(That would be "you don't know what you're talking about".
Reverse engineering is borderline at the best of times, particularly with the DMCA these days, and without a clean room reverse engineering, its blatently illegal.
So its good you prefaced that with "IANAL" but you should include in the future that its a "WAG" so people don't take your authoritative statement as being correct, as both your take on the DMCA and reverse engineering are incorrect.
I seen them all the time. This last weekend, the Walmart, Target, and Circuit City stores near me I went into all had them. Warmart looked like it only had core systems, but thanks to my first 360 dying and MS replacing the console with a whole new console+harddrive, I have a spare drive. I almost picked one up so my girlfriend and I wouldn't have to fight for 360 time.
In either case, are they really still hard to find in other parts of the country? I'm not out looking actively for them, but I keep seeing them in stock.
Of course, there might be something I'm missing. Feel free to point it out.
How about the fact that I can't think of an asian country in the last five years that has invaded multiple independant countries for bogus reasons, tortured their citizens, violated its own internal laws and continues to do so without recourse.
Much like the other person who replied to me, you funamentally don't understand what "digital dark age" really means.
In 500 years, if an archeologist wants to learn more about the 20th century, he or she will have the means to work out these document formats. Who gives two squirts what the formatting was, at that point, in a Word document? The text is there, you can use "strings" and get it out. That archeologist won't care in the least what the data the US government chose to archive, it doesn't tell you anything useful about our society and our times.
Thats what people replying to this entire article on here don't seem to get -- the critical loss of historical information is precisely the stuff everyone seems to think isn't important.
Actually things like personal papers and photographs from random people are immensely valuable to historians, and priceless to family.
I have nearly a hundred glass negatives of photos from my family a hundred years ago.
A hundred years from now, its unlikely any of the 500 gig of digital photos or DV videos I have in there will be available to anyone. Hell, I'm worried that a couple of bad failures in quick succession could mean the same for myself or my future children in a lot less time!
You clearly are not a historian or a history buff... because I don't know any that would make such a blatently rediculous statement that they are not interested personal writings and other forms of media.
Not being able to read the damn file format isn't the problem. The fact that there is no possible way to store even a tiny fraction of the data being produced for the long term is what will cause a digital dark age.
I mean hell. I've got 1.25 terabytes of online storage at home and probably 250 CDs burned over the last ten years I can't reliabily ensure I'll still have access to in ten years. Half those CDs are probably unreadable now -- from recent experience at least 10% aren't.
If they want to solve the digital dark age problem, they need to figure out how gigabytes or terabytes of PERSONAL information will be saved for future generations, not filtered down government or commercial archives. File formats just aren't that big of a deal. Worst case someone has to reverse engineer it in a hundred years, if you actually HAVE the data in a hundred years.
Where have you been looking? They're pretty easy to find these days. I saw them at at least 3-4 stores over the weekend, including quite a few at the Walmart near me (I almost picked up a second one...)
You know the funny thing is almost all HD sets will give better quality images over the "crap (low rez)" outputs. The scalers used in most HD sets are quite a bit better than the ones in low-end scaling DVD players.
My Sony Grand WEGA is noticably better when the DVD player is 480i and the TV is told it is getting content that needs a 3:2 pulldown and it does its own scaling up to the 768P of the DLP chip.
But most people never tell their TVs that the content is something that needs de-interlacing and pull down, and think spending $150 on a "HD" DVD player will improve their picture quality.
Crap, now I feel like a total loser. Not only do I only have one computer in my home data center and only one client, my car is a tiny little 2000lbs and only 2 liter.
The funny thing is, if a guy was interviewing with me for an IT position and said he ran a setup at home like that, he'd be round-filed. What a massive waste of electricity and resources. The functions he has listed can be easily met with two or three machines and its either massive intarweb dick-waving or a real lack of understanding about how IT services can or should be deployed when it takes twelve.
Example: I run my Linux fileserver, my Windows MCE 2005 system for my XBox 360s, another Windows system running some home automation package I can't remember, and my general "this is internet accessible for ssh" Linux system on one piece of hardware, a relatively energy efficient dual Pentium III system with a load of RAM running VMWare and a bunch of external firewire drives. One server, a gigabit switch, a 10/100 switch and my DLink router. Enough to meet everything he was doing, and my electric bill isn't $100/month from it.
I may actually add "describe your home network setup" to my list of interview questions. I'd never thought of it, and it tells you a lot about people, it seems.
You're right that it has nothing to do with photon pressure, but even today its not well understood how it actually works. What you posted was just one contributor to the motion.
Yeah, that'd be quite the tragedy if the ISS is never finished.
