I use an old ReplayTV 5000, which has a commercial skip feature. The newer models of the ReplayTV lack that feature due to civil action taken by Disney and others, some details of which can be found in this article. (Note that another problem some content producers had with ReplayTV was the ability to transfer television shows over the Internet directly from one unit to another.)
Though I doubt that these problems would be in store for MythTV, any company that implements commercial skip will likely be subject to the same legal action that SonicBLUE (the manufacturer of ReplayTV at the time of the law suit) had to handle.
Anybody else see the irony of a story about typo sites being directly above this story given the obvious "Los Angeles National Laboratory" mistake (vs. Los Alamos National Laboratory)? Even if you don't, it looks ironic to me.
Anybody remember the ReplayTV 4500 and 5000 series? They both allowed show sharing. It was a major selling point for ReplayTV, in fact. They were sued by Disney and a few other broadcasters to stop show sharing (as well as an automatic commercial skip feature). There was even a limit on the number of times you could send a show (five times). Does this ruling mean that TiVo cannot be sued and that ReplayTV can reintroduce the feature?
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People say that the discussion board on the site is populated with professionals that work in the "industry". As far as what industry is, I'm not sure. Let's hope it's the Treo industry, because it wouldn't make much sense if it was the pornography industry (though that would be an interesting misnomer).
In twenty years, my as-yet-unborn children will be attending "University of Microsoft, Waterloo" because the tuition is cheaper than "University of Microsoft, California".
There is some great work being done with process migration across heterogeneous machines using checkpointing techniques.
If a process is written in a standard language common on many platforms, like C or C++, it's actually quite easy to save the running process data in a text file and then start the same program on another machine. (Even floating-point data can be saved this way, preventing any of the architecture blunders that occur when saving data in binary; i.e. big-endian/little-endian.)
There are plenty of libraries already out there that do this, but few of them save the data in with different platforms in mind. Being able to do this type of process migration is great when working with architectures across the internet, or any other heterogeneous network environment.
There's some work being done at Arizona State University under the direction of Dr Rida Bazzi to make this automatic across a network. That is, when a process fails on one machine, another machine of a different architecture is able to execute the process from last checkpoint. There's a rough paper at http://www.public.asu.edu/~vidar/fault-tolerance-c heckpointing.html that briefly describes checkpointing for fault tolerance.
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Though I doubt that these problems would be in store for MythTV, any company that implements commercial skip will likely be subject to the same legal action that SonicBLUE (the manufacturer of ReplayTV at the time of the law suit) had to handle.
Anybody else see the irony of a story about typo sites being directly above this story given the obvious "Los Angeles National Laboratory" mistake (vs. Los Alamos National Laboratory)?
Even if you don't, it looks ironic to me.
Anybody remember the ReplayTV 4500 and 5000 series? They both allowed show sharing. It was a major selling point for ReplayTV, in fact. They were sued by Disney and a few other broadcasters to stop show sharing (as well as an automatic commercial skip feature). There was even a limit on the number of times you could send a show (five times). Does this ruling mean that TiVo cannot be sued and that ReplayTV can reintroduce the feature?
http://www.treomb.com People say that the discussion board on the site is populated with professionals that work in the "industry". As far as what industry is, I'm not sure. Let's hope it's the Treo industry, because it wouldn't make much sense if it was the pornography industry (though that would be an interesting misnomer).
I can see how where this is leading...
In twenty years, my as-yet-unborn children will be attending "University of Microsoft, Waterloo" because the tuition is cheaper than "University of Microsoft, California".
this was on the discovery channel about a year ago, already being used by the US military in the UN peace keeping mission.
There is some great work being done with process migration across heterogeneous machines using checkpointing techniques. If a process is written in a standard language common on many platforms, like C or C++, it's actually quite easy to save the running process data in a text file and then start the same program on another machine. (Even floating-point data can be saved this way, preventing any of the architecture blunders that occur when saving data in binary; i.e. big-endian/little-endian.) There are plenty of libraries already out there that do this, but few of them save the data in with different platforms in mind. Being able to do this type of process migration is great when working with architectures across the internet, or any other heterogeneous network environment. There's some work being done at Arizona State University under the direction of Dr Rida Bazzi to make this automatic across a network. That is, when a process fails on one machine, another machine of a different architecture is able to execute the process from last checkpoint. There's a rough paper at http://www.public.asu.edu/~vidar/fault-tolerance-c heckpointing.html that briefly describes checkpointing for fault tolerance.