This should be interesting.. I wonder how many international incidents will be caused by poor translation once we're used to assuming it works well.
Why I'm glad Wiley didn't can my Hacking TiVo book
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I'd heard about the Hacking the Xbox book before Wiley dumped it, because Wiley is publishing my Hacking TiVo book and it came up during conversations. When the news hit it was a shock - I was sorry to hear his book got canned, and have been following his story since.
With regards to my book, I'm obviously glad it didn't get similarly cut (since I've spent a lot of time on it), but now Andrew has given me another reason to be happy it wasn't cut.
Sure but look what happened when they tried grabbing more power with Divx.. the public ignored it. It never took off.
Things need *someone* interested in them for them to succeed. It's not like big media suddenly said "Ok, this is it. DVDs. Get used to it" and DVDs took off. No, people actually got some things they wanted: random access to video, extra content that added some spice to the experience, and 5.1 surround sound. And it took a while to catch on, too.
Things tip because they're embraced. Granted, sometimes the public doesn't have many options and they'll go for the lesser of two evils. But if *someone* offers the better solution (and it's really better for everyone, not just a select few), then it's got a chance of succeeding.
Divx didn't. I don't believe a vanilla watch-it-within-this-time-period solution will either. If there isn't some real benefit for the user, people won't embrace it. And if people don't buy into it, content providers can push it all they want but it won't sell.
It seems pretty clear? I hardly think so (at least not with the traditional definitions of video on demand). People want content they can keep around as long as they want, whether it be a VideoTape/DVD they purchase, or a TiVo recording they keep on their unit for months. Even Netflicks lets you keep the DVD for as long as you want before sending it on to the next person.
The era of video rental stores demanding a return within 48 hours will eventually end. If given a choice, I don't think anyone will choose another system where they have to hurry-up-and-watch something, even if it's video that they ordered whenever they ordered it.
Look at Apple's recent music offering. People can purchase music and keep it as long as they want. Whether you like the idea or not (and whether you plan on buying music that way or not), it's a sign that we won't be limited in our purchasing options to such restrictive pay-per-view watch-it-now methods.
DVD's will be around a while, and when they're gone the replacement will be something more akin to a permanent download into a huge video jukebox appliance than some watch-it-once-and-never-see-it-again model.
Then again, that's just my opinion.:)..Jeff Keegan
I and my wife, for the past two years, have been using and loving TiVo. And I can't tell you how many times I said that I'd sign up in a second if they wanted my permission to take my thumbs-up/down rankings and viewing habits for use in the Neilsen ratings.
As I see it, I want my viewing habits to count. If there are thousands like me that love this show and dislike that show, then that should be reflected. There have to be cases where the determine-it-via-a-sample approach don't catch everything.
And better yet, it determines what we actually watch, not what we say we watch. If I say I really like show xyz because I want to like it but never actually watch it, that should be reflected in the ratings. Any Neilsen families using log books instead of automated devices goes through a filter we don't need it to.
Here's the email I just sent out to quite a few people:
Subject: pledge
(stop reading if you're the type to complain)
I know many will be quite divided on the subject, and many will disagree with my stance (which I believe they have a right to), but I'd just like to state my resounding support for what's just been decided in California.
(from CNN) "A federal appeals court today ruled the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional 'endorsement of religion' because Congress added the phrase 'under God' in 1954. In its ruling, the court said, 'The Pledge, as currently codified, is an impermissible government endorsement of religion.'"
As a life-long atheist, it's been a constant struggle to try hard to accept and respect others' beliefs, but I do it. But it often feels like a one-way street. I'm told to "just accept" that we live in a country with "In God We Trust" on our money. I was trained as a kid (as we all were) to recite and respect our pledge of allegiance, even though they "threw in" the bit about someone's god. It seems I'm to be tolerant of others' beliefs, but it's ok for the majority to overlook mine.
I never truly thought I'd see this issue publicly addressed. It's easier to say "just let it be", "don't we have other things to worry about?", or "it's just tradition!"? I'm sure they said similar things when other "traditions" like slavery or women's inability to vote were being complained about.
So, let it be known far and wide - that while I've been trained to be proud to say our pledge of allegiance (to share in that communal idea called patriotism), there's always been this dark secret buried down in the "don't bother worrying about that" department. That it somehow belonged "less" to me because I wasn't "just going along with the program".
I feel more patriotic today.
..Jeff Keegan
p.s. Eisenhower added "under god" to the pledge of allegiance in 1954.
Eisenhower: "From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty."
