I would assume that they bought it to sell on eBay for profit. But the PS3 buying firestorm has cooled and nobody can make the fast buck. So they just kept it instead of selling for a loss.
I wonder if this new auto OS will tie in to Sync? I'd hate to have different parts of the car fighting with a different OS'es in the dash.
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I still have and use a ReplayTV 5040. It's been upgraded with a new hard drive, but other than that it's worked well enough. This model is one of the few that can automatically skip commercials when you play back a recorded show. It works reasonably well at the automatic skip as well. But it's the shame that they had to drop this feature in their most recent line-up of DVR's. Apparently the broadcaster's still want to get paid for commercials even after they air a show. I also enjoy the internet show sharing features that Poopli has graciously provided. All-in-all this was a great product.
True that ReplayTV has left the set-top DVR market and went for a PC based software market. I'm not sure how that's working for them. But as customer of theirs, I wish them luck.
I think it would be nice if Google buys the spectrum and turns it over to the public. They provide specifications for the use of the airways which they sell licenses to hardware manufactures. And a Gnuetella-like or the "Google-IP" network is born without the need for tele-com or other carriers. All these devices connect together to route traffic between each other. Each user of the network in essence carries its signal to the other users. They could create a free Internet in the true meaning of the words.
We're not for the law. We're more in favor of the opposition to the RIAssA's tactics of shotgun extortion. Their lawyers fire blasts in the general direction of IP Addresses and hit children, grand parents, and other innocents. The Recording Industry Ass. of America is right there in the same neighborhood as 419 scammers and pill spammers. They no longer serve purpose other than to flaunt their Monopoly.
In today's Air Force, it is a big deal to breach security. But we're not talking about today's Air Force, and certainly not today's secrets. Times were more relaxed in the old Air Force. And keep in mind that the UFO wasn't classified as secret, at first. Haut was told to write a story for the radio and news press. He was shown the debris because he would most likely have to describe it in some detail for his news and radio report. But once Command issued the cover-up the next morning, this was no longer a local issue as it because an Air Force issue of National Security. He had to retract his story.
LOL!!! 'cept this UFO crashed... I think it must have had MS Windows for Spaceships installed, and got infected with a virus as soon as it came in range of Al Gore's Internet. Too bad for poor Mork.
A Lieutenant, yes. Higher the rank means the higher levels of supervisor. Generals don't get their hands dirty. You wouldn't see a General fueling a jet, driving a tank, and most certainly cleaning up a crash site. Which poor bastard would have the responsibility of picking up dead bodies? Probably an enlisted Airman, or even a contacted civilian. But certainly not a high ranking officer if that's what you're insinuating.
Who is going to cover up the story? My guess is that it's probably that General who started the hoax. But certainly not a Lieutenant.
I'd venture a guess and say that it is too soon to write HD DVD off as well. Blu Ray got off to a good start with the bundle of PS3 owners. And I suspect their curiosity has something to do with the 7 to 4 sales ratios. But PS3 sales have slowed. HD DVD player's sales figures for the stand-alone machines has risen since May's price drop. The Xbox 360's figures aren't factored in to the report that I had read, but that unknown must account for a hundred thousand perhaps. I'd think that Blockbuster would do well to re-evaluate that policy in a few months as the market swings to pick up the new HD DVD owners.
Eventually a clear winner will be had, but I'd guess that we won't know who it is until this holiday season. And it would probably be charted in player sales figures of millions over the next guy. And not just the few hundred thousand that the current spread is.
Any way, I do think the first person was right - someone must be getting a nice kick-back for the exclusive stocking of Blu-Ray discs at Blockbuster. Because it's way to early to tell who is winning. Come on HD DVD guys, you have to be more competitive to catch those dollar bills!
I understand that the true reason for patents is to prevent another company from taking your businesses wonderful ideas and selling them as their own. Patents give your business the right to capitalize on an idea, or profit by licensing the plans of that idea to another company. It is not to stifle competition or to eliminate similar works of creation through competition. But if Free / Open Source Software is not competing on economic scales then do these works even violate these patents? I believe that since there is no monetary value attached to the FOSS applications then they do not violate these patents in any way shape or form. Once you ask for money for this software, then the patent violations should be considered. Distributions often sell the pre-packaging of a products but not the actual applications per se. They also sell support or updates, I'm not aware of many distro's which are selling their distribution as a closed and individual work of creation. (Such as Apple OS X.)
