Within is a shot of the new Hughes HD DirecTiVo with some new LED's on the front including "Temp" for those sure to be occurring overheats.
Are we looking at the same image? I see no "temp" LED's. Maybe you're confusing those with the format LED's? (480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i)
I've done plenty of cruel things to my TiVo, like stick two 7200rpm drives in it and stuff it in a stereo cabinet above my amp and haven't seen any dangerously high temps (I've since backed down to a single 5400rpm drive and moved it away from the amp for peace-of-mind).
I'd offer the example of IPv6. How many years has IPv6 been in the works? How many million man-hours of committee time has it already been through? How close are we all to deploying IPv6?
I consider myself reasonably tech-savvy and still have no idea why we need to switch to IPv6. I thought the point was to increase the available address space, but that's no longer an issue as everyone's running NATs, rather than eating up public space.
My point being that there's no "Prevent the end of the world" message attached to IPv6. Wheras if you put up a big sign that says "Upgrade and there will be no more spam", you can bet people would be upgrading in droves.
Many moons ago, our local cable access channel used an Amiga to drive it's interstitials. Frequently, late at night (long after anyone had left the studio, I imagine), channel surfers were treated to a Guru Meditation Error screen. One wonders what people unfamiliar with the hardware thought of that...
"Alias announced today that their leading software, Maya has become a free download for non-commercial applications. Thanks a lot, Alias. Now I can record the video for my next game.:)"
So you'll be giving your game away free, right? Lets try not to bite the hand that feeds too publically, lest they take it back, eh.
Currently, I'm using SageTV It's a PC based DVR software package... this requires having two tuners and an HDTV tuner.
Yowza. Sounds good. Out of curiosity, what was your cash outlay for the hardware and how long did it take you to get it running in it's current (assumedly perfect) state? Can you write up some documentation so my parents can set one up in an afternoon?
Out of curiosity, why did the Palm Tungsten C not make the list? It's got built in WiFi and the OS has a build in strength meter. There is a GPS solution for it as well, although I doubt there's hotspot mapping software yet (if that was your need).
For Bayesian POP filtering - I've found K-9 to be pretty good (I'm an Outlook user, so I've no experience with Eudora or The Bat!'s spam filtering capabilities). It's a proxy-based filter that supports black/whitelisting and adds keywords to the message header that you can then filter out using most basic email program filters. After 3 weeks or so of training, it's down to a 99% accuracy rating and I've had less than 4 false positives in the 6 or so months since (and all of those were "solicited spam").
For web ad/pop-up blocking, I still recommend the no-longer-maintained Proxomitron. A proxy-based filter that screens for banner ads and pop-ups. It's got a very active user base and mailing list.
While I question the value on a laptop, for desktops, I always install the latest version of Motherboard Monitor. It keeps an eye on your system's health - temperature and fans. Again, probably not as useful (or even compatible) for a laptop.
Not knowing much about the language, why is the majority of EE/CS coursework in Scheme? Wouldn't C be a more appropriate language to build fundamentals in?
Wouldn't it be fabulous if various Corporate platforms (Notes, etc.) chose to use the Jabber protocol as the IM solution? Then everyone would be running Jabber clients already, and communicating with friends would be a natural extension of that activity
The problem there is that in using an open source protocol, no one client has any major advantages over the other, so it's difficult to differentiate yourself from your competition and implement value-added-features to attract customers to your platform. If you do add unique features (especially ones that break other clients), then you're fragmenting the market just like it currently is.
The burden will ALWAYS be on the recipient of unsolicited emails.
I think the reality of the situation is that there aren't any viable solutions that don't involve end users having to lift a finger or two. After all, it is the recipient's responsibility to define what is and is not spam. The alternative is that someone else gets to monitor your inbox to determine if you're getting unsolicited emails AND they get to define what is and isn't spam. Somehow, I doubt that'd happen without a peep from the masses.
Call me when you have a real solution.
Get off your ass and come up with one? Remind me again why we owe you anything?