*rolls eyes*
The ISS will never be anything but a useless pork-barrel corporate-welfare project. Something happening to end it would be the best thing that could happen to NASA. Just imagine the billions of dollars NASA has wasted over the last thirty years on the ISS and Space Shuttle co-dependant welfare programs. Look at the huge success they've had with every other program which have been universally starved for funds because of the Shuttle/ISS debacle.
They don't need to be hunted down -- every HDCP endpoint has its own key, and those keys can be revoked. Unless the key on one of those is a stolen Sony key or something, they'll just add it to the revokation list in the media and your very expensive box stops working.
Why? Because mass produced unlicensed knockoffs years ago could've decimated the ability for companies like Sony to build them.
It happened anyway, but it helped prevent unlicensed players from entering hte market the better part of a decade. This meant that region controls were appropriately enforced and compatibility was maintained.
And CSS does prevent unlicensed players from playing protected content -- although there are a lot of illegal players out there using DeCSS.
CSS was never intended to prevent copying of DVDs, it was intended to prevent copying of DVD players.
This always struck me as being pretty obvious, but some people just don't seem to get it. If it was meant to prevent copying the DVD, why would, say, copying the DVD work fine?
Its already fairly common in the marketplace. My DVD player uses it, for example.
There's no chaos there. Vista will require HDCP-encrypted channels to display restricted content, which will include purchased online content, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD content, as well as CableCard and DBS content.
People's computers will either work with it, or they'll have to buy new ones.
The support of HDCP is not an optional thing -- the content will not be available without it regardless of what chaos ATI may or may not create through questionable marketing of their products. Since most, if not all, computer monitors do not support HDCP right now, that'll be the place there will be issues. But none of them will cause HDCP to fail.
Man, this was twelve years ago which really makes me feel old...
Reading about alternative reality games immediately brought this to mind: the Publius Enigma.
Eleven years later it was finally admitted that it was a record label marketing gimmick, but a LOT of people spent years chasing down clues online and offline about it.
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YANAL, and YDKWYTA.
(That would be "you don't know what you're talking about".
Reverse engineering is borderline at the best of times, particularly with the DMCA these days, and without a clean room reverse engineering, its blatently illegal.
So its good you prefaced that with "IANAL" but you should include in the future that its a "WAG" so people don't take your authoritative statement as being correct, as both your take on the DMCA and reverse engineering are incorrect.
I assume you're not looking anymore for the 360?
I seen them all the time. This last weekend, the Walmart, Target, and Circuit City stores near me I went into all had them. Warmart looked like it only had core systems, but thanks to my first 360 dying and MS replacing the console with a whole new console+harddrive, I have a spare drive. I almost picked one up so my girlfriend and I wouldn't have to fight for 360 time.
In either case, are they really still hard to find in other parts of the country? I'm not out looking actively for them, but I keep seeing them in stock.
Of course, there might be something I'm missing. Feel free to point it out.
How about the fact that I can't think of an asian country in the last five years that has invaded multiple independant countries for bogus reasons, tortured their citizens, violated its own internal laws and continues to do so without recourse.
Much like the other person who replied to me, you funamentally don't understand what "digital dark age" really means.
In 500 years, if an archeologist wants to learn more about the 20th century, he or she will have the means to work out these document formats. Who gives two squirts what the formatting was, at that point, in a Word document? The text is there, you can use "strings" and get it out. That archeologist won't care in the least what the data the US government chose to archive, it doesn't tell you anything useful about our society and our times.
Thats what people replying to this entire article on here don't seem to get -- the critical loss of historical information is precisely the stuff everyone seems to think isn't important.
Sounds sweet to me.
Actually things like personal papers and photographs from random people are immensely valuable to historians, and priceless to family.
I have nearly a hundred glass negatives of photos from my family a hundred years ago.
A hundred years from now, its unlikely any of the 500 gig of digital photos or DV videos I have in there will be available to anyone. Hell, I'm worried that a couple of bad failures in quick succession could mean the same for myself or my future children in a lot less time!
You clearly are not a historian or a history buff... because I don't know any that would make such a blatently rediculous statement that they are not interested personal writings and other forms of media.
Not being able to read the damn file format isn't the problem. The fact that there is no possible way to store even a tiny fraction of the data being produced for the long term is what will cause a digital dark age.
I mean hell. I've got 1.25 terabytes of online storage at home and probably 250 CDs burned over the last ten years I can't reliabily ensure I'll still have access to in ten years. Half those CDs are probably unreadable now -- from recent experience at least 10% aren't.
If they want to solve the digital dark age problem, they need to figure out how gigabytes or terabytes of PERSONAL information will be saved for future generations, not filtered down government or commercial archives. File formats just aren't that big of a deal. Worst case someone has to reverse engineer it in a hundred years, if you actually HAVE the data in a hundred years.
