Formats with Self-Protecting Digital Content(TM) solve this problem by enabling discs to carry their own security software that runs in a tiny security interpreter (VM) in each player. This software can identify and correct security problems in the player, re-establishing secure playback without revoking legitimate users' players. This capability is called system renewability or true renewability.
Who thought this up? Emulation of a player's security VM in software would eliminate the renewability of the security anyway, just as a comprimised key would. You'd have to resort to revoking the ability of a certain hacked or emulated VM to decrypt the content anyway.
This whole thing is asinine. With the right equipment you can make bit-for-bit copies of CSS-protected DVD's, thus "pirating" them withouth having to break any security whatsoever. It would be reasonable to assume this may be possible with any HD disc format as well. With any HD player, unless you integrate the codec processor into the security processor, you can probably build some hardware to get at the decrypted datastream too (169time.com does this type of hack).
DirecTV and digital cable and all that use this same model, only this replaces the smartcard with essentially a more limited type of smartcard on each disc. The model works with directv because to hack it you must be able to decrypt the live stream for immediate viewing. With a DVD this is not the case - you only need to be able to decrypt it once then distribute the decrypted copy. Only one person need have a hacked piece of hardware to accomplish this. This is where the true "priacy" is taking place anyawy. All this new junk does is just make players more expensive and discs harder to watch.
Yes, but what you are describing is an *actual* firewall that is inspecting traffic at a higher level than consumer gateway devices. Although they are sometimes termed 'firewalls' (and I may have used that designation when talking about them in my first comment) I was by no means implying that there were not alternative UDP NAT implementaitons that are better or more secure.
But then again, this technology is primarily aimed at the home-nat-router owners and will see its major benefit from that crowd anyway. I don't even know anyone with a broadband connection that does not use some kind of cheap router -- even the ones with only one computer use them for the (minute) amount of protection they afford. Making a wild guess that 50% of P2P software users are using such a device and do not know how to properly configure tunnels through it, it's reasonable to assume that there is 50% of a network's optimal utalization going untapped.
I have been really wondering when someone was going to do this for P2P apps. Compared to how much other software actually uses the same techniques, it's long overdue. There seems to be some misconceptions on how it works though in the comments here, so I'll try to do a simple explination:
UDP is stateless. There is no connection setup like there is with TCP so there's really no way for a firewall or gateway to statefully track where to send UDP packets, so the typical implementation for NAT'ing UDP is something of a 'best guess' scenario, redirecting certain packets based on port numbers and IP's. These new applications take advantage of this synchronous behavior of NAT devices to permit direct connection between client computers where both are behind NAT firewalls.
NAT of UDP is generally implemented like this: If you begin sending UDP from source port 2000 on your computer to a remote host on port 5000, then the router doing NAT will automatically open up a 'hole' that allows any UDP packet from the remote host from source port 5000 to destination port 2000 on your machine to pass through to you. This is sort of how it works with TCP too; however the firewall only opens up the 'holes' when connections are first set up and only allows packets with correct sequence numbers to pass back through.
Essentially how it works is that two clients decide to "connect" and agree on port numbers, etc through some third host that both can reach via tcp. They then begin broadcasting UDP data to each other. Once a packet goes out from both hosts, the two 'holes' in the firewall will open up. Probably at least one packet will not actually arrive at its indended destination; however, the software can implement its own robust transfer protocol over UDP.
Games have been doing this forever. QuakeWorld (the Quake 1 client tailored to internet play) was one of the first to implement it. Most implentations of SIP support this type of connection.
Enjoy your $80 bulbs. I am enjoying the heck out of my $6 30W compact flourescents and saving almost as much energy as you are! Assuming an outrageous price for electricity at 15c/kWh and running your 4 bulbs 10 hours per night, you save 4.8 cents per day versus compact flourescent.
You will have to hang on to those bulbs for 18 years before they break even.
