow for anything serious. It takes the slow runtime of Ruby, adds in the bloat of Java, and in the end gives a really unpleasant experience to the users.
In the same presentation he bigs up the JVM as a Ruby runtime -- hotspot optimisation, great GC -- , but I have no personal experience to put up against yours.
I think the difference is that you can do the Google stuff in/your/ browser/now/.
We have to wait and see how much of the MS tech demo becomes available to the public, and in how diluted a form.
MS Photosynth was kinda neat, but nowhere near as impressive as it was in its demo. ("We reconstruct public spaces entirely out of images harvested from the web", becomes "Take a set of carefully coordinated photos, assemble them on your desktop, then upload the result to our servers")
I really hate reading this. "I love Myth, but it required me to actually do some work". Remind us all again how much that software cost you???
Myth, while not without it's share of issues, represents a monumental acheivement by the devs. It can do things no commercial product ever will, like run your very own shell script after a recording completes.
It would actually surprise me if this couldn't be done on a TiVo. At least, on a Series 1.
I've invested hundreds of hours worth of 'nerding' in it since.19, and I will happily continue to do so in the name of shunning all forms of DRM.
Man up or open your wallet and purchase something ready-made. Either way, quitcherbitchin!
Thanks for your work - seriously. I love that MythTV (and Freevo, etc.) exist.
I continue to pay TiVo subs purely because taking a day to assemble and set up a box is harder than paying the money. It would take me longer because I've lost whatever expertise I ever had in PC hardware; and I'd want an almost silent low power MythTV box that did hardware-assisted decoding.
There's an opportunity for someone: sell me MythTV installed in a quiet box, ready to plug in and use.
TiVo, in my humble opinion, is based on a fairly flimsy premise: that television is so important to watch that you are willing to spend time and money to make sure you get to watch all of some part of it. Really? Seriously, what is on television that you couldn't miss?
My answer to that it doesn't so much let you watch *more* TV, as improve the quality of what you do watch. Say I watch an hour of TV every day. I can use that time to watch whatever happens to be on, or I can use time shifting to watch something good.
At the quality end of the TV drama spectrum, you're really missing out if you don't watch all the episodes, in the right order. There's no way I'd want to see The Wire or Lost out of order.
TiVo decided to abandon the UK market & discontinue their subscription service there
This isn't true. I still pay TiVo UK a monthly sub, and continue to get listing data in exchange. I sometimes wonder how many people are employed in whatever's left of the UK TiVo organisation. Last time I tried their helpline (trying to get remote control codes for a new STB), they answered.
I don't think there was ever a time when a UK TiVo couldn't be asked to record by date/time. It's just that nobody with a subscription would ever do that.
I suppose I have to take your word that a US TiVo becomes a doorstop. If true, it's a pretty nasty decision.
I can't see the point of a PVR when you have enough bandwidth to stream anything on demand.
From a broadcaster's perspective, if the technology's there, it must be cheaper to multicast a stream once (or a few times) than to have thousands of individual end-to-end streams.
To be fair, there's quite a TiVo hacking community. I think these people qualify as TiVo geeks:
- Whoever worked out how to fit an Ethernet card in a Series 1 TiVo
- Whoever worked out which bytes to poke in the encoder chip driver to enable it to record in the undocumented higher res Mode 0, without the distracting offset.
- The authors of TiVoWeb - an open source web interface to TiVo scheduling etc.
- The creators of the cachecard - an ethernet card with some on-board RAM, plus drivers which cause the TiVo to cache its program DB on there, for speed.
TiVo can add value to a standard non-subscription TV service. I had a TiVo when we only had 5 channels (UK analogue terrestrial). Once it had built up a decent backlog of recordings, it was like having 10 extra channels. Effectively, there would always be something watchable on TV.
Also, I believe the device stopped working after you stopped paying the monthly fee. What? Why can't it work like an old-school VCR at that point where you have to manually program when it should record?
You can do exactly that.
I prefer to pay for the EPG data, so I don't have to look up times, and I get recommendations, season passes etc.
I don't recall a retail product before TiVo's. They had to invent their own filesystem in order to stream video fast enough using the hardware available at the time, so they certainly invested in innovation -- just to be a couple of years ahead of what inevitably would become possible with a normal FS on standard hardware.
My UK TiVo still has a little "As recommended by Sky" logo when it boots.
But Sky (Rupert Murdoch's satellite TV service) now has its own DVR.
It *really* annoys me when people coo about how clever their Sky+ is. "I can pause live TV! How awesome is that?", when TiVo had done it for years.
OTOH now you can get cheap DVRs from all kinds of manufacturers, so nobody's all that impressed any more, there's a free market, and that's all for the best.
I think that in order to make the leap into writing real programs, you need to be able to apply OO to a bunch of common situations, and that's what design patterns are all about.
