The TV shows on The Pirate Bay will have all the obnoxious shit cut out, once again giving pirates a better product than paying (ad-watching) customers.
This is the Internet age. You only need one bored nerd to manually cut ads, crop video, edit the soundtrack and start a torrent.
The biggest issue is availability. There are so many times where I have wanted to pay hard-earned cash for product only to be knocked back with 'not available in your region' insanity.
This, absolutely. I can't believe how difficult it is to find a way to give some companies my money. There's Australian companies which let you place an order, then a partner living in the US orders the item from the US store to be shipped to their US residence, then the US partner ships it internationally to you. They make good money doing this. If you ever need proof that region locking is insane, point at those guys.
With US ISPs playing copyright cop, darknets and other anonymizing techniques will be active by default in all P2P clients by the time my country rolls out similar laws.
Being a step behind the US means workarounds will be mature and widespread by the time I have to deal with this...
not sure why companies think less control of what we use is better.
A sure sign that this is a man who has never had a user:
1) delete Word and complain the next day that they can't open Word files
2) Zoom in to 200% and complain that the text is too big
I'm sure everyone here has stories to tell... Making users jump through some hoops before they can break things is fine, but removing control altogether isn't fine.
I suspect less user control directly reduces the money companies have to spend on tech support...
If it has a hardware decoder, check that the video matches the hardware decoder's capabilities. Some can't handle h264 main or high profile and only baseline profile works smoothly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Profiles
Software decoders, you only need to worry about CPU performance. Hardware decoders are fussy.
I've been saying for years that if Android really wants to take the gaming world, what they really need is some kind of standard controller with a simple d-pad and 4-6 buttons. Analog thumbstick might be nice, but probably isn't even necessary. Have some kind of mechanism so that it can physically hold the phone, and make it connect with bluetooth, and you are set.
There's an SDK out *now*, but they're late to the party. Noone's really interested in implementing a *third* API, so XvBA only gets used in the VAAPI --> XvBA wrapper. There's also a VAAPI --> VDPAU wrapper and direct VAAPI support for Intel IGPs, so the competition seems to be between VDPAU for it's relative maturity and polish and VAAPI for it's wide support.
I don't believe VAAPI has *any* hardware-based deinterlacing yet.
On an unrelated note, why are we still doing interlacing on 1080p LCD panels? Surely we could do 1920x540 at 50 fps and stretch the image more easily than doing 1920x1080 at 25i and deinterlacing if we really needed the extra frame rate and couldn't do 1920x1080 50p? And stretching progressive frames means no elaborate tricks to prevent fine detail from flickering.
Cat6e will do 10 gigabit which should be quite adequate for most purposes for quite some time. More importantly, you can plug it into any cheap existing network device and run 100 megabits over it. If you have fibre running through a building, you'll have a network that an awful lot of devices can't easily connect to.
Google said an order issued in the case required it to exclude the newspapers' websites.
This does appear to be the case. Remove content from "all your sites" is very broad, and with the penalties mentioned I'd remove them, too. Seems an entirely reasonable response to that court order, especially accompanied by the relist offer.
The paper La Capitale said on its web site Friday that Google had begun "boycotting" it.
Google spokesman William Echikson said the court decision applied to web search as well as Google News and the company faced fines of 25,000 euros ($35,359 per infringement if it allowed the newspapers' websites to keep appearing.
"We regret having to do so," he said. "We would be happy to re-include Copiepresse if they would indicate their desire to appear in Google Search and waive the potential penalties."
See that last line? Google has explicitly said, give us permission to list you in search again and we will, no questions asked. So all the people jumping up and down about Google abusing their monopolistic power... no. They aren't.
I really don't see how this is anything but a cash grab by the newspapers that misfired. After Google's offer to relist them as soon as they have permission, it's going to be quite awkward to A) deny Google that permission and then B) sue Google for delisting you. But I'm certain the newspapers will try. The delist and offer to relist seems to be a simple attempt to cut through legal shenanigans on Google's part. "We can list you or not list you. Say which one you want and we'll do it." And then afterwards, they can't cry about being unhappy with their status anymore with any real credibility.
