Stop bitching about it and put the blame where it belongs, on the people violating the rights of the copyright holders. (see, the word "right" is built into the name")
Based on what? You're saying that I have to handle my audio based on the dictates of some media consortium because of the evil pirates?
Pay close attention people: YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO INDISCRIMINATELY MAKE AND DISTRIBUTE COPIES. THAT RIGHT IS RESERVED, BY LAW, TO THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS. YOU HAVE A VERY LIMITED RIGHT TO MAKE COPIES OF COPYRIGHTED WORKS. IT IS ALL SPELLED OUT IN THE LAW. TRY READING IT SOMETIME.
I have a very limited right to distribute copies of stuff I don't own the copyright to. How is passing audio around the house distro?
Now, some dumbshit is going to say "It's not really a right." Well, it is just as much a right as is equal access laws for the disabled and the right to vote of black Americans and women. All of those are rights granted by law.
Well, dumbshit, it is, in fact, less of a right. Copyright is a negotiated exchange - the gub grants content producers a limited exclusive distro right in exchange for their works going PD after the time limit expires. Since they've fallen down on their end, then there's no moral reason not to pirate.
I looked around, and the Nuvo essentia system looks like it would allow pretty good house audio for $4-5k. Not cheap, but not really insane either - a lot of that is getting 6 sets of decent speakers.
Actually I think it's more a move to make people buy new Creative products that are native Vista with working drivers. The reason they are getting mad is that the modded drivers allow people that upgraded their XP boxes to Vista to keep using their "outdated" Creative cards instead of buying new ones. 'Vista Native' soundcard? What sort of crack are you on?
That's why Billy Joel can charge 130/ticket and paul mccartney can charge $5k/day in the hamptons, right? It's not the mass market, but it ain't chickenfeed either.
Since they don't support Analog RGB in the DVI port, I push the Y-PB-PR through an RGB converter to get it to display on my Proton at 720P. The picture is stunning on the native 720P 36 inch CRT. You sure about that? Last I checked, most cable boxes refuse to output HDTV except on HDMI ports.
Compressing in a more efficient algorithm (H.264 or XVID, as you suggested) would be great, but it would require everyone who has an Over The Air decoder box to purchase new hardware.
No it doesn't - we're talking about cable here. It would require transcoding between MPEG2 and H264, which may not be a net win, but it's certainly doable.
There's no hardware company without failures, to car brands without breakdowns and so on. Popular brands have more people and thus more failures, as long as they're not disproportionate there's really no news there.
Based on the fact that it's got integrated wifi, I surmise that it's got a high chance of being garbage. Pro gear that has to run for months at a time and can be fixed remotely doesn't integrate wifi - only consumer level trash does that. Network gear should plug into the wall and get warm. Crashing is not acceptable.
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.
That's stupid. By allowing Comcast to prioritize traffic in that way, you leave open the door to them downprioritizing it (or voip) in favor of their offering and basically gutting any freedom you thought you had. Comcast: deliver bandwidth, you wankers, and leave us alone.
one could easily download 1200 GBytes every month.
At $0.15/GB, that's $180 - if you only did this 8 hours a day, it'd be $60. Given the rather low proportion of people like this, sure, you can offer unlimited internet. You just can't allow server hosting, that's all.
I started out saying "cleaning crew," but that's maybe a bit presumptuous, and could easily be viewed as prejudice.
Why's that? It's far easier to steal from someone you don't know and aren't around, and the cleaning crew is contracted out - worst case, they get another job somewhere else.
One hopes they are. Laying default blame in any direction without evidence is could easily be mistaken for racism, sadly. Cleaning crew and cafeteria staff? Almost exclusively Hispanic. The Rent-a-Cops? Almost exclusively African American.
Big deal. There are plenty of reasons for suspecting low paid people hired to clean up after the high paid people without dragging race into this. I'm surprised that all your rentacops are African - around here, we have an old white guy, some kid (also white), and a couple black people. No Africans at all (except for one woman on the cleaning crew - I think she's African).
I don't, which is why I can't and won't lay default blame.
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Based on what? You're saying that I have to handle my audio based on the dictates of some media consortium because of the evil pirates?
