If they add more flicker to movies, you'll never see me in a movie theater again. My eyes are relatively sensative to flicker-I can't stand to work on a monitor with a refresh rate slower than 85Hz, and I preffer 100Hz+ or an LCD. I see the flickering on movies when I go to movie theaters now. It's annoying, but I can deal with it. If they add more flickering, you won't see me in a movie theater anymore.
*thinks hmmmm, better excuse to continue building home theater*
No. Tivo has promised they will release a set of instructions or something like that that allows you to use your TiVo in a VCR manner. You will no longer have a program guide.
The most common question here seems to be why? Well, for my, XBMP is the answer. Few months ago, I installed a mod chip in a friend's Xbox. One of the first things he did was get XBMP running. Wow, all I can say is XBMP is the killer application for the Xbox. Just to run XBMP, I picked up a used Xbox and DVD remote just before the initial exploit was discovered, and I grabbed 007 off ebay for like $10. Though when trying to bridge the 2 resistor pads, I knocked another resistor off the board, so I need to obtain a replacement resistor (soldering iron I was using was WAY too big) to finish this project
Really though, if you haven't seen XBMP, look at it. It is a killer app-ESPECIALLY for college students. For $150 or so I have a box that will play damn near any media file I through at it, off CD, DVD, or SMB share, and is designed to be hooked to the TV, with an interface designed for it too. To me, the Xbox with XBMP is the media PC Microsoft has been trying to create.
Well, there are callerID units out there that speak the number...I believe Magnavox made one. The unit I saw wasn't marketed towards blind people-the marketing stratagy was that you didn't have to go to your phone to find out the number (I don't think it read names) and it was relatively inexpensive-under $50 IIRC.
While you would have not run SCO Unix anyway, if the sales team starts getting a noticeable amount of calls interested, but turned off because of the licensing and lawsuite, they WILL change their ways.
But generally, one only requests information if they have an intent to purchase a product. Even though there never is an intent to purchase, the goal is to make them THINK that you intended to purchase, but their licensing and lawsuite are why you did not.
I don't know about the policies for this school, but my school (RIT) EXPLICITLY states that the network is for academic and entertainment uses-provided entertainment uses of it aren't excessive.
There are excessive users, yes, but they are few and far between. 2GB is WAY too low-though completly legimate activities, I'm sure I do 2GB a week easily. Be it Linux ISO's the latest MicroShaft patches, etc. It's really not that hard to do 2GB. What about listening to streaming internet radio? Let's say a 64 kbit/sec stream is 30 mbytes/hour (roughly correct) if I start listening to launch or other internet radio, it's really not hard to rack up a few hundred mb in a couple hours.
While I don't particullarly support Cornell's idea, 2GB is just WAY too low. 20GB a month would be much more reasonable, yet still go after the abusers.
Quite honestly, I'm a freshman dorming. I decided to live on campus next year primarily because of the internet connection (as opposed to an off-campus appartment) if RIT did this, I would most likely not live on campus. I suspect others feel the same way.
Raise the price of the printers and make the ink cheap. Nice idea, but the public at large won't accept it. Joe sixpack buys the absolute cheapest printer he sees. The cost of the ink doesn't even enter his mind. Once he owns the printer, he is locked into that expensive ink. This is true of all electronics nowadays. That's why we have $40 POS VCR's and you can't even BUY good VCR's.
I suppose this is better than having expensive printers AND ink-My Canon BJC-600e and 610 are still going strong, but they cost almost $500 each and a set of cartridges is $40 or so. I'd rather have a $100 printer and $40 cartridges than a $500 printer and $40 cartridges (but I'd really rather have a $300 printer or so and $20 cartridges, but that's not gonna happen...)
I could be wrong on this, but it was my understanding they could not void the warranty by using "compatible" supplie-UNLESS they could prove the compatible supplies caused the failure. Example: Your printer breaks-it won't feed paper anymore. You bring it in for warranty repair. Even though you are using a non-OEM cartridge (assume the cartridge did not leak, explode, etc) they have to fix the printer. However, if that cartridge did leak, explode, etc, and that cause the problem, then it's your problem.
