Has Tivo gotten worse? I had one of the original ones and I loved it. Since then I've had DVR's from Comcast (mediocre), Time Warner (the worst by far), Dish (mediocre), AT&T Uverse (ok), and now DirecTV (ok). It's been 10 years since I had a Tivo so I may only be remembering the good parts, but it seemed better than anything else since, which is pathetic.
All of them are painfully underpowered. Scrolling through the guide is always waaaay too slow. What really sucks is that the cable companies usually only offer a single model of DVR. I would gladly pay a higher fee to have a lightning fast DVR.
Did you see the first personal computers? They were useless toys compared to even the minicomputers of the day. Barely any RAM and no interactive display. Entering programs was laborious and error prone.
I think he was just trying to say it's important to understand what constitutes fair use before you claim it protects you.
In other words, rather than reproducing an entire article verbatim, quote it selectively, add commentary, don't charge money for it, and attribute the source.
Microsoft says Quebec is the only province where you can't use the term "engineer". They continue to use it in other provinces and in Quebec, they use MCSE but recommend not expanding the acronym. Pretty funny.
Actually, there are quite a few places in the US that do the iron ring ceremony. And the rings I've seen are stainless steel. Do they still have iron rings?
Terms and titles aren't strictly enforced at all in the US or Canada. I can go online and buy a PhD in History this afternoon and start calling myself doctor. It's just not from an accredited institution. If you look on Canadian job sites, there are plenty of "software engineer" listings and from what I could see, all use "engineer" incorrectly. Wikipedia has an interesting article on the situation.
If you are right, there are an awful lot of "drain doctors" (700,000 according to Google) who are in trouble.
Lots of people call themselves engineers. The meaning of the word is changing.
I think Professional Engineer might imply licensing. In fields like software where licensing and insurance isn't even an option, nobody could say they were mislead by the title of "Software Engineer".
The "you are allowed but you have no right" is the difference between permitted use and protected right. You can use copyrighted materials for commentary (permitted use) but that "right" isn't protected in that copyright holders are not required to make their content available for commentary (e.g. blu ray footage). Because of the DMCA, you can't even legally bypass digital locks to use the copyrighted material in protected ways.
I don't think anybody is saying a citizen has no rights, just that fair use is actually a defense and not a right.
You may be allowed to use portions of a copyrighted work to comment or report on that work, but it isn't your right. Copyright holders who use DRM to deny access to the work aren't obliged to provide access to allow fair use. If fair use was a right, there would be no problem breaking DRM schemes for fair use purposes and the DMCA would have been overturned years ago. Slowly, the defenders and proponents of fair use are chipping away at the DMCA and I'm hopeful that we will end up with a more balanced law soon.
Nobody is saying the copyright holders have an absolute monopoly. They don't and the law is clear on that. In the case referred to in the summary, an article was reproduced in its entirety. If the defendants had only reproduced excerpts their fair use claims would be stronger. I'm not saying their fair use claim is bogus, but I can understand how Righthaven thinks a line was crossed and they may win the case.
Calling fair use a law isn't really accurate. Fair use isn't a right. Rather it is a defense against infringement claims.
In fine Slashdot tradition, I haven't RTFA (yet), but Righthaven is likely saying their copyrighted materials weren't used in a way that would qualify as fair use.
I was wondering about this myself. I'm guessing that since they don't qualify their statement, their glass alloy must be strong under tensile, compressive, and shearing stresses at all temperatures and pressures when compared with any commercially available steel or steel alloy.
Why are you capitalizing phone? Is there some acronym that I should know about.
Your phone may have been designed for mobile communications, but that isn't how people are using them. It turns out, people like having a computer in their pocket that can also make phone calls. People are texting, using Facebook, playing games, and Binging more than talking. If the phone can make it through the day on a single charge (and for most people, the current generation of phones can do this), then why not consider adding more cores. I think it becomes especially interesting if the second core is different from the first. It could end up saving power by doing in hardware what was previously done in software (think GPU's and 3d graphics).
Sure, and playing RockBand with a real guitar will strengthen your hands, improve dexterity, and setup muscle memory for picking and fretting. All things that will likely help someone learning guitar.
The problem with the original OtherOS option is that the garden was too small. Hackers wanted access to the more specialized components (like the GPU), but they were walled off. This is enough incentive for somebody to start tinkering, to try to find a way out of the garden. Either way, the console was doomed.
Exactly. The same goes for people who buy steering wheel controllers for games like GT5. Instead, they should go buy a real car and drive it at high speed rather than pretending in their mom's basement all night. Amirite?
There's nothing wrong with using a guitar shaped controller to play a music-themed game. Enjoying a video game doesn't prevent you from learning to play an instrument, drive a car, or fly a plane. Like John Lennon said, time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.
Yeah, some of those may be older, but none are truly thriving. Especially not when compared to Facebook.
What do you think could bring Facebook down? I can think of some outrageous scenarios (global thermo-nuclear war!), but the most likely course seems to be that Facebook doubles in size during the next 5 years.
Even in very poor countries, the use of wireless handsets is growing like crazy and even crappy feature phones are getting basic internet capabilities. I don't see any reason why this trend would stop or reverse.
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I've been hearing a lot about blekko lately.
VW says they will sell these for $29,500.
In 2015 a $100 gas card will buy you 12 gallons of fuel.
Right now I spend about $25 / month on gas.
Has Tivo gotten worse? I had one of the original ones and I loved it. Since then I've had DVR's from Comcast (mediocre), Time Warner (the worst by far), Dish (mediocre), AT&T Uverse (ok), and now DirecTV (ok). It's been 10 years since I had a Tivo so I may only be remembering the good parts, but it seemed better than anything else since, which is pathetic.
