I'm not a much of a gamer myself but it is ridiculous. Surely in offline mode they could cache authentication details a week at least. Anyway I guess everyone will realise eventually and just stop purchasing the crippled software, or just get a cracked version they can play offline and not bother purchasing a legal copy in the future.
AFACT already have helped put legislation in place (with the cooperation of the ISPs and the Federal government) to allow a magistrate to request that an ISP retain certain details of the infringement so that when the Police go to investigate the matter, the ISP has retained what they need to answer the Police.
I'd gathered there was a legal requirement for criminal cases but do you know if it could be used in a civil case as well? Just to clarify my comment I think this lawsuit totally sucks and they should be treated as a common carrier. Therefore they should be exempt from any obligation to discourage any sort of behaviour.
My point is that personally if I'm on someone's target list I'd rather know about it than not. Presumption of guilt is totally wrong, but let's face it I'd be astounded if the majority of P2P traffic was for material for which the recipient was licensed to use. Granted a civil not a legal matter, but they do have some right to protect their material.
I think they're a great ISP but I can't really understand the policy of not passing infringement notices from AFACT to its customers even if they're not legally required to do so. They could be prefixed that the communication is not from iiNet, the allegations might not be founded and it's merely for your information etc etc.
Afterall if demanded by a court they are going to hand across your details. Personally I'd rather know as soon as possible so I could either refute the claims, take measures to avoid future detection or stop the behaviour that caused it. Or of course I could choose to totally ignore it, but either way I'd at least like to be informed.
I'd guess from the 14-pin connectors and the fact most smaller ARM microcontrollers can't do parallel data transfers under DMA they're using the SPI bus which may run at 72Mbps. Of course that would also mean the bus either needs to be shared for every device or operated in a token ring style with the associated propagation delays. I'd guess the latter because you'd be pushing to get 72MHz SPI data across a large number of devices due to the capacitance it would introduce to the transmission line.
All in all sounds like an interesting academic excercise but of no real-world importance. I expect they'll find all their power and cost savings will be eaten up by requiring hundreds of devices to compete with a single piece of silicon. A better commercial solution would be to put lots of ARM cores on single chips (or FPGAs for development) but then it would make sense to use a better bus arrangement so that would largely invalidate anything they develop.
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Ask anyone with a light dimmer who switched to CFL's, and this'll immediately be their biggest caveat with the tech.
Not trolling here but are dimmers really that useful?
I've been buying CFLs for a while (Australia has moves to phase out incadescent bulbs soon) but in my lounge for example just have the main overhead light and when I want to set the mood or sit back at relax turn it off and use a smaller lamp with a lower wattage. Also has the bonus it can be physically located in a spot where it doesn't cause glare.
Without the developer API you can still access the functions that were there, you just need to roll your own code. The site http://www.opentom.org/Main_Page is a good reference for source code and documentation.
I've got a TomTom One V3 that doesn't have Bluetooth and got console access by running a scope over the external connector to determine the functions and attached a TTL to serial converter, I've posted details of the connector pinouts for anyone interested http://blog.peter-johnson.com.au/?p=49
I've done quite a bit of work on ARM processors without an operating system and limited work using ARM9 devices with a Gentoo based distro and something I've wondered is if under Linux there's a way to conveniently enable low-power mode essentially putting the processor to sleep while allowing certain peripherals to remain running? An obvious example would be leaving the LCD controller running to display an e-book page while the CPU was in sleep mode or running at a low clock rate until a button is pressed. I know how to do that when programming most ARM CPUs natively, but are there any attempts out there to standardize some low power behaviour for the kernel?
It could really help some of these devices that are no doubt often used for a single task at a time. Perhaps it could even be in the form of some sort of system call that allowed a process to request the minimum slice of CPU time per second and wake-up latency required per task and the scheduler could determine the required clock frequency and possible sleep time required to fulfil the requirements of every process. Just seems to me it could be a way to extend the battery life and take advantange of some of the amazing low-power modes of newer ARM cores in a standard manner.
First, the ocean might simply be good at blocking transmissions.
Yes salt water is very good at attenuating RF, the higher the frequency the worse it is. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency on Wikipedia that highlights some of the difficulties, especially in relation to antenna size. Also at those frequencies you can end up with transmission rates less than one bit per second.
Did they really change enough to warrant something like this? What is Win7 lacking that prevents older applications from running?
