I don't have a Comcast DVR, I have a 3 tuner Moxi via Cablecard and it's great. Even supports recorded and live viewing on another TV via a network-connected "Moxi Mate".
Do you have Comcast? If so, they are the ones enabling your day-long Netflix streaming session as well:) Netflix, VUDU, Pandora, etc all work fine for me, precisely because my connection has been a rock-solid 30Mbps since I got it. Though honestly Netflix's selection is pretty crappy, no new release movies or TV. Depends what you like, I guess, but it's not a solution for everyone.
Not that I am particularly defending Comcast or anything, I just haven't personally had any issues so I have no reason to rip them...
Are you kidding? Kotaku is a Gawker property, ie. part of the same company as Gawker.com and Gizmodo, among others. Journalistic standards and integrity run pretty thin over there...
Sorry, do you have the slightest real world evidence to back this theory up? Because in fact I work at a company experiencing this exact situation, and while we are pissed at the situation there is NO WAY IN HELL we will drop the PS3 platform or PSN once it's back up. After you said "most profitable divisions" nothing else about your statement really mattered, and as I already said, a month is a blip on the long term revenue chart. Unless you can name a couple other game consoles with 70+ million customers that we somehow missed...
We'll see... I'm not totally Comcast-clueless (or a first time Comcast customer after having moved many times - now I'm just less mobile since I finally bought a house;). The increase (based on current rates at least) will be more like 50%, not 2-3x.
Anyway, we'll see if I keep the cable TV (the largest portion of the bill) once the deal is over. Don't really need a Roku, since I already have a PS3 and XBox that both do Netflix, Hulu, and video/music sharing from a local server...
You know, I want to hate Comcast as much as everyone else, but I am paying what I consider a fair price (it's a promotion, but a *2 year* discounted promotion) for a huge selection of HD TV channels, IP phone service, and consistent 30Mbps down/ 3Mbps up Internet access.
I do admit their customer support isn't always the most useful when something goes wrong, but they have always tried to help (and when they eventually did have to send a tech to fix the line, he was very competent). Gotta give credit to almost all of the front line employees I have interacted with. I'm sure their lobbyists and execs are appropriately evil, but I haven't had to deal with them (or their policies) yet...
Absolutely nothing. My whole point was one month of downtime is a revenue blip and is going to make no difference in strategic decisions as hypothesized in the article...
The whole statement doesn't make sense on the face of it. If they are "losing millions" from being down for one month, then clearly they are making millions when it's up.
After the dust settles Sony may lose some fraction of their customer base, but in the long run no game developer is going to give up on a platform with ~30 million customers just because of this fiasco.
It's because these are dedicated factories used to create Apple products. Do you really think Apple would allow any other companies to produce goods alongside theirs? (and that's rhetorical, it's already been reported they demand dedicated facilities...)
Apple has *extremely* strict requirements and standards for any supplier or manufacturer as far as secrecy and quality control; they just haven't been *quite* as demanding on basic labor protections. If they wanted to, they could stop this treatment at their contract manufacturers - they would just have to pay higher costs, which they are not willing to do. Is that their responsibility? Well, that's the debate, and given they are now one of the largest companies in the world, it makes sense they would be mentioned the most.
A class action is NEVER about making he victims whole. It's about punishing the offending corporation. Period.
Except in reality it's not even about that, but more akin to class-action lawyers acting like derivatives traders, where they make millions doing nothing useful for the economy while their customers are lucky to see any gain at all.
One has to wonder why TomTom didn't just innovate better or charge more if they wanted more revenue/
I'd say that's pretty obvious - their primary business used to be selling hardware, and that has been hammered by Smartphones and in-dash Nav systems.
They then ported their software to run on those Smartphones, but the pricing pressure from intense competition for Smartphone Nav software (there are now at least *11* available for the iPhone!) has eroded much of that revenue as well.
