There is a lot more to a Replay than a 'modified PC'. There is a stable OS that is designed to stay up without rebooting, a UI designed to access other Replays on the local network, broadband access to guide data and other Replay owners, not to mention other 'goodies' like auto commercial advance and recording conflict resolution.
Yes, there are programs that will add PVR functions to a PC, but none of them quite make it to the 'consumer box' level of integration.
My wife, an admitted technophobe, had no problem learning how to use the Replay, and loves it (my kids do also). If I had put a PC in my A/V stack, I'm sure I'd be the only one using it.
>> So the statistics don't support what you groundlessly believe to be fact. Therefore the statistics are wrong. Get a life.
No, that's not what I said.
Let's look at the methodology behind these statistics - and why it 'skews' the results.
1. Each 'bug' is treated as the same, whatever the severity.
2. The individual reports from the distros are combined to form a 'linux' category that doesn't exist in real life.
3. 'Linux' actually refers to a kernel, not the entirety of the programs included in a distribution.
4. The 'Windows' category does not include programs by MS that would need to be included to make the comparison valid vis-a-vis the programs included in the Linux distros.
5. The comparison includes 'reported' bugs. So, we're comparing reports from a host of people who do this for linux, versus a 'closed' company like MS who seems to believe in 'security through obscurity'.
As a result, even though this may not have been intentionally skewed in Microsoft's favor, it certainly gives the appearance of same.
This is why the adages about statistics exist. You can collect your numbers and publish them, but if you compare apples to oranges, your numbers are invalid by definition.
This has nothing to do with whether I use MS or Linux. In fact, I use Opera instead of IE, but if you look inside my house, you won't find an installed distro of Linux anywhere.
So you thought you saw bias and assumed it was fact. Therefore it was. Get a life yourself.
The Digital Bits has an interview with the people responsible for mastering the Ep. I DVD (as well as George Lucas), and they stated that the transfer was done from film (and not direct from digital) because they wanted the tonal qualities the film transfer gave them.
Apparently Lucas et al. aren't as much behind the all-digital concept as they're saying...
Currently, according to the CEA, there are 20,235,574 DVD players in the market (as of 9/18/01 - U.S. only. Divx included. DVD-ROM & PS2 not included).
DVD is the fastest growing consumer electronic product launch in history. 20 million units in 4.5 years!
A few SF trilogies not being out aren't having much of an effect on the DVD market.
A legal company had hired us to build an application that they were going to pitch to their biggest client.
We go in to the demo, with my partner and I running the server/application on our laptops. So far, everything was running well.
Anyway, there were two wiseguys in the back (who we'd been warned about) who started asking for minor enhancements to the product. Nothing big, just annoying stuff - moving fields around, changing colors, confidentiality warnings, etc.
So I decided to have a little fun and fired up the development environment while my partner was running the demo and made the changes. (Without telling anyone - even my partner.) The first time he went back to those screens he was a bit nonplussed, but he recovered well...
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There is a lot more to a Replay than a 'modified PC'. There is a stable OS that is designed to stay up without rebooting, a UI designed to access other Replays on the local network, broadband access to guide data and other Replay owners, not to mention other 'goodies' like auto commercial advance and recording conflict resolution.
Yes, there are programs that will add PVR functions to a PC, but none of them quite make it to the 'consumer box' level of integration.
My wife, an admitted technophobe, had no problem learning how to use the Replay, and loves it (my kids do also). If I had put a PC in my A/V stack, I'm sure I'd be the only one using it.
>> So the statistics don't support what you groundlessly believe to be fact. Therefore the statistics are wrong. Get a life.
No, that's not what I said.
Let's look at the methodology behind these statistics - and why it 'skews' the results.
1. Each 'bug' is treated as the same, whatever the severity.
2. The individual reports from the distros are combined to form a 'linux' category that doesn't exist in real life.
3. 'Linux' actually refers to a kernel, not the entirety of the programs included in a distribution.
4. The 'Windows' category does not include programs by MS that would need to be included to make the comparison valid vis-a-vis the programs included in the Linux distros.
5. The comparison includes 'reported' bugs. So, we're comparing reports from a host of people who do this for linux, versus a 'closed' company like MS who seems to believe in 'security through obscurity'.
As a result, even though this may not have been intentionally skewed in Microsoft's favor, it certainly gives the appearance of same.
This is why the adages about statistics exist. You can collect your numbers and publish them, but if you compare apples to oranges, your numbers are invalid by definition.
This has nothing to do with whether I use MS or Linux. In fact, I use Opera instead of IE, but if you look inside my house, you won't find an installed distro of Linux anywhere.
So you thought you saw bias and assumed it was fact. Therefore it was. Get a life yourself.
I think we've just seen another example of the old adage, "You can make statistics say anything you want them to."
And if we all had wings, we could fly.
If you don't understand why your previous statement is the equivalent of the perpetual motion machine, I'm not likely to convince you in this forum.
Elementary chemistry (and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics) strikes again!
The energy to break the molecular bonds in H20 is always going to exceed the energy released in the reaction of Hydrogen and Oxygen to form water.
Yes, the first reaction is endothermic, and the second is exothermic, but you're never going to get out more than you put in.
Master Control Program...it's from TRON.
Actually, that gets you to advertising links concerning the MSN sites, not MSN content.
I use Opera 5.12 on Win32 because it's not susceptible to those nasty IE virii.
This just sucks.
The Digital Bits has an interview with the people responsible for mastering the Ep. I DVD (as well as George Lucas), and they stated that the transfer was done from film (and not direct from digital) because they wanted the tonal qualities the film transfer gave them. Apparently Lucas et al. aren't as much behind the all-digital concept as they're saying...
Currently, according to the CEA, there are 20,235,574 DVD players in the market (as of 9/18/01 - U.S. only. Divx included. DVD-ROM & PS2 not included).
DVD is the fastest growing consumer electronic product launch in history. 20 million units in 4.5 years!
A few SF trilogies not being out aren't having much of an effect on the DVD market.
A legal company had hired us to build an application that they were going to pitch to their biggest client.
We go in to the demo, with my partner and I running the server/application on our laptops. So far, everything was running well.
Anyway, there were two wiseguys in the back (who we'd been warned about) who started asking for minor enhancements to the product. Nothing big, just annoying stuff - moving fields around, changing colors, confidentiality warnings, etc.
So I decided to have a little fun and fired up the development environment while my partner was running the demo and made the changes. (Without telling anyone - even my partner.) The first time he went back to those screens he was a bit nonplussed, but he recovered well...
Of course, '2001' the book was written after the movie, by Clarke.
The precursor to '2001' the movie was 'The Sentinel', more a short story than a book.
Still, a pretty good adaptation. I just wish the FX of the 60s had been up to showing Bowman's journey as it was written.