A bird may only move in the several miles per hour range, but it does it by eating bits of flowers. A jet engine moves 50-100 times faster but consumes a lot of powerful fuel that has something like 20K-50K times more energy stored in it than those bits of flowers do. Thus, the bird is more efficent, even if he's slower.
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You're missing the point. The particle colliders are located on Earth, so if one manufactures a black hole, the consequences would be Not Good.
That is to say, the black hole would punch a hole into the ground, and start oscillating about the center of the Earth. It'll eat up all the matter in its path, and keep growing. We'll have some fun with earthquakes, volcano eruptions, etc. before the end of the world finally arrives.
No, you're missing the point. A black hole only has as much gravity as the mass that makes up the black hole. The gravity from two protons (to pick an example) is nowhere near enough to actually "eat up matter". A black hole would have to weigh about 1000 tons or so to do that. So creating a black hole from an atom or two won't do a thing.
In fact, it'll only exist for a fraction of a second, because it'll evaporate into Hawking radiation. It not only won't have enough mass to gobble up particles, it won't actually have any time to do it in anyway. At that size, the time that the black hole will exist is so close to zero that it makes no difference. All that you see is a bunch of weird particles and wavelengths formed from when the black hole evaporates away, because it evaporates away at more or less the same instant it was created.
Maxtor's so called Big Drive technology is no more than an implementation of the spec. ATA/ATAPI-6 specifies a 48 bit address scheme, giving a new upper limit of 2^48*512 bytes, or 128 petabytes.
Also, the limitation is not 137 GB, it's 128 GB. And Maxtor's new drives are not 160 GB, they're slightly more than 149 GB. These mistakes are what happen when you start believing "drive manufacturer math".
The irony of Turing holding the apple is quite a powerful message, as stated at the end of the article. Symbol of Newton, and yet he deliberately took his life with one (news to me).
Actually, he took his life with cyanide. The apple is a symbol of that (apple seeds contain a very minute amount of cyanide).
It's pretty much agreed among all PVR geeks that this is likely vaporware. The "source" for this info was a survey that Replay sent out asking "Would you pay this much for this feature in a future product?", and then whoever came up with the story took all those features, and decided it was a product announcement. Don't expect to buy one anytime soon.
Try this: Go into Circut City and look at anything you have even a minor bit of knowledge about. Then ask sales droid about something relevant to the product. Watch sales droid's face go blank, and then come back as he starts to spew bullshit from every orifice.:p
TivoNet. Interface your Tivo into an ethernet. Yes, it can get guide data this way. No, it's not an extremely easy hack, but it's not that difficult either if you are clueful.
Of course, with this new hack, I expect hacking will be harder in the future, so your milage may vary.
Besides, how does it matter if you extract video from a DirecTiVo rather than a stand-alone TiVo hooked to a DirecTV receiver? It's the same content, and the same copyright holders. Distributing extracted video would be copyright infringement either way.
You're preaching to the choir, man. In my mind both are the same as pulling it out over the analog video connection, reencoding it, and distributing it. I think that legally there's no difference.
However, I don't expect the CEOs of various companies to see it that way, because I have low opinions of their intelligence.:P
It doesn't record the encrypted stream, it records the decrypted stream. Decryption happens before it's passed out of the DirecTV "tuner". There's two decryption chips on the mobo.
And yes, it's stored as MPEG2, with some minor modifications for speed improvements, most likely. But yeah, this util will likely work without a lot of modifications on a D-Tivo, which is the whole problem. DTV won't like people being able to pull their streams off the unit.
I don't know how the one-touch record button functioned under version 1.3 without the subscription service, but if it wasn't limited to 30 minutes, they have no business limiting it on version 2.5.
If you had a clue, you'd know that it was limited to 30 minutes before. This is NOT a change, it's a complete reversion to the way it was in 1.3.
I question how it is possible for anyone to come up with any definition of "point to point file sharing" that will allow microsoft.com to send files to users and yet not allow me to run gnutella.
