You haven't bought it outright. It's subsidised like a mobile phone. That's why you have to pay the extra each month. As for not taken off there's about 25,000 users of what is really an early adopter product out of 8 million subscribers.
DVB-S (Digital Satelite) will work with as many decoders as you have LNBs on your satelite dish. BSkyB broadcasting here in the UK has had an equivalent of the new TW box for a year now. It uses twin tuners to allow you to record and watch independently as well as watching two different channels at the same time. But it doesn't preclude you having more STBs if you want provided your LNB can handle the multiple feeds. The most I've found on a single LNB is four feeds but that's a property of the satelite dish and not the format.
If it's a decently implemented X server on the client then it should support it provided the application isn't using any calls or extensions that aren't supported. For example my Linux PC (with GForce4 graphics card) will work as an X server for my Indy for some applications but not for others.
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OpenML is an API. Initially it didn't have any concrete code support. If you want an Apple version, implement it.
Britain did, in the 17th Century. We chopped our King's head off. France did in the 18th Century. They also chopped their King's head off. Now Bush losing his head, the would be an interesting site.
We've had both a Psion 3a and a Psion 5 because you could use them by holding in both hands and typing with thumbs. Plus, because the software was just so intuitive. I even suggested that my Dad, a technophobe, should have one and he bought a 3c. For some years he wouldn't be without it.
Last year I was looking for a value for money PDA with a keyboard. After trying several models I opted for the Sharp Zaurus SL5500 just because I can use it in the same way. I find the software pretty usable (although I'm now running Open Zaurus) and seem to be always finding new uses for it. I even use it (with one of those cassette style adapters) as an in car MP3 player.
Comcast and Time Warner think so. They bought a load. I think so too. We always seem to be ahead of the oposition with respect to innovation.
We developed one of the first set top boxes for digital television several years ago now having shipped 3 million by 2000. We've only recently started selling in the States but have succeeded where others have failed with Comcast and Time Warner. This is our latest offering.
Hah! I wrote code for these boxes. They're based on 68K microcontrollers - dig around the comments here for a link to a page with (very little) hardware and hacking information on them.
Fair comment. Even knowing how slow the earlier STBs are that surprises me. Oh well. All the products I've been working on are 150mips and above RISC powered boxes.
As for who I work for I'm not going to say but I would have thought that by looking at my profile and previous posts you should be able to guess.
But who makes it? Pace, Amstrad, Panasonic, Grundig? Which version is it? These are all different platforms with different software. It's only the OpenTV layer that is consistent across them all.
Remembering, of course, to include your de-macrovision-iser, in between the two. If it's HDTV it will output encrypted on the DVI and so it wont be as simple as that anyway.
So what you need is pragmatism and common sense on both sides.
If the music industry accepted some small level of copying and exchange and concentrated on the commercial copiers by they large scale pirates or small scale car boot sellers; and the public realised there is a level at which you are "taking the piss" and to tone down the amount of copying everyone does; then all will be happy. Unfortunately some have pushed it too hard and seen the right to copy as a free speech right and the industry has made a knee jerk reaction due to a falling market.
I can understand that if I buy a copy of an album that buy giving a copy, say to my other half, so that I can listen to one on my commute to work and my partner can listen to one at home, then I am actually denying a potential sale. I'm breaking the spirit of the purchase of an album. Having said that if I buy an album I don't believe I should have to pay for it again on cassette (remember them) or mini-disc or whatever. I want to listen to it when at my PC at home or work (when I mostly listen to music), in my car, even on my PDA or Cellphone MP3 player. That is my copy of the album and I should be able to listen to it how I wish and I object to anyone who stops me from that.
Finally the core principle of US and UK justice is inocent until proven guilty. It seems in many areas to do with both media and information technology the reverse is true. All the assumptions are that you will copy the media, you will try and defraud the companies; and this is backed up by our respective governments. The end result is a heavy handedness which just pisses me off. Since file sharing my media purchases have increased. I buy far more music than I did a couple of years ago. 99% of what I listen to is on, or from, legitimate media. But, if I were to buy a CD and find it wouldn't play on my PC or DVD player well I think I would have to consider some kind of punishment for either the band, or the publisher.
Interesting. Does that mean that the UK got a version nearer to the original lyrics than the US? I actually have that single and it has the English version on the A side and the German version on the B side. And the lyrics I remember are nearer to these than those that have been posted earlier.
