Yes, well.. Truth be told, cheating and being dishonest are usually not long term strategies for success under any system. You cheat in school? You will pay later when the next course comes along that uses the material you don't know. Cheat again and you just increase your chances of getting caught. One cheat leads to another, then more, usually bigger and bigger ones until you get caught and pay the piper for cheating.
In my world view, the reward in doing the right thing over the long haul is in knowing that your success is honestly yours. I may be taken for a sucker at times, but I generally catch on pretty quick, limit my losses and learn to do better next time. I can also sleep at night because I don't have to keep my stories straight and invent new schemes to keep from being exposed.
Finally, the old adage "Cheaters never prosper" while not always true, is usually true. And in my long term world view we all face judgment in the end where cheaters will be punished and eventually justice will prevail. So I'm adopting the long term view of doing right.
So doing right is it's own reward NOW, is in my view less risky for tomorrow, and avoids future punishment in the hear after.... Your mileage may vary on the last one, but the first to are good enough reasons to be honest...
So there is no demand for getting from point A to point B faster?
Oh there is demand for that... The problem is that this increased demand does not equate to willingness to pay increased ticket prices at a large enough differential to make the increased costs of getting from A to B faster profitable, over the slower and CHEAPER options already available. If you don't have enough demand for your more expensive option to fill the aircraft seats, you must fly partially full or lower your ticket prices. There is a minimum cost for flying the route and when you cannot collect at least that from your passengers, you are loosing money. So there is demand, just not enough.
The Air Force has built and flown a number of transonic (better than MAC 5) unmanned research aircraft and is apparently in the accusation phase for an operational capability for transonic aircraft. The research aircraft are faster than the SR-71 ever was.
Plus, I'd not be so sure we don't already have an SR-71 replacement which is faster, smaller, better already in operation. It took a number of decades before the public became aware of the SR-71 and it seems reasonable to me that before it was taken out of service, there would have been a suitable replacement in operation, but that's just a wild guess..
And the REASON we failed to replace it was that it wasn't profitable enough... That's why it didn't get upgrades, why nobody wanted to restart the manufacturing of it after the 70's oil crisis was over, why we didn't replace it with newer and better aircraft with similar capabilities.
This thing burned way too much fuel per passenger mile, cost a lot to maintain and there wasn't enough interest for anybody to try to fund the NRE costs to replace it. Everybody knew that it would be impossible to make the thing profitable and we had decades of operational experience to prove it.
So this was the fault of "all of the above"... Fuel costs, operating costs, maintenance costs, operating restrictions which limited routes they could fly AND the procurement costs of the aircraft which put the Concorde into the dust bin of history with no replacement. In fact, one could argue that its very existence in commercial aviation was an aberration to start with. Hindsight is 20/20, but it seems obvious now that the Concorde really should never have been put into service even though it proved to be marginally successful for operators, but that was only because the manufacturer took a loss on the NRE and sold the planes too cheaply to recover development costs, hoping that they could sell more aircraft to make up for it. They failed, the Concorde failed, and wasn't replaced.
I'll bet you don't record and play protected content.... Which is the issue I have because my cable provider has turned on protection for most of the premium content I use and why I use WMC over an open source solution..
No one has written a program that runs on Linux that deals with the DRM issues as well as WMC.... At least no one who distributes it under any form available to the general user.
However, this is not to say there are not closed sourced solutions on closed hardware that can do this, because there are those, only that there isn't an open source drop in replacement for WMC that works with the DRM requirements and allows the user to deal correctly with protected content.
Further, let's hope Silicondust makes the software available for their existing customer base... I'm guessing that's as likely as them having the resources to actually get though the certification process....
Snowball's chance is what I give it... This market is *really* a dying thing. Cord cutters are axing cable provider subscriptions right and left and every one of those that leave is one less potential customer for Silicondust's primary market. This is why Microsoft is bailing on the Media Center thing in the first place.
