as a bay area resident, I would not be caught dead in a southern state.
even if the house was free.
so, it all depends on what you want out of life. living in the deep south would be torture to someone like me.
yes, I overpay for rent. but I get value from the area I live in and I can relate to the people in my area. I would have nothing at all in common with typical southern attitudes, no matter WHAT they pay or the low cost of living.
good point. I've been hit, countless times, with very specific questions that the interviewer 'knew' everyone should know, but it was clearly his pet area of study. "I know this, how come you don't? sorry, not qualified. next!"
I could turn it around, but I don't. there are a lot of things I know in my decades of being in tech that I'm quite sure the interview guy won't know. "hey, is a 2n2222 a diode, an npn transistor or a metal film resistor?". seems quite simple to me, even as a software guy. really - you don't know this, mr. interviewer? I knew this 30 yrs ago. gee, I guess your company doesn't hire smart people.
works both ways. but of course, during interviews, it never really does work both ways;(
interviewing is one of the most painful things I have had to do in my life. the people (mostly younger kids) with extreme egos and a strong dislike for people over 30 - makes me want to puke.
that set of articles refers to michigan, but a device IS out there and you'd think it would be well known by slashies, at this point.
knowing about calea, its not a big stretch to see how this is yet another 'tool' that was given to cops to allow privacy invasions.
and like networking vendors who MUST give backdoors to products or they will not be allowed to move forward in their business - cell phone vendors MUST allow cops to break into your phone if they have one of these magic keys.
I'm really surprised you have not heard of this before.
best to assume ALL cops are dirty cops. start from there and go downward and you'll be close to reality.
look, they have this thing called a 'blue line' (google it). that makes them all dirty, by collusion. any one who does NOT report bad behavior (think: serpico) is a bad cop. and so, probably 99% of the cops out there are bad, by definition.
thugs with guns. I would trust the mafia (truly, honestly) before I'd trust an american cop.
sad to say this. I don't enjoy feeling this way. but I'm realistic.
don't talk to cops, don't socialize with them, avoid them at all costs. they CAN kill you and they will make up any story they want to save their own asses.
bad scene. hope it gets fixed but I don't have any such false hopes.
oh, how cute. a googler who thinks that by having a software 'lock' the cop won't be able to use his 'get into any phone via usb, free, key' dongle.
its mandated by secret laws. ones that you won't work-around with technology. the cops know they want to 'look around' in your phone and they damned well WILL if they want to.
your software lock will be nothing more than security theater. do you not admit that, right now, there IS such a thing as a usb device that will get into ANY production phone, made in the last several years? (or more, no one really knows who is willing to talk about it)
you and I may want privacy, but the cops are above the law, like the rest of the modern so-called authority figures.
and if you try to truly lock them out, expect an 'obstruction of justice' arrest to be thrown at you.
bay area resident, here. living here for quarter of a century. born and raised in the US.
bay area companies (cisco, etc) are about 95% asian, at this point. wander the hallways, if you get a chance. its not about men vs women, its about US vs non-US. you can walk the hallways and not hear a word of english, for many hours at a time. people think nothing of speaking some foreign language while at work, doing work, in a large open setting.
when I grew up, it was considered rude to 'talk in codes' in front of people. I'm at a loss to understand why english is disappearing from the american tech workplace (again, in the bay area, at least). no one seem to tell the guys who were not born here that its FUCKING RUDE to speak in codes. especially when their english is perfectly fine and understandable. yes, I get offended. I would not 'speak in codes' in front of someone. I just ask that we all speak a common language and maybe I know about the bug or feature or problem you are having with your code. but how the fuck can I help if you avoid speaking in a common language? its rude, guys. just realize it. no one seems to tell you this, so I'm telling you now. ITS RUDE. STOP IT. you are not winning friends this way (maybe you don't want to win local friends...)
this kind of things just separates people. we have enough problems with separations; we don't need to make the problem worse.
just think about this for a bit. maybe you will react negatively to this news, but please just think about it and how you would feel if people went out of their way to hide their communication when around you and allow only a select few to understand what you are saying, working on, etc.
when off-work, do what you want. but if you are at-work, you should think about how you are seen when you act this way.
over the last 10 years, I've seen this behavior skyrocket. please be aware that its not a good thing, to be this way. we all need to work together. speaking in codes does not bring people together.
