it acknowledged that other countries have sovereignty over their national addresses, and said it would never disrupt the system
because american politicians have never been known to flip-flop on this sort of thing when the going gets tough. Its a trust issue, and right now there isn't any.
My mathmatical theory is a little rusty now... I haven't been in the "theoretical" domain of things for some time...
But can someone explain to me how a string of numbers can be qualitatively judged as more/less/better/worse random than another? I always thought random was exactly that... and a random number generator could spew out 6 "8"s in a row, and well - there is a statistical probability (albeit low) that that would indeed happen - so as long as it doesn't happen every 30 characters/numbers... blah my brain is going to hurt momentarily.
As a young, gay, male geek... The second that anything Microsoft does has a significant impact on gay rights, I'm moving to Holland.
With all the ignorance in government on this side of the pond, the last thing we need is our Software Overloads making some form of impact (good OR bad).
Why doesn't Bill stick to software. Yeesh. Next headline: "General Motors supports rights of grape pickers in Southeastern France." Who cares??
I live in Ottawa, Canada, which was the initial testing groud for Interac, our national debit network (cross-compatible with the Plus network used in the US and worldwide) back in the late eighties/early nineties. Being a bilingual city (English/French... the quebec border is about 600 feet from me right now) naturally, some carriers imbedded this functionality into their ATM cards. I've been with the Royal Bank of Canada for over 10 years, and even when I'm in Quebec City, I always get greeted with english prompts without further user intervention.
So, in conclusion, the US banks must be lazy. The tech IS already there.
So someone at Scientific Atlanta woke up one morning, decided that bit-bucket PVRs would be a good idea, called the cable company. A lacky on the other end of the line went "Yeah, sure. Sounds good to us." And it happened? Yeesh. Think before you speak.
The cablecos and manufacturers work TOGETHER to innovate. The customer base to SA is small... a handful of MAJOR players. We make a request. SA makes it happen. Occasionally, the opposite occurs.
There are NOT a bunch of cable employees sitting on the ship dock waiting for new kit and services to come in. They drive the market.
As for DircTV TiVos... They're a bit bucket? GREAT! So you guys have done the best you can. Too bad satellite isn't 2-way (to the extent cable is).
'm guessing it won't; it's too far away before release, it'll take too long to download stuff, and/or not enough stuff will be available
I couldn't agree more. The days of "Don't release till it works 100% with full feature set," are, unforunately, gone. The world simply works too fast now. 15 minutes of fame has become 15 seconds. Do something big, but get the basic feature set working. Make sure the hardware can do what you plan on doing. Make sure you hype it. Then sell it, with a promised free upgrade in 6 months.
This is what happened to me with Apple - too late. Back in 2000, we had to make a decision on a non-linear editing platform system-wide. 13 stations, with about 3-7 edit systems required per station. We decided to go with the industry standard AVID... On the PC platform. OSX simply wasn't there yet. I'd saw off my left foot to switch now. AVID works on Mac. It STARTED on Mac. But a decision had to be made. Too late.
I hate this new reality. I'd rather see solid, tested, products. But people have become GIMMEITNOW, and therefore first to market with a reasonably stable product wins. Oh well.
Cable companies are generally not known for their ability to innovate technology or to produce compelling products such as set top boxes like TiVo with new and advanced features
tee hee. Thanks for the morning laugh. You've obviously been at Tivo too long. What the cable companies have done with their little one-way coax network defies belief... Trust me. I work for one (sort of... long story). Try to find another single service provider who can give you everything the cable plant does on 2 conductors. Cable (analog/digital), VOD, Broadband, VoIP, FM radio, other misc data services (ie Alarm monitoring)... Not even the telcos can touch that (for the moment - they're getting DAMN close)
However, the lack of a decent set-top box on our own network (Rogers, Canada) is frustrating. Its far superior to the dish folks - dual tuners, and the ability to record VOD programming etc. However, the user interface is lacking these days... And that I blame entirely on the manufacturers. In our case, Scientific Atlanta. They keep innovating - using the same software. For instance, the new SA 8500 (i think?) box that is coming out will be able to serve video off its hard drive to any other SA set-top... ANY explorer set top. That's saying something. The exlorer 2000 is one outdated piece of kit. But guess what, its still supported by the latest feature sets.
PowerKey is the base, but SARA - the top-level GUI, looks like somethiing out of 1994. It is so long overdue for an overhaul I've generally stopped complaining about it.
That being said, the SA boxes have one SERIOUS advantage over other solutions - they're a bit bucket. When you record the NFL game in HD on an 8000HD, it is simply caching the stream. No transcoding. When you play it back, the signal is identical to the live broadcast. So... until CableCard 2.0 comes out (ETA: 12 months?) TiVo and others are left in a bit of a lurch. But, if you survive the wait, there will be NO excuse for giving the cablecos a run for their money. I hope you do. Maybe SA will finally update SARA!