I wouldn't say that. Every 6 months we can get a new larger/faster FPGA which will translate into faster graphics. The FPGA's will still have to be upgraded once their capabilities are maxed out.
I sort of look at it as the melding of software and hardware.
True, these are all limitations that need to be overcome. But that's why I said you won't see it today or tomorrow. 5 years ago, who would have though we'd have the kind of storage, memory, 3d peformance, and graphics on our desktops we do today. 5 years from now, who knows what we will have. I'm SURE this will happen eventually, it's a question of when, not if.
Here's an interesting thought. I see someone mentioning that some cryptography company uses FPGA's on a PCI card in a PC. What about taking that one step further, and making the GPU on video card a FPGA? Imagine if, when you launched a game, it would be able to reconfigure the card optimally for that game. Rather than leaving parts of the GPU unused, it could convert them into something it can use.
This would also allow graphics cards to be upgraded, for instance, if today's graphics cards were FPGA based, DirectX 9 support could be added to existing cards.
Are we going to see this technology this year? I doubt it. But 5 years down the road, I bet your graphics card will be based on an FPGA.
OK, first off, Apple's hardware today tends to be standard, with a special, Apple, twist. Examples:
1. ADC-Apple took DVI and made it propritary
2. CD-ROM Drives-Yes, regular IDE drives will work in a Mac, but many are not bootable. My PC's will boot off every CDROM drive I've thrown at them
3. OpenFirmware-Yes, it's OpenFirmware, but doesn't it have propritary extensions for bootstrapping the OS? I can't install OS X on like an IBM PowerPC Machine. The Mac is NOT totally open-if it was I could do this.
4. 802.11b-Apple took a Standard (PCMCIA) and changed the connector a little so a standard PCMCIA card would not work in it. The Airport card is just a apple-branded Lucent Orinocco, but apple "customized" it so you had to pay extra for the apple-branded card.
Yes, apple used to be FAR more proipritary than they are. However, I don't think that apple is trying to be a better company by becomming less propritary. Rather, I think it is pure economics-using PC parts is cheaper than building your own. Apple has learned that they can have an even bigger profit margin by using standard parts.
Perhaps that is worse. Not only does a company have a monopoly on software-they have it on hardware too. At least the PC is an open standard. Apple hardware is subject to Apple's whims.
I'm not trying to put down Apple with this post-it's just that the person seems to want to avoid buying proipritary software, but has no problem buying propritary hardware, which I believe is even worse.
Just wondering-the author was looking to buy an iBook, but is blantantly opposed to paying the M$ tax. What about the Apple tax that come with Apple hardware? Apple won't sell hardware without an OS. The iBook is cute, but, IMHO overpriced. Moreso, the lack of a PC Card slot and the lack of IR means I won't be getting one. The author is going out of his way to avoid giving MS any money for something he won't use, but seemed to have no problem paying apple for software he won't use. My point is perhaps he should not be outright opposed to buying windows if he gets a better machine. Windows "only" adds maybe $30 to the cost of a PC.
I'll be sticking with my wired keyboard and mouse on my desktop for a while longer for a few reasons.
1. Security. Nothing beats a wire for security. Even if the traffic is encrypted (which I don't believe to be the case) the encryption will be broken-it's just a matter of time
2. Convience. That's right. I find a wired mouse more convient. Like many geeks, I'm a tad messy. I look at the cord on my mouse as a teather. I can always follow the cord to find my mouse. Also, when my mouse falls off the desk, the cord catches it.
3. No batteries to replace. Replacing the batteries (or having yet another charger on my desk) would just be one more annoyance.
Wireless keyboards and mice DO have their place (a home theater PC comes to mind) but I don't have a need, or really a want, for one on my desktop.
I sure don't recall that. I remember buying software for my (then state-of-the-art) 486 sx 20 and you could not return it if it was open. Lets hope this woman wins.
So if I write something, copyright it, and send it back and fourth across the VPN tunnel, it would be covered then. With all the (ab)use of the DMCA, the best way I can see to get rid of it is to use it against the companies that shoved it down our throat.
Who said VPN's have to be for work purposes? I'm just about to setup a VPN at home so I can connect to it from my college dorm and fix my parents computers as they break them. VPN's devinately have non-work related uses.
