They haven't recalled the P4, yet.... They did recall the P3 1.13 Ghz though, and HP recalled a few of their PCs with P4s in them, due to a corrupted bios....
If I'm not mistaken, AIWA makes a very nice car CD/MP3 player, I saw it in circuit city a while ago, I haven't heard much about it since then, but you might want to look into it, although a p120 is a much cooler mp3 player than the AIWA, IMO... just dont use it while driving....
Actually you can upgrade the HD, as it is only a standard 2.5" notebook HD. Tom's hardware has instructions on how to do this here. You can upgrade to any size of notbook HD, but there are certain problems, depending on how many mp3's you have, mainly the boot time gets higher and higher the more mp3. 20 GB of mp3 will likely make for a 2-3 minute boot time, which IMHO, sucks arse...
...on t13's website, its a presentation on CPRM. They say quite a few interesting things, like on page 3, they mention that its all about the license and not about the crypto. It seems these people will never get it... This whole thing seems like another CSS waiting to happen. BTW, they say that this is only for DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-A, and a few other formats. It seems as though this is meant to keep the EI off the DVD-R makers, nothing more. I imagine that it will be fairly useless tech, but highly enforcible under the shitty ass DMCA. I can't wait until that POS gets before the supreme court...
Well, no company has yet adopted the spec, and t hasnt even been approved by the standards body. IBM seems as if they will be the first. You can contact IBM's storage dept. here, and you can find t13's website here, where you can email the members, or even join by yourself, if you wish. The docs on CPRM arehere, here, and here, and you can see all the documents from the future spec here. Who says we have no say?
It does seem as though this will increase the latency, since every read must be checked beforehand. I have not read the spec in full yet though, so I'm not sure exactly how much.
I don't think that these plans would be feasible at all, since it would most likely involve everyone buying new cds and cd players, which is something I don't see happening anytime soon, at least in the US. I have a post somewhere in this thread that is a litle longer than this one, but i have no time to find it...
Sure, this will mean that all those MP3's you've been downloading off the web might have some trouble residing on one of these "new" ATA devices, but someone please explain how one of these devices would possibly impact a user who simply doesn't make use of copy-protected data?
This would imply that people actually started downloading Mp3 from the content providers, instead of napster. How many people do you know on napster that will encode their mp3 with this shit? Not many I presume, but the EI don't quite understand that they do not have control over distribution anymore, so it is quite impossible for them to have control over copying.
I don't think these HDs will do anything, as no one uses protected content as it is. I dont know one person who downloads any protected content, so ultimately this is moot, unless they start using this on CDs, which would kill basicly every CD player on the market, and I don't think the market is quite ready for a new audio format yet, and it wont be for quite a while, at least if the US. CDs will be the main format for some time in the US, as the only bonus to DVD-A is the surround sound capabilities, which are only useful for movies and games, IMHO. I really see no significant use for surround sound in music, so it seems that CD's will be here for quite a while.
this would be a lot harder to crack, as it is all in firmware ROM. But of course, there are hacked firmwares for lots of CD-RWs and I imagine it won't take too long to see hacked firmware for these harddrives.
But really, I don't see cracking it as the end of this, I see it going one of two other ways: a.)The standards body realizes this is an insanely stupid idea, and will most likely fragment the standard, hence destroying the whole reason the standards body was created. b.)The software makers ignore it and don't develop any approved apps for it. This would make the whole thing moot, as these hard drives would have an extra feature that would never be used. Eventually HD makers would realize this, and stop paying the licensing for this hideous technology. It's only a couple of cents, but that makes a whole lot of difference when your shipping millions of units.
Maxtor is actually bigger than seagate. If maxtor and seagate both say no, which seems likely considering the stupidity of this, then the only one left is IBM...
BTW, does anyone know what software maker in their right mind would use this. I know windows won't ever be able to us this, or any other OS that uses virtual memory, and disk swapping. Which, is basicly all of them, last time I checked....
I personally think the whole stucture of high school should be heavily modified, if not done away with. I would like to see high school be more like college, more free, more time to do your own learning rather than the forcefeeding that occurs in schools today. Kids in school (myself included) have almost no freedoms as it is today.
Well, it is their equipment and their bandwidth. If they have something in the TOS about limiting access to certain things, then I see no reason why it would be wrong to do so. He says that most people didn't know and were fairly pissed off though, and in that case I think it would be wrong, as they most likely thought that they were paying for unlimited access, therefore they werent recieving the service they had paid for...
I would like a desktop GUI that is similar to the soon to be released (hopefully) game, Black and White. After seeing this inteface demoed recently, I have to say, It would be damn cool to have a GUI like that. You could download new themes that were whole new maps of some cool fantasy land, and stick your icons in it wherever you want. Then when you want to run one of your programs, you just click on the ground around you, and move around the area. You get to the icon you want you double click it, and it zooms in on the face of the icon, which would then load the app itself. There would be a minimize button(zoom back out), and a close button(obviously stops the program). The viewer would have control of rotating the camera, but the movement would occur automaticly, when you click something in the world.
