I too have doubts about Tivo's mid or long term viability. But as far as competing w/ Video on Demand (VOD), Tivo has sent the cable companies scrambling. VOD has been cable's plan forever, they have sunk billions into the effort to upgrade to be able make it happen. Then before they can really roll it out, Tivo (and ilk) come along and roll out these cheapo boxes that does most of what VOD can do. This is competition that cable did not expect so they will have to seriously rethink their VOD price structure.
Cable's response is to offer a DVR of their own. They can afford to lose much, much more on these boxes in order to kill Tivo and friends, I expect they will succeed.
The Australians seem to have figured out how to get Tivo to work with XMLTV and notably w/o a subscription, see wktivoguide. It shouldn't be too hard to adapt this to CA.
Its been pointed out that most readers of/. know nothing about Bollywood movies. Could some knowledgable people point out some links to reviews of Indian films that have subtitles or are in English?
Nothing. That's why messages from sources you don't know need to be accompanied by verifiable metadata so that you can filter it according to your preferences. Maybe you do want to know if there's a sale at a particular store or if that person across the bar from you is within two Friendster friends of you, but there needs to be a digital signature infrastructure and a friendly user interface for this to happen.
I can imagine some useful stuff being exchanged in this way. Let's say you walked into a bar or someother social setting, glance down at your phone and saw the Friendster profiles of everyone there. Instead of wasting time doting after some flashy eye candy who thinks Brittany Spears is deep you could spend your time getting to know someone who's more compatible with you. In more formal situations one might share parts of their professional portfolio.
The key will probably be metadata about whatever is advertising itself that you can trust. That way you can filter out most things and choose which one's interest you.
The killer app will be personal profile exchanges over wireless. Imagine, you walk into your local meat market / bar, glance down at your phone and you see the Friendster profiles of everyone overlaid of the picture the device took. Without the phone you would have spent the night following around that eye candy hot person that thinks Brittany Spears is deep. But with the phone you find that less flashy friend of a friend that likes the same books as you.
A bar is one example where personal profile exchange would be handy, but busy conferences are another. You could change what information you make available depending on where you are, a Friendster profile in a social situation, a resume and portfolio in a business setting.
I was amazed that they included this image in the review. I realize that in technical circles it helps to pander to immature males but that seems to go quite a bit past the usual T and A.
Am I so out of touch that with how sexist the mainstream media has become that that image is acceptable?
There is no monolithic "they". Indymedia is a network of over 120 autonomous groups that each do on the ground media work (trainings, film screenings, newspapers, radio shows, etc) in addition to hosting an open publishing website.
Last I counted these websites were hosted on 30 seperate servers which are for the most part independently maintained.
I'll speak for DC Indymedia since that's the group I'm familar with, their editors moderate hate speech, including anti-semitic content. It has also covered Iranian pro-democracy demos and hosted a panel recently featuring progressive Iranians. Indeed, there is a group within Iran that has sought to join the Indymedia network.
From that link I see that some anonymous person called someone else a Nazi on an open posting medium. A flamewar ensued. Film at 11.
Indymedia is the home of intellectual dunces, and mental midgets who believe George W. Bush is equivalent to Hitler, that some right-wing cabal is pulling all the strings, and supporters of cop-killers, terrorists, and murderers.
"i don't recall such a big cluster of 64 bit IBM chips before"
Then you clearly know nothing about high performance computing. IBM's 64bit POWER cpu architecture is represented in the 4th and 5th fastest supercomputers in the world.
Well this is obviously not a news article with stuff like "such a pity comrade" in it. I like how the first few words seemed purposefully designed to incur the wrath of FSF, "In the world of "free" open source software". Forbes should really mark commentary as such.
If it was a news article then it might have written about how some companies will only release code as GPL as opposed to BSD because they do not want their competitors to incoporate the code into their proprietary product. For instance, SGI would not release XFS under BSD because Sun could include it in Solaris.
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17306 Its interesting that Kahane websites are considered terrorist but front groups which funnel money to them are not. See here.
I've been to India and I assure you that you are wrong. The competition for jobs pales anything the US has seen since the Depression. The competition to get into Harvard pales next to the competition to get into IIT.
This is due to the extreme poverty and tremendous population density. There's virtually no social safety net so if you want to survive you will have to work very hard.
It is certainly true that Americans work longer hours than Europeans because American companies seem more adept at making their workers insecure and securing worker productivity gains for corporate fat cats. But I think this motivation is not comparable to that provided by poverty.
Well Tivo is a closed platform, you have to void your warranty in order to be able to download content from it. I would investigate doing this with a ReplayTV, there's software for downloading content, it should be fairly easy to modify it to sync content that it records with something like the Archos 340. The touch part is you have to transcode the mpeg2 from the replay into mpeg4 for the archos.
The web contains an ocean of interesting video content, its just poorly organized. The Irate project for audio shows a way to harvest legal music content, the same can/will be done for video. I run a site that aggregates links to interesting video around the 'net.
With the BBC putting their archives online and the archive.org saying they will provide infinite storage and bandwidth for multimedia content, legal content for these devices is no problem.
