Does anybody really want an RSS reader or a game on their Tivo?
A RSS reader would be very cool if it had a web browser as well. Also, RSS could be the next way (or even current way) that the TV channel info is provided.
Seriously, who is going to play a game on the Tivo, or purchase a Tivo because of these features?
Millions of people put up with Windows only because they want to play games.
A cool feature would be a network interface you could use to access your saved shows via the computer.
I havn't tried it yet. But my DVR has a firewire port that I have read online that can be read by Macs. I havn't bought a firewire cable yet, but am very interested in such a thing.
I have to say that the Tivo wins the usability contest hands down. Even though the Cox box has the ability to record two channels at once, I prefer my Tivo.
The GUI is intuitive to operate - it took my wife no time to figure it out. As for the Cox box, well we haven't even figured out how to delete a show we are watching without fast forwarding to the end - to get the "special menu".
I've never used a Tivo, but I recently got the Cox HDTV DVR and its usability is very impressive. At least for my DVR to get to the "special menu" when watching a recorded show I hit the stop button and it asks me what I want to do. The model I have is the dtc6208. My only complaint is that it seems to be "busy" sometimes and ignore commands from the remote, but seems to have disappeared recently. Also, its terribly annoying that you cannot map the volume on the remote to do something like adjust the volume. I have to switch the remote "mode" to audio, then tinker with the remote and then go back to the cable mode. Very annoying, especially since the DVR does not have any volume adjustment on it whatsoever.
You may be able to take your Cox box in and get a new one, its worth checking out.
Are you telling me the best they can do is a card with my password embossed right next to my name? As fas as I am concerned the CC number is a password since that and the expiration date are all that are needed to pilfer funds.
The CC industry needs to create a secure credit card. Until they do, fraud cannot be stopped.
The minute it is profitable for them to do something they will. Otherwise, they will sit back and collect the 18-20 someodd interest rate on the average person's CC balance of what is it $12k now?
Nowhere in either the store policy, or state law, did it mention anything about following cutomer direction on the back of a credit card.
There is a thing called common sense.
I put in big capitol letters with a marker SEE ID on my credit cards, and I don't tell retailers its the law or store policy or anything else for that matter if they don't check it. I will say that I have noticed a much greater likelihood of the retailer checking my ID. I will also bet my signature on a napkin that the odds of a "bad guy" trying to use this CC at a retail place is about 0, and the likelihood that it will be used somewhere else is probably lower than having my scribble that noone on the planet is going to compare or question. See this link for a very funny investigation into how stupid a signature on a receipt can be without any question http://www.thescreamonline.com/cartoons/cartoons3- 3/
That was my point. I have seen increases in things like fruits and vegetables due to droughts or other weather problems, but I have not seen the price of something like bus or cab fare which, to me, should be directly proportional to the price of gasoline or fuel. I do not live in an area where public transportation or cabs are a viable means of transportation, so my experience is limited there, but that is the kind of examples I was thinking of.
Inflation due to energy costs is nebulas to me. In all economies, there is inflation over time. I could care less what it is due to, its basically a constant.
If you want to be a writer, say, just about the only thing a formal education can give you is an understanding of grammar and spelling. (/.ers, take note.) You do need this. After that, though, the way to learn to be a writer is by writing; also by reading
The last part is backwards, you learn to be a writer by reading, reading, reading, and then writing.
It's only those obsessed with status & material wealth who get wrapped up in the notion that every worthwhile waking hour should be spent working on advancing careers and whatnot.
And its common for those people to say later in life that they regret not spending more of their time with their friends and family vs advancing their careers and whatnot.
What I wish I were told in HS would be that all one needs in life is friends, food, a place to stay, and have a good time as much as possible. Most people go out, get some job, get married and have kids, and their typical day in their life is to go to work come home, watch TV, rinse and repeat. That's motivation to go out and get a good job.
Oh, one more thing I wish I had been told. There are no big deals in life. None. Again, its important to have a network of friends. That is where the good stuff comes from. You can get a job, a place to stay, companionship and company, food, and have a good time. Everything is less fun and more difficult without a good network of friends.
