If Sony made it optional, no one would buy it. What use would it be? No developers would make games for it since only a small percentage of people would have it. What would be the point of buying an add-on that would only play movies if people could buy a separate player for about the same price. HD upconverting DVD players can be had for as little as $50, so one with Blu-ray would probably only add on the cost of the drive.
By doing this, Sony is gambling that people will like the PS3 and games enough to buy them. The XBox was priced at $400 at launch (you could get one with fewer features for $300) and it was hard to get one for months. I don't think Sony will have a problem, I would seriously consider getting one just to watch movies in HD. I've seen a lot of negative comments on here, but a LOT of people are buying HD televisions. I've actually started watching live television again with commercials and all because my Tivo doesn't record HD and the picture is so much better.
Sony also invented Blu-ray, so they are betting on it beating out HD-DVD in the upcoming war. If they get a lot of people to get a Blu-ray drive in their PS3s, that will make studios want to release movies for them, which will make it difficult for HD-DVD to get into the market since it will have to compete for shelf space. If Blu-ray beats out HD-DVD for the next generation home movie format, Sony will get licensing fees from every manufacturer that makes a Blu-ray player. Does anyone remember how expensive DVD players were when they first came out? I remember spending about $400 for one when they were starting to become popular. Adding on another $200 for a game system as well doesn't seem like much of a stretch to me. Currently HD-DVD players retail for $700, but can be had for $500. Sony's Blu-ray player costs $1,000, I imagine that will be coming down, or going away when the PS3 is released.
While I'm ranting, why do people think that 1080i is better than 720p? 1080i is really only 540p, where every other frame are the interlaced lines, it's 30 full 1080 line frames being shown as pairs of 540 line frames. 720p is 60 frames per second of 720 lines resolution. It's higher quality than 1080i, yet people talk of it as if the picture is downgraded to 720p. That is not the case. If you're watching 1080i on a 720p television, the picture is actually upsampled from 540 lines resolution to 720 You're not losing anything. If you watch a 720p show on a TV that only supports 1080i, the picture must be downsampled to 540 lines of resolution because that is all the TV will show. The horizontal resolution is higher (and therefore the pixel count, but barely), but then again you are really only getting 30 frames per second instead of 60. 720p is better for fast action.
At least that is true. If all software were free as in beer, there'd be no piracy. As you raise the price incrementally, I assume you would get more piracy. You also get people that simply don't like the inconvenience of registering or activating software and having to use the CD to play games, so they'd rather use pirated software. Or who don't want to take 15 minutes to read and agree to a license.
That doesn't really make sense. 1 hz of frequency range doesn't equate to 1 bit of data per second. Think about it, if you have a carrier wave at 20 million cycles per second, you could theoretically have 40 million edges of the wave to carry information, along with the amplitude of the wave. I'm not an electrical engineer by any means, and I'm not sure how you would calculate theoretical values for frequency modulated signals. Am I missing something? Is there some page that would explain it better?
EVDO isn't much better now. A lot of DSL subscribers are still that slow. 384k is perfectly usable for most things you need to do on the net (email, remote desktop, web browsing, game playing), it just takes longer for downloading large files or watching streaming video. Tell my parents out in the boonies that still use dialup that it wouldn't be an improvement, or people that can't afford the rates for cell-based wireless. Also, 95% sounds pretty dang good for driving around the country.
The image sensor still has quite a lot to do with image quality, especially how much noise is produced. Lower quality sensors produce a lot of noise at even ISO 400, whereas better quality sensors can go up to ISO 1600 without generating as much noise.
One of the best rated and best image producting cameras uses CMOS. I believe CMOS are actually less sensitive to heat fluctuations than CCD and they use less power, not more. CMOS in general provides lower picture quality generally because each pixel has its own circuitry whereas they all pass through the same in a CCD, so the CCD can be more uniform. However, while CCD manufacturers have been working on power use, CMOS manufacturers have been working on image quality.
If only the RIAA could invent a time machine and go back to prevent the creatino of the cassette recorder! Vinyl records are a much more controllable medium, there's no reason for consumers to need cassette tapes or CDs. I'm sure they'd admit that CDs sounded good for a time, until CD recorders came to market...
A guy who works for a company that produces remote administration software finds a bug in VNC that he says will allow anyone to take control of any computer running VNC, then has it posted to slashdot, then takes down the test page because slashdot was too much for his server. Profit motive anyone?
Since clocks take up a large percentage of the power and space on the chips, why not do away with them? Why not use a clockless CPU so results are available as soon as they are ready? There are some processors out there (ARM Amulet for instance) that do this, does it just not scale well to the high speeds we are used to now on our desks and laps, or is it just that current clocking cpu design is way ahead in terms of development?