It all brings back memories. The Cold War. Greenham Common. Paranoia. Winter of Discontent (although that was in the late 70's). Poll Tax Riots. Bader Meinhoff. IRA. Nuclear Threats...
SGI has a GREAT DEAL to be ashamed of when it comes to MIPS. The R16k was designed for the embedded market and is not competitive in performance with other CPUs. It loses even to mass-market CPUs like Intel & AMD. It loses embarrassingly to its RISC competition, regularly posting SpecFP scores that are 1/4th or less that of POWER4 or Itanium2
What a load of old twaddle. Most current embedded MIPs processors are based upon the R42XX architecture. They are fast enough for what you need them for (300 mips) and they don't cooked you hardware when not fitted with a fan.
Mark Knopfler and Sting were both teachers of English from Newcastle-upon-Tyne before becoming musicians. Sting's brother is a milk man and looks a lot like him aparently.
Sure it's not the distances but the number of transfers which are involved. Put a package on a Jumbo in Sydney and it will still be on that plane when it lands in London. The times when the package is likely to go missing are Sydney (it doesn't get on the plane) or London (it gets off but disappears in Heathrow somewhere).
The are 60 million people in the UK. That's an awful lot of homes. If you're sending packages from the suburbs of London to the suburbs of Glasgow at a minimum it will go from local post-office, to local sorting office, to regional sorting office, to airport, to plane, from plane, to airport, to regional sorting office, to recipient, say. That's many places where it could go missing. The major distance (London to Glasgow) isn't an issue here. That could be 400 miles, it could be 4000 miles.
There is an issue with the reliability of the packages arm of the post office, Parcel Farce. They aren't very good. But the private carriers are generally fine. I can have a friend from Arizona send me a harddrive and it turn up on my door step two days later.
But as others say in the end it's down to the effort the suppliers want to make. You could either use a better carrier, insure against potential fraud (Western Europe is not the third world and our crime is no worse than the US and in some areas a lot better), carry out better checks. Add a premium to the sales price to cover these.
We're a big market. Scandinavia, Ireland, the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy is a hell of a lot of population (between 400 million and 0.5 billion people). It must be worth their while to sell to us. If they don't we'll look elsewhere.
I can see all sorts of uses for a minature board that has simply say a CF port, audio and serial or similar minimalist combinations.
It seems they are trying to minaturise a full PC which includes the kitchen sink. There must be a point below which this is no longer useful. If you want subminature servers why do you need audio and video out/in? The absolute minimum size is also restricted by the area required to fit all the connectors so such a device can't get much smaller.
So in the end you have something that is small but not revelutionarally so. That isn't particularly fast and not expandable. It's fairly pricey (can someone explain why you can't use a PDA in it's place?) It's a compromise and compromises are always the worst of all worlds.
Kids will only learn the basic usability issues that'll get them ready for "real" CS courses Sadly "real" CS courses are few and far between. I've heard of many courses dropping operating, compiler and low level theory because "the students will probably just write applications in VB and will buy the rest". There's going to be a real skills shortage in the future with the majority of coders not really knowing what's going on the machine at all.
There's been ARM Linux running on Acorn's ARM machines for sometime now. I got it running on my RISC PC sometime in 97/8. Also in the late 80's you could get an Archimedes A540 running RiscIX which was based upon BSD.
Don't forget ARM originally stood for Acorn Risc Machines. They invented the things. I'm surrounded by them. They are in my phone, set top box, one of my desktop machines and my PDA. People always think of BBC Micros when Acorn is mentioned forgetting that they made the worlds first desktop RISC based machine. They've also made many other inovations over the years.
I personally am sick and tired of saving Eurpoe's ass. WW I, WW II, Suez, Balkans... why don't you damn fools get some spine and take care of yourselves?
You didn't in WWII the Rusians did by tying up the German forces on the Eastern front. By the time you turned up we'd won North Africa and the Battle of Britain, Hitler had given up on the invasion of Britain and had turned to the east hence the Russian involvment.
You did help financially because we were running out of money. Two and half years of fighting drains a country especially when it's being bombed regularly.
When you finally got involved, with typical US arogance and lack of control you cocked up. The Omaha beach landing was a fiasco because you ignored the advice of the Brits who had far more experience and who landed fairly safely. The scene at the start of Saving Private Ryan didn't happen elsewhere.
In the first Gulf war you did it again killing more Brits than the Iraqis and in the second you did it yet again.
From the Daily Mirror, Monday April 7th 2003
Brit Pilot's Punch-up
A Furious British Helicopter Pilot who came under "friendly fire" from American troops landed yards from them, leapt out and exchanged punches with a US Marine.
