Let's first see evidence that the FBI and San Bernardino County didn't deliberately destroy or hide evidence to force the whole issue.
I'd be interested in knowing what this evidence that destruction or hiding didn't happen, would look like. If you could find someone who could credibly testify that evidence was destroyed or hidden, great; that would be evidence that it did happen. But what would it take to satisfy you that this didn't didn't happen?
I'd be content with a oath before an federal judge or US Congress by all persons involved in the case that it didn't happen. If the FBI isn't willing to do something that takes so little effort, they obviously have something to hide.
Let's first see evidence that the FBI and San Bernardino County didn't deliberately destroy or hide evidence to force the whole issue. There are reports that SBC paid for Mobile Device Management software, but claims that they didn't put it on their phones because supposedly the users could just remove it (which sounds bogus to begin with). With MDM software it would have been extremely easy to get at all the information on the phone.
Hitler made a wreck of Europe, but we were already a very successful country.
"A very successful country." is hardly the same as "the most successful the world has ever seen", Hitler destroyed several very successful countries and made the best scientists and artists flee to the US. The only country who has more to thank Hitler for is Israel.
In its rush to gather information, the FBI blew its chance to retrieve data from the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists when it ordered his iCloud passcode to be reset shortly after the attacks.
This is very misleading. It would have only given them access to the data on the phone stored in iCloud.
This is very misleading,They won't find any useful information on his work phone anyway, because he would have it destroyed it anyway if there were, like he did with his actual phone.
Technically true, but that is a platitude in this context. A CRT has, for all means and purposes, 0 latency. Sure it takes the signal some time to travel down the monitor cable, but it travels at the speed of light, as does the light emitted from the CRT. Both delays are 7 orders of magnitude shorter than the delays found in LCD monitors.
You are ignoring all the extra blanks that have to be added to the video signal for a CRT so you don't see the physical latency while moving the electron beam from one line to the next, and up between frames. Unless you already include those blanks in your digital feed to the CRT as extra "empty" bits, you will need to add some latency (and a frame buffer) to get the timing in order.
Looks like all the connectors are going away and everything is standardizing on USB Type-C connector. Good. Everything piggybacks over USB 3.1 including power. This looks like the best thing.
Yeah great. Now everything depends on whether that cheap Chinese USB cable you bought is close enough to standard, not just the speed of your external hard drive.
I totally agree. I watch my hockey in 1080 HD at 240hz and it is unbelievably clear with almost no background blur at all. So much better, that watching 60hz broadcasts makes me think I am losing my mind.
Go Sharks !!!
You are aware that the original video signal is still stuck at 1080i@60Hz, and that the display interpolates images in between? And that the fact that this looks "better" is proof that the whole process is not "visually lossless"?
VESA can count me visually lost at buying that kind of garbage.
Well, nobody is forcing you to pay far less for the new displayport solution than for your high end monster cable you use to hook up your monitor now. I'm sure that you of all people are that special snowflake that can see the difference.
I think you are missing the point. Imagine you have two colours that are just on the edge of human visibility. One is your tumor and the other is your surrounding body.
Then you have a design failure that far outweighs any differences in display link properties.
Depends on how the image data is being corrupted I suppose. A 0.00000004% change in the brightness of a pixel isn't going to be visible no matter how much you zoom in.
Even if that were the case - then you wouldn't use this video link for the 0.0001% of cases instead of making a big fuzz about the 99.9999% cases where it fucking doesn't matter.
Or are you just preparing a defence why you lost your twitch game? Yeah, you lost because that one pixel was off by 0.00000004% change in the brightness - not because you suck.
Losing information is losing information. It doesn't matter what marketing BS you smear around it, a fact is a fact. Whether it makes a difference to the end-user is a subject on its own. 3 and 2.999999996 for many things are perceptibly identical, but in fact are not. That rounding error in another context may well spell disaster.
Whine whine whine. This is about displaying a picture to look at. If you can't tell that there is a difference by looking at the picture, it fucking doesn't matter if you could measure a difference. You aren't looking at the measurement all the fucking time - and if you did you couldn't tell if it was send over this link.
On the contrary, I think Apple would be able to say "We are literally helping as much as we can" (whihc is not very much since the system is very secure). As opposed to "We are purposefully not helping because if we did, the FBI would actually get what they want and a lot more".
But they are already helping the FBI as much as they can and have to, and if the FBI hadn't destroyed an easy way to acquire evidence by forcing the San Bernardino County to reset the iCloud password for the phone, they'd already have the information.
As delusional as thinking the iPhone is currently secure from "state actors" (including foreign ones) if they physically get hold of it? Because that would be very delusional.
Well, at least a script kiddie with a Rubber Ducky can't get in.
You think a country that once had a secret service with files on everyone is going to be sympathetic to your complaint about laws forbidding you from doing the same?
Yeah, Facebook should be fucking scared about operating in the USA.
Which is why, given the opportunity to demonstrate his commitment to the American worker, Trump employed only American citizens in his hotels and casinos, right?
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Let's first see evidence that the FBI and San Bernardino County didn't deliberately destroy or hide evidence to force the whole issue.
I'd be interested in knowing what this evidence that destruction or hiding didn't happen, would look like. If you could find someone who could credibly testify that evidence was destroyed or hidden, great; that would be evidence that it did happen. But what would it take to satisfy you that this didn't didn't happen?
I'd be content with a oath before an federal judge or US Congress by all persons involved in the case that it didn't happen. If the FBI isn't willing to do something that takes so little effort, they obviously have something to hide.
