Marginal Change and Improvement (MC&I) it the path of evolution and it isnt' required that they get it perfect the first time out. There will get much support in the non-western world and good support every where. The first cards might lack features and key functions but give it a few years and let everything build upon that which came before it..
I mean did you ever see the early releases of Linux? or any other open source project at release point.1 or.4?
The story seems a bit like a plant.. and well, the web site doesn't seem to go into Price... Pricing being something that would put this all into prospective... Is this something that working stiffs can afford or just a play toy for the rich.
The Mini ATM is 699.00 but someone I'm thinking the car is more expensive...
TiVO, Replay and other PVR are much more about time shifting then anything else. Forwarding through content ads or TV is a feature. That Tivo seeks to put ads there isnt' wrong in any moral sense. It might not help them in the marketplace but it might not hurt them either. As long as they dont' "slow" the forward movement of the fast forward, they aren't interfering with the feature.
They (U2) might not have charged for the Ad, but they are certainly getting there money's worth. But it's a bit like someone signing a programmer to a 500k a year contract and then the programmer decides to help that person by spending a hour or two helping them fix a spreadsheet FOR FREE...
Is the lic. something like an ANTI GLP that sorta locks people into the MSFT/Commerical software market in the same way that GLP works to insure that "Free" code stays free?
The important issue for us is Content. What is legal? by copyright or by context (e.g., obscene, community standards, etc.).
The FCC has a lot of control over this in term of what is Obscene. Howard has a good point that some talk shows can do topics and not be fined but his show is.
In NYC women are not required to wear shirts; that is it's legal to show breasts in public. Thus Janet Jackson's nipple is legal to be seen here. Why is a nipple Obscene in the first place? IMHO telling women that a nipple is Obscene is about the same as telling them they have to keep their legs and face covered.
We say the USA is a free country but if you taken in to context the Comstock laws and now the Powell FCC Board some aspects of personal expression are very limited.
I'd love to have them embedded in my books, DVDs, and so forth so I could get an inventory and stop buying the same books over and over again because I can't remember which ones i own..:(
> Ballmer must be nuts! A low cost computer will kill MS.
Some day there will be a low cost computer, based on Commodity chips, software, etc. So it's better to make $5 a year from the billion people who will have that computer, than to make nothing.. and an extra dollar per computer is an extra Billion...
Why A Billion? About Billion have computers now.. and until it gets to that low price level ($100), most could never afford it. But my theory is that @ $100 only about 1 Billion more can, leave 3+ billion people on the Planet without.. Of course if you count by FAMILY rather than by person and you factor out some of the older population you do get a deeper world wide penetration.
My own two cents... an affordable computer is relative; For me it is one to two weeks Salary... It's good for a few years and then you replace it.
At $100 a Billion more people might afford one. Good news for MS. I still think that means 50 to 80% of the people on the planet will never have a personal computer. We think of EVERYONE having one... but BILLIONS Don't and never will.
If China or India through government agencies spec'd out and helped pay for some deployments of cheap computers, it would help them create a cultural Homogony now known by the US. It could use commodity chip sets.
The spec' would call for use of TV monitors, which more people already have and use over the air digital networks and/or networks that delivery audio, video, voice and data. Basically radio, TV, Internet and Telephony in one pipe. Put lot of government services over that pipe, like education and government services and you could do some good.
What you are saying, is legal. The Payola allows actually allows for Pay for Play IF and ONLY IF they say something like, "Mega corp has paid us to play this song for you..."
The issue is, esp., when DJ's used to pick the songs they played, that the public would believe it was picked because they liked it... not because of payola.
This is good news.. these laws have long been ignored and in the age of consolidated mega media, "pay for play" is just part of the SOP.
They should enforce the law or remove it from the books. But if big media can't get the radio play they want, it really makes it hard for them to produce mega hits "on demand."
I also have a DSM-320 and I offer this more detailed review...
In terms of Wi-Fi it supports B and G.
It supports a variety of video formats, AVI, DIVX, MPEG 1-4. With the latest upgrades it can do video forward and backwards (in FF or Fast reverse). Downloaded video file look good when played via the DSM-320 on my 20 inch TV set.
It plays MP3 and you can create play lists on your PC. I think this is a great feature as many have some type of high end "home theater system" and this let's you turn that into an MP3 player. There some MP3 Only competitors to the DSM-320, if that is all you need.
It also supports viewing photos (jpg) on the TV screen which makes for a nice post vacation slide show.
It also works with some online content from AOL, NAPSTER and others if you want paid digital music.
It's worth noting that DVB-T, T for Terrestrial, is the standard for over the air digital broadcasts everywhere in the world except the US, and possibly South Korea.
