The plan seems logical enough, but what about the obvious privacy concerns? Will this device have "phone-home" capabilities to report the mileage? Even if not, I sure don't want them downloading data detailing every trip I took (think of the datamining you could do with THAT information). If the box were programmed with the California borders built in and logged the in-state mileage only (not actual GPS coordinates), AND could only be read at an inspection station -- cool.
I have to agree. While I think it's slightly "slimy" to do this, as long as it performs as the parent suggests I'm fine with it. I wonder if they'll lower the monthy subscription fee or eliminated completely in exchange?
On the other hand, if TiVo could find a way to get rid of those HUGE, ANNOYING, ANIMATED banners that many networks have started showing DURING THE SHOW, I'd let them to anything they want. Hmm. Wait, you don't suppose all us commercial skipping DVR users are the REASON they started doing that, do you?:-)
I tried this, and personally I don't like it. In 60x FF mode it takes only a few seconds to skip past the commercials anyway, and the automatic "jump back" (reaction time compensation) feature means I almost never overshoot. It's even less button presses (FF, FF, FF, [wait], Play).
I just completed an evaluation of the leading servlet engines for my employer, including the fabled Resin, and Tomcat 5 came out ahead in nearly every respect. It even had a 16% - 20% performance boost over Resin. We couldn't believe it ourselves... If you weren't considering Tomcat because of outdated opinions, it's time to take a second look.
I'll admit I don't play Valve's games, so I'm not familiar with Steam or what it is, but according to the linked articles you need to authenticate through Steam before you can play the game. Even if you bought it from a store. It doesn't sound like this is about distributing through Steam, but authenticating through it. And, in my book, shipping a game that requires authentication through a service you won't allow is lunacy...
Wow, that blows my mind that a company could be in such a state of denial. How does a situation like this happen? I could see some corporate mixup causing the game to be released early, but to then insist that it wasn't released is pure lunacy...
You too? He called me at 9:30. Nice guy. I didn't ask about a paper diary, I just kind of assumed it would be digital. Maybe the papaer diaries are for crappy DVRs that can't handle the custom software Nielsen worked out with TiVo some time ago. FYI, he told me that they still don't have a strategy in place on what to track, so for the first three years they would be collecting ONLY general usage habits, not specific shows. How many shows did you watch live? Did you pause them? How many recorded shows did you watch? Did you use Season Passes or Wish Lists? That kind of thing. (Those he mentioned specifically.) Kind of a bummer. But good that they want to get a feel for the market before trying to measure something they don't understand.
"...it is no less secure than any other browser..."
Really? Then how come my wife's virus scanner was popping up and alerting her to malicious code almost daily while using IE. Now that I've forced her to switch to Firefox, she's only had one after months of use. Go figure.
"This is the equivalent of putting in a T-1 line, but it is wireless," said Chatterley. "It is going to change everything."
I sure hope this was simply mis-spoken or mis-quoted. A T-1 only has speeds of 1.5Mbps. That's hardly revolutionary. Even basic 802.11b has more speed than that... Or am I missing something?
Why do the current video card vendors feel the need to have their own custom hardware interface anyway? They all have to ultimately provide OpenGL or DirectX drivers anyway, why not just implement OpenGL or DirectX on the video card's BIOS?
Remember back in the day when the VGA cards first came out and how you had to custom program for each video card? Then the VESA standard came out and made things much simpler. I ask again, why not do the same thing for hardware accelerated 2d and 3d cards using existing standards like OpenGL or DirectX?
The would still protect their proprietary GPU design, while making video drivers trivially simple at the OS level as well as platform independent. Need to update the "drivers"? BIOS flash...
Or is there some compelling reason AGAINST doing that that I'm missing?
Ah, but from the software's perspective, it IS running on Apple hardware. Otherwise it wouldn't be able to run at all, right? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink?!?
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Doesn't this constitute fradulent advertising? To advertise the device stores data with AES encryption, and then store something (the password) using something else is clearly at odds with their advertising.
For that matter, why is the freakin' password stored on the device at all? The password should be used as the key to the AES encryption/decription ONLY and not stored on the device at all. What reason is there for that?
...have started to use delta compression (also known as binary diffs...
Why does the poster make this sound like a new technology? And why does one of the high ranked comments link to a Microsoft tech note from 3/04 talking about this new thing called Binary Diff Compression?
What's so new about it? I remember working with InstallShield, RTPatch, and others, way back in the Windows 3.11 days... New? <yawn>
Umm, I think you may be generalizing a bit much. I've never experienced problems of that nature with PDF documents. And if PDFs choke so badly on even the fastest of computers, why then does Apple use PDF as the basis for this entire GUI?
I agree, though you should ideally have a FireWire-400 port on your system if you plan on using for anything more than copying a few files once or twice a day since the iPod won't charge off a USB cable. And it sucks the juice fast using it as a hard drive. Also keep in mind it gets very hot after prolonged use as a hard drive!
...this one from the USDA which seems to say that ethanol is energy positive.
Not that I'm a consipracy theorist or anything, but of course it does. That is the US Department of Agriculture after all. And we're talking about what? Corn ethanol? Hmm, corn is an agricultural crop.
Now, take a look at the first two bullet items from their mission statement:
Expand markets for agricultural products and support international economic development;
Further develop alternative markets for agricultural products and activities;
Do you honestly think they'd ruin a perfectly good opportunity for one of the largest food crops in the US by speaking badly of corn derived ethanol? Please...
