Yet another example of how we owe our lives and our souls (and our personal e-mails) to The Man(tm) while working on his clock. I agree that you're at work to work, but I feel that this is intruding just a bit too much for my comfort.
Their rights? So, would you agree that it's OK for Dell to bundle a modified copy of Windows with their PCs that would only run on Dell hardware? Of course not, you bought Windows, dammit! The point is -- if you've legally acquired a license for the software, you have the right to modify it for interoperability, even per the DMCA. Therefore, anyone who gets a copy of iDVD can modify it to burn whatever they want to whatever drive they want. Apple's heavy-handedness won't work.
Why not also make it so that you have to pay for gas every day whether you drive your car or not? What? That's not fair? Well, that's what your advocating and that's what the premium channels use now - you're charged whether you watch the programming or not. I don't think the OP is cheap - merely ingenious.
You also must think, though, that TiVo is the best PVR out there now. TiVo's stance toward hacking may be something that makes us 31337/.ers pay attention to it, but it's featureset and the fact that it is the best PVR for 99% of users out there are what it make it market successful. /gleffler
Build your own user-friendly UI, smart scheduling engine, program guide data (and don't think for a minute that providers won't change their data formats every day when they discover hundreds of "Magic Open Source TiVo"s downloading their data for free), MPEG encoder chip, realtime kernel modifications, a modem, S-Video in and out, RF in and out, serial control of most satellite boxes, IR control of almost every other satellite box and cable box, a user-friendly remote, fast performance, suggested shows, and reliable data.
This is good, but like the article said, I think we need to continue campaigning to the LOC so that the royalty rates they DO set are reasonable. Nothing could kill off Internet radio like deathly royalties. /gleffler
Click on "What is TiVo?" then "FAQ" to get this blurb: What makes TiVo from AT&T Broadband different from other TiVo recorders?
This TiVo product is brought to you through a partnership between AT&T Broadband and TiVo. It will deliver the same TiVo Service as you would receive on any other TiVo-powered recorder; however, there are some differences:
The recorder can store up to 40 hours of programming.
The chassis reflects TiVo's latest design, including a front navigation cluster, and is slightly smaller than other TiVo-powered recorders.
There is a new 34-button remote control [new buttons include the TV input button, which changes the inputs on your TV, a separate Guide button and a Standby button].
Ah, yes, the "dirty little secret" of the TiVo World--go here and order the AT&T Broadband unit. $299 for 40 hours - it's a series 2, so it's the latest & greatest from TiVo, and it's a great entry-level box. Oh, it doesn't require AT&T Broadband cable service or anything like that - it's the same as any other Series 2 unit except for the AT&T Branding and the only 40 hours of space. /gleffler
It's called a "Product Lifetime" subscription for a reason. You get service for the lifetime of the recorder - not the lifetime of you. You can sell the recorder, and the service goes with it. You can add hard drives, and the service stays with your unit. You can basically do anything to the unit, and the service stays with the unit. If you really did buy one of the very first TiVos (before 1/1/2000), you can transfer the lifetime service once because they weren't so crystal clear that it's a product lifetime. Since 1/1/2000, TiVo has been very forthright about the fact that you are purchasing a product lifetime service, not a customer lifetime service. /gleffler
...And you'll be able to pay everytime you want to watch a program. Bye-bye timeshifting; hello being crapped on by paying to re-watch content you've already purchased once.
Of course content providers and the BBC love VOD - it's practically a licence to print money with very little benefit to the consumer. TiVo basically gives you VOD without the overbearing corporate greed associated with current attempts at it. /gleffler
It's not worth $299 plus service fees for you to completely ditch the tape shuffle and program remembrance? I mean, think about this; your TIME has got to be worth more than that over the long run. Not to mention all the other cool TiVo features (Suggestions, Actor/Director/Title/Keyword wishlists, Smart episode scheduling, etc. etc. etc.)? To me, buying yet another VCR just seems like it'd be silly. /gleffler
All you need to do is agree to the "Software Vendor License Agreement." Then, your rights are as protected as theirs are.
