We should be pleased from the standpoint that these kids could clearly see bullshit for what it is. TV news & documentary producers no longer care about accuracy, so long as they can scare their audience and get them worked up over imagined fears.
Point taken. Guess I'm not as big a video nut as the average/.er. I can record 20 shows on my Comcast box (probably more than I'll have time to watch in a month) and still be at only 50% capacity. I don't care about networking it to anything. On the rare occasion that it hoses up, unplugging it for about a minute & rebooting fixes it.
If I want to watch video that's not from cable TV, I just plug the S-video from my powerbook into the big TV and watch it that way.
As for support, well, I have no illusions there. I always presume it's going to be bad.
... why not just use the DVR service your cable-or-sat provider offers? Then you can record any damn show you want.
I'm serious. Why fart around with a full-blown PC media center of any flavor, when a dedicated digital receiver/DVR box works just fine? (does for me, anyway...)
a) not enough girls in engineering, means b) too many geeks spankin' the monkey, meaning c) gotta crank that AC, thereby releasing d) more CO2 into the atmosphere.
Right with ya on the "obnoxious and annoying" part re mobile phones (or as they are called here in the southern U.S., "sailor" phones - i.e. cellular phones).
The telecomm industry has bamboozled us (well, most of us) into thinking that we simply MUST be talking to everybody, all the time. I, for one, just don't buy into that.
re: "...argues that NY's business community is more important these days to startups than Silicon Valley's deep pool of talent. Do you buy this thesis? Isn't it really unimportant these days where you work, geographically?"
When DRM is abandoned, sales of digital music will go through the roof. It will promote greater competition across a more level playing field all throughout the music industry (i.e. Jobs is right).
I'm just glad it's over, regardless of which side came out on top. Maybe now I'll see a digitally remastered Beatles catalog appear, like, before I die. And not on iTMS, but on SACD or some equivalent.
...that I don't care if this post gets modded down to -99. All the bed-wetting panic over global warming is just a big, steaming pile of bullshit (contributing to excess methane in the atmosphere, of course). And I'm not a Republican or any other kind of political animal, so don't even go there.
What I am, though, is almost 50 years old, and I've been hearing these dire predictions all my life. Ten years from now (God willing) I'll be laughing my ass off at today's earth-shaking, catastrophic predictions.
We've always had floods, droughts, hurricanes; in fact we're always had climate change. It's just what the planet does. But whose fault is it? Why, it MUST be our fault! We've angered the gods! We are bad! We must flagellate ourselves!
re "Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call"... I'm sorry, but folks who keep saying this == idiots. It was just a big hurricane. There have been bigger ones. There will be bigger ones. It's just what the planet does.
BTW, the biggest bespoilers of the planet are Russia, China and India, all exempt from the Kyoto protocol.
Amen, bro. When I submitted this article, I knew half the comments would be from iPod bashers, which certainly doesn't indicate any great prescience on my part, but c'mon guys... ESPN writers prolly don't give a damn whether it's an iPod or not. Point of the story was how personal, portable video is improving a team's performance.
... but at least slapped about head and shoulders. I mean, c'mon... if I did a survey on online porn based on a random sampling of 2,000 credit card accounts, I might conclude that sales of digital whackery were crashing out. But any hairy-palmed monkey boy can see that's not the case.
In his blog Josh claims that the original Forrester report said "with the number of transactions we counted it's simply not possible to draw this conclusion."...That they were clearly drawing.
"leech" is a highly perjorative term when you're talking about software that is, in fact, distributed for free.
That said, even NPO's (non-profit organizations) have to pay salaries. If OSDL can't even do that (this is a 33% reduction in their paid staff), then it certainly seems like the business model is broken in some way, shape or form, or at very least not working the way it ought to.
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We should be pleased from the standpoint that these kids could clearly see bullshit for what it is. TV news & documentary producers no longer care about accuracy, so long as they can scare their audience and get them worked up over imagined fears.
Point taken. Guess I'm not as big a video nut as the average /.er. I can record 20 shows on my Comcast box (probably more than I'll have time to watch in a month) and still be at only 50% capacity. I don't care about networking it to anything. On the rare occasion that it hoses up, unplugging it for about a minute & rebooting fixes it.
If I want to watch video that's not from cable TV, I just plug the S-video from my powerbook into the big TV and watch it that way.
As for support, well, I have no illusions there. I always presume it's going to be bad.
... why not just use the DVR service your cable-or-sat provider offers? Then you can record any damn show you want.
