You do of course have a CREDIBLE source for this right? I notice you didn't cite it - pity that (lol). I call B.S. on this and am happy to have my pointed kitchen implements. Hey, of that percentage what percent were self defense killings? And how exactly was this tally figured out? Who paid for this research? Oh man the questions are endless on this!
Maybe you guys might want to figure out why the "young people" are pissed off and do something about it?
Frankly if I'm going to stab someone I think I might choose a good Phillips head screwdriver over a kitchen knife anyway. Knives tend to make good slashing weapons but stabbing might be a little better with something thin and pointed. the screwdriver will certainly raise fewer eyebrows when I am walking away with it and there's no chance of my hand sliding down the hilt to injure myself and leave DNA behind....
BTW, I carry two knives regularly. Handy little things they are and I've yet to feel the urge to plunge one into someone or hijack a plane with them - and yeah I flew with them prior to 9-11. I guess you guys are as much into security theater as our TSA is huh?
Yeah, that's true I believe they do have something like that. Time to use a multi-layered crypto container in that case and only let them into the outer layer. You will still only be protected if they haven't gotten access to it while YOU are using it...
If I break into your machine and am accessing it at your user level or at a higher level I will be looking at the same contents YOU are looking at - which is to say unencrypted unless you have lots of stuff you leave locked up and never use (lol). Encryption is GREAT when someone kicks in the door and runs off with a system that's sitting there turned off. It's less great when they get in while you're using it via network or physical means - you know grabbing your ass and shoving you away from the keyboard.
More here -> http://xbmc.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=33 Can you say MAC, Linux, AND Winders ports?!:-O it will even run on an aTV just don't expect it to play too much more than your old XBOX:-( All of this still being tweaked mind you but it's looking pretty good.
Your missing that it won't be powerful enough to do HD with the XBMC interface. You'll be forced to run some Windows thing on it in order to get accelerated drivers in hopes of having a prayer of playing HD. Of course Netbooks mostly come with a really crappy Intel video chipset so even then it will be a stretch.
Better you should look into the threads on the XBMC forums about putting together a 1080 capable PC. The last one I built was about $400 and I could have done it a bit cheaper if I'd tried...
No I read it, I also know how hard it is to get around Vista 64bit driver signing. Sorry but a program to press F8 isn't what I'd be interested in but sure I'd love to know where I can find it:-) I'd like to learn how they got something running that early in the boot process to do this. I'd also like to see just how unobtrusive it is.
On Vista 64 NO you cannot just say install it anyway, if you have an unsigned driver at bootup the system refuses to boot with it and gives you a warning naming the file. You can do the F8 thing of course but there's warnings there too blah blah. Vista 64 actually does enforce the signature stuff and they have a revocation - first used to revoke the signature by a guy who wrote a signed driver to load unsigned drivers (lol)
Frankly for the purposes of this don't even bother telling me how to do it on 32bit Vista as that's not secured. 64bit is where the security was actually turned on and is how you will see it in the next release of Windows IF they follow through on what they have said. 32bit wasn't trying to prevent this, on 64bit it's a security mechanism and I'd be interested in how folks think it can be circumvented. Patching files isn't a good way, exploiting an existing installed signed driver on the other hand might work - and work as well if Apple tried it too I'd bet.
You make it sound like the system in Vista is somehow poorly done or broken, I would claim that on 64bit it's working fairly well. Yeah they allowed a backdoor for development purposes but it's not exactly wide open. Are you even running 64bit Vista?
P.S. Yeah, I check my posts - Slashdot mails me updates on repsones;)
It's only REQUIRED in 64bit which is what he is dreaming for Apple to do. It's not a requirement for 32bit. He's apparently claiming Vista doesn't properly enforce driver signing, I'm asking him to tell me how he got around it in the ONE version where it's REQUIRED - 64bit. Neither he nor you have an answer for that I'm betting short of using the driver development shortcuts which anyone creating such a system would have to have too.
Yes exactly, it's only 64bit where signed means jack - he was talking out of his ass. They were going to require it with 32bit Vista but the screaming from vendors caused them to back off and use Vista as a stepping stone to the next version.
Next version of Windows will be 64bit only and also require signed drivers supposedly. So what he wants will be in the next version, I am sure there will be whining about it then too since you can never please anyone...