the men/woman thing is a red herring. the real problem is that the workforce is anti-american and also ageist as can be. show some grey hairs and you might as well be a non-person to many tech companies.
these are the problems we need to fix. the men/women thing is not a real problem.
why doesn't ATT get sued for allowing telemarketers to scam their callerid? because att gets money from them!
why do isp's allow spammers? money!
why does amazon allow 'cordless anti-static wrist straps' to continue to be sold? they make money from sellers!
no one cares about ethics. this is the modern money grab 'I want mine, get the fuck outta my way!' capitalism. watching out for the consumer was so 1970's, dude! get with the program!!
its almost funny (but its quite sad) to imagine lab people wearing these, thinking they are protected when its not doing a thing other than pinching their wrists and emtying out their pocketbooks.
reminds me of the cd/dvd burning linux guy (berlioz or something was his website). for a long time, he had an faq about cdroms and linux. one question was something like 'the audio tracks from my cdrom sound bad. what's wrong?' and his answer was something like 'its country music, its supposed to sound like that';)
anyway, getting serious, here's a situation where the data is NOT checked along the way. cut-thru switches. old switches (bridges) would receive a whole datagram, crc it and then only forward it if the crc passes. that was not fast enough for the short-attention-span generation and so they start to forward the frame, bit by bit, errors and all, as soon as the destination addr is parsed (mac addr). frame could be a runt, giant, full of errors and it won't matter, it will still get forwarded. finally, at some point, it will get checked, but it WILL get passed even if its a bad frame. I hate this idea but its how modern switches work.
I don't think this is the cable I'm thinking of, but I have seen an rj45 '8 wire' cable that was expensive. and while its not worth the price, there IS something to this. hear me out.
ethernet at gig-e speeds does not use equal length strands. it does this so that you get more of a 'variety' (for lack of better non-tech words) of frequencies and you can better cancel out the common-mode noise radiation if you don't make all the wire pairs (pairs are different but each wire in the pair is the same length) the same.
ethernet can do this because there is no analog layer, no big timing mark needed in order to push out a single or pair of values from an a/d conversion.
however, a new way to export audio is with i2s *between boxes*. i2s is mostly meant for inside box use (board to board). i2s has clock, clock, clock and data (yes, lots of clocks!). and the lengths of those really need to be identical. like hdmi (look at an hdmi switch and you'll see 'trombone' waves in the circuit traces; to get the timing of each signal line just the same).
same idea here. the rj45 patch cable for i2s use (which to almost anyone, would look like an ethernet cable) has to have each wire the same length. and so, you cannot use regular old rj45 patch cables.
should it be $500? NO! but there is a reason for it being different from cat5e or cat6.
(I think using i2s between boxes is not smart, but some people want to do that and you either use rj45's or hdmi connectors to carry high speed i2s between boxes).
bits are NOT bits when it comes to clocking and jitter. if there is a separate clock and data, then data won't matter when it arrives, the clock sets the trigger edge.
otoh, spdif audio (for example) is self clocking and the timing of the bits DO matter since the being of the d/a conversion begins right after the last bit in the left-right payload. the timing of that last bit causes a 'big operation' to occur and that's when the data gets pushed out as a left and right analog value. repeat that every wordclock times (44.1k or whatever your rate is) and now maybe you can see that WHEN the bits arrive matters. it directly correlates to how evenly the samples are squirted out as analog voltages.
another tidbit for you: you can have all the lousy timing you want when you go from digital to digital to digital. copy that 'file' 1000x, serially, using spdif. all bits get there and the files compare. now, do one final step: convert that series of bits to a series of analog voltage. that final step NOW matters and its the only step that matters when the d/a conversion happens. all the other serial streams (even if fed realtime one into the other, finally with the last one going into a DAC) don't matter wrt its timing.
now, one more thing to talk about: reclocking and buffering. most dacs have receiver chips that have a fifo and they clock into the buffer and then reclock out using a precise local clock. this reconstructs the clock and reduces jitter; but you still need SOME very good clock to determine when the push out analog values. that precise timing either happens locally or it happens from the upstream source (could be the usb layer on the pc doing the timing/clocking).
after the revolution, you could basically use the same paperwork we used some 200+ years ago;)
except, update it to reflect the electronic age. keep the general ideas, though.
and enforce THAT and stop the feature-creep!
any system of laws that expands past a wall (like in a lawyer's office) is already too big. start small, put time-limits on everything and re-evaluate each one as its about to expire.
this is what to do after the revolution. I'm not sure what to do from now until then, though..
and I went out of my way to AVOID samsung. at costco, almost all the sets (in the store) were sammys. sucks! 2nd popular brand was vizio and I decided to give that one a try.
anything over 39" was ONLY avail in 'smart' tv format.
fortunately, I was not forced to accept an eula and I never enabled the smart mode. good, actually, since when you give it IP connectivity, it auto updates itself and the current version is bad (no one likes it).
