using a product called PlayOn from http://www.themediamall.com./
Yes, PlayOn does cost money, one time fee of $20-$30, but then I can also stream Hulu, CBS, CNN, etc. to my PS3, Wii or my DirecTV DVR or a bunch of other things as well.
There is a trial version available.
The only downside, it's a Windows app.
It's probably been said above already, but it bears repeating.
Remember that you're sharing your life with someone. Keep them involved (or at least aware) of what's going on, and visa-versa.
Be open and honest...don't hide or shade the truth.
Talk. Communication is by far the most important aspect as it enables the first two components. Depending upon the type of people you are, this might be easy or hard...and it can get harder as the years progress, and you fall into your patterns. Always try to understand...even if at first, what your partner says may seem nonsensical...just take the time to work through it so you know what's going on.
Though I don't disagree in general with your three points, they are not as cut and dried as you lay them out:
-The right to not let my friends borrow my book when I'm finished reading it?
Actually, up to 5 Kindles can be connected to a single account, meaning 5 people can read the same DRM'd book, at no extra cost. You may not want to give your friends access to your Amazon account, but you might for your family.
-The right to having access to my books revoked on a whim if my provider goes out of business, or *gasp* decides it's not a profitable market (MSN Music, I'm looking at you)?
Even if Amazon went out of business, I don't know that the DRMd books I have on my Kindle would just go up in a puff of smoke. Plus, I get books from tones of other places that don't have DRM, and read them on my Kindle just fine...no Whispernet required.
So, yes, in general your points are valid, but it's not quite as cut & dried, and Kindle users are not quick as restricted as you claim.
I am a happy Kindle user (but do not work for Amazon), so it does probably color my position.
I should say, that I'm still overall impressed with these programs, I just think they still have a long way to go before they're not easily outted as automata. Unless it's "talking" with a teenage girl.
I agree with you...it's responses were very clearly "canned". The judges clearly have very low standards for what it takes to be "human"...though maybe we should just be saying "intelligent".
I'd recommend including a device that can actually play back whatever media/content you choose. Then your only worry will be whether you can get the device powered in 25 years. I would imagine that a regular power cord will still plug in (somewhere) even after 25 years.
Can we take this little box with us, and hook it up to the TV in our hotel room? Most hotel TV's do provide easy access to the external inputs (mostly for video games etc.), and many hotels provide ethernet/wifi.
Seems like we could avoid the high cost of PPV etc..
Not sure what the average hotel internet bandwidth is though...seems like this still might be a useful option, and still better than watching movies on a laptop.
Anyone tried this yet?
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Or it could simply mean that they way over budgeted for the work that was actually needed to be performed, and poorly spec'd the time it would take to do it. Normally, companies are more conservative with how long it'll take to do something (this helps bring the cost down and increases the likely hood that they'll get the work), thus, the reality tends to extend the deadline. In this case, they might have just been overly generous in their time allotment, and simply fortunate that the client was willing to pay for it.
So long as Microsoft is willing to absorb the cost of the design/implementation change, and kickin some dough to help get the device to more kids, it seems like a win/win. However, Microsoft will have to be willing to take care of problems users might have with the machine when running under Windows...this is probably their back door.
This is only a good idea if it's good for the kids...this is not a good idea if it's just good for business.
Yes, AmEx does seem to go to bat for you...I recommend highly recommend them, and love the Membership Rewards Points...managed to fly my whole family (just 3 of us) to Hawaii...and back:). But it was annoying to have to pay all the fees both AmEx and Continental (I think) charged for transfering the points into miles. It's not a perfect world...but the Rewards Points with AmEx do appear to be a better value than DiscoverCard's cash back program.
Sears may have just been lying to me, but I had a card, reissued after they changed over to a new card processing company, that was never activated. Somehow, some nefarious types were able to put charges onto my account (card was sitting unactivated in a draw in my home)...it took months to get Sears to finally take responsibility for the fradulent charges. It mattered not-one-whit to them that I had not activated the card, they still continued to claim the purchases were my responsibility. I'm not sure why they eventually caved-in...maybe they were hoping to pressure me into paying just to protect my credit, but I wasn't willing to budge.
"After they get exposure to the reactor and the facilities online at their own universities, many of them become excited about the possibility of coming to NC State for hands-on experience."
Maybe the exposure to the reactor, is just causing their atoms to excite.
It's not that TVersity was unable to play certain content, it seems more that those codecs had memory leaks or whatever, and tended to make my system unstable. I'm referring to the ACE Mega CoDecS Pack. It could have just been user error, but my system seemed to be come very unstable soon after I'd installed that codec suite. Given my general lack of familiarity with codecs, and a lack of time, I've really not had time to even figureo-out how to uninstall them (not sure if I can just delete files...things under Windows are much more touchy than some other OSs I could name).
Once cleaned, I'm hoping to get the CCCP (Combined Comunity Code Pack) installed, as I've read a few good things about it, and hope it will get my media machine going again.
Currently, I'm only using my original IO Data server code on the machine, and it won't talk to the PS3 or my DVR (DirecTV HR20).
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using a product called PlayOn from http://www.themediamall.com./ Yes, PlayOn does cost money, one time fee of $20-$30, but then I can also stream Hulu, CBS, CNN, etc. to my PS3, Wii or my DirecTV DVR or a bunch of other things as well. There is a trial version available. The only downside, it's a Windows app.
Think of the taxes...insurance, what about ADA access. These are all things that can impact property of all sorts.
As I read the summary, I thought I was listening to Doctor Crusher spew some futuristic medical jargon.
