I think I am coming to the same conclusion as you. We just got a HD set a few months ago and I fear making the complete switch to HD. We have DirecTV and we have been very happy with it compared to the cable option (Adelphia).
We have had Tivo for years and love them. Currently we have a various Tivos and can only use them for non-HD content. The only HD content we watch is the free over-the-air stuff. We watch it sometimes and sitting through commercials is very weird to us.:-)
So now I am looking at our DVR options and it is scary. The only DirecTV option is definitely a downgrade if not a total disaster from what I am reading online. A Series3 Tivo is not an option with DirecTV because it uses CableCard and DirecTV doesn't. The other choice is to go with Adelphia cable (now Comcast) but their customer service and picture quality is horrible.
So at this point, we canceled HBO to cover the cost of getting Netflix and are sticking with the Tivo. We are also going to get an Oppo upconverting DVD player for watching the DVD and other stuff.
What a horrible state this industry is in right now. The cable and satellite companies should have been licensing Tivo and Replay tech years ago but I guess they were all greedy and couldn't make a deal. So now the consumer is the one who loses.
I'm right there with you. Also, I really like it when a person with a college education pronounces words incorrectly.
My favorite is "supposubly" and I even worked with a person that said "aks" quite often. I just know some day I will run across an adult saying "pasghetti" in a professional setting.:-)
I am far from being a qualified grammar nazi. If I notice something is wrong then it must be pretty bad. People just need to slow down sometimes and think about what they are doing.
I would really like to know the judge's credentials for this kind of case. He may have a law background but what does he know about computers and technology (and related laws)?
IIRC there were cases in the early 80s where judges made bad rulings because they simply had little or no understanding of computers/technology.
I am not defending the MS site design but you must mean patches only released to customers experiencing a particular problem. The KB article will usually tell you to contact MS Support for patches not available on their website.
If you are talking about Service Packs, Critical Updates, and those types of things then you can get most of those things by going to windowsupdate.microsoft.com (in IE click on Tools -> Windows Update).
You can also find the Exchange 2K3 downloads in a few clicks.
* www.microsoft.com/exchange * Click Downloads on the left navigation pane * Click Exchange 2003 Server downloads on the top right
From there I was able to download SP2 (Using Firefox) in another 2 clicks.
It may not be perfect but the MS site is much better than many other sites. Have you ever tried downloading updates or drivers from IBM? IBM Support can't even tell you how. IBM Support will give you a filename to put in their search form to find the download. It has been this way for 10 years. PATHETIC!
Why charge? Look at it this way, music sales are a small part of a band's income. Give away your MP3s and consider it a promotional cost. Bands make most of their money on concerts and merchandise.
It looks like Big Head Todd and the Monsters are doing ok giving away plenty of MP3s. The Grateful Dead did just fine letting fans record their concerts and not worrying about record sales.
Not really tabs as we are seeing in browsers today.
It was the title bar being smaller than the width of the window and movable. This way you could stack multiple windows and adjust the title bars to give the appearance of a tabbed window.
So I read some of the KillerNIC stuff because it was news to me. I wound up on http://www.endlagnow.org/ELN/TakeAction_TopTips.as px and found it hilarious. Let's see some of their first two tips for reducing lag.
1. CONNECT DIRECTLY TO THE NET 2. TURN OFF YOUR ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
I get the impression you think wireless is only for Internet access.
I do agree that current technoligies should be maximized but there are applications where faster wireless needs are justified.
For example, I work at a college and someone thought they could offer a medical imaging class utilizing a cart of mobile laptops and the WLAN. Can you imagine 20-30 wirless clients trying to work with very large images over a shared 11Mbps WLAN? This would not be a pretty site.
At home my "server" is a WLAN client and is fast enough but I would notice a difference if it was faster.... and the geek in me would see that as a good thing.:-)
DISCLAIMER: I do own a few Tivos and like them very much.
Tivos are a great product and I agree that Echostar deserves what they get if they "played dirty pool". I have not done enough research to know if Tivo's patent is too broad.
This Tivo patent may seem obvious and broad by today's standards but that may not have been the case when they applied for the patent. Patents exist so inventors can try to benefit before the vultures swoop in and capitalize in on someone else's work.
Tivo needs to get their act together. They seem to have a product far better than anything else on the market but may have burned some bridges in the past. They need to get their tech and service licensed to the cable/sattelite box makers. People using DVRs offered by their provider that haven't used a Tivo don't know the difference and don't care. They only know their DVR is better than not having a DVR and that it is (usually) much cheaper than Tivo.
In the end the customers will always pay for these lawsuits. That is the nature of the business world.