I hope that by continuing to deny it access, it won't ever decide on its own to go snooping for open wireless APs. that would be really bad.
then again, at some point when the new firmware is worth getting, I'll have no choice but to enable IP;( I don't think you can just carry the firmware over with usb; they don't give you firmware, they only update it 'live over the net'.
its sad that you can only buy smart tv's at a certain size or bigger. I expect the only a few really low end models will be non-smart, as time goes on. nothing I hate more than paying for stuff that I don't want and refuse to even enable.
my htpc does all the 'smarts' I want. my files have no drm and so I don't need or want anthing smarter than vlc on win7, for example.
samsung is bad news, though. pretty evil as a company. they have the rep of building things that last 'the warranty period + 1 day'. its almost literally true, too; they try to use parts that will last a very short time (eg, electrolytic caps). samsung has no ethics at all. its sad that they have so much market share in so many things these days.
ie, allow people to see them if they seek them out, but never auto-play them (!!) and never show them unsolicited.
barely mention it on the news and only provide a link to where to get the video, and with suitable warnings.
that seems to be a reasonable compromise between giving the bad guys an easy outlet for their sick deeds - vs allowing freedom of speech. suppressing them entirely is wrong, but parading the videos is also wrong.
technically, you are not correct. lenses do have a resolving limit and with good slrs and their lenses, you can see that the better lenses do resolve better on a given sensor. its very possible for your sensor to be 'better' than some cheap kit lens. otoh, its never a problem to have 'too good' of a lens even if the sensor is not high res.
but we are talking about camera phones, so in that light, I take back everything I just said.
I just bought a new hdtv; upgrading a nearly 10 yr old set that was still from the dvi era.
wanted to go to costco for safety (so many tv's are poorly made; having a good warranty and return policy is mandatory) but the only tv's bigger than 39" were ALL so-called 'smart'.
fortunately, the vizio I came home with does not insist I enable smartness mode. for one thing, the updates (that you can't refuse if you enable IP) have caused more problems than they fixed. and 2nd, once you enable IP, all your privacy is lost. so, just refuse to accept the EULA, don't ever connect it online, and they tend to work ok as dumb sets. I run a htpc anyway (nice fanless i7, yum!) and so having a smart tv only dumbs down my whole experience;)
I hope that refusing the eula stops the set from even trying to scan for an open AP in wifi. I'm almost tempted to have a disconnected AP (almost like a honeypot) to associate with the tv. that way, the only connection it would get would never connect to the net, and yet it would keep trying and hopefully never try some other open AP. so far, not accepting the eula has not caused it to 'start up' in smart mode, but I do worry since its all closed source and there's no way to tell what is really going on.
you are almost right; but its hdcp not hdmi. hdmi does not include drm; hdmi is just dvi interleaved with audio (and now, ethernet) in a new cable connector. its hdcp that you are referring to, and hdcp is not required to connect video to a pc - its only certain content (which I'm sure you realize) that insists on an end-to-end secure path.
for regular desktops and such, hdcp never enters into it.
afaik, cinavia has not been broken yet and the anydvd/slysoft guys say its not going to be an easy fight on this one. they actually have no good ideas on how to break this one, sad to say.
simple solution: 'pirate' all your content and it will play drm-free, be commercial-free and also be nicely compressed so it won't eat your nas, alive.
if I could buy a cheaper tv without hdcp, I'd be totally happy with that. the only BD drive I have came with a laptop I bought years ago, I never once init'd it or used it and I doubt I ever will (unless bd-blanks come down in price and become a viable backup option, which I kind of doubt, anyway).
since when does the reader of a forum like this care about movie studios' wishes? pfff!, as you already said.
when I first moved to the bay area, americans could find jobs in software. I saw more of a balance in the workplace back then (25 yrs ago).
