According to the article the only additional format of interest is WMA which is only relevant if you're already a Microsoft user. Since I'm not, it's not, so I'll stick with my iPod.
In the last couple of months our passports have been upgraded to include RFID chips. In fact I renewed mine early to try and get one without one but they were rather quick of the mark upgrading. At least I got in before the interviews and biometrics. Like others here I have been thinking along the lines of a tin foil cover. You can get passport wallets which protect a passport from damage. May be one can be modified to protect it from snooping too...
Provided the cover of the CD/DVD has a copy right symbol (which it will have) you can expect the copyright laws to apply. Anything that isn't part of those laws does not apply unless explicitly printed on the cover and available to read at time of purchase. This is a principle of UK law (re Shoe Lane Parking).
I specced my office Dell which has very similar specs (Core Duo bla bla bla). The price was comparable. And wtf does everyone complain about the screen size. My Dell is terribly inconvenient. I have to carry it around in it's bloody laptop case. My iBook is small enough to go in a pouch in my back pack. And if you've ever had to commue the thousands of miles from Yorkshire to LA you'll find that even just hiking through Philly airport another bag just for your laptop is a pain in the arse. I like the small screen on my iBook. The 13" widescreen on the new MacBooks looks equally useful.
I think this is the whole point of the article. Employment law over here means that if you work on statutory holidays you have to be allowed to take an alternative day off. Basically companies cannot force people to work and cannot fire people willy nilly.
If the grand...parent post is correct the resolution for UMD is similar to that for Video on the iPod. No it isn't as good as DVD but it really isn't bad and a lot better than VHS (which is effectively CIF) even when played on a large plasma screen. I know because I played a home ripped movie (Hero) at that resolution on a large plasma screen (my parents') this weekend. And that was even using the composite input direct from my iPod. I'm sure it would have looked better if I'd connected my Apple laptop to the DVI.
Yes but half of those will claim Irish descent if their great great great great great grand pappy once had a guiness. I can claim better Irish descent than most of them and I'm English (well 1/8 French, 1/8 Irish, 1/4 Welsh and 1/2 English i.e. a mongrel which is fairly typically for an inhabitant of these Islands).
Of course we are sore. We lost a colony while fighting a war in Europe and ruling large parts of the world at the same time. We were juggling plates and dropped one. It was careless of us and we hate carelessness.
Hey, I think the Brits want it so that they can shut down US planes...
In the first Iraq war we lost far more to US forces that the Iraqis. I notice that for the second war they trained your guys in "how to recognise your allies".
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MPEG-2 for HD is so last year. I would not expect *any* sensible IPTV provider to try and provide MPEG2 HD. All the European cable and satellite HD boxes are using H264 for the HD streams. This means you're looking at about 6Mb per HD channel not 18-20Mb.
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The thing about IPTV is that, unlike cable/satellite where you have to broadcast all of the channels all of the time, you only need broadcast those channels that are needed. This means that at worst each home only needs enough bandwidth for four channels (assuming PVRs and multiple STBs). With an appropriately designed network you can get away with far less bandwidth. Yes HD is not possible with current ADSL speeds (although SD IPTV is more than possible) but they are talking about 20Mb for next gen. ADSL which is plenty.
Were this sort of law(and its associated precedents) to become common in other EU member nations . . . oh, the possibilities.
Yes. The possibilities. Like the possibility of the complete lack of any downloadable music what so ever...
Get real! The media companies want everything locked down to the hilt. We the consumer want everything to be open. So far Apple has been walking the fine line between keeping the media companies happy enough that they are willing to allow Apple to sell their media and keeping things open enough for we the consumers to use it. Yes Apple isn't totally mythantropic. The DRM does allow them to have a control over the media players that can use music purchased from their store but would you honestly expect any of the competition to be any different.
But as at the moment I can download music, play it on my Powermac dev. box, my iBook, my iPod and my Windows dev. box and at some point I could get another device to play it on; I can redirect it to the hi-fi in the front room by wi-fi and I can also burn it on to CD and play it in my car. That sounds flexible enough to me.
All this law will do is result in the closure of the on-line stores since they will have little content to sell.
The argument that source code is uncopyrightable, with some extensions could be applied to almost all, say, fiction stories since no one's written a truly new story in like five thousand years.
The difference is that programming languages are usually pretty logical and to achieve an aim there's usually an obvious and correct way of solving a problem. For example if I asked a collection of programmers to write a function to sum the elements of an array it would inevitably look like the following (for C at least).
int sumArray(int array[], int elements) {
int i, t = 0;
for (i = 0; i elements; i++) t += array[i];
return t; }
There would be variations but everyone would essentially write the same code.
When writing literature, writers are restricted by the language, but for some they are extremely flexible and the same concepts can be written about and result in a completely different book.
It's the same for any art. The Queen of England has had hundreds of portrates painted and yet they are all very different depite the use of similar materials. Yes the basic subject is the same but you cannot say the paintings are the same. Coding is more like photography.
At it's extreme source code is a mathematical description of an algorithm. It's either write or wrong. I can't see how you can copywrite it any more than copywriting 2 + 2 = 4.
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According to the article the only additional format of interest is WMA which is only relevant if you're already a Microsoft user. Since I'm not, it's not, so I'll stick with my iPod.
Nah! As another poster said. Girls are more intelligent than boys. We buy Macs! We realise that time costs money too!
In the last couple of months our passports have been upgraded to include RFID chips. In fact I renewed mine early to try and get one without one but they were rather quick of the mark upgrading. At least I got in before the interviews and biometrics. Like others here I have been thinking along the lines of a tin foil cover. You can get passport wallets which protect a passport from damage. May be one can be modified to protect it from snooping too...