Well, either your math is wrong or you are severely underestimating the amount of power needed for a comparable amount of light output from compact flourescent or LED or both.
The 100W bulb does cost you $52, yes. But a 30W compact flourescent and a 22W led fixture are actually costing you $15.60 and $11.44 to run respectively. The incandescent bulb costs around a dollar or less. The flourescent about $6, and the LED about $80.
You have easily justified the use of compact flourescent; however, the argument for LED's still does not hold yet except in cases where there is something other than the cost of electricity and bulb to consider in the replacement, which is exactly what I said. I never said incandescent bulbs would be cheaper. I guess I should have specified vs compact flourescent.
While this software is indeed a replacement driver for the touchpad, it's not required to use it. It's an alternate driver that lets it do things that it was not originally designed to do. If they were to instead sell me some replacement touchpad hardware that had two or three buttons and a scroll wheel, then I'd probably be a little miffed if they wanted me to dish out $15 to make it work, but this is not the case. There are plenty of PC notebooks out there that lack the ability to scroll with the touchpad or the ability to middle click, etc., so it's not like the problem is unique to a mac. You can find plenty of mouse gesture software for purchase for windows, and this is pretty much in the same vein of sidetrack, although it is implemented differently.
You do of course realize that due to the economics of mass production, there is a *lot* of computer hardware sold these days that is artifically limited or othewise crippled by software drivers or firmware, right? Everything from your motherboard chipset to the IDE controller, soundcard, NIC, videocard, CD/DVD burner, etc. is probably capable of delivering more features or performance than you are getting from it. With your argument, I don't know why people are paying anything for anything!
Also keep in mind that their calculator does not figure the time-value of money into the equation at all. If you plan on doing anything better with your cash than investing in LED lighting products, the break even will NEVER, EVER happen -- at least for a homeowner.
LED bulbs are making a bit more business sense in certain commercial installations where you actually have to pay a human being a minimum feee for an hour or so of labor to go replace a few lightbulbs. Especially in situations where the bulbs are so difficult to reach that it takes a few hours to actually change them and causes an inconveneince for other people while they are being changed -- the fee to change a bulb could easily outstretch the cost of LED lighting. Often in situations where 'expensive' bulb changes happen, they will change all the bulbs at the same time even if they don't need it simply because all the rigging and labor will be there and ready to go.
Actually it's a synaptics touchpad hardware/driver feature. The touchpad normally emulates a PS2 mouse; however, there is a 'raw' mode that you can put the hardware into that basically returns the position of the user's finger on the pad. This allows you to do a lot of different things in software such as simulate a scroll wheel when the user tracks up and down the right edge, horizontally scroll when the user tracks on the bottom edge, perform browsing back/forward actions on the top edge, simulate extra mouse buttons with corner taps, etc.
A really really good implementation of a raw-mode synaptics driver is available for MacOS as SideTrack. It used to be free while it was in beta. Now it is $15 and a heck of a good deal. It fixes the powerbooks' problem of lacking a right mousebutton and scroll wheel while giving all sorts of extra enhancements that really make that one button mouse a lot more usable.
Publishers will almost always take the data in a different format (iso) or on tape. Why do you assume that just because you are giving them the data on CD they are copying all the bit errors on the disc? They probably just stick it in a drive and read the data track with error correction (and make test disc or two to be sure) before feeding it to the presses for mass production.
Please, one call to your publisher would have had this explained to you.
I called linksys about a broken AP that would not connect to the network -- would not connect in that the LINK LIGHT would not indicate a physical connection. I checked for bent/crossed/crushed pins in the ethernet connector, and tried it on about 4 different hubs/switches/nics. I forced every combination of speed and duplex at it just to be sure. I swapped cables and tried different lengths. After all that I expected, "Wow this will be a quick call." It took almost two hours to convince the guy in India to issue an RMA.