Even if it didn't actually go faster on paper, there's currently a lot of people on marginal infrastructure. Copper lines that were laid 20 years ago and have been slowly corroding ever since which are adequate for voice but were absolutely never intended for ADSL2+.
If you've been in a group in an online game with an Australian and he's randomly disconnected, we're sorry. A lot of us access the internet over a wet piece of string.
Compensating for a longer pipeline by increasing clock speed doesn't help anyway, because to get the higher rate you need to increase the pipeline more...
Normally I'd curse at a bunch of idiots abusing the law for their own personal gain... But since it's opposing the RIAA, this is more like fighting fire with fire.
Occasionally, I get a bill in the mail that has some outrageous numbers on it (I once got an electric bill for some three thousand dollars one month.) Usually that's because the meter reader mistyped something into his computer, or because of some issue with their billing system.
You're overlooking the other possibility: the user got a virus or worm that has chewed through a terabyte of usage trying to spread itself or sending spam email without the user doing anything at all. The user says he hasn't used anything like that amount of data, the ISP says the meter is accurate and they're both right.
WoW's graphics scale more than any other game I've seen. Set the detail settings all the way up and it can bring quite powerful systems to their knees... or set them all the way down and it can run on a non-Ion Atom netbook. Badly, but it does run.
Some SSD controllers use compression algorithms, and I imagine all zeroes would compress *really* well.
It'd be a bit embarrassing to write a terabyte of zeroes to an SSD and find that the entire write fit into one 4k flash page, leaving the rest of the flash containing sensitive data.
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The TV shows on The Pirate Bay will have all the obnoxious shit cut out, once again giving pirates a better product than paying (ad-watching) customers.
This is the Internet age. You only need one bored nerd to manually cut ads, crop video, edit the soundtrack and start a torrent.
The biggest issue is availability. There are so many times where I have wanted to pay hard-earned cash for product only to be knocked back with 'not available in your region' insanity.
This, absolutely. I can't believe how difficult it is to find a way to give some companies my money. There's Australian companies which let you place an order, then a partner living in the US orders the item from the US store to be shipped to their US residence, then the US partner ships it internationally to you. They make good money doing this. If you ever need proof that region locking is insane, point at those guys.
The no carrier thing is so last decad-
Read from remote host: Connection reset by peer.
With US ISPs playing copyright cop, darknets and other anonymizing techniques will be active by default in all P2P clients by the time my country rolls out similar laws.
Being a step behind the US means workarounds will be mature and widespread by the time I have to deal with this...
I keep hearing mention of the flying car, and my response is always the same: have you *seen* how people drive? Do you want these people in the air?
not sure why companies think less control of what we use is better.
A sure sign that this is a man who has never had a user:
1) delete Word and complain the next day that they can't open Word files
2) Zoom in to 200% and complain that the text is too big
I'm sure everyone here has stories to tell... Making users jump through some hoops before they can break things is fine, but removing control altogether isn't fine.
I suspect less user control directly reduces the money companies have to spend on tech support...
Some new cars let you connect to the car and turn its air con on remotely. And being able to upload MP3s to the car would be cool.
If it has a hardware decoder, check that the video matches the hardware decoder's capabilities. Some can't handle h264 main or high profile and only baseline profile works smoothly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Profiles
Software decoders, you only need to worry about CPU performance. Hardware decoders are fussy.
I've been saying for years that if Android really wants to take the gaming world, what they really need is some kind of standard controller with a simple d-pad and 4-6 buttons. Analog thumbstick might be nice, but probably isn't even necessary. Have some kind of mechanism so that it can physically hold the phone, and make it connect with bluetooth, and you are set.
Something like this: http://gametelcontroller.com/ ?
Or this: http://www.icontrolpad.com/ ?
The icontrolpad has iPhones in all it's images but Android phones are listed on the compatibility page.
You should have spent less time saying that and more time googling for bluetooth control pads. :)
...malware is written to standards, so IE won't run it properly.
10800 is 15k in drivemaker's RPM.
There's an SDK out *now*, but they're late to the party. Noone's really interested in implementing a *third* API, so XvBA only gets used in the VAAPI --> XvBA wrapper. There's also a VAAPI --> VDPAU wrapper and direct VAAPI support for Intel IGPs, so the competition seems to be between VDPAU for it's relative maturity and polish and VAAPI for it's wide support.
