Building it into the board means that everyone has the same chip. It really simplifies the driver problem. They can get single chip solutions from TI, CSR and others. The chips are sub $5.
Using a powered USB hub kind of defeats the convenience of this device. A wifi/BT version would be completely self contained. Just plug it into an open HDMI port on the TV and you're done.
Scale probably is not the issue, instead they want to avoid the FCC/etc radio certification.
Is the HDMI CEC wire hooked up with a driver transistor? Hooking up that wire will let the PI control all of the HDMI devices. People are already doing this with the Beagleboard so there is software available.
I'd find a version with a combo wifi/bluetooth chip much more useful than the Ethernet version. You could plug it into a spare HDMI port (HDMI provides power) on the TV and you're done. No wire needed. Wifi hooks to the network, Bluetooth connects keyboard/mouse. You have to consider the probability of having Ethernet wired to wherever the TV is located.
I agree with the observation that they collapse under heavy traffic load. They can often come to a complete stop which also blocks all traffic trying to move at right angles to the heavy flow. Properly set traffic lights don't do that. Why build things that need human cops to keep them functioning under heavy load?
Warner was just sold for $3.3B. The other two are Universal and Sony. The entire industry is worth about $15B. But the computer companies would only want the recorded libraries, not the rest of the business. Probably around $10B to buy that piece.
Everyone always brings this one up. Is there another successful one running Windows? There are a bazillion running Linux. I don't recommend one man shops be pioneers. Anyone know if stackoverflow got a big check from Microsoft to become their poster child?
The more important question is why did we ever need "auditoriums of lawyers to read documents for weeks on end"? How much of society's resources were wasted creating that room of lawyers.
Who benefits the most from software patents? The lawyers!
I got burnt by this same flaw. Cursed Verizon out over they flawed Motorola STBs. They have promised a fix by the end of the year. Don't you love it when you plug in your brand new HDTV and the only thing it will show is an HDCP handshake failed message?
Their work around is to use component out from the STB and feed it to the receiver. Then let the receiver convert the component back to HDMI. Of course I was less than pleased with them for forcing me to buy a new $500 receiver to make my HDTV work. Now I take my digital FIOS signal, convert it to analog component, send it into the receiver which redigitizes it back to HDMI, which sends it over the HDMI repeater to the TV.
When are we getting All-Vid so that I can get rid of these awful STB boxes? Ethernet to a wall hung HDTV and my life would be so simple.
My HDCP protected Verizon FIOS STB still can't manage to make a HDMI connection to my new Samsung TV. After dozens of calls and emails Verizon admits it is a flaw in the STB and it will be fixed before the end of this year. Meanwhile I was forced to buy an amp with component to HDMI conversion. So I take the digital signal going into the STB, convert it to analog component, send it to the receiver and convert it back to HDMI. All of this wasted time and money just to make HDCP work on a signal I am paying for. You got to love it when you plug in your brand new HDTV and the only thing it will show you is a screen saying HDCP handshake failed.
Bring on All-Vid and let me run Ethernet to the TV.
You could do something like kick them off, and then let them log back in again. The login page would contain a nice message about peak traffic times and being courteous to other customers that might want a seat.
Give the manager control of the hot spot. If he is running out seats, set the wifi to kick MAC addresses off after 15min and not allow them back on for 2hrs (earlier if he turns the enforcement off). You can defeat this by switching MAC addresses but the people who set up office during rush hours should get the message.
FIve or six people setting up office can ruin a Starbucks. They spread things all over the tables forcing you to ask them to clear off a spot for you to use. Then they make comments about not spilling anything on their precious work. Some of them are pretty rude about it. It completely ruins the experience by putting you in the spot of invading their office or you have to drink standing. I've learned which coffee shops have this problem and I'll walk farther to get to ones that are more coffee friendly. Of course that's not much fun in three feet of snow.
I've walked out of Starbucks dozens of times since there are no seats to enjoy my coffee. I don't want to use my electronics, I'm trying to drink a cup of coffee. A couple of Starbucks near me are always occupied with long-term seat sitters and I won't visit them any more. I've come back two hours later and the same people are still in the seats.
