• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On July 31, 2006

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Why do DVRs suck: reliability or user experience?

A Microsoft friend of mine was quoted in a CNET article this morning (Why my cable DVR stinks). Arvind (whose last name was misspelled in the article) said (and this is something I’ve heard from him before) that the rich-client, local processing model that Windows Media Center uses is a much better way to provide [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On July 31, 2006

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Here comes the science (er, not)

I got a glimpse into the mind of global warming deniers today, as I was waiting for my lunch in a pizza shop near my office. Abutting a story about The Independent Republic of California doing a deal with the UK to create an international market in greenhouse emissions (not itself a bad thing) was [...]