digital cameras - 300mW is an insane power drain for a camera, instead of draining the battery to download pics, you could attach it wia USB and charge the battery. see my previous post
printers - 802.11 is the logical way to implement a wireless printer. It's not hard to find a printer with built-in 802.11. You can also find a few portable printers that are USB powered
scanners - a lot of scanners are powered via USB, also if you are going to make it wireless, you probably want to share it, which again would be up 802.11's alley
I can't actually think of anything that WUSB would be more suitable for than USB, Bluetooth, 802.11, or firewire.
My parents are set up with a HP d135 decked out with a 802.11 adapter, this lets them fax,scan, and print via their 802.11 network. HP sells something similar now pretty cheap.
I don't want to have to transfer 1GB+ of high resolution images over a 54Mbit connection.
WUSB wouldn't really be suitable for a camera.
54Mbits is Damn fast, you could send that whole 1gig CF card in 2.52Min. Most Hard-Drives max out at around 200Mbits, and I doubt if many CF drives can read at more than 80Mbits. By the time WUSB is out I imagine a 200+Mbit/s 802.11 standard will be around
If Windows Servers always burned installation CD-Rs(with their license removed) and then flung them miles in random directions, I'd say you probably would have no problem picking up those CDs and using them.
Owning a gene is stupid, once it's in the wild there is no way to control it.
Then you get into the problems when a Linux box fucks a Windows box.
Well, supposedly he only sprayed it on 3 out of his 1030 acres as a "test", these plants were evidently across the road from a neighbor who was growing the GM crops.
Actually, It seems totally illogical to me that he could be sued even if he knew that his fields were contaminated and then used that knowledge. I'd love it if every farmer started suing Monsanto for contaminating their feilds. GM crops are spreading, wiping out their "organic" cousins.
I wonder what will happen when this creep grass gets into a field of Monsato's Round-Up-Ready soy beans/corn/wheat/cotton/conola. That will make for some interesting lawsuits, this grass is the first perennial to get the gene. I can just picture acres of farm land becoming golf-courses when they aren't growing crops.
The biggest problem I see enviromentally is if this plant really is as super as they say, it will take over large areas of land and kill everything else. This happens sometimes when a plant or animal is brought in from another country(i.e. kudzu). More or less what I'm saying is "this could upset the ecological balance, and hurt bio-diversity."
I don't think a better golf game is a good reason to release a super weed (I personally don't like creepgrass).
The other difference is that Monsanto/Scott are litigious bastards, and shouldn't be trusted.
Monsanto/Scott don't have the best track record with GM plants.
I wonder if they started engineering grass because it's easier for their PR department to sue golf course superintendents then farmers. Monsanto sued a Saskatchewan Canadian farmer and won, after his farm was contaminated with their Roundup-Ready canola seeds. He was fined $15/ac x 1030 ac, plus the value of his crop $105,000, plus $25,000 for punitive and exemplary damages.
creepgrass is considered a weed by a lot of people, this stuff is going to spread.
The Release Notes say "The module loader was modified to accept either XFree86 generated modules or X.Org generated modules". I wonder if this means that the Nvidia module will work?
iPod batteries are internal, but can be replaced, Apple will replace them for $50, or you can buy batteries from 3rd parties and do it yourself if you are brave enough to open it up.
the earlier iPods have a 1200 Mah @ 3.7V lithium battery, the newer ones have 850 Mah @ 3.7V and the mini's are even smaller. I have an ipod with a 1200Mah battery and when it was new I got around 12hours, now(about 1.5 years later) I'm getting more like 4-5, it's probably about time I change the battery.
A standard Alkaline AA is 2800Mah @ 1.5V and NiHM's are usually arounf 2000Mah @ 1.5V.
Assuming you are using 2 AAs, you are getting about 2.2 times more play time per Mah*V.
WMA's DRM encapsulation is a lot more flexable, but Apple's DRM is has one HUGE advatage, It's easy to understand.
DRM restrictions can get very frustrating,
most people with problems stem from them forgetting to backup the file that contains the licence key when they try to backup their DRMed files. iTunes fixes this by having a central server to authenticate from(as long as you remeber your iTunes login).
Some songs are sold with stupid restrictions, like being able to be coppied to only one portable player, if you buy another player you have to rebuy the song. Every song off iTunes has the same restrictions, which are pretty sane.
