Don't get me wrong... I love my MythTV box, but in terms of features Windows Media Center has it beat in a lot of areas. MythTV on the other hand is far better in the actual TV dept.
And the real closer on this is Windows Media Center is bound to have a higher overall WAF (Wife Approval Factor), luckily the other half is a geek so this wasn't an issue for me.
Add in that the top content companies are all about DRM... MythTV wasn't happening on ViiV.
You both make good points... and that is what it boils down to for a lot of these companies, short-term gain. If in the long-term it starts to become no longer profitable, they will reverse course.
Like I said I am not against offshore outsourcing. I was merely expressing a general viewpoint and citing one reason why I can see it from that angle. Personally I'm not much one for my_country || your_country, I prefer our_earth. Doesn't invalidate the emotional responses however to seeing people you know (I don't care what country your are from) getting laid off as there jobs are moved elsewhere for less.
Hell you could move their jobs to Idaho because it was cheaper and I would still have an emotional response.
I'm probaly not best suited to answer the question. To be honest it's a loaded bean-counter question. We maintain both a U.S. and an India presence. It's case by case. Certain clients are better off keeping the support here stateside, others are better off (financially.. no comment on the quasi-language support issues) sending it offshore.
If I had to make a blanket statement... I would say yes it is profitable for larger corporations and not so much for smaller companies.
I've listened to the complaints that come back from people about "speaking with India" and overall the general attitude has changed over the last few years. Customers have gotten "used to it" to the point they expect it. Anyone expect to call Dell support anymore and not get India? They gripe, they complain... but at the end of the day they keep consuming the same product from the same company.
Now from a personal standpoint.. man there are certain things that just shouldn't be in India... like our H.R. contact... *grumble*
Who cares? The key here is the companies are still looking at OFFSHORE outsourcing. Doesn't matter from the U.S. "Average Joe" standpoint what country it ends up in. It's still "somewhere else".
disclaimer: I work in the outsource call center industry. Although I am not fully opposed to offshore outsourcing... it's disheartening to see people you know getting laid off so that their job can be sent overseas for cheap labor.
I'm actually interested to see how that plays out. Will it be possible, or will the two formats be so crippled as to be fully incompatible with each other?
It wouldn't suprise me if this happens. A non-standard Intel CPU with an extra instruction set not found in any other Intel CPU. Getting past the SSE3 hurdle was no small feat by the groups working on this... Getting past an entire instruction set that doesn't exist in any consumer CPU would be a lot harder. Apple ties their OS to that instruction set.
I still can't say I disagree with the idea of moving all porn sites to.xxx domains. I am a parent as well and it would allow me to filter it from my children alot easier then my current methods.
The problem is it would never be realist. It could never be enforced in a way that guaranteed no porn showed up in the other top level domains.
Bush needs to get his head checked on this one. Allowing the.xxx domain to go forward can only help him in his skewed sense of reality by allowing him to place more restrictions on what he considers to be offensive material. (think of the children.. yada yada blah blah)
Last I checked he was President of the U.S.A. not the world (no matter what he thinks)... I guess he thinks this makes him President of the "Internets" as well... Was this also in the rumors he heard on the Internets?
"Just think of how porn changes when the user also gets to go in with the toned body of an underwear model. It'll make our current online porn look like just the tip of the assberg."
Was that really needed?
Anyway the article smells of someone trying to get posted on/. and not something of actual merit.
aye. None of my installs would be in that figure as I use Portable Firefox for Windows machines which was not downloaded from the Mozilla site. When putting it on a new computer I just copy my folder from my thumbdrive.
On linux computers I get it through apt-get (which I would say ALOT of Linux users do) so I am assuming that would not be counted as well.
I would take a guess that most of those downloads were the Win32 version. (That's a stat I would like to see... how many of the downloads were Linux/Mac/Win32/etc).
While I don't see this becoming a major MMO player... I can see it becoming quite a niche MMO (in the way I consider COH to be a niche MMO)
There are enough exceptions to everything...
people assume nerds don't like sports... but I am a nerd and while I don't care for playing real sports, I quite enjoy a sports themed computer/console game. It's a break from the normal [hack/slash/shoot/quest] of the typical game. And if I'm going to pick a sport to watch (which I can imagine alot of this game turns into.. watching other people at times) baseball is my choice.
I can't be the only one that thinks this.
besides... it's something different! I'm gonna give them credit for that if nothing else.
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Cinema Now and Movielink are already integrated into the Online Spotlight section as well as TV Tonic and a host of news video feeds.
I personally use Cinema Now and Movielink and the quality is excellent.
brain not working. my only excuse.
SIMON. (the game with the lights)
ISA slots... sure they are outdated now, but the cards seemed to slide in so much easier.
Sega CD. I swear I had to be one of the only people to have loved that add-on for the Sega Master System. ->> sewer shark.
Thank you for wasting 3 minutes of my life on reading a single /. comment.
Good laugh though and impressive use of that skit.
(I'm not kidding. It took me just under 3 minutes to decipher that)
mp3.washingtonpost.com :)
fixed your link.
1. check
2. use the hauppauge remote.. works great
3. check
my WAF approval is high. It was a general observation.
Although I will admit I can be a bit jealous of a few of MCE's features myself now and then. Online Spotlight is nice.
