They're a good idea, but let down by the execution. Add in the relatively high price (you can get a 'real' car for 50% less) and you can see why the only buyers are marketing/media types, estate agents (realtors) etc etc.
Having seen a couple wobble their way down a dual carriageway too i'm not sure they're that safe either.
It is cool seeing them parked sideways at the end of a parking bay though. The cool factor evaporates as soon as you're spotted in one. A friend took one for a drive from a garage he worked at - it was the 'turbo' version and I swear the engine could have fit in his girlfriends handbag. But to fit three of us in there I was wedged with my feet in the air and the engine was not happy. Never had public transport seemed so appealing.
Which means nothing. The important factor is whether that exploit is in the wild.
It's fairly irrelevent as far as this vulnerability is concerned, but is a fact that is generally thrown at Windows users on slashdot, so I thought i'd write it...
CD quality is 1411 kbps. Certainly 192 is higher than the commonly seen 128, but at less than 14% of CD quality I wouldn't call it "near" CD quality. 320 kbps, which is the highest my chosen ripping software will go, is still roughly 1/4 CD quality.
'less than 14% of CD quality' seems to be mistaking size with quality.
I wonder how the OP would expect the quality of a FLAC rip at half the uncompressed bitrate to suffer, seeing as it's not the 'full bitrate'?
You sir, are an idiot. Obviously lossless is going to be the best, but since when did 'quality' (however you define that) increase in a linear fashion alongside bitrate?
I see two problems with this. First, let's face it, since they are searching text of Amazon books, it's an ad site. Sure, it's useful, but it's an ad site. Second, I tested it by typing "Helena" (my home town, the state seat of Montana) and there isn't a single picture of Helena, Montana among the first page but rather pages of women in swimsuits. I don't think adding images without asking for them adds much to searching, that's why I like Google as I can pick the content.
I know what you mean. I live in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in England. A nearby beauty spot is called Shab Hill, and is a nice place where you can park the car and take in some nice views of the hills round here. Searching for
"shab hill"gloucestershire
will bring up a dogging site as the first link. Dogging, for those not familiar, is the practice of hanging out in carparks waiting for others to make out in their cars nearby. Whereupon the viewers gather round the car and play with their genitals hoping to get asked to join in. Honestly, i'm as open minded as the next man with his organ stuck in a chicken, but these lot piss me off. You can even bring your girlfriend up there for a quiet smoke and grapple, it's not very nice having people hanging around outside my car watching for what i'm going to fumble with next.
Yes we are being overcharged, hence why this is being investigated. Moving to the Euro now wouldn't stop this happening.
I assume the 99 cents/pence thing is probably marketing led, i.e. what they can get away without going over to a gnarly looking 3 digit number. If they can't justify the difference between us and the rest of Europe then they deserve to be penalised. I thought they weren't allowed to restrict trade within Europe due to EU law, hence why can't I buy from the German site?
And how would this help overcharging? I seem to recall many countries had price rises after switching to the euro.
They would have an argument if they were overcharging on real CDs. However, a digital download costs the same to send to Germany or the UK, so why the discrepancy? It's profiteering isn't it?
Rubbish. Besides, this doesn't make it right. Or are you one of these folks who back Apple no matter what they do?
It doesn't matter anyway, if they keep selling digital downloads for the same price as a real album, i'll carry on downloading. I was looking for a book today on Amazon ('Bringing Down The House'). It was cheaper as a real bona-fide book than as a download. Go figure.
Maybe. But the fact is that, for the amount of data sent over their pipes for voice, it's more efficient (read: less bandwidth) to use VoIP. So it costs the link owner less too.
POTS is outdated anyway. Broadband is a utility these days, and if the government want to mandate anything they should impose QoS terms on providers (at the moment there is no contractual obligation for a UK Broadband ISP to actually keep the service going, whereas for POTS a days down time can cost BT money). Once we have QoS on our broadband, then POTS will slower die off.
I find it outstanding thatt again, some cock-eyed attempt to guarantee some pie-in-the-sky compression ratio is backed by stock investors to the tune of millions.
I might join in. Hey, i've just 'discovered' a way to compress data by dowsing it in water. Anyone care to lend me a few million to test out this theory?
But they've stated they're running an insecure and unsupported OS without any protection. That's asking for trouble and bad netiquette (horrible word...)
It won't take an hour to at least load up Zonealarm, Ad-Aware, Spybot and run a free virus check on www.ravantivirus.com, so there's no excuse.
Why not run a free firewall and watch for any alerts that something is trying to connect to the internet? Zonealarm will do fine.
If you're a bit more techie you can use winpcap or similar to capture the traffic.
There's no excuse to be wide open. You'll soon do something about it when your ISP wakes up to the problem and cuts you off. I appreciate how people can get caught inadvertantly by malware (I was hosting a trojan for a few hours last week inbetween upgrades) but I don't appreciate you leaving it this long, then asking slashdot when it's plainly obvious what you need to do.