Apple's DRM makes sense, Microsoft's is cumbersome, I wish it wasn't necessary to use DRM, but RIAA isn't gonna let people sell songs without it.
I think it's odd how the poster thinks this will kill off Apple's DRM format, Software DRM is just a nod to RIAA, they know it will be cracked. If anything I imagine an easy loss-less way of way of converting files will mean more sales, and more popularity.
Once somebody has a key to a locked room, you can't expect them not to take whatevers in that room. This is the same problem with software DRM, you have to give the user a way of decrypting the data, but you don't want them to be able to capture that data.
Since you need a valid licence for the file to be able to decrypt it with this progam, I imagine it's just a hijack the ACC stream once it's decrypted trick. Programmers can try to obfucticate their code to try to make it hard for people to find the encryption algorithm, but with any DRM containter format, once you have the algorithm and a key you can the read unencrpyted file that is contained within. Hardware DRM is a little better. If you put the decrypter and decoder on one chip it can be near impossible to break, someone will still still find a way(i.e. DeCSS).
I've only actually ever ripped a DVD with mencoder and it went a bit slower than real-time on my OLD G3-400Mhz running OSX, I don't have any clue what settings I had, but some of those DIVX compression options are amazingly CPU intensive. I mainly make DVDs out of my own video.
If your computer can play a DVD and also record live video, then a straight DVD -> DIVX shouldn't take more than 2X real-time. How long a video takes to encode depends a lot on the optimizations being done.
That's a simple setup, but it only takes care of the decrypting and decoding parts of ripping a DVD to file, you are still re-encoding it, I wouldn't doubt you could actually do the decoding and decrypting parts faster than real-time on you computer, and the quality will be MUCH better.
If you are copying from DVD to DVD-R then you usually don't need to do much more than copy the files from one to the other, the DVD format isn't all that complex.
If you're decoding in software them there's no way the driver would know that you are playing a DVD, is there?
That seems to be the case, I doubt this will effect Linux people since we have been using illegal software(DeCSS) to watch DVDs anyway, I bet this mainly pertains to Windows apps like WinDVD. It's all silly anyway since you can still use an external VGA->TV converter. NVIDIA's TV-encoders aren't even all that good.
If your car came with onstar you can hack it to get the GPS for almost free, plus the antenna is installed nicely for you. Slashdot had an article on this.
I've been a "senior computer analyst"(basically helpdesk) at UTC for 2 years. You end up calling tech support at different companies quite a bit for warranty repairs, parts, and stuff.
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Printer=print server
Camera=web server
Hard Drive=file server
Having each device handle connections made to it makes sense, besides that you need to have security implemented for each device.
- digital cameras - 300mW is an insane power drain for a camera, instead of draining the battery to download pics, you could attach it wia USB and charge the battery. see my previous post
- printers - 802.11 is the logical way to implement a wireless printer. It's not hard to find a printer with built-in 802.11. You can also find a few portable printers that are USB powered
- scanners - a lot of scanners are powered via USB, also if you are going to make it wireless, you probably want to share it, which again would be up 802.11's alley
I can't actually think of anything that WUSB would be more suitable for than USB, Bluetooth, 802.11, or firewire.My parents are set up with a HP d135 decked out with a 802.11 adapter, this lets them fax ,scan, and print via their 802.11 network. HP sells something similar now pretty cheap.
WUSB wouldn't really be suitable for a camera.
- 54Mbits is Damn fast, you could send that whole 1gig CF card in 2.52Min. Most Hard-Drives max out at around 200Mbits, and I doubt if many CF drives can read at more than 80Mbits. By the time WUSB is out I imagine a 200+Mbit/s 802.11 standard will be around
- the article says it uses 300mW, that's considerably more than current low power 802.11g chips at 200mW. Bluetooth chips can have sub 20mW consumption.
Ricoh and Nikon make 802.11 cameras you can buy right now.Apple paints the inside of clear plastic white to get the look of the iBook/iPod. You just need to remove it and then paint what you want.
Owning a gene is stupid, once it's in the wild there is no way to control it.
Then you get into the problems when a Linux box fucks a Windows box.
Actually, It seems totally illogical to me that he could be sued even if he knew that his fields were contaminated and then used that knowledge. I'd love it if every farmer started suing Monsanto for contaminating their feilds. GM crops are spreading, wiping out their "organic" cousins.
