ETSU actually doesn't technically "Block" Bittorrent packets. It uses a Packateer to "traffic shape" and assigns a rediculously low priority to bittorrent(we are talking 1-2k/s when it doesn't just drop them completely. SMTP is actaully blocked though, the bastards...
With the amount of bittorrent traffic that can be generated at a University, traffic shaping isn't really much different then blocking.
All modern DVD burners have burn overrun protection
I've never seen a DVD burner without buffer underrun protection, but whenever I've ever burned something to fast and actually made use of that protection the DVD that it makes is either really picky about what drives it will work in or it will be a coaster. I've noticed the same thing with CDRs/CDRWs.
Buffer underrun is nice, but it definately has serious drawbacks.
Some of us still need the ISO farm. ETSU blocks bittorrent in their dorms and I imagine a lot of other schools do to. ETSU is just stupid about what they block from the dorms though recently. You can't even access the campus SMTP server from the dorms now!!! and they don't plan on ever changing it so students can....
The Xbox2 will sell(even with a retarded name like "Xbox Next"), but I think the guy is on crack(or paid off) if he thinks they will move 3 million of them that quickly. I'll bet they haven't even manufacture 3 million Xbox2s within 3 months of launch.
How would the PSP hurt them? One reason I believe Nintendo is still in the console game is because of the gameboy. I'd think the PSP would have a similar effect on PS3 sales that the iPod has on Mac sales.
Sorry, not trying to flame you, I just don't see the PSP as anything but postive for Sony.
You couldn't run the car completely off the solar panel, but you should be able to go considerably further on a sunny day. Solar panels on a Prius should pay for themselves pretty quickly.
If I was in the market for an eBook reader I'd just wait for a Librie competitor. The Librie is currently Japanese only and pricey, but far and away the best technology.
What would make sense to me is mount some decent solar panels on a Prius, I haven't seen anyone do this yet.
Solar panel efficiency is pretty crappy(15% for reasonably priced panels), but with solar you could use it while driving, getting rid of the horridly inefficient battery charging.
Wiring a solar panel in to the prius so that it used it while driving would be tricky though.
I'm frankly surprised people would sink that kind of cash into any handheld electronic with smash potential
Part of the reason I have a DS is because it is pretty hard to smash. It does have a hinge, but the hinge is rather bulky and seems like it would be hard to break. I imagine the sturdiness of the DS will be a factor in a lot of it's sales.
The winner of the handhelds could easily be decided if Sony or Nintendo have the perfect tie-in with their new consoles. If the PS3 has TIVO functionality and a PSP cradle that syncs shows that were recorded while charging the PSP, then we would have a clear winner.
The DS could make an amazing remote for a Nintendo TIVO though...
TiVo comes prepackaged with a million subscribers, partnerships with cable and satellite providers, lots of patents and other IP, engineering expertise, brand name recognition, supply channels and marketing, etc.
TIVO also comes with a lot of baggage, buying TIVO would only be a faster way of getting into the PVR buiness if they didn't change the TIVO much. TIVO has an incredible amount of different systems out there, trying to add a feature a large percent of them would be REALLY hard.
TIVO Desktop for the Mac currently lets you play MP3s(but not AACs) from iTunes via your Mac. They could spruce this up a bit, but I don't think that's going to make TIVO profitable again.
How would this give Apple anything but TIVO's name and set-top box? Unless Apple wants to get into making set-top boxes I don't see why they would do this. If the PS3 and XBox2 incorporate PVRs in them I don't see how TIVO will survive.
Elgato sells a whole slew of PVR thingys for the Mac, and they all use hardware encoding.
from the article: "Along with a 5× DVD drive for game loading and video playback, initial versions included an 8-Gbyte hard drive to improve startup time. Microsoft has since removed that drive to lower system costs."
I think they meant to say that Microsoft has stopped using the 5x DVD drives in new Xboxs, not that they have removed the hard disk. Xboxs have shipped with 2x(Thompson,Philips) and 5x(Samsung) DVD ROMs. The Samsung Drives read burned disks while you are lucky if the others read any disks at all. Most XBox hacks require you to be able to read a burned disk, so I imagine that made them change more than the expense of a 5x DVD-ROM. I have a Thompson drive and can't read any burned media(I've tried DVD-R, DVD+RW, CD-R, and CD-RW). Luckily you don't HAVE to be able to read burned disks to install any of the hacks on your Xbox.
What good does voting in America do? Democrats are corrupt, Republicans are corrupt, and everyone else is ignored. I voted for Badnarik in the last election.
The government is forcing them to redesign their perfectly good cards to make them less atractive to consumers. The cards they have already made will continue to work and people with these older cards will be able to record shows and will not be affected by the flag.
Sooo, profits go WAY down temporarily, as they have to redesign($$) their cards AND people aren't buying the new cards until stock of the older cards is gone. The newer cards won't sell as well once the old cards are gone anyway because they don't let consumers do what they want.
