Uh you did look and see that ExtJs has a commercial license and always has had one, which you could use to create a proprietary blend with?
Not saying your decision was rash or unfounded, just wanted to point out to the discussion that Ext and Josh Shlocum considered their options and chose to offer dual licenses as there was not a single license available which met their needs.
That being said, good luck with that closed source thing you've got going on...
I was under the impression that when the switch over happened the OTA signals would have more room.... currently they have to share space with standard signals and of course they won't be getting the full bandwidth that is made available... but, I thought they would be expanded.
OTOH it does seem like they'll need to share space with the standard def signals even if all digital now...
A free market? Unencumbered by arbitrary regulation or regulation which only favors specific depressed populations (read poor people).
Additionally the typical free market ideal also doesn't allow for preferential government contracts or subsidies... which is why th US still isn't a capitalist nation, despite the economists hand waving. in fact it's not even close. There are so many gov contracts and subsidies which only go out to a select few 'qualifying' corporations or individuals.
Seems like some creative lawyers out there should put up a TV ad and get enough victims of this fraud to sign up for a class-action.
Granted nobody will get any money (maybe the cost of the music) except the lawyers (preferably the FSF lawyers)... but this would send a message that DRM should never be considered for anything you purchase for home use.
It will relegate DRM to streaming services, rentals and private documents only.... which is where it should be. If companies want to put out music on a rental policy (or movies) with an extended duration but a cheaper price... hey, go for it. Just make it explicit that it's a rental and will only last for said duration.
SO if this post is an example of your own mental model... what happened to you that you became such a rabid proponent? Were you incredibly naive once and girls or authority figures or just anyone with a stronger will manipulate the hell out of you?
I'm not saying you're wrong about anything.. just drawing out the discussion with a mirror.
And yes I've had this tab open but haven't looked at it since thursday...
I think the difference is that the standard converters don't include the outputs...
The box I bought was $149 at a good price for a Digital Terrestrial receiver from Samsung and has HDMI or Component out... component will get you 720p but to get 1080 you need the HDMI and so I had to buy a cable which was an extra $25
Of course you're TV needs the HDMi in as well.
OTOH if you have a TV with ATSC converter built in you don't need any of that... just plug the coax from your antenna directly in to the TV and you're good to go. My TV needed a converter as it is about 4 years old but still "HD compatible"
The benefit to a geek is that you get a digital signal... which you can then proceed to record on your own schedule and then replay when you're not busy coding or whatnot.
All free of of monthly fees.
Additionally you get better HD signals OTA than on any alternative format.... these are raw HD signals, not pre-compressed to fit into a cable channel or satellite broadcast.
The olympics looked really really good on my HD tv with OTA signal.
I switched a few months back, canceled my satellite, bought an HD OTA receiver and a big enough antenna.. not huge, just big enough to get good signals from 46 miles away (the max distance of local repeaters). I mounted the antenna on my roof facing the direction I looked up online as the correct direction, using a compass to guide me.
Now I get about 58 channels with 2/3rds in HD format and along with that I get a channel guide that comes in OTA as well.
I also bought an AppleTV so I can subscribe to premium shows from Showtime, FX, etc.a la carte, rent movies and browse podcasts, youtube and of course listen to my music collection through a good speaker system.
I then proceeded to hack the ATV so I could add an external drive (1TB) and hook up an EyeTV DVR usb encoder, which let's me setup shows to record which are automatically encoded for ATV use and available via the ATV menu....
A more common method would be to setup Myth TV on a linux box or use a PS3 as a DVR with something like a Popcorn box (DVR streaming server)....
In any case all my expenses were 1 time only, no subscription, no monthly fees.... I can choose when and how much I want to spend on content.
As long as the hardware continues to work the costs will be defrayed in comparison to cable or statelite... i've already reached the break even half way point... 3 more months and I'll have reached it, then I'm "saving" money (of course I'd "save" more if i just went without).
except that you know you're not getting HD signals right? Of course you do, cause even if you did your TV couldn't process them.