While this won't work in the UK, I'm sure it's only a matter of time till we see this happen in the US. I wonder if someone could use the DMCA against the ISP when it happens here....if the ISP complains about the VPN, the consumer responds with a DMCA violation as the only way they could know it was a VPN connection was to (illegally) decrypt the VPN traffic.
Also, what about charging the ISP with false advertising? If they start limiting your services, and how much of them you can have, is it really unlimited and is it really internet access? Or more like partial internet access?
Only problem with using CD's as prior art is it isn't. The PCM (Pulse-Code Modulated) audio used on CD's is NOT compressed. It is uncompressed, stereo, 16bit, 44,100 samples per second audio.
When's this patent date to again? I think there was some compressed digital audio and video transmission long before that on satellite (think C and Ku band) in fact, I KNOW there was ANALOG (yes, there is such a thing as analog compression) compression of audio and video as early as the 80's.
For the ultra simple compression, there was a Hotel PPV service that transmitted their signal over satellite on one transponder. Except they had 4 channels. How did they do it? They divided the screen into 4 quarters. Each quarter held one video signal. They then used a different subcarrier for each program's audio.
IT's a nice idea, but flawed. The ISS is like 400 miles up, (geostationary) satellites are 22,300 miles up. The biggest cost of a satellite is the launch cost. You would still have that with this solution (granted, I guess you could have it dock with multiple satellites, but it's starting to get complex then) The other reason is by the time satellites have used up their propellant, they are usually considered obselete and not that desireable. Newer satellites offer more power (BIGGEST plus) more transponders, etc. The satellites that are near the end of their service life are effectively the cheap satellites, sorta like the roach motel. Comparing a satellite like Spacenet 3 to some modern satellite like Telstar 7, Telstar 7 was FAR more powerful (I think like 10x or something....this is going off the top of my head) and C-band transmissions from it can be reliably received with like a 8' dish, as opposed to about a 16' dish for Spacenet 3. Even if you use the same receiving dish, it still gives you a larger Signal margin.
Basically, it doesn't make economic sense to refuel satellites and try and keep using them
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If they add more flicker to movies, you'll never see me in a movie theater again. My eyes are relatively sensative to flicker-I can't stand to work on a monitor with a refresh rate slower than 85Hz, and I preffer 100Hz+ or an LCD. I see the flickering on movies when I go to movie theaters now. It's annoying, but I can deal with it. If they add more flickering, you won't see me in a movie theater anymore. *thinks hmmmm, better excuse to continue building home theater*
No. Tivo has promised they will release a set of instructions or something like that that allows you to use your TiVo in a VCR manner. You will no longer have a program guide.
Some of the alternate Xbox shells also have FTP servers running, so you don't even need linux to do this.
The most common question here seems to be why? Well, for my, XBMP is the answer. Few months ago, I installed a mod chip in a friend's Xbox. One of the first things he did was get XBMP running. Wow, all I can say is XBMP is the killer application for the Xbox. Just to run XBMP, I picked up a used Xbox and DVD remote just before the initial exploit was discovered, and I grabbed 007 off ebay for like $10. Though when trying to bridge the 2 resistor pads, I knocked another resistor off the board, so I need to obtain a replacement resistor (soldering iron I was using was WAY too big) to finish this project Really though, if you haven't seen XBMP, look at it. It is a killer app-ESPECIALLY for college students. For $150 or so I have a box that will play damn near any media file I through at it, off CD, DVD, or SMB share, and is designed to be hooked to the TV, with an interface designed for it too. To me, the Xbox with XBMP is the media PC Microsoft has been trying to create.
Well, there are callerID units out there that speak the number...I believe Magnavox made one. The unit I saw wasn't marketed towards blind people-the marketing stratagy was that you didn't have to go to your phone to find out the number (I don't think it read names) and it was relatively inexpensive-under $50 IIRC.
While you would have not run SCO Unix anyway, if the sales team starts getting a noticeable amount of calls interested, but turned off because of the licensing and lawsuite, they WILL change their ways.
But generally, one only requests information if they have an intent to purchase a product. Even though there never is an intent to purchase, the goal is to make them THINK that you intended to purchase, but their licensing and lawsuite are why you did not.
