I've had DirecTivo for more than a year. I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen MPEG fragments. I live in CA and we don't have real weather, but even in the rain here I don't see any more. Perhaps you friend's dish is not aligned properly.
This was an excellent show on the issue of why Americans fear it. I highly recommend it.
And, I agree with your premise. This will give China a huge leg up on the US. While we're pissing away time trying to suck more oil out of remote places on earth (and possibly going to war with them), they'll be humming along with enough juice to run a powerhouse economy.
You've just described greylisting, and I doubt that's what they exclusively use. Or, rather, if that's all they use, then their claim of the only spam-firewall in existence is false. Many SMTP servers include greylisting.
The first question, if it took Ed Kennedy, a well known Senator, three weeks of calling around to get off the list, what chance would a regular Joe have of EVER getting off the list.
Answer: 0% chance. I've already read articles (I think in the New Yorker) about people that tried to get off the list but couldn't. In some cases, the data was just wrong (black femalelisted with correct name, but listed as "middle eastern male"), and even though it was obvious, they still would not correct their database.
It's not like a million of us didn't predict this...
Why is it that companies always do this shit? Come out with a good product then sit on their ass and do nothing to it? Then, later when they fail because the competition kills them they wonder what the fuck happened?
Apple did this in the 80's? They almost died from it. They had a kick ass GUI in '84, then... nothing until the 90's. Cripes, Mac OS X is based on Mach and FreeBSD, which were both around in '84. That was real smart waiting 15 years.
Netflix. Great launch. It took them 2 fucking years to add "put a movie currently in the theatre into your queue", and that's the only new feature I know about since they started the service!
Tivo is just the latest example that pisses me off. There are so many things they could have improved. Nada. Zip. Zero. In-fucking-credible.
Right now, Tivo has the software edge. If they keep sitting on their ass, they will not continue to have the edge. Someone else will come out with something that blows them out of the water, and I will happily switch. I will not be loyal to a company that does this shit.
I have 2 friends who have DirecTivo (1 has series 1, the other series 2), neither has any of these issues. I've personally spent time in front of the series 1 unit, and it feels just as fast as my series 2.
I'm starting to think you are a troll or are just plain making part of your "story" up. The alternative is that you and your friends where really, really unlucky, and my friends and I were really, really lucky. Seems a little unlikely.
I have a DirecTivo, series 2. I have not seen the problems you have. I did notice that when I had 50+ season passes, with some wish lists among them, rearranging the order took about 5 minutes. However, since I got rid of some wish lists and reduce the number to 30, it's faster.
I even added a 120GB disk to my Tivo, and my Now Playing is signficantly longer than for most people. Even so, displaying the list of shows in Now Playing takes a few seconds.
For the modern left, "tolerance" and "open-mindedness" only apply to ideas they agree with. Everything else is "hate speech" and thus deserving of complete extermination.
Nice try, but it won't work. You are trying to paint all lefties with the same brush. That's not even something an idiot would fall for...
Try this one on for size: your exact same statement could be used to describe the "modern right", and it would be just as accurate.
Now, the truth is that there are fringe players on both sides. If you want to generalize them as being in the majority, which ever side you are on, you are part of the fringe.
Collateral spending. Think of all the other stuff they'll spend money on: hotels, food, sex, transportation, entertainment, etc, etc.. I'd be surprised if the daily take per person was less than $500 (other than tickets). Everything those people do besides breathing will cost them something.
Uh, not exactly. This is not a binary thing. If there is a God, who is to say it's the one written about in the Christian bible? Who's to say that the bible is accurate? The chances of there being a God as described by that book are very, very slim. Yes, this is an opinion, but from what we do know (many authors, written long after Jesus' death, and some of the silly ass content) I'm not just pulling this outta my ass.
I've never understood if there is one political ideology based on anarchy or two. One where people think it's good to smash windows and one where they do not (and, presumably, a lot of other stuff). If there is one, I think it's all bullshit. If there are two, I'd like to know more about the non-window-smashing one.