How little you know about sales taxes. Take the case of a sales tax on prepared food vs none on unprepared food. Now show me two cities that came up with the same list of what is prepared and subject to tax, vs what isn't. Why is an apple at a grocery store untaxed, when the same apple at a deli is taxed - in the same city? It is fairly easy to figure out the rate, it is very difficult to determine if the tax applies or not. There is total chaos in the definition of what is taxable.
It is not a loophole. It is a provision of the US Constitution that Amazon does not have to pay these taxes. Amazon has careful set up their ownership structure to avoid these taxes. Commerce_Clause This clause has been around 224 years so Texas should be aware of it.
It is the states that are trying to grab taxes that aren't theirs to grab. Texans are free to buy from Texas based merchants and pay the sales tax. Texas has a use tax so Texans are supposed to send in a sales tax equivalent when they buy from out of state. So blame the problem on Texans for choosing out of state vendors and then not sending in their use tax. I also suspect if the money grubbing states would ever put their use taxes up for a vote, they would all be immediately repealed since they are highly unpopular and hardly anyone obeys them.
The U.S. Constitution provides an essential protection against burdensome State regulation. The Commerce Clause uniquely empowers Congress “[t]o regulate Commerce among the several States” and, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, bars States from burdening interstate commerce without specific Congressional approval. On the matter of State sales taxation, the Supreme Court has held, in the National Bellas Hess and Quill decisions, that the Commerce Clause bars States from requiring out-ofstate (a.k.a. “remote”) sellers to collect taxes on sales to residents within that State unless a remote seller has “substantial nexus” with the State. Otherwise, held the Court, the current sales tax regime is so complicated that such a requirement would impose an unconstitutional burden.
How can Comcast complain that the traffic going to consumers is unbalanced? By the very nature of what consumers do the traffic is always going to be unbalanced.
Netfiix can fix this imbalance. Change their front end apps to send an endless stream of zeros to a bit bucket in Level3.
It was $1.92M for 24 songs so $80,0000. Using the same ratio - $50M * 80,000 = $4 trillion. It seems fair. We should apply that judgement against China and take one of their provinces as settlement.
You don't need to be root to do this. If a graphics card manufacturer is complicit, they could hide code on the card that is triggered by a special image. This image would tell the GPU to alter the PCI expansion boot ROM code for the card long enough to insert a hook. Then wait for a reboot, insert the hook, and put the expansion ROM back the way it was. Anything you put into a bus slot of a PC could pull this trick with various signalling mechanisms.
Leaking the source would be theft of a trade secret not a copyright violation.
A remastering of an existing work would get you a copyright on the remastered copy, it would have no impact of the copyright status of the original work. This assumes that you have permission to create the remaster or the original work has gone into the public domain. You now have two works.
A snapshot of Linux made in 2000 would go public domain in 2010. A snap shot of Linux made in 2010 would be protected until 2020. So in 2010 would be free to do what you want with that copy of Linux from 2000.
Open source software is unique in that it generates millions of snapshots. But it's being developed in public, that's the whole point of it. We shouldn't have a problem with the 10 year old copies losing GPL status.
We're going get the same problem with open source when the original copyrights start to expire in 2974 or whatever the crazy law is now. We just haven't had to deal with it yet.
Also, don't forget that you only have the binary from Microsoft not the source. Having the copyright expire on the binary just lets you copy it without paying royalties. It does nothing to get you the source code.
Each time you make a new release it is a different work so you get a new free ten years. I don't think it is unreasonable to ask for $5,000 to renew the copyright on a ten year old snapshot. Would anyone even bother to renew except for Microsoft?
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Building it into the board means that everyone has the same chip. It really simplifies the driver problem. They can get single chip solutions from TI, CSR and others. The chips are sub $5.
Using a powered USB hub kind of defeats the convenience of this device. A wifi/BT version would be completely self contained. Just plug it into an open HDMI port on the TV and you're done.
Scale probably is not the issue, instead they want to avoid the FCC/etc radio certification.
