DirecTiVO with DVD recorder, and maybe tack up an HD reciever...
There's no such model. There are TiVos that are tied to DirecTV called a "DirecTiVo" or "DirecTV DVR with TiVo Service, and there are also TiVo units integrated with DVD recorders, but there is no unit that does it all.
You also may want to hold off for a few months. An HD-capable DirecTiVo has been in development for a while and is expected to be worth the wait.
If Comcast purchases Disney, along with Time Warner owning (surprise!) Time Warner Cable, and News Corp. controlling DirecTV, then the distinct possibility exists of them essentially reaching a truce whereby they agree to give each other discounts on each other's programming as a quid pro quo. Since GE (NBC, Bravo, USA, Telemundo, etc.) and Viacom won't have the quid for the quo, that puts them at a large disadvantage.
Likewise, Dish network would be the only major signal distributor without any content to swap back. Even the upstart Voom service has ties to the Cablevision who owns a few programming sources.
Dish can't allow you to break up the packages they offer you because they can't break up the packages being sold to them. It's the content suppliers that are forcing the system distributors to maintain package pricing, because no ad-supported network wants to be sold all by itself since they depend on getting stumble-upon viewers.
It'd be interesting to see how many actually go through with their switches since not very many could be made during the 36 hours during which the outage when on.
This doesn't cost Dish Network anything, since it costs them nothing to provide the service and they are not losing out on money I would have otherwise paid them.
Nope. Dish has to pay the movie studios per viewing for the content on the PPV services. For every coupon redeemed, Dish will have to pay the movie supplier their cut of the fee despite the fact that Dish isn't collecting a fee.
Viacom may have got their rate hike on the existing channels, but they did not get any new channels added to the lowest-level America's Top 60 package that competes as being the cheapest pay-TV package anybody can buy. Nicktoons was forced into the more expensive America's Top 180 package.
Viacom was claiming that Dish network raised prices on their packages up to $3... but those who have the low-level package and their locals only had a one cent increase, and those who do not have their locals available saw no increase at all on the low-level package. It should be noticed that it's in this low level package that nearly all of the disputed channels are in.
It may be that Dish succeeded in getting all of the increases on the rates of the few channels that are in the higher packages, thus protecting the cost of the low-level package.
- One of the reported sources of conflict was Viacom's demand that Dish add the new Nicktoons network into their lowest base package, America's top 60. That didn't happen. Instead, the network will be added to one of Dish's more obscure packages, America's Top 180. - The three notable Viacom-owned networks that weren't deleted from Dish Network, namely TV Land, SpikeTV and CMT had contracts that expired at a different time, and Viacom wanted those three networks to be tied to expire at the same time as the rest of Viacom's channels. Apparently, those three networks have had their contracts extended as part of this deal. No official statement on when they now expire, but I think we can all assume the next time things expire, everything will all expire together. - Echostar had a pretty good anti-trust lawsuit working against claiming that the tactic of withholding the popular networks to force the purchase of unpopular networks is illegal because it's using a monopoly product (copyrighted content) to force the purchase of another product. If Echostar had won, this would send a shockwave through the industry because every content provider does this to every signal distributor. However, we'll never know the result of this suit because this deal agrees to dismiss all pending litigation between both companies. - Every Dish Network Subscriber will recieve a $1 credit on their next bill, and those who also subscribe to a locals package that lost their CBS station will get a second $1 credit on their next bill as well. These will not be pro-rated down to pennies because the outage only lasted 36 hours. In addition, all Dish Network subscribers will get a coupon for a free pay per view movie, which is worth $3.99. The cash credits will cost the company at least $15 million, and allowing for the fact that some of the coupons will be unused the PPV movie offer should cost the company about $10-15 million. Ironic, because $25-30 million is about the total price increase Viacom was seeking.
That really depends on if the programmers are delaying their instructions for time to pass, or not. As the article reports, most of Sonic 2 works perfectly, but the 3D halfpipe bonus levels are running as fast as the processor can go with no sleeping involved, so those glitch out...