First thanks for your comments. This is one of the best threads I've seen on/. for a long time.
That's why I find it interesting that capitalists are all in favour of a global (capitalist) economy. But they never explain what is going to happen. I claim that Western wages will have to be dragged down significantly but capitalists don't think so...
Actually capitalists don't get wages, their capital does their work for them. Wages are for those that don't have any ownership.
Capitalists have no national allegiance, so they don't care if wages go down in one place. They will set up shop in a nation temporarily if it means they can use it as a tool to gain power.
You seem to have British syndrome, the belief that you are inherently superior to those brown people who will be blessed to have you as their overlord. India does not lack competent IT people. The competition there is intense, particularly in IT but in all of life as well because of the poverty. Most Indians work harder than most Americans can imagine.
Buying world governments is probably cheaper than buying the US government. And sometimes not even necessary because if you buy the USG you often get the rest of the world thrown in for free. What a bargain!
Seriously, the office of the US Trade Rep is exceedingly efficient at throwing weight around to get developing countries to toe the line on trade issues.
Microsoft has been doing this for a long time, like back in '98 when they got Sri Lanka to change their IP laws to be more friendly. Ballmer and Gates have been globe trotting lately
As soon as all those hucksters have to close down their call centers what do you think they are going to do? Hmm, maybe try another form of direct marketing? I hear this new fangled Internet thing isn't saturated yet.
I don't think you should confuse "contrived mobs" with "smart mobs". I take your point about "technogabble" but there's more too it than that.
I like to give this example of a smart mob. An antiwar demonstration in DC, the war was close to starting so tension was pretty high, the cops were not in a good mood. A detachment of motorcycle cops were riding *through* a dense crowd of marchers, it was very dangerous and impossible for people to get out of the way.
Anyway some guy gets in a cops way and the cop grabs him by the balls. The guy has a digital still camera in movie mode and gets around 30 sec of video of the cop abusing him and posts it to DC Indymedia. Several people comment to that story that they saw it the cops bike number has X, here are pictures from another angle.
None of these people new each other, they just happened to be in the general proximity of each other amongst thousands for a few minutes and later checked the same website. A civil rights firm checked the site and got in touch w/ the victim and the witnesses and as a result legal action is underway from this incident.
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Not only that, doesn't he still use FVWM?
I too have doubts about Tivo's mid or long term viability. But as far as competing w/ Video on Demand (VOD), Tivo has sent the cable companies scrambling. VOD has been cable's plan forever, they have sunk billions into the effort to upgrade to be able make it happen. Then before they can really roll it out, Tivo (and ilk) come along and roll out these cheapo boxes that does most of what VOD can do. This is competition that cable did not expect so they will have to seriously rethink their VOD price structure.
Cable's response is to offer a DVR of their own. They can afford to lose much, much more on these boxes in order to kill Tivo and friends, I expect they will succeed.
The Australians seem to have figured out how to get Tivo to work with XMLTV and notably w/o a subscription, see wktivoguide. It shouldn't be too hard to adapt this to CA.
I agree, one of the biggest disappoints in the commercial PVR options is their unwillingness to allow independent content to be on their devices.
I've heard its possible with an external program (that was probably written by an insider) with ReplayTV.
Mythtv does this.
Its been pointed out that most readers of /. know nothing about Bollywood movies. Could some knowledgable people point out some links to reviews of Indian films that have subtitles or are in English?
Nothing. That's why messages from sources you don't know need to be accompanied by verifiable metadata so that you can filter it according to your preferences. Maybe you do want to know if there's a sale at a particular store or if that person across the bar from you is within two Friendster friends of you, but there needs to be a digital signature infrastructure and a friendly user interface for this to happen.
I can imagine some useful stuff being exchanged in this way. Let's say you walked into a bar or someother social setting, glance down at your phone and saw the Friendster profiles of everyone there. Instead of wasting time doting after some flashy eye candy who thinks Brittany Spears is deep you could spend your time getting to know someone who's more compatible with you. In more formal situations one might share parts of their professional portfolio.
The key will probably be metadata about whatever is advertising itself that you can trust. That way you can filter out most things and choose which one's interest you.
The killer app will be personal profile exchanges over wireless. Imagine, you walk into your local meat market / bar, glance down at your phone and you see the Friendster profiles of everyone overlaid of the picture the device took. Without the phone you would have spent the night following around that eye candy hot person that thinks Brittany Spears is deep. But with the phone you find that less flashy friend of a friend that likes the same books as you.
A bar is one example where personal profile exchange would be handy, but busy conferences are another. You could change what information you make available depending on where you are, a Friendster profile in a social situation, a resume and portfolio in a business setting.
I was amazed that they included this image in the review. I realize that in technical circles it helps to pander to immature males but that seems to go quite a bit past the usual T and A.
Am I so out of touch that with how sexist the mainstream media has become that that image is acceptable?
There is no monolithic "they". Indymedia is a network of over 120 autonomous groups that each do on the ground media work (trainings, film screenings, newspapers, radio shows, etc) in addition to hosting an open publishing website.
Last I counted these websites were hosted on 30 seperate servers which are for the most part independently maintained.
