Anything that needs HDMI will not be edittable [sic]
I guess it's part of Hollywood hiding the DRM, but people always get this wrong.
HDMI is a connector standard. It's basically DVI and S/PDIF on a single connector (Those of you outside the US: It's the digital replacement for SCART)
HDCP is the DRM layer, and can run equally well over DVI or HDMI... which is why you can get HDMI>DVI cables that are just that... cables.
I'm skeptical about the BIOS trick, actually...have to try that. In general, the phone won't charge from a normal USB supply unless it can enumerate. They must be doing something with the fifth pin to make the dumb chargers work, because it won't charge from a cigarette>USB adapter either.
That connector is used on a lot of Mot stuff, I think I can find some additional info.
That's all there is to it. You can't actually take any risk running a public company these days, so the studio are all producing cheap, safe, formulaic remakes. You can easily justify something that has a 100% chance of making a 20% profit. It's much harder to justify something that has a 20% chance of making a 100% profit.
When the studios were private (and/or Wall Street was a different place), risks were taken, and you got a mix of turkeys and gems.
We're only approaching the point where huge large-format sensors like this one can challenge high-quality 35mm film. We need to get to the point where we can match 35mm resolution in a 35mm (or more likely, APS-C) sensor.
I'd love to see you support the assertion that a 111 megapixel is only "challenging" high quality 35mm film.
If you look at the simple resolution numbers, a 10 megapixel DSLR equals anything this side of Tech Pan. And that's stacking the deck in favor of film, since Tech Pan is a) black and white, b) extremely slow, and c) no longer available.
You're quite right that the noise issue is a big win for the DSLR. I'd submit that while the absolute resolution numbers are quite close between current DSLRs and 35mm film, the DSLR wins in subjective image quality because of the much lower noise level. I've been shooting with an 8MP Canon for about a year now, and my experiences suggests that a) 35mm is dead, and b) 645 should be worried.
Now, this new 4" sensor is an exciting development, because it points the way towards digital large format cameras. A Linhof field camera with one of these hanging off the back is very interesting indeed. Lots of the DOF control issues with SLRs (film or digital) go away at 4x5, not to mention the potential for stunning image quality.
I'm with you on the dynamic range, as well. Once you get your hands around the process, doing HDR imaging with bracket sets from DSLRs can produce some amazing results; being able to do that from a single exposure would be fantastic.
Forget NeXTStep...empeg car
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Lots of people are referring to the column browser in NeXTstep (or the Lisa). That's all fine and good, but probably irrelavent.
What is much more relavent as prior art is the empeg car. That had hierarchical playlist menus in '99, which beats the priority date for this patent by a year.
However, that IP is now held by SigmaTel, and their largest customers are Creative and Apple (no idea which order)
Prior art doesn't have to be held by the defendant in a patent suit...it just has to exist. This patent won't hold, and I'm a little surprised that Creative doesn't know better.
I'll agree with you that the state of USB host on the device is truly strange. If I had to guess, I'd say there was the invisible hand of a PHB there...the host software probably wasn't done, and then the power supply parts got yanked because the software wasn't there, so why spend the money. It was probably intended to have a full OTG implementation, and with luck, the next generation device will.
(It's not quite as simple as hooking up +5...you need to switch it on or off depending on whether or not your in host mode)
FWIW, the keyboard on the 770 is an order of magnitude better than any onscreen keyboard I've ever used. It's not as fast as a thumbboard, but it's faster than t9, at least for me. And MUCH better than PocketPC/CE/Palm/Newton keyboards.
I got one a few months ago, spurred on by the port of Einstein. If *something* could finally replace the Newton, this might be it. The truth is that Einstein is too slow for normal use, but I fell in love with the 770.
I use it *constantly*, because it's has a real web browser (Opera w/Flash) and is pretty easy to connect over WiFi. It fits nicely in my coat pocket, and has a glorious, bright display. And it's an open and well-supported platform for development.
The reviewer makes some good points for his world. It doesn't play well with Microsoft. That's not a factor in my world. Sure, it doesn't play WMV9. But it does play MPEG-4. It could use some additional memory. I moved the root fs onto a card to deal with that, and it's much more stable now. The network messages are a little obtuse. Basically if any connection has reached a timeout (why there's a timeout for WiFi I'll never know), it says "Network Connection Error" when you try to send a packet. So you click 'Connect', pick a network, and you're off. It uses RS-MMC because that's what the rest of Nokia's products use now. It works flawlessly with my RAZR on Cingular, and the thought of EV-DO has me looking at the Sprint/Samsung RAZR clone.
Make no mistake, this is a 1.0 product, and not really ready for prime time. But it *is* ready for the/. crowd, IMO.
