I swear I have seen "Jim's Roach Coach" in front of my company building the other day... I assumed that he was there to feed the utility workers who were doing some work on our internet line... Its a funny coincidence that "Jim's Roach Coach" was also seen at NSA headquarter...the utility workers might not be what they seem...
As far as XVID is concerned, if anything the situation is even more crappy.
"Due primarily to concerns over patents, the official Xvid homepage does not provide binary versions of the Xvid codec." "Since Xvid uses MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile (ASP) compression, video encoded with it is MPEG-4 ASP video (not "Xvid video")"
(Source: wikipedia)
So basically, XVID is as much covered in MPEG-LA "crap" as are MPEG4 and H.264....
Yeah sure... And you are also going to do that when the person sitting next to you is not a brain-less teenage girl but a brain-less frat boy which happen to be a ruthless member of the school football team going on spring break and already half drunk ?
Even the brain-less teenage girl could inadvertantly spill her complimentary drink on you when you pissed her too much.
Do you mean cost per user reachable by the network ? Or cost per sq mile covered ?
Assuming those 10 bubbles reach 1/3 of houston population (2.1M/3=700K), thats $5 per person. (Note that with 15 AP per buble thats about 4666 customer per AP... so i might be overestimating the number of people reached here...)
Based on that rate alone the cost to reach the 293M people that ATT covers in the US today would be almost $1.5B
I have no idea how many billions they are spending, (maybe they are spending $15B , not $1.5B) but if you keep in mind that its easy and cheap to reach your first million customer thats leave in densely populated area, but that it get much harder to reach the other ones then the price doesnt look that ridiculous.
Bottom line is I would not compare a free municipal wifi service to a cell service.
Nor are the majority of Engineering students destined to make Great Engineers. Nor are the majority of Computer Science students destined to make Great Computer Scientist.
But my choices are not based solely on opensource vs proprietary. My wallet is important too. The work environment too.
So if my choice is "Using Proprietary Software and having a Job that will allow me to buy a new car" vs "Using only open source software and maybe not find a job"... my choice is clear.
For many the choice does not need to be so drastic. In some domain, its possible to find job in company that only or mostly use open source. Not in every domain though...
The chip generate a unique Private Key when first powering up. The matching Public Key is sent to the IP holder for activation. Supposedly there is no way to force a chip to generate a known private key without modifying the masks.
Modifying the mask (blueprint) using a "microscope" (or other techniques), is much more difficult that just putting the original mask in the machine and churning out a few thousands of chips.
The problem I see with this is that it looks like the activation must be done before testing and is done by the fab.
As such, all chips even the one reported defective by the Fab will be activated. The Fab could claim that some chips are bad even when they are not and then re-sell them on the black market.
The IP holder would see some difference in yield when the Fab does that, but this might be explained otherwise. For example the Fab could say..."we had some equipment failure that day, so 50% of the chips production that day was damaged, sorry". To avoid this the IP holder would have to ask the Fab to send them all the activated chip even the one that failed the test, and securely destroy them...
It would be better if the chips could be reliably tested while still locked.
Supposedly, the China Fab reports to the Company A how many chip they built, along with some unique identifier for the chips. When Company B buys chips from Company A, Company A will unlock the Chip (or send them the code to unlock the chip). If well designed, the code is unique per chip.
As such if China Fab keep 10000 extra unit without reporting it to Company A, they wont be able to unlock them.
Of course they could always modify the process to remove the locking mechanism or to produce 10000 chips with the same unlock code, but thats going to be a lot harder than justs diverting extra units.
Whats the point of encrypting my connection between my laptop on the Starbucks AP if its all in clear when it leaves the AP? (and also when ATT is scanning the whole thing in a backroom)
That was AACS. BD+ is another layer on top of it. I dont think commercial titles with BD+ where available a year ago (or they just came out) As far as I know, they didnt "crack" BD+ yet, but I havent followed doom9 in a while....
The format was extended not completely changed. Discs with the logo will still play. There is backward compatibility.
Are they also going to sue all the manufacturer of older HDMI devices ? Because you know, you might not be able to enjoy some of the newest feature that HDMI 1.3 brings if one of your device is only HDMI 1.2
I'm sure they dont check if the IP is in their own block, that's not what its about.
About 99% of emails containing an url with a numerical IP are spams. I certainly would not fault cox for blocking those outgoing spams.
Cox certainly has a certain number of customers whose PCs are routinely infected with spam sending trojans. The filter was probably enabled by a scruffy looking unix admin, muttering about how clueless those Windows users are, rather than a pointy-haired boss trying to limit the use of home servers.
So just get a freaking free DNS domain to resolve your numerical IP and you'll be happy....
Healthcare is a Public Service. (at least in Canada)
This would make Music a public service as well.
Some people make profits on Public Services (Healthcare, Public Transport, etc...) and thats okay (at least, up to a point) because of the Services they enable.
Now, do we really want Music as a Public Service ?
