"For me, I never got a Tivo because of the cost.... I believe it is $12.95/month now"
Agreed. Everyone I know is the same way. The monthly fee is what killed Tivo. If they could have lived with $250 for the device they would be far more popular, but no one wants another monthly fee, especially when it's a monthly DVR fee on top of a existing monthly cable fee.
Apple anything = no monthly fees, so they win.
My parents recently called me about buying a TiVo to record the Olympics. Soon as I told them there was a monthly fee they weren't interested, I told them to call their cable provider and see if they offered a DVR for less.
For TiVo to come back they'll have to partner with Hulu and Netflix, give me a set-top box that streams Hulu, Netflix and does DVR and we'll talk. TiVo has the big name, the hardware, the know-how, and the channels to get it into stores. Hulu and Netflix provides great content. I showed my parents Hulu on their PC and they're very interested for the older shows and movies but I don't know of a device cheap and simple enough for them to get Hulu onto their TV.
i know you think pole dancing is a joke, but they have team handball in the olympics and ping pong... oops sorry they call it "table tennis", guess because tennis is a real sport and the game you play as a drunk teenage in your parents basement isn't.
Thanks for posting this. It's interesting to note that while some consider BB guns and air guns to be shooting equipment, others like American Airlines, says "Pellet and BB guns are not considered firearms, and therefore, do not require any special handling or documentation.", so if someone thought "hey I'll spend $15 at walmart and buy a airgun" you can forget it. Also some airlines won't allows weapons for international flights for whatever reason.
While all this might sound simple and be great for professional photographers or videographers with thousands in equipment and travel frequently it won't help the average Joe flying to Florida for a week who doesn't own a gun and doesn't want to spend hundreds on a weapon and a special lock box.
"But this is just temporary. The Morrisons decided they don't want to live this way; they plan to sell their Wisconsin house and Sarah and their youngest son, Austin, will move when the school year ends."
So one job ended, he got another job, and he's been driving back and forth until the school yr ends and then they'll move. Yes he's driving 1,000 miles, but it's just until end of school year, and he already has an apartment at the new place. Who has this not happened to ever? Many times people will find work in other states and the job starts before the house sells, so the spouse stays behind and packs while the other works out-of-state and house hunts.
Perhaps, but you could quickly batch convert hundreds of photos to smaller sizes and higher compression within seconds using free programs like irfanview, and no one would miss the resolution because no one has 12 megapixel LCDs, but try quickly converting a HD video with a freeware program, even quad core takes hours
I forgot to add that when you're uploading from a pc you can just click upload, open another window and go about your day, doesn't keep you from work. But when you're on a phone uploading a file you might have to leave that window open while you wait minutes for it to upload. Course this is all new to phones, I've had 10/1 Mbps at home for ten yrs, but it's frustrating to pay for all the hardware and not have a fast infrastructure to support it
Despite the fact Halo is to xbox that Mario is to Nintendo, the pc port was very good. I only played the game on a pc, and although it needed a much more poweful pc than the xbox's 733mhz it never felt like a port. Controls worked well with keyboard and mouse IMHO.
THANK YOU! I was reading all these posts thinking "was I the only one that tried assassins creed on pc?". Game was awful, there's no way to save and it doesn't explain that anywhere. There's no menu to escape out to either which made it more frustrating. Judging from the increase in horrible ports to pc I'm wondering if someday all the "good" games won't be on consoles, seems with the more powerful consoles and strict antipiracy (how long did it take them to hack ps3? 4 yrs?) it seems devs don't want to bother with pc anymore unless the drm is horrible.
Considering all the HD videos people are uploading, your best example for wanting fiber is to upload photos?
honestly my measly 1mbps up is fine, I'm more concerned with wireless. iPhone is one of the few phones that upload videos wirelessly, but to save the 3g network it first compresses the crap out of the video, and even then it takes several minutes to upload just 1 minute of highly compressed standard definition video. We really need better wireless.
But why? Music started as uncompressed but we're quickly getting to the point where you can't even buy music that isn't compressed, so why would movies move in the opposite direction?
And I've hired crappy lawyers. It's really bad when you're told for years you'll win only to be hit with the other guys fees at the end and the lawyer just shrugs and cashes your check. And what can you do, sue the lawyer? That would be the one case they would probably win.
Ok, but if this was a car analogy, it would be like taking your car to the mechanic and being told "sorry, can't be fixed, parts don't exist anymore" and telling the mechanic to fix it anyway. There's nothing hidden, the entire article was in boingboing for all to see, any good lawyer would have said can't be won.
True, and while the Meteor video looked impressive, it's nothing we haven't seen before in Crysis, and it's no where near real people walking around and speaking. I think they jumped the boat a bit on "Movie Quality", needs a few more years.
" And frankly, I find their account to be far more plausible than any others I've heard, including the parents."
