This is known as a Mexican Standoff - when two groups who are in trouble with the law, and neither group is able to turn the other in without incriminating/exposing themselves. The idea of police reducing sentences for people who provide evidence was designed to stop this; people then have a better chance of being able to turn in fellow criminals and not suffer as much as they would be if they had been turned in. The problem is that no "solution" to this problem is perfect, and there are endless Game Theory-esque permutations that arose when people tried to find one.
In a procedural way it'd be impossible, but it's simple enough to check if the next word begins with a vowel or an H. It would nab most, though not all. The only problems would be stuff like acronyms beginning with H (so non-silent). These are the same problems that plague auto-capitalization (for instance, a word processor trying to deal with someone writing about "U.S. foreign policy", which it would auto-correct to "U.S. Foreign policy"), but 'a' vs 'an' isn't a huge jump from that.
I love the GGP's point that SVG is a failure because you need XHTML to use it. Why shouldn't you use XHTML? IE. I think we need to reach the point that whether or not something displays in IE should no longer be a concern to us, it's holding back web development and hurts everyone.
BetterPrivacy is your friend. It's actually interesting to open and close your browser once you use, say, a new site, and notice how many cookies some force-feed to you.
The answer to your question relies on a proper definition of "we". "We", to you, means everyone who uses the Internet. However, "we", in reality, are a small minority of people who know what they are doing and what they are talking about.
It is similar to ipv6 - change can only happen at the level of big companies (or, in this case, video hosting sites like Youtube) who don't want to change for various reasons. HTML5 took forever to get here because it was designed to be easy to transfer to, but people have still ignored it the same way they have ignored web standards since their first conception. The only way to make people change is to make the HTML5 implementation easier than Flash implementation, which is difficult since so many people learn and are comfortable with Flash. Once HTML5 begins to have a little more impact and people (hopefully) learn it, we can all just move on, since nothing, as well all know, is easier than HTML.
IANAE (I Am Not An Expert) but I THINK what they're aiming for is networked televisions which you can turn on and off from the PC and use a config program to change the settings on, instead of relying on the TV remote that has been rendered largely useless with the advent of these supercables.
Mod parent up, it's very true. The idea of combining audio and video into one cable was a pretty fair one, though, especially considering that it reduces the mess of cables you'd see behind a TV, say, ten years ago.
The higher the bitrate, the better the card needs to be, as it has to process and output more at one time. A low-bitrate video should theoretically require less processing power. The confusion isn't just h.264 vs xvid, it's that most h.264 stuff is high definition with an extremely high bitrate (nothing compared to what the raw video would be, but still very high). The combination of this and h.264 makes it very easy to create hard-to-render video, especially if it's high profile and has all sorts of extra effects.
For what it's worth, I use handbrake to convert dvdrips to h.264 and keep the original audio tracks (AC-3/DTS, usually). I can play this on just about anything, and that's with only about 65% of the original bitrate. Handbrake has a bitrate scaler, so I'd suggest experimenting and moving it up and down until you get something that plays well.
These are routers that would have had to have their firmware updated, as the update (from TFS) introduced the vulnerability. So yes, these are geeks that are in danger, ones who would be willing to update again.
You've outlined the one undeniable advantage of Windows - in the days when most OSs had very few third-party tools, its entire codebase WAS third-party tools. This is the main challenge of F/OSS and Linux - to create more and better tools, a constant process I think it gaining on the proprietary group every day.
It'd be interesting if we saw Iceland make its laws more lax and turning it into the Singapore of Europe - i.e. the place where everyone would have their proxy server or seedbox hosted to cover their tracks and avoid ugly baseball-inspired laws...
The aforementioned hydroelectric energy and cold environment is usually not very near major cities.
I'm not arguing with you - in fact, I agree, datacenters in remote areas that are suitable to them tend to be cheaper to run (cheaper land tax) and more secure, since someone visiting it who wasn't supposed to be there would be noticed fairly quickly.
It seems there's some kind of strange law that datacenters have to be located in or near major cities. I have no idea why, since major cities are usually in warm lowland areas, places that are singularly unsuited to datacenter development. I'm guessing it's that they're counting on the proximity of local talent, but it'd be simple to have a few admins just connect from home and then pay for a few onsite techs to maintain the hardware.
