> Steve Jobs didn't make it to first class university - there wasn't enough $$$ anyway. His 'university' is Reed College in Portland, Oregon
I think if you want to humbleize Steve Jobs' background you can make your case without offending people who think Reed College is a great school. It ranks 77th among liberal arts colleges
Economy is improving, we've captured Saddam Hussein... Things aren't looking so bad this Christmas. Funny how when things go well in the U.S. the only ones that lose out are the liberals.:)
I'm a liberal, and I fail to see how I lose out. Let's look at my recent circumstances and see if I'm missing something that should make me sad:
I just got a nice severance package from a big company as I left to join a small one.
I get to loaf for two weeks between the old job and the new one.
The Sun is shining.
The U.S. Supreme Court just upheld bans on soft money in Federal election campaigns.
As a result of a war that I endorsed (not that you were listening), Saddam Hussein is now captured.
As a result of a war that I endorsed, thousands of people have died, the French hate the U.S., and Bush might get reelected.
Howard Dean was just endorsed by Al Gore.
The dollar is in the dumper.
Some good, some bad. Most of the bad won't affect my personal lifestyle directly. I guess I win.
I agree with the rest of your comments. There's a difference between a liberal and a crypto-Marxist.
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I think this link is in the end-user documentation near the GPL printout, but you'd've known that if you had a TiVo, so I assume you didn't because you don't.
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With digital cable, however, delivery is entirely request-based.
This is not accurate. With VOD, the content is sent to a unique box. This is not the most common operating scenario in at least American digital cable, at $3.95 per show.
Digital cable boxes continue to support analog cable, so a digital-cable DVR could have two analog tuners and do record-one-watch-one.
The digital tier is comprised of small sets of digital channels multiplexed onto an RF signal, and the multiplexes are sent simultaneously. The QAM technique and MPEG compression allows these multiplexes to fit in the same spectrum as one analog channel. The digital demodulation and decoding process requires enough resources from the box that a dual-digital-tuner box would be a big deal. But theoretically, you could assemble the resources and decode all the non-VOD digital channels simultaneously.
NBC, a pretty large network, was one of the initial investors. In fact, AOL was also an initial investor [in TiVo]
Large companies invest in lots of things. Doesn't mean that they care that much about them. Until TiVo breaks out of the 6-figure range in subscriber count, NBC is looking at a write-off and they know it.
>What right do they have to regulate manufacturing?
IANAL, but I think I can outline this briefly. FCC has the authority to specify how radio equipment behaves. In the early 60's, to support UHF channels that were just coming online, Congress also specifically empowered FCC to write regs that assure that TVs receive the signals that the FCC is authorizing. The FCC refered specifically to this legislation when it made the digital tuner rule.
Mod parent down (definitely misinformed). You can change your default browser on XP, even pre-SP1. If you do change your default browser and you have enabled your "Internet application" being displayed at the top of the menu, YOUR choice of browser will appear in that menu slot. Same with email.
In print media, you have three business models (as my oversimplification): books, journals, and magazines.
Books are ad-free. You pay once and you get one book. This is a lot like VOD which is just starting on cable systems. VOD is not strictly the same as PPV, because you do get to choose when your viewing starts, and you can pause and stuff like a VCR.
Journals are by subscription and ad-free. You subscribe for a term and you get several different issues during the term, and there are no ads. Journals contain works that would not be practical to put out as books. But journals are roughly like SVOD which may soon be on cable systems that have VOD. The S stands for subscription. You'd pay so much a month to have VOD-style access to a collection of programs from one outfit like HBO. I can imagine one day subscribing to "The vampire channel" to see Buffy shows and related material.
Magazines are by subscription and loaded with ads. The works in a magazine are of various lengths but not practical to sell individually. This is a lot like "basic cable" where you pay $40-$50 for a selection of programs with ads.
Print (and its dead-fiber-source predecessors) are as old as anything. Ads are a relatively new part of Print but the history of Print suggests that you won't see ads going away from TV anytime soon.
The content oligarchy will withhold content from media that are incompatible with their interests as they see them. The content oligarchists are rent-seekers, after all. So the CE manufacturers will have to deliver on some form of 5C or HDCP copy protection that satisfies the content oligarchists, or there won't be TV to watch.
