2)Hack the hardware so it lies. Dude. I don't think you get it.
You can't change the TPM_Owner value in a TPM. The value is set during manufacturing. You have to BE the owner to CHANGE the owner. It's on a level of permission at least two levels away from userland.
Perhaps you can hack the OS so that it doesn't look for that value in hardware, but if Apple can do a reasonably good job of burying that check in the kernel and having the TPM verify the kernel's boot process itself, you won't be able to do that either.
For the same reason, installing the OS on a GenuineApple(TM) machine's disk and installing that disk into a computer that does not have Apple's TPM_Owner value won't work.
A professional journalist knows that if he/she repeatedly publishes lies or inaccuracies, they'll be finding other ways of earning a paycheck (thus, providing food for their bellies and a bed to sleep in)
See also: Michelle Malkin, professional pundit, blogger, and self-proclaimed "journalist". Just because you call yourself something doesn't mean it's true. Malkin's disregard for the facts is pretty well-known, as is her carelessness in fact-checking, yet she claims to be a journalist.
Anyone who has any allusions about cracking this scheme might be in for a surprise. After thoroughly reading the TPM spec, I think that if the OS is looking for TPM_Owner = Apple's Value and doesn't find it, it ain't gonna run.
Changing TPM_Owner isn't exactly trivial, as you have to set the value during manufacturing.
You'd be surprised how much money people spend on car sound systems with no other purpose than to out-play each other.
Reminds me of high school in the late 80s, when DJ Magicc Mike's "Speaker Terror Upper" was all the rage. I'll bet this thing would crack a rib or two.
Shareholders own and manage the company, not employees. If employees dont like it they can leave.
I am glad to hear this. I have been wanting to fire the person at Apple that came up with the one-button mouse for a long time, and now, with my five shares of AAPL, I can!
Pixar, OTOH, is set to release their first "flop" next year. Cars will probably make the same amount of money as Chicken Little, but because it won't be the box-office smash that previous Pixar films were, it's going to be trumpeted in the press as Pixar's first major misstep.
I'm curious - what do you base this argument on, other than your own opinion of a film you haven't seen?
The problem here is that there are plenty of people who would pay $2.50 per song simply because they're too retarded to transfer music to their phone manually.
Which is precisely why iTunes is such a comparatively elegant solution. Who needs yet another music management program? iTunes will sync your music to your phone (provided it is a ROKR...they need an iTunes RAZR immediately).
No one needs to sync music manually. Why SprinTel expects you to do so is beyond me.
It's the usual cell carrier strategy of "introduce high, then chase the market until you've settled on a price point".
Unfortunately, there are other companies that sell music for less already - Apple is in the sweet spot, with Napster below, but with more restrictive licensing, SprintTel above with onerous prices.
As an Apple shareholder, my reaction is easily summed up: Keep making stupid mistakes, cell carriers!
Just human, like the anonymous rest of us, but we're looking at the guy through a warped magnifying glass, and never forget that many people resent his Ferrari, his Lear Jet, and most of all, the swooning hero-worship he receives from some circles.
Jobs drives a silver mercedes S-Class, debaged with no plate, and is piloted around in a Gulfstream IV that Apple bought for him as a bonus.
Unlinke many executives, he does not seem eager to show off his wealth. I'll agree that many Apple fan-boys (and I consider these a different class than people who simply admire his accomplishments) are way off-base in their praise of him. He can be, and regularly is, by all accounts an asshole. He's also extremely bright.
Probably the best word to describe him is one I've seen used seldom to describe him; mercurial.
Programmers are not compensated for every copy of their software they develop for their employers. Actors are no different.
So, in other words, since people who create software were dumb enough not ot form unions, actors deserve the same treatment, despite the fact that they do have unions?
The result you see is for calibration for the sRGB standard
So, the colors were "perfect" for sRGB. That's great.
Wake me up when they can reproduce a larger color space...sRGB is a tiny fraction of what the eye can see, and not considered anywhere nearly large enough a color space for print reproduction.
In terms of arbitrary "area", AdobeRGB is twice as large as sRGB. For a $6,000 monitor, I'd expect more.
The U.S. is not becoming anti-science. It only appears that way because our administration (sorry if this seems like flamebait.. it is, but its clearly the truth) prioritizes their political success, fiscal policy, and religeon over the recommendations of science.