All of them are painfully underpowered. Scrolling through the guide is always waaaay too slow. What really sucks is that the cable companies usually only offer a single model of DVR. I would gladly pay a higher fee to have a lightning fast DVR.
Did you see the first personal computers? They were useless toys compared to even the minicomputers of the day. Barely any RAM and no interactive display. Entering programs was laborious and error prone.
I think he was just trying to say it's important to understand what constitutes fair use before you claim it protects you.
In other words, rather than reproducing an entire article verbatim, quote it selectively, add commentary, don't charge money for it, and attribute the source.
Software Engineer is an already established term. They need to come up with a new title.
I wonder if train drivers got all pissed off when other people started calling themselves engineers.
Well, it's a civil matter so guilty or innocent probably aren't the right words.
The sentiment is correct though. Wikipedia says:
I hadn't heard about the MCSE ruling, so I looked it up:
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/learning/QuebecMCSE/default.mspx
Microsoft says Quebec is the only province where you can't use the term "engineer". They continue to use it in other provinces and in Quebec, they use MCSE but recommend not expanding the acronym. Pretty funny.
Actually, there are quite a few places in the US that do the iron ring ceremony. And the rings I've seen are stainless steel. Do they still have iron rings?
Terms and titles aren't strictly enforced at all in the US or Canada. I can go online and buy a PhD in History this afternoon and start calling myself doctor. It's just not from an accredited institution. If you look on Canadian job sites, there are plenty of "software engineer" listings and from what I could see, all use "engineer" incorrectly. Wikipedia has an interesting article on the situation.
If you are right, there are an awful lot of "drain doctors" (700,000 according to Google) who are in trouble.
Lots of people call themselves engineers. The meaning of the word is changing.
I think Professional Engineer might imply licensing. In fields like software where licensing and insurance isn't even an option, nobody could say they were mislead by the title of "Software Engineer".
No access controls doesn't mean no oversight.
The "you are allowed but you have no right" is the difference between permitted use and protected right. You can use copyrighted materials for commentary (permitted use) but that "right" isn't protected in that copyright holders are not required to make their content available for commentary (e.g. blu ray footage). Because of the DMCA, you can't even legally bypass digital locks to use the copyrighted material in protected ways.
I don't think anybody is saying a citizen has no rights, just that fair use is actually a defense and not a right.
You may be allowed to use portions of a copyrighted work to comment or report on that work, but it isn't your right. Copyright holders who use DRM to deny access to the work aren't obliged to provide access to allow fair use. If fair use was a right, there would be no problem breaking DRM schemes for fair use purposes and the DMCA would have been overturned years ago. Slowly, the defenders and proponents of fair use are chipping away at the DMCA and I'm hopeful that we will end up with a more balanced law soon.
Nobody is saying the copyright holders have an absolute monopoly. They don't and the law is clear on that. In the case referred to in the summary, an article was reproduced in its entirety. If the defendants had only reproduced excerpts their fair use claims would be stronger. I'm not saying their fair use claim is bogus, but I can understand how Righthaven thinks a line was crossed and they may win the case.
Calling fair use a law isn't really accurate. Fair use isn't a right. Rather it is a defense against infringement claims.
In fine Slashdot tradition, I haven't RTFA (yet), but Righthaven is likely saying their copyrighted materials weren't used in a way that would qualify as fair use.
I was wondering about this myself. I'm guessing that since they don't qualify their statement, their glass alloy must be strong under tensile, compressive, and shearing stresses at all temperatures and pressures when compared with any commercially available steel or steel alloy.
Impressive stuff.
Why are you capitalizing phone? Is there some acronym that I should know about.
Your phone may have been designed for mobile communications, but that isn't how people are using them. It turns out, people like having a computer in their pocket that can also make phone calls. People are texting, using Facebook, playing games, and Binging more than talking. If the phone can make it through the day on a single charge (and for most people, the current generation of phones can do this), then why not consider adding more cores. I think it becomes especially interesting if the second core is different from the first. It could end up saving power by doing in hardware what was previously done in software (think GPU's and 3d graphics).
Sure, and playing RockBand with a real guitar will strengthen your hands, improve dexterity, and setup muscle memory for picking and fretting. All things that will likely help someone learning guitar.
The problem with the original OtherOS option is that the garden was too small. Hackers wanted access to the more specialized components (like the GPU), but they were walled off. This is enough incentive for somebody to start tinkering, to try to find a way out of the garden. Either way, the console was doomed.
Exactly. The same goes for people who buy steering wheel controllers for games like GT5. Instead, they should go buy a real car and drive it at high speed rather than pretending in their mom's basement all night. Amirite?
There's nothing wrong with using a guitar shaped controller to play a music-themed game. Enjoying a video game doesn't prevent you from learning to play an instrument, drive a car, or fly a plane. Like John Lennon said, time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.
You're right. It's the classic innovators dilemma. Ultimately, they have to do it though because if they don't, somebody else will.
MySpace never had the broad appeal that Facebook currently has.
Yeah, some of those may be older, but none are truly thriving. Especially not when compared to Facebook.
What do you think could bring Facebook down? I can think of some outrageous scenarios (global thermo-nuclear war!), but the most likely course seems to be that Facebook doubles in size during the next 5 years.
No and I didn't say they did.
Even in very poor countries, the use of wireless handsets is growing like crazy and even crappy feature phones are getting basic internet capabilities. I don't see any reason why this trend would stop or reverse.
The growth potential isn't with traditional computers, but with phones.