Same thing happened to Tivo (and Tivo also responded "creatively", by selling anonymous aggregate usage data as well as suing anyone they could). "Innovation" is great, but not as easy as it sounds when your entire business becomes commoditized...
Everything except the concealed computers - it was just a highly organized team of cart counters. So it wasn't illegal (but that doesn't mean most of them aren't banned for life from most casinos by now...)
Oh come on, even if it's near-minimum wage, that's still enough to blow a few hours pay and go buy 2GB RAM. And when you leave, you can take it with you;)
Exactly. My problem is that SETIGuy seems to treat publicly-funded science as more important or fundamental, while treating privately-funded research as a sort of parasite that can only build on the former. I was trying to show that things are more complex than that by pointing out that the exact opposite argument could be made fairly easily.
Yeah, I was more talking about expenditure, ie. there is NO way modern physics, astronomy, or many other areas would be even close to their current status without massive public funding (and the private funding has been near non-existent). When talking "parasite", it's mostly a matter of resources expended and/or leached, so while nothing is absolute, it's hard to argue which gives back more than it gets (starts to sound like, say a BSD vs. proprietary software license...)
Where there is potential massive short term profit (pharmaceuticals or other healthcare, electronics, software) there is plenty of expenditure and innovation...
In fact, space travel is the exact opposite of the process the original poster mentioned: something that started out privately in the abstract theory stage and was entirely government-run by the time it got to practical applications.
Not really... the point of the original poster was for "successful private *investment* of huge amounts of money", not "using any new science discovered since the beginning of time without government money". It was about corporate vs government funding. I think it's pretty obvious that public funding for space travel dwarfed the total previous private funding petty quickly, and if left to private funding we'd still be figuring out how to orbit a monkey, not seeing a *private* company like SpaceX launching satellites.
And in general, sure, I think it's obvious that the sum total of human knowledge is built up from various foundations over time, but it's not really relevant to this thread.
Yeah, there was that MASSIVE private space program before NASA finally got involved. [Of course, there was a lot built on top of German developments in WWII, but that was still "public" ie. military resources...]
Top Employment Sectors for MIT Graduates
Undergrads Masters Aerospace/defense 8% 6% Biological science 8% 3% Computer technologies 13% 17% Consulting 18% 21% Energy/utilities 6% 4% Finance 16% 12% Other engineering 11% 17%
So, 16% of MIT grads go into finance. Oh no, they might as well abandon their BS program and shut down the engineering school!
I can tell you for a fact (from our abysmal hiring percentage due to both unqualified applicants and multiple offers) that the tech industry (especially in the Bay Area) is hiring like mad right now, and there is a huge shortage of qualified engineers. I have not heard the same from friends in many other industries. Honestly, "outsourcing" is only a concern if you are mediocre at your job in the first place - those at the top of their field (like many MIT grads) have little to worry about.
It's important to note, though, that EULAs have been found invalid where they violate existing consumer protection laws. A good example is the article posted yesterday about Sony & OtherOS...
I know a lot of people who don't really understand/care about surround sound, but personally I think when done right it can enhance an action movie (or video game) more than many of the overblown-CG special effects.
I do have to admit I have seen at least a half-dozen movies in 3D in the theater, and while I was blown away with Avatar and impressed with HTTYD, the rest were mediocre to pointless (Up and Toy Story 3 were meh, and Alice in Wonderland I really wished I had picked the 2D version instead).
Still, the fact is just one movie that everyone agrees was amazing in 3D proves that the technology is NOT the scam, it's the half-assed implements we have seen.
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How can you even refer to that cable without the Amazon page?? ;)
http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM
If you haven't read the user comments, you need to...
I don't have a Comcast DVR, I have a 3 tuner Moxi via Cablecard and it's great. Even supports recorded and live viewing on another TV via a network-connected "Moxi Mate".
Do you have Comcast? If so, they are the ones enabling your day-long Netflix streaming session as well :) Netflix, VUDU, Pandora, etc all work fine for me, precisely because my connection has been a rock-solid 30Mbps since I got it. Though honestly Netflix's selection is pretty crappy, no new release movies or TV. Depends what you like, I guess, but it's not a solution for everyone.
