So they wrote something in-house, for their own reasons. Open-source advocates say "release everything... it'll be useful to someone". So they did release it, and then they get slammed for not using the existing standards and because people don't like their methodologies.
And then someone less experienced copy & pastes that code to somewhere else where the same assumptions don't hold, and you have a memory leak out of nowhere.
It was not disabled to prevent being sued. That would be a very difficult lawsuit to win for the networks, as is shown by the Tivo competitors who have the feature.
The real reason is because originally Tivo had partner agreements with the networks. Like NBC paid Tivo to have a section in the menus (the Tivo Showcase) that highlighted what NBC wanted to promote that week. Also, NBC put markers in their show promos that made it so you could press thumbs up to record the show easily.
So Tivo had to play nice with the networks, and not having an obvious commercial skip was the way to do it. Money is more powerful than laws sometimes.
There's a video from the creator of the ESP Games on Google Video. I'm sure it's posted above somewhere. Watch it, because the guy is clearly really smart and has addressed most of the objections.
I particularly liked how it deals with an odd number of players. Instead of making the one extra person wait, it just uses a previous player's recorded moves and plays the same game with them.
That seems pretty risky. There's barely any users. In particular, they have no idea how this code scales. We saw how bad that can burn them with Google Analytics. Remember how it was virtually unusable for weeks after its release?
Even the ClearChannel stations around here play mostly local ads. Local TV, local concerts and clubs, car dealerships, etc. Maybe 2/3 local and 1/3 national.
I put ads on my website, but I never see them since I block ads. I'm not going to get upset with someone for blocking. I'm just going to take advantage of those who don't.
It's not like the people who block ads would actually give you clicks anyway.
Usually the profit on game systems is marginal for the end retailer. That's why you don't see discounts over $5, and why percent-off coupons always exclude consoles.
They sell them because people also buy games and accessories at the same time, and they make a lot more money on those.
They scale very well??? How many recent Google projects have ground to a halt on their first day of release? Google Analytics was DOA just this week. It's been pretty unimpressive.
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So they wrote something in-house, for their own reasons. Open-source advocates say "release everything... it'll be useful to someone". So they did release it, and then they get slammed for not using the existing standards and because people don't like their methodologies.
Bravo.
It normalizes the results to the strength of the fan base which doesn't correlate to the actual quality of the movie.
I don't know how you could evaluate the "bulk" considering the massive clamp they had on the thing.
It's nice to know your time is worthless.
And then someone less experienced copy & pastes that code to somewhere else where the same assumptions don't hold, and you have a memory leak out of nowhere.
Woo.
It was not disabled to prevent being sued. That would be a very difficult lawsuit to win for the networks, as is shown by the Tivo competitors who have the feature.
The real reason is because originally Tivo had partner agreements with the networks. Like NBC paid Tivo to have a section in the menus (the Tivo Showcase) that highlighted what NBC wanted to promote that week. Also, NBC put markers in their show promos that made it so you could press thumbs up to record the show easily.
So Tivo had to play nice with the networks, and not having an obvious commercial skip was the way to do it. Money is more powerful than laws sometimes.
There's a video from the creator of the ESP Games on Google Video. I'm sure it's posted above somewhere. Watch it, because the guy is clearly really smart and has addressed most of the objections.
I particularly liked how it deals with an odd number of players. Instead of making the one extra person wait, it just uses a previous player's recorded moves and plays the same game with them.
That counts as well-sourced on the internet.
Offsite access to CSS can allow javascript exploits, which can allow people to steal other people's logins.
It's still very good at being a media center.
Larger screen is a good thing, and it requires the case to be larger.
Calling them "unforgiveable" doesn't make them easy to fix.
Heck, I don't think any of the 3-digit id's are still being used.
I don't see the point of this. The stuff is already built into the Apple Windows products.
It would be nice if it was an actual zeroconf windows client, with Samba support or something. But it's not.
You have a much more altruistic view of college students than I.
I don't understand how collecting is fun. I guess it appeals to the same people who collect in real life?
That seems pretty risky. There's barely any users. In particular, they have no idea how this code scales. We saw how bad that can burn them with Google Analytics. Remember how it was virtually unusable for weeks after its release?
Even the ClearChannel stations around here play mostly local ads. Local TV, local concerts and clubs, car dealerships, etc. Maybe 2/3 local and 1/3 national.
This is ignorant. Apple has released updates that break stuff, including some that were even withdrawn after release.
I put ads on my website, but I never see them since I block ads. I'm not going to get upset with someone for blocking. I'm just going to take advantage of those who don't.
It's not like the people who block ads would actually give you clicks anyway.
Note that they also close bugs that are only reported once, if they sit around for too long. They don't even bother trying to recreate.
Usually the profit on game systems is marginal for the end retailer. That's why you don't see discounts over $5, and why percent-off coupons always exclude consoles.
They sell them because people also buy games and accessories at the same time, and they make a lot more money on those.
They scale very well??? How many recent Google projects have ground to a halt on their first day of release? Google Analytics was DOA just this week. It's been pretty unimpressive.
I've seen stuff posted before it finishes airing on the East Coast. That doesn't even make sense!
Otherwise someone might read that company name as epiCream.