First off, as the 2 posts above pointed out, the composite image is one in the top right,not bottom right. I would say the top one is useful but your free to feel however you want.
However,if you read carefully you see that the nifty aspect is that it gives depth information to images, even monochrome images. Just to start with this has applications for internal medicine (i.e. laparoscopy). This is cool.
Your right,everyone should only get what they can afford.Health care? Not my problem. Schools? Let the kids learn on their own. Fire? Call some friends to put it out. Another country invading you? Hire someone to help who is bigger.
Governments WORK. Over 4000 years of history laugh at you for suggesting otherwise. You think it is pure CHANCE that governments tend to get bigger? Revolution is just another form of evolution.
The question in this case is not about what is wrong with governments but where should governments spend the money they have. To me,building an infrastructure such as a completely wifi covered city, is something that has unknown future value but seems could very quickly end up benefiting a HUGE percentage of the population. But then I don't live in Philadelphia so what I like matters even less on how they spend their money.
It is not just what you know about,it is what you don't.
As many other people here suggested, there are many ways that a document can be water marked that you are not going to be able to detect. The true challenge is to find a method of obscuring any hidden marks that you DONT know about. Thats alot harder.
for the same reason most PC are running windows - because it is what everyone else is doing.
If you start a new/. you aren't going to have everything that slashdot DOES - years of history, 100,000 user, ect. There are other sites,they just dont (yet) have what it takes to replace/. or more accurately,/. doesnt suck badly enough yet for people to go elsewhere in any large number.
First off,i love gmail and think the grandparent is a bit clueless (his folder complaint be the best example) but a couple of response to your response:
1) I have had gmail deny me a couple of time recently. I wonder if it is a server thing. Either way,surprised the hell out of me.
2) Yes you can read 2 things at once. if you want to compare 2 email not in a conversation you cant do it. I have not yet WANTED to but you cant if you have the need. This relates to the only aspect about gmail which it would be nice to change.
Gmail is a simple. This is a strength and a weakness. It is clean and easy to get around but the "simple" concept also mean that they didn't have a draft function until recently.(for certain values of recently)
The lack of customization is one of those things that are going to bug a geek crowd and is one of those things that (would SEEM) like it could be added without a a massive undertaking on goggle's part. But then I don't really know anything about the code so I am just talking out my ass.
Part of the point is if you say,"Poor rurals" it has no effect....and if you said "Poor black rurals" well, you spoke negitively about black people...tsk tsk.
I think it is "ok" because the general feeling is if your white and your poor your worthless,you had all the chances and still failed.
Frankly,I dont think it is a probelm becuase it isn't like poor white trash own a computer or can even read.
(i think i am going to burn in hell for that last comment)
what i find funny about both your posts is that you attack or defend base on the rock-solid time line of 10 years. On top of that you are both taking point-by-point discussions as oppose to the general sense of what is truly important in the "near" future.
First, there are a couple of predictions made that involve sensing tech. This is going to improve greatly. We are just now becoming able to shrink sensors to a truly invisible level. Your wrist watch and toilet might not do anything drastically different but you can bet you ass that you will be able to find out alot more about your health then you can today. May you will simply swallow cheap pill, when you feel the need, that has any number of sensors built in that can tell you alot about what is going on in your body. Whatever happens,for the first time computer are going to know more about our environment then we do.
The second tech is various display methods getting better,which again is being researched at an AMAZING level. OLED, eInk, umpa lumpa jucie - it doesn't matter,it's coming. People realize that displaying all that information that computers have is MASSIVELY important. What the shape is I don't know but the fact that people will be able to access data all the time will happen and it will change our life. Cell phones are just the start of this process.
The third group is mechanical in nature and here he is a bit more hopeful I feel but the improvements are still going to come if maybe a bit later. The roomba is the first generation of household robots. Given time we will have much more advance machines. Computers are again becoming smart enough to work in the real world. That is the change that need to happen to make a true impact.
The time line though is the one point that I don't understand. If you change it from 10 to 20 years you realize that a great deal of what he says become much harder to disagree with as possible. 20 years is a VERY long time, even outside of computers. Almost all of the/. readers will still be alive 20 years from now. By then,there is going to be even MORE cool shit that we haven't even a glimmer now, just as surely no one would have had a clue to the nature of your modern world 20 years ago. Some amazing, Carbon nano tubes, and some just puzzling - 500 channel cable tv with TiVos.
weither it is cameras or cops the numbers matter. If for example I saw a police officer at every street conner i would wonder exactly where i was living: In america or a police state. But if we have this with cameras,it's suppose to be ok.