today, I'm telling you (come here if you don't believe it and get a tour of any bay area software company) - its few and far between to find a US born person walking the halls or in a conference room (exceptions would be for upper mgmt; but first line mgrs are practically all foreign born).
deny it all you want. I live here, I see it and its a verifyable fact.
and, well, he's not exactly a trustable source, given that:
In announcing his Senate candidacy, Sasse expressed strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA, a.k.a. "Obamacare"), describing himself as "the anti-Obamacare candidate"
so, got any REPUTABLE sources for this?
an 'anti obamacare' guy is not what I would call a trusted source, mate.
the field is already saturated and I, as a born-and-raised american, can't find a job in the bay area (I'm also over 50, and I admit that's a big part of it) even with nearly 30 yrs of software experience.
guiding young people into the software field - for anything other than personal use (ie, not a day job that pays the bills) is doing a disservice to our own people.
companies are brutal and refuse to support people in their own local society. they only care about low-cost, above all, to the exclusion of all.
you think americans will still be hired for 'grunt software work' in 10 or 20 yrs? no way! not even h1b's will be given the work since it will be cheaper for africa (probably the next geo to take over 'cheap remote work' once india and china have had wages go 'too high') to do the work.
its very clear that the cost of living in the US will never be competitive to overseas work. and being able to think and type does NOT require you to set even one foot on US soil.
US companies will be 'mangement houses' at best, with some token low-wage support folks here, just to say we have a US presence. but all the real work will be done overseas.
want job security: do something physical. hang wallboard, do plumbing, car repair, gardening. all the stuff that you were told NOT to go into (isn't that a switch?). but physical things can't be done remotely. they won't be high paying but SOME pay is better than being out of work for months at a time, every few years (a cycle that I'm put into, by virtue of my age and being 'too experienced').
do you see wages and life balance going UP in software? I don't. and it won't change. the hey-day of being in software and living in the US is on the decline and there's only so much time left before it bottoms out entirely.
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as a bay area resident, I would not be caught dead in a southern state.
even if the house was free.
so, it all depends on what you want out of life. living in the deep south would be torture to someone like me.
yes, I overpay for rent. but I get value from the area I live in and I can relate to the people in my area. I would have nothing at all in common with typical southern attitudes, no matter WHAT they pay or the low cost of living.
good point. I've been hit, countless times, with very specific questions that the interviewer 'knew' everyone should know, but it was clearly his pet area of study. "I know this, how come you don't? sorry, not qualified. next!"
I could turn it around, but I don't. there are a lot of things I know in my decades of being in tech that I'm quite sure the interview guy won't know. "hey, is a 2n2222 a diode, an npn transistor or a metal film resistor?". seems quite simple to me, even as a software guy. really - you don't know this, mr. interviewer? I knew this 30 yrs ago. gee, I guess your company doesn't hire smart people.
works both ways. but of course, during interviews, it never really does work both ways ;(
interviewing is one of the most painful things I have had to do in my life. the people (mostly younger kids) with extreme egos and a strong dislike for people over 30 - makes me want to puke.
sure thing butchie, ole pal:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.discourse.net/2011/...
that set of articles refers to michigan, but a device IS out there and you'd think it would be well known by slashies, at this point.
knowing about calea, its not a big stretch to see how this is yet another 'tool' that was given to cops to allow privacy invasions.
and like networking vendors who MUST give backdoors to products or they will not be allowed to move forward in their business - cell phone vendors MUST allow cops to break into your phone if they have one of these magic keys.
I'm really surprised you have not heard of this before.
best to assume ALL cops are dirty cops. start from there and go downward and you'll be close to reality.
look, they have this thing called a 'blue line' (google it). that makes them all dirty, by collusion. any one who does NOT report bad behavior (think: serpico) is a bad cop. and so, probably 99% of the cops out there are bad, by definition.
thugs with guns. I would trust the mafia (truly, honestly) before I'd trust an american cop.
sad to say this. I don't enjoy feeling this way. but I'm realistic.
don't talk to cops, don't socialize with them, avoid them at all costs. they CAN kill you and they will make up any story they want to save their own asses.
bad scene. hope it gets fixed but I don't have any such false hopes.
oh, how cute. a googler who thinks that by having a software 'lock' the cop won't be able to use his 'get into any phone via usb, free, key' dongle.
its mandated by secret laws. ones that you won't work-around with technology. the cops know they want to 'look around' in your phone and they damned well WILL if they want to.
