A day or two after this information was revealed, HDMI.org went completely password protected and ATI is now modifying key areas of its website, removing any mention of 'HDCP-ready'.
I had been boycotting Sony products before the rootkit event because they had been making CD players that would refuse to play music from CD-Rs unless they were RIAA-tithed Music CD-R media.
However, since the rootkit case has been settled, I did recently purchase their 400-disc DVD player, which was cheaper than the alternative plan of buying 3.4 TB of hard drives to match it in capacity for a MythTV box. (Where am I going to find enough high-capacity hard drives at once at a price point of 10 GB/dollar out the door?)
Don't get me started on finding a 16:9 1080i HDTV CRT with all the ports I want for my setup (S-Video for TiVo, Component for region-free DVD player, HDMI for HDTV, and Firewire for Final Cut Pro 5 HD editing). Right now it seems only Sony sets have the specs. At least the price keeps me from buying right now.
It's more of the baseball three-strikes mentality getting into the law. You did it once, fine, strike one. Do it again, that's strike two and we legislate. Once more and then you'll be in trouble.
Except with enough campaign donations they can keep hitting foul balls without ever facing a real penalty.
The company is just trying to protect it's godgiven right for profits.
Where have I heard that sentiment before?
"The United States government is denying the Chinese from eating Mr. Chicken, and denying Mr. Chicken his God-given right to franchise and make a profit." -- Peter "Pete" Helmes, Chairman, INC International; "Head Office"
I don't think you run an OS under WINE, after all Wine Is Not an Emulator.
I guess I don't understand how an ability to (directly) run an OS makes something an emulator, even if it can run the OS at roughly native speeds within another.
DarWINE is a clever name, but I always thought it should be called MINE, standing for Mine Is Not an Emulator. And one that allowed Linux apps to run under Mac OS X or Windows would be called LINE, for Line Is Not an Emulator. Thus the initial letter really doesn't stand for anything, but could be used to signify what kind of binaries it allows to be run. Or letters, if necessary: SEINE for 68k Mac (SE) binaries running on an original NeXT Cube.
Frankly, the more I learn about Vista, the more I wouldn't want it anywhere near my Intel-based Mac. I'm not sure I'd even trust it to run on a Microsoft-trusted VirtualPC, even if they can even trust their trust model to exist under any kind of emulation.
I'd rather the effort be put into getting Windows XP running. Can XP run under WINE in Gentoo on an Intel Mac? How about XP under WINE in Mac OS X?
I regularly use middle-click to open a link in a new tab in the first place. However, the Mac OS X version of Mozilla lacks this option, expecting me to configure my mouse to do a command-click on middle-click instead to get the same functionality I enjoy on Linux.
Usually the only time I use a browser under Windows is for Windows Update.
And just testing right now, middle-clicking on the Back button does nothing for me under Linux. It has a visual reaction but otherwise does nothing else. Maybe it is another one of those Firefox features not found in Mozilla?
There is another method to get round the HDCP trap, which is to buy one of the Spatz boxes - there's no way that it could be embargoed - the point of the device is to enable legacy devices to receive HDCP output. That is not illegal, or unethical.
If you follow the link to the DVI MAGIC page, you get a 404 page. It also doesn't appear to be listed among their current HD offerings, or at least not by that name. Gone also is the DVIHDCP box referenced by engadget's source.
Keep in mind that that article was written on July 15th, 2005. They may have gotten their equivalent of a cease and desist order by now.
It's such an enticing idea that even the scientists who came up with the idea worry that it may be too beautiful to be true.
A qualified poet once testified under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty, and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in the case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf.
Yes, there is the "Good Hypothesis": that the cells stay in the mom and try to protect her for the rest of her life.
And yes, there is the "Bad Hypothesis": that the cells gather at inflammation sites and contribute to mom's autoimmune diseases.
But there is also a third hypothesis:
That both of the first two hypothesis were concocted by by a wily editor of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy in order to increase the level of universal uncertainty and paranoia and so boost sales of the Guide?
