The colors never look right with analog input (on my Panasonic Plasma, but also on LCD monitors).
But HDCP does not change the picture. Beside that, DVI supports HDCP as well, and HDMI works without HDCP. There's simply no difference (provided that your monitor supports HDCP at all, and the implementation doesn't have any bugs).
Are there already fluorescent light bulbs that have an acceptable light? All that I have seen so far have a horrible white'ish light that makes me depressive. LEDs seem to be not much better (at least I bought a LED desk lamp a year ago, and never used it because the light was so much worse than my old Halogen lamp).
Communism, as an idelogy & theory of economics, didn't kill millions of people.
I would doubt that. Because the ideology and theory of economics requires you to have an enormous centralization of power. And this power is what attracts a certain kind of people, and the most power hungry and ruthless of them will eventually make it to the top. So far they always did. I'd say it's inevitable that over time people will be killed in any communist system.
If we're going to blame the a government system for deaths caused by poor planning, then who is going to take the blame for the slow response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980's?
Why should it be a government's responsibility, to take care of it, instead of the people?
Actually you can already buy DVI capturing cards capable of recoding 1600x1200x60: http://www.fi-llc.com/boards/Products/AccuStream17 0.php Real-time recoding of HDTV videos is not that far away on consumer PCs either. I doubt that it would be a problem in 5 years.
So if there was no HDCP, and there was no way to get the compressed signal, capturing the data would become a viable option.
Just use the RSS feed with Google Reader. You will get all articles, only without the links. And if you're internet is down anyway, those links probably won't help you (but you can star the articles whose links you want to follow later).
* It's the same as STUN, the article even mentions STUN at the end. * STUN also supports "symetric" firewalls/NATs, I think that's not mentioned in the article. But no one uses them at home anyway, and I doubt that they are widespread elsewhere. * SIP can use STUN (it's not required, but pretty common now). * What the article does not mention: Skype can also mis-use HTTP proxys with HTTPS support to get through the firewall. That's the configuration that most companies have, and I hoped to get a bit more information about that in the article. But basically it will work similar to the common HTTPS tunnels (google for them if you don't know them), just Skype-specific instead of allowing arbitrary TCP connections.
I am a happy user of a S60-based Nokia N80. It's true that the phone is a bit more complicated than non-S60 phones I had before, and the battery hardly lasts for 48 hours (I just connect it to the power adapter every night - problem solved). But on the other hand, those other phones simply lacked features. The most important smartphone feature for me is the music player. On my previous phone, an S60-based SX1, I used Oggplay, but I never bothered to download it on the N80, because the N80s built-in player is really good. I also love the phone's KHTML-based web browser, which is really usable. Either with UMTS (a bit expensive unfortunately) or using a WLAN connection. And Nokia's podcasting application is very nice: I don't even have to connect my telephone to my computer in order to get new podcasts. When I am at home my phone can connect to the internet via WLAN and download my subscribed podcasts automatically. Plus there are thousand of nice little things that the non-smartphones usually can't do. For example they don't allow you to cut&paste. Or to take your own MP3s as ringtone.
Are there any alternatives? Well, of course I could buy a cheaper phone for less money. But then I had to buy and carry around a separate music player. I don't even have enough pockets in my pants to carry both. And a separate music player is combersome when somebody calls you. I also had no web browser, unless I would also buy a PDA (and PIE really sucks compared to Nokia's browser) or carry a notebook.
I simply don't understand their problem. After all nobody forces them to buy a smartphone instead of some cheap 100 EUR phone, if all they want to do is make calls and write text messages.
How would answering these taxonomic questions advance anyone's understanding of the issues being addressed in this thread?
You speak in very abstract terms, and you imply that IE runs differently than a regular user-space library would. I doubt that, but am not sure, as I don't know IE's exact architecture. That's why I am asking. Because if IE is running like any other user-space library, then there is no difference between Firefox/Gecko and IE, beside that one of them is on the same CD as the rest of the OS, and the other is not.
Of course the root cause of 'buffer overflows' ans stack attacks is the defective design of the wintel memory manager.
