Also, I skipped airport layovers but I included Indiana, which I drove through but never technically set foot in.
- Kevin Fox
And I swear I've been to Utah but I can't remember w-- Oh! Right. Driving trip of the western states when I was 6 years old. Okay, Utah, too.
- Kevin Fox
TiVo should make a Roku-sized box with 16gigs of flash and the full TiVo UX. Nobody wants full-sized AV components anymore.
Could flash, even SLC flash, stand up to the rewrite cycles of a DVR? Wouldn't you be better off with an iPod classic size HD? I really doubt the HD (even with cooling) keeps the box as big as it is.
- Andrew C (✓)
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-slc... - SLC rated for 100K write cycles, MLC for 3K write cycles. So back of envelope, 64 GB of flash MLC would be good for 3 years before crapping out if you've got the box recording 24/7, but SLC would last long enough.
- Andrew C (✓)
I have 250GB in my DVRs, and it's not enough. OTOH, high-capacity DVRs are a form of lock-in with the provider (and its antiquated hardware model).
- Tinfoil 2.0
OTOH, everything is available as streaming, so why have any local storage at all?
- Steve and 4 other people
Not legally. Not at any price. And many (most?) people don' have the bandwidth or caps necesary for all-streaming, all the time.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Steve, huh? Who tosses around uncompressed HD? Most HD is closer to a gig an hour.
- Kevin Fox
from iPhone
"uncompressed" HD comes right off the cable or antenna, so TiVo-style. The 1G/hr stuff is what you find on teh internetz. Or, are you thinking "download & play" for this thing?
- Steve and 4 other people
Based on the specs for the TiVo premiere (500 GB, 75 hours of HD advertised), they're running at ~6.7 GB an hour. So 16 GB would give you ~2.4 hours. Probably couldn't get everything you need to transcode to something like h.264/h.265 in a Roku-sized box. It would take forever to do it, too (definitely not on the fly).
- Mark Trapp
The TiVo Stream encodes HD video down to 1.2gigs an hour in realtime. It doesn't take a big box to house and feed an mpeg encoder chip.
- Kevin Fox
The HD video I get off comcast is pretty highly compressed. The only place you'll find uncompressed HD is OTA, which is why the latest TiVos *only* write bytestreams from cablecards, so they don't do any compression themselves.
- Kevin Fox
That's true: I wonder why Tivo advertises such conservative storage capacities, then. If it's as densely packed as the 2nd gen Apple TV, it doesn't look like you'd be able to fit the cable card housing inside a Roku-sized box, but you'd have room to spare in a 1st-gen Apple TV/Mac Mini sized box. Still much smaller than a traditional Tivo/set top box.
- Mark Trapp
True, and instead of onboard flash you could have a microSD card slot like the Roku has. Granted, companies like to get high margins on high capacity boxes, but they could just sell it with 8gb flash and bundle a 64gb microSD for a good amount of storage.
- Kevin Fox
Mostly, I just think the full-sized TiVo isn't a good fit for dorm rooms. It's not bedroom friendly due to size and fan, which is why they made the TiVo Mini, but that's just a slave device to a full TiVo. A small standalone box without a spinning disk or fan is very appealing.
- Kevin Fox
A 1.8" disk might not need a cooling fan.
- Andrew C (✓)
1.8" is interesting. I'd be a little worried about their MTBF if they're always reading and writing, and I'm not sure if you'd get much of a price savings over flash for ~160GB, but it's possible. Heck, Apple still sells 160GB 1.8" HD iPod Classics.
- Kevin Fox
The biggest thing I wonder about this is how to get a cableCARD slot into such a small form factor.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
This is the first time I've been on Friendfeed in about a month... I'm not sure what that means...
Heh. my 'month off' was more of a month ON. Work's kicking into a higher gear, where I'm making all kinds of other lists and kicking things off of them.
- Kevin Fox
I had President's Day off when I worked as a planner for a local government agency. That was the only time that I can recall. Not sure if public employees get it as a holiday these days. #austerity
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Reminds me of that viral photo of the orchard that grew pears in Buddha molds. You can sometimes see this in nature in that you'll see an apple that got red from the sun but has a leaf print from where the leaf shielded it.
- Spidra Webster
True fact: 70.72% of FriendFeed's public life has elapsed *after* the Facebook acquisition.
Excellent post - enjoyed the use cases. Three things, though: 1) I love wearing a nice, old school watch. 2) I hate the idea of being tethered to a phone. 3) I'm not looking forward to the inevitable state laws that ban us looking at our watch when driving.