Does anyone know what a ballpark cost would be for licensing the IP for a blu-ray player, including the MS and other patented bits?
With all these codecs on board i'd imagine it's a lot more than for regular DVD, and seeing the Chinese manufacturers attitude towards this they'll just go right ahead with their own patent-free platform. Hollywood will ignore them, at first, then they'll panic like mad knowing that a couple of billion users can only buy pirated copies of their films. Brilliant, way to go.
Now, you're letting that tin foil hat get to your brain. Automatic Update only gets critical security updates, and if they used this for WMP10 the world would come down upon them like a sack of shit.
I agree they have a massive advantage with their leverage, but to be honest Apple are being even bigger c**ts with iTunes.
I don't know, but if this happens in the UK then surely I can nail the ass out of my local loop provider as I pay a seperate charge to receive called-id, and if they're prepared to pass on false info when i've paid for it...
I have seen him interviewed on the BBC, and the reason he didn't wear the lid was so he could hear if the jet was going to go wrong and if so abort. This is what racing drivers used to do in the 50s and 60s when engines were prone to seizing mid-race. He's plainly nuts, but I salute his cojones.
If you bothered to read that thread, or actually used gmail yourself, you'd know that they aren't cracking down on third party addons (although they'd be in the rights to do so) - they're just adding captcha style logons in situations where an incorrect password has been entered too many times. It's simply to stop programs brute forcing gmail accounts.
Well i'm sharing shitloads of musepack files, all ripped from my own CDs, and i'm up to 190gb (the files are on average about 200kpbs). All the stuff i've downloaded hasn't stopped me from buying CDs, and indeed has made me buy more (Jack Johnson for example, i'd have never heard of him if it wasnt for p2p as he's not marketed or even sold in the UK). So the RIAA can stick their figures up their arse.
This is great, as it provides an opportunity for my favourite codec (musepack) to be supported by a hardware device at last. Musepack (aka mpc) is idea for this - it's based on mp2, so is simple to decode (read: less power) and works better at bitrates > 128kbps than any other codec you can mention, and this has been proved by many double-blind tests. I'm looking forward to support for this, and when it happens i'll be one of the first to order one.
Not necessarily. I doubt your BIOS can do all the power saving tricks that your full OS can do, regardless of whether that is Linux or Windows. This includes processor throttling, h/d power down etc etc.
What the hell is one of these? There seems no substance to this report, bar some TLAs as above and a load of hype. Where is the proof? How was it tested? Etc.
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The guy in question from Futuremark has already apologised for it.
They're a good idea, but let down by the execution. Add in the relatively high price (you can get a 'real' car for 50% less) and you can see why the only buyers are marketing/media types, estate agents (realtors) etc etc.
Having seen a couple wobble their way down a dual carriageway too i'm not sure they're that safe either.
It is cool seeing them parked sideways at the end of a parking bay though. The cool factor evaporates as soon as you're spotted in one. A friend took one for a drive from a garage he worked at - it was the 'turbo' version and I swear the engine could have fit in his girlfriends handbag. But to fit three of us in there I was wedged with my feet in the air and the engine was not happy. Never had public transport seemed so appealing.
Anyone else find it interesting that home hardware is so advanced over arcade machines that the latter are powering the former?
:D
I remember when I used to look at a Defender machine and think 'no way will I ever have that at home'.
No, my name isn't Bill Gates
Which means nothing. The important factor is whether that exploit is in the wild.
It's fairly irrelevent as far as this vulnerability is concerned, but is a fact that is generally thrown at Windows users on slashdot, so I thought i'd write it...
Because most other countries don't take on a self-appointed role as global policeman.
'less than 14% of CD quality' seems to be mistaking size with quality.
I wonder how the OP would expect the quality of a FLAC rip at half the uncompressed bitrate to suffer, seeing as it's not the 'full bitrate'?
You sir, are an idiot. Obviously lossless is going to be the best, but since when did 'quality' (however you define that) increase in a linear fashion alongside bitrate?
By 'can' I obviously mean't to say "can't". Damn Freudian slips.
I know what you mean. I live in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in England. A nearby beauty spot is called Shab Hill, and is a nice place where you can park the car and take in some nice views of the hills round here. Searching for
will bring up a dogging site as the first link. Dogging, for those not familiar, is the practice of hanging out in carparks waiting for others to make out in their cars nearby. Whereupon the viewers gather round the car and play with their genitals hoping to get asked to join in. Honestly, i'm as open minded as the next man with his organ stuck in a chicken, but these lot piss me off. You can even bring your girlfriend up there for a quiet smoke and grapple, it's not very nice having people hanging around outside my car watching for what i'm going to fumble with next.
Yes we are being overcharged, hence why this is being investigated. Moving to the Euro now wouldn't stop this happening.