No it doesn't. Passports issued to Brits in the last few weeks have RFID chips. The excuse being given is that the US demanded it!
I worked on this in the 90's. I'm glad to see that its finally up and running...
Provided the cover of the CD/DVD has a copy right symbol (which it will have) you can expect the copyright laws to apply. Anything that isn't part of those laws does not apply unless explicitly printed on the cover and available to read at time of purchase. This is a principle of UK law (re Shoe Lane Parking).
Third parties are great, but they'll never get elected in the USA until the electoral system is fixed
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I thought it was fixed and that's how Bush got in with less votes.
I specced my office Dell which has very similar specs (Core Duo bla bla bla). The price was comparable. And wtf does everyone complain about the screen size. My Dell is terribly inconvenient. I have to carry it around in it's bloody laptop case. My iBook is small enough to go in a pouch in my back pack. And if you've ever had to commue the thousands of miles from Yorkshire to LA you'll find that even just hiking through Philly airport another bag just for your laptop is a pain in the arse. I like the small screen on my iBook. The 13" widescreen on the new MacBooks looks equally useful.
Baa!
I think this is the whole point of the article. Employment law over here means that if you work on statutory holidays you have to be allowed to take an alternative day off. Basically companies cannot force people to work and cannot fire people willy nilly.
Are you telling all the girls who do science or engineering have sex changes and become boys before going to college?
No it's not for MPEG 4, only H264. The iPod can handle up to 480 x 480 for MPEG 4 at 2.5 Mbps. That's very respectable quality.
If the grand...parent post is correct the resolution for UMD is similar to that for Video on the iPod. No it isn't as good as DVD but it really isn't bad and a lot better than VHS (which is effectively CIF) even when played on a large plasma screen. I know because I played a home ripped movie (Hero) at that resolution on a large plasma screen (my parents') this weekend. And that was even using the composite input direct from my iPod. I'm sure it would have looked better if I'd connected my Apple laptop to the DVI.
I foresee the rebirth of Fidonet except possibly using Wi-Fi.
I note you didn't actually say it wasn't true *grin*.
Yes but half of those will claim Irish descent if their great great great great great grand pappy once had a guiness. I can claim better Irish descent than most of them and I'm English (well 1/8 French, 1/8 Irish, 1/4 Welsh and 1/2 English i.e. a mongrel which is fairly typically for an inhabitant of these Islands).
...to lose this colony. You have tame programmes like "Without a Trace" generating fines and we have Channel 4.
Of course we are sore. We lost a colony while fighting a war in Europe and ruling large parts of the world at the same time. We were juggling plates and dropped one. It was careless of us and we hate carelessness.
Hey, I think the Brits want it so that they can shut down US planes...
In the first Iraq war we lost far more to US forces that the Iraqis. I notice that for the second war they trained your guys in "how to recognise your allies".
MPEG-2 for HD is so last year. I would not expect *any* sensible IPTV provider to try and provide MPEG2 HD. All the European cable and satellite HD boxes are using H264 for the HD streams. This means you're looking at about 6Mb per HD channel not 18-20Mb.
The thing about IPTV is that, unlike cable/satellite where you have to broadcast all of the channels all of the time, you only need broadcast those channels that are needed. This means that at worst each home only needs enough bandwidth for four channels (assuming PVRs and multiple STBs). With an appropriately designed network you can get away with far less bandwidth. Yes HD is not possible with current ADSL speeds (although SD IPTV is more than possible) but they are talking about 20Mb for next gen. ADSL which is plenty.
Were this sort of law(and its associated precedents) to become common in other EU member nations . . . oh, the possibilities.
Yes. The possibilities. Like the possibility of the complete lack of any downloadable music what so ever...
Get real! The media companies want everything locked down to the hilt. We the consumer want everything to be open. So far Apple has been walking the fine line between keeping the media companies happy enough that they are willing to allow Apple to sell their media and keeping things open enough for we the consumers to use it. Yes Apple isn't totally mythantropic. The DRM does allow them to have a control over the media players that can use music purchased from their store but would you honestly expect any of the competition to be any different.
But as at the moment I can download music, play it on my Powermac dev. box, my iBook, my iPod and my Windows dev. box and at some point I could get another device to play it on; I can redirect it to the hi-fi in the front room by wi-fi and I can also burn it on to CD and play it in my car. That sounds flexible enough to me.
All this law will do is result in the closure of the on-line stores since they will have little content to sell.
Perfectly acceptable :-) But as I'm an embedded engineer always "iterate rather than recurse when ever possible" to save stack space.
The argument that source code is uncopyrightable, with some extensions could be applied to almost all, say, fiction stories since no one's written a truly new story in like five thousand years.
The difference is that programming languages are usually pretty logical and to achieve an aim there's usually an obvious and correct way of solving a problem. For example if I asked a collection of programmers to write a function to sum the elements of an array it would inevitably look like the following (for C at least).
int sumArray(int array[], int elements) {
int i, t = 0;
for (i = 0; i elements; i++) t += array[i];
return t;
}
There would be variations but everyone would essentially write the same code.
When writing literature, writers are restricted by the language, but for some they are extremely flexible and the same concepts can be written about and result in a completely different book.
It's the same for any art. The Queen of England has had hundreds of portrates painted and yet they are all very different depite the use of similar materials. Yes the basic subject is the same but you cannot say the paintings are the same. Coding is more like photography.
At it's extreme source code is a mathematical description of an algorithm. It's either write or wrong. I can't see how you can copywrite it any more than copywriting 2 + 2 = 4.
So great, you can run a UNIX like operating system on a Mac. I already do!