That doesn't work for anything other than OTA (over the air, unencrypted) HDTV channels (NBC, CBS, ABC, etc). MythTV does not work for encrypted systems, such as DirecTV, Dish, or cable systems that require boxes (ie: digital cable systems). And other than the major networks, all HD content is delivered through those encrypted digital systems (ie: Showtime-HD, DiscoveryHD, MTV-HD, ESPN-HD)
Its the same problem Tivo has. Regardless of the technology -- the DVR must must must support CableCards. As in right now. Not "sometime in the future". Without cable card support, they can't record things like HBO, Showtime, etc in all of their glorious HD'ness
That is the ONLY way to record HDTV onto a DVR using a non-cable company box. Otherwise, you can't decrypt the cable co/sat co signal.
...its hard to build an HDTV unit as well. Meanwhile, back in the rest of the world, us poor cable customers have to suffer with our crappy Scientific Atlanta and Motorola HDTV DVRs that have crappy interfaces, terrible support, and an even worse reliability record.
I had Tivo for 4 years and Tivo was relevant to me up to about 1 year ago. And, unfortunately for them and me, that window closed (because I upgraded to HDTV) and they just aren't anymore since I would have to "turn back time" to go back to them. The lack of HDTV support was, in simple terms, a deal-breaker.
Maybe that new Series3 will change things. When is it shipping again?:-/
No, no. I think you misunderstood me. I didn't say "announce" or "pass tests". I said shipping.
Yep, that's pretty much the only reason for this. To "assuage". Not, mind you, to take any action or actually do anything. But to make people feel better about it through persuasion and talk.
Par for the course in my book. This administration pays a lot of lip service to a lot of things that they don't actually give a damn about. And this is yet another example of it.
You forgot a few that go back a little further....
* Photographs
* Silent pictures
* Early animations
* Talking pictures (ie: movies with sound)
* The VCR - porn at home
* Chat rooms - talk to others about and trade porn
* The Web - find any porn you want, anytime
* DVDs - high quality porn
There. That's a little bit better list.
And the point, in case people miss it, is that porn has been on the leading edge of EVERY new media delivery mechanism.
I can't vouch for whether or not it works but having used Dell before, ANYTHING is better than the crap they put on their PCs before they go out the door.
This is for games. I can see some usage and it had me interested at first. But, after reading about it, you need some serious muscle to drive the video in your games. As in, a COUPLE of high-end video cards (~$500/ea, maybe the $300 model would give you enough).
At that high of resolution (3840 x 1024), many many games look pretty solid. So you are looking at (3) x $250 for monitors, plus another $600-$1000 in video cards (SLI required). Sweet, but ouch.
We use Yahoo mail at our company. I've noticed, over the last year or so that about 10% of the time, MS Outlook or whatever POP3 client, will hang when trying to send or receive mail.
It happens across the entire company and happens enough that I have to answer questions from users about it. I tell them to cancel out and retry and 100% of the time that solves the problem.
Guess I now know why this is happening. WTF Yahoo?
Dude, you are flat smoking crack if you think small business is some cozy "write everything off" type of arrangement. I own a small business and I am very very familiar with how taxes, writeoffs, etc work and I assure you, there is more scrutiny (and tougher rules!) for small business than ANY Fortune 500 company.
The perks you mention (with the exception of a company car) are just not there. If someone is taking cash and not reporting the transaction/revenue -- then they are breaking the law and we (society) will deal with them. Same for employing illegals. But by and large, the VAST majority of small biz owners do not operate this way. They pay taxes, insurance, Social security, and everything else that has to deal with regulations in the US (EPA, FCC, OSHA, SEC, Insurance board, public utility commissions, Congress, IRS, FBI, and double that for state agencies!).
Stop generalizing. What you are talking about is a small percentage of the small business world. And small business ISthe heart of the American economy. NOT, the Fortune 500's of the world.
Sourceforge is chock full of this kind of funness. I just want to echo the parent poster -- a 2 line decription will do wonders for people picking up and trying out your favorite open source solution.
MANY projects lack this most basic piece of information.
Sure, my grandmother may not be able to listen to Prairie Home Companion until I come over and set her up with the podcast, but she is in the minority at this point in my opinion and that minority is getting smaller by attrition every year.
Without trying to overstate things, NPR is listened over the radio/satellite in FAR FAR bigger numbers than podcasts or online. Your idea won't work because of this fact. Yes, more ppl are getting it online and those numbers are rising. But they have to rise A LOT to eclipse the radio/sat numbers. A whole lot.