I think what tech support needs is some kind of universal system that passes a caller to a support person based on the caller's level of competence. Sometimes "Send me directly to level 2/3/whatever" works, but not often.
Well as for Mac's -- I don't know if it's part of the culture of the things or what, but there are TONS of mac appps out there that "phone home" to an extent that is generally not tolerated in PC software. A lot of apps even spew network traffic when they start/while they are running to enforce licensing between machines on the LAN. Rather than protest the vendors' applications, though, the community responds as it typically does -- with a ~$10 app named "Little Snitch" that catches this activity. I have never tested it either, but I kind of wonder whether or not "Little Snitch" phones home also...
You would think that a company specalizing in image processing would be extremely concious of all the JPEG artifacting all over the images on their site.
Of course they have been linked fro a lot of sites in the last couple of days... Maybe they are actually reducing their bandwidth usage by recompressing all of the images on their site? I never saw it before, so I really don't know.
You think they cost anywhere close to $0.75 to actually print? Those machiens don't much care the area they are printing. 4x6 photographs can be printed on average for 20 cents or.833 cents/in^2 at retail prices (though you can find some poaces that print 4x6's for less than 15c each). That should price an 8x10 at 67 cents at the same rate based on area. It's not like an 8x10 print is unnecessarily oversize for a standard photo printer or that producing them has any higher cost or margin of error, so the fact that some places choose to charge 3 to 4 times the equivalent rate (or more) to print them doesn't mean that you have to pay it. A 20"x30" print is another matter.
I was incorrect in saying that you can get them from wal-mart, but that does not mean they are not available elsewhere at a reasonable price.
There was a cafiteria at a building I used to work in that charged management and the new folks began charging 25c for an 8oz cup of coffee and 75c for a 16oz cup. They wondered why they were always selling people two cups of coffee. They finally figured it out that this was not an anazingly effective strategy, though, and decreased the price of the larger cup to avoid wasting money on tons of extra 8oz styrofoam cups. We can hope the photo-printers figure this same thing out soon.
They are passable, but I would not ever call them "quality prints" -- the color toner will fade in sunlight, etc. much much faster than inkjet ink will. The main disadvantage in printing photos is that because the ink is not liquid it does not have any chance at all to mix with the other colors, thus the only way to create colors is via screen printing. Although the lasers are very high resolution, you can always tell the difference up close.
If you want the benefits of both types of printing, you can try picking up something like an ALPS MD-5000 "micro dry" printer from ebay. They have been discontinued for a long time, but they are remarkable printers. The MD5000 has a dye sublimiation add on that produces true-color "ink" dots on the page. They are 1200 DPI, and they hold up to 7 colors of ink including white and metallic. They can amazingly even print on stuff like FOIL. They are slow, though, and noisy, which a small price to pay for the capabilities and the low price.
Whatever place you are going to is ripping you off. The best camera shop in the city here only charges about $1.50 for the same service, and if you get your color profiles right and take them an appropriate file, even the cheap places like Wal Mart or a drug store photolab's machine will produce a very good print for about $0.75.
It used to be the case that digital prints were expensive like this, but not anymore. The last time I paid more than a couple of bucks for one was probably in 1995.
SMT is fiddly, sure, but a power connector that requires significant strain reliev is going to be thru-hole. But why even buy a new one? Just get rid of the old solder and put down some new stuff. It doesn't sound like the plug was physically damaged.
There are at minimum two conditions that would result in this happening. Either the car had a 'brake-by-wire' system where the braking was entierely computer controlled and the said system and all of the safety systems failed completely (doubtful in this case) or the complete brake system was depressurized, in which case it would have been plainly obvious if there was a failure.
Yes as documented everywhere the default WEP key of the 2wire device is printed on the label. They are randomly generated 40 bit hex keys. The numbers following the SSID are the last digits in the device's serial number. Although the device does have an AP built-in (and it's really a pretty good AP at that), it also does not transmit any packets (including broadcast) unless there is an associated station.