Interesting to hear the responses of those who have gone back to persue graduate studies after a "break" (LOL) in the Real World.
However, I'd be intersted to know if there's anyone else in MY boat... I started in TV the day I finished High School. However, I'm not all that happy anymore with where I'm working, and to get a similar job without the piece of paper, I think, is going to prove difficult.
Any g33ks out there who skipped out on post-secondary education, and decided it was a good idea in their mid-twenties? The thought of being back in the classroom is terrifying, but I think I'm 20 times more motivated and disciplined now than I was then.
but I'm still struggling a bit with the 'Why' part of the equation.
So you enjoy lugging wall-warts around with you? Having to plug in two cables just to get that 2 meg file off your portable drive? Like to find an outlet before being able to dump a flash card? I especially like not being able to plug in a drive at a friends because he's out of outlets.
Drop the commentary and point to the news. If I just released such a useful product, and half my target audience shrugged it off because you decided it was easier to exercise some whit then to stop and think for a second, I'd be pretty cheesed.
And for the record, banking machines HAVE reduced consumer banking costs, but in a way that you have to actually THINK about to notice.
You know, I was with you right up to that point. Anyone, and I mean _ANYONE_ who defends the actions of a bank in the 21st century, needs to have their head examined.
Instead of paying a Zillion (tm) dollars a year in staffing wickets, the computer automated 90% of customer interaction. What did the banks do with the newfound savings? Well, they pocketed it of course. And then they had the sheer fscking arrogance of charging me a fee to access my own money. Like the oil industry, its a monopoly, and us north americans just look the other way and pay. what would happen if we ALL told the banks they could take their ATM fees and shove it, and collectively decided to go back to using tellers? Sure, the lineups would go on forever, but wouldn't the bank be legally obligated to serve its customers in whatever manner they chose?
People need to stop listening to those such as yourself that say "No, seriously, this looks like a steaming pile of feces, but really, its a rose!" Instead, like the way the g33ks have previously here on/., we need to band together and raise our middle finger in pride, and call BS.
We get a deal on the 99c 'tunes. You, however, get a much better deal on hardware that costs thousands of dollars. Webstores have not kept up with the recent change in exchange rates.
There are also different levies, taxes, and other costs that differ from country to country. Get over it. For once we _DIDN'T_ get screwed. Kind of nice.
tee hee... Watching the (record/movie) industry bitch about piracy while they're rolling in it is almost as fun as watching Dubya slowly prove wrong every statement that has ever exited his mouth. The correlation is quite hilarious:) Too bad we couldn't fix the entertainment industry with a single.22 bullet and a prison term.
The ALT-E thing to call a menu, for me, is a big thing. Although I use Windows, I scream around it pretty quick with the keyboard. I'll edit a few things to the timeline in premiere with keyb and hit ALT+F->A to save as, type the filename, and alt-f->n with a new project open faster than the screen can update half the time. The alt-tab addition to OSX is great. This is still missing though... Some of us like GUI with heavy keyboard shortcuts. IMHO, the best of both worlds. Not good for automation like the CLI, but good nonetheless.
Ditto. I used to work in the field, where my m500 was a necessity (colour tfts of that size are crap. grayscale works reliably in so many more lighting conditions).
Now that I push pixels from a chair, iPod does the job of simple reminders and contacts. And carries my entire music collection to boot. Add simple (monochrome again!) metal flip cellphone and you have all the basics without the g33k factor nor the weight.
Cheers from a fellow Ottawan... Who agrees with you 100%. Although I can see the Canadian immigration office buggering up an application as well... Government incompetance is somewhat universal.
Let me guess, you're voting for Bush? I suggest you look out the window from time to time and notice there's a world BEYOND your states, that is rich in culture. And perhaps, you'll realise that using a bit of what you've learned doesn't make you unpatriotic.
The previous poster was referring to a flat-panel LCD TV. You're talking rear-projection LCD - An entirely different beast. His panel is 42". Yours is less than an inch...
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it acknowledged that other countries have sovereignty over their national addresses, and said it would never disrupt the system
because american politicians have never been known to flip-flop on this sort of thing when the going gets tough. Its a trust issue, and right now there isn't any.
My mathmatical theory is a little rusty now... I haven't been in the "theoretical" domain of things for some time...
But can someone explain to me how a string of numbers can be qualitatively judged as more/less/better/worse random than another? I always thought random was exactly that... and a random number generator could spew out 6 "8"s in a row, and well - there is a statistical probability (albeit low) that that would indeed happen - so as long as it doesn't happen every 30 characters/numbers... blah my brain is going to hurt momentarily.
As a young, gay, male geek... The second that anything Microsoft does has a significant impact on gay rights, I'm moving to Holland.
