Anyone with a bit of programming/scripting skill can do this with a Linux box. The NuVo gear is mostly just an extreme remote control, and they've been selling those for years (they're quite nice).
Splitting a 5.1 sound card into 3 stereo streams is nothing special, as that's how the outputs present themselves in the first place. The 5.1 is merely one interpretation of six outputs. In fact when you're playing a game that outputs 5.1, the game engine itself may refer to sounds in 1.5D/2D space, but the sound engine processes and mixes it all down to 6 plain old mono streams.
(from the article) "There is no other company that can do multiple-output iTunes"
Simple: give Apple a ton of money and ask them nice. Or skip iTunes entirely and use a non-crippled player and format. Any sound daemon worth its compilation time should be able to route three different sound players to their own output jacks... piece of cake! The fact that iTunes does not support that operation by default is a design limitation, not a technical one.
That's the thing, if I'm shopping for a cheap ugly monitor, I'm fine with 6-bit panels. In fact I have a few of them and for general use they're perfectly fine.
Now if my big expensive 27" LCD had 6-bit color, I'd be ripping someone's head off and performing various acts of desecration upon the wound.
I think when people are paying 300% too much for a stupid Mac, they're expecting the best of everything (with good reason). If Apple suddenly replaces those parts with cheap garbage that even Acer wouldn't touch, people get royally pissed off.
1. Remove tires 2. Smash TPMS 3. Mail smashed TPMS pieces to automaker, lawmaker, and those asshats at the NHTSA 4. ??? 5. Profit!?
My view is if drivers are too retarded to perform basic maintenance like checking their tire pressure and oil dips, they shouldn't be allowed to operate a vehicle. We didn't use to have so many road problems back when there were fewer people on the road. Someone lowered the barriers to entry and now we've got millions of idiots driving 3-ton battering rams.
Maybe I'm a traitor, but I typically hit Slashdot twice a day... once in the morning before my brain reaches its useful RPMs, and once in the evening when I'm tired of working.
If my day consisted of repeatedly reloading a site, I'd sign up for an MMO instead.
Since you seem to know more about this than I, may I ask you why fiber costs so much to deploy ? Seriously, why $30k to hang fiber on a bunch of poles ? Is it the cost of materials that significantly hikes prices, or is it the dozen contractors getting rich with their grade-school diplomas ?
I honestly don't know much about Sweden (despite a few visits), but I think it is safe to assume your telecommunications providers are nowhere near as enormous, corrupt and heavy-handed as American ones. There is no competition at all in North America, everyone just gouges like mad, and when an independent tries to push out better services and/or lower prices, they get sued into oblivion or often times bought out and destroyed.
If there were some form of harsh punishment for such blatant abuse of the capitalist system, maybe things would be better for everyone here, but the people drafting the rules are on the receiving end of significant lobbying from the telecoms, so it won't happen anytime soon.
I should mention that the Hoverman uses coat hangers for the conductive material, which may be hurting it when compared to the Yagi's proper copper piping.
I wouldn't worry about it, after all those coat hangers beat the pants off of Monster Cable:)
According to the French article, they say 47% of all business software in France is believed to be pirated/illegally licensed.
According to me, I say 47% of all BSA statements are made up on-the-spot. The other 53% are merely obvious.
Thing is, they blame company policies and inadequate budgeting because frankly, if you're a sysadmin and you need a tool to do your job, you'll want your boss to pay for it. If they don't, well the job still needs to get done so many people download a cracked copy, get 'er dun' and keep that idiot boss off their back. I have to say, this makes a whole lot of sense.
Now that I've cleared that up, I would like to know what kind of broken judicial system allows a private company to hire a bailiff and raid someone's offices. Yes, I know the BSA does this all the time with rent-a-cops, but the practice is deemed illegal in many jurisdictions, not to mention the fact that a rent-a-cop ain't no cop, and they do get sued from time to time over their abusive tactics. As much as I support the developer for protecting their rights, I feel they did it sneakily instead of being honest and upfront with Sony and demanding payment in writing, rather than raiding someone's offices in retaliation.
Maybe I'm a little too future-happy, but why is paper still relevant today ? If you have the document in electronic form, read it electronically! I'd rather walk around with an ebook reader device than pay some old-world scrooge just to print stuff.
If you find the electronic form hard to read, then demand a better reading device! Kindle ain't your thing ? Then don't buy it! We have the tools, we have the engineering know-how, but people are stuck in their backward ways.