If you can find one with an associated station and capture a packet, it's going to take a fairly long time to brute force the key since it's not vulnerable to the 21-bit attack or an alpha/alphanumeric search.
Older 2wire units did not support 128 bit WEP at all. I would be very suprised if the new ones did not, but I don't know for sure if they do or don't. I do know that the default WEP key is still a 40 bit key. Anyway, if you do find a 2wire user out there savvy enough to use the wireless functionality, they might just be smart enough to figure out how to configure 128 bit WEP, too. It might be a fun project, but there are plenty of better things to do.
I imagine it can. I can confirm that BMW's SMG transmission in the M3 will go to neutral from any gear, as I have accidentally yanked it into neutral during a hard left corner at the track.
It might depend on the way the shift controls are set up. On the BMW you push up and down to shift (or use the paddles) and pull the stick to the left to go to neutral. I could see that if the transmission required you to downshift all the way to first before you could move to tell the car to go to neutral you would have a problem.
The other thing about sequential transmissions is that they will normally disengage the clutch automatically when you brake, effectively putting the car into neutral as well; however at least the M3 has a tendancy to keep power during light braking, so this could be a point of malfunction also, I suppose.
This sounds like the company that used to call up small computer manufacturers and threaten to sue them because their machines were sold with blinking cursors -- Patents on which originally tricked down to private "owners" from companies such as Raytheon (XOR) or IBM (Much less efficient method). Yes, the patents exist, but if you think every single piece of software that uses a blinking cursor licensed them, you have to be smoking some crack. Gee I hope my cell phone manufacturer is all paid up on that cursor!
Icon services in Mac OS/X up to 10.3 (Panther) support icons up to 128x128 pixels in size. The scaling algorithms are fast and dynamic, scaling between the large size icon and the smaller size icons as needed (this is why very small icon sizes still look good in OS X.
OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is supposed to include very robust support for DPI-independent rendering, greatly increasing the usability of high-resolution, high-ppi displays on the platform. As a result, the 128x128 icon limit seemed kind of small, so Tiger increases it to 256x256 pixels; however they are still raster images.
There are indeed advantages to using either approach for icons. Any robust vector format pretty much has to support embedded raster images anyway, thus a robust raster scaling algorithm in the renderer is necessary anyway. Leaving out all the vector stuff makes the code simpler, faster, and smaller with the only major disadvantage being that scaling icons beyond the 128x128 (256x256) is not going to result in really nice and crisp icons. The only time OS X overscales the icons is double clicking a launchable item, but the blurring effect is unnoticeable due to the alpha fade and quick animation.
So that I can record some TV to watch later... So that I can watch a DVD... So that I can continue to use my TV to watch TV without having to worry that the next time I rent a movie it will completely disable my television. Contrary to what you may believe, people like me are not all P2P crazed file swapping junkies. I purchase DVD's. I buy my digital music, and I pay my cable bill. I don't have time to rip and share every movie under the sun.
Have you actually read anything about how the C5 copy control is implemented? The 'analog hole' argument does not hold a lot of ground when re-digitizing the content or othewise storing it is prohibitively expensive, and as far as encryption not interefering with storage -- well I guess it shouldn't but it does, unfortunately. Have you tried to play a Divx (Circuit-city's version, not the codec) recently? You can be content storing an encrypted version all you want, but unless there is a 100% effective way to recover the original data, you are lost. The problem is not the crypto itself, but the copy control and how licenses are granted. The industry will happily grant a cable box manufacturer a device key after they can demonstrate their unit capable of respecting the copy control rules; however, they will never grant MythTV such a key even if the software becomes capable of respecting their copy control provisions. The reasoning, I guess, is that it would be easier to circumvent copy control in some open source software than it would be on a cable box.