Is the HDMI CEC wire hooked up with a driver transistor? Hooking up that wire will let the PI control all of the HDMI devices. People are already doing this with the Beagleboard so there is software available.
I'd find a version with a combo wifi/bluetooth chip much more useful than the Ethernet version. You could plug it into a spare HDMI port (HDMI provides power) on the TV and you're done. No wire needed. Wifi hooks to the network, Bluetooth connects keyboard/mouse. You have to consider the probability of having Ethernet wired to wherever the TV is located.
I agree with the observation that they collapse under heavy traffic load. They can often come to a complete stop which also blocks all traffic trying to move at right angles to the heavy flow. Properly set traffic lights don't do that. Why build things that need human cops to keep them functioning under heavy load?
My last electricity bill in Boston is 14.5 cents/kWh.
EMI is for sale right now. Probably around $2-3B.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0621-ct-emi-20110622,0,1830090.story
Warner was just sold for $3.3B. The other two are Universal and Sony. The entire industry is worth about $15B. But the computer companies would only want the recorded libraries, not the rest of the business. Probably around $10B to buy that piece.
Everyone always brings this one up. Is there another successful one running Windows? There are a bazillion running Linux. I don't recommend one man shops be pioneers. Anyone know if stackoverflow got a big check from Microsoft to become their poster child?
And we have to live with the patents associated with VB6 for another eight years or so.
Could be a hint that the term for software patents (which shouldn't exist) is far too long.
The more important question is why did we ever need "auditoriums of lawyers to read documents for weeks on end"? How much of society's resources were wasted creating that room of lawyers.
Who benefits the most from software patents? The lawyers!
About 5,000,000 Internet households. $10 month, $120 a year. 95,000 members of SOCAN.
That's $7,000 a year for each member of SOCAN.
I find it more amazing that 1 out 300 people is a SOCAN member. Does Canada really need 95,000 song writers?
I got burnt by this same flaw. Cursed Verizon out over they flawed Motorola STBs. They have promised a fix by the end of the year. Don't you love it when you plug in your brand new HDTV and the only thing it will show is an HDCP handshake failed message?
Their work around is to use component out from the STB and feed it to the receiver. Then let the receiver convert the component back to HDMI. Of course I was less than pleased with them for forcing me to buy a new $500 receiver to make my HDTV work. Now I take my digital FIOS signal, convert it to analog component, send it into the receiver which redigitizes it back to HDMI, which sends it over the HDMI repeater to the TV.
When are we getting All-Vid so that I can get rid of these awful STB boxes? Ethernet to a wall hung HDTV and my life would be so simple.
My HDCP protected Verizon FIOS STB still can't manage to make a HDMI connection to my new Samsung TV. After dozens of calls and emails Verizon admits it is a flaw in the STB and it will be fixed before the end of this year. Meanwhile I was forced to buy an amp with component to HDMI conversion. So I take the digital signal going into the STB, convert it to analog component, send it to the receiver and convert it back to HDMI. All of this wasted time and money just to make HDCP work on a signal I am paying for. You got to love it when you plug in your brand new HDTV and the only thing it will show you is a screen saying HDCP handshake failed.
Bring on All-Vid and let me run Ethernet to the TV.
You could do something like kick them off, and then let them log back in again. The login page would contain a nice message about peak traffic times and being courteous to other customers that might want a seat.
Give the manager control of the hot spot. If he is running out seats, set the wifi to kick MAC addresses off after 15min and not allow them back on for 2hrs (earlier if he turns the enforcement off). You can defeat this by switching MAC addresses but the people who set up office during rush hours should get the message.
FIve or six people setting up office can ruin a Starbucks. They spread things all over the tables forcing you to ask them to clear off a spot for you to use. Then they make comments about not spilling anything on their precious work. Some of them are pretty rude about it. It completely ruins the experience by putting you in the spot of invading their office or you have to drink standing. I've learned which coffee shops have this problem and I'll walk farther to get to ones that are more coffee friendly. Of course that's not much fun in three feet of snow.
