I think the article means DVD-Audio when it says DVD.
If I remember correctly, didn't the owner of the CD trademark/patent threaten to label DRM'd CD's as not being CD's b/c they didnt' conform to the standards? Should that not happen with DVD's?
Philips owned the CD format for the most part. Apart from the initial hoopla, I don't remember anything happening with that threat.
The DVD format is owned by a forum of hardware, software and content producers, such as Pioneer, Toshiba, Warner Brothers and so on. I think Microsoft is in it too.
These wavelengths aren't so great for reliable transmissions. They tend to come in and go out depending on the weather, time of day, solar activity and every other variable. Sometimes nearer transmitters get lost but nuch more distant ones can be tuned in.
I suppose if you had a reciever and a transmitter, with a lot of bands open, and can "hunt" bands, it might work but those are big ifs. You'll be able to transfer data, but my guess is that bandwidth and latency are still big issues, but still secondary to connection reliability.
I would suggest that Jogs is an arrogant prick, whether or not I agree with his opinion on something at any given instance. It's the way he presents himself and how he interacts with others.
In my opinion, there are ways of demanding excellence and accountability without being an ass, and Jobs simply isn't using them.
To be fair, both the pro- and anti-American sentiments get pretty d@mn jingoistic. I know both groups have their reasons but the stands they take can easily reach absurd levels.
You are right, but I think you overstate Microsoft's fault. I'm not saying MS writes the best code either but they are improving and that drivers that are included with hardware is improving too. I think it helps to get away from the ISA bus. In your specialized applications, I can see it being even better when unneeded components are left out and you are running a very limited and highly tested set of software.
For me, the only thing that took down the NT4 OS was bad or incorrect graphics drivers, maybe a problem with the SCSI chain somewhere along the way too. But that was with an Alpha, which might be considered specialized, but I suppose my Dad's computer has been doing pretty darn well since I put NT4 on his AMD, only with power line problems does it really get shut down.
Your link to "Myth of Radio Spectrum Interferance" shows that you didn't even read the +5 comments on it. Radio Interferance happens and there's no good or easy way around that unlike what the original story insists. The story linked from Slashdot looked to me to be more or less someone that claims to be knowledgable enough to affirm that it's possible but casn't bothered to prove it. That person simply implies conspiracies in business and government.
Boosting the range of devices for larger distances would require a change in FCC rules, and my bet is that it won't fly.
If you want a 2MB cache, you could scout some PIII Xeons, I think they were availble up to 1.2 GHz speeds, I'm not sure.
I'm pretty happy with my dual 500MHz Xeon. It's a touch slow on video encoding and games but I'm only using 512k cache CPU modules. My machine appears to have a dual memory bus, I think that improves performance too. What is in the system depends on who made it and such. Compaq even made their own chipset for their PIII Xeons and it's the most reliable x86 system I've ever owned.
Even with only 1 CPU it slaughtered my systems that had 500MHz K6 chips, but that was even when the K6 system had a larger cache, the overall system was simply better designed.
I don't think you'd be able to find one in a mobile platform though, if mobile is what you want.
Maybe it's a little different. "Back then" in your story, women couldn't vote, which means that their interests weren't considered politically.
"Right now", hispanics vote quite a bit less per capita than any other people group. It's quite a concern when the largest minority race effectively puts themselves behind others in terms of political influence.
Now tell me why DRM is a good idea and explain how it will never be misused or abused.
Depends, are there any devil's advocates on slashdot? Otherwise you are preaching to the choir. Meaning that I definitely agree with your stance.
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You do have a point.
I know that Sprint has their "vision" service which is Internet over cell phone, I've read it's equivalent to 2.5G, whatever that means. It is an extra $10 a month.
The problem is that I don't want to read email or web surf on a 100x100 pixel screen. The downloads they direct you to are for ~100x100 pixel backgrounds, and they charge $3 for that small image that expires in 60-90 days. Ditto for ring tones and animations. It's all worthless crap, which I can't even sample it to see if I'll like it before I buy. Would you pay for a picture if you have no clue what it looks like?
I suppose when 3-in-one products are more available and affordable, I might go for Internet on a PDA/phone/camera, because it might be more useful that way if I can send and receive pictures and surf the web on a much higher res screen.