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The plan seems logical enough, but what about the obvious privacy concerns? Will this device have "phone-home" capabilities to report the mileage? Even if not, I sure don't want them downloading data detailing every trip I took (think of the datamining you could do with THAT information). If the box were programmed with the California borders built in and logged the in-state mileage only (not actual GPS coordinates), AND could only be read at an inspection station -- cool.
I think you missed the bit where the state gas tax will be repealed in favor of this new method.
I have to agree. While I think it's slightly "slimy" to do this, as long as it performs as the parent suggests I'm fine with it. I wonder if they'll lower the monthy subscription fee or eliminated completely in exchange?
:-)
On the other hand, if TiVo could find a way to get rid of those HUGE, ANNOYING, ANIMATED banners that many networks have started showing DURING THE SHOW, I'd let them to anything they want. Hmm. Wait, you don't suppose all us commercial skipping DVR users are the REASON they started doing that, do you?
I tried this, and personally I don't like it. In 60x FF mode it takes only a few seconds to skip past the commercials anyway, and the automatic "jump back" (reaction time compensation) feature means I almost never overshoot. It's even less button presses (FF, FF, FF, [wait], Play).
I just completed an evaluation of the leading servlet engines for my employer, including the fabled Resin, and Tomcat 5 came out ahead in nearly every respect. It even had a 16% - 20% performance boost over Resin. We couldn't believe it ourselves... If you weren't considering Tomcat because of outdated opinions, it's time to take a second look.
I'll admit I don't play Valve's games, so I'm not familiar with Steam or what it is, but according to the linked articles you need to authenticate through Steam before you can play the game. Even if you bought it from a store. It doesn't sound like this is about distributing through Steam, but authenticating through it. And, in my book, shipping a game that requires authentication through a service you won't allow is lunacy...
Wow, that blows my mind that a company could be in such a state of denial. How does a situation like this happen? I could see some corporate mixup causing the game to be released early, but to then insist that it wasn't released is pure lunacy...
You too? He called me at 9:30. Nice guy. I didn't ask about a paper diary, I just kind of assumed it would be digital. Maybe the papaer diaries are for crappy DVRs that can't handle the custom software Nielsen worked out with TiVo some time ago. FYI, he told me that they still don't have a strategy in place on what to track, so for the first three years they would be collecting ONLY general usage habits, not specific shows. How many shows did you watch live? Did you pause them? How many recorded shows did you watch? Did you use Season Passes or Wish Lists? That kind of thing. (Those he mentioned specifically.) Kind of a bummer. But good that they want to get a feel for the market before trying to measure something they don't understand.
Now that's more like it. Thanks for the info. I'd moderate you up, but can't. :-)
Really? Then how come my wife's virus scanner was popping up and alerting her to malicious code almost daily while using IE. Now that I've forced her to switch to Firefox, she's only had one after months of use. Go figure.
I sure hope this was simply mis-spoken or mis-quoted. A T-1 only has speeds of 1.5Mbps. That's hardly revolutionary. Even basic 802.11b has more speed than that... Or am I missing something?
Why do the current video card vendors feel the need to have their own custom hardware interface anyway? They all have to ultimately provide OpenGL or DirectX drivers anyway, why not just implement OpenGL or DirectX on the video card's BIOS?
Remember back in the day when the VGA cards first came out and how you had to custom program for each video card? Then the VESA standard came out and made things much simpler. I ask again, why not do the same thing for hardware accelerated 2d and 3d cards using existing standards like OpenGL or DirectX?
The would still protect their proprietary GPU design, while making video drivers trivially simple at the OS level as well as platform independent. Need to update the "drivers"? BIOS flash...
Or is there some compelling reason AGAINST doing that that I'm missing?
Ah, but from the software's perspective, it IS running on Apple hardware. Otherwise it wouldn't be able to run at all, right? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink?!?
Sincerely,
Jellyvision, Inc.
Doesn't this constitute fradulent advertising? To advertise the device stores data with AES encryption, and then store something (the password) using something else is clearly at odds with their advertising.
For that matter, why is the freakin' password stored on the device at all? The password should be used as the key to the AES encryption/decription ONLY and not stored on the device at all. What reason is there for that?
Man, not even any comments above my threshold and /.'d already... Anyone got a mirror?
But, sadly, not the DirecTiVo Series 2 boxes. Because the DirecTV folks are too paranoid... My box is already hacked, what have they got to lose?
What's so new about it? I remember working with InstallShield, RTPatch, and others, way back in the Windows 3.11 days... New? <yawn>
Umm, I think you may be generalizing a bit much. I've never experienced problems of that nature with PDF documents. And if PDFs choke so badly on even the fastest of computers, why then does Apple use PDF as the basis for this entire GUI?
Yes, but that's not as portable when you're visiting friends, etc. :-)
Ah, now there's a compelling reason to consider an upgrade! That's good to know...
I agree, though you should ideally have a FireWire-400 port on your system if you plan on using for anything more than copying a few files once or twice a day since the iPod won't charge off a USB cable. And it sucks the juice fast using it as a hard drive. Also keep in mind it gets very hot after prolonged use as a hard drive!
Perhaps you neglected to unmount/eject/safely-remove-hardware before unplugging it?
Sounds a little naive to me. But you could be right... Like I said, I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything. Just playing devil's advocate. :-)
Not that I'm a consipracy theorist or anything, but of course it does. That is the US Department of Agriculture after all. And we're talking about what? Corn ethanol? Hmm, corn is an agricultural crop.
Now, take a look at the first two bullet items from their mission statement:
Do you honestly think they'd ruin a perfectly good opportunity for one of the largest food crops in the US by speaking badly of corn derived ethanol? Please...