It should also be determined if these patents are so broad in description that they are invalid to begin with.
I've been hearing about Home Automation for years now. All the glamor and glitz about turning your lights on or off from a web browser any where in the World has my geeky side tingling with excitement. But I have yet to see any refrigerator that can tell me when I'm low on milk or an appliance that will remind me when I leave the iron on again. I suppose this stuff just isn't that exciting when you finally go out and buy it, or that affordable. Also, I don't know of anywhere that will allow me to see if hands on. I'm not even sure that there is a complete solution which would cover Media, Security & Surveillance, Lighting, HVAC, and Appliances - all of the aspects that I could consider the chore of a Home Server. Correct me if I'm wrong, please!
With "digital film" and digital projectors in the theater, will interlacing, deinterlacing and progressive scan become words that we used in the past? (Like UHF or B&W)
I long for the day when I can just buy a TV Set and not have to consider these technical arguments inside my head.
Listening to music in iTunes is the monetary equivalent of a $15 per hour net profession. On top of that is an expensive MP3 player. The youthful music industry would be hard pressed to stay driven at full speed ahead with this sort of economy and rising fuel costs.
I'm not satisfied with purchasing sub-CD quality music at a premium. Perhaps others are starting to awaken as well? I think this trend is quite healthy. It calls for big music to take yet another look at how it is doing business and provides another opportunity for them to learn what its customers really want.
How long before these Solar Cell's be made into roof tiles that snap together?
Really, roof tiles need to be replaced every 15 - 50 years depending on type or quality. Previous solar cells had a life of, what 25 years? Why not apply this solar material to roof tiles for the collection of energy? You could also run water through it to store hot water for the summer time. The USA has a lot of desert areas that could take advantage from such a product. And in the summer time where A/C energy reaches usage peaks, this would help tremendously.
Hold on a second... If you download an album from.torrent, you do cost the RIAA their share of that album (or song). The RIAA expects consumers to consume. Whether you listen to the album or delete it from your hard drive, they account the download as a lost sale. But more importantly, the RIAA expects that you do not share your albums with anyone and further perpetuate lost sales. That's the 0 and 1 about it. If you don't want to give them money, don't listen to their music. Period.
quote: "I believe the point was that Windows hardware stinks because there are so many crappy hardware companies out there making crappy hardware and crappy drivers for pc's. Macs avoid that problem."
Yes, yes... Apple avoids that problem by making the crappy hardware directly by Apple. They set a new level for all the crappy hardware professional suppliers around the World.
The real problem with "Windows hardware" is that there is many different options. Some bad options, but if you want to skimp and save a dollar you can. And there are some great options for the long term. Deciding between the two takes some level of understanding.
With Apple, you're left without these options. Want something a little better than on-board video in that 17" iMac? Sorry - no can do. Don't need that WebCam? Sorry, you're forced to pay for it. Thinking about adding a second hard drive, or new that new HD DVD drive? Nope, you need a new computer!
Increase your manhood! Make them beg for your member! Horny Housewife wants it up the wazoo! Cum for hours and hours! I'm available tonight! Aphid future peach wheel map
Yeah... Spam sucks... I'll stick with the Internet! Way Better pron than eMail.
Try $500 for a console, $25 for another controller, and $60 for a game. Even with Atlanta's insane sales tax, that comes out to $626. Amortized over a projected 5-year lifespan, and adding in 5% interest you could've earned on that money instead, we're talking about $11 a month + change.
Heck, that's less than my Sirius bill every month...
What?! My Sirius bill is $0.00 per month! My Lifetime subscription was just $499 with no further payments. I figure that if I keep my tuner longer than 3 years (highly possible) then the service is truly free from that point forward. What kind of Sirius subscriptions do you have that cost over $626 per month?! I would doubt that you fit the profile of the average home user for these things.
most serious gamers will want/need HDMI and blu-ray support.
The fundalmental flaw in your position is that HDMI is equivalent to HDTV. Only the latest HDTVs have HDMI. I guess you have missed the other posts on Slashdot of early adopters of HDTV lamenting the fact that their TV's do NOT have HDMI connectors. If the objective is to connect to as many HDTV presently out in homes the cable that maximizes that is component, not HDMI.
