According to a response I got from the support forum, the Pronto won't do multiple IR codes to one "button" - alternating the transmission on each push.
I _know_ it's a learning remote. The point is it won't support two distinct codes on the same "button", alternating the transmission on each push. Nor will any other one I've looked at.
Also, the Marantz RC2000 I do have won't even learn the codes for my cable box remote...
Some remotes - like the one for my telly - send different IR signals on alternate pushes of the buttons. No "universal/programmable" device I've found can handle that well enough yet.
When ATMs first started appearing in the UK, there was no "interoperability" between banks at all - a "foriegn" ATM would just spit or swallow.
Then came a time of gathering, when groups of banks would accept each others cards. There were two groups, pretty much split down the Visa/MasterCard line (in the days when UK banks would back one or the other) - and this was driven by the UK Building Societies banding together to offer interoperable ATMs.
Next came an agreement to allow interoperability between the three groups, but to charge a nominal transaction/handling fee to "foriegn" cards.
What happened next is capitalism at it's finest. Seeing a new source of revenue, the individual banks effectively dissolved their existing "group" agreements, and independently accepted everyone else's card - with a larger fee.
Finally, the UK public realised they were being fscked over, demanded a change, and now we have no ATM fees.
I still find it entertaining that, in the USA, banks will actually charge ATM fees to their own customers using their own machines!
PGP users should rest assured that I would still not acquiesce to any back doors in PGP.
I seems to remember that, not too long ago, you quite publically left NAI (the owners of the PGP franchise) after they refused to open the source of PGP 7.blah to public scrutiny.
You also stated that you could only guarantee that version 7.slightly_lower_version_than_above was free of backdoors - in fact, you sign your open letter with version 7.0.3.
1. How do you reconcile these two, somewhat differing, views?
2. Which version(s) do you regard as "safe".
3. Why don't you run the latest version?
All the relevant versions and statements can be found in stories on/.
One is that I don't draw $20 bills, I draw £10 notes.
Second is that this process depends on retailers never giving out as change money they accept for purchases, and to segregate the currency I spend in a transaction with that from the prior and next customers - not a chance.
Finally, I often change 10's for 20's and back in banks and post offices.
I work in IT for a bank, and so I am completely aware of exactly how much information is captured, and the uses to which it's put. I care about my privacy - I don't want someone like me able to count how many bottles of wine I buy a month...
14. Open standard. I want to get an ebook from any vendor, and view it on any reader. I want to download from Gutenberg and read that. I want to create my own content, and let other people read it - if they want to. It should be the MP3 of the written word!
What will stifle ebooks more than anything else is a plethora of competing, closed, proprietary formats.
"Sorry, you can't buy Stephen King in Sony, only Adobe..."
There are two types of PSX2 - Japanese and non-Japanese.
The hardware design for the two is different - for example, the JP version has software-based DVD playback, the non-JP is hardware - predominantly due to the differing nature of the JP market.
However, as far as I can tell (without the service manuals in front of me) the physical characteristics are identical on all non-JP PSX2s - the only differences are the PSU, video output and "region coding".
So, no reason not to do the right thing - except for "marketing" and, of course, greed.
What about UK-based users? I'd pay for this. How about France, Germany, etc...
How likely is it they'll use the "Not enough demand in region x" argument, when there would be enough global demand?
I would rant on and on about global corporations using spurious geographical distinctions to shaft the user, but we've all got DVD players, so that'd be redundant.
I'm not interested in paying for content until I know it's content I want.
If I buy a tin of beans and it contains roaches, I can get my money back. If I pay for an article before I read it and it's rubbish, will I get my money back (hollow laugh)...
The best workable solution - or at least, one I would support - would be if a/.-type of content-provider charged a single micropayment when I clicked on the "Read More" link of an article's summary/precis. I should then be able to click it again at any time without being re-charged.
Any attempt at a "Pay $$$/£££/&&& for a years subscription" or "pay every time you read an article" is doomed to failure as far as I'm concerned.
Or how about SubWay give your $20 in change to the next guy on line. He then goes and spends it in a bar. The bar gives it in change to another patron, and he goes and buys kiddie-pr0n with it...
Don't look now, but the FBI will be busting down your door any second now...
So what if SerialATA won't be on an Intel chipset until 2003? FireWire will never be on an Intel chipset (as they want USB2.0 - to which they hold the patents - to become the standard) but you can buy a 4-port FireWire PCI card for £25.