The problem is that "hollywood" is actually highly risk-averse. It's such a nasty, backstabbing business that nobody ever wants to stick their neck out.
This is an interesting take on the problem. I have a fair bit of experience with Hollywood, though all from the technical side.
The problem, as I've heard it presented, is basically that the studios are public companies. Especially in this litigious society, that forces the studios to be risk averse. It's easy to defend a long series of moderately profitable formulaic films to the board and shareholders. It's hard to defend four (or ten) flops and a blockbuster.
And you'll never get the blockbusters if you don't make the flops.
How often does that happen to you? I can't think of many situations at all where you are actually be able to accelerate out of danger, without a first class sports car, super fast gear box and racing driver reactions. And if there truly is a crisis, a little resistance from the gas pedal would surely be negligible -- I am certain I wouldn't even notice it.
And this is the problem. Since nobody has to be able to drive to get a license any more, we're faced with ever more in[s]ane "safety" devices.
Actual driver training and testing would prevent ten times the accidents than any of these other half-measures. (Actually, the statistics suggest it's more like 20x)
I drive a third class sports car (Mazda Miata) and have racing driver training. "Racing driver reactions" is a term without a lot of meaning. Even in a race, nothing happens that fast inside the car. Indeed, the single greatest complement I've ever been paid by one of my students was "It's amazing how slowly your hands are moving."
I can think of two bad situations I've been in just this past month where I got out by adding power, not removing it. Both of them were loss of traction on icy/wet roads. The solution was to add power, shifting weight rearward, thus increasing traction in the rear. This is a finesse operation, not "mash the pedal." Dropping the hammer would have been disastrous, and having to argue with some device about how much power I should have added based on how fast it thought I was going would clearly have made the situation worse.
And how is that different from failure in any other complex system in a modern car? You approach a sharp turn, and suddenly the ABS mistakenly thinks your breaks have locked.
Have you ever used a GPS? I frequently see my in-car GPS reporting that I'm on the sidestreet (25mph or less) instead of the highway (45 or 55mph) 100' away. Up in the mountains, coverage is spotty, and strange things happen. I reset the max speed on the GPS one morning and drove to work. 2-lane mountain roads, posted 45, and it was wet so I was keeping pretty close to that. Max speed recorded was 143mph. I can only imagine what would have happened if I'd been at neutral throttle around a sweeper in the rain when the nanny box decided I was doing 140+.
It's even narrower than that if you real all the way through TFA. There's an extra layer of security in the Google implementation that is broken by a bug in news.google.com. Google could pretty easily fix that and solve the problem.
what amounts to a ban on all new construction because there's simply no more fresh water. They have already exceeded their allotment from available supplies.
This always amuses me, every time some politico starts ranting about conservation.
The fact of the matter is that California has accomplished the last 20+ years of growth through conservation, not through building any additional infrastructure. This is what caused the energy collapse that allowed Arnie to usurp the Governorship, and now it's happening with water. (Didn't anyone *watch* Chinatown?)
The time has come for the powers that be to either a) spend money on infrastructure, or b) halt growth. Sounds like RWC chose answer b).
Too true. I'm on vacation in Victoria and a friend of mine (a local) just expressed the same sentiment: As global warming moves the deserts north, what will the US do for our water.
NAFTA is a *trade* agreement. Sell it to us.
Those of us in NorCal have been wishing we could do the same to LA.
empeg/Rio had this long before iRiver. The advanced query stuff is nearly SQL.
In fact, empeg/Rio has been light years ahead of the rest of the industry for about five years now. But the marketing dollars have never been there, so the products, kick-ass though they are, were either niche or just languished.
The last time I was in Canada, I'd been to the UK and Singapore within the past couple of months, and so I had ~$30 of leftover currency from each in my wallet. All of the non-US currency looked very similar, enough so that I inadvertantly tried to buy lunch with a ten-pound note.
There was no mistaking the Greenbacks. It's all a matter of perspective.:)
(That said, the new Fruit-Stripe US$20's and US$50's *do* look like monopoly money.)
He was the guy who thought it was a good idea to drag George Galloway before the Senate, thereby making himself and the rest of the investigations sub-committee look like complete idiots.
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Anything that needs HDMI will not be edittable [sic]
I guess it's part of Hollywood hiding the DRM, but people always get this wrong.
HDMI is a connector standard. It's basically DVI and S/PDIF on a single connector (Those of you outside the US: It's the digital replacement for SCART)
HDCP is the DRM layer, and can run equally well over DVI or HDMI... which is why you can get HDMI>DVI cables that are just that... cables.
Yes, you'll have the same problem on a mac.
I'm skeptical about the BIOS trick, actually...have to try that. In general, the phone won't charge from a normal USB supply unless it can enumerate. They must be doing something with the fifth pin to make the dumb chargers work, because it won't charge from a cigarette>USB adapter either.