I see it not as a taxation issue but a jurisdiction issue.
In this case, the problem is that the countries in question, IMO, completely lack jurisdiction to require the selling company to collect taxes for selling to a citizen of a country when the seller doesn't even have physical property in that country.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe eBay and the businesses have servers and offices in every country of the E.U.
I would liken it to my state requiring a company located in Sweden to charge my state's sales tax on something I might buy from Sweden. It's pretty damn unfair for the company when the company simply isn't under my state's jurisdiction.
If this passes, then your activities fall not just under the jurisdiction of your own country, but in every country in which you have contact with or every country which people can visit your web server. So if you post a picture that is considered obscene in some other country, regardless of where the server is, or where you are, then you could be extradited to that country to face penalties. Not exactly a good precedent, is it?
My suspicion is that this is also the reason why the EU wants to add this tax: It is a way to force citizens to buy stuff from the EU instead, thus supporting the local industry.
I would be almost certain. This is the reason most of the US states are trying to collect on internet transactions that happen in other US states. Legally, the only transactions that can be taxed are those with customers that are in states that the business has a "presence" in, meaning a building. Citizens are often technically required to pay a use tax but often don't, which is why US states tried to get businesses to do their collection dirty work.
It's often another try to even the playing field for retailers, and always another try to collect money.
I think it is a question of ethics. Maybe ethics is a thing of yesteryear to Slashdotters but a known unethical security company isn't exactly a thing to brush off. If unchecked, it will eventually rear its ugly head, much like the accounting ethics from the dot-com era.
I can understand uncorrectable errors cropping up, but how does jitter affect the CD rip? When ripping, jitter itself doesn't matter jack unless you are actually loosing or shuffing bits.
I don't see how it is so beneficial, particularly in the cases that it is tantamount to false advertising.
In many cases, companies repeatedly make claims about what their XYZ product _will_ do, and when it ships, the product doesn't do half of what they claimed, often without comment or explaination.
No. I'm sick of people insisting that someone wasn't paid for their time then somehow they should be immune from criticism from whatever they do with that time. It's idiotic.
That depends, really. On one hand, I don't think people's hobbies should be subject to quick criticism and judgementalism, as your statement could easily be construed. In ESR's case, the offense is egotism, not the fact that he spends his "free" time promoting it.
Also, supporting USB2 makes sense so that it doesn't look like you are lagging technologically, and I don't think a USB 2 host chip costs much more to make than a USB 1 chip.
Also, Firewire devices can be connected to each other without a host computer, such as an HDTV tuner connects to a recording device using Firewire without a computer. USB devices require a host computer and OS. Intel and Microsoft seem to like USB because of this fact.
Nobody cares about these people, because they can't afford to donate to political campaigns.
Campaign money is very nice to have, but you need votes to get into and stay in office. Money is helpful in that regard, but I've seen several capaigns where the biggest spender still hit last place.
Last I read, senior citizens are the #1 voter bloc. Piss them off and you probably ain't getting into office.
I know a lot of people that refuse to pay for TV. It's not that they can't afford it, they'd much rather use the money for something else. I am one of them.
Others refuse to pay for crap too, but don't mind free crap. Cable channels seem a lot more ad heavy too with more annoying ads, so the thought paying for more ads is just horrible to me.
It seems that too many people think that cable/satellite is a given. It is pretty d@mn arrogant to assume this.
Maybe the world would be better off without TV, but I don't think it is a good idea to force a bigger divide between people anyway.
The curving screen technology will almost certainly be available with the advent of OLED screens - perhaps even with semi-flexible, adjustable curvature.
I've seen ads for them a year ago. They are projection screens intended for CRT type projector. Supposedly they have adjustments that work well to make things look right on a curved screen. CRT projectors are great for high projected resolutions (1920x1080 possible on 9" tubes), but not so great on cost or brightness.
I would think it would be easy to check the versioning system to see when they popped into the kernel. I will admit that I don't know what versioning Linux uses.
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I think the article means DVD-Audio when it says DVD.
If I remember correctly, didn't the owner of the CD trademark/patent threaten to label DRM'd CD's as not being CD's b/c they didnt' conform to the standards? Should that not happen with DVD's?