Your argument differs slightly from reality. Since when did warez groups care about portability? Hell, back in the day most preferred to release music in mp2 because then only "l33t" people would know how to play it. It's no different with the good warez groups; you ignore the fact that, mainly, groups specialize in doing 1 thing, either cheap dvdrips or high-quality stuff. The dvdrip ones are usually more amateurish and take less care and effort.
By comparison, the better groups will usually have more repacks to accomodate for a codec change, will have full subtitles, alternate audio, etc. So, better in just about every way.
Even those people could probably handle 720p fine - but really, you have to invest some money. No one can buy a $300 netbook or something and expect to actually DO anything with it.
I'm sorry, I guess I moved entirely into the whole HDTV phase without realizing it.
I got a cheap (~$700) Toshiba HDTV that can play everything from VGA and 480i to full 1080i/p. Other people use it, but they generally watch tv using the satellite set-top box and are happy with that, they rarely watch DVDs - if they do, they know the system. It's really all part of my uncompromising goal to rid myself of all optical tech and store everything on hard drives.
Also, many TV shows are in h.264 - those are HDTV shows, but they are still around. Star Trek: TOS, for instance, is floating around in a rather attractive 720p h.264 and DTS with Matroska as the container format. It's the de facto HD standard, the only thing they need to learn is that it can be used with dvdrips as well. I see this as a possible catalyst for killing those amateur release groups and leaving the ones that do high-quality rips and actually care about quality.
I'd get rid of the TV, frankly. Buying a new one and running the cable to it would be a much better purchase than buying a DVD player that will be obsolete within a few years anyway.
I've honestly never heard of a TV that didn't have, at the very least, s-video. Modern ones usually ditch it for HDMI, but usually they have one of them. It must have been a pretty cheap TV - or it still has rabbit ears and a tuning dial.
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This is known as a Mexican Standoff - when two groups who are in trouble with the law, and neither group is able to turn the other in without incriminating/exposing themselves. The idea of police reducing sentences for people who provide evidence was designed to stop this; people then have a better chance of being able to turn in fellow criminals and not suffer as much as they would be if they had been turned in. The problem is that no "solution" to this problem is perfect, and there are endless Game Theory-esque permutations that arose when people tried to find one.
In a procedural way it'd be impossible, but it's simple enough to check if the next word begins with a vowel or an H. It would nab most, though not all. The only problems would be stuff like acronyms beginning with H (so non-silent). These are the same problems that plague auto-capitalization (for instance, a word processor trying to deal with someone writing about "U.S. foreign policy", which it would auto-correct to "U.S. Foreign policy"), but 'a' vs 'an' isn't a huge jump from that.
Which raises the question of why, for all that is holy, you would still be using telnet.
I prefer remote control with a wireless keyboard to a remote.
Did anything ever use Silverlight in the first place? I only recall stuff using Flash and that's it.
I love the GGP's point that SVG is a failure because you need XHTML to use it. Why shouldn't you use XHTML? IE. I think we need to reach the point that whether or not something displays in IE should no longer be a concern to us, it's holding back web development and hurts everyone.
BetterPrivacy is your friend. It's actually interesting to open and close your browser once you use, say, a new site, and notice how many cookies some force-feed to you.
How does Java factor in to this?
To work harder, you have to already be working.
The answer to your question relies on a proper definition of "we". "We", to you, means everyone who uses the Internet. However, "we", in reality, are a small minority of people who know what they are doing and what they are talking about.
It is similar to ipv6 - change can only happen at the level of big companies (or, in this case, video hosting sites like Youtube) who don't want to change for various reasons. HTML5 took forever to get here because it was designed to be easy to transfer to, but people have still ignored it the same way they have ignored web standards since their first conception. The only way to make people change is to make the HTML5 implementation easier than Flash implementation, which is difficult since so many people learn and are comfortable with Flash. Once HTML5 begins to have a little more impact and people (hopefully) learn it, we can all just move on, since nothing, as well all know, is easier than HTML.
IANAE (I Am Not An Expert) but I THINK what they're aiming for is networked televisions which you can turn on and off from the PC and use a config program to change the settings on, instead of relying on the TV remote that has been rendered largely useless with the advent of these supercables.