When I moved to Vista x64 I created a few VMWare XP virtual machines and it did ease the pain of having a handful of applications that wouldn't run under Vista. It's probably not aimed so much at mainstream applications that will have any Windows 7 incompatibilities patched quickly, more at a few legacy niche applications that may otherwise prevent an enterprise from moving to Windows 7.
As another example I have a few USB device programmers and other electronics gear that are end of life so don't have Vista USB drivers, however they would have been expensive to replace so there's no way I would have moved to Vista without being able to use them under a VM.
I'd assume they are offering some sort of "unlimited" plan at a low cost on the assumption that there's a limit to how much data you'll pump through a mobile device. As much as Australian Internet caps / over use charges suck in a lot of ways there are advantages to paying for what you use such as avoiding this situation.
I use wireless data quite a bit and the carriers couldn't care less what device you use it with, I can sign up for a $5 a month plan and use it with any device but pay heaps if I go over a small limit. They'd love if I downloaded a 1GB video on such a plan but it's ideal for say a Coke machine reporting how many cans are left. Heavier users go with say a $50 plan and get a higher data limit. At least it's all fairly transparent based on data usage rather than having various "fair use" rules.
I'm with you on a schedule of TV programs containing no creative content just like a list of phone numbers taken from a phone book. Ohhh wait - several years ago a company that used to scan phone numbers and names from a paper phone book got sued successfully by the national phone carrier Telstra as it being a copyright violation. They didn't copy the artisitic layout of the phonebook, it was merely a list of names and numbers in a database format. That only reached the Federal Court because the company went bankrupt before taking it to the High Court:
I'm Australian and pay a big premium for being able to download lots but I don't really see a problem with the user pays system. I pay $140 a month for Internet and have friends that pay $30. They are light users and I'm a heavy Internet user.
I pay $15 a month for a cell phone and have friends that pay over $100 a month. I don't make a lot of mobile calls and wouldn't want my bill to double to cover people who speak crap on the phone all day, so why should people who are light Internet users be expected to foot the bill for heavy Internet users?
My only complaint is that ISPs should cut the crap about 'unlimited', 'fair use' etc and just plainly spell out exactly what the terms & conditions are, a situation that largely does exist in Australia because nobody expects a genuinely unlimited plan.
For all you people that want to pick on Nigeria, not everyone that comes from there is a scammer or a crook. As it happens, my girlfriend is from there I used to root her as well until I worked out my deposits wouldn't result in a prince.
Almost had it cracked. First I found Terrance's personal details, but as Phillip's were loading my speakers let out a farting noise and my PC rebooted with a terrible smell.
A lot of talk about a slow uptake of Linux always seems to circle around lack of hardware drivers. Many devices I use don't have Vista drivers yet and probably never will because they have been superceded or are for niche applications where the manufacturer might think it is reasonable to expect their customers to operate under older O/S configurations. At the moment I use XP for my main machine with an old DOS laptop for two applications that require direct hardware access. If I wanted to change from XP to either Vista or Linux I'd need to upgrade some hardware, that's no problem because all the big ticket items would work fine with either and I don't give a toss about needing to buy a new TV tuner card and all those fairly small ticket items. If buying a new machine I'm sure I could easily check for Ubuntu compatibility just like I could for Vista
Manufacturers of hardware will eventually realise that most of their costs are hardware development, testing, advertising and general support of their business and a writing drivers is a small amount. Eventually they'll realise if they can get even just an extra 10% of hardware sales by offering Linux support either by taking the open source or open specification route it will result in extra profit.
I believe the real problem until a critical mass is achieved will always come down to software. Looking at a few applications I have installed like Explorer, Office, SQL/Server, IIS, GIS apps, source code control and a plethora of file and image conversion utilities they are no problem to replace. Some like accounting and schematic capture software would be a hassle but to impossible to replace, probably worthwhile if I already hadn't spent money on the originals. But how about ARM JTAG debuggers, various other embedded debugger/compilers that talk to hardware by direct device driver interfaces? I'm sure I could get half to work to some degree under various emulators but why bother, at the moment I'd rather run my $25K worth of apps under the native O/S they were written for and pay MS $2K for the other crap.
I think the real turning point will come when there is enough volume in the market that application developers will consider it desirable to start targetting and supporting applications for both environments at the same level of priority. Part of that will probably require some better development tools that allow cross-platform development without too much extra effort. I must say that I like Linux and open source in general, and hope and believe it will get their eventually but I don't think it will be a 'mainstream' for quite some time yet
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I'm not a much of a gamer myself but it is ridiculous. Surely in offline mode they could cache authentication details a week at least. Anyway I guess everyone will realise eventually and just stop purchasing the crippled software, or just get a cracked version they can play offline and not bother purchasing a legal copy in the future.