Philips owned the CD format for the most part. Apart from the initial hoopla, I don't remember anything happening with that threat.
The DVD format is owned by a forum of hardware, software and content producers, such as Pioneer, Toshiba, Warner Brothers and so on. I think Microsoft is in it too.
You make great points.
I do believe that SCO's threats should just be ignored, every story is practically redundant: "SCO makes a bigger buffoon of themselves".
These wavelengths aren't so great for reliable transmissions. They tend to come in and go out depending on the weather, time of day, solar activity and every other variable. Sometimes nearer transmitters get lost but nuch more distant ones can be tuned in.
I suppose if you had a reciever and a transmitter, with a lot of bands open, and can "hunt" bands, it might work but those are big ifs. You'll be able to transfer data, but my guess is that bandwidth and latency are still big issues, but still secondary to connection reliability.
I dunno.
I would suggest that Jogs is an arrogant prick, whether or not I agree with his opinion on something at any given instance. It's the way he presents himself and how he interacts with others.
In my opinion, there are ways of demanding excellence and accountability without being an ass, and Jobs simply isn't using them.
To be fair, both the pro- and anti-American sentiments get pretty d@mn jingoistic. I know both groups have their reasons but the stands they take can easily reach absurd levels.
...if you crossed the wrong wires, the airbag will deploy in your face. The risk is real.
You are right, but I think you overstate Microsoft's fault. I'm not saying MS writes the best code either but they are improving and that drivers that are included with hardware is improving too. I think it helps to get away from the ISA bus. In your specialized applications, I can see it being even better when unneeded components are left out and you are running a very limited and highly tested set of software.
For me, the only thing that took down the NT4 OS was bad or incorrect graphics drivers, maybe a problem with the SCSI chain somewhere along the way too. But that was with an Alpha, which might be considered specialized, but I suppose my Dad's computer has been doing pretty darn well since I put NT4 on his AMD, only with power line problems does it really get shut down.
Your link to "Myth of Radio Spectrum Interferance" shows that you didn't even read the +5 comments on it. Radio Interferance happens and there's no good or easy way around that unlike what the original story insists. The story linked from Slashdot looked to me to be more or less someone that claims to be knowledgable enough to affirm that it's possible but casn't bothered to prove it. That person simply implies conspiracies in business and government.
Boosting the range of devices for larger distances would require a change in FCC rules, and my bet is that it won't fly.
If you want a 2MB cache, you could scout some PIII Xeons, I think they were availble up to 1.2 GHz speeds, I'm not sure.
I'm pretty happy with my dual 500MHz Xeon. It's a touch slow on video encoding and games but I'm only using 512k cache CPU modules. My machine appears to have a dual memory bus, I think that improves performance too. What is in the system depends on who made it and such. Compaq even made their own chipset for their PIII Xeons and it's the most reliable x86 system I've ever owned.
Even with only 1 CPU it slaughtered my systems that had 500MHz K6 chips, but that was even when the K6 system had a larger cache, the overall system was simply better designed.
I don't think you'd be able to find one in a mobile platform though, if mobile is what you want.
Maybe it's a little different. "Back then" in your story, women couldn't vote, which means that their interests weren't considered politically.
"Right now", hispanics vote quite a bit less per capita than any other people group. It's quite a concern when the largest minority race effectively puts themselves behind others in terms of political influence.
Now tell me why DRM is a good idea and explain how it will never be misused or abused.
Depends, are there any devil's advocates on slashdot? Otherwise you are preaching to the choir. Meaning that I definitely agree with your stance.
You do have a point.
I know that Sprint has their "vision" service which is Internet over cell phone, I've read it's equivalent to 2.5G, whatever that means. It is an extra $10 a month.
The problem is that I don't want to read email or web surf on a 100x100 pixel screen. The downloads they direct you to are for ~100x100 pixel backgrounds, and they charge $3 for that small image that expires in 60-90 days. Ditto for ring tones and animations. It's all worthless crap, which I can't even sample it to see if I'll like it before I buy. Would you pay for a picture if you have no clue what it looks like?
I suppose when 3-in-one products are more available and affordable, I might go for Internet on a PDA/phone/camera, because it might be more useful that way if I can send and receive pictures and surf the web on a much higher res screen.