And appears to be profile dependent - my videos don't match their canned profile nor do I see myself changing. My fingers are crossed they can expand that....
Oddly the XBMC folks have found that a 3ghz DUAL CORE CPU - Intel - is what it takes to do high bitrate HD video. So I'm sorry to burst your bubble but some GPU help would certainly be helpful! I'll agree that encoding takes far longer but playback shouldn't require such beefy hardware either and encoding need only be done once as opposed to DEcoding which happens on every user's machine who wishes to see the content. Have you looked at the sorts of speed-ups the NVIDA code has been giving? When you see a more than 50% drop in CPU usage I'd say that's pretty significant - sadly it seems to be both manufacturer and worse profile dependent...
Sadly installation of said items is FAR harder than removing them. One requires skill to do right, the other could care less what sorts of damage is done.
That said your sentiment is a good one - find them something to do. I would also not be so quick to rule out convicted criminals as a conviction doesn't automatically mean they cannot be employed at all, if it did we'd need to build an island somewhere!
Oh certainly I don't take it too personally and I do understand that the hardware isn't for everyone. I happen to be a proponent of the device though as it's provided me countless hours of reading pleasure and I know of at least two others who have enjoyed much the same success. For me it's no gadget so I'm a touch sensitive about it I suppose. It certainly fits at least a subset of us I guess.
Part of my problem is I often don't know what I want to read next. Going to the used bookstore is often a frustrating search for me and while I find books it can take me hours. When read these wind up on my bookshelf as I hate to sell them, my book collection is overflowing now. I can pick up the book years later and enjoy it again but if I do not wait that long I usually remember the whole thing and it's ruined for me. Amazon's layout and the ability to see what others like myself have enjoyed has been terrific. Even better is being on a trip, having a coworker recommend a book, and being able to purchase the book at a discounted price while sitting in the flight terminal without leaving my seat.
In the lower portion of the screen are numbers and dots. Dots to show you how far through the text and numbers that are somehow like page numbers but aren't. In my case with two of us reading the SAME book I'd give her a number and she would look but NOT find the same text I was referencing. She used the LARGE font, I used the tiny font.
Now, I didn't happen to be sitting with her when we did this and she never gave me a number to look for her so I cannot prove that my partner in this simply didn't understand but from what I could tell we weren't able to synch up our positions in the book due to this number not being consistent - likely because of font size differences.
When you get 20 hours of eye strain use out of any of those devices wake me. The Kindle works great and already provides what I need for stress free reading unlike all of the devices you just mentioned. The eInk screen is awesome and in any light I could read a "normal" book in I can read on the Kindle.
The wireless is cellular and can be turned off with a switch, it's not something meant to browse on. I now read about 2X more books than I was prior to buying my Kindle - I'd hardly call that a gadget for gadgets sake.
Wonderful that you only buy used books or visit the library, that's not everyone else in the world and I find that I can search through the Amazon catalog or free sites pretty effectively vs wandering around my local used book store. Amazon has suggestions for me that often actually make sense and I can see what others have bought who are interested in the same books I am - often finding good ones. That you don't see the usefulness in all of this is fine but putting down those who own them and "get it" unlike yourself is pretty sad. Personally I think anything that promotes reading, which the Kindle most certainly does 100%, is goodness and should be applauded.
Oh and I could care less about textbooks on the Kindle - that's not a good use of the technology for a score of reasons.
Booklight, $15 on Amazon.com and they have one that many Kindle owners in the forum recommend. I've just now bought one but not had chance to read with it.
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You do of course have a CREDIBLE source for this right? I notice you didn't cite it - pity that (lol). I call B.S. on this and am happy to have my pointed kitchen implements. Hey, of that percentage what percent were self defense killings? And how exactly was this tally figured out? Who paid for this research? Oh man the questions are endless on this!
Maybe you guys might want to figure out why the "young people" are pissed off and do something about it?
Frankly if I'm going to stab someone I think I might choose a good Phillips head screwdriver over a kitchen knife anyway. Knives tend to make good slashing weapons but stabbing might be a little better with something thin and pointed. the screwdriver will certainly raise fewer eyebrows when I am walking away with it and there's no chance of my hand sliding down the hilt to injure myself and leave DNA behind....
