For me a not having a land line is a function of economics. 0.00 $39.00 (or $17.00 or whatever) and my cell phone already has nationwide long distance included (which my company pays for anyway). Basically, I don't WANT a land line because I would never USE a land line.
FYI this hack DOES NOT WORK with the DirecTiVo (Series 2s), as they have (stupidly) disabled the USB ports on the back of the device.
There used to be a hack to get the USB ports working again and the DirecTiVo using a USB-to-Ethernet converter, but the newest version of the DTiVo operating system ( 3.1.0-01-2-151 ) wipes this hack out.
When I got my HDVR2 last week and found this out, it really pissed me off because like many geeks, I have a cell phone ONLY, no land lines, just a Net connection. Had to drag my DTiVo over to a friends so that it could initialize properly.
Anyways, be forwarned!!!
There is hope in the future that Directv will stop being assholes and allow the USB ports to be used in the future, but that's all it is.... Hope.
I love this "Management Class" crap. I'm "management class" in my own company (which I co-own with a friend of mine). Believe me "Management Class" merely means that if you direct the company in the wrong way (or cant get the employees motivated) you're the one who takes the fall. Most managers are merely employees who've made management by either sucking up, or actually showing leadership skills. To call them a class is an unbelievably huge (and incorrect) generalization.
A mirror group to the EFF that is not a non-profit you could donate to for purposes of Lobbying Congress for protection of our online rights. They could have a charter that would state exactly what Lessig said here:
"showing the rest of the world something much more fundamental about the network. Not just how code is speech, but also:
(1) how the architecture of the Internet built a set of values,
(2) how those values are fundamentally linked to the most important freedoms in our tradition, and
(3) how changes in that architecture of the net could undermine those values.
Find ways to demonstrate how the architecture built a commons, and how that commons induced innovation: That's the stuff that lawyers, and politicians, don't get."
Many different labels are "spot testing" the market to see how many CDs that would actually get returned. Thus the conflicting results.
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It depends on your priorities. If you are an audiophile something like this might be advantagous if you didn't have the $$ for a soundproofed case. If I wasn't such a speed hound I'd like to do something about that, because the white noise prevents me from hearing the true sound of my music on my PC.
"I'm wondering, perchance, if this will release the other extreme: eventually, people just kind of settle on a certain type of technology "good enough" for their present needs. The internal combustion engine was pretty much finalized 60 years ago, and very real modifications have taken place since then. Televisions, likewise, were pretty much finalized in technology 30 years ago. Outside of a few fringe stragglers, very few people now make the jump to 'upgraded' tech. I wonder if PCs will be the next."
I've had quite a few discussions about this with some friends of mine and we've come to the conclusion that while you might think that the PC would reach this point, in fact it will not happen. This is because a PC is different than a car or a TV in that it is a "general purpose" device. Thus the more powerful it gets, the more it can do. It is also expandable, and in that expansion has more capabilities.
You can't just add wings to your car and get another method of transportation, but you can add an X10 setup and control your houses enviornment, or add a voicemodem and have your own private voicemail system, or add a high end audio card and have a home studio. You get the idea. The key to the PCs continued evolution is that we keep coming up with new and different ways to use it.
* Allow for indefinite detention of non-citizens, denying them the chance to defend themselves in court.
* Allow officials to designate domestic groups as terrorist organizations. Membership in such an organization would become a deportable offense; see http://www.aclu.org/congress/l100801d.html.
# 1 & # 4 are the most interesting together!
Just think, you're in some organization that you feel is fairly harmless and just exersizing your free speech (or assembly) rights. All of a sudden, you're deemed a "terrorist" and deported!
Well, you'd do something about it, but now you're not an American Citizen, so they detain you.... INDEFINITELY
This is not a far jump in logic here folks, and if you think that our government is any less prone to corruption than any other gov. your fooling yourself.
Since I can't mod this up (no points today) I'm just going to have to agree. I've been wishing for this for the last 5 years, but it's only seemed technically/economically feasable in the last 2 years. The first company that gets this all the way right, i.e. no problems with:
a) voice recognition
b) sound quality
c) battery life in both the "ear piece" and the unit
d) sync-capability
e) ergonomics (ease of use issues)
Will get my and everyone elses $$. For something with these capabilities I think that it would be reasonable to pay (and I will gladly pay) $1200.00
At that price though, I'd want transcribing software and an MP3 recorder/player.