I tend to agree. If Windows was backed by an industry of programmers then they could choose what "small parts" to include in there distro and when. They could also have their programmers concentrate on the "small parts" they felt were most important to them.
From TFA, it is still unclear if AMD is losing market share or if the whole chip market is slowing right now. Basically Intel and AMD are in a price war (good for consumers) and we will have to see how it all works out.
We have not experienced the cost savings you mention even after filling 2 chassis. Blades are just too darn expensive.
Yes they are nice when you consider how easy it is to just slide a blade in and go but it doesn't end there. Those modules have limits and as long as you can live within those limits then you will be fine.
* Some blades implementations are limited to 2 NICs. This is less than ideal for VMWare. * The same goes for FibreChannel connections. Less than ideal for some applications. * Some chassis throttle the CPUs if a power supply fails. Again, less than ideal for some shops.
Blades are great if you are short on space and can live with their limitations.
I have yet to see those savings documented or see them personally. Blades are far too expensive.
Just becuase the sales team and the marketing literature say it saves money doesn't mean it really does save money. You may sense a bit of distrust for salespeople but I have been in this business long enough to know that salespeople are only interested in selling their products/services regardless of the customers best needs.
I was with you until the "array of blade servers" part. Blade servers are acceptable IF you are short on space. They are less than ideal and more expensive than traditional servers for most other situations.
I have been lurking some VM forums and the consensus seems to be to avoid blades whenever possible.
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I think I am coming to the same conclusion as you. We just got a HD set a few months ago and I fear making the complete switch to HD. We have DirecTV and we have been very happy with it compared to the cable option (Adelphia).
:-)
We have had Tivo for years and love them. Currently we have a various Tivos and can only use them for non-HD content. The only HD content we watch is the free over-the-air stuff. We watch it sometimes and sitting through commercials is very weird to us.
So now I am looking at our DVR options and it is scary. The only DirecTV option is definitely a downgrade if not a total disaster from what I am reading online. A Series3 Tivo is not an option with DirecTV because it uses CableCard and DirecTV doesn't. The other choice is to go with Adelphia cable (now Comcast) but their customer service and picture quality is horrible.
So at this point, we canceled HBO to cover the cost of getting Netflix and are sticking with the Tivo. We are also going to get an Oppo upconverting DVD player for watching the DVD and other stuff.
What a horrible state this industry is in right now. The cable and satellite companies should have been licensing Tivo and Replay tech years ago but I guess they were all greedy and couldn't make a deal. So now the consumer is the one who loses.
... crazy mispronounciations of cute British phrases bastardised by Americans.
Please explain. These kinds of things interest me and it reminds me of Eddie Izzard's rant about American pronunciations.
"You say 'erbs', and we say 'herbs', because there's a fucking 'H' in it!"
I'm right there with you. Also, I really like it when a person with a college education pronounces words incorrectly.
:-)
My favorite is "supposubly" and I even worked with a person that said "aks" quite often. I just know some day I will run across an adult saying "pasghetti" in a professional setting.
I am far from being a qualified grammar nazi. If I notice something is wrong then it must be pretty bad. People just need to slow down sometimes and think about what they are doing.
REM *** End of off-topic discussion ***
I would really like to know the judge's credentials for this kind of case. He may have a law background but what does he know about computers and technology (and related laws)?
IIRC there were cases in the early 80s where judges made bad rulings because they simply had little or no understanding of computers/technology.
The real question. How can Office 2007 be an even considered? Can you even buy it yet? Heck, the product even has 2007 in the name!!!
This article just smells of BULLSHIT to me.
I am not defending the MS site design but you must mean patches only released to customers experiencing a particular problem. The KB article will usually tell you to contact MS Support for patches not available on their website.
If you are talking about Service Packs, Critical Updates, and those types of things then you can get most of those things by going to windowsupdate.microsoft.com (in IE click on Tools -> Windows Update).
You can also find the Exchange 2K3 downloads in a few clicks.
* www.microsoft.com/exchange
* Click Downloads on the left navigation pane
* Click Exchange 2003 Server downloads on the top right
From there I was able to download SP2 (Using Firefox) in another 2 clicks.
It may not be perfect but the MS site is much better than many other sites. Have you ever tried downloading updates or drivers from IBM? IBM Support can't even tell you how. IBM Support will give you a filename to put in their search form to find the download. It has been this way for 10 years. PATHETIC!
Very true. Most times I place an ad on CL the first one or two replies are very generic asking for more information.
I'm sure they are spammers/scammers looking to for a valid email address.
