How much is your Comcast subscription? TiVo is only $5 extra a month for DirecTV subscribers. It's quite comparable to cable companies and their, arguably, second rate DVRs.
TiVo is the best DVR I've ever used. It has user-friendly-ness down pat.
A TiVO S2 doesn't have seperate RGB outputs, progressive scan, or 5.1 optical audio output. Granted some DirecTiVo S2s and some of the high-end licensed TiVO S2 boxes have RGB and 5.1. I don't think any of them have progressive scan, though. Well, maybe the HD DirecTivo does, I've never seen one of those.
For the majority of TiVo users this will not be equivilant to a DVD. It will be lower bitrate, 2-channel audio, interlaced, and S-Video output at best. It's a neat idea, but acutally renting or buying a DVD will still be better.
TiVo Series 2 boxes still default to 56K dialup connections as their networking interface. The number of people using USB2->Ethernet or USB2->WiFi connections is still lower than the number of people that own a TiVo S2. Whatever system TiVo and NetFlix are thinking of will have to either be restricted to broadband users, which limits their market penetration; or low bandwidth optimized so as to get all TiVo users.
"distance" is a relative term. In relation to the phenomena you are discribing "distance" refers to a decently large linear distance from the eye point. There are also other factors such as fog and haze values to contribute to the apparent loss in contrast.
"distance" when used to refer to window depth is, in reality, non-existant. Even if you were to code such a system you would need a way to actually place a given in active window at a fictitious depth "in" your monitor. To facilitate that false sense of depth (and therefore trigger the contrast change) you would probably also need to scale the window down to help with illusion. Eventually you would end up with windows so far away that they would lose contrast also being so small that they would be entirely obscured by the currently active window.
Real world analogs are not always the best models for human-machine interfaces.
First, look at how gift cards work. Many retailers use the model where their gift card records in their database created upon activation. This means they don't even ask the manufacturers for a list of "cards printed"; they simply direct the manufacturer to produce "a million cards in this number sequence, label them $20," that sort of thing. The value is added when the record is created at issuance. I'm assuming Walm*rt is operating in a similar fashion.
More and more stores are selling cards with no value displayed on them. When you buy one it is blank and the person at the register adds both activation information and the value at the time the card is purchased. The cards on the racks are essentially blank.
I think that is the standard NASA launch crawler with a support scaffold to hold the D4 upright during transportation.
If you notice the D4 is sitting on a custom launch jig, not the crawler w/gantry system that the Shuttle uses. They had to use the crawler to get the D4 from final assembly to the launch pad.
Also, Microsoft takes a hit at Apple for not licensing iPod functionality to third parties (kind of ironic when ActiveX is required to use the site)....
What type of convoluted logic is that? "MS hits at Apple for not licensing their DRM. That's ironic because their site uses a plugin architecture that any Windows developer can implement."
There is absolutely no correlation between those two statements whatsoever. It's not irony, either.
Did you really just say that the Circuit City created disposable DVD format, Divx was "technically superior"?
It was hobbled w/ more lossy compresion, less image definition, less audio channels, and less space for extra items/deleted scenes, and had a horrible authentication routine.
Maxthon (aka MyIE2) uses an ActiveX version of the Gecko engine. When Maxthon is in that mode most of the standard features don't work, the right-click menu is truncated down to just a few core items, and the overall experience isn't all that hot.
The author of Maxthon has said that the engine-switch option is there so web designers can check their pages quickly without having to have a multitude of browsers on their machines. It's not intended to be a generalized replacement for the IE libs that Maxthon is built on.
If you are sending something so critical then you shouldn't be using email. FedEx with signature required delivery and certified/return-receipt USPS mail exist for a reason.
Did you ever try to install the Yahoo bar from a low privledge account yourself? Were you able to recreate the problem?
If you didn't and are just basing your conclusions on the fact that your security is "perfect" because you set it up then you are not the person to be trusted with the security and operation of that lab.
About 2 years ago I stopped into a Best Buy to pick up a DVD and a new joystick for my computer. I grabbed a Logitech WingMan Force, the dvd, and headed to the counter.
The sales droid was ringing things up and I was reaching for my wallet and debit card. Then it happened.
"Do you want the extended warrantee on this joystick?"
"No. Thank you."
"Are you sure you don't want it, these things break."
