Unlike other newspapers, WSJ has been charging for their online service since it started (about 8 years ago). I don't see this as the start of a trend.
The Wiki entry seems to describe software/firmware problems. I don't see anything in there that leads me to believe that the hardware of the Comcast box is flaky or otherwise bad.
Good point about the cost concerns of cable operators . People shouldn't expect the hardware to have anything but the basics.
By the same token, Tivo's cost concerns for their hardware are very similar, which IMHO has led to the current Tivo hardware being no better than the first Tivo hardware 5 years ago. I'm not sure that the Comcast hardware is going to be a step down for Tivo.
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Amen. My brand new Series 2 seems like a clever piece of hardware for 4 or 5 years ago. For brand new hardware it seems underpowered and bland.
How will you provide technical innovation on the current Tivo hardware? For example, TivoToGo is a great idea, but on the current hardware it's so slow that it's useless to a lot of people. Do you see the potential for innovation on the current hardware or does Tivo need a next-generation platform with more horsepower?
Most home LANs are 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet. A reasonably modern PC with a decent NIC can push 30 Mbps through Fast Ethernet, and much more than that in the best case. Moving a 700 MB file at 30 Mbps would take about 3 minutes. 3 minutes to transfer your 1 hour show would be fantastic.
Unfortunately the pathetic hardware and software in my Tivo can only manage about 3 Mbps, and I usually record shows in High quality, so for me it usually takes more than an hour to transfer a one hour show to my PC. It is literally faster to pick up my laptop and walk to the other side of the house and watch the show on the TV.
You need to catch up on mirror manufacturing technology. Large mirrors are cast in a rough parabolic shape in a spinning oven, then finish shaped/polished (which doesn't remove a lot of material), then coated with aluminum and usually some protective overcoating.
The aluminum coating is very thin - it is not possible to polish the coating (nor is it necessary).
The Bhopal plant was jointly owned by Union Carbide and the Indian government, with the government owning 51%.
The plant was run by Indian workers.
Most of the deaths occurred not in the town of Bhopal, but in the shanty town that went up next to the plant after the plant was built.
I reported this too. My bug was rejected as being a duplicate of another bug. That
bug
is marked "closed, duplicate", but the
bug that it's supposed to be a duplicate of is marked "not available". Is Sun trying to do a cover-up?
The Windows AMD64 JDK 1.5.0 works fine on Intel EM64T.
I've always wondered about the significance of TCP vs. UDP. Shoutcast streams on TCP, but WMP and Real stream on UDP. I assume WMP and Real have a good reason for using UDP. Is there some disadvantage to streaming over TCP that makes Shoutcast unattractive to Internet broadcasters?
Worse: font rendering is abysmal. Buttons and menus are barely readable using the GTK+ emulation L&F. The Java VM still doesn't use Xft/Freetype, which pretty much makes the attempt at GTK+ emulation useless.
Sun's Windows JVM (at least 1.4.x) doesn't use the native font engine either, so if you have Windows' ClearType enabled Java apps look stupidly ugly next to other apps on your desktop. If you enable the JVM's font anti-aliasing things are better for the most part, but some characters aren't rendered very well so the overall result is still ugly.
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Unlike other newspapers, WSJ has been charging for their online service since it started (about 8 years ago). I don't see this as the start of a trend.
Good point about the cost concerns of cable operators . People shouldn't expect the hardware to have anything but the basics.
By the same token, Tivo's cost concerns for their hardware are very similar, which IMHO has led to the current Tivo hardware being no better than the first Tivo hardware 5 years ago. I'm not sure that the Comcast hardware is going to be a step down for Tivo.
Amen. My brand new Series 2 seems like a clever piece of hardware for 4 or 5 years ago. For brand new hardware it seems underpowered and bland.
How will you provide technical innovation on the current Tivo hardware? For example, TivoToGo is a great idea, but on the current hardware it's so slow that it's useless to a lot of people. Do you see the potential for innovation on the current hardware or does Tivo need a next-generation platform with more horsepower?
RC2 is out and available from Microsoft. It has roughly the equivalent of SP2 included (i.e. the SP2 firewall is there).
Dude, you live in Wichita. What did you expect?
Unfortunately the pathetic hardware and software in my Tivo can only manage about 3 Mbps, and I usually record shows in High quality, so for me it usually takes more than an hour to transfer a one hour show to my PC. It is literally faster to pick up my laptop and walk to the other side of the house and watch the show on the TV.
The FreeBSD core guys are saying that the "announcement" is a rough draft and officially the contest hasn't been announced yet.
The aluminum coating is very thin - it is not possible to polish the coating (nor is it necessary).
Except that Ecolectric's product is vaporware, and their web site is full of unsubstantiated claims about performance / efficiency gains.
The Reuters story you quoted is based on a hoax. See the BBC's retraction.
The Bhopal plant was jointly owned by Union Carbide and the Indian government, with the government owning 51%. The plant was run by Indian workers. Most of the deaths occurred not in the town of Bhopal, but in the shanty town that went up next to the plant after the plant was built.
RTFA
The Windows AMD64 JDK 1.5.0 works fine on Intel EM64T.
D-Link's USB FM radio I bought one of these 5 or 6 years ago. It worked OK, but the software was pretty bad.
I second the beating solution.
Welcome to Swing, which insists on using its own fonts and font rendering engine.
Mine too. No remote access on port 80 or port 443.
I've always wondered about the significance of TCP vs. UDP. Shoutcast streams on TCP, but WMP and Real stream on UDP. I assume WMP and Real have a good reason for using UDP. Is there some disadvantage to streaming over TCP that makes Shoutcast unattractive to Internet broadcasters?
Doesn't work for me.
But the most recent file on f.scarywater.net is 34 days old. Good idea, not so great execution.
Sun's Windows JVM (at least 1.4.x) doesn't use the native font engine either, so if you have Windows' ClearType enabled Java apps look stupidly ugly next to other apps on your desktop. If you enable the JVM's font anti-aliasing things are better for the most part, but some characters aren't rendered very well so the overall result is still ugly.
cvsup works great on 56k.
Why is this in the science section? It sounds more like something you'd hear from a Bible Code freak.
If you're cheap buy a used 6000-series 3Ware on eBay. My 4-port 6000 was $75.