It's not quite time for a "paradigm shift in radio"
You are not correct. Anti-trust laws in the US *DO* take into consideration the impact on competitors. ie: dumping laws.
To say it's just about consumers is incorrect. It's not just harmed consumers that have a case. A competitor who is "wronged" also has a case. ie: Netscape
My Sandisk 1GB unit lasts about 25-20 hrs on a single AAA battery. So I just throw in a few extra batteries into the oh-so-small case that I have for it.
I wouldn't trade it for an ipod. If you have half a clue, it's much more "convenient" than the ipod. Of course, YMMV and yes, I have used an ipod.
Is he really being serious here? I am not sure if anyone saw this but there was a blurb during the academy awards where Jake Gyllenhaal was introducing someone or something late in the show. He was saying something about DVD's and the "home theatre" experience never being able to mimic the experience of the big screen. I can't remember the exact verbiage but it really doesn't matter --- the verbiage was SOOO wrong that he halfway laughed his way through the statement and cast an odd look as if he KNEW what he was saying was BS. He had clearly not read those lines before and as he was reading them off the teleprompter it became very clear that he, himself, did not believe what he was saying. And neither did anyone else.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is simple: the theatre owners keep crying the same battle cry -- but they are being oh-so-disingenuous if they claim they actually believe that.
Let me just lay out a few of MY issues with the theatres:
a) Advertisements
b) Advertisements
c) Advertisements
d) Overpriced for the "value" I get (ie: bad movies)
e) Advertisements
f) Advertisements
g) Overpriced concessions, sticky floors, other ppl in the audience, etc.
Anyone with 1/2 oz of common sense KNOWS these issues. Yet, the theatre owners somehow think we are stupid and don't know this. Which is why at every turn, they become more and more irrelevant. The more they "talk", the more I don't listen.
@ atmospheric pressure (14.7psig), water boils at 212F
@ 700psig, water boils at 503F
@ 3000psig, water boils at 695F
and above, 3208psig, you can add as much heat as you want and water won't boil. It's called the critical pressure.
And its the very reason there are so many "steam" accidents at power plants. You hear liquid going through the lines but you don't realize that liquid is under pressure. And once you release the pressure, the liquid instantly flashes and boils off --- creating a HUGE increase in volume. And a very dangerous environment.
I bet a lot of them are guilty of actual definite crimes.
Just like the Jews, niggers, spicks, chinks, and all the other minorities out there. They're "probably" doing some wrong, aren't they? We'd better enforce the laws a little harder for those groups to keep them in check. (/sarchasm)
I hate spammers as much as anyone but EVERYONE has the right to be presumed innocent until PROVEN guilty. Until that happens, speculation about "other crimes" is just that -- 100% speculation. And it's 100% bullshit.
And the #1 rule if you are a contractor/consultant is: make the person that hired you look REALLY good.
Otherwise, there won't be a "second iteration" because he will be gone.
I've seen too many projects where it becomes "the team" against the "client". And in almost all of those projects, they wound up failing and the person who hired the team winds up getting sacked. I have personally experienced that exact situation 3 times.
I think internet connections are a public utility.
No, it isn't. Public utilities have a public utilities commission setup to insure that each locale has a means for resolving disputes. Electricity is setup this way in most parts of the country. So is POTS telephone service (not VOIP). It is specifically setup to prevent abuses. Like for example, the power company shutting off your power and demanding $10,000 to turn it back on. It puts restrictions on what they can do with their product and what they can charge for their product. And they do this because "everybody needs it". I, personally, think the internet qualifies for this treatment and until it is deemed a public utility, we will continue to fight the network providers over things like tiered pricing, filtering, etc.
Internet access is a private transaction between private entities. It is NOT a public utility. In no way, shape or form.
Great post. Except for one thing: What about non-telco networks? The entire premise of your post was based on telcos subsidizing their internet offerings with revenues from telco POTS lines. That may be true for the "traditional" network operators (telcos) but it is NOT true for cable companies and other means of internet access (wifi, wimax, etc)
But tiered internet will apply to ALL of them. And that's why its a bad idea.
Except all the examples you cited are public institutions - which implies we have some sort of indirect control over them. The internet is almost ENTIRELY private networks - which implies you have ZERO say in how they operate.
