In the last four years spent at university, my TV card has been the single best component I've bought for my computer - for 40 (~$60-70), it's given me TV viewing and recording facilities, with no need to take up extra space in my room and whilst transport with a TV.
It's also nice to have a TV window open at the bottom of my screen whilst working:)
For anyone with a TV card, I recommend trying DScaler - it's open-source software which can filter and display video inputs, particularly from TV cards. I've been using it for the past four years, and it's far better than the TV viewing applications that came with my Hauppage WinTV card, or my friends Pinnacle PCTV card.
When you consider that the chance of randomly guessing a random 3-letter long case-sensitive password is 52^3 (1 in 140608), this really isn't that impressive.
The BBC also have an article about this, predictably considering they also won three awards. They won best news, sports and educational coverage, which really does show how great a resource they are.
What would be wrong with the public freely sharing the content? They are subsidizing the creation of it with their tax payments.
The major problem with this is that non-license fee payers (both in the UK and overseas) would get exactly the same content as those who do pay.
Making the content free to everyone would seriously undermine the license-fee model which provides the vast bulk of the BBCs income. License-fee payers will object to paying for programs that non-license payers can freely watch.
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Even though a lot of popular American programs are available illegally on the net, there isn't currently a reliable way to get BBC-produced TV programs (although I'm sure they do exist, they're just nowhere near as common). Even if they were though, the fact remains that most current TV downloads are illegal.
As a BBC license-fee payer, I would love to be able to obtain episodes legally like this, and it's good to see that the BBC seems to have their customers interests in mind.
It's also claimed in the article that 'buying originals off Ebay is just as bad' as piracy. Seems to me like the only priority of this software developer is money.
If anyone is interested in the BBC Archive that was announced last year, the/. article about it is here. If this did happen with the archive being stored in this format at a high-resolution, it really would be an incredible resource.
Dude, what are you talking about? I take it you don't have a Mac.
You're right, P2P applications are certainly available for the Mac. However, fortunately for Apple, most of the general public aren't aware of this, and so see iTunes as their main source for downloading music.
And once iTunes had become extremely successful for Mac users, it was only a matter of time before they moved into the Windows market.
It'd be interesting to see some figures showing the numbers of Mac/Windows users and their respective purchases.
I'd certainly expect to see that Mac users would be more likely to buy music from the store, which I'd attribute mainly to the lack of P2P clients available on the Mac, which has certainly helped Apple establish themselves in the market with the Mac version of iTunes.
As one of the bigger free e-mail providers, I have to say that Yahoo do an excellent job of spam protection, especially when compared to Hotmail. Yes, some spam e-mails do creep into the Inbox instead of the 'Bulk E-mail' folder they provide for spam, but I use my Yahoo account day-to-day, whereas my Hotmail address I've had to dump due to the amounts of spam I get.
A lot of common BIOSes have backdoor passwords hardcoded, which let an intruder gain access to the BIOS options without having to work out what the user set the password to. This unfortunately means it's not an effective way to safeguard your PC.
Even if an intruder isn't able to use one of these backdoor passwords, he can always reset the BIOS by taking the battery backup out.
In the end, no matter what precautions you take, with a standard x86-architecture PC, if an intruder has physical access to it, there's nothing much you can do to stop them switching in on somehow, the only effective protection is to securely encrypt any sensitive data.
According to Amazon.de here, it costs EUR 643,99 for a UK import (the Amazon UK site is down at the moment, so can't get price from there).
So that makes it 445 pounds, or about $740. However, when I saw it on the UK site earlier this week, I'm sure it was nearer 350 pounds.
This has been listed on the Amazon UK site for at least a week now. Unfortunately, their site is currently down, but Amazon.de have a link for a UK import(although in German, but has a picture) here
And yet Sharman hasn't publically jousted Kazaa Lite?
Google removed links to Kazaa Lite a few weeks ago under the DMCA due to a request from Sharman Networks, so actually they have been trying to stop it.
It's not the same as an end-user using GAIM to connect to AOL's network. A far more accurate comparison would be if you modified the official AIM software and connected with that, to aid a vendetta against AOL.
Unfortunately, the same message is displayed on the google.co.uk version, where the DCMA should have no effect - why can't they just have the restriction on the.com site?
If it's possible to detect the source of a blocking tags, you could just be attracting far more attention to yourself in a store. Instead of a machine monitoring you, you could have a security guard...