Humans are social animals. Without human contact with one another, a human is a worthless, slow, smelly, and weak animal. I was never told this either when I was young.
A "man in the middle" would have a little bit of difficulty, as there's no way they could sign the session key they send to the client because that session key can only be signed if you have access to the private key, which they don't have.
A couple of things here. 1) it would be trivial to buy one of those 10,000 extra stupid TLDs out there and really buy a cert for that domain. So for the bankofslashdot.org example, one could buy bankofslashdot.com or bankofshalsdot.info or.biz, or any of the ones that they come up with next week.
You could hijack the real bankofslashdot.org via DNS and simply redirect them to one of the scammed domains.
This is even made more simple with a stupid bank like bankofamerica.com that REFUSES to put their login page on a secure page. I have told them a number of times about this, and they simply will not do it. Even if I change the http://www.bankofamerica.com page to https://www.bankofamerica.com myself, it redirects me back to the unsecured site. So for that page, all you have to do is hijack the name via dns and be a real man in the middle. I'm assuming that 99% of the people out there have turned off the warning that "I am doing a web search over a nonencrypted line, do you want to keep warning me about this?" bozobox. The bank of america people said that the way they did it was OK, because the browser would warn the user. Morons.
Guilty until proven innocent is in _criminal_ cases. This is a civil case. Anyone can sue anybody for basically any reason. There is no innocence or guilt determined in a civil case, only liability and degree of liability.
This is just another meaningless delay of the case. Such things are actually a victory for IBM. IBM can afford to have this drag on forever. SCO's days are numbered.
No, its perfectly acceptable delay for SCO to ask IBM if they can see more of Linux code.
WTF? I thought Linux was open source? Maybe the article meant to say AIX code.
I would not weigh too much with this article besides this. Looking at one of their advertiser's, one of those fraudulent diploma mills, I doubt they have too much credibility.
Is _everything_ that comes from Salt Lake City, UT a scam or what?
How did Intel enforce it's "Linux on Centrino" ban? Isn't that unfair competition? It stinks of Microsoft collusion...
I guess they could severely raise their OEM pricing or ban them from selling their Centrino products entirely. I don't believe its a Microsoft collusion, Linux has always sucked in power management (maybe this is different with the 2.6.8 kernel as the article alludes to), and the Centrino is marketed as a low power/long battery life package with wireless. If none of that works, its not Centrino.
Now that Intel ceased banning Linux on Laptops then I should be able to call Dell or HP and say I want a laptop that runs Linux out of the box right?
Intel never "banned" Linux on laptops. Intel could care less what you do with their hardware after you buy it, including smashing it with a hammer, or immediately throwing it in the trash.
Intel was protesting companies using the Centrino brand name with a Linux operating system because Linux did not sufficiently work with the features of the Centrino branded products (power saving, wireless, etc) and did not want their brand name compromised because of this. I don't know the status of Linux on a Centrino based laptop, but my guess is that its still sufficiently broken and/or sucky in general, and this is partly or mostly due to Intel not letting the Linux developers have the needed info about how the hardware works, nor did they (afaik) provide drivers for Centrino products.
Does any of the stuff like ACPI work with Linux yet? Can Linux sleep and resume? Does it still eat batteries?
``The term `financial gain' includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works.''.
This is utter BS. I'm not into copyright infringement, but to say that I download a Xvid or some other lower quality version of a movie in a format that I cannot buy, and in return for downloading said unavailable product I offer you a B&W photocopy of a copyrighted Playboy centerfold or even a stock tip, then I'm guilty via the financial gain thing.
Move over George Orwell.
I'm beginning to think my calendar is lying to me.
That is the problem with most consumers, they look at the bottom line when they are buying.
No the problem is that companies are being deceptive (a requirement for fraud, btw) and the consumers do not know the bottom line. The bottom line is that inkjet printers suck in quality and convenience and are more expensive than laser printers.
They did commit copyright infringement. How is that conspiracy?
Its a plea. Want to understand the law, get a law degree or be a lawmaker. Although, neither really can understand the often contradictory aspects of the law, but those people are the only ones with the authority to do so.
