Why news about an obvious circumvention method/device which promote piracy and illegal activities are posted on slashdot?
I mean, other than "allowing to run homebrew pong" the other purpose of this stuff is to pirate UMD games. Slashdot supporting piracy now? What's next, news where to download illegal mp3s?
Yes, after you are done fitting yourself into 1.5m x 6m apartment, and filling it with furniture and your computers, then you can have unlimited 100mbit broadband for $10 a month from "nifty".
That's real fucking NIFTY.
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my http://pbx.mine.nu/flower-macro.m2t experiments seem to show otherwise.:D By the way if you're bringing up those numbers from the review you should probably also read the rest of it to see how they come to that conlcusion. Those are NOT usual resolution lines.
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Time for a HDTV camcorder!
I picked me up one of the Sony's new HDR-HC1 HDV camcorders and holy shit it rules. http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/handycam/PROD UCTS/HDR-HC1/ The video quality is awesome, native resolution being 1440x1080i with nonsquare pixels, and even though its only 1 CMOS imaging sensor (as opposed to 3CCD in the $4000 HDR-FX1), it still looks damn good. For $1500 you can't go wrong:D
BTW, while the plasma screen linked in teh article isn't all that "bad", consider the fact that most low-priced plasma "HDTV-ready" displays are hardly even "HD" to begin with. Pay close attention to the panel resolution, as some plasmas can be as low as 480 horizontal lines of resolution (definitely not HD) while claiming to be HD-ready (including component input and having a hardware scaler).
The panel in the article is 1024x768 rectangular pixels, so it somewhat passes the "HD" requirements, though barely.
Have you ever considered that some people have a way they do things? I don't like tabbed UI. It wastes space. It doesnt integrate into my workflow. Pressing Ctrl-Tab is a lot harder than pressing Alt-Tab. I like doing things MY way.
Why the fuck should I be forced to use tabbed UI in order to avoid what is obviously a bug in the software? Firefox/Mozilla take forever to open new window, pegging cpu at 100% while doing so. That is fact. No amount of trolling/bullshit/anti-microsoft FUD is going to change that. I've used firefox on a number of different systems, and its always SLOW. And please for fuck sake stop bringing up "spyware in IE" as the reason for firefox slowness. IF IT WAS SPYWARE's fault THEN IE WOULD BE JUST AS SLOW RIGHT? LOL.
As most of you know, the more extensions you add to FIREFOX the slower it becomes. With standard firefox taking ~1second to open a new window, after loading Google toolbar and couple other "extensions", opening new window in FIREFOX will take several seconds. I'm not even talking about starting a new copy of firefox after the old ones crash, that takes anywhere from 3 to 10 seconds depending how much of it was moved out of disk cache.
Perhaps it's time FIREFOX/Mozilla developers stop adding useless features, and concentrate on making FIREFOX *fast*? I'm sorry, but opening a new window of ANY application on a Pentium-M 2.13Ghz with 1.5GB memory should NOT take more than 0.01second. IE6SP1 opens instantly, and so do new windows of the same browser. Food for thought.
That they will finally get rid of all the fucking duplicate blog search results from the main search? I hate it when I search for some new electronics or something and first thing I see is 10 blogs repeating the same exact text of the press release and NO relevant info.
Japan has no flat-rate 3G data service. While in USA, Verizon wireless has a $86/month UNLIMITED 3G plan, using 1x EVDO network, which gets you 2.4mbit down in supported cities.
The only flat-rate data plans japs have are TO THE MOBILE HANDSET (read: downloading ringtones and porn to the phone) but the charges become insane (read: $300/mo+ for downloading 20megs) if you connect a data cable.
Basically, the biggest problem is that due to the simplicity of the engine design (the are examples of space shuttle engine and the SS1 engine on the page above), the design would never scale enough to reach velocities needed to get into orbit.
So i was pasted this story on irc in #GNAA and i open it up and i was like WHAT? a house-shitting robot? After all, this shouldn't be news in JAPAN. Then i re-read it again, and it says house-sitting.. oh, nothing to see here move along.
Yea, let's list graphics chips from 5 years ago, without any explanation of what is what, filled with google ads, on a slow server, and with no navigation to the END of the article (where I assume the actual text is, i never got there the server is halfdead now), and no actual useful data to speak of?...
Only 4gb max though, but this appears as standard SATA drive to your system, you can boot from it, load OS, etc.
Pretty good priced too (without memory).
Broadvoice does kick ass. I use unlimited world plus and it's the best thing ever. Infact, in this country (japan) the telco charges per-minute for their own VOIP, so by using $25/month unlimited world plus I can get *flat rate* calls to all over japan, where if I used jap voip they would charge something like 10c/3minutes. Thank god for american companies who don't have their heads firmly planted in their asses unlike the japanese telco.
