There was some doubt about whether the leaked HDCP key was actually legitimate and therefore useful.
I'd just like to personally thank the stupid Intel veep who decided that globally threatening innocent people was a good idea, as the only thing he actually achieved was to reveal the leak does worry Intel so the key is almost certainly genuine.
I got it straight away, but them I'm not American. I understand that in American hopsitals, right after birth they automatically chop off all the baby's body parts that have been deemed 'potentially troublesome'. Foreskin, sarcasm gland, taste buds, etc. etc.
Yet again Microsoft see their salvation as just copying something that someone else has already marketed, instead of actually being innovative themselves and coming out with something new.
I wonder why Microsoft bothers to hire so many creative specialists if they are just going to copy other peoples products?.
Ballmer still fails recognise that (unlike Apple), Microsoft branding ins't 'cool' and isn't enough to make people want to buy something. Many corporate IT managers have been brainwashed to only buy Microsoft, but Ballmer fails to understand that consumers have been so screwed over for so long by Microsofts crappy products and support that branding something as Microsoft actually gives it a disadvantage in the consumer marketplace.
Yet again, Even though they'll make a blatant rip-off copy, Microsoft will fail to identify and copy the subtle design details that made the original desireable. They will actually make it worse by messing with it.
Yet again Microsoft's marketing department will focus on building in features that actually hurt the consumer rather than make the product useable. Stuff like DRM, the explicit lack of compatability with open standards (i.e. with any non-Microsoft products), and the inclusion of 'features' designed to extract residual payments from the consumer. Yet again Microsoft will be arrogant enough to incorrectly assume we are too stupid to notice what they are trying to hide in the product.
Yet again Ballmer will wonder why no-one is buying their great new product, and will then go and identify yet another product from another company that Microsoft can rip-off and sell, rather than innovate anything themselves.
totally agree. The unspoken implication here is that they have invented a great search algorithm, however by just giving timings of bytes processed per second, it could also just mean thay have a bubble sort running on some big iron.
>> Not only were ringone downloads via USB blocked, but also on Bluetooth. >> One more reason for me to avoid Verizon.
Dude its not only Verizon. my Cingular (now AT&T) Sony-Ericsson W810i did exactly that too. Even though a stock W810i supports the user putting their own tones on, with the Cingular-supplied one, if you wanted to use anything other than a small selection of (probably purposely) very crappy built-in ringtones, you had to buy/download them via the phone. Furthermore once bought, they only lasted about a month!! the intent was to force you to re-buy eve the same ringtone at least once a month.
I refuse to buy phones from a network providers since that experience. I prefer to pay the overhead and get a fully functional phone by going directly to the manufacturers or unaffiliated dealers. Besides, all the phones that network providers carry (AT&T at least) are a very limited choice entirely comprising of outdated or undesireable models.
This is not about getting rid or DRM, this is about the games industry figuring out how they can get more money by double-dipping. We all know that the price of games won't drop even though you now also need to pay residuals to get the full functionality.
Blizzard already trail-blazed that model with WOW and demonstrated that many people are stupid enough to pay full price up-front for a game that also requires monthly subscriptions.
Assuming the game is not fundamentally tied to playing on-line, such as an MMORPG, whats to stop pirates just extracting and distributing the extra downloadable content too (after they've got it once)?.
No but they are at war with us. I live in AZ. You should see what they do to US farmers and ranchers living on the US side of the border. You should see what the hispanic gangs and drug lords are doing all over AZ.
>> 2. Most Mexicans that cross our boarder are honest but poor people that are just trying to make some money by working.
Total contradiction. Honest people don't break laws. There's a hispanic neighborhood near mine thats a hot spot for illegals. Crime all around that neighborhood is at an epidemic level and is increasingly spreading out from there into other neighborhoods.
>> 3. The business and people complain about it but they like the sub minimal wage lawn maintenance people and maids they hire.
Most people I know don't hire illegals because the legitimate businesses here have to have very low pricing too, just so they can compete in this economy. Also most people don't want to encourage illegals, they just want them to go back to Mexico and take their crime and drugs with them.
I'm fed up with all the peecee liberalists that live miles away from AZ and have no actual experience of whats going on here, but still feel qualified to sit in judgement of us trying to defend our homes and families.