Also, from the FA, its worth mentioning:
Both men pleaded guilty to acting for commercial advantage or private financial gain
This is piracy or bootleging or whatever you want to call it. This is not typical p2p activity because there was commercial gain from it.
Friends don't let friends buy inkjet printers until they market these things to people other than those that are stupid, poor, and/or cheap.
They suck, they are designed to be disposable because I guess it takes people like 3 or 4 times to figure out that they are marketed with lead in pricing to only get you to buy their overpriced ink refills or simply do the easier thing -- buy another printer (with 1/4 filled ink cartridges).
I saw on TV where color Xerox (rebranded Phaser) laser printer is under $1,000. Lower end B&W laser printers with toners that last years can be gotten for 5-600. My parents paid $600 for an Apple dot matrix printer in the mid 80s (kick ass as far as dot matrix goes).
In other words, like everything else. We have control. If noone buys their shitty stuff, then they will change. But as long as people keep bending over and getting assraped by these people -- Well, they will keep giving it to you. Every time, and twice on Sundays.
Yeah, 404ed, but interesting is that http://bt.etree.org/ did the same thing with the same error. I don't know if they are on the same server or not, but I thought I'd be wayyy offtopic as well.
I know of no one that has died from being hit by a bus. I only know two people who have murdered another, and I did not know the people they killed (one each). I know of at least one person that has died via suicide. I know more than I can count that have died from "natural" causes where some was from disease and most were from simply having old bodies.
Agreed if you're running a data center, or if you have a large business with hundreds of these things, I meant more for personal use.
I don't see where anybody would loose from a more efficient processor design.
The same goes with transportation. The more efficient the transportation, the cheaper it will be for goods and services that depend on them, which is about everything today. The same can be said about processor design.
One interesting thing, is I have _never_ seen a price increase or decrease for any goods or services due to the price of gasoline/diesel fuel which is pretty volatile compared to other commodities and inflation. Its kinda weird I think.
But I don't really care a whole lot about what the bloody Wattage rating is on my Processor. But I don't really care a whole lot about what the bloody Wattage rating is on my Processor.
Fine, I'll send you the powerbill when it gets to be $1,000 a month for the privilege of running a new processor.
Low Power CPUs are only a concern if my computer is running off a battery.
Another dorm room computer expert.
When you have a room full of servers and it takes an additional $20,000 or more for cooling and power upgrades and UPS upgrades because people don't care about low power CPUs except in a computer running off of the battery, I'll send you that bill too.
We constantly hear about computer manufacturers "closing the gap" between laptops and desktops. this will never happen. At least for me, the two serve completely different purposes. My desktop is the workhorse, does all the compiling for both computers (both run linux), and is my general use machine. My laptop is low powered, and only used for work on the road. Last time i shopped for a laptop, most models were trying to do everything and more, while i just want a cheap laptop, no glitz except maybe wireless, with a long battery life.
So, you would complain if your laptop had the power of your desktop with the same portability and mobility?
That's it. No 4 ghz 512 mgs ram monsters. I don't need 64 Bit processing. Keep it simple stupid.
I'm all for KISS (and AC/DC!), but again, why not have 64bit processing on your laptop. I mean, do you really need 32bit? Especially if you like the feature(?) of compiling stuff on your desktop and transferring it to your laptop, this may soon become an issue if you compile code for your new "workhorse" that is now 64bit, and now you have to recompile the code for your 32bit (or whatever) laptop.
For me, I would like the gap closed between the two. There is no need for a desktop to sit there and waste bunches of electricity and heat my room. I don't consider those features. It would greatly apply to the KISS principle if the same CPU went in both mobile and desktop boxes, and maybe something different for servers. For me, I would like for my laptop (1.25GHz PowerBook) to be more powerful AND have longer battery life. Why not?
Why waste the time and effort to have 2 computers? KISS!
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Does anybody really want an RSS reader or a game on their Tivo?
A RSS reader would be very cool if it had a web browser as well. Also, RSS could be the next way (or even current way) that the TV channel info is provided.
Seriously, who is going to play a game on the Tivo, or purchase a Tivo because of these features?
Millions of people put up with Windows only because they want to play games.
