The answer is "both". It used to work fine without the subscription, and that was allowed under the EULA for the software on the device. However, at some point (around 2.3?) they changed the EULA and stated that a subscription was required to use it - at all.
They grandfathered in everyone who purchased before that date, so you can still buy a used TIVO that works without the subscription, but new ones technically require one. There may be a way to work around it on the new ones, but it's not going to be supported by TIVO.
All that being said... get the subscription. It's worth it for all the time it saves and the number of times it "catches" changes that you would miss if you had to do it all manually. If you can't stand monthly, get the lifetime and pretend the device is more expensive.
Note that the files in qusetion here are not official FilePlanet files - they are hosted site files which are posted by the hosted site and do not go through the normal FilePlanet upload/scanning/review process. They are not available on the FilePlanet site itself, only through the hosted site.
Read a chapter of it....
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Good book - you can read a whole chapter of it here.. along with an interview with the author and a few other bits.
Actually, "I didn't know" is not an excuse and not a way to sidestep liability. If you are found to infringe on a patent, you are liable for damages whether you knew about it or not.
HOWEVER, if they can prove you DID know about it, and STILL infringed on it, they can get you for "willfull" infringement, but comes with _3X_ damages. So at best, Linus is limiting his liability to 1X by sticking his fingers in his ears. Of course, since Linus isn't selling or making any representations about the encumberance of the Linux kernel, it's likely he would not be the one sued - it would be the big end users and distributors.
This whole thing is really just a way to deal with the fact that SMTP doesn't do any real authentication of ANYTHING when it receives a message. Developing a whole side protocol to run along-side SMTP and "verify" that a message is sent by a human or creating some micro-payment scheme really seems like a waste - getting it widely adopted would be at least as hard as getting a replacement protocol for SMTP adopted - so why not focus on that?
An SMTP replacement that verified - at least - that the domain of the sender was correct - would cut down on spam tremendously. Virually all spam I get has forged headers and invalid reply addresses.
It is argued that, hidden within the flow of signals from typical cameras, through image processing, to display media, is a homomorphic filter. While homomorphic filtering is often desirable, there are some occasions where it is not. Thus cancellation of this implicit homomorphic filter is proposed, through the introduction of an anti--homomorphic filter. This concept gives rise to the principle of quantigraphic image processing, wherein it is argued that most cameras can be modelled as an array of idealized light meters each linearly responsive to a semi--monotonic function of the quantity of light received, integrated over a fixed spectral response profile. This quantity is neither radiometric nor photometric, but, rather, depends only on the spectral response of the sensor elements in the camera.
...you're just going to end up with a swarm of lawyers invading the software industry, looking for anyone to sue. And the hardest hit will be the small and free software developers.
Honestly it looks like the _best_ way to make big companies serious about software quality is to get the press on your side. A few high-profile MS security holes and what do they do? Launch a major internal initiative and rewrite IIS from scratch. If they continue to have holes after this, you can bet the press will be right there to grill them for it.
Why do with lawyers what the free press and word of mouth can do better, faster, and cheaper?
...of the patent would appear to cover what Google is doing. Now whether you agree with the granting of the patent or not is another issue...
A system and method for enabling information providers using a computer network such as the Internet to influence a position for a search listing within a search result list generated by an Internet search engine. The system and method of the present invention provides a database having accounts for the network information providers. Each account contains contact and billing information for a network information provider. In addition, each account contains at least one search listing having at least three components: a description, a search term comprising one or more keywords, and a bid amount. The network information provider may add, delete, or modify a search listing after logging into his or her account via an authentication process. The network information provider influences a position for a search listing in the provider's account by first selecting a search term relevant to the content of the web site or other information source to be listed. The network information provider enters the search term and the description into a search listing. The network information provider influences the position for a search listing through a continuous online competitive bidding process. The bidding process occurs when the network information provider enters a new bid amount, which is preferably a money amount, for a search listing. The system and method of the present invention then compares this bid amount with all other bid amounts for the same search term, and generates a rank value for all search listings having that search term. The rank value generated by the bidding process determines where the network information providers listing will appear on the search results list page that is generated in response to a query of the search term by a searcher located at a client computer on the computer network. A higher bid by a network information provider will result in a higher rank value and a more advantageous placement.
Copying APIs for compatibility reasons has already been held up in court as legal in several cases (e.g. the Sony PS emulator case). As long as you aren't copying the copyrighted code.
(from the 96 page requirement document.. btw - TiB = tibibyte - 2^40 bytes or so)...
Example: For a 60 teraFLOP/s peak system, requirement 2.1.1.2 specifies that the system shall
have at least 30 TiB of memory, 1.2 PB globally addressable user disk, 6.0 TB/s intra-cluster
network aggregate link bandwidth, 3.0 TB/s intra-cluster networking bi-sectional bandwidth, 30
GB/s system sustained productive disk I/O bandwidth and 75 Gb/s external networking.
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Windows is based on threads, while UNIX is based on pipes.
That's just sillyness - both Windows and Unix support threads and pipes - they are totally different programming constructs that have little to do with each other.
