Of course, by that I mean Microsoft finally understanding something several years after the rest of the world "gets it?"
Your jibe would carry more weight if only you could surf the internet without using Microsoft internet software in some way, be it a browser, streaming media format, or web server.
Microsoft, like any huge company, is often late in 'getting something.' But once they do, they have a remarkable ability to use their [monopoly] power to dominate in that area later.
The last time Bill Gates was widely publicized for announcing a major strategy shift to his employees was back in 1995, when he sent out a memo saying they were going to focus on the internet.
I bet I wasn't alone in laughing. The first version of MSIE that was out at the time was a JOKE. Netscape reigned supreme. RealAudio was king of streaming. Third parties actually had a shot at selling a Windows web server.
How long did it take them to: (a) Kill Netscape with MSIE, (b) maim RealAudio with Windows Media, (c) shutdown 3rd-party Windows webservers with IIS, etc.? Not long.
Extrapolate amongst yourselves.
Goodbye ZoneLabs (makers of ZoneAlarm). What other big Windows security players will have their security software crushed within 3 years? McAfee? Symantec?
Unix users laugh at the inherent security problems with Windows, just as I laughed at MSIE 7 years ago. I haven't been laughing lately. Will you still be laughing a few years from now?
The cheating community dealt universities a harsh blow today when they unveiled a Perl one-liner that thwarts all attempts to catch cheaters with their fancy-schmancy new program.
First I have to say I'm impressed, I had no idea. Secondly, what are those 60 different operating systems? Does anybody have a list? BSD, Linux, Windows, sun, novell, QNX, MacOS in all their flavors.
Yes, please allow me to list them for you:
Windows NT 3.x
Windows NT 4.x
Windows 2K
Windows XP
Linux 1.0
Linux 1.1
Linux 1.2
Linux 1.3
Linux 1.4
Linux 1.5
Linux 1.6
Linux 1.7
Linux 1.8
Linux 1.9
Linux 2.0
Linux 2.1
Linux 2.2
Linux 2.3
Linux 2.4
...
...except instead of 'security' it was 'stability.' Now Win2K/WinXP can stay up and running for weeks and months on end, and you don't hear too much about Windows stability problems for users of the new OS versions.
Windows has been unstable for years. Did it threaten Microsoft even one iota? Nope.
I'm using gobeProductive 3.0.2 on Windows (they have or will have a Linux version). It's like a light-weight replacement for MS Office, done by the same team that did Claris Works for the Mac.
The word processor is very easy to use, and can save in the gobeProductive format, as well as Word, HTML, PDF, RTF, and plain text.
The office suite also has spreadsheet, graphics, image processing, and presentation software.
Let's see... freeloaders use up the service without contributing. And you think it's a bad thing to get rid of them because if you do, then "there goes your userbase." But if you kick these people off you GAIN: more bandwidth, more room for people that contribute to the service. On top of that, a certain portion of potential freeloaders will be more likely to contribute if they find out they are in danger of being kicked off the service, thereby increasing the value of your service even more.
As long as it is made very easy to contribute to a service, you should not lose any meaningful users.
Copyrighted my name, address, and other personal data, and sued everyone who maintained my personal data without my permission for copyright infringement?
You can only copyright original works. So, your parents MIGHT be able to copyright your name, if it is truly original. Your address is not original, sorry.
On top of that, I think you would only be successful in suing someone for copyright infringement if they were PUBLISHING your work. Storing your work in a database is not publishing it, IMHO.
One must realize that HDTV is HUGE - at about 5GB for a 30 minute television show - you would need some serious hard drive space - not exactly in the price range of most consumers.
Right now you could make a TiVo with about 320GB of space, using two 160GB Maxtor drives, and the hacks that are already available. Let's say you lop off 5GB for TiVo's OS installation, temp files, etc. That gives you 315GB, enough for a little over 30 HOURS of HDTV programming! Not to mention, most of the stuff you'd be recording probably would not be HDTV (at first).
A 20 hour TiVo costs around $200 or less (if you can find one). The cost of drives varies and is dropping all the time. I'm saying in a year's time, TiVo should be able to come out with an HDTiVo unit that excepts firewire/component inputs for $500 or less. It should also have a tuner capable of decoding OTA HDTV.
And of course, I'd love them to get an HDTiVo integrated with TimeWarner digital cable.
