MMOG makers provide a way to effectively turn your money into in-game cash, but usually do no such conversion the other direction. Your MMOG company also most likely has terms of service that forbid the sale of in-game items for cash by any means.
If your MMOG company provides a mechanism for converting in-game money back into real money then, yes, that's going to be illegal when the President puts pen to paper.
HDCP prevents me from connecting a STB to my 19" and 24" WS LCD monitors.
This makes no sense. HDCP doesn't prevent you from using an unencrypted signal on the port. If your set has HDMI and your set-top box has DVI, you can connect a set-top PC to it using an HDMI-DVI cable. If you can't then something's wrong with your TV. I'd take it back.
For the scope of unit testing, try out HSQLDB. It's an in-memory database that you can connect to over JDBC, so even if you're using Hibernate or some other layered persistence engine you can simply switch your DataSource. If you're writing Java that follows the tenets of dependency injection, this is really straightforward.
Now, this can only really effectively test a few things, and generally, I find that it can only really be useful for exercising small operations, like individual DAO methods. This is actually where I'll shut up, since I've not yet found an effective method for testing inter-method and transaction based operations, but for unit testing HSQLDB has saved my life more times than I'd like to count.
Color me confused, but any TV you buy is free of these draconian measures. HDMI is an interconnect. HDCP is a protocol that may or may not be in use over that link. On top of that, HDMI is DVI.
Check out Westinghouse's selection of 1080p monitors. They have no tuners, which makes them trend-agnostic when it comes to that can of worms. They support all the HD resolutions and they have HDMI and DVI connections in addition to all the component, s-video and composite you could neeed. The digital ports are able to communicate using HDCP, but again, it's not compulsory unless your source device is demanding it.
Sounds to me like your beef is not with the TV's, but with the content providers. Of course, if your point is that you wont buy any device that has the ability to use HDCP, that's a different story.
CableCARD is one of the only HD technologies out there that's trying to save consumers money and increase competition amongst receivers. Renting one is cheaper than renting a cable box. It allows you to get a set top box that you like, rather than the one they chose, many of which force you to see advertisements where you'd rather not.
Time Warner in Houston offers all of it's programming over CableCARD. The technology isn't quite ready to support bi-directional features like on-demand, but it's coming.
We legislated CableCARD because we wanted freedom from vendor lock-in! Embrace competition!
The point I was making was that Sony has no scruples about declaring their game machine a PC then forgetting that they ever said it. We were getting about the same level of commitment to these features on the PS2 before it launched. Personally, it won't really matter to me whether or not it can do these things, replacing a PC can only happen when I can drop community software on it, in my opinion.
Just sayin, "more for your money" should be shouted with caution when it comes to the PS3. I'd wait until it's released to be sure.
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Oh, there's a shot.
This is just a personal philosophy, but components with vents or fans have no business being in a closed-door stereo cabinet.
MMOG makers provide a way to effectively turn your money into in-game cash, but usually do no such conversion the other direction. Your MMOG company also most likely has terms of service that forbid the sale of in-game items for cash by any means.
If your MMOG company provides a mechanism for converting in-game money back into real money then, yes, that's going to be illegal when the President puts pen to paper.
Your concerns on DRM are founded, but they don't apply here. HDCP devices can't be remotely disabled.
For the scope of unit testing, try out HSQLDB. It's an in-memory database that you can connect to over JDBC, so even if you're using Hibernate or some other layered persistence engine you can simply switch your DataSource. If you're writing Java that follows the tenets of dependency injection, this is really straightforward.
Now, this can only really effectively test a few things, and generally, I find that it can only really be useful for exercising small operations, like individual DAO methods. This is actually where I'll shut up, since I've not yet found an effective method for testing inter-method and transaction based operations, but for unit testing HSQLDB has saved my life more times than I'd like to count.
Color me confused, but any TV you buy is free of these draconian measures. HDMI is an interconnect. HDCP is a protocol that may or may not be in use over that link. On top of that, HDMI is DVI.
Check out Westinghouse's selection of 1080p monitors. They have no tuners, which makes them trend-agnostic when it comes to that can of worms. They support all the HD resolutions and they have HDMI and DVI connections in addition to all the component, s-video and composite you could neeed. The digital ports are able to communicate using HDCP, but again, it's not compulsory unless your source device is demanding it.
Sounds to me like your beef is not with the TV's, but with the content providers. Of course, if your point is that you wont buy any device that has the ability to use HDCP, that's a different story.
CableCARD is one of the only HD technologies out there that's trying to save consumers money and increase competition amongst receivers. Renting one is cheaper than renting a cable box. It allows you to get a set top box that you like, rather than the one they chose, many of which force you to see advertisements where you'd rather not.
Time Warner in Houston offers all of it's programming over CableCARD. The technology isn't quite ready to support bi-directional features like on-demand, but it's coming.
We legislated CableCARD because we wanted freedom from vendor lock-in! Embrace competition!
Your Mac will start up silently if you had it's volume muted before shutting it down or restarting it.
Or how about a 360, and a Wii with a year of online play? ;)
Yep, still anonymous.
My God, it's full of idiots!
Ahh, AC trolling. I remember being 12.
If only the Internet were some kind of truck...
Mario and Luigi: Headache Adventures
Advil vs. SNK
Spare Retinas
Man, the list goes on.
Cause they can't BOTH be....
Man, what did she do to you?
Not trolling, just a loaded question is all ;)
The point I was making was that Sony has no scruples about declaring their game machine a PC then forgetting that they ever said it. We were getting about the same level of commitment to these features on the PS2 before it launched. Personally, it won't really matter to me whether or not it can do these things, replacing a PC can only happen when I can drop community software on it, in my opinion.
Just sayin, "more for your money" should be shouted with caution when it comes to the PS3. I'd wait until it's released to be sure.
Can you list a few of these aspects? Sony hasn't.
A google search would have saved you about 100 keystrokes.
Motion carries. FFIX, you're dead to us.
How about a button to push if the elevator breaks?
Why do we need to ask a Nintendo executive what a GameCube looks like?
A rifle on a farm is a valid and necessary tool
You know, for when that...corn...gets out of line.
Nevermind, I was looking for a debate, not an exchange of one-liners.