I see it not as a taxation issue but a jurisdiction issue.
In this case, the problem is that the countries in question, IMO, completely lack jurisdiction to require the selling company to collect taxes for selling to a citizen of a country when the seller doesn't even have physical property in that country.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe eBay and the businesses have servers and offices in every country of the E.U.
I would liken it to my state requiring a company located in Sweden to charge my state's sales tax on something I might buy from Sweden. It's pretty damn unfair for the company when the company simply isn't under my state's jurisdiction.
If this passes, then your activities fall not just under the jurisdiction of your own country, but in every country in which you have contact with or every country which people can visit your web server. So if you post a picture that is considered obscene in some other country, regardless of where the server is, or where you are, then you could be extradited to that country to face penalties. Not exactly a good precedent, is it?
My suspicion is that this is also the reason why the EU wants to add this tax: It is a way to force citizens to buy stuff from the EU instead, thus supporting the local industry.
I would be almost certain. This is the reason most of the US states are trying to collect on internet transactions that happen in other US states. Legally, the only transactions that can be taxed are those with customers that are in states that the business has a "presence" in, meaning a building. Citizens are often technically required to pay a use tax but often don't, which is why US states tried to get businesses to do their collection dirty work.
It's often another try to even the playing field for retailers, and always another try to collect money.
I think it is a question of ethics. Maybe ethics is a thing of yesteryear to Slashdotters but a known unethical security company isn't exactly a thing to brush off. If unchecked, it will eventually rear its ugly head, much like the accounting ethics from the dot-com era.
I can understand uncorrectable errors cropping up, but how does jitter affect the CD rip? When ripping, jitter itself doesn't matter jack unless you are actually loosing or shuffing bits.
I don't see how it is so beneficial, particularly in the cases that it is tantamount to false advertising.
In many cases, companies repeatedly make claims about what their XYZ product _will_ do, and when it ships, the product doesn't do half of what they claimed, often without comment or explaination.
To be honest, I had never thought that people would market still-living things over the Internet and ship them using standard package carriers.
No. I'm sick of people insisting that someone wasn't paid for their time then somehow they should be immune from criticism from whatever they do with that time. It's idiotic.
That depends, really. On one hand, I don't think people's hobbies should be subject to quick criticism and judgementalism, as your statement could easily be construed. In ESR's case, the offense is egotism, not the fact that he spends his "free" time promoting it.
Also, supporting USB2 makes sense so that it doesn't look like you are lagging technologically, and I don't think a USB 2 host chip costs much more to make than a USB 1 chip.
Also, Firewire devices can be connected to each other without a host computer, such as an HDTV tuner connects to a recording device using Firewire without a computer. USB devices require a host computer and OS. Intel and Microsoft seem to like USB because of this fact.
Nobody cares about these people, because they can't afford to donate to political campaigns.
Campaign money is very nice to have, but you need votes to get into and stay in office. Money is helpful in that regard, but I've seen several capaigns where the biggest spender still hit last place.
Last I read, senior citizens are the #1 voter bloc. Piss them off and you probably ain't getting into office.
I know a lot of people that refuse to pay for TV. It's not that they can't afford it, they'd much rather use the money for something else. I am one of them.
Others refuse to pay for crap too, but don't mind free crap. Cable channels seem a lot more ad heavy too with more annoying ads, so the thought paying for more ads is just horrible to me.
It seems that too many people think that cable/satellite is a given. It is pretty d@mn arrogant to assume this.
Maybe the world would be better off without TV, but I don't think it is a good idea to force a bigger divide between people anyway.
The curving screen technology will almost certainly be available with the advent of OLED screens - perhaps even with semi-flexible, adjustable curvature.
I've seen ads for them a year ago. They are projection screens intended for CRT type projector. Supposedly they have adjustments that work well to make things look right on a curved screen. CRT projectors are great for high projected resolutions (1920x1080 possible on 9" tubes), but not so great on cost or brightness.
Interesting. I guess I was surprised he got the award for best male role. Eminem always looked pretty girly to me.
I would think it would be easy to check the versioning system to see when they popped into the kernel. I will admit that I don't know what versioning Linux uses.