"No. I already answered that. Please don't try my patience."
"Dude, I'm just trying to help, I know these things are cheap. Are you sure you don't want it?"
"You just lost."
At that point I repocketed my wallet and started to head out of the store sans products. The droid pratically hollered after me, "I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP YOU!" Little did he know that he had just *really* crossed the line with me. I stormed back up to him got in his face, explained to him that he *wasn't* helping, and demanded to see his manager. He stammered on about how he was just trying to help and that there was no need to get a manager. Luckily for me another checkout clerk had already gotten the on-duty manager. He escorted me aside and actually (gasp) asked for my side of the story. He had the droid close his register and go to the break room and then escorted me over to the customer service counter with the goods I was going to purchase, the whole time telling me that the droid had been a problem employee for a while and that he was horribly sorry for the way I had been treated. He rang up my sale and read me the total.
I inquired as to whether or not there would be a discount to compensate me for the store's poor customer support. He replied with:
"Well, no, you wouldn't want us to lose money now, would you?"
I exited the store a second time without the DVD or the joystick.
COMPUTE!'S Gazette, a magazine dealing with the Commodore 64, published a program called "Campaign Manager" in their August 1984 (Issue 14, Vol 2, No 8) edition.
And for you youngsters in the crowd the word "published" can be taken literally there. There were pages of machine code you had to enter into an editor called "MLX" to compile and run the game.
I remember this because I had a broken leg in 1984 and had to spend most of the summer laid out on the couch. I typed that whole game in and played it incessently.
You can get a.D64 file of the game (along with the other software in that particular issue of the magazine) for use in C64 emulators here.
Are you implying that anyone involved in the development process for software who isn't a coder isn't a "developer"? All of the modellers, riggers, animators, and particleFX artists in the games industry wouldn't agree with you.
MayaPLE (at least v5) can not read files created with Maya (V5 or earlier). I would assume that this still the case in 6 and that Maya can not read PLE files. Additionally, there are probably restrictions in the EULA to prevent you from using PLE for commercial purposes.
Discreet did the same sort of thing with GMax. The binary files created with GMax are not understood by Max and GMax can not load.MAX files. They restricted MaxScript in GMax to prevent the user from creating disk files and prohibit GMax from running plugins that are not digitally signed by Discreet.
Seriously, why that chair over say a wood chair with fabric upholstery? That Herman Miller chair has got to be 85+% plastic. Or, is it just becuase the website for the chair mentions "95% recyclability" and that phrase somehow magically makes you immune to the fact that the Mirra chair is going to contain quite a few of the chemicals you say make you "sick".
The only thing I can picture is that they bought a big piece of metal conduit, stacked three dummies in it vertically, welded on a nosecone, and packed the bottom with solid fuel.
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TiVo is the best DVR I've ever used. It has user-friendly-ness down pat.
For the majority of TiVo users this will not be equivilant to a DVD. It will be lower bitrate, 2-channel audio, interlaced, and S-Video output at best. It's a neat idea, but acutally renting or buying a DVD will still be better.
TiVo Series 2 boxes still default to 56K dialup connections as their networking interface. The number of people using USB2->Ethernet or USB2->WiFi connections is still lower than the number of people that own a TiVo S2. Whatever system TiVo and NetFlix are thinking of will have to either be restricted to broadband users, which limits their market penetration; or low bandwidth optimized so as to get all TiVo users.
The distance requirement has to be added, because without a perceived distance then the contrast change has no meaning.
Would you rather have a team of people developing the graphics display layer *not* trying new things graphically?
"8 bit color? Check." "Hardware mouse pointer?. Check" "Ok guys, we're done. Let's call it finished."
"distance" when used to refer to window depth is, in reality, non-existant. Even if you were to code such a system you would need a way to actually place a given in active window at a fictitious depth "in" your monitor. To facilitate that false sense of depth (and therefore trigger the contrast change) you would probably also need to scale the window down to help with illusion. Eventually you would end up with windows so far away that they would lose contrast also being so small that they would be entirely obscured by the currently active window.
Real world analogs are not always the best models for human-machine interfaces.
More and more stores are selling cards with no value displayed on them. When you buy one it is blank and the person at the register adds both activation information and the value at the time the card is purchased. The cards on the racks are essentially blank.
