You don't just need 10 tuners, you need 10 full decoders running.
The delay time switching between those multiple tuners would be non-zero.
You need a decent bit of very fast storage for those 10+ HD channels constantly buffering.
Picking the 10 channels would be impossible. You're assuming a few above/below, but ignoring Favorites/Customization, channels being keyed in, guide usage, etc.
Scaling up the decryption modules to 10+ would be extremely difficult. Would require multiple cablecards, which means multiplied monthly fees.
Content producers would object to extra-contractual and excessive usage of their content.
Cable companies couldn't prevent 3rd party device manufacturers from utilizing similar features to make bulk-recording DVRs or a single set-top box which feeds multiple TVs different channels.
This scheme couldn't work at all for less popular channels which are multicast to certain viewers like OnDemand content, instead of broadcast.
Customers would object to not just the expensive box, but the significantly increased monthly fees, and very high electric bill for these unwanted features.
The set-top-box would have to be substantially larger to accommodate all of this.
Support costs would go up dramatically as the complex boxes result in innumerable viewer problems from minor glitches to major freeze-ups.
But that's just for starters. Once you go deeper into the actual design of such a thing, then it really gets complicated.
Malware happens. Malicious hardware can turn a harmless attack into an effective one.
Except AMT malware does NOT happen.
At some point, reality enters the equation, and you just need to keep your extreme paranoia in-check. Does anybody here have ANY cases they can point to, where AMT was exploited? Wake me when 99% of computer exploits cease to be drive-by phishing, and Linux/FreeBSD/Firefox/etc. cease to have ANY bugs that can be exploited, requiring attackers to escalate to finding hardware bugs.
"Savings" also means "less money for workers to spend in their local economy".
It also means increased value of the existing workers, and more money available to spend on their salaries. Where do you think all the comfy, high-paying IT jobs come from? You're getting a six-figure salary only because of all the people doing menial tasks have been replaced by the computers you are able to keep up-and-running.
This may not end well.
Eventually, maybe not. But right now unemployment is at historical lows. The recession we've been climbing out of was due to banking, not excessive automation. Every doom and gloom prediction so far has proven, not just wrong, but in-fact in direct opposition of reality.
As long as there's one job humans can do slightly better than machines, a capitalist economy will continue to work just fine.
And the boxes are slow as hell. Today's youth won't know what "channel surfing" is, because it takes them 1 second per channel change. Hooray 'progress'.
Today's youth won't know what static is, either. You're acting that that's a bad thing. I only wish I could have hit a button on the TV remote to get a full listing of what shows are on all available channels right now, and coming up for the next several hours...
Hell, pretty soon kids won't understand what a "TV Channel" or "commercial break" is, either, and that won't be a bad thing at all.
They somehow figured out a way to do digital channel changing that's nearly as fast as analog cable.
There's nothing complicated about it. You can arbitrarily increase or decrease the GOP size quite easily. Decrease the GOP size and the video will start sooner, but at the expense of requiring a higher bit rate for video. If you want faster channel-surfing, at the expense of lower picture quality, you can have it.
In turn, the company's operating costs have been sliced by 20% -- or almost $22 million -- per warehouse.
The list of benefits are a lot of back-end numbers we don't see and can't verify. If these Kiva robots are saving Amazon so much money, why aren't item prices dropping? Why does Walmart still often beat Amazon's prices? Why did Amazon suddenly and silently increase the free shipping minimum threshold from any $35 order, to $49 of only merchandise shipped via Amazon? This price jump even coincides with the biggest DEcrease in oil prices in decades.
In short, I'm HIGHLY skeptical they're actually getting the huge benefits they claim.
how much do you want to bet that if someone is nice enough to bring an issue to Intel's attention and Intel decides to take no action that there's a "by the way, if you so much as make a peep about this we'll bury you in an avalanche of DMCA litigation for the rest of your natural life"?
Right, because there's no way to ANONYMOUSLY post vulnerability information on the internet... Every known bug out there was submitted with the person's legal name and current address.
At some point, reality enters the equation, and you just need to keep your extreme paranoia in-check. Does anybody here have ANY cases they can point to, where AMT was exploited? Wake me when 99% of computer exploits cease to be drive-by phishing, and Linux/FreeBSD/Firefox/etc. cease to have ANY bugs that can be exploited, requiring attackers to escalate to finding hardware bugs.
What I want is to be secure from an Intel subjected to coercion by a corrupt government.
Then don't give Intel, or the corrupt government in question, access into your LAN.