DVB-C, the standard for digital cable, and DVB-S is the standard for Satellite TV.
The US claims that DVB-T doesn't work well in more rural areas, which maybe true.
This is like the old Net News warning that each Net News Post cost 1,000's of dollars worth of bandwidth... which might have been true depending on how you allocated costs, but when you look at the actual marginal cost adding a post to blog doesn't really cost anything (if you want to play the game that way).
More over, it isn't a contribution in the same way your telephone bill when you call your Mom to talk poltics isn't a contribution. It's a cost making the speech. Print a flyer and hand otu some "hand bills" that isnt' a contribution either.
But speech is speech and anything that would chill your personal ability to talk about politics would certainly, imho, trump any other issue or claim.
I can see them regulating PAID ads just as they do any other, but in terms of personal expression - chat rooms, blogs, etc. that would be "chilling" and clearly not allowed under any reasonable view of the consitution.
In the more gray area would be online commerical speach since the courts tend to view commmerical speach rights as being less than those of actual humans.
It's worth nothing that Win-95 which brought an IP "stack" to most people's computer for the first time initially wasn't going to have any IP on it and they had other "MS" technology that was supposed to "kill" HTML and other open standards.
But in a the enemy of my enemy is my friend, once MS accouned they wanted to kill the internet almost every other technology company embrased it and well, by the time WIn-95 launched they also had to embrase it (IP that is).
Back in the day when I was buying my first real Router a 20k unit from Cisco I had looked at a similar 3com offering. It was clear it was better on a pure packet handling basis, but the software wasn't anything I needed. I think it did some Novel Routing and TCP/IP (et. al.), but I didn't have support for sample for giving ethernet routing to Apple computers "then" still on LocalTalk (a key feature for me); but it was more than just Apple support. Cisco had much more software in Router to really let me set up the network I really needed...
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Marginal Change and Improvement (MC&I) it the path of evolution and it isnt' required that they get it perfect the first time out. There will get much support in the non-western world and good support every where. The first cards might lack features and key functions but give it a few years and let everything build upon that which came before it..
.1 or .4?
I mean did you ever see the early releases of Linux? or any other open source project at release point
The story seems a bit like a plant.. and well, the web site doesn't seem to go into Price... Pricing being something that would put this all into prospective... Is this something that working stiffs can afford or just a play toy for the rich.
The Mini ATM is 699.00 but someone I'm thinking the car is more expensive...
Is it 6k? 15k? or 25k?
I bought the Polaroid MP3 Player because it was about $220.00 and 40 gigs and looks really ugly but I don't care about fashion.
TiVO, Replay and other PVR are much more about time shifting then anything else. Forwarding through content ads or TV is a feature. That Tivo seeks to put ads there isnt' wrong in any moral sense. It might not help them in the marketplace but it might not hurt them either. As long as they dont' "slow" the forward movement of the fast forward, they aren't interfering with the feature.
They (U2) might not have charged for the Ad, but they are certainly getting there money's worth. But it's a bit like someone signing a programmer to a 500k a year contract and then the programmer decides to help that person by spending a hour or two helping them fix a spreadsheet FOR FREE...
It's also clearly still a BETA product
searching for habs@panix.com my email since '89 turns up NO results, but the following string without the quotes yields resutls
"habs panix.com"
If this cools the artic doesn't that "help" fight supposed warming of the artic? Wouldn't that be a good thing..?
Although an evil DLINK product, I use the DSM-320 and it gets just about everything I need onto or out of my TV/Home Theater System.
Is the lic. something like an ANTI GLP that sorta locks people into the MSFT/Commerical software market in the same way that GLP works to insure that "Free" code stays free?
The important issue for us is Content. What is legal? by copyright or by context (e.g., obscene, community standards, etc.).
The FCC has a lot of control over this in term of what is Obscene. Howard has a good point that some talk shows can do topics and not be fined but his show is.
In NYC women are not required to wear shirts; that is it's legal to show breasts in public. Thus Janet Jackson's nipple is legal to be seen here. Why is a nipple Obscene in the first place? IMHO telling women that a nipple is Obscene is about the same as telling them they have to keep their legs and face covered.
We say the USA is a free country but if you taken in to context the Comstock laws and now the Powell FCC Board some aspects of personal expression are very limited.
I'd love to have them embedded in my books, DVDs, and so forth so I could get an inventory and stop buying the same books over and over again because I can't remember which ones i own.. :(
> Ballmer must be nuts! A low cost computer will kill MS.
Some day there will be a low cost computer, based on Commodity chips, software, etc. So it's better to make $5 a year from the billion people who will have that computer, than to make nothing.. and an extra dollar per computer is an extra Billion...