Nope. It's half duplex to begin with, plus there are all kinds of other overheads. The effective throughput tends to be around 3-5 Mbps in most setups, and quite often less.
Regardless, I'm not talking about streaming DVD quality video, just standard 4:3 420x240 resolution video. Surely that must be possible with 3-5Mbps?
im suprised so many pgp military encryption loving/. readers are so nieve or am i....
You are. Sorry. You can opt-out of it, and on top of that, it's aggregate data. They don't know that sh0rtie watches porn all night, just that some guy in (whatever state you're in) watches porn all night.
I have two Tivo's currently, and have a 10MBit ethernet card in my SA (Standalone Tivo) and it is honestly slow as ass to transfer a show over to my desktop. But that's an ISA adapter hack with an old ISA 10baseT card in it
The problem is you're not even getting anywhere close to 10mbps with that setup. I believe the most people have been able to get is around 1mbps, due to the way the network hack works.
I have a feeling there is a reason they are putting USB on it rather than ethernet directly.
1. It's probably cheaper to add USB support. A couple of I/O ports must be cheaper than an ethernet chipset/port.
2. It lets you add not only ethernet, but other types of devices to TiVo (why else would they include TWO USB ports if it was just for ethernet?)
3. They can make money selling add-on USB devices designed to work with your TiVo. They are looking for more ways to make money...
According to this site, "a nominal [throughput] rate for a DVD is 3.5 Mbps." Since you can get close to 11Mbps from 802.11b, how exactly isn't enough bandwidth for MPEG streaming?
Oh, and just say no to digital cable... I mean, you want HDTV... what are THEIR plans to even PROVIDE HDTV?
I'm not sure what you're talking about. I have a TimeWarner HD digital cable box in my living room right now with NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, PBS, WB, HBO, and Showtime HDTV channels...
I've bought 3 TiVo's in the last year. One for me, one for my parents, and one for my brother. All three were the cheap 20-hour units, upgraded with a 3rd party hard-drive.
I sure as hell am not going through this again until they add HDTV support and dual tuners.
I would also love to see:
- 802.11b options, not only for downloading the updates via your local LAN, but also for streaming MPEG to other PC's and wireless devices on your LAN.
- Optical digital audio outputs (to go with the HDTV support).
- Newer video codecs with better quality (maybe they have added this in the latest release... it says they have a new graphics engine)
- Firewire output would be nice, also.
Of course, my dream unit would be one that is integrated with TimeWarner's digital cable box, so that it can take advantage of the digital channels, much like DirecTiVo does. The integration with TW's channel guide alone would be awesome...
All in all, I see this as just another thing ported to USB "just because they can." You can have your lower-sound-quality-and/or-delayed-signal toy. Leave me my good old fashioned built-into-the-hardware synced-with-the-bus sound card, thank you.
I've been using Microsoft's USB speakers for about three years now, and the sound is crystal clear with no lag. I also don't get any annoying USB messages, so your friends speakers/install must have been screwed up.
I don't know how much bandwidth it uses, but I don't seem to have a problem using my USB mouse, keyboard, and flash reader at the same time as listening to music.
I can understand (not condone) writing viruses/worms/trojans for getting access to a computer for other ends, but why create a virus for Flash? Infecting other Flash files seems pretty silly to me.... I'm clueless here. Help me out.
Well my guess would be this person is as sick of flash being abused by websites for annoying ads as I am. I'd love to be able to tell MSIE to remove Flash and never re-install it, but this seems impossible. Maybe if we get firewall-level blocking of Flash due to this virus, I might be happy.:-)
I remember a few years ago when they announced the IMAC, I listened the keynote on streaming audio. I was amazed.. Today I watched the keynote on QuickTime.
This is a great idea if I can just get everyone in the country to pitch in 100 bucks (~25 billion) to do it... I think I pay enough taxes without paying for someone elses toys...
You're right, I'd much rather my $100 goes to that crackwhore on welfare over there.
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Of course, by that I mean Microsoft finally understanding something several years after the rest of the world "gets it?"
Your jibe would carry more weight if only you could surf the internet without using Microsoft internet software in some way, be it a browser, streaming media format, or web server.
Microsoft, like any huge company, is often late in 'getting something.' But once they do, they have a remarkable ability to use their [monopoly] power to dominate in that area later.
