Just curious, how can they stop the proxies when there are new ones popping up every day? I guess they could automate scanning proxy.org and block every site on it - is there an easier/better/more effective way?
And, what's an easier way than using a proxy? My friend in China uses a proxy to read stuff, but has trouble posting to Wikipedia.
I agree, most folks probably won't bother to figure out ways to circumvent blocked sites, which makes it effective.
Yes I have a great investment opportunity - how about investing in the future of our planet, and putting your money toward donations to ogranizations like the NRDC
And, donate your time by discussing the facts and impact of global warming with your family, friends, and co-workers, and by voting!
Yes, looks like the sites are just placeholders created by Simula Labs - look at the contact info:
Simula Labs
2321 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 1265
El Segundo, CA 90245
Phone: +1 310 356 6888
FAX: +1 800 822 0471
LogicBlaze
2321 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 1265
El Segundo, CA 90245
Phone: +1 310 356 6888
FAX: +1 800 822 0471
Mergere, Inc.
2321 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 1265
El Segundo, CA 90245
Phone: +1 888 796 6737
Fax: +1 310 545 9786
tiny phone with bluetooth
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This is all I ask for - a tiny, lightweight phone with Bluetooth. I don't want a camera, no large color screen, email, etc - I just simply would like something I can stick in my pocket and forget about it, then just optionally use a bluetooth headset when making calls.
I could even do without a keypad, and just use voice recognition or a scroll wheel for dialing. The Nokia 7280is the closest thing I've seen to what I'm looking for, but its waaay too expensive and has gadgets I don't want (FM tuner, camera).
I bet there's a large market for this kind of phone.
No one would design the functionality to obey/disobey the broadcast flag in silicon, without an option to change it through a register setting or in firmware.
If anything has already been manufactured, it will simply require a firmware/software change; presumably none of these products have shipped and any masked ROMs have not been ordered, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
I bet most people wouldn't. Everyone I've met while in China is generally content, they're much better off than a generation ago. Prosperity abounds and the future looks bright - they are generally happy with their government, and probably wouldn't want to screw things up.
I'm personally a huge fan of democracy, but don't assume that everyone else in the world agrees with us, and certainly don't be lead to believe they want democracy forced upon them.
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-recording of only those shows they want you to record. Just wait for broadcast flag.
No, all DVR's I'm aware of currently allow you to record whatever you want to record. Even with the broadcast flag, with your cable-company provided DVR, you'll still be able to record what you want, you just won't be able to re-distribute it (which you can't currently do anyway with a cable-company provided DVR's, because the streams are re-encrypted before being stored to disk).
probably better to just get the real thing
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You could build it yourself, but even after many hours of tinkering you're still going to have a product which is:
-noisy
-unable to record more than one digital channel at once, and you'll still need a cable/satellite receiver to record digital at all
-terrible form factor
-clunky user interface
-limited epg (electronic program guide)
I'm usually all for tinkering and rolling your own, but in this case I would suggest just getting a Tivo, or better yet a DirectTivo or a DVR through your cable company (usually an extra $10/month). Everything will just work, you can record multiple digital channels at once (even multiple HD in many areas), and some DVR's even have music/games/pictures software built in.
I agree that none of these 'convergent' devices do anything well. I have a Treo, and am unhappy with it - it's too bulky as a phone, the camera sucks, and has a poor user interface as an mp3 player.
In the future, a combined device might be acceptable; but it's likely that dedicated devices will still be better, as the technology for both the convergent and dedicated devices improve. Of course its a tradeoff and matter of preference, but I've decided no more 'convergent' devices for me...
There's thousands of products which are "diskless devices" that don't require a server!! This is simply an embedded device - everything it needs is on flash memory.
No one in our freedom loving US of A would ever have to face jail time for reverse engineering something then publishing the results... *cough* *ack* wait a minute...
Has anyone actually received the beta after filling out the forms? I filled them out the day the beta was released (last Wednesday I believe) and haven't heard anything back from Adobe.
Actually, the cable card itself noes not demodulate the QAM - that's up to the host (the thing you stick the card into, such as a TV or set-top box). The main purpose of the cable card is to perform decryption.
Furthermore, there are provisions in the specification for upstream (two-way) communication back to the cable company. Search for OpenCable interface specification and you'll find it.
Not only did I not link to or provide actual instructions for finding ANYTHING
Yes you did - you just informed everyone, including me, that I can find Half Life 2 and several movies on the site mentioned in the post. I did not know that before.
So you have just indirectly "caused, contributed to, enabled, encouraged, and/or participated" in the infringement of copyrighted works.
The parent poster made a very good point, it's a shame you do not realize it.
Even USB 1.0 should be sufficient if the device has a real-time MPEG encoder. With MPEG2, encoding at 6 Mbps (about 1/2 the USB 1.0 12 Mbps bandwidth) using IBP encoding will give you decent video.
6 Mbps using MPEG4 encoding is even better, you have plenty of bandwith for great quality video.
Of course this is assuming a single tuner device - for multiple tuners, you'll probably need high-speed USB.
Sunnyvale, not San Francisco
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Spectators are welcome for the two events each month in San Fransisco.