On a PC, there's usually a "system time" that can be accessed by a program to keep the in-game timing in line with real time, but most consoles have no system clock and therefore no need to keep track of time relative to real time, so they don't have any timer to count against.
Anybody know what the status of this on the current consoles? I guess the XBox might be close enough to a PC to keep a clock, but I don't see why any of the other consoles would go out of their way to do that.
The article seems to imply that Sonic 2 was the only game checked, and that it was fine in normal play but glitched in the 3D half-pipe bonus levels...
Because games were depending on the clock speed to be equal on all of the consoles, for any clocks within the game or other time-based things. What likely happened was during the life of the console, the original chip got discontinued so later units just underclocked the successor chip to be close enough.
That may be justification alone for why the systems were underclocked at the factory. The clock in many games is based not on an actual clock but the speed of the processor... speed things up and you speed everything in the game up, and that's not very playable.
Unless somebody's found a way to get this thing to run Linux and other non-cartrige programs, this isn't going to be very useful.
"Baseball season" is not a commonly used term at all. "Regular season" is the term you use when you want to describe period that excludes "preseason" and "postseason" games.
Yes, the "pre-" and "post-" prefixes usually imply that it it's a time period outside of the usual unmodified use of the word... but in terms of sports seasons this may be questionable.
The word "entire" or "regular" would have made this contract nice and clear. Since it isn't clear, that's why they go to court...
Of course, then comes the ethics of Microsoft flooding schools with Windows-running computers in the same way Apple used to flood schools with cheap computers... the idea being what the kids learn at school would affect future purchases at home.
This is the same reason why anybody remotely connected to an academic institution can get software at cut-rate prices. The hope is whatever vendor's software you learn first, you stick with.
Microsoft's trying to make sure every government employee runs Microsoft at home so that the government can't risk losing compatibility with everybody's home systems. Of course, the fact that giving something worth $500 to government employees is considered a "bribe" is something Microsoft doesn't care about, since when did laws get in the way of their operations?
Futhermore, most CD drives still have the headphone port in the front and an audio wire in the back that can output CD audio. That'll let you have the recording start at the exact same time as the track playback...
This has no way of working, it can only make a DDoS worse.
A basic denial of service attack is simply nothing more than somebody using all of their available bandwidth to send meaningless information to the victim host. If such an attack is greater than the available incoming bandwidth the victim has, then their legitimate incoming traffic gets delayed or dropped after being timed out.
However, even if the IP addresses are being spoofed, it's pretty easy to trace back through the routers where these packets are coming from, and that'll lead you to the point where the attack is coming from. That doesn't tell you who the hacker was per se, but it at least ends the attack.
A DDoS is nothing more than the result of hundreds or thousands of machines all directing a DoS at the same place. Now it's not so easy to trace back... effectively, they're coming from everywhere! The DDoS victim has nothing they can do for themselves other than order enough bandwidth to have more incoming bandwidth than the attackers have to throw at them, and that's not a cheap or fast solution. They're more or less waiting for whatever virus or worm touched off the storm to be cleaned up by the antivirus vendors.
Hacking back your attackers is only going to cause other people to start wondering why you're scanning and hacking them... isn't not going to do much towards stopping the useless data that's streaming at you. The worst case situation is where two of these hacking systems meet it each other... and therefore an automated hacking war between identical systems go on forever while never disabling a real hacker.
Seems like all this product does is appeal to over-agressive personalites who are in IT positions and hate the concept of there being an attack that there's a possible attack that there's no possible way to defend against. It doesn't have to work, it just has to seperate dumb people from their money.
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DirecTiVO with DVD recorder, and maybe tack up an HD reciever...
There's no such model. There are TiVos that are tied to DirecTV called a "DirecTiVo" or "DirecTV DVR with TiVo Service, and there are also TiVo units integrated with DVD recorders, but there is no unit that does it all.
You also may want to hold off for a few months. An HD-capable DirecTiVo has been in development for a while and is expected to be worth the wait.
