This is America, you'd think by now we'd be fighting with robot armies and other new-age weaponry.
Besides, I'd rather put effort into improving infrastructure than destroying it. Give every Iraq cable TV and start a bunch of McDonalds and they'll be too lazy and fat like us Americans to give a shit about their government.
Except for the contract point, what exactly did you refute in my post? CAM cards are in testing around the US now, so you can have digicable-ready TVs, just call up your provider, give them the equivalent of a MAC address and you're on. It should be showing up mid/late year. Some higher end TVs (HDTVs) come w/ the ports now, you just flash the firmware in the TV, plug in the CAM card and thats it.
BTW I had Dish network, only reason I got rid of it was that I needed to cut expenses, I did like the equipment (but I just had a basic receiver) and PQ.
No where do you mention the contract you have to sign, the fact they only have about 40 SD channels (vs cable's 60+ analog channels plus any on digital cable), a box for each TV (a problem w/ all satellite companies, not just Voom), and one problem you usually dont have with satellite, visibility. See, Voom is located at 61.5 degrees west longitude (over the atlantic), you not only have a higher chance for rainfade than with D* or E*, since the signal goes through atmosphere, but you also have to worry about being able to see the satellite from your property. Not a big deal until you get west of the Rocky Mountains, and elevation numbers get below 15 degrees above horizion.
Shut HardOCP down completely? Do you know how large the readership is??? How much money is involved? It would take a lot to get Kyle to flip the switch and turn HardOCP off... a hell of a lot...
Well if more expensive royalties are required for WMV9 then thats one big disadvantage. The biggest thing could be cost of discs (if the dual layer is much more expensive than single layer), WMV prolly uses half or less the bandwidth (because WMV 9 is far more complex than MPEG-2), say 8-10mbit/s, so you could put 200 minutes on a single layer disc. Is it more expensive for the extra royalties or the extra layer?
No one is forced to used WMV 9, they can still use MPEG-2. A dual layered disc (30GB of data) holds 200 minutes of MPEG-2 HD at 20mbit/s. Thats almost long enough to hold Return of the King.
A buddy of mine has a 1999 Ford Ranger. There are only 12 different lock cylinders for that year of Rangers. If you have one key for a Ranger, you have a 1/12 chance of opening up and driving away in any other Ranger. The chances arent so astronomical.
Seriously, over the time period this lawsuit is addressing, I bought about 10 CDs a year. If they inflated the price $1.50 per CD, then its almost right. Yes, it screws over the people who bought a ton of CDs, as more of their money was taken by the industry, whereas if you only bought 1 CD, you more or less got that CD for free. But there is no logistical way they could ask you how many CDs you bought and adjusted it for that, and be able to verify it.
I'm still far more interested in the Sandal Platform(1/2 way down page) and what convergence can do for me. I still dont see 64 bit applications (real applications, not just games) catching on for a while...
A buddy of mine was looking at tablets a while ago, instead he went with the IBM T41. Of course, his needs were more along the line of Mobile-AutoCAD-Demo-Station, not just something to take notes on and maybe goof around on.
Airports get more business? Not quite so sure about that, especially if the AP is at the gate. See, the people traveling are a captive audience, if they want to fly, they have to show up, and unless you live in an area with multiple large airports you're stuck with that airport (maybe possible back east, but where I live the nearest large airport outside of town is 4+ hrs away). And since you have to be a ticketed passenger to be at the gate anyways, you dont get any more people showing up at the gate and associated concessions area than before.
Intel is actually being proactive in this situation. Patriot sys. is just trying to establish a weak case against relatively weaker companies. Plus system integrators are a lot less likely to be knowledgable regarding intel's patents (less equiped to deal with microprocessor details) than intel themselves.
Was this salary average only for those who got work relavant to their degree? I'm guuna graduate with a CompE degree, but work as a GIS Specalist making $65K/yr. Not related much at all. And why would I take a pay cut to go work in the computer enginerring field?
Back in the early 1980s, you had a text prompt and that was about it. Maybe a mouse. Learning Computer Science via ASM was possible because there was a small subset of function the computer would accomplish. Today, I think its drastically different. There are a billion things one piece of software does, especially software with a GUI, API calls, etc. I would think that its so convoluted it would be hard to pick out one consistent stream of thought from inside the software.
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Ah, thanks for smacking me with the cluestick. Although according to this part of the USC, most/all the casinos are still in violation, as most of them have started to buying tons of 42" plasma screens and hanging them up everywhere (ie more than 1 per room, and more than 4 total). See this article.
Honestly, I wonder what would happen if the Casinos said "F-U NFL" and showed the games on huge screens, what are the fines/other penalties for displaying the game on a 100' screen? A $10,000 fine might be trivial compared to the revenue it brings in.
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Uh, its quite simple to fix most of todays windows problems...
1. Install/run Ad-Aware 6.
2. ???
3. Profit.
This is America, you'd think by now we'd be fighting with robot armies and other new-age weaponry.
Besides, I'd rather put effort into improving infrastructure than destroying it. Give every Iraq cable TV and start a bunch of McDonalds and they'll be too lazy and fat like us Americans to give a shit about their government.