*drool*
What sucks is I know I'll have to wait at least 7 years for this to get to production.. *sigh*
As a 10 year Blacksburg resident it's surprising that you say that DSL is full in Blacksburg, as I know for a fact that two different friends of mine have just gotten DSL installed. While it may not be full, getting DSL is still a real pain in the ass, and takes forever.
Luckily I live in an apartment with Ethernet access, so I don't have that problem..:) In fact a significant portion of the apartment complexes and business complexes in town have Ethernet and in addition to that Adephia Cable is running over 400 miles of fiber through Blacksburg by 2003.
It may not be "the most wired town in America" anymore but Blacksburg still has the most internet infrastructure of any place that I've run accross.
Why a 5 second delay? It shouldn't take that long for your pc to process the IR and then send out the signal again...
Honestly my biggest problem most of these newer digital systems (especially the digital cable ones) is that we seem to have taken a step back as far as responsiveness. The menu systems on all of the newer digital (whether dss or cable) boxes take one to two seconds before they respond to a command. To me that's unacceptable, when I'm used to regular cable where I can change 4-5 channels in 1-2 seconds.
I understand the technical reasons why digital channels can't change that fast, but the 1-2 second lag isn't just for channel changing it's for EVERYTHING.
The 1st Gen Sony Directv units had a better responsiveness than the Sony 5th Gen units do now??? What's with that?
I hope you're right about that, proprietary formats suck.
One of the key features (to me) about this new NVidia board is that it includes a TV remote that works with your PC, so you can control the device just as if it was a set-top box.
From the press release "Personal Cinema's Intelligent TV feature allows users to pause live TV, instantly replay an exciting scene, skip over a commercial, or automatically program the PC to record future shows or movies. "
Actually, It might not have broken. In my girlfriends version of this (with her RCA VR647HF 4 head stereo vcr), after she had taped over the same tape many times, the VCR was no longer able to write the markers it used to tell where the commercials started and ended.
Using a new tape enabled the features again!
I was overjoyed, as you can imagine, because watching General Hospital is torture for me, but watching General Hospital with commercials is like even longer torture with breaks for maxi-pad and laundry cleaner information. *gag*
Quite simply, if you don't like it, then don't use it.
Unfortunately in many areas there is no alternative for high speed access other than excite@home, so they have a monopoly. Would you tell someone not to use their phone if they didn't like the fact that they could be monitored on it, and their service immediately terminated if they were doing something illegal over the phone?
Obviously this is happening in another country, so our free speech/privacy issues don't apply, but the offending company _is_ in the US. Which should make a bunch of people start feeling nervous about their rights being violated.
What you fail to take into account is that Katz has been writing about Civil Liberties since the beginning of WIRED magazine.
Perhaps you remember the section called "The Netizen" in which he wrote some very pertinent articles about the growing use of the net in democracy, and free speech. Katz is one of the reasons that I care so much about Civil Liberties today. His articles made me realize how threatened that our rights are by these pork barrel politicians.
If you actually read what he was writing you would have seen that _in_fact_ he was not saying anything about global warming itself or that it was a problem to be solved etc. etc. but that _people__were__concerned_ about it and that it would become more of a focus now.
Pay Attention instead of having knee-jerk reactions.
"It could be done with a backdoor, then leaving the port open, the script kiddie would have to scan complete address blocks, but if they're going to do something so difficult, then they're even bigger idiots for not downloading already availble trojans that'd do the same."
And you don't think that Phoenix is probably leaving a _specific_ port open to accept incoming connections to the computer? If they don't now, I'd bet it wont be long. At that point all you'd have to do is spoof packets etc. etc. etc.
From a security standpoint, this software is a horrible breach of "trust" between the MB/bios manufacturer and user.
Somebody tell me when all of a sudden capatalism turned into sell-my-privacy-to-the-highest-bidder?
Now I'm not justifying the person to whom you are replying, however in my town we are required by law to have both reflectors and also headlights if we are biking at night.
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My kingdom for some mod points.
Yes, Heinlien is campy and adolecent, etc. etc. BFD.
Your comments about the Ringworld series are bizarre however. I think we must have been reading two different books.
For me a not having a land line is a function of economics. 0.00 $39.00 (or $17.00 or whatever) and my cell phone already has nationwide long distance included (which my company pays for anyway). Basically, I don't WANT a land line because I would never USE a land line.
FYI this hack DOES NOT WORK with the DirecTiVo (Series 2s), as they have (stupidly) disabled the USB ports on the back of the device.