>> In contrast, going from 32-bit to 32-bit just requires one step - "install 32-bit copy of Windows 7."
Dunno about you, but I've always ended up with an ugly mess after doing an in-place upgrade.
I always do a through e on your list whenever I install windows anyway. I always avoid microsoft backup/restore utility though as that causes its own problems. I just do a direct file copy to another drive of anything I want to keep.
Everything I've ever thrown at 64 bit windows runs just fine, and usually somewhat smoother than 32 bit. Even some really old stuff. The only software I ever found that don't run on 64-bit are some really old dos games and utilities, but then they didn't even run under 32-bit XP either.
It boggles my mind why so many people with 64-bit hardware would still install a 32-bit version of windows. I wonder how much of this is actually ignorance and/or just force of habit rather than actual knowledge that they have something that actually doesn't work under 64 bit.
Just about all computer-based signal processing related to anything at all is performed in the frequency domain so passing the raw data through an FFT (or at least an FT) first is a no-brainer.
Calculating a hash is the blindingly obvious and standard approach to getting a semi-unique signature for mostly any data.
Both the FFT and the hashing would likely be the first thought of any competent software engineer tasked with solving this, in as much as using a screwdriver to undo a screw is obvious to a mechanic.
Don't even software patents have to require at least some concept of originality and non-obviousness?
Microsoft's business is almost entirely targetted at corporate software users. They never gave a rats ass about individual users. They jump into bed with the RIAA and MPAA, they continue to build lock-in and avoid using existing open standards, and their products suck ass for usability because they treat users like retards. No wonder consumers don't trust them and avoid their products.
There comes a point at which some exploits are so lame that the term hacking shouldn't be used. The most you could hope to achieve with this 'exploit' is to just be a bloody nuisance.
Why permanently deface your body? IMHO tatoos are ugly. A whole arm of formulae sounds especially ugly. Besides it screams "I'm a nerd" so no sex for you.
I'm guessing the RIAA are keeping this going just to avoid setting any 'dangerous' legal precidents that would undermine their future cases (like $54k being the most they can ever sue for from now on).
I'm totally amazed that none of the judges have found the RIAA guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to Jammie Thomas. I think she should countersue the RIAA for their ridiculous miscarriage of justice.
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>> maybe it's the crappy cars they keep on telling me about. All of them were just a moment away from the trash heap anyway.\
Boy those Russians really did copy *everything* from America.
There was some doubt about whether the leaked HDCP key was actually legitimate and therefore useful.
I'd just like to personally thank the stupid Intel veep who decided that globally threatening innocent people was a good idea, as the only thing he actually achieved was to reveal the leak does worry Intel so the key is almost certainly genuine.
I love Ubuntu, and more with every release except... What the hell is the deal with moving the window buttons to the left?
Thank goodness its not hard to move them back otherwise Ubuntu would have made itself "not an option" for me.
Call the police and tell them you've had something stolen.
I got it straight away, but them I'm not American.
I understand that in American hopsitals, right after birth they automatically chop off all the baby's body parts that have been deemed 'potentially troublesome'. Foreskin, sarcasm gland, taste buds, etc. etc.
Yet again Microsoft see their salvation as just copying something that someone else has already marketed, instead of actually being innovative themselves and coming out with something new.
I wonder why Microsoft bothers to hire so many creative specialists if they are just going to copy other peoples products?.
Ballmer still fails recognise that (unlike Apple), Microsoft branding ins't 'cool' and isn't enough to make people want to buy something. Many corporate IT managers have been brainwashed to only buy Microsoft, but Ballmer fails to understand that consumers have been so screwed over for so long by Microsofts crappy products and support that branding something as Microsoft actually gives it a disadvantage in the consumer marketplace.
Yet again, Even though they'll make a blatant rip-off copy, Microsoft will fail to identify and copy the subtle design details that made the original desireable. They will actually make it worse by messing with it.
Yet again Microsoft's marketing department will focus on building in features that actually hurt the consumer rather than make the product useable. Stuff like DRM, the explicit lack of compatability with open standards (i.e. with any non-Microsoft products), and the inclusion of 'features' designed to extract residual payments from the consumer. Yet again Microsoft will be arrogant enough to incorrectly assume we are too stupid to notice what they are trying to hide in the product.