The reason I'd try building one of these (or buying a professional projector cheap somewhere) is because of Halo. At work we use two projectors and a TV to have a three-xbox game of Halo each month. Makes me wonder why someone would buy a large screen TV.
This is not flamebait. This is a reaction to the continued perpetuating mistake chrid made that he's still not fixing, by changing the title of the article. I looked back this evening specifically to see if they'd changed the title of the article. They didn't.
I happened to watch it last night, but it was TiVo'ed and I almost put it off until today. If I was a more ardent fan still, and hadn't watched it until today, I'd be furious. Once again - CHANGE THE TITLE..
I remember reading that opponents size you up when they see you - do sort of a threat assessment. If you walk in a room confidently, kill plenty of opponents easily without wasting ammo or stumbling around, etc, then they will actually become afraid of you and cower appropriately.. On the other hand, if you hide, act nervous, etc, they may see you as easy prey and be more confident.
I've theorized that that's got to have something to do with the difference between easy, normal, heroic, and legendary.. I imagine that among other things, they crank that threshold up on Legendary mode, so it's more likely they're not afraid of you.. (they even say something like "You face opponents who have never known defeat, who laugh in alien tongues at your efforts to survive.")
Why does this bring to mind the old Saturday Night Live sketch with Bill Murray singing
Staaaar Warrrrs, beautiful.. Staaaar Wars.. If they ban.. aalllll warrrrrsss..... let these......stayyyy.....
(Even though it was a piano bar..:) )
Damn.. And I thought it'd been hacked!
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Damn... After just reading the headline, I was hoping people had starting hacking them to add their own software..
(Not necessarily a good idea, but at least entertaining!)
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This should be interesting.. I wonder how many international incidents will be caused by poor translation once we're used to assuming it works well.
I'd heard about the Hacking the Xbox book before Wiley dumped it, because Wiley is publishing my Hacking TiVo book and it came up during conversations. When the news hit it was a shock - I was sorry to hear his book got canned, and have been following his story since.
:-O
With regards to my book, I'm obviously glad it didn't get similarly cut (since I've spent a lot of time on it), but now Andrew has given me another reason to be happy it wasn't cut.
These pictures from his site
(the links at the bottom of the page)
I can see my wife's reaction now...
Thanks for the reminder. Kept putting that off. Just signed up now. Proud premium EFF member.
> of course, if you're staring at a projecter 8 hours a day, for 500 straight days, maybe you should go outside ;)
:)
Unless you're playing Halo on that projector, in case it's perfectly acceptable.
Sure but look what happened when they tried grabbing more power with Divx.. the public ignored it. It never took off.
Things need *someone* interested in them for them to succeed. It's not like big media suddenly said "Ok, this is it. DVDs. Get used to it" and DVDs took off. No, people actually got some things they wanted: random access to video, extra content that added some spice to the experience, and 5.1 surround sound. And it took a while to catch on, too.
Things tip because they're embraced. Granted, sometimes the public doesn't have many options and they'll go for the lesser of two evils. But if *someone* offers the better solution (and it's really better for everyone, not just a select few), then it's got a chance of succeeding.
Divx didn't. I don't believe a vanilla watch-it-within-this-time-period solution will either. If there isn't some real benefit for the user, people won't embrace it. And if people don't buy into it, content providers can push it all they want but it won't sell.
It seems pretty clear? I hardly think so (at least not with the traditional definitions of video on demand). People want content they can keep around as long as they want, whether it be a VideoTape/DVD they purchase, or a TiVo recording they keep on their unit for months. Even Netflicks lets you keep the DVD for as long as you want before sending it on to the next person.
:) ..Jeff Keegan
The era of video rental stores demanding a return within 48 hours will eventually end. If given a choice, I don't think anyone will choose another system where they have to hurry-up-and-watch something, even if it's video that they ordered whenever they ordered it.
Look at Apple's recent music offering. People can purchase music and keep it as long as they want. Whether you like the idea or not (and whether you plan on buying music that way or not), it's a sign that we won't be limited in our purchasing options to such restrictive pay-per-view watch-it-now methods.
DVD's will be around a while, and when they're gone the replacement will be something more akin to a permanent download into a huge video jukebox appliance than some watch-it-once-and-never-see-it-again model.
Then again, that's just my opinion.
Wow. Today I imagine he'd be getting sued for doing something like that..
I and my wife, for the past two years, have been using and loving TiVo. And I can't tell you how many times I said that I'd sign up in a second if they wanted my permission to take my thumbs-up/down rankings and viewing habits for use in the Neilsen ratings.