Therefore TV will continue to stratify and PVRs may be something that a few of us enjoyed before they were disabled. And ads will thus stay.
P.S. I acknowledge that the "analog hole" exists, but I think it could become a very awkward hole to exploit under the right conditions.
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> Steve Jobs didn't make it to first class university - there wasn't enough $$$ anyway. His 'university' is Reed College in Portland, Oregon
I think if you want to humbleize Steve Jobs' background you can make your case without offending people who think Reed College is a great school. It ranks 77th among liberal arts colleges
http://colleges.usnews.ranking...
I didn't go to Reed nor do I know anyone who did. However everyone I know from Portland has high respect for the school.
- I just got a nice severance package from a big company as I left to join a small one.
- I get to loaf for two weeks between the old job and the new one.
- The Sun is shining.
- The U.S. Supreme Court just upheld bans on soft money in Federal election campaigns.
- As a result of a war that I endorsed (not that you were listening), Saddam Hussein is now captured.
- As a result of a war that I endorsed, thousands of people have died, the French hate the U.S., and Bush might get reelected.
- Howard Dean was just endorsed by Al Gore.
- The dollar is in the dumper.
Some good, some bad. Most of the bad won't affect my personal lifestyle directly. I guess I win. I agree with the rest of your comments. There's a difference between a liberal and a crypto-Marxist.Google leads here
I think this link is in the end-user documentation near the GPL printout, but you'd've known that if you had a TiVo, so I assume you didn't because you don't.
This is not accurate. With VOD, the content is sent to a unique box. This is not the most common operating scenario in at least American digital cable, at $3.95 per show.
Digital cable boxes continue to support analog cable, so a digital-cable DVR could have two analog tuners and do record-one-watch-one.
The digital tier is comprised of small sets of digital channels multiplexed onto an RF signal, and the multiplexes are sent simultaneously. The QAM technique and MPEG compression allows these multiplexes to fit in the same spectrum as one analog channel. The digital demodulation and decoding process requires enough resources from the box that a dual-digital-tuner box would be a big deal. But theoretically, you could assemble the resources and decode all the non-VOD digital channels simultaneously.
NBC, a pretty large network, was one of the initial investors. In fact, AOL was also an initial investor [in TiVo] Large companies invest in lots of things. Doesn't mean that they care that much about them. Until TiVo breaks out of the 6-figure range in subscriber count, NBC is looking at a write-off and they know it.
>What right do they have to regulate manufacturing?
IANAL, but I think I can outline this briefly. FCC has the authority to specify how radio equipment behaves. In the early 60's, to support UHF channels that were just coming online, Congress also specifically empowered FCC to write regs that assure that TVs receive the signals that the FCC is authorizing. The FCC refered specifically to this legislation when it made the digital tuner rule.
In print media, you have three business models (as my oversimplification): books, journals, and magazines.
Books are ad-free. You pay once and you get one book. This is a lot like VOD which is just starting on cable systems. VOD is not strictly the same as PPV, because you do get to choose when your viewing starts, and you can pause and stuff like a VCR.
Journals are by subscription and ad-free. You subscribe for a term and you get several different issues during the term, and there are no ads. Journals contain works that would not be practical to put out as books. But journals are roughly like SVOD which may soon be on cable systems that have VOD. The S stands for subscription. You'd pay so much a month to have VOD-style access to a collection of programs from one outfit like HBO. I can imagine one day subscribing to "The vampire channel" to see Buffy shows and related material.
Magazines are by subscription and loaded with ads. The works in a magazine are of various lengths but not practical to sell individually. This is a lot like "basic cable" where you pay $40-$50 for a selection of programs with ads.
Print (and its dead-fiber-source predecessors) are as old as anything. Ads are a relatively new part of Print but the history of Print suggests that you won't see ads going away from TV anytime soon.
The content oligarchy will withhold content from media that are incompatible with their interests as they see them. The content oligarchists are rent-seekers, after all. So the CE manufacturers will have to deliver on some form of 5C or HDCP copy protection that satisfies the content oligarchists, or there won't be TV to watch.
Therefore TV will continue to stratify and PVRs may be something that a few of us enjoyed before they were disabled. And ads will thus stay.
P.S. I acknowledge that the "analog hole" exists, but I think it could become a very awkward hole to exploit under the right conditions.