Is t his project in the US market? It might be Euro only.
What is interesting is that it is compatible with DVB-S which is basically digital Sat. TV. DVB-S and DVB-C are used in the use. DVB-T which is digital TV "over the air" is standard everywhere but in the US (and maybe South Korea).
The same group also has MHP, Multi Media Home Platform, which is based on JavaTV. In the US we have ATVEF which is basically DOM 4, basically WebTV.
It would be really neat if the MediaMaster was MPH compliant.
For it hangs on the issue is this a gift or a sale? Which is hard with software that requires, typically, paid upgrades, which although clearly optional become more and more mandatory as the software ages.
I would say unless the gift includes free long-term upgrades/support that it's not a gift; it's a deferred or at best discounted payment.
When I had a issue with Netscape 7.02 I was able to check the Bugzilla database and find a solution to my problem without wastign anyone's time and without having to play for support.
I worked at Luminant and Michael did work there... although I don't think he had much if anything to do with the day to day managment. I was hoping he would have had a very active role but I didn't see it.
There is a even bigger point. There can be 20 or more ads per hour or per show. Watch 10 show see 200 ads.
To "break through" they have to run the same ads again and again and basically do somthing to "pump up" the interest.
When you watch very few ads, the impact and break through is huge; this is win win; if the ad is good enough or targeted enough that you stop and watch it, then everyone wins.
You win because your watching something you like; they ad maker/company wins because your paying extra attention to their ad.
I know because I have a replay and so the same as Zathrus; stop and go back to watch some ads.
You have some device which has a variety of data about it's operation. This lets' you store that data (for some period of time), let's others access this data, and could allow for some remote interaction.
1) Yes or NO, Allow or Cancel
2) It could be used in more interesting ways.
a) Built into a Phone, it could download and store rates of various phone companies based on area code and time of day and then the phone could use this database to route your call to the beste carrier.
b) Built into a device that used lots of energy (electrical or other types) it could download times when it was allowed or not allowed to be operated (based on over all usage in the system ((household, local, town-wide, or even on the reginal grid)).
c) Built into devices in a hospital or an office, it would provide all sorts of data about the operational status of critical equipment.
Sounds interesting. You take a modern Refrig. and you have all of the internal processor(s) and sensor(s) output their data to this thing and then while I'm sitting at work I can check and see how well my Fridge is running..
It might be more fun in the TV so it can keep a log of with the kids and the Spouse are watching not to mention the washing machine! [Dirty water detected, extend wash cycle (yes) (no)].
Is it also a benefit that any programmatic changes and tweaks, etc. are out in the open vs. a closed OS?
I'm think where the OS maker might through the commerical marketing "lens" see their way to tweak/improve some parts but not others or upgrading/degrading the system in ways that might help them sell more but in the end not be in all end users best interest?
All very good points. And I must say I largely agree with you today..
I'm thinking more over the next few years. The newest hotest chips tend to be in the $700 to $1000 range (USD) at release. Godson 2 if I read correctly doen't have multi processor support yet, etc.
All i'm saying is this is something that will be, at some point in time, tested in the market place and that is a good thing.
1) Free and easily ported OS allows them to have a reasonable non-standard processors.
2) US restrictions on exporting high powered chips and other computer parts are easily diluted by open standards.
3) Test, over time, in the market place the use of cheap open chips vs. more expensive perhaps more cutting edge chips (from the west). Do you use 1 or 2 AMD or Intel chips costing 700 USD or 5 or 6 Dragon/Godson 2 chips costing? $5 or $50 (etc).
Re #3, an engineer can tell you which is "best" but only the market can pick the real winner.
I discount the this is some "rebel" product within MS; that is PR spin 100%.
Everything else, with one major exception, is just a rehash of YIM, ICQ, AIM, blah blah..
The exception? The music sharing app, which seems cool in as much as they got the "major" labels to sign off on it.. They are actually creating a new type of "fair use." It probably took someone with MS's power and aggressiveness to pull that off.
The downside? This is sweet candy designed to lock the younger generation into MS-Land. This is aimed directly at keeping LINIX OFF the desktop! That's the real threat.