I don't know about the policies for this school, but my school (RIT) EXPLICITLY states that the network is for academic and entertainment uses-provided entertainment uses of it aren't excessive. There are excessive users, yes, but they are few and far between. 2GB is WAY too low-though completly legimate activities, I'm sure I do 2GB a week easily. Be it Linux ISO's the latest MicroShaft patches, etc. It's really not that hard to do 2GB. What about listening to streaming internet radio? Let's say a 64 kbit/sec stream is 30 mbytes/hour (roughly correct) if I start listening to launch or other internet radio, it's really not hard to rack up a few hundred mb in a couple hours. While I don't particullarly support Cornell's idea, 2GB is just WAY too low. 20GB a month would be much more reasonable, yet still go after the abusers. Quite honestly, I'm a freshman dorming. I decided to live on campus next year primarily because of the internet connection (as opposed to an off-campus appartment) if RIT did this, I would most likely not live on campus. I suspect others feel the same way.
There is no audio track. Audio is part of the same bitstream as video on DV. Just one bitstream.
Raise the price of the printers and make the ink cheap. Nice idea, but the public at large won't accept it. Joe sixpack buys the absolute cheapest printer he sees. The cost of the ink doesn't even enter his mind. Once he owns the printer, he is locked into that expensive ink. This is true of all electronics nowadays. That's why we have $40 POS VCR's and you can't even BUY good VCR's. I suppose this is better than having expensive printers AND ink-My Canon BJC-600e and 610 are still going strong, but they cost almost $500 each and a set of cartridges is $40 or so. I'd rather have a $100 printer and $40 cartridges than a $500 printer and $40 cartridges (but I'd really rather have a $300 printer or so and $20 cartridges, but that's not gonna happen...)
I could be wrong on this, but it was my understanding they could not void the warranty by using "compatible" supplie-UNLESS they could prove the compatible supplies caused the failure. Example: Your printer breaks-it won't feed paper anymore. You bring it in for warranty repair. Even though you are using a non-OEM cartridge (assume the cartridge did not leak, explode, etc) they have to fix the printer. However, if that cartridge did leak, explode, etc, and that cause the problem, then it's your problem.
I wouldn't say that. Every 6 months we can get a new larger/faster FPGA which will translate into faster graphics. The FPGA's will still have to be upgraded once their capabilities are maxed out. I sort of look at it as the melding of software and hardware.
True, these are all limitations that need to be overcome. But that's why I said you won't see it today or tomorrow. 5 years ago, who would have though we'd have the kind of storage, memory, 3d peformance, and graphics on our desktops we do today. 5 years from now, who knows what we will have. I'm SURE this will happen eventually, it's a question of when, not if.
This would also allow graphics cards to be upgraded, for instance, if today's graphics cards were FPGA based, DirectX 9 support could be added to existing cards.
Are we going to see this technology this year? I doubt it. But 5 years down the road, I bet your graphics card will be based on an FPGA.
OK, first off, Apple's hardware today tends to be standard, with a special, Apple, twist. Examples: 1. ADC-Apple took DVI and made it propritary 2. CD-ROM Drives-Yes, regular IDE drives will work in a Mac, but many are not bootable. My PC's will boot off every CDROM drive I've thrown at them 3. OpenFirmware-Yes, it's OpenFirmware, but doesn't it have propritary extensions for bootstrapping the OS? I can't install OS X on like an IBM PowerPC Machine. The Mac is NOT totally open-if it was I could do this. 4. 802.11b-Apple took a Standard (PCMCIA) and changed the connector a little so a standard PCMCIA card would not work in it. The Airport card is just a apple-branded Lucent Orinocco, but apple "customized" it so you had to pay extra for the apple-branded card. Yes, apple used to be FAR more proipritary than they are. However, I don't think that apple is trying to be a better company by becomming less propritary. Rather, I think it is pure economics-using PC parts is cheaper than building your own. Apple has learned that they can have an even bigger profit margin by using standard parts.
Perhaps that is worse. Not only does a company have a monopoly on software-they have it on hardware too. At least the PC is an open standard. Apple hardware is subject to Apple's whims. I'm not trying to put down Apple with this post-it's just that the person seems to want to avoid buying proipritary software, but has no problem buying propritary hardware, which I believe is even worse.