Let me put it differently. These cameras are being installed (and others are being used) while there is supposed to be a "significant" threat. Since these cameras are goin to be left there,does that mean we will never be out of a state of "significant" threat?
People who truly KNOW what they are talking about to comment. Please remove your comment quick or you shall me modded a troll-for-life. We here at/. have standards and they will be enforced.
So, does that mean (referring to your response elsewhere) that to recover the energy cost takes about 10 years now and to recover the construction cost at the 100 year mark?
Your post reminded me of a segment I heard with a writer from The Onion. He said that every week that get email with the following basic setup:
"I read The Onion every week and I love it! However this week you joked about (BLANK). (BLANK) is just not funny. (BLANK) is a very serious matter and not something to joke about. So please in the future don't joke about it. Thank you."
Of coarse BLANK was different every week and about every topic The Onion would make fun of. Sigh.
would be the motto you claim to state but it is not what you said.
You just said, (to paraphrase) "80 GB is all the space an OFFICE user will ever need." That to me seems like a bad idea because it is the same sentiment with just a slightly smaller group.
You are correct that many work environments don't require a great deal of space to do the majority of the work however that doesn't speak to what people WANT. Maybe people will want to sync their mp3s to the computer at work. Maybe the extra space will be used to store distributed data instead of relying on only one sever, maybe all the training videos are.....,maybe...maybe....make up your own.
People tend to use whatever space they have at hand and then become convinced that is how much resources they need. In addition there maybe apps that truly are useful and we just haven't thought of yet that DO need the added space.
There is going to be a change in how computer are used and what people need. The interesting stuff is gong to happen at the low end but the cutting edge stuff happens at the high end, the market place longhorn is aimed at.
What an office will need 5 years from know, who knows. Could be either the high or the low end. Likely both and that's why suggesting it will be a hard sell seems premature to me.
Of course software drives development - without software, hardware is useless. So that is not a very useful statement.
However saying, "Welp we are done for now" seems absurd for a number of reasons.
The simplest and best example is hard drive space. If you had told someone from just 10 years ago that some people would have 300GB of hard drive space in something that didn't even have a keyboard or net connection they would laugh at you. "Why do you need so much space?" TiVo only gets better with the more space you have. The sheer amount of space that people use today, without thinking of it is all the proof you need to see that what ever is created will be consumed, whither people "need it" or not.
For you to say "Most of those imaginings are possible" just shows where yours stopped. There are so many things that still have yet to come that don't require a "self-learning and fully adaptable artificial intelligence". Voice & visual recognition, moving devices in three dimensions, allowing 4 different users to do 4 intensive actions at the same time (playing games, watching "HDTV", ect) , sandboxes to protect from viruses or goodness knows what else.
I am not certain what "near term" is for you but for me it is 5-10 years. 10 years ago almost NONE of what I use my pc for did i do then. No net, no mp3, no video, no full 3d environments. To assume that we have run our course for the near term seems totally out of place for what the last 50 years of computing have shown and what can be seen in the near term.
If by near term you mean the next 1-2 years, I can agree with that. I would say though that the near term for longhorn is how long the product will live and I am guessing Ms plans to take it the next decade. What apps dominate the home environment 8 years from now I have NO clue. Maybe there will still be a "shortage" of processing power to do all the next, cool nifty stuff. But I doubt it and so does MS.
First off, you don't always have access to a map and even if you do you might not speak the language the map is in. The more options you have the better.
Location. That is what this service is REALLY about. Forget directions - there are easier ways to get them. Figuring out where you are and being able to tell a computer, thats useful.
I think there will be MUCH better way of figuring out where you are then taking photos (rfid tags come to mind) but it is a method that could turn out to be great or suck eggs. Who knows. Who cares? People trying is how we will find out what works and what doesn't.
Also, how can the more data about a city be anything but good?
The point here is that while a great deal of open source software is as good, if not better, then what you can get commercially it tends to not to be easy to use. Things have always been this way and likely will until there is a shift within OSS.