If the government has to gain physical access to tap into your local network so that they can possibly break into your computer via Intel AMT, well, that's just one small step from physically walking into the building and seizing your computer, anyhow, so why would they even bother with the AMT?
in August 1994, Microsoft released an add-on package (codenamed Wolverine) that provided TCP/IP support in Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Wolverine was a 32-bit stack
Wow! And to think, Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 didn't have any networking support! Yet they somehow have bugs that allows diverting network traffic that they don't and can't generate!
Windows 3.11 was the first to include networking, and I'm going to bet it wasn't affected, either.
FiletOfFish1066 is a 2-day-old account (as of June 13, 2016)
That's some mighty fine police work there, Lou, because the story was actually posted on May 22. Would you say the job he managed to automate was, perhaps, time-travel?
The actual user in question is NOT at your link, but instead can be found here:
So fake that the guy himself deleted the story as soon as it blew up.
This story will guarantee he'll never get another job in IT, if that handle ever gets connected to his real identity. Lots of people post stupid stuff on Facebook, and only realize they shouldn't AFTER it gets them in trouble.
Of course it's still quite possible his story is fake, but I've convincingly proven that YOU don't exist, so you don't have to worry about it...
If he had nothing to do and didn't choose to code during work, he obviously doesn't enjoy coding. So he's all ready to find a different career.
Change his job description from programmer to janitor, then tell me how much sense your statement makes... If everybody "followed their passion" there would be nobody to do the unpleasant jobs that still need to be done.
Almost NOBODY is in-love with their job... That's why it's a job. You get paid money to do the shitty parts. Maybe it's an interesting challenge, maybe it's easy enough you can zone out all day, but for the most part, it's just something you have to do to put food on the table. If you recall, we're in a globalized post-industrial economy, where being a bus driver or factory worker will not exactly give you a high standard of living. Everybody goes towards the high paying jobs, and that means IT isn't completely filled with lots of enthusiastic hobbyists anymore.
Only a philosophy major or an idiot could think you could create a pain-causing robot and claim that it was the robot's fault when the damn thing caused people pain.
Shhh. There might be Volkswagen lawyers around...
Last thing we need is to give them a new legal theory that absolves their executives of the diesel emissions scandal. THE ROBOTS DID IT!
You can look at RIM/Blackberry to see where all other non-Apple, non-Android smartphone makers ended up. The feature phone market dried up, ending Nokia's most successful niche. The company's downward slide had already started before Elop signed-on. "The company's board was widely seen to be searching for a turn-around CEO." Note that you don't need a "turn-around" if your company is doing great... Or if you don't believe that, you can just look at the charts and see the decline BEFORE Elon was hired on. In fact RIM/Blackberry sales were still climbing a couple years after Nokia's downward slide began...
"Elop's CEO contract with Nokia included a bonus clause worth $25 Million dollars, if Elop sold the handset unit specifically to Microsoft." So obviously Nokia's board were specifically eying a Microsoft buyout when they signed Elop on.
No question Elop was a lousy leader who didn't help things, but everybody knew Nokia was broken before his tenure started. I'd call Elop's tenure a symptom, not the disease. Note that Blackberry had a precipitous downward slide, too, without any former Microsoft execs involved.
Doesn't sound like you comprehended. Your stocks don't get downgraded to junk status if you've got lots of cash, and there's no problem repaying bonds (bond ARE DEBT, btw). Though it was a bit closer to the takeover date that their cash reserves really ran out. Like I said, there's plenty of info out there. But if you're determined to live in your fantasy world, I'm not going to try stopping you.
Another victim of Apple... Get yourself a cheap Android device. You can find plenty of decent ones for $40. Probably a passable one for $15 (just needs to be Android 4.1 or newer).
I'm sure the aluminum tube you're inside makes reception more difficult, but the big windows in the cockpit would help greatly. A passenger could try against the side port windows, if appropriately seated.
In my brief searching, I found several people saying iPhones disable the GPS in airplane mode. Some Android systems will as well, but the later just requires going into settings and re-enabling GPS. You should be able to test that on the ground, first.
HERE Offline Maps has a nice "Drive" mode in the menu, which shows current MPH, and heading; doesn't require selecting a route. And if you've downloaded maps for the state you're flying over, you can identify the locales, roads and some hints of terrain (water, hills, etc.) below you.
It couldn't have been much worse than what did happen. Nokia was a very strong consumer brand, a high quality Nokia Android could've been a success. At least they'd have been in control of their own destiny instead of being tied to Microsoft's own failed efforts.
You obviously don't know the story. Nokia was so deeply in debt that they couldn't survive without the huge cash infusion from Microsoft. Nokia was very lucky there was a bigger idiot they could trick into buying the company, saving their creditors and share-holders, and leaving Microsoft holding the worthless carcass.