Thought maybe this was the pilot for a new Star Trek series.
It's probably been said above already, but it bears repeating.
Remember that you're sharing your life with someone. Keep them involved (or at least aware) of what's going on, and visa-versa.
Be open and honest...don't hide or shade the truth.
Talk. Communication is by far the most important aspect as it enables the first two components. Depending upon the type of people you are, this might be easy or hard...and it can get harder as the years progress, and you fall into your patterns. Always try to understand...even if at first, what your partner says may seem nonsensical...just take the time to work through it so you know what's going on.
Though I don't disagree in general with your three points, they are not as cut and dried as you lay them out:
-The right to not let my friends borrow my book when I'm finished reading it? Actually, up to 5 Kindles can be connected to a single account, meaning 5 people can read the same DRM'd book, at no extra cost. You may not want to give your friends access to your Amazon account, but you might for your family.
-The right to having access to my books revoked on a whim if my provider goes out of business, or *gasp* decides it's not a profitable market (MSN Music, I'm looking at you)? Even if Amazon went out of business, I don't know that the DRMd books I have on my Kindle would just go up in a puff of smoke. Plus, I get books from tones of other places that don't have DRM, and read them on my Kindle just fine...no Whispernet required.
So, yes, in general your points are valid, but it's not quite as cut & dried, and Kindle users are not quick as restricted as you claim.
I am a happy Kindle user (but do not work for Amazon), so it does probably color my position.
its over Bill Gates' cold and still stinking carcass.
Seems like an obvious solution.
I should say, that I'm still overall impressed with these programs, I just think they still have a long way to go before they're not easily outted as automata. Unless it's "talking" with a teenage girl.
"That question was rather indiscreet and I prefer not to answer it!"
To a question that was not indiscreet in any way shape or form, I knew it was a crappy preprogrammed fallback response.
I agree with you...it's responses were very clearly "canned". The judges clearly have very low standards for what it takes to be "human"...though maybe we should just be saying "intelligent".
Along with a whole new set of diseases and virii that we have no immunity for. How nice.
It's apparently very cold in space...they can probably just open a door if it starts to get too hot in there.
Sounds like you're incouraging someone to steal it.
I'd recommend including a device that can actually play back whatever media/content you choose. Then your only worry will be whether you can get the device powered in 25 years. I would imagine that a regular power cord will still plug in (somewhere) even after 25 years.
This agrees with my experience too...definately bittorrent traffic...and I have my routers on a UPS too.
Can we take this little box with us, and hook it up to the TV in our hotel room? Most hotel TV's do provide easy access to the external inputs (mostly for video games etc.), and many hotels provide ethernet/wifi. Seems like we could avoid the high cost of PPV etc.. Not sure what the average hotel internet bandwidth is though...seems like this still might be a useful option, and still better than watching movies on a laptop. Anyone tried this yet?
Or it could simply mean that they way over budgeted for the work that was actually needed to be performed, and poorly spec'd the time it would take to do it. Normally, companies are more conservative with how long it'll take to do something (this helps bring the cost down and increases the likely hood that they'll get the work), thus, the reality tends to extend the deadline. In this case, they might have just been overly generous in their time allotment, and simply fortunate that the client was willing to pay for it.
So long as Microsoft is willing to absorb the cost of the design/implementation change, and kickin some dough to help get the device to more kids, it seems like a win/win. However, Microsoft will have to be willing to take care of problems users might have with the machine when running under Windows...this is probably their back door. This is only a good idea if it's good for the kids...this is not a good idea if it's just good for business.
Yes, AmEx does seem to go to bat for you...I recommend highly recommend them, and love the Membership Rewards Points...managed to fly my whole family (just 3 of us) to Hawaii...and back :). But it was annoying to have to pay all the fees both AmEx and Continental (I think) charged for transfering the points into miles. It's not a perfect world...but the Rewards Points with AmEx do appear to be a better value than DiscoverCard's cash back program.
Sears may have just been lying to me, but I had a card, reissued after they changed over to a new card processing company, that was never activated. Somehow, some nefarious types were able to put charges onto my account (card was sitting unactivated in a draw in my home)...it took months to get Sears to finally take responsibility for the fradulent charges. It mattered not-one-whit to them that I had not activated the card, they still continued to claim the purchases were my responsibility. I'm not sure why they eventually caved-in...maybe they were hoping to pressure me into paying just to protect my credit, but I wasn't willing to budge.
Maybe the XBox 360 has that feature too, but it's sorely missing on the Wii as far as I can tell.
"After they get exposure to the reactor and the facilities online at their own universities, many of them become excited about the possibility of coming to NC State for hands-on experience."
Maybe the exposure to the reactor, is just causing their atoms to excite.
It's not that TVersity was unable to play certain content, it seems more that those codecs had memory leaks or whatever, and tended to make my system unstable. I'm referring to the ACE Mega CoDecS Pack. It could have just been user error, but my system seemed to be come very unstable soon after I'd installed that codec suite. Given my general lack of familiarity with codecs, and a lack of time, I've really not had time to even figureo-out how to uninstall them (not sure if I can just delete files...things under Windows are much more touchy than some other OSs I could name).
Once cleaned, I'm hoping to get the CCCP (Combined Comunity Code Pack) installed, as I've read a few good things about it, and hope it will get my media machine going again.
Currently, I'm only using my original IO Data server code on the machine, and it won't talk to the PS3 or my DVR (DirecTV HR20).
TVersity also works with the PS3, though I've had difficulty with some content, and am in the process of getting the suite of codecs setup correctly.