With all the ignorance in government on this side of the pond, the last thing we need is our Software Overloads making some form of impact (good OR bad).
Why doesn't Bill stick to software. Yeesh. Next headline: "General Motors supports rights of grape pickers in Southeastern France." Who cares??
s/K'breel/G. W. Bush Sorry, too easy...
I'm shocked it isn't too - it is here.
I live in Ottawa, Canada, which was the initial testing groud for Interac, our national debit network (cross-compatible with the Plus network used in the US and worldwide) back in the late eighties/early nineties. Being a bilingual city (English/French... the quebec border is about 600 feet from me right now) naturally, some carriers imbedded this functionality into their ATM cards. I've been with the Royal Bank of Canada for over 10 years, and even when I'm in Quebec City, I always get greeted with english prompts without further user intervention.
So, in conclusion, the US banks must be lazy. The tech IS already there.
So someone at Scientific Atlanta woke up one morning, decided that bit-bucket PVRs would be a good idea, called the cable company. A lacky on the other end of the line went "Yeah, sure. Sounds good to us." And it happened? Yeesh. Think before you speak.
The cablecos and manufacturers work TOGETHER to innovate. The customer base to SA is small... a handful of MAJOR players. We make a request. SA makes it happen. Occasionally, the opposite occurs.
There are NOT a bunch of cable employees sitting on the ship dock waiting for new kit and services to come in. They drive the market.
As for DircTV TiVos... They're a bit bucket? GREAT! So you guys have done the best you can. Too bad satellite isn't 2-way (to the extent cable is).
'm guessing it won't; it's too far away before release, it'll take too long to download stuff, and/or not enough stuff will be available
I couldn't agree more. The days of "Don't release till it works 100% with full feature set," are, unforunately, gone. The world simply works too fast now. 15 minutes of fame has become 15 seconds. Do something big, but get the basic feature set working. Make sure the hardware can do what you plan on doing. Make sure you hype it. Then sell it, with a promised free upgrade in 6 months.
This is what happened to me with Apple - too late. Back in 2000, we had to make a decision on a non-linear editing platform system-wide. 13 stations, with about 3-7 edit systems required per station. We decided to go with the industry standard AVID... On the PC platform. OSX simply wasn't there yet. I'd saw off my left foot to switch now. AVID works on Mac. It STARTED on Mac. But a decision had to be made. Too late.
I hate this new reality. I'd rather see solid, tested, products. But people have become GIMMEITNOW, and therefore first to market with a reasonably stable product wins. Oh well.
Cable companies are generally not known for their ability to innovate technology or to produce compelling products such as set top boxes like TiVo with new and advanced features
... Not even the telcos can touch that (for the moment - they're getting DAMN close)
tee hee. Thanks for the morning laugh. You've obviously been at Tivo too long. What the cable companies have done with their little one-way coax network defies belief... Trust me. I work for one (sort of... long story). Try to find another single service provider who can give you everything the cable plant does on 2 conductors. Cable (analog/digital), VOD, Broadband, VoIP, FM radio, other misc data services (ie Alarm monitoring)
However, the lack of a decent set-top box on our own network (Rogers, Canada) is frustrating. Its far superior to the dish folks - dual tuners, and the ability to record VOD programming etc. However, the user interface is lacking these days... And that I blame entirely on the manufacturers. In our case, Scientific Atlanta. They keep innovating - using the same software. For instance, the new SA 8500 (i think?) box that is coming out will be able to serve video off its hard drive to any other SA set-top... ANY explorer set top. That's saying something. The exlorer 2000 is one outdated piece of kit. But guess what, its still supported by the latest feature sets.
PowerKey is the base, but SARA - the top-level GUI, looks like somethiing out of 1994. It is so long overdue for an overhaul I've generally stopped complaining about it.
That being said, the SA boxes have one SERIOUS advantage over other solutions - they're a bit bucket. When you record the NFL game in HD on an 8000HD, it is simply caching the stream. No transcoding. When you play it back, the signal is identical to the live broadcast. So... until CableCard 2.0 comes out (ETA: 12 months?) TiVo and others are left in a bit of a lurch. But, if you survive the wait, there will be NO excuse for giving the cablecos a run for their money. I hope you do. Maybe SA will finally update SARA!
Interesting to hear the responses of those who have gone back to persue graduate studies after a "break" (LOL) in the Real World.
However, I'd be intersted to know if there's anyone else in MY boat... I started in TV the day I finished High School. However, I'm not all that happy anymore with where I'm working, and to get a similar job without the piece of paper, I think, is going to prove difficult.
Any g33ks out there who skipped out on post-secondary education, and decided it was a good idea in their mid-twenties? The thought of being back in the classroom is terrifying, but I think I'm 20 times more motivated and disciplined now than I was then.
Thanks, I was wondering how long I'd have to wait today before giggling uncontrolably at a one-track mind.
but I'm still struggling a bit with the 'Why' part of the equation.
