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The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things Traveling Roadside Attraction and Museum

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Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must
each do to win the living room

Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must
each do to win the living room 08/13/2004 05:18 AM

Thomas Hawk raps it out on Engadget.....

Hot on the heels of his in-depth comparison of TiVo vs.
Microsoft’s Media Center, we asked Thomas Hawk to follow up for us with a list
of ten things each of the companies could to do to win the War for the Living Room. It won’t be easy (like TiVo making
a version of their software for PCs? Not going to happen.) but we’ve got a feeling they might be better off listening
up.

The digital video recorder revolution is on, with two players, Microsoft and Tivo, having emerged as the most likely
candidates to dominate. Microsoft is betting on their Media Center Edition software package, while upstart TiVo has the
name brand recognition and strong reputation among loyalists and was first to market. Either has a shot at becoming the
gold-standard.

At present Tivo is winning in the quality game. This year Hughes released the HR10-250 Tivo PVR.  If you have not
seen time-shifted high def television yet, it is simply breathtaking. Microsoft is winning in the portability
game.  It is much easier to get content off of your MCE box than a TiVo.

Below are my suggestions for the top 10 things Microsoft and TiVo must each do to win the battle for the living
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The top 10 things Microsoft must do to win the living room:

1. Offer support for recording high-definition TV as soon as possible, including an immediate announcement of an anticipated delivery date.
2. Offer quad (four) tuners - two for regular broadcasts and two for HDTV. There should never be recording
   conflicts.
3. Provide easy support for 16:9 widescreen video display, including the development of a generic display driver
   that will display the Media Center software correctly on almost any 16:9 display. Forcing a plasmato display in 4:3
   format for extended periods of time creates screen burn.
4. Develop simple drag-and-drop archiving of shows to DVD. Words like codecs and drivers and DivX and Sonic DVD and
   memory buffer error should not be a part of the process.
5. Media Center should handle large media libraries better. In the “instant on” world of today, media libraries
   (especially music) must be indexed and optimized to create instant entertainment.  At present Media Center does
   not handle large digital media libraries well.
6. Create a  “My Radio” option and a “My Radio” guide. If I would like to listen to KFOG’s “Live at the
   Archives” on Wednesday morning at 3 a.m., so be it. If I would like to get a season pass to Howard Stern, great.
   These files should be saved to MP3 and be portable. 
7. Improve stability.  Media Center should be as stable and error-free as TiVo’s Linux-based system.
8. Provide ratings and preferences in the user profile rather than in the files or players. They must also create
   some kind of suggestions feature similar to Tivo for television and music. One huge step that Microsoft took in the
   right direction was creating a music ratings feature.  At present these ratings must be the same for all users
   of a computer. If I like Nirvana and my wife prefers Alan Jackson then we are out of luck. 
9. Provide ratings and simple filtering capabilities for digital photos. If I want to show pictures of John and Alan
   and Pete and Bob while they are over for dinner then the filter tool in “my pictures” should allows for me to do
   this.
10. Provide a host of additional remote services including email, voicemail, caller ID, vehicle tracking, home
    automation (lights, home alarm security, window shades, thermostat), and “My RSS” feeds.  “My Art” should also
    be included.  Wasn’t Bill Gates running around buying up all the digital rights to fine art a while
    back? 

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living room:

1. Produce a standalone HDTV unit. The development and expected delivery of this unit should be announced immediately.
2. Provide Ethernet connectivity to their HDTV unit and include the ability to share recorded files with a
   Windows-based PC. The fact that the Ethernet ports are disabled on the Hughes HR10-250 is simply
   ridiculous. 
3. Provide a DVD burner with all units. Copying should be as simple as selecting a program and pressing “Burn to
   disc” on a menu.
4. Create a “My Pictures” and “My Music” option for their HDTV units that can access a music and picture library via
   an Ethernet connection. The current HDTV unit does not allow the TiVo Home Media option.
5. Offer a software package for sale that will run on any Windows-based PC. TiVo should leverage their name brand
   recognition and become a powerful software player.
6. Create WiFi-enabled devices to access TiVo media from any television in the house.  I would also mention
   this as a must for Microsoft as well, were it not for the fact that they have already announced that this technology
   is on it’s way in the form of “extender” units due out by the end of this year.
7. Provide the ability to connect external hard drives. The robust 250GB drive on my Hughes HR10-250 will be a
   dinosaur in a few years, and you shouldn’t have to hack into your TiVo box to upgrade storage.
8. Improve their recommendation feature. The thumbs up / thumbs down system is good, but it frequently gets derailed
   by erroneous entries, changes in taste, etc. Like Microsoft’s “My Music” ratings, at present TiVo ratings are limited
   one user per box. Tivo should allow profile ratings so that my wife and I could each set our own ratings.
9. Similar to my suggestion for Microsoft, TiVo should develop a “My Radio” feature, and also develop a similar host
   of external applications including email, RSS feed reader, home automation, alarm, lights, shades, security, “My
   Art,” etc.
10. Merge with a cash flow positive company. TiVo is losing money. Yes, the talk turns to profitability at some point
    but at the present they do not have the bank account that Microsoft does to fend off lawsuits and the like. A
    possible merger candidate would be Netflix who does have real earnings. There are board relationships as well as
    corporate synergies where this might work.

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Thomas Hawk is a digital media writer and enthusiast living in the San Francisco Bay area.

Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must
each do to win the living room -
Features - features.engadget.com

Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must
each do to win the living room -
Features - features.engadget.com 08/12/2004 01:20 PM
Excellent article at Engadget yesterday by guest commentator Thomas Hawk .. Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must each do to win the living room

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When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio

When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio 01/03/2004 12:11 AM
If you play an instrument, write songs, sing, or wish you could do any or all of the above, take a look at DigiDesign's amazing little Mbox, a complete audio production system with many uses. By Bob LeVitus (Mac Observer via MyAppleMenu)

""I�m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
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""I�m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I�m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I�ve..." 07/13/2004 03:21 AM

Oldest Supported Software?

Oldest Supported Software? 12/20/2003 04:56 PM
Dave Santek writes "In development since the early 1970s, the McIDAS [Man computer Interactive Data Access System] software celebrated its 30th anniversary in ...

96-Year-Old Mayor May Be Oldest in U.S.
(AP)

96-Year-Old Mayor May Be Oldest in U.S.
(AP) 12/22/2004 01:02 AM
AP - In a community where everyone is over 55, it's fitting that Mayor Dorothy Geeben's age has made her a celebrity of sorts. At 96, Geeben may be the nation's oldest mayor. She's so well- liked in her the retirement community of nearly 1,000 that no one is opposing her re-election this week, and her next two-year term will last through the end of 2006, or nine months past her 98th birthday.

Oldest Working PC (redux)

Oldest Working PC (redux) 01/22/2004 03:09 AM
More letters Spaced out

Outback Mongrel Could Be Oldest Dog (AP)

Outback Mongrel Could Be Oldest Dog (AP) 07/12/2004 07:40 AM
AP - A 26-year-old mongrel living with an Aboriginal family in Australia's Outback has the potential to become the world's oldest living dog, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Earth's oldest object

Earth's oldest object 04/09/2005 01:15 PM
USA Today Apr 9 2005 5:00PM GMT

Hunt on for London's oldest PC

Hunt on for London's oldest PC 06/15/2004 08:32 AM
Wanted: steam-driven antiquity

Search is on for London's oldest PC

Search is on for London's oldest PC 06/16/2004 07:01 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 16 2004 11:18AM GMT

Sweden's Oldest Twins Turning 100 (AP)

Sweden's Oldest Twins Turning 100 (AP) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
AP - They have lived for 200 years between them, but Sweden's oldest pair of twins had never seen anything like this before. Holding up a birthday cake and two bouquets of flowers, Siri Ingvarsson and Gunhild Gaellstedt seemed bewildered by the number of photographers huddled around them in the living room of Gaellstedt's Stockholm apartment earlier this week.