The Chinook pilot shouted at him: "When was the last time you saw a f******* Iraqi in a helicopter?"
The pilot and the marine had to be pulled apart as American troops advanced on the north of Baghdad, according to US reports from US Central Command in Qatar.
British military spokesman Group Captain Al Lockwood said: "I'm afraid it would be an RAF kind of thing to do. "These guys are not known for tolerating fools gladly."
And
The following was broadcast live on CNN on the 24th of March.
In front of camera is the CNN anchor. He is joined by three American military experts (one being a retired two-star general from the 'elite' Delta Force) and an ex SAS soldier. Footage on side-screen shows Iraqi soldiers surrendering to coalition troops.
CNN Anchor: "We've no current verification as to whether these are US or British troops the Iraqis are surrendering to. " Yank 1: "They look to be ours - only US troops wear boots like those." Yank 2: "Indeed, and they appear to have the standard issue camouflage fatigues." Yank 3 (Delta Force): "I'm not sure - we'll have to get close-up images of them to be 100%. We'll definitely be able to tell from the shape of their Kevlar helmets if they're ours." Ex SAS: "I'm surprised to learn you're all experts. Since when did US forces carry the SA80 rifle as standard issue? Their DPMs could've been bought, as could their boots and webbing for that matter, so you're chasing rainbows if you can I.D them from their clothes!" Anchor: "I think you're right." Ex SAS: "Of course I'm bloody right - anyone with half a brain and basic military training worth their salt should be able to I.D a British soldier by his rifle unless he's special forces! Not to mention the fact that they're covering all their arcs of fire properly, not shouting "woo yeah!" randomly and haven't raised a flag in direct contravention of their orders!"
...At this point one of the Americans pulls his mic off and leaves the floor. The other two look very uncomfortable...
Anchor: "I think we can safely say that the soldiers on your screen are British. Now for these messages..."
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You haven't bought it outright. It's subsidised like a mobile phone. That's why you have to pay the extra each month. As for not taken off there's about 25,000 users of what is really an early adopter product out of 8 million subscribers.
DVB-S (Digital Satelite) will work with as many decoders as you have LNBs on your satelite dish. BSkyB broadcasting here in the UK has had an equivalent of the new TW box for a year now. It uses twin tuners to allow you to record and watch independently as well as watching two different channels at the same time. But it doesn't preclude you having more STBs if you want provided your LNB can handle the multiple feeds. The most I've found on a single LNB is four feeds but that's a property of the satelite dish and not the format.
If it's a decently implemented X server on the client then it should support it provided the application isn't using any calls or extensions that aren't supported. For example my Linux PC (with GForce4 graphics card) will work as an X server for my Indy for some applications but not for others.
OpenML is an API. Initially it didn't have any concrete code support. If you want an Apple version, implement it.
Britain did, in the 17th Century. We chopped our King's head off. France did in the 18th Century. They also chopped their King's head off. Now Bush losing his head, the would be an interesting site.
We've had both a Psion 3a and a Psion 5 because you could use them by holding in both hands and typing with thumbs. Plus, because the software was just so intuitive. I even suggested that my Dad, a technophobe, should have one and he bought a 3c. For some years he wouldn't be without it.
Last year I was looking for a value for money PDA with a keyboard. After trying several models I opted for the Sharp Zaurus SL5500 just because I can use it in the same way. I find the software pretty usable (although I'm now running Open Zaurus) and seem to be always finding new uses for it. I even use it (with one of those cassette style adapters) as an in car MP3 player.
Comcast and Time Warner think so. They bought a load. I think so too. We always seem to be ahead of the oposition with respect to innovation.
We developed one of the first set top boxes for digital television several years ago now having shipped 3 million by 2000. We've only recently started selling in the States but have succeeded where others have failed with Comcast and Time Warner. This is our latest offering.
Nah, let's not be mysterious!
Hah! I wrote code for these boxes. They're based on 68K microcontrollers - dig around the comments here for a link to a page with (very little) hardware and hacking information on them.
Fair comment. Even knowing how slow the earlier STBs are that surprises me. Oh well. All the products I've been working on are 150mips and above RISC powered boxes.
As for who I work for I'm not going to say but I would have thought that by looking at my profile and previous posts you should be able to guess.
Definitely not a RISC.
Very probably a RISC. Most likely based either around a MIPs R4K6 or an ARM. I should know, I work for the oposition.