Actually the alternative is social security. It's not great, but I'll actually respect someone in-between jobs better than someone who willingly makes a part of my life unpleasant in exchange for money.
In my book, someone working for a bastard is guilty by association. The employee of my enemy is still my enemy.
And which pacifist country might you be from ? No war of independence in your neck of the woods ? No prying oneself from the tyranny of monarchy or the invasion of foreign expansionists ?
Please do tell me, I'd much rather live in a world without war, but humankind just isn't that noble yet.
I VPN all the time, I see no speed issues at all. In fact, for a while that's how I did my torrenting... now I just run them on a dedicated server across the pond.
Ultimately, I think these stupid throttling issues will be short-lived, as they are explicitly targeting one type of activity (p2p) which just so happens to be one of the most popular uses for residential broadband access. That's kind of like McDonalds deciding they will no longer sell any burgers, and go out of their way to harass burger lovers. That kind of business attitude is not sustainable in the long term.
I still roll my eyes whenever someone rolls by with an X-Fi. Creative Labs finally ceased to be relevant the day they bought Ensoniq. It's one thing to absorb competitors and their IP, it's another to buy a ghetto clone maker to acquire their SB emulation software in order to emulate your own hardware because the official product can't even do it right.
Thankfully, on-board sound solutions have reached a point where they sound pretty darn good, and many now have digital coax and/or optical outputs, making the Sound Blaster largely redundant. The one thing they don't support is EAX, but many games have shifted away from the evils of Creative and rolled out 3rd party sound processing libs.
For me, it's very simple: I use the onboard sound for general usage and gaming, and I have a pro sound card for professional audio work. It works well because the pro card sucks at gaming, and the onboard chip sucks at recording, but together they're much more dependable and better-supported than any software-crippled travesty to ever bear the Creative label.
Yep, SCART beats the pants off of our crappy American connections, and it's been around since the 70's. While it can't compete with modern HD component (YPbPr), it's still way cleaner and more accurate than S-Video with little artifacting. Plus it's relatively easy to mod a SCART output into VGA, to hook up those old game consoles to a computer display.
The problem with any "bad" job is people continue to work there.
If call centers suck so bad, why do people take the jobs ? You're encouraging the abuse by enabling these bureaucratic slave drivers. I don't know of anyone who likes call centers, not as an employee, not as a victim either. The only people who like them are the so-called "clients", the ones whose products are being sold or supported, because not only is it cheap, but it also cuts maintenance costs thanks to the many people who would rather buy a new thingamajig than have to deal with retarded call center queues all afternoon.
One thing is consistent: there are always companies looking to hire, in fact many of them complain that it's so hard to find good people. I know why: they're all pissing their life away in a call center for peanuts, while the good jobs go unfilled. If you've got the social skills, patience and computer smarts to survive a call center job, those same skills could be applied in just about any other office environment for less stress and maybe even more money.
Shit, I know a lot of people sitting in cushy government jobs who barely have two brain cells to rub together. They wouldn't last a day working for a telemarketer, yet they're making four times as much money for a quarter of the effort. Full benefits, too!
There's always someone yapping about FPGA, but the truth is I have yet to see an FPGA used in a production environment. They're great for prototyping, but how about real-time reconfigurable devices outside the lab ? Surely there must be tasks where such a thing would be beneficial, as an alternative to GPGPU-type stuff.
Actually it would be so much easier if we just had more than 4 slots. I don't want to be stuck in "server land" and their smorgasbord of crap boards, just for the privilege of running a high memory PC.
Oh, sorry! Did I offend anyone ? I didn't say fuck the Chinese. As wrong as it feels to my libertarian gut, a part of me wants to reach in there and shake people until they revolt against their abusive government. How many gazillion chinese people are there ? Surely enough to overthrow the system and actually enjoy all the money they've earned by producing the rest of the world's retail goods. Freedom, competition, tolerance for all.
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Anyone with a bit of programming/scripting skill can do this with a Linux box. The NuVo gear is mostly just an extreme remote control, and they've been selling those for years (they're quite nice).
Splitting a 5.1 sound card into 3 stereo streams is nothing special, as that's how the outputs present themselves in the first place. The 5.1 is merely one interpretation of six outputs. In fact when you're playing a game that outputs 5.1, the game engine itself may refer to sounds in 1.5D/2D space, but the sound engine processes and mixes it all down to 6 plain old mono streams.
