ha, not really. I'm just somebody who spent 10 years of my life living with the realities of terrorism. What is happening in the US today is not even close, the more the government does to prevent it from deteriorating the better.
... they're just like you and me, anything that gives me increased rights probably gets them one step closer to blowing up some countrymen of mine.
If the Government ever gets to the point where they needlessly invade my privacy then I'll pick up my hat and my coat and move to "The New Free Country". And so the cycle continues.
For those who can't be bothered reading the article;
"The suit, filed in federal district court in Texas, alleges that EchoStar's DVR infringes TiVo's ``Time Warp'' patent, which includes the method used to allow viewers to record one program while watching another and the storage format that supports advanced ``TrickPlay'' capabilities such as pausing live television, rewinding and slow motion."
This does not mean that they'll be going after every DVR producer, only those who copied TiVo without adding any thought of their own.
We should be encouraging commercial and non-commercial sofware providers to do exactally this if we're going to get maximum return on invested dollars.
The "open source" for government movement is as responsible as the commercial providers for constructing an us or them scenario.
Any application, developed on any platform, in any government agency should be indexed and available to the wider government community.
This is all about reuse, it has little or nothing to do with open standards or any of the many other unrelated issues that are frequently used to trying and confuse policy makers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/34693.html
The original poster asked for trends in the UK and the US, this story is not perfect for the cause but it will help complete one more piece of the puzzle.
... and it's driven by the declining value of the dollar overseas. Our currency is not going far when you try and spend it beyond our shores at the moment.
We declinded 19% against the Euro during 2003, sadly it is a trend that looks like it will continue for a little while longer.
Once the dollar recovers we will start to see jobs and services outsourced again.
Where do services like Vonage stand in the US today? they seem to have a sizable user base, they have the links from POTS to VoIP and the service seems to work already.
If you've never heard of them there is a link on the humor page below. (it's a friends referal link thingy)
Your points are very valid. This is an odd scenario though, people don't need much support from the Telcos to move to VoIP, they just need IP to their home (by whatever means).
The TelCos pretty much have to drop their revenue streams or risk losing customers to completely different companies.
I personally switched to Vonage about 3 months ago which allowed me to drop my relationships with Comcast and AT&T. In return I've picked up a phone service that gives me all the same facilities that I'm used to, allows me to manage it all over the web and costs me less money monthly.
The final boon is their marketing program, they let me (and will let anybody) put a link on my web site that can be used for friends, family and passers by to sign up for the service... if they do they get a free month, I get a free month and we get eternal unlimited minutes to talk to one another.
For a startup company the business model looks pretty attractive, minimal hardware, minimal bandwidth management... very different to migrating a fixed line phone business to VoIP.
My company pays for the broadband connection to my home, being able to overlay my phone service has been one of the better technologies that I've played with during 2003.
... throughout history. "Meaningless" does not mean that it's a hoax.
Anybody who has ever read anything by Dostoevsky knows what I mean, unless you have proof that Dostoevsky is a 43 year old plumber and is alive, well and living in Wankers Corner, OR.
This is great, think of all the applications I can put it to...
1) I can read email in Starbucks over 802.11b (once somebody is kind enough to port a network adaptor). 2) I can hook it up to the GPS device and a 29" Telly and get my xbox to give me directions in the car. 3) I can run pocket Excel on my desk at work, on a huge screen, on those days when my laptop is off for repair. 4) I can download my contacts and diary and read them on my telly at home. 5) blah blah blah
Big is beautiful, why should I bother doing any of these things on a PDA that I keep on leaving around.
So long as I'm carrying my 29" wide screen TV, my xbox and a network connector I will never again be late for a meeting, or stuck without a friends phone number.
2004 is going to be the year of the device! finally we're starting to see prices and functionality that we can all afford and make use of.
I'm an owner of a current IPod, it would have been naive of me to imagine that it would not be undercut in price and out paced in terms of functionality within 12 months.
All perfectly clear... however, the city of Washington DC isn't exactally influential in US politics, the City of London has little influence on the UK.
A lot of people will have read this story as if it represented the Australian federal government, which it clearly does not.
... but for functionality reasons. I figured (in the spirit of things) that I could do a better job than TiVo by choosing my own components, choosing the functionality I wanted and selecting an interface that worked best for my family.
In the end I dotted 3 TiVos around the house. The work involved in integrating the various components and getting them to work in a way that my wife is happy with was prohibitive.
If I was a student, living in an apartment, and just wanted simple PVR functionality then I'd look long and hard at Freevo and MythTV again.
For the $700 that I spent on each of the TiVos (including lifetime subs) I'm not sure that the functionality/interface/simplicity can be beaten.
This arguement does not really need to be run through again until one of the main stream vendors (or OSS projects) has clean support for HDTV, then the playing field has the potential to change again.
I'll be a heritic and put my money on Microsoft being first to the post, the hardware platform that they have truly sucks for their Media Center, a full PC is overkill... when you start to need real storage and memory to clear the HDTV requirement then they're starting in the right place, they just need to get the software right.;)
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... not nice.
ha, not really. I'm just somebody who spent 10 years of my life living with the realities of terrorism. What is happening in the US today is not even close, the more the government does to prevent it from deteriorating the better.
... they're just like you and me, anything that gives me increased rights probably gets them one step closer to blowing up some countrymen of mine.
If the Government ever gets to the point where they needlessly invade my privacy then I'll pick up my hat and my coat and move to "The New Free Country". And so the cycle continues.
... and I don't want to be rude.
Neither of them are particularly inspiring though, I thought the community was hoping to steal the hearts and minds of the consumer in 2004.
This is not meant as a troll, although I know it will be read as such by some.
of course you're right, what do I know.
