There is no DVD burning involved, they are pointless. Just copy the files from hard drive to hard drive via a network. The network can be a cable netwok, the Internet, or a LAN, and the hard drive may be in a PVR or laptop.
As to the PVR, sure, I think everybody should have one. It's basically just a cable box with a hard drive (though yes, mine is built on a PC).
So, should the portable video player should have an optical drive, or a hard drive and a network connector? I go for the hard drive, simply because like most business travelers I already have a laptop so why buy and lug around a separate video player? Especially since the laptop allows getting some busywork done while watching the show. If you want examples of dedicated video players that are hard-drive based, look to the iPod video or Archos players.
As for it all being too difficult, iTunes tells me that it's not.
PVRs already provide all the benefits you mention, without shipping discs around. I record the program when it is aired, then I can play it whenever I want, however many times. I copy it to my laptop for long flights. What does disc vs network delivery have to do with it?
Exactly. As a motorcycle rider, that "Clever Car" looks potentially very fun! (With the addition of a Hayabusa engine of course!) The BMW looks like a golf cart.
You need a new term to describe your gadget then, because "phone" does not begin to describe all those wonderful, battery sucking, bulky, heavy and ugly low-quality features.
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If you are old fashioned enough to call these devices "phones," Nokia people will politely correct you. They are multimedia computers, which offer features and picture quality to rival digital cameras or camcorders, and music quality to challenge an iPod.
It can't be both that the programming field is in danger because we're outsourcing all our programming work, leading to no jobs for programmers, AND be that we're in danger of not having enough new programmers.
Re-read the summary it says NOTHING about a lack of computer jobs in the US. What it says is that we can't or won't fill them, and may lose this high-value industry to overseas competition, with a ripple effect thorough other industries. There's nothing illogical about it.
As for "the sky is falling," just look at American manufacturing. The sky can fall. Industries can die, eroding the standard of living for millions of people. And policy decisions can influence it.
Haven't you been following the illegal immigration issue? The fact is, market forces yeild to firm preconceptions about what different jobs are inherently worth. If the going rate for a job is more than The Man thinks he should have to pay, then he simply changes the rules, either by promoting outsourcing or allowing illegal immigration to drive down the cost to fill a job.
If a CEO makes $147,000 per day, well that's market forces. If technical people start to break into 6 figures annually, well that's a threat to our global competitiveness which must be remedied.
Nice numbers... but why are you focusing on the average price?
Let's see how the most expensive systems fared in the market: 1) NeoGeo, 2) 3D0, 3) Atari VCS, 4) Sega Saturn. Wow! They all crashed and burned.
Now let's check out the cheapest: 1) GameCube, 2) Dreamcast, 3) Nintendo 64, 4) Super Nintendo. I'd call that a 75% success rate. Which list would you really rather be on?
Speaking of which, does anybody think "Army of One" is a strange slogan for the Army? You join the Army to be a cog in a big machine, not to imitate Rambo. Or maybe they mean the opposite - that all the soldiers effectively fuse into a unified fighting force?
That said, what did TFA expect it to be? A free lifetime membership to download all the movies you want?
I would expect it to be a nice looking set-top box, which displays on the TV and plays through the stereo, and includes simple menu-driven interface using an included remote control, with convenient access to various sources of online content and locally stored content, such as MP3's and integrated PVR.
Are you saying iPod batteries have more longevity than laptop batteries? I don't know why that would be, they're both lithium ion. The big difference is that with a laptop you can easily swap in a new battery. What I do is keep one battery for daily usage and one for when I care about long life.
1) The fullsize ipods do video now. That needs a whole lot more space.
But will portable video ever take off enough for that to matter? It's not clear to me how many are buying the video iPod for the video. Even on the plane, it surprises me how few people I see watching movies on laptops, since it's about the only place I ever do so.
I'm thinking ahead a little:) Single layer HD-DVD holds 15 GB, and Blu-Ray holds 25. Both formats support dual-layer with twice those capacities, so even 40-50 GB movies are possible in the near future.
Concerts were always priced at whatever the market would bear. The argument that artists were previously satisfied with their CD sales and therefore generous in their concert pricing, I don't believe for a moment.
I'd say that the sites that still want to expose erotical/sexual content, would just move 1 inch outside the US, probably Canada.
Why would they do that? None of the proposed measures ban sexual content, and putting a notice on the pages is easy enough. And for those who are seeking it, labelling would actually make finding it easier. If you are saying revenues would take a hit from people who unwittingly get lured in and now would not, well I can live with that.
I do agree, however, that a US-only law would have limited impact because it would only affect a fraction of all pages.
Having both the time and money to hit the course all the time says something in itself. Perhaps all the digital doodads are for CEOs who know gadgets aren't as good as the real thing, but the best you can do with 20 minutes to practice at the end of a long workday.
just because something is the way it is doesn't mean we shouldn't improve it.
I agree, but the article clearly implies that the linux community is especially problematic, which I don't believe. If I say that "breast cancer among drivers of Ford automobiles is a real problem," it implies Fords cause cancer. Does any of this mean I don't feel bad for people who get cancer just because they drive a Ford? Of course not. It's just not a particular issue.
This whole argument is stupid. People do flame each other, it's just a fact. We could just as well sit around and wring our hands that the Internet would be more popular if the "online community" would just be more friendly and all the pedophiles and spammers would mend their ways. It's true, but it's also a rather pointless discussion.
I don't see why such a layer is necessary, or what it will ultimately provide. The OS is supposed to protect users and apps from each other! If virtualization becomes widespread, it will have to take on more and more of the roles of an OS until it *is* an OS. For instance, an OS has a bunch of logic (a scheduler) to grant processes "fair" access to the CPU. With virtualization, you need another scheduler to schedule among the schedulers!!
