Why does "but it's for TV" suddenly make everything five times more expensive?
Even when it lacks internal NTSC or ATSC tuners or even CableCard slots! I can only think it's to cover the licensing costs for the mandatory DRM compatibility.
The matching Apple 21" Studio Display (19.8" viewable) for my old Blue & White G3 does 2048x1536 @ 60Hz (with SwitchResX, would like freeware alternative) which is what I drive it at. Originally released it had a max advertised resolution of 1600x1200, but today without using SwitchResX Mac OS X offers (IIRC) 1848x1386 as an option, as well as some 16:10 options. It came out in 1999 and originally sold for $1499. I see one sold on eBay four days ago for only $90.00 (pick-up only, no delivery).
The TiVo's clock is set according to a network time server and is not manually adjustable. I've thought about setting up a store-and-forward device to delay the TiVo's IR emission by 2-5 seconds, but the box has crashed just from being parked on HBO when the data changed without trying to change channels. I've thought about putting a unidirectional trap on the line so the box couldn't poll for the data every minute (I'd gladly sacrifice PPV and other *-demand programming), but then they'd probably cut me off for suspicion of stealing premium channels.
I have adjusted Season Passes to start and end one minute earlier and later, but even with clipping that can be problematic for back-to-back programs on different channels, and shows scheduled to start one minute before or after the hour complicates matters further. It's worse on the Series1 as it will never support clipping of back-to-back shows.
I bought an HDTV a few years ago. RCA 32" CRT, 4:3 aspect, component and VGA inputs for HD. (Apparently the XBOX 360 supports HD VGA output; they sell the cables at least.) $1300 plus a free progressive DVD player by rebate.
Apparently this set is a rarity in features found today: it can do 1080i but can't do 720p. However, it does not letterbox 1080i content to preserve the HD aspect ratio. Only recently have I been able to instruct my cable box to correct for this (except that it overcorrects).
If the article is correct that most HD programming is 720p, then the cable box must be upconverting 720p to 1080i for my set. But then I rarely watch HD content on my HDTV, instead using the cable boxes to downconvert to SD for recording on my TiVos.
Just because NTSC broadcasting will end doesn't mean SD television is going away. Most cable channels will still be sending 480i signals for years to come, and SD DVDs won't suddenly vanish. However, your TV's NTSC tuner will only be useful for tuning channels 2, 3, or 4 for RF-out-only devices.
Except, they could also be used to listen in to whatever signals they end up putting on that bandwidth. Since the 1990s I've been able to listen to the occasional voice-pager message around cable channels 18-20 due to signal leakage, so depending on what they put on those VHF frequencies, NTSC tuners may be useful for harvesting, depending on whether the content they put on those frequencies will become illegal to receive (see cell phone frequencies).
Also, you don't want your HDTV to be showing SD content smaller than your old SD set. As I'm upgrading from a 32" 4:3 display, I'd want a 40" or larger 16:9 display.
Series 3 do not have the necessary feature enabled because Cable Labs won't let them (yet). Look for it in a future release (if hell freezes over).
If it does become enabled, it will be an updated version that has been hardened against this method, and possibly restricted to sharing only between other Series3 units. I'd also expect existing Series2 units to get another update to defeat this method. Series1 units aren't getting any updates and don't support TiVoToGo anyway, so they're a non-issue.
Also keep in mind that there are likely taggants in the data that will identify the TiVo service number of the unit that recorded the show, so I wouldn't go sharing these decrypted files with anyone unless I wanted all TiVos in my home boatanchored. (They may be generous by only canceling the service on the Series2 units.)
Also, does turning the power off on a TiVo (not pulling the power plug or anything) actually stop the box from recording? I haven't had a TiVo in my house for about 5 years (been using MythTV and cable company HD DVRs), but I thought the TiVo would turn itself on and record when your shows come on.
TiVo's don't have a power switch. The closest you get is putting it in Standby mode which stops video and audio output. The unit is still on and still records shows and LiveTV. At least, that's true for the standalone units which are what I have, and I use Standby mode to switch between them all the time.
My problems with my TiVo arise from bugs in the latest software update for the cable box, causing it to fail to tune to the correct channel if you try changing it while the time turns over to the next timeslot. And sometimes (twice experienced) spontaneously on the hour without trying to change channels. It's not a TiVo bug; it's a cable company bug to which I'm forced to accept if I want digital cable, or switch to their DVR (that's anticompetitive behavior).
I want an open source cable box with CableCard support and the authority to install a CableCard into any device I see fit, not just those on their accepted list. (I'd get a Series3 HD TiVo but can't justify the expense.)