According to you... I'm sorry, not you, "According to the replies of some of the students...", he was smoking weed, took photos with the school supplied laptop, someone found the photo and reported it, and a school official contacted the parents out of concern for the student's safety. Instead of agreeing with the school and taking action, the parents concocted this absurd "peeping tom technology" story, and filed a class action lawsuit.
"Another semantic quibble here. You and I have very different definitions of the word "proven"."
Your "proof" are anonymous replies to a article while I provide links to major news. What's next, you're going to quote Anonymous Cowards over CNN? Have you ever read some posts from Anonymous Cowards?
"According to the replies of some of his fellow students, he had taken the pictures with the webcam himself and left them on the hard drive when he returned the laptop to the school, and someone else accidently stumbled on them.."
citation needed
"As for what he was actually doing, there are conflicting reports. Some say he was smoking weed; others say he was eating Mike and Ike candies which the school official mistook for drugs."
Actually the reports are not conflicting, it's been well established: "A Pennsylvania student who accuses his high school of spying on him with a webcam says the controversy started when an official mistook a piece of candy for a pill."
"They also report he was not disciplined by the school, but the school official did contact the parents out of concern for the student's safety."
Again, your sources are wrong: "Parents Michael and Holly Robbins claim an assistant principal disciplined their son... "
I find it interesting you (and no one else) read replies from fellow students stating he took the picture himself and left it on the drive, but did not do a simple google search to see that it was candy mistaken as drugs or to see that the student was disciplined. Out of the three allegations made, two have been proven false.
"But why should the student be able to retire on the punitive damages he gets? Sure, the whole situation stinks but an apology and maybe a box of candy should suffice as punitive damages. You seem to covet a juridical system where you're extremely happy someone make a minor error. Already with minor arguments the winner thrives and the looser parishes."
Problem here in the States is the only way to really hurt someone or something is their pocketbook. Telling them "don't do it again" doesn't work. If the school lost a few million to this heads would roll at the school district and it'd send a clear message to all other schools in the country.
It's sad that's what it has come down to, but people keep getting hurt and companies keep getting away with stuff until it hurts their bottom line.
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"For me, I never got a Tivo because of the cost.... I believe it is $12.95/month now"
Agreed. Everyone I know is the same way. The monthly fee is what killed Tivo. If they could have lived with $250 for the device they would be far more popular, but no one wants another monthly fee, especially when it's a monthly DVR fee on top of a existing monthly cable fee.
Apple anything = no monthly fees, so they win.
My parents recently called me about buying a TiVo to record the Olympics. Soon as I told them there was a monthly fee they weren't interested, I told them to call their cable provider and see if they offered a DVR for less.
For TiVo to come back they'll have to partner with Hulu and Netflix, give me a set-top box that streams Hulu, Netflix and does DVR and we'll talk. TiVo has the big name, the hardware, the know-how, and the channels to get it into stores. Hulu and Netflix provides great content. I showed my parents Hulu on their PC and they're very interested for the older shows and movies but I don't know of a device cheap and simple enough for them to get Hulu onto their TV.
i know you think pole dancing is a joke, but they have team handball in the olympics and ping pong... oops sorry they call it "table tennis", guess because tennis is a real sport and the game you play as a drunk teenage in your parents basement isn't.
Thanks for posting this. It's interesting to note that while some consider BB guns and air guns to be shooting equipment, others like American Airlines, says "Pellet and BB guns are not considered firearms, and therefore, do not require any special handling or documentation.", so if someone thought "hey I'll spend $15 at walmart and buy a airgun" you can forget it. Also some airlines won't allows weapons for international flights for whatever reason.
While all this might sound simple and be great for professional photographers or videographers with thousands in equipment and travel frequently it won't help the average Joe flying to Florida for a week who doesn't own a gun and doesn't want to spend hundreds on a weapon and a special lock box.
agreed, I'm calling BS because the link doesn't work.
title is misleading. FTFA:
"But this is just temporary. The Morrisons decided they don't want to live this way; they plan to sell their Wisconsin house and Sarah and their youngest son, Austin, will move when the school year ends."
So one job ended, he got another job, and he's been driving back and forth until the school yr ends and then they'll move. Yes he's driving 1,000 miles, but it's just until end of school year, and he already has an apartment at the new place. Who has this not happened to ever? Many times people will find work in other states and the job starts before the house sells, so the spouse stays behind and packs while the other works out-of-state and house hunts.