What I hate about eSATA is that it's yet another bus/connector.
The great thing about USB is that it's compable with thousands of different devices. I don't want a different bus and connector for every different kind of device. I wish they could have just released a backwards compatible USB-3 instead of eSATA.
How do the words "failed" and "late" suddenly have the same definition?
Because "failed" simply means the product was so late that the investors pulled the plug.
Eventually, something called "Vista" will be delivered... about 6 years late, at many times the original development budget, and without all the originally slated features. Only a few companies, including Microsoft (Longhorn) and Intel (Merced) have the luxury of absorbing such losses... any company without a bullet-proof cash cow to fall back on would simply wither and die (like WordPerfect's failed transition to Windows).
When my 2.5 year-old IBM T40 recently flaked out, it was repaired on warranty - including a new motherboard, keyboard, and CD ROM drive (I use the laptop all the time and it was basically shot). So long as they carry on IBM's obligations and the quality stays high, I'm seriously tempted to stay with the Thinkpad series. The T60 looks to be a great machine, the only complication is that MacBooks can now boot windows too so those are tempting.
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As to the PVR, sure, I think everybody should have one. It's basically just a cable box with a hard drive (though yes, mine is built on a PC).
So, should the portable video player should have an optical drive, or a hard drive and a network connector? I go for the hard drive, simply because like most business travelers I already have a laptop so why buy and lug around a separate video player? Especially since the laptop allows getting some busywork done while watching the show. If you want examples of dedicated video players that are hard-drive based, look to the iPod video or Archos players.
As for it all being too difficult, iTunes tells me that it's not.
PVRs already provide all the benefits you mention, without shipping discs around. I record the program when it is aired, then I can play it whenever I want, however many times. I copy it to my laptop for long flights. What does disc vs network delivery have to do with it?
Exactly. As a motorcycle rider, that "Clever Car" looks potentially very fun! (With the addition of a Hayabusa engine of course!) The BMW looks like a golf cart.
I was being sarcastic of course, but the $147,000 per day refers to Exxon Mobil CEO Lee Raymond. (According to this it was only $144K/day).
As for "the sky is falling," just look at American manufacturing. The sky can fall. Industries can die, eroding the standard of living for millions of people. And policy decisions can influence it.
If a CEO makes $147,000 per day, well that's market forces. If technical people start to break into 6 figures annually, well that's a threat to our global competitiveness which must be remedied.
Let's see how the most expensive systems fared in the market: 1) NeoGeo, 2) 3D0, 3) Atari VCS, 4) Sega Saturn. Wow! They all crashed and burned.
Now let's check out the cheapest: 1) GameCube, 2) Dreamcast, 3) Nintendo 64, 4) Super Nintendo. I'd call that a 75% success rate. Which list would you really rather be on?
Speaking of which, does anybody think "Army of One" is a strange slogan for the Army? You join the Army to be a cog in a big machine, not to imitate Rambo. Or maybe they mean the opposite - that all the soldiers effectively fuse into a unified fighting force?
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Are you saying iPod batteries have more longevity than laptop batteries? I don't know why that would be, they're both lithium ion. The big difference is that with a laptop you can easily swap in a new battery. What I do is keep one battery for daily usage and one for when I care about long life.
I'm thinking ahead a little :) Single layer HD-DVD holds 15 GB, and Blu-Ray holds 25. Both formats support dual-layer with twice those capacities, so even 40-50 GB movies are possible in the near future.
Concerts were always priced at whatever the market would bear. The argument that artists were previously satisfied with their CD sales and therefore generous in their concert pricing, I don't believe for a moment.
I do agree, however, that a US-only law would have limited impact because it would only affect a fraction of all pages.
Unfortunately a 1TB drive can only hold 50 movies at 20 GB each. Now that's hardly a library, is it?
Having both the time and money to hit the course all the time says something in itself. Perhaps all the digital doodads are for CEOs who know gadgets aren't as good as the real thing, but the best you can do with 20 minutes to practice at the end of a long workday.
This whole argument is stupid. People do flame each other, it's just a fact. We could just as well sit around and wring our hands that the Internet would be more popular if the "online community" would just be more friendly and all the pedophiles and spammers would mend their ways. It's true, but it's also a rather pointless discussion.
I don't see why such a layer is necessary, or what it will ultimately provide. The OS is supposed to protect users and apps from each other! If virtualization becomes widespread, it will have to take on more and more of the roles of an OS until it *is* an OS. For instance, an OS has a bunch of logic (a scheduler) to grant processes "fair" access to the CPU. With virtualization, you need another scheduler to schedule among the schedulers!!
The great thing about USB is that it's compable with thousands of different devices. I don't want a different bus and connector for every different kind of device. I wish they could have just released a backwards compatible USB-3 instead of eSATA.
Eventually, something called "Vista" will be delivered... about 6 years late, at many times the original development budget, and without all the originally slated features. Only a few companies, including Microsoft (Longhorn) and Intel (Merced) have the luxury of absorbing such losses... any company without a bullet-proof cash cow to fall back on would simply wither and die (like WordPerfect's failed transition to Windows).
When my 2.5 year-old IBM T40 recently flaked out, it was repaired on warranty - including a new motherboard, keyboard, and CD ROM drive (I use the laptop all the time and it was basically shot). So long as they carry on IBM's obligations and the quality stays high, I'm seriously tempted to stay with the Thinkpad series. The T60 looks to be a great machine, the only complication is that MacBooks can now boot windows too so those are tempting.