A Server is a Point on the Network. No more, no less. There is NO technical difference between me running Apache and www.google.com running Apache. They just have more computers to run it, and a larger bandwidth to run it on.
Actually, I just went and tried this using several zipcodes, and couldn't see any changes in pricing. They claim to use it to display inventory differences in the local areas. As far as I can tell, that looks to be true. Anyone got an example they can point out to prove prices change on staples.com?
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It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian "chinanto/mnigs" which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan "tzjin-anthony-ks" which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.
What can be made of this fact? It exists in total isolation. As far as any theory of structural linguistics is concerned it is right off the graph, and yet it persists. Old structural linguists get very angry when young structural linguists go on about it. Young structural linguists get deeply excited about it and stay up late at night convinced that they are very close to something of profound importance, and end up becoming old structural linguists before their time, getting very angry with the young ones. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs.
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If you'd actually read the law you're talking about, you'd see that having a compulsory retirement age is not illegal. There are restrictions placed around it, but I feel fairly certain that they are within those restrictions.
Quote: "Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit compulsory retirement of any employee who has attained 65 years of age and who, for the 2year period immediately before retirement, is employed in a bona fide executive or a high policymaking position, if such employee is entitled to an immediate nonforfeitable annual retirement benefit from a pension, profitsharing, savings, or deferred compensation plan, or any combination of such plans, of the employer of such employee, which equals, in the aggregate, at least $44,000."
There's much much more, but that's just one example..
Well, in regards to the autocorrection, I feel fairly confident that they'll add some way to adjust it in the next version. Simply because the variables are there now, making a menu of some sort to tweak them shouldn't be difficult. Regardless, the autocorrection was about the most hotly debated topic when 2.0 was in beta. Personally, I hate the extended length. But I tweaked it, so no biggie.
However, I have to take issue with the "there's no positives". View Upcoming Episodes is the most useful feature I can imagine to have added to the Tivo. The Season Pass Manager is a close second. 1.3 was almost unusable without the View Upcoming Episodes functionality. Wishlists are nice, and excellent for catching things that suggestions don't. Essentially, the combination of these things let you stop relying on suggestions to catch "occasional" shows that you want to watch.. That's the big benefit. ---
One of the reasons that was said was because in the Privacy foundation's notes on this, they mentioned that the data was not encrypted and could be snooped on or something to that effect. The Privacy Foundation also made note that Tivo said it was encrypted in 2.0.
Actually, it encrypts it in the dialup phase. If you have a Tivo with 2.0, watch the lights on the front while it's dialing. When they blink a lot, that's the Tivo accessing the crypto chip to encrypt the data. They use the Blowfish algorithim, I believe.
I, for one, agree with this sentiment. It seems to be taken for granted that this private data actually translates into mega-value, but where's the numbers to show this?
I found out exactly what the unit sent with a serial null modem cable and my existing laptop.
The thing does run Linux, you know. You can just open it up and have a look. Most of the system is done with TCL scripts. The dialup uses a normal pppd. Nothing funny going on about it.
I can dream up half a dozen opt-in services, but that doesn't mean TiVo is working on any of them.
This is true, but I was trying to point out that the opt-in would not be included in the Privacy Policy for no reason. Either they are working on it, or are doing some good thinking ahead. Either way, they are thinking ahead to the extent of adding the ability to the software.
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A bird may only move in the several miles per hour range, but it does it by eating bits of flowers. A jet engine moves 50-100 times faster but consumes a lot of powerful fuel that has something like 20K-50K times more energy stored in it than those bits of flowers do. Thus, the bird is more efficent, even if he's slower.
For completeness sake, Otto should be in his school bus (although his character is annoying in anything more than 10 second doses).
Whoa, what a bummer, dude.
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I *DID* read your post, and you still don't get it. You said:
It'll eat up all the matter in its path, and keep growing.
While I replied:
The gravity from two protons (to pick an example) is nowhere near enough to actually "eat up matter".