IIRC, instead of reactivating every time, you should be able two swap in and out two special files that contain the system profiles of the two configurations to keep the system happy. I don't recall what they are though, so everyone gets to do some googling to find out.
But please explain under what conditions unlimited sharing should be considered fair use.
Unlimited distribution of a fair-use use of a work, such as a parody, should not automatically convert a fair use into an unfair one. In fact, many parodies have outlived the work they parody (Don Quixote, a famous parody of the now obscure Amadis de Gaula).
I'd argue political commentary or protest, such as incitement to pirate Steamboat Willie, when the object of protest is the very copyright extensions made on its behalf, should also be considered fair use, though I doubt the law (let alone Disney) would agree.
Jumping the ocean, though "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole" is one of the measures of fair use, it does not proscribe the use of a work in its entirety from enjoying a fair use defense (e.g. use of entire Barbie dolls in a parody (Mattel Inc. v. Walking Mountain Productions) and the recording of entire television shows for timeshifted personal private viewing (Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, granted that "personal private" limitation undermines, not underlines the original point)).
I'd also argue that I should have unfettered right to reproduce and distribute any and all commercials ever made (and Giganews should carry alt.binaries.multimedia.commercials in its feed so that I can) as by their nature every viewing public or private benefits them, for which each viewing costs them nothing (when they normally have to pay huge sums to get air time). Promotional materials should not be protected by copyright. And certainly materials whose lifetime is substantially shorter than the copyright term protecting them should not be granted effectively indefinite protection!
And the same for any unpaid incidental appearance of a product in another work, or any use for which a work has become traditional, such as the singing of "Happy Birthday" in a restaurant or in an audiovisual work of fiction. Holiday songs created to become sung every time that holiday comes along should not enjoy protection from the very behavior they sought to engender.
(BTW, I should let you know that I often go out on tangents when discussing such things, or respond in part to others who are not the parent message, such as and especially the original article or its summary. I try to allow context to properly attach my meaning and the subject of my address. Please don't get upset that I may not be talking your points.)
It is the BS (BackSpace) character in ASCII. The Delete character is often represented as ^?, though generally one cannot type delete using control-? (or control-/).
stty erase CHAR can be used to change what CHARacter performs the delete. Some terminal emulators also allow you to change what character is generated when you press your Delete key.
There is no fair use on a commercial scale, its just using someone else's work to gain profit
Scale != gain. You could make no money, not even at your own loss (not recouping your own costs), and still infringe on a commercial scale.
Also, criminal penalty for incitement to pirate? So if I were to tell people to massively violate Disney's copyright on Steamboat Willie (or other works that would have gone to the public domain if not for extensions), and people do it on a scale of a commercial act, even if not for commercial gain, that would be criminal incitement to infringe copyright.
Expect any sharing that isn't limited in volume of copies to be considered commercial-scale infringement. Especially as they don't care how many copies you make but rather how many copies you potentially could have made to googol the penalties (remember talk of small operations' equipment being "equivalent to N 1x CD burners"?).
Players will notice faint outlines of the creatures lurking at lower depths, a foreboding sign that vicious manta- and squid-like enemies await. The water darkens as the creature advances to deeper levels.... Mr. Chen's mandate: build immersive games
Funny, but when he said, "build immersive games," I didn't think he meant it literally.
I don't think any lawyer who passed the bar would try to have that go to court, because it would, IMAO, be considered an unintentional public performance and proving otherwise would be very hard.
Unless there was nudity on the screen (regardless of the presence of children in either car). But then the lawyer would be working for the state, not the MPAA.
Compare people who play music so loud in their car that it vibrates the panels of all other cars around it for a block in every direction.
I don't know about politics, but I'd be interested in trying out a website where you answer a few belief questions and it determines the best existing religion that fits your own beliefs, questions compiled from an analysis of the belief systems of all known religions and their differences.
And if it can't find a match, offer to define your set of responses as a new religion named after you!
(Of course, being posted so late, no one will read this.)
At the mine on Zerok, they process the gold. They change its atomic constitution. It turns black. And it's useless until it's reprocessed, and that can't happen unless you know the computer code that was used on Zerok the day it was processed. Zerok won't release that code until the gold is in the hands of the Federation.
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Why does "but it's for TV" suddenly make everything five times more expensive?
Even when it lacks internal NTSC or ATSC tuners or even CableCard slots! I can only think it's to cover the licensing costs for the mandatory DRM compatibility.