Best we could hope for is to get some open source project to go though the CableLabs process, which is less likely than Silicondust's effort. Any software that could possibly hope to get CableLabs approval would likely have to close at least parts of the source to get approval, then they would likely be subject to patent claims for the Codex's they'd have to use and get themselves sued by the open source crowd trying to get the confidential bits of closed source.... Clearly not going to happen.
I have not looked that close as I only got my cable card tuner last month so I'm new to this. I found out that my Windows 7 home premium box already had software for this so that's what I'm using, along with a couple of XBoxes for extenders.
Does KODI handle the DRM and let you record/playback protected content off of cable?
Way to cling to the past over a minor, marginal feature that has plenty of alternatives.
Which alternatives? Look, most of the alternatives have issues due to DRM and Media Center is the ONLY solution that deals with this because it's the only fully certified one.
Are there any solutions out there that I'm not aware of? Something that will get me past the DRM issues and let me play my recorded off cable programs which are marked protected?
True, but none of the rest of the working weapon are regulated and can be purchased, sold and shipped freely. The part he made though, is highly regulated and CANNOT be sold and shipped freely. It's a matter of law...
The whole thing really stems from the stupid law though. But that's the problem with writing laws. It's really hard to craft a law that doesn't end up having stupid side effects like this. When you add to the difficulty of writing laws a political culture where "doing something" equates to supporting the "feed the starving children act" (or what ever non-descriptive title they attach for PR reasons) it's a wonder we don't get more craziness. (Case in point.. "The Affordable Health Care Act" which was ANYTHING but affordable or about health care).
Whoever thinks that making guns cheap and easy to fabricate without skills is a good idea, is nuts.
We live in a world where the knowledge of how to make a nuclear weapon can be found on wikipedia.
Let me put your mind at a bit more ease... MOST of what you may need is on Wikipedia, including the theory behind how such a device might work, however, actually getting past the technical issues necessary to actually build a working device, including production of the fuel and building a working way to trigger the device are NOT straight forward or easy to do and really easy to get wrong. But the real problem for making a nuclear weapon is acquiring the fuel. It is tightly controlled and manufacturing fuel takes large amounts of equipment.
It's not impossible, but it's going to be pretty hard to do it w/o getting the attention of some powerful countries who are going to do their best to stop you..
NOT illegal, perfectly within the law... But it's NOT an assault rifle either... It's a semi-auto-load (semi-automatic) weapon, which means you get ONE round only when you pull the trigger. Further it doesn't meet the legal definition of an "assault rifle".
What you cannot do though is go out and SELL said firearm without doing some other stuff to it and filling out some paperwork.
There you go, jumping to conclusions again... Put that tinfoil hat back on, your brain is getting fried.
Do I need to make my point again that YOU don't know what they where doing over Baltimore and Ferguson any more than I do? My theory is that they where doing video surveillance over these riots to help coordinate the strategic logistics of law enforcement, which does not require a warrant to be 100% legal as evidence to be used in court.
You want to assume they where doing cell phone surveillance without a warrant, which defies reason because it would be nearly worthless to law enforcement as evidence and would serve no purpose in a riot situation. They MIGHT have been doing surveillance on a specific target, but if they have a valid target it's EASY to get a warrant and make everything legal.
Who's theory is more likely? I know what side I'd pick...
AKA the biggest and most useless expense in the history of physics so far.
Hey, you got to have SOMETHING to write that Physics PHD thesis on... Consider it fodder for the physics majors of the world.... An investment in education.... Then any actual science that comes out of it is an actual bonus...
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And while we're at it, let's make the national sport SOCCER!
That's FOOTBALL you know... Problem is Americans have redefined that word, so you have your work cut out for you.
It's just a royal pain....No mater how you measure it...
One wonders how many /. readers even remember Carter.... Or realize how much history is repeating itself...
Oh no.. Nobody wants to go back to getting a single shekel for a day's work..
It's great that he's finally talking some sense. I just wish he weren't doing it to an empty room with only his mom and kids present.
And don't forget the CNN video crew.... I'll bet MSNBC had one there too....