If you have been using computers since you were 6, when you see a dialog saying, "Port?:" you know what it wants after that point. Most users are going to have a vague clue what is meant by port. Move something somewhere? A kind of wine?
Large corps pay many people to create pretty graphics, write pretty books and make sure that ease of use is present. OSS has a large pool of programmers but a much smaller pool of OSS graphic artists and technical writers. These (and others) are the people who need to be brought into the OSS field.
It is a double bind: if you love computers and want to give back you are more likely be able to give in one area and not others. The real challenge is to help other people outside of computers to give back, people that may have few computer skills. In fact, it seems to me that most OSS is not setup to receive help from people with little computer understanding.
If OSS is not easy to use it will always be a third choice of three. I don't think that is what most people who contribute want.
First off, the Eolas patent is a terrible example of a patent. Mentioning it alone shows how broken the system is. The number of bad patents issued in recent years is more then a bit scary.
But, let us ignore the merits of the Eolas paten itself. Instead let us examine what Microsoft has done and can do. MS has enough lawyers to comfortably fight any patent is chooses. If they see a patent they don't like (and can't buy) the can challenge it. Can you afford to challenge a patent? What about 10? What about 1000? MS can.
They can also afford to ignore a patent. They can do whatever they want, ignoring what the patent holder wants now, and pay for it later. If I thought I would have to pay a multi-million dollar settlement for ignoring a patent I wouldn't do it - I can't afford it. MS can.
Money DOES equal power and pretending it doesn't in a civil arena is disingenuous. Nobody "Rules the world" but corporations of MS's size can afford to abuse the system - almost anywhere they want.
Many anti-corporation people are just "wacko" - they will make claims that make no sense. However with size comes privilege and if there is one thing Microsoft has it is Size.
This maybe to give TiVo a hard time but for me my first thought was, "Well,CBS's 9:30 show is fucked."
Joe User has ER season pass. Joe see a show on another network at 9:30 and tries to record it. TiVo complains because of the time. Joe says it is too much work to try and watch a show he doesnt even know he will like. Or maybe joe just sets the CBS show as a lower season pass, never to be recorded by TiVo and to die a painful death.
The funniest part is that a space elevator is a better idea because it can have the classical spin-off benefits that ANYBODY can see just from RESEARCHING it.
Knowing how to spin cable thousands of miles long made from carbon nanotubes would be more useful in SO many places then just going to or living someplace new(Mars or the Moon). Carbon nanotubes composites have more uses then i can dream of.
Oh, and once we have it space is our playground. I always wanted a bigger sandbox.
Putting your writers in a creative straightjacket, limiting their creative scope and presenting the viewers with a wider story that leads them somewhere that they've already been doesn't work very well
The writers are only limited by thier talent and thier boss. Just because you know how something is going to work out doesn't limit you IF your writing about PEOPLE, characters that live and breath. As you pointed out, most of the time the show has true trouble filling even a single dimension....
As an AC has already replied, if I feel the law is unjust then I might want to support these people.
As for creating a "cycle" do you really think the RIAA & Co. are going to change their behavior based on whether or not 2 kids get hand outs from the/. crowd? They are going to keep suing as long as they think it is an effective tactic.
What this has that Replay doesn't (yet) is direction.
Yes Replay can do most of what the Lancaster can, and better in some cases, the Lancaster is built with the future in mind. A cheap, consumer future.
Each Replay has it's own hard drive, it's own tuner, it's own EVERYTHING. All of this is extra hardware past a certain point. A modular system is just flat out more flexible and SHOULD become cheaper with time. Right now the Lancaster is FAR too expensive but has potential to become far cheaper in the end. A modular model allows for a one-to-one relationship with your needs. Less hardware == Less money. (Well, someday)
There how ever is something the Replay doesn't have (as far as I know): a common pool of space. While each Replay can share it's shows it doesn't share space. If Replay A is empty and Replay B is full, Replay B can not use the empty hard drive on Replay A. Instead it is going to bump one of the shows off to record the new show even thou there is space on the "network".
For your average consumer spending $400 dollars all at once is a lot. But if I could spend $150 for a 20 hour PVR and then add another 20 hours for $100 later that is ALOT better choice. I can test drive the PVR,I can give it as a gift and then let THEM upgrade the space, if they need it. Choices are always A Good Thing.