Why A Billion? About Billion have computers now.. and until it gets to that low price level ($100), most could never afford it. But my theory is that @ $100 only about 1 Billion more can, leave 3+ billion people on the Planet without.. Of course if you count by FAMILY rather than by person and you factor out some of the older population you do get a deeper world wide penetration.
My own two cents... an affordable computer is relative; For me it is one to two weeks Salary... It's good for a few years and then you replace it.
At $100 a Billion more people might afford one. Good news for MS. I still think that means 50 to 80% of the people on the planet will never have a personal computer. We think of EVERYONE having one... but BILLIONS Don't and never will.
If China or India through government agencies spec'd out and helped pay for some deployments of cheap computers, it would help them create a cultural Homogony now known by the US. It could use commodity chip sets.
The spec' would call for use of TV monitors, which more people already have and use over the air digital networks and/or networks that delivery audio, video, voice and data. Basically radio, TV, Internet and Telephony in one pipe. Put lot of government services over that pipe, like education and government services and you could do some good.
Nothing wrong with the "Mega Corp morning drive power set, brought you by Mega Corp."
Not that i would listen...
Or what the DJ actually wanted to play... either way, a real human making subjective choices.
What you are saying, is legal. The Payola allows actually allows for Pay for Play IF and ONLY IF they say something like, "Mega corp has paid us to play this song for you..."
The issue is, esp., when DJ's used to pick the songs they played, that the public would believe it was picked because they liked it... not because of payola.
This is good news.. these laws have long been ignored and in the age of consolidated mega media, "pay for play" is just part of the SOP.
They should enforce the law or remove it from the books. But if big media can't get the radio play they want, it really makes it hard for them to produce mega hits "on demand."
If not used, adopted and planned for roll out...
Even South Korea is rumored to be leaning towards it..
I also have a DSM-320 and I offer this more detailed review...
In terms of Wi-Fi it supports B and G.
It supports a variety of video formats, AVI, DIVX, MPEG 1-4. With the latest upgrades it can do video forward and backwards (in FF or Fast reverse). Downloaded video file look good when played via the DSM-320 on my 20 inch TV set.
It plays MP3 and you can create play lists on your PC. I think this is a great feature as many have some type of high end "home theater system" and this let's you turn that into an MP3 player. There some MP3 Only competitors to the DSM-320, if that is all you need.
It also supports viewing photos (jpg) on the TV screen which makes for a nice post vacation slide show.
It also works with some online content from AOL, NAPSTER and others if you want paid digital music.
It's not just "and some other places, like Australia" it's EVERYWHERE else but the US and maybe South Korea. It's the world standard.
It's also used in the US by TV stations who are transmitting feeds back to their station "houses."
It's worth noting that DVB-T, T for Terrestrial, is the standard for over the air digital broadcasts everywhere in the world except the US, and possibly South Korea.
DVB-C, the standard for digital cable, and DVB-S is the standard for Satellite TV.
The US claims that DVB-T doesn't work well in more rural areas, which maybe true.
This is like the old Net News warning that each Net News Post cost 1,000's of dollars worth of bandwidth... which might have been true depending on how you allocated costs, but when you look at the actual marginal cost adding a post to blog doesn't really cost anything (if you want to play the game that way).
More over, it isn't a contribution in the same way your telephone bill when you call your Mom to talk poltics isn't a contribution. It's a cost making the speech. Print a flyer and hand otu some "hand bills" that isnt' a contribution either.
But speech is speech and anything that would chill your personal ability to talk about politics would certainly, imho, trump any other issue or claim.
I can see them regulating PAID ads just as they do any other, but in terms of personal expression - chat rooms, blogs, etc. that would be "chilling" and clearly not allowed under any reasonable view of the consitution.
In the more gray area would be online commerical speach since the courts tend to view commmerical speach rights as being less than those of actual humans.
It's worth nothing that Win-95 which brought an IP "stack" to most people's computer for the first time initially wasn't going to have any IP on it and they had other "MS" technology that was supposed to "kill" HTML and other open standards.
But in a the enemy of my enemy is my friend, once MS accouned they wanted to kill the internet almost every other technology company embrased it and well, by the time WIn-95 launched they also had to embrase it (IP that is).
Back in the day when I was buying my first real Router a 20k unit from Cisco I had looked at a similar 3com offering. It was clear it was better on a pure packet handling basis, but the software wasn't anything I needed. I think it did some Novel Routing and TCP/IP (et. al.), but I didn't have support for sample for giving ethernet routing to Apple computers "then" still on LocalTalk (a key feature for me); but it was more than just Apple support. Cisco had much more software in Router to really let me set up the network I really needed...
I hope they have learned from that lesson...