I would be more inclined to agree with your post if we would denote internet access as a "public utilty". Until that time, I assure you that ANY private company who gets "tiered" internet powers will utilize those powers to extract the maximum number of dollars from you. And they will abuse it at every chance they get.
Tell me, where do the 9/11 firefighters fit into Ayn's enlightened self-interest. Do you consider their self-sacrifice, and their attempts to save others, to be stupid, or just immoral?
Disregarding your attack, the answer is: neither. It makes a person feel "good" to try and help other people - and by "good", we mean mind, body, spirit, soul, and whatever else you want to lump into a person's being. Some people like it so much, they make a career out of it. And I suspect you also have a predisposition to try to do things in your life that "feel good". We all do.
Sacrificing yourself and putting yourself in danger for others gives us a "noble" feeling that we are doing "good". That's why people do it. They fight in wars, they save others -- because they believe it is the "right" thing to do. And doing the "right" thing (relative to one's own beliefs) is the best thing a person can do.
That is very consistent with Rand's philiosophies.
And for the record, I see lots of holes in her writings/philosophies - but this isn't one of them. This is just a poster who doesnt understand the questions he is asking.
When the NSA goes datamining, they divide the intercepted traffic into two piles: clear and encrypted. Both piles get processed. Except yours has a red flag next to it.
Ridiculous! Do you really think that the NSA is trying to crack ALL encrypted traffic? Yes, I know about the "spying on americans" issue and all that. But think about it from a labor standpoint.
There are many many "normal" uses of encryption that go on every single day.
- SSH
- SSL
- PGP
- VPN
If you think the NSA is looking at every single packet and "marking" them based on whether they are encrypted or not, I think you are mistaken. Think of all the legit traffic that is encrypted. It's a bunch. A whole bunch. And not even the NSA has the resources to parse through all of it, much less analyze it in any form.
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That doesn't work for anything other than OTA (over the air, unencrypted) HDTV channels (NBC, CBS, ABC, etc). MythTV does not work for encrypted systems, such as DirecTV, Dish, or cable systems that require boxes (ie: digital cable systems). And other than the major networks, all HD content is delivered through those encrypted digital systems (ie: Showtime-HD, DiscoveryHD, MTV-HD, ESPN-HD)
Its the same problem Tivo has. Regardless of the technology -- the DVR must must must support CableCards. As in right now. Not "sometime in the future". Without cable card support, they can't record things like HBO, Showtime, etc in all of their glorious HD'ness
That is the ONLY way to record HDTV onto a DVR using a non-cable company box. Otherwise, you can't decrypt the cable co/sat co signal.
...its hard to build an HDTV unit as well. Meanwhile, back in the rest of the world, us poor cable customers have to suffer with our crappy Scientific Atlanta and Motorola HDTV DVRs that have crappy interfaces, terrible support, and an even worse reliability record.
:-/
I had Tivo for 4 years and Tivo was relevant to me up to about 1 year ago. And, unfortunately for them and me, that window closed (because I upgraded to HDTV) and they just aren't anymore since I would have to "turn back time" to go back to them. The lack of HDTV support was, in simple terms, a deal-breaker.
Maybe that new Series3 will change things. When is it shipping again?
No, no. I think you misunderstood me. I didn't say "announce" or "pass tests". I said shipping.
in order to assuage the public's privacy concerns
Yep, that's pretty much the only reason for this. To "assuage". Not, mind you, to take any action or actually do anything. But to make people feel better about it through persuasion and talk.
Par for the course in my book. This administration pays a lot of lip service to a lot of things that they don't actually give a damn about. And this is yet another example of it.
Actions speak louder than words.
You forgot a few that go back a little further....
* Photographs
* Silent pictures
* Early animations
* Talking pictures (ie: movies with sound)
* The VCR - porn at home
* Chat rooms - talk to others about and trade porn
* The Web - find any porn you want, anytime
* DVDs - high quality porn
There. That's a little bit better list.
And the point, in case people miss it, is that porn has been on the leading edge of EVERY new media delivery mechanism.
You might check into this
I can't vouch for whether or not it works but having used Dell before, ANYTHING is better than the crap they put on their PCs before they go out the door.
Hope it helps.
This is for games. I can see some usage and it had me interested at first. But, after reading about it, you need some serious muscle to drive the video in your games. As in, a COUPLE of high-end video cards (~$500/ea, maybe the $300 model would give you enough).