Where have you been looking? They're pretty easy to find these days. I saw them at at least 3-4 stores over the weekend, including quite a few at the Walmart near me (I almost picked up a second one...)
That shortage thing is so last month.
You know the funny thing is almost all HD sets will give better quality images over the "crap (low rez)" outputs. The scalers used in most HD sets are quite a bit better than the ones in low-end scaling DVD players.
My Sony Grand WEGA is noticably better when the DVD player is 480i and the TV is told it is getting content that needs a 3:2 pulldown and it does its own scaling up to the 768P of the DLP chip.
But most people never tell their TVs that the content is something that needs de-interlacing and pull down, and think spending $150 on a "HD" DVD player will improve their picture quality.
Crap, now I feel like a total loser. Not only do I only have one computer in my home data center and only one client, my car is a tiny little 2000lbs and only 2 liter.
I suck.
The funny thing is, if a guy was interviewing with me for an IT position and said he ran a setup at home like that, he'd be round-filed. What a massive waste of electricity and resources. The functions he has listed can be easily met with two or three machines and its either massive intarweb dick-waving or a real lack of understanding about how IT services can or should be deployed when it takes twelve.
Example: I run my Linux fileserver, my Windows MCE 2005 system for my XBox 360s, another Windows system running some home automation package I can't remember, and my general "this is internet accessible for ssh" Linux system on one piece of hardware, a relatively energy efficient dual Pentium III system with a load of RAM running VMWare and a bunch of external firewire drives. One server, a gigabit switch, a 10/100 switch and my DLink router. Enough to meet everything he was doing, and my electric bill isn't $100/month from it.
I may actually add "describe your home network setup" to my list of interview questions. I'd never thought of it, and it tells you a lot about people, it seems.
You're right that it has nothing to do with photon pressure, but even today its not well understood how it actually works. What you posted was just one contributor to the motion.
There are good sites out there about it.
You clearly haven't spent enough time on certain websites...
Have you seen our current administrations approach to diplomacy?
Perhaps the Bush Regime can do some real good! Kill the ISS and tell everyone to go screw or we'll bomb the crap out of them, too!
A tiny ray of light out of this dismal, dark eight years.
Yeah, that'd be quite the tragedy if the ISS is never finished.
*rolls eyes*
The ISS will never be anything but a useless pork-barrel corporate-welfare project. Something happening to end it would be the best thing that could happen to NASA. Just imagine the billions of dollars NASA has wasted over the last thirty years on the ISS and Space Shuttle co-dependant welfare programs. Look at the huge success they've had with every other program which have been universally starved for funds because of the Shuttle/ISS debacle.
They don't need to be hunted down -- every HDCP endpoint has its own key, and those keys can be revoked. Unless the key on one of those is a stolen Sony key or something, they'll just add it to the revokation list in the media and your very expensive box stops working.
Why? Because mass produced unlicensed knockoffs years ago could've decimated the ability for companies like Sony to build them.
It happened anyway, but it helped prevent unlicensed players from entering hte market the better part of a decade. This meant that region controls were appropriately enforced and compatibility was maintained.
And CSS does prevent unlicensed players from playing protected content -- although there are a lot of illegal players out there using DeCSS.
CSS was never intended to prevent copying of DVDs, it was intended to prevent copying of DVD players.
This always struck me as being pretty obvious, but some people just don't seem to get it. If it was meant to prevent copying the DVD, why would, say, copying the DVD work fine?
Except of course it doesn't work when the air is dry to begin with.
Maybe not so brilliant.
Its already fairly common in the marketplace. My DVD player uses it, for example.
There's no chaos there. Vista will require HDCP-encrypted channels to display restricted content, which will include purchased online content, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD content, as well as CableCard and DBS content.
People's computers will either work with it, or they'll have to buy new ones.
The support of HDCP is not an optional thing -- the content will not be available without it regardless of what chaos ATI may or may not create through questionable marketing of their products. Since most, if not all, computer monitors do not support HDCP right now, that'll be the place there will be issues. But none of them will cause HDCP to fail.
You know my parents!?
They were up on Woot for half the afternoon.
Apparently not a hot seller.
No, it just means they did the phone survey in the evening and 2/3 of the people's wives were standing there and they couldn't pick option C) porn.
Wow you do well. My '68 911 doesn't make 10mpg these days.
But its loud and fast and blows flames out the exhaust so I don't care!
Man, this was twelve years ago which really makes me feel old...
Reading about alternative reality games immediately brought this to mind: the Publius Enigma.
Eleven years later it was finally admitted that it was a record label marketing gimmick, but a LOT of people spent years chasing down clues online and offline about it.