The UK already has a satellite service offered by Sky which does what TiVo does, called Sky Plus. With the hardware (a Sky+ box and a dish) you get a programme-guide (EPG), the ability to record two channels at once, and trick-play (pause/rewind/fastforward.)
What Sky+ can't do is record a show that you have missed, but it can do other stuff like automatically record series, set reminders and favorites, and it has a pay-per-view Box-Office service for movies which works like Blockbuster (except you don't have to leave the house.)
I can't really see that the BBC is now offering a competing service -- it works only on a PC -- but it does have that one extra feature at least, and it can be used by those without a Sky subscription.
Sweet merciful crap that's depressing to hear, and I hope it isn't true.
Surely the power of any graphics-card from the last 4 years can have its 3D-grunt put to 2D-desktop usage? I know Apple have done something like this already, so here's hoping that Microsoft can offer a nippy DirectX-driven Windowing System.
"Nobody reads/. for the articles, just the comments!"
So how are you supposed to comment on a site which gets Slashdotted in seconds? Is it too much to ask for both readers and the people who get their sites totalled for/. to start using Coral and FreeCache?
I disagree to some extent. I received an iRiver H340 yesterday. While I won't get much initial use out of the following features it is good to know they are integrated and I won't need to purchase a seperate device to get them later: FM tuner with recording, dictaphone, image and text-viewer, and support for connecting to cameras and other devices through USB.
The other features I couldn't be without: Playlists, multiple audio-formats (with upgradable firmware which could support more in future, and even video), the awesome equaliser that includes WOW, SRS and TruBass, 16 hours of battery-life, 40GB of disk-space with no restriction on what you can load on it (essentially a portable HDD), and a verbose but simple-to-use tag-browser.
And lets not forget, the interface is damn sexy, and usable with it.
You're probably right, but I still think/. should start making a habbit of using caching technologies like FreeCache or Coral when linking to media.
Slashdotting and the ensuing "/. KILLED MY SERVER!1" comments are, erm... funny and all, but it kind of defeats the purpose of a news web-site when links are posted in the full knowledge that they won't be available for very long simply because of the popularity of the news-site.
Ah. That's entirely my fault -- you have to type a fully-qualified URL, including the trailing-slash. For example: http://slashdot.org/ will work, but www.slashdot.org or slashdot.org won't.
To be honest I only tested that dialog with copy-pasted URLs, which tend to be fully-qualified when you copy them directly from a web-page anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
It's the "UK Ministry of DefenCe", not "Defense".
Don't be so poduntic.
The UK already has a satellite service offered by Sky which does what TiVo does, called Sky Plus. With the hardware (a Sky+ box and a dish) you get a programme-guide (EPG), the ability to record two channels at once, and trick-play (pause/rewind/fastforward.)
What Sky+ can't do is record a show that you have missed, but it can do other stuff like automatically record series, set reminders and favorites, and it has a pay-per-view Box-Office service for movies which works like Blockbuster (except you don't have to leave the house.)
I can't really see that the BBC is now offering a competing service -- it works only on a PC -- but it does have that one extra feature at least, and it can be used by those without a Sky subscription.
Red Dwarf, Season 3, Episode 2 "Marooned."
Who are these "others", and where do they get their ideas?
So, AOP is just disciplined OOP?
Sweet merciful crap that's depressing to hear, and I hope it isn't true.
Surely the power of any graphics-card from the last 4 years can have its 3D-grunt put to 2D-desktop usage? I know Apple have done something like this already, so here's hoping that Microsoft can offer a nippy DirectX-driven Windowing System.
I mean come on! There are a zillion acronyms for the word cow.
:)
So hit that "Edit this page" link and get to work!
...people who buy a Windows *Starter Edition* are surely only interested in one thing: Whether or not their network connections will be restricted. :)
I don't get it.
Man, I've never been so pleased to say those words.
Tell your boss that to support standards properly is to support 100% of web *devices*, not just 80-90% of desktop *browsers*.
Standards-compliant code can fall-back gracefully in Netscape 4, or any old browser.
Let's face it, without all the sensational conjecture science is "boring".
It needs to be sexed-up for public consumption.
A similarly set up server? They purposely broke Linux to make it work just like Windows?
Well, I guess you can't argue the fairness of that.
...my mind is going. I can feel it...
Sorry for the OT, but I wanted to thank the Slashdot crew for adding .nyud.net:8090 to the end of *every* domain linked in this article. :)
Here we are my good man:
:(
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/
If Slashdot used a Coral-link in the first place everyone would get to see it.
"Nobody reads /. for the articles, just the comments!"
/. to start using Coral and FreeCache?
:(
So how are you supposed to comment on a site which gets Slashdotted in seconds? Is it too much to ask for both readers and the people who get their sites totalled for
Dag, yo.
This bug doesn't seem to affect Firefox with the SingleWindow extension installed.
Thanks for this - both the text and the images appear.
Can Slashdot please start using caching services as a rule when linking to low-bandwidth sites?
...for those unable to setup a Torrent, but they're still not being used. :/
I disagree to some extent. I received an iRiver H340 yesterday. While I won't get much initial use out of the following features it is good to know they are integrated and I won't need to purchase a seperate device to get them later: FM tuner with recording, dictaphone, image and text-viewer, and support for connecting to cameras and other devices through USB.
The other features I couldn't be without: Playlists, multiple audio-formats (with upgradable firmware which could support more in future, and even video), the awesome equaliser that includes WOW, SRS and TruBass, 16 hours of battery-life, 40GB of disk-space with no restriction on what you can load on it (essentially a portable HDD), and a verbose but simple-to-use tag-browser.
And lets not forget, the interface is damn sexy, and usable with it.
You pawed through a dumpster to get an AOL CD instead of downloading 5MB of a Firefox installation?
:D
That's hardcore, baby.
...with FreeCache or Coral.
Or just make it Slashdot-policy to use the past-tense when describing off-site content, like this:
Kind of pre-empts the whole /. effect, don't you think?
It would be great to start moving away from the whole organised-DDOS attack thing...
You're probably right, but I still think /. should start making a habbit of using caching technologies like FreeCache or Coral when linking to media.
Slashdotting and the ensuing "/. KILLED MY SERVER!1" comments are, erm... funny and all, but it kind of defeats the purpose of a news web-site when links are posted in the full knowledge that they won't be available for very long simply because of the popularity of the news-site.
...just in case.
Ah. That's entirely my fault -- you have to type a fully-qualified URL, including the trailing-slash. For example: http://slashdot.org/ will work, but www.slashdot.org or slashdot.org won't.
;)
To be honest I only tested that dialog with copy-pasted URLs, which tend to be fully-qualified when you copy them directly from a web-page anyway.
Laziness on my part.