Furthermore, the very idea of hacking into someone's TV to display images on it is pure Hollywood sci-fi.
Think about it for a moment. Even on a completely open network, even imagining some wacky DAAP overflow exploit existing on this imaginary Apple product that allowed local peers to execute arbitrary code over the WLAN, you're talking many minutes of patiently sitting outside, dutifully screwing around in a shell.
No one's going to hack your TV unless they can just drive by, hit a "HACK" button on their laptop, and control your set. Which only happens on TV.
Unless I'm the one that's not paranoid enough.
If you're running WPA or WPA2, you can find much better things to worry about than your wireless network. Such as what happens with your data out on the WAN.
MythTV resides in an entirely different market from this.
Myth's featureset has always been built around DVR features; your Myth box sits downstream from a cable box or tuner. The Roku box, on the other hand, is the content source.
Right now, it's being sold as a Netflix streaming device. In the future, though, any company could theoretically provide client software for it to stream other proprietary or open content.
This isn't about just Netflix anymore. Roku's little $99 box just became a potential home for Hulu, Joost, or heck, any one of the huge numbers of companies doing IPTV or even video podcasts now.
This is it. This is the $99 box o' IPTV we were all wating for. Oh, and it even does Netflix!
Either you've never used DSOrganize, or you've never used a decent PDA.
The difference between using the iPod Touch calendar/address book apps and using using DSOrganize is kind of like the difference between writing a report in Word and writing a report in Photoshop.
Yes, you technically could set up a bunch of 8.5x11 PSDs and make text boxes on all of them and print them out, just like you technically can do PIM tasks on the DS.
VHS was an analog compression medium whose principles were improved upon by increasing the media density (Laserdisc).
DVD is a digital compression medium whose principles have been improved upon by increasing the media density (Blu-ray).
Both transitions constitute evolutionary steps (density of information for better fidelity) but between the groups is a sea change (analog encoding to digital encoding). It stands to reason then that the second group will only be made obsolete by another sea change, not an evolutionary, in-group change.
That change, of course, will be digital downloads, and just as with previous sea changes, it will take some time before someone actually gets it right enough to change the market.
I've tried to explain to my friends that one's position on human life status is only associated with religion thanks to the media and that the real question is one of mental models of fetal development.
Unfortunately, most people don't build a mental model. They just look at popular platforms, and if they're religious they feel they should fall neatly into one bucket, if not, they should fall into the other.
4. Collect Truth Clarification Request administrative fees from corporations and governments. The International Truth Registry has to stay solvent somehow!
There once was a time when I was excited about Spore, but these days I'm a lot more so about Little Big Planet.
A transition mirroring, in its own way, my own transition from once being a rabid PC gamer to being driven away from the platform by Windows instabilities and game DRM to the newly-matured console arena.
The Netflix model is the only one that's actually going to pull real numbers away from cable and satellite.
$2.00 (give or take a cent) per episode isn't bad for something you really want to keep, but it's just not worth it for a whole season that you only plan to watch once.
Would I have started watching 30 Rock at $2 per? No, but as part of my $8.99/month unlimited package, gladly.
...they actually had something to do with what's happening in the game.
In Indigo Prophecy, QTEs were frequently completely disconnected from any of the onscreen action. The protagonist might be talking to someone, trying to convince them of something, and to "talk better," the player would have to randomly follow a pattern with the analog sticks as if it were Dance Dance Revolution.
If I want to watch a movie, I'll watch a movie. If I want to play a rhythm game, I'll play a rhythm game.
What's the opposite of a gestalt... Where the whole is less than the sum of the parts?
You speak in generalities, that the U3 engine is "outdated" and "relies on normal maps" but are there actually any benchmarks that show the Cells can push a lot more similarly-processed polys than the 360's graphics?
I'd love to think that devs have thus far only unlocked a fraction of the possibilities lurking beneath the glossy plastic sitting in my entertainment cabinet, but from what I've seen, games thus far look pretty comparable between the two.
From the way he mentions it offhand, the blogger has probably never done any dev work on Linux. However, I think what he's getting at is that since HP has (ostensibly, I've never used one) built its own UI paradigm that replaces the Windows desktop and windowing system, they should just cut their ties and invest in expanding it into something bigger and more robust.