But who makes it? Pace, Amstrad, Panasonic, Grundig? Which version is it? These are all different platforms with different software. It's only the OpenTV layer that is consistent across them all.
Remembering, of course, to include your de-macrovision-iser, in between the two. If it's HDTV it will output encrypted on the DVI and so it wont be as simple as that anyway.
So what you need is pragmatism and common sense on both sides.
If the music industry accepted some small level of copying and exchange and concentrated on the commercial copiers by they large scale pirates or small scale car boot sellers; and the public realised there is a level at which you are "taking the piss" and to tone down the amount of copying everyone does; then all will be happy. Unfortunately some have pushed it too hard and seen the right to copy as a free speech right and the industry has made a knee jerk reaction due to a falling market.
I can understand that if I buy a copy of an album that buy giving a copy, say to my other half, so that I can listen to one on my commute to work and my partner can listen to one at home, then I am actually denying a potential sale. I'm breaking the spirit of the purchase of an album. Having said that if I buy an album I don't believe I should have to pay for it again on cassette (remember them) or mini-disc or whatever. I want to listen to it when at my PC at home or work (when I mostly listen to music), in my car, even on my PDA or Cellphone MP3 player. That is my copy of the album and I should be able to listen to it how I wish and I object to anyone who stops me from that.
Finally the core principle of US and UK justice is inocent until proven guilty. It seems in many areas to do with both media and information technology the reverse is true. All the assumptions are that you will copy the media, you will try and defraud the companies; and this is backed up by our respective governments. The end result is a heavy handedness which just pisses me off. Since file sharing my media purchases have increased. I buy far more music than I did a couple of years ago. 99% of what I listen to is on, or from, legitimate media. But, if I were to buy a CD and find it wouldn't play on my PC or DVD player well I think I would have to consider some kind of punishment for either the band, or the publisher.
I didn't say it was. All I said that most embedded systems use R4K variants.
What about State Taxes and Legislation?
Interesting. Does that mean that the UK got a version nearer to the original lyrics than the US? I actually have that single and it has the English version on the A side and the German version on the B side. And the lyrics I remember are nearer to these than those that have been posted earlier.
It all brings back memories. The Cold War. Greenham Common. Paranoia. Winter of Discontent (although that was in the late 70's). Poll Tax Riots. Bader Meinhoff. IRA. Nuclear Threats...
SGI has a GREAT DEAL to be ashamed of when it comes to MIPS. The R16k was designed for the embedded market and is not competitive in performance with other CPUs. It loses even to mass-market CPUs like Intel & AMD. It loses embarrassingly to its RISC competition, regularly posting SpecFP scores that are 1/4th or less that of POWER4 or Itanium2
What a load of old twaddle. Most current embedded MIPs processors are based upon the R42XX architecture. They are fast enough for what you need them for (300 mips) and they don't cooked you hardware when not fitted with a fan.
Mark Knopfler and Sting were both teachers of English from Newcastle-upon-Tyne before becoming musicians. Sting's brother is a milk man and looks a lot like him aparently.
Sure it's not the distances but the number of transfers which are involved. Put a package on a Jumbo in Sydney and it will still be on that plane when it lands in London. The times when the package is likely to go missing are Sydney (it doesn't get on the plane) or London (it gets off but disappears in Heathrow somewhere).
The are 60 million people in the UK. That's an awful lot of homes. If you're sending packages from the suburbs of London to the suburbs of Glasgow at a minimum it will go from local post-office, to local sorting office, to regional sorting office, to airport, to plane, from plane, to airport, to regional sorting office, to recipient, say. That's many places where it could go missing. The major distance (London to Glasgow) isn't an issue here. That could be 400 miles, it could be 4000 miles.
There is an issue with the reliability of the packages arm of the post office, Parcel Farce. They aren't very good. But the private carriers are generally fine. I can have a friend from Arizona send me a harddrive and it turn up on my door step two days later.
But as others say in the end it's down to the effort the suppliers want to make. You could either use a better carrier, insure against potential fraud (Western Europe is not the third world and our crime is no worse than the US and in some areas a lot better), carry out better checks. Add a premium to the sales price to cover these.
We're a big market. Scandinavia, Ireland, the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy is a hell of a lot of population (between 400 million and 0.5 billion people). It must be worth their while to sell to us. If they don't we'll look elsewhere.
It wasn't seen on any other networks either since it was a radio program. You know, TV but without pictures!
I can see all sorts of uses for a minature board that has simply say a CF port, audio and serial or similar minimalist combinations.
