My original comment was related to why Tvio and ReplayTV do not have market penetration. My opinion was that the price is too high.
In response, you have attacked me, the way I raise my kids, the way I spend my free time and (in another post) insinuated that the only reason I take my kids camping is for incestious purposes.
Maybe you should take the rest of the day off? Maybe see a counselor and try talking about these hostile feelings you have. It might help.
It's obvious that you don't understand what TiVo does Actually, I do. I also know what ReplayTV does. I would also be willing to buy either one. Except, that price thing keeps getting in the way...
Comparing TiVo to a VCR is like comparing a Big Wheel is to a Mercedes Actually, you were the one who began comparing the vcr to the Tivo/ReplayTV units. I just continued with it.
Your kids might prefer cake to broccoli if given the choice. That's why you don't give them that choice. If I had kids, I would rather that they always have a selection of quality programming from The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, and National Geographic than that they spend a weekend immersed in the crass commercialization of Disney World Even if you had not said you had no kids, it would be very obvious from this comment. I am sure all the other parents in this forums got a lot of amusement from this. Just try making a 7-year-old kid sit thru documentarys on these 3 channnels. Then tell the kid, he/she can never watch cartoons. Next explain to this child why Disney World is an evil empire and he/she will never go there. Good Luck!.
$300 is not a lot of money to improve your family's quality of life
You're right. However, my family's quality of life is not related in any way to the quality of TV viewing we do.
First, a 60 hour TiVo unit is $300 at Best Buy (after $50 rebate). Second, for years, VCRs cost more than a TiVo does now and they constantly grew in popularity for time-shifting television shows -- despite being less convenient, less reliable, having a much smaller capacity, and producing video of lower quality.
They grew in popularity when the price dropped. Even at $300, it's still lots more expensive than a vcr. Being able to automatically skip commercials versus pressing a fast forward button is not worth the difference in price to me, and apparently to lots of other people as well (remember, this post was about why Tivo and ReplayTV do not have very much market share).
So why not do both. And when you come home from your camping trips, the shows you enjoy will be waiting for you.
Because it would then cost twice as much! For twice as much, I could take my kids to Disney World. If I asked my kids if they want a fancy vcr or a trip to Disney World, what do you think they would pick?
I will never understand how people prioritize things.
Here's a hint. Most people don't have unlimited funds or time. Most people spend their excess money and time on activites that are fun for them. You seem to be a person that would give TV a high "fun factor" rating and are willing to spend lots of your excess money and time persuing this "hobby". Another person might enjoy TV but not as much as you, prefering to use their excess money and time doing other things.
Maybe the magazine/author had an axe to grind but the fact is, Tivo and ReplayTV has never had a very large market penetration. In fact, I don't personally know of any one who owns either one.
I think the reason is simply price. I would love to be able to use the features of these 2 products, pause live tv, skip commericals on playback, very easy recording of tv shows. But the truth is, this type of convenience is not worth the $400, $500, $600, or more that they charge for the unit. That's in addition to the monthly fee.
For approximately the same amount of money, I can take my whole family camping every weekend thru the summer and have a lot more fun!
Also, I don't think it helped ReplayTV when their units began requiring broadband access in order to download the program guide and software updates. Most people in the country still don't have broadband access.
The question is: if we were required to license this software as Open Source or GPL, would we have had to license *all* of it, including the code that was written prior to the bid?
Depends on your contract. What was the actual code you wrote to comply with your contract? What code you wrote outside of the contract should have no relivance. Suppose I wrote a program used an activeX component, say Excel.Application. Then I released my code under the GPL license. Even tho' my program needs Excel to run, the licensing of Excel is a different story.
Some years and a few jobs earlier, I adopted a policy of "I Don't Work For Free".
If I work more than 40 hours in a given week, then I take comp-time when it's convenient for me, as I worked the extra time when it was convenient for the company.
Once I was given a cd with some VPN software and was told to install it on my home computer so I could log in to work from home. I informed my boss that my home computer was for personal use and if they wanted me to work from home, they would have to supply a computer, not just a cd. They complied.