I'd rather say the root cause of buffer overflows (etc) is using a language that allows them. It's not like Linux or other OSes would be able to fully prevent bugs that allow the execution of malicious code. At best they eliminate some common cases.
Can you provide an example of a Firefox patch that reduced reliability.
No. But I am pretty sure that if you have a browser that runs on many million machines, testing the patch for 30 days makes problems less likely than testing it for 3 days...
What kind of "integral part" is it? Is IE part of the kernel or win32?
I don't know much about IEs architecture, but AFAIK the rendering engine is just a DLL (or a couple of DLLs) that ship with the OS. I don't see why DLLs that ship with the OS should be less secure than DLLs that ship separately.
Admittedly, if some parts of the OS (like built-in applications) use those DLLs they will be automatically affected by any security problems that may show up in the rendering engine. But if you would be able to exchange the OS's default rendering engine, and the majority of users would switch to Gecko, you had exactly the same problem.
If the majority of users use Firefox, then Firefox becomes the target of those hackers. Firefox is written in C++ just like IE. There is no superior technology or anything that would help to make Firefox inherently more secure. Sure, there are many eyeballs to check the source for security leaks, but the bad guys will also be able to use the source then. So far publicized sources have not prevented software from having exploitable security leaks. The Mozilla guys may offer more frequent patches (which would increase security, but reduce reliability..), but this will not solve the problem itself.
So you think that MS has a much better but secret documentation of all their interfaces, including all the bugs, quirks and even the application-specific compatibility code?
The Wine guys worked a decade on cloning the Windows API, and there are still more than enough problems. There is no way Apple can do this. Maybe for specific applications, but implementing Win32 with all the required libraries on top? Never.
I wonder why the transition from DD or DTS 5.1 to 7.1 adds additional surround channels, and not additional front channels, like SDDS does (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDDS).
I have a 6.1 system right now, and AFAICT the difference between 5.1 and 6.1 is quite small. However, I started with 4 speakers, then added a center, and loved the difference that the center made. Maybe that's just because my current screen is so small. My problem is: when I buy a projector and use a 2.4m (8ft) wide screen, I fear that the center may feel odd, because of the disparate locations of the center speaker and the characters on the screen. If a character is on the left side on the screen, the center may be too far right from the character on the screen. Then having all dialog on the center may hut the positioning.
Actually I am not that new, that's why I am wondering. I didnt do any Java GUI development in the last few years, but I remember using Swing for medium-size apps in the late 90s, on computers with 128 MB RAM. RAM was never an issue. The L&F was a huge issue though, so bad that we considered using Microsoft's (Windows-only) Java GUI and I eventually created my own toolkit on top of AWT.
I have never heard of anyone who did not use Swing because of its memory usage. Most people have a very simple problem with Swing: GUIs created with Swing are ugly and do not look professional. People use AWT because AWT apps look much better.
This may come to you as a shock, but... all telecommunication companies already use the internet for the capital gain. Otherwise they wouldn't be in this business. After all their are not charities.
But as you wrote, the market is free. If a major ISP tries any of these things described in the article, there will be enough room for another ISP that does not. That's why I don't see the problem. The only danger is government regulation, because that could prevent new ISPs from entering the market, and not the lack of regulation.
Today's VOD services in Germany are pretty bad. Their libraries are small and the movies are released many months after the DVD release. Movielink and Google don't sell to german customers (geolocation of your IP AND credit card address). The german iTunes store sells only music videos, no TV shows. And CinemaNow only sells some independent movies and older shows, but no content by the majors.
In other words, everything will be better than the current offerings.
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Depends on how they did that. If they managed to transmit it that fast by compressing it down to 20 kByte, maybe the MPAA won't care.
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The colors never look right with analog input (on my Panasonic Plasma, but also on LCD monitors).
But HDCP does not change the picture. Beside that, DVI supports HDCP as well, and HDMI works without HDCP. There's simply no difference (provided that your monitor supports HDCP at all, and the implementation doesn't have any bugs).