I wonder what will happen when this creep grass gets into a field of Monsato's Round-Up-Ready soy beans/corn/wheat/cotton/conola. That will make for some interesting lawsuits, this grass is the first perennial to get the gene. I can just picture acres of farm land becoming golf-courses when they aren't growing crops.
I don't think a better golf game is a good reason to release a super weed (I personally don't like creepgrass).
The other difference is that Monsanto/Scott are litigious bastards, and shouldn't be trusted.
I wonder if they started engineering grass because it's easier for their PR department to sue golf course superintendents then farmers. Monsanto sued a Saskatchewan Canadian farmer and won, after his farm was contaminated with their Roundup-Ready canola seeds. He was fined $15/ac x 1030 ac, plus the value of his crop $105,000, plus $25,000 for punitive and exemplary damages.
creepgrass is considered a weed by a lot of people, this stuff is going to spread.
For what reason would Sun or IBM want to see X11 die? They both depend on it (i.e. Solaris and AIX). I can see how Apple and Microsoft would benefit.
They market the Nocona CPU as x86-64, to emphasize that it's compatable with their older chips.
The Release Notes say "The module loader was modified to accept either XFree86 generated modules or X.Org generated modules". I wonder if this means that the Nvidia module will work?
iPod batteries are internal, but can be replaced, Apple will replace them for $50, or you can buy batteries from 3rd parties and do it yourself if you are brave enough to open it up.
oops, re-read your post, so that's one AA battery, then make that 4.4 times more play time
the earlier iPods have a 1200 Mah @ 3.7V lithium battery, the newer ones have 850 Mah @ 3.7V and the mini's are even smaller. I have an ipod with a 1200Mah battery and when it was new I got around 12hours, now(about 1.5 years later) I'm getting more like 4-5, it's probably about time I change the battery.
A standard Alkaline AA is 2800Mah @ 1.5V and NiHM's are usually arounf 2000Mah @ 1.5V.
Assuming you are using 2 AAs, you are getting about 2.2 times more play time per Mah*V.
DRM restrictions can get very frustrating,
- most people with problems stem from them forgetting to backup the file that contains the licence key when they try to backup their DRMed files. iTunes fixes this by having a central server to authenticate from(as long as you remeber your iTunes login).
- Some songs are sold with stupid restrictions, like being able to be coppied to only one portable player, if you buy another player you have to rebuy the song. Every song off iTunes has the same restrictions, which are pretty sane.
Apple's DRM makes sense, Microsoft's is cumbersome, I wish it wasn't necessary to use DRM, but RIAA isn't gonna let people sell songs without it.I think it's odd how the poster thinks this will kill off Apple's DRM format, Software DRM is just a nod to RIAA, they know it will be cracked. If anything I imagine an easy loss-less way of way of converting files will mean more sales, and more popularity.
current software DRM is pointless, and I don't see how to make it work.
woops, DeCSS was software, I guess I don't have an example of hardware DRM being broken
Since you need a valid licence for the file to be able to decrypt it with this progam, I imagine it's just a hijack the ACC stream once it's decrypted trick. Programmers can try to obfucticate their code to try to make it hard for people to find the encryption algorithm, but with any DRM containter format, once you have the algorithm and a key you can the read unencrpyted file that is contained within. Hardware DRM is a little better. If you put the decrypter and decoder on one chip it can be near impossible to break, someone will still still find a way(i.e. DeCSS).
software DRM just seems silly to me.
If your computer can play a DVD and also record live video, then a straight DVD -> DIVX shouldn't take more than 2X real-time. How long a video takes to encode depends a lot on the optimizations being done.
If you are copying from DVD to DVD-R then you usually don't need to do much more than copy the files from one to the other, the DVD format isn't all that complex.
Macrovision works by exploiting a "feature" in VHS that isn't in most TVs. It's all explained here.
That seems to be the case, I doubt this will effect Linux people since we have been using illegal software(DeCSS) to watch DVDs anyway, I bet this mainly pertains to Windows apps like WinDVD. It's all silly anyway since you can still use an external VGA->TV converter. NVIDIA's TV-encoders aren't even all that good.
If your car came with onstar you can hack it to get the GPS for almost free, plus the antenna is installed nicely for you. Slashdot had an article on this.
I've been a "senior computer analyst"(basically helpdesk) at UTC for 2 years. You end up calling tech support at different companies quite a bit for warranty repairs, parts, and stuff.
Thats 200 Euros which is about $250 US. The console is still 2 years off, price speculation is futile.