The reason for "Tivoization" is to stop people buying the boxes, which are loss-leaders for TiVo, and then modifying them to do other things or bypass TiVo's mandatory subscription.
The "problem" is a deliberate corporate and marketing decision.
Part of the BBC's charter is to not chase ratings, but instead to make quality programming. This is why the BBC is unique, as the amount of viewers doesn't effect the BBC's bottom-line due to the License Fee.
It's closed sourced and proprietary though.
Someone needs to make an open-source RAR compressor - the problem is you can't use the official code to do that (as it's specifically in the licence), but you could use unrarlib as a basis...
Expect lawsuits all over the place. This really is the type of thing that the EFF should get involved in - they went after MS first, but expect Apple and fifteen million other companies to be attacked by this too. They've basically backdated a patent so the current deals don't apply and they can sue practically everybody for silly money - this is really a "BURN ALL MP3S"-type situation.
Black Books, Spaced and The IT Crowd were all shows made for Channel 4 in the UK. They may have been shown by BBC America (not sure about that), but they most certainly/weren't/ made by the BBC. Neither was Dangermouse. For some reason, Americans believe that the BBC create everything in the UK - they quite simply don't.
Also, why don't you get a multiregion player? Importing DVDs in the UK is very common.
There are already lots of Wikipedia forks. Seriously, there's at least 4 or 5, and Wikimedia hosts the full source of Wikipedia text for download in many formats (as well as MediaWiki being free). None of them have ever caught on, so I can't help but think that Wikipedia must be doing something right.
This is basically FUD. Computer Science is still the 6th most popular degree in the UK according to the BBC, above English and below Business Studies. Computer Science isn't dying, numbers have just settled down to normal levels. It's still much more popular than "traditional" subjects, including History, Mathematics and Physics.
As for me, I'm doing a Maths & CS course. Gives me a powerful combination, assuming I don't fail both.
Previously, digital downloads could reach the chart if the physical single was out the next week. Now, no physical single needs to exist at all.
Gnarls Barkley was the first No. 1 from downloads alone. A Gorillaz track was the first song that got into the chart exclusively due to downloads, as very small amounts of a vinyl version of the single were released in shops.
I'd also like to say that I would not object to this change as the default at all, as long as there was an option for the old interface. Not having this option seems extremely stubborn. I use IE even less since the redesign, since I find it a UI carcrash and there's no way to fix it.
Am I the only one who thought that the easy, consistant and obvious layout was probably the only thing that seperated Microsoft Office from the rest? This seems to be removing the one thing I truely thought was fantastic about Office - it's simplicity. If I wanted anything with a learning curve, I would use LaTeX. Familiarity is the only thing keeping people using Office.
MS will hopefully see what a mistake this is very quickly or people will look elsewhere?
From what I'm aware, Google pay FireFox for linking to their search engine. Why don't Google (or one of their rivals) contribute some cash to Wikipedia in order for it to become the semi-official replacement for the god-awful Wikipedia search engine? They'd get Adwords stuff, positive publicity and they wouldn't lose much cash at all.
No blatant advertising, improve cashflow and company would get more ad revenue. Win/win.
There was the Nintendo vs. Galoob (the Game Genie lawsuit), and the Sega vs. Accolade (meaning that, basically, other companies could make unofficial carts legally).
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I've been wondering why a Linux distro doesn't do this automagically with WINE. It seems like such an obvious feature to implement, and would be great for people new to Linux or even those whose who don't know how to use it if it just ran as if native...
I thought everyone knew about Trolltech's Qt ever since the whole KDE/GNOME nonsense. Is there some news disguised here that I missed from the summary? (Yeah, like I'm gonna read TFA)
The idea is to create an additional challenge. It means you have to move your hands and/or stretch your fingers to reach the bottom line. It would be far too easy for some people to finish otherwise. I've seen some bloody impressive Guitar Hero players get 90%+ on expert, so it certainly can be done.
The easy and normal modes only use 4 of the buttons, for you normal folk.
Why haven't you fixed the infuriating PNG colour bug - the one that has plagued mankind (and web developers) since the dawn of time where PNG colours never match web colours and thereby reducing the format's usefulness and uptake by a huge amount?
I still use the Qute theme which, ironically considering the Debian thing, they abandoned a long time ago since someone else held the copyright. They should get a decent default icon set, because I honestly think the one they use at the moment is abysmal.
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The reason for "Tivoization" is to stop people buying the boxes, which are loss-leaders for TiVo, and then modifying them to do other things or bypass TiVo's mandatory subscription.
The "problem" is a deliberate corporate and marketing decision.
