I've always wanted some of these, just never picked any up. Does anyone no where I can still buy some?
(Never thought I would be searching the internet for illicit magnet dealers)
No. It is because, ATSC was defined before H.264 was. DVB is newer and supports H.264. ATSC technically added support for H.264 in 2008, but nobody is using it because TV sets that don't support H.264 would be left in the dark unless we had a whole new round of stupid converter boxes. We will be stuck with MPEG-2 for broadcast TV for the next 50-80 years; just as long as good old NTSC held on before biting the dust.
Tough luck? Hardly. I bought $600 of parts on newegg, put everything together, and now I have an upgradable machine without a built in monitor that rivals a $2200 iMac, and I am running OS X. I have no complaints.
1. In any aqua text box pressing the up key on the first line goes to the beginning of the line, and down on the last line goes to the end of the line, thus in a single line of text (like a URL bar) up and down move to the beginning and end of the line. This does not work if Firefox. This shortcut is very much ingrained into my muscle memory (as I suspect it is for many other Mac users) and I would really appreciate it if Firefox would respect it.
2. This is a problem with all versions of Firefox: put the close tab buttons on the tabs. Better yet, use Camino's tab interface, it is perfect.
I have a GameCube, it's great for the most part. I just wish that the XBox load times were better. There are one or two games I just can't get on my beloved GC.
Too bad nobody has patented "really frickin slow load times". Perhaps I should get the patent and then refuse to licence it. That would save us all a lot of trouble.
They show as an example a Microsoft patent on Scoring based upon goals achieved and subjective elements.
In other news all sports leagues must pay a royalty to M$ in order for the score to be kept. Opponents of licensing Microsofts innovative idea of "earning points in a competition" contend "it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game."
This is a slippery slope. Just as Adobe was quick to support and use the DMCA for their devious means just to have it bite them in the ass, you are not looking at the whole picture.
Saying that "Closed formats should remain closed" sure sounds nice in this situation, but what about cases where the closed format is the defacto standard, and in order for anybody else to operate it must be reverse engineered? Would you contend that we should not use OpenOffice to write Word documents because MS dosen't want us to? In that case we would be helping, not hurting MS.
Where did they find enough hemophilic mice and dogs? I wouldn't think there is much screening for such genetic disorders in animals. Perhaps dog breeders might do this, but mice? Or do they just breed them on purpose from hemophiliac parents?
Since a tarif is, by definition, a tax on imported goods, couldn't Apple just ship the servers to a Canadian based subsidiary that only ships profits back to the US, thereby avoiding the issue of revenue crossing the border?
One of the biggest issues with BitTorrent is the leeches that don't leave their torrents uploading after they are done downloading. I would expect this to increase greatly if the files being downloaded are DRM'ed and paid for, because less people would feel a sense of community or otherwise see a reason not to leech.
This problem could well be minimized by the software (perhaps integrate the downloader and the player, or put the downloader in a background daemon), and if it was done in a way that is not too intrusive on bandwidth it would be accepted by the mass majority of users, assuming they didn't know what was going on and didn't care (eg, not/. geeks).
Nevertheless, considering most consumer broadband connections have shit for upstream bandwidth, it would be challenging to make the bandwidth hit unnoticeable. Can it be done? Sure. But it is going to require a company that has some real attention to detail and understands the importance of quality in software. Remember, this needs to be of at least of comparable quality to NetFlix to get the early adopters to reach critical mass, and NetFlix has the bandwidth of the USPS on their side.
Thanks for the good word Beolach, I'm glad some body understands it was a joke. This thread took really slammed my karma (I'm still in the black at least). I don't like posting as AC; I stand by my words.
I am getting really sick of/., but there just dosen't seem to be any viable alternative (I read k5 in passing, but it really is not the same).
I wonder if the high cost of production cited (~70% production is break even point) could be reduced by more efficient munufacturing. There is a video on Stern's site that shows the machines being built. There is a rat's nest of wireing that is all cut, run, and tested by hand below the play feild and a slew of PCB's. I can't imagine that those PCB's could not be significantly reduced in phisical complexity in extange for a bit more work in software, and I would think that much of the hand wireing could be reduced to a PCB. There would still be manual labor required in assembly, but it would be massively reduced.
OTOH, I would also tend to think that if such changes were possible they would have been made, but you never know.
I'm glad you are able to explain to me my motives, because clearly I am not sufficiently inteligent to figure it out myself. Bill Gates giving to charity does not in any way change Microsoft's anticonpetitive and illegal business prctices, but I must give special credit to Mr. Gate for offering to donate Windows licentces to schools as penace for his crimes and shore up his monopoly further.
Bush, of course, has absolutly nothing to do with this discussion, but I can certainly agree with you that he is a horible and evil person. It is interesting though that you talk about how wonderful capitolist corporations are for employing people and at the same time criticize Bush is one of the largest benefactors to gigantic corporations. Perhaps you hate him because it is popular too?
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I've always wanted some of these, just never picked any up. Does anyone no where I can still buy some? (Never thought I would be searching the internet for illicit magnet dealers)
No. It is because, ATSC was defined before H.264 was. DVB is newer and supports H.264. ATSC technically added support for H.264 in 2008, but nobody is using it because TV sets that don't support H.264 would be left in the dark unless we had a whole new round of stupid converter boxes. We will be stuck with MPEG-2 for broadcast TV for the next 50-80 years; just as long as good old NTSC held on before biting the dust.
it is like an article featuring a new sports car that does not mention its horsepower.