In two or three years it would be a dumb idea not to include the cable (at that point the number of HDMI tvs should far outnumber the number of HDTV without it). However, for this initial distribution run, there is isn't motivation.
I think taht the general public's conception of Sony's PlayStation 3 in respect to the function of the HDMI port is that it is an integral and necessary component of the Sony Blu-Ray DRM for video playback. Without the cable the video quality is nerfed or, possibly for some titles, playback will be altogether disabled. Whether or not this cable is required to play a BD-Rom game titles is unknown by me. But one might assume that Sony wants to protect the games from being copied and will require this function for Game Titles as well.
As to the inclusion of a cable: This would be nice. It would also be nice to package a title with the game system and a controller for your co-gamer. But systems have come stripped of these pleasantries of lately. To the point where you can't even buy a system and save the same unless you first buy flash RAM. More recent console game systems have become very consumer hostile. Which appears to be a trend that even the most expensive $600 game system will follow.
I absolutely agree with this. I traditionally look at a major local electronics store weekend sales ads each friday, and I've watched HD "Capable" TV's creep down from the low 5 digit price to a low 4 digit price. But I'm still not ready to finance a television set! I'm very happy with my 3 year old 50" RP TV and 200+ DVD titles. I can see many more years use from it allowing me to wait until the price point breaks to "affordable." (Meaning that I do not have to finance the TV set to own it!) Or around $500 - $300 for a similar sized and quality set. In fact, I can see a disk array / media server as my next purchase way before I ever decide on which of these two formats I'll adopt. At this point, none of the above will like be my option if nothing changes.
Neither HD nor BD has that "coolness" factor worthy of adoption. Instead give me a lossless high-def downloadable video that I can put on a media server. One that allows me to shift to DVD format for backwards compatibility or allows me to play it on my phone, PDA, or some other ridiculous location that I pick. I'm just not interested in a disc which may be hyper-sensitive to scratches and contain more restrictions than iTunes.
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I would assume that they bought it to sell on eBay for profit. But the PS3 buying firestorm has cooled and nobody can make the fast buck. So they just kept it instead of selling for a loss.
Just a theory.
This just in: Pixar's Nemo, found in hard drive. News at 11.
I can't wait for the next generation of hot swappable drives that can put out their own fires.
Ford and Microsoft had all ready hit the news circus with the story of Sync. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070108-8568 .html
I wonder if this new auto OS will tie in to Sync? I'd hate to have different parts of the car fighting with a different OS'es in the dash.
I still have and use a ReplayTV 5040. It's been upgraded with a new hard drive, but other than that it's worked well enough. This model is one of the few that can automatically skip commercials when you play back a recorded show. It works reasonably well at the automatic skip as well. But it's the shame that they had to drop this feature in their most recent line-up of DVR's. Apparently the broadcaster's still want to get paid for commercials even after they air a show. I also enjoy the internet show sharing features that Poopli has graciously provided. All-in-all this was a great product.
True that ReplayTV has left the set-top DVR market and went for a PC based software market. I'm not sure how that's working for them. But as customer of theirs, I wish them luck.
I could think of it as such, and use a popular 'Borg' name for the product:
1) Windows 3.1
2) Windows 95
3) Windows 98
4) Windows 98 SE
5) Windows Millennium
6) Windows 2000
7) Windows XP
8) Windows Vista
9) Windows "7 of 9"
I think it would be nice if Google buys the spectrum and turns it over to the public. They provide specifications for the use of the airways which they sell licenses to hardware manufactures. And a Gnuetella-like or the "Google-IP" network is born without the need for tele-com or other carriers. All these devices connect together to route traffic between each other. Each user of the network in essence carries its signal to the other users. They could create a free Internet in the true meaning of the words.
We're not for the law. We're more in favor of the opposition to the RIAssA's tactics of shotgun extortion. Their lawyers fire blasts in the general direction of IP Addresses and hit children, grand parents, and other innocents. The Recording Industry Ass. of America is right there in the same neighborhood as 419 scammers and pill spammers. They no longer serve purpose other than to flaunt their Monopoly.