So Nintendo will probably release a different console with a sturdier drive.
And hdmi output PLEASE.... I certainly won't buy another console with that component mess. The PS2 looks bad enough..
Are there already fluorescent light bulbs that have an acceptable light? All that I have seen so far have a horrible white'ish light that makes me depressive. LEDs seem to be not much better (at least I bought a LED desk lamp a year ago, and never used it because the light was so much worse than my old Halogen lamp).
Communism, as an idelogy & theory of economics, didn't kill millions of people.
I would doubt that. Because the ideology and theory of economics requires you to have an enormous centralization of power. And this power is what attracts a certain kind of people, and the most power hungry and ruthless of them will eventually make it to the top. So far they always did. I'd say it's inevitable that over time people will be killed in any communist system.
If we're going to blame the a government system for deaths caused by poor planning, then who is going to take the blame for the slow response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980's?
Why should it be a government's responsibility, to take care of it, instead of the people?
The problem is, it's all well-intentioned.
Well, communism was well-intended as well. That neither stopped it from killing millions of people, nor the US from demonizing it.
Actually you can already buy DVI capturing cards capable of recoding 1600x1200x60:7 0.php
http://www.fi-llc.com/boards/Products/AccuStream1
Real-time recoding of HDTV videos is not that far away on consumer PCs either. I doubt that it would be a problem in 5 years.
So if there was no HDCP, and there was no way to get the compressed signal, capturing the data would become a viable option.
Just use the RSS feed with Google Reader. You will get all articles, only without the links. And if you're internet is down anyway, those links probably won't help you (but you can star the articles whose links you want to follow later).
Sure, STUN can be used for any protocol.
* It's the same as STUN, the article even mentions STUN at the end.
* STUN also supports "symetric" firewalls/NATs, I think that's not mentioned in the article. But no one uses them at home anyway, and I doubt that they are widespread elsewhere.
* SIP can use STUN (it's not required, but pretty common now).
* What the article does not mention: Skype can also mis-use HTTP proxys with HTTPS support to get through the firewall. That's the configuration that most companies have, and I hoped to get a bit more information about that in the article. But basically it will work similar to the common HTTPS tunnels (google for them if you don't know them), just Skype-specific instead of allowing arbitrary TCP connections.
Have you tried any of Nokia's S60v3 models (N73, N80..)? They are much faster than the old ones, and IMHO the UI looks quite nice.
I am a happy user of a S60-based Nokia N80. It's true that the phone is a bit more complicated than non-S60 phones I had before, and the battery hardly lasts for 48 hours (I just connect it to the power adapter every night - problem solved). But on the other hand, those other phones simply lacked features. The most important smartphone feature for me is the music player. On my previous phone, an S60-based SX1, I used Oggplay, but I never bothered to download it on the N80, because the N80s built-in player is really good. I also love the phone's KHTML-based web browser, which is really usable. Either with UMTS (a bit expensive unfortunately) or using a WLAN connection. And Nokia's podcasting application is very nice: I don't even have to connect my telephone to my computer in order to get new podcasts. When I am at home my phone can connect to the internet via WLAN and download my subscribed podcasts automatically. Plus there are thousand of nice little things that the non-smartphones usually can't do. For example they don't allow you to cut&paste. Or to take your own MP3s as ringtone.
Are there any alternatives? Well, of course I could buy a cheaper phone for less money. But then I had to buy and carry around a separate music player. I don't even have enough pockets in my pants to carry both. And a separate music player is combersome when somebody calls you. I also had no web browser, unless I would also buy a PDA (and PIE really sucks compared to Nokia's browser) or carry a notebook.
I simply don't understand their problem. After all nobody forces them to buy a smartphone instead of some cheap 100 EUR phone, if all they want to do is make calls and write text messages.
Hate to correct you, but actually the socialist GDR developed one arcade video game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Play
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Well, it's ugly and not much fun, but at least they tried
How would answering these taxonomic questions advance anyone's understanding of the issues being addressed in this thread?