I think that is the standard NASA launch crawler with a support scaffold to hold the D4 upright during transportation. If you notice the D4 is sitting on a custom launch jig, not the crawler w/gantry system that the Shuttle uses. They had to use the crawler to get the D4 from final assembly to the launch pad.
Also, Microsoft takes a hit at Apple for not licensing iPod functionality to third parties (kind of ironic when ActiveX is required to use the site)....
What type of convoluted logic is that? "MS hits at Apple for not licensing their DRM. That's ironic because their site uses a plugin architecture that any Windows developer can implement."
There is absolutely no correlation between those two statements whatsoever. It's not irony, either.
Here, try this: Definition of "irony"
I wonder if the meta-tags would help
It was hobbled w/ more lossy compresion, less image definition, less audio channels, and less space for extra items/deleted scenes, and had a horrible authentication routine.
Exactly how was it "technically superior"?
The author of Maxthon has said that the engine-switch option is there so web designers can check their pages quickly without having to have a multitude of browsers on their machines. It's not intended to be a generalized replacement for the IE libs that Maxthon is built on.
That's interesting to me, since Maxthon is built using the IE core libs.
If you are sending something so critical then you shouldn't be using email. FedEx with signature required delivery and certified/return-receipt USPS mail exist for a reason.
If you didn't and are just basing your conclusions on the fact that your security is "perfect" because you set it up then you are not the person to be trusted with the security and operation of that lab.
And his taste in music sucks. I'm torn between believing that the RIAA is evil and hoping they sue him just to remove that trash from the web.
The sales droid was ringing things up and I was reaching for my wallet and debit card. Then it happened.
"Do you want the extended warrantee on this joystick?"
"No. Thank you." "Are you sure you don't want it, these things break." "No. I already answered that. Please don't try my patience." "Dude, I'm just trying to help, I know these things are cheap. Are you sure you don't want it?" "You just lost."
At that point I repocketed my wallet and started to head out of the store sans products. The droid pratically hollered after me, "I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP YOU!" Little did he know that he had just *really* crossed the line with me. I stormed back up to him got in his face, explained to him that he *wasn't* helping, and demanded to see his manager. He stammered on about how he was just trying to help and that there was no need to get a manager. Luckily for me another checkout clerk had already gotten the on-duty manager. He escorted me aside and actually (gasp) asked for my side of the story. He had the droid close his register and go to the break room and then escorted me over to the customer service counter with the goods I was going to purchase, the whole time telling me that the droid had been a problem employee for a while and that he was horribly sorry for the way I had been treated. He rang up my sale and read me the total.
I inquired as to whether or not there would be a discount to compensate me for the store's poor customer support. He replied with: "Well, no, you wouldn't want us to lose money now, would you?"
I exited the store a second time without the DVD or the joystick.
And for you youngsters in the crowd the word "published" can be taken literally there. There were pages of machine code you had to enter into an editor called "MLX" to compile and run the game.
I remember this because I had a broken leg in 1984 and had to spend most of the summer laid out on the couch. I typed that whole game in and played it incessently.
You can get a .D64 file of the game (along with the other software in that particular issue of the magazine) for use in C64 emulators here.
Are you implying that anyone involved in the development process for software who isn't a coder isn't a "developer"? All of the modellers, riggers, animators, and particleFX artists in the games industry wouldn't agree with you.
Discreet did the same sort of thing with GMax. The binary files created with GMax are not understood by Max and GMax can not load .MAX files. They restricted MaxScript in GMax to prevent the user from creating disk files and prohibit GMax from running plugins that are not digitally signed by Discreet.
Neither did you click "Post Anonymously".
Seriously, why that chair over say a wood chair with fabric upholstery? That Herman Miller chair has got to be 85+% plastic. Or, is it just becuase the website for the chair mentions "95% recyclability" and that phrase somehow magically makes you immune to the fact that the Mirra chair is going to contain quite a few of the chemicals you say make you "sick".
I hate to say this, but I seriously doubt that you read a one page synopsis and have 100% accurately reverse engineered the system they are using.
"...not exactly groundbreaking."
So, you'll have the OSS knockoff written in no time then, right?
What part of, "To a great extent" did you read as "In all cases"?
38" diameter
23' length
3 dummies
The only thing I can picture is that they bought a big piece of metal conduit, stacked three dummies in it vertically, welded on a nosecone, and packed the bottom with solid fuel.