You can either leap in at the deep end with the Gang of Four's book, 'Design Patterns' or try something a bit more accessible, like Larman's 'Applying UML and Patterns'.
The latter book is what helped me jump out of a severe procedural rut, and finally grasp OO.
About 15 years ago, I introduced staff email to a high school. I had exactly the same chicken-and-egg problem as Wave does now. You'd get clusters of happy email users. But for people who weren't in such a cluster, there was no point checking your email because there'd never be any there; and there'd be no point sending email, because none of your peers checked it. And since both ends of the potential conversation were following the same pattern, there was a negative feedback loop.
Overlaps with existing communities was the solution, I think.
In Wave's case, I think it will take off gradually. Some people are already using it heavily. I use it lightly, but we used it successfully to coordinate a group outing to a geek night last night.
Alert widgets are a big thing: I don't check Wave frequently because I don't get many. But my widget does.
With Buzz, Google decided to kick-start it by seeding it with most GMail users. A curse and a blessing, it turned out.
They somehow got their tool onto a bunch of PCs. They collected the results. They saw high memory use stats. They sucked in their breath and said "Ooh, if there's no spare RAM, performance will suffer". Then they started typing into their word processor.
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It's pretty well established that the Alice books contained all kinds of references and allusions that would have gone straight over a child's head.
Surely a mammal is a torus.
Per Cryptome - all donations have been refunded.
Regardless of what happened, it wouldn't have ended up in Paypal's pockets, in the long term (although as other /. comments note - it can be in excess of 6 months). Either it gets refunded, or it eventually is unfrozen.
Where is this? I live in the UK and -- thankfully -- have never witnessed it.
It may well deter yobs, but what's the value of that if it also deters *me*? I have a right to be there; maybe a *need* to be there. I really can't stand Vivaldi or Mozart.
I could go for some Shostakovitch, but I suspect that would drive away other people with a perfect right to be there.
On a related note -- I'm 36 and can still hear 'mosquito' pitches. So don't use them to deter youths either.
And what about the law abiding youths who have a perfect right to be there?
If you can't be bothered to learn that you shouldn't update until you know that it won't break it, then you shouldn't have a smartphone in the first place
What, smartphones are only for geeks now?
The word is the same, it's just a variant spelling.
You don't apply variant spelling to proper nouns.
I hate to sound like a Wikipedia faggot, but citations please?
Enebo mentions it in passing during this presentation: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/enebo-jruby
We have an internal RoR app that's used by quite a few people at once. We tried using JRuby a few months ago, but it just couldn't handle the load as effectively as Matz's Ruby implementation, which itself isn't all that good. This was on the same Solaris server, so I don't think it was a problem with Java or the server.
From our experience, JRuby is just too damn slow for anything serious. It takes the slow runtime of Ruby, adds in the bloat of Java, and in the end gives a really unpleasant experience to the users.
In the same presentation he bigs up the JVM as a Ruby runtime -- hotspot optimisation, great GC -- , but I have no personal experience to put up against yours.
Haskell's lovely - but you need to be /clever/ to use it. It's not going to unseat procedural languages.
Meanwhile, the JRuby guys get people coming to them in conferences saying "Hey, thanks for JRuby - I've got my Rails app running on a System/390"
Java is portable - accept it.
I think the difference is that you can do the Google stuff in /your/ browser /now/.
We have to wait and see how much of the MS tech demo becomes available to the public, and in how diluted a form.
MS Photosynth was kinda neat, but nowhere near as impressive as it was in its demo. ("We reconstruct public spaces entirely out of images harvested from the web", becomes "Take a set of carefully coordinated photos, assemble them on your desktop, then upload the result to our servers")
I really hate reading this. "I love Myth, but it required me to actually do some work". Remind us all again how much that software cost you???
Myth, while not without it's share of issues, represents a monumental acheivement by the devs. It can do things no commercial product ever will, like run your very own shell script after a recording completes.
It would actually surprise me if this couldn't be done on a TiVo. At least, on a Series 1.
I've invested hundreds of hours worth of 'nerding' in it since .19, and I will happily continue to do so in the name of shunning all forms of DRM.
Man up or open your wallet and purchase something ready-made. Either way, quitcherbitchin!
Thanks for your work - seriously. I love that MythTV (and Freevo, etc.) exist.
I continue to pay TiVo subs purely because taking a day to assemble and set up a box is harder than paying the money. It would take me longer because I've lost whatever expertise I ever had in PC hardware; and I'd want an almost silent low power MythTV box that did hardware-assisted decoding.
There's an opportunity for someone: sell me MythTV installed in a quiet box, ready to plug in and use.
TiVo, in my humble opinion, is based on a fairly flimsy premise: that television is so important to watch that you are willing to spend time and money to make sure you get to watch all of some part of it. Really? Seriously, what is on television that you couldn't miss?
My answer to that it doesn't so much let you watch *more* TV, as improve the quality of what you do watch. Say I watch an hour of TV every day. I can use that time to watch whatever happens to be on, or I can use time shifting to watch something good.
