Well, it sure would be nice if everything were connected via some sort of GigE or faster switched interconnect, and only turned into an actual video signal at one point.
Have one wire to each device. There's no reason I should have to worry about whether the VCR is before or after the digital cable tuner... or before or after the DVD player... or should be choosing channels with one remote, playing DVDs with another, and controlling volume with a third. Universal remotes are a bad hack... they either don't have all of the features needed, or are more complex than the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.
I bought a Sony TV, Sony VCR, and Sony DVD player in hopes that the remote control situation would be mitigated a bit. The TV remote can be programmed to do either the VCR or the DVD player. It also inexplicably sometimes changes channels on the TV when it's set to change them on the VCR. Since I'm tuning through the VCR, changing the TV from one of its inputs to its tuner gets me a nice blast of static. The DVD remote can control the DVD player and the TV's volume, but not the TV channels.
A switched digital media network would be sooooo much easier to have good integration. Menus could be cascading from a central device -- no more worrying that the stupid little feature button for one of the devices isn't on the other remote control.
blah blah blah GPL blah blah if you don't like something, you can just change it blah blah blah blah we can fork the project blah blah blah the reason I like Linux is choiceblah blah blah.
Business likes this, but is there impending backlash from the OSS crowd about not jiving with the hacker ethos?
What kind of society would we have if kids don't learn to take care of themselves because they are constantly monitored?
On the other hand, what kind of society do we have where kids don't learn to take care of themselves because they are never monitored?
Unfortunately, the monitoring which needs to be done is parental supervision and nurturing... though in its place in schools, I'd rather see caring educator supervision and monitoring than an RFID card.
This would be simple to legislate... if the entertainment and retailing industries didn't have the $10 more per CD than they're worth to pay their lobbyists and lawyers.
I'd be willing to pay a media replacement fee to get new media for the music I've bought.
I've never heard anybody elected to office in Washington saying, "What about the people?" with regards to these things. It seems that Fair Use and other concepts are only justifiable in either a "what's the minimum we can let them have" or if an educational or library organization has lobbyists. It seems rather "fuck the people".
On the Web site that includes the log of student movements, there was no record that any of the students on the bus had arrived.
If you're a kidnapper, wouldn't it be nice to have a web site which told you precisely where to find (the rich kid|the kid for whom you have been denied custody)?
Besides, how does this prevent kidnapping? All it does it provide an audit trail, or lack thereof.
I've Googled and been unable to tell if the Prescot P4-E has the NX, XD, or whichever acronym anyone would like to use to signify the No eXecute/eXecution Disabled stuff.
All that I come up with is that stuff "late this year" from Intel will have it, and that AMD64 has it.
The cooler they can keep a well-performing CPU, the less noise they need coming out of the box. Let's count this one as a victory for using PCs for PVR/Jukebox-style uses.
Since Sun's play in what was it... 1998? When they released the Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 and pushed them in PC-related magazines touting how you could have the same architecture on your workstation as your server... they seem to have really dropped the ball with workstations. Of course since there were people with dot-com cash using E4500s as web servers, I guess that screwed with their sense of urgency.
But it is interesting to note that we haven't seen Sun pushing UltraSPARC workstations in either mainstream x86 magazines or even in "IT" magazines like Network Computing, etc.
It'll be interesting to see the effect ZFS will have on the sales of Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System, which so often get paired with Solaris.
Of course, if you had an Optimum Online cable modem, it would be more like...
Start patch cluster download Get coffee Install patch cluster
As for the speed of the patch installation, yeah, time to retire an SS2... though you wouldn't be putting Solaris 10 on an SS2 anyway... though you can get an Ultra 5 or an Ultra Enterprise 2 for less than a water cooling kit for your Athlon 64.
Yes. As I said, maybe we'll have more hurricanes hit Florida...
Since this phenomenon warms things up nearer the equator, we'll still get warming in the Carribean.
The global warming issue is a problem at the poles, as it's been presented to me. If we can make the arctic colder... maybe we'll have more hurricanes in Florida, but perhaps the seas won't rise...
