You are right. I love my new comcast HD PVR. Dual tuners and what have you. But it will be great for the Tivo's, Replay's and Apple's of this world to come up with better PVR's that can work with the cable company.
I love this cable card idea. I agree that until we see PVR's ready to use them, they will not be very popular.
I thought about building my own but content is the problem. OTA programming is just a fraction of available HD programming. What capture card will decode comcast's signal? And how about if the evil company Comcast decided to change the encryption of their signal? Can they?
If you intend to have your Mac handle all of your DTV duties--watching live TV, recording, and playing back recorded shows--you'll probably want a dual-G5 PowerMac
On Monday, comcast will install a $10 a month PVR with dual tuner and one that can record 15 hours of HDTV and 60 of regular TV. Why should I invest in a dual G5 power mac and an additional $350 to basically get the same functionality.
It is not a fair comparison. It's a lot easier to change a web browser than Switch to a new OS. People like word and excel and the great selection of windows apps and will not easily dump these applications for their Linux equivalent.
As far as Linux is concerned, it is doing very well on the server but is pretty insignificant on the desktop and will probably remain so for the furseeable future.
Apple can not dominate or even compete in the PVR market. Cable companies dominate that and will not pay a dime extra than they have to. They control the content.
speaks for the majority of Java developers. Most of us are happy with Sun's stewardship of Java. The platform is solid and feature rich with huge thirparty support. The JCP seems to work albeit slowly. The quality of the specs are very high.
Most Java developers have no intention of modifying or fixing the VM and are simply happy with the wonderful set of libraries available to them (Open source or otherwise).
As of 1.4, the quality of the Java VM has been ver good. JDK 1.5 rocks and the platform is alive and well. Thanks to Sun, IBM and mainly Apache.
Are things perfect? Not by any means. I just can not name one platform that I would substitue Java with to write my business applications.
Hibernate replaces Entity beans very nicely. However, you still need session bean functionality. A layer that provides security and transactions in a standard way. While I like Spring a lot. it is not a standard and it really does not have many advantages over what session beans are meant to provide. At the end of the day, you need some middleware on top of RMI. The IOC functionality provided by Spring is very nice and EJB's in general can benefit from the concept. i see Spring being used with session beans but not to replace them.
I had IE 1.0PR running smoothly on three different machines and it hardly ever crashed. After upgrading to 1.0, I seem to have at least one annoying crash a day. On one of the machines, using the 'self update' feature caused IE to crash in middle of the upgrade and left it in a completely unusable state. Eventually, I had to uninstall it and resort to using FireFox to download the full installer, again. Is it just me, or are other heavy IE users noticing this sort of behavior?"
that the Linux GUI toolkits just copy the Mac rather than Windows and stop the bickering and come up with a Unified desktop.
Apple has made Unix a dream desktop OS. I just hope that they support 64bit Java on this thing. I will buy it and switch from Linux (Fedora 64bit) if they come out with a 64bit powebook in a heartbeat.
Of course not. This is almost positively the work of some jerk in the manufacturing plant who pocketed the game is it is being printed in mass for world release on the 9th of November.
Didn't the owner of of Bungie, Microsoft, get hacked a while ago and someone actually stole some of Windows code? Arrogant jerks.
I am sick of google and the way they handled 'gmail'. By invitation my ass. This is a company that supposedly caters to the commoners and techies yet they create an invitation only web based email system. An email system that does not support POP or IMAP or anything revolutionary. Screw google, I will never use them or buy their stock. This has really left a sour taste in my mouth.
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You are right. I love my new comcast HD PVR. Dual tuners and what have you. But it will be great for the Tivo's, Replay's and Apple's of this world to come up with better PVR's that can work with the cable company.
I love this cable card idea. I agree that until we see PVR's ready to use them, they will not be very popular.
Great commentary. Blows, Sucks and rules. Wow. Great technical insight. A mod 4? /. is sad indeed.
web apps ever developed. Wow, it stinks.
I thought about building my own but content is the problem. OTA programming is just a fraction of available HD programming. What capture card will decode comcast's signal? And how about if the evil company Comcast decided to change the encryption of their signal? Can they?
I have the ReplayTV with its fantastic commercial skip feature and the quick 30 second advance. DOes this box have either features?
On Monday, comcast will install a $10 a month PVR with dual tuner and one that can record 15 hours of HDTV and 60 of regular TV. Why should I invest in a dual G5 power mac and an additional $350 to basically get the same functionality.
It is not a fair comparison. It's a lot easier to change a web browser than Switch to a new OS. People like word and excel and the great selection of windows apps and will not easily dump these applications for their Linux equivalent.
As far as Linux is concerned, it is doing very well on the server but is pretty insignificant on the desktop and will probably remain so for the furseeable future.
Apple can not dominate or even compete in the PVR market. Cable companies dominate that and will not pay a dime extra than they have to. They control the content.
will be very happy with Weather in XML format. She always complained about weather.com not being friendly. Money well spent dudes.
Long live PostgreSQL. I am just being a mature /.er
Due to IT shrinkage, Gartner has no bullshit to sell and is closing shop. These are the same guys that predicted that OS/2 will clean Windows Clock.
How girlie!!
speaks for the majority of Java developers. Most of us are happy with Sun's stewardship of Java. The platform is solid and feature rich with huge thirparty support. The JCP seems to work albeit slowly. The quality of the specs are very high.
Most Java developers have no intention of modifying or fixing the VM and are simply happy with the wonderful set of libraries available to them (Open source or otherwise).
As of 1.4, the quality of the Java VM has been ver good. JDK 1.5 rocks and the platform is alive and well. Thanks to Sun, IBM and mainly Apache.
Are things perfect? Not by any means. I just can not name one platform that I would substitue Java with to write my business applications.
Hibernate replaces Entity beans very nicely. However, you still need session bean functionality. A layer that provides security and transactions in a standard way. While I like Spring a lot. it is not a standard and it really does not have many advantages over what session beans are meant to provide. At the end of the day, you need some middleware on top of RMI. The IOC functionality provided by Spring is very nice and EJB's in general can benefit from the concept. i see Spring being used with session beans but not to replace them.
I just upgraded to 1.0 and registered for Pizza hut. No problems. Maybe you should just do a clean install.
Maybe they should string a fiber or two to their own servers.
that the Linux GUI toolkits just copy the Mac rather than Windows and stop the bickering and come up with a Unified desktop.
Apple has made Unix a dream desktop OS. I just hope that they support 64bit Java on this thing. I will buy it and switch from Linux (Fedora 64bit) if they come out with a 64bit powebook in a heartbeat.
Didn't the owner of of Bungie, Microsoft, get hacked a while ago and someone actually stole some of Windows code? Arrogant jerks.
Amzon has a great deal on a new book released by O'Reilly. Programming the 8080 in assembler.
They could have chosen beta submissions by random. But they gave 'passes' to the priveleged few to pass around. That is NOT FAIR beta or not.
Let me rephrase my statement. I will never use gmail since it is by invitation only. I will continue to use their search engine because of newsgroups.
I am sick of google and the way they handled 'gmail'. By invitation my ass. This is a company that supposedly caters to the commoners and techies yet they create an invitation only web based email system. An email system that does not support POP or IMAP or anything revolutionary. Screw google, I will never use them or buy their stock. This has really left a sour taste in my mouth.
unless you are the one being outsourced.
People will switch to PostgreSQL faster than the MySQL folks can type GPL back into the license. They will be crazy.