Remember ATA66? Intel was the LAST vendor to adopt that standard into their chipsets - Via, ALi et al all had solutions in the marketplace while Intels BX was their champion and CaminoGate was giving us all a jolly good laugh.
Remember too PC133 memory. Other chipset vendors have been supporting this for ages, but Intel have only just "gotten off the dime".
You should also give the drive makers more credit. They will realise that SerialATA is a change of maybe 15% to the drives controller board - just a change to the physical interconnect and the silicon that drives it. They're already doing this to produce both SCSI and ATA drives, so rolling out another is not that big a deal.
...remember that widening the address space on a parallel bus will increase costs; more wires, more costs.
That was my point(granted it was implicit rather than explicit). They're dicking around with half-arsed compromises like 48bit instead of doing a real job and using 64bit or 128bit.
Serial ATA is designed to be hardware-compatible with current ATA.
Er, no. SerialATA is designed to use the same command protocols, and drive & controller subsystem will remain the same (as happens for IDE and SCSI drives) but the interface hardware changes on both the drive and the host. There will almost certainly be adaptor boards (like the SCSI SCA-U/SCSI2 boards) to make a parallel ATA wire-compatible with SerialATA. Everything else just becomes a software issue...
Note the _zipped_ mp3s I think that says it all, don't you?
Actually, ZIPping an MP3 is a very good idea, when you consider that most corporate firewalls routinely block files with MP3 (and MPG, MOV, AVI) extensions.
And of course, even a 1% file size reduction will save precious bandwidth...
The SF book has already been done.
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The book has been written.
It's called "Oath of Fealty" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle...
CD = 1 dimentional data - did that (along with tape, vinyl and wax) a long time ago.
DVD = 2 dimentional data - a few years now.
H-Cube(TM) = 3 dimentional data...could be soon, but will happen.
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According to a response I got from the support forum, the Pronto won't do multiple IR codes to one "button" - alternating the transmission on each push.
If you know different, let me know!
I _know_ it's a learning remote. The point is it won't support two distinct codes on the same "button", alternating the transmission on each push. Nor will any other one I've looked at.
Also, the Marantz RC2000 I do have won't even learn the codes for my cable box remote...
Some remotes - like the one for my telly - send different IR signals on alternate pushes of the buttons. No "universal/programmable" device I've found can handle that well enough yet.
Actually, the situation is more interesting:
When ATMs first started appearing in the UK, there was no "interoperability" between banks at all - a "foriegn" ATM would just spit or swallow.
Then came a time of gathering, when groups of banks would accept each others cards. There were two groups, pretty much split down the Visa/MasterCard line (in the days when UK banks would back one or the other) - and this was driven by the UK Building Societies banding together to offer interoperable ATMs.
Next came an agreement to allow interoperability between the three groups, but to charge a nominal transaction/handling fee to "foriegn" cards.
What happened next is capitalism at it's finest. Seeing a new source of revenue, the individual banks effectively dissolved their existing "group" agreements, and independently accepted everyone else's card - with a larger fee.
Finally, the UK public realised they were being fscked over, demanded a change, and now we have no ATM fees.
I still find it entertaining that, in the USA, banks will actually charge ATM fees to their own customers using their own machines!
You also stated that you could only guarantee that version 7.slightly_lower_version_than_above was free of backdoors - in fact, you sign your open letter with version 7.0.3.
1. How do you reconcile these two, somewhat differing, views?
2. Which version(s) do you regard as "safe".
3. Why don't you run the latest version?
All the relevant versions and statements can be found in stories on
Several things...
One is that I don't draw $20 bills, I draw £10 notes.
Second is that this process depends on retailers never giving out as change money they accept for purchases, and to segregate the currency I spend in a transaction with that from the prior and next customers - not a chance.
Finally, I often change 10's for 20's and back in banks and post offices.
I work in IT for a bank, and so I am completely aware of exactly how much information is captured, and the uses to which it's put. I care about my privacy - I don't want someone like me able to count how many bottles of wine I buy a month...
The only time I use my debit/ATM card for actual purchases is when buying on-line.
For all other purposes I withdraw cash - from as many random ATM's as I can manage.
I'll continue to do so until I receive an absolute guarantee from my bank that my purchasing habits are completly private.
And, of course, there are some things that plastic just can't buy...
And how do you - or they - presume to restrict the rights of those who are located outside the borders of the USA?
By arresting and prosecuting them if they dare to travel to the USA... oh, wait...
Seriously, perhaps people in power need to consider that they can't control everything and instead seek to resolve issues rather than stomp on them...
imagine the bongs you could make...