The last time Bill Gates was widely publicized for announcing a major strategy shift to his employees was back in 1995, when he sent out a memo saying they were going to focus on the internet.
I bet I wasn't alone in laughing. The first version of MSIE that was out at the time was a JOKE. Netscape reigned supreme. RealAudio was king of streaming. Third parties actually had a shot at selling a Windows web server.
How long did it take them to: (a) Kill Netscape with MSIE, (b) maim RealAudio with Windows Media, (c) shutdown 3rd-party Windows webservers with IIS, etc.? Not long.
Extrapolate amongst yourselves.
Goodbye ZoneLabs (makers of ZoneAlarm). What other big Windows security players will have their security software crushed within 3 years? McAfee? Symantec?
Unix users laugh at the inherent security problems with Windows, just as I laughed at MSIE 7 years ago. I haven't been laughing lately. Will you still be laughing a few years from now?
The cheating community dealt universities a harsh blow today when they unveiled a Perl one-liner that thwarts all attempts to catch cheaters with their fancy-schmancy new program.
First I have to say I'm impressed, I had no idea. Secondly, what are those 60 different operating systems? Does anybody have a list? BSD, Linux, Windows, sun, novell, QNX, MacOS in all their flavors.
Yes, please allow me to list them for you:
Windows NT 3.x
Windows NT 4.x
Windows 2K
Windows XP
Linux 1.0
Linux 1.1
Linux 1.2
Linux 1.3
Linux 1.4
Linux 1.5
Linux 1.6
Linux 1.7
Linux 1.8
Linux 1.9
Linux 2.0
Linux 2.1
Linux 2.2
Linux 2.3
Linux 2.4
...
Do you see where I'm going with this.
...except instead of 'security' it was 'stability.' Now Win2K/WinXP can stay up and running for weeks and months on end, and you don't hear too much about Windows stability problems for users of the new OS versions.
Windows has been unstable for years. Did it threaten Microsoft even one iota? Nope.
Dream on, sorry...
Apparantly you've never booted BeOS.
Sir, how dare you bring reality into the picture!
By the way, why the hell does CmdrTaco care how fast it runs Windows XP? He only runs Linux, right?
I mean, who the hell would switch to using an operating system just because the new UI kicks ass?
Can someone please describe what the hell this article is talking about?
I'm using gobeProductive 3.0.2 on Windows (they have or will have a Linux version). It's like a light-weight replacement for MS Office, done by the same team that did Claris Works for the Mac.
The word processor is very easy to use, and can save in the gobeProductive format, as well as Word, HTML, PDF, RTF, and plain text.
The office suite also has spreadsheet, graphics, image processing, and presentation software.
http://www.gobe.com/
Let's see... freeloaders use up the service without contributing. And you think it's a bad thing to get rid of them because if you do, then "there goes your userbase." But if you kick these people off you GAIN: more bandwidth, more room for people that contribute to the service. On top of that, a certain portion of potential freeloaders will be more likely to contribute if they find out they are in danger of being kicked off the service, thereby increasing the value of your service even more.
As long as it is made very easy to contribute to a service, you should not lose any meaningful users.
The debt collectors have had them for years, as an aquantence painfully made aware a friend of mine who defaulted on a pap smear.
Was the repo-man friendly, at least?
Copyrighted my name, address, and other personal data, and sued everyone who maintained my personal data without my permission for copyright infringement?
You can only copyright original works. So, your parents MIGHT be able to copyright your name, if it is truly original. Your address is not original, sorry.
On top of that, I think you would only be successful in suing someone for copyright infringement if they were PUBLISHING your work. Storing your work in a database is not publishing it, IMHO.
One must realize that HDTV is HUGE - at about 5GB for a 30 minute television show - you would need some serious hard drive space - not exactly in the price range of most consumers.
Right now you could make a TiVo with about 320GB of space, using two 160GB Maxtor drives, and the hacks that are already available. Let's say you lop off 5GB for TiVo's OS installation, temp files, etc. That gives you 315GB, enough for a little over 30 HOURS of HDTV programming! Not to mention, most of the stuff you'd be recording probably would not be HDTV (at first).
A 20 hour TiVo costs around $200 or less (if you can find one). The cost of drives varies and is dropping all the time. I'm saying in a year's time, TiVo should be able to come out with an HDTiVo unit that excepts firewire/component inputs for $500 or less. It should also have a tuner capable of decoding OTA HDTV.
And of course, I'd love them to get an HDTiVo integrated with TimeWarner digital cable.
Nope. It's half duplex to begin with, plus there are all kinds of other overheads. The effective throughput tends to be around 3-5 Mbps in most setups, and quite often less.
Regardless, I'm not talking about streaming DVD quality video, just standard 4:3 420x240 resolution video. Surely that must be possible with 3-5Mbps?
im suprised so many pgp military encryption loving /. readers are so nieve or am i ....
You are. Sorry. You can opt-out of it, and on top of that, it's aggregate data. They don't know that sh0rtie watches porn all night, just that some guy in (whatever state you're in) watches porn all night.
See, it's not so bad.
I have two Tivo's currently, and have a 10MBit ethernet card in my SA (Standalone Tivo) and it is honestly slow as ass to transfer a show over to my desktop. But that's an ISA adapter hack with an old ISA 10baseT card in it
The problem is you're not even getting anywhere close to 10mbps with that setup. I believe the most people have been able to get is around 1mbps, due to the way the network hack works.
I have a feeling there is a reason they are putting USB on it rather than ethernet directly.
1. It's probably cheaper to add USB support. A couple of I/O ports must be cheaper than an ethernet chipset/port.
2. It lets you add not only ethernet, but other types of devices to TiVo (why else would they include TWO USB ports if it was just for ethernet?)
3. They can make money selling add-on USB devices designed to work with your TiVo. They are looking for more ways to make money...
According to this site, "a nominal [throughput] rate for a DVD is 3.5 Mbps." Since you can get close to 11Mbps from 802.11b, how exactly isn't enough bandwidth for MPEG streaming?
Oh, and just say no to digital cable... I mean, you want HDTV... what are THEIR plans to even PROVIDE HDTV?
I'm not sure what you're talking about. I have a TimeWarner HD digital cable box in my living room right now with NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, PBS, WB, HBO, and Showtime HDTV channels...
I've bought 3 TiVo's in the last year. One for me, one for my parents, and one for my brother. All three were the cheap 20-hour units, upgraded with a 3rd party hard-drive.
... it says they have a new graphics engine)
I sure as hell am not going through this again until they add HDTV support and dual tuners.
I would also love to see:
- 802.11b options, not only for downloading the updates via your local LAN, but also for streaming MPEG to other PC's and wireless devices on your LAN.
- Optical digital audio outputs (to go with the HDTV support).
- Newer video codecs with better quality (maybe they have added this in the latest release
- Firewire output would be nice, also.
Of course, my dream unit would be one that is integrated with TimeWarner's digital cable box, so that it can take advantage of the digital channels, much like DirecTiVo does. The integration with TW's channel guide alone would be awesome...
All in all, I see this as just another thing ported to USB "just because they can." You can have your lower-sound-quality-and/or-delayed-signal toy. Leave me my good old fashioned built-into-the-hardware synced-with-the-bus sound card, thank you.
I've been using Microsoft's USB speakers for about three years now, and the sound is crystal clear with no lag. I also don't get any annoying USB messages, so your friends speakers/install must have been screwed up.
I don't know how much bandwidth it uses, but I don't seem to have a problem using my USB mouse, keyboard, and flash reader at the same time as listening to music.
I don't think you're giving USB enough credit...
...take a look at the Drake equation. It makes a hell of a lot more sense then your argument.
Here is the Drake equation from the google cache.
I can understand (not condone) writing viruses/worms/trojans for getting access to a computer for other ends, but why create a virus for Flash? Infecting other Flash files seems pretty silly to me. ... I'm clueless here. Help me out.
:-)
Well my guess would be this person is as sick of flash being abused by websites for annoying ads as I am. I'd love to be able to tell MSIE to remove Flash and never re-install it, but this seems impossible. Maybe if we get firewall-level blocking of Flash due to this virus, I might be happy.
I remember a few years ago when they announced the IMAC, I listened the keynote on streaming audio. I was amazed.. Today I watched the keynote on QuickTime.
So how did the first iMac sound?
This is a great idea if I can just get everyone in the country to pitch in 100 bucks (~25 billion) to do it... I think I pay enough taxes without paying for someone elses toys...
You're right, I'd much rather my $100 goes to that crackwhore on welfare over there.
Yeah, you, over there. I see you!