Thus answering your point. It won't fall thru the ground and oscillate around, because it's too small to actually suck matter inside it. Get it?
You're missing the point. The particle colliders are located on Earth, so if one manufactures a black hole, the consequences would be Not Good.
That is to say, the black hole would punch a hole into the ground, and start oscillating about the center of the Earth. It'll eat up all the matter in its path, and keep growing. We'll have some fun with earthquakes, volcano eruptions, etc. before the end of the world finally arrives.
No, you're missing the point. A black hole only has as much gravity as the mass that makes up the black hole. The gravity from two protons (to pick an example) is nowhere near enough to actually "eat up matter". A black hole would have to weigh about 1000 tons or so to do that. So creating a black hole from an atom or two won't do a thing.
In fact, it'll only exist for a fraction of a second, because it'll evaporate into Hawking radiation. It not only won't have enough mass to gobble up particles, it won't actually have any time to do it in anyway. At that size, the time that the black hole will exist is so close to zero that it makes no difference. All that you see is a bunch of weird particles and wavelengths formed from when the black hole evaporates away, because it evaporates away at more or less the same instant it was created.
Maxtor's so called Big Drive technology is no more than an implementation of the spec. ATA/ATAPI-6 specifies a 48 bit address scheme, giving a new upper limit of 2^48*512 bytes, or 128 petabytes.
Also, the limitation is not 137 GB, it's 128 GB. And Maxtor's new drives are not 160 GB, they're slightly more than 149 GB. These mistakes are what happen when you start believing "drive manufacturer math".
The irony of Turing holding the apple is quite a powerful message, as stated at the end of the article. Symbol of Newton, and yet he deliberately took his life with one (news to me).
Actually, he took his life with cyanide. The apple is a symbol of that (apple seeds contain a very minute amount of cyanide).
The DirecTivo comes in two flavors: a dual drive version and a single drive version.
The dual drive has a 30 gig and a 15 gig.
The single drive has a 40 gig.
Both get "about 35 hours" despite the 5 gig difference between them. I think there's some extra space reserved on the 45 gig model for other uses.
We don't even have our own religion for a freakin' day and already it gets forked into splinter factions! Bah!
It's pretty much agreed among all PVR geeks that this is likely vaporware. The "source" for this info was a survey that Replay sent out asking "Would you pay this much for this feature in a future product?", and then whoever came up with the story took all those features, and decided it was a product announcement. Don't expect to buy one anytime soon.
See the following:
Tivo forums discussion
Replay forums discussion
Try this: Go into Circut City and look at anything you have even a minor bit of knowledge about. Then ask sales droid about something relevant to the product. Watch sales droid's face go blank, and then come back as he starts to spew bullshit from every orifice. :p
TivoNet. Interface your Tivo into an ethernet. Yes, it can get guide data this way. No, it's not an extremely easy hack, but it's not that difficult either if you are clueful.
Of course, with this new hack, I expect hacking will be harder in the future, so your milage may vary.
Besides, how does it matter if you extract video from a DirecTiVo rather than a stand-alone TiVo hooked to a DirecTV receiver? It's the same content, and the same copyright holders. Distributing extracted video would be copyright infringement either way.
:P
You're preaching to the choir, man. In my mind both are the same as pulling it out over the analog video connection, reencoding it, and distributing it. I think that legally there's no difference.
However, I don't expect the CEOs of various companies to see it that way, because I have low opinions of their intelligence.
It doesn't record the encrypted stream, it records the decrypted stream. Decryption happens before it's passed out of the DirecTV "tuner". There's two decryption chips on the mobo.
And yes, it's stored as MPEG2, with some minor modifications for speed improvements, most likely. But yeah, this util will likely work without a lot of modifications on a D-Tivo, which is the whole problem. DTV won't like people being able to pull their streams off the unit.
I don't know how the one-touch record button functioned under version 1.3 without the subscription service, but if it wasn't limited to 30 minutes, they have no business limiting it on version 2.5.