Nokia's problems were deep and long-standing. They had all the opportunities and time in the world to make a successful smart phone, but failed miserably. Their Nokia Communicator could have been what iPhone was, but instead they constantly made mind-boggling decisions to cripple their products.
Never the less, you can expect Nokia/Android phones to come to market pretty soon:
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You can't "buffer signal" at all.
You don't just need 10 tuners, you need 10 full decoders running.
The delay time switching between those multiple tuners would be non-zero.
You need a decent bit of very fast storage for those 10+ HD channels constantly buffering.
Picking the 10 channels would be impossible. You're assuming a few above/below, but ignoring Favorites/Customization, channels being keyed in, guide usage, etc.
Scaling up the decryption modules to 10+ would be extremely difficult. Would require multiple cablecards, which means multiplied monthly fees.
Content producers would object to extra-contractual and excessive usage of their content.
Cable companies couldn't prevent 3rd party device manufacturers from utilizing similar features to make bulk-recording DVRs or a single set-top box which feeds multiple TVs different channels.
This scheme couldn't work at all for less popular channels which are multicast to certain viewers like OnDemand content, instead of broadcast.
Customers would object to not just the expensive box, but the significantly increased monthly fees, and very high electric bill for these unwanted features.
The set-top-box would have to be substantially larger to accommodate all of this.
Support costs would go up dramatically as the complex boxes result in innumerable viewer problems from minor glitches to major freeze-ups.
But that's just for starters. Once you go deeper into the actual design of such a thing, then it really gets complicated.
Except AMT malware does NOT happen.
At some point, reality enters the equation, and you just need to keep your extreme paranoia in-check. Does anybody here have ANY cases they can point to, where AMT was exploited? Wake me when 99% of computer exploits cease to be drive-by phishing, and Linux/FreeBSD/Firefox/etc. cease to have ANY bugs that can be exploited, requiring attackers to escalate to finding hardware bugs.
The AES NIST standard encryption competition finalists:
CAST-256--Canada
CRYPTON--South Korea
DEAL--Canada and Norway
DFC--France
E2--Japan
FROG--Costa Rica
HPC--U.S.A.
LOKI97--Australia
MAGENTA--Germany
MARS--U.S.A.
RC6--U.S.A.
Rijndael--Belgium
SAFER+--U.S.A.
SERPENT--Norway
TWOFISH--U.S.A.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_...
Okay then. Show me the price of Amazon Prime decreasing, which preferably coincides with this increasing automation, then...
It also means increased value of the existing workers, and more money available to spend on their salaries. Where do you think all the comfy, high-paying IT jobs come from? You're getting a six-figure salary only because of all the people doing menial tasks have been replaced by the computers you are able to keep up-and-running.
Eventually, maybe not. But right now unemployment is at historical lows. The recession we've been climbing out of was due to banking, not excessive automation. Every doom and gloom prediction so far has proven, not just wrong, but in-fact in direct opposition of reality.
As long as there's one job humans can do slightly better than machines, a capitalist economy will continue to work just fine.
Today's youth won't know what static is, either. You're acting that that's a bad thing. I only wish I could have hit a button on the TV remote to get a full listing of what shows are on all available channels right now, and coming up for the next several hours...
Hell, pretty soon kids won't understand what a "TV Channel" or "commercial break" is, either, and that won't be a bad thing at all.
There's nothing complicated about it. You can arbitrarily increase or decrease the GOP size quite easily. Decrease the GOP size and the video will start sooner, but at the expense of requiring a higher bit rate for video. If you want faster channel-surfing, at the expense of lower picture quality, you can have it.
There are several dozen reasons why you, in fact, couldn't practically do that.
The list of benefits are a lot of back-end numbers we don't see and can't verify. If these Kiva robots are saving Amazon so much money, why aren't item prices dropping? Why does Walmart still often beat Amazon's prices? Why did Amazon suddenly and silently increase the free shipping minimum threshold from any $35 order, to $49 of only merchandise shipped via Amazon? This price jump even coincides with the biggest DEcrease in oil prices in decades.
In short, I'm HIGHLY skeptical they're actually getting the huge benefits they claim.
Right, because there's no way to ANONYMOUSLY post vulnerability information on the internet... Every known bug out there was submitted with the person's legal name and current address.
At some point, reality enters the equation, and you just need to keep your extreme paranoia in-check. Does anybody here have ANY cases they can point to, where AMT was exploited? Wake me when 99% of computer exploits cease to be drive-by phishing, and Linux/FreeBSD/Firefox/etc. cease to have ANY bugs that can be exploited, requiring attackers to escalate to finding hardware bugs.
Then don't give Intel, or the corrupt government in question, access into your LAN.