Again, right now, the Lancaster sucks. I can envision some people using it but for most people a TiVo or Replay is a FAR better choice. However this is pointing towards the future.
It so often DOES come down to size, in a myriad of topics. I as an individual can refuse to sell to anyone I want. However, back in the early 80's AT&T was a monopoly. The US government steps in and changes that forcing them to break up into many separate companies and imposed rules of service on them.
If eBay was large enough to be a monopoly then someone could have a good argument for forcing eBay to carry certain items if the public wants them to. EBay isn't that large yet but could, in theory, become a utility the same as the phone in your home or the power in your house.
Well, it does show what you can expect to pay if you wanted to do this all on your own. Also,adding a vastly larger hard drive doesn't come with any extra risks like voiding warranty. You might even have all the hardware already laying around and just put it to good use.
It also shows exactly how competitive TiVo really is. Basically you can build something for about the same price as a TiVo,even if it isn't quite as nice as a TiVo. If you invest in your TiVo and buy a lifetime membership you get something vastly better that will have a good resale value a year or 2 from now.
Just listen to TiVo owners. You will rarely hear people who are so happy with a piece of consumer hardware as people are with TiVo. I love my TiVo (Almost 3 years now) and so does every person I know who has ever used it for any length of time. If you are at all interested in something like this at least try a TiVo out.
Building a home system might be loads of fun and you might be able to do a few things you can't with a consumer product but people love TiVo for a reason. Find out why.
Funny,I wasn't thinking stunned more like dropping to my knees and asking her to talk Quantum Gravity to me....
In a (slightly) more serious vain, I don't think it is as much about girls knowing they can. I think most women know they COULD but why would they WANT to is the question. I believe it is more of an overall mental shift that needs to happen with how our culture defines what makes a woman.
Until that time, this lovely lady will have to bear the weight of 100,000/.ers at her beck and cal
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First off, as the 2 posts above pointed out, the composite image is one in the top right,not bottom right. I would say the top one is useful but your free to feel however you want.
However,if you read carefully you see that the nifty aspect is that it gives depth information to images, even monochrome images. Just to start with this has applications for internal medicine (i.e. laparoscopy). This is cool.
Your right,everyone should only get what they can afford.Health care? Not my problem. Schools? Let the kids learn on their own. Fire? Call some friends to put it out. Another country invading you? Hire someone to help who is bigger.
Governments WORK. Over 4000 years of history laugh at you for suggesting otherwise. You think it is pure CHANCE that governments tend to get bigger? Revolution is just another form of evolution.
The question in this case is not about what is wrong with governments but where should governments spend the money they have. To me,building an infrastructure such as a completely wifi covered city, is something that has unknown future value but seems could very quickly end up benefiting a HUGE percentage of the population. But then I don't live in Philadelphia so what I like matters even less on how they spend their money.
It is not just what you know about,it is what you don't.
As many other people here suggested, there are many ways that a document can be water marked that you are not going to be able to detect. The true challenge is to find a method of obscuring any hidden marks that you DONT know about. Thats alot harder.
for the same reason most PC are running windows - because it is what everyone else is doing.
/. you aren't going to have everything that slashdot DOES - years of history, 100,000 user, ect. There are other sites,they just dont (yet) have what it takes to replace /. or more accurately,/. doesnt suck badly enough yet for people to go elsewhere in any large number.
If you start a new
First off,i love gmail and think the grandparent is a bit clueless (his folder complaint be the best example) but a couple of response to your response:
1) I have had gmail deny me a couple of time recently. I wonder if it is a server thing. Either way,surprised the hell out of me.
2) Yes you can read 2 things at once. if you want to compare 2 email not in a conversation you cant do it. I have not yet WANTED to but you cant if you have the need. This relates to the only aspect about gmail which it would be nice to change.
Gmail is a simple. This is a strength and a weakness. It is clean and easy to get around but the "simple" concept also mean that they didn't have a draft function until recently.(for certain values of recently)
The lack of customization is one of those things that are going to bug a geek crowd and is one of those things that (would SEEM) like it could be added without a a massive undertaking on goggle's part. But then I don't really know anything about the code so I am just talking out my ass.
....well,they would be ...white?