OK, you missed my penis joke... but the big guys now often use services which look after their domains as intellectual property... see, for example, MarkMonitor, who Google uses (check the whois for gmail.com).
Re:Seems like the natural stepping stone...
on
Microsoft Takes on TiVo
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Yes, but as you look at what battles they've given up on, and those new ones they're picking to fight on... it's about control of the standards. Trying to license out IETF protocols, get patented IP into the infrastructure, yet paying off Sun and Novell...
In a way, Sun was right... the network *is* the computer. High speed networking and the infiltration of digital signals everywhere in our lives change the game fundamentally... and Microsoft is looking at having everything that's connected to the network paying them some dough.
"or one step closer to state regulation or taxation of IP networks?"
Well, call me a moron, but isn't it one step away from state regulation of IP networks?
Or is the question whether or not the states will go "one layer down the stack" and try again? And if that's what you're saying, then how do you anticipate they'll do it? A wire, a fiber, or the air can carry any kind of data signals across it. I'm not saying that there won't be regulation regarding IP networks... the first time a woman can't call the police and is raped because the cable is out may cause things to be regulated, but I don't see how the FCC's decision really impacts that.
If the content is licensed, where does P2P come in? If I'm paying for access to old shows, movies, etc, I want it on a caching server 2 hops away. P2P is fine for free things like bittorrent for Linux ISOs or something, but if I'm paying, say, Comcast, for access to a huge library of files... why should your upstream get sucked from?
Disk is getting so cheap that a service provider has no reason to rely on an unreliable public to provide the disk space you're paying them to use.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, it sure would be nice if everything were connected via some sort of GigE or faster switched interconnect, and only turned into an actual video signal at one point.
Have one wire to each device. There's no reason I should have to worry about whether the VCR is before or after the digital cable tuner... or before or after the DVD player... or should be choosing channels with one remote, playing DVDs with another, and controlling volume with a third. Universal remotes are a bad hack... they either don't have all of the features needed, or are more complex than the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.
I bought a Sony TV, Sony VCR, and Sony DVD player in hopes that the remote control situation would be mitigated a bit. The TV remote can be programmed to do either the VCR or the DVD player. It also inexplicably sometimes changes channels on the TV when it's set to change them on the VCR. Since I'm tuning through the VCR, changing the TV from one of its inputs to its tuner gets me a nice blast of static. The DVD remote can control the DVD player and the TV's volume, but not the TV channels.
A switched digital media network would be sooooo much easier to have good integration. Menus could be cascading from a central device -- no more worrying that the stupid little feature button for one of the devices isn't on the other remote control.
*sigh*
Nope.
blah blah blah GPL blah blah if you don't like something, you can just change it blah blah blah blah we can fork the project blah blah blah the reason I like Linux is choice blah blah blah.
Business likes this, but is there impending backlash from the OSS crowd about not jiving with the hacker ethos?
What kind of society would we have if kids don't learn to take care of themselves because they are constantly monitored?
On the other hand, what kind of society do we have where kids don't learn to take care of themselves because they are never monitored?
Unfortunately, the monitoring which needs to be done is parental supervision and nurturing... though in its place in schools, I'd rather see caring educator supervision and monitoring than an RFID card.
This would be simple to legislate... if the entertainment and retailing industries didn't have the $10 more per CD than they're worth to pay their lobbyists and lawyers.
I'd be willing to pay a media replacement fee to get new media for the music I've bought.
I've never heard anybody elected to office in Washington saying, "What about the people?" with regards to these things. It seems that Fair Use and other concepts are only justifiable in either a "what's the minimum we can let them have" or if an educational or library organization has lobbyists. It seems rather "fuck the people".
I understand the concepts around intellectual property and the "fruit of your labors" concept, but the Constitution grants the government the authority to legislate such things To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
It's clear to anyone who's not directly impacted by the revenue generated by the exclusivity that it should end at some point.
On the Web site that includes the log of student movements, there was no record that any of the students on the bus had arrived.
If you're a kidnapper, wouldn't it be nice to have a web site which told you precisely where to find (the rich kid|the kid for whom you have been denied custody)?
