Cary Sherman: There is nothing unusual about technology being used to protect intellectual property. You can't simply make an extra copy of a Microsoft operating system, or virtually any other commercially-released software program for that matter.
Since when can't you copy a Windows CD?? Or most other commercial software programs?
Movies are not 16x9 - HDTV is. Movies vary radically, depending on the director; the most common aspect ratio is probably 1.85:1, which is closer to 17x9. Cinemascope is 2.35:1, or about 21x9.
Your calculation needs a x3 in there - movies are typically scanned at 12 bits per component per pixel - they're scanned as RGB, so that's 12 bits for R, 12 for G, 12 for B. Or, 36 bits per pixel. So your example is
Your numbers are a bit off....
1080i HD is 1920 x 1080, but each pixel has two components of 10 bits each. So you get 155,520,000 bytes per second in an uncompressed HD stream. Other HD formats are lower.
BUT: remember, Turner's greatest asset is MOVIES, i.e. film, not HD television. A decent film scanner uses a 4K resolution - the numbers vary slightly depending on exactly what format the film was shot in, but a typical Academy resolution is 3656 x 2664 at 12 bits/pixel RGB - that's 1,051,875,072 bytes/sec (film is 24 fps). In other words, Turner needs roughly a gigabyte per second of film. So that puny little 300 gig holographic disk will hold 5 minutes - and you'll need a stack of them for just one movie.
The 27 MB/sec number mentioned in TFA is the data rate of uncompressed standard definition television - which is 720 x 486 x 2 components * 10 bits/pixel * 30 frames/sec = 26,244,000 bytes/sec. (All these numbers are skipping over the audio, of course, but the bandwidth reqruired tehre is relatively minor).
Seems like they only studied three out of four groups (gamers, druggies, neither). Where's the study on drug addicts who play games? Are the effects additive, or not?
As a government entity, when Massachusetts purchases software, it has to be done through a competitive bid process. The state is simply saying that "needs to use and support the Open Document file format" should be added to the requirements list for those bids. Adding another clause about "needs to adequately support impaired users" is equally easy.
Wait... Michigan is outlawing violent games?? To protect the kids??
Whatever will the Wolverines do every Saturday? To say nothing of all the college hockey teams....
A CRT monitor is NOT limited to 8 bit RGB - it's an analog device. It responds to a voltage between 0 and 0.7 V. The back end of your graphics card typically has an 8 bit DAC, which converts the signal, and is the bottleneck. Some workstation-based graphics solutions in the past have had 10-bit DACs, but that hasn't trickled down to PCs just yet.
Don't belive me? Go watch TV... it is transmitted and processed in 10 bits, not 8. True for both SD and HDTV.
The actual study was on internet usage by US residents - US households - not merely by citizens.
They did break out ethnic groups - e.g. use in Asian households is higher than all other groups - but that includes both American and non-American families.
Jeez, this is just like an American car... first one of the windows falls out, now the gas gauge doesn't work. Maybe they should farm out shuttle production to Germany... I hear they know how to build decent rockets.
And not launching because the gas gauge is broken?? "Hey kids, sorry, we aren't going to Disneyland, the gas gauge isn't working". Right.
A typical aircraft already has a high-powered weather radar dish, several VHF transmitters for voice communications (with air traffic control, etc), a transmitter to talk with the airlines' own ground control, and usually an AirPhone transmitter (for all those $5/min phones in every seat back). With all that RF noise going on, what's a few more very-low-power UHF cell phones??
The Pentium D 820 [...] contains two Prescott cores per die but doesn't support HyperThreading
Huh? Hyperthreading was a constrained, limited ability to run two concurrent streams of execution on one physical chip. Dual core CPUs allow unlimited execution of two streams. "Doesn't support hyperthreading" is listed here as if it was a limitation - but in fact dual core (in the benchmarks I'm running) conmpletely blows away any hyperthreaded chip. This is a far better, far more powerful, solution.
It is nice to see Intel finally catching up with AMD....
So, a "security expert" switches to Mac because of security issues... and then lists a bunch of reasons why, but none of them have anything to do with security!
The most bizarre is blaming the BIOS - which is only used to boot Windows, and isn't used during runtime at all (and hasn't been for years). In fact you don't even need a BIOS to run Windows (take a look at any SGI box, for instance).