I'm serious. Why fart around with a full-blown PC media center of any flavor, when a dedicated digital receiver/DVR box works just fine? (does for me, anyway...)
That would be pretty easy to trace, methinks:
a) not enough girls in engineering, means
b) too many geeks spankin' the monkey, meaning
c) gotta crank that AC, thereby releasing
d) more CO2 into the atmosphere.
Indeed, Chris, my bad.
Right with ya on the "obnoxious and annoying" part re mobile phones (or as they are called here in the southern U.S., "sailor" phones - i.e. cellular phones).
The telecomm industry has bamboozled us (well, most of us) into thinking that we simply MUST be talking to everybody, all the time. I, for one, just don't buy into that.
100% correct brother - mod post UUUUUP. If I had points right now you'd get 'em.
Insightful
Interesting
Not so (if you are referring to the US). Cable is available to more than 90% of the U.S. population. Most of those cable providers are also ISP's.
"The majority of American television viewers get their signal from CATV," i.e. cable TV (Wikipedia).
... here's even more Bill Hilf bullshit:
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http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/
I'm not a bit surprised by this. Yeah, Jobs' assholishness is legendary, but so is Ballmer's. Attitude flows down from the top.
I mean, this is the guy who built a monument to his ego into the side of mountain, right?
Agree 100%. You crypto-anarchists (and NYT reporters) can call it "spying" all you want; what this is simply is good police work.
Yeah - whistling past the graveyard - my very thought
re: "...argues that NY's business community is more important these days to startups than Silicon Valley's deep pool of talent. Do you buy this thesis? Isn't it really unimportant these days where you work, geographically?"
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I think we already covered this yesterday.....
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/16592
re: "I don't think it's that at all....It's not fear of hackers, it's just a desire to do as little work as possible."
I believe parent commenter was employing sarcasm, Christopher...
I respectfully disagree.
When DRM is abandoned, sales of digital music will go through the roof. It will promote greater competition across a more level playing field all throughout the music industry (i.e. Jobs is right).
I'm just glad it's over, regardless of which side came out on top. Maybe now I'll see a digitally remastered Beatles catalog appear, like, before I die. And not on iTMS, but on SACD or some equivalent.
Kramer already did this
p isode)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pick_(Seinfeld_e
...that I don't care if this post gets modded down to -99. All the bed-wetting panic over global warming is just a big, steaming pile of bullshit (contributing to excess methane in the atmosphere, of course). And I'm not a Republican or any other kind of political animal, so don't even go there.
... I'm sorry, but folks who keep saying this == idiots. It was just a big hurricane. There have been bigger ones. There will be bigger ones. It's just what the planet does.
What I am, though, is almost 50 years old, and I've been hearing these dire predictions all my life. Ten years from now (God willing) I'll be laughing my ass off at today's earth-shaking, catastrophic predictions.
We've always had floods, droughts, hurricanes; in fact we're always had climate change. It's just what the planet does. But whose fault is it? Why, it MUST be our fault! We've angered the gods! We are bad! We must flagellate ourselves!
re "Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call"
BTW, the biggest bespoilers of the planet are Russia, China and India, all exempt from the Kyoto protocol.
Amen, bro. When I submitted this article, I knew half the comments would be from iPod bashers, which certainly doesn't indicate any great prescience on my part, but c'mon guys... ESPN writers prolly don't give a damn whether it's an iPod or not. Point of the story was how personal, portable video is improving a team's performance.
"if you've actually purchased songs from the Zune marketplace and happen to run into another Zune owner"
IE6 sucked 365 days out of the year.
Good point - perhaps I should have said N years.
"Apple will be out of business in X years."
... but at least slapped about head and shoulders. I mean, c'mon... if I did a survey on online porn based on a random sampling of 2,000 credit card accounts, I might conclude that sales of digital whackery were crashing out. But any hairy-palmed monkey boy can see that's not the case.
...That they were clearly drawing.
In his blog Josh claims that the original Forrester report said "with the number of transactions we counted it's simply not possible to draw this conclusion."
Puh-leeze...
So that obnoxious techie on the CDW TV commercials is actually right?
"leech" is a highly perjorative term when you're talking about software that is, in fact, distributed for free.
That said, even NPO's (non-profit organizations) have to pay salaries. If OSDL can't even do that (this is a 33% reduction in their paid staff), then it certainly seems like the business model is broken in some way, shape or form, or at very least not working the way it ought to.