A cool feature would be a network interface you could use to access your saved shows via the computer.
I havn't tried it yet. But my DVR has a firewire port that I have read online that can be read by Macs. I havn't bought a firewire cable yet, but am very interested in such a thing.
I have to say that the Tivo wins the usability contest hands down. Even though the Cox box has the ability to record two channels at once, I prefer my Tivo.
The GUI is intuitive to operate - it took my wife no time to figure it out. As for the Cox box, well we haven't even figured out how to delete a show we are watching without fast forwarding to the end - to get the "special menu".
I've never used a Tivo, but I recently got the Cox HDTV DVR and its usability is very impressive. At least for my DVR to get to the "special menu" when watching a recorded show I hit the stop button and it asks me what I want to do. The model I have is the dtc6208. My only complaint is that it seems to be "busy" sometimes and ignore commands from the remote, but seems to have disappeared recently. Also, its terribly annoying that you cannot map the volume on the remote to do something like adjust the volume. I have to switch the remote "mode" to audio, then tinker with the remote and then go back to the cable mode. Very annoying, especially since the DVR does not have any volume adjustment on it whatsoever.
You may be able to take your Cox box in and get a new one, its worth checking out.
Are you telling me the best they can do is a card with my password embossed right next to my name? As fas as I am concerned the CC number is a password since that and the expiration date are all that are needed to pilfer funds.
The CC industry needs to create a secure credit card. Until they do, fraud cannot be stopped.
The minute it is profitable for them to do something they will. Otherwise, they will sit back and collect the 18-20 someodd interest rate on the average person's CC balance of what is it $12k now?
Not a minute before.
Nowhere in either the store policy, or state law, did it mention anything about following cutomer direction on the back of a credit card.
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There is a thing called common sense.
I put in big capitol letters with a marker SEE ID on my credit cards, and I don't tell retailers its the law or store policy or anything else for that matter if they don't check it. I will say that I have noticed a much greater likelihood of the retailer checking my ID. I will also bet my signature on a napkin that the odds of a "bad guy" trying to use this CC at a retail place is about 0, and the likelihood that it will be used somewhere else is probably lower than having my scribble that noone on the planet is going to compare or question. See this link for a very funny investigation into how stupid a signature on a receipt can be without any question http://www.thescreamonline.com/cartoons/cartoons3
Lighten up a bit... Or, are you really 17 too?
You haven't been looking very hard
That was my point. I have seen increases in things like fruits and vegetables due to droughts or other weather problems, but I have not seen the price of something like bus or cab fare which, to me, should be directly proportional to the price of gasoline or fuel. I do not live in an area where public transportation or cabs are a viable means of transportation, so my experience is limited there, but that is the kind of examples I was thinking of.
Inflation due to energy costs is nebulas to me. In all economies, there is inflation over time. I could care less what it is due to, its basically a constant.
If you want to be a writer, say, just about the only thing a formal education can give you is an understanding of grammar and spelling. (/.ers, take note.) You do need this. After that, though, the way to learn to be a writer is by writing; also by reading
The last part is backwards, you learn to be a writer by reading, reading, reading, and then writing.
It's only those obsessed with status & material wealth who get wrapped up in the notion that every worthwhile waking hour should be spent working on advancing careers and whatnot.
And its common for those people to say later in life that they regret not spending more of their time with their friends and family vs advancing their careers and whatnot.
What I wish I were told in HS would be that all one needs in life is friends, food, a place to stay, and have a good time as much as possible. Most people go out, get some job, get married and have kids, and their typical day in their life is to go to work come home, watch TV, rinse and repeat. That's motivation to go out and get a good job.
Oh, one more thing I wish I had been told. There are no big deals in life. None. Again, its important to have a network of friends. That is where the good stuff comes from. You can get a job, a place to stay, companionship and company, food, and have a good time. Everything is less fun and more difficult without a good network of friends.
Humans are social animals. Without human contact with one another, a human is a worthless, slow, smelly, and weak animal. I was never told this either when I was young.
A "man in the middle" would have a little bit of difficulty, as there's no way they could sign the session key they send to the client because that session key can only be signed if you have access to the private key, which they don't have.
