But wouldn't a recording made from an HDTV source suffer from the same problems recordings from regular TV sources suffer from, namely analog degradation. I can understand they may want limitations put into future pure digital recording devices (NOTE I said I can understand why they would want that, not that I agree with it).
Right now this seems very analogous to the whole Napster is/isn't home recording debates. So I've got a DVD or HDTV broadcast of a great movie. I make an analog copy of it - some loss of quality. My buddy wants one so I make an analog copy of my analog copy - starting to look worse now. As the owner of a 3rd generation copy of Mafia vs Ninja (those who appreciate truely awful Kung Fu should check it out:) ) I can attest that after the first couple of dupings any advantage HDTV would have had is completely lost.
Supoosing that the MPAA is worried about digital recorders ala Tivo or ReplayTV - those still implement lossy compression schemes when making recordings so wouldn't the net result be the same?
And yes, I did RTFA, I just don't get quite what their new problem is.
Most charities don't want your old PS/2's, they want decent, mostly-working computers that can be put to use by lower income families. Sure, the Good Will will take one or two of your 386-PC's at a time, but just try dumping a basement full on them and see how they react.
Well I can only vouch for the good will here in seattle, but...
An unforunate lucky bid at a university surplus auction landed myself and 2 roomates with 7 flats stacked 4 feet high each with old computer equipment. the good will sent over a truck and picked them right up.
Though the likelihood of them wanting anything other than x86 and apple/mac hardware is pretty low, you'd be surprised what people can do with dirt old hardware. I'm sure quite a number of people would find DOS and Word 1.0 sufficient for their needs - or Linux and Pine, or whatever their installation of choice.
If you can do without the couple of pennies you'd earn by selling it, several charities would most likely be happy to pick up your used computer equipment. I know from experience that Good Will will gladly take whole systems dating back to the IBM PS and PS/2.
If what you've got is just loose components there are still options. There is a charity, "Computer Bank Charity" if I remember correctly, here in Seattle that takes older computers and computer parts, rebuilds and refurbishes them and supplies them to lower income families - an effort to breach the "digital divide". I'm certain there would be something along those lines in your area.
I haven't gotten around to radio shack yet to pick up one of the free barcode readers there, but maybe someone who has can answer this.
When you pick up one of these scanners do you have to fill out a form or sign anything stating that you intend to - or must - use this scanner only for their special barcode catalogs? IANAL, but it seems to me if they haven't, even if the premise of the whole giveaway is to use the scanner with the specified catalog, you'd be fine - for all you knew it was a promotion to was just to get you to go to a new store, like giving away really oddly shapped baloons.
Actually I think that clause has been in from day one. I don't have my EULA in front of me right now but I remember noting that when I installed EQ (on the second day it was available in stores).
For EthernalQuest yes. It is specifically stated in the EULA that every user has to "agree" too that you not reverse engineer any part of the application or its communication protocol for the purposes of cheating or creating a server emulator or anything along those lines.
Verant took a cue from Ultima Online and hoped to squash the thousands of private servers before they started.
However I'm fairly certain the enormous hardware requirements to run a decent private server as well as the lack of the semi-refined mob AI will keep the private servers to a minimum.
Now the question of server emulators in general? IANAL but unless it is word for word prohibited in the EULA that you agree to when you purchase and or launch the software in question I'd say it may fall under the "acceptable reverse-engineering for compatability" umbrella of protection.
Well there isn't an option for that, but one way to help secure outlook is to set it to handle all HTML pages as files from the "restricted sites" security zone as opposed to the "internet" security zone - that way you can disable all sorts of scripting and activeX objects.
Just:
Tools->Options
Security Tab
Select "Restricted Sites" from the dropdown list.
Now I'm the one who can't remember the article, can't even remember if it was on slashdot or not, but there was a piece about evolutionary designs for internal combustion engines. I believe the researchers were working with diesels at the time, but they claimed something like 25% greater fuel efficiency, less noise and less polution.
Honestly, I can deal with ads, they're a part of using most good free sites *looks at the top of the page*. but what completely irks me is waiting for an entirely overloaded doubleclick.com or other such ad server to load an image before the rest of the page will render propperly.