The bright side is that there'ss still one less company selling low-quality crap on the internet (when was the last time you saw "spam" for something that wasn't low quality crap?)
An alternate scenario - Company B actually makes a good product and the "spam" email company A sends out ends up selling millions of units for Company B. Company B wins while company A's marketing people get the crap beat out of them in the parking lot.
They know they're taking legal action against individuals who do not do what they're doing for profit
Unless you count that whole downloading copyrighted music thing...
They know they're taking legal action against individuals who do not have the resources to fight any sort of legal action
If you follow the RIAA's logic (which isn't entirely inaccurate), even if they can't pay up in court, the suit will likely stop them from sharing, forcing that many more people who can't DL the music to turn to paying for the music legitimately, putting $$ in the pockets of the RIAA for more lawsuits. In the bigger picture, when the lawsuits were first announced, file sharing dropped by 28%, that's (by RIAA thinking) 28% more people out buying CD's. And since when is someone too poor to be charged with a crime?
Maybe you could go and explain how the record companies are really trying to do the right thing to some poor, scared 12 year old they're bullying.
The article states they did not know the age of the defendant when they filed the complaint. From the article, it would appear that they were in the process of finding out who the defendant was when the press vigilantes got ahold of it.
I hate to be the horse and buggy guy BUT I don't need 2 weeks of television recorded.
Possibly not 2 weeks, but considering the largest (unmodified) TiVo you can buy only records about 3 days worth of programming, it's a big step.
You'd be suprised at how quick you can burn up 3 days of programming, especially if you're into sports where the programs are ~3 hours each. Throw in a couple of movie channels, the ability to record two channels simultaneously, and some sembalance of a life away from TV and you'll be losing shows to a full hard drive before ya know it.
How shocking a site where you have to
pan instead of scroll!!!
Why not?
Because my mousewheel (as I'd estimate are 90% of the mousehweels out there) is mounted vertically. And yes, I tried rotating the mouse, that did not help.
This just in: Participating in activities that involve repeatedly exercising action X tends to improve children's X abilities!
I'm pretty sure I was tought this in high-school physiology and that it was one of the fundamental rules of development.
It continues to amaze me that people are actually getting grants, paychecks, and royalties to document the obvious. What justification do the signers of these checks have to endorse such studies? Are there really people that out of touch with learning and physiology? Is there a great legal need for documented proof of such theorems? Is this some kind of academic circle of life where those signing the checks were once those recieving the checks and now feel compelled to continue the tradition?
Unfortunately, it's exactly this attitude that alienates people who don't like the system from voting for - and therefore possibly electing electing - people who won't continue to make choices they disagree with.
I can't help but think that if everyone who really hated the system went out and voted for a candidate who also really hated the system, the votes might send a wakeup call to congress et al, and actually force a change. Imagine if the Florida 're-count' was between Nader and G Dub instead of Gore & G Dub? Sure, G Dub would have won, but there'd be a lot of politicians with soiled knickers that night.
The downside with the el-cheapo sniffers is they don't tell you if the AP is locked down or not. I think your best bet currently is still a PDA with decent sniffing software.
1. AvantGo has to do the same thing, and their proxy is overloaded and many times you must reload. I don't know if the palm thing is different.
2. What if Palm dies? Their proxy will die too and that will render the browser useless.
1. I use the Tungsten browser daily and have never had any issues with the proxy being choked.
2. Palm still supports proxy required for the Palm VII PQA applications, the device for which has been discontinued for years (the PQA apps wont even run on the newer devices). I find it hard to believe that in the unlikely event of palm going completely under, someone wouldn't step up and create a workaround, thus being a hero to the hundred(s) of thousands of users that would be stranded by this. Or that, by then, someone would not have released a better proxy-less browser.
Yes, it is possible to sync a Palm to the desktop via BlueTooth (both on the PC and Mac). I've done both many times. Caveat: I also ended up with a lot of duplicate addressbook entries when iSyncing everything on the Mac. One of the devices I sync to doesn't support repeating appointments or no-time events (birthdays) - I'm pretty sure it's either the iPod or the t68.
