Theater owners must stop showing advertisements before a film starts for products that are not other films. People resent paying $12 to be a captive audience for 30 minutes of television commercials.
My personal policy is that since the advertiser has a captive audience, it's worth at least $10 per person for them to target that audience. So I treat myself to one guilt-free download of a movie from bittorrent or whatever for each commercial I have to watch before a movie.
Where politics intersect with the geek news, its definitely Slashdot material.
Yes, that's true, but this article should have been put in the politics section. That way it can be filtered properly by those fancy new home page filters installed a few upgrades ago. What in the world does this article have to do with "Your Rights Online" ?
This smells of a MS astroturfing troll. Since whatever it is hasn't been released we can only waste time speculating. Maybe it's a desert topping or a floor wax. Maybe it's both. In any case, it's vapourware until it shows up. How about we all wait a week to see what is announced and then have a discussion about it?
Why should I unsubscribe from something I've never subscribed to? I'd rather expose them as spammers and keep emailing their ISP. I never heard of them until they started spamming me.
I get spam from this Handango place all the time even though I don't own any kind of mobile device. Is slashdot catering to spammers on their front page now?
We got a crippled 6.2. Let's at least be honest about it.
Just because Tivo makes software for the standalone players doesn't mean that they have to deploy it to every derivative Tivo that exists. HMO would be nice to have, I agree. But there might be issues with the agreement between Tivo and DirecTV that's preventing its deployment. If I were in Tivo's shoes when that deal was struck I surely would have excluded any new feature deployment from the deal with DirecTV. That way Tivo can differentiate their standalone unit from the DirecTivo by the other features that are present, like HMO and the new Yahoo/Fandango integration. I'm sure they make more money on subscriptions for standalone players than they make through their deal with DirecTV.
Beyond HMO and networking, I think that a lot of the stuff that Tivo is adding to the standalone units is an effort to turn it into some kind of set-top box that does a bunch of nifty things rather than focusing on the strength of recording TV shows. I fully expect that within two years you'll be able to connect a USB keyboard to the Tivo and use it to check your Yahoo mail account. It's going to be the new WebTV and the Tivo will be worse for it.
Then there are those of us with the $1000.00 HD-DTivos that are still sitting here with 3.1. I paid $1000.00 to get a box that hasn't gotten any software updates other than a bug fix and is slow as molasses
I'll agree that sucks, but that's the cost of being an early adopter of niche technology. HDTV still isn't in widespread enough use for it to get the full focus of companies. It'll continue to get the short end of the stick until it's less expensive and more widespread.
All that griping because of the lack of the home media option? You can get another DirecTivo for about $15 with no more commitment from DTV. I paid $100 for the home media option when it came out on the stand alone Tivos and wasn't really impressed with it. Plus you can easily install 4.x or 7.x software onto the DirecTivos (hey, you are posting to slashdot, so hacking shouldn't be an issue). Check Dealdatabase for the info on that.
In order to make it "seem" like they are making things better for us they have stopped all software updates for the DirecTV versions of the TiVo that add new features.
Except for the 6.2 upgrade about six months ago. What do you want, 7.2 like on the stand alones? You know, the version with more ads everywhere and slower than the DirecTivos? No thanks.
Yeah, but it sounds like Krugle is a little more sophisticated.
Working code beats vapourware every time, no matter how sophisticated your vapourware is supposed to be. Krugle is just vapourware until it's available for use.
Did you try it with ext3? I have 688G in a RAID5 array spread across four 250GB drives. I use ext3 and I store lots of large files (15GB free on the array right now). I have about 156GB of DVD images, mostly movies that I own and have ripped to watch using daemon tools on Windows. Some of them are rips of training video DVDs I bought for software that I use like Adobe Premiere and Audition. I frequently move large AVI files to and from the array for video projects that I'm working on. These files originate on my Windows box and can be as large as 13GB (for an hour of video footage). I've been using ext3 for years and it's never let me down or given me any problems.
Actually, I think you might be under just such an obligation. You're still using the patented technology without a licence.
The end user is under no obligation. The end user isn't the one that needs the license; Microsoft is. If Ford infringes on a patent with a part in their car it doesn't mean that they then have to replace all of those parts in every car sold. If you still feel otherwise please cite case law to support your assertion.
I've never once cared about the dupes on this site and I don't think eliminating them will improve the site one bit.
Obviously, there are people here who feel differently. I personally think that the Slashdot editors could improve the quality of the site with very little effort on their part.
Instead I'm wading through a bunch of irrelevant noise about how the article is a triple play.
You waded pretty deep to get down to my post that you responded to. Hopefully more story-relevant comments were modded up.
Or 4) They have little time and make human mistakes.
That's no excuse. 24 stories were posted yesterday. According to http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome Slashdot has 13 editors: Cliff, CmdrTaco, CowboyNeal, Hemos, HeUnique, jamie, pudge, Roblimo, samzenpus, ScuttleMonkey, timothy, vroom, and Zonk. It doesn't take more than a few minutes to search your own site for a dupe and to follow links in the article to make sure they work (that's been a problem in the past). There's more than enough time available for the editors to make this a better site.
Besides, CmdrTaco has said in the past that he doesn't care about dupes. He feels that it's part of what makes slashdot have its "charm."
Slashdot Mirror
There's an online version of Skool Daze here.
You'll have to cut and paste as bugzilla doesn't allow link from slashdot. I found the link on this page:
"Your Rights Online" is also different from "Your Rights, Online".
This smells of a MS astroturfing troll. Since whatever it is hasn't been released we can only waste time speculating. Maybe it's a desert topping or a floor wax. Maybe it's both. In any case, it's vapourware until it shows up. How about we all wait a week to see what is announced and then have a discussion about it?
Why should I unsubscribe from something I've never subscribed to? I'd rather expose them as spammers and keep emailing their ISP. I never heard of them until they started spamming me.
But SAP already had their own database which they later open-sourced and then MySQL started to use. Why abondon that DB?
I get spam from this Handango place all the time even though I don't own any kind of mobile device. Is slashdot catering to spammers on their front page now?
Beyond HMO and networking, I think that a lot of the stuff that Tivo is adding to the standalone units is an effort to turn it into some kind of set-top box that does a bunch of nifty things rather than focusing on the strength of recording TV shows. I fully expect that within two years you'll be able to connect a USB keyboard to the Tivo and use it to check your Yahoo mail account. It's going to be the new WebTV and the Tivo will be worse for it.
I'll agree that sucks, but that's the cost of being an early adopter of niche technology. HDTV still isn't in widespread enough use for it to get the full focus of companies. It'll continue to get the short end of the stick until it's less expensive and more widespread.I have two DirecTivos and couldn't be happier.
It's highly likely that copyright in the USA will be extended again by then. History tells me that much.
How did you even find that special advertising section?
My install doesn't look anywhere near as nice as that. So how did you get yours to look like that?
Yep, kids can never succeeed without both a male and female parent. That's why in America we don't allow single parents to raise children. Oh wait...
Doesn't anyone check the last option?
I said cite case law not the law itself. You know, decisions that support what you posted.
Besides, CmdrTaco has said in the past that he doesn't care about dupes. He feels that it's part of what makes slashdot have its "charm."