COM and.NET
COM is a binary compatability standard, not an API. No amount of work on win32 will help in making COM run..NET is based heavily on COM (among other things) and is also not supported by win32.
That's so wrong I don't know where to start. COM is a marshaling and interface standard..NET is a lot of things - including a runtime, API, platform, etc.... It interoperates with COM but is certainly NOT COM-based - MS is essentially abandoning COM for cross-language integration and moving to the CLR instead.
Alas, I dont see COM being successfully implemented by the WINE crew, simply because it is too dificult to do without help from MS.
I won't argue that COM is difficult to work with (it's really a bitch), but it's not because it's platform-specific - it was designed to be cross-platform, and implementations of it are available on other platforms - including Linux.
if consumers will see lower prices from the merger of ten firms down to 3, than it is a pro-competitive merger
Note that lower prices does not necessarily mean a benfit to consumers: If the product you are paying a lower price for is also lower quality, then there is certainly not a clear benefit.
You could also stretch this to say things like "if the merger would stifle innovation in a particular industry it would hurt consumers" (even if prices went down).
He would obviously still be opposed to blocking a merger that (for example) resulted in numerous layoffs at both companies, if the end result did benefit consumers (lower prices and better products).
The universe is infinitly complex - there will never be enough processing power to truly make something indistinguishable from reality. You may make a pretty darn convincing simulation of reality, but it will always have its limits.
Until the simulation is complex enough that the simulation can be built within it.. (cut to scene from silly 13th floor movie)
From pre6 in the changelog -
Tigran Aivazian: make the x86 microcode update driver happy about hyperthreaded P4's
I thought hyperthreaded P4's were just a rumor at this point... does this mean some of the linux developers already have dev versions that they are testing with? Whoot! A hyperthreaded version of the P4 should finally make that processor worthwhile.
..yea.. except that the gov't recently raised the limits on export keys so you can now export 128bit encryption to just about anywhere - that's why all the new service packs for windows are 128bit only, and you don't have to go through a bunch of hoops to get the 128bit browsers any more.
With a rapidly changing delay, normal cepstral analysis does not seem a good choice. However, if we know that the same echo is likely to occur at multiples of 16/50 of a second, we can improve detector capability by combining the information of multiple liftered2 log spectra.
2 in accordance with the flopped vocabulary used with cepstral analysis, "liftering" refers to the process of filtering data in the frequency domain rather than the time domain. Similarly, "quefrencies" are frequencies of ripples which occur in the frequency domain rather than the time domain.
Well.. like.. duh.. I'm sure the script kiddies would have figured this out within minutes of SDMI's Phase 2 release anyway.
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The answer is "both". It used to work fine without the subscription, and that was allowed under the EULA for the software on the device.
However, at some point (around 2.3?) they changed the EULA and stated that a subscription was required to use it - at all.
They grandfathered in everyone who purchased before that date, so you can still buy a used TIVO that works without the subscription, but new ones technically require one. There may be a way to work around it on the new ones, but it's not going to be supported by TIVO.
All that being said... get the subscription. It's worth it for all the time it saves and the number of times it "catches" changes that you would miss if you had to do it all manually. If you can't stand monthly, get the lifetime and pretend the device is more expensive.
Note that the files in qusetion here are not official FilePlanet files - they are hosted site files which are posted by the hosted site and do not go through the normal FilePlanet upload/scanning/review process. They are not available on the FilePlanet site itself, only through the hosted site.
Good book - you can read a whole chapter of it here.. along with an interview with the author and a few other bits.
Actually, "I didn't know" is not an excuse and not a way to sidestep liability. If you are found to infringe on a patent, you are liable for damages whether you knew about it or not.
HOWEVER, if they can prove you DID know about it, and STILL infringed on it, they can get you for "willfull" infringement, but comes with _3X_ damages. So at best, Linus is limiting his liability to 1X by sticking his fingers in his ears. Of course, since Linus isn't selling or making any representations about the encumberance of the Linux kernel, it's likely he would not be the one sued - it would be the big end users and distributors.
This whole thing is really just a way to deal with the fact that SMTP doesn't do any real authentication of ANYTHING when it receives a message. Developing a whole side protocol to run along-side SMTP and "verify" that a message is sent by a human or creating some micro-payment scheme really seems like a waste - getting it widely adopted would be at least as hard as getting a replacement protocol for SMTP adopted - so why not focus on that?
An SMTP replacement that verified - at least - that the domain of the sender was correct - would cut down on spam tremendously. Virually all spam I get has forged headers and invalid reply addresses.
..does it support the display of Squant?
Probably because the G3/G4 processors already run at half the speed of the comparable Intel processor. No need to downclock them further!
It is argued that, hidden within the flow of signals from typical cameras, through image processing, to display media, is a homomorphic filter. While homomorphic filtering is often desirable, there are some occasions where it is not. Thus cancellation of this implicit homomorphic filter is proposed, through the introduction of an anti--homomorphic filter. This concept gives rise to the principle of quantigraphic image processing, wherein it is argued that most cameras can be modelled as an array of idealized light meters each linearly responsive to a semi--monotonic function of the quantity of light received, integrated over a fixed spectral response profile. This quantity is neither radiometric nor photometric, but, rather, depends only on the spectral response of the sensor elements in the camera.