Oldest hummingbird fossils found

Oldest hummingbird fossils found 05/07/2004 02:10 AM
A pair of 30 million-year-old fossils from southern Germany are the oldest fossil hummingbirds, a researcher says.

Intel and HP find oldest working PC

Intel and HP find oldest working PC 01/16/2004 11:03 AM
The Register Jan 16 2004 10:15AM GMT

Oldest galaxy found behind big cluster

Oldest galaxy found behind big cluster 02/16/2004 01:14 PM
Always in the last place you look

Oldest insect delights experts

Oldest insect delights experts 02/11/2004 05:42 PM
A tiny fossil preserved in red sandstone from Scotland has been identified as the oldest known insect.

Earth's Oldest Known Object on Display
(AP)

Earth's Oldest Known Object on Display
(AP) 04/08/2005 05:46 PM
AP - A tiny speck of zircon crystal that is barely visible to the eye is believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old. For the first time ever, the public will have a chance to see the particle Saturday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where researchers in 2001 made the breakthrough discovery that the early Earth was much cooler than previously believed based on analysis of the crystal.

The Oldest Americans May Prove Even
Older

The Oldest Americans May Prove Even
Older 06/29/2004 02:27 AM
If one scientist is right, American prehistory is being extended deeper in time at a remote dig site in South Carolina.

Could this be the world's oldest woman?
(Reuters)

Could this be the world's oldest woman?
(Reuters) 01/18/2004 12:33 PM
Reuters - A Chechen great-great-grandmother born in 1881 could be the oldest woman in the world, Russian state television reports, saying she pipped the current record holder by eight years.

Fossils reveal oldest wildfire

Fossils reveal oldest wildfire 04/27/2004 11:44 AM
Scientists have discovered evidence for the earliest known wildfire in Earth's history, the journal Geology reports.

Upgrade-oldest 0.2 (Default branch)

Upgrade-oldest 0.2 (Default branch) 02/01/2005 09:45 PM
Upgrade-oldest selectively upgrades a Debian system by upgrading the packages with the oldest and most significant version numbers. It can be limited to certain sections, and the level of version differece necessary to trigger an upgrade can be controlled.

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Changes:
The basic functionality is working. A Debian package is installable. Table and xml output were added. The --output= option was added.

Conn. Man, 70, Oldest to Swim Channel
(AP)

Conn. Man, 70, Oldest to Swim Channel
(AP) 08/29/2004 08:38 AM
AP - A retired Connecticut pilot has become the oldest person to swim the English Channel. George Brunstad, 70, left Dover, England, Saturday morning heading for the French Coast. He finished shortly after midnight, said Mike Oram of the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation.

Thyne Oldest Known Tech Manual

Thyne Oldest Known Tech Manual 01/28/2004 06:41 PM
Slashdot Jan 28 2004 9:03PM GMT

World's Oldest Worker Quits at 104 (AP)

World's Oldest Worker Quits at 104 (AP) 04/14/2004 10:33 AM
AP - A man billed as the world's oldest worker is calling it quits.

Tiny Shells May Be Oldest Known Beads

Tiny Shells May Be Oldest Known Beads 04/19/2004 05:41 PM
In a cave in southern Africa, people apparently had a mind to make a statement with jewelry, some 30,000 years earlier than any previously identified personal ornaments.