Anyway there are lots of cool things that could be done to GUIs, but it really makes little difference in the great scheme of things, does it?
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Well, today most video cards use on-board T&L, which means that the CPU is doing jack shit graphics wise, more or less. There is a thing called 2d acceleration though, and most OSes use this for their GUIs.
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You can already do lots of true 3d gui stuff. I remember seeing a shell replacement for windows that made your desktop 3d, ie. you can move the icons around in 3d, so you have more space. personally, I don't have icons on my desktop, so I dont need that, put its still cool... I really don't know what the perfect interface will be. I, personaly, am waiting for the day when I can plug my brain right into my PC, and download. Just hope I don't get a trojan. heh Maybe we'll see a new defense in courts pop up. Instead of not guilty by reason of insanity, itll be not guilty by reason of trojans. Well, thats what you get for running windows on your brain I guess...
I enjoy Be's desktop quite much as well. I like Enlightenment too, but its still not fast enough for my tastes...
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Actually the graphics seem like they could be done on a system today with a mid-range vid card (geforce2 MX), and its basicly just a 3d representation on a 2d GUI anyway, so it shouldnt be too difficult to learn. I really see no point, but it looks damn good.
It is 3d, look closely at thie sides of the menus and apps, they are polygon based 3d renders. I don't really see a huge usability point here, but they have some neat ideas, and besides, it looks great...
He was a corporal in WWI actually... I don't know how high his rank actually got before being discharged.. The rest is basicly right, except you left out the whole beer hall mini-wannabe-revolution thing. My theory: Hitler couldnt handle his liqour, and the bartender (who was a jew) refused to give him another beer. We all know how touchy germans can get about their beer.
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I agree with most of what you're saying, although nazis think the aryan people are superior, not whit people in general. The aryan (germanic, but not german) people are generally defined as scandinavians, which is where the whole blonde hair/blues eyes myth came from. I think it's a bit stupid to want a single race anyways, at least if your agree with natural selection. If there were only one race then there would be no races anymore, as the first major plague would've wiped us all out. I'm not one of those people who think that all races are EXACTLY the same, if we were, this world would be really fucking boring. Some races are just better at certain things than others, and it will always be that way. Africans are great runners and atheletes, asians are good at math, and white people just seem to have the ability to live in almost an climate... I know that sounds a bit sterotypical, but sometimes sterotypes can be true...
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They haven't recalled the P4, yet.... They did recall the P3 1.13 Ghz though, and HP recalled a few of their PCs with P4s in them, due to a corrupted bios....
If I'm not mistaken, AIWA makes a very nice car CD/MP3 player, I saw it in circuit city a while ago, I haven't heard much about it since then, but you might want to look into it, although a p120 is a much cooler mp3 player than the AIWA, IMO... just dont use it while driving....
Actually you can upgrade the HD, as it is only a standard 2.5" notebook HD. Tom's hardware has instructions on how to do this here. You can upgrade to any size of notbook HD, but there are certain problems, depending on how many mp3's you have, mainly the boot time gets higher and higher the more mp3. 20 GB of mp3 will likely make for a 2-3 minute boot time, which IMHO, sucks arse...
...on t13's website, its a presentation on CPRM. They say quite a few interesting things, like on page 3, they mention that its all about the license and not about the crypto. It seems these people will never get it... This whole thing seems like another CSS waiting to happen. BTW, they say that this is only for DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-A, and a few other formats. It seems as though this is meant to keep the EI off the DVD-R makers, nothing more. I imagine that it will be fairly useless tech, but highly enforcible under the shitty ass DMCA. I can't wait until that POS gets before the supreme court...
the last link for the CPRM docs is actually here. sorry for the mishap, I was in a bit of a rush though...
Well, no company has yet adopted the spec, and t hasnt even been approved by the standards body. IBM seems as if they will be the first. You can contact IBM's storage dept. here, and you can find t13's website here, where you can email the members, or even join by yourself, if you wish. The docs on CPRM arehere, here, and here, and you can see all the documents from the future spec here. Who says we have no say?
It does seem as though this will increase the latency, since every read must be checked beforehand. I have not read the spec in full yet though, so I'm not sure exactly how much.
I don't think that these plans would be feasible at all, since it would most likely involve everyone buying new cds and cd players, which is something I don't see happening anytime soon, at least in the US. I have a post somewhere in this thread that is a litle longer than this one, but i have no time to find it...
Sure, this will mean that all those MP3's you've been downloading off the web might have some trouble residing on one of these "new" ATA devices, but someone please explain how one of these devices would possibly impact a user who simply doesn't make use of copy-protected data?
This would imply that people actually started downloading Mp3 from the content providers, instead of napster. How many people do you know on napster that will encode their mp3 with this shit? Not many I presume, but the EI don't quite understand that they do not have control over distribution anymore, so it is quite impossible for them to have control over copying. I don't think these HDs will do anything, as no one uses protected content as it is. I dont know one person who downloads any protected content, so ultimately this is moot, unless they start using this on CDs, which would kill basicly every CD player on the market, and I don't think the market is quite ready for a new audio format yet, and it wont be for quite a while, at least if the US. CDs will be the main format for some time in the US, as the only bonus to DVD-A is the surround sound capabilities, which are only useful for movies and games, IMHO. I really see no significant use for surround sound in music, so it seems that CD's will be here for quite a while.