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Formats with Self-Protecting Digital Content(TM) solve this problem by enabling discs to carry their own security software that runs in a tiny security interpreter (VM) in each player. This software can identify and correct security problems in the player, re-establishing secure playback without revoking legitimate users' players. This capability is called system renewability or true renewability.
Who thought this up? Emulation of a player's security VM in software would eliminate the renewability of the security anyway, just as a comprimised key would. You'd have to resort to revoking the ability of a certain hacked or emulated VM to decrypt the content anyway.
This whole thing is asinine. With the right equipment you can make bit-for-bit copies of CSS-protected DVD's, thus "pirating" them withouth having to break any security whatsoever. It would be reasonable to assume this may be possible with any HD disc format as well. With any HD player, unless you integrate the codec processor into the security processor, you can probably build some hardware to get at the decrypted datastream too (169time.com does this type of hack).
DirecTV and digital cable and all that use this same model, only this replaces the smartcard with essentially a more limited type of smartcard on each disc. The model works with directv because to hack it you must be able to decrypt the live stream for immediate viewing. With a DVD this is not the case - you only need to be able to decrypt it once then distribute the decrypted copy. Only one person need have a hacked piece of hardware to accomplish this. This is where the true "priacy" is taking place anyawy. All this new junk does is just make players more expensive and discs harder to watch.
Yes, but what you are describing is an *actual* firewall that is inspecting traffic at a higher level than consumer gateway devices. Although they are sometimes termed 'firewalls' (and I may have used that designation when talking about them in my first comment) I was by no means implying that there were not alternative UDP NAT implementaitons that are better or more secure.
But then again, this technology is primarily aimed at the home-nat-router owners and will see its major benefit from that crowd anyway. I don't even know anyone with a broadband connection that does not use some kind of cheap router -- even the ones with only one computer use them for the (minute) amount of protection they afford. Making a wild guess that 50% of P2P software users are using such a device and do not know how to properly configure tunnels through it, it's reasonable to assume that there is 50% of a network's optimal utalization going untapped.
I have been really wondering when someone was going to do this for P2P apps. Compared to how much other software actually uses the same techniques, it's long overdue. There seems to be some misconceptions on how it works though in the comments here, so I'll try to do a simple explination:
UDP is stateless. There is no connection setup like there is with TCP so there's really no way for a firewall or gateway to statefully track where to send UDP packets, so the typical implementation for NAT'ing UDP is something of a 'best guess' scenario, redirecting certain packets based on port numbers and IP's. These new applications take advantage of this synchronous behavior of NAT devices to permit direct connection between client computers where both are behind NAT firewalls.
NAT of UDP is generally implemented like this: If you begin sending UDP from source port 2000 on your computer to a remote host on port 5000, then the router doing NAT will automatically open up a 'hole' that allows any UDP packet from the remote host from source port 5000 to destination port 2000 on your machine to pass through to you. This is sort of how it works with TCP too; however the firewall only opens up the 'holes' when connections are first set up and only allows packets with correct sequence numbers to pass back through.
Essentially how it works is that two clients decide to "connect" and agree on port numbers, etc through some third host that both can reach via tcp. They then begin broadcasting UDP data to each other. Once a packet goes out from both hosts, the two 'holes' in the firewall will open up. Probably at least one packet will not actually arrive at its indended destination; however, the software can implement its own robust transfer protocol over UDP.
Games have been doing this forever. QuakeWorld (the Quake 1 client tailored to internet play) was one of the first to implement it. Most implentations of SIP support this type of connection.
Enjoy your $80 bulbs. I am enjoying the heck out of my $6 30W compact flourescents and saving almost as much energy as you are! Assuming an outrageous price for electricity at 15c/kWh and running your 4 bulbs 10 hours per night, you save 4.8 cents per day versus compact flourescent.
You will have to hang on to those bulbs for 18 years before they break even.
Well, either your math is wrong or you are severely underestimating the amount of power needed for a comparable amount of light output from compact flourescent or LED or both.