your software lock will be nothing more than security theater. do you not admit that, right now, there IS such a thing as a usb device that will get into ANY production phone, made in the last several years? (or more, no one really knows who is willing to talk about it)
you and I may want privacy, but the cops are above the law, like the rest of the modern so-called authority figures.
and if you try to truly lock them out, expect an 'obstruction of justice' arrest to be thrown at you.
bay area resident, here. living here for quarter of a century. born and raised in the US.
bay area companies (cisco, etc) are about 95% asian, at this point. wander the hallways, if you get a chance. its not about men vs women, its about US vs non-US. you can walk the hallways and not hear a word of english, for many hours at a time. people think nothing of speaking some foreign language while at work, doing work, in a large open setting.
when I grew up, it was considered rude to 'talk in codes' in front of people. I'm at a loss to understand why english is disappearing from the american tech workplace (again, in the bay area, at least). no one seem to tell the guys who were not born here that its FUCKING RUDE to speak in codes. especially when their english is perfectly fine and understandable. yes, I get offended. I would not 'speak in codes' in front of someone. I just ask that we all speak a common language and maybe I know about the bug or feature or problem you are having with your code. but how the fuck can I help if you avoid speaking in a common language? its rude, guys. just realize it. no one seems to tell you this, so I'm telling you now. ITS RUDE. STOP IT. you are not winning friends this way (maybe you don't want to win local friends...)
this kind of things just separates people. we have enough problems with separations; we don't need to make the problem worse.
just think about this for a bit. maybe you will react negatively to this news, but please just think about it and how you would feel if people went out of their way to hide their communication when around you and allow only a select few to understand what you are saying, working on, etc.
when off-work, do what you want. but if you are at-work, you should think about how you are seen when you act this way.
over the last 10 years, I've seen this behavior skyrocket. please be aware that its not a good thing, to be this way. we all need to work together. speaking in codes does not bring people together.
the men/woman thing is a red herring. the real problem is that the workforce is anti-american and also ageist as can be. show some grey hairs and you might as well be a non-person to many tech companies.
these are the problems we need to fix. the men/women thing is not a real problem.
"$0'); drop table donations; "
money changes hands!
why doesn't ATT get sued for allowing telemarketers to scam their callerid? because att gets money from them!
why do isp's allow spammers? money!
why does amazon allow 'cordless anti-static wrist straps' to continue to be sold? they make money from sellers!
no one cares about ethics. this is the modern money grab 'I want mine, get the fuck outta my way!' capitalism. watching out for the consumer was so 1970's, dude! get with the program!!
you want to report someone, how about those folks selling cordless anti-static wrist straps, such as:
http://www.amazon.com/Static-D...
its almost funny (but its quite sad) to imagine lab people wearing these, thinking they are protected when its not doing a thing other than pinching their wrists and emtying out their pocketbooks.
reminds me of the cd/dvd burning linux guy (berlioz or something was his website). for a long time, he had an faq about cdroms and linux. one question was something like 'the audio tracks from my cdrom sound bad. what's wrong?' and his answer was something like 'its country music, its supposed to sound like that' ;)
anyway, getting serious, here's a situation where the data is NOT checked along the way. cut-thru switches. old switches (bridges) would receive a whole datagram, crc it and then only forward it if the crc passes. that was not fast enough for the short-attention-span generation and so they start to forward the frame, bit by bit, errors and all, as soon as the destination addr is parsed (mac addr). frame could be a runt, giant, full of errors and it won't matter, it will still get forwarded. finally, at some point, it will get checked, but it WILL get passed even if its a bad frame. I hate this idea but its how modern switches work.
I don't think this is the cable I'm thinking of, but I have seen an rj45 '8 wire' cable that was expensive. and while its not worth the price, there IS something to this. hear me out.
ethernet at gig-e speeds does not use equal length strands. it does this so that you get more of a 'variety' (for lack of better non-tech words) of frequencies and you can better cancel out the common-mode noise radiation if you don't make all the wire pairs (pairs are different but each wire in the pair is the same length) the same.
ethernet can do this because there is no analog layer, no big timing mark needed in order to push out a single or pair of values from an a/d conversion.
however, a new way to export audio is with i2s *between boxes*. i2s is mostly meant for inside box use (board to board). i2s has clock, clock, clock and data (yes, lots of clocks!). and the lengths of those really need to be identical. like hdmi (look at an hdmi switch and you'll see 'trombone' waves in the circuit traces; to get the timing of each signal line just the same).
same idea here. the rj45 patch cable for i2s use (which to almost anyone, would look like an ethernet cable) has to have each wire the same length. and so, you cannot use regular old rj45 patch cables.
should it be $500? NO! but there is a reason for it being different from cat5e or cat6.