Part of the BBC's charter is to not chase ratings, but instead to make quality programming. This is why the BBC is unique, as the amount of viewers doesn't effect the BBC's bottom-line due to the License Fee.
It's at http://www.09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.com/
I don't understand why I'm being modded "Funny". I wasn't joking!
The Speccy was better than the C64. Obviously.
It's closed sourced and proprietary though. Someone needs to make an open-source RAR compressor - the problem is you can't use the official code to do that (as it's specifically in the licence), but you could use unrarlib as a basis...
If this news day gets any slower it's just going to just stop.
Expect lawsuits all over the place. This really is the type of thing that the EFF should get involved in - they went after MS first, but expect Apple and fifteen million other companies to be attacked by this too. They've basically backdated a patent so the current deals don't apply and they can sue practically everybody for silly money - this is really a "BURN ALL MP3S"-type situation.
Black Books, Spaced and The IT Crowd were all shows made for Channel 4 in the UK. They may have been shown by BBC America (not sure about that), but they most certainly /weren't/ made by the BBC. Neither was Dangermouse. For some reason, Americans believe that the BBC create everything in the UK - they quite simply don't.
Also, why don't you get a multiregion player? Importing DVDs in the UK is very common.
There are already lots of Wikipedia forks. Seriously, there's at least 4 or 5, and Wikimedia hosts the full source of Wikipedia text for download in many formats (as well as MediaWiki being free). None of them have ever caught on, so I can't help but think that Wikipedia must be doing something right.
Best sound quality possible? Haven't heard about SACD and DVD-A then, have you?
This is basically FUD. Computer Science is still the 6th most popular degree in the UK according to the BBC, above English and below Business Studies. Computer Science isn't dying, numbers have just settled down to normal levels. It's still much more popular than "traditional" subjects, including History, Mathematics and Physics. As for me, I'm doing a Maths & CS course. Gives me a powerful combination, assuming I don't fail both.
Previously, digital downloads could reach the chart if the physical single was out the next week. Now, no physical single needs to exist at all. Gnarls Barkley was the first No. 1 from downloads alone. A Gorillaz track was the first song that got into the chart exclusively due to downloads, as very small amounts of a vinyl version of the single were released in shops.
No 3G. Bigger than a RAZR. Lame.
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Had to be said
Not all computers have fans... there's loads of examples of passively cooled computers
I'd also like to say that I would not object to this change as the default at all, as long as there was an option for the old interface. Not having this option seems extremely stubborn. I use IE even less since the redesign, since I find it a UI carcrash and there's no way to fix it.
Am I the only one who thought that the easy, consistant and obvious layout was probably the only thing that seperated Microsoft Office from the rest? This seems to be removing the one thing I truely thought was fantastic about Office - it's simplicity. If I wanted anything with a learning curve, I would use LaTeX. Familiarity is the only thing keeping people using Office.
MS will hopefully see what a mistake this is very quickly or people will look elsewhere?
From what I'm aware, Google pay FireFox for linking to their search engine. Why don't Google (or one of their rivals) contribute some cash to Wikipedia in order for it to become the semi-official replacement for the god-awful Wikipedia search engine? They'd get Adwords stuff, positive publicity and they wouldn't lose much cash at all.
No blatant advertising, improve cashflow and company would get more ad revenue. Win/win.
There was the Nintendo vs. Galoob (the Game Genie lawsuit), and the Sega vs. Accolade (meaning that, basically, other companies could make unofficial carts legally).
Search for VLCRAAR. HTH.
I've been wondering why a Linux distro doesn't do this automagically with WINE. It seems like such an obvious feature to implement, and would be great for people new to Linux or even those whose who don't know how to use it if it just ran as if native...
I thought everyone knew about Trolltech's Qt ever since the whole KDE/GNOME nonsense. Is there some news disguised here that I missed from the summary? (Yeah, like I'm gonna read TFA)
The idea is to create an additional challenge. It means you have to move your hands and/or stretch your fingers to reach the bottom line. It would be far too easy for some people to finish otherwise. I've seen some bloody impressive Guitar Hero players get 90%+ on expert, so it certainly can be done. The easy and normal modes only use 4 of the buttons, for you normal folk.
Why haven't you fixed the infuriating PNG colour bug - the one that has plagued mankind (and web developers) since the dawn of time where PNG colours never match web colours and thereby reducing the format's usefulness and uptake by a huge amount?
I still use the Qute theme which, ironically considering the Debian thing, they abandoned a long time ago since someone else held the copyright. They should get a decent default icon set, because I honestly think the one they use at the moment is abysmal.