The SVLA can (and should!) be read at http://www.cexx.org/svla.htm . You can download it and should edit it to include freeware with an end-user license as 'legitimately purchased software'.
Software vendors expect you to agree to an agreement you can't read until after you've agreed to it? Make them do so also./gleffler
Read the argument, Lintroll... You can go buy office, therefore it's a separate product. You can not go buy IE or WMP or OE or any of the other 'bundled' stuff.
The 'forced bundling' argument is nonsense. You can't go to the store and BUY a copy of Windows Media Player or MSN Messenger or IE or anything that's supposedly 'bundled' with Windows. Therefore, there's no forced bundling -- MS just added some features to their OS.
And yes, I do know what an OEM is. I also know that this post will get modded down for Trolling because I dare go aginst the Linux party line, so don't bother replying with more babble - there can be no bundling because the products supposedly being 'bundled' aren't separate things.
/gleffler
Who gives a fork if Microsoft is a monopoly? They FORCES you to use IE, WMP, or any of the other bundled tools. In fact, I'm using Mozilla, Winamp, and Calypso instead of IE, WMP, and OE. But big bad evil Microsoft is somehow 'forcing' me to use these things by including them?
Your argument doesn't hold water.
/gleffler
...about the Mac bundling iMovie, iTunes, iThis, iThat; or Linux bundling every media tool in existence as part of their respective operating systems? It's a 'forcibly bundled browser, media player, etc.' Oh, I forgot, it's because MS sux0rs and anything else r0x0rs. 'Scuze me, I think I stepped into the wrong thread./gleffler
A system that I think would work for slashdot is to give the top, say 10% of people on slashdot, ranked by number of stories accepted and also by karma, and give them a free subscription. This would encourage people to continue creating more and better content, while freeloaders would be forced to pay for their ability to view the site comfortably.
Better content, happier posters--it seems to work out all the way around. /gleffler
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Yet another example of how we owe our lives and our souls (and our personal e-mails) to The Man(tm) while working on his clock. I agree that you're at work to work, but I feel that this is intruding just a bit too much for my comfort.
/gleffler
Their rights? So, would you agree that it's OK for Dell to bundle a modified copy of Windows with their PCs that would only run on Dell hardware? Of course not, you bought Windows, dammit! The point is -- if you've legally acquired a license for the software, you have the right to modify it for interoperability, even per the DMCA. Therefore, anyone who gets a copy of iDVD can modify it to burn whatever they want to whatever drive they want. Apple's heavy-handedness won't work.
/gleffler
Why not also make it so that you have to pay for gas every day whether you drive your car or not? What? That's not fair? Well, that's what your advocating and that's what the premium channels use now - you're charged whether you watch the programming or not. I don't think the OP is cheap - merely ingenious.
/gleffler
You also must think, though, that TiVo is the best PVR out there now. TiVo's stance toward hacking may be something that makes us 31337 /.ers pay attention to it, but it's featureset and the fact that it is the best PVR for 99% of users out there are what it make it market successful.
/gleffler
Remove Discovery from "Channels You Receive".
/gleffler
Ah, yes, perfectly doable.
Build your own user-friendly UI, smart scheduling engine, program guide data (and don't think for a minute that providers won't change their data formats every day when they discover hundreds of "Magic Open Source TiVo"s downloading their data for free), MPEG encoder chip, realtime kernel modifications, a modem, S-Video in and out, RF in and out, serial control of most satellite boxes, IR control of almost every other satellite box and cable box, a user-friendly remote, fast performance, suggested shows, and reliable data.
All for under $300.
Good luck.
/gleffler
This is good, but like the article said, I think we need to continue campaigning to the LOC so that the royalty rates they DO set are reasonable. Nothing could kill off Internet radio like deathly royalties.
/gleffler
What makes TiVo from AT&T Broadband different from other TiVo recorders?
