Some rich, eccentric Billionaire should buy the whole friggin' Russian space program and run it as a private industry. The whole Russian space budget is just a small fraction of NASA's budget, so I guess this would be very affordable. Just imagine how much value you'd get for your money;)
> The germans considered the french trains to be > awfully fragile. The french thought the german > one [ICE] to be a heavy, unelegant brute:-)
Well the German ICE turned out to be awfully fragile when it hit a bridge in Eschede, resulting in 101 fatalities. All because it dropped a wheel and derailed.
Well the license I received for my Real Video clip was indeed valid for 24 hours only.
So even if you bypassed their auto-deletion mechanism, you can still watch the clip only within 24 hours.
So I'd say it is a reasonably secure solution. However one profound DRM hack can make the system obsolete pretty quickly -- that is until Microsoft or real counter with a mandatory client upgrade several weeks later.
> There is no such thing as a protected file format > or a movie that can only play once. If you can > play it, you can use a screen capture program to > capture the video.
Not entirely true for high resolution. Your AGP port simply won't allow to capture the video in realtime.
An AGP benchmarking utility for read performance is available somewhere on the site www.seriousmagic.com
The easiest way to capture the video would be to route the video-out of your graphics board into a capture card. That's an analog solution, but it works.
> Audio quality: decent. I think I've read that the > Liquid Audio is really mp3 @ 192kbps inside their > "secure" wrapper.
Not true. It's Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). I assume a bitrate of 96 kbit/s or 128 kbit/s. More does not make sense in bandwidth for the content provider.
> Compatiblity: Bad. I use WinAmp, and hardly ever > listened to the Liquid tracks because I couldn't > listen to them in WinAmp.
Try Real One Player. It has Liquid Audio support that works. You can also turn off all the ad banners and popups, as well as the system tray utility. I prefer Real One Player of Windows Media Player 9 because I like the music library management functions a lot.
To get detail images of the moon landers, you have to use interferometry.
Your telescope's aperture limits the resolution of the image. Since it's no where practical to build 100m mirrors, you have to use interferometry. That means bundling several beams into one, like they do with the VLT telescope on Mt. Paranal.
With radio telescopes you can use recordings of the signals, taken thousands of miles apart, using atomic clocks for synchronizing the recordings.
If you were to send radar pulses onto the moon surfaces and watched the returned signal with several radio telescopes all around the world, I am pretty sure that you could recognize the shape of the moon lander descent stage on the moon's surface. Possibly even the rover and the other equipment they left behind.
But who would want to fund such a huge thing, especially considering that scientists don't usually doubt that there has been a moon landing.
Have a good look into C# and the Common Runtime Language environment (CLR). If you want to go hardcore, look at the underlying intermediate assembly language (which is ECMA standardized)..NET is going to take off. With or without you.
If you're more the open source / GNU / Linux kinda guy, then you might want to look at Mono instead. Same thing, but free and portable - yet unfinished;)
If the system cannot be broken, it must be "bent". I believe the system can be bent by using the system. i.e. by founding a record label that pays better royalties to the artists. No more artist getting riped-off and no more artists owing the record label money after a CD release.
At the same time the new label must aggressively advertise that it sticks to the "Red Book" CD-DA standard (No copy protection bullsh*t).
Once the company can prove that it is able to cater to a large audience (quantity must be provided while ensuring quality), the artists *will* come, I believe;) Money attracts artists. Good artists attract CD buyers.
The only problem with this approach: It requires funding. Lot of it. And it requires talented people to run this label. Talent doesn't grow on trees unfortunately.
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Some rich, eccentric Billionaire should buy the whole friggin' Russian space program and run it as a private industry. The whole Russian space budget is just a small fraction of NASA's budget, so I guess this would be very affordable. Just imagine how much value you'd get for your money
So how exactly does a subway driver get a GPS
signal on the job?
And how do Australians get GPS? They're 6000 miles
below our feet!
> The germans considered the french trains to be :-)
> awfully fragile. The french thought the german
> one [ICE] to be a heavy, unelegant brute
Well the German ICE turned out to be awfully fragile
when it hit a bridge in Eschede, resulting in 101
fatalities. All because it dropped a wheel and
derailed.
No nation/organization will ever admit they are violating human rights in any form. Hence they will be convinced they can legally use your software.
The Chinese deny.
The US denies any violation of human rights at Guantanamo, Camp X-Ray.
Pretty much everyone denies wrongdoing. Of course it is much easier to spot someone else's "bad deeds".
Excluding foreign content delivery based on IP range:
- is cheap
- is 99.9% accurate (fuck that remaining 0.1%)
- and infringes on patents held by Liquid Audio (and possibly Microsoft due to a patent deal with this company).
Well the license I received for my Real Video clip was indeed valid for 24 hours only.
So even if you bypassed their auto-deletion mechanism, you can still watch the clip only within 24 hours.
So I'd say it is a reasonably secure solution. However one profound DRM hack can make the system obsolete pretty quickly -- that is until Microsoft or real counter with a mandatory client upgrade several weeks later.
> There is no such thing as a protected file format
> or a movie that can only play once. If you can
> play it, you can use a screen capture program to
> capture the video.
