From the article "The new DirecTV DVR comes with a hard drive that holds 160 hours of programming. One hundred hours are available for subscribers to record and store programs. The remaining 60 hours will be used by DirecTV to download programs that can be viewed on demand for an extra fee."
So they are recording a few shows from NBC, push them to your PVR, then let you pay money to watch them. Are you able to record them using the PVR in the first place for free? Or does the software prevent you. IF they prevent you from recording them yourself, this could be a preview of the boradcast flag, well a proprietary version of it.
Verizon plans to cover 3 million homes next year, which probably requires a bit more fiber than SBC's 40K miles! Plus, while speeds are limited to about 20-30Mbps per home today with the electronics Verizon is deploying, the fiber in place will support MUCH more, 1Gbps / house is being worked on in the labs. Sort of makes DSL and wireless sound like stop gap measures doesn it?
OK, did any one else find it strange that the article didn't mention JFK? I mean it is sort of an obvious lazy thing to mention, so maybe since it was so obvious the author found it best to ignore it. Or maybe it is because mentioning a Kennedy in a positive way or implying that the president is taking hints from JFK would be very out of style for National Review.... just a random observation.
one could expect their volume to go up, especially if they get MPEG 4 onto 3G phones and mobile devices, of which there will eventually be several times as many of than there are PCs in the world.
While many GSM phones are locked to a provider, some times they will unlock them after a certain time (likely after your contract period expires). And if you buy your own phone of course it won't we locked at all. Then you can choose between Cingular, ATT and T-Mobile.
This will be great for competition once people realize they can do this... Right now many are probably unaware of this.
If you think an margin that was well within the margin of error is good enough to decide something as important as a US presidential election, you are a fool in my opinion.
I read the part about 802.11 wireless, very interesting. But the 3G wireless part was misleading. The section is entitled "Don't forget 3G" but it is all about SMS, which is more of a 2G wireless technology, heck even if it was supposed to be about GPRS that is a 2.5G wireless thing. 3G might not be dead (or even barely born yet really) but SMS is not the proof of this! Happily it is gaining momentum in the US though as more carries move to GSM.
Lots of people have broad band already, and this will be a big diver for others to get it. This could even be THE killer app that drives broad band into more US homes. (That and lowering the price to $20 or $30... but that is another issue)
As for the rest of the world, Japan, Korea and Canada have more penetration of BB than the US, and much of western Europe is coming along as well. I suspect people outside those areas are unlikely to but a PS3 anyways.
Hopefully my theory is right, I work in the DSL business!
too much for my place of work
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This is what I get when I try to go there from work:
"Access to this web page is restricted at this time.
Reason: The Websense category "Alternative Journals" is filtered.
URL: http://www.disinfo.com/"
I guess some how what I would have read there would have made me a worse employee? I am glad they saved my eyes from seeing that!
Q: When I buy beer with my FL drivers license, what does the man / woman selling me beer need to know?
A: If(age 21! That is it. The danger of more and more info on one card, with NO control over it is immense I think. But the information is needed, but a system needs to be in place for us to control who sees what.
I may make a paper cover for my existing license, and see what people say when they see me hiding stuff. But with the problems with identity theft it may be a good idea!
dont ask why, but some times it seems to help to un install and then re install dial up networking. this is true even in the case that an ethernet card is used, again, no explanation, i have just seen it fix things before....
I am by no means an IPV6 expert, but I remember it has a larger address space. Wasn't one of the drivers for this so that your toaster can have an IP, along with your Xbox, PC, etc etc. Oh, and that is what is going to make this a real issue real soon, while only true geeks will have more than one real PC for now, MANY people will soon have a PC and a game system that they want to connect to the net... As far as how to charge, well bandwidth and IP address are both limited resources, so both will get charged for. And since it seems broadband providers in the US are loosing money, prices very may well go up for people who use more of their resources.
Can't they get a pretty good reading on where you are using triangulation between the different cells? Or is that only in the movies?
Putting evil tracking putposes aside for a moment, if all cars had these in them, and anonmously relayed location and speed info a system could be setup to route cars around roads just like packets around a network.... It holds some neat promise, but lots of technical and social things to work out.
Remember, while it is easy to write some software for windows or linux to make it do some fancy new video format, for a video phone device like this I suspect they may have custom made hardware to drive the H.263. Making the same thing for a newer codec may be a good idea but it will take longer to get into an embedded device like this an onto your desktop. They should be inverse multiplexing over several line though. But that is a pretty obvious solution so I assume they had a good reason not to do it.
Yeah they got screwed pretty good by this thing. But they do some bad things too. Things with natural monopolies are tough. If you want to see someone getting away with murder now look at Cable providers, they are the same as telcos now but get away without all the same regulation. The regulation may be good, or may be evil, but either way it should at least be uniform!
Ok, I have an agenda, I work for a telcom company.
-Paul
do we forget the browser wars allready?
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Flash back to the mid 90s, replace Palm with Netscape, and then think about this...