The whole point of *BSD's is that the installers are simple to use, the package management (ports) is centralized and automated, and that shit "just works" without having to fuck with it for hours at a time. Oh, and that there is well-written documentation, quality control in both the kernel and userland apps, etc etc etc. That's why there are n't 1000 different "FreeBSD Distros" as there are "Linix Distros". BSD people know what they're doing. They don't need some Linux jumper who just found out about FreeBSD last month making a new "distro".
All the screenshots on that site just show off KDE isntaller/control panel. Big woop. Anyone with half a brain can install KDE on *bsd out of ports.
Nice try, but VirtualDub does *NOT* support capture from 1394 devices.
And, VirtualDub capture interface is still based on VFW technology (the old win9x video interface) instead of directshow, so it's getting more and more obsolete each year.
So, for his purposes, windows movie maker IS the proper solution unless he wants to buy/search for other DV capture software, because it DOES support DV capture from 1394.
I, as GNAA president, would like more information. There also seems to be a fairly large amount of hate targeted towards him. Does his blog need to be crapflooded?
I also downloaded (pirated, whatever) for evaluation a copy of Zeta 1.0. I was interested in just testing it on a old celeron 700 box with 256meg memory, intel 810 chipset (onboard graphics) and a 20gb hdd.
First, I did a test install inside a pirated VMWare 5.0 Workstation. Installer loaded without a problem, using something that looked like a 8bit vesa graphics mode. No problem, I thought, this is VMWare and it's unlikely they would have a driver for VMWAare's svga adapter. About 5 minutes into the install, the mouse locked up (VMWare mouse), and got stuck in upper left corner of the screen, unmoving.
Here's where my problems started. While installer was fairly usable from a keyboard (usual things like tab, space, enter, etc could be used to navigate the simplistic dialogs), once the install was done and I was presented with what I assume was a control panel for completing setting the system up, I was stuck.
The mouse was still in upper-left corner, not moving, and no amount of pressing tab, ctrltab, alt-tab, or trying to get focus to move off the control panel app into anything else did anything useful. I cursed and powered down the emulator, and put the same zeta cdrom into the celeron 700 i was talking about earlier.
Installation on a real machine was about as fast as inside emulation. Seems like the real bottleneck here is disk access, and not CPU. Some of the small files took forever to copy. Not knowing the filesystem on the cdrom (it looked like a custom 2-session (maybe?) disk, with only a small boot session), I couldn't tell how the install files were stored. Anyway, a bit of improvement could happen there in the installer.
Mouse didn't die on the celeron, so I'm writing off the odd mouse behaviour to something VMWare related. After install, I rebooted the celeron and yes, Zeta takes a 15-30 seconds to boot. Sure, whatever, my Windows 2003 Standard (pirated) install on my 2.2ghz p4m laptop with 1gb ram takes maybe 10 seconds to come out of hibernation.
After reboot, i was still presented with the same 8-bit vesa video color. This was on a i810 graphics adapter! Even LINUX of all things supports such old equipment. Not Zeta. No 16-bit color or resolution > 640x480 for me.
TO summarize my report here, the following things I'd like to see happen with Zeta before it becomes more usable:
1) Accessibility (keyboard/otherwise) in installer and the main os/apps. 2) DRIVERS! (WTF @ not supporting i810 graphics in 2005)
Actually, they did/do. DVHS decks are currently the only cost-effective method to record OTA/Satellite HD programming, so anyone who cares about recording HDTV (in HD) probably has a DVHS.
Besides, CSS was a static encryption based on secret device keys. DTCP is dynamic, renewable, and devices engage in interactive exchange before data is transmitted.
DTCP/5C has been around since 1998. One of the things they have us content protection over 1394. DTCP/5C protection supports renewability, copy control information, and content encryption. All the HDTV equipment with 1394 (DVHS vcr, monitors with 1394 input) are required to implement DTCP for copy control/encryption.
This system has not been broken as of today (2005), and the possibilities that a "box in the middle" attack can even be applied to this protection scheme are unlikely, because of how key exchange is implemented and because compromised hardware can be blacklisted easily.
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Some stupid blogs pick up a hoax, and it gets on slashdot.
Like that doesn't happen every other day anyway.
Anyone who thinks Penny Arcade is funny needs to get out of their parents basement ASAP, uninstall Linux, and get a girlfriend.
Are experts when it comes to filming tentacles.
Why news about an obvious circumvention method/device which promote piracy and illegal activities are posted on slashdot?
I mean, other than "allowing to run homebrew pong" the other purpose of this stuff is to pirate UMD games. Slashdot supporting piracy now? What's next, news where to download illegal mp3s?
Yes, after you are done fitting yourself into 1.5m x 6m apartment, and filling it with furniture and your computers, then you can have unlimited 100mbit broadband for $10 a month from "nifty".