I completely agree the medium and large companies will do the GUI ports. It makes business sense to do so, and, generally, the cost is insignificant (perhaps not always for medium sized companies).
The problem is with small companies. The example I gave is a real one. ThumbsPlus would be very, very hard to port. It's written (from what I understand following them for the last N years) in C/C++ and has deep roots into Windows. There are obvious pros/cons to this. They feel they need to do it to compete with others in their market, but it makes it waaaaay harder to port off Windows. Your typical rock and hard place.
It's aways possible the WIN32 source compatibility packages will get good enough, but I really doubt it.
It may just be that as Windows loses market share to Linux some of these smaller companies will just go out of business. If it happens to Cerious, I'll be real sad. I've been a customer for 5 or so years, and it's indespensible in my digital photography workflow.
Seriously, by 2008 every vendor with any sense will sell both Linux and Windows ports of their software
I wish it could be true, but I seriously doubt it. You think Cerious Software, for example, will port ThumbsPlus to GTK (or whatever)? No way. I've been buggin' them for years, and not only do they not have the money to do it, it's completely out of their league.
I would seriously like to be wrong here, but I think it's completely nutty to think the hoards of small companies out there will be able to afford to port to UNIX.
No, SuSE is the best AMD64 Linux. Why? Because of Andi Kleen. He's a linux kernel developer primarily focused on AMD64 and he works at SuSE. The Redhat distribution that came out before SuSE's doesn't run some IA32 binaries (my company's, for one), because, IMO, they didn't know what they were doing. SuSE waited until it was ready. Andi contributes lots of AMD64-specific fixes to the 2.6.x releases (according to the changelog's I read).
AMD64 is a new platform, and Andi is a really good developer. He's also been very helpful to a developer I work with, exchanging emails on AMD64 details for our compiler. I'm staying with SuSE for this reason.
I just saw Spider Man 2 the other day. $10. Wow. That's the first time I paid that much (SF Bay Area). That's about $2 more than I paid last time (I don't see a lot of movies). Perhaps this is why revenue is up, they're charging more?
My experience with Sony products is vastly different than yours. My first Sony purchase, of any significance, was a Beta VCR. I still have it. It still works. It's a really amazing piece of engineering. Truly awesome.
Around 1990 everything I bought that was made by Sony died soon after the warranty run out. A TV. CD players. A Car stereo. A VHS VCR. All of them developed some problem, some fatal some not. I can no longer buy Sony products. I've lost too much faith in them.
I'm not someone that mistreats his stuff, either. I'm quite meticulous how I take care of the things I buy. The non-Sony items have faired significantly better, which is proof it is not me.
And, yes, you pay a premium for Sony products. I'm still amazed that they can charge 20-30% more for equivalent stuff... and get it. There are two reasons for this: they are still trading on their reputation from the 80's and the specs of their electronics and computers look nice on paper.
Look, you obviously love Bush, or you wouldn't be so blind.
First, what the fuck does "the far wacko left" have to do with this conversation? You were assigning a meaning to _my_ conversation that was not there. You are very far off base. If you are assuming that only the far wacko left can agree with this movie's conclusions, then you really are stupid.
Second, just admit it, Bush is an idiot for sitting there for almost 7 minutes after the second plane hit and he knew we were under attack. There is not one reason that justifies him sitting there. If you think there is a reason, cough it up and I'll debate you on it.
The comment that started this tirade from you was me saying that one of the big reasons he shouldn't have sat there is that he was known to be there. If the terrorists knew it, they might have been plotting to kill him. So, anyone with a brain would think:
1. Hey, they might know I'm here.
2. Hey! I've only got my normal, non-terrorist defending complement of Secret Service guys with me, I might be out-gunned and out-manned!
3. I better get the fuck outta here, and if I don't, I and all these kids might be in danger!
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I've had DirecTivo for more than a year. I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen MPEG fragments. I live in CA and we don't have real weather, but even in the rain here I don't see any more. Perhaps you friend's dish is not aligned properly.
This was an excellent show on the issue of why Americans fear it. I highly recommend it.
