Sorry man, but TTG is half baked at best. The software is poorly designed, and there are Macrovision restrictions (whoops, you can't transfer that!)
I'd put up with two weeks to watch certain programs (and current Tivo service), but I've had more than one movie (on the premium movie channels) that wouldn't transfer all together. 2 weeks, maybe 1.
They have to fix TTG before it would be compelling:
-Less restrictive. No limits (other than a current Tivo subscription) for unflagged content, and a couple of weeks (at least) to watch Macrovision protected content with limited transfer.
-Non broken software. The TivoToGo software added two services (Beacon and another one) that produced endless errors. Reformatting didn't help, and it is kind of invasive.
-An easier way to transfer. Maybe Series 4 Tivos can have onboard front USB?
TivoToGo really, really, sucks. I have an 100MBit network and it takes 12 hours to transfer a one hour show. It needs to be faster.
When Tivo can fix TTG to be more compelling and less DRM encumbered, it will appeal to me.
Yeah, it was a few years after the first MP3 player, but more than anything the iPod launch was the real catalyst. I was one of the naysayers who thought "What the hell is Apple thinking?!?!?!" when the iPod came out. Guess the joke is on me, because I'm now an owner of that market dominating family of MP3 players.
The 6th birthday of the Personal Video Player is coming up in June. This is interesting, because legal video content is still a developing market. Apple is getting their feet wet with TV Shows and movies, but I believe that music stores were more developed in 2004 than video stores are now. In this market, I think that digital video download competitors still have a chance against Apple though. Especially if some big names like Tivo and Microsoft team up. I'd find it hard to purchase an iPod Touch if I could play Tivo recordings on a WMV player as a part of Tivo service. It'd make the $20 for the DVR + Video use totally worth it.
Oh, of course the redundant No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
And while an Osaka court ruled against the system, the Japanese Supreme Court has just ruled it is not unconstitutional, on the grounds that the data will be used in a bona-fide manner and there's no risk of leakage.
Now that's a bit unrealistic, wouldn't you say? No matter how much security and other preventative measures you put up, isn't in unrealistic to say that there is zero chance of a break in?
To me, the biggest scare of a national ID is the idea that we're putting all personal info in one database- a fat, juicy target. Other than the Papers please mentality, that is...
How can evidence be considered valid if the source of how it is obtained is not disclosed?
If this was anything except technology, the judge would laugh them out of the court.
Policeman: "He was going 11MPH above the speed limit."
Judge: "How were you able to do that?"
Policeman: "Sorry, but that's proprietary information. If leaked, it would damage our ability to catch speeders.
This has been tested on a slightly different case. Florida police can't use breathalyzers without providing the source. Unless you can show that there is no trickery in your technology, it shouldn't be held admissible in a court of law.
For those of you who do not want to RTFA, this blocklist is within the ISP DNS server, so switching to a non-Finnish DNS server or running your own is all that is necessary to bypass it and access the numerous falsely blocked sites.
Those registry edits force the release candidates, which are more stable than betas but are still not intended for widespread public consumption. That's meant to let hobbyists run on non production machines.
Uh, none of the SP1 prerequisite updates require 3 step reboots. I installed SP1 in a virtual machine- it's the only Vista update to date that has a "Step 3 of 3".
Article is pure FUD.
Vista SP1 isn't available publicly yet, unless you hop on The Pirate Bay.
Microsoft placed 6 weeks between code finalization and public release for 6 weeks of driver testing; some drivers were not properly written, and MS wanted to work with hardware manufacturers/OEMs to find hardware with problems. Everyone bitched about how technical users should get it early.
Then these same people download SP1 from an unauthorized source, and bitch when it breaks their system. They downloaded an update without letting Microsoft work the kinks out, and they didn't get the update from MS. No automatic download was involved in this.
With paper, if you didn't vote for the candidate you intended to...it's your fault and visible if you follow the directions.
With a compromised e-voting machine, you could walk in and have the machine say "Thanks for voting for candidate A" while it adds a vote for candidate B.