Then how do you explain the current trend towards "Intelligent Design", which seems to posit that there must have been a God to put everything in motion because the universe is too complex to have arrived at this point through entropy and evolution?
I have a budy who I used to respect, until over the past several years he fell deeply into the brain rot which is evangelical christianity. Once a NASA-supporting, hard science realist, he is now a pie-in-the sky religious nutcase. I no longer respect or trust his viewpoint on anything, because instead of facts, he relies on assertions by third party religious nuts, who are inviariably rich fat white guys.
And if there's anything I don't trust, it's rich fat white guys.
As a leader in the military, we used this concept all the time. It's not to delay action or abdicate responsibility, but to get people thinking about how to solve problems before they go up the chain. Doesn't it make sense that the person closest to the problem might also have the best insight into how to fix it? If you're noticing it, chances are good that you're closest to it, or have a pretty idea who is.
This is the spirit in which my former manager meant his advice; it's also the spirit in which I took it.
The advice I cited has helped me to examine a problem from all sides before bringing it up the ladder; can I figure out a way to solve this on my own, even though it seems to merit management's funding/intervention?
Many times, I've found solutions where none seemed to have existed before simply because I took the time to examine the problem before escalating for help. That's what the advice I cited above was meant to encourage.
Photoshop IS very easy to use, yet very powerful. What software is he using?
It's OK. I saw the same thing among a lot of middle-aged men when I taught digital imaging workshops. He's probably tearing his hair out, looking for the "make my blurry picture sharp" filter, then worndering why it looks like shit after he applies "Sharpen Edges" eighteen times.
Photoshop is actually very easy to use, if you understand the basics of selecting, masking, and layering.
Select an area you want to affect, apply a change.
Mask areas you do not want to change - at different opacities, if necessary.
Layer changes to create different effects as desired.
Photoshop is a professional's tool. Aperture is a professional's tool. Framemaker is a professional's tool.
Word is rinky-dink software.
TextEdit is a utility.
It's time for Dvorak to retire. He's the cranky old man with hairy ears down the block of computer industry journalism.
I had a superior give me a very good piece of advice once, and it has served me well. I wish Dvorak and his employers would take it to heart:
"If you're going to come to me with a problem, make sure to bring a solution, too."
Dvorak does nothing but bitch, bitch, bitch about everything - and I have yet to observe him make a single substantive suggestion for fixing any of the things he bitches about.
He's pretty useless. It bugs me that Slashdot reposts his tripe so often.
So yes you could build a pirate tv station given enough resources.
I don't question that it's possible. The OP (and the person who modded that AC up) seem to think you could put one in your closet with the pot plants and be teh pirate.
Somehow, I think a derelict freighter or drilling platform and a two-hundred gallon a day diesel habit might be out of the OP's scope - not to mention the aforementioned disruption of public safety frequencies.
With all due respect, I don't think compression artifacts in most DVDs I watch or artifacts during the fade in/out parts of commmercials on cable and Satellite services can be "calibrated out" of a standard TV. In fact, I know they can't; it's not a question of white point and black point, but simply a cutoff below which the inherent bandwidth saving qualities of digital television are at a distinct visual disadvantage.
Ever watch the Vonage commercial with the white text on orange field Chiron at the end? On Comcast cable, we'd usually see a slight distortion of the logo or contact info; on Direct TV, the edges fuzz during the fade out. That can't be "calibrated" out, and neither can the poor black compression cutoff in most DVDs. That's the point I was trying to make with my previous post.
I know not all artifacts are the same, and that not all artifacts will be present in broadcast HDTV, but the fact that they are there at all bugs me. The transition and technology could have been done right (witness other large public projects like, um, Hoover Dam, Claifornia Aquaduct, Rural Electrification, FEMA before C+ Augustus) but the industry wanted to "regulate itself", bought congress' approval, and completely screwed the pooch on the development of this public technology. Yes - it's public technology - those are OUR airwaves, used at our discretion and our pleasure, if you believe the FCC. In practice, most lawmakers just make laws based on which lobbiest is taking them out to the best golfing trips or other perks.
If there's a way to calibrate out the black breakup in most DVDs, please share. Some of my favorite movies are quite dark (Alien comes to mind) and I have considerable experience calibrating displays for color managed workflows; I just don't see how you're going to see widest range of contrast possible while still getting rid of the compression artifacts in DVDs.
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2)Hack the hardware so it lies.
Dude. I don't think you get it.