I don't want to pay $4 for a game that I will only play on my cellphone (and therefore won't be very fun) and that will expire in 90 days so I'll have to pay again. Ridiculous...
How hard would it be to have trial versions that only give you a couple of levels or that expire after a few days?
I hope Homeland Security doesn't get wind of this. The patriot act allows covert surveillance where they law forces companies to remain silent about what they turn over. I wonder if there's a provision in it (it's so huge I haven't had time to read it, like many of the lawmakers who hurredly passed it into law) to allow the government to force companies to put backdoors into their products for this type of thing without telling consumers. Closer and closer to 1984... Trust the little LED all you want, I won't be buying one of these.
That is of course assuming Netscape would have been able to ship a stable, working usable product.
Maybe that would have been easier without the anti-competitive practices of Microsoft. Netscape needed information on the Windows 95 API to ensure that Navigator would work well when it came out. Microsoft tried to strong-arm them into forgoing Navigator as a platform for developers. As a result, Netscape didn't get the API until two months after Windows 95's release, two months where Internet Explorer was bundled with the OS.
They all seem to say how hard it would be and how much power it would take. Do you know how much power is generated on an airplane? I don't, but I assume it is more than is generated by my car, and the car has do do this for the entire windshield, and possibly side windows and the rear-window. I'm pretty sure that the area to be defrosted on a plane's wings compared with the area of windows in a car is less than the ratio of power produced on a plane compared to that of a car. It looks like the de-icing only takes a second or two, so capacitors or batteries could be used to store the charge for the de-icing. If you are going to complain about how "hard" it would be for a plane, complain about a car first.
You download the install CD and there is no option anywhere for any of those things. Someone did put together a couple of scripts (EasyUbuntu is a good one) that will go out to third party update servers and download much of that, but there is no option to install that stuff with the system.
How do you have your javascript locked down? I have IE version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 running on XP Pro SP2 and it is definitely vulnerable.
If you want a fundamental error and slow fix, look at the ancient mozilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10453 2 (you might need to copy-and-paste the link). It took over four years to get a reasonable result. This is damn scary.
Yes, I'd much rather have a malicious web site appear to be a trusted one than have the wrong scrolling text display in the status bar...
If you don't, then the security goes out the window... The article specifically mentions:
He adds that the method does not require a large radio antenna or that the communicating parties be located in the same hemisphere, as radio signals can be broadcast over the internet at high speed.
If you are getting your random data over the internet, that is a huge security hole. Also you have to have the key agreed upone PRIOR to encrypting the message. You then have to both point your rooftop dishes at the same quasar and set your receivers to the right settings to get the same data. Then you have to hope there's not radio interference or a plane passing over one of your buildings. Granted, enough error correction will take care of those problems...
The only real benefit would be if you both had your own dishes and you would throw the random data away after decrypting. Still then it would take a while to orient the dishes. If someone was able to see either party's dish, they may be able to tell with sophisticated equipment the exact quasar you were pointing to and relay that to others so they can listen in to the quasar as well.
Is there some way you can split it up into two parts, one being easier than the other? I had the same issue in a class in college. I ended up writing an assembler and virtual machine for a fictional assembly language and my partner wrote some simple programs in the fictional assembly language. We got A's...
Consumers have a choice in which service providers to use. If the big players that will have to pay (Google, Yahoo, etc.) can get together and say they will not allow traffic from any provider that requires a fee of any type from them. I know I would switch ISPs to keep my access to google...
The original purpose of copyrights was to promote progress in science and the arts. Oh. what a cruel world we live in. If it wasn't for content "owners" stifiling the world's creativity, we would be much more advanced than we are. How many of you own a TiVo? I do, it is one of the best purchases I have ever made. However, I just bought a 50" TV (upgeraded from, 27" since I have a 19 foot living room). HD broudcasts look awesome, which I only get with local channels and without cable. I have cable, but I am now on a 90 day waiting list with people to get a cable card for my TV, which still won't let my TiVo record HD. I bought an HDTV card on ebay (air something) but now have to get MythTV setup on a spare Linux computer with an antenna only (no CableCard) to get the signals.
New TVs and equipment have encryption built in to HDMI so that you can't use it unless it's exacly like they (content providers) want you to.