According to the diagram on the website, it seems that the low temperature stack is receiving electricity to "pump" the proton through the barrier and loose energy to heat dissipated.
On the hot side, heat is absorbed and electricity is produced.
Why would the electricity output be greater than the input.
Also, in a fuel cell, one chemical reaction is Hydrogen => Proton + Electron, the other side of the barrier is Proton + Oxygen + Electrons => Water.
How come this engine can regenerate Hydrogen on the other side of the barrier while the Fuel Cell has to use Oxygen to produce waste water ?
So, If your goal was to control how your software is used or being paid for uses you dont agree with, you should not have used the GPL. I mean, its like your software being used by terrorists: I'm sure you dont agree with what they are doing. Yet, they could and GPL specifically allow that, for freedom sake.
You bought a lousy device, thats a problem. But do you really think that having busybox licensed under a GPL v3 from the start would have prevented that? They probably would have spent more money on something else, the result would still be the same.
You of all people should have known that having busybox in a device did not guarantee for suitability for a particular purpose. If you were fooled by SONY, if they told you "See, we include busybox, you are going to be able to use this device whichever way you see fit, and it will never be obsolete" then you might have a point.
Otherwise, you are just upset because, as a developer you see your software being used in ways you dont like, and because, as a user, you bought a lousy device that is becoming obsolete.
I dont think your freedom to use the software is breached. Your freedom to use the hardware in some ways probably is.
Just dont buy that kind of hardware. I mean you probably wouldnt buy windows software right... It sounds like what you wanted was a generic PC with linux and MythTV.
This is really just an hardware issue. If they decided to put all the code into a ROM and make it non upgradeable, then you would be sorry whether or not the code use DRM or GPLv3...
Millions of Analog TV will stop being useful when they switch off the last analog station. No matter what software would be inside those TVs, or what license was used... You could develop a converter box to generate the clock signal and the user guide your box requires from other sources.
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Hum thats funny...
I swear I have seen "Jim's Roach Coach" in front of my company building the other day... I assumed that he was there to feed the utility workers who were doing some work on our internet line... Its a funny coincidence that "Jim's Roach Coach" was also seen at NSA headquarter...the utility workers might not be what they seem...
H.264 is certainly not exempt from MPEG-LA "crap" : http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_03-11-17_avc.html
As far as XVID is concerned, if anything the situation is even more crappy.
"Due primarily to concerns over patents, the official Xvid homepage does not provide binary versions of the Xvid codec."
"Since Xvid uses MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile (ASP) compression, video encoded with it is MPEG-4 ASP video (not "Xvid video")"
(Source: wikipedia)
So basically, XVID is as much covered in MPEG-LA "crap" as are MPEG4 and H.264....
Yeah sure... And you are also going to do that when the person sitting next to you is not a brain-less teenage girl but a brain-less frat boy which happen to be a ruthless member of the school football team going on spring break and already half drunk ?
Even the brain-less teenage girl could inadvertantly spill her complimentary drink on you when you pissed her too much.
Fist fights for sure....
Do you mean cost per user reachable by the network ? Or cost per sq mile covered ?
Assuming those 10 bubbles reach 1/3 of houston population (2.1M/3=700K), thats $5 per person. (Note that with 15 AP per buble thats about 4666 customer per AP... so i might be overestimating the number of people reached here...)
Based on that rate alone the cost to reach the 293M people that ATT covers in the US today would be almost $1.5B
I have no idea how many billions they are spending, (maybe they are spending $15B , not $1.5B) but if you keep in mind that its easy and cheap to reach your first million customer thats leave in densely populated area, but that it get much harder to reach the other ones then the price doesnt look that ridiculous.
Bottom line is I would not compare a free municipal wifi service to a cell service.
If it said, "The Sun" I would have been worried about the british tabloid... :)
Nor are the majority of Engineering students destined to make Great Engineers.
Nor are the majority of Computer Science students destined to make Great Computer Scientist.
The Greats are very few.
I'm not one of them, neither are you.
Electrons dont run either.
Do you have a better analogy for relative measure of processing power or are you just being pedantic?
I think it might be simpler to start smaller. For example: tuna and chicken, dont you think?
Yes. If its your choice.
... my choice is clear.
But my choices are not based solely on opensource vs proprietary. My wallet is important too. The work environment too.
So if my choice is "Using Proprietary Software and having a Job that will allow me to buy a new car" vs "Using only open source software and maybe not find a job"
For many the choice does not need to be so drastic. In some domain, its possible to find job in company that only or mostly use open source. Not in every domain though...
Read the paper. http://www.cse.umich.edu/~imarkov/pubs/conf/date08-epic.pdf.
The chip generate a unique Private Key when first powering up. The matching Public Key is sent to the IP holder for activation. Supposedly there is no way to force a chip to generate a known private key without modifying the masks.
Modifying the mask (blueprint) using a "microscope" (or other techniques), is much more difficult that just putting the original mask in the machine and churning out a few thousands of chips.