Yet again Ballmer will wonder why no-one is buying their great new product, and will then go and identify yet another product from another company that Microsoft can rip-off and sell, rather than innovate anything themselves.
Yet again no-one will fire Ballmer.
totally agree.
The unspoken implication here is that they have invented a great search algorithm, however by just giving timings of bytes processed per second, it could also just mean thay have a bubble sort running on some big iron.
The only consequence of removing categories is the next highest (C category) now has to become wider so will be easier to achieve.
Now everyone gets a C, regardless of how dumb they are.
Look, Obama just made all kids more intelligent!!!
Maybe thats why Jobs wears black turtlenecks all the time, it minimises reflections on his iPad screen.
News is available all over the internet for free.
Why would anyone pay to read it just at one site?
>> Not only were ringone downloads via USB blocked, but also on Bluetooth.
>> One more reason for me to avoid Verizon.
Dude its not only Verizon. my Cingular (now AT&T) Sony-Ericsson W810i did exactly that too. Even though a stock W810i supports the user putting their own tones on, with the Cingular-supplied one, if you wanted to use anything other than a small selection of (probably purposely) very crappy built-in ringtones, you had to buy/download them via the phone. Furthermore once bought, they only lasted about a month!! the intent was to force you to re-buy eve the same ringtone at least once a month.
I refuse to buy phones from a network providers since that experience. I prefer to pay the overhead and get a fully functional phone by going directly to the manufacturers or unaffiliated dealers. Besides, all the phones that network providers carry (AT&T at least) are a very limited choice entirely comprising of outdated or undesireable models.
This is not about getting rid or DRM, this is about the games industry figuring out how they can get more money by double-dipping. We all know that the price of games won't drop even though you now also need to pay residuals to get the full functionality.
Blizzard already trail-blazed that model with WOW and demonstrated that many people are stupid enough to pay full price up-front for a game that also requires monthly subscriptions.
Assuming the game is not fundamentally tied to playing on-line, such as an MMORPG, whats to stop pirates just extracting and distributing the extra downloadable content too (after they've got it once)?.
>> 1. We are not at war with Mexico.
No but they are at war with us. I live in AZ. You should see what they do to US farmers and ranchers living on the US side of the border. You should see what the hispanic gangs and drug lords are doing all over AZ.
>> 2. Most Mexicans that cross our boarder are honest but poor people that are just trying to make some money by working.
Total contradiction. Honest people don't break laws. There's a hispanic neighborhood near mine thats a hot spot for illegals. Crime all around that neighborhood is at an epidemic level and is increasingly spreading out from there into other neighborhoods.
>> 3. The business and people complain about it but they like the sub minimal wage lawn maintenance people and maids they hire.
Most people I know don't hire illegals because the legitimate businesses here have to have very low pricing too, just so they can compete in this economy. Also most people don't want to encourage illegals, they just want them to go back to Mexico and take their crime and drugs with them.
I'm fed up with all the peecee liberalists that live miles away from AZ and have no actual experience of whats going on here, but still feel qualified to sit in judgement of us trying to defend our homes and families.
when can we get these for the Mexican border?
>> In contrast, going from 32-bit to 32-bit just requires one step - "install 32-bit copy of Windows 7."
Dunno about you, but I've always ended up with an ugly mess after doing an in-place upgrade.
I always do a through e on your list whenever I install windows anyway. I always avoid microsoft backup/restore utility though as that causes its own problems. I just do a direct file copy to another drive of anything I want to keep.
How the hell does someone this clueless get to be in such an important position?
Learning to deal WITH incompetent teachers maybe a good lesson, but not at the cost of failing to learn FROM them for a whole academic year.
Kids don't get a break on their exam scores just because they have experience of incompetent teachers.
Everything I've ever thrown at 64 bit windows runs just fine, and usually somewhat smoother than 32 bit. Even some really old stuff. The only software I ever found that don't run on 64-bit are some really old dos games and utilities, but then they didn't even run under 32-bit XP either.
It boggles my mind why so many people with 64-bit hardware would still install a 32-bit version of windows. I wonder how much of this is actually ignorance and/or just force