CableVision is literally rebroadcasting their content, which is a major shift from the previous model of 'consumer records it at home'.
Bzzzzzap!
There are only two kinds of shifts involved here:
1. The timeshift of watching programs at a time later than they're broadcast. We've had this right for a long time and it's not in question.
2. The location-shift of the DVR from your living room to the cable company's server room. And this is no different than asking your neighbor or family member to record a program for you that you'd miss getting otherwise.
In fact, if some kid started a neighborhood business of recording programs for people who are away and couldn't get them on their own VCR's, charging them for that service and giving them the tapes afterwards, it would be functionally exactly the same thing. And if the television networks then tried to shut him down and send him back out to selling lemonade and cutting grass instead, the uproar over this would be huge -- and all of it directed against the greedy, selfish, innovation-killing television networks who provide their product for fee over the public airwaves. That same uproar should be directed against the television networks over this plan as well.
So let me get this straight... you can use a personal DVR in your home (rented from the cable or dish provider), and record/playback/etc all you want - but to provide the same functionality as an online service is somehow different? I don't get it!
It's different in the eye of the networks, who hope to persuade the courts to agree with them, because the moment it's different then it needs a new license -- and new money changes hands.
You can bet that if the networks had been able to figure out how to offer this service themselves decades ago that we'd long since already have it!
I sincerely doubt that any cheap desktop is capable of meeting the Vista minimum requirements. Remember that Vista still isn't scheduled for another six months, and by then Core 2 and (hopefully) AMD K8L, plus the next generation of GPU's will have arrived. These might manage Vista.
You mean we have a current generation of fusion reactors? And here all along I thought we had a smattering of fusion flashbulb energy sinks that only run for moments and consume more power than we're able to extract back out of them. Boy have I been missing something.
Open your.doc documents in WordPad. The nice thing about it, aside from it being free and included in all flavors of Windows, is that it's too stupid to do any of the fancy stuff. It has long been a favorite to avoid macro viruses for the same reason.
We would do exactly this to the Chinese government and military if the option existed - and have built hardware backdoors/sabotage into systems Russia tried to buy in the past for gas transmission line control when they tried to skirt a US block on sales of such equipment. There is no doubt in my mind that the Chinese will try exactly the same things, the only question being how successful can they be with it.
Don't forget how they sabotaged a rocket to blow-up on the launch pad about 10 years ago in order to successfully recover Top Secret satellite technology that they never should have been allowed this close to in the first place.
I smell scam. Dell says AMD 4-way servers before 12/31/2006. While 4-way makes sense given Intel's horrible front-side bus bottleneck for anything over 2-way Xeon's, well before the end of the year Intel will be shipping Merom Core 2 Duo processors with the same front-side bus problem, but much improved performance otherwise. Just because Dell may list an AMD server doesn't mean they'll make it avaiable before Intel is competative again, nor will they make it necessairly easy to buy. And if you don't think Dell can hide something, try to buy a naked Linux PC from them. At one point they were reportedly charging $50 more for a PC with a free operating system, than for the identical hardware with WinXP Home installed. If that's not fraud, I don't know what is.
Truth is, I doubt Dell is so unprepared that it will take them 6 months to ship their first AMD system. I would expect them to have had running AMD systems in their labs all along, and could ship tomorrow if they wanted to. This could be a Stalking Horse for them, a system intended to fail so that they can say, "See, we offered AMD and nobody bought." If Dell was selling AMD desktops at a price comensurate with the relative cost of the AMD chip compared to the Intel equivalent, I'd own at least one already.
Dell says they're listening to what their customers want, but they're not! Or at least not acting on it afterwards.
Once Google admits to its ability to filter its Suggest feature, it will become a never ending battle about what one company or group wants removed just to benefit them -- and never the searcher who now receives less information than before. Just imagine:
Scientology not wanting any critic sites suggested.
RIAA not wanting any alternative music/non-big 4 music sites suggested.
It would never end, and we end users are all poorer when censorship happens.
And don't think for a moment this company won't ask to have other download sites removed the moment it is proved it's possible. Google's defence has to be that it's not possible in an automated system.
Lastly, filter out crack and it will simply become cr@ck. You get the idea.
Of course they're against it. They both stand to make a lot of money selling upgrades and new equipment to enforce network unneutrality.
What I truly detest from people like this is their public spin that we shouldn't worry about it until after we have a huge problem from it, after which it will take a lot more effort to recover from than performing a little preventative maintenance on it in the first place.
that will be powered by Direct Methanol Fuel Cells.
I've heard of exploding batteries in mobile devices. I really hate to think about what the result will be if we end up with exploding fuel cells as well some day.
Of course I also wonder if your cell phone will be able to double as your lighter as well now.
final break between the human and chimpanzee species did not come until 6.3 million years ago at the earliest, and probably less than 5.4 million years ago.
Yes, I remember it well. Suddenly it was twice as hard to get a date on a Saturday night as before.
Isn't five years the typical projected time span for something you're not going to see nearly as soon as you think? I remember in five years we're going to have flat-screen televisions you can hang on your wall. And while we do have exactly that now, I first heard this prediction twenty-five years ago!
And I'm still waiting for the flat-screen TV you unroll like a poster and tack up with some double-sided tape.
So this IBM announcement fails to excite. Five years is a very long time in the technology industry.
They've already got your money in the required subscription fees to operate your TiVo at all. Now they go to the broadcasters and collect another big pot of money for forcing you to watch specified commercials. Then there's patent trolling for a third income stream, and to prevent more desirable competition. Quite a business model TiVo has there.