If Comcast purchases Disney, along with Time Warner owning (surprise!) Time Warner Cable, and News Corp. controlling DirecTV, then the distinct possibility exists of them essentially reaching a truce whereby they agree to give each other discounts on each other's programming as a quid pro quo. Since GE (NBC, Bravo, USA, Telemundo, etc.) and Viacom won't have the quid for the quo, that puts them at a large disadvantage.
Likewise, Dish network would be the only major signal distributor without any content to swap back. Even the upstart Voom service has ties to the Cablevision who owns a few programming sources.
Dish can't allow you to break up the packages they offer you because they can't break up the packages being sold to them. It's the content suppliers that are forcing the system distributors to maintain package pricing, because no ad-supported network wants to be sold all by itself since they depend on getting stumble-upon viewers.
It'd be interesting to see how many actually go through with their switches since not very many could be made during the 36 hours during which the outage when on.
This doesn't cost Dish Network anything, since it costs them nothing to provide the service and they are not losing out on money I would have otherwise paid them.
Nope. Dish has to pay the movie studios per viewing for the content on the PPV services. For every coupon redeemed, Dish will have to pay the movie supplier their cut of the fee despite the fact that Dish isn't collecting a fee.
Viacom may have got their rate hike on the existing channels, but they did not get any new channels added to the lowest-level America's Top 60 package that competes as being the cheapest pay-TV package anybody can buy. Nicktoons was forced into the more expensive America's Top 180 package.
Viacom was claiming that Dish network raised prices on their packages up to $3... but those who have the low-level package and their locals only had a one cent increase, and those who do not have their locals available saw no increase at all on the low-level package. It should be noticed that it's in this low level package that nearly all of the disputed channels are in.
It may be that Dish succeeded in getting all of the increases on the rates of the few channels that are in the higher packages, thus protecting the cost of the low-level package.
Here's a few things we do know about the deal:
- One of the reported sources of conflict was Viacom's demand that Dish add the new Nicktoons network into their lowest base package, America's top 60. That didn't happen. Instead, the network will be added to one of Dish's more obscure packages, America's Top 180.
- The three notable Viacom-owned networks that weren't deleted from Dish Network, namely TV Land, SpikeTV and CMT had contracts that expired at a different time, and Viacom wanted those three networks to be tied to expire at the same time as the rest of Viacom's channels. Apparently, those three networks have had their contracts extended as part of this deal. No official statement on when they now expire, but I think we can all assume the next time things expire, everything will all expire together.
- Echostar had a pretty good anti-trust lawsuit working against claiming that the tactic of withholding the popular networks to force the purchase of unpopular networks is illegal because it's using a monopoly product (copyrighted content) to force the purchase of another product. If Echostar had won, this would send a shockwave through the industry because every content provider does this to every signal distributor. However, we'll never know the result of this suit because this deal agrees to dismiss all pending litigation between both companies.
- Every Dish Network Subscriber will recieve a $1 credit on their next bill, and those who also subscribe to a locals package that lost their CBS station will get a second $1 credit on their next bill as well. These will not be pro-rated down to pennies because the outage only lasted 36 hours. In addition, all Dish Network subscribers will get a coupon for a free pay per view movie, which is worth $3.99. The cash credits will cost the company at least $15 million, and allowing for the fact that some of the coupons will be unused the PPV movie offer should cost the company about $10-15 million. Ironic, because $25-30 million is about the total price increase Viacom was seeking.
This is a very different device being claimed here, one that can project light down to earth, not just painting something on a rocket.
That really depends on if the programmers are delaying their instructions for time to pass, or not. As the article reports, most of Sonic 2 works perfectly, but the 3D halfpipe bonus levels are running as fast as the processor can go with no sleeping involved, so those glitch out...
On a PC, there's usually a "system time" that can be accessed by a program to keep the in-game timing in line with real time, but most consoles have no system clock and therefore no need to keep track of time relative to real time, so they don't have any timer to count against.