(from the article) "There is no other company that can do multiple-output iTunes"
Simple: give Apple a ton of money and ask them nice. Or skip iTunes entirely and use a non-crippled player and format. Any sound daemon worth its compilation time should be able to route three different sound players to their own output jacks... piece of cake! The fact that iTunes does not support that operation by default is a design limitation, not a technical one.
That's the thing, if I'm shopping for a cheap ugly monitor, I'm fine with 6-bit panels. In fact I have a few of them and for general use they're perfectly fine.
Now if my big expensive 27" LCD had 6-bit color, I'd be ripping someone's head off and performing various acts of desecration upon the wound.
I think when people are paying 300% too much for a stupid Mac, they're expecting the best of everything (with good reason). If Apple suddenly replaces those parts with cheap garbage that even Acer wouldn't touch, people get royally pissed off.
I see a very simple solution to this:
1. Remove tires
2. Smash TPMS
3. Mail smashed TPMS pieces to automaker, lawmaker, and those asshats at the NHTSA
4. ???
5. Profit!?
My view is if drivers are too retarded to perform basic maintenance like checking their tire pressure and oil dips, they shouldn't be allowed to operate a vehicle. We didn't use to have so many road problems back when there were fewer people on the road. Someone lowered the barriers to entry and now we've got millions of idiots driving 3-ton battering rams.
Ever heard of RSS feeds ? :P
Maybe I'm a traitor, but I typically hit Slashdot twice a day... once in the morning before my brain reaches its useful RPMs, and once in the evening when I'm tired of working.
If my day consisted of repeatedly reloading a site, I'd sign up for an MMO instead.
Since you seem to know more about this than I, may I ask you why fiber costs so much to deploy ? Seriously, why $30k to hang fiber on a bunch of poles ? Is it the cost of materials that significantly hikes prices, or is it the dozen contractors getting rich with their grade-school diplomas ?
That's probably why there isn't a good cop to be found anywhere.
Recipe for a bad cop:
* 1 brilliant young adult with good intentions
* 1 hopelessly corrupt legal system
* 1 underfunded municipal system (i.e. all of them!)
* 4 years
Yields 1 serving of careless police agent, every time. Serve cold.
That page is god-awful on the eyes, but the content is golden! Thank you for finally posting something of value on slashchan :/
Why thank you, now where's my money ?
Why not ? Because Sweden is not in North America.
I honestly don't know much about Sweden (despite a few visits), but I think it is safe to assume your telecommunications providers are nowhere near as enormous, corrupt and heavy-handed as American ones. There is no competition at all in North America, everyone just gouges like mad, and when an independent tries to push out better services and/or lower prices, they get sued into oblivion or often times bought out and destroyed.
If there were some form of harsh punishment for such blatant abuse of the capitalist system, maybe things would be better for everyone here, but the people drafting the rules are on the receiving end of significant lobbying from the telecoms, so it won't happen anytime soon.
I should mention that the Hoverman uses coat hangers for the conductive material, which may be hurting it when compared to the Yagi's proper copper piping.
:)
I wouldn't worry about it, after all those coat hangers beat the pants off of Monster Cable
According to the French article, they say 47% of all business software in France is believed to be pirated/illegally licensed.
According to me, I say 47% of all BSA statements are made up on-the-spot. The other 53% are merely obvious.
Thing is, they blame company policies and inadequate budgeting because frankly, if you're a sysadmin and you need a tool to do your job, you'll want your boss to pay for it. If they don't, well the job still needs to get done so many people download a cracked copy, get 'er dun' and keep that idiot boss off their back. I have to say, this makes a whole lot of sense.
Now that I've cleared that up, I would like to know what kind of broken judicial system allows a private company to hire a bailiff and raid someone's offices. Yes, I know the BSA does this all the time with rent-a-cops, but the practice is deemed illegal in many jurisdictions, not to mention the fact that a rent-a-cop ain't no cop, and they do get sued from time to time over their abusive tactics. As much as I support the developer for protecting their rights, I feel they did it sneakily instead of being honest and upfront with Sony and demanding payment in writing, rather than raiding someone's offices in retaliation.
Disclaimer: I don't read fiction.
Maybe I'm a little too future-happy, but why is paper still relevant today ? If you have the document in electronic form, read it electronically! I'd rather walk around with an ebook reader device than pay some old-world scrooge just to print stuff.
If you find the electronic form hard to read, then demand a better reading device! Kindle ain't your thing ? Then don't buy it! We have the tools, we have the engineering know-how, but people are stuck in their backward ways.