When I want to sell something I usually choose Craig's List over eBay. It is free, local (no need to ship), and the entire process is usually quicker.
Why charge? Look at it this way, music sales are a small part of a band's income. Give away your MP3s and consider it a promotional cost. Bands make most of their money on concerts and merchandise.
It looks like Big Head Todd and the Monsters are doing ok giving away plenty of MP3s. The Grateful Dead did just fine letting fans record their concerts and not worrying about record sales.
Not really tabs as we are seeing in browsers today.
It was the title bar being smaller than the width of the window and movable. This way you could stack multiple windows and adjust the title bars to give the appearance of a tabbed window.
Mod the parent up. This was pretty well known before the Reiser arrest.
* http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22fix+th is+later%22&btnG=Searcht +right%22&btnG=Searcho w%22&btnG=Searchw ere+you+thinking%22&btnG=Search
* http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22fix+i
* http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22for+n
* http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22what+
So I read some of the KillerNIC stuff because it was news to me. I wound up on http://www.endlagnow.org/ELN/TakeAction_TopTips.as px and found it hilarious. Let's see some of their first two tips for reducing lag.
1. CONNECT DIRECTLY TO THE NET
2. TURN OFF YOUR ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Yeah I'm gonna get right on that.
Maybe they thought they could avoid the recall by using the Sony backdoor to disable the defective batteries. :-)
I get the impression you think wireless is only for Internet access.
.... and the geek in me would see that as a good thing. :-)
I do agree that current technoligies should be maximized but there are applications where faster wireless needs are justified.
For example, I work at a college and someone thought they could offer a medical imaging class utilizing a cart of mobile laptops and the WLAN. Can you imagine 20-30 wirless clients trying to work with very large images over a shared 11Mbps WLAN? This would not be a pretty site.
At home my "server" is a WLAN client and is fast enough but I would notice a difference if it was faster
DISCLAIMER: I do own a few Tivos and like them very much.
Tivos are a great product and I agree that Echostar deserves what they get if they "played dirty pool". I have not done enough research to know if Tivo's patent is too broad.
This Tivo patent may seem obvious and broad by today's standards but that may not have been the case when they applied for the patent. Patents exist so inventors can try to benefit before the vultures swoop in and capitalize in on someone else's work.
Tivo needs to get their act together. They seem to have a product far better than anything else on the market but may have burned some bridges in the past. They need to get their tech and service licensed to the cable/sattelite box makers. People using DVRs offered by their provider that haven't used a Tivo don't know the difference and don't care. They only know their DVR is better than not having a DVR and that it is (usually) much cheaper than Tivo.
In the end the customers will always pay for these lawsuits. That is the nature of the business world.
A little misdirected anger?
Maybe you have some other reason to be pissed at Tivo. Don't be mad at Tivo becuase Echostar sold you something they stole from Tivo and got caught.
Fuck tivo.
A little misdirected anger?
Maybe you have some other reason to be pissed at Tivo. Don't be mad at Tivo becuase Echostar sold you something they stole from Tivo and got caught.
"Hot on the heels of Despair dot com ..."
You must be new here. Despair has been around quite a while.
I tend to agree. If Windows was backed by an industry of programmers then they could choose what "small parts" to include in there distro and when. They could also have their programmers concentrate on the "small parts" they felt were most important to them.
Geez, this sounds familiar.
From TFA, it is still unclear if AMD is losing market share or if the whole chip market is slowing right now. Basically Intel and AMD are in a price war (good for consumers) and we will have to see how it all works out.
We have not experienced the cost savings you mention even after filling 2 chassis. Blades are just too darn expensive.
Yes they are nice when you consider how easy it is to just slide a blade in and go but it doesn't end there. Those modules have limits and as long as you can live within those limits then you will be fine.
* Some blades implementations are limited to 2 NICs. This is less than ideal for VMWare.
* The same goes for FibreChannel connections. Less than ideal for some applications.
* Some chassis throttle the CPUs if a power supply fails. Again, less than ideal for some shops.
Blades are great if you are short on space and can live with their limitations.
I have yet to see those savings documented or see them personally. Blades are far too expensive.
Just becuase the sales team and the marketing literature say it saves money doesn't mean it really does save money. You may sense a bit of distrust for salespeople but I have been in this business long enough to know that salespeople are only interested in selling their products/services regardless of the customers best needs.
I was with you until the "array of blade servers" part. Blade servers are acceptable IF you are short on space. They are less than ideal and more expensive than traditional servers for most other situations.
I have been lurking some VM forums and the consensus seems to be to avoid blades whenever possible.
I meant to say "Myspace is just another proof that quality IS NOT always what is important."