BTW, I carry two knives regularly. Handy little things they are and I've yet to feel the urge to plunge one into someone or hijack a plane with them - and yeah I flew with them prior to 9-11. I guess you guys are as much into security theater as our TSA is huh?
Yeah, that's true I believe they do have something like that. Time to use a multi-layered crypto container in that case and only let them into the outer layer. You will still only be protected if they haven't gotten access to it while YOU are using it...
If I break into your machine and am accessing it at your user level or at a higher level I will be looking at the same contents YOU are looking at - which is to say unencrypted unless you have lots of stuff you leave locked up and never use (lol). Encryption is GREAT when someone kicks in the door and runs off with a system that's sitting there turned off. It's less great when they get in while you're using it via network or physical means - you know grabbing your ass and shoving you away from the keyboard.
Crypto isn't the magic wand to fix this....
At least a few folks have managed to get MAME working anyway, sadly I am not one of them - yet!
Sure if you want HD content the 733mhz P3 in the XBOX ain't going to cut it.
$400 http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=9999386 an MCE remote, and a little work with Ubuntu will have you with the times. HDMI audio\video capable of 1080 display. You'll want to overclock to about 3ghz though.
More here -> http://xbmc.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=33 Can you say MAC, Linux, AND Winders ports?! :-O it will even run on an aTV just don't expect it to play too much more than your old XBOX :-( All of this still being tweaked mind you but it's looking pretty good.
Oh and Plex is a good MAC fork http://elan.plexapp.com/ and Boxee is a good fork on most every platform http://boxee.tv/
XBMC.org maybe? SVN code log? http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbmc/branches/?view=log Forums maybe? http://xbmc.org/forum/index.php They have their own Wiki too that has instruction on compiling http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=HOW-TO_compile_XBMC_for_Linux_from_source_code
XBMC on an XBOX uses it, XBMC on anything else does not.
Your missing that it won't be powerful enough to do HD with the XBMC interface. You'll be forced to run some Windows thing on it in order to get accelerated drivers in hopes of having a prayer of playing HD. Of course Netbooks mostly come with a really crappy Intel video chipset so even then it will be a stretch.
Better you should look into the threads on the XBMC forums about putting together a 1080 capable PC. The last one I built was about $400 and I could have done it a bit cheaper if I'd tried...
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=9999386 - needs an MCE remote to be complete, oh and a display!
No I read it, I also know how hard it is to get around Vista 64bit driver signing. Sorry but a program to press F8 isn't what I'd be interested in but sure I'd love to know where I can find it :-) I'd like to learn how they got something running that early in the boot process to do this. I'd also like to see just how unobtrusive it is.
On Vista 64 NO you cannot just say install it anyway, if you have an unsigned driver at bootup the system refuses to boot with it and gives you a warning naming the file. You can do the F8 thing of course but there's warnings there too blah blah. Vista 64 actually does enforce the signature stuff and they have a revocation - first used to revoke the signature by a guy who wrote a signed driver to load unsigned drivers (lol)
Frankly for the purposes of this don't even bother telling me how to do it on 32bit Vista as that's not secured. 64bit is where the security was actually turned on and is how you will see it in the next release of Windows IF they follow through on what they have said. 32bit wasn't trying to prevent this, on 64bit it's a security mechanism and I'd be interested in how folks think it can be circumvented. Patching files isn't a good way, exploiting an existing installed signed driver on the other hand might work - and work as well if Apple tried it too I'd bet.
You make it sound like the system in Vista is somehow poorly done or broken, I would claim that on 64bit it's working fairly well. Yeah they allowed a backdoor for development purposes but it's not exactly wide open. Are you even running 64bit Vista?
P.S. Yeah, I check my posts - Slashdot mails me updates on repsones ;)
It's only REQUIRED in 64bit which is what he is dreaming for Apple to do. It's not a requirement for 32bit. He's apparently claiming Vista doesn't properly enforce driver signing, I'm asking him to tell me how he got around it in the ONE version where it's REQUIRED - 64bit. Neither he nor you have an answer for that I'm betting short of using the driver development shortcuts which anyone creating such a system would have to have too.
Yes exactly, it's only 64bit where signed means jack - he was talking out of his ass. They were going to require it with 32bit Vista but the screaming from vendors caused them to back off and use Vista as a stepping stone to the next version.