I assume the 99 cents/pence thing is probably marketing led, i.e. what they can get away without going over to a gnarly looking 3 digit number. If they can't justify the difference between us and the rest of Europe then they deserve to be penalised. I thought they weren't allowed to restrict trade within Europe due to EU law, hence why can't I buy from the German site?
And how would this help overcharging? I seem to recall many countries had price rises after switching to the euro.
They would have an argument if they were overcharging on real CDs. However, a digital download costs the same to send to Germany or the UK, so why the discrepancy? It's profiteering isn't it?
"Everything is more expensive in England"
Rubbish. Besides, this doesn't make it right. Or are you one of these folks who back Apple no matter what they do?
It doesn't matter anyway, if they keep selling digital downloads for the same price as a real album, i'll carry on downloading. I was looking for a book today on Amazon ('Bringing Down The House'). It was cheaper as a real bona-fide book than as a download. Go figure.
Maybe. But the fact is that, for the amount of data sent over their pipes for voice, it's more efficient (read: less bandwidth) to use VoIP. So it costs the link owner less too.
POTS is outdated anyway. Broadband is a utility these days, and if the government want to mandate anything they should impose QoS terms on providers (at the moment there is no contractual obligation for a UK Broadband ISP to actually keep the service going, whereas for POTS a days down time can cost BT money). Once we have QoS on our broadband, then POTS will slower die off.
I find it outstanding thatt again, some cock-eyed attempt to guarantee some pie-in-the-sky compression ratio is backed by stock investors to the tune of millions.
I might join in. Hey, i've just 'discovered' a way to compress data by dowsing it in water. Anyone care to lend me a few million to test out this theory?
But they've stated they're running an insecure and unsupported OS without any protection. That's asking for trouble and bad netiquette (horrible word...)
It won't take an hour to at least load up Zonealarm, Ad-Aware, Spybot and run a free virus check on www.ravantivirus.com, so there's no excuse.
Why not run a free firewall and watch for any alerts that something is trying to connect to the internet? Zonealarm will do fine.
If you're a bit more techie you can use winpcap or similar to capture the traffic.
There's no excuse to be wide open. You'll soon do something about it when your ISP wakes up to the problem and cuts you off. I appreciate how people can get caught inadvertantly by malware (I was hosting a trojan for a few hours last week inbetween upgrades) but I don't appreciate you leaving it this long, then asking slashdot when it's plainly obvious what you need to do.
Cheers.
Does anyone know what a ballpark cost would be for licensing the IP for a blu-ray player, including the MS and other patented bits?
With all these codecs on board i'd imagine it's a lot more than for regular DVD, and seeing the Chinese manufacturers attitude towards this they'll just go right ahead with their own patent-free platform. Hollywood will ignore them, at first, then they'll panic like mad knowing that a couple of billion users can only buy pirated copies of their films. Brilliant, way to go.
Now, you're letting that tin foil hat get to your brain. Automatic Update only gets critical security updates, and if they used this for WMP10 the world would come down upon them like a sack of shit.
I agree they have a massive advantage with their leverage, but to be honest Apple are being even bigger c**ts with iTunes.
*awaits flames from Mac zealots with no life*
I don't know, but if this happens in the UK then surely I can nail the ass out of my local loop provider as I pay a seperate charge to receive called-id, and if they're prepared to pass on false info when i've paid for it...
I have seen him interviewed on the BBC, and the reason he didn't wear the lid was so he could hear if the jet was going to go wrong and if so abort. This is what racing drivers used to do in the 50s and 60s when engines were prone to seizing mid-race. He's plainly nuts, but I salute his cojones.
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If you bothered to read that thread, or actually used gmail yourself, you'd know that they aren't cracking down on third party addons (although they'd be in the rights to do so) - they're just adding captcha style logons in situations where an incorrect password has been entered too many times. It's simply to stop programs brute forcing gmail accounts.
Well i'm sharing shitloads of musepack files, all ripped from my own CDs, and i'm up to 190gb (the files are on average about 200kpbs). All the stuff i've downloaded hasn't stopped me from buying CDs, and indeed has made me buy more (Jack Johnson for example, i'd have never heard of him if it wasnt for p2p as he's not marketed or even sold in the UK). So the RIAA can stick their figures up their arse.
This is great, as it provides an opportunity for my favourite codec (musepack) to be supported by a hardware device at last. Musepack (aka mpc) is idea for this - it's based on mp2, so is simple to decode (read: less power) and works better at bitrates > 128kbps than any other codec you can mention, and this has been proved by many double-blind tests. I'm looking forward to support for this, and when it happens i'll be one of the first to order one.
Not necessarily. I doubt your BIOS can do all the power saving tricks that your full OS can do, regardless of whether that is Linux or Windows. This includes processor throttling, h/d power down etc etc.
What the hell is one of these? There seems no substance to this report, bar some TLAs as above and a load of hype. Where is the proof? How was it tested? Etc.