I imagine most HDTV card makers will accidently leave a simple hack to turn this crap off; of course it would be against the DMCA to use it.
join a party can get your issues on the platform and the money works for you.[sic]
I was with you up until this point. Nobody takes anyone but Democrats and Republicans seriously and they both suck. I think the current political party system is one of biggest problems with America; you can either be disenfranchised or exploited. Democrats and Republicans have a vested intrest in seeing that no other party has a chance in any election.
You have a very good point, I think this law was very poorly thought out. HDTV's broadcast flag is just an extra bit, it is ignored by all current HDTV equipment. You don't even need an HDTV tuner card to recieve HDTV. The folks over at GNU Radio have gotten a programmable radio to recieve HDTV. Does this law say anything about non-HDTV equipment that happens to be able to recieve HDTV signals? If not then why not just sell these HDTV cards as A/D converters.
Apple doesn't limit what cards work in Powerbook mini-PCI slots, the main problem is getting a good OSX Driver for the cheap cards.
Apple doesn't check Vendor IDs with their current Airport driver or even what bus it's connected to. Any Broadcom chipped 802.11g minipci/cardbus/PCI card works with the stock driver and is treated as if it was an Apple Airport card.
You have to be careful looking for broadcom based cards, because the Linksys WPC54G ver 1 is broadcom based, but Linksys switched to some other chipset for the ver 2 WPC54G.
You can buy drivers for some cards; OrangeWare make some, IOExperts makes all kinds of drivers for Macs.
The only new greivence I read in this article is they are now saying Apple sold used computers as new. This would be realllly sleezy, but I'd have to see some proof. The Tell on Apple guys were wronged, but they are also pretty vengeful about it.
It's kind of sad to see these old Mac shops close, but I don't think Apple has done anything wrong with respect to their customers.
Actually QEMU runs on x86, x86_64, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc32, ARM, S390, Sparc64, ia64, and m68k to different degrees. The X86 emulation is the only one completely working, but he PowerPC emulation in QEMU is good enough to boot PowerPC Linux, hopefully soon you will be able to boot OSX on a X86 via QEMU, and hopefully the speed will be at least 1/10th.
Seems pretty low to me, but I've heard of much worse, although I really don't see how they improved by switching. You have to take in to consideration what their tech support does; support ratios alone don't mean anything;
How often are computers replaced? You can no longer easily ghost Windows between different computers.
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ETSU actually doesn't technically "Block" Bittorrent packets. It uses a Packateer to "traffic shape" and assigns a rediculously low priority to bittorrent(we are talking 1-2k/s when it doesn't just drop them completely. SMTP is actaully blocked though, the bastards...
With the amount of bittorrent traffic that can be generated at a University, traffic shaping isn't really much different then blocking.
All modern DVD burners have burn overrun protection
I've never seen a DVD burner without buffer underrun protection, but whenever I've ever burned something to fast and actually made use of that protection the DVD that it makes is either really picky about what drives it will work in or it will be a coaster. I've noticed the same thing with CDRs/CDRWs.
Buffer underrun is nice, but it definately has serious drawbacks.
Some of us still need the ISO farm. ETSU blocks bittorrent in their dorms and I imagine a lot of other schools do to. ETSU is just stupid about what they block from the dorms though recently. You can't even access the campus SMTP server from the dorms now!!! and they don't plan on ever changing it so students can....
The Xbox2 will sell(even with a retarded name like "Xbox Next"), but I think the guy is on crack(or paid off) if he thinks they will move 3 million of them that quickly. I'll bet they haven't even manufacture 3 million Xbox2s within 3 months of launch.
the PSP might hurt them
How would the PSP hurt them? One reason I believe Nintendo is still in the console game is because of the gameboy. I'd think the PSP would have a similar effect on PS3 sales that the iPod has on Mac sales.
Sorry, not trying to flame you, I just don't see the PSP as anything but postive for Sony.
You couldn't run the car completely off the solar panel, but you should be able to go considerably further on a sunny day. Solar panels on a Prius should pay for themselves pretty quickly.
If I was in the market for an eBook reader I'd just wait for a Librie competitor. The Librie is currently Japanese only and pricey, but far and away the best technology.
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If the panels were put in the roof you could use them while driving; no ineffecient battery charging.
What would make sense to me is mount some decent solar panels on a Prius, I haven't seen anyone do this yet.
Solar panel efficiency is pretty crappy(15% for reasonably priced panels), but with solar you could use it while driving, getting rid of the horridly inefficient battery charging.
Wiring a solar panel in to the prius so that it used it while driving would be tricky though.
I'm frankly surprised people would sink that kind of cash into any handheld electronic with smash potential
Part of the reason I have a DS is because it is pretty hard to smash. It does have a hinge, but the hinge is rather bulky and seems like it would be hard to break. I imagine the sturdiness of the DS will be a factor in a lot of it's sales.
The winner of the handhelds could easily be decided if Sony or Nintendo have the perfect tie-in with their new consoles. If the PS3 has TIVO functionality and a PSP cradle that syncs shows that were recorded while charging the PSP, then we would have a clear winner.