.biz, or any of the ones that they come up with next week.
A couple of things here. 1) it would be trivial to buy one of those 10,000 extra stupid TLDs out there and really buy a cert for that domain. So for the bankofslashdot.org example, one could buy bankofslashdot.com or bankofshalsdot.info or
You could hijack the real bankofslashdot.org via DNS and simply redirect them to one of the scammed domains.
This is even made more simple with a stupid bank like bankofamerica.com that REFUSES to put their login page on a secure page. I have told them a number of times about this, and they simply will not do it. Even if I change the http://www.bankofamerica.com page to https://www.bankofamerica.com myself, it redirects me back to the unsecured site. So for that page, all you have to do is hijack the name via dns and be a real man in the middle. I'm assuming that 99% of the people out there have turned off the warning that "I am doing a web search over a nonencrypted line, do you want to keep warning me about this?" bozobox. The bank of america people said that the way they did it was OK, because the browser would warn the user. Morons.
Guilty until proven innocent is in _criminal_ cases. This is a civil case. Anyone can sue anybody for basically any reason. There is no innocence or guilt determined in a civil case, only liability and degree of liability.
This is just another meaningless delay of the case. Such things are actually a victory for IBM. IBM can afford to have this drag on forever. SCO's days are numbered.
No, its perfectly acceptable delay for SCO to ask IBM if they can see more of Linux code.
WTF? I thought Linux was open source? Maybe the article meant to say AIX code.
I would not weigh too much with this article besides this. Looking at one of their advertiser's, one of those fraudulent diploma mills, I doubt they have too much credibility.
Is _everything_ that comes from Salt Lake City, UT a scam or what?
How did Intel enforce it's "Linux on Centrino" ban? Isn't that unfair competition? It stinks of Microsoft collusion...
I guess they could severely raise their OEM pricing or ban them from selling their Centrino products entirely. I don't believe its a Microsoft collusion, Linux has always sucked in power management (maybe this is different with the 2.6.8 kernel as the article alludes to), and the Centrino is marketed as a low power/long battery life package with wireless. If none of that works, its not Centrino.
Now that Intel ceased banning Linux on Laptops then I should be able to call Dell or HP and say I want a laptop that runs Linux out of the box right?
Intel never "banned" Linux on laptops. Intel could care less what you do with their hardware after you buy it, including smashing it with a hammer, or immediately throwing it in the trash.
Intel was protesting companies using the Centrino brand name with a Linux operating system because Linux did not sufficiently work with the features of the Centrino branded products (power saving, wireless, etc) and did not want their brand name compromised because of this. I don't know the status of Linux on a Centrino based laptop, but my guess is that its still sufficiently broken and/or sucky in general, and this is partly or mostly due to Intel not letting the Linux developers have the needed info about how the hardware works, nor did they (afaik) provide drivers for Centrino products.
Does any of the stuff like ACPI work with Linux yet? Can Linux sleep and resume? Does it still eat batteries?
``The term `financial gain' includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works.''.
This is utter BS. I'm not into copyright infringement, but to say that I download a Xvid or some other lower quality version of a movie in a format that I cannot buy, and in return for downloading said unavailable product I offer you a B&W photocopy of a copyrighted Playboy centerfold or even a stock tip, then I'm guilty via the financial gain thing.
Move over George Orwell.
I'm beginning to think my calendar is lying to me.
That is the problem with most consumers, they look at the bottom line when they are buying.
No the problem is that companies are being deceptive (a requirement for fraud, btw) and the consumers do not know the bottom line. The bottom line is that inkjet printers suck in quality and convenience and are more expensive than laser printers.
They did commit copyright infringement. How is that conspiracy?
Its a plea. Want to understand the law, get a law degree or be a lawmaker. Although, neither really can understand the often contradictory aspects of the law, but those people are the only ones with the authority to do so.
Also, from the FA, its worth mentioning:
Both men pleaded guilty to acting for commercial advantage or private financial gain
This is piracy or bootleging or whatever you want to call it. This is not typical p2p activity because there was commercial gain from it.
Friends don't let friends buy inkjet printers until they market these things to people other than those that are stupid, poor, and/or cheap.