As I see it, I want my viewing habits to count. If there are thousands like me that love this show and dislike that show, then that should be reflected. There have to be cases where the determine-it-via-a-sample approach don't catch everything.
And better yet, it determines what we actually watch, not what we say we watch. If I say I really like show xyz because I want to like it but never actually watch it, that should be reflected in the ratings. Any Neilsen families using log books instead of automated devices goes through a filter we don't need it to.
Awesome. Sign me up.
Here's the email I just sent out to quite a few people:
Subject: pledge
(stop reading if you're the type to complain)
I know many will be quite divided on the subject, and many will disagree with my stance (which I believe they have a right to), but I'd just like to state my resounding support for what's just been decided in California.
(from CNN)
"A federal appeals court today ruled the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional 'endorsement of religion' because Congress added the phrase 'under God' in 1954. In its ruling, the court said, 'The Pledge, as currently codified, is an impermissible government endorsement of religion.'"
As a life-long atheist, it's been a constant struggle to try hard to accept and respect others' beliefs, but I do it. But it often feels like a one-way street. I'm told to "just accept" that we live in a country with "In God We Trust" on our money. I was trained as a kid (as we all were) to recite and respect our pledge of allegiance, even though they "threw in" the bit about someone's god. It seems I'm to be tolerant of others' beliefs, but it's ok for the majority to overlook mine.
I never truly thought I'd see this issue publicly addressed. It's easier to say "just let it be", "don't we have other things to worry about?", or "it's just tradition!"? I'm sure they said similar things when other "traditions" like slavery or women's inability to vote were being complained about.
So, let it be known far and wide - that while I've been trained to be proud to say our pledge of allegiance (to share in that communal idea called patriotism), there's always been this dark secret buried down in the "don't bother worrying about that" department. That it somehow belonged "less" to me because I wasn't "just going along with the program".
I feel more patriotic today.
..Jeff Keegan
p.s. Eisenhower added "under god" to the pledge of allegiance in 1954.
Eisenhower: "From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty."
Man, I love my TiVo!
The reason I'd try building one of these (or buying a professional projector cheap somewhere) is because of Halo. At work we use two projectors and a TV to have a three-xbox game of Halo each month. Makes me wonder why someone would buy a large screen TV.
My killer app story is about how I programmed my TiVo from a football game:
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My killer-app tivo/tivoweb/palmpilot story Too cool.
This is not flamebait. This is a reaction to the continued perpetuating mistake chrid made that he's still not fixing, by changing the title of the article. I looked back this evening specifically to see if they'd changed the title of the article. They didn't.
I happened to watch it last night, but it was TiVo'ed and I almost put it off until today. If I was a more ardent fan still, and hadn't watched it until today, I'd be furious. Once again - CHANGE THE TITLE..
Java's fine. C# won't do anything.
Remember, robots eat medicine for fuel.
I remember reading that opponents size you up when they see you - do sort of a threat assessment. If you walk in a room confidently, kill plenty of opponents easily without wasting ammo or stumbling around, etc, then they will actually become afraid of you and cower appropriately.. On the other hand, if you hide, act nervous, etc, they may see you as easy prey and be more confident.
I've theorized that that's got to have something to do with the difference between easy, normal, heroic, and legendary.. I imagine that among other things, they crank that threshold up on Legendary mode, so it's more likely they're not afraid of you.. (they even say something like "You face opponents who have never known defeat, who laugh in alien tongues at your efforts to survive.")
Halo rules.. (movies at keegan.org/halo)
Why does this bring to mind the old Saturday Night Live sketch with Bill Murray singing
....stayyyy.....
:) )
Staaaar Warrrrs, beautiful.. Staaaar Wars..
If they ban.. aalllll warrrrrsss.....
let these..
(Even though it was a piano bar..
Damn... After just reading the headline, I was hoping people had starting hacking them to add their own software.. (Not necessarily a good idea, but at least entertaining!)
Yeah, and there were no neutrons, only electrons and protons.. and you had to spin the electrons by hand to get keep them going, blah blah blah..
:)
Congratulations!!! In the spirit of all of this, here's our Birthday/Proposal Story too.
Congratulations!!! In the spirit of all of this, here's our Birthday/Proposal Story too.
http://www.keegan.org/jeff/homemovies/02_01_2002/D SC00021.JPG
D SC00042.JPG
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http://www.keegan.org/jeff/homemovies/01_26_2002/
Bah, that's just because you don't have a TiVo.
LOL
Hey, you've also got Rush!