Yes, well.. Truth be told, cheating and being dishonest are usually not long term strategies for success under any system. You cheat in school? You will pay later when the next course comes along that uses the material you don't know. Cheat again and you just increase your chances of getting caught. One cheat leads to another, then more, usually bigger and bigger ones until you get caught and pay the piper for cheating.
In my world view, the reward in doing the right thing over the long haul is in knowing that your success is honestly yours. I may be taken for a sucker at times, but I generally catch on pretty quick, limit my losses and learn to do better next time. I can also sleep at night because I don't have to keep my stories straight and invent new schemes to keep from being exposed.
Finally, the old adage "Cheaters never prosper" while not always true, is usually true. And in my long term world view we all face judgment in the end where cheaters will be punished and eventually justice will prevail. So I'm adopting the long term view of doing right.
So doing right is it's own reward NOW, is in my view less risky for tomorrow, and avoids future punishment in the hear after.... Your mileage may vary on the last one, but the first to are good enough reasons to be honest...
I'm SOL.... Yes it worries me a bit, but the fall back solution is to pay the Cable Company for their DVR solution....
So there is no demand for getting from point A to point B faster?
Oh there is demand for that... The problem is that this increased demand does not equate to willingness to pay increased ticket prices at a large enough differential to make the increased costs of getting from A to B faster profitable, over the slower and CHEAPER options already available. If you don't have enough demand for your more expensive option to fill the aircraft seats, you must fly partially full or lower your ticket prices. There is a minimum cost for flying the route and when you cannot collect at least that from your passengers, you are loosing money. So there is demand, just not enough.
Not exactly the fastest anymore....
The Air Force has built and flown a number of transonic (better than MAC 5) unmanned research aircraft and is apparently in the accusation phase for an operational capability for transonic aircraft. The research aircraft are faster than the SR-71 ever was.
Plus, I'd not be so sure we don't already have an SR-71 replacement which is faster, smaller, better already in operation. It took a number of decades before the public became aware of the SR-71 and it seems reasonable to me that before it was taken out of service, there would have been a suitable replacement in operation, but that's just a wild guess..
And the REASON we failed to replace it was that it wasn't profitable enough... That's why it didn't get upgrades, why nobody wanted to restart the manufacturing of it after the 70's oil crisis was over, why we didn't replace it with newer and better aircraft with similar capabilities.
This thing burned way too much fuel per passenger mile, cost a lot to maintain and there wasn't enough interest for anybody to try to fund the NRE costs to replace it. Everybody knew that it would be impossible to make the thing profitable and we had decades of operational experience to prove it.
So this was the fault of "all of the above"... Fuel costs, operating costs, maintenance costs, operating restrictions which limited routes they could fly AND the procurement costs of the aircraft which put the Concorde into the dust bin of history with no replacement. In fact, one could argue that its very existence in commercial aviation was an aberration to start with. Hindsight is 20/20, but it seems obvious now that the Concorde really should never have been put into service even though it proved to be marginally successful for operators, but that was only because the manufacturer took a loss on the NRE and sold the planes too cheaply to recover development costs, hoping that they could sell more aircraft to make up for it. They failed, the Concorde failed, and wasn't replaced.
That's what I always say.... (/sarcasm)
I'll bet you don't record and play protected content.... Which is the issue I have because my cable provider has turned on protection for most of the premium content I use and why I use WMC over an open source solution..
No one has written a program that runs on Linux that deals with the DRM issues as well as WMC.... At least no one who distributes it under any form available to the general user.
However, this is not to say there are not closed sourced solutions on closed hardware that can do this, because there are those, only that there isn't an open source drop in replacement for WMC that works with the DRM requirements and allows the user to deal correctly with protected content.
Not sure what you mean by 'making the software available for the existing customer base'.
Only that it will work with the cable card tuner I recently purchased from them and that they will either give or sell me a copy.
Further, let's hope Silicondust makes the software available for their existing customer base... I'm guessing that's as likely as them having the resources to actually get though the certification process....
Snowball's chance is what I give it... This market is *really* a dying thing. Cord cutters are axing cable provider subscriptions right and left and every one of those that leave is one less potential customer for Silicondust's primary market. This is why Microsoft is bailing on the Media Center thing in the first place.