Sometimes, fighting fire with fire is not the best answer. A pre-emptive Dos attack on "them" would only generate more ire at "hackers".
In this case fighting fire with water would be, I think, more effective. Boycotting movies and music for a week, over the Christmas holidays would be much more effective, don't you think?
Let's run our boycott from Dec. 13 thru Dec 20 inclusive. No going to the theaters. No buying music or movies.
The rest of your comment is snipped because you did not provide "statistics" for crimes other than homicide, and so I could not comment on, say, homicide vs. robbery
Oh, just in case you do decide to cite statistics, please include references!
Say there are 1000 homicides. According to you, 2/3 result in arrests. That would be 667. Again, according to you, 2/3 of those result in a conviction. That would be 445 convictions.
So over half of the murderers walk free! Also, you might (or might not) be suprised to learn that the majority of murders are ones (for example) where the son kills the father-in-law at the family reunion while 50 other relatives look on. These murders, where the guilty party is very easy to determine, comprise the vast majority of your arrests. The other murders, where it's a little harder to find a suspect, are the ones left unsolved.
In addition, not all states impose the death penalty as rigorously as Florida and Texas. Didn't I just hear that New York had a grand total of 5 people on death row.
Of the persons not sentenced to death, only a few are sentenced to life without parole. Like the death penalty, life without parole is reserved for "heinous" crimes. Other, less-heinous murderers are paroled in a few years.
Kill some poor dude and the police might look for you, might send you to jail for a few years. And then again, might not.
Steal a nickle for a rich dude and the cops will be down your throat in a new-york-minute, pop you in jail where you will never see the light of day again.
It seems to me that the language used to write a program should, in large part, determine the program model. For example, the programming model I used when writing mainframe programs in COBOL and IDEAL would be useless for the programs I now write in JAVA. Converse is also true.
While there are some aspects of a program that will be true regardless of the language, such as database reads, and user displays, how these things are implemented are langage dependant. Tell a COBOL programmer use a different class for all database access and you will get a dumb look. Tell a JAVA programer to use 1 class for each program and she give up programming.
Other posters have talked about how over-modeling can create confusion. But under-modeling can do the same. The amount of modeling needed by a program is language dependant.
I think this is why language syntax is taught before program models. A model for a specific program needs a context, the langage syntax provides that context.
I use Opera at home. My online bank says that I must use IE or NN to do my banking, Opera won't work. Inside Opera, I pick the option that disguises Opera as IE and presto-chango, I can now use all of the online bank services. I suspect other web sites that reject Opera could be similiarly fooled.
...the only North American eclipse this decade
I seem to recall a solar eclipse that occured on Dec 25, 2000 that was partially visible from N. America.
Technically, that was in the current decade.
P.
Does the police treat other businesses similiarily? IE: fax a warrant to the phone company, pawn shop, ect. then wait by their fax for the results of their "search"?
a humouse would probably look and behave like a normal mouse
As a non-scientist, I am confused about how a humouse, made up of 50% mouse and 50% human, would end up looking and actioning like 100% mouse.
Since there are equals parts from mouse and human, why could it not look and act 100% human? Or some mixture (ie: human with wiskers and tail and a taste for garbage)
I completely agree with you. I enjoyed watching the X-Files because of the light advisarial play between Mulder and Scully (ie: he believes, she doesn't). I don't think the characters should ever have been romantic with each other.
In fact, I remember the last show I watched. It was the season premier for the season that started after the movie came out. Scully kissed Mulder AND their cia boss (i forget his name) on the mouth. This type thing was not what I was watching the show for and I could see that this was only the beginning of something I was not interested in.
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You seem to be really upset.
My original comment was related to why Tvio and ReplayTV do not have market penetration. My opinion was that the price is too high.
In response, you have attacked me, the way I raise my kids, the way I spend my free time and (in another post) insinuated that the only reason I take my kids camping is for incestious purposes.
Maybe you should take the rest of the day off? Maybe see a counselor and try talking about these hostile feelings you have. It might help.
Remember, God loves you.
We are now way off topic but...