This TiVo product is brought to you through a partnership between AT&T Broadband and TiVo. It will deliver the same TiVo Service as you would receive on any other TiVo-powered recorder; however, there are some differences:
Ah, yes, the "dirty little secret" of the TiVo World--go here and order the AT&T Broadband unit. $299 for 40 hours - it's a series 2, so it's the latest & greatest from TiVo, and it's a great entry-level box.
Oh, it doesn't require AT&T Broadband cable service or anything like that - it's the same as any other Series 2 unit except for the AT&T Branding and the only 40 hours of space.
/gleffler
It's called a "Product Lifetime" subscription for a reason. You get service for the lifetime of the recorder - not the lifetime of you. You can sell the recorder, and the service goes with it. You can add hard drives, and the service stays with your unit. You can basically do anything to the unit, and the service stays with the unit.
If you really did buy one of the very first TiVos (before 1/1/2000), you can transfer the lifetime service once because they weren't so crystal clear that it's a product lifetime. Since 1/1/2000, TiVo has been very forthright about the fact that you are purchasing a product lifetime service, not a customer lifetime service.
/gleffler
...And you'll be able to pay everytime you want to watch a program. Bye-bye timeshifting; hello being crapped on by paying to re-watch content you've already purchased once.
Of course content providers and the BBC love VOD - it's practically a licence to print money with very little benefit to the consumer. TiVo basically gives you VOD without the overbearing corporate greed associated with current attempts at it.
/gleffler
It's not worth $299 plus service fees for you to completely ditch the tape shuffle and program remembrance?
I mean, think about this; your TIME has got to be worth more than that over the long run. Not to mention all the other cool TiVo features (Suggestions, Actor/Director/Title/Keyword wishlists, Smart episode scheduling, etc. etc. etc.)?
To me, buying yet another VCR just seems like it'd be silly.
/gleffler
Well, good for you. Posting a year old article on TiVos using software 2 versions old really helps prove your 'point'.
:rolleyes::
/gleffler
All you need to do is agree to the "Software Vendor License Agreement." Then, your rights are as protected as theirs are. The SVLA can (and should!) be read at http://www.cexx.org/svla.htm . You can download it and should edit it to include freeware with an end-user license as 'legitimately purchased software'. Software vendors expect you to agree to an agreement you can't read until after you've agreed to it? Make them do so also. /gleffler
Read the argument, Lintroll... You can go buy office, therefore it's a separate product. You can not go buy IE or WMP or OE or any of the other 'bundled' stuff.
The 'forced bundling' argument is nonsense. You can't go to the store and BUY a copy of Windows Media Player or MSN Messenger or IE or anything that's supposedly 'bundled' with Windows. Therefore, there's no forced bundling -- MS just added some features to their OS.
/gleffler
And yes, I do know what an OEM is. I also know that this post will get modded down for Trolling because I dare go aginst the Linux party line, so don't bother replying with more babble - there can be no bundling because the products supposedly being 'bundled' aren't separate things.
Who gives a fork if Microsoft is a monopoly? They FORCES you to use IE, WMP, or any of the other bundled tools. In fact, I'm using Mozilla, Winamp, and Calypso instead of IE, WMP, and OE. But big bad evil Microsoft is somehow 'forcing' me to use these things by including them?
/gleffler
Your argument doesn't hold water.
...about the Mac bundling iMovie, iTunes, iThis, iThat; or Linux bundling every media tool in existence as part of their respective operating systems? It's a 'forcibly bundled browser, media player, etc.' Oh, I forgot, it's because MS sux0rs and anything else r0x0rs. 'Scuze me, I think I stepped into the wrong thread. /gleffler
A system that I think would work for slashdot is to give the top, say 10% of people on slashdot, ranked by number of stories accepted and also by karma, and give them a free subscription. This would encourage people to continue creating more and better content, while freeloaders would be forced to pay for their ability to view the site comfortably.
/gleffler
Better content, happier posters--it seems to work out all the way around.
Yes you will UNLESS you use their "Convert to Power Link" function, here.
/gleffler