There will likely be a lot of complaints about not getting HD using the subsidized boxes... people will buy or have HD ready TVs but are only going to get Standard def signals through those sets...
In my grade school we had a system where the class would get a pizza on friday if the class score was high enough. This led to peer pressure to get a decent score. yes there was some complaining and even negative peer pressure but there was also positive peer pressure such as study groups.
Overall it led to higher scores by individuals because they knew they were being held accountable by their friends and being supported by their friends. The losers suddenly had a lot of attention from those who needed to be the best.
Additionally I seem to recall having Class vs Class competition for best scores... same idea just longer term and bigger stakes.
I can rent hd movies on apple tv for 4.99 or standard widescreen for 3.99 I usually go with standard unless the movie is known for it's visuals. Why do I want to see "the bucket list" in hd?
Do you have to be relatively poor to be black these days? If so, then I was black for most of my childhood and am only now beginning to turn white.
Additionally that would make 100% of the black celebrities actually rich white people.
Sean Combs JayZ Ludicrous Opera of course All black sports stars
or do they do something different that somehow retains their blackness while still being incredibly rich?
They all have teams of lawyers on retainer... even if not one themselves.
Many of them are corporate shills used to market to the black community
Very few have done any real community service or given back anything other than money and a distorted cultural heritage
your post doesn't seem quite so insightful anymore....
Maybe it's really the same as it's always been, have's vs have nots... where the have nots will try to distinguish themselves as particularly oppressed as a group to win sympathy from guilty conscience have's who will aid them in becoming have's too.
Even within the poor it's a struggle for the scraps, which is where you get racism.... dirt poor whites trying to exclude dirt poor blacks from access to the left over resources the rich people don't care about.
hmm just to be argumentative (i am an apple fan but see me out)...
The programs are more like businesses, the developers like umbrella corporations... and Apple is the state. They regulate like any state.
Currently they are at the stage in their growth where they are regulating utilities (think water/power/waste).
Now some might say that in the real world we should deregulate these utilities and allow private industry to run them... they'd do a better job.
Others realize that those utilities are tied in to so many aspects of the quality of service the state can provide in all other areas (emergency services for example) and that to deregulate means to put these other services at the mercy of private industry.
Yes it's a bit of a stretch to equate podcasting and mail to utilities but I think the argument can be made...
Regarding multiple windows/tabs... on iPhone you get multiple tabs er windows... there's a little button at the bottom to open or navigate to a different window (with different url)... quite handy.
I set up my devices MACs on the router at home one time... finished. How often do you change devices or network cards? Me, it's once every 2 years or so... maybe you have a lot of friends who come over for LAN parties or something... fairly edge case but again... buy an extra router and set it up with free access and only plug it in when you have a party.
Now, for those special occasions when I need security of some sort.. i pull out the various apps to do the job. This may happen 3 times a year, maybe more for a specific project (in which case a VPN is set up).
i've got 8 devices on my network right now... I don't even think about it anymore. The only password I have to keep track of is the router admin tool.
As for sniffers, etc. I'm really not concerned about that as i don't really have anything to hide. Again... financial stuff all goes over SSL because well the sites I send it to use SSL to encrypt it.
Anything else I really don't care if people see. You can't blackmail someone who doesn't care what you think about their personal/private life. IMHO keeping secrets is what gets you in trouble... not the things you're trying to keep secret.
So what if people know what kind of fetish videos I find amusing... I really only lock down the network out of legal deniability and as a way to keep people from hijacking my bandwidth when I trying to get things done.
Uh... I'm thinking if all they wanted was to kill a few thousand people anywhere, it would have cost a lot less than the Billions of dollars spent on the Iraq project
Hmmm I believe the scenario was that people were having problems on their HOME network.