There used to be a hack to get the USB ports working again and the DirecTiVo using a USB-to-Ethernet converter, but the newest version of the DTiVo operating system ( 3.1.0-01-2-151 ) wipes this hack out.
When I got my HDVR2 last week and found this out, it really pissed me off because like many geeks, I have a cell phone ONLY, no land lines, just a Net connection. Had to drag my DTiVo over to a friends so that it could initialize properly.
Anyways, be forwarned!!!
There is hope in the future that Directv will stop being assholes and allow the USB ports to be used in the future, but that's all it is.... Hope.
I love this "Management Class" crap. I'm "management class" in my own company (which I co-own with a friend of mine). Believe me "Management Class" merely means that if you direct the company in the wrong way (or cant get the employees motivated) you're the one who takes the fall. Most managers are merely employees who've made management by either sucking up, or actually showing leadership skills. To call them a class is an unbelievably huge (and incorrect) generalization.
Somebody PLEASE mod this up!
A mirror group to the EFF that is not a non-profit you could donate to for purposes of Lobbying Congress for protection of our online rights. They could have a charter that would state exactly what Lessig said here:
"showing the rest of the world something much more fundamental about the network. Not just how code is speech, but also:
(1) how the architecture of the Internet built a set of values,
(2) how those values are fundamentally linked to the most important freedoms in our tradition, and
(3) how changes in that architecture of the net could undermine those values.
Find ways to demonstrate how the architecture built a commons, and how that commons induced innovation: That's the stuff that lawyers, and politicians, don't get."
Sound good? Who wants in?
Many different labels are "spot testing" the market to see how many CDs that would actually get returned. Thus the conflicting results.
It depends on your priorities. If you are an audiophile something like this might be advantagous if you didn't have the $$ for a soundproofed case. If I wasn't such a speed hound I'd like to do something about that, because the white noise prevents me from hearing the true sound of my music on my PC.
"I'm wondering, perchance, if this will release the other extreme: eventually, people just kind of settle on a certain type of technology "good enough" for their present needs. The internal combustion engine was pretty much finalized 60 years ago, and very real modifications have taken place since then. Televisions, likewise, were pretty much finalized in technology 30 years ago. Outside of a few fringe stragglers, very few people now make the jump to 'upgraded' tech. I wonder if PCs will be the next."
I've had quite a few discussions about this with some friends of mine and we've come to the conclusion that while you might think that the PC would reach this point, in fact it will not happen. This is because a PC is different than a car or a TV in that it is a "general purpose" device. Thus the more powerful it gets, the more it can do. It is also expandable, and in that expansion has more capabilities.
You can't just add wings to your car and get another method of transportation, but you can add an X10 setup and control your houses enviornment, or add a voicemodem and have your own private voicemail system, or add a high end audio card and have a home studio. You get the idea. The key to the PCs continued evolution is that we keep coming up with new and different ways to use it.
* Allow for indefinite detention of non-citizens, denying them the chance to defend themselves in court.
* Allow officials to designate domestic groups as terrorist organizations. Membership in such an organization would become a deportable offense; see http://www.aclu.org/congress/l100801d.html.
# 1 & # 4 are the most interesting together!
Just think, you're in some organization that you feel is fairly harmless and just exersizing your free speech (or assembly) rights. All of a sudden, you're deemed a "terrorist" and deported!
Well, you'd do something about it, but now you're not an American Citizen, so they detain you.... INDEFINITELY
This is not a far jump in logic here folks, and if you think that our government is any less prone to corruption than any other gov. your fooling yourself.
Since I can't mod this up (no points today) I'm just going to have to agree. I've been wishing for this for the last 5 years, but it's only seemed technically/economically feasable in the last 2 years. The first company that gets this all the way right, i.e. no problems with:
a) voice recognition
b) sound quality
c) battery life in both the "ear piece" and the unit
d) sync-capability
e) ergonomics (ease of use issues)
Will get my and everyone elses $$. For something with these capabilities I think that it would be reasonable to pay (and I will gladly pay) $1200.00
At that price though, I'd want transcribing software and an MP3 recorder/player.
*drool*
What sucks is I know I'll have to wait at least 7 years for this to get to production.. *sigh*
As a 10 year Blacksburg resident it's surprising that you say that DSL is full in Blacksburg, as I know for a fact that two different friends of mine have just gotten DSL installed. While it may not be full, getting DSL is still a real pain in the ass, and takes forever.
