Last time I checked wootz was made in the middle ages, which were preceded by the classical era, which was preceded in turn by ancient times, which were preceded by prehistoric times.
When encoding video with the AVC/H.264 codec bitrates of 7-8mbps are recommended for 1080p (in my experiance this is more than enough). So in reality downloading an HD movie would take about 5 times the movies length at speeds of 1.5mbps. Of course, with AVC/H.264 you can already fit every single West Wing episode on to a 2.5 inch 80GB laptop hard drive and still have room for an installation of Windows XP/Mac OS X, any BSD, or any reasonable Linux distro. And now we have 200GB 2.5inch laptop hard drives, which are about the same size as a deck of cards. So really, this era of HD downloads should already be upon us. The reality is that film studios are holding things up.
They aren't very receptive to putting all their content on the web. I say, screw movie theatres. As soon as the movie is finished editing, encode it with x.264 into some 8mbps 1080p quality HD video. If they need DRM to make the switch then personally I welcome DRMed version of AVC/H.264 as long as it's open source and can be adapted to any hardware regardless of special connections and what not. Granted, no such DRM solution exists to my knowledge. I'd like to see something utilising public-key cryptography (like something RSA based with less overhead a la PGP) so that only someone with your specific key can decrypt and play the movie.
Firstly, it's the processor that whines, and there's a fix for that, secondly if you manually up the fan speed the only way you'll get the Macbook Pro hot is while compressing video (which takes forever) or playing games. You would be doing neither of these while the computer is in your lap (if you're an ordinary individual). I suppoe you're special though.
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Triple DES is ancient, you can crack it in about nine days on a modern computer.
Last time I checked wootz was made in the middle ages, which were preceded by the classical era, which was preceded in turn by ancient times, which were preceded by prehistoric times.
When encoding video with the AVC/H.264 codec bitrates of 7-8mbps are recommended for 1080p (in my experiance this is more than enough). So in reality downloading an HD movie would take about 5 times the movies length at speeds of 1.5mbps. Of course, with AVC/H.264 you can already fit every single West Wing episode on to a 2.5 inch 80GB laptop hard drive and still have room for an installation of Windows XP/Mac OS X, any BSD, or any reasonable Linux distro. And now we have 200GB 2.5inch laptop hard drives, which are about the same size as a deck of cards. So really, this era of HD downloads should already be upon us. The reality is that film studios are holding things up. They aren't very receptive to putting all their content on the web. I say, screw movie theatres. As soon as the movie is finished editing, encode it with x.264 into some 8mbps 1080p quality HD video. If they need DRM to make the switch then personally I welcome DRMed version of AVC/H.264 as long as it's open source and can be adapted to any hardware regardless of special connections and what not. Granted, no such DRM solution exists to my knowledge. I'd like to see something utilising public-key cryptography (like something RSA based with less overhead a la PGP) so that only someone with your specific key can decrypt and play the movie.
Firstly, it's the processor that whines, and there's a fix for that, secondly if you manually up the fan speed the only way you'll get the Macbook Pro hot is while compressing video (which takes forever) or playing games. You would be doing neither of these while the computer is in your lap (if you're an ordinary individual). I suppoe you're special though.
I'm posting this from a laptop with FDE right now and I think it's great (I do have 2GB of RAM though).