I think the application this research might be in highly private networks like those built on top of Cable TV systems...
In the future most if not all digital cable will be transmitted via IP including VOD -- Video On Demand.
Every at 8pm will want the their own movie and the network will need some type of active yield managment. Pricing will be one way (it might cost more at 8pm than at 1am, etc.)
However If selfish networks are 1.33 to 1.66 times slower than ideal, the wasted speed would be critical to the private network i'm talking about.
They might want your data coming and going from/. or google to take the slowest route so that the VOD of American Idol or Joe Hacker make it to more homes in your 'hood.' Etc., etc., etc.
I think most CE (Consumer Electronic) companies are very concerned about the "price point." And basically will do anything that will save them $$ and because everything has a mark-up of 1x or 2x or 4x (or more) when it gets to retail, they really try to keep teh price low..
Of course they should learn to make the things modular.. But that is not yet something within their "ken."
The RealPlayer Scroll Down has long been something I have found less than ethnical but not illegal.
Likewise I find web sites with forms (please provide the 12 items we need) and at the bottom a box (or two) permissioning spam.
Many sites, if they refresh the form (because you left out a required item), refresh with the SPAM options "ON" even if you had previously turned them "OFF."
They:
A) Easily remember your name and adress and phone # , etc.
-- but --
B) Forget that you had deselected the SPAM choice and thoughtfully or not, reselect it everytime the form refreshes.
It should be illegal to remember "some" of my input but not all of when, esp. when the part they forget adds me to their SPAM list..
Just a side point, even though the mech. units "fail" temp. during fast turns, they soon enough "sync" up. JetBlue uses such a system on their airline and is great.
A phased array approach I imagine would be even better.
I doubt John is legally bound to keep the subpoena private.
It's also interesting that with the mirrors, and other caches (waybackmachine and google), even if he had kept logs, they might not record the person the MA Att. Gen. is interested in.
All of which raises the issue of how vulerable you are to Subpoenas based on which Cache you use.
A key part of the cost of bandwidth, like other commodities (e.g., commercial electric power), is the cost of keeping bandwidth available; bandwidth that you may or may not use. If they allow their network to be utilized anything approaching 100%, then its performance will typically degrade. They need to have this extra bandwidth available for their needs (network performance) and your needs (spot available and network performance).
My prediction is over the long term their will be future markets for bandwidth (along with spot markets) and if you need to IM Tokyo every night you can get discount bits (in the futures market) or take your chances in the spot market.
If you need flat pricing then you'll get unlimited use of the "left over bits." It's like eating buffet at Atlantic City; you can eat all you want and the food isn't bad, but it isn't as good as the food in the sit down places with the linen tablecloths.
When that type of pricing develops (maybe in 10 or 15 years), then heavy regular users of bandwidth will get bandwidth with LOW market-up, because their usage is steady, predictable and contracted for.
On a tight bit budget (like a low cost PCS Cell phone plan)...?
Worried about getting/.'d...?
You can either pay for the extra bits on the spot market or simply allow service to potentially degrade by eating off the "bit buffet."
If the following is true, "So the record industry cut their inventory (and artist investment) by 25 percent and sales only dropped 4.1 percent, even though the economy is at rock bottom. There were almost 12,000 fewer new releases for the consumer to choose from in 2001 than 1999. The record companies are making more money per release than ever."
I'd like to know if is there any type of legal action to take against RIAA. For example claims they may have made under oath, any advertising they may have done (truth in advertising), etc.?
YOu can't ship sig. less product and claim the reason your gross is down is because of pirates!!
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Most of the places around the world don't have cable like we do (large and going pass most homes), and they also have teleco companies with huge national power. SO while DSL is winning, it isnt' because it's the better choice, it's winning more by default and by the control of the marketplace by Teleco companies.
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Is t his project in the US market? It might be Euro only.
What is interesting is that it is compatible with DVB-S which is basically digital Sat. TV. DVB-S and DVB-C are used in the use. DVB-T which is digital TV "over the air" is standard everywhere but in the US (and maybe South Korea).
