As a former owner of an iPod, I found that the Windows "solution" of a MusicMatch plugin was far from ideal. Creating and managing playlists in MM, especially when you have thousands of songs, is almost impossible, and the synchronization functionality of iPod & MM is a joke.
Also, I would not count iPod for Windows support of the itunes music store as a given, as the previous generation of iPod supported Audible content only on the Mac platform, despite the fact that the codecs were already downloaded into the iPod with the firmware upgrade.
For Mac users it may be a no brainer, but for Windows users, the choice is not as black & white as you make it out to be.
Radeon 9700 Pro @ 4x (Stupid VIA 4 in Drivers) AMD 1800XP+ MSI/VIA KT266 MB 512MB DDR400 80GB @ 7200RPM ATA 133 Drive Win XP
Of more excitement is my Sony Vaio Laptop, which scored 12(!) 3dmarks (Radeon Mobility 7500). I was quite pleased.
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The math here would make this impractical, think how many products there are in the world, how many brands of each product, how many sizes for each brand and then try stack on top of that another single unique for each six pack of gillete mach3 razor blades? Think how many cans of coke are sold a day. Not practical. One ID per specific product. Every can of coke - same id.
Um, no. An RFID tag contains a unique 96-bit value. That means that there are 2^96 possible values for the RFID. In decimal, that is 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336 possible values. In fact, even if you were to knock off the first 36 bits to allow for 68 billion "vendor id's" (enough for every human, ever, to have one), each "vendor" would still have 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 unique values available to just them.
this year we are looking for individual applicants who are skilled at putting together sophisticated machinery and not afraid of getting their hands dirty.
Hands dirty? The poster does realize that this is slashdot, right?
Perhaps he ment to post that they were looking for someone to bitch on the sidelines in the upcoming season...
According to the press release, the fonts to be released are from the Bitstream Vera family. A quick google didn't show anything though. Perhaps someone with more time on their hands can dig a bit deeper?
Thank you for your objective reply which refains from painting me into a stereotype. In reference to your request that I do my homework, here are some links that discuss copyright issues outside of the states:
The final link is a gentle reminder that there are other non-US countries than the EU. There are also a number of additional resources available on the web, most of which can be found through google.
I just thought it was important to remind people that this decision is limited to the United States only. No other country in the world has abandonded the principals of the public domain, which means that in our interconnected world, there will be states that provide a safe haven for the distribution of information that should be public domain.
Granted, the fact that the **AAs have a tremendous amount of power in other countries, but as recent rulings in other countries have shown, their courts are more willing to protect the rights of individuals over the rights of corporations. So while we may lose the battle here in the States, the "world war" may have a far different outcome.
Here's what Alan Deikman, the list admin for the pci-sig mailing list has sent to the pci-sig list as well as individuals who contacted him regarding this issue.
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To pci-sig list members and other individuals in the blind-cc to this message.
I am receiving quite a few e-mails about the situation with Jim Boemler's web site, which he has felt compelled to take down. I wasn't aware of this situation until the first of these e-mails arrived, and having looked into it I think the situation is as outrageous as obviously many of you do.
However, you should all be aware that neither I personally, or my company ZNYX Networks has anything to do with this situation. ZNYX Networks is not currently a member of the PCI SIG. We allowed our membership to lapse a number of years ago since it was obvious we were not going to be active in any standards setting efforts. As for me or any employee of ZNYX Networks, we are not now or ever have been an official of the SIG. If you read Mr. Boemler's web page more carefully, you will note that he does not list me as anything other than a possible contact, since he mentions he is not clear who should be contacted, other than the "shark" that is doing the legal work.
We have e-mailed Mr. Boemler (and cc'ed this message) to clarify our position, and I will offer any aid I can.
To clarify our position, we run the pci-sig mailing list as a general service to the community as a whole the same way Jim Boemler does (did) his web site. Back in 1992-3 when we first started, there were much fewer people around who could set up a mailing list so we did it. As with Mr. Boemler, we don't get paid for it, and we have offered to turn the work over to the SIG since we felt that it is more properly a SIG service, but so far there has been no positive reply. Now I am wondering if I am going to get a present in the mail like Jim did! (I really don't think that will be the case, since we don't do a web page, but the parallel is evident.)
To any REAL PCI-SIG officials: would you care to post a comment?
Very good point. Based on my experience, the priority of recording on the ReplayTV is as follows:
Guaranteed Specific Show & Time Slot Channel
Guaranteed Specific Show Channel
Guaranteed Keyword Based Channel
Not Guaranteed Specific Show & Time Slot Channel
Not Guaranteed Specific Show Channel
Not Guaranteed Keyword Based Channel
While this lets you better plan how to set up your channels, the replay still lacks the ability to view what shows are to be recorded.