It's obvious that you don't understand what TiVo does
Actually, I do. I also know what ReplayTV does. I would also be willing to buy either one. Except, that price thing keeps getting in the way...
Comparing TiVo to a VCR is like comparing a Big Wheel is to a Mercedes
Actually, you were the one who began comparing the vcr to the Tivo/ReplayTV units. I just continued with it.
Your kids might prefer cake to broccoli if given the choice. That's why you don't give them that choice. If I had kids, I would rather that they always have a selection of quality programming from The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, and National Geographic than that they spend a weekend immersed in the crass commercialization of Disney World
Even if you had not said you had no kids, it would be very obvious from this comment. I am sure all the other parents in this forums got a lot of amusement from this. Just try making a 7-year-old kid sit thru documentarys on these 3 channnels. Then tell the kid, he/she can never watch cartoons. Next explain to this child why Disney World is an evil empire and he/she will never go there. Good Luck!.
$300 is not a lot of money to improve your family's quality of life
You're right. However, my family's quality of life is not related in any way to the quality of TV viewing we do.
Did that make them worthless?
I never said they were worthless, I implied was that they are worth less that what the companies are charging for them.
This is a website for geeks. Get with the tech.
Really?
First, a 60 hour TiVo unit is $300 at Best Buy (after $50 rebate). Second, for years, VCRs cost more than a TiVo does now and they constantly grew in popularity for time-shifting television shows -- despite being less convenient, less reliable, having a much smaller capacity, and producing video of lower quality.
They grew in popularity when the price dropped. Even at $300, it's still lots more expensive than a vcr. Being able to automatically skip commercials versus pressing a fast forward button is not worth the difference in price to me, and apparently to lots of other people as well (remember, this post was about why Tivo and ReplayTV do not have very much market share).
So why not do both. And when you come home from your camping trips, the shows you enjoy will be waiting for you.
Because it would then cost twice as much! For twice as much, I could take my kids to Disney World. If I asked my kids if they want a fancy vcr or a trip to Disney World, what do you think they would pick?
I will never understand how people prioritize things.
Here's a hint. Most people don't have unlimited funds or time. Most people spend their excess money and time on activites that are fun for them. You seem to be a person that would give TV a high "fun factor" rating and are willing to spend lots of your excess money and time persuing this "hobby". Another person might enjoy TV but not as much as you, prefering to use their excess money and time doing other things.
Maybe the magazine/author had an axe to grind but the fact is, Tivo and ReplayTV has never had a very large market penetration. In fact, I don't personally know of any one who owns either one.
I think the reason is simply price. I would love to be able to use the features of these 2 products, pause live tv, skip commericals on playback, very easy recording of tv shows. But the truth is, this type of convenience is not worth the $400, $500, $600, or more that they charge for the unit. That's in addition to the monthly fee.
For approximately the same amount of money, I can take my whole family camping every weekend thru the summer and have a lot more fun!
Also, I don't think it helped ReplayTV when their units began requiring broadband access in order to download the program guide and software updates. Most people in the country still don't have broadband access.
The question is: if we were required to license this software as Open Source or GPL, would we have had to license *all* of it, including the code that was written prior to the bid?
Depends on your contract. What was the actual code you wrote to comply with your contract? What code you wrote outside of the contract should have no relivance. Suppose I wrote a program used an activeX component, say Excel.Application. Then I released my code under the GPL license. Even tho' my program needs Excel to run, the licensing of Excel is a different story.
BTW, IANAL.
This is somewhat off the main topic but...
Some years and a few jobs earlier, I adopted a policy of "I Don't Work For Free".
If I work more than 40 hours in a given week, then I take comp-time when it's convenient for me, as I worked the extra time when it was convenient for the company.
Once I was given a cd with some VPN software and was told to install it on my home computer so I could log in to work from home. I informed my boss that my home computer was for personal use and if they wanted me to work from home, they would have to supply a computer, not just a cd. They complied.
also (approximately) equilivent to 366.6 billion closely typed pages of paper
Actually, I was about to suggest this myself.
Sometimes, fighting fire with fire is not the best answer. A pre-emptive Dos attack on "them" would only generate more ire at "hackers".