I don't believe VAAPI has *any* hardware-based deinterlacing yet.
On an unrelated note, why are we still doing interlacing on 1080p LCD panels? Surely we could do 1920x540 at 50 fps and stretch the image more easily than doing 1920x1080 at 25i and deinterlacing if we really needed the extra frame rate and couldn't do 1920x1080 50p? And stretching progressive frames means no elaborate tricks to prevent fine detail from flickering.
I figured they were trying to fly under the RADAR until they got to some point.
Google says they aren't doing a very good job.
Small cell maker says there is need for small cells.
Yes, obviously self serving, but that doesn't mean they're *wrong*.
Cat6e will do 10 gigabit which should be quite adequate for most purposes for quite some time. More importantly, you can plug it into any cheap existing network device and run 100 megabits over it. If you have fibre running through a building, you'll have a network that an awful lot of devices can't easily connect to.
Google said an order issued in the case required it to exclude the newspapers' websites.
This does appear to be the case. Remove content from "all your sites" is very broad, and with the penalties mentioned I'd remove them, too. Seems an entirely reasonable response to that court order, especially accompanied by the relist offer.
The paper La Capitale said on its web site Friday that Google had begun "boycotting" it.
Google spokesman William Echikson said the court decision applied to web search as well as Google News and the company faced fines of 25,000 euros ($35,359 per infringement if it allowed the newspapers' websites to keep appearing.
"We regret having to do so," he said. "We would be happy to re-include Copiepresse if they would indicate their desire to appear in Google Search and waive the potential penalties."
See that last line? Google has explicitly said, give us permission to list you in search again and we will, no questions asked. So all the people jumping up and down about Google abusing their monopolistic power... no. They aren't.
I really don't see how this is anything but a cash grab by the newspapers that misfired. After Google's offer to relist them as soon as they have permission, it's going to be quite awkward to A) deny Google that permission and then B) sue Google for delisting you. But I'm certain the newspapers will try. The delist and offer to relist seems to be a simple attempt to cut through legal shenanigans on Google's part. "We can list you or not list you. Say which one you want and we'll do it." And then afterwards, they can't cry about being unhappy with their status anymore with any real credibility.
Even if it didn't actually go faster on paper, there's currently a lot of people on marginal infrastructure. Copper lines that were laid 20 years ago and have been slowly corroding ever since which are adequate for voice but were absolutely never intended for ADSL2+.
If you've been in a group in an online game with an Australian and he's randomly disconnected, we're sorry. A lot of us access the internet over a wet piece of string.
Compensating for a longer pipeline by increasing clock speed doesn't help anyway, because to get the higher rate you need to increase the pipeline more...
Where were you when Intel was designing Prescott?
Normally I'd curse at a bunch of idiots abusing the law for their own personal gain... But since it's opposing the RIAA, this is more like fighting fire with fire.
I read that as "0.05% of Twitter users have something interesting to say."
Occasionally, I get a bill in the mail that has some outrageous numbers on it (I once got an electric bill for some three thousand dollars one month.) Usually that's because the meter reader mistyped something into his computer, or because of some issue with their billing system.
You're overlooking the other possibility: the user got a virus or worm that has chewed through a terabyte of usage trying to spread itself or sending spam email without the user doing anything at all. The user says he hasn't used anything like that amount of data, the ISP says the meter is accurate and they're both right.
Hope noone runs a firmware update, they'll have to call Geohot to get Linux back on it.
I think WoW has very low-end graphics.
WoW's graphics scale more than any other game I've seen. Set the detail settings all the way up and it can bring quite powerful systems to their knees... or set them all the way down and it can run on a non-Ion Atom netbook. Badly, but it does run.
Why randomish data? Why not just zeroes?
Some SSD controllers use compression algorithms, and I imagine all zeroes would compress *really* well.
It'd be a bit embarrassing to write a terabyte of zeroes to an SSD and find that the entire write fit into one 4k flash page, leaving the rest of the flash containing sensitive data.
The shareholders should really ask tough questions why Apple is wasting so much money paying these people to use their products.
Product placement = advertising = sales = profit.
Theoretically, at least. Whether or not it's worth the cost is another matter altogether.