That's why they should be subsidised. If the engine only cost, say, $15000, you would have a lot more middle-to-lower class folks driving these, because you would have sliced a good 20k off the total purchase price. Add 0-down financing and whatnot and you can put together a pretty attractive package. Of course, the engines are in good supply, it's the political willpower that's coming up short.
Eventually, when auto technology becomes perfectly tuned to the environment, there will be holes in the floor and you will be both driving and steering with your feet. So rest assured, your idea is being worked on.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - TiVo Inc. (TIVO.O) on Thursday said its television recording system will soon be able to play digital music and show pictures stored in personal computers.
Really, linux can do that?
Data stored in file formats such as MP3 and JPEG will appear on the television that is connected to the TiVo set-top box, company Chief Executive Michael Ramsey told investors at a Credit Suisse First Boston Conference.
Kind of like on a computer monitor?
The company will likely charge an additional fee for the premium service, which will be launched in January at the Consumer Electronics Association's CES conference in Las Vegas, he said.
Loading jpegs is a "premium" service??
"There's a whole set of packages that we are doing and the main theme is around broadband and home networking. It is our next big thing," Ramsey told Reuters after the presentation.
How about dual tuners? Why do you keep dodging the fucking issue?
TiVo, whose technology allows users to save hours of TV shows onto a hard drive in a set-top box and makes suggestions for other programming choices, derives most of its revenue from subscribers' fees and licensing agreements with manufacturers.
Huh. Tivo sounds cool, whatever it is.
The new initiatives, which include a way for users to program recording times away from home through a Web site, would provide the company with additional streams of revenue.
Kind of like, if Peter Pan comes and takes me away to fight pirates, I will have an exciting and happy life.
Ramsey also reiterated TiVo's forecast that its subscribers will double to 1 million in fiscal 2004, which begins in February.
Reiterate away.
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I have a $150 Sony 4-head stereo VCR, which is at the high end (price-wise) of what's available these days. The recording quality is worse than 2-head vcr's of a few years back. There is no way to explain that other than that it is deliberate.
Likewise, I've had experience with a Sony receiver with DSP settings and an EQ display. The strength of the 15khz band on "flat" setting is visually nil, and audibly weak. The band shoots up dramatically when DSP is enabled. I had a hard time understanding why the receiver only sounds crisp when DSP is enabled until I realized that it was designed that way.
It's one thing if you're a small, up-and-coming equipment maker and you're trying to oversell your shitty engineering. But Sony actually downgrades their own products, and then inserts "features" to partially counterbalance the loss of quality. I can't imagine why any company would feel the need to do this, except that consumers can't full-well recongize quality, and that a great many equipment purchases are based on reading the outside of the box.
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This is all we need.
Yeah, get mod points for a simpsons quote.
It hasn't! Paying for warez hasn't caught on yet either.
EGA? Word. I can't wait to revisit the world of 2600 baud porn. Rusty & Eddie, gifs instead of jpegs...this should be sweet.
Oh yeah, in case you get the wrong idea, Rusty & Eddie were male porn actors.
3G is Tinkerbell's bra size after she has a breast implant.
By that logic, radio has yet to arrive as a technology.
And you can get Jenna Jameson on your dash at 80Mph. She's a porn actress. Pay her to make a movie and she'll do porn all over your car.
That's why they should be subsidised. If the engine only cost, say, $15000, you would have a lot more middle-to-lower class folks driving these, because you would have sliced a good 20k off the total purchase price. Add 0-down financing and whatnot and you can put together a pretty attractive package. Of course, the engines are in good supply, it's the political willpower that's coming up short.
Eventually, when auto technology becomes perfectly tuned to the environment, there will be holes in the floor and you will be both driving and steering with your feet. So rest assured, your idea is being worked on.
The article isn't about a hydrogen car, it's about a military hybrid. Jesus, these editors are unbelievable.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - TiVo Inc. (TIVO.O) on Thursday said its television recording system will soon be able to play digital music and show pictures stored in personal computers.
Really, linux can do that?
Data stored in file formats such as MP3 and JPEG will appear on the television that is connected to the TiVo set-top box, company Chief Executive Michael Ramsey told investors at a Credit Suisse First Boston Conference.
Kind of like on a computer monitor?
The company will likely charge an additional fee for the premium service, which will be launched in January at the Consumer Electronics Association's CES conference in Las Vegas, he said.
Loading jpegs is a "premium" service??
"There's a whole set of packages that we are doing and the main theme is around broadband and home networking. It is our next big thing," Ramsey told Reuters after the presentation.
How about dual tuners? Why do you keep dodging the fucking issue?
TiVo, whose technology allows users to save hours of TV shows onto a hard drive in a set-top box and makes suggestions for other programming choices, derives most of its revenue from subscribers' fees and licensing agreements with manufacturers.
Huh. Tivo sounds cool, whatever it is.
The new initiatives, which include a way for users to program recording times away from home through a Web site, would provide the company with additional streams of revenue.
Kind of like, if Peter Pan comes and takes me away to fight pirates, I will have an exciting and happy life.
Ramsey also reiterated TiVo's forecast that its subscribers will double to 1 million in fiscal 2004, which begins in February.
Reiterate away.
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I think people can full well recognise quality.
LOL. Not if its been deliberately obscured.
I have a $150 Sony 4-head stereo VCR, which is at the high end (price-wise) of what's available these days. The recording quality is worse than 2-head vcr's of a few years back. There is no way to explain that other than that it is deliberate.
Likewise, I've had experience with a Sony receiver with DSP settings and an EQ display. The strength of the 15khz band on "flat" setting is visually nil, and audibly weak. The band shoots up dramatically when DSP is enabled. I had a hard time understanding why the receiver only sounds crisp when DSP is enabled until I realized that it was designed that way.
It's one thing if you're a small, up-and-coming equipment maker and you're trying to oversell your shitty engineering. But Sony actually downgrades their own products, and then inserts "features" to partially counterbalance the loss of quality. I can't imagine why any company would feel the need to do this, except that consumers can't full-well recongize quality, and that a great many equipment purchases are based on reading the outside of the box.
It's got a 1.0GHz P3, 256M RAM, 20G HD, 10/100 eth, CD-ROM, USB, FireWire, video, and sound. At USD 995, it's reasonably priced too.
Kinda like a laptop?