The matching Apple 21" Studio Display (19.8" viewable) for my old Blue & White G3 does 2048x1536 @ 60Hz (with SwitchResX, would like freeware alternative) which is what I drive it at. Originally released it had a max advertised resolution of 1600x1200, but today without using SwitchResX Mac OS X offers (IIRC) 1848x1386 as an option, as well as some 16:10 options. It came out in 1999 and originally sold for $1499. I see one sold on eBay four days ago for only $90.00 (pick-up only, no delivery).
The TiVo's clock is set according to a network time server and is not manually adjustable. I've thought about setting up a store-and-forward device to delay the TiVo's IR emission by 2-5 seconds, but the box has crashed just from being parked on HBO when the data changed without trying to change channels. I've thought about putting a unidirectional trap on the line so the box couldn't poll for the data every minute (I'd gladly sacrifice PPV and other *-demand programming), but then they'd probably cut me off for suspicion of stealing premium channels.
I have adjusted Season Passes to start and end one minute earlier and later, but even with clipping that can be problematic for back-to-back programs on different channels, and shows scheduled to start one minute before or after the hour complicates matters further. It's worse on the Series1 as it will never support clipping of back-to-back shows.
I bought an HDTV a few years ago. RCA 32" CRT, 4:3 aspect, component and VGA inputs for HD. (Apparently the XBOX 360 supports HD VGA output; they sell the cables at least.) $1300 plus a free progressive DVD player by rebate.
Apparently this set is a rarity in features found today: it can do 1080i but can't do 720p. However, it does not letterbox 1080i content to preserve the HD aspect ratio. Only recently have I been able to instruct my cable box to correct for this (except that it overcorrects).
If the article is correct that most HD programming is 720p, then the cable box must be upconverting 720p to 1080i for my set. But then I rarely watch HD content on my HDTV, instead using the cable boxes to downconvert to SD for recording on my TiVos.
Just because NTSC broadcasting will end doesn't mean SD television is going away. Most cable channels will still be sending 480i signals for years to come, and SD DVDs won't suddenly vanish. However, your TV's NTSC tuner will only be useful for tuning channels 2, 3, or 4 for RF-out-only devices.
Except, they could also be used to listen in to whatever signals they end up putting on that bandwidth. Since the 1990s I've been able to listen to the occasional voice-pager message around cable channels 18-20 due to signal leakage, so depending on what they put on those VHF frequencies, NTSC tuners may be useful for harvesting, depending on whether the content they put on those frequencies will become illegal to receive (see cell phone frequencies).
Also, you don't want your HDTV to be showing SD content smaller than your old SD set. As I'm upgrading from a 32" 4:3 display, I'd want a 40" or larger 16:9 display.
Series 3 do not have the necessary feature enabled because Cable Labs won't let them (yet). Look for it in a future release (if hell freezes over).
If it does become enabled, it will be an updated version that has been hardened against this method, and possibly restricted to sharing only between other Series3 units. I'd also expect existing Series2 units to get another update to defeat this method. Series1 units aren't getting any updates and don't support TiVoToGo anyway, so they're a non-issue.
Also keep in mind that there are likely taggants in the data that will identify the TiVo service number of the unit that recorded the show, so I wouldn't go sharing these decrypted files with anyone unless I wanted all TiVos in my home boatanchored. (They may be generous by only canceling the service on the Series2 units.)
Also, does turning the power off on a TiVo (not pulling the power plug or anything) actually stop the box from recording? I haven't had a TiVo in my house for about 5 years (been using MythTV and cable company HD DVRs), but I thought the TiVo would turn itself on and record when your shows come on.
TiVo's don't have a power switch. The closest you get is putting it in Standby mode which stops video and audio output. The unit is still on and still records shows and LiveTV. At least, that's true for the standalone units which are what I have, and I use Standby mode to switch between them all the time.
My problems with my TiVo arise from bugs in the latest software update for the cable box, causing it to fail to tune to the correct channel if you try changing it while the time turns over to the next timeslot. And sometimes (twice experienced) spontaneously on the hour without trying to change channels. It's not a TiVo bug; it's a cable company bug to which I'm forced to accept if I want digital cable, or switch to their DVR (that's anticompetitive behavior).
I want an open source cable box with CableCard support and the authority to install a CableCard into any device I see fit, not just those on their accepted list. (I'd get a Series3 HD TiVo but can't justify the expense.)
IIRC, instead of reactivating every time, you should be able two swap in and out two special files that contain the system profiles of the two configurations to keep the system happy. I don't recall what they are though, so everyone gets to do some googling to find out.
Yeah, I thought about prevaricating on that point, but decided it would detract from Teh Funny.
Well, in defense, there are a limited number of expansions, and I didn't really expect to find Urban Assault Vehicles in civilian airspace anyway.
Well, I think the ability to carry or transport something other than itself (passengers or other cargo) would differentiate vehicles and drones.