You can't change the TPM_Owner value in a TPM. The value is set during manufacturing. You have to BE the owner to CHANGE the owner. It's on a level of permission at least two levels away from userland.
Perhaps you can hack the OS so that it doesn't look for that value in hardware, but if Apple can do a reasonably good job of burying that check in the kernel and having the TPM verify the kernel's boot process itself, you won't be able to do that either.
For the same reason, installing the OS on a GenuineApple(TM) machine's disk and installing that disk into a computer that does not have Apple's TPM_Owner value won't work.
See also: Michelle Malkin, professional pundit, blogger, and self-proclaimed "journalist". Just because you call yourself something doesn't mean it's true. Malkin's disregard for the facts is pretty well-known, as is her carelessness in fact-checking, yet she claims to be a journalist.
Anyone who has any allusions about cracking this scheme might be in for a surprise. After thoroughly reading the TPM spec, I think that if the OS is looking for TPM_Owner = Apple's Value and doesn't find it, it ain't gonna run.
Changing TPM_Owner isn't exactly trivial, as you have to set the value during manufacturing.
I'd be interested to find out what version of the TPM spec the Apple Intel motherboards implement.
TPM 1.2 closes some holes, as I understand.
You'd be surprised how much money people spend on car sound systems with no other purpose than to out-play each other.
Reminds me of high school in the late 80s, when DJ Magicc Mike's "Speaker Terror Upper" was all the rage. I'll bet this thing would crack a rib or two.
Gawd. Doublebalck stout was the shit. A chocolate stout brewed with coffee. Everyone I told about it made a face...until they tried it.
Bring back Doubleblack stout! Prior art!
Shareholders own and manage the company, not employees. If employees dont like it they can leave.
I am glad to hear this. I have been wanting to fire the person at Apple that came up with the one-button mouse for a long time, and now, with my five shares of AAPL, I can!
Pixar, OTOH, is set to release their first "flop" next year. Cars will probably make the same amount of money as Chicken Little, but because it won't be the box-office smash that previous Pixar films were, it's going to be trumpeted in the press as Pixar's first major misstep.
I'm curious - what do you base this argument on, other than your own opinion of a film you haven't seen?
Nothing happens on my Mac.
Wonder why?
Which is precisely why iTunes is such a comparatively elegant solution. Who needs yet another music management program? iTunes will sync your music to your phone (provided it is a ROKR...they need an iTunes RAZR immediately).
No one needs to sync music manually. Why SprinTel expects you to do so is beyond me.
Yeah! It's a bargain at half the price!
Oh, wait a minute.
It's the usual cell carrier strategy of "introduce high, then chase the market until you've settled on a price point".
Unfortunately, there are other companies that sell music for less already - Apple is in the sweet spot, with Napster below, but with more restrictive licensing, SprintTel above with onerous prices.
As an Apple shareholder, my reaction is easily summed up: Keep making stupid mistakes, cell carriers!
Just human, like the anonymous rest of us, but we're looking at the guy through a warped magnifying glass, and never forget that many people resent his Ferrari, his Lear Jet, and most of all, the swooning hero-worship he receives from some circles.
Jobs drives a silver mercedes S-Class, debaged with no plate, and is piloted around in a Gulfstream IV that Apple bought for him as a bonus.
Unlinke many executives, he does not seem eager to show off his wealth. I'll agree that many Apple fan-boys (and I consider these a different class than people who simply admire his accomplishments) are way off-base in their praise of him. He can be, and regularly is, by all accounts an asshole. He's also extremely bright.
Probably the best word to describe him is one I've seen used seldom to describe him; mercurial.
So, in other words, since people who create software were dumb enough not ot form unions, actors deserve the same treatment, despite the fact that they do have unions?
Great idea.
From the article:
The result you see is for calibration for the sRGB standard
So, the colors were "perfect" for sRGB. That's great.
Wake me up when they can reproduce a larger color space...sRGB is a tiny fraction of what the eye can see, and not considered anywhere nearly large enough a color space for print reproduction.
In terms of arbitrary "area", AdobeRGB is twice as large as sRGB. For a $6,000 monitor, I'd expect more.
Then how do you explain the current trend towards "Intelligent Design", which seems to posit that there must have been a God to put everything in motion because the universe is too complex to have arrived at this point through entropy and evolution?