That connector is used on a lot of Mot stuff, I think I can find some additional info.
So now they're worried about global warming, eh? After all those years of pushing CNG to deal with all the other pollutants, now CO2 matters.
= 21stCentElectricCar but that paper claimed that CNG cars are actually worse than gasoline engines in terms of CO2 emissions per mile.
I've only seen one reference on this (the potentially biased white paper at http://teslamotors.com/display_data.php?data_name
Does anyone else have a good source on this?
That's all there is to it. You can't actually take any risk running a public company these days, so the studio are all producing cheap, safe, formulaic remakes.
You can easily justify something that has a 100% chance of making a 20% profit. It's much harder to justify something that has a 20% chance of making a 100% profit.
When the studios were private (and/or Wall Street was a different place), risks were taken, and you got a mix of turkeys and gems.
We're only approaching the point where huge large-format sensors like this one can challenge high-quality 35mm film. We need to get to the point where we can match 35mm resolution in a 35mm (or more likely, APS-C) sensor.
I'd love to see you support the assertion that a 111 megapixel is only "challenging" high quality 35mm film.
If you look at the simple resolution numbers, a 10 megapixel DSLR equals anything this side of Tech Pan. And that's stacking the deck in favor of film, since Tech Pan is a) black and white, b) extremely slow, and c) no longer available.
You're quite right that the noise issue is a big win for the DSLR. I'd submit that while the absolute resolution numbers are quite close between current DSLRs and 35mm film, the DSLR wins in subjective image quality because of the much lower noise level. I've been shooting with an 8MP Canon for about a year now, and my experiences suggests that a) 35mm is dead, and b) 645 should be worried.
Now, this new 4" sensor is an exciting development, because it points the way towards digital large format cameras. A Linhof field camera with one of these hanging off the back is very interesting indeed. Lots of the DOF control issues with SLRs (film or digital) go away at 4x5, not to mention the potential for stunning image quality.
I'm with you on the dynamic range, as well. Once you get your hands around the process, doing HDR imaging with bracket sets from DSLRs can produce some amazing results; being able to do that from a single exposure would be fantastic.
Lots of people are referring to the column browser in NeXTstep (or the Lisa). That's all fine and good, but probably irrelavent.
What is much more relavent as prior art is the empeg car. That had hierarchical playlist menus in '99, which beats the priority date for this patent by a year.
However, that IP is now held by SigmaTel, and their largest customers are Creative and Apple (no idea which order)
Prior art doesn't have to be held by the defendant in a patent suit...it just has to exist. This patent won't hold, and I'm a little surprised that Creative doesn't know better.
I'll agree with you that the state of USB host on the device is truly strange. If I had to guess, I'd say there was the invisible hand of a PHB there...the host software probably wasn't done, and then the power supply parts got yanked because the software wasn't there, so why spend the money. It was probably intended to have a full OTG implementation, and with luck, the next generation device will.
(It's not quite as simple as hooking up +5...you need to switch it on or off depending on whether or not your in host mode)
FWIW, the keyboard on the 770 is an order of magnitude better than any onscreen keyboard I've ever used. It's not as fast as a thumbboard, but it's faster than t9, at least for me. And MUCH better than PocketPC/CE/Palm/Newton keyboards.
I got one a few months ago, spurred on by the port of Einstein. If *something* could finally replace the Newton, this might be it. The truth is that Einstein is too slow for normal use, but I fell in love with the 770.
/. crowd, IMO.
I use it *constantly*, because it's has a real web browser (Opera w/Flash) and is pretty easy to connect over WiFi. It fits nicely in my coat pocket, and has a glorious, bright display. And it's an open and well-supported platform for development.
The reviewer makes some good points for his world. It doesn't play well with Microsoft. That's not a factor in my world. Sure, it doesn't play WMV9. But it does play MPEG-4.
It could use some additional memory. I moved the root fs onto a card to deal with that, and it's much more stable now.
The network messages are a little obtuse. Basically if any connection has reached a timeout (why there's a timeout for WiFi I'll never know), it says "Network Connection Error" when you try to send a packet. So you click 'Connect', pick a network, and you're off.
It uses RS-MMC because that's what the rest of Nokia's products use now.
It works flawlessly with my RAZR on Cingular, and the thought of EV-DO has me looking at the Sprint/Samsung RAZR clone.
Make no mistake, this is a 1.0 product, and not really ready for prime time. But it *is* ready for the
RX-7?
It's always good to know the right inspection shops...
:)
Or live in CA. It *smogs* fine.
Off to put on a fresh set of A032s
You just described my daily driver.
Oh, we were talking about Macs, weren't we.