You speak in very abstract terms, and you imply that IE runs differently than a regular user-space library would. I doubt that, but am not sure, as I don't know IE's exact architecture. That's why I am asking.
Because if IE is running like any other user-space library, then there is no difference between Firefox/Gecko and IE, beside that one of them is on the same CD as the rest of the OS, and the other is not.
Of course the root cause of 'buffer overflows' ans stack attacks is the defective design of the wintel memory manager.
I'd rather say the root cause of buffer overflows (etc) is using a language that allows them. It's not like Linux or other OSes would be able to fully prevent bugs that allow the execution of malicious code. At best they eliminate some common cases.
Can you provide an example of a Firefox patch that reduced reliability.
No. But I am pretty sure that if you have a browser that runs on many million machines, testing the patch for 30 days makes problems less likely than testing it for 3 days...
What kind of "integral part" is it? Is IE part of the kernel or win32?
I don't know much about IEs architecture, but AFAIK the rendering engine is just a DLL (or a couple of DLLs) that ship with the OS. I don't see why DLLs that ship with the OS should be less secure than DLLs that ship separately.
Admittedly, if some parts of the OS (like built-in applications) use those DLLs they will be automatically affected by any security problems that may show up in the rendering engine. But if you would be able to exchange the OS's default rendering engine, and the majority of users would switch to Gecko, you had exactly the same problem.
If the majority of users use Firefox, then Firefox becomes the target of those hackers. Firefox is written in C++ just like IE. There is no superior technology or anything that would help to make Firefox inherently more secure. Sure, there are many eyeballs to check the source for security leaks, but the bad guys will also be able to use the source then. So far publicized sources have not prevented software from having exploitable security leaks. The Mozilla guys may offer more frequent patches (which would increase security, but reduce reliability..), but this will not solve the problem itself.
So you think that MS has a much better but secret documentation of all their interfaces, including all the bugs, quirks and even the application-specific compatibility code?
The Wine guys worked a decade on cloning the Windows API, and there are still more than enough problems. There is no way Apple can do this. Maybe for specific applications, but implementing Win32 with all the required libraries on top? Never.
I wonder why the transition from DD or DTS 5.1 to 7.1 adds additional surround channels, and not additional front channels, like SDDS does (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDDS).
I have a 6.1 system right now, and AFAICT the difference between 5.1 and 6.1 is quite small. However, I started with 4 speakers, then added a center, and loved the difference that the center made. Maybe that's just because my current screen is so small. My problem is: when I buy a projector and use a 2.4m (8ft) wide screen, I fear that the center may feel odd, because of the disparate locations of the center speaker and the characters on the screen. If a character is on the left side on the screen, the center may be too far right from the character on the screen. Then having all dialog on the center may hut the positioning.
Actually I am not that new, that's why I am wondering. I didnt do any Java GUI development in the last few years, but I remember using Swing for medium-size apps in the late 90s, on computers with 128 MB RAM. RAM was never an issue.
The L&F was a huge issue though, so bad that we considered using Microsoft's (Windows-only) Java GUI and I eventually created my own toolkit on top of AWT.
I have never heard of anyone who did not use Swing because of its memory usage. Most people have a very simple problem with Swing: GUIs created with Swing are ugly and do not look professional. People use AWT because AWT apps look much better.
This may come to you as a shock, but... all telecommunication companies already use the internet for the capital gain. Otherwise they wouldn't be in this business. After all their are not charities.
But as you wrote, the market is free. If a major ISP tries any of these things described in the article, there will be enough room for another ISP that does not. That's why I don't see the problem. The only danger is government regulation, because that could prevent new ISPs from entering the market, and not the lack of regulation.
Today's VOD services in Germany are pretty bad. Their libraries are small and the movies are released many months after the DVD release.
Movielink and Google don't sell to german customers (geolocation of your IP AND credit card address). The german iTunes store sells only music videos, no TV shows. And CinemaNow only sells some independent movies and older shows, but no content by the majors.
In other words, everything will be better than the current offerings.
Depends on how they did that. If they managed to transmit it that fast by compressing it down to 20 kByte, maybe the MPAA won't care.