AC,
I'll speak for DC Indymedia since that's the group I'm familar with, their editors moderate hate speech, including anti-semitic content. It has also covered Iranian pro-democracy demos and hosted a panel recently featuring progressive Iranians. Indeed, there is a group within Iran that has sought to join the Indymedia network.
AC,
From that link I see that some anonymous person called someone else a Nazi on an open posting medium. A flamewar ensued. Film at 11.
Indymedia is the home of intellectual dunces, and mental midgets who believe George W. Bush is equivalent to Hitler, that some right-wing cabal is pulling all the strings, and supporters of cop-killers, terrorists, and murderers.
To make that statment more accurate you'd also have to add something about the people that produce radio pieces on raising awareness about AIDS in the Latino community, photojournalists that record labor struggles, stories about domestic violence, review books on the prison industrial complex, and videos on political hiphop.
It is very easy to pick out posts by trolls and vocal crazies. To say Indymedia is predominantly inhabited by such is not accurate.
"i don't recall such a big cluster of 64 bit IBM chips before"
Then you clearly know nothing about high performance computing. IBM's 64bit POWER cpu architecture is represented in the 4th and 5th fastest supercomputers in the world.
Well this is obviously not a news article with stuff like "such a pity comrade" in it. I like how the first few words seemed purposefully designed to incur the wrath of FSF, "In the world of "free" open source software". Forbes should really mark commentary as such.
If it was a news article then it might have written about how some companies will only release code as GPL as opposed to BSD because they do not want their competitors to incoporate the code into their proprietary product. For instance, SGI would not release XFS under BSD because Sun could include it in Solaris.
"By All Available Means"
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17306
Its interesting that Kahane websites are considered terrorist but front groups which funnel money to them are not. See here.
I've been to India and I assure you that you are wrong. The competition for jobs pales anything the US has seen since the Depression. The competition to get into Harvard pales next to the competition to get into IIT.
This is due to the extreme poverty and tremendous population density. There's virtually no social safety net so if you want to survive you will have to work very hard.
It is certainly true that Americans work longer hours than Europeans because American companies seem more adept at making their workers insecure and securing worker productivity gains for corporate fat cats. But I think this motivation is not comparable to that provided by poverty.
Well Tivo is a closed platform, you have to void your warranty in order to be able to download content from it. I would investigate doing this with a ReplayTV, there's software for downloading content, it should be fairly easy to modify it to sync content that it records with something like the Archos 340. The touch part is you have to transcode the mpeg2 from the replay into mpeg4 for the archos.
The web contains an ocean of interesting video content, its just poorly organized. The Irate project for audio shows a way to harvest legal music content, the same can/will be done for video. I run a site that aggregates links to interesting video around the 'net.
With the BBC putting their archives online and the archive.org saying they will provide infinite storage and bandwidth for multimedia content, legal content for these devices is no problem.
First thanks for your comments. This is one of the best threads I've seen on /. for a long time.
That's why I find it interesting that capitalists are all in favour of a global (capitalist) economy. But they never explain what is going to happen. I claim that Western wages will have to be dragged down significantly but capitalists don't think so...
Actually capitalists don't get wages, their capital does their work for them. Wages are for those that don't have any ownership.
Capitalists have no national allegiance, so they don't care if wages go down in one place. They will set up shop in a nation temporarily if it means they can use it as a tool to gain power.
You seem to have British syndrome, the belief that you are inherently superior to those brown people who will be blessed to have you as their overlord. India does not lack competent IT people. The competition there is intense, particularly in IT but in all of life as well because of the poverty. Most Indians work harder than most Americans can imagine.
Buying world governments is probably cheaper than buying the US government. And sometimes not even necessary because if you buy the USG you often get the rest of the world thrown in for free. What a bargain!
Seriously, the office of the US Trade Rep is exceedingly efficient at throwing weight around to get developing countries to toe the line on trade issues.
Microsoft has been doing this for a long time, like back in '98 when they got Sri Lanka to change their IP laws to be more friendly. Ballmer and Gates have been globe trotting lately
As soon as all those hucksters have to close down their call centers what do you think they are going to do? Hmm, maybe try another form of direct marketing? I hear this new fangled Internet thing isn't saturated yet.
They have not yet begun to spam.
I don't think you should confuse "contrived mobs" with "smart mobs". I take your point about "technogabble" but there's more too it than that.
I like to give this example of a smart mob. An antiwar demonstration in DC, the war was close to starting so tension was pretty high, the cops were not in a good mood. A detachment of motorcycle cops were riding *through* a dense crowd of marchers, it was very dangerous and impossible for people to get out of the way.
Anyway some guy gets in a cops way and the cop grabs him by the balls. The guy has a digital still camera in movie mode and gets around 30 sec of video of the cop abusing him and posts it to DC Indymedia. Several people comment to that story that they saw it the cops bike number has X, here are pictures from another angle.
None of these people new each other, they just happened to be in the general proximity of each other amongst thousands for a few minutes and later checked the same website. A civil rights firm checked the site and got in touch w/ the victim and the witnesses and as a result legal action is underway from this incident.
Muzak LLC is down!! Yay!