Pay close attention people:YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO INDISCRIMINATELY MAKE AND DISTRIBUTE COPIES. THAT RIGHT IS RESERVED, BY LAW, TO THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS. YOU HAVE A VERY LIMITED RIGHT TO MAKE COPIES OF COPYRIGHTED WORKS. IT IS ALL SPELLED OUT IN THE LAW. TRY READING IT SOMETIME.
I have a very limited right to distribute copies of stuff I don't own the copyright to. How is passing audio around the house distro?
Now, some dumbshit is going to say "It's not really a right." Well, it is just as much a right as is equal access laws for the disabled and the right to vote of black Americans and women. All of those are rights granted by law.Well, dumbshit, it is, in fact, less of a right. Copyright is a negotiated exchange - the gub grants content producers a limited exclusive distro right in exchange for their works going PD after the time limit expires. Since they've fallen down on their end, then there's no moral reason not to pirate.
I looked around, and the Nuvo essentia system looks like it would allow pretty good house audio for $4-5k. Not cheap, but not really insane either - a lot of that is getting 6 sets of decent speakers.
You're missing the part where arrays are a part of python, while vectors are a library class in C++.
Is it protected or private? Is it virtual or pure virtual? That declaration makes no sense, and I'd shoot anyone who used it.
I wasn't alive in the 60s, and I have jimmy hendrix's CDs on order, along with Bone Machine.
The 40-somethings are saving it for retirement
That's why Billy Joel can charge 130/ticket and paul mccartney can charge $5k/day in the hamptons, right? It's not the mass market, but it ain't chickenfeed either.
Yes, although it helps to have a bigger fan by the server to spread the heat around.
No it doesn't - we're talking about cable here. It would require transcoding between MPEG2 and H264, which may not be a net win, but it's certainly doable.
Based on the fact that it's got integrated wifi, I surmise that it's got a high chance of being garbage. Pro gear that has to run for months at a time and can be fixed remotely doesn't integrate wifi - only consumer level trash does that. Network gear should plug into the wall and get warm. Crashing is not acceptable.
Be honest - who the hell wants to hang around someone who's ugly and stupid? This isn't high school anymore.
This is what interfaces and overrideable stubs in the base class are for.
I don't believe you have to be a lawyer to figure that out. And you don't need to be a genius to figure out why they prohibit it.
Because they think they can?
No, they are evil and also stupid, but they have a lot of time on their hands, and not much to do.
If you get more customers, buy more capacity.
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.
That's stupid. By allowing Comcast to prioritize traffic in that way, you leave open the door to them downprioritizing it (or voip) in favor of their offering and basically gutting any freedom you thought you had. Comcast: deliver bandwidth, you wankers, and leave us alone.
Also, there are programs that are mostly compatible with MS Office
For instance, there's Office.
I dunno - I'd just ask for a pay raise and use the new cube for storage.
If what they're doing is illegal, who cares if the contract doesn't forbid it?
one could easily download 1200 GBytes every month.
At $0.15/GB, that's $180 - if you only did this 8 hours a day, it'd be $60. Given the rather low proportion of people like this, sure, you can offer unlimited internet. You just can't allow server hosting, that's all.
Why didn't he take THE MONEY!?!?!
Money's in the vault. Most banks don't keep the marketing guys in there (even if they should).
I started out saying "cleaning crew," but that's maybe a bit presumptuous, and could easily be viewed as prejudice.
Why's that? It's far easier to steal from someone you don't know and aren't around, and the cleaning crew is contracted out - worst case, they get another job somewhere else.
One hopes they are. Laying default blame in any direction without evidence is could easily be mistaken for racism, sadly. Cleaning crew and cafeteria staff? Almost exclusively Hispanic. The Rent-a-Cops? Almost exclusively African American.
Big deal. There are plenty of reasons for suspecting low paid people hired to clean up after the high paid people without dragging race into this. I'm surprised that all your rentacops are African - around here, we have an old white guy, some kid (also white), and a couple black people. No Africans at all (except for one woman on the cleaning crew - I think she's African).
I don't, which is why I can't and won't lay default blame.
It's not blame, it's an educated guess.
Because they've altered computer equipment that they didn't own, which could be a felony in some places.
World of Warcraft: after killing Illidan continuously I finally found out how to beat him; stop paying your monthly fee.
I wrote a bot that does that repeatedly, all day long, out of spite. It doesn't even loot - just lets the corpse rot.