A Tivo owner reviews a Cable DVR

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* Dave Platt Wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:

> "If builders built buildings the way
> programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along
> would destroy civilization."

Stealing this for my sig file

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David

 

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>> "If builders built buildings the way
>> programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along
>> would destroy civilization."
>
>Stealing this for my sig file

That's cool - but please attribute it properly (to Weinberg, not to
me). I'm already sailing under the moral burden of being attributed
as being the author of one such quote, which I actually heard from a
gent named Dale Luck and believe may have originally come from the pen
of John Dijkstra ("Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.")

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Dave Platt wrote:

> In that sense, you're right. We're in trouble. If you want to be
> absolutely, 100% certain that an arbitrary computer program is
> correct... you can't be.

Coincidentally, this topic came up on the comp.risks newsgroup.
http/catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.73.html#subj5

> Weinberg's Second Law: "If builders built buildings the way
> programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along
> would destroy civilization."

The punch line: http/catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.74.html#subj2.11
"Oh," the architect said, "but that's just how they do build them."

-Joe

 

[Sean]

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:59:27 GMT, Jack Zwick <jzwick3@mindspring.com>
wrote:

>In article <0qv9119jar2pva8652atpitbtpih2k7kh1@4ax.com>,
> Martin O'Brien <usenet@martinobrien.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:03:30 -0500, Sean <none> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Here is my favorite part:
>> >
>> >In fact, it took me all of about 10 minutes of playing around with
>> >this device to decide I'd relegate my Tivo to the bedroom, replacing
>> >it with the Motorola 6400 in the theater room. There is simply no
>> >contest in terms of the hardware features between Tivo retail boxes
>> >and the HD DVR.
>> >
>> >It took me about 5 minutes to figure that out.
>> >
>> >Here is the link if you Tivo Rumpswabs dare to read it.
>> >
>> >http/www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=30798
>
>It says the Motorola can provide a whoping 10 hours of HD recording.
>
>

My Motorola can do 15 hours of HD. Something like 90+ hours of digital
channels and some other amount of hardly ever watched analog
channels.

It's more than enough for me.

Sean