Not that I am particularly defending Comcast or anything, I just haven't personally had any issues so I have no reason to rip them...
Are you kidding? Kotaku is a Gawker property, ie. part of the same company as Gawker.com and Gizmodo, among others. Journalistic standards and integrity run pretty thin over there...
Sorry, do you have the slightest real world evidence to back this theory up? Because in fact I work at a company experiencing this exact situation, and while we are pissed at the situation there is NO WAY IN HELL we will drop the PS3 platform or PSN once it's back up. After you said "most profitable divisions" nothing else about your statement really mattered, and as I already said, a month is a blip on the long term revenue chart. Unless you can name a couple other game consoles with 70+ million customers that we somehow missed...
Is it just me or is the text on most comments cut off to the top half? I tried with Firefox, Chrome, and IE and it's the same with all of them...
We'll see... I'm not totally Comcast-clueless (or a first time Comcast customer after having moved many times - now I'm just less mobile since I finally bought a house ;). The increase (based on current rates at least) will be more like 50%, not 2-3x.
Anyway, we'll see if I keep the cable TV (the largest portion of the bill) once the deal is over. Don't really need a Roku, since I already have a PS3 and XBox that both do Netflix, Hulu, and video/music sharing from a local server...
You know, I want to hate Comcast as much as everyone else, but I am paying what I consider a fair price (it's a promotion, but a *2 year* discounted promotion) for a huge selection of HD TV channels, IP phone service, and consistent 30Mbps down/ 3Mbps up Internet access.
I do admit their customer support isn't always the most useful when something goes wrong, but they have always tried to help (and when they eventually did have to send a tech to fix the line, he was very competent). Gotta give credit to almost all of the front line employees I have interacted with. I'm sure their lobbyists and execs are appropriately evil, but I haven't had to deal with them (or their policies) yet...
Absolutely nothing. My whole point was one month of downtime is a revenue blip and is going to make no difference in strategic decisions as hypothesized in the article...
The whole statement doesn't make sense on the face of it. If they are "losing millions" from being down for one month, then clearly they are making millions when it's up.
After the dust settles Sony may lose some fraction of their customer base, but in the long run no game developer is going to give up on a platform with ~30 million customers just because of this fiasco.
I couldn't stand DL, but you have to admit it did define the genre of laserdisc games (and was probably more art than game anyway).
Then wait 'til the Martians try to set up a base in the middle of the minefield, and BOOM! That'll teach them to mess with our natural satellites.
It's because these are dedicated factories used to create Apple products. Do you really think Apple would allow any other companies to produce goods alongside theirs? (and that's rhetorical, it's already been reported they demand dedicated facilities...)
Apple has *extremely* strict requirements and standards for any supplier or manufacturer as far as secrecy and quality control; they just haven't been *quite* as demanding on basic labor protections. If they wanted to, they could stop this treatment at their contract manufacturers - they would just have to pay higher costs, which they are not willing to do. Is that their responsibility? Well, that's the debate, and given they are now one of the largest companies in the world, it makes sense they would be mentioned the most.
1) Do your research:
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/principles/osspatentpledge.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/IPLicensing/customercovenant/msnovellcollab/patent_agreement.aspx
2) Stop plagarizing Richard Stallman's quotes without attribution:
http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono
Yeah the actual linked "article" (winbeta.org!?) was probably the worst and most innaccurate piece written covering this news...
A class action is NEVER about making he victims whole. It's about punishing the offending corporation. Period.
Except in reality it's not even about that, but more akin to class-action lawyers acting like derivatives traders, where they make millions doing nothing useful for the economy while their customers are lucky to see any gain at all.
One has to wonder why TomTom didn't just innovate better or charge more if they wanted more revenue/
I'd say that's pretty obvious - their primary business used to be selling hardware, and that has been hammered by Smartphones and in-dash Nav systems.