(I think using i2s between boxes is not smart, but some people want to do that and you either use rj45's or hdmi connectors to carry high speed i2s between boxes).
I'm not going to defend expensive cables, but ...
bits are NOT bits when it comes to clocking and jitter. if there is a separate clock and data, then data won't matter when it arrives, the clock sets the trigger edge.
otoh, spdif audio (for example) is self clocking and the timing of the bits DO matter since the being of the d/a conversion begins right after the last bit in the left-right payload. the timing of that last bit causes a 'big operation' to occur and that's when the data gets pushed out as a left and right analog value. repeat that every wordclock times (44.1k or whatever your rate is) and now maybe you can see that WHEN the bits arrive matters. it directly correlates to how evenly the samples are squirted out as analog voltages.
another tidbit for you: you can have all the lousy timing you want when you go from digital to digital to digital. copy that 'file' 1000x, serially, using spdif. all bits get there and the files compare. now, do one final step: convert that series of bits to a series of analog voltage. that final step NOW matters and its the only step that matters when the d/a conversion happens. all the other serial streams (even if fed realtime one into the other, finally with the last one going into a DAC) don't matter wrt its timing.
now, one more thing to talk about: reclocking and buffering. most dacs have receiver chips that have a fifo and they clock into the buffer and then reclock out using a precise local clock. this reconstructs the clock and reduces jitter; but you still need SOME very good clock to determine when the push out analog values. that precise timing either happens locally or it happens from the upstream source (could be the usb layer on the pc doing the timing/clocking).
after the revolution, you could basically use the same paperwork we used some 200+ years ago ;)
except, update it to reflect the electronic age. keep the general ideas, though.
and enforce THAT and stop the feature-creep!
any system of laws that expands past a wall (like in a lawyer's office) is already too big. start small, put time-limits on everything and re-evaluate each one as its about to expire.
this is what to do after the revolution. I'm not sure what to do from now until then, though..
and I went out of my way to AVOID samsung. at costco, almost all the sets (in the store) were sammys. sucks! 2nd popular brand was vizio and I decided to give that one a try.
anything over 39" was ONLY avail in 'smart' tv format.
fortunately, I was not forced to accept an eula and I never enabled the smart mode. good, actually, since when you give it IP connectivity, it auto updates itself and the current version is bad (no one likes it).
I hope that by continuing to deny it access, it won't ever decide on its own to go snooping for open wireless APs. that would be really bad.
then again, at some point when the new firmware is worth getting, I'll have no choice but to enable IP ;( I don't think you can just carry the firmware over with usb; they don't give you firmware, they only update it 'live over the net'.
its sad that you can only buy smart tv's at a certain size or bigger. I expect the only a few really low end models will be non-smart, as time goes on. nothing I hate more than paying for stuff that I don't want and refuse to even enable.
my htpc does all the 'smarts' I want. my files have no drm and so I don't need or want anthing smarter than vlc on win7, for example.
samsung is bad news, though. pretty evil as a company. they have the rep of building things that last 'the warranty period + 1 day'. its almost literally true, too; they try to use parts that will last a very short time (eg, electrolytic caps). samsung has no ethics at all. its sad that they have so much market share in so many things these days.
ie, allow people to see them if they seek them out, but never auto-play them (!!) and never show them unsolicited.
barely mention it on the news and only provide a link to where to get the video, and with suitable warnings.
that seems to be a reasonable compromise between giving the bad guys an easy outlet for their sick deeds - vs allowing freedom of speech. suppressing them entirely is wrong, but parading the videos is also wrong.
technically, you are not correct. lenses do have a resolving limit and with good slrs and their lenses, you can see that the better lenses do resolve better on a given sensor. its very possible for your sensor to be 'better' than some cheap kit lens. otoh, its never a problem to have 'too good' of a lens even if the sensor is not high res.
but we are talking about camera phones, so in that light, I take back everything I just said.