I read that paper.
...
The problem I see with this is that it looks like the activation must be done before testing and is done by the fab.
As such, all chips even the one reported defective by the Fab will be activated.
The Fab could claim that some chips are bad even when they are not and then re-sell them on the black market.
The IP holder would see some difference in yield when the Fab does that, but this might be explained otherwise.
For example the Fab could say..."we had some equipment failure that day, so 50% of the chips production that day was damaged, sorry".
To avoid this the IP holder would have to ask the Fab to send them all the activated chip even the one that failed the test, and securely destroy them
It would be better if the chips could be reliably tested while still locked.
Supposedly, the China Fab reports to the Company A how many chip they built, along with some unique identifier for the chips. When Company B buys chips from Company A, Company A will unlock the Chip (or send them the code to unlock the chip). If well designed, the code is unique per chip.
As such if China Fab keep 10000 extra unit without reporting it to Company A, they wont be able to unlock them.
Of course they could always modify the process to remove the locking mechanism or to produce 10000 chips with the same unlock code, but thats going to be a lot harder than justs diverting extra units.
Whats the point of encrypting my connection between my laptop on the Starbucks AP if its all in clear when it leaves the AP? (and also when ATT is scanning the whole thing in a backroom)
That was AACS.
BD+ is another layer on top of it.
I dont think commercial titles with BD+ where available a year ago (or they just came out)
As far as I know, they didnt "crack" BD+ yet, but I havent followed doom9 in a while....
The format was extended not completely changed.
Discs with the logo will still play. There is backward compatibility.
Are they also going to sue all the manufacturer of older HDMI devices ? Because you know, you might not be able to enjoy some of the newest feature that HDMI 1.3 brings if one of your device is only HDMI 1.2
This is just a plain stupid lawsuit....
I'm sure they dont check if the IP is in their own block, that's not what its about.
About 99% of emails containing an url with a numerical IP are spams. I certainly would not fault cox for blocking those outgoing spams.
Cox certainly has a certain number of customers whose PCs are routinely infected with spam sending trojans. The filter was probably enabled by a scruffy looking unix admin, muttering about how clueless those Windows users are, rather than a pointy-haired boss trying to limit the use of home servers.
So just get a freaking free DNS domain to resolve your numerical IP and you'll be happy....
Healthcare is a Public Service. (at least in Canada)
This would make Music a public service as well.
Some people make profits on Public Services (Healthcare, Public Transport, etc...) and thats okay (at least, up to a point) because of the Services they enable.
Now, do we really want Music as a Public Service ?
Good point.
Did he realized that he was giving away his article DRM-free ? This must be the end of the news print industry!
... was it because of DRM or lack thereof ?
Really, there's nothing you can do about it. Better just cope with it.
Futility is needed...
According to the diagram on the website, it seems that the low temperature stack is receiving electricity to "pump" the proton through the barrier and loose energy to heat dissipated.
On the hot side, heat is absorbed and electricity is produced.
Why would the electricity output be greater than the input.
Also, in a fuel cell, one chemical reaction is Hydrogen => Proton + Electron, the other side of the barrier is Proton + Oxygen + Electrons => Water.
How come this engine can regenerate Hydrogen on the other side of the barrier while the Fuel Cell has to use Oxygen to produce waste water ?
"unmodifiable in situ or impairing its functionality if it's modified"
Is there actual language in GPLv3 to that effect ?
That would mean you are forbidden to use GPLv3 code in a rom or maybe even a write protected flash. Interesting indeed...
So, If your goal was to control how your software is used or being paid for uses you dont agree with, you should not have used the GPL. I mean, its like your software being used by terrorists: I'm sure you dont agree with what they are doing. Yet, they could and GPL specifically allow that, for freedom sake.
You bought a lousy device, thats a problem. But do you really think that having busybox licensed under a GPL v3 from the start would have prevented that? They probably would have spent more money on something else, the result would still be the same.
You of all people should have known that having busybox in a device did not guarantee for suitability for a particular purpose. If you were fooled by SONY, if they told you "See, we include busybox, you are going to be able to use this device whichever way you see fit, and it will never be obsolete" then you might have a point.
Otherwise, you are just upset because, as a developer you see your software being used in ways you dont like, and because, as a user, you bought a lousy device that is becoming obsolete.
I dont think your freedom to use the software is breached. Your freedom to use the hardware in some ways probably is.
... It sounds like what you wanted was a generic PC with linux and MythTV.
Just dont buy that kind of hardware. I mean you probably wouldnt buy windows software right
This is really just an hardware issue. If they decided to put all the code into a ROM and make it non upgradeable, then you would be sorry whether or not the code use DRM or GPLv3...
Millions of Analog TV will stop being useful when they switch off the last analog station. No matter what software would be inside those TVs, or what license was used... You could develop a converter box to generate the clock signal and the user guide your box requires from other sources.