Month: January 2002

No Pop-up Ads on Google

No Pop-up Ads on Google

Video Disk Recorder

With the availability of high capacity hard disks and MPEG encoders/decoders the idea of a fully digital video recorder comes to mind.

There are already two commercial products: “ReplayTV” from Replay Networks, Inc. (www.replaytv.com) and “TiVo” from TiVo, Inc. (www.tivo.com). Both systems are mainly targetted on working together with special services provided by the system manufacturer, which offer the consumer a personalized recording strategy.

The downside of these systems is the lack of a useful “timer recording” facility, and the manufacturers’ tendencies to implement new ways of imposing advertisements on the viewer (since it would become too easy to skip the commercial breaks). They also don’t support what one would expect to come natural with digital recording: on-disk editing.

Neat project, build your own TiVO.

Video Disk Recorder

With the availability of high capacity hard disks and MPEG encoders/decoders the idea of a fully digital video recorder comes to mind.

There are already two commercial products: “ReplayTV” from Replay Networks, Inc. (www.replaytv.com) and “TiVo” from TiVo, Inc. (www.tivo.com). Both systems are mainly targetted on working together with special services provided by the system manufacturer, which offer the consumer a personalized recording strategy.

The downside of these systems is the lack of a useful “timer recording” facility, and the manufacturers’ tendencies to implement new ways of imposing advertisements on the viewer (since it would become too easy to skip the commercial breaks). They also don’t support what one would expect to come natural with digital recording: on-disk editing.

Neat project, build your own TiVO.

Excerpts from The Foreigner’s Guide to America

Excerpts from The Foreigner’s Guide to America

CSS and Server Side Includes, letting SSI choose the CSS given the User Agent.

CSS and Server Side Includes, letting SSI choose the CSS given the User Agent.

Al Qaeda And Taliban Fighters being held in Guantanamo may be “Unlawful Combatant” and not Prisoners of War, which does make a difference. Also intresting is the whole ruckus around the Military Tribunals may have bee a waste of time. Seems that it was more of a restating of owers already present in this situation. Which would beg the question of why did the Bush administration bring it up.

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Al Qaeda And Taliban Fighters being held in Guantanamo may be “Unlawful Combatant” and not Prisoners of War, which does make a difference. Also intresting is the whole ruckus around the Military Tribunals may have bee a waste of time. Seems that it was more of a restating of owers already present in this situation. Which would beg the question of why did the Bush administration bring it up.

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