I have a budy who I used to respect, until over the past several years he fell deeply into the brain rot which is evangelical christianity. Once a NASA-supporting, hard science realist, he is now a pie-in-the sky religious nutcase. I no longer respect or trust his viewpoint on anything, because instead of facts, he relies on assertions by third party religious nuts, who are inviariably rich fat white guys.
And if there's anything I don't trust, it's rich fat white guys.
I'd rather fight than switch!
"Corporations complete patent applications for human genetic variations".
This is the spirit in which my former manager meant his advice; it's also the spirit in which I took it.
The advice I cited has helped me to examine a problem from all sides before bringing it up the ladder; can I figure out a way to solve this on my own, even though it seems to merit management's funding/intervention?
Many times, I've found solutions where none seemed to have existed before simply because I took the time to examine the problem before escalating for help. That's what the advice I cited above was meant to encourage.
It's OK. I saw the same thing among a lot of middle-aged men when I taught digital imaging workshops. He's probably tearing his hair out, looking for the "make my blurry picture sharp" filter, then worndering why it looks like shit after he applies "Sharpen Edges" eighteen times.
Photoshop is actually very easy to use, if you understand the basics of selecting, masking, and layering.
- Select an area you want to affect, apply a change.
- Mask areas you do not want to change - at different opacities, if necessary.
- Layer changes to create different effects as desired.
Photoshop is a professional's tool. Aperture is a professional's tool. Framemaker is a professional's tool.Word is rinky-dink software.
TextEdit is a utility.
It's time for Dvorak to retire. He's the cranky old man with hairy ears down the block of computer industry journalism.
I had a superior give me a very good piece of advice once, and it has served me well. I wish Dvorak and his employers would take it to heart:
"If you're going to come to me with a problem, make sure to bring a solution, too."
Dvorak does nothing but bitch, bitch, bitch about everything - and I have yet to observe him make a single substantive suggestion for fixing any of the things he bitches about.
He's pretty useless. It bugs me that Slashdot reposts his tripe so often.
I don't question that it's possible. The OP (and the person who modded that AC up) seem to think you could put one in your closet with the pot plants and be teh pirate.
Somehow, I think a derelict freighter or drilling platform and a two-hundred gallon a day diesel habit might be out of the OP's scope - not to mention the aforementioned disruption of public safety frequencies.
With all due respect, I don't think compression artifacts in most DVDs I watch or artifacts during the fade in/out parts of commmercials on cable and Satellite services can be "calibrated out" of a standard TV. In fact, I know they can't; it's not a question of white point and black point, but simply a cutoff below which the inherent bandwidth saving qualities of digital television are at a distinct visual disadvantage.
Ever watch the Vonage commercial with the white text on orange field Chiron at the end? On Comcast cable, we'd usually see a slight distortion of the logo or contact info; on Direct TV, the edges fuzz during the fade out. That can't be "calibrated" out, and neither can the poor black compression cutoff in most DVDs. That's the point I was trying to make with my previous post.
I know not all artifacts are the same, and that not all artifacts will be present in broadcast HDTV, but the fact that they are there at all bugs me. The transition and technology could have been done right (witness other large public projects like, um, Hoover Dam, Claifornia Aquaduct, Rural Electrification, FEMA before C+ Augustus) but the industry wanted to "regulate itself", bought congress' approval, and completely screwed the pooch on the development of this public technology. Yes - it's public technology - those are OUR airwaves, used at our discretion and our pleasure, if you believe the FCC. In practice, most lawmakers just make laws based on which lobbiest is taking them out to the best golfing trips or other perks.
If there's a way to calibrate out the black breakup in most DVDs, please share. Some of my favorite movies are quite dark (Alien comes to mind) and I have considerable experience calibrating displays for color managed workflows; I just don't see how you're going to see widest range of contrast possible while still getting rid of the compression artifacts in DVDs.
Sorry; I meant VHF. At this late hour my desire to be snarky encroached on my proofreading skills.
But at least I'm not the one suggesting that running a VHF transmitter would be a good way to broadcast pirate TV.
Oh, so the blacks go coarse and fragment? Fantastic.
I think I agree with others who think that the digital TV switchover has been, and will likely continue to be a complete and total fuckup.
Obviously, you've never actually seen an HF television transmitter.
They're quite large, and require copious amounts of electricity, which they turn into two things:
1. A TV signal that will step all over newly-assigned public emergency frequencies.
2. Heat, which you will ostensibly be paying "teh big bux" for.
Perhaps you should revisit your intentions.