The 100W bulb does cost you $52, yes. But a 30W compact flourescent and a 22W led fixture are actually costing you $15.60 and $11.44 to run respectively. The incandescent bulb costs around a dollar or less. The flourescent about $6, and the LED about $80.
You have easily justified the use of compact flourescent; however, the argument for LED's still does not hold yet except in cases where there is something other than the cost of electricity and bulb to consider in the replacement, which is exactly what I said. I never said incandescent bulbs would be cheaper. I guess I should have specified vs compact flourescent.
While this software is indeed a replacement driver for the touchpad, it's not required to use it. It's an alternate driver that lets it do things that it was not originally designed to do. If they were to instead sell me some replacement touchpad hardware that had two or three buttons and a scroll wheel, then I'd probably be a little miffed if they wanted me to dish out $15 to make it work, but this is not the case. There are plenty of PC notebooks out there that lack the ability to scroll with the touchpad or the ability to middle click, etc., so it's not like the problem is unique to a mac. You can find plenty of mouse gesture software for purchase for windows, and this is pretty much in the same vein of sidetrack, although it is implemented differently.
You do of course realize that due to the economics of mass production, there is a *lot* of computer hardware sold these days that is artifically limited or othewise crippled by software drivers or firmware, right? Everything from your motherboard chipset to the IDE controller, soundcard, NIC, videocard, CD/DVD burner, etc. is probably capable of delivering more features or performance than you are getting from it. With your argument, I don't know why people are paying anything for anything!
Also keep in mind that their calculator does not figure the time-value of money into the equation at all. If you plan on doing anything better with your cash than investing in LED lighting products, the break even will NEVER, EVER happen -- at least for a homeowner.
LED bulbs are making a bit more business sense in certain commercial installations where you actually have to pay a human being a minimum feee for an hour or so of labor to go replace a few lightbulbs. Especially in situations where the bulbs are so difficult to reach that it takes a few hours to actually change them and causes an inconveneince for other people while they are being changed -- the fee to change a bulb could easily outstretch the cost of LED lighting. Often in situations where 'expensive' bulb changes happen, they will change all the bulbs at the same time even if they don't need it simply because all the rigging and labor will be there and ready to go.
Actually it's a synaptics touchpad hardware/driver feature. The touchpad normally emulates a PS2 mouse; however, there is a 'raw' mode that you can put the hardware into that basically returns the position of the user's finger on the pad. This allows you to do a lot of different things in software such as simulate a scroll wheel when the user tracks up and down the right edge, horizontally scroll when the user tracks on the bottom edge, perform browsing back/forward actions on the top edge, simulate extra mouse buttons with corner taps, etc.
A really really good implementation of a raw-mode synaptics driver is available for MacOS as SideTrack. It used to be free while it was in beta. Now it is $15 and a heck of a good deal. It fixes the powerbooks' problem of lacking a right mousebutton and scroll wheel while giving all sorts of extra enhancements that really make that one button mouse a lot more usable.
Publishers will almost always take the data in a different format (iso) or on tape. Why do you assume that just because you are giving them the data on CD they are copying all the bit errors on the disc? They probably just stick it in a drive and read the data track with error correction (and make test disc or two to be sure) before feeding it to the presses for mass production.
Please, one call to your publisher would have had this explained to you.
I called linksys about a broken AP that would not connect to the network -- would not connect in that the LINK LIGHT would not indicate a physical connection. I checked for bent/crossed/crushed pins in the ethernet connector, and tried it on about 4 different hubs/switches/nics. I forced every combination of speed and duplex at it just to be sure. I swapped cables and tried different lengths. After all that I expected, "Wow this will be a quick call." It took almost two hours to convince the guy in India to issue an RMA.
I think what tech support needs is some kind of universal system that passes a caller to a support person based on the caller's level of competence. Sometimes "Send me directly to level 2/3/whatever" works, but not often.