At that high of resolution (3840 x 1024), many many games look pretty solid. So you are looking at (3) x $250 for monitors, plus another $600-$1000 in video cards (SLI required). Sweet, but ouch.
The kind that has 25 employees and doesn't want to admin it's own mail server. What kind of dufus asks such a dumb ass question?
We use Yahoo mail at our company. I've noticed, over the last year or so that about 10% of the time, MS Outlook or whatever POP3 client, will hang when trying to send or receive mail.
It happens across the entire company and happens enough that I have to answer questions from users about it. I tell them to cancel out and retry and 100% of the time that solves the problem.
Guess I now know why this is happening. WTF Yahoo?
Absolutely right. Happens ALL the time.
Dude, you are flat smoking crack if you think small business is some cozy "write everything off" type of arrangement. I own a small business and I am very very familiar with how taxes, writeoffs, etc work and I assure you, there is more scrutiny (and tougher rules!) for small business than ANY Fortune 500 company.
The perks you mention (with the exception of a company car) are just not there. If someone is taking cash and not reporting the transaction/revenue -- then they are breaking the law and we (society) will deal with them. Same for employing illegals. But by and large, the VAST majority of small biz owners do not operate this way. They pay taxes, insurance, Social security, and everything else that has to deal with regulations in the US (EPA, FCC, OSHA, SEC, Insurance board, public utility commissions, Congress, IRS, FBI, and double that for state agencies!).
Stop generalizing. What you are talking about is a small percentage of the small business world. And small business IS the heart of the American economy. NOT, the Fortune 500's of the world.
Sourceforge is chock full of this kind of funness. I just want to echo the parent poster -- a 2 line decription will do wonders for people picking up and trying out your favorite open source solution.
MANY projects lack this most basic piece of information.
Did anyone happen to consider that, since there are MORE laptops in the world, there might be more thefts?
Correlation doesn't mean causation and all that jazz.
(wtf - this is news now?)
Sure, my grandmother may not be able to listen to Prairie Home Companion until I come over and set her up with the podcast, but she is in the minority at this point in my opinion and that minority is getting smaller by attrition every year.
Without trying to overstate things, NPR is listened over the radio/satellite in FAR FAR bigger numbers than podcasts or online. Your idea won't work because of this fact. Yes, more ppl are getting it online and those numbers are rising. But they have to rise A LOT to eclipse the radio/sat numbers. A whole lot.
It's not quite time for a "paradigm shift in radio"
You are not correct. Anti-trust laws in the US *DO* take into consideration the impact on competitors. ie: dumping laws.
To say it's just about consumers is incorrect. It's not just harmed consumers that have a case. A competitor who is "wronged" also has a case. ie: Netscape
My Sandisk 1GB unit lasts about 25-20 hrs on a single AAA battery. So I just throw in a few extra batteries into the oh-so-small case that I have for it.
I wouldn't trade it for an ipod. If you have half a clue, it's much more "convenient" than the ipod. Of course, YMMV and yes, I have used an ipod.
fuller, more entertaining experience'
Is he really being serious here? I am not sure if anyone saw this but there was a blurb during the academy awards where Jake Gyllenhaal was introducing someone or something late in the show. He was saying something about DVD's and the "home theatre" experience never being able to mimic the experience of the big screen. I can't remember the exact verbiage but it really doesn't matter --- the verbiage was SOOO wrong that he halfway laughed his way through the statement and cast an odd look as if he KNEW what he was saying was BS. He had clearly not read those lines before and as he was reading them off the teleprompter it became very clear that he, himself, did not believe what he was saying. And neither did anyone else.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is simple: the theatre owners keep crying the same battle cry -- but they are being oh-so-disingenuous if they claim they actually believe that.
Let me just lay out a few of MY issues with the theatres:
a) Advertisements
b) Advertisements
c) Advertisements
d) Overpriced for the "value" I get (ie: bad movies)
e) Advertisements
f) Advertisements
g) Overpriced concessions, sticky floors, other ppl in the audience, etc.
Anyone with 1/2 oz of common sense KNOWS these issues. Yet, the theatre owners somehow think we are stupid and don't know this. Which is why at every turn, they become more and more irrelevant. The more they "talk", the more I don't listen.
Yep. Parent is dead on. Just for reference:
@ atmospheric pressure (14.7psig), water boils at 212F
@ 700psig, water boils at 503F
@ 3000psig, water boils at 695F
and above, 3208psig, you can add as much heat as you want and water won't boil. It's called the critical pressure.
