If it helps, xbox live gold family gets you 4 people for $100, if I recall the number properly. Your point that xblg tends to cost more for families is still valid, though.
same reason they require you to have Gold to watch Netflix: They can. (actually, I have a completely unsubstantiated theory that their system is set up such that any network connection that leaves your household network gets run through their servers and so you need to have Gold so that their server will let it go out the other side, but that's just a wild guess)
I suspect this is not so much aimed at "hey, that video was recorded from an xbox" as "you can't use this xbox app that records and uploads your game footage without Gold", which is pretty much the same as they do for Netflix.
Eh, the SEC is only interested in regulating currency related to investment vehicles. The IRS, on the other hand, will have lots of fun processing a tax payment consisting of 23.7 chickens:)
The energy would have to change. All the kinetic energy the projectile has when it leaves the muzzle is energy it got from the magnetic fields, which came from the batteries. Since the length of the barrel is a fixed design requirement, 5x velocity means 5x acceleration, which means stronger magnetic fields, which means more battery power.
You have a point about the powerup/powerdown, he's not as concerned with the leading edges of the transitions as the trailing edges, and starting the transition earlier could be sufficient to keep the end of the transition at the right time. But the increased power levels for the stronger fields also increases the transition time, and it may be that the transition time for the coils he's using gets to be too long to be manageable, so we may still need more and smaller coils.
I'd say this is a case of automation drastically changing the environment. There's a lot of things that are not technically legal but nobody worries about because it's not worth a human's time to track down and prosecute. Traffic violations (speeding, not quite coming to a complete stop), fair use activities (they're still technically infringements, it's just that the copyright holder isn't allowed to sue... or more accurately, that the suit gets dismissed once the activity is declared 'fair use'), picking up dimes off the sidewalk (found money is supposed to get turned in so the owner can claim it), lots of things. Now that machines are able to detect this stuff automatically for cheap, "not worth a human's time" is no longer a protection for activities that most people find to be normal and ethical.
To get 10X muzzle energy he has draw 10X the energy from the batteries, which means more batteries, which harms the portability goal. To get 5X muzzle speed increase, the coils have to power up and down 5X as fast, which probably requires more smaller coils and probably other circuitry speedups, which requires more complicated circuitry, which increases cost and reduces maintainability. Sure, his design requirement for muzzle power isn't much; a flintlock musket has 25x as much muzzle power. But it's still a pretty nifty build.
looks like a password generation system. Uses a constant (that hopefully only you know) and a variable (where it's being used) to generate a unique string; then you can use that unique string as your password. In theory, this means that it's easier to remember what you have to remember and instead of recording your passwords you can just re-generate them as needed.
Oh, no, i didn't mean code assumes that values are going to disappear magically while in use. But code does assume that memory gets flushed by a power cycle. Or is there code I'm not aware of that zeroes RAM pages during shutdown processes? Reading info from RAM that's kept cold to extend data life is already a usable (if difficult) attack; pulling the plug on a box and booting off a USB stick to read data from non-volatile RAM would be much easier.
no, his beef is with the mindset that the unwashed masses are not allowed to do anything except sit in a chair and watch/listen to what a corporation packages.
it is very much in Youtube's interest to not know what's legal and what's not. Their safe harbor depends on it. As far as they are concerned, as stipulated by law, it's illegal if someone says it is, unless and until the poster says otherwise under (effective) oath.
I don't see how criminal copyright infringement is more enforceable than civil copyright infringement. Unless you're referring to the copyright holder having effectively the entire law enforcement community as extra unpaid (well, taxpayer paid) manpower...
I'm not seeing an overall benefit to persistent main memory. It could pretty much unify 'sleep' and 'suspend', but the security holes resulting from bad cleanup of memory data (or no cleanup, from all the code that assumes ram is volatile) seem like a much worse deal. Do you see benefits I'm missing?
Back when (around ios 3, I think) I had one, and it was lovely because it could tell me frequencies and let me set my wifi to the least used frequency in the area. Then Apple disabled that functionality. *sigh*
I didn't mean to imply that you said they should get a pass; you didn't. It just seemed to me that your statement carried an assumption that the alternative was not itself a double standard, which seemed odd.
Media mail would cost more than either of them are paying now (the minimum is $2.36 for one pound), and GameFly can't use it anyway because Media Mail rules prohibit video games.
I find that if I care enough to not be willing to wait a week, I can find it at Redbox. If I don't want to pay the $1.20 or so, then I don't care enough to worry about waiting. I've never had a disc stolen, out of a couple hundred by now, and only two broken. I would love to have a "stream anything you want" option, but until then, this is what the 21st century has. Maybe the 22nd will do better.
The problem is that to be free to compete like any other business, they have to be free to cut their losses, which will remove universal coverage. Private industry is kind of sucky at universal coverage, as seen with phone and cable companies. So they get the monopoly in exchange for being required to cover nonprofitable areas and still break even.