Anybody know what the status of this on the current consoles? I guess the XBox might be close enough to a PC to keep a clock, but I don't see why any of the other consoles would go out of their way to do that.
Well, with standard NTSC being interlaced, it's really 60 half-frames per second...
The article seems to imply that Sonic 2 was the only game checked, and that it was fine in normal play but glitched in the 3D half-pipe bonus levels...
Last I checked, it's hard to find a TV willing to go more than 30 FPS...
Because games were depending on the clock speed to be equal on all of the consoles, for any clocks within the game or other time-based things. What likely happened was during the life of the console, the original chip got discontinued so later units just underclocked the successor chip to be close enough.
keeping up with Sonic ;)
That may be justification alone for why the systems were underclocked at the factory. The clock in many games is based not on an actual clock but the speed of the processor... speed things up and you speed everything in the game up, and that's not very playable.
Unless somebody's found a way to get this thing to run Linux and other non-cartrige programs, this isn't going to be very useful.
"Baseball season" is not a commonly used term at all. "Regular season" is the term you use when you want to describe period that excludes "preseason" and "postseason" games.
Yes, the "pre-" and "post-" prefixes usually imply that it it's a time period outside of the usual unmodified use of the word... but in terms of sports seasons this may be questionable.
The word "entire" or "regular" would have made this contract nice and clear. Since it isn't clear, that's why they go to court...
The Bush administration has authorized a premptive strike on Redmond, WA!
Of course, then comes the ethics of Microsoft flooding schools with Windows-running computers in the same way Apple used to flood schools with cheap computers... the idea being what the kids learn at school would affect future purchases at home.
This is the same reason why anybody remotely connected to an academic institution can get software at cut-rate prices. The hope is whatever vendor's software you learn first, you stick with.
Microsoft's trying to make sure every government employee runs Microsoft at home so that the government can't risk losing compatibility with everybody's home systems. Of course, the fact that giving something worth $500 to government employees is considered a "bribe" is something Microsoft doesn't care about, since when did laws get in the way of their operations?
Futhermore, most CD drives still have the headphone port in the front and an audio wire in the back that can output CD audio. That'll let you have the recording start at the exact same time as the track playback...
Last I checked, recording songs that are played off the radio is still fair use. Just hook any headset radio to the Line-in port of your sound card...
This has no way of working, it can only make a DDoS worse.
A basic denial of service attack is simply nothing more than somebody using all of their available bandwidth to send meaningless information to the victim host. If such an attack is greater than the available incoming bandwidth the victim has, then their legitimate incoming traffic gets delayed or dropped after being timed out.
However, even if the IP addresses are being spoofed, it's pretty easy to trace back through the routers where these packets are coming from, and that'll lead you to the point where the attack is coming from. That doesn't tell you who the hacker was per se, but it at least ends the attack.
A DDoS is nothing more than the result of hundreds or thousands of machines all directing a DoS at the same place. Now it's not so easy to trace back... effectively, they're coming from everywhere! The DDoS victim has nothing they can do for themselves other than order enough bandwidth to have more incoming bandwidth than the attackers have to throw at them, and that's not a cheap or fast solution. They're more or less waiting for whatever virus or worm touched off the storm to be cleaned up by the antivirus vendors.
Hacking back your attackers is only going to cause other people to start wondering why you're scanning and hacking them... isn't not going to do much towards stopping the useless data that's streaming at you. The worst case situation is where two of these hacking systems meet it each other... and therefore an automated hacking war between identical systems go on forever while never disabling a real hacker.
Seems like all this product does is appeal to over-agressive personalites who are in IT positions and hate the concept of there being an attack that there's a possible attack that there's no possible way to defend against. It doesn't have to work, it just has to seperate dumb people from their money.
The contact info for the domain doesn't have to indicate where the server is actually located.
Anybody notice that the "More here..." article is the same URL as the other link in the summary?
Mobile devices don't need their own TLD for DNS names. Just what's wrong with with using the existing ones?