Obviously you haven't follow that case very carefully. The iPhone isn't locked using fingerprints, it uses a 4 digit password.
So what's the evidence for that?
Anybody willing to blow a whistle here?
The shooter destroyed everything with evidence on it. This phone was untouched. Guess why.
Hitler made a wreck of Europe, but we were already a very successful country.
"A very successful country." is hardly the same as "the most successful the world has ever seen", Hitler destroyed several very successful countries and made the best scientists and artists flee to the US. The only country who has more to thank Hitler for is Israel.
They are also not giving the FBI a blow job, and they do seem to need one. Wanna force Apple to do that too?
Not to mention Word was God - no wait, that's not 21st century, at least not AD.
In its rush to gather information, the FBI blew its chance to retrieve data from the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists when it ordered his iCloud passcode to be reset shortly after the attacks.
This is very misleading. It would have only given them access to the data on the phone stored in iCloud.
This is very misleading,They won't find any useful information on his work phone anyway, because he would have it destroyed it anyway if there were, like he did with his actual phone.
...and yet the nation they created became the most successful the world has ever seen.
Which wouldn't have happened without Adolf Hitler. So unless you count him as one of the founding fathers ...
> Absolutely nothing in any device has 0 latency.
Technically true, but that is a platitude in this context. A CRT has, for all means and purposes, 0 latency. Sure it takes the signal some time to travel down the monitor cable, but it travels at the speed of light, as does the light emitted from the CRT. Both delays are 7 orders of magnitude shorter than the delays found in LCD monitors.
You are ignoring all the extra blanks that have to be added to the video signal for a CRT so you don't see the physical latency while moving the electron beam from one line to the next, and up between frames. Unless you already include those blanks in your digital feed to the CRT as extra "empty" bits, you will need to add some latency (and a frame buffer) to get the timing in order.
This is not your Grandmother's USB signalling. USB3 has evolved a long way and has excellent bandwidth with significantly reduced latency.
Well, the standard has evolved. The cables not so much.
Looks like all the connectors are going away and everything is standardizing on USB Type-C connector. Good. Everything piggybacks over USB 3.1 including power. This looks like the best thing.
Yeah great. Now everything depends on whether that cheap Chinese USB cable you bought is close enough to standard, not just the speed of your external hard drive.
I totally agree. I watch my hockey in 1080 HD at 240hz and it is unbelievably clear with almost no background blur at all. So much better, that watching 60hz broadcasts makes me think I am losing my mind.
Go Sharks !!!
You are aware that the original video signal is still stuck at 1080i@60Hz, and that the display interpolates images in between? And that the fact that this looks "better" is proof that the whole process is not "visually lossless"?
VESA can count me visually lost at buying that kind of garbage.
Well, nobody is forcing you to pay far less for the new displayport solution than for your high end monster cable you use to hook up your monitor now. I'm sure that you of all people are that special snowflake that can see the difference.
I think you are missing the point. Imagine you have two colours that are just on the edge of human visibility. One is your tumor and the other is your surrounding body.
Then you have a design failure that far outweighs any differences in display link properties.
Depends on how the image data is being corrupted I suppose. A 0.00000004% change in the brightness of a pixel isn't going to be visible no matter how much you zoom in.
Even if that were the case - then you wouldn't use this video link for the 0.0001% of cases instead of making a big fuzz about the 99.9999% cases where it fucking doesn't matter.
Or are you just preparing a defence why you lost your twitch game? Yeah, you lost because that one pixel was off by 0.00000004% change in the brightness - not because you suck.
Losing information is losing information. It doesn't matter what marketing BS you smear around it, a fact is a fact. Whether it makes a difference to the end-user is a subject on its own. 3 and 2.999999996 for many things are perceptibly identical, but in fact are not. That rounding error in another context may well spell disaster.
Whine whine whine. This is about displaying a picture to look at. If you can't tell that there is a difference by looking at the picture, it fucking doesn't matter if you could measure a difference. You aren't looking at the measurement all the fucking time - and if you did you couldn't tell if it was send over this link.
1989? How about NTSC color compression? 1953!
Yeah, because if you set two 1953 NTSC TVs next to each other, you could not tell a difference between the colors.
On the contrary, I think Apple would be able to say "We are literally helping as much as we can" (whihc is not very much since the system is very secure). As opposed to "We are purposefully not helping because if we did, the FBI would actually get what they want and a lot more".
But they are already helping the FBI as much as they can and have to, and if the FBI hadn't destroyed an easy way to acquire evidence by forcing the San Bernardino County to reset the iCloud password for the phone, they'd already have the information.
As delusional as thinking the iPhone is currently secure from "state actors" (including foreign ones) if they physically get hold of it? Because that would be very delusional.
Well, at least a script kiddie with a Rubber Ducky can't get in.
You think a country that once had a secret service with files on everyone is going to be sympathetic to your complaint about laws forbidding you from doing the same?
Yeah, Facebook should be fucking scared about operating in the USA.
"Google Pay, send me all your money."
Which is why, given the opportunity to demonstrate his commitment to the American worker, Trump employed only American citizens in his hotels and casinos, right?
Yeah, I'm sure the Workers leav[ing] the site of the future Trump International Hotel here are the two white persons in the background, not the brown people posing in safety gear. And he already didn't know 25 years ago He Employed Illegal Aliens
What makes you think somebody pro-Israel can't be a rabid anti-Semite?
can't see that on my (possibly racist) UKIP keyboard.
FTFY