And, I agree with your premise. This will give China a huge leg up on the US. While we're pissing away time trying to suck more oil out of remote places on earth (and possibly going to war with them), they'll be humming along with enough juice to run a powerhouse economy.
You've just described greylisting, and I doubt that's what they exclusively use. Or, rather, if that's all they use, then their claim of the only spam-firewall in existence is false. Many SMTP servers include greylisting.
I am reminded, when I read your last paragraph, of parents who say "my kids never do XXX, that's other people's kids!"
Yeah, right...
Answer: 0% chance. I've already read articles (I think in the New Yorker) about people that tried to get off the list but couldn't. In some cases, the data was just wrong (black femalelisted with correct name, but listed as "middle eastern male"), and even though it was obvious, they still would not correct their database.
It's not like a million of us didn't predict this...
Precisely!
... nothing until the 90's. Cripes, Mac OS X is based on Mach and FreeBSD, which were both around in '84. That was real smart waiting 15 years.
Why is it that companies always do this shit? Come out with a good product then sit on their ass and do nothing to it? Then, later when they fail because the competition kills them they wonder what the fuck happened?
Apple did this in the 80's? They almost died from it. They had a kick ass GUI in '84, then
Netflix. Great launch. It took them 2 fucking years to add "put a movie currently in the theatre into your queue", and that's the only new feature I know about since they started the service!
Tivo is just the latest example that pisses me off. There are so many things they could have improved. Nada. Zip. Zero. In-fucking-credible.
Right now, Tivo has the software edge. If they keep sitting on their ass, they will not continue to have the edge. Someone else will come out with something that blows them out of the water, and I will happily switch. I will not be loyal to a company that does this shit.
OK, I feel better now.
My company ported a compiler to NT on the Alpha. It was 32-bit all the way, dude.
I have 2 friends who have DirecTivo (1 has series 1, the other series 2), neither has any of these issues. I've personally spent time in front of the series 1 unit, and it feels just as fast as my series 2.
I'm starting to think you are a troll or are just plain making part of your "story" up. The alternative is that you and your friends where really, really unlucky, and my friends and I were really, really lucky. Seems a little unlikely.
I have a DirecTivo, series 2. I have not seen the problems you have. I did notice that when I had 50+ season passes, with some wish lists among them, rearranging the order took about 5 minutes. However, since I got rid of some wish lists and reduce the number to 30, it's faster.
I even added a 120GB disk to my Tivo, and my Now Playing is signficantly longer than for most people. Even so, displaying the list of shows in Now Playing takes a few seconds.
Nice try, but it won't work. You are trying to paint all lefties with the same brush. That's not even something an idiot would fall for...
Try this one on for size: your exact same statement could be used to describe the "modern right", and it would be just as accurate.
Now, the truth is that there are fringe players on both sides. If you want to generalize them as being in the majority, which ever side you are on, you are part of the fringe.
Collateral spending. Think of all the other stuff they'll spend money on: hotels, food, sex, transportation, entertainment, etc, etc.. I'd be surprised if the daily take per person was less than $500 (other than tickets). Everything those people do besides breathing will cost them something.
It's so well said, it deserves to be seen by more people...
Uh, not exactly. This is not a binary thing. If there is a God, who is to say it's the one written about in the Christian bible? Who's to say that the bible is accurate? The chances of there being a God as described by that book are very, very slim. Yes, this is an opinion, but from what we do know (many authors, written long after Jesus' death, and some of the silly ass content) I'm not just pulling this outta my ass.
That article is pretty pathetic. It doesn't even mention this, which can be used to verify that an image is original and unmodified.
No precisely the answer to your last question, but it is close. Check out The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
I've never understood if there is one political ideology based on anarchy or two. One where people think it's good to smash windows and one where they do not (and, presumably, a lot of other stuff). If there is one, I think it's all bullshit. If there are two, I'd like to know more about the non-window-smashing one.
Please explain.