Supporting or not supporting a particular device on a corporate network is a bigger order to satisfy... and of course has more issues.
i was only speaking to the home network scenario where you need to have a basically fool proof WiFI connection for the various inhabitants who will use it for anything from iPhone access, to gaming, to VOIP, to home business.
All of my suggestions were for someone who needs such a network but also needs to be able to secure a connection on occasion or specifically for working at home on sensitive projects.
SSL covers web based purchasing... no need to re-encrypt credit card details or passwords.. also covers mail server credentials.
PGP is for when you need secure email (which is rare IMHO).
VPN is for those sensitive projects (and you really should do this anyways for that).
General WiFi encryption is for when you have general communication that you don't want random people to have access to... which makes sense on a company network as you have trade secrets, etc. and can't get everyone to use a more specific security measure.
For home use however, it is overkill and generally pointless.
Most people use it to keep neighbors from using their WiFi to download pron.... or from snooping around on their file servers, etc. which the MAC restriction will protect against in general.
Encryption slows everything down, so your already limited bandwidth over WiFI is cut even more...
then add multiple machines sharing that over encrypted channels...
Really if you need an encrypted channel your best bet is to set up a VPN to where you want to go securely.
Websites that need secure channels already do so with SSL, email can be done with PGP... then there's SSH and again VPNs.
If you just have to have an encrypted WiFI network available, routers are cheap, so just buy an extra one and hook it up to your standard modem as an additional device, then use it when you need it. You should still be locking the MAC addresses down to those devices that need access to ti.
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My biggest problem with Prototype is that it doesn't play nice (last time I checked) with other libraries and you have to jump through hoops to do so.
Uh you did look and see that ExtJs has a commercial license and always has had one, which you could use to create a proprietary blend with?
Not saying your decision was rash or unfounded, just wanted to point out to the discussion that Ext and Josh Shlocum considered their options and chose to offer dual licenses as there was not a single license available which met their needs.
That being said, good luck with that closed source thing you've got going on...
I was under the impression that when the switch over happened the OTA signals would have more room.... currently they have to share space with standard signals and of course they won't be getting the full bandwidth that is made available... but, I thought they would be expanded.
OTOH it does seem like they'll need to share space with the standard def signals even if all digital now...
In any case thanks for the correction.
A free market? Unencumbered by arbitrary regulation or regulation which only favors specific depressed populations (read poor people).
Additionally the typical free market ideal also doesn't allow for preferential government contracts or subsidies... which is why th US still isn't a capitalist nation, despite the economists hand waving. in fact it's not even close. There are so many gov contracts and subsidies which only go out to a select few 'qualifying' corporations or individuals.
Seems like some creative lawyers out there should put up a TV ad and get enough victims of this fraud to sign up for a class-action.
Granted nobody will get any money (maybe the cost of the music) except the lawyers (preferably the FSF lawyers)... but this would send a message that DRM should never be considered for anything you purchase for home use.
It will relegate DRM to streaming services, rentals and private documents only.... which is where it should be. If companies want to put out music on a rental policy (or movies) with an extended duration but a cheaper price... hey, go for it. Just make it explicit that it's a rental and will only last for said duration.
Uh subsidized doesn't mean 'free' it means that someone is helping to pay for it... I would say that a coupon from the government qualifies...
SO if this post is an example of your own mental model... what happened to you that you became such a rabid proponent? Were you incredibly naive once and girls or authority figures or just anyone with a stronger will manipulate the hell out of you?
I'm not saying you're wrong about anything.. just drawing out the discussion with a mirror.
And yes I've had this tab open but haven't looked at it since thursday...
I think the difference is that the standard converters don't include the outputs...
The box I bought was $149 at a good price for a Digital Terrestrial receiver from Samsung and has HDMI or Component out... component will get you 720p but to get 1080 you need the HDMI and so I had to buy a cable which was an extra $25
Of course you're TV needs the HDMi in as well.