Well as for Mac's -- I don't know if it's part of the culture of the things or what, but there are TONS of mac appps out there that "phone home" to an extent that is generally not tolerated in PC software. A lot of apps even spew network traffic when they start/while they are running to enforce licensing between machines on the LAN. Rather than protest the vendors' applications, though, the community responds as it typically does -- with a ~$10 app named "Little Snitch" that catches this activity. I have never tested it either, but I kind of wonder whether or not "Little Snitch" phones home also...
You would think that a company specalizing in image processing would be extremely concious of all the JPEG artifacting all over the images on their site.
Of course they have been linked fro a lot of sites in the last couple of days... Maybe they are actually reducing their bandwidth usage by recompressing all of the images on their site? I never saw it before, so I really don't know.
John
You think they cost anywhere close to $0.75 to actually print? Those machiens don't much care the area they are printing. 4x6 photographs can be printed on average for 20 cents or .833 cents/in^2 at retail prices (though you can find some poaces that print 4x6's for less than 15c each). That should price an 8x10 at 67 cents at the same rate based on area. It's not like an 8x10 print is unnecessarily oversize for a standard photo printer or that producing them has any higher cost or margin of error, so the fact that some places choose to charge 3 to 4 times the equivalent rate (or more) to print them doesn't mean that you have to pay it. A 20"x30" print is another matter.
I was incorrect in saying that you can get them from wal-mart, but that does not mean they are not available elsewhere at a reasonable price.
There was a cafiteria at a building I used to work in that charged management and the new folks began charging 25c for an 8oz cup of coffee and 75c for a 16oz cup. They wondered why they were always selling people two cups of coffee. They finally figured it out that this was not an anazingly effective strategy, though, and decreased the price of the larger cup to avoid wasting money on tons of extra 8oz styrofoam cups. We can hope the photo-printers figure this same thing out soon.
They are passable, but I would not ever call them "quality prints" -- the color toner will fade in sunlight, etc. much much faster than inkjet ink will. The main disadvantage in printing photos is that because the ink is not liquid it does not have any chance at all to mix with the other colors, thus the only way to create colors is via screen printing. Although the lasers are very high resolution, you can always tell the difference up close.
If you want the benefits of both types of printing, you can try picking up something like an ALPS MD-5000 "micro dry" printer from ebay. They have been discontinued for a long time, but they are remarkable printers. The MD5000 has a dye sublimiation add on that produces true-color "ink" dots on the page. They are 1200 DPI, and they hold up to 7 colors of ink including white and metallic. They can amazingly even print on stuff like FOIL. They are slow, though, and noisy, which a small price to pay for the capabilities and the low price.
Whatever place you are going to is ripping you off. The best camera shop in the city here only charges about $1.50 for the same service, and if you get your color profiles right and take them an appropriate file, even the cheap places like Wal Mart or a drug store photolab's machine will produce a very good print for about $0.75.
It used to be the case that digital prints were expensive like this, but not anymore. The last time I paid more than a couple of bucks for one was probably in 1995.
SMT is fiddly, sure, but a power connector that requires significant strain reliev is going to be thru-hole. But why even buy a new one? Just get rid of the old solder and put down some new stuff. It doesn't sound like the plug was physically damaged.
There are at minimum two conditions that would result in this happening. Either the car had a 'brake-by-wire' system where the braking was entierely computer controlled and the said system and all of the safety systems failed completely (doubtful in this case) or the complete brake system was depressurized, in which case it would have been plainly obvious if there was a failure.
If you don't like it then turn your funny modifier down, and you will never have to see another +5 funny again!
Yes as documented everywhere the default WEP key of the 2wire device is printed on the label. They are randomly generated 40 bit hex keys. The numbers following the SSID are the last digits in the device's serial number. Although the device does have an AP built-in (and it's really a pretty good AP at that), it also does not transmit any packets (including broadcast) unless there is an associated station.