Agreed. And what the hell was the "riced out" comment about? Is that racist bullshit, or what? (open to be corrected, if I'm wrong)
I completely agree the medium and large companies will do the GUI ports. It makes business sense to do so, and, generally, the cost is insignificant (perhaps not always for medium sized companies).
The problem is with small companies. The example I gave is a real one. ThumbsPlus would be very, very hard to port. It's written (from what I understand following them for the last N years) in C/C++ and has deep roots into Windows. There are obvious pros/cons to this. They feel they need to do it to compete with others in their market, but it makes it waaaaay harder to port off Windows. Your typical rock and hard place.
It's aways possible the WIN32 source compatibility packages will get good enough, but I really doubt it.
It may just be that as Windows loses market share to Linux some of these smaller companies will just go out of business. If it happens to Cerious, I'll be real sad. I've been a customer for 5 or so years, and it's indespensible in my digital photography workflow.
I wish it could be true, but I seriously doubt it. You think Cerious Software, for example, will port ThumbsPlus to GTK (or whatever)? No way. I've been buggin' them for years, and not only do they not have the money to do it, it's completely out of their league.
I would seriously like to be wrong here, but I think it's completely nutty to think the hoards of small companies out there will be able to afford to port to UNIX.
No, SuSE is the best AMD64 Linux. Why? Because of Andi Kleen. He's a linux kernel developer primarily focused on AMD64 and he works at SuSE. The Redhat distribution that came out before SuSE's doesn't run some IA32 binaries (my company's, for one), because, IMO, they didn't know what they were doing. SuSE waited until it was ready. Andi contributes lots of AMD64-specific fixes to the 2.6.x releases (according to the changelog's I read).
AMD64 is a new platform, and Andi is a really good developer. He's also been very helpful to a developer I work with, exchanging emails on AMD64 details for our compiler. I'm staying with SuSE for this reason.
I just saw Spider Man 2 the other day. $10. Wow. That's the first time I paid that much (SF Bay Area). That's about $2 more than I paid last time (I don't see a lot of movies). Perhaps this is why revenue is up, they're charging more?
My experience with Sony products is vastly different than yours. My first Sony purchase, of any significance, was a Beta VCR. I still have it. It still works. It's a really amazing piece of engineering. Truly awesome.
Around 1990 everything I bought that was made by Sony died soon after the warranty run out. A TV. CD players. A Car stereo. A VHS VCR. All of them developed some problem, some fatal some not. I can no longer buy Sony products. I've lost too much faith in them.
I'm not someone that mistreats his stuff, either. I'm quite meticulous how I take care of the things I buy. The non-Sony items have faired significantly better, which is proof it is not me.
And, yes, you pay a premium for Sony products. I'm still amazed that they can charge 20-30% more for equivalent stuff... and get it. There are two reasons for this: they are still trading on their reputation from the 80's and the specs of their electronics and computers look nice on paper.
Look, you obviously love Bush, or you wouldn't be so blind.
First, what the fuck does "the far wacko left" have to do with this conversation? You were assigning a meaning to _my_ conversation that was not there. You are very far off base. If you are assuming that only the far wacko left can agree with this movie's conclusions, then you really are stupid.
Second, just admit it, Bush is an idiot for sitting there for almost 7 minutes after the second plane hit and he knew we were under attack. There is not one reason that justifies him sitting there. If you think there is a reason, cough it up and I'll debate you on it.
The comment that started this tirade from you was me saying that one of the big reasons he shouldn't have sat there is that he was known to be there. If the terrorists knew it, they might have been plotting to kill him. So, anyone with a brain would think:
1. Hey, they might know I'm here.
2. Hey! I've only got my normal, non-terrorist defending complement of Secret Service guys with me, I might be out-gunned and out-manned!
3. I better get the fuck outta here, and if I don't, I and all these kids might be in danger!
Now is it clear?
At first, I thought you were joking.... now, I just think you're dumb.
I was saying there is no reason for Bush to sit there unless he's an idiot.
Hey, don't hurt yourself thinking of a reply...
Whew, the ACs are out in force today.... and most have FUD to spread about MM! Go figure!