What I never understood about this situation, is why does the government have such an all-or-nothing attitude about this?
How about ONE channel, say ch. 3, that is still on in analog that informs people about the digital switch. They seriously can't spare ONE channel?
Also, Nokia (or anyone for that matter), has not designed capacitive touch in the same way Apple has. Apple has patented the technology (this is why all other touch-screen phones suck compared to the iPhone) and no one can really use it. Kind of like how they wouldn't allow synaptics to make a circular touch-pad for any other mp3 player. Anyway, lots of engineers in the industry really were blown away by the way Apple implemented capacitive touch. It was "innovative"
All resistors vary their resistance based on temperature. That's why there is "tolerance" levels. A thermistor is essentially the same thing, but made of material that is more affected by temperature change.
And transistors just aren't passive components, simple as that.
"But the reality is that these creatures will rarely sting unless you disturb them or their nest(at least in europe)."
No way. I grew up in Pennsylvania with a swimming pool in my backyard. You wouldn't believe how much insects a pool in that area attracts. Many, many times if a few friends were over to swim, and the wasps felt threatened of their water source (for their nests in our attic) then they would get very aggressive. They would even just randomly sting people lounging out on the deck. Bumble bee's are one thing, but wasps just don't even want you nearby (even if you were there first). Also, you preyed everytime you mowed the lawn that you wouldn't disturb an underground nest...
I don't understand why so much effort would go into cracking HDCP?
When protected content arrives at the destination (LCD screen, Projector, etc) it is decrypted back to it's original unprotected form before the rest of the electronics that render the image can make sense of it. So why not just crack open a TV or Projector, find this data path, and pull the data off those data bus traces?
Not that I'm a Apple fanboy in anyway, but you need to be corrected here:
Boot Camp IS a native install.
Boot Camp is essentially a partition manager that holds your hand and helps you setup your system for a windows install (or another OS). The other part of Boot Camp is a nice and neat driver package with an auto-updater (for windows). You need drivers for windows to work with the hardware (duh, just like ANY pc you buy. You know those DELL driver disks?). Most of their hardware is standard hardware with standard drivers with only a few proprietary things here and there (I believe my macbook pro needs a touchpad driver and that specific one is only in macs).
You can essentially wipe the entire HD clean and run ONLY windows on it (Apple will only push firmware updates through OSX though, obviously). Or you could do all this yourself with a partition tool, and manually go out and find all the windows drivers for your hardware in your MAC.
Remmember, MACs are PCs + EFI chip now. That's it. And they come with OSX pre-installed on them. BootCamp is an automated system of tasks geeks already should know how to do.
I thought most GSM radios were locked down as per FCC regulations. My friend bought a GSM radio module off of sparkfun a few years ago. It had a slot for the SIM card, antenna, audio i/o, and serial for control. It was completely packaged in a tight metal cage which made any tampering to the radio itself very cumbersome.
Does the openMoko project use a completely custom radio? If so, I think that's illegal to use in the US. I could be wrong mistaken though...
Just visited a LEGO store at a mall in San Jose. They have a wall of Lego piece dispensers all individually filled with unique common Lego pieces. You can grab a cup for 7 bucks, or a bigger one for 14 bucks, and fill it up with as much pieces as you can fit. Definitely beats bricklink.
check it out!
I know, I was suspicious of a fake as well.
I know I'm gonna get modded down for this, but the ONLY thing I ever liked about Vista was the UI (well, the start-menu at least). I thought the dark, boxxy, transparent start menu looked really clean and "professional". I could go on and on about how much I can't stand the OS, especially whats underneath, but the Vista start menu was one thing I truly liked over the cartoony XP Luna. and it seems they got rid of it? I'm not sure, some of the screenshots show a Vista bar, and other not.
I know some people might think this is picky, but the lack of smooth scroll in Chrome is what made me go back to firefox. I spend 90% of my time scrolling on websites when I browse the web, so I want the feature I use 90% of the time to be working perfect. This is another reason why I use Safari on my Macbook, because the smooth scrolling is the best i've seen in any browser combined with two-finger touch scroll.
See, I would be all about free market and no regulation IF AND ONLY IF net neutrality never existed in the first place. You can't regulate all these years and then all of the sudden let everyone go....that's starting everyone off at an unfair advantage.
Also, you have the other problem where telco's have already established agreements with local governments and you won't be able to choose any other provider. You will be locked in to one provider and any competitor won't be legally allowed. Will all that change if they remove net neutrality?