Once again, word of Apple's latest innovation has leaked out before it got to market. With both the single button mouse and blank keyboard, they will truly revolutionize computing.
So, geeks are more likely to have boys, while jocks (i.e. those guys studly enough to pick up a nurse) are more likely to have girls. Isn't that somehow counter-intuitive??
However, it does correlate neatly with Darwin - geeky guys are more likely to produce more geeky guys.
So, if this comes to pass, huge numbers of people will buy the DVD, take it home, enter their fingerprint ONCE, and rip it to a non-protected copy. Then, they'll just use the much-more convenient copy.
In other words, everyone will have and regularly use a DVD copier. And, once you're copying it for yourself, what's the difference if you make a few extra copies? Hey, while I'm sitting here, Aunt Martha might enjoy this movie too.....
Today's teleconferencing is very far removed from standard definition television. It's highly compressed, jerky, and - worst of all - has a significant latency problem. Fix those issues first, before you move to HD.
After all, more pixels input + same bandwidth line = even higher compression ratio.
Once teleconferencing approaches the video and audio quality of the nightly TV news, then I'll get excited.
What a change... usually the Slashdot community comes down hard on someone doing things in a proprietary, non-standard format, that isn't useable by 99% of the community. Now, they're cheering it....
Scots are NOT British. That's like saying New Yorkers are Californian. Scotland and England are once-separate countries, that are now part of a new country called the United Kingdom. Scots are, er, "United Kingdomers", or whatever, but they're decidedly not British. (Or as my dad would say, "them northerners arren't civilized enough to be Brits").
Er, and yes, I did forget that Murdoch was Australian. But, then again, Australia is a colony... although now separate, in some ways, Australia is more "British", being a British colony, than Scotland, which is a separate country that formed an economic union with Britain.
But now we're all one happy borderless "European Union"....
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Implementation: instead of a simple menu choice, or a remote control button, implement this via a RFID tag. OK, so how stupid can Tivo get?
Dear Tivo: Give us preferences. Keep the RFID tags.
Since when can't you copy a Windows CD?? Or most other commercial software programs?
Movies are not 16x9 - HDTV is. Movies vary radically, depending on the director; the most common aspect ratio is probably 1.85:1, which is closer to 17x9. Cinemascope is 2.35:1, or about 21x9.
Your calculation needs a x3 in there - movies are typically scanned at 12 bits per component per pixel - they're scanned as RGB, so that's 12 bits for R, 12 for G, 12 for B. Or, 36 bits per pixel. So your example is
4736*2664*36*24/8 = 1.27 Gigabytes/sec.
Your numbers are a bit off.... 1080i HD is 1920 x 1080, but each pixel has two components of 10 bits each. So you get 155,520,000 bytes per second in an uncompressed HD stream. Other HD formats are lower. BUT: remember, Turner's greatest asset is MOVIES, i.e. film, not HD television. A decent film scanner uses a 4K resolution - the numbers vary slightly depending on exactly what format the film was shot in, but a typical Academy resolution is 3656 x 2664 at 12 bits/pixel RGB - that's 1,051,875,072 bytes/sec (film is 24 fps). In other words, Turner needs roughly a gigabyte per second of film. So that puny little 300 gig holographic disk will hold 5 minutes - and you'll need a stack of them for just one movie. The 27 MB/sec number mentioned in TFA is the data rate of uncompressed standard definition television - which is 720 x 486 x 2 components * 10 bits/pixel * 30 frames/sec = 26,244,000 bytes/sec. (All these numbers are skipping over the audio, of course, but the bandwidth reqruired tehre is relatively minor).
Seems like they only studied three out of four groups (gamers, druggies, neither). Where's the study on drug addicts who play games? Are the effects additive, or not?
As a government entity, when Massachusetts purchases software, it has to be done through a competitive bid process. The state is simply saying that "needs to use and support the Open Document file format" should be added to the requirements list for those bids. Adding another clause about "needs to adequately support impaired users" is equally easy.
Wait... Michigan is outlawing violent games?? To protect the kids?? Whatever will the Wolverines do every Saturday? To say nothing of all the college hockey teams....