They suck, they are designed to be disposable because I guess it takes people like 3 or 4 times to figure out that they are marketed with lead in pricing to only get you to buy their overpriced ink refills or simply do the easier thing -- buy another printer (with 1/4 filled ink cartridges).
I saw on TV where color Xerox (rebranded Phaser) laser printer is under $1,000. Lower end B&W laser printers with toners that last years can be gotten for 5-600. My parents paid $600 for an Apple dot matrix printer in the mid 80s (kick ass as far as dot matrix goes).
In other words, like everything else. We have control. If noone buys their shitty stuff, then they will change. But as long as people keep bending over and getting assraped by these people -- Well, they will keep giving it to you. Every time, and twice on Sundays.
Yeah, 404ed, but interesting is that http://bt.etree.org/ did the same thing with the same error. I don't know if they are on the same server or not, but I thought I'd be wayyy offtopic as well.
I know of no one that has died from being hit by a bus. I only know two people who have murdered another, and I did not know the people they killed (one each). I know of at least one person that has died via suicide. I know more than I can count that have died from "natural" causes where some was from disease and most were from simply having old bodies.
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Okay, why shouldn't we?
Currently there are 6.2 billion people on this planet, and that number is growing despite the fact that people die now.
Take away the dying factor.
Kierkegaard, being an existentialist also was a big fan of Don Juan, who didn't suffer in his life
So does this mean we can hold gun makers, people who build cars and knives to the same level of responsiblity?
No of course not.
It would me that we would hold gun makers responsible for the deaths of people that used a knife in self defense.
I guess you have never heard of the late 70's, have you?
Yes, I was there. I was young. Do you have an example of a good or service which rose directly because of the price of fuel at the time?
Agreed if you're running a data center, or if you have a large business with hundreds of these things, I meant more for personal use.
I don't see where anybody would loose from a more efficient processor design.
The same goes with transportation. The more efficient the transportation, the cheaper it will be for goods and services that depend on them, which is about everything today. The same can be said about processor design.
One interesting thing, is I have _never_ seen a price increase or decrease for any goods or services due to the price of gasoline/diesel fuel which is pretty volatile compared to other commodities and inflation. Its kinda weird I think.
But I don't really care a whole lot about what the bloody Wattage rating is on my Processor. But I don't really care a whole lot about what the bloody Wattage rating is on my Processor.
Fine, I'll send you the powerbill when it gets to be $1,000 a month for the privilege of running a new processor.
Low Power CPUs are only a concern if my computer is running off a battery.
Another dorm room computer expert.
When you have a room full of servers and it takes an additional $20,000 or more for cooling and power upgrades and UPS upgrades because people don't care about low power CPUs except in a computer running off of the battery, I'll send you that bill too.
We constantly hear about computer manufacturers "closing the gap" between laptops and desktops. this will never happen. At least for me, the two serve completely different purposes. My desktop is the workhorse, does all the compiling for both computers (both run linux), and is my general use machine. My laptop is low powered, and only used for work on the road. Last time i shopped for a laptop, most models were trying to do everything and more, while i just want a cheap laptop, no glitz except maybe wireless, with a long battery life.
So, you would complain if your laptop had the power of your desktop with the same portability and mobility?
That's it. No 4 ghz 512 mgs ram monsters. I don't need 64 Bit processing. Keep it simple stupid.
I'm all for KISS (and AC/DC!), but again, why not have 64bit processing on your laptop. I mean, do you really need 32bit? Especially if you like the feature(?) of compiling stuff on your desktop and transferring it to your laptop, this may soon become an issue if you compile code for your new "workhorse" that is now 64bit, and now you have to recompile the code for your 32bit (or whatever) laptop.
For me, I would like the gap closed between the two. There is no need for a desktop to sit there and waste bunches of electricity and heat my room. I don't consider those features. It would greatly apply to the KISS principle if the same CPU went in both mobile and desktop boxes, and maybe something different for servers. For me, I would like for my laptop (1.25GHz PowerBook) to be more powerful AND have longer battery life. Why not?
Why waste the time and effort to have 2 computers? KISS!