Then you got another thing to add to the mix when you realize the TAX PAYERS payed for all that fiber, not private companies in a free market. They're ours. So let's say I argue that tax payers bought those lines to setup a new economy where VoIP, Video on Demand, and other content providers can compete in a free market. Well then if net neutrality is removed, we remove that free market...but at least what goes on in the internets tubes is a free market. There is a lot more complexity to net neutrality too....you could support ISPs/NSPs prioritizing protocols and such, but not support ISPs freedom to choose what websites you view, filter actual content, or discriminate based off of source and destination.
"As long as they insist on port blocks and traffic shaping, they are an enemy of freedom."
Let me start by saying I'm a huge advocate of net neutrality.
Now, I support net neutrality in the sense that no one should be able to block/shape traffic based on source or destination (everyone should be treated equal), but I also think that traffic should be allowed to be shaped in tiers based on WHAT it is.
Bit torrent traffic, video downloads, whatever....should always be lower on the priority scale then from http/port 80 traffic and email. I know at one extreme this can fuel an argument "well the ISPs just don't want to deliver bandwidth" and I agree with that.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's unrealistic to completely not allow any form of traffic shaping based on information content (of course, this would be an organized process with a lot of oversight, and based off of protocols).
I just don't want some kid down the street downloading porn making my simple after-work email checking a slow process. At the same time, if I choose to download movies I'm okay with being at a lower priority then people who want to check their email, go on the web, VoIP, etc etc
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"Hell, even the term "byte" is 8 bits for no good reason other than history. "
I thought THAT was the reason for this whole mess? Not base 2 and base 10 conversion.
That's why you always divide by 8, if the drive is in Tera bits, and that gives you TeraBytes.
Fashion is not subject to the laws of usability, interface design, or return on income.
Um...according to anyone outside of slashdot, the iPhone is ALL about interface and usability. That's why it's selling so good.
What I never understood about this situation, is why does the government have such an all-or-nothing attitude about this? How about ONE channel, say ch. 3, that is still on in analog that informs people about the digital switch. They seriously can't spare ONE channel?
There, problem solved!
I thought wifi was LESS power-hungry then 3G?
Um....implementation of said features?
Also, Nokia (or anyone for that matter), has not designed capacitive touch in the same way Apple has. Apple has patented the technology (this is why all other touch-screen phones suck compared to the iPhone) and no one can really use it. Kind of like how they wouldn't allow synaptics to make a circular touch-pad for any other mp3 player. Anyway, lots of engineers in the industry really were blown away by the way Apple implemented capacitive touch. It was "innovative"
and....was written in 2002.
Does it have smooth scrolling yet? Like Firefox-smooth-scrolling?
All resistors vary their resistance based on temperature. That's why there is "tolerance" levels. A thermistor is essentially the same thing, but made of material that is more affected by temperature change.
And transistors just aren't passive components, simple as that.
Na, Google Docs does not do this. This is REAL-TIME collaboration, updating on the screen as you type.
"But the reality is that these creatures will rarely sting unless you disturb them or their nest(at least in europe)."
No way. I grew up in Pennsylvania with a swimming pool in my backyard. You wouldn't believe how much insects a pool in that area attracts. Many, many times if a few friends were over to swim, and the wasps felt threatened of their water source (for their nests in our attic) then they would get very aggressive. They would even just randomly sting people lounging out on the deck. Bumble bee's are one thing, but wasps just don't even want you nearby (even if you were there first). Also, you preyed everytime you mowed the lawn that you wouldn't disturb an underground nest...
I don't understand why so much effort would go into cracking HDCP?
When protected content arrives at the destination (LCD screen, Projector, etc) it is decrypted back to it's original unprotected form before the rest of the electronics that render the image can make sense of it. So why not just crack open a TV or Projector, find this data path, and pull the data off those data bus traces?
Not that I'm a Apple fanboy in anyway, but you need to be corrected here:
Boot Camp IS a native install.
Boot Camp is essentially a partition manager that holds your hand and helps you setup your system for a windows install (or another OS). The other part of Boot Camp is a nice and neat driver package with an auto-updater (for windows). You need drivers for windows to work with the hardware (duh, just like ANY pc you buy. You know those DELL driver disks?). Most of their hardware is standard hardware with standard drivers with only a few proprietary things here and there (I believe my macbook pro needs a touchpad driver and that specific one is only in macs).