Part of the point is if you say,"Poor rurals" it has no effect....and if you said "Poor black rurals" well, you spoke negitively about black people...tsk tsk.
I think it is "ok" because the general feeling is if your white and your poor your worthless,you had all the chances and still failed.
Frankly,I dont think it is a probelm becuase it isn't like poor white trash own a computer or can even read.
(i think i am going to burn in hell for that last comment)
what i find funny about both your posts is that you attack or defend base on the rock-solid time line of 10 years. On top of that you are both taking point-by-point discussions as oppose to the general sense of what is truly important in the "near" future.
/. readers will still be alive 20 years from now. By then,there is going to be even MORE cool shit that we haven't even a glimmer now, just as surely no one would have had a clue to the nature of your modern world 20 years ago. Some amazing, Carbon nano tubes, and some just puzzling - 500 channel cable tv with TiVos.
First, there are a couple of predictions made that involve sensing tech. This is going to improve greatly. We are just now becoming able to shrink sensors to a truly invisible level. Your wrist watch and toilet might not do anything drastically different but you can bet you ass that you will be able to find out alot more about your health then you can today. May you will simply swallow cheap pill, when you feel the need, that has any number of sensors built in that can tell you alot about what is going on in your body. Whatever happens,for the first time computer are going to know more about our environment then we do.
The second tech is various display methods getting better,which again is being researched at an AMAZING level. OLED, eInk, umpa lumpa jucie - it doesn't matter,it's coming. People realize that displaying all that information that computers have is MASSIVELY important. What the shape is I don't know but the fact that people will be able to access data all the time will happen and it will change our life. Cell phones are just the start of this process.
The third group is mechanical in nature and here he is a bit more hopeful I feel but the improvements are still going to come if maybe a bit later. The roomba is the first generation of household robots. Given time we will have much more advance machines. Computers are again becoming smart enough to work in the real world. That is the change that need to happen to make a true impact.
The time line though is the one point that I don't understand. If you change it from 10 to 20 years you realize that a great deal of what he says become much harder to disagree with as possible. 20 years is a VERY long time, even outside of computers. Almost all of the
but what about when it's 750? or 7000?
weither it is cameras or cops the numbers matter. If for example I saw a police officer at every street conner i would wonder exactly where i was living: In america or a police state. But if we have this with cameras,it's suppose to be ok.
Let me put it differently. These cameras are being installed (and others are being used) while there is supposed to be a "significant" threat. Since these cameras are goin to be left there,does that mean we will never be out of a state of "significant" threat?
at this moment I share the state you had when you wrote this........I have heard of meat but have no truck with it....sound commie to me......
what does it mean when commie is not spell-checked??...or right...i just remembered,/. doesnt have spell check....
People who truly KNOW what they are talking about to comment. Please remove your comment quick or you shall me modded a troll-for-life. We here at /. have standards and they will be enforced.
So, does that mean (referring to your response elsewhere) that to recover the energy cost takes about 10 years now and to recover the construction cost at the 100 year mark?
Your post reminded me of a segment I heard with a writer from The Onion. He said that every week that get email with the following basic setup:
"I read The Onion every week and I love it! However this week you joked about (BLANK). (BLANK) is just not funny. (BLANK) is a very serious matter and not something to joke about. So please in the future don't joke about it. Thank you."
Of coarse BLANK was different every week and about every topic The Onion would make fun of. Sigh.
would be the motto you claim to state but it is not what you said.
You just said, (to paraphrase) "80 GB is all the space an OFFICE user will ever need." That to me seems like a bad idea because it is the same sentiment with just a slightly smaller group.
You are correct that many work environments don't require a great deal of space to do the majority of the work however that doesn't speak to what people WANT. Maybe people will want to sync their mp3s to the computer at work. Maybe the extra space will be used to store distributed data instead of relying on only one sever, maybe all the training videos are.....,maybe...maybe....make up your own.
People tend to use whatever space they have at hand and then become convinced that is how much resources they need. In addition there maybe apps that truly are useful and we just haven't thought of yet that DO need the added space.
There is going to be a change in how computer are used and what people need. The interesting stuff is gong to happen at the low end but the cutting edge stuff happens at the high end, the market place longhorn is aimed at.
What an office will need 5 years from know, who knows. Could be either the high or the low end. Likely both and that's why suggesting it will be a hard sell seems premature to me.