That's real fucking NIFTY.
my http://pbx.mine.nu/flower-macro.m2t experiments seem to show otherwise. :D
By the way if you're bringing up those numbers from the review you should probably also read the rest of it to see how they come to that conlcusion. Those are NOT usual resolution lines.
Time for a HDTV camcorder!
D UCTS/HDR-HC1/ :D
I picked me up one of the Sony's new HDR-HC1 HDV camcorders and holy shit it rules.
http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/handycam/PRO
The video quality is awesome, native resolution being 1440x1080i with nonsquare pixels,
and even though its only 1 CMOS imaging sensor (as opposed to 3CCD in the $4000 HDR-FX1), it still looks damn good. For $1500 you can't go wrong
BTW, while the plasma screen linked in teh article isn't all that "bad", consider the fact that most low-priced plasma "HDTV-ready" displays are hardly even "HD" to begin with. Pay close attention to the panel resolution, as some plasmas can be as low as 480 horizontal lines of resolution (definitely not HD) while claiming to be HD-ready (including component input and having a hardware scaler).
The panel in the article is 1024x768 rectangular pixels, so it somewhat passes the "HD" requirements, though barely.
Wow, did you like, totally miss the point?
Have you ever considered that some people have a way they do things?
I don't like tabbed UI.
It wastes space.
It doesnt integrate into my workflow.
Pressing Ctrl-Tab is a lot harder than pressing Alt-Tab.
I like doing things MY way.
Why the fuck should I be forced to use tabbed UI in order to avoid what is obviously a bug in the software? Firefox/Mozilla take forever to open new window, pegging cpu at 100% while doing so. That is fact. No amount of trolling/bullshit/anti-microsoft FUD is going to change that. I've used firefox on a number of different systems, and its always SLOW. And please for fuck sake stop bringing up "spyware in IE" as the reason for firefox slowness. IF IT WAS SPYWARE's fault THEN IE WOULD BE JUST AS SLOW RIGHT? LOL.
As most of you know, the more extensions you add to FIREFOX the slower it becomes.
With standard firefox taking ~1second to open a new window, after loading Google toolbar and couple other "extensions", opening new window in FIREFOX will take several seconds.
I'm not even talking about starting a new copy of firefox after the old ones crash, that takes anywhere from 3 to 10 seconds depending how much of it was moved out of disk cache.
Perhaps it's time FIREFOX/Mozilla developers stop adding useless features, and concentrate on making FIREFOX *fast*? I'm sorry, but opening a new window of ANY application on a Pentium-M 2.13Ghz with 1.5GB memory should NOT take more than 0.01second. IE6SP1 opens instantly, and so do new windows of the same browser. Food for thought.
That they will finally get rid of all the fucking duplicate blog search results from the main search?
I hate it when I search for some new electronics or something and first thing I see is 10 blogs repeating the same exact text of the press release and NO relevant info.
Maybe the guys from http://www.go-l.com/ are at it again.
PuRAM(tm) anyone?
uh?
b roadband/index.jsp
n .html
yes, TO MOBILE HANDSET.
As in to the built in browser/email app/whatever.
NOT to be passed on "to PC/handheld".
Verizon wireless for $89/month:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobileoptions/
(whoa, its $60 now, i guess I havent checked lately)
KDDI PacketWIN data service prices:
http://au.kddi.com/data/packetwin/ryokin/packetwi
Thats 0.1yen/packet (128bytes).
20megs = ~$160 in packet charges.
LOL @ JAPAN.
Japan has no flat-rate 3G data service.
While in USA, Verizon wireless has a $86/month UNLIMITED 3G plan, using 1x EVDO network, which gets you 2.4mbit down in supported cities.
The only flat-rate data plans japs have are TO THE MOBILE HANDSET (read: downloading ringtones and porn to the phone) but the charges become insane (read: $300/mo+ for downloading 20megs) if you connect a data cable.
There's a very interesting writeup about the potential problems related to trying to reach orbit in these "scaled composites" "spaceships" at http://www.daughtersoftiresias.org/misc/ss1.html.
Basically, the biggest problem is that due to the simplicity of the engine design (the are examples of space shuttle engine and the SS1 engine on the page above), the design would never scale enough to reach velocities needed to get into orbit.
So i was pasted this story on irc in #GNAA and i open it up and i was like WHAT? a house-shitting robot? After all, this shouldn't be news in JAPAN. Then i re-read it again, and it says house-sitting.. oh, nothing to see here move along.
Yea, let's list graphics chips from 5 years ago, without any explanation of what is what, filled with google ads, on a slow server, and with no navigation to the END of the article (where I assume the actual text is, i never got there the server is halfdead now), and no actual useful data to speak of?...
And why is this on front page?
