A coworker of mine was examining one of these devices two months ago and found that the http server in the PC side software supplied with the streamium would serve any file he specified - whether or not it was found in the media database. Of course, one would have to know the file name and path to make the URL, but there seemed to be no provision against probing. I have no idea whether this has been corrected in the current version. When informed of this, the CTO, whose new toy it was, quickly disabled the server side software. I would be cautious in exposing any PC running this server. To say the least.
> SACD output is 2.8Mbit/s. Toslink cannot support this as it's not just the bitrate but its a completely different way of sampling.
OK, optical SPDIF doesn't support 2.8Mb/s, but the physical TOSLINK parts can do over 9Mb/s as witnessed by the 24bit 8 channel Alesis ADAT format. Same transmitters, same receivers. The serial format is just a few dollars worth of CPLD or a few pennies of ASIC.
The solution to whatever environmental problems come up is not to return to the caves, the solution is produce more power more efficiently and cleanly.
Agreed we will need to generate more power more efficiently and cleanly. But this will need to go hand in hand with conservation.
Techological progress IS NOT intrinsicially bad for the earth.
Amen.
In other words, the solution to technology's downsides is more technology.
Pretty much.
I wish people would just deal with the fact that we are not going to stop using energy. We are not going to stop being mobile. And these needs will be ever-increasing.
Oh yeah. However, we will find ourselves altering the heat balance of the earth in a serious way as the ever-rising standard of living of the industrialized world is extended to an ever increasing percentage of the population - unless efficiency (AKA conservation) increases continually also.
"Conservation" is ALWAYS going to be a losing strategy, and it deserves to lose.
"Conservation" is USUALLY a winning strategy, and it usually deserves to win.
It is also completely compatible with the market, more so than is the status quo, in which we externalize so many of the costs of energy production. If you are a typical American, your ROI on increased energy efficiency around your home can approach 20%, much safer than the stock market, too.
If you like to leave your antique incandescent lights on all day, and run your collection of 80's vintage VAXen as your webserver and space-heater it's fine by me. Or rather, it will be when you pay the full costs of doing so. Until then it annoys us market conservationists.
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A coworker of mine was examining one of these devices two months ago and found that the http server in the PC side software supplied with the streamium would serve any file he specified - whether or not it was found in the media database. Of course, one would have to know the file name and path to make the URL, but there seemed to be no provision against probing. I have no idea whether this has been corrected in the current version. When informed of this, the CTO, whose new toy it was, quickly disabled the server side software. I would be cautious in exposing any PC running this server. To say the least.
> SACD output is 2.8Mbit/s. Toslink cannot support this as it's not just the bitrate but its a completely different way of sampling.
OK, optical SPDIF doesn't support 2.8Mb/s, but the physical TOSLINK parts can do over 9Mb/s as witnessed by the 24bit 8 channel Alesis ADAT format.
Same transmitters, same receivers. The serial format is just a few dollars worth of CPLD or a few pennies of ASIC.
The solution to whatever environmental problems come up is not to return to the caves, the solution is produce more power more efficiently and cleanly.
Agreed we will need to generate more power more efficiently and cleanly. But this will need to go hand in hand with conservation.
Techological progress IS NOT intrinsicially bad for the earth.
Amen.
In other words, the solution to technology's downsides is more technology.Pretty much.
I wish people would just deal with the fact that we are not going to stop using energy. We are not going to stop being mobile. And these needs will be ever-increasing.
Oh yeah. However, we will find ourselves altering the heat balance of the earth in a serious way as the ever-rising standard of living of the industrialized world is extended to an ever increasing percentage of the population - unless efficiency (AKA conservation) increases continually also.
"Conservation" is ALWAYS going to be a losing strategy, and it deserves to lose.
"Conservation" is USUALLY a winning strategy, and it usually deserves to win.
It is also completely compatible with the market, more so than is the status quo, in which we externalize so many of the costs of energy production. If you are a typical American, your ROI on increased energy efficiency around your home can approach 20%, much safer than the stock market, too.
If you like to leave your antique incandescent lights on all day, and run your collection of 80's vintage VAXen as your webserver and space-heater it's fine by me. Or rather, it will be when you pay the full costs of doing so. Until then it annoys us market conservationists.