BTW, maybe I'm just blind, but where are the ads on google?
Not sure on the performance of one card over the other, but Promise Technologies has an IDE raid controler that offers 1,0 or 0/1 - but not 5. Substantially cheaper too - on the order of $70-100 depending on where you buy from.
The FastTrak66.
I also read somewhere - unfortunately can't remember where - about the similarities between the FastTrak and the Promise plain IDE control - such that you could eaisly convert the cheaper plain control to a raid control with a resistor or two and some soldering skills.
If napster stays shut down for long enough it would be interesting to see the impact on CD sales - or CD sales around universities, or whatever exactly it was all of those damning studies proved.
Of course given how subjective the studies were before it would be hard for an apparent further decrease in sales to "prove" that Napster was good for the recording industry.
There are some many minute adjustments a lot of print media require I doubt a single DTD could handle every possible scenerio. Yes XML would work wonderful for normal documents/manuscripts/memos whatever, but I seriously doubt you'd want to use it for anything with any moderate amount of layout control. PDF/framemaker will reign supreme there for a bit longer me thinks.
I don't think MS could add how long it takes to charge the battery as that has little to nothing to do with WinCE in and of itself and almost everything to do with what the hardware vendors turn out.
But for the sake of comparison it took about 90 minutes to charge my Aero 1530 out of the box, and I never worry about battery life because it charges fairly rapidly every time I sync.
So, seriously, can one install the new software onto an old WinCE machine?
I'm not sure if EVERY CE device can be upgraded, but the Compaq Aero 1530 (the black and white version of their new PDA) can be upgraded with an optional ROM paq for about $69.
granted it isn't a free upgrade and I doubt it would work on older hardware but at least those of us who adopted or upgraded recently aren't completely burned by this release.
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But wouldn't a recording made from an HDTV source suffer from the same problems recordings from regular TV sources suffer from, namely analog degradation. I can understand they may want limitations put into future pure digital recording devices (NOTE I said I can understand why they would want that, not that I agree with it).
:) ) I can attest that after the first couple of dupings any advantage HDTV would have had is completely lost.
Right now this seems very analogous to the whole Napster is/isn't home recording debates. So I've got a DVD or HDTV broadcast of a great movie. I make an analog copy of it - some loss of quality. My buddy wants one so I make an analog copy of my analog copy - starting to look worse now. As the owner of a 3rd generation copy of Mafia vs Ninja (those who appreciate truely awful Kung Fu should check it out
Supoosing that the MPAA is worried about digital recorders ala Tivo or ReplayTV - those still implement lossy compression schemes when making recordings so wouldn't the net result be the same?
And yes, I did RTFA, I just don't get quite what their new problem is.
Most charities don't want your old PS/2's, they want decent, mostly-working computers that can be put to use by lower income families. Sure, the Good Will will take one or two of your 386-PC's at a time, but just try dumping a basement full on them and see how they react.
Well I can only vouch for the good will here in seattle, but...
An unforunate lucky bid at a university surplus auction landed myself and 2 roomates with 7 flats stacked 4 feet high each with old computer equipment. the good will sent over a truck and picked them right up.
Though the likelihood of them wanting anything other than x86 and apple/mac hardware is pretty low, you'd be surprised what people can do with dirt old hardware. I'm sure quite a number of people would find DOS and Word 1.0 sufficient for their needs - or Linux and Pine, or whatever their installation of choice.
If you can do without the couple of pennies you'd earn by selling it, several charities would most likely be happy to pick up your used computer equipment. I know from experience that Good Will will gladly take whole systems dating back to the IBM PS and PS/2.
If what you've got is just loose components there are still options. There is a charity, "Computer Bank Charity" if I remember correctly, here in Seattle that takes older computers and computer parts, rebuilds and refurbishes them and supplies them to lower income families - an effort to breach the "digital divide". I'm certain there would be something along those lines in your area.
A previous slashdot article about computer charity in general : http://slashdot.org/askslashd ot/00/07/01/226259.shtml.
I haven't gotten around to radio shack yet to pick up one of the free barcode readers there, but maybe someone who has can answer this.