...and after using them, then imagine the bongs you could make!
14. Open standard. I want to get an ebook from any vendor, and view it on any reader. I want to download from Gutenberg and read that. I want to create my own content, and let other people read it - if they want to. It should be the MP3 of the written word!
What will stifle ebooks more than anything else is a plethora of competing, closed, proprietary formats.
"Sorry, you can't buy Stephen King in Sony, only Adobe..."
There are two types of PSX2 - Japanese and non-Japanese.
The hardware design for the two is different - for example, the JP version has software-based DVD playback, the non-JP is hardware - predominantly due to the differing nature of the JP market.
However, as far as I can tell (without the service manuals in front of me) the physical characteristics are identical on all non-JP PSX2s - the only differences are the PSU, video output and "region coding".
So, no reason not to do the right thing - except for "marketing" and, of course, greed.
What about UK-based users? I'd pay for this. How about France, Germany, etc...
How likely is it they'll use the "Not enough demand in region x" argument, when there would be enough global demand?
I would rant on and on about global corporations using spurious geographical distinctions to shaft the user, but we've all got DVD players, so that'd be redundant.
From the "Track Statutory Language of Offense" section of the "Criminal Complaint" document
...circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects...
Surely the "protection" has been proven ineffective, and therefore this law doesn't apply?
I know I'll get flamed for this, but how can I get modded down as "overrated" if no-one has yet rated me through moderation?
I'm not interested in paying for content until I know it's content I want.
/.-type of content-provider charged a single micropayment when I clicked on the "Read More" link of an article's summary/precis. I should then be able to click it again at any time without being re-charged.
If I buy a tin of beans and it contains roaches, I can get my money back. If I pay for an article before I read it and it's rubbish, will I get my money back (hollow laugh)...
The best workable solution - or at least, one I would support - would be if a
Any attempt at a "Pay $$$/£££/&&& for a years subscription" or "pay every time you read an article" is doomed to failure as far as I'm concerned.
Or how about SubWay give your $20 in change to the next guy on line. He then goes and spends it in a bar. The bar gives it in change to another patron, and he goes and buys kiddie-pr0n with it...
Don't look now, but the FBI will be busting down your door any second now...
So what if SerialATA won't be on an Intel chipset until 2003? FireWire will never be on an Intel chipset (as they want USB2.0 - to which they hold the patents - to become the standard) but you can buy a 4-port FireWire PCI card for £25.
Remember ATA66? Intel was the LAST vendor to adopt that standard into their chipsets - Via, ALi et al all had solutions in the marketplace while Intels BX was their champion and CaminoGate was giving us all a jolly good laugh.
Remember too PC133 memory. Other chipset vendors have been supporting this for ages, but Intel have only just "gotten off the dime".
You should also give the drive makers more credit. They will realise that SerialATA is a change of maybe 15% to the drives controller board - just a change to the physical interconnect and the silicon that drives it. They're already doing this to produce both SCSI and ATA drives, so rolling out another is not that big a deal.
...remember that widening the address space on a parallel bus will increase costs; more wires, more costs.
That was my point(granted it was implicit rather than explicit). They're dicking around with half-arsed compromises like 48bit instead of doing a real job and using 64bit or 128bit.
Serial ATA is designed to be hardware-compatible with current ATA.
Er, no. SerialATA is designed to use the same command protocols, and drive & controller subsystem will remain the same (as happens for IDE and SCSI drives) but the interface hardware changes on both the drive and the host. There will almost certainly be adaptor boards (like the SCSI SCA-U/SCSI2 boards) to make a parallel ATA wire-compatible with SerialATA. Everything else just becomes a software issue...
SerialATA was supposed to be hitting in the same time frame as this. Why are they dicking with 48bit just to make the hardware implimentation cheaper?
Also, has anyone checked to see if CPRM is being "stealthed" into the spec?
Need more hardware...
I wonder if there's going to be an iPaq client...
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/psummary.php3
Note the _zipped_ mp3s I think that says it all, don't you?
Actually, ZIPping an MP3 is a very good idea, when you consider that most corporate firewalls routinely block files with MP3 (and MPG, MOV, AVI) extensions.
And of course, even a 1% file size reduction will save precious bandwidth...
The book has been written.
It's called "Oath of Fealty" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle...
CD = 1 dimentional data - did that (along with tape, vinyl and wax) a long time ago.
DVD = 2 dimentional data - a few years now.
H-Cube(TM) = 3 dimentional data...could be soon, but will happen.
...discounting time as a dimention...