The same group also has MHP, Multi Media Home Platform, which is based on JavaTV. In the US we have ATVEF which is basically DOM 4, basically WebTV.
It would be really neat if the MediaMaster was MPH compliant.
For it hangs on the issue is this a gift or a sale? Which is hard with software that requires, typically, paid upgrades, which although clearly optional become more and more mandatory as the software ages.
I would say unless the gift includes free long-term upgrades/support that it's not a gift; it's a deferred or at best discounted payment.
When I had a issue with Netscape 7.02 I was able to check the Bugzilla database and find a solution to my problem without wastign anyone's time and without having to play for support.
Isn't Netscape 7.02 based on Mozilla? Ok not the most popular of browsers but still in reasonably wide use.
Different.. This is Michael H.
I don' think that one needs to have IT exp. as Lou proves, BUT the point here is the left a key fact off his resume.
I worked at Luminant and Michael did work there... although I don't think he had much if anything to do with the day to day managment. I was hoping he would have had a very active role but I didn't see it.
There is a even bigger point. There can be 20 or more ads per hour or per show. Watch 10 show see 200 ads.
To "break through" they have to run the same ads again and again and basically do somthing to "pump up" the interest.
When you watch very few ads, the impact and break through is huge; this is win win; if the ad is good enough or targeted enough that you stop and watch it, then everyone wins.
You win because your watching something you like; they ad maker/company wins because your paying extra attention to their ad.
I know because I have a replay and so the same as Zathrus; stop and go back to watch some ads.
Hopefully it could keep track of the fee(s) or use the ones without fees!
You have some device which has a variety of data about it's operation. This lets' you store that data (for some period of time), let's others access this data, and could allow for some remote interaction.
1) Yes or NO, Allow or Cancel
2) It could be used in more interesting ways.
a) Built into a Phone, it could download and store rates of various phone companies based on area code and time of day and then the phone could use this database to route your call to the beste carrier.
b) Built into a device that used lots of energy (electrical or other types) it could download times when it was allowed or not allowed to be operated (based on over all usage in the system ((household, local, town-wide, or even on the reginal grid)).
c) Built into devices in a hospital or an office, it would provide all sorts of data about the operational status of critical equipment.
Sounds interesting. You take a modern Refrig. and you have all of the internal processor(s) and sensor(s) output their data to this thing and then while I'm sitting at work I can check and see how well my Fridge is running..
It might be more fun in the TV so it can keep a log of with the kids and the Spouse are watching not to mention the washing machine! [Dirty water detected, extend wash cycle (yes) (no)].
Is it also a benefit that any programmatic changes and tweaks, etc. are out in the open vs. a closed OS?
I'm think where the OS maker might through the commerical marketing "lens" see their way to tweak/improve some parts but not others or upgrading/degrading the system in ways that might help them sell more but in the end not be in all end users best interest?
All very good points. And I must say I largely agree with you today..
I'm thinking more over the next few years. The newest hotest chips tend to be in the $700 to $1000 range (USD) at release. Godson 2 if I read correctly doen't have multi processor support yet, etc.
All i'm saying is this is something that will be, at some point in time, tested in the market place and that is a good thing.
I think this shows 3 points
1) Free and easily ported OS allows them to have a reasonable non-standard processors.
2) US restrictions on exporting high powered chips and other computer parts are easily diluted by open standards.
3) Test, over time, in the market place the use of cheap open chips vs. more expensive perhaps more cutting edge chips (from the west). Do you use 1 or 2 AMD or Intel chips costing 700 USD or 5 or 6 Dragon/Godson 2 chips costing? $5 or $50 (etc).
Re #3, an engineer can tell you which is "best" but only the market can pick the real winner.
I discount the this is some "rebel" product within MS; that is PR spin 100%.
Everything else, with one major exception, is just a rehash of YIM, ICQ, AIM, blah blah..
The exception? The music sharing app, which seems cool in as much as they got the "major" labels to sign off on it.. They are actually creating a new type of "fair use." It probably took someone with MS's power and aggressiveness to pull that off.
The downside? This is sweet candy designed to lock the younger generation into MS-Land. This is aimed directly at keeping LINIX OFF the desktop! That's the real threat.