In today's Air Force, it is a big deal to breach security. But we're not talking about today's Air Force, and certainly not today's secrets. Times were more relaxed in the old Air Force. And keep in mind that the UFO wasn't classified as secret, at first. Haut was told to write a story for the radio and news press. He was shown the debris because he would most likely have to describe it in some detail for his news and radio report. But once Command issued the cover-up the next morning, this was no longer a local issue as it because an Air Force issue of National Security. He had to retract his story.
LOL!!! 'cept this UFO crashed... I think it must have had MS Windows for Spaceships installed, and got infected with a virus as soon as it came in range of Al Gore's Internet. Too bad for poor Mork.
A Lieutenant, yes. Higher the rank means the higher levels of supervisor. Generals don't get their hands dirty. You wouldn't see a General fueling a jet, driving a tank, and most certainly cleaning up a crash site. Which poor bastard would have the responsibility of picking up dead bodies? Probably an enlisted Airman, or even a contacted civilian. But certainly not a high ranking officer if that's what you're insinuating.
Who is going to cover up the story? My guess is that it's probably that General who started the hoax. But certainly not a Lieutenant.
I'd venture a guess and say that it is too soon to write HD DVD off as well. Blu Ray got off to a good start with the bundle of PS3 owners. And I suspect their curiosity has something to do with the 7 to 4 sales ratios. But PS3 sales have slowed. HD DVD player's sales figures for the stand-alone machines has risen since May's price drop. The Xbox 360's figures aren't factored in to the report that I had read, but that unknown must account for a hundred thousand perhaps. I'd think that Blockbuster would do well to re-evaluate that policy in a few months as the market swings to pick up the new HD DVD owners.
Eventually a clear winner will be had, but I'd guess that we won't know who it is until this holiday season. And it would probably be charted in player sales figures of millions over the next guy. And not just the few hundred thousand that the current spread is.
Any way, I do think the first person was right - someone must be getting a nice kick-back for the exclusive stocking of Blu-Ray discs at Blockbuster. Because it's way to early to tell who is winning. Come on HD DVD guys, you have to be more competitive to catch those dollar bills!
Kindergarten through 12th Grade. K through 12. Or Simply K-12.
I understand that the true reason for patents is to prevent another company from taking your businesses wonderful ideas and selling them as their own. Patents give your business the right to capitalize on an idea, or profit by licensing the plans of that idea to another company. It is not to stifle competition or to eliminate similar works of creation through competition. But if Free / Open Source Software is not competing on economic scales then do these works even violate these patents? I believe that since there is no monetary value attached to the FOSS applications then they do not violate these patents in any way shape or form. Once you ask for money for this software, then the patent violations should be considered. Distributions often sell the pre-packaging of a products but not the actual applications per se. They also sell support or updates, I'm not aware of many distro's which are selling their distribution as a closed and individual work of creation. (Such as Apple OS X.)
It should also be determined if these patents are so broad in description that they are invalid to begin with.
Monkey's wee, Monkey's doo. "Watch your step"
I've been hearing about Home Automation for years now. All the glamor and glitz about turning your lights on or off from a web browser any where in the World has my geeky side tingling with excitement. But I have yet to see any refrigerator that can tell me when I'm low on milk or an appliance that will remind me when I leave the iron on again. I suppose this stuff just isn't that exciting when you finally go out and buy it, or that affordable. Also, I don't know of anywhere that will allow me to see if hands on. I'm not even sure that there is a complete solution which would cover Media, Security & Surveillance, Lighting, HVAC, and Appliances - all of the aspects that I could consider the chore of a Home Server. Correct me if I'm wrong, please!
With "digital film" and digital projectors in the theater, will interlacing, deinterlacing and progressive scan become words that we used in the past? (Like UHF or B&W)
I long for the day when I can just buy a TV Set and not have to consider these technical arguments inside my head.
Listening to music in iTunes is the monetary equivalent of a $15 per hour net profession. On top of that is an expensive MP3 player. The youthful music industry would be hard pressed to stay driven at full speed ahead with this sort of economy and rising fuel costs.
I'm not satisfied with purchasing sub-CD quality music at a premium. Perhaps others are starting to awaken as well? I think this trend is quite healthy. It calls for big music to take yet another look at how it is doing business and provides another opportunity for them to learn what its customers really want.
How long before these Solar Cell's be made into roof tiles that snap together?