Not entirely true for high resolution. Your AGP port simply won't allow to capture the video in realtime.
An AGP benchmarking utility for read performance is available somewhere on the site www.seriousmagic.com
The easiest way to capture the video would be to route the video-out of your graphics board into a capture card. That's an analog solution, but it works.
Let me guess. You added the original AC3 soundtrack
to the DivX?
Is it REALLY necessary to go beyond the size of
an 800 Meg CD-R ?
Bottomline is:
320 x 240 video resolution in Real Video 8, 700 kbit/s constant bitrate, thereof 64 kbit/s for audio - JUST DOESN'T CUT IT.
A DivX of the same movie had something like 584x304 in resolution and was only 25% larger in size.
Nevertheless their download manager worked flawlessly for me and I got download speeds of 250 kbytes/sec. The movie had arrived after 35 minutes.
Video quality was fair, even though the low resolution killed some details.
Bottomline is: Whoever they hired for video encoding just doesn't make the job right.
People like the author of this article are
so called "Source Code Communists".
> Audio quality: decent. I think I've read that the
> Liquid Audio is really mp3 @ 192kbps inside their
> "secure" wrapper.
Not true. It's Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). I assume a bitrate of 96 kbit/s or 128 kbit/s. More does not make sense in bandwidth for the content provider.
> Compatiblity: Bad. I use WinAmp, and hardly ever
> listened to the Liquid tracks because I couldn't
> listen to them in WinAmp.
Try Real One Player. It has Liquid Audio support that works. You can also turn off all the ad banners and popups, as well as the system tray utility. I prefer Real One Player of Windows Media Player 9 because I like the music library management functions a lot.
To get detail images of the moon landers, you have to use interferometry.
Your telescope's aperture limits the resolution of the image. Since it's no where practical to build 100m mirrors, you have to use interferometry. That means bundling several beams into one, like they do with the VLT telescope on Mt. Paranal.
With radio telescopes you can use recordings of the signals, taken thousands of miles apart, using atomic clocks for synchronizing the recordings.
If you were to send radar pulses onto the moon surfaces and watched the returned signal with several radio telescopes all around the world, I am pretty sure that you could recognize the shape of the moon lander descent stage on the moon's surface. Possibly even the rover and the other equipment they left behind.
But who would want to fund such a huge thing, especially considering that scientists don't usually doubt that there has been a moon landing.
Guess why so far I haven't bought a PDA.
;)
If I wanted a cool, geeky but otherwise
useless tech toy I'd own one. But I don't
This is not a flamebait, the link given is valid. It's a bayesian mail filter for POP3 mailboxes.
One problem though is: this name (popfile) collides
with a commercial offering operated by major record
labels.
It's the equivalent of MusicNet / Listen.com / PressPlay for the German market.
If you keep using this name, prepare to enjoy the cease and desist letters from their lawyers.
haha
Is there such a think as a "Moore's Law" for thermal design power?
So how many years does it take for thermal design power to double?
When will we have desktop PCs that you can use to fry scrambled eggs and bacon in the morning?
Will we ever use our PCs to heat up our apartments? Will PCs eventually be integrated in our fireplaces? Will we run a fire screensaver then?
So many questions...
I wonder when the first dudes suggest to store
these DVDs in a vacuum chamber (or maybe in an
environment filled with non-oxidant gas, maybe
Helium).
Should be relatively feasible to "case mod" some
of the existing DVD racks. Just make it reasonably
airtight and put it under Helium.
And in case it leaks, you also get a funny voice
and/or suffocate in your sleep. Ah the life.
It might be a bit more tricky to put your DVD
player in a non-oxidant environment, but it may
be worth the effort.
Have a good look into C# and the Common Runtime .NET is going to take off. With or without you.
;)
Language environment (CLR). If you want to go hardcore, look at the underlying intermediate assembly language (which is ECMA standardized).
If you're more the open source / GNU / Linux kinda guy, then you might want to look at Mono instead. Same thing, but free and portable - yet unfinished
If the system cannot be broken, it must be "bent". I believe the system can be bent by using the system. i.e. by founding a record label that pays better royalties to the artists. No more artist getting riped-off and no more artists owing the record label money after a CD release.
At the same time the new label must aggressively advertise that it sticks to the "Red Book" CD-DA standard (No copy protection bullsh*t).
Once the company can prove that it is able to cater to a large audience (quantity must be provided while ensuring quality), the artists *will* come, I believe
The only problem with this approach: It requires funding. Lot of it. And it requires talented people to run this label. Talent doesn't grow on trees unfortunately.
Now if that isn't proof that the PVR marked IS DOOMED
I just cremated my Monsters Inc. DVD.
I am sure they can read great secrets from my skidmarks.
I want it back washed, dried and ironed!
Prove that the EULA violates federal / state laws
then sue their asses off.
I hereby propose the use of 300.000 home computers
to solve the NP-Problem.
Join the Tetris@Home distributed computing effort!
The 256 MB are used as a file cache. And that's
just the minimum size. It will grow to 1 GB if you
do not limit that by hacking the registry.
They cache the music you just listened such that it keeps their bandwidth costs down.