Of course software drives development - without software, hardware is useless. So that is not a very useful statement.
However saying, "Welp we are done for now" seems absurd for a number of reasons.
The simplest and best example is hard drive space. If you had told someone from just 10 years ago that some people would have 300GB of hard drive space in something that didn't even have a keyboard or net connection they would laugh at you. "Why do you need so much space?" TiVo only gets better with the more space you have. The sheer amount of space that people use today, without thinking of it is all the proof you need to see that what ever is created will be consumed, whither people "need it" or not.
For you to say "Most of those imaginings are possible" just shows where yours stopped. There are so many things that still have yet to come that don't require a "self-learning and fully adaptable artificial intelligence". Voice & visual recognition, moving devices in three dimensions, allowing 4 different users to do 4 intensive actions at the same time (playing games, watching "HDTV", ect) , sandboxes to protect from viruses or goodness knows what else.
I am not certain what "near term" is for you but for me it is 5-10 years. 10 years ago almost NONE of what I use my pc for did i do then. No net, no mp3, no video, no full 3d environments. To assume that we have run our course for the near term seems totally out of place for what the last 50 years of computing have shown and what can be seen in the near term.
If by near term you mean the next 1-2 years, I can agree with that. I would say though that the near term for longhorn is how long the product will live and I am guessing Ms plans to take it the next decade. What apps dominate the home environment 8 years from now I have NO clue. Maybe there will still be a "shortage" of processing power to do all the next, cool nifty stuff. But I doubt it and so does MS.
First off, you don't always have access to a map and even if you do you might not speak the language the map is in. The more options you have the better.
Location. That is what this service is REALLY about. Forget directions - there are easier ways to get them. Figuring out where you are and being able to tell a computer, thats useful.
I think there will be MUCH better way of figuring out where you are then taking photos (rfid tags come to mind) but it is a method that could turn out to be great or suck eggs. Who knows. Who cares? People trying is how we will find out what works and what doesn't.
Also, how can the more data about a city be anything but good?
you haven't seen my toliet. Or for that matter the toliet of most geeks i know.
I am certain that some of the people i have know DID clean thier computer more often then thier toliet. I mean, 1 > 0 is still true, right?
Is that where OSS is suppose to be?
The point here is that while a great deal of open source software is as good, if not better, then what you can get commercially it tends to not to be easy to use. Things have always been this way and likely will until there is a shift within OSS.
If you have been using computers since you were 6, when you see a dialog saying, "Port?:" you know what it wants after that point. Most users are going to have a vague clue what is meant by port. Move something somewhere? A kind of wine?
Large corps pay many people to create pretty graphics, write pretty books and make sure that ease of use is present. OSS has a large pool of programmers but a much smaller pool of OSS graphic artists and technical writers. These (and others) are the people who need to be brought into the OSS field.
It is a double bind: if you love computers and want to give back you are more likely be able to give in one area and not others. The real challenge is to help other people outside of computers to give back, people that may have few computer skills. In fact, it seems to me that most OSS is not setup to receive help from people with little computer understanding.
If OSS is not easy to use it will always be a third choice of three. I don't think that is what most people who contribute want.
First off, the Eolas patent is a terrible example of a patent. Mentioning it alone shows how broken the system is. The number of bad patents issued in recent years is more then a bit scary.
But, let us ignore the merits of the Eolas paten itself. Instead let us examine what Microsoft has done and can do. MS has enough lawyers to comfortably fight any patent is chooses. If they see a patent they don't like (and can't buy) the can challenge it. Can you afford to challenge a patent? What about 10? What about 1000? MS can.
They can also afford to ignore a patent. They can do whatever they want, ignoring what the patent holder wants now, and pay for it later. If I thought I would have to pay a multi-million dollar settlement for ignoring a patent I wouldn't do it - I can't afford it. MS can.
Money DOES equal power and pretending it doesn't in a civil arena is disingenuous. Nobody "Rules the world" but corporations of MS's size can afford to abuse the system - almost anywhere they want.
Many anti-corporation people are just "wacko" - they will make claims that make no sense. However with size comes privilege and if there is one thing Microsoft has it is Size.
This maybe to give TiVo a hard time but for me my first thought was, "Well,CBS's 9:30 show is fucked."