If you can find one with an associated station and capture a packet, it's going to take a fairly long time to brute force the key since it's not vulnerable to the 21-bit attack or an alpha/alphanumeric search.
Older 2wire units did not support 128 bit WEP at all. I would be very suprised if the new ones did not, but I don't know for sure if they do or don't. I do know that the default WEP key is still a 40 bit key. Anyway, if you do find a 2wire user out there savvy enough to use the wireless functionality, they might just be smart enough to figure out how to configure 128 bit WEP, too. It might be a fun project, but there are plenty of better things to do.
FLOSSing by itself is not enough. You must also BRUSH to prevent tooth decay and maintain your health.
I imagine it can. I can confirm that BMW's SMG transmission in the M3 will go to neutral from any gear, as I have accidentally yanked it into neutral during a hard left corner at the track.
It might depend on the way the shift controls are set up. On the BMW you push up and down to shift (or use the paddles) and pull the stick to the left to go to neutral. I could see that if the transmission required you to downshift all the way to first before you could move to tell the car to go to neutral you would have a problem.
The other thing about sequential transmissions is that they will normally disengage the clutch automatically when you brake, effectively putting the car into neutral as well; however at least the M3 has a tendancy to keep power during light braking, so this could be a point of malfunction also, I suppose.
They'll probably just come at you with the DMCA in that case.
This sounds like the company that used to call up small computer manufacturers and threaten to sue them because their machines were sold with blinking cursors -- Patents on which originally tricked down to private "owners" from companies such as Raytheon (XOR) or IBM (Much less efficient method). Yes, the patents exist, but if you think every single piece of software that uses a blinking cursor licensed them, you have to be smoking some crack. Gee I hope my cell phone manufacturer is all paid up on that cursor!
BZZZT wrong.
Icon services in Mac OS/X up to 10.3 (Panther) support icons up to 128x128 pixels in size. The scaling algorithms are fast and dynamic, scaling between the large size icon and the smaller size icons as needed (this is why very small icon sizes still look good in OS X.
OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is supposed to include very robust support for DPI-independent rendering, greatly increasing the usability of high-resolution, high-ppi displays on the platform. As a result, the 128x128 icon limit seemed kind of small, so Tiger increases it to 256x256 pixels; however they are still raster images.
There are indeed advantages to using either approach for icons. Any robust vector format pretty much has to support embedded raster images anyway, thus a robust raster scaling algorithm in the renderer is necessary anyway. Leaving out all the vector stuff makes the code simpler, faster, and smaller with the only major disadvantage being that scaling icons beyond the 128x128 (256x256) is not going to result in really nice and crisp icons. The only time OS X overscales the icons is double clicking a launchable item, but the blurring effect is unnoticeable due to the alpha fade and quick animation.
So that I can record some TV to watch later... So that I can watch a DVD... So that I can continue to use my TV to watch TV without having to worry that the next time I rent a movie it will completely disable my television. Contrary to what you may believe, people like me are not all P2P crazed file swapping junkies. I purchase DVD's. I buy my digital music, and I pay my cable bill. I don't have time to rip and share every movie under the sun.
Have you actually read anything about how the C5 copy control is implemented? The 'analog hole' argument does not hold a lot of ground when re-digitizing the content or othewise storing it is prohibitively expensive, and as far as encryption not interefering with storage -- well I guess it shouldn't but it does, unfortunately. Have you tried to play a Divx (Circuit-city's version, not the codec) recently? You can be content storing an encrypted version all you want, but unless there is a 100% effective way to recover the original data, you are lost. The problem is not the crypto itself, but the copy control and how licenses are granted. The industry will happily grant a cable box manufacturer a device key after they can demonstrate their unit capable of respecting the copy control rules; however, they will never grant MythTV such a key even if the software becomes capable of respecting their copy control provisions. The reasoning, I guess, is that it would be easier to circumvent copy control in some open source software than it would be on a cable box.