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In the last four years spent at university, my TV card has been the single best component I've bought for my computer - for 40 (~$60-70), it's given me TV viewing and recording facilities, with no need to take up extra space in my room and whilst transport with a TV. It's also nice to have a TV window open at the bottom of my screen whilst working :)
For anyone with a TV card, I recommend trying DScaler - it's open-source software which can filter and display video inputs, particularly from TV cards. I've been using it for the past four years, and it's far better than the TV viewing applications that came with my Hauppage WinTV card, or my friends Pinnacle PCTV card.
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Might be an idea to check it yourself next time too ;)
When you consider that the chance of randomly guessing a random 3-letter long case-sensitive password is 52^3 (1 in 140608), this really isn't that impressive.
The BBC also have an article about this, predictably considering they also won three awards. They won best news, sports and educational coverage, which really does show how great a resource they are.
Here's another two other reviews, one at AnandTech and another at TomsHardware
The major problem with this is that non-license fee payers (both in the UK and overseas) would get exactly the same content as those who do pay.
Making the content free to everyone would seriously undermine the license-fee model which provides the vast bulk of the BBCs income. License-fee payers will object to paying for programs that non-license payers can freely watch.
Even though a lot of popular American programs are available illegally on the net, there isn't currently a reliable way to get BBC-produced TV programs (although I'm sure they do exist, they're just nowhere near as common). Even if they were though, the fact remains that most current TV downloads are illegal. As a BBC license-fee payer, I would love to be able to obtain episodes legally like this, and it's good to see that the BBC seems to have their customers interests in mind.
It's also claimed in the article that 'buying originals off Ebay is just as bad' as piracy. Seems to me like the only priority of this software developer is money.
If anyone is interested in the BBC Archive that was announced last year, the /. article about it is here. If this did happen with the archive being stored in this format at a high-resolution, it really would be an incredible resource.
You're right, P2P applications are certainly available for the Mac. However, fortunately for Apple, most of the general public aren't aware of this, and so see iTunes as their main source for downloading music.
And once iTunes had become extremely successful for Mac users, it was only a matter of time before they moved into the Windows market.
It'd be interesting to see some figures showing the numbers of Mac/Windows users and their respective purchases.
I'd certainly expect to see that Mac users would be more likely to buy music from the store, which I'd attribute mainly to the lack of P2P clients available on the Mac, which has certainly helped Apple establish themselves in the market with the Mac version of iTunes.
Perhaps this has something to do with it?
One important detail that seems to have been missed out of the summary... (from the linked BBC article)
"But a late amendment limited them to organised counterfeiters and not people downloading music at home."
As one of the bigger free e-mail providers, I have to say that Yahoo do an excellent job of spam protection, especially when compared to Hotmail. Yes, some spam e-mails do creep into the Inbox instead of the 'Bulk E-mail' folder they provide for spam, but I use my Yahoo account day-to-day, whereas my Hotmail address I've had to dump due to the amounts of spam I get.
I saw this exact message before ('sole developer responsible' posted on a previous 'anti-Apple' story on here. (iTunes Disables MusicMatch).
A lot of common BIOSes have backdoor passwords hardcoded, which let an intruder gain access to the BIOS options without having to work out what the user set the password to. This unfortunately means it's not an effective way to safeguard your PC. Even if an intruder isn't able to use one of these backdoor passwords, he can always reset the BIOS by taking the battery backup out. In the end, no matter what precautions you take, with a standard x86-architecture PC, if an intruder has physical access to it, there's nothing much you can do to stop them switching in on somehow, the only effective protection is to securely encrypt any sensitive data.
According to Amazon.de here, it costs EUR 643,99 for a UK import (the Amazon UK site is down at the moment, so can't get price from there). So that makes it 445 pounds, or about $740. However, when I saw it on the UK site earlier this week, I'm sure it was nearer 350 pounds.
This has been listed on the Amazon UK site for at least a week now. Unfortunately, their site is currently down, but Amazon.de have a link for a UK import(although in German, but has a picture) here
The people who are likely to buy this probably already have the previous DVD sets.
Google removed links to Kazaa Lite a few weeks ago under the DMCA due to a request from Sharman Networks, so actually they have been trying to stop it.
It's not the same as an end-user using GAIM to connect to AOL's network. A far more accurate comparison would be if you modified the official AIM software and connected with that, to aid a vendetta against AOL.
What applications at the moment would 'benefit' from this patch being installed, being "RM-aware" ?
Unfortunately, the same message is displayed on the google.co.uk version, where the DCMA should have no effect - why can't they just have the restriction on the .com site?
If it's possible to detect the source of a blocking tags, you could just be attracting far more attention to yourself in a store. Instead of a machine monitoring you, you could have a security guard...