Except for the contract point, what exactly did you refute in my post? CAM cards are in testing around the US now, so you can have digicable-ready TVs, just call up your provider, give them the equivalent of a MAC address and you're on. It should be showing up mid/late year. Some higher end TVs (HDTVs) come w/ the ports now, you just flash the firmware in the TV, plug in the CAM card and thats it.
BTW I had Dish network, only reason I got rid of it was that I needed to cut expenses, I did like the equipment (but I just had a basic receiver) and PQ.
Shill alert...
No where do you mention the contract you have to sign, the fact they only have about 40 SD channels (vs cable's 60+ analog channels plus any on digital cable), a box for each TV (a problem w/ all satellite companies, not just Voom), and one problem you usually dont have with satellite, visibility. See, Voom is located at 61.5 degrees west longitude (over the atlantic), you not only have a higher chance for rainfade than with D* or E*, since the signal goes through atmosphere, but you also have to worry about being able to see the satellite from your property. Not a big deal until you get west of the Rocky Mountains, and elevation numbers get below 15 degrees above horizion.
TDMA = Time Division Multiple Access
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/TDMA.html
Kazaa isnt based in the US. US laws have no jurisdiction over the developers.
Make it illegal to distribute any software in non-compliance? Download it from a server in Japan or Europe.
Make it illegal to use software that isnt compliant? Now instead of the RIAA suing 12 year, the FBI arrests them.
More election year rhetoric? perhaps...
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Shut HardOCP down completely? Do you know how large the readership is??? How much money is involved? It would take a lot to get Kyle to flip the switch and turn HardOCP off... a hell of a lot...
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sentence two: troll
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Really, all those awards are for the entire trillogy. The three movies are an Epic.
You need 5C enabled firewire ports and software to capture transport streams... thats not included in your standard PCI firewire card.
So it can receive HD over firewire.
No mention of copy protection on the recorded content...
Well if more expensive royalties are required for WMV9 then thats one big disadvantage. The biggest thing could be cost of discs (if the dual layer is much more expensive than single layer), WMV prolly uses half or less the bandwidth (because WMV 9 is far more complex than MPEG-2), say 8-10mbit/s, so you could put 200 minutes on a single layer disc. Is it more expensive for the extra royalties or the extra layer?
No one is forced to used WMV 9, they can still use MPEG-2. A dual layered disc (30GB of data) holds 200 minutes of MPEG-2 HD at 20mbit/s. Thats almost long enough to hold Return of the King.
Where you have to dial the area code and then "911", ie 1-212-911.
Actually there were a lot of rumors it got moved to Utah.
A buddy of mine has a 1999 Ford Ranger. There are only 12 different lock cylinders for that year of Rangers. If you have one key for a Ranger, you have a 1/12 chance of opening up and driving away in any other Ranger. The chances arent so astronomical.
You mean people still buy CDs?
Seriously, over the time period this lawsuit is addressing, I bought about 10 CDs a year. If they inflated the price $1.50 per CD, then its almost right. Yes, it screws over the people who bought a ton of CDs, as more of their money was taken by the industry, whereas if you only bought 1 CD, you more or less got that CD for free. But there is no logistical way they could ask you how many CDs you bought and adjusted it for that, and be able to verify it.
Lower the price of iPods???? Really! $300 is a *lot* of money.
I'm still far more interested in the Sandal Platform(1/2 way down page) and what convergence can do for me. I still dont see 64 bit applications (real applications, not just games) catching on for a while...
A buddy of mine was looking at tablets a while ago, instead he went with the IBM T41. Of course, his needs were more along the line of Mobile-AutoCAD-Demo-Station, not just something to take notes on and maybe goof around on.
Airports get more business? Not quite so sure about that, especially if the AP is at the gate. See, the people traveling are a captive audience, if they want to fly, they have to show up, and unless you live in an area with multiple large airports you're stuck with that airport (maybe possible back east, but where I live the nearest large airport outside of town is 4+ hrs away). And since you have to be a ticketed passenger to be at the gate anyways, you dont get any more people showing up at the gate and associated concessions area than before.
Intel is actually being proactive in this situation. Patriot sys. is just trying to establish a weak case against relatively weaker companies. Plus system integrators are a lot less likely to be knowledgable regarding intel's patents (less equiped to deal with microprocessor details) than intel themselves.
Was this salary average only for those who got work relavant to their degree? I'm guuna graduate with a CompE degree, but work as a GIS Specalist making $65K/yr. Not related much at all. And why would I take a pay cut to go work in the computer enginerring field?
Back in the early 1980s, you had a text prompt and that was about it. Maybe a mouse. Learning Computer Science via ASM was possible because there was a small subset of function the computer would accomplish. Today, I think its drastically different. There are a billion things one piece of software does, especially software with a GUI, API calls, etc. I would think that its so convoluted it would be hard to pick out one consistent stream of thought from inside the software.
Ah, thanks for smacking me with the cluestick. Although according to this part of the USC, most/all the casinos are still in violation, as most of them have started to buying tons of 42" plasma screens and hanging them up everywhere (ie more than 1 per room, and more than 4 total). See this article.
Honestly, I wonder what would happen if the Casinos said "F-U NFL" and showed the games on huge screens, what are the fines/other penalties for displaying the game on a 100' screen? A $10,000 fine might be trivial compared to the revenue it brings in.