Check out the 3d view here.
Just fast-forward to Feb-1 2019, set the center on earth, and zoom in.
...you're just going to end up with a swarm of lawyers invading the software industry, looking for anyone to sue.
And the hardest hit will be the small and free software developers.
Honestly it looks like the _best_ way to make big companies serious about software quality is to get the press on your side. A few high-profile MS security holes and what do they do? Launch a major internal initiative and rewrite IIS from scratch. If they continue to have holes after this, you can bet the press will be right there to grill them for it.
Why do with lawyers what the free press and word of mouth can do better, faster, and cheaper?
A system and method for enabling information providers using a computer network such as the Internet to influence a position for a search listing within a search result list generated by an Internet search engine. The system and method of the present invention provides a database having accounts for the network information providers. Each account contains contact and billing information for a network information provider. In addition, each account contains at least one search listing having at least three components: a description, a search term comprising one or more keywords, and a bid amount. The network information provider may add, delete, or modify a search listing after logging into his or her account via an authentication process. The network information provider influences a position for a search listing in the provider's account by first selecting a search term relevant to the content of the web site or other information source to be listed. The network information provider enters the search term and the description into a search listing. The network information provider influences the position for a search listing through a continuous online competitive bidding process. The bidding process occurs when the network information provider enters a new bid amount, which is preferably a money amount, for a search listing. The system and method of the present invention then compares this bid amount with all other bid amounts for the same search term, and generates a rank value for all search listings having that search term. The rank value generated by the bidding process determines where the network information providers listing will appear on the search results list page that is generated in response to a query of the search term by a searcher located at a client computer on the computer network. A higher bid by a network information provider will result in a higher rank value and a more advantageous placement.
Copying APIs for compatibility reasons has already been held up in court as legal in several cases (e.g. the Sony PS emulator case). As long as you aren't copying the copyrighted code.
You don't see MS going after Samba of Wine..
I think I got that instruction book.. it went something like:
Step 1: Start open source project
Step 2:
Step 3: Swimming in chicks!
(from the 96 page requirement document.. btw - TiB = tibibyte - 2^40 bytes or so)...
Example: For a 60 teraFLOP/s peak system, requirement 2.1.1.2 specifies that the system shall
have at least 30 TiB of memory, 1.2 PB globally addressable user disk, 6.0 TB/s intra-cluster
network aggregate link bandwidth, 3.0 TB/s intra-cluster networking bi-sectional bandwidth, 30
GB/s system sustained productive disk I/O bandwidth and 75 Gb/s external networking.
That's just sillyness - both Windows and Unix support threads and pipes - they are totally different programming constructs that have little to do with each other.
COM and .NET
COM is a binary compatability standard, not an API. No amount of work on win32 will help in making COM run. .NET is based heavily on COM (among other things) and is also not supported by win32.
That's so wrong I don't know where to start. COM is a marshaling and interface standard. .NET is a lot of things - including a runtime, API, platform, etc.... It interoperates with COM but is certainly NOT COM-based - MS is essentially abandoning COM for cross-language integration and moving to the CLR instead.
Alas, I dont see COM being successfully implemented by the WINE crew, simply because it is too dificult to do without help from MS. I won't argue that COM is difficult to work with (it's really a bitch), but it's not because it's platform-specific - it was designed to be cross-platform, and implementations of it are available on other platforms - including Linux.
Note that lower prices does not necessarily mean a benfit to consumers: If the product you are paying a lower price for is also lower quality, then there is certainly not a clear benefit.
You could also stretch this to say things like "if the merger would stifle innovation in a particular industry it would hurt consumers" (even if prices went down).
He would obviously still be opposed to blocking a merger that (for example) resulted in numerous layoffs at both companies, if the end result did benefit consumers (lower prices and better products).
The universe is infinitly complex - there will never be enough processing power to truly make something indistinguishable from reality. You may make a pretty darn convincing simulation of reality, but it will always have its limits.
Until the simulation is complex enough that the simulation can be built within it.. (cut to scene from silly 13th floor movie)
From pre6 in the changelog -
Tigran Aivazian: make the x86 microcode update driver happy about hyperthreaded P4's
I thought hyperthreaded P4's were just a rumor at this point... does this mean some of the linux developers already have dev versions that they are testing with? Whoot! A hyperthreaded version of the P4 should finally make that processor worthwhile.
The gameplay footage looks good, but the CG movie is simply amazing. I wonder how many years until the games look that good.
Could it track guns and laptops for the FBI? I hear they need a new system.
..yea.. except that the gov't recently raised the limits on export keys so you can now export 128bit encryption to just about anywhere - that's why all the new service packs for windows are 128bit only, and you don't have to go through a bunch of hoops to get the 128bit browsers any more.
Or: I'll drop them off at your house sometime between 8am and 9pm this week. If you're not there, we'll have to reschedule 2 months from now.
Note that CNet == ZDNet now. They bought them last year.
It's more like twisting the door knob to check if it's locked, but not actually opening the door.