I think TFA's real shortcoming is that it doesn't begin to consider what would actually be needed beyond a word processor. Making a new, fully-functional desktop UI (on Linux or anything else for that matter) is a much taller order than just porting the existing photo sharing gimmicks or whatever it is they have.
Of course, it *is* HP we're talking about; they *could* afford to try this if they really wanted. It just wouldn't be a quick or cheap process.
I don't think that's quite the way to go about it, but I think it would be good to start by outlawing (with penalties this time) its use for anything other than, you know, Social Security.
But we're just getting started here. Once the SSN has returned to the single use for which it was created, we need a vastly more secure system to replace it. Not a national ID number, but a transparent, authenticated system of personal financial metadata kept in a vault maintained by a consortium of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax, under tight regulation by the feds.
Users would always be able to securely check the entirety of their personal data to ensure its correctness, would have a federally-mandated path of action to contest errors, and would have a simple method of offering disposable keys to financial institutions to verify their credit history.
Egad, that takes me back to the old days of the Web, long before everything I read was linked through a small number of blogs with a highly focused area of subject matter, a time when one could randomly, easily stumble onto not just odd curiosities but genuine, raving madness with little effort.
I know this is nothing compared to the vast costs for developing Vista, but it makes one wonder... If Microsoft can't build a better product by throwing vast sums of money at it, is there any hope they can build a better image the same way?
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Furthermore, the very idea of hacking into someone's TV to display images on it is pure Hollywood sci-fi.
Think about it for a moment. Even on a completely open network, even imagining some wacky DAAP overflow exploit existing on this imaginary Apple product that allowed local peers to execute arbitrary code over the WLAN, you're talking many minutes of patiently sitting outside, dutifully screwing around in a shell.
No one's going to hack your TV unless they can just drive by, hit a "HACK" button on their laptop, and control your set. Which only happens on TV.
If you're running WPA or WPA2, you can find much better things to worry about than your wireless network. Such as what happens with your data out on the WAN.
MythTV resides in an entirely different market from this.
Myth's featureset has always been built around DVR features; your Myth box sits downstream from a cable box or tuner. The Roku box, on the other hand, is the content source.
Right now, it's being sold as a Netflix streaming device. In the future, though, any company could theoretically provide client software for it to stream other proprietary or open content.
This isn't about just Netflix anymore. Roku's little $99 box just became a potential home for Hulu, Joost, or heck, any one of the huge numbers of companies doing IPTV or even video podcasts now.
This is it. This is the $99 box o' IPTV we were all wating for. Oh, and it even does Netflix!
Either you've never used DSOrganize, or you've never used a decent PDA.
The difference between using the iPod Touch calendar/address book apps and using using DSOrganize is kind of like the difference between writing a report in Word and writing a report in Photoshop.
Yes, you technically could set up a bunch of 8.5x11 PSDs and make text boxes on all of them and print them out, just like you technically can do PIM tasks on the DS.
The difference is in ease of use and convenience.
In the 1990s, Microsoft used its developer mindshare to drive desktop user adoption despite being user-unfriendly.
Now, Apple is using its user mindshare to drive mobile developer adoption despite being developer-unfriendly.
The parallels are certainly there.
VHS was an analog compression medium whose principles were improved upon by increasing the media density (Laserdisc).
DVD is a digital compression medium whose principles have been improved upon by increasing the media density (Blu-ray).
Both transitions constitute evolutionary steps (density of information for better fidelity) but between the groups is a sea change (analog encoding to digital encoding). It stands to reason then that the second group will only be made obsolete by another sea change, not an evolutionary, in-group change.
That change, of course, will be digital downloads, and just as with previous sea changes, it will take some time before someone actually gets it right enough to change the market.
Now, there's your problem!
I've tried to explain to my friends that one's position on human life status is only associated with religion thanks to the media and that the real question is one of mental models of fetal development.
Unfortunately, most people don't build a mental model. They just look at popular platforms, and if they're religious they feel they should fall neatly into one bucket, if not, they should fall into the other.