If the government has to gain physical access to tap into your local network so that they can possibly break into your computer via Intel AMT, well, that's just one small step from physically walking into the building and seizing your computer, anyhow, so why would they even bother with the AMT?
Nope.
Wow! And to think, Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 didn't have any networking support! Yet they somehow have bugs that allows diverting network traffic that they don't and can't generate!
Windows 3.11 was the first to include networking, and I'm going to bet it wasn't affected, either.
That's some mighty fine police work there, Lou, because the story was actually posted on May 22. Would you say the job he managed to automate was, perhaps, time-travel?
The actual user in question is NOT at your link, but instead can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/user/Fi...
Two days old? Not exactly...
This story will guarantee he'll never get another job in IT, if that handle ever gets connected to his real identity. Lots of people post stupid stuff on Facebook, and only realize they shouldn't AFTER it gets them in trouble.
Of course it's still quite possible his story is fake, but I've convincingly proven that YOU don't exist, so you don't have to worry about it...
Change his job description from programmer to janitor, then tell me how much sense your statement makes... If everybody "followed their passion" there would be nobody to do the unpleasant jobs that still need to be done.
Almost NOBODY is in-love with their job... That's why it's a job. You get paid money to do the shitty parts. Maybe it's an interesting challenge, maybe it's easy enough you can zone out all day, but for the most part, it's just something you have to do to put food on the table. If you recall, we're in a globalized post-industrial economy, where being a bus driver or factory worker will not exactly give you a high standard of living. Everybody goes towards the high paying jobs, and that means IT isn't completely filled with lots of enthusiastic hobbyists anymore.
Shhh. There might be Volkswagen lawyers around...
Last thing we need is to give them a new legal theory that absolves their executives of the diesel emissions scandal. THE ROBOTS DID IT!
You can look at RIM/Blackberry to see where all other non-Apple, non-Android smartphone makers ended up. The feature phone market dried up, ending Nokia's most successful niche. The company's downward slide had already started before Elop signed-on. "The company's board was widely seen to be searching for a turn-around CEO." Note that you don't need a "turn-around" if your company is doing great... Or if you don't believe that, you can just look at the charts and see the decline BEFORE Elon was hired on. In fact RIM/Blackberry sales were still climbing a couple years after Nokia's downward slide began...
"Elop's CEO contract with Nokia included a bonus clause worth $25 Million dollars, if Elop sold the handset unit specifically to Microsoft." So obviously Nokia's board were specifically eying a Microsoft buyout when they signed Elop on.
No question Elop was a lousy leader who didn't help things, but everybody knew Nokia was broken before his tenure started. I'd call Elop's tenure a symptom, not the disease. Note that Blackberry had a precipitous downward slide, too, without any former Microsoft execs involved.
Doesn't sound like you comprehended. Your stocks don't get downgraded to junk status if you've got lots of cash, and there's no problem repaying bonds (bond ARE DEBT, btw). Though it was a bit closer to the takeover date that their cash reserves really ran out. Like I said, there's plenty of info out there. But if you're determined to live in your fantasy world, I'm not going to try stopping you.
Specto.
There's plenty out there if you look:
http://seekingalpha.com/articl...
Another victim of Apple... Get yourself a cheap Android device. You can find plenty of decent ones for $40. Probably a passable one for $15 (just needs to be Android 4.1 or newer).
I'm sure the aluminum tube you're inside makes reception more difficult, but the big windows in the cockpit would help greatly. A passenger could try against the side port windows, if appropriately seated.
In my brief searching, I found several people saying iPhones disable the GPS in airplane mode. Some Android systems will as well, but the later just requires going into settings and re-enabling GPS. You should be able to test that on the ground, first.
HERE Offline Maps has a nice "Drive" mode in the menu, which shows current MPH, and heading; doesn't require selecting a route. And if you've downloaded maps for the state you're flying over, you can identify the locales, roads and some hints of terrain (water, hills, etc.) below you.
There are innumerable reports that say you're wrong:
http://travel.stackexchange.co...
You obviously don't know the story. Nokia was so deeply in debt that they couldn't survive without the huge cash infusion from Microsoft. Nokia was very lucky there was a bigger idiot they could trick into buying the company, saving their creditors and share-holders, and leaving Microsoft holding the worthless carcass.
Nokia's problems were deep and long-standing. They had all the opportunities and time in the world to make a successful smart phone, but failed miserably. Their Nokia Communicator could have been what iPhone was, but instead they constantly made mind-boggling decisions to cripple their products.
Never the less, you can expect Nokia/Android phones to come to market pretty soon:
http://pipedot.org/story/2016-...
There are plenty of offline navigation apps that don't need any data connection, just the GPS signal.