Because every video editor has a test system? Not everyone has a non-production machine or the time/resources to test every update. That's Apple's job. And while you can't expect Apple to test compatibility with every OS X app, After Effects is a pretty major video app.
Many people opt to get an in-store charge card in the United States (which is a line of credit), and this requires an Social Security # to open.
The horrible part is this:
After reconstructing the data that was on the missing tape, GE Money began sending out letters to those affected by the breach in December. The company has set up a toll-free number and is offering one year of free credit monitoring services to those affected by the breach.
Which is the equivalent of "We lost a number that is permanently critical for your financial future. Sorry. We'll watch your credit for a year; after that, well, good luck!". It's like a huge "Fuck you" from GE Money.
And despite the security problems that have plagued users for years due to VBA viruses, Microsoft won't remove VBA from Office.
Interestingly enough:...
While it's true that VBA isn't supported in the latest version of Office for the Mac and the VBA licensing program did close to new customers last year, we have no plans to remove VBA from future versions of Office for Windows
Looks like MS may be crippling the Mac version to stop enterprises from moving on from Windows.
The simple solution would be to use an electronic voting machine to make the voting process easy, provide a print out via laser, and right underneath the machine- a locked vote collection box. Voter verifies that the vote is correct, and deposit the paper for record keeping.
Maybe the sentence doesn't have perfect grammar, but I did include that important bit.
First off, comparison to polls are irrelevant. They are predictions, not orders.
Secondly, the notion of an electronic voting machine- running non OSS, no less- is ridiculous. No verifiable ballot, nothing.
The simple solution would be to use an electronic voting machine to make the voting process easy, provide a print out via laser, and right underneath the machine- a locked vote collection box. Voter verifies that the vote is correct, and deposit the paper for record keeping. (No slip to take home, that could encourage vote coercing).
You could get a quick tally via the software stats, verify the number of electronic votes vs. number of physical votes to make sure they match, and randomly audit the paper. Voter gets to verify, two records, and one that can't be modified via editing on a memory card.
AT&T may be clobbering them, adding new acquisitions to 67.3 million lines (from 63.7 in June 07), but Verizon has a turnover rate of less than 2% and they've increased the total # of subscribers since the iPhone release.
The fact that the iPhone shookup the wireless industry and forced others to innovate and improve is true, but Verizon isn't dying. They DO need to play catchup with AT&T though; AT&T is widening their lead.
Also, I'll turn off my Karma bonus to add that I was only 6 months in a 2 year contract for two of the phones. The other 2 were 1 and 1/2 years in a 2 year contract.
So, yeah, they do unlock customers in contract. That won't save you from the ETF though...
The only issue I've heard is that, if you have phone insurance, they might give you trouble unlocking the new phone. They put the old phone on a AT&T blacklist, but I've read that AT&T does not list them on the worldwide IMEI DB blacklist, so they might suspect you of selling your old phone instead of having it lost/stolen.
AT&T Customer service will submit an unlock request if you meet two criteria:
-You have been a customer for 90+ days
-You have no outstanding issues with your account
I met both of those criteria, said I was going to Italy, and requested "subsidy unlock" codes for 4 phones. 1 week later, four emails and voice mails, completely free and easy. All the phones worked (I couldn't test one, I didn't have a second 3G SIM to test with).
It's not that hard, but you have to ask nicely, correctly, and meet the criteria.
You hit the nail on the head there. Most people have one or two choices: The local cable co., or DSL.
I'm lucky enough to have a surprisingly good cable company in my area, but it's cable internet or DSL- and I, like many people in my community, am just out of range of the CO for DSL. Satellite is too high latency, expensive, and slow, FiOS isn't here, and there's no other way to get the internet (other than dialup, which isn't an option with high bandwidth websites nowadays)
"With time, Facebook says, users will accept Beacon, which Facebook views as an extension of the type of book and movie recommendations that members routinely volunteer on their profile pages."
Translation: We're not sorry, and in a week we think that everyone will have forgotten about the privacy issues, just like the news feed.
I'm seriously considering closing my Facebook. Free service hemorraging privacy by the day = Mistake. Facebook is definitely past its prime.