It is not fated, but MS has A LOT of resources as you point out, marketing perhaps being the key. It won't work on me, but it will on a lot of people...
Paul
Palm IIIx user for over 2 years-
and IE user from IE4 until recently, when mozilla finally got fairly good.
I think / hope the idea is that site X will grant you anonymous access, but either won't give you all the neat features, or may even charge you. But if you identify yourself to them (hopefully to a level of your choosing) then they may grant you access for free (the information that you granted them having value to them). The key will be where all your information is stored and the amount of control over it. And clearly choice in where it is stored (MS or SUN, or hopefully other places) is a good idea.
It is likely that you will be able to remain anonymous some times. This will put and end to the process of lying about who you are, which is not really useful in the greater scheme of things.
Think like slashdot. I could be AC now, but I choose to be warnerpr, and I can change settings to display or not display my email address. Hailstorm and project liberty just make it interoperate betweeen sites and devices.
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Having done this as a student worker twice at Clarkson University, I know the best thing you can do is plan, do training and then on the actual days communicate well and work really hard (drink lots of caffine). Really though, the training and the communication are important. Have a central command post everyone can call, or radios. Triag things, skip the hard stuff and come back, get the easy ones on as fast as possible. Most of the ones that seem tough at first end up needing windows reinstalled or something evil like that. get them later!
I am pretty sure that no one supports service level agreements for home DSL or Cable connections. With an SLA you would be guaranteed X bits/s at a minimum, or be due money back, or parhaps X bits/s 95% of the time, etc etc. Better service promises would cost more money. Currently phone and cable companies make some effort to maintain connections and speed but are under little obligation to meet exact specifications.
The only reason for slowdown (besides weather related things) is over subscription. With Cable since it is a directly shared medium it is easy, with DSL it is less likely, but DSL connections are often concentrated together with your neighbors, and certainly eventually you need to talk to the rest of the internet and that is shared so there is always a bottleneck. Check dslreports.com for cable and DSL reviews in your area. If you can't deal with some slow downs run a wire to everyone in the world you want to talk to, then you will be all set. (which is sort of what the plain old telephone system was, but is becoming less and less so every day)
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From the article "The new DirecTV DVR comes with a hard drive that holds 160 hours of programming. One hundred hours are available for subscribers to record and store programs. The remaining 60 hours will be used by DirecTV to download programs that can be viewed on demand for an extra fee."
So they are recording a few shows from NBC, push them to your PVR, then let you pay money to watch them. Are you able to record them using the PVR in the first place for free? Or does the software prevent you. IF they prevent you from recording them yourself, this could be a preview of the boradcast flag, well a proprietary version of it.
The details on speed and price are not quite correct in the parent post. You can read them here:
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http://www22.verizon.com/fiosforhome/channels/f
Verizon plans to cover 3 million homes next year, which probably requires a bit more fiber than SBC's 40K miles! Plus, while speeds are limited to about 20-30Mbps per home today with the electronics Verizon is deploying, the fiber in place will support MUCH more, 1Gbps / house is being worked on in the labs. Sort of makes DSL and wireless sound like stop gap measures doesn it?
OK, did any one else find it strange that the article didn't mention JFK? I mean it is sort of an obvious lazy thing to mention, so maybe since it was so obvious the author found it best to ignore it. Or maybe it is because mentioning a Kennedy in a positive way or implying that the president is taking hints from JFK would be very out of style for National Review.... just a random observation.
Does any one watch Trigger Happy TV on comedy central (or other networks)? This reminded me of the guy with the gigantic mobile phone....
one could expect their volume to go up, especially if they get MPEG 4 onto 3G phones and mobile devices, of which there will eventually be several times as many of than there are PCs in the world.
Posted Friday Jun 28. Although the new one looks nicer.
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While many GSM phones are locked to a provider, some times they will unlock them after a certain time (likely after your contract period expires). And if you buy your own phone of course it won't we locked at all. Then you can choose between Cingular, ATT and T-Mobile.
This will be great for competition once people realize they can do this... Right now many are probably unaware of this.
The BBC broke this story from what I understand.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/newsnight/117
If you think an margin that was well within the margin of error is good enough to decide something as important as a US presidential election, you are a fool in my opinion.
No, that is the north country, Upstate does start like right after NYC, before Albany at least.
And on top of that, Potsdam is far enough north it is better just to count it as part of Canada.
I read the part about 802.11 wireless, very interesting.
But the 3G wireless part was misleading. The section is entitled "Don't forget 3G" but it is all about SMS, which is more of a 2G wireless technology, heck even if it was supposed to be about GPRS that is a 2.5G wireless thing. 3G might not be dead (or even barely born yet really) but SMS is not the proof of this! Happily it is gaining momentum in the US though as more carries move to GSM.
http://www.cptech.org/ms/rn2bg20020104dividend.htm l
Glad to see that CNN can only took a couple months to write about it!
Mr. Nader's letter on the topic was the first I read of this topic.