There's NO WAY around it. the current copyright and patent legislation is STIFLING creativity and NOT promoting progress. If it weren't for the GREEDY corporations who decide that I should be able to read an Ebook on my computer at home but not when I'm on a break at work, I would be able to do the foloowing:
Record HD programming and whatch it when I want
Listen to my Ogg recordings of all my Cds in my car
Watch HD movies on my HD TV (blue-ray and HD-DVD aren't necessary, close to the same can be accomplished with DVD and MPEG-4 today)
Record HD shows ala TiVo
Listen to ALL my CDs from any computer in my home (and therefore in my bedroom and living room with cheap Linux PCs)
And more, and more... I don't care if someone is breaking the law, sue them or arrest them. I CAN'T DO EVERYTHING MY HARDWARE IS CAPABLE OF though because of DRM. They've implemented "protection" (or restrictions) on HDMI where TVs can only play media they are licensed for. Many HD sources of the future will only play in low-def (480p) on your TV unless you have the right equipment and licenses. I think it is just INFUCKINGCREDIBLE that the MPAA and RIAA have the power in congress to create laws to protect their special monopolistic interests against the good of the public. What king of innovation is supported by current measures? NONE!
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By doing this, Sony is gambling that people will like the PS3 and games enough to buy them. The XBox was priced at $400 at launch (you could get one with fewer features for $300) and it was hard to get one for months. I don't think Sony will have a problem, I would seriously consider getting one just to watch movies in HD. I've seen a lot of negative comments on here, but a LOT of people are buying HD televisions. I've actually started watching live television again with commercials and all because my Tivo doesn't record HD and the picture is so much better.
Sony also invented Blu-ray, so they are betting on it beating out HD-DVD in the upcoming war. If they get a lot of people to get a Blu-ray drive in their PS3s, that will make studios want to release movies for them, which will make it difficult for HD-DVD to get into the market since it will have to compete for shelf space. If Blu-ray beats out HD-DVD for the next generation home movie format, Sony will get licensing fees from every manufacturer that makes a Blu-ray player. Does anyone remember how expensive DVD players were when they first came out? I remember spending about $400 for one when they were starting to become popular. Adding on another $200 for a game system as well doesn't seem like much of a stretch to me. Currently HD-DVD players retail for $700, but can be had for $500. Sony's Blu-ray player costs $1,000, I imagine that will be coming down, or going away when the PS3 is released.
While I'm ranting, why do people think that 1080i is better than 720p? 1080i is really only 540p, where every other frame are the interlaced lines, it's 30 full 1080 line frames being shown as pairs of 540 line frames. 720p is 60 frames per second of 720 lines resolution. It's higher quality than 1080i, yet people talk of it as if the picture is downgraded to 720p. That is not the case. If you're watching 1080i on a 720p television, the picture is actually upsampled from 540 lines resolution to 720 You're not losing anything. If you watch a 720p show on a TV that only supports 1080i, the picture must be downsampled to 540 lines of resolution because that is all the TV will show. The horizontal resolution is higher (and therefore the pixel count, but barely), but then again you are really only getting 30 frames per second instead of 60. 720p is better for fast action.
At least that is true. If all software were free as in beer, there'd be no piracy. As you raise the price incrementally, I assume you would get more piracy. You also get people that simply don't like the inconvenience of registering or activating software and having to use the CD to play games, so they'd rather use pirated software. Or who don't want to take 15 minutes to read and agree to a license.
That doesn't really make sense. 1 hz of frequency range doesn't equate to 1 bit of data per second. Think about it, if you have a carrier wave at 20 million cycles per second, you could theoretically have 40 million edges of the wave to carry information, along with the amplitude of the wave. I'm not an electrical engineer by any means, and I'm not sure how you would calculate theoretical values for frequency modulated signals. Am I missing something? Is there some page that would explain it better?
2. Charge for faster connection speeds
EVDO isn't much better now. A lot of DSL subscribers are still that slow. 384k is perfectly usable for most things you need to do on the net (email, remote desktop, web browsing, game playing), it just takes longer for downloading large files or watching streaming video. Tell my parents out in the boonies that still use dialup that it wouldn't be an improvement, or people that can't afford the rates for cell-based wireless. Also, 95% sounds pretty dang good for driving around the country.
The image sensor still has quite a lot to do with image quality, especially how much noise is produced. Lower quality sensors produce a lot of noise at even ISO 400, whereas better quality sensors can go up to ISO 1600 without generating as much noise.
One of the best rated and best image producting cameras uses CMOS. I believe CMOS are actually less sensitive to heat fluctuations than CCD and they use less power, not more. CMOS in general provides lower picture quality generally because each pixel has its own circuitry whereas they all pass through the same in a CCD, so the CCD can be more uniform. However, while CCD manufacturers have been working on power use, CMOS manufacturers have been working on image quality.
If only the RIAA could invent a time machine and go back to prevent the creatino of the cassette recorder! Vinyl records are a much more controllable medium, there's no reason for consumers to need cassette tapes or CDs. I'm sure they'd admit that CDs sounded good for a time, until CD recorders came to market...
