The company has negative earnings per share and its profit margin is almost -25%! Almost 15% of the companies shares on the market are shorted. Thats crazy!
I think that dropping the Lifetime Service Plan is a desperate gimmick to get more revenue. It might work, but who knows.
However, I don't think computer based PVRs are going to make a dent in the market...they are too complicated. Adding a card into a computer is too complicated for Joe Schmo. Watching TV on a computer screen is an alien concept to most people. A friend who was over last night thought that watching TV on my PVR-350 was 'interesting'. "You do realize that this is really weird, right?" she said, "I'm not sure if I really liked the experience." But the idea of not having a monthly fee for TiVo intreaged her.
But...I think that computer based PVRs will make a huge dent in the tech savvy market...because it is flexable...and for now...DRM free.
I just did a reinstall of Windows XP and held off installing AIM for a few weeks. As soon as I installed AIM, I realized it was the new Triton Beta...and I couldn't log into my own SN, and it seemed to slow my system down. Way to go AOL! I got the older version and it works fine though.
Clearly, finding gold pieces in a computer game that are worth real world money are considered "Treasure Trove" under IRS regulations. Mod me Funny, but seriously, check this out:
TITLE 26, CHAPTER I--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
PART 1_INCOME TAXES--Table of Contents
Sec. 1.61-14 Miscellaneous items of gross income.
(a) In general. In addition...there are many other kinds of gross income. For example.... Treasure trove, to the extent of its value in United States currency, constitutes gross income for the taxable year in which it is reduced to undisputed possession.
I can't imagine that the license that allows free use of their product contemplates commercial use of their software on this scale. Sue their asses off Ikesoft!
If you are running a dualcore athlon, with two video cards running with SLI, a PVR, Soundblaster card, two gigs of RAM, two hard drives, and a few other accessories, you need at least 450W power supply. 300W PSU won't cut it for most computers that slashdotters are building.
If you bothered to RTFA, then you would have seen that the two moronic state homeland security officers were enforcing a *countywide sexual harrassment policy*. Obviously, these two idiots can't tell the difference between a county employee and a library patron. And they didn't understand that patrons have a right to use the computers as they see fit. And they clearly overstepped their bounds and were bitchslapped to deskjobs. Not as big a deal as everyone makes it out to be. But still freakin scarey that what they thought they were doing was right.
Your absolutely correct. I couldn't have said it better myself, actually. One thing I would like to add is that the Federal Law doesn't state that the computer has to be secure. It has to be "non-public". So a non-classified computer sitting on the secretary's desk in the front lobby with her bosses electronic roladex and calender that gets b0rked by the Sony rootkit is enough for prosecution.
Check out 18 USC 1030 - Fraud in connection with computers
Subsection (3) states that anyone who "intentionally, without authorization to access any nonpublic computer of a department or agency of the United States, accesses such a computer of that department or agency that is exclusively for the use of the Government of the United States or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, is used by or for the Government of the United States and such conduct affects that use by or for the Government of the United States" and causes damage is in deep poop.
Imagine a Department of Defense employee on a secure computer popping in a Sony Rootkit CD - woops!
But by placing your content on the public Internet, it's in "plain sight". There's no warrant required to look at it.
Assuming that it is accessible to anyone, fine, the government can take a peek. It is in a public space. But, if it isn't public, and is password protected, the gov't can hack my site and take a peek? No way.
And even if it is public, what if I say "don't make a copy" of this in my robot.txt, the government can make a copy anyway? I call bullshit. They have made an archive of my "intellectual property" after I have said no.
I was recently designing a website for a business and needed a drawing of a car. I did a search, and tried to find some "open-source" or "public-use" or "public domain" artwork. Inevitably, the drawings were licenced under Creative Commons with restrictions on commercial use. I was fortunate enough to check the license first. Otherwise, I would have thought it was free to use, since it was misleadingly called "public domain".
So, instead of using "free" artwork, I had to use "pay" artwork. It wasn't the result I wanted.
...is that if you install GhostScript and change some environment variables, you can manipulate any pdf file! No need to spend 100s of dollars on Acrobat to fill in pdf files! Unfortunately, you have to save them as bmp files instead...but you could drag the bmp into openoffice...and then export it again....
...they don't start charging for the casual encounters section. Where else am I gonna find a transexual love monkey who is turned on my the thought of a 3sum with its girlfriend?
Asking for identification at the airport is not unduly burdomsome beacause asking for ID is reasonable, and giving him the option to be searched instead of having to produce his ID is reasonable.
The burdens on a single form of interstate travel does not implicate the fundemental right to interstate travel. Furthermore, a request for ID is not a seizure under the 4th Amendment.
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Hell, after reading that PDF, all American Businesses would be well advised to encrypt all their data!
Yea, but that would have required taking her out of my bedroom where my computer is (19" screen) to the living room with the 26" screen! ;-)
TiVo is in a lot of financial trouble, looking at its key statistics: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=TIVO
The company has negative earnings per share and its profit margin is almost -25%! Almost 15% of the companies shares on the market are shorted. Thats crazy!
I think that dropping the Lifetime Service Plan is a desperate gimmick to get more revenue. It might work, but who knows.