:) In fact a significant portion of the apartment complexes and business complexes in town have Ethernet and in addition to that Adephia Cable is running over 400 miles of fiber through Blacksburg by 2003.
Luckily I live in an apartment with Ethernet access, so I don't have that problem..
It may not be "the most wired town in America" anymore but Blacksburg still has the most internet infrastructure of any place that I've run accross.
The book 1984 by George Orwell [NT]
Why a 5 second delay? It shouldn't take that long for your pc to process the IR and then send out the signal again...
Honestly my biggest problem most of these newer digital systems (especially the digital cable ones) is that we seem to have taken a step back as far as responsiveness. The menu systems on all of the newer digital (whether dss or cable) boxes take one to two seconds before they respond to a command. To me that's unacceptable, when I'm used to regular cable where I can change 4-5 channels in 1-2 seconds.
I understand the technical reasons why digital channels can't change that fast, but the 1-2 second lag isn't just for channel changing it's for EVERYTHING.
The 1st Gen Sony Directv units had a better responsiveness than the Sony 5th Gen units do now??? What's with that?
I hope you're right about that, proprietary formats suck.
One of the key features (to me) about this new NVidia board is that it includes a TV remote that works with your PC, so you can control the device just as if it was a set-top box.
From the press release "Personal Cinema's Intelligent TV feature allows users to pause live TV, instantly replay an exciting scene, skip over a commercial, or automatically program the PC to record future shows or movies. "
That's what has me excited.
Space might be cheap but $2000.00 just for a larger hard drive isn't. I'm sorry, but I will never love TV that much.
Especially when NVidia is coming out with a product that will run on my PC and support as large a HDD as I can afford!
NVIDIA Personal Cinema Redefines PC Home Entertainment
Actually, It might not have broken. In my girlfriends version of this (with her RCA VR647HF 4 head stereo vcr), after she had taped over the same tape many times, the VCR was no longer able to write the markers it used to tell where the commercials started and ended.
Using a new tape enabled the features again!
I was overjoyed, as you can imagine, because watching General Hospital is torture for me, but watching General Hospital with commercials is like even longer torture with breaks for maxi-pad and laundry cleaner information. *gag*
Quite simply, if you don't like it, then don't use it.
Unfortunately in many areas there is no alternative for high speed access other than excite@home, so they have a monopoly. Would you tell someone not to use their phone if they didn't like the fact that they could be monitored on it, and their service immediately terminated if they were doing something illegal over the phone?
Obviously this is happening in another country, so our free speech/privacy issues don't apply, but the offending company _is_ in the US. Which should make a bunch of people start feeling nervous about their rights being violated.
Stuart
What you fail to take into account is that Katz has been writing about Civil Liberties since the beginning of WIRED magazine.
Perhaps you remember the section called "The Netizen" in which he wrote some very pertinent articles about the growing use of the net in democracy, and free speech. Katz is one of the reasons that I care so much about Civil Liberties today. His articles made me realize how threatened that our rights are by these pork barrel politicians.
The sad thing is that this was Stephen Kings best book->movie conversion.
All of his other books made into movies were mediocre at the very best.
At least Running Man had some "major talent" in it, and ok acting for a sci-fi flick. (Oh, how my standards have fallen).
If you actually read what he was writing you would have seen that _in_fact_ he was not saying anything about global warming itself or that it was a problem to be solved etc. etc. but that _people__were__concerned_ about it and that it would become more of a focus now.
Pay Attention instead of having knee-jerk reactions.
I think you're starting to see his point. We are very close to such a thing, if not already there in some areas.
"It could be done with a backdoor, then leaving the port open, the script kiddie would have to scan complete address blocks, but if they're going to do something so difficult, then they're even bigger idiots for not downloading already availble trojans that'd do the same."
And you don't think that Phoenix is probably leaving a _specific_ port open to accept incoming connections to the computer? If they don't now, I'd bet it wont be long. At that point all you'd have to do is spoof packets etc. etc. etc.
From a security standpoint, this software is a horrible breach of "trust" between the MB/bios manufacturer and user.
Somebody tell me when all of a sudden capatalism turned into sell-my-privacy-to-the-highest-bidder?
Now I'm not justifying the person to whom you are replying, however in my town we are required by law to have both reflectors and also headlights if we are biking at night.
Unless you're being literal.
You have a CHOICE of whether you contribute.
The GPL sets the rules for that contribution.
If you don't agree, don't contribute!
It's just that simple folks!