I just bought a new hdtv; upgrading a nearly 10 yr old set that was still from the dvi era.
wanted to go to costco for safety (so many tv's are poorly made; having a good warranty and return policy is mandatory) but the only tv's bigger than 39" were ALL so-called 'smart'.
fortunately, the vizio I came home with does not insist I enable smartness mode. for one thing, the updates (that you can't refuse if you enable IP) have caused more problems than they fixed. and 2nd, once you enable IP, all your privacy is lost. so, just refuse to accept the EULA, don't ever connect it online, and they tend to work ok as dumb sets. I run a htpc anyway (nice fanless i7, yum!) and so having a smart tv only dumbs down my whole experience ;)
I hope that refusing the eula stops the set from even trying to scan for an open AP in wifi. I'm almost tempted to have a disconnected AP (almost like a honeypot) to associate with the tv. that way, the only connection it would get would never connect to the net, and yet it would keep trying and hopefully never try some other open AP. so far, not accepting the eula has not caused it to 'start up' in smart mode, but I do worry since its all closed source and there's no way to tell what is really going on.
you are almost right; but its hdcp not hdmi. hdmi does not include drm; hdmi is just dvi interleaved with audio (and now, ethernet) in a new cable connector. its hdcp that you are referring to, and hdcp is not required to connect video to a pc - its only certain content (which I'm sure you realize) that insists on an end-to-end secure path.
for regular desktops and such, hdcp never enters into it.
afaik, cinavia has not been broken yet and the anydvd/slysoft guys say its not going to be an easy fight on this one. they actually have no good ideas on how to break this one, sad to say.
simple solution: 'pirate' all your content and it will play drm-free, be commercial-free and also be nicely compressed so it won't eat your nas, alive.
if I could buy a cheaper tv without hdcp, I'd be totally happy with that. the only BD drive I have came with a laptop I bought years ago, I never once init'd it or used it and I doubt I ever will (unless bd-blanks come down in price and become a viable backup option, which I kind of doubt, anyway).
since when does the reader of a forum like this care about movie studios' wishes? pfff!, as you already said.
You don't want the implant? Well then you cant do your job, audios!
does this also include videos, as well? we now live in a multi-media world, you know...
you can call BS all you want.
when I first moved to the bay area, americans could find jobs in software. I saw more of a balance in the workplace back then (25 yrs ago).
today, I'm telling you (come here if you don't believe it and get a tour of any bay area software company) - its few and far between to find a US born person walking the halls or in a conference room (exceptions would be for upper mgmt; but first line mgrs are practically all foreign born).
deny it all you want. I live here, I see it and its a verifyable fact.
neocon bullshit website.
yeah, we'll listen to that....
that blog you linked to quotes this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and, well, he's not exactly a trustable source, given that:
In announcing his Senate candidacy, Sasse expressed strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA, a.k.a. "Obamacare"), describing himself as "the anti-Obamacare candidate"
so, got any REPUTABLE sources for this?
an 'anti obamacare' guy is not what I would call a trusted source, mate.
pretty much what I said in my last post.
the field is already saturated and I, as a born-and-raised american, can't find a job in the bay area (I'm also over 50, and I admit that's a big part of it) even with nearly 30 yrs of software experience.
guiding young people into the software field - for anything other than personal use (ie, not a day job that pays the bills) is doing a disservice to our own people.
companies are brutal and refuse to support people in their own local society. they only care about low-cost, above all, to the exclusion of all.
you think americans will still be hired for 'grunt software work' in 10 or 20 yrs? no way! not even h1b's will be given the work since it will be cheaper for africa (probably the next geo to take over 'cheap remote work' once india and china have had wages go 'too high') to do the work.
its very clear that the cost of living in the US will never be competitive to overseas work. and being able to think and type does NOT require you to set even one foot on US soil.
US companies will be 'mangement houses' at best, with some token low-wage support folks here, just to say we have a US presence. but all the real work will be done overseas.
want job security: do something physical. hang wallboard, do plumbing, car repair, gardening. all the stuff that you were told NOT to go into (isn't that a switch?). but physical things can't be done remotely. they won't be high paying but SOME pay is better than being out of work for months at a time, every few years (a cycle that I'm put into, by virtue of my age and being 'too experienced').
do you see wages and life balance going UP in software? I don't. and it won't change. the hey-day of being in software and living in the US is on the decline and there's only so much time left before it bottoms out entirely.