It seems they are trying to minaturise a full PC which includes the kitchen sink. There must be a point below which this is no longer useful. If you want subminature servers why do you need audio and video out/in? The absolute minimum size is also restricted by the area required to fit all the connectors so such a device can't get much smaller.
So in the end you have something that is small but not revelutionarally so. That isn't particularly fast and not expandable. It's fairly pricey (can someone explain why you can't use a PDA in it's place?) It's a compromise and compromises are always the worst of all worlds.
Kids will only learn the basic usability issues that'll get them ready for "real" CS courses Sadly "real" CS courses are few and far between. I've heard of many courses dropping operating, compiler and low level theory because "the students will probably just write applications in VB and will buy the rest". There's going to be a real skills shortage in the future with the majority of coders not really knowing what's going on the machine at all.
There's been ARM Linux running on Acorn's ARM machines for sometime now. I got it running on my RISC PC sometime in 97/8. Also in the late 80's you could get an Archimedes A540 running RiscIX which was based upon BSD.
Don't forget ARM originally stood for Acorn Risc Machines. They invented the things. I'm surrounded by them. They are in my phone, set top box, one of my desktop machines and my PDA. People always think of BBC Micros when Acorn is mentioned forgetting that they made the worlds first desktop RISC based machine. They've also made many other inovations over the years.
American Revolution - 1776
French Revolution - 1889
And Napoleon was post-French Revolution - the U.S. purchased Louisiana from Napoleon's France in 1803 during the Jefferson Administration.
That doesn't add up either? Did you mean 1789? One or two references I've found are 1787-1799.
Ok so it was the wrong war but France and England were fighting in Europe as well as in the Americas in the early 1700s and that helped the settlers.
You didn't in WWII the Rusians did by tying up the German forces on the Eastern front. By the time you turned up we'd won North Africa and the Battle of Britain, Hitler had given up on the invasion of Britain and had turned to the east hence the Russian involvment.
You did help financially because we were running out of money. Two and half years of fighting drains a country especially when it's being bombed regularly.
When you finally got involved, with typical US arogance and lack of control you cocked up. The Omaha beach landing was a fiasco because you ignored the advice of the Brits who had far more experience and who landed fairly safely. The scene at the start of Saving Private Ryan didn't happen elsewhere.
In the first Gulf war you did it again killing more Brits than the Iraqis and in the second you did it yet again.
From the Daily Mirror, Monday April 7th 2003
Brit Pilot's Punch-up
A Furious British Helicopter Pilot who came under "friendly fire" from American troops landed yards from them, leapt out and exchanged punches
with a US Marine.
The Chinook pilot shouted at him: "When was the last time you saw a f******* Iraqi in a helicopter?"
The pilot and the marine had to be pulled apart as American troops advanced on the north of Baghdad, according to US reports from US Central
Command in Qatar.
British military spokesman Group Captain Al Lockwood said: "I'm afraid it would be an RAF kind of thing to do. "These guys are not known for tolerating fools gladly."
And
The following was broadcast live on CNN on the 24th of March.
In front of camera is the CNN anchor. He is joined by three American military experts (one being a retired two-star general from the 'elite'
Delta Force) and an ex SAS soldier. Footage on side-screen shows Iraqi soldiers surrendering to coalition troops.
CNN Anchor: "We've no current verification as to whether these are US or British troops the Iraqis are surrendering to. "
Yank 1: "They look to be ours - only US troops wear boots like those."
Yank 2: "Indeed, and they appear to have the standard issue camouflage fatigues."
Yank 3 (Delta Force): "I'm not sure - we'll have to get close-up images of them to be 100%. We'll definitely be able to tell from the shape of their Kevlar helmets if they're ours."
Ex SAS: "I'm surprised to learn you're all experts. Since when did US forces carry the SA80 rifle as standard issue? Their DPMs could've been bought, as could their boots and webbing for that matter, so you're chasing rainbows if you can I.D them from their clothes!"
Anchor: "I think you're right."
Ex SAS: "Of course I'm bloody right - anyone with half a brain and basic military training worth their salt should be able to I.D a British soldier by his rifle unless he's special forces! Not to mention the fact that they're covering all their arcs of fire properly, not shouting "woo yeah!" randomly and haven't raised a flag in direct contravention of their orders!"
...At this point one of the Americans pulls his mic off and leaves the floor. The other two look very uncomfortable...
Anchor: "I think we can safely say that the soldiers on your screen are British. Now for these messages..."