In this case fighting fire with water would be, I think, more effective. Boycotting movies and music for a week, over the Christmas holidays would be much more effective, don't you think?
Let's run our boycott from Dec. 13 thru Dec 20 inclusive. No going to the theaters. No buying music or movies.
What say you?
BTW, I'm not going to chase down reference to prove that I'm right. ... If you're willfuly ignorant, then I can't help you.
What a good idea! I'm right, my stats are right, but it's up to someone else to prove it and if they don't then they are "willfully ignorant".
I think I will use this argument the next time I am participating in a thread and my arguments are on shaky ground.
That would be...
The rest of your comment is snipped because you did not provide "statistics" for crimes other than homicide, and so I could not comment on, say, homicide vs. robbery
Oh, just in case you do decide to cite statistics, please include references!
Exactly my point!
Say there are 1000 homicides. According to you, 2/3 result in arrests. That would be 667. Again, according to you, 2/3 of those result in a conviction. That would be 445 convictions.
So over half of the murderers walk free! Also, you might (or might not) be suprised to learn that the majority of murders are ones (for example) where the son kills the father-in-law at the family reunion while 50 other relatives look on. These murders, where the guilty party is very easy to determine, comprise the vast majority of your arrests. The other murders, where it's a little harder to find a suspect, are the ones left unsolved.
In addition, not all states impose the death penalty as rigorously as Florida and Texas. Didn't I just hear that New York had a grand total of 5 people on death row.
Of the persons not sentenced to death, only a few are sentenced to life without parole. Like the death penalty, life without parole is reserved for "heinous" crimes. Other, less-heinous murderers are paroled in a few years.
This is has been the priority since time began.
Kill some poor dude and the police might look for you, might send you to jail for a few years. And then again, might not.
Steal a nickle for a rich dude and the cops will be down your throat in a new-york-minute, pop you in jail where you will never see the light of day again.
With the universe being a computer, there are 2 ways to look at this.
1) God is an object-oriented programmer.
2) The universe (computer) programmed itself.
I prefer #1, upper management believes #2.
It seems to me that the language used to write a program should, in large part, determine the program model. For example, the programming model I used when writing mainframe programs in COBOL and IDEAL would be useless for the programs I now write in JAVA. Converse is also true.
While there are some aspects of a program that will be true regardless of the language, such as database reads, and user displays, how these things are implemented are langage dependant. Tell a COBOL programmer use a different class for all database access and you will get a dumb look. Tell a JAVA programer to use 1 class for each program and she give up programming.
Other posters have talked about how over-modeling can create confusion. But under-modeling can do the same. The amount of modeling needed by a program is language dependant.
I think this is why language syntax is taught before program models. A model for a specific program needs a context, the langage syntax provides that context.
I use Opera at home. My online bank says that I must use IE or NN to do my banking, Opera won't work. Inside Opera, I pick the option that disguises Opera as IE and presto-chango, I can now use all of the online bank services.
I suspect other web sites that reject Opera could be similiarly fooled.
...the only North American eclipse this decade
I seem to recall a solar eclipse that occured on Dec 25, 2000 that was partially visible from N. America.
Technically, that was in the current decade. P.
Does the police treat other businesses similiarily? IE: fax a warrant to the phone company, pawn shop, ect. then wait by their fax for the results of their "search"?
I bet not.
a humouse would probably look and behave like a normal mouse
As a non-scientist, I am confused about how a humouse, made up of 50% mouse and 50% human, would end up looking and actioning like 100% mouse.
Since there are equals parts from mouse and human, why could it not look and act 100% human? Or some mixture (ie: human with wiskers and tail and a taste for garbage)
I completely agree with you. I enjoyed watching the X-Files because of the light advisarial play between Mulder and Scully (ie: he believes, she doesn't). I don't think the characters should ever have been romantic with each other.
In fact, I remember the last show I watched. It was the season premier for the season that started after the movie came out. Scully kissed Mulder AND their cia boss (i forget his name) on the mouth. This type thing was not what I was watching the show for and I could see that this was only the beginning of something I was not interested in.