Lots of people have broad band already, and this will be a big diver for others to get it. This could even be THE killer app that drives broad band into more US homes. (That and lowering the price to $20 or $30... but that is another issue)
As for the rest of the world, Japan, Korea and Canada have more penetration of BB than the US, and much of western Europe is coming along as well. I suspect people outside those areas are unlikely to but a PS3 anyways.
Hopefully my theory is right, I work in the DSL business!
This is what I get when I try to go there from work:
"Access to this web page is restricted at this time.
Reason: The Websense category "Alternative Journals" is filtered.
URL: http://www.disinfo.com/"
I guess some how what I would have read there would have made me a worse employee? I am glad they saved my eyes from seeing that!
Q: When I buy beer with my FL drivers license, what does the man / woman selling me beer need to know?
A: If(age 21! That is it. The danger of more and more info on one card, with NO control over it is immense I think. But the information is needed, but a system needs to be in place for us to control who sees what.
I may make a paper cover for my existing license, and see what people say when they see me hiding stuff. But with the problems with identity theft it may be a good idea!
-Paul
dont ask why, but some times it seems to help to un install and then re install dial up networking. this is true even in the case that an ethernet card is used, again, no explanation, i have just seen it fix things before....
in dorms i might add. damn college kids
I am by no means an IPV6 expert, but I remember it has a larger address space. Wasn't one of the drivers for this so that your toaster can have an IP, along with your Xbox, PC, etc etc. Oh, and that is what is going to make this a real issue real soon, while only true geeks will have more than one real PC for now, MANY people will soon have a PC and a game system that they want to connect to the net... As far as how to charge, well bandwidth and IP address are both limited resources, so both will get charged for. And since it seems broadband providers in the US are loosing money, prices very may well go up for people who use more of their resources.
-Paul
Can't they get a pretty good reading on where you are using triangulation between the different cells? Or is that only in the movies?
Putting evil tracking putposes aside for a moment, if all cars had these in them, and anonmously relayed location and speed info a system could be setup to route cars around roads just like packets around a network.... It holds some neat promise, but lots of technical and social things to work out.
-Paul
Remember, while it is easy to write some software for windows or linux to make it do some fancy new video format, for a video phone device like this I suspect they may have custom made hardware to drive the H.263. Making the same thing for a newer codec may be a good idea but it will take longer to get into an embedded device like this an onto your desktop. They should be inverse multiplexing over several line though. But that is a pretty obvious solution so I assume they had a good reason not to do it.
http://newscenter.verizon.com/wtc/
http://newscenter.verizon.com/wtc/
Yeah they got screwed pretty good by this thing. But they do some bad things too. Things with natural monopolies are tough. If you want to see someone getting away with murder now look at Cable providers, they are the same as telcos now but get away without all the same regulation. The regulation may be good, or may be evil, but either way it should at least be uniform!
Ok, I have an agenda, I work for a telcom company.
-Paul
Flash back to the mid 90s, replace Palm with Netscape, and then think about this...
It is not fated, but MS has A LOT of resources as you point out, marketing perhaps being the key. It won't work on me, but it will on a lot of people...
Paul
Palm IIIx user for over 2 years-
and IE user from IE4 until recently, when mozilla finally got fairly good.
I think / hope the idea is that site X will grant you anonymous access, but either won't give you all the neat features, or may even charge you. But if you identify yourself to them (hopefully to a level of your choosing) then they may grant you access for free (the information that you granted them having value to them). The key will be where all your information is stored and the amount of control over it. And clearly choice in where it is stored (MS or SUN, or hopefully other places) is a good idea.
It is likely that you will be able to remain anonymous some times. This will put and end to the process of lying about who you are, which is not really useful in the greater scheme of things.
Think like slashdot. I could be AC now, but I choose to be warnerpr, and I can change settings to display or not display my email address. Hailstorm and project liberty just make it interoperate betweeen sites and devices.
Having done this as a student worker twice at Clarkson University, I know the best thing you can do is plan, do training and then on the actual days communicate well and work really hard (drink lots of caffine). Really though, the training and the communication are important. Have a central command post everyone can call, or radios. Triag things, skip the hard stuff and come back, get the easy ones on as fast as possible. Most of the ones that seem tough at first end up needing windows reinstalled or something evil like that. get them later!
I am pretty sure that no one supports service level agreements for home DSL or Cable connections. With an SLA you would be guaranteed X bits/s at a minimum, or be due money back, or parhaps X bits/s 95% of the time, etc etc. Better service promises would cost more money. Currently phone and cable companies make some effort to maintain connections and speed but are under little obligation to meet exact specifications.
The only reason for slowdown (besides weather related things) is over subscription. With Cable since it is a directly shared medium it is easy, with DSL it is less likely, but DSL connections are often concentrated together with your neighbors, and certainly eventually you need to talk to the rest of the internet and that is shared so there is always a bottleneck. Check dslreports.com for cable and DSL reviews in your area. If you can't deal with some slow downs run a wire to everyone in the world you want to talk to, then you will be all set. (which is sort of what the plain old telephone system was, but is becoming less and less so every day)