This was all done gradually, and only after Apple knew that (a) the iPod worked as well as they wanted it to, and (b) there was enough demand for PC compatability for Apple to even spend the time on it.
That just doesn't sound right. My opinion is that Apple delayed the PC version until they felt confident that anyone who would buy a Mac to use this uber-cool gadged did. (b) doesn't really hold water, there's more than enough demand from PC users out there who would buy this gadget to justify immediately developing a Windows client for it (heck, even developing it for only Windows).
As far as I'm concerned, the strategy worked. The iPod was just enough of a cool gadget to knock me off my long-standing position on the fence and I bought an iBook, as did one of my friends. Had Apple announced a Windows version, or had the various 3rd party WindowsiPod hacks worked as good as iTunes, I'd probably still be on the fence.
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Are we looking at the same image? I see no "temp" LED's. Maybe you're confusing those with the format LED's? (480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i)
I've done plenty of cruel things to my TiVo, like stick two 7200rpm drives in it and stuff it in a stereo cabinet above my amp and haven't seen any dangerously high temps (I've since backed down to a single 5400rpm drive and moved it away from the amp for peace-of-mind).
I consider myself reasonably tech-savvy and still have no idea why we need to switch to IPv6. I thought the point was to increase the available address space, but that's no longer an issue as everyone's running NATs, rather than eating up public space.
My point being that there's no "Prevent the end of the world" message attached to IPv6. Wheras if you put up a big sign that says "Upgrade and there will be no more spam", you can bet people would be upgrading in droves.
Many moons ago, our local cable access channel used an Amiga to drive it's interstitials. Frequently, late at night (long after anyone had left the studio, I imagine), channel surfers were treated to a Guru Meditation Error screen. One wonders what people unfamiliar with the hardware thought of that...
So you'll be giving your game away free, right? Lets try not to bite the hand that feeds too publically, lest they take it back, eh.
Yowza. Sounds good. Out of curiosity, what was your cash outlay for the hardware and how long did it take you to get it running in it's current (assumedly perfect) state? Can you write up some documentation so my parents can set one up in an afternoon?
Out of curiosity, why did the Palm Tungsten C not make the list? It's got built in WiFi and the OS has a build in strength meter. There is a GPS solution for it as well, although I doubt there's hotspot mapping software yet (if that was your need).
For web ad/pop-up blocking, I still recommend the no-longer-maintained Proxomitron. A proxy-based filter that screens for banner ads and pop-ups. It's got a very active user base and mailing list.
While I question the value on a laptop, for desktops, I always install the latest version of Motherboard Monitor. It keeps an eye on your system's health - temperature and fans. Again, probably not as useful (or even compatible) for a laptop.
Not knowing much about the language, why is the majority of EE/CS coursework in Scheme? Wouldn't C be a more appropriate language to build fundamentals in?
The problem there is that in using an open source protocol, no one client has any major advantages over the other, so it's difficult to differentiate yourself from your competition and implement value-added-features to attract customers to your platform. If you do add unique features (especially ones that break other clients), then you're fragmenting the market just like it currently is.
I do regularly forward them to abuse@domain and postmaster@domain if I can suss out the original domain.
What are YOU doing to prevent it? Written your congressman or senator lately? Contacted your attorney general?
I'll vote no against the recall of the guy who pushes through the bill.
If not STFU.
The answer is yes, so I'll just keep on posting, thanks.
I think the reality of the situation is that there aren't any viable solutions that don't involve end users having to lift a finger or two. After all, it is the recipient's responsibility to define what is and is not spam. The alternative is that someone else gets to monitor your inbox to determine if you're getting unsolicited emails AND they get to define what is and isn't spam. Somehow, I doubt that'd happen without a peep from the masses.
Call me when you have a real solution.
Get off your ass and come up with one? Remind me again why we owe you anything?
An alternate scenario - Company B actually makes a good product and the "spam" email company A sends out ends up selling millions of units for Company B. Company B wins while company A's marketing people get the crap beat out of them in the parking lot.