Best we could hope for is to get some open source project to go though the CableLabs process, which is less likely than Silicondust's effort. Any software that could possibly hope to get CableLabs approval would likely have to close at least parts of the source to get approval, then they would likely be subject to patent claims for the Codex's they'd have to use and get themselves sued by the open source crowd trying to get the confidential bits of closed source.... Clearly not going to happen.
I have not looked that close as I only got my cable card tuner last month so I'm new to this. I found out that my Windows 7 home premium box already had software for this so that's what I'm using, along with a couple of XBoxes for extenders.
Does KODI handle the DRM and let you record/playback protected content off of cable?
Way to cling to the past over a minor, marginal feature that has plenty of alternatives.
Which alternatives? Look, most of the alternatives have issues due to DRM and Media Center is the ONLY solution that deals with this because it's the only fully certified one.
Are there any solutions out there that I'm not aware of? Something that will get me past the DRM issues and let me play my recorded off cable programs which are marked protected?
Nope, not going to migrate up to 10 from 7 anytime soon if it means media center goes away...
True, but none of the rest of the working weapon are regulated and can be purchased, sold and shipped freely. The part he made though, is highly regulated and CANNOT be sold and shipped freely. It's a matter of law...
The whole thing really stems from the stupid law though. But that's the problem with writing laws. It's really hard to craft a law that doesn't end up having stupid side effects like this. When you add to the difficulty of writing laws a political culture where "doing something" equates to supporting the "feed the starving children act" (or what ever non-descriptive title they attach for PR reasons) it's a wonder we don't get more craziness. (Case in point.. "The Affordable Health Care Act" which was ANYTHING but affordable or about health care).
Surely bucking for a Darwin Award... Put the long gun away dude.... Conceal and carry...
He was just looking for attention and hoping he could get the cops to do something stupid while he was recording it with his cell phone.
Whoever thinks that making guns cheap and easy to fabricate without skills is a good idea, is nuts.
We live in a world where the knowledge of how to make a nuclear weapon can be found on wikipedia.
Let me put your mind at a bit more ease... MOST of what you may need is on Wikipedia, including the theory behind how such a device might work, however, actually getting past the technical issues necessary to actually build a working device, including production of the fuel and building a working way to trigger the device are NOT straight forward or easy to do and really easy to get wrong. But the real problem for making a nuclear weapon is acquiring the fuel. It is tightly controlled and manufacturing fuel takes large amounts of equipment.
It's not impossible, but it's going to be pretty hard to do it w/o getting the attention of some powerful countries who are going to do their best to stop you..
Illegal or not?
NOT illegal, perfectly within the law... But it's NOT an assault rifle either... It's a semi-auto-load (semi-automatic) weapon, which means you get ONE round only when you pull the trigger. Further it doesn't meet the legal definition of an "assault rifle".
What you cannot do though is go out and SELL said firearm without doing some other stuff to it and filling out some paperwork.
There you go, jumping to conclusions again... Put that tinfoil hat back on, your brain is getting fried.
Do I need to make my point again that YOU don't know what they where doing over Baltimore and Ferguson any more than I do? My theory is that they where doing video surveillance over these riots to help coordinate the strategic logistics of law enforcement, which does not require a warrant to be 100% legal as evidence to be used in court.
You want to assume they where doing cell phone surveillance without a warrant, which defies reason because it would be nearly worthless to law enforcement as evidence and would serve no purpose in a riot situation. They MIGHT have been doing surveillance on a specific target, but if they have a valid target it's EASY to get a warrant and make everything legal.
Who's theory is more likely? I know what side I'd pick...
AKA the biggest and most useless expense in the history of physics so far.
Hey, you got to have SOMETHING to write that Physics PHD thesis on... Consider it fodder for the physics majors of the world.... An investment in education.... Then any actual science that comes out of it is an actual bonus...
and stock up on grenades!
You are not a preper, that' much is plain to see..
Freeze dried and canned food, water filters, guns and ammo are more important.