How much of the Internet traffic can be funneled through this -- or any such -- room? Is it a bottleneck, or something routed around? Just how much of the web's traffic can any single such room "see", and how many rooms like this would it take to see it all -- let alone figure out where to store it?
I would gather that every radio receiver paired up with a recording device is equally guilty. The fact that XM can separate songs with titles and metadata just means they do it better for the user.
Instead of comparing the costs of PSONE -> PS2 -> PS3 (estimated) to inflation, how about a comparison to something we can really relate to -- gasoline over the same period. After all, the higher the price of gas, the more we want to sit home and play our video games.
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Bzzzzzap!
There are only two kinds of shifts involved here:
1. The timeshift of watching programs at a time later than they're broadcast. We've had this right for a long time and it's not in question.
2. The location-shift of the DVR from your living room to the cable company's server room. And this is no different than asking your neighbor or family member to record a program for you that you'd miss getting otherwise.
In fact, if some kid started a neighborhood business of recording programs for people who are away and couldn't get them on their own VCR's, charging them for that service and giving them the tapes afterwards, it would be functionally exactly the same thing. And if the television networks then tried to shut him down and send him back out to selling lemonade and cutting grass instead, the uproar over this would be huge -- and all of it directed against the greedy, selfish, innovation-killing television networks who provide their product for fee over the public airwaves. That same uproar should be directed against the television networks over this plan as well.
It's different in the eye of the networks, who hope to persuade the courts to agree with them, because the moment it's different then it needs a new license -- and new money changes hands.
You can bet that if the networks had been able to figure out how to offer this service themselves decades ago that we'd long since already have it!
Don't let the networks win this one, or the battle is going to go on for years. Once it has left their antenna, they lose their control over it.
I sincerely doubt that any cheap desktop is capable of meeting the Vista minimum requirements. Remember that Vista still isn't scheduled for another six months, and by then Core 2 and (hopefully) AMD K8L, plus the next generation of GPU's will have arrived. These might manage Vista.
Somehow I just know I'll find myself in the 5% without.
Somehow the RIAA will find you anyway.
Somehow it won't be as free, or as fast, as you thought it would be.
Somehow it will arrive later than expected.
Somehow most of the above will prove true.
Or is Microsoft promising them all new hardware in the balance?
"Hi, here's a new Core 2 Duo for you. Now pretty please will you take Vista as well?"
You mean we have a current generation of fusion reactors? And here all along I thought we had a smattering of fusion flashbulb energy sinks that only run for moments and consume more power than we're able to extract back out of them. Boy have I been missing something.
Open your .doc documents in WordPad. The nice thing about it, aside from it being free and included in all flavors of Windows, is that it's too stupid to do any of the fancy stuff. It has long been a favorite to avoid macro viruses for the same reason.
Don't forget how they sabotaged a rocket to blow-up on the launch pad about 10 years ago in order to successfully recover Top Secret satellite technology that they never should have been allowed this close to in the first place.
311 Megabytes. This is going to be a Slashdotting to end all Slashdottings.
Truth is, I doubt Dell is so unprepared that it will take them 6 months to ship their first AMD system. I would expect them to have had running AMD systems in their labs all along, and could ship tomorrow if they wanted to. This could be a Stalking Horse for them, a system intended to fail so that they can say, "See, we offered AMD and nobody bought." If Dell was selling AMD desktops at a price comensurate with the relative cost of the AMD chip compared to the Intel equivalent, I'd own at least one already.
Dell says they're listening to what their customers want, but they're not! Or at least not acting on it afterwards.
And just how did this thing become drug resistant in the first place?
Scientology not wanting any critic sites suggested.
RIAA not wanting any alternative music/non-big 4 music sites suggested.
It would never end, and we end users are all poorer when censorship happens.
And don't think for a moment this company won't ask to have other download sites removed the moment it is proved it's possible. Google's defence has to be that it's not possible in an automated system.
Lastly, filter out crack and it will simply become cr@ck. You get the idea.
Of course they're against it. They both stand to make a lot of money selling upgrades and new equipment to enforce network unneutrality.
What I truly detest from people like this is their public spin that we shouldn't worry about it until after we have a huge problem from it, after which it will take a lot more effort to recover from than performing a little preventative maintenance on it in the first place.
I've heard of exploding batteries in mobile devices. I really hate to think about what the result will be if we end up with exploding fuel cells as well some day.
Of course I also wonder if your cell phone will be able to double as your lighter as well now.
Or onto MySpace.
Yes, and the poster above just beat you to it.
Yes, I remember it well. Suddenly it was twice as hard to get a date on a Saturday night as before.
But that's a very good thing indeed!
And I'm still waiting for the flat-screen TV you unroll like a poster and tack up with some double-sided tape.
So this IBM announcement fails to excite. Five years is a very long time in the technology industry.
They've already got your money in the required subscription fees to operate your TiVo at all. Now they go to the broadcasters and collect another big pot of money for forcing you to watch specified commercials. Then there's patent trolling for a third income stream, and to prevent more desirable competition. Quite a business model TiVo has there.
And they don't even have to go to the effort of tracking it down. The let everyone else do that work for them.
How much of the Internet traffic can be funneled through this -- or any such -- room? Is it a bottleneck, or something routed around? Just how much of the web's traffic can any single such room "see", and how many rooms like this would it take to see it all -- let alone figure out where to store it?
So where are the rest of the lawsuits?
Instead of comparing the costs of PSONE -> PS2 -> PS3 (estimated) to inflation, how about a comparison to something we can really relate to -- gasoline over the same period. After all, the higher the price of gas, the more we want to sit home and play our video games.