To put in a way that slashdotters may understand, it is like an article featuring a new processor that does not mention it's clock speed.
Tough luck? Hardly. I bought $600 of parts on newegg, put everything together, and now I have an upgradable machine without a built in monitor that rivals a $2200 iMac, and I am running OS X. I have no complaints.
Really? I suppose my ad blocker must be doing its job. Thanks for the heads up.
1. In any aqua text box pressing the up key on the first line goes to the beginning of the line, and down on the last line goes to the end of the line, thus in a single line of text (like a URL bar) up and down move to the beginning and end of the line. This does not work if Firefox. This shortcut is very much ingrained into my muscle memory (as I suspect it is for many other Mac users) and I would really appreciate it if Firefox would respect it. 2. This is a problem with all versions of Firefox: put the close tab buttons on the tabs. Better yet, use Camino's tab interface, it is perfect.
Because DVD's DRM is a joke, and we like it that way.
remember wasn't the NeXT computer designed on an x86 - and didn't Steve Jobs start that company - and isn't that what OS X is originally based on?
No. NeXT was designed on 68k, was later ported to Intel, and promptly began withering away even faster than it had on NeXT branded 68k hardware.
My drive is an 80 gig Western Digital, it is quite reliable.
I have a GameCube, it's great for the most part. I just wish that the XBox load times were better. There are one or two games I just can't get on my beloved GC.
Too bad nobody has patented "really frickin slow load times". Perhaps I should get the patent and then refuse to licence it. That would save us all a lot of trouble.
They show as an example a Microsoft patent on Scoring based upon goals achieved and subjective elements.
In other news all sports leagues must pay a royalty to M$ in order for the score to be kept. Opponents of licensing Microsofts innovative idea of "earning points in a competition" contend "it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game."
In that case, perhaps they should only make a Windows version. Why bother with Linux? This is silly.
Just as long as the data is encoded in the format that DVD Jon favors.
Also, there is some more interesting discussion of DC power here.
This has been discussed before. That being said, good luck. Having read the last discussion, I think you'll need it.
This is a slippery slope. Just as Adobe was quick to support and use the DMCA for their devious means just to have it bite them in the ass, you are not looking at the whole picture. Saying that "Closed formats should remain closed" sure sounds nice in this situation, but what about cases where the closed format is the defacto standard, and in order for anybody else to operate it must be reverse engineered? Would you contend that we should not use OpenOffice to write Word documents because MS dosen't want us to? In that case we would be helping, not hurting MS.
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Where did they find enough hemophilic mice and dogs? I wouldn't think there is much screening for such genetic disorders in animals. Perhaps dog breeders might do this, but mice? Or do they just breed them on purpose from hemophiliac parents?
Since a tarif is, by definition, a tax on imported goods, couldn't Apple just ship the servers to a Canadian based subsidiary that only ships profits back to the US, thereby avoiding the issue of revenue crossing the border?
Actually the desktops were the only ones for sale at the time. The G5 Xserve was not announced until after VT's system was installed.
One of the biggest issues with BitTorrent is the leeches that don't leave their torrents uploading after they are done downloading. I would expect this to increase greatly if the files being downloaded are DRM'ed and paid for, because less people would feel a sense of community or otherwise see a reason not to leech. This problem could well be minimized by the software (perhaps integrate the downloader and the player, or put the downloader in a background daemon), and if it was done in a way that is not too intrusive on bandwidth it would be accepted by the mass majority of users, assuming they didn't know what was going on and didn't care (eg, not /. geeks).
Nevertheless, considering most consumer broadband connections have shit for upstream bandwidth, it would be challenging to make the bandwidth hit unnoticeable. Can it be done? Sure. But it is going to require a company that has some real attention to detail and understands the importance of quality in software. Remember, this needs to be of at least of comparable quality to NetFlix to get the early adopters to reach critical mass, and NetFlix has the bandwidth of the USPS on their side.
Thanks for the good word Beolach, I'm glad some body understands it was a joke. This thread took really slammed my karma (I'm still in the black at least). I don't like posting as AC; I stand by my words.
/., but there just dosen't seem to be any viable alternative (I read k5 in passing, but it really is not the same).
I am getting really sick of
I wonder if the high cost of production cited (~70% production is break even point) could be reduced by more efficient munufacturing. There is a video on Stern's site that shows the machines being built. There is a rat's nest of wireing that is all cut, run, and tested by hand below the play feild and a slew of PCB's. I can't imagine that those PCB's could not be significantly reduced in phisical complexity in extange for a bit more work in software, and I would think that much of the hand wireing could be reduced to a PCB. There would still be manual labor required in assembly, but it would be massively reduced.
OTOH, I would also tend to think that if such changes were possible they would have been made, but you never know.
I'm glad you are able to explain to me my motives, because clearly I am not sufficiently inteligent to figure it out myself. Bill Gates giving to charity does not in any way change Microsoft's anticonpetitive and illegal business prctices, but I must give special credit to Mr. Gate for offering to donate Windows licentces to schools as penace for his crimes and shore up his monopoly further.
Bush, of course, has absolutly nothing to do with this discussion, but I can certainly agree with you that he is a horible and evil person. It is interesting though that you talk about how wonderful capitolist corporations are for employing people and at the same time criticize Bush is one of the largest benefactors to gigantic corporations. Perhaps you hate him because it is popular too?