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yeah, I just got the email from MS. So much for my attempt to be helpful :)
If it helps, xbox live gold family gets you 4 people for $100, if I recall the number properly. Your point that xblg tends to cost more for families is still valid, though.
same reason they require you to have Gold to watch Netflix: They can. (actually, I have a completely unsubstantiated theory that their system is set up such that any network connection that leaves your household network gets run through their servers and so you need to have Gold so that their server will let it go out the other side, but that's just a wild guess)
I suspect this is not so much aimed at "hey, that video was recorded from an xbox" as "you can't use this xbox app that records and uploads your game footage without Gold", which is pretty much the same as they do for Netflix.
Eh, the SEC is only interested in regulating currency related to investment vehicles. The IRS, on the other hand, will have lots of fun processing a tax payment consisting of 23.7 chickens :)
The energy would have to change. All the kinetic energy the projectile has when it leaves the muzzle is energy it got from the magnetic fields, which came from the batteries. Since the length of the barrel is a fixed design requirement, 5x velocity means 5x acceleration, which means stronger magnetic fields, which means more battery power.
You have a point about the powerup/powerdown, he's not as concerned with the leading edges of the transitions as the trailing edges, and starting the transition earlier could be sufficient to keep the end of the transition at the right time. But the increased power levels for the stronger fields also increases the transition time, and it may be that the transition time for the coils he's using gets to be too long to be manageable, so we may still need more and smaller coils.
I'd say this is a case of automation drastically changing the environment. There's a lot of things that are not technically legal but nobody worries about because it's not worth a human's time to track down and prosecute. Traffic violations (speeding, not quite coming to a complete stop), fair use activities (they're still technically infringements, it's just that the copyright holder isn't allowed to sue... or more accurately, that the suit gets dismissed once the activity is declared 'fair use'), picking up dimes off the sidewalk (found money is supposed to get turned in so the owner can claim it), lots of things. Now that machines are able to detect this stuff automatically for cheap, "not worth a human's time" is no longer a protection for activities that most people find to be normal and ethical.
The subject of the comment is wrong. The 3% figure is for muzzle _energy_, not muzzle _velocity_.
To get 10X muzzle energy he has draw 10X the energy from the batteries, which means more batteries, which harms the portability goal. To get 5X muzzle speed increase, the coils have to power up and down 5X as fast, which probably requires more smaller coils and probably other circuitry speedups, which requires more complicated circuitry, which increases cost and reduces maintainability. Sure, his design requirement for muzzle power isn't much; a flintlock musket has 25x as much muzzle power. But it's still a pretty nifty build.
I hope they alerted Arizona, too. The entire state is closer to Boulevard than I am.
looks like a password generation system. Uses a constant (that hopefully only you know) and a variable (where it's being used) to generate a unique string; then you can use that unique string as your password. In theory, this means that it's easier to remember what you have to remember and instead of recording your passwords you can just re-generate them as needed.
Oh, no, i didn't mean code assumes that values are going to disappear magically while in use. But code does assume that memory gets flushed by a power cycle. Or is there code I'm not aware of that zeroes RAM pages during shutdown processes? Reading info from RAM that's kept cold to extend data life is already a usable (if difficult) attack; pulling the plug on a box and booting off a USB stick to read data from non-volatile RAM would be much easier.
no, his beef is with the mindset that the unwashed masses are not allowed to do anything except sit in a chair and watch/listen to what a corporation packages.
it is very much in Youtube's interest to not know what's legal and what's not. Their safe harbor depends on it. As far as they are concerned, as stipulated by law, it's illegal if someone says it is, unless and until the poster says otherwise under (effective) oath.
I don't see how criminal copyright infringement is more enforceable than civil copyright infringement. Unless you're referring to the copyright holder having effectively the entire law enforcement community as extra unpaid (well, taxpayer paid) manpower...
I'm not seeing an overall benefit to persistent main memory. It could pretty much unify 'sleep' and 'suspend', but the security holes resulting from bad cleanup of memory data (or no cleanup, from all the code that assumes ram is volatile) seem like a much worse deal. Do you see benefits I'm missing?
in a way, those environmentalists are right. All observed problems are traceable to human activity - observation. :)
Back when (around ios 3, I think) I had one, and it was lovely because it could tell me frequencies and let me set my wifi to the least used frequency in the area. Then Apple disabled that functionality. *sigh*
that may be what they mean but it is not what the text says. Maybe they should be more precise.
I didn't mean to imply that you said they should get a pass; you didn't. It just seemed to me that your statement carried an assumption that the alternative was not itself a double standard, which seemed odd.
no, but proprietary licenses are already in a "lawyer must make decision" state and everyone's used to it.
would it be any less of a double standard if corporations got a pass on copying code while decrying music copying?
Media mail would cost more than either of them are paying now (the minimum is $2.36 for one pound), and GameFly can't use it anyway because Media Mail rules prohibit video games.
I find that if I care enough to not be willing to wait a week, I can find it at Redbox. If I don't want to pay the $1.20 or so, then I don't care enough to worry about waiting. I've never had a disc stolen, out of a couple hundred by now, and only two broken. I would love to have a "stream anything you want" option, but until then, this is what the 21st century has. Maybe the 22nd will do better.
The problem is that to be free to compete like any other business, they have to be free to cut their losses, which will remove universal coverage. Private industry is kind of sucky at universal coverage, as seen with phone and cable companies. So they get the monopoly in exchange for being required to cover nonprofitable areas and still break even.