A CRT monitor is NOT limited to 8 bit RGB - it's an analog device. It responds to a voltage between 0 and 0.7 V. The back end of your graphics card typically has an 8 bit DAC, which converts the signal, and is the bottleneck. Some workstation-based graphics solutions in the past have had 10-bit DACs, but that hasn't trickled down to PCs just yet.
Don't belive me? Go watch TV... it is transmitted and processed in 10 bits, not 8. True for both SD and HDTV.
The actual study was on internet usage by US residents - US households - not merely by citizens. They did break out ethnic groups - e.g. use in Asian households is higher than all other groups - but that includes both American and non-American families.
Level 3 and Cogent are in a pissing contest?? Oh, wait a minute. That was peeRing. My bad.
Stragegy for video game profit:
1. Take any game you're developing, and add just enough sex/violence/drugs/etc. to make it onto the "banned" list.
2. Since any game on the "banned" list is immediately desirable to all teenagers, sales will skyrocket.
3. Profit!!
I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of.
My store has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy.
Cause, meet effect.
Pretty useless for video capture these days. Full HDTV takes about 150 MB/sec; so a 4GB drive can capture less than 30 seconds of video.
Most SATA RAID controllers on motherboards can stripe four drives together - but are you really going to spend $2000 for 90 seconds of storage??
Jeez, this is just like an American car... first one of the windows falls out, now the gas gauge doesn't work. Maybe they should farm out shuttle production to Germany... I hear they know how to build decent rockets.
And not launching because the gas gauge is broken?? "Hey kids, sorry, we aren't going to Disneyland, the gas gauge isn't working". Right.
A typical aircraft already has a high-powered weather radar dish, several VHF transmitters for voice communications (with air traffic control, etc), a transmitter to talk with the airlines' own ground control, and usually an AirPhone transmitter (for all those $5/min phones in every seat back). With all that RF noise going on, what's a few more very-low-power UHF cell phones??
Huh? Hyperthreading was a constrained, limited ability to run two concurrent streams of execution on one physical chip. Dual core CPUs allow unlimited execution of two streams. "Doesn't support hyperthreading" is listed here as if it was a limitation - but in fact dual core (in the benchmarks I'm running) conmpletely blows away any hyperthreaded chip. This is a far better, far more powerful, solution.
It is nice to see Intel finally catching up with AMD....
So, a "security expert" switches to Mac because of security issues... and then lists a bunch of reasons why, but none of them have anything to do with security!
The most bizarre is blaming the BIOS - which is only used to boot Windows, and isn't used during runtime at all (and hasn't been for years). In fact you don't even need a BIOS to run Windows (take a look at any SGI box, for instance).
Once again, word of Apple's latest innovation has leaked out before it got to market. With both the single button mouse and blank keyboard, they will truly revolutionize computing.
So, geeks are more likely to have boys, while jocks (i.e. those guys studly enough to pick up a nurse) are more likely to have girls. Isn't that somehow counter-intuitive??
However, it does correlate neatly with Darwin - geeky guys are more likely to produce more geeky guys.
So, if this comes to pass, huge numbers of people will buy the DVD, take it home, enter their fingerprint ONCE, and rip it to a non-protected copy. Then, they'll just use the much-more convenient copy.
In other words, everyone will have and regularly use a DVD copier. And, once you're copying it for yourself, what's the difference if you make a few extra copies? Hey, while I'm sitting here, Aunt Martha might enjoy this movie too.....
Today's teleconferencing is very far removed from standard definition television. It's highly compressed, jerky, and - worst of all - has a significant latency problem. Fix those issues first, before you move to HD.
After all, more pixels input + same bandwidth line = even higher compression ratio.
Once teleconferencing approaches the video and audio quality of the nightly TV news, then I'll get excited.
Bad news: They weren't planning on dangling it out in front of you....
1. Sell your best known business unit to China. 2. Fire 13,000 people. 3. Profit!!! What is really sad is... it just might work.
What a change... usually the Slashdot community comes down hard on someone doing things in a proprietary, non-standard format, that isn't useable by 99% of the community. Now, they're cheering it....
Er, and yes, I did forget that Murdoch was Australian. But, then again, Australia is a colony... although now separate, in some ways, Australia is more "British", being a British colony, than Scotland, which is a separate country that formed an economic union with Britain.
But now we're all one happy borderless "European Union"....