Besides, how does this prevent kidnapping? All it does it provide an audit trail, or lack thereof.
I've Googled and been unable to tell if the Prescot P4-E has the NX, XD, or whichever acronym anyone would like to use to signify the No eXecute/eXecution Disabled stuff.
All that I come up with is that stuff "late this year" from Intel will have it, and that AMD64 has it.
White noise is great for sleeping, but I find it horrible for waking up.
Anyone else find this to be the case?
The cooler they can keep a well-performing CPU, the less noise they need coming out of the box. Let's count this one as a victory for using PCs for PVR/Jukebox-style uses.
Since Sun's play in what was it... 1998? When they released the Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 and pushed them in PC-related magazines touting how you could have the same architecture on your workstation as your server... they seem to have really dropped the ball with workstations. Of course since there were people with dot-com cash using E4500s as web servers, I guess that screwed with their sense of urgency.
But it is interesting to note that we haven't seen Sun pushing UltraSPARC workstations in either mainstream x86 magazines or even in "IT" magazines like Network Computing, etc.
It'll be interesting to see the effect ZFS will have on the sales of Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System, which so often get paired with Solaris.
I guess you're not a Gentoo user, eh?
Of course, if you had an Optimum Online cable modem, it would be more like...
Start patch cluster download
Get coffee
Install patch cluster
As for the speed of the patch installation, yeah, time to retire an SS2... though you wouldn't be putting Solaris 10 on an SS2 anyway... though you can get an Ultra 5 or an Ultra Enterprise 2 for less than a water cooling kit for your Athlon 64.
SunOS was in the mainstream before Linus began working on the Linux kernel, dude.
Xeon boxes can go above 4GB of RAM... for example, the HP DL560 does 4 Xeon CPUs and 12 GB of RAM.
They're really nice boxes
With the latency and limited upstream of consumer two-way satellite, is this really viable?
Please tell me you don't nuke your Pringles...
A wi-fi microwave that would IM me that my food's done would be quite nice...
Here's one that'll duplicate to 10 IDE drives at a time, and runs $6250.
Just google: hard drive duplication
You'll find a few different sources for such hardware on the first page.
Yes. As I said, maybe we'll have more hurricanes hit Florida... Since this phenomenon warms things up nearer the equator, we'll still get warming in the Carribean.
The global warming issue is a problem at the poles, as it's been presented to me. If we can make the arctic colder... maybe we'll have more hurricanes in Florida, but perhaps the seas won't rise...
OK, you missed my penis joke... but the big guys now often use services which look after their domains as intellectual property... see, for example, MarkMonitor, who Google uses (check the whois for gmail.com).
People with small domains should beware?
Size isn't everything, you know...
Yes, but as you look at what battles they've given up on, and those new ones they're picking to fight on... it's about control of the standards. Trying to license out IETF protocols, get patented IP into the infrastructure, yet paying off Sun and Novell...
In a way, Sun was right... the network *is* the computer. High speed networking and the infiltration of digital signals everywhere in our lives change the game fundamentally... and Microsoft is looking at having everything that's connected to the network paying them some dough.
"or one step closer to state regulation or taxation of IP networks?"
Well, call me a moron, but isn't it one step away from state regulation of IP networks?
Or is the question whether or not the states will go "one layer down the stack" and try again? And if that's what you're saying, then how do you anticipate they'll do it? A wire, a fiber, or the air can carry any kind of data signals across it. I'm not saying that there won't be regulation regarding IP networks... the first time a woman can't call the police and is raped because the cable is out may cause things to be regulated, but I don't see how the FCC's decision really impacts that.
If the content is licensed, where does P2P come in? If I'm paying for access to old shows, movies, etc, I want it on a caching server 2 hops away. P2P is fine for free things like bittorrent for Linux ISOs or something, but if I'm paying, say, Comcast, for access to a huge library of files... why should your upstream get sucked from?
Disk is getting so cheap that a service provider has no reason to rely on an unreliable public to provide the disk space you're paying them to use.