Please change it to read "Flaw found in RealVNC 4.1.1", other VNC products don't appear to be affected, including RealVNC 4.0.
A guy who works for a company that produces remote administration software finds a bug in VNC that he says will allow anyone to take control of any computer running VNC, then has it posted to slashdot, then takes down the test page because slashdot was too much for his server. Profit motive anyone?
Since clocks take up a large percentage of the power and space on the chips, why not do away with them? Why not use a clockless CPU so results are available as soon as they are ready? There are some processors out there (ARM Amulet for instance) that do this, does it just not scale well to the high speeds we are used to now on our desks and laps, or is it just that current clocking cpu design is way ahead in terms of development?
How hard would it be to have trial versions that only give you a couple of levels or that expire after a few days?
I hope Homeland Security doesn't get wind of this. The patriot act allows covert surveillance where they law forces companies to remain silent about what they turn over. I wonder if there's a provision in it (it's so huge I haven't had time to read it, like many of the lawmakers who hurredly passed it into law) to allow the government to force companies to put backdoors into their products for this type of thing without telling consumers. Closer and closer to 1984... Trust the little LED all you want, I won't be buying one of these.
That is of course assuming Netscape would have been able to ship a stable, working usable product. Maybe that would have been easier without the anti-competitive practices of Microsoft. Netscape needed information on the Windows 95 API to ensure that Navigator would work well when it came out. Microsoft tried to strong-arm them into forgoing Navigator as a platform for developers. As a result, Netscape didn't get the API until two months after Windows 95's release, two months where Internet Explorer was bundled with the OS.
They all seem to say how hard it would be and how much power it would take. Do you know how much power is generated on an airplane? I don't, but I assume it is more than is generated by my car, and the car has do do this for the entire windshield, and possibly side windows and the rear-window. I'm pretty sure that the area to be defrosted on a plane's wings compared with the area of windows in a car is less than the ratio of power produced on a plane compared to that of a car. It looks like the de-icing only takes a second or two, so capacitors or batteries could be used to store the charge for the de-icing. If you are going to complain about how "hard" it would be for a plane, complain about a car first.
[sings "Grammar School Dropout" to the tune of "Beauty School Dropout" from Grease...]
You download the install CD and there is no option anywhere for any of those things. Someone did put together a couple of scripts (EasyUbuntu is a good one) that will go out to third party update servers and download much of that, but there is no option to install that stuff with the system.
How do you have your javascript locked down? I have IE version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 running on XP Pro SP2 and it is definitely vulnerable.
The only real benefit would be if you both had your own dishes and you would throw the random data away after decrypting. Still then it would take a while to orient the dishes. If someone was able to see either party's dish, they may be able to tell with sophisticated equipment the exact quasar you were pointing to and relay that to others so they can listen in to the quasar as well.
Is there some way you can split it up into two parts, one being easier than the other? I had the same issue in a class in college. I ended up writing an assembler and virtual machine for a fictional assembly language and my partner wrote some simple programs in the fictional assembly language. We got A's...
If he was dead, it wouldn't 'spray' out would it? It would leak out, but I thought the spray was caused by the beating heart.
Consumers have a choice in which service providers to use. If the big players that will have to pay (Google, Yahoo, etc.) can get together and say they will not allow traffic from any provider that requires a fee of any type from them. I know I would switch ISPs to keep my access to google...
New TVs and equipment have encryption built in to HDMI so that you can't use it unless it's exacly like they (content providers) want you to.
There's NO WAY around it. the current copyright and patent legislation is STIFLING creativity and NOT promoting progress. If it weren't for the GREEDY corporations who decide that I should be able to read an Ebook on my computer at home but not when I'm on a break at work, I would be able to do the foloowing:
- Record HD programming and whatch it when I want
- Listen to my Ogg recordings of all my Cds in my car
- Watch HD movies on my HD TV (blue-ray and HD-DVD aren't necessary, close to the same can be accomplished with DVD and MPEG-4 today)
- Record HD shows ala TiVo
- Listen to ALL my CDs from any computer in my home (and therefore in my bedroom and living room with cheap Linux PCs)
And more, and more... I don't care if someone is breaking the law, sue them or arrest them. I CAN'T DO EVERYTHING MY HARDWARE IS CAPABLE OF though because of DRM. They've implemented "protection" (or restrictions) on HDMI where TVs can only play media they are licensed for. Many HD sources of the future will only play in low-def (480p) on your TV unless you have the right equipment and licenses. I think it is just INFUCKINGCREDIBLE that the MPAA and RIAA have the power in congress to create laws to protect their special monopolistic interests against the good of the public. What king of innovation is supported by current measures? NONE!'grep -v eh Report.txt' will give you just lines that don't have 'eh' in them...