Mod parent up, it's very true. The idea of combining audio and video into one cable was a pretty fair one, though, especially considering that it reduces the mess of cables you'd see behind a TV, say, ten years ago.
The higher the bitrate, the better the card needs to be, as it has to process and output more at one time. A low-bitrate video should theoretically require less processing power. The confusion isn't just h.264 vs xvid, it's that most h.264 stuff is high definition with an extremely high bitrate (nothing compared to what the raw video would be, but still very high). The combination of this and h.264 makes it very easy to create hard-to-render video, especially if it's high profile and has all sorts of extra effects.
For what it's worth, I use handbrake to convert dvdrips to h.264 and keep the original audio tracks (AC-3/DTS, usually). I can play this on just about anything, and that's with only about 65% of the original bitrate. Handbrake has a bitrate scaler, so I'd suggest experimenting and moving it up and down until you get something that plays well.
I must admit, I don't know how you have the balls to install beta firmware, I don't think I could...
Why does everyone think this is a company? It's just a 0-day blog. They have nothing (monetarily) to gain, just fame.
These are routers that would have had to have their firmware updated, as the update (from TFS) introduced the vulnerability. So yes, these are geeks that are in danger, ones who would be willing to update again.
It would have got out somehow, better a public announcement that will mean a quick patch than for it to slip out without D-Link knowing.
You've outlined the one undeniable advantage of Windows - in the days when most OSs had very few third-party tools, its entire codebase WAS third-party tools. This is the main challenge of F/OSS and Linux - to create more and better tools, a constant process I think it gaining on the proprietary group every day.
It'd be interesting if we saw Iceland make its laws more lax and turning it into the Singapore of Europe - i.e. the place where everyone would have their proxy server or seedbox hosted to cover their tracks and avoid ugly baseball-inspired laws...
The aforementioned hydroelectric energy and cold environment is usually not very near major cities.
I'm not arguing with you - in fact, I agree, datacenters in remote areas that are suitable to them tend to be cheaper to run (cheaper land tax) and more secure, since someone visiting it who wasn't supposed to be there would be noticed fairly quickly.
It seems there's some kind of strange law that datacenters have to be located in or near major cities. I have no idea why, since major cities are usually in warm lowland areas, places that are singularly unsuited to datacenter development. I'm guessing it's that they're counting on the proximity of local talent, but it'd be simple to have a few admins just connect from home and then pay for a few onsite techs to maintain the hardware.
Your argument differs slightly from reality. Since when did warez groups care about portability? Hell, back in the day most preferred to release music in mp2 because then only "l33t" people would know how to play it. It's no different with the good warez groups; you ignore the fact that, mainly, groups specialize in doing 1 thing, either cheap dvdrips or high-quality stuff. The dvdrip ones are usually more amateurish and take less care and effort.
By comparison, the better groups will usually have more repacks to accomodate for a codec change, will have full subtitles, alternate audio, etc. So, better in just about every way.
Even those people could probably handle 720p fine - but really, you have to invest some money. No one can buy a $300 netbook or something and expect to actually DO anything with it.
I'm sorry, I guess I moved entirely into the whole HDTV phase without realizing it.
I got a cheap (~$700) Toshiba HDTV that can play everything from VGA and 480i to full 1080i/p. Other people use it, but they generally watch tv using the satellite set-top box and are happy with that, they rarely watch DVDs - if they do, they know the system. It's really all part of my uncompromising goal to rid myself of all optical tech and store everything on hard drives.
Also, many TV shows are in h.264 - those are HDTV shows, but they are still around. Star Trek: TOS, for instance, is floating around in a rather attractive 720p h.264 and DTS with Matroska as the container format. It's the de facto HD standard, the only thing they need to learn is that it can be used with dvdrips as well. I see this as a possible catalyst for killing those amateur release groups and leaving the ones that do high-quality rips and actually care about quality.
I'd get rid of the TV, frankly. Buying a new one and running the cable to it would be a much better purchase than buying a DVD player that will be obsolete within a few years anyway.
I've honestly never heard of a TV that didn't have, at the very least, s-video. Modern ones usually ditch it for HDMI, but usually they have one of them. It must have been a pretty cheap TV - or it still has rabbit ears and a tuning dial.
No, I think that was you.