(I started my last message before seeing your other response that explained your setup can do computer control.)
That's a remotely manned drone, not an unmanned aerial vehicle.
UAV WAP.
Feel the power that they've got.
/And after that, let's replace their guns with tactical nuclear weapons!
Because in C's own weird way, that's the only way of referring to a float as an int without changing the bits.
<yoda>No. There is another.</yoda>
You can also lie to va_arg() about the type of the argument to achieve the same thing, but it's not as efficient.
How are we supposed to believe that an advanced alien race would still be using something so mundane as concrete?
Could you imagine the volatility of a pyramid made of naquadah?
I'd argue political commentary or protest, such as incitement to pirate Steamboat Willie, when the object of protest is the very copyright extensions made on its behalf, should also be considered fair use, though I doubt the law (let alone Disney) would agree.
Jumping the ocean, though "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole" is one of the measures of fair use, it does not proscribe the use of a work in its entirety from enjoying a fair use defense (e.g. use of entire Barbie dolls in a parody (Mattel Inc. v. Walking Mountain Productions) and the recording of entire television shows for timeshifted personal private viewing (Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, granted that "personal private" limitation undermines, not underlines the original point)).
I'd also argue that I should have unfettered right to reproduce and distribute any and all commercials ever made (and Giganews should carry alt.binaries.multimedia.commercials in its feed so that I can) as by their nature every viewing public or private benefits them, for which each viewing costs them nothing (when they normally have to pay huge sums to get air time). Promotional materials should not be protected by copyright. And certainly materials whose lifetime is substantially shorter than the copyright term protecting them should not be granted effectively indefinite protection!
And the same for any unpaid incidental appearance of a product in another work, or any use for which a work has become traditional, such as the singing of "Happy Birthday" in a restaurant or in an audiovisual work of fiction. Holiday songs created to become sung every time that holiday comes along should not enjoy protection from the very behavior they sought to engender.
(BTW, I should let you know that I often go out on tangents when discussing such things, or respond in part to others who are not the parent message, such as and especially the original article or its summary. I try to allow context to properly attach my meaning and the subject of my address. Please don't get upset that I may not be talking your points.)
BTW, Ob:IANAL.
It is the BS (BackSpace) character in ASCII. The Delete character is often represented as ^?, though generally one cannot type delete using control-? (or control-/).
stty erase CHAR can be used to change what CHARacter performs the delete. Some terminal emulators also allow you to change what character is generated when you press your Delete key.
There is no fair use on a commercial scale, its just using someone else's work to gain profit
Scale != gain. You could make no money, not even at your own loss (not recouping your own costs), and still infringe on a commercial scale.
Also, criminal penalty for incitement to pirate? So if I were to tell people to massively violate Disney's copyright on Steamboat Willie (or other works that would have gone to the public domain if not for extensions), and people do it on a scale of a commercial act, even if not for commercial gain, that would be criminal incitement to infringe copyright.
Expect any sharing that isn't limited in volume of copies to be considered commercial-scale infringement. Especially as they don't care how many copies you make but rather how many copies you potentially could have made to googol the penalties (remember talk of small operations' equipment being "equivalent to N 1x CD burners"?).
Players will notice faint outlines of the creatures lurking at lower depths, a foreboding sign that vicious manta- and squid-like enemies await. The water darkens as the creature advances to deeper levels.... Mr. Chen's mandate: build immersive games
Funny, but when he said, "build immersive games," I didn't think he meant it literally.
I've thought about pirating the anti-piracy ads themselves, making a compilation DVD of them, and making it available for free anonymous download.
I don't think any lawyer who passed the bar would try to have that go to court, because it would, IMAO, be considered an unintentional public performance and proving otherwise would be very hard.
Unless there was nudity on the screen (regardless of the presence of children in either car). But then the lawyer would be working for the state, not the MPAA.
Compare people who play music so loud in their car that it vibrates the panels of all other cars around it for a block in every direction.
Can politics be simplified to a ten minute test?
I don't know about politics, but I'd be interested in trying out a website where you answer a few belief questions and it determines the best existing religion that fits your own beliefs, questions compiled from an analysis of the belief systems of all known religions and their differences.
And if it can't find a match, offer to define your set of responses as a new religion named after you!
(Of course, being posted so late, no one will read this.)
I'd be more interested in obtaining a small paperweight of this, dimensions 1:4:9.
At the mine on Zerok, they process the gold. They change its atomic constitution. It turns black. And it's useless until it's reprocessed, and that can't happen unless you know the computer code that was used on Zerok the day it was processed. Zerok won't release that code until the gold is in the hands of the Federation.