Another poster (when the Beacon article was on Slashdot previously) said that the facebook belief was that "it's better to ask forgiveness than permission". Definitely the case here...
The main problem is that you have to opt out AFTER a site tries (or succeeds) at adding a story to your profile. If you don't respond to the popup (20 seconds OR a blocker), it assumes that you do indeed want to add the story to your profile. While you can disable it later, it might be a few hours or days before you notice if you're not a heavy Facebook user. And, you can only disable it on a site-by-site basis in this manner.
Many nontechnical users that have hare angry. Many Slashdotters use NoScript or something to that effect.
If you get the Blocksite plugin and block *.facebook.com/beacon/*, you can use Facebook normally and not have to worry about sites that implement it- the script that runs the beacon never gets to run, and there is no chance for the story to be sent.
Yeah, but in the meantime, you might not know that a site added this Facebook Beacon. If you have a popup blocker, you'll never see the warning. If you do nothing, it assumes you want to add it your Facebook. And you can't disable it until a site tries (or adds) a story. You can only disable it on a site by site basis, not entirely.
The easy way to block it is to get the BlockSite Firefox plugin (or some other anti-scripting plugin) to block http://.facebook.com/beacon/*
As a Facebook user, I'm really upset about it. If they keep up with this privacy invasive stuff, I'm going to delete my account. Yes, I know that Facebook can do this stuff under their TOS, but I don't have to use the service.
This is not only a dumb thing to patent, but also something that is a dumb idea in general.
A) How are you going to prove that another company delayed an order for that reason? How would you be able to prove anything in a court of law, so your patent wouldn't be infringed on?
B) Why, oh why, would anyone use this idea? Delaying the orders of non-longtime customers or customers that are not extremely active is the wrong way to do things. First impressions count, and one of the reasons that I am such a Newegg fanatic is because my first order came overnight via UPS ground, extremely well packaged to boot.
If Amazon implements something like this, I'm not going to shop there out of principle.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry man, but TTG is half baked at best. The software is poorly designed, and there are Macrovision restrictions (whoops, you can't transfer that!)
I'd put up with two weeks to watch certain programs (and current Tivo service), but I've had more than one movie (on the premium movie channels) that wouldn't transfer all together. 2 weeks, maybe 1.
They have to fix TTG before it would be compelling:
-Less restrictive. No limits (other than a current Tivo subscription) for unflagged content, and a couple of weeks (at least) to watch Macrovision protected content with limited transfer.
-Non broken software. The TivoToGo software added two services (Beacon and another one) that produced endless errors. Reformatting didn't help, and it is kind of invasive.
-An easier way to transfer. Maybe Series 4 Tivos can have onboard front USB?
TivoToGo really, really, sucks. I have an 100MBit network and it takes 12 hours to transfer a one hour show. It needs to be faster.
When Tivo can fix TTG to be more compelling and less DRM encumbered, it will appeal to me.
Yeah, it was a few years after the first MP3 player, but more than anything the iPod launch was the real catalyst. I was one of the naysayers who thought "What the hell is Apple thinking?!?!?!" when the iPod came out. Guess the joke is on me, because I'm now an owner of that market dominating family of MP3 players.
The 6th birthday of the Personal Video Player is coming up in June. This is interesting, because legal video content is still a developing market. Apple is getting their feet wet with TV Shows and movies, but I believe that music stores were more developed in 2004 than video stores are now. In this market, I think that digital video download competitors still have a chance against Apple though. Especially if some big names like Tivo and Microsoft team up. I'd find it hard to purchase an iPod Touch if I could play Tivo recordings on a WMV player as a part of Tivo service. It'd make the $20 for the DVR + Video use totally worth it.
Oh, of course the redundant No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
Now that's a bit unrealistic, wouldn't you say? No matter how much security and other preventative measures you put up, isn't in unrealistic to say that there is zero chance of a break in?
To me, the biggest scare of a national ID is the idea that we're putting all personal info in one database- a fat, juicy target. Other than the Papers please mentality, that is...