- Ryan Kaisoglus
Holy crap. TiVo is up over 7% today on extremely quiet and vague acquisition rumors. To sell right now or ride it out?
And there's the Tacoma Dome! Haven't been in there for 20 years! I saw an exhibition game of the Pittsburgh Penquins and the L.A. Kings there. Naturally both Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretsky sat out the entire game. :(
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
If I were still designing FriendFeed, I'd make a page where you could perform group actions on friends, and sort them based on various criteria, like engagement. I wanna chop out the 95% of people I follow who don't come here anymore but clutter my feed with their tweets.
As a short term workaround until you prune who you follow, how about mass hiding a bunch of services like twitter unless there's a comment or like?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
It's in the API, so it can be done 3rd party.
- Gimminy
Yeah, the API may be the way to go. I don't wanna miss stuff from some important people.
- Kevin Fox
I have a tool to find your friends whose entries you don't like or comment: http://kapranoff.ru/cgi.... I use it regularly to weed out subscriptions.
- Alex Kapranoff
@kkapp now you have to translate the interface, or they would not know that the first form is for your frf nick and the second asks for remotekey in case of private feeds
- Woman and Unwoman
hide + "hide other items like this one" has served that purpose well for me
- Ken Sheppardson
On a sidenote, deja vu: Google+ just added Communities. Friendfeed is in my personal apps hall of fame for the best usability & tech.
- Philipp Lenssen
I stayed sane only by hiding all tweets unless they have comments.
- Amit Patel
Comments, eh? Now I want to MST3K the tweets of people who don't come here anymore. Oh wait, that would be mean.
- Larry Hosken
I want to be there with a video camera (what's a video camera?) when the FF offices get torn down.
I've got an AR.Drone. I may totally do that.
- Kevin Fox
Wait, doesn't Ben live in the server room? Someone should warn him. They'd need to go in, he won't hear the phone if he's on the treadmill that charges the batteries.
- Le Slip Anglais
from Android
I hope Eye-Fi moves out first, or they're gonna have a really bad day that day. (They do have a new site, and a moving date planned, so don't worry.)
- Brian Johns
Make sure you zoom in uncomfortably close on the Indian (Native American) man standing to the side so you can see the tear drop from his eye.
- Josh Haley
Did we miss our chance to light the building on fire that was stuffed to the brim with wood tables and cardboard boxes? http://goo.gl/maps/r52uf
- Ross Miller
Looks like they might be building condos or apartments. You guys could go in with the Evernote and EyeFi folks to get a unit and turn it into a museum...
- Ken Sheppardson
Meraki could pitch in. They had our second place before us and they just got bought by Cisco for $1.2 billion.
- Kevin Fox
from iPhone
interesting, though, that your teachers didn't flat out say, "I can't write you a recommendation that is going to do you any good."
- Laura Norvig
Yep. That would have been a nicer way for them to handle it. I did have other teachers I could have gone to, but I was idealistic and felt a recommendation from someone who knew me better would be better than one from someone who would write a generally positive recommendation.
- Kevin Fox
My next choices would have been my Physics teacher who knew I was brilliant (I was better at Physics in high school than I was at anything else) but whose class I didn't do *any* assignments, since assignments were 10% of our grade and tests were 90%. The tests had extra credit, so as long as I scored more than 100% on the test I'd skip the next assignment. Then two weeks before the end...
more...
- Kevin Fox
Ahmet, after I graduated they got married and started a family a few years later, and one of them passed away a few years after that. He had a chronic illness for a long time, and I figure his widow and their daughter have enough going on in their lives without me giving them a backhanded compliment. :-)
- Kevin Fox
You were a horrible procrastinator in high school? I was one of the best.
- Brian Johns
Good read. Glad it worked out in the long run. I'm sure I would have demanded to see what they wrote after I got 6 rejection letters...
- Ken Gidley
I already had a BMUG pang earlier this week. Now I do again. Those were the days...
- Spidra Webster
I think I found the only way I'll shop at Best Buy. Shop online and do in-store pickup. As long as they're capable of selecting the right items of the shelves, I don't have to go into the den of iniquity that is the Best Buy floor.
My experience with the ability of the staff to pick the right item has been mixed. Worked the first two times, the third they tried to claim that I had a false receipt and threatened to call the cops unless I left. I threatened to call them instead, and magically they found the item and my order #. (I reported them after leaving.)
- Jennifer Dittrich