A DIY solution may come to pass via the certified PCs allowed to record running Vista. A system won't be able to take a CableCARD unless built-in by the OEM; if it isn't fused to the motherboard it'll be married by encryption somehow to the hardware. The systems look like they'll have to be sold with an authorized OS--apparently Vista--and will have to use Trusted Computing to ensure no other OS will be permitted to control them. And that only trusted programmers can write certified software.
So if you can break Trusted Computing to get these systems to run Linux instead, then maybe you can get access to the signal.
Of course, if quantum computing gets into consumer hands, all this encryption will become useless.
Of TivoToGo for Mac, one reader said: "We've been getting nothing but nebulous promises out of TiVo for months."
And reader Aaron Ouellette said: "Tap, tap, tap, we're still waiting."
Stop waiting for TiVoToGo for the Mac. Get Galleon. It brings TiVoToGo functionality to the Mac, Linux, Unix, and Windows, as well as the GoBack ability TiVo doesn't offer and many other features.
Hmm, we seem to have a particularly humourless set of moderators today. Or have I been too obscure again?
(Mercury Theater, 1938, radio play "The War of the Worlds", previously the biggest, most famous perpetrated hoax upon the nation, inducing mass panic, and the case study leading to the genesis of modern day psyops?)
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Hollywood wants these new players to get rid of component video all together.
Hollywood wants these new players to get rid of component video.
(Typos like this make me wonder if people actually understood why the original joke was funny.)
A day or two after this information was revealed, HDMI.org went completely password protected and ATI is now modifying key areas of its website, removing any mention of 'HDCP-ready'.
No doubt flushing it down the memory hole.
I had been boycotting Sony products before the rootkit event because they had been making CD players that would refuse to play music from CD-Rs unless they were RIAA-tithed Music CD-R media.
However, since the rootkit case has been settled, I did recently purchase their 400-disc DVD player, which was cheaper than the alternative plan of buying 3.4 TB of hard drives to match it in capacity for a MythTV box. (Where am I going to find enough high-capacity hard drives at once at a price point of 10 GB/dollar out the door?)
Don't get me started on finding a 16:9 1080i HDTV CRT with all the ports I want for my setup (S-Video for TiVo, Component for region-free DVD player, HDMI for HDTV, and Firewire for Final Cut Pro 5 HD editing). Right now it seems only Sony sets have the specs. At least the price keeps me from buying right now.
It's more of the baseball three-strikes mentality getting into the law. You did it once, fine, strike one. Do it again, that's strike two and we legislate. Once more and then you'll be in trouble.
Except with enough campaign donations they can keep hitting foul balls without ever facing a real penalty.
The company is just trying to protect it's godgiven right for profits.
Where have I heard that sentiment before?
"The United States government is denying the Chinese from eating Mr. Chicken, and denying Mr. Chicken his God-given right to franchise and make a profit."
-- Peter "Pete" Helmes, Chairman, INC International; "Head Office"
"B-B-B-But Moore said!...."
It's a good thing Gordon Earl Moore isn't dead, otherwise his electrons would be spinning in his grave.
The more you study, the more you know.
The more you know, the more you forget.
The more you forget, the less you know.
So why study?
Um, I either forgot or never knew who first wrote that.
I don't think you run an OS under WINE, after all Wine Is Not an Emulator.
I guess I don't understand how an ability to (directly) run an OS makes something an emulator, even if it can run the OS at roughly native speeds within another.
DarWINE is a clever name, but I always thought it should be called MINE, standing for Mine Is Not an Emulator. And one that allowed Linux apps to run under Mac OS X or Windows would be called LINE, for Line Is Not an Emulator. Thus the initial letter really doesn't stand for anything, but could be used to signify what kind of binaries it allows to be run. Or letters, if necessary: SEINE for 68k Mac (SE) binaries running on an original NeXT Cube.
Frankly, the more I learn about Vista, the more I wouldn't want it anywhere near my Intel-based Mac. I'm not sure I'd even trust it to run on a Microsoft-trusted VirtualPC, even if they can even trust their trust model to exist under any kind of emulation.