Just wondering-the author was looking to buy an iBook, but is blantantly opposed to paying the M$ tax. What about the Apple tax that come with Apple hardware? Apple won't sell hardware without an OS.
The iBook is cute, but, IMHO overpriced. Moreso, the lack of a PC Card slot and the lack of IR means I won't be getting one.
The author is going out of his way to avoid giving MS any money for something he won't use, but seemed to have no problem paying apple for software he won't use. My point is perhaps he should not be outright opposed to buying windows if he gets a better machine. Windows "only" adds maybe $30 to the cost of a PC.
I'll be sticking with my wired keyboard and mouse on my desktop for a while longer for a few reasons. 1. Security. Nothing beats a wire for security. Even if the traffic is encrypted (which I don't believe to be the case) the encryption will be broken-it's just a matter of time 2. Convience. That's right. I find a wired mouse more convient. Like many geeks, I'm a tad messy. I look at the cord on my mouse as a teather. I can always follow the cord to find my mouse. Also, when my mouse falls off the desk, the cord catches it. 3. No batteries to replace. Replacing the batteries (or having yet another charger on my desk) would just be one more annoyance. Wireless keyboards and mice DO have their place (a home theater PC comes to mind) but I don't have a need, or really a want, for one on my desktop.
If it can be received, it can, and in a case like this, WILL be cracked.
I sure don't recall that. I remember buying software for my (then state-of-the-art) 486 sx 20 and you could not return it if it was open. Lets hope this woman wins.
So if I write something, copyright it, and send it back and fourth across the VPN tunnel, it would be covered then. With all the (ab)use of the DMCA, the best way I can see to get rid of it is to use it against the companies that shoved it down our throat.
Who said VPN's have to be for work purposes? I'm just about to setup a VPN at home so I can connect to it from my college dorm and fix my parents computers as they break them. VPN's devinately have non-work related uses. While this won't work in the UK, I'm sure it's only a matter of time till we see this happen in the US. I wonder if someone could use the DMCA against the ISP when it happens here....if the ISP complains about the VPN, the consumer responds with a DMCA violation as the only way they could know it was a VPN connection was to (illegally) decrypt the VPN traffic. Also, what about charging the ISP with false advertising? If they start limiting your services, and how much of them you can have, is it really unlimited and is it really internet access? Or more like partial internet access?
Wouldn't some kind of proof of like a BBS with Zip'd audio files or something like that prior to 1991 be prior art also? Like MOD's on the Amiga?
Only problem with using CD's as prior art is it isn't. The PCM (Pulse-Code Modulated) audio used on CD's is NOT compressed. It is uncompressed, stereo, 16bit, 44,100 samples per second audio. When's this patent date to again? I think there was some compressed digital audio and video transmission long before that on satellite (think C and Ku band) in fact, I KNOW there was ANALOG (yes, there is such a thing as analog compression) compression of audio and video as early as the 80's. For the ultra simple compression, there was a Hotel PPV service that transmitted their signal over satellite on one transponder. Except they had 4 channels. How did they do it? They divided the screen into 4 quarters. Each quarter held one video signal. They then used a different subcarrier for each program's audio.
IT's a nice idea, but flawed. The ISS is like 400 miles up, (geostationary) satellites are 22,300 miles up. The biggest cost of a satellite is the launch cost. You would still have that with this solution (granted, I guess you could have it dock with multiple satellites, but it's starting to get complex then) The other reason is by the time satellites have used up their propellant, they are usually considered obselete and not that desireable. Newer satellites offer more power (BIGGEST plus) more transponders, etc. The satellites that are near the end of their service life are effectively the cheap satellites, sorta like the roach motel. Comparing a satellite like Spacenet 3 to some modern satellite like Telstar 7, Telstar 7 was FAR more powerful (I think like 10x or something....this is going off the top of my head) and C-band transmissions from it can be reliably received with like a 8' dish, as opposed to about a 16' dish for Spacenet 3. Even if you use the same receiving dish, it still gives you a larger Signal margin. Basically, it doesn't make economic sense to refuel satellites and try and keep using them