At the quality end of the TV drama spectrum, you're really missing out if you don't watch all the episodes, in the right order. There's no way I'd want to see The Wire or Lost out of order.
I have to perform a lossless transcode of every CBS recording in MythTV to fix CBS streams.
Doesn't MythTV allow you to tweak the audio sync as you watch? XBMC does -- it's a real boon with video from, um, certain sources.
TiVo decided to abandon the UK market & discontinue their subscription service there
This isn't true. I still pay TiVo UK a monthly sub, and continue to get listing data in exchange.
I sometimes wonder how many people are employed in whatever's left of the UK TiVo organisation. Last time I tried their helpline (trying to get remote control codes for a new STB), they answered.
I don't think there was ever a time when a UK TiVo couldn't be asked to record by date/time. It's just that nobody with a subscription would ever do that.
I suppose I have to take your word that a US TiVo becomes a doorstop. If true, it's a pretty nasty decision.
I can't see the point of a PVR when you have enough bandwidth to stream anything on demand.
From a broadcaster's perspective, if the technology's there, it must be cheaper to multicast a stream once (or a few times) than to have thousands of individual end-to-end streams.
To be fair, there's quite a TiVo hacking community. I think these people qualify as TiVo geeks:
- Whoever worked out how to fit an Ethernet card in a Series 1 TiVo
- Whoever worked out which bytes to poke in the encoder chip driver to enable it to record in the undocumented higher res Mode 0, without the distracting offset.
- The authors of TiVoWeb - an open source web interface to TiVo scheduling etc.
- The creators of the cachecard - an ethernet card with some on-board RAM, plus drivers which cause the TiVo to cache its program DB on there, for speed.
Interesting position.
TiVo can add value to a standard non-subscription TV service. I had a TiVo when we only had 5 channels (UK analogue terrestrial). Once it had built up a decent backlog of recordings, it was like having 10 extra channels. Effectively, there would always be something watchable on TV.
As it happens I've got a spare TiVo ethernet card knocking around. Email me if you want it.
You'd have to chase down drivers, be prepared to mount the TiVo HDD under a special Linux kernel to set it up, etc. But it's pretty straightforward.
Add a WiFi bridge and you're away. Plus you can use TiVoWeb -- schedule recordings over the web.
Also, I believe the device stopped working after you stopped paying the monthly fee. What? Why can't it work like an old-school VCR at that point where you have to manually program when it should record?
You can do exactly that.
I prefer to pay for the EPG data, so I don't have to look up times, and I get recommendations, season passes etc.
I don't recall a retail product before TiVo's. They had to invent their own filesystem in order to stream video fast enough using the hardware available at the time, so they certainly invested in innovation -- just to be a couple of years ahead of what inevitably would become possible with a normal FS on standard hardware.
My UK TiVo still has a little "As recommended by Sky" logo when it boots.
But Sky (Rupert Murdoch's satellite TV service) now has its own DVR.
It *really* annoys me when people coo about how clever their Sky+ is. "I can pause live TV! How awesome is that?", when TiVo had done it for years.
OTOH now you can get cheap DVRs from all kinds of manufacturers, so nobody's all that impressed any more, there's a free market, and that's all for the best.
I still think TiVo has the best UI over all.
I think that in order to make the leap into writing real programs, you need to be able to apply OO to a bunch of common situations, and that's what design patterns are all about.
You can either leap in at the deep end with the Gang of Four's book, 'Design Patterns' or try something a bit more accessible, like Larman's 'Applying UML and Patterns'.
The latter book is what helped me jump out of a severe procedural rut, and finally grasp OO.
Is Orkut dead?
It's still up and running. My impression was that Brazilians lapped it up and continue to do so.
In fact one of the things that drove English speakers away from Orkut was that there was so much Portugese being posted in the groups.
About 15 years ago, I introduced staff email to a high school. I had exactly the same chicken-and-egg problem as Wave does now. You'd get clusters of happy email users. But for people who weren't in such a cluster, there was no point checking your email because there'd never be any there; and there'd be no point sending email, because none of your peers checked it. And since both ends of the potential conversation were following the same pattern, there was a negative feedback loop.
Overlaps with existing communities was the solution, I think.
In Wave's case, I think it will take off gradually. Some people are already using it heavily. I use it lightly, but we used it successfully to coordinate a group outing to a geek night last night.
Alert widgets are a big thing: I don't check Wave frequently because I don't get many. But my widget does.
With Buzz, Google decided to kick-start it by seeding it with most GMail users. A curse and a blessing, it turned out.
"Bad performance" wasn't even observed.
They somehow got their tool onto a bunch of PCs. They collected the results. They saw high memory use stats. They sucked in their breath and said "Ooh, if there's no spare RAM, performance will suffer". Then they started typing into their word processor.