Same story here. My next machine is a MacBook if it can boot Windows... or if VMWare ports to MacTel...either way.
IMO, Metcalfe is just slightly below Dvorak in terms of credibility.
He did great work long ago, and has been on the rubber chicken circuit too long.
...check the Yellow Pages...
I love this...
I hate to break it to you, but the Yellow Pages are 100% ads.
The problem is that "hollywood" is actually highly risk-averse. It's such a nasty, backstabbing business that nobody ever wants to stick their neck out.
This is an interesting take on the problem. I have a fair bit of experience with Hollywood, though all from the technical side.
The problem, as I've heard it presented, is basically that the studios are public companies. Especially in this litigious society, that forces the studios to be risk averse. It's easy to defend a long series of moderately profitable formulaic films to the board and shareholders. It's hard to defend four (or ten) flops and a blockbuster.
And you'll never get the blockbusters if you don't make the flops.
How often does that happen to you? I can't think of many situations at all where you are actually be able to accelerate out of danger, without a first class sports car, super fast gear box and racing driver reactions. And if there truly is a crisis, a little resistance from the gas pedal would surely be negligible -- I am certain I wouldn't even notice it.
And this is the problem. Since nobody has to be able to drive to get a license any more, we're faced with ever more in[s]ane "safety" devices.
Actual driver training and testing would prevent ten times the accidents than any of these other half-measures. (Actually, the statistics suggest it's more like 20x)
I drive a third class sports car (Mazda Miata) and have racing driver training. "Racing driver reactions" is a term without a lot of meaning. Even in a race, nothing happens that fast inside the car. Indeed, the single greatest complement I've ever been paid by one of my students was "It's amazing how slowly your hands are moving."
I can think of two bad situations I've been in just this past month where I got out by adding power, not removing it. Both of them were loss of traction on icy/wet roads. The solution was to add power, shifting weight rearward, thus increasing traction in the rear. This is a finesse operation, not "mash the pedal." Dropping the hammer would have been disastrous, and having to argue with some device about how much power I should have added based on how fast it thought I was going would clearly have made the situation worse.
And how is that different from failure in any other complex system in a modern car? You approach a sharp turn, and suddenly the ABS mistakenly thinks your breaks have locked.
Have you ever used a GPS? I frequently see my in-car GPS reporting that I'm on the sidestreet (25mph or less) instead of the highway (45 or 55mph) 100' away. Up in the mountains, coverage is spotty, and strange things happen. I reset the max speed on the GPS one morning and drove to work. 2-lane mountain roads, posted 45, and it was wet so I was keeping pretty close to that. Max speed recorded was 143mph. I can only imagine what would have happened if I'd been at neutral throttle around a sweeper in the rain when the nanny box decided I was doing 140+.
It's even narrower than that if you real all the way through TFA. There's an extra layer of security in the Google implementation that is broken by a bug in news.google.com. Google could pretty easily fix that and solve the problem.
what amounts to a ban on all new construction because there's simply no more fresh water. They have already exceeded their allotment from available supplies.
This always amuses me, every time some politico starts ranting about conservation.
The fact of the matter is that California has accomplished the last 20+ years of growth through conservation, not through building any additional infrastructure. This is what caused the energy collapse that allowed Arnie to usurp the Governorship, and now it's happening with water. (Didn't anyone *watch* Chinatown?)
The time has come for the powers that be to either a) spend money on infrastructure, or b) halt growth. Sounds like RWC chose answer b).
-Z
Too true. I'm on vacation in Victoria and a friend of mine (a local) just expressed the same sentiment: As global warming moves the deserts north, what will the US do for our water.
NAFTA is a *trade* agreement. Sell it to us.
Those of us in NorCal have been wishing we could do the same to LA.
-Z
Glad to see they're sticking with their naming convention... This just confirms that it will take MS until the end of time to ship a stable OS.
empeg/Rio had this long before iRiver. The advanced query stuff is nearly SQL.
In fact, empeg/Rio has been light years ahead of the rest of the industry for about five years now. But the marketing dollars have never been there, so the products, kick-ass though they are, were either niche or just languished.
How very 1999.
The last time I was in Canada, I'd been to the UK and Singapore within the past couple of months, and so I had ~$30 of leftover currency from each in my wallet. All of the non-US currency looked very similar, enough so that I inadvertantly tried to buy lunch with a ten-pound note.
:)
There was no mistaking the Greenbacks. It's all a matter of perspective.
(That said, the new Fruit-Stripe US$20's and US$50's *do* look like monopoly money.)
He was the guy who thought it was a good idea to drag George Galloway before the Senate, thereby making himself and the rest of the investigations sub-committee look like complete idiots.
Where are my mod points when I need them?!?
Bravo!