I think the application this research might be in highly private networks like those built on top of Cable TV systems...
/. or google to take the slowest route so that the VOD of American Idol or Joe Hacker make it to more homes in your 'hood.' Etc., etc., etc.
In the future most if not all digital cable will be transmitted via IP including VOD -- Video On Demand.
Every at 8pm will want the their own movie and the network will need some type of active yield managment. Pricing will be one way (it might cost more at 8pm than at 1am, etc.)
However If selfish networks are 1.33 to 1.66 times slower than ideal, the wasted speed would be critical to the private network i'm talking about.
They might want your data coming and going from
I think most CE (Consumer Electronic) companies are very concerned about the "price point." And basically will do anything that will save them $$ and because everything has a mark-up of 1x or 2x or 4x (or more) when it gets to retail, they really try to keep teh price low..
Of course they should learn to make the things modular.. But that is not yet something within their "ken."
The RealPlayer Scroll Down has long been something I have found less than ethnical but not illegal.
Likewise I find web sites with forms (please provide the 12 items we need) and at the bottom a box (or two) permissioning spam.
Many sites, if they refresh the form (because you left out a required item), refresh with the SPAM options "ON" even if you had previously turned them "OFF."
They:
A) Easily remember your name and adress and phone # , etc.
-- but --
B) Forget that you had deselected the SPAM choice and thoughtfully or not, reselect it everytime the form refreshes.
It should be illegal to remember "some" of my input but not all of when, esp. when the part they forget adds me to their SPAM list..
Just a side point, even though the mech. units "fail" temp. during fast turns, they soon enough "sync" up. JetBlue uses such a system on their airline and is great.
A phased array approach I imagine would be even better.
Of course they would need something like DeCSS.. hmmm
Perhaps they will release a commerical product that contains it's own "native" support for DVD decoding.
Then no honest and legally minded citizen would have to use "illegal" software to watch DVDs. Hmmmmmmm
I doubt John is legally bound to keep the subpoena private.
It's also interesting that with the mirrors, and other caches (waybackmachine and google), even if he had kept logs, they might not record the person the MA Att. Gen. is interested in.
All of which raises the issue of how vulerable you are to Subpoenas based on which Cache you use.
A key part of the cost of bandwidth, like other commodities (e.g., commercial electric power), is the cost of keeping bandwidth available; bandwidth that you may or may not use. If they allow their network to be utilized anything approaching 100%, then its performance will typically degrade. They need to have this extra bandwidth available for their needs (network performance) and your needs (spot available and network performance).
/.'d...?
My prediction is over the long term their will be future markets for bandwidth (along with spot markets) and if you need to IM Tokyo every night you can get discount bits (in the futures market) or take your chances in the spot market.
If you need flat pricing then you'll get unlimited use of the "left over bits." It's like eating buffet at Atlantic City; you can eat all you want and the food isn't bad, but it isn't as good as the food in the sit down places with the linen tablecloths.
When that type of pricing develops (maybe in 10 or 15 years), then heavy regular users of bandwidth will get bandwidth with LOW market-up, because their usage is steady, predictable and contracted for.
On a tight bit budget (like a low cost PCS Cell phone plan)...?
Worried about getting
You can either pay for the extra bits on the spot market or simply allow service to potentially degrade by eating off the "bit buffet."
If the following is true, "So the record industry cut their inventory (and artist investment) by 25 percent and sales only dropped 4.1 percent, even though the economy is at rock bottom. There were almost 12,000 fewer new releases for the consumer to choose from in 2001 than 1999. The record companies are making more money per release than ever."
I'd like to know if is there any type of legal action to take against RIAA. For example claims they may have made under oath, any advertising they may have done (truth in advertising), etc.?
YOu can't ship sig. less product and claim the reason your gross is down is because of pirates!!
Most of the places around the world don't have cable like we do (large and going pass most homes), and they also have teleco companies with huge national power. SO while DSL is winning, it isnt' because it's the better choice, it's winning more by default and by the control of the marketplace by Teleco companies.
Perhaps John Edwards was involved in a very special esp. of Crossing Over!!