While it can be confusing, I feel that the benefits of the RTV outweigh the negatives. Although now that the RTV has a monthly fee, and Tivo 2 series has the capability to utilize ethernet, the advantages of the RTV are far less than they once were (Listening SonicBlue???)
Actually, I was referring to the JCE implementation as well as the provider implementation. According to the release page, their clean room JCE doesn't run under JDK 1.4. Cryptix provides a JCE implementation that runs under 1.4, as well as their provider.
I was under the impression that the BouncyCastle license was less than free, but I was mistaken. It is a great package, and it's good to know that there are a variety of open implementations of strong crypto under Java.
Take note of this... until now, there were no open source implementations of the JCE that ran under JDK 1.4. Sun's implementation does not have source available, and they even went the extra step to obfuscate their JCE with DashO-Pro. Transparency is vital to cryptography, as anything less casts a shadow of doubt.
Seriously... our government has become more interested in preserving outdated business models rather than creating an environment that encourages innovation.
A quick visit to the Your Rights Online section of this very website shows how the legislative and judicial enviornment of the country is completely biased in the direction of existing monopolistic policies and companies.
If we want to encourage innovation, we need to remove the laws that treat each American individual as a suspect if they do anything outside a scientifically created generic American profile.
But what do I know, I'm just a open-source developer of cryptography solutions...:-)
Not to be cynical, but could you describe such an attack? I understand how a P2P network could be utilized in the distribution of the worm, but how would that be in any way worse than an Outlook worm? Or are you talking about the ability of a worm to coordinate using a P2P network?
As for P2P in general, it may be a way for those who are only after, as you say "1337 WAR3Z", to get their fix, but the research being done in this area has significant potential to help eliminate censorship and centralized information control. The question becomes is the price worth it?
I bought a Radeon 9700 Pro a while back, and the only way I could run X with it was to use the VESA driver, which was SLOOOOW! I can finally go back to Gentoo as my primary OS! (Now if they would just release 1.4...)
What if I don't want this super-array to interfere with my local WLAN? It appears that this technology has the potential to create a "mine is bigger than yours" arms race among WiFi users.
As far as I know, one of the major complaints about Java is the fact that it isn't standardized by an outside party like ECMA or ISO, but by Sun itself, meaning developers have as much say in the Java standard as they do over MS's VB. (please let me know if i'm wrong about this).
You're wrong about this. For all of its flaws, the Java Community Process allows anyone from a large corporation to a single unaffiliated individual to help chart the course of Java evolution. This is a far cry from MS's focus-group oriented evolution of the VB platform.
The team that is using $2,000,000 of your taxpayer dollars to "further digital rights management infastructure" has a deep rooted history in another lovely product... Circuit City's DIVX (not to be confused with the MPEG-4 codec). Take a look at their homepage or their executive bios page for more details.
I guess they couldn't get any private investment after they blew $200 million on DIVX...
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Um, shouldn't that be www.l337h4x0rzzzz@AOL.COM
As a former owner of an iPod, I found that the Windows "solution" of a MusicMatch plugin was far from ideal. Creating and managing playlists in MM, especially when you have thousands of songs, is almost impossible, and the synchronization functionality of iPod & MM is a joke.
Also, I would not count iPod for Windows support of the itunes music store as a given, as the previous generation of iPod supported Audible content only on the Mac platform, despite the fact that the codecs were already downloaded into the iPod with the firmware upgrade.
For Mac users it may be a no brainer, but for Windows users, the choice is not as black & white as you make it out to be.
...the terrorists win.
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We're doomed.
BestCrypt includes swap-file encryption in their latest version. It uses a new key generated at each boot, and is stored only in memory.
4156 3dmarks
Radeon 9700 Pro @ 4x (Stupid VIA 4 in Drivers)
AMD 1800XP+
MSI/VIA KT266 MB
512MB DDR400
80GB @ 7200RPM ATA 133 Drive
Win XP
Of more excitement is my Sony Vaio Laptop, which scored 12(!) 3dmarks (Radeon Mobility 7500). I was quite pleased.
Non-pro memory sticks are available up to 128MB. While not 10GB, it's certainly better than 4MB. :-)
Hands dirty? The poster does realize that this is slashdot, right?
Perhaps he ment to post that they were looking for someone to bitch on the sidelines in the upcoming season...
Well, the Jaguar *was* a 64-bit console...
According to the press release, the fonts to be released are from the Bitstream Vera family. A quick google didn't show anything though. Perhaps someone with more time on their hands can dig a bit deeper?
