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Comment Re:Old-school option (Score 1) 124

>Personally, if im bound by law to make loud
>sounds on my efficient and quiet vehicle, Iâ(TM)m
>inclined to make it the Peter Griffon awkward l
>laugh track.

Actually, I'm holding out for the Enterprise's main phasers (from Start Trek, not it's spinoffs!)

Possibly interspersed with photon torpedoes as it accelerates.

Comment Re:Good idea? IPOs and SPAC have a bad history (Score 2) 54

As an economist, I cringe at the typical IPO and related culture and expectations.

A huge runup in price on your IPO does *NOT* mean you've done well, or were a good choice.

It means that you *SCREWED UP*! You sold pieces of your company for less than people were willing to pay!

I would much prefer to see the new equity issued in a treasury style auction (price set at the highest price that sells them all, with everyone bidding that price or above receiving stock), a transparent direct sale into the market on an announced schedule, or one or more "dutch auctions", in which the price counts down from an initial high price until someone accepts (variants include anyone else being able to buy at the price before the clock resets).

And there's really no reason for investment bankers to be taking a fat seven or eight figure cut of the proceeds. The could either be done in house, or by firms that do it regularly. None are rocket science!

doc hawk

Comment Re:Investing not vendor financing (Score 0) 45

Also people seem to assume this is true

not actually supported by real consumer demand

I work at one of the big companies involved in this situation. All I know is, we cannot deploy solutions fast enough for the number of customers we have much less the rate at which demand is growing.

Many are startups and many are big companies still doing pilot projects. It all could go away. But it is not just VC dollars and George Forman AI Grills; at least for the Fortune500 types, there is an awful lot of actual business efficiency being realized or they would not keep sending us money and requests for more capacity/lower latency

Comment "sustain the development" (Score 1) 88

Yeah, nobody is buying this "sustain the development" nonsense.

Somebody needs to keep the servers patched. Somebody needs to keep the app targeting an API that the app stores will host. Bose can afford maybe 1.5 FTE's with redundancy on a rolling basis.

Did they ignore due diligence for a decade and just get nabbed running RHEL 5 and unlicensed Oracle Java on an old VMWare or something?

If Bose is a public corporation perhaps the FTC should have a look at their deliberations.

Comment Re:software abandonment (Score 1) 67

the only think that doesn't "work" as vivo claims, at least that I can remember at the moment, is that season passes got sloppy on rescheduled programs--sometines it catches the reschedule, and other times it doesn't.

The rest are dropped features--some outright, like suggestions and continuous recording, and others hidden behind an "upgrade", like the ability to record all series premiers.

They've dropped everything that distinguishes a tiro from any other dvd--well, except for needing to pay them for s subscription, I suppose. And their rf remote control is nice; hopefully I can get it to talk to the pi for mythic (although realistically, I'd usually run it through my appletv and that remote)

Comment software abandonment (Score 1) 67

They abandoned everything *in* the software that mad a Tivo desirable well before this. It had been just another DVR for some time.

Season passes that worked? Gone.

Subscribing to things like series premieres? Gone.

Suggestions? Gone.

We had a roamio with a lifetime subscription, and dumped it at yet another cox cable price increase.

By that time, we realized that pretty much everything we watched was on broadcast.

We got an orange pi (what a disaster! don't!), an hdhomerun quattro, and a terabyte disk.

we've been using the Quattro's dvd functions, and they've been "good enough" that other projects are ahead of getting the raspberry pi running.

Comment Re:Music and sound effects (Score 1) 38

Music & Sound effects shouldn't even be on the same channel as voice!

Adding channels on a digital distribution isn't as complicated as what it takes to broadcast & decode stereo audio, whether AM or FM.

And then add a "relative volume" slider so that regular volume controls both (or even let the user choose a curve so that music doesn't increase as much as speech [or more, if the user prefers])

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