So you enjoy lugging wall-warts around with you? Having to plug in two cables just to get that 2 meg file off your portable drive? Like to find an outlet before being able to dump a flash card? I especially like not being able to plug in a drive at a friends because he's out of outlets.
Drop the commentary and point to the news. If I just released such a useful product, and half my target audience shrugged it off because you decided it was easier to exercise some whit then to stop and think for a second, I'd be pretty cheesed.
After reading that... I'm writing this in tears. I feel better... I too have struck gear in frustration.
:P
:P
Busted TV tubes have been thrown in roll-off box.
Have stood inside roll-off boxes and whipped Betacam SP tapes with vigour. I think there was a 3/4" machine too. That one made a good thunk
The day I had enough of "PC LOAD LETTER" Sadly, an HP4 died a few minutes later. It was kicked for weeks following, finally meeting the dumpster.
Several decelarations of "I need to kill a keyboard" shouted at the office, and then one would die. VISA purchasing card was real good about this.
Altough not generally a violent person, this kind of frustration works in a morphine kind of way... Instant release. It works... why be ashamed?
And for the record, banking machines HAVE reduced consumer banking costs, but in a way that you have to actually THINK about to notice.
/., we need to band together and raise our middle finger in pride, and call BS.
You know, I was with you right up to that point. Anyone, and I mean _ANYONE_ who defends the actions of a bank in the 21st century, needs to have their head examined.
Instead of paying a Zillion (tm) dollars a year in staffing wickets, the computer automated 90% of customer interaction. What did the banks do with the newfound savings? Well, they pocketed it of course. And then they had the sheer fscking arrogance of charging me a fee to access my own money. Like the oil industry, its a monopoly, and us north americans just look the other way and pay. what would happen if we ALL told the banks they could take their ATM fees and shove it, and collectively decided to go back to using tellers? Sure, the lineups would go on forever, but wouldn't the bank be legally obligated to serve its customers in whatever manner they chose?
People need to stop listening to those such as yourself that say "No, seriously, this looks like a steaming pile of feces, but really, its a rose!" Instead, like the way the g33ks have previously here on
We get a deal on the 99c 'tunes. You, however, get a much better deal on hardware that costs thousands of dollars. Webstores have not kept up with the recent change in exchange rates.
There are also different levies, taxes, and other costs that differ from country to country. Get over it. For once we _DIDN'T_ get screwed. Kind of nice.
tee hee... Watching the (record/movie) industry bitch about piracy while they're rolling in it is almost as fun as watching Dubya slowly prove wrong every statement that has ever exited his mouth. The correlation is quite hilarious :) Too bad we couldn't fix the entertainment industry with a single .22 bullet and a prison term.
The ALT-E thing to call a menu, for me, is a big thing. Although I use Windows, I scream around it pretty quick with the keyboard. I'll edit a few things to the timeline in premiere with keyb and hit ALT+F->A to save as, type the filename, and alt-f->n with a new project open faster than the screen can update half the time. The alt-tab addition to OSX is great. This is still missing though... Some of us like GUI with heavy keyboard shortcuts. IMHO, the best of both worlds. Not good for automation like the CLI, but good nonetheless.
...This sort of thing pleases me more than greatly. A quick search of the tech shop reveals more than enough connectors...
;)
This will make the perfect retirement present for a friend of mine. I'll post photos if I finish today
Ditto. I used to work in the field, where my m500 was a necessity (colour tfts of that size are crap. grayscale works reliably in so many more lighting conditions).
Now that I push pixels from a chair, iPod does the job of simple reminders and contacts. And carries my entire music collection to boot. Add simple (monochrome again!) metal flip cellphone and you have all the basics without the g33k factor nor the weight.
The problem this time around being that the turd sandwhich also has bits of glass and razor blades in it for flavour.
Please don't bite it. Not another 4 years of watching you with a bloody mouth...
Cheers from a fellow Ottawan... Who agrees with you 100%. Although I can see the Canadian immigration office buggering up an application as well... Government incompetance is somewhat universal.
Usually, yes :P Downtime happens here and there, but its rare ;)
There is a colour scheme more hideous than it./.
I'm a graphic designer with a bit of spare time on his hands if you like...
:P
And only your country.
Let me guess, you're voting for Bush? I suggest you look out the window from time to time and notice there's a world BEYOND your states, that is rich in culture. And perhaps, you'll realise that using a bit of what you've learned doesn't make you unpatriotic.
The previous poster was referring to a flat-panel LCD TV. You're talking rear-projection LCD - An entirely different beast. His panel is 42". Yours is less than an inch...
"where the camera was when the photo was taken."
or, more precisely, where the rear half of the camera was when 29.97 photos per second were taken.
perhaps you could find better use for your time? 0.o