AFACT already have helped put legislation in place (with the cooperation of the ISPs and the Federal government) to allow a magistrate to request that an ISP retain certain details of the infringement so that when the Police go to investigate the matter, the ISP has retained what they need to answer the Police.
I'd gathered there was a legal requirement for criminal cases but do you know if it could be used in a civil case as well? Just to clarify my comment I think this lawsuit totally sucks and they should be treated as a common carrier. Therefore they should be exempt from any obligation to discourage any sort of behaviour.
My point is that personally if I'm on someone's target list I'd rather know about it than not. Presumption of guilt is totally wrong, but let's face it I'd be astounded if the majority of P2P traffic was for material for which the recipient was licensed to use. Granted a civil not a legal matter, but they do have some right to protect their material.
I think they're a great ISP but I can't really understand the policy of not passing infringement notices from AFACT to its customers even if they're not legally required to do so. They could be prefixed that the communication is not from iiNet, the allegations might not be founded and it's merely for your information etc etc.
Afterall if demanded by a court they are going to hand across your details. Personally I'd rather know as soon as possible so I could either refute the claims, take measures to avoid future detection or stop the behaviour that caused it. Or of course I could choose to totally ignore it, but either way I'd at least like to be informed.
I wonder if the Australian Federal Police (AFP) setup security for the mint?
Might try a blank root password and see about getting that robot to do a home delivery.
I'd guess from the 14-pin connectors and the fact most smaller ARM microcontrollers can't do parallel data transfers under DMA they're using the SPI bus which may run at 72Mbps. Of course that would also mean the bus either needs to be shared for every device or operated in a token ring style with the associated propagation delays. I'd guess the latter because you'd be pushing to get 72MHz SPI data across a large number of devices due to the capacitance it would introduce to the transmission line.
All in all sounds like an interesting academic excercise but of no real-world importance. I expect they'll find all their power and cost savings will be eaten up by requiring hundreds of devices to compete with a single piece of silicon. A better commercial solution would be to put lots of ARM cores on single chips (or FPGAs for development) but then it would make sense to use a better bus arrangement so that would largely invalidate anything they develop.
Start them on "5 LET N=0" just in case
Not trolling here but are dimmers really that useful?
I've been buying CFLs for a while (Australia has moves to phase out incadescent bulbs soon) but in my lounge for example just have the main overhead light and when I want to set the mood or sit back at relax turn it off and use a smaller lamp with a lower wattage. Also has the bonus it can be physically located in a spot where it doesn't cause glare.
Without the developer API you can still access the functions that were there, you just need to roll your own code. The site http://www.opentom.org/Main_Page is a good reference for source code and documentation.
I've got a TomTom One V3 that doesn't have Bluetooth and got console access by running a scope over the external connector to determine the functions and attached a TTL to serial converter, I've posted details of the connector pinouts for anyone interested http://blog.peter-johnson.com.au/?p=49
Yes, David Carradine is no longer available.
Only when those guns are pointed at a fox, squire.
Any other use is just not cricket.
I've done quite a bit of work on ARM processors without an operating system and limited work using ARM9 devices with a Gentoo based distro and something I've wondered is if under Linux there's a way to conveniently enable low-power mode essentially putting the processor to sleep while allowing certain peripherals to remain running? An obvious example would be leaving the LCD controller running to display an e-book page while the CPU was in sleep mode or running at a low clock rate until a button is pressed. I know how to do that when programming most ARM CPUs natively, but are there any attempts out there to standardize some low power behaviour for the kernel?
It could really help some of these devices that are no doubt often used for a single task at a time. Perhaps it could even be in the form of some sort of system call that allowed a process to request the minimum slice of CPU time per second and wake-up latency required per task and the scheduler could determine the required clock frequency and possible sleep time required to fulfil the requirements of every process. Just seems to me it could be a way to extend the battery life and take advantange of some of the amazing low-power modes of newer ARM cores in a standard manner.
Yes salt water is very good at attenuating RF, the higher the frequency the worse it is. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency on Wikipedia that highlights some of the difficulties, especially in relation to antenna size. Also at those frequencies you can end up with transmission rates less than one bit per second.
Without one your TARDIS may be dumped into a Z-neutrino core by Daleks before you know about it.
When I moved to Vista x64 I created a few VMWare XP virtual machines and it did ease the pain of having a handful of applications that wouldn't run under Vista. It's probably not aimed so much at mainstream applications that will have any Windows 7 incompatibilities patched quickly, more at a few legacy niche applications that may otherwise prevent an enterprise from moving to Windows 7.