You mean the Gigabyte i-RAM disk?
Only 4gb max though, but this appears as standard SATA drive to your system, you can boot from it, load OS, etc. Pretty good priced too (without memory).
Broadvoice does kick ass.
I use unlimited world plus and it's the best thing ever. Infact, in this country (japan) the telco charges per-minute for their own VOIP, so by using $25/month unlimited world plus I can get *flat rate* calls to all over japan, where if I used jap voip they would charge something like 10c/3minutes. Thank god for american companies who don't have their heads firmly planted in their asses unlike the japanese telco.
The whole point of *BSD's is that the installers are simple to use, the package management (ports) is centralized and automated, and that shit "just works" without having to fuck with it for hours at a time. Oh, and that there is well-written documentation, quality control in both the kernel and userland apps, etc etc etc. That's why there are n't 1000 different "FreeBSD Distros" as there are "Linix Distros". BSD people know what they're doing.
They don't need some Linux jumper who just found out about FreeBSD last month making a new "distro".
All the screenshots on that site just show off KDE isntaller/control panel. Big woop. Anyone with half a brain can install KDE on *bsd out of ports.
Thank you for reading
Nice try, but VirtualDub does *NOT* support capture from 1394 devices.
And, VirtualDub capture interface is still based on VFW technology (the old win9x video interface) instead of directshow, so it's getting more and more obsolete each year.
So, for his purposes, windows movie maker IS the proper solution unless he wants to buy/search for other DV capture software, because it DOES support DV capture from 1394.
I, as GNAA president, would like more information.
There also seems to be a fairly large amount of hate targeted towards him. Does his blog need to be crapflooded?
Thanks!
- timecop
Copied it from a friend, and yes, its the R1.
see http://pbx.mine.nu/zeta1.png
I also downloaded (pirated, whatever) for evaluation a copy of Zeta 1.0. I was interested in just testing it on a old celeron 700 box with 256meg memory, intel 810 chipset (onboard graphics) and a 20gb hdd.
First, I did a test install inside a pirated VMWare 5.0 Workstation. Installer loaded without a problem, using something that looked like a 8bit vesa graphics mode. No problem, I thought, this is VMWare and it's unlikely they would have a driver for VMWAare's svga adapter. About 5 minutes into the install, the mouse locked up (VMWare mouse), and got stuck in upper left corner of the screen, unmoving.
Here's where my problems started. While installer was fairly usable from a keyboard (usual things like tab, space, enter, etc could be used to navigate the simplistic dialogs), once the install was done and I was presented with what I assume was a control panel for completing setting the system up, I was stuck.
The mouse was still in upper-left corner, not moving, and no amount of pressing tab, ctrltab, alt-tab, or trying to get focus to move off the control panel app into anything else did anything useful. I cursed and powered down the emulator, and put the same zeta cdrom into the celeron 700 i was talking about earlier.
Installation on a real machine was about as fast as inside emulation. Seems like the real bottleneck here is disk access, and not CPU. Some of the small files took forever to copy. Not knowing the filesystem on the cdrom (it looked like a custom 2-session (maybe?) disk, with only a small boot session), I couldn't tell how the install files were stored. Anyway, a bit of improvement could happen there in the installer.
Mouse didn't die on the celeron, so I'm writing off the odd mouse behaviour to something VMWare related. After install, I rebooted the celeron and yes, Zeta takes a 15-30 seconds to boot. Sure, whatever, my Windows 2003 Standard (pirated) install on my 2.2ghz p4m laptop with 1gb ram takes maybe 10 seconds to come out of hibernation.
After reboot, i was still presented with the same 8-bit vesa video color. This was on a i810 graphics adapter! Even LINUX of all things supports such old equipment. Not Zeta. No 16-bit color or resolution > 640x480 for me.
TO summarize my report here, the following things I'd like to see happen with Zeta before it becomes more usable:
1) Accessibility (keyboard/otherwise) in installer and the main os/apps.
2) DRIVERS! (WTF @ not supporting i810 graphics in 2005)
Actually, they did/do.
DVHS decks are currently the only cost-effective method to record OTA/Satellite HD programming, so anyone who cares about recording HDTV (in HD) probably has a DVHS.
Besides, CSS was a static encryption based on secret device keys. DTCP is dynamic, renewable, and devices engage in interactive exchange before data is transmitted.
DTCP/5C has been around since 1998. One of the things they have us content protection over 1394. DTCP/5C protection supports renewability, copy control information, and content encryption. All the HDTV equipment with 1394 (DVHS vcr, monitors with 1394 input) are required to implement DTCP for copy control/encryption.
This system has not been broken as of today (2005), and the possibilities that a "box in the middle" attack can even be applied to this protection scheme are unlikely, because of how key exchange is implemented and because compromised hardware can be blacklisted easily.