If you had a clue, you'd know that it was limited to 30 minutes before. This is NOT a change, it's a complete reversion to the way it was in 1.3.
I question how it is possible for anyone to come up with any definition of "point to point file sharing" that will allow microsoft.com to send files to users and yet not allow me to run gnutella.
A Server is a Point on the Network. No more, no less. There is NO technical difference between me running Apache and www.google.com running Apache. They just have more computers to run it, and a larger bandwidth to run it on.
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Actually, I just went and tried this using several zipcodes, and couldn't see any changes in pricing. They claim to use it to display inventory differences in the local areas. As far as I can tell, that looks to be true. Anyone got an example they can point out to prove prices change on staples.com?
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It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian "chinanto/mnigs" which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan "tzjin-anthony-ks" which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.
What can be made of this fact? It exists in total isolation. As far as any theory of structural linguistics is concerned it is right off the graph, and yet it persists. Old structural linguists get very angry when young structural linguists go on about it. Young structural linguists get deeply excited about it and stay up late at night convinced that they are very close to something of profound importance, and end up becoming old structural linguists before their time, getting very angry with the young ones. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs.
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There is no federal civil rights statute that makes age discrimination illegal
Wrong. How about "The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967"? It's been amended a few times, but it's still US Law.
Age Discrimination is illegal. Mandatory Retirement is not necessarily Dicrimination, however. Read the thing (or skim it, it's long and dull).
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/adea.html
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If you'd actually read the law you're talking about, you'd see that having a compulsory retirement age is not illegal. There are restrictions placed around it, but I feel fairly certain that they are within those restrictions.
Link to the actual law...
Quote: "Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit compulsory retirement of any employee who has attained 65 years of age and who, for the 2year period immediately before retirement, is employed in a bona fide executive or a high policymaking position, if such employee is entitled to an immediate nonforfeitable annual retirement benefit from a pension, profitsharing, savings, or deferred compensation plan, or any combination of such plans, of the employer of such employee, which equals, in the aggregate, at least $44,000."
There's much much more, but that's just one example..
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Well, in regards to the autocorrection, I feel fairly confident that they'll add some way to adjust it in the next version. Simply because the variables are there now, making a menu of some sort to tweak them shouldn't be difficult. Regardless, the autocorrection was about the most hotly debated topic when 2.0 was in beta. Personally, I hate the extended length. But I tweaked it, so no biggie.
However, I have to take issue with the "there's no positives". View Upcoming Episodes is the most useful feature I can imagine to have added to the Tivo. The Season Pass Manager is a close second. 1.3 was almost unusable without the View Upcoming Episodes functionality. Wishlists are nice, and excellent for catching things that suggestions don't. Essentially, the combination of these things let you stop relying on suggestions to catch "occasional" shows that you want to watch.. That's the big benefit.
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Simple. You look at it before it encrypts it.
One of the reasons that was said was because in the Privacy foundation's notes on this, they mentioned that the data was not encrypted and could be snooped on or something to that effect. The Privacy Foundation also made note that Tivo said it was encrypted in 2.0.
Actually, it encrypts it in the dialup phase. If you have a Tivo with 2.0, watch the lights on the front while it's dialing. When they blink a lot, that's the Tivo accessing the crypto chip to encrypt the data. They use the Blowfish algorithim, I believe.
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I, for one, agree with this sentiment. It seems to be taken for granted that this private data actually translates into mega-value, but where's the numbers to show this?
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I found out exactly what the unit sent with a serial null modem cable and my existing laptop.
The thing does run Linux, you know. You can just open it up and have a look. Most of the system is done with TCL scripts. The dialup uses a normal pppd. Nothing funny going on about it.
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I can dream up half a dozen opt-in services, but that doesn't mean TiVo is working on any of them.
This is true, but I was trying to point out that the opt-in would not be included in the Privacy Policy for no reason. Either they are working on it, or are doing some good thinking ahead. Either way, they are thinking ahead to the extent of adding the ability to the software.
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