How can evidence be considered valid if the source of how it is obtained is not disclosed?
If this was anything except technology, the judge would laugh them out of the court.
Policeman: "He was going 11MPH above the speed limit."
Judge: "How were you able to do that?"
Policeman: "Sorry, but that's proprietary information. If leaked, it would damage our ability to catch speeders.
This has been tested on a slightly different case. Florida police can't use breathalyzers without providing the source. Unless you can show that there is no trickery in your technology, it shouldn't be held admissible in a court of law.
For those of you who do not want to RTFA, this blocklist is within the ISP DNS server, so switching to a non-Finnish DNS server or running your own is all that is necessary to bypass it and access the numerous falsely blocked sites.
Those registry edits force the release candidates, which are more stable than betas but are still not intended for widespread public consumption. That's meant to let hobbyists run on non production machines.
Uh, none of the SP1 prerequisite updates require 3 step reboots. I installed SP1 in a virtual machine- it's the only Vista update to date that has a "Step 3 of 3". Article is pure FUD.
Vista SP1 isn't available publicly yet, unless you hop on The Pirate Bay.
Microsoft placed 6 weeks between code finalization and public release for 6 weeks of driver testing; some drivers were not properly written, and MS wanted to work with hardware manufacturers/OEMs to find hardware with problems. Everyone bitched about how technical users should get it early.
Then these same people download SP1 from an unauthorized source, and bitch when it breaks their system. They downloaded an update without letting Microsoft work the kinks out, and they didn't get the update from MS. No automatic download was involved in this.
With paper, if you didn't vote for the candidate you intended to...it's your fault and visible if you follow the directions.
With a compromised e-voting machine, you could walk in and have the machine say "Thanks for voting for candidate A" while it adds a vote for candidate B.
Because every video editor has a test system? Not everyone has a non-production machine or the time/resources to test every update. That's Apple's job. And while you can't expect Apple to test compatibility with every OS X app, After Effects is a pretty major video app.
Can't Leopard have Automatic Updating turned on?
The horrible part is this:
After reconstructing the data that was on the missing tape, GE Money began sending out letters to those affected by the breach in December. The company has set up a toll-free number and is offering one year of free credit monitoring services to those affected by the breach.
Which is the equivalent of "We lost a number that is permanently critical for your financial future. Sorry. We'll watch your credit for a year; after that, well, good luck!". It's like a huge "Fuck you" from GE Money.
Interestingly enough:... While it's true that VBA isn't supported in the latest version of Office for the Mac and the VBA licensing program did close to new customers last year, we have no plans to remove VBA from future versions of Office for Windows
Looks like MS may be crippling the Mac version to stop enterprises from moving on from Windows.
You're kidding, right? It says "12 Companies CAUGHT Stealing Software in 2007.
The simple solution would be to use an electronic voting machine to make the voting process easy, provide a print out via laser, and right underneath the machine- a locked vote collection box. Voter verifies that the vote is correct, and deposit the paper for record keeping.
Maybe the sentence doesn't have perfect grammar, but I did include that important bit.
First off, comparison to polls are irrelevant. They are predictions, not orders.
Secondly, the notion of an electronic voting machine- running non OSS, no less- is ridiculous. No verifiable ballot, nothing.
The simple solution would be to use an electronic voting machine to make the voting process easy, provide a print out via laser, and right underneath the machine- a locked vote collection box. Voter verifies that the vote is correct, and deposit the paper for record keeping. (No slip to take home, that could encourage vote coercing).
You could get a quick tally via the software stats, verify the number of electronic votes vs. number of physical votes to make sure they match, and randomly audit the paper. Voter gets to verify, two records, and one that can't be modified via editing on a memory card.
As much as I hate Verizon Wireless for crippling their phones, if Verizon had 62.1 million subscribers in June 2007 and 63.7 subscribers as of January 8th, 2008, how can they be "hemorrhaging" customers?
AT&T may be clobbering them, adding new acquisitions to 67.3 million lines (from 63.7 in June 07), but Verizon has a turnover rate of less than 2% and they've increased the total # of subscribers since the iPhone release.