Joe User has ER season pass. Joe see a show on another network at 9:30 and tries to record it. TiVo complains because of the time. Joe says it is too much work to try and watch a show he doesnt even know he will like. Or maybe joe just sets the CBS show as a lower season pass, never to be recorded by TiVo and to die a painful death.
The funniest part is that a space elevator is a better idea because it can have the classical spin-off benefits that ANYBODY can see just from RESEARCHING it.
Knowing how to spin cable thousands of miles long made from carbon nanotubes would be more useful in SO many places then just going to or living someplace new(Mars or the Moon). Carbon nanotubes composites have more uses then i can dream of.
Oh, and once we have it space is our playground. I always wanted a bigger sandbox.
Putting your writers in a creative straightjacket, limiting their creative scope and presenting the viewers with a wider story that leads them somewhere that they've already been doesn't work very well
The writers are only limited by thier talent and thier boss. Just because you know how something is going to work out doesn't limit you IF your writing about PEOPLE, characters that live and breath. As you pointed out, most of the time the show has true trouble filling even a single dimension....
As an AC has already replied, if I feel the law is unjust then I might want to support these people.
/. crowd? They are going to keep suing as long as they think it is an effective tactic.
As for creating a "cycle" do you really think the RIAA & Co. are going to change their behavior based on whether or not 2 kids get hand outs from the
What this has that Replay doesn't (yet) is direction.
Yes Replay can do most of what the Lancaster can, and better in some cases, the Lancaster is built with the future in mind. A cheap, consumer future.
Each Replay has it's own hard drive, it's own tuner, it's own EVERYTHING. All of this is extra hardware past a certain point. A modular system is just flat out more flexible and SHOULD become cheaper with time. Right now the Lancaster is FAR too expensive but has potential to become far cheaper in the end. A modular model allows for a one-to-one relationship with your needs. Less hardware == Less money. (Well, someday)
There how ever is something the Replay doesn't have (as far as I know): a common pool of space. While each Replay can share it's shows it doesn't share space. If Replay A is empty and Replay B is full, Replay B can not use the empty hard drive on Replay A. Instead it is going to bump one of the shows off to record the new show even thou there is space on the "network".
For your average consumer spending $400 dollars all at once is a lot. But if I could spend $150 for a 20 hour PVR and then add another 20 hours for $100 later that is ALOT better choice. I can test drive the PVR,I can give it as a gift and then let THEM upgrade the space, if they need it. Choices are always A Good Thing.
Again, right now, the Lancaster sucks. I can envision some people using it but for most people a TiVo or Replay is a FAR better choice. However this is pointing towards the future.
It so often DOES come down to size, in a myriad of topics. I as an individual can refuse to sell to anyone I want. However, back in the early 80's AT&T was a monopoly. The US government steps in and changes that forcing them to break up into many separate companies and imposed rules of service on them.
If eBay was large enough to be a monopoly then someone could have a good argument for forcing eBay to carry certain items if the public wants them to. EBay isn't that large yet but could, in theory, become a utility the same as the phone in your home or the power in your house.
Well, it does show what you can expect to pay if you wanted to do this all on your own. Also,adding a vastly larger hard drive doesn't come with any extra risks like voiding warranty. You might even have all the hardware already laying around and just put it to good use.
It also shows exactly how competitive TiVo really is. Basically you can build something for about the same price as a TiVo,even if it isn't quite as nice as a TiVo. If you invest in your TiVo and buy a lifetime membership you get something vastly better that will have a good resale value a year or 2 from now.
Just listen to TiVo owners. You will rarely hear people who are so happy with a piece of consumer hardware as people are with TiVo. I love my TiVo (Almost 3 years now) and so does every person I know who has ever used it for any length of time. If you are at all interested in something like this at least try a TiVo out.
Building a home system might be loads of fun and you might be able to do a few things you can't with a consumer product but people love TiVo for a reason. Find out why.
Funny,I wasn't thinking stunned more like dropping to my knees and asking her to talk Quantum Gravity to me....
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In a (slightly) more serious vain, I don't think it is as much about girls knowing they can. I think most women know they COULD but why would they WANT to is the question. I believe it is more of an overall mental shift that needs to happen with how our culture defines what makes a woman.
Until that time, this lovely lady will have to bear the weight of 100,000