OTOH if you have a TV with ATSC converter built in you don't need any of that... just plug the coax from your antenna directly in to the TV and you're good to go. My TV needed a converter as it is about 4 years old but still "HD compatible"
The benefit to a geek is that you get a digital signal... which you can then proceed to record on your own schedule and then replay when you're not busy coding or whatnot.
All free of of monthly fees.
Additionally you get better HD signals OTA than on any alternative format.... these are raw HD signals, not pre-compressed to fit into a cable channel or satellite broadcast.
The olympics looked really really good on my HD tv with OTA signal.
i live in SoCal - Laguna Hills.
I switched a few months back, canceled my satellite, bought an HD OTA receiver and a big enough antenna.. not huge, just big enough to get good signals from 46 miles away (the max distance of local repeaters). I mounted the antenna on my roof facing the direction I looked up online as the correct direction, using a compass to guide me.
Now I get about 58 channels with 2/3rds in HD format and along with that I get a channel guide that comes in OTA as well.
I also bought an AppleTV so I can subscribe to premium shows from Showtime, FX, etc.a la carte, rent movies and browse podcasts, youtube and of course listen to my music collection through a good speaker system.
I then proceeded to hack the ATV so I could add an external drive (1TB) and hook up an EyeTV DVR usb encoder, which let's me setup shows to record which are automatically encoded for ATV use and available via the ATV menu....
A more common method would be to setup Myth TV on a linux box or use a PS3 as a DVR with something like a Popcorn box (DVR streaming server)....
In any case all my expenses were 1 time only, no subscription, no monthly fees.... I can choose when and how much I want to spend on content.
As long as the hardware continues to work the costs will be defrayed in comparison to cable or statelite... i've already reached the break even half way point... 3 more months and I'll have reached it, then I'm "saving" money (of course I'd "save" more if i just went without).
except that you know you're not getting HD signals right? Of course you do, cause even if you did your TV couldn't process them.
There will likely be a lot of complaints about not getting HD using the subsidized boxes... people will buy or have HD ready TVs but are only going to get Standard def signals through those sets...
Pretty blah if you ask me... seems rushed and not very feature complete.
I guess it's okay for those wanting to develop apps as a test device. Otherwise it's really not a player in the smartphone market.
In my grade school we had a system where the class would get a pizza on friday if the class score was high enough. This led to peer pressure to get a decent score. yes there was some complaining and even negative peer pressure but there was also positive peer pressure such as study groups.
Overall it led to higher scores by individuals because they knew they were being held accountable by their friends and being supported by their friends. The losers suddenly had a lot of attention from those who needed to be the best.
Additionally I seem to recall having Class vs Class competition for best scores... same idea just longer term and bigger stakes.
I can rent hd movies on apple tv for 4.99 or standard widescreen for 3.99 I usually go with standard unless the movie is known for it's visuals. Why do I want to see "the bucket list" in hd?
I say you should just lower a counter weight back to earth while pulling up your payload... very much like a traditional elevator.
Then you no longer have to worry about changing equilibriums... once you're in orbit you can station it quite well..
Doesn't that just make him a rich black guy?
Do you have to be relatively poor to be black these days? If so, then I was black for most of my childhood and am only now beginning to turn white.
Additionally that would make 100% of the black celebrities actually rich white people.
Sean Combs
JayZ
Ludicrous
Opera of course
All black sports stars
or do they do something different that somehow retains their blackness while still being incredibly rich?
They all have teams of lawyers on retainer... even if not one themselves.
Many of them are corporate shills used to market to the black community
Very few have done any real community service or given back anything other than money and a distorted cultural heritage
your post doesn't seem quite so insightful anymore....
Maybe it's really the same as it's always been, have's vs have nots... where the have nots will try to distinguish themselves as particularly oppressed as a group to win sympathy from guilty conscience have's who will aid them in becoming have's too.