MythTV: functional
MCE: polished
Hands down functional wins for me, but not everyone feels that way.
Don't get me wrong... I love my MythTV box, but in terms of features Windows Media Center has it beat in a lot of areas. MythTV on the other hand is far better in the actual TV dept.
And the real closer on this is Windows Media Center is bound to have a higher overall WAF (Wife Approval Factor), luckily the other half is a geek so this wasn't an issue for me.
Add in that the top content companies are all about DRM... MythTV wasn't happening on ViiV.
You both make good points... and that is what it boils down to for a lot of these companies, short-term gain. If in the long-term it starts to become no longer profitable, they will reverse course.
Like I said I am not against offshore outsourcing. I was merely expressing a general viewpoint and citing one reason why I can see it from that angle. Personally I'm not much one for my_country || your_country, I prefer our_earth. Doesn't invalidate the emotional responses however to seeing people you know (I don't care what country your are from) getting laid off as there jobs are moved elsewhere for less.
Hell you could move their jobs to Idaho because it was cheaper and I would still have an emotional response.
I'm probaly not best suited to answer the question. To be honest it's a loaded bean-counter question. We maintain both a U.S. and an India presence. It's case by case. Certain clients are better off keeping the support here stateside, others are better off (financially.. no comment on the quasi-language support issues) sending it offshore.
If I had to make a blanket statement... I would say yes it is profitable for larger corporations and not so much for smaller companies.
I've listened to the complaints that come back from people about "speaking with India" and overall the general attitude has changed over the last few years. Customers have gotten "used to it" to the point they expect it. Anyone expect to call Dell support anymore and not get India? They gripe, they complain... but at the end of the day they keep consuming the same product from the same company.
Now from a personal standpoint.. man there are certain things that just shouldn't be in India... like our H.R. contact... *grumble*
Who cares? The key here is the companies are still looking at OFFSHORE outsourcing. Doesn't matter from the U.S. "Average Joe" standpoint what country it ends up in. It's still "somewhere else".
disclaimer: I work in the outsource call center industry. Although I am not fully opposed to offshore outsourcing... it's disheartening to see people you know getting laid off so that their job can be sent overseas for cheap labor.
I'm actually interested to see how that plays out. Will it be possible, or will the two formats be so crippled as to be fully incompatible with each other?
Yes, but *most* current dvd players will read any of those formats.
apples to oranges.
Majority won't care until it's standard in the Wal-Mart $150.00 27" special.
personally I'm going with that as my new sig! Thanks.
mythdora is another MythTV distro as well.
True. Very true, but I would not discount it as on option if push came to shove.
Who knows what will happen.
If they want to keep OS X on Apple hardware why wouldn't they?
Apple doesn't want anyone to be able to slap together a machine with off the shelf parts and run their OS.
It wouldn't suprise me if this happens. A non-standard Intel CPU with an extra instruction set not found in any other Intel CPU. Getting past the SSE3 hurdle was no small feat by the groups working on this... Getting past an entire instruction set that doesn't exist in any consumer CPU would be a lot harder. Apple ties their OS to that instruction set.
I love porn.
.xxx domains. I am a parent as well and it would allow me to filter it from my children alot easier then my current methods.
.xxx domain to go forward can only help him in his skewed sense of reality by allowing him to place more restrictions on what he considers to be offensive material. (think of the children.. yada yada blah blah)
There I said it.
I still can't say I disagree with the idea of moving all porn sites to
The problem is it would never be realist. It could never be enforced in a way that guaranteed no porn showed up in the other top level domains.
Bush needs to get his head checked on this one. Allowing the
Last I checked he was President of the U.S.A. not the world (no matter what he thinks)... I guess he thinks this makes him President of the "Internets" as well... Was this also in the rumors he heard on the Internets?
When can we expect an actual full blown expansion with possibility of new levels, new talents, new PVE content? Any idea on cost?
until I ran into this:
/. and not something of actual merit.
"Just think of how porn changes when the user also gets to go in with the toned body of an underwear model. It'll make our current online porn look like just the tip of the assberg."
Was that really needed?
Anyway the article smells of someone trying to get posted on
aye. None of my installs would be in that figure as I use Portable Firefox for Windows machines which was not downloaded from the Mozilla site. When putting it on a new computer I just copy my folder from my thumbdrive.
On linux computers I get it through apt-get (which I would say ALOT of Linux users do) so I am assuming that would not be counted as well.
I would take a guess that most of those downloads were the Win32 version. (That's a stat I would like to see... how many of the downloads were Linux/Mac/Win32/etc).
I really wish that I could use one of my mod points right now to mark that funny.
That was great.
While I don't see this becoming a major MMO player... I can see it becoming quite a niche MMO (in the way I consider COH to be a niche MMO)
There are enough exceptions to everything...
people assume nerds don't like sports... but I am a nerd and while I don't care for playing real sports, I quite enjoy a sports themed computer/console game. It's a break from the normal [hack/slash/shoot/quest] of the typical game. And if I'm going to pick a sport to watch (which I can imagine alot of this game turns into.. watching other people at times) baseball is my choice.
I can't be the only one that thinks this.
besides... it's something different! I'm gonna give them credit for that if nothing else.