You can essentially wipe the entire HD clean and run ONLY windows on it (Apple will only push firmware updates through OSX though, obviously). Or you could do all this yourself with a partition tool, and manually go out and find all the windows drivers for your hardware in your MAC.
Remmember, MACs are PCs + EFI chip now. That's it. And they come with OSX pre-installed on them. BootCamp is an automated system of tasks geeks already should know how to do.
I thought most GSM radios were locked down as per FCC regulations. My friend bought a GSM radio module off of sparkfun a few years ago. It had a slot for the SIM card, antenna, audio i/o, and serial for control. It was completely packaged in a tight metal cage which made any tampering to the radio itself very cumbersome.
Does the openMoko project use a completely custom radio? If so, I think that's illegal to use in the US. I could be wrong mistaken though...
Just visited a LEGO store at a mall in San Jose. They have a wall of Lego piece dispensers all individually filled with unique common Lego pieces. You can grab a cup for 7 bucks, or a bigger one for 14 bucks, and fill it up with as much pieces as you can fit. Definitely beats bricklink. check it out!
there are some useful iPhone SMS apps that provide filtering and unique tone alerts, but it requires that you jailbreak (which is very easy!)
my iPhone 3G tethers just fine. It's called "PDANet" and it turns your iPhone into a wireless router. It's awesome!
"unless you jailbreak it." gotta say, a jailbroken iPhone is mighty awesome to tinker with. so much development is going, just check the Cydia repo's.
I know, I was suspicious of a fake as well. I know I'm gonna get modded down for this, but the ONLY thing I ever liked about Vista was the UI (well, the start-menu at least). I thought the dark, boxxy, transparent start menu looked really clean and "professional". I could go on and on about how much I can't stand the OS, especially whats underneath, but the Vista start menu was one thing I truly liked over the cartoony XP Luna. and it seems they got rid of it? I'm not sure, some of the screenshots show a Vista bar, and other not.
There's is a growing community of people selling jailbroken apps. A jailbroken iPhone is one hell of an awesome unix pocket computer (ok, BSD!).
NOD32 FTW!
Jailbreak and then install PDANet. I use it all the time with my iPhone in my pocket and my MBP on my lap.
I know some people might think this is picky, but the lack of smooth scroll in Chrome is what made me go back to firefox. I spend 90% of my time scrolling on websites when I browse the web, so I want the feature I use 90% of the time to be working perfect. This is another reason why I use Safari on my Macbook, because the smooth scrolling is the best i've seen in any browser combined with two-finger touch scroll.
See, I would be all about free market and no regulation IF AND ONLY IF net neutrality never existed in the first place. You can't regulate all these years and then all of the sudden let everyone go....that's starting everyone off at an unfair advantage. Also, you have the other problem where telco's have already established agreements with local governments and you won't be able to choose any other provider. You will be locked in to one provider and any competitor won't be legally allowed. Will all that change if they remove net neutrality? Then you got another thing to add to the mix when you realize the TAX PAYERS payed for all that fiber, not private companies in a free market. They're ours. So let's say I argue that tax payers bought those lines to setup a new economy where VoIP, Video on Demand, and other content providers can compete in a free market. Well then if net neutrality is removed, we remove that free market...but at least what goes on in the internets tubes is a free market. There is a lot more complexity to net neutrality too....you could support ISPs/NSPs prioritizing protocols and such, but not support ISPs freedom to choose what websites you view, filter actual content, or discriminate based off of source and destination.
"As long as they insist on port blocks and traffic shaping, they are an enemy of freedom."
Let me start by saying I'm a huge advocate of net neutrality.
Now, I support net neutrality in the sense that no one should be able to block/shape traffic based on source or destination (everyone should be treated equal), but I also think that traffic should be allowed to be shaped in tiers based on WHAT it is.
Bit torrent traffic, video downloads, whatever....should always be lower on the priority scale then from http/port 80 traffic and email. I know at one extreme this can fuel an argument "well the ISPs just don't want to deliver bandwidth" and I agree with that.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's unrealistic to completely not allow any form of traffic shaping based on information content (of course, this would be an organized process with a lot of oversight, and based off of protocols).
I just don't want some kid down the street downloading porn making my simple after-work email checking a slow process. At the same time, if I choose to download movies I'm okay with being at a lower priority then people who want to check their email, go on the web, VoIP, etc etc
I always thought that high-pitch sound from a CRT was from the flyback transformer?