The matches will be hard to watch from San Francisco - if you RTFM, you'll find the matches are actually held in Sunnyvale, CA (about 40 mins south of the city).
Yes you are correct, I said "Chinese", meaning the most common dialects/languages spoken in China. I do believe however that Mandarin alone is more widely spoken than English.
I'm just trying to make the point that the article doesn't address the fact that there are many non-native English speakers in "corporate America" - which I believe is a shortcoming of the article.
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I've tried the YouTube Xbox Media Center plugin which kinda works, but the videos are almost unwatchable on a TV.
A Zudeo XBMC plugin would be cool...
BTW, has anyone else noticed that searching for "zudeo" on google results in like ZERO applicable links? Weird...
Just curious, how can they stop the proxies when there are new ones popping up every day? I guess they could automate scanning proxy.org and block every site on it - is there an easier/better/more effective way? And, what's an easier way than using a proxy? My friend in China uses a proxy to read stuff, but has trouble posting to Wikipedia. I agree, most folks probably won't bother to figure out ways to circumvent blocked sites, which makes it effective.
Maybe they finally realized that in China, you can get to Wikipedia (and any other site) through one of many proxies?
I got 27ms as well!
Check out their list of TI platforms: http://www.cadenux.com/bsp/
And, donate your time by discussing the facts and impact of global warming with your family, friends, and co-workers, and by voting!
Yes, looks like the sites are just placeholders created by Simula Labs - look at the contact info: Simula Labs 2321 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 1265 El Segundo, CA 90245 Phone: +1 310 356 6888 FAX: +1 800 822 0471 LogicBlaze 2321 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 1265 El Segundo, CA 90245 Phone: +1 310 356 6888 FAX: +1 800 822 0471 Mergere, Inc. 2321 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 1265 El Segundo, CA 90245 Phone: +1 888 796 6737 Fax: +1 310 545 9786
This is all I ask for - a tiny, lightweight phone with Bluetooth. I don't want a camera, no large color screen, email, etc - I just simply would like something I can stick in my pocket and forget about it, then just optionally use a bluetooth headset when making calls. I could even do without a keypad, and just use voice recognition or a scroll wheel for dialing. The Nokia 7280is the closest thing I've seen to what I'm looking for, but its waaay too expensive and has gadgets I don't want (FM tuner, camera). I bet there's a large market for this kind of phone.
If anything has already been manufactured, it will simply require a firmware/software change; presumably none of these products have shipped and any masked ROMs have not been ordered, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
I'm personally a huge fan of democracy, but don't assume that everyone else in the world agrees with us, and certainly don't be lead to believe they want democracy forced upon them.
No, all DVR's I'm aware of currently allow you to record whatever you want to record. Even with the broadcast flag, with your cable-company provided DVR, you'll still be able to record what you want, you just won't be able to re-distribute it (which you can't currently do anyway with a cable-company provided DVR's, because the streams are re-encrypted before being stored to disk).
-noisy
-unable to record more than one digital channel at once, and you'll still need a cable/satellite receiver to record digital at all
-terrible form factor
-clunky user interface
-limited epg (electronic program guide)
I'm usually all for tinkering and rolling your own, but in this case I would suggest just getting a Tivo, or better yet a DirectTivo or a DVR through your cable company (usually an extra $10/month). Everything will just work, you can record multiple digital channels at once (even multiple HD in many areas), and some DVR's even have music/games/pictures software built in.
In the future, a combined device might be acceptable; but it's likely that dedicated devices will still be better, as the technology for both the convergent and dedicated devices improve. Of course its a tradeoff and matter of preference, but I've decided no more 'convergent' devices for me...
Uh, not really - Andrew Morton is the official maintainer of the 2.6 kernel, and Marcelo Tosatti is the maintainer for 2.4.
I agree, I just metamoderated the moderator of your post as "Unfair".
There's thousands of products which are "diskless devices" that don't require a server!! This is simply an embedded device - everything it needs is on flash memory.
Isn't ARM-no-MMU the same as uClinux? If so, it's hardly new - uClinux started in 1998.
No one in our freedom loving US of A would ever have to face jail time for reverse engineering something then publishing the results... *cough* *ack* wait a minute...
Has anyone actually received the beta after filling out the forms? I filled them out the day the beta was released (last Wednesday I believe) and haven't heard anything back from Adobe.
Furthermore, there are provisions in the specification for upstream (two-way) communication back to the cable company. Search for OpenCable interface specification and you'll find it.
2 Wire actually has a product other than the bandwidth meter?!
Yes you did - you just informed everyone, including me, that I can find Half Life 2 and several movies on the site mentioned in the post. I did not know that before.
So you have just indirectly "caused, contributed to, enabled, encouraged, and/or participated" in the infringement of copyrighted works.
The parent poster made a very good point, it's a shame you do not realize it.
6 Mbps using MPEG4 encoding is even better, you have plenty of bandwith for great quality video.
Of course this is assuming a single tuner device - for multiple tuners, you'll probably need high-speed USB.
The matches will be hard to watch from San Francisco - if you RTFM, you'll find the matches are actually held in Sunnyvale, CA (about 40 mins south of the city).
I'm just trying to make the point that the article doesn't address the fact that there are many non-native English speakers in "corporate America" - which I believe is a shortcoming of the article.