For those who can't be bothered reading the article; "The suit, filed in federal district court in Texas, alleges that EchoStar's DVR infringes TiVo's ``Time Warp'' patent, which includes the method used to allow viewers to record one program while watching another and the storage format that supports advanced ``TrickPlay'' capabilities such as pausing live television, rewinding and slow motion." This does not mean that they'll be going after every DVR producer, only those who copied TiVo without adding any thought of their own.
We should be encouraging commercial and non-commercial sofware providers to do exactally this if we're going to get maximum return on invested dollars.
The "open source" for government movement is as responsible as the commercial providers for constructing an us or them scenario.
Any application, developed on any platform, in any government agency should be indexed and available to the wider government community.
This is all about reuse, it has little or nothing to do with open standards or any of the many other unrelated issues that are frequently used to trying and confuse policy makers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/34693.html The original poster asked for trends in the UK and the US, this story is not perfect for the cause but it will help complete one more piece of the puzzle.
... and it's driven by the declining value of the dollar overseas. Our currency is not going far when you try and spend it beyond our shores at the moment.
We declinded 19% against the Euro during 2003, sadly it is a trend that looks like it will continue for a little while longer.
Once the dollar recovers we will start to see jobs and services outsourced again.
Where do services like Vonage stand in the US today? they seem to have a sizable user base, they have the links from POTS to VoIP and the service seems to work already.
If you've never heard of them there is a link on the humor page below. (it's a friends referal link thingy)
Your points are very valid. This is an odd scenario though, people don't need much support from the Telcos to move to VoIP, they just need IP to their home (by whatever means). The TelCos pretty much have to drop their revenue streams or risk losing customers to completely different companies. I personally switched to Vonage about 3 months ago which allowed me to drop my relationships with Comcast and AT&T. In return I've picked up a phone service that gives me all the same facilities that I'm used to, allows me to manage it all over the web and costs me less money monthly. The final boon is their marketing program, they let me (and will let anybody) put a link on my web site that can be used for friends, family and passers by to sign up for the service... if they do they get a free month, I get a free month and we get eternal unlimited minutes to talk to one another. For a startup company the business model looks pretty attractive, minimal hardware, minimal bandwidth management... very different to migrating a fixed line phone business to VoIP. My company pays for the broadband connection to my home, being able to overlay my phone service has been one of the better technologies that I've played with during 2003.
Once we see what the Israeli government deploy on their desktops we will know if this is for real, or just a crude negotiation technique.
I read the f article, I would debate the fact that it's an interesting read. But that's beside the point.
... throughout history. "Meaningless" does not mean that it's a hoax.
Anybody who has ever read anything by Dostoevsky knows what I mean, unless you have proof that Dostoevsky is a 43 year old plumber and is alive, well and living in Wankers Corner, OR.
This is great, think of all the applications I can put it to...
1) I can read email in Starbucks over 802.11b (once somebody is kind enough to port a network adaptor).
2) I can hook it up to the GPS device and a 29" Telly and get my xbox to give me directions in the car.
3) I can run pocket Excel on my desk at work, on a huge screen, on those days when my laptop is off for repair.
4) I can download my contacts and diary and read them on my telly at home.
5) blah blah blah
Big is beautiful, why should I bother doing any of these things on a PDA that I keep on leaving around.
So long as I'm carrying my 29" wide screen TV, my xbox and a network connector I will never again be late for a meeting, or stuck without a friends phone number.
2004 is going to be the year of the device! finally we're starting to see prices and functionality that we can all afford and make use of.
I'm an owner of a current IPod, it would have been naive of me to imagine that it would not be undercut in price and out paced in terms of functionality within 12 months.
Now all I want is an affordable video version.
... to choose from on the market today, the one that makes HDTV pervasive will be the one that differentiates itself and wins the competitive war.
So far non of them seem close, they're all much of a muchness, the plans that the gaming industry seem to be talking about are just more of the same.
Congratulations on your re-election victory.
... between the two of them in the past, what on earth could people be worried about?
All perfectly clear... however, the city of Washington DC isn't exactally influential in US politics, the City of London has little influence on the UK. A lot of people will have read this story as if it represented the Australian federal government, which it clearly does not.
it's certainly a beginning... it's always a beginning, I just never see the big boys commit.
Munich is also a fully fledged parliament, many larger cities are.
I was under the impression that Tasmania was a state, you learn something every day.
... shed some light on this.
The ACT governments is not one of the 7 state governments, nor does it represent the Australian federal government.
My understanding is that the ACT Government represents the ACT (strange that)... an underfunded town that is smaller and less influential than Munich.
It's nice to see the activity, but don't get over excited, this isn't going to rock anybodies world.
... but for functionality reasons. I figured (in the spirit of things) that I could do a better job than TiVo by choosing my own components, choosing the functionality I wanted and selecting an interface that worked best for my family.
;)
In the end I dotted 3 TiVos around the house. The work involved in integrating the various components and getting them to work in a way that my wife is happy with was prohibitive.
If I was a student, living in an apartment, and just wanted simple PVR functionality then I'd look long and hard at Freevo and MythTV again.
For the $700 that I spent on each of the TiVos (including lifetime subs) I'm not sure that the functionality/interface/simplicity can be beaten.
This arguement does not really need to be run through again until one of the main stream vendors (or OSS projects) has clean support for HDTV, then the playing field has the potential to change again.
I'll be a heritic and put my money on Microsoft being first to the post, the hardware platform that they have truly sucks for their Media Center, a full PC is overkill... when you start to need real storage and memory to clear the HDTV requirement then they're starting in the right place, they just need to get the software right.
... banks calculate risk and gamble on the outcome just like any business does.
clever huh?