Perhaps, but you could quickly batch convert hundreds of photos to smaller sizes and higher compression within seconds using free programs like irfanview, and no one would miss the resolution because no one has 12 megapixel LCDs, but try quickly converting a HD video with a freeware program, even quad core takes hours
I forgot to add that when you're uploading from a pc you can just click upload, open another window and go about your day, doesn't keep you from work. But when you're on a phone uploading a file you might have to leave that window open while you wait minutes for it to upload. Course this is all new to phones, I've had 10/1 Mbps at home for ten yrs, but it's frustrating to pay for all the hardware and not have a fast infrastructure to support it
Despite the fact Halo is to xbox that Mario is to Nintendo, the pc port was very good. I only played the game on a pc, and although it needed a much more poweful pc than the xbox's 733mhz it never felt like a port. Controls worked well with keyboard and mouse IMHO.
You're right, it's probably one of the few programs that require a quad core processor to function properly
THANK YOU! I was reading all these posts thinking "was I the only one that tried assassins creed on pc?". Game was awful, there's no way to save and it doesn't explain that anywhere. There's no menu to escape out to either which made it more frustrating. Judging from the increase in horrible ports to pc I'm wondering if someday all the "good" games won't be on consoles, seems with the more powerful consoles and strict antipiracy (how long did it take them to hack ps3? 4 yrs?) it seems devs don't want to bother with pc anymore unless the drm is horrible.
Considering all the HD videos people are uploading, your best example for wanting fiber is to upload photos?
honestly my measly 1mbps up is fine, I'm more concerned with wireless. iPhone is one of the few phones that upload videos wirelessly, but to save the 3g network it first compresses the crap out of the video, and even then it takes several minutes to upload just 1 minute of highly compressed standard definition video. We really need better wireless.
But why? Music started as uncompressed but we're quickly getting to the point where you can't even buy music that isn't compressed, so why would movies move in the opposite direction?
But... I have more than one computer...
And I've hired crappy lawyers. It's really bad when you're told for years you'll win only to be hit with the other guys fees at the end and the lawyer just shrugs and cashes your check. And what can you do, sue the lawyer? That would be the one case they would probably win.
Ok, but if this was a car analogy, it would be like taking your car to the mechanic and being told "sorry, can't be fixed, parts don't exist anymore" and telling the mechanic to fix it anyway. There's nothing hidden, the entire article was in boingboing for all to see, any good lawyer would have said can't be won.
I think we all know who bought it: Jerry Seinfeld. I heard there's a superman easter egg in every Seinfeld episode.
True, and while the Meteor video looked impressive, it's nothing we haven't seen before in Crysis, and it's no where near real people walking around and speaking. I think they jumped the boat a bit on "Movie Quality", needs a few more years.
" And frankly, I find their account to be far more plausible than any others I've heard, including the parents."
According to you... I'm sorry, not you, "According to the replies of some of the students...", he was smoking weed, took photos with the school supplied laptop, someone found the photo and reported it, and a school official contacted the parents out of concern for the student's safety. Instead of agreeing with the school and taking action, the parents concocted this absurd "peeping tom technology" story, and filed a class action lawsuit.
Yes you're right that makes far more sense.
"Another semantic quibble here. You and I have very different definitions of the word "proven"."
Your "proof" are anonymous replies to a article while I provide links to major news. What's next, you're going to quote Anonymous Cowards over CNN? Have you ever read some posts from Anonymous Cowards?
"According to the replies of some of his fellow students, he had taken the pictures with the webcam himself and left them on the hard drive when he returned the laptop to the school, and someone else accidently stumbled on them.."
citation needed
"As for what he was actually doing, there are conflicting reports. Some say he was smoking weed; others say he was eating Mike and Ike candies which the school official mistook for drugs."
Actually the reports are not conflicting, it's been well established: "A Pennsylvania student who accuses his high school of spying on him with a webcam says the controversy started when an official mistook a piece of candy for a pill."
"They also report he was not disciplined by the school, but the school official did contact the parents out of concern for the student's safety."
Again, your sources are wrong: "Parents Michael and Holly Robbins claim an assistant principal disciplined their son... "
I find it interesting you (and no one else) read replies from fellow students stating he took the picture himself and left it on the drive, but did not do a simple google search to see that it was candy mistaken as drugs or to see that the student was disciplined. Out of the three allegations made, two have been proven false.
"But why should the student be able to retire on the punitive damages he gets? Sure, the whole situation stinks but an apology and maybe a box of candy should suffice as punitive damages. You seem to covet a juridical system where you're extremely happy someone make a minor error. Already with minor arguments the winner thrives and the looser parishes."
Problem here in the States is the only way to really hurt someone or something is their pocketbook. Telling them "don't do it again" doesn't work. If the school lost a few million to this heads would roll at the school district and it'd send a clear message to all other schools in the country.
It's sad that's what it has come down to, but people keep getting hurt and companies keep getting away with stuff until it hurts their bottom line.
Guess no t1000, sounds like we need to worry about robotic mr Ed: "I'll be back Wilbur"
Anonymous Coward is right, the customs officer didn't recover it, it was another officer who found it on a gang member.
but the sheep don't fly