This thread is now dead, according to godwin's law... hehehe :)
this would be a lot harder to crack, as it is all in firmware ROM. But of course, there are hacked firmwares for lots of CD-RWs and I imagine it won't take too long to see hacked firmware for these harddrives.
But really, I don't see cracking it as the end of this, I see it going one of two other ways:
a.)The standards body realizes this is an insanely stupid idea, and will most likely fragment the standard, hence destroying the whole reason the standards body was created.
b.)The software makers ignore it and don't develop any approved apps for it. This would make the whole thing moot, as these hard drives would have an extra feature that would never be used. Eventually HD makers would realize this, and stop paying the licensing for this hideous technology. It's only a couple of cents, but that makes a whole lot of difference when your shipping millions of units.
Maxtor is actually bigger than seagate. If maxtor and seagate both say no, which seems likely considering the stupidity of this, then the only one left is IBM...
BTW, does anyone know what software maker in their right mind would use this. I know windows won't ever be able to us this, or any other OS that uses virtual memory, and disk swapping. Which, is basicly all of them, last time I checked....
I think this subject is getting horridly stale.
I personally think the whole stucture of high school should be heavily modified, if not done away with. I would like to see high school be more like college, more free, more time to do your own learning rather than the forcefeeding that occurs in schools today. Kids in school (myself included) have almost no freedoms as it is today.
Well, it is their equipment and their bandwidth. If they have something in the TOS about limiting access to certain things, then I see no reason why it would be wrong to do so. He says that most people didn't know and were fairly pissed off though, and in that case I think it would be wrong, as they most likely thought that they were paying for unlimited access, therefore they werent recieving the service they had paid for...
I would like a desktop GUI that is similar to the soon to be released (hopefully) game, Black and White. After seeing this inteface demoed recently, I have to say, It would be damn cool to have a GUI like that. You could download new themes that were whole new maps of some cool fantasy land, and stick your icons in it wherever you want. Then when you want to run one of your programs, you just click on the ground around you, and move around the area. You get to the icon you want you double click it, and it zooms in on the face of the icon, which would then load the app itself. There would be a minimize button(zoom back out), and a close button(obviously stops the program). The viewer would have control of rotating the camera, but the movement would occur automaticly, when you click something in the world.
Anyway there are lots of cool things that could be done to GUIs, but it really makes little difference in the great scheme of things, does it?
Well, today most video cards use on-board T&L, which means that the CPU is doing jack shit graphics wise, more or less. There is a thing called 2d acceleration though, and most OSes use this for their GUIs.
You can already do lots of true 3d gui stuff. I remember seeing a shell replacement for windows that made your desktop 3d, ie. you can move the icons around in 3d, so you have more space. personally, I don't have icons on my desktop, so I dont need that, put its still cool... I really don't know what the perfect interface will be. I, personaly, am waiting for the day when I can plug my brain right into my PC, and download. Just hope I don't get a trojan. heh Maybe we'll see a new defense in courts pop up. Instead of not guilty by reason of insanity, itll be not guilty by reason of trojans. Well, thats what you get for running windows on your brain I guess...
I enjoy Be's desktop quite much as well. I like Enlightenment too, but its still not fast enough for my tastes...
Actually the graphics seem like they could be done on a system today with a mid-range vid card (geforce2 MX), and its basicly just a 3d representation on a 2d GUI anyway, so it shouldnt be too difficult to learn. I really see no point, but it looks damn good.
It is 3d, look closely at thie sides of the menus and apps, they are polygon based 3d renders. I don't really see a huge usability point here, but they have some neat ideas, and besides, it looks great...
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He was a corporal in WWI actually... I don't know how high his rank actually got before being discharged.. The rest is basicly right, except you left out the whole beer hall mini-wannabe-revolution thing. My theory: Hitler couldnt handle his liqour, and the bartender (who was a jew) refused to give him another beer. We all know how touchy germans can get about their beer.
I agree with most of what you're saying, although nazis think the aryan people are superior, not whit people in general. The aryan (germanic, but not german) people are generally defined as scandinavians, which is where the whole blonde hair/blues eyes myth came from. I think it's a bit stupid to want a single race anyways, at least if your agree with natural selection. If there were only one race then there would be no races anymore, as the first major plague would've wiped us all out. I'm not one of those people who think that all races are EXACTLY the same, if we were, this world would be really fucking boring. Some races are just better at certain things than others, and it will always be that way. Africans are great runners and atheletes, asians are good at math, and white people just seem to have the ability to live in almost an climate... I know that sounds a bit sterotypical, but sometimes sterotypes can be true...
Damn nazis, using 28k connections and disabling downloads...
wait a second, I think all the nazis are already using gnutella...
damn, how do I make a gravity-bong with no gravity? Theres something that merits a bit of research..
everyone knows that pizza is the best thing to eat with beer...