When you pick up one of these scanners do you have to fill out a form or sign anything stating that you intend to - or must - use this scanner only for their special barcode catalogs? IANAL, but it seems to me if they haven't, even if the premise of the whole giveaway is to use the scanner with the specified catalog, you'd be fine - for all you knew it was a promotion to was just to get you to go to a new store, like giving away really oddly shapped baloons.
Actually I think that clause has been in from day one. I don't have my EULA in front of me right now but I remember noting that when I installed EQ (on the second day it was available in stores).
For EthernalQuest yes. It is specifically stated in the EULA that every user has to "agree" too that you not reverse engineer any part of the application or its communication protocol for the purposes of cheating or creating a server emulator or anything along those lines.
Verant took a cue from Ultima Online and hoped to squash the thousands of private servers before they started.
However I'm fairly certain the enormous hardware requirements to run a decent private server as well as the lack of the semi-refined mob AI will keep the private servers to a minimum.
Now the question of server emulators in general? IANAL but unless it is word for word prohibited in the EULA that you agree to when you purchase and or launch the software in question I'd say it may fall under the "acceptable reverse-engineering for compatability" umbrella of protection.
Well there isn't an option for that, but one way to help secure outlook is to set it to handle all HTML pages as files from the "restricted sites" security zone as opposed to the "internet" security zone - that way you can disable all sorts of scripting and activeX objects.
Just:
Tools->Options
Security Tab
Select "Restricted Sites" from the dropdown list.
Cheers,
- Sawbones
Now I'm the one who can't remember the article, can't even remember if it was on slashdot or not, but there was a piece about evolutionary designs for internal combustion engines. I believe the researchers were working with diesels at the time, but they claimed something like 25% greater fuel efficiency, less noise and less polution.
Anyone remember that article?
Looking back through slashdot's articles (via google) came across this link:Creatures from Primordial Silicon in this article http://slashdot.org/articles/99 /07/26/0238235.shtml posted by crackd.
:)
It may not be the exact same article you were mentioning but it is still a good read.
Now if I could only get my entry for Battle Bots entry to self replicate and win by swarm
Honestly, I can deal with ads, they're a part of using most good free sites *looks at the top of the page*. but what completely irks me is waiting for an entirely overloaded doubleclick.com or other such ad server to load an image before the rest of the page will render propperly. BTW, maybe I'm just blind, but where are the ads on google?
Not sure on the performance of one card over the other, but Promise Technologies has an IDE raid controler that offers 1,0 or 0/1 - but not 5. Substantially cheaper too - on the order of $70-100 depending on where you buy from.
The FastTrak66.
I also read somewhere - unfortunately can't remember where - about the similarities between the FastTrak and the Promise plain IDE control - such that you could eaisly convert the cheaper plain control to a raid control with a resistor or two and some soldering skills.
If napster stays shut down for long enough it would be interesting to see the impact on CD sales - or CD sales around universities, or whatever exactly it was all of those damning studies proved.
Of course given how subjective the studies were before it would be hard for an apparent further decrease in sales to "prove" that Napster was good for the recording industry.
To an extent maybe.
There are some many minute adjustments a lot of print media require I doubt a single DTD could handle every possible scenerio. Yes XML would work wonderful for normal documents/manuscripts/memos whatever, but I seriously doubt you'd want to use it for anything with any moderate amount of layout control. PDF/framemaker will reign supreme there for a bit longer me thinks.
I don't think MS could add how long it takes to charge the battery as that has little to nothing to do with WinCE in and of itself and almost everything to do with what the hardware vendors turn out.
But for the sake of comparison it took about 90 minutes to charge my Aero 1530 out of the box, and I never worry about battery life because it charges fairly rapidly every time I sync.
So, seriously, can one install the new software onto an old WinCE machine?
I'm not sure if EVERY CE device can be upgraded, but the Compaq Aero 1530 (the black and white version of their new PDA) can be upgraded with an optional ROM paq for about $69.
granted it isn't a free upgrade and I doubt it would work on older hardware but at least those of us who adopted or upgraded recently aren't completely burned by this release.