No wonder the law doesn't work - your idea of enforcement is to install a junk mail filter.
Wow, that's pretty darn cool. Now can your mom do that? Without calling you? I'm pretty sure you've completely missed the point of this product.
Unless you count that whole downloading copyrighted music thing...
They know they're taking legal action against individuals who do not have the resources to fight any sort of legal action
If you follow the RIAA's logic (which isn't entirely inaccurate), even if they can't pay up in court, the suit will likely stop them from sharing, forcing that many more people who can't DL the music to turn to paying for the music legitimately, putting $$ in the pockets of the RIAA for more lawsuits. In the bigger picture, when the lawsuits were first announced, file sharing dropped by 28%, that's (by RIAA thinking) 28% more people out buying CD's. And since when is someone too poor to be charged with a crime?
Maybe you could go and explain how the record companies are really trying to do the right thing to some poor, scared 12 year old they're bullying.
The article states they did not know the age of the defendant when they filed the complaint. From the article, it would appear that they were in the process of finding out who the defendant was when the press vigilantes got ahold of it.
Possibly not 2 weeks, but considering the largest (unmodified) TiVo you can buy only records about 3 days worth of programming, it's a big step.
You'd be suprised at how quick you can burn up 3 days of programming, especially if you're into sports where the programs are ~3 hours each. Throw in a couple of movie channels, the ability to record two channels simultaneously, and some sembalance of a life away from TV and you'll be losing shows to a full hard drive before ya know it.
pan instead of scroll!!!
Why not?
Because my mousewheel (as I'd estimate are 90% of the mousehweels out there) is mounted vertically. And yes, I tried rotating the mouse, that did not help.
This just in: Participating in activities that involve repeatedly exercising action X tends to improve children's X abilities! I'm pretty sure I was tought this in high-school physiology and that it was one of the fundamental rules of development. It continues to amaze me that people are actually getting grants, paychecks, and royalties to document the obvious. What justification do the signers of these checks have to endorse such studies? Are there really people that out of touch with learning and physiology? Is there a great legal need for documented proof of such theorems? Is this some kind of academic circle of life where those signing the checks were once those recieving the checks and now feel compelled to continue the tradition?
There really should be a moratorium on using "ragtag" in a science fiction context, lest the reader instantly assume there's Cylons involved.
I can't help but think that if everyone who really hated the system went out and voted for a candidate who also really hated the system, the votes might send a wakeup call to congress et al, and actually force a change. Imagine if the Florida 're-count' was between Nader and G Dub instead of Gore & G Dub? Sure, G Dub would have won, but there'd be a lot of politicians with soiled knickers that night.
The downside with the el-cheapo sniffers is they don't tell you if the AP is locked down or not. I think your best bet currently is still a PDA with decent sniffing software.
2. What if Palm dies? Their proxy will die too and that will render the browser useless.
1. I use the Tungsten browser daily and have never had any issues with the proxy being choked.
2. Palm still supports proxy required for the Palm VII PQA applications, the device for which has been discontinued for years (the PQA apps wont even run on the newer devices). I find it hard to believe that in the unlikely event of palm going completely under, someone wouldn't step up and create a workaround, thus being a hero to the hundred(s) of thousands of users that would be stranded by this. Or that, by then, someone would not have released a better proxy-less browser.
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That just doesn't sound right. My opinion is that Apple delayed the PC version until they felt confident that anyone who would buy a Mac to use this uber-cool gadged did. (b) doesn't really hold water, there's more than enough demand from PC users out there who would buy this gadget to justify immediately developing a Windows client for it (heck, even developing it for only Windows).
As far as I'm concerned, the strategy worked. The iPod was just enough of a cool gadget to knock me off my long-standing position on the fence and I bought an iBook, as did one of my friends. Had Apple announced a Windows version, or had the various 3rd party WindowsiPod hacks worked as good as iTunes, I'd probably still be on the fence.
I've been screwed too often by The Man to buy a first release of anything anymore. Anyone know when the really loaded Reloaded version is due out?