4. Collect Truth Clarification Request administrative fees from corporations and governments. The International Truth Registry has to stay solvent somehow!
This is like selling your state's tollway because you can't balance the budget.
Yes, you get to feel like you solved the budget crisis this year. Too bad you can only do it once.
And that wasn't just your garden variety 9.8 m/sec^2, either...
There once was a time when I was excited about Spore, but these days I'm a lot more so about Little Big Planet.
A transition mirroring, in its own way, my own transition from once being a rabid PC gamer to being driven away from the platform by Windows instabilities and game DRM to the newly-matured console arena.
Or you could do what I do, and just type 8ugm3n0+.c0m.
The only side effect is that people tend to think I'm under the influence of v1c0d1n and x4n4x.
The Netflix model is the only one that's actually going to pull real numbers away from cable and satellite.
$2.00 (give or take a cent) per episode isn't bad for something you really want to keep, but it's just not worth it for a whole season that you only plan to watch once.
Would I have started watching 30 Rock at $2 per? No, but as part of my $8.99/month unlimited package, gladly.
Don't forget to assume the Party Escort Position!
Fall out the trolley, now dids ya, bruv?
...they actually had something to do with what's happening in the game.
In Indigo Prophecy, QTEs were frequently completely disconnected from any of the onscreen action. The protagonist might be talking to someone, trying to convince them of something, and to "talk better," the player would have to randomly follow a pattern with the analog sticks as if it were Dance Dance Revolution.
If I want to watch a movie, I'll watch a movie. If I want to play a rhythm game, I'll play a rhythm game.
What's the opposite of a gestalt... Where the whole is less than the sum of the parts?
Can you actually cite any of that?
You speak in generalities, that the U3 engine is "outdated" and "relies on normal maps" but are there actually any benchmarks that show the Cells can push a lot more similarly-processed polys than the 360's graphics?
I'd love to think that devs have thus far only unlocked a fraction of the possibilities lurking beneath the glossy plastic sitting in my entertainment cabinet, but from what I've seen, games thus far look pretty comparable between the two.
From the way he mentions it offhand, the blogger has probably never done any dev work on Linux. However, I think what he's getting at is that since HP has (ostensibly, I've never used one) built its own UI paradigm that replaces the Windows desktop and windowing system, they should just cut their ties and invest in expanding it into something bigger and more robust.
I think TFA's real shortcoming is that it doesn't begin to consider what would actually be needed beyond a word processor. Making a new, fully-functional desktop UI (on Linux or anything else for that matter) is a much taller order than just porting the existing photo sharing gimmicks or whatever it is they have.
Of course, it *is* HP we're talking about; they *could* afford to try this if they really wanted. It just wouldn't be a quick or cheap process.
I don't think that's quite the way to go about it, but I think it would be good to start by outlawing (with penalties this time) its use for anything other than, you know, Social Security.
But we're just getting started here. Once the SSN has returned to the single use for which it was created, we need a vastly more secure system to replace it. Not a national ID number, but a transparent, authenticated system of personal financial metadata kept in a vault maintained by a consortium of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax, under tight regulation by the feds.
Users would always be able to securely check the entirety of their personal data to ensure its correctness, would have a federally-mandated path of action to contest errors, and would have a simple method of offering disposable keys to financial institutions to verify their credit history.
Egad, that takes me back to the old days of the Web, long before everything I read was linked through a small number of blogs with a highly focused area of subject matter, a time when one could randomly, easily stumble onto not just odd curiosities but genuine, raving madness with little effort.
Thank you for that. I think.
Parent is factually true, but... Informative?
I just mean... How did you get mod points if... that was news to you?
Modded for the informative benefit of Persian emissaries perhaps?
1. The one to emphatically support
2. The one to emphatically oppose
3. The one(s) to not really care about because the first two are so much fun to be gleeful/angry about
Because with only three blogs in the blog-o-sphere, the millions of Americans these blogs serve really deserve government-mandated balance.
Oh, what's that, there's more than three? How many, then? Five?
I know this is nothing compared to the vast costs for developing Vista, but it makes one wonder... If Microsoft can't build a better product by throwing vast sums of money at it, is there any hope they can build a better image the same way?