As another example I have a few USB device programmers and other electronics gear that are end of life so don't have Vista USB drivers, however they would have been expensive to replace so there's no way I would have moved to Vista without being able to use them under a VM.
I knew it, they couldn't spell it let alone implement it.
I'd assume they are offering some sort of "unlimited" plan at a low cost on the assumption that there's a limit to how much data you'll pump through a mobile device. As much as Australian Internet caps / over use charges suck in a lot of ways there are advantages to paying for what you use such as avoiding this situation.
I use wireless data quite a bit and the carriers couldn't care less what device you use it with, I can sign up for a $5 a month plan and use it with any device but pay heaps if I go over a small limit. They'd love if I downloaded a 1GB video on such a plan but it's ideal for say a Coke machine reporting how many cans are left. Heavier users go with say a $50 plan and get a higher data limit. At least it's all fairly transparent based on data usage rather than having various "fair use" rules.
Will I take the steam off my piss for granted.
I'm with you on a schedule of TV programs containing no creative content just like a list of phone numbers taken from a phone book. Ohhh wait - several years ago a company that used to scan phone numbers and names from a paper phone book got sued successfully by the national phone carrier Telstra as it being a copyright violation. They didn't copy the artisitic layout of the phonebook, it was merely a list of names and numbers in a database format. That only reached the Federal Court because the company went bankrupt before taking it to the High Court:
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/15696,fiveyear-telstra-copyright-fight-destroys-content-provider.aspx
looks like it was made to be reprogrammed and different screens
I just tried to upload my pr0n but unfortunately it wouldn't fit in the 1K x 14 of FLASH.
I'm Australian and pay a big premium for being able to download lots but I don't really see a problem with the user pays system. I pay $140 a month for Internet and have friends that pay $30. They are light users and I'm a heavy Internet user. I pay $15 a month for a cell phone and have friends that pay over $100 a month. I don't make a lot of mobile calls and wouldn't want my bill to double to cover people who speak crap on the phone all day, so why should people who are light Internet users be expected to foot the bill for heavy Internet users? My only complaint is that ISPs should cut the crap about 'unlimited', 'fair use' etc and just plainly spell out exactly what the terms & conditions are, a situation that largely does exist in Australia because nobody expects a genuinely unlimited plan.
I was looking forward to viewing the "erectile dysfunction" map based on viagra posts.
Almost had it cracked. First I found Terrance's personal details, but as Phillip's were loading my speakers let out a farting noise and my PC rebooted with a terrible smell.
A lot of talk about a slow uptake of Linux always seems to circle around lack of hardware drivers. Many devices I use don't have Vista drivers yet and probably never will because they have been superceded or are for niche applications where the manufacturer might think it is reasonable to expect their customers to operate under older O/S configurations. At the moment I use XP for my main machine with an old DOS laptop for two applications that require direct hardware access. If I wanted to change from XP to either Vista or Linux I'd need to upgrade some hardware, that's no problem because all the big ticket items would work fine with either and I don't give a toss about needing to buy a new TV tuner card and all those fairly small ticket items. If buying a new machine I'm sure I could easily check for Ubuntu compatibility just like I could for Vista
Manufacturers of hardware will eventually realise that most of their costs are hardware development, testing, advertising and general support of their business and a writing drivers is a small amount. Eventually they'll realise if they can get even just an extra 10% of hardware sales by offering Linux support either by taking the open source or open specification route it will result in extra profit.
I believe the real problem until a critical mass is achieved will always come down to software. Looking at a few applications I have installed like Explorer, Office, SQL/Server, IIS, GIS apps, source code control and a plethora of file and image conversion utilities they are no problem to replace. Some like accounting and schematic capture software would be a hassle but to impossible to replace, probably worthwhile if I already hadn't spent money on the originals. But how about ARM JTAG debuggers, various other embedded debugger/compilers that talk to hardware by direct device driver interfaces? I'm sure I could get half to work to some degree under various emulators but why bother, at the moment I'd rather run my $25K worth of apps under the native O/S they were written for and pay MS $2K for the other crap.
I think the real turning point will come when there is enough volume in the market that application developers will consider it desirable to start targetting and supporting applications for both environments at the same level of priority. Part of that will probably require some better development tools that allow cross-platform development without too much extra effort. I must say that I like Linux and open source in general, and hope and believe it will get their eventually but I don't think it will be a 'mainstream' for quite some time yet