Really, roof tiles need to be replaced every 15 - 50 years depending on type or quality. Previous solar cells had a life of, what 25 years? Why not apply this solar material to roof tiles for the collection of energy? You could also run water through it to store hot water for the summer time. The USA has a lot of desert areas that could take advantage from such a product. And in the summer time where A/C energy reaches usage peaks, this would help tremendously.
Hold on a second... If you download an album from .torrent, you do cost the RIAA their share of that album (or song). The RIAA expects consumers to consume. Whether you listen to the album or delete it from your hard drive, they account the download as a lost sale. But more importantly, the RIAA expects that you do not share your albums with anyone and further perpetuate lost sales. That's the 0 and 1 about it. If you don't want to give them money, don't listen to their music. Period.
Yes, yes... Apple avoids that problem by making the crappy hardware directly by Apple. They set a new level for all the crappy hardware professional suppliers around the World.
The real problem with "Windows hardware" is that there is many different options. Some bad options, but if you want to skimp and save a dollar you can. And there are some great options for the long term. Deciding between the two takes some level of understanding.
With Apple, you're left without these options. Want something a little better than on-board video in that 17" iMac? Sorry - no can do. Don't need that WebCam? Sorry, you're forced to pay for it. Thinking about adding a second hard drive, or new that new HD DVD drive? Nope, you need a new computer!
Which kind of idiot would pay $2K for it? Perhaps the same kind if idiot who would pay $140K for an H1 Hummer...
There are lots of people willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money for excessive items.
Increase your manhood!
Make them beg for your member!
Horny Housewife wants it up the wazoo!
Cum for hours and hours!
I'm available tonight!
Aphid future peach wheel map
Yeah... Spam sucks... I'll stick with the Internet! Way Better pron than eMail.
Heck, that's less than my Sirius bill every month...
What?! My Sirius bill is $0.00 per month! My Lifetime subscription was just $499 with no further payments. I figure that if I keep my tuner longer than 3 years (highly possible) then the service is truly free from that point forward. What kind of Sirius subscriptions do you have that cost over $626 per month?! I would doubt that you fit the profile of the average home user for these things.
The fundalmental flaw in your position is that HDMI is equivalent to HDTV. Only the latest HDTVs have HDMI. I guess you have missed the other posts on Slashdot of early adopters of HDTV lamenting the fact that their TV's do NOT have HDMI connectors. If the objective is to connect to as many HDTV presently out in homes the cable that maximizes that is component, not HDMI.
In two or three years it would be a dumb idea not to include the cable (at that point the number of HDMI tvs should far outnumber the number of HDTV without it). However, for this initial distribution run, there is isn't motivation.
I think taht the general public's conception of Sony's PlayStation 3 in respect to the function of the HDMI port is that it is an integral and necessary component of the Sony Blu-Ray DRM for video playback. Without the cable the video quality is nerfed or, possibly for some titles, playback will be altogether disabled. Whether or not this cable is required to play a BD-Rom game titles is unknown by me. But one might assume that Sony wants to protect the games from being copied and will require this function for Game Titles as well.
As to the inclusion of a cable: This would be nice. It would also be nice to package a title with the game system and a controller for your co-gamer. But systems have come stripped of these pleasantries of lately. To the point where you can't even buy a system and save the same unless you first buy flash RAM. More recent console game systems have become very consumer hostile. Which appears to be a trend that even the most expensive $600 game system will follow.
I absolutely agree with this. I traditionally look at a major local electronics store weekend sales ads each friday, and I've watched HD "Capable" TV's creep down from the low 5 digit price to a low 4 digit price. But I'm still not ready to finance a television set! I'm very happy with my 3 year old 50" RP TV and 200+ DVD titles. I can see many more years use from it allowing me to wait until the price point breaks to "affordable." (Meaning that I do not have to finance the TV set to own it!) Or around $500 - $300 for a similar sized and quality set. In fact, I can see a disk array / media server as my next purchase way before I ever decide on which of these two formats I'll adopt. At this point, none of the above will like be my option if nothing changes.
Neither HD nor BD has that "coolness" factor worthy of adoption. Instead give me a lossless high-def downloadable video that I can put on a media server. One that allows me to shift to DVD format for backwards compatibility or allows me to play it on my phone, PDA, or some other ridiculous location that I pick. I'm just not interested in a disc which may be hyper-sensitive to scratches and contain more restrictions than iTunes.