Actually the alternative is social security. It's not great, but I'll actually respect someone in-between jobs better than someone who willingly makes a part of my life unpleasant in exchange for money.
In my book, someone working for a bastard is guilty by association. The employee of my enemy is still my enemy.
And which pacifist country might you be from ? No war of independence in your neck of the woods ? No prying oneself from the tyranny of monarchy or the invasion of foreign expansionists ?
Please do tell me, I'd much rather live in a world without war, but humankind just isn't that noble yet.
I VPN all the time, I see no speed issues at all. In fact, for a while that's how I did my torrenting... now I just run them on a dedicated server across the pond.
Ultimately, I think these stupid throttling issues will be short-lived, as they are explicitly targeting one type of activity (p2p) which just so happens to be one of the most popular uses for residential broadband access. That's kind of like McDonalds deciding they will no longer sell any burgers, and go out of their way to harass burger lovers. That kind of business attitude is not sustainable in the long term.
Hats off to the CCC, this is brilliant! How satisfying it must be to rub the government's nose in their own mess.
True hacktivism at its finest!
Proof that we're getting too old for Slashdot.
Get these n00bs off my lawn!
Am I the only one picturing a group of 4chan wackos simultaneously shaking the shit out of their MacBooks ?
Don't put anything in the hands of people unless you're ready to deal with the collective stupidity of said people.
Me three.
I still roll my eyes whenever someone rolls by with an X-Fi. Creative Labs finally ceased to be relevant the day they bought Ensoniq. It's one thing to absorb competitors and their IP, it's another to buy a ghetto clone maker to acquire their SB emulation software in order to emulate your own hardware because the official product can't even do it right .
Thankfully, on-board sound solutions have reached a point where they sound pretty darn good, and many now have digital coax and/or optical outputs, making the Sound Blaster largely redundant. The one thing they don't support is EAX, but many games have shifted away from the evils of Creative and rolled out 3rd party sound processing libs.
For me, it's very simple: I use the onboard sound for general usage and gaming, and I have a pro sound card for professional audio work. It works well because the pro card sucks at gaming, and the onboard chip sucks at recording, but together they're much more dependable and better-supported than any software-crippled travesty to ever bear the Creative label.
Yep, SCART beats the pants off of our crappy American connections, and it's been around since the 70's. While it can't compete with modern HD component (YPbPr), it's still way cleaner and more accurate than S-Video with little artifacting. Plus it's relatively easy to mod a SCART output into VGA, to hook up those old game consoles to a computer display.
The problem with any "bad" job is people continue to work there.
If call centers suck so bad, why do people take the jobs ? You're encouraging the abuse by enabling these bureaucratic slave drivers. I don't know of anyone who likes call centers, not as an employee, not as a victim either. The only people who like them are the so-called "clients", the ones whose products are being sold or supported, because not only is it cheap, but it also cuts maintenance costs thanks to the many people who would rather buy a new thingamajig than have to deal with retarded call center queues all afternoon.
One thing is consistent: there are always companies looking to hire, in fact many of them complain that it's so hard to find good people. I know why: they're all pissing their life away in a call center for peanuts, while the good jobs go unfilled. If you've got the social skills, patience and computer smarts to survive a call center job, those same skills could be applied in just about any other office environment for less stress and maybe even more money.
Shit, I know a lot of people sitting in cushy government jobs who barely have two brain cells to rub together. They wouldn't last a day working for a telemarketer, yet they're making four times as much money for a quarter of the effort. Full benefits, too!
There's always someone yapping about FPGA, but the truth is I have yet to see an FPGA used in a production environment. They're great for prototyping, but how about real-time reconfigurable devices outside the lab ? Surely there must be tasks where such a thing would be beneficial, as an alternative to GPGPU-type stuff.
Truth.
Actually it would be so much easier if we just had more than 4 slots. I don't want to be stuck in "server land" and their smorgasbord of crap boards, just for the privilege of running a high memory PC.
They're all afraid this thing will prove, once and for all, that there is no god.
(sorry, been hanging around 4chan too much)
Fuck China.
Oh, sorry! Did I offend anyone ? I didn't say fuck the Chinese. As wrong as it feels to my libertarian gut, a part of me wants to reach in there and shake people until they revolt against their abusive government. How many gazillion chinese people are there ? Surely enough to overthrow the system and actually enjoy all the money they've earned by producing the rest of the world's retail goods. Freedom, competition, tolerance for all.