- Same old song, different meaning for P2P
- Norway piracy case brings activists hope
- $1 films spook Hollywood
- Copyright laws around the world
The final link is a gentle reminder that there are other non-US countries than the EU. There are also a number of additional resources available on the web, most of which can be found through google.JohnA, An American Citizen
Granted, the fact that the **AAs have a tremendous amount of power in other countries, but as recent rulings in other countries have shown, their courts are more willing to protect the rights of individuals over the rights of corporations. So while we may lose the battle here in the States, the "world war" may have a far different outcome.
Here's what Alan Deikman, the list admin for the pci-sig mailing list has sent to the pci-sig list as well as individuals who contacted him regarding this issue.
--
To pci-sig list members and other individuals in the blind-cc to this
message.
I am receiving quite a few e-mails about the situation with Jim Boemler's
web site, which he has felt compelled to take down. I wasn't aware of this
situation until the first of these e-mails arrived, and having looked into
it I think the situation is as outrageous as obviously many of you do.
However, you should all be aware that neither I personally, or my company
ZNYX Networks has anything to do with this situation. ZNYX Networks is not
currently a member of the PCI SIG. We allowed our membership to lapse a
number of years ago since it was obvious we were not going to be active in
any standards setting efforts. As for me or any employee of ZNYX Networks,
we are not now or ever have been an official of the SIG. If you read Mr.
Boemler's web page more carefully, you will note that he does not list me
as anything other than a possible contact, since he mentions he is not
clear who should be contacted, other than the "shark" that is doing the
legal work.
We have e-mailed Mr. Boemler (and cc'ed this message) to clarify our
position, and I will offer any aid I can.
To clarify our position, we run the pci-sig mailing list as a general
service to the community as a whole the same way Jim Boemler does (did) his
web site. Back in 1992-3 when we first started, there were much fewer
people around who could set up a mailing list so we did it. As with Mr.
Boemler, we don't get paid for it, and we have offered to turn the work
over to the SIG since we felt that it is more properly a SIG service, but
so far there has been no positive reply. Now I am wondering if I am going
to get a present in the mail like Jim did! (I really don't think that
will be the case, since we don't do a web page, but the parallel is
evident.)
To any REAL PCI-SIG officials: would you care to post a comment?
Alan Deikman
ZNYX Networks, Inc.
- Guaranteed Specific Show & Time Slot Channel
- Guaranteed Specific Show Channel
- Guaranteed Keyword Based Channel
- Not Guaranteed Specific Show & Time Slot Channel
- Not Guaranteed Specific Show Channel
- Not Guaranteed Keyword Based Channel
While this lets you better plan how to set up your channels, the replay still lacks the ability to view what shows are to be recorded.While it can be confusing, I feel that the benefits of the RTV outweigh the negatives. Although now that the RTV has a monthly fee, and Tivo 2 series has the capability to utilize ethernet, the advantages of the RTV are far less than they once were (Listening SonicBlue???)
If you have any other questions, let me know.
And yes, I am biased, as I am a ReplayTV zealot... ;-)
I was under the impression that the BouncyCastle license was less than free, but I was mistaken. It is a great package, and it's good to know that there are a variety of open implementations of strong crypto under Java.
Take note of this... until now, there were no open source implementations of the JCE that ran under JDK 1.4. Sun's implementation does not have source available, and they even went the extra step to obfuscate their JCE with DashO-Pro. Transparency is vital to cryptography, as anything less casts a shadow of doubt.
Just my humble opinion...
A quick visit to the Your Rights Online section of this very website shows how the legislative and judicial enviornment of the country is completely biased in the direction of existing monopolistic policies and companies.
If we want to encourage innovation, we need to remove the laws that treat each American individual as a suspect if they do anything outside a scientifically created generic American profile.
But what do I know, I'm just a open-source developer of cryptography solutions... :-)
Not to be cynical, but could you describe such an attack? I understand how a P2P network could be utilized in the distribution of the worm, but how would that be in any way worse than an Outlook worm? Or are you talking about the ability of a worm to coordinate using a P2P network?
As for P2P in general, it may be a way for those who are only after, as you say "1337 WAR3Z", to get their fix, but the research being done in this area has significant potential to help eliminate censorship and centralized information control. The question becomes is the price worth it?
I bought a Radeon 9700 Pro a while back, and the only way I could run X with it was to use the VESA driver, which was SLOOOOW! I can finally go back to Gentoo as my primary OS! (Now if they would just release 1.4...)
Uh... shouldn't that should be "post" instead of "posy"? ;-)
What if I don't want this super-array to interfere with my local WLAN? It appears that this technology has the potential to create a "mine is bigger than yours" arms race among WiFi users.
You're wrong about this. For all of its flaws, the Java Community Process allows anyone from a large corporation to a single unaffiliated individual to help chart the course of Java evolution. This is a far cry from MS's focus-group oriented evolution of the VB platform.
I guess they couldn't get any private investment after they blew $200 million on DIVX...