However, I don't think computer based PVRs are going to make a dent in the market...they are too complicated. Adding a card into a computer is too complicated for Joe Schmo. Watching TV on a computer screen is an alien concept to most people. A friend who was over last night thought that watching TV on my PVR-350 was 'interesting'. "You do realize that this is really weird, right?" she said, "I'm not sure if I really liked the experience." But the idea of not having a monthly fee for TiVo intreaged her.
But...I think that computer based PVRs will make a huge dent in the tech savvy market...because it is flexable...and for now...DRM free.
...Bill Gates got some?
I just did a reinstall of Windows XP and held off installing AIM for a few weeks. As soon as I installed AIM, I realized it was the new Triton Beta...and I couldn't log into my own SN, and it seemed to slow my system down. Way to go AOL! I got the older version and it works fine though.
Clearly, finding gold pieces in a computer game that are worth real world money are considered "Treasure Trove" under IRS regulations. Mod me Funny, but seriously, check this out:
TITLE 26, CHAPTER I--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
PART 1_INCOME TAXES--Table of Contents
Sec. 1.61-14 Miscellaneous items of gross income.
(a) In general. In addition...there are many other kinds of gross income. For example....
Treasure trove, to the extent of its value in United States currency, constitutes gross
income for the taxable year in which it is reduced to undisputed
possession.
What we need is a storage solution, similar to HD-DVD/BlueRay etc, that has DRM and is open source.
...but Bill Gates will for 20 Billion.
I can't imagine that the license that allows free use of their product contemplates commercial use of their software on this scale. Sue their asses off Ikesoft!
....why am I almost positive that this is not from Text Messaging?
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/21/a_look_at_a mds_socket_am2_platform/
Why is there such an editorial delay at slashdot all the time? I'm not new here, but Jeez.
Learned a new word: lacunæ (latin for lake) -- in this context, a gap. Well done, sire!
If you are running a dualcore athlon, with two video cards running with SLI, a PVR, Soundblaster card, two gigs of RAM, two hard drives, and a few other accessories, you need at least 450W power supply. 300W PSU won't cut it for most computers that slashdotters are building.
If you bothered to RTFA, then you would have seen that the two moronic state homeland security officers were enforcing a *countywide sexual harrassment policy*. Obviously, these two idiots can't tell the difference between a county employee and a library patron. And they didn't understand that patrons have a right to use the computers as they see fit. And they clearly overstepped their bounds and were bitchslapped to deskjobs. Not as big a deal as everyone makes it out to be. But still freakin scarey that what they thought they were doing was right.
Your absolutely correct. I couldn't have said it better myself, actually. One thing I would like to add is that the Federal Law doesn't state that the computer has to be secure. It has to be "non-public". So a non-classified computer sitting on the secretary's desk in the front lobby with her bosses electronic roladex and calender that gets b0rked by the Sony rootkit is enough for prosecution.
Check out 18 USC 1030 - Fraud in connection with computers
Subsection (3) states that anyone who "intentionally, without authorization to access any nonpublic computer of a department or agency of the United States, accesses such a computer of that department or agency that is exclusively for the use of the Government of the United States or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, is used by or for the Government of the United States and such conduct affects that use by or for the Government of the United States" and causes damage is in deep poop.
Imagine a Department of Defense employee on a secure computer popping in a Sony Rootkit CD - woops!
Your assuming anyone reads TFA! You must be new here.
This article is clearly a promotion for newegg.com -- I mean, they even promote a freakin contest over at new egg for a Athlon 64 4600+ ! http://promotions.newegg.com/NEPro/AnandTech//inde x.html
But by placing your content on the public Internet, it's in "plain sight". There's no warrant required to look at it.
Assuming that it is accessible to anyone, fine, the government can take a peek. It is in a public space. But, if it isn't public, and is password protected, the gov't can hack my site and take a peek? No way.
And even if it is public, what if I say "don't make a copy" of this in my robot.txt, the government can make a copy anyway? I call bullshit. They have made an archive of my "intellectual property" after I have said no.
The government should not be allowed to search and index (seize) my webpage without my consent or a warrant. Period.
Thus, if my robots.txt file says that the government should f*ck off without a warrant, it should listen.
I was recently designing a website for a business and needed a drawing of a car. I did a search, and tried to find some "open-source" or "public-use" or "public domain" artwork. Inevitably, the drawings were licenced under Creative Commons with restrictions on commercial use. I was fortunate enough to check the license first. Otherwise, I would have thought it was free to use, since it was misleadingly called "public domain".
So, instead of using "free" artwork, I had to use "pay" artwork. It wasn't the result I wanted.
...is that if you install GhostScript and change some environment variables, you can manipulate any pdf file! No need to spend 100s of dollars on Acrobat to fill in pdf files! Unfortunately, you have to save them as bmp files instead...but you could drag the bmp into openoffice...and then export it again....
...they don't start charging for the casual encounters section. Where else am I gonna find a transexual love monkey who is turned on my the thought of a 3sum with its girlfriend?
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0415 736p.pdf (warning, pdf file)
Long story short:
Asking for identification at the airport is not unduly burdomsome beacause asking for ID is reasonable, and giving him the option to be searched instead of having to produce his ID is reasonable.
The burdens on a single form of interstate travel does not implicate the fundemental right to interstate travel. Furthermore, a request for ID is not a seizure under the 4th Amendment.
doh!