And its the very reason there are so many "steam" accidents at power plants. You hear liquid going through the lines but you don't realize that liquid is under pressure. And once you release the pressure, the liquid instantly flashes and boils off --- creating a HUGE increase in volume. And a very dangerous environment.
Why yes, IAARVS (I am a relief valve salesman)
I bet a lot of them are guilty of actual definite crimes.
Just like the Jews, niggers, spicks, chinks, and all the other minorities out there. They're "probably" doing some wrong, aren't they? We'd better enforce the laws a little harder for those groups to keep them in check. (/sarchasm)
I hate spammers as much as anyone but EVERYONE has the right to be presumed innocent until PROVEN guilty. Until that happens, speculation about "other crimes" is just that -- 100% speculation. And it's 100% bullshit.
And the #1 rule if you are a contractor/consultant is: make the person that hired you look REALLY good.
Otherwise, there won't be a "second iteration" because he will be gone.
I've seen too many projects where it becomes "the team" against the "client". And in almost all of those projects, they wound up failing and the person who hired the team winds up getting sacked. I have personally experienced that exact situation 3 times.
I think internet connections are a public utility.
No, it isn't. Public utilities have a public utilities commission setup to insure that each locale has a means for resolving disputes. Electricity is setup this way in most parts of the country. So is POTS telephone service (not VOIP). It is specifically setup to prevent abuses. Like for example, the power company shutting off your power and demanding $10,000 to turn it back on. It puts restrictions on what they can do with their product and what they can charge for their product. And they do this because "everybody needs it". I, personally, think the internet qualifies for this treatment and until it is deemed a public utility, we will continue to fight the network providers over things like tiered pricing, filtering, etc.
Internet access is a private transaction between private entities. It is NOT a public utility. In no way, shape or form.
but I'm not convinced that there is a good reason for the law to allow backups.
I am. Why? Because
a) it's technically possible to do
b) *I* can do it myself
c) It's not specifically outlawed
Great post. Except for one thing: What about non-telco networks? The entire premise of your post was based on telcos subsidizing their internet offerings with revenues from telco POTS lines. That may be true for the "traditional" network operators (telcos) but it is NOT true for cable companies and other means of internet access (wifi, wimax, etc)
But tiered internet will apply to ALL of them. And that's why its a bad idea.
Except all the examples you cited are public institutions - which implies we have some sort of indirect control over them. The internet is almost ENTIRELY private networks - which implies you have ZERO say in how they operate.
I would be more inclined to agree with your post if we would denote internet access as a "public utilty". Until that time, I assure you that ANY private company who gets "tiered" internet powers will utilize those powers to extract the maximum number of dollars from you. And they will abuse it at every chance they get.
History is on my side.
Tell me, where do the 9/11 firefighters fit into Ayn's enlightened self-interest. Do you consider their self-sacrifice, and their attempts to save others, to be stupid, or just immoral?
Disregarding your attack, the answer is: neither. It makes a person feel "good" to try and help other people - and by "good", we mean mind, body, spirit, soul, and whatever else you want to lump into a person's being. Some people like it so much, they make a career out of it. And I suspect you also have a predisposition to try to do things in your life that "feel good". We all do.
Sacrificing yourself and putting yourself in danger for others gives us a "noble" feeling that we are doing "good". That's why people do it. They fight in wars, they save others -- because they believe it is the "right" thing to do. And doing the "right" thing (relative to one's own beliefs) is the best thing a person can do.
That is very consistent with Rand's philiosophies.
And for the record, I see lots of holes in her writings/philosophies - but this isn't one of them. This is just a poster who doesnt understand the questions he is asking.
When the NSA goes datamining, they divide the intercepted traffic into two piles: clear and encrypted. Both piles get processed. Except yours has a red flag next to it.
Ridiculous! Do you really think that the NSA is trying to crack ALL encrypted traffic? Yes, I know about the "spying on americans" issue and all that. But think about it from a labor standpoint.
There are many many "normal" uses of encryption that go on every single day.
- SSH
- SSL
- PGP
- VPN
If you think the NSA is looking at every single packet and "marking" them based on whether they are encrypted or not, I think you are mistaken. Think of all the legit traffic that is encrypted. It's a bunch. A whole bunch. And not even the NSA has the resources to parse through all of it, much less analyze it in any form.