I've walked out of Starbucks dozens of times since there are no seats to enjoy my coffee. I don't want to use my electronics, I'm trying to drink a cup of coffee. A couple of Starbucks near me are always occupied with long-term seat sitters and I won't visit them any more. I've come back two hours later and the same people are still in the seats.
How little you know about sales taxes. Take the case of a sales tax on prepared food vs none on unprepared food. Now show me two cities that came up with the same list of what is prepared and subject to tax, vs what isn't. Why is an apple at a grocery store untaxed, when the same apple at a deli is taxed - in the same city? It is fairly easy to figure out the rate, it is very difficult to determine if the tax applies or not. There is total chaos in the definition of what is taxable.
It is not a loophole. It is a provision of the US Constitution that Amazon does not have to pay these taxes. Amazon has careful set up their ownership structure to avoid these taxes. Commerce_Clause This clause has been around 224 years so Texas should be aware of it.
It is the states that are trying to grab taxes that aren't theirs to grab. Texans are free to buy from Texas based merchants and pay the sales tax. Texas has a use tax so Texans are supposed to send in a sales tax equivalent when they buy from out of state. So blame the problem on Texans for choosing out of state vendors and then not sending in their use tax. I also suspect if the money grubbing states would ever put their use taxes up for a vote, they would all be immediately repealed since they are highly unpopular and hardly anyone obeys them.
The U.S. Constitution provides an essential protection against burdensome State regulation. The Commerce Clause uniquely empowers Congress “[t]o regulate
Commerce among the several States” and, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, bars States from burdening interstate commerce without specific Congressional approval. On the matter of State sales taxation, the Supreme Court has held, in the National Bellas Hess and Quill decisions, that the Commerce Clause bars States from requiring out-ofstate (a.k.a. “remote”) sellers to collect taxes on sales to residents within that State unless a remote seller has “substantial nexus” with the State. Otherwise, held the Court, the current sales tax regime is so complicated that such a requirement would impose an unconstitutional burden.
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How can Comcast complain that the traffic going to consumers is unbalanced? By the very nature of what consumers do the traffic is always going to be unbalanced.
Netfiix can fix this imbalance. Change their front end apps to send an endless stream of zeros to a bit bucket in Level3.
It was $1.92M for 24 songs so $80,0000. Using the same ratio - $50M * 80,000 = $4 trillion. It seems fair. We should apply that judgement against China and take one of their provinces as settlement.
You don't need to be root to do this. If a graphics card manufacturer is complicit, they could hide code on the card that is triggered by a special image. This image would tell the GPU to alter the PCI expansion boot ROM code for the card long enough to insert a hook. Then wait for a reboot, insert the hook, and put the expansion ROM back the way it was. Anything you put into a bus slot of a PC could pull this trick with various signalling mechanisms.
That's a nice board. Checkout our light dimmer that includes current sensing and 6lowpan radio. We used a shunt design which has much lower cost.
There are similar chips to the ADE7753 out now with costs close to $1. You can probably source the CTs in China for less than $1.
Build a software RAID array. Your disk performance will be significantly faster since reads can be parallelized out to multiple disks.
Leaking the source would be theft of a trade secret not a copyright violation.
A remastering of an existing work would get you a copyright on the remastered copy, it would have no impact of the copyright status of the original work. This assumes that you have permission to create the remaster or the original work has gone into the public domain. You now have two works.
A snapshot of Linux made in 2000 would go public domain in 2010. A snap shot of Linux made in 2010 would be protected until 2020. So in 2010 would be free to do what you want with that copy of Linux from 2000.
Open source software is unique in that it generates millions of snapshots. But it's being developed in public, that's the whole point of it. We shouldn't have a problem with the 10 year old copies losing GPL status.
We're going get the same problem with open source when the original copyrights start to expire in 2974 or whatever the crazy law is now. We just haven't had to deal with it yet.
Also, don't forget that you only have the binary from Microsoft not the source. Having the copyright expire on the binary just lets you copy it without paying royalties. It does nothing to get you the source code.
Each time you make a new release it is a different work so you get a new free ten years. I don't think it is unreasonable to ask for $5,000 to renew the copyright on a ten year old snapshot. Would anyone even bother to renew except for Microsoft?