Hubble Snaps Farthest / Oldest Galaxy

Hubble Snaps Farthest / Oldest Galaxy 02/16/2004 09:08 AM

Fossil Find is World's Oldest Insect

Fossil Find is World's Oldest Insect 02/12/2004 01:29 AM

Collaboration across 120 years yields
"oldest" movie ever

Collaboration across 120 years yields
"oldest" movie ever 04/11/2004 10:36 AM
In 1882, astronomer David Peck Todd shot 147 consecutive plates of the transit of Venus across the night sky. Now, two modern astronomers at the Lick Observatory have scanned them and turned them into a Quicktime movie -- a film "shot" years before Edison made his first moving picture. This makes me wonder if we'll be able to pull off neat tricks like imrpovising stereoscopic, moving, and/or panoramic images of the present at some time in the future, say by pulling thousands of moblogged images of a single event off the net and using software to interpolate and assemble them.

Spurred by a reference in one of Todd's letters in Lick's Mary Lea Shane Archives, Bill Sheehan and I found all 147 negatives, still in good condition, at the observatory. To our knowledge, this collection of photos constitutes the most complete surviving record of a historical transit of Venus.

As we looked at Todd's extensive sequence of images, we realized we could turn them into a movie. A similar thought may have occurred to Todd himself, for a number of his contemporaries were already making the first forays into chronophotography — the recording of sequential motion and the forerunner of cinematography. Indeed, Pierre Jules Janssen invented his famous photographic revolver to capture the 1874 transit of Venus.

Link (via /.)

Update: The Slashdot discussion< /a> points to even older examples of this, like animations of Gal ileo's 1613 sunspot drawings.

Singapore's oldest Viagra user is 99
(Reuters)

Singapore's oldest Viagra user is 99
(Reuters) 05/05/2004 07:04 AM
Reuters - Singapore's oldest user of Viagra is 99.

Lebanese Woman Could Be World's Oldest
-- at 126 (Reuters)

Lebanese Woman Could Be World's Oldest
-- at 126 (Reuters) 06/15/2004 07:04 AM
Reuters - A Lebanese woman who has documents saying she was born in 1877 -- making her at least 126 years old -- could be the oldest person in the world.

Ala. Bird Named World's Oldest Chicken
(AP)

Ala. Bird Named World's Oldest Chicken
(AP) 06/17/2004 04:10 PM
AP - Matilda really is a magic chicken. Long a prop in a magician's show, the hen has been certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living chicken.

Reward offered in hunt for UK's oldest
PC

Reward offered in hunt for UK's oldest
PC 06/17/2004 05:12 AM
Silicon.com Jun 17 2004 9:04AM GMT

Fossil find is oldest land animal

Fossil find is oldest land animal 01/25/2004 08:15 AM
Experts say a fossil found on an Aberdeenshire beach is that of the oldest creature ever to live on land.

Oldest U.S. bank robber gets 12 years
(Reuters)

Oldest U.S. bank robber gets 12 years
(Reuters) 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
Reuters - The oldest bank robber in the United States, 92-year-old J.L. Hunter Rountree, has been sentenced to over 12 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to robbing $1,999 (1,100 pounds) from a Texas bank last August.

Insect Fossil Is Declared World's Oldest

Insect Fossil Is Declared World's Oldest 02/11/2004 04:20 PM
The 400 million-year-old set of jaws lay unrecognized for nearly a century in a drawer at the Natural History Museum in London.

World's Oldest Man Dies at 114 in Spain
(Reuters)

World's Oldest Man Dies at 114 in Spain
(Reuters) 03/08/2004 11:25 PM
Reuters - A retired Spanish shoemaker who was officially the world's oldest man has died at his home at the age of 114, his family said on Saturday.

Oldest Person Dies at 114 in Puerto Rico
(AP)

Oldest Person Dies at 114 in Puerto Rico
(AP) 05/31/2004 06:49 PM
AP - Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan, who at age 114 was recognized as the world's oldest person, has died after a bout with pneumonia, her family said Monday.

World's Oldest Nuke Plant Closes

World's Oldest Nuke Plant Closes 06/30/2004 12:56 PM
CBS News Jun 30 2004 5:44PM GMT
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