Even within the poor it's a struggle for the scraps, which is where you get racism.... dirt poor whites trying to exclude dirt poor blacks from access to the left over resources the rich people don't care about.
hmm just to be argumentative (i am an apple fan but see me out)...
The programs are more like businesses, the developers like umbrella corporations... and Apple is the state. They regulate like any state.
Currently they are at the stage in their growth where they are regulating utilities (think water/power/waste).
Now some might say that in the real world we should deregulate these utilities and allow private industry to run them... they'd do a better job.
Others realize that those utilities are tied in to so many aspects of the quality of service the state can provide in all other areas (emergency services for example) and that to deregulate means to put these other services at the mercy of private industry.
Yes it's a bit of a stretch to equate podcasting and mail to utilities but I think the argument can be made...
Regarding multiple windows/tabs... on iPhone you get multiple tabs er windows... there's a little button at the bottom to open or navigate to a different window (with different url)... quite handy.
your current sig sums up my response.
Maybe the constituent syllables of the word have a different meaning in that language.. one that is irreverent or confusing?
hmmm well then...
Here's my response....
I set up my devices MACs on the router at home one time... finished. How often do you change devices or network cards? Me, it's once every 2 years or so... maybe you have a lot of friends who come over for LAN parties or something... fairly edge case but again... buy an extra router and set it up with free access and only plug it in when you have a party.
Now, for those special occasions when I need security of some sort.. i pull out the various apps to do the job. This may happen 3 times a year, maybe more for a specific project (in which case a VPN is set up).
i've got 8 devices on my network right now... I don't even think about it anymore. The only password I have to keep track of is the router admin tool.
As for sniffers, etc. I'm really not concerned about that as i don't really have anything to hide. Again... financial stuff all goes over SSL because well the sites I send it to use SSL to encrypt it.
Anything else I really don't care if people see. You can't blackmail someone who doesn't care what you think about their personal/private life. IMHO keeping secrets is what gets you in trouble... not the things you're trying to keep secret.
So what if people know what kind of fetish videos I find amusing... I really only lock down the network out of legal deniability and as a way to keep people from hijacking my bandwidth when I trying to get things done.
Uh... I'm thinking if all they wanted was to kill a few thousand people anywhere, it would have cost a lot less than the Billions of dollars spent on the Iraq project
And how does WPA2 secure your email once outside your network?
Hmmm I believe the scenario was that people were having problems on their HOME network.
Supporting or not supporting a particular device on a corporate network is a bigger order to satisfy... and of course has more issues.
i was only speaking to the home network scenario where you need to have a basically fool proof WiFI connection for the various inhabitants who will use it for anything from iPhone access, to gaming, to VOIP, to home business.
All of my suggestions were for someone who needs such a network but also needs to be able to secure a connection on occasion or specifically for working at home on sensitive projects.
SSL covers web based purchasing... no need to re-encrypt credit card details or passwords.. also covers mail server credentials.
PGP is for when you need secure email (which is rare IMHO).
VPN is for those sensitive projects (and you really should do this anyways for that).
General WiFi encryption is for when you have general communication that you don't want random people to have access to... which makes sense on a company network as you have trade secrets, etc. and can't get everyone to use a more specific security measure.
For home use however, it is overkill and generally pointless.
Most people use it to keep neighbors from using their WiFi to download pron.... or from snooping around on their file servers, etc. which the MAC restriction will protect against in general.
Huh... that's what i thought everyone did....
Encryption slows everything down, so your already limited bandwidth over WiFI is cut even more...
then add multiple machines sharing that over encrypted channels...
Really if you need an encrypted channel your best bet is to set up a VPN to where you want to go securely.
Websites that need secure channels already do so with SSL, email can be done with PGP... then there's SSH and again VPNs.
If you just have to have an encrypted WiFI network available, routers are cheap, so just buy an extra one and hook it up to your standard modem as an additional device, then use it when you need it. You should still be locking the MAC addresses down to those devices that need access to ti.