The fact that the iPhone shookup the wireless industry and forced others to innovate and improve is true, but Verizon isn't dying. They DO need to play catchup with AT&T though; AT&T is widening their lead.
Non-registration link for the Chicago Tribune article.
Also, I'll turn off my Karma bonus to add that I was only 6 months in a 2 year contract for two of the phones. The other 2 were 1 and 1/2 years in a 2 year contract.
So, yeah, they do unlock customers in contract. That won't save you from the ETF though...
The only issue I've heard is that, if you have phone insurance, they might give you trouble unlocking the new phone. They put the old phone on a AT&T blacklist, but I've read that AT&T does not list them on the worldwide IMEI DB blacklist, so they might suspect you of selling your old phone instead of having it lost/stolen.
AT&T Customer service will submit an unlock request if you meet two criteria:
-You have been a customer for 90+ days
-You have no outstanding issues with your account
I met both of those criteria, said I was going to Italy, and requested "subsidy unlock" codes for 4 phones. 1 week later, four emails and voice mails, completely free and easy. All the phones worked (I couldn't test one, I didn't have a second 3G SIM to test with).
It's not that hard, but you have to ask nicely, correctly, and meet the criteria.
You hit the nail on the head there. Most people have one or two choices: The local cable co., or DSL.
I'm lucky enough to have a surprisingly good cable company in my area, but it's cable internet or DSL- and I, like many people in my community, am just out of range of the CO for DSL. Satellite is too high latency, expensive, and slow, FiOS isn't here, and there's no other way to get the internet (other than dialup, which isn't an option with high bandwidth websites nowadays)
"With time, Facebook says, users will accept Beacon, which Facebook views as an extension of the type of book and movie recommendations that members routinely volunteer on their profile pages."
Translation: We're not sorry, and in a week we think that everyone will have forgotten about the privacy issues, just like the news feed.
I'm seriously considering closing my Facebook. Free service hemorraging privacy by the day = Mistake. Facebook is definitely past its prime.
Another poster (when the Beacon article was on Slashdot previously) said that the facebook belief was that "it's better to ask forgiveness than permission". Definitely the case here...
The main problem is that you have to opt out AFTER a site tries (or succeeds) at adding a story to your profile. If you don't respond to the popup (20 seconds OR a blocker), it assumes that you do indeed want to add the story to your profile. While you can disable it later, it might be a few hours or days before you notice if you're not a heavy Facebook user. And, you can only disable it on a site-by-site basis in this manner.
Many nontechnical users that have hare angry. Many Slashdotters use NoScript or something to that effect.
If you get the Blocksite plugin and block *.facebook.com/beacon/*, you can use Facebook normally and not have to worry about sites that implement it- the script that runs the beacon never gets to run, and there is no chance for the story to be sent.
There should be an asterisk before the "dot Facebook". Slashdot removes it for some reason.
Yeah, but in the meantime, you might not know that a site added this Facebook Beacon. If you have a popup blocker, you'll never see the warning. If you do nothing, it assumes you want to add it your Facebook. And you can't disable it until a site tries (or adds) a story. You can only disable it on a site by site basis, not entirely. The easy way to block it is to get the BlockSite Firefox plugin (or some other anti-scripting plugin) to block http://.facebook.com/beacon/* As a Facebook user, I'm really upset about it. If they keep up with this privacy invasive stuff, I'm going to delete my account. Yes, I know that Facebook can do this stuff under their TOS, but I don't have to use the service.
This is not only a dumb thing to patent, but also something that is a dumb idea in general.
A) How are you going to prove that another company delayed an order for that reason? How would you be able to prove anything in a court of law, so your patent wouldn't be infringed on?
B) Why, oh why, would anyone use this idea? Delaying the orders of non-longtime customers or customers that are not extremely active is the wrong way to do things. First impressions count, and one of the reasons that I am such a Newegg fanatic is because my first order came overnight via UPS ground, extremely well packaged to boot.
If Amazon implements something like this, I'm not going to shop there out of principle.