They then ported their software to run on those Smartphones, but the pricing pressure from intense competition for Smartphone Nav software (there are now at least *11* available for the iPhone!) has eroded much of that revenue as well.
Same thing happened to Tivo (and Tivo also responded "creatively", by selling anonymous aggregate usage data as well as suing anyone they could). "Innovation" is great, but not as easy as it sounds when your entire business becomes commoditized...
Everything except the concealed computers - it was just a highly organized team of cart counters. So it wasn't illegal (but that doesn't mean most of them aren't banned for life from most casinos by now...)
Oh come on, even if it's near-minimum wage, that's still enough to blow a few hours pay and go buy 2GB RAM. And when you leave, you can take it with you ;)
Exactly. My problem is that SETIGuy seems to treat publicly-funded science as more important or fundamental, while treating privately-funded research as a sort of parasite that can only build on the former. I was trying to show that things are more complex than that by pointing out that the exact opposite argument could be made fairly easily.
Yeah, I was more talking about expenditure, ie. there is NO way modern physics, astronomy, or many other areas would be even close to their current status without massive public funding (and the private funding has been near non-existent). When talking "parasite", it's mostly a matter of resources expended and/or leached, so while nothing is absolute, it's hard to argue which gives back more than it gets (starts to sound like, say a BSD vs. proprietary software license...)
Where there is potential massive short term profit (pharmaceuticals or other healthcare, electronics, software) there is plenty of expenditure and innovation...
In fact, space travel is the exact opposite of the process the original poster mentioned: something that started out privately in the abstract theory stage and was entirely government-run by the time it got to practical applications.
Not really... the point of the original poster was for "successful private *investment* of huge amounts of money", not "using any new science discovered since the beginning of time without government money". It was about corporate vs government funding. I think it's pretty obvious that public funding for space travel dwarfed the total previous private funding petty quickly, and if left to private funding we'd still be figuring out how to orbit a monkey, not seeing a *private* company like SpaceX launching satellites.
And in general, sure, I think it's obvious that the sum total of human knowledge is built up from various foundations over time, but it's not really relevant to this thread.
GILFS!
Yeah, there was that MASSIVE private space program before NASA finally got involved.
[Of course, there was a lot built on top of German developments in WWII, but that was still "public" ie. military resources...]
Took me 30 seconds to find these stats:
Top Employment Sectors for MIT Graduates
Undergrads Masters
Aerospace/defense 8% 6%
Biological science 8% 3%
Computer technologies 13% 17%
Consulting 18% 21%
Energy/utilities 6% 4%
Finance 16% 12%
Other engineering 11% 17%
So, 16% of MIT grads go into finance. Oh no, they might as well abandon their BS program and shut down the engineering school!
I can tell you for a fact (from our abysmal hiring percentage due to both unqualified applicants and multiple offers) that the tech industry (especially in the Bay Area) is hiring like mad right now, and there is a huge shortage of qualified engineers. I have not heard the same from friends in many other industries. Honestly, "outsourcing" is only a concern if you are mediocre at your job in the first place - those at the top of their field (like many MIT grads) have little to worry about.
It's important to note, though, that EULAs have been found invalid where they violate existing consumer protection laws. A good example is the article posted yesterday about Sony & OtherOS...
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/04/23/031220/Sony-Should-Pay-For-OtherOS-Removal-Says-Finnish-Board
I know a lot of people who don't really understand/care about surround sound, but personally I think when done right it can enhance an action movie (or video game) more than many of the overblown-CG special effects.
I do have to admit I have seen at least a half-dozen movies in 3D in the theater, and while I was blown away with Avatar and impressed with HTTYD, the rest were mediocre to pointless (Up and Toy Story 3 were meh, and Alice in Wonderland I really wished I had picked the 2D version instead).
Still, the fact is just one movie that everyone agrees was amazing in 3D proves that the technology is NOT the scam, it's the half-assed implements we have seen.