I'd rather the effort be put into getting Windows XP running. Can XP run under WINE in Gentoo on an Intel Mac? How about XP under WINE in Mac OS X?
Beyond that, you'll need to consult a quantum mechanic, who will tell you things about superposition and half-dead cats.
It may yet have a Rainbow Zone.
Nice, but then again, think of all the cosplayers dressed up as little Washuuu and using them in public!
I remember TiVo once announcing a partnership with Real Networks to get net content onto TiVos.
Apparently the results of that deal are still being held up by buffering.
It should be RFRC: Radio Frequency Responder Chip.
"Are Fruck"? "Arf Rick"? "Arfer See"?
Nah, that will never catch on.
I regularly use middle-click to open a link in a new tab in the first place. However, the Mac OS X version of Mozilla lacks this option, expecting me to configure my mouse to do a command-click on middle-click instead to get the same functionality I enjoy on Linux.
Usually the only time I use a browser under Windows is for Windows Update.
And just testing right now, middle-clicking on the Back button does nothing for me under Linux. It has a visual reaction but otherwise does nothing else. Maybe it is another one of those Firefox features not found in Mozilla?
There is another method to get round the HDCP trap, which is to buy one of the Spatz boxes - there's no way that it could be embargoed - the point of the device is to enable legacy devices to receive HDCP output. That is not illegal, or unethical.
If you follow the link to the DVI MAGIC page, you get a 404 page. It also doesn't appear to be listed among their current HD offerings, or at least not by that name. Gone also is the DVIHDCP box referenced by engadget's source.
Keep in mind that that article was written on July 15th, 2005. They may have gotten their equivalent of a cease and desist order by now.
And I have a patent for Windows Viruses ... so ya 'all better stop writing them or I'll sue your @ss.
I can think of a few people who would be interested in seeing you present your prior art in person.
first two hypothesis
Obligatory first-post typo: hypotheses.
It's such an enticing idea that even the scientists who came up with the idea worry that it may be too beautiful to be true.
A qualified poet once testified under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty, and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in the case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf.
Yes, there is the "Good Hypothesis": that the cells stay in the mom and try to protect her for the rest of her life.
And yes, there is the "Bad Hypothesis": that the cells gather at inflammation sites and contribute to mom's autoimmune diseases.
But there is also a third hypothesis:
That both of the first two hypothesis were concocted by by a wily editor of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy in order to increase the level of universal uncertainty and paranoia and so boost sales of the Guide?
A DIY solution may come to pass via the certified PCs allowed to record running Vista. A system won't be able to take a CableCARD unless built-in by the OEM; if it isn't fused to the motherboard it'll be married by encryption somehow to the hardware. The systems look like they'll have to be sold with an authorized OS--apparently Vista--and will have to use Trusted Computing to ensure no other OS will be permitted to control them. And that only trusted programmers can write certified software.
So if you can break Trusted Computing to get these systems to run Linux instead, then maybe you can get access to the signal.
Of course, if quantum computing gets into consumer hands, all this encryption will become useless.
Of TivoToGo for Mac, one reader said: "We've been getting nothing but nebulous promises out of TiVo for months."
And reader Aaron Ouellette said: "Tap, tap, tap, we're still waiting."
Stop waiting for TiVoToGo for the Mac. Get Galleon. It brings TiVoToGo functionality to the Mac, Linux, Unix, and Windows, as well as the GoBack ability TiVo doesn't offer and many other features.
Not so much forgot than left open for others to interject, hopefully to be modded Funny.
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40% Offtopic
30% Overrated
Hmm, we seem to have a particularly humourless set of moderators today. Or have I been too obscure again?
(Mercury Theater, 1938, radio play "The War of the Worlds", previously the biggest, most famous perpetrated hoax upon the nation, inducing mass panic, and the case study leading to the genesis of modern day psyops?)
You will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered.
"Videogames Affect Your Brain"
Unless you're already brain dead, doesn't every stimulus affect your brain in some way?