The DS could make an amazing remote for a Nintendo TIVO though...
I can't wait for E3
not as much as me!!
TiVo comes prepackaged with a million subscribers, partnerships with cable and satellite providers, lots of patents and other IP, engineering expertise, brand name recognition, supply channels and marketing, etc.
TIVO also comes with a lot of baggage, buying TIVO would only be a faster way of getting into the PVR buiness if they didn't change the TIVO much. TIVO has an incredible amount of different systems out there, trying to add a feature a large percent of them would be REALLY hard.
TIVO Desktop for the Mac currently lets you play MP3s(but not AACs) from iTunes via your Mac. They could spruce this up a bit, but I don't think that's going to make TIVO profitable again.
How would this give Apple anything but TIVO's name and set-top box? Unless Apple wants to get into making set-top boxes I don't see why they would do this. If the PS3 and XBox2 incorporate PVRs in them I don't see how TIVO will survive.
Elgato sells a whole slew of PVR thingys for the Mac, and they all use hardware encoding.
from the article: "Along with a 5× DVD drive for game loading and video playback, initial versions included an 8-Gbyte hard drive to improve startup time. Microsoft has since removed that drive to lower system costs."
I think they meant to say that Microsoft has stopped using the 5x DVD drives in new Xboxs, not that they have removed the hard disk. Xboxs have shipped with 2x(Thompson,Philips) and 5x(Samsung) DVD ROMs. The Samsung Drives read burned disks while you are lucky if the others read any disks at all. Most XBox hacks require you to be able to read a burned disk, so I imagine that made them change more than the expense of a 5x DVD-ROM. I have a Thompson drive and can't read any burned media(I've tried DVD-R, DVD+RW, CD-R, and CD-RW). Luckily you don't HAVE to be able to read burned disks to install any of the hacks on your Xbox.
I haven't heard about this before, but I know it's illegal to listen/watch anything but the state's broadcasts
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What good does voting in America do? Democrats are corrupt, Republicans are corrupt, and everyone else is ignored. I voted for Badnarik in the last election.
The government is forcing them to redesign their perfectly good cards to make them less atractive to consumers. The cards they have already made will continue to work and people with these older cards will be able to record shows and will not be affected by the flag.
Sooo, profits go WAY down temporarily, as they have to redesign($$) their cards AND people aren't buying the new cards until stock of the older cards is gone. The newer cards won't sell as well once the old cards are gone anyway because they don't let consumers do what they want.
I imagine most HDTV card makers will accidently leave a simple hack to turn this crap off; of course it would be against the DMCA to use it.
join a party can get your issues on the platform and the money works for you.[sic]
I was with you up until this point. Nobody takes anyone but Democrats and Republicans seriously and they both suck. I think the current political party system is one of biggest problems with America; you can either be disenfranchised or exploited. Democrats and Republicans have a vested intrest in seeing that no other party has a chance in any election.
You have a very good point, I think this law was very poorly thought out. HDTV's broadcast flag is just an extra bit, it is ignored by all current HDTV equipment. You don't even need an HDTV tuner card to recieve HDTV. The folks over at GNU Radio have gotten a programmable radio to recieve HDTV. Does this law say anything about non-HDTV equipment that happens to be able to recieve HDTV signals? If not then why not just sell these HDTV cards as A/D converters.
Apple doesn't limit what cards work in Powerbook mini-PCI slots, the main problem is getting a good OSX Driver for the cheap cards.
Apple doesn't check Vendor IDs with their current Airport driver or even what bus it's connected to. Any Broadcom chipped 802.11g minipci/cardbus/PCI card works with the stock driver and is treated as if it was an Apple Airport card.
You have to be careful looking for broadcom based cards, because the Linksys WPC54G ver 1 is broadcom based, but Linksys switched to some other chipset for the ver 2 WPC54G.
You can buy drivers for some cards; OrangeWare make some, IOExperts makes all kinds of drivers for Macs.
this one is a class action for consumers
The only new greivence I read in this article is they are now saying Apple sold used computers as new. This would be realllly sleezy, but I'd have to see some proof. The Tell on Apple guys were wronged, but they are also pretty vengeful about it.
It's kind of sad to see these old Mac shops close, but I don't think Apple has done anything wrong with respect to their customers.
Actually QEMU runs on x86, x86_64, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc32, ARM, S390, Sparc64, ia64, and m68k to different degrees. The X86 emulation is the only one completely working, but he PowerPC emulation in QEMU is good enough to boot PowerPC Linux, hopefully soon you will be able to boot OSX on a X86 via QEMU, and hopefully the speed will be at least 1/10th.
do you really want to be locked into Microsoft on the server side?
Getting locked into any application is not a "Good Thing"©. I think companies should start creating exit plans for any piece of software they adopt. Some governments seem to be getting this with the whole open-format file stuff they have been trying to impliment.