Next version of Windows will be 64bit only and also require signed drivers supposedly. So what he wants will be in the next version, I am sure there will be whining about it then too since you can never please anyone...
So you've found a reliable way around Vista 64bit driver signing? Do tell!
Looks pretty much empty....
And appears to be profile dependent - my videos don't match their canned profile nor do I see myself changing. My fingers are crossed they can expand that....
Oddly the XBMC folks have found that a 3ghz DUAL CORE CPU - Intel - is what it takes to do high bitrate HD video. So I'm sorry to burst your bubble but some GPU help would certainly be helpful! I'll agree that encoding takes far longer but playback shouldn't require such beefy hardware either and encoding need only be done once as opposed to DEcoding which happens on every user's machine who wishes to see the content. Have you looked at the sorts of speed-ups the NVIDA code has been giving? When you see a more than 50% drop in CPU usage I'd say that's pretty significant - sadly it seems to be both manufacturer and worse profile dependent...
Sadly installation of said items is FAR harder than removing them. One requires skill to do right, the other could care less what sorts of damage is done.
That said your sentiment is a good one - find them something to do. I would also not be so quick to rule out convicted criminals as a conviction doesn't automatically mean they cannot be employed at all, if it did we'd need to build an island somewhere!
Oh certainly I don't take it too personally and I do understand that the hardware isn't for everyone. I happen to be a proponent of the device though as it's provided me countless hours of reading pleasure and I know of at least two others who have enjoyed much the same success. For me it's no gadget so I'm a touch sensitive about it I suppose. It certainly fits at least a subset of us I guess.
Part of my problem is I often don't know what I want to read next. Going to the used bookstore is often a frustrating search for me and while I find books it can take me hours. When read these wind up on my bookshelf as I hate to sell them, my book collection is overflowing now. I can pick up the book years later and enjoy it again but if I do not wait that long I usually remember the whole thing and it's ruined for me. Amazon's layout and the ability to see what others like myself have enjoyed has been terrific. Even better is being on a trip, having a coworker recommend a book, and being able to purchase the book at a discounted price while sitting in the flight terminal without leaving my seat.
Anyway, no worries!
Perhaps it was your statement to the effect that you saw no "valid use of this" and the flip "another gadget for the gadget addicted"? Shame indeed.
The assumption that this is somehow yet another wirelessly connected device of distraction isn't helpful either.
In the lower portion of the screen are numbers and dots. Dots to show you how far through the text and numbers that are somehow like page numbers but aren't. In my case with two of us reading the SAME book I'd give her a number and she would look but NOT find the same text I was referencing. She used the LARGE font, I used the tiny font.
Now, I didn't happen to be sitting with her when we did this and she never gave me a number to look for her so I cannot prove that my partner in this simply didn't understand but from what I could tell we weren't able to synch up our positions in the book due to this number not being consistent - likely because of font size differences.
When you get 20 hours of eye strain use out of any of those devices wake me. The Kindle works great and already provides what I need for stress free reading unlike all of the devices you just mentioned. The eInk screen is awesome and in any light I could read a "normal" book in I can read on the Kindle.
Have you ever even used one?
The wireless is cellular and can be turned off with a switch, it's not something meant to browse on. I now read about 2X more books than I was prior to buying my Kindle - I'd hardly call that a gadget for gadgets sake.
Wonderful that you only buy used books or visit the library, that's not everyone else in the world and I find that I can search through the Amazon catalog or free sites pretty effectively vs wandering around my local used book store. Amazon has suggestions for me that often actually make sense and I can see what others have bought who are interested in the same books I am - often finding good ones. That you don't see the usefulness in all of this is fine but putting down those who own them and "get it" unlike yourself is pretty sad. Personally I think anything that promotes reading, which the Kindle most certainly does 100%, is goodness and should be applauded.
Oh and I could care less about textbooks on the Kindle - that's not a good use of the technology for a score of reasons.
If you lose it the books can be assigned to the new hardware and the Kindle doesn't use WiFi - it uses the Sprint Cell network.
Booklight, $15 on Amazon.com and they have one that many Kindle owners in the forum recommend. I've just now bought one but not had chance to read with it.
Unless you are buying those paperback used you aren't - Amazon discounts from the paperback price too for the Kindle.