Its nice, I guess, but the PC connectivity features don't seem to leverage off the DVD player at all. The only connection I see is that a DVD player is something that you are going to want in your home theater anyway, so at least you don't need another box in your system.
Right - but all of those quality/bit-rate decisions are being made at the source where the encoding is taking place. The DirecTiVo decodes what it receives exactly like a normal DirecTV box. Identical quality.
I've heard that more advanced Codecs (wavelet based) allow inferior decoding (ie, a high quality stream is transmitted but you decode it as if it were a low quality), but MPEG doesn't allow such things...
You're right on the money. This is one of the hottest (if not the hottest) areas of cancer research right now.
Just do a google search on "antiangiogenisis".
Many, many people are working on ways to slow down or stop cancer cell reproduction. In conjunction with other therapies you could still possibly erradicate the cancer, or at the very least it would become a chronic, but controllable condition.
There are lots of these sorts of drugs in clinical trials rught now.
The article states and several people around here argue that dial-up access costs > $20 a month. While that might be true if you go with one of the big-boys like Earthlink, there are lots of smaller cheaper alternatives.
I get perfectly good service (almost no busy signals) from a small local ISP that charges me $99 a year. That comes to just over $8 a month which is less than 1/5 of what broadband access would cost me.
If you are a heavy music-trader/online-game-player/whatever then sure, pay for the broadband. But for those of us who just use email, check websites, and watch our bank statements, its a no-brainer decision.
Home phone service worth ~$20 a month.
Long distance worth ~$20 a month. (Currently free with many cell-phone plans)
Broadband access worth ~$40 a month.
Total = $80 a month.
I just don't see 100 bucks a month being a particularly good deal. It would be convenient to have everything under one package, but not worth paying a premium.
I was disappointed at the amount of junk mail I started receiving after joining the ACLU.
It was mainly from non-profits that I generally approve of like Planned Parenthood - but junk mail is junk mail.
Both Tivo and ReplayTV already make a daily call to the "mother base" do download the schedule, software updates, and yes, upload your viewing habits.
It all comes down to how much you trust their privacy statements...
I don't see this new service making it any worse than it already is.
I think the real possibilities here lie in the user interface. The ReplayTV/TIVO are simple and easy to use, but not that powerful.
Add the web and some powerful database servers and you could do some pretty neat things:
a) Have it record every movie that Roger Ebert and Co gave 2 thumbs up to for ever.
b) You could quickly pull up a list of the top 400 sci-fi movies of all times, check the ones you liked and presto, they would be recorded if they ever came on.
c) etc...lots of possibilites...
Simplistic versions of these sorts of things exist or are coming to the set-top boxes themselves, but I think it will be tough to make them really work well.
ps - I'm a TIVO owner and love it. All you doubters should get one (or a replayTV) from circuit city or someplace else with a 30 day return policy and just give it a spin. On the down side, I no longer exercise or read books. sigh.
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Its nice, I guess, but the PC connectivity features don't seem to leverage off the DVD player at all. The only connection I see is that a DVD player is something that you are going to want in your home theater anyway, so at least you don't need another box in your system.
http://www.brigadoon.de/peter/kde/t1.html
This may be a little out of date by now, but I think they have a mailing list as well.
Right - but all of those quality/bit-rate decisions are being made at the source where the encoding is taking place. The DirecTiVo decodes what it receives exactly like a normal DirecTV box. Identical quality.
I've heard that more advanced Codecs (wavelet based) allow inferior decoding (ie, a high quality stream is transmitted but you decode it as if it were a low quality), but MPEG doesn't allow such things...
You're right on the money. This is one of the hottest (if not the hottest) areas of cancer research right now.
Just do a google search on "antiangiogenisis".
Many, many people are working on ways to slow down or stop cancer cell reproduction. In conjunction with other therapies you could still possibly erradicate the cancer, or at the very least it would become a chronic, but controllable condition.
There are lots of these sorts of drugs in clinical trials rught now.
Not to be a jerk...but...
shipping something as valuable and as fragile as computer equipment w/o insurance is nuts! Surely some company will insure international shipments.
The article states and several people around here argue that dial-up access costs > $20 a month. While that might be true if you go with one of the big-boys like Earthlink, there are lots of smaller cheaper alternatives.
I get perfectly good service (almost no busy signals) from a small local ISP that charges me $99 a year. That comes to just over $8 a month which is less than 1/5 of what broadband access would cost me.
If you are a heavy music-trader/online-game-player/whatever then sure, pay for the broadband. But for those of us who just use email, check websites, and watch our bank statements, its a no-brainer decision.
Home phone service worth ~$20 a month.
Long distance worth ~$20 a month. (Currently free with many cell-phone plans)
Broadband access worth ~$40 a month.
Total = $80 a month.
I just don't see 100 bucks a month being a particularly good deal. It would be convenient to have everything under one package, but not worth paying a premium.
Look here:
http://www.gsmtool.de/
It will solve all your problems and is fairly easy to use. Only downside is that it is shareware.
I was disappointed at the amount of junk mail I started receiving after joining the ACLU. It was mainly from non-profits that I generally approve of like Planned Parenthood - but junk mail is junk mail.
I just compiled 2.2.18 and was dismayed to discover that the USB module still won't recognize my Logitech ifeel USB optical mouse.
Anyone have any luck with this mouse under any kernel new or old?
I go out and buy a CD-burner in Germany to back up my computer (ie, no infringing activity intended).
A portion of my purchase price goes to the "copyright holders".
Does that mean I am legaly entitled to copy their works now? After all I just paid them something - what do I get in return?
I'm sure this argument doesn't hold any legal water, but I think it stands on moral grounds.
Both Tivo and ReplayTV already make a daily call to the "mother base" do download the schedule, software updates, and yes, upload your viewing habits. It all comes down to how much you trust their privacy statements... I don't see this new service making it any worse than it already is.
I think the real possibilities here lie in the user interface. The ReplayTV/TIVO are simple and easy to use, but not that powerful.
Add the web and some powerful database servers and you could do some pretty neat things:
a) Have it record every movie that Roger Ebert and Co gave 2 thumbs up to for ever.
b) You could quickly pull up a list of the top 400 sci-fi movies of all times, check the ones you liked and presto, they would be recorded if they ever came on.
c) etc...lots of possibilites...
Simplistic versions of these sorts of things exist or are coming to the set-top boxes themselves, but I think it will be tough to make them really work well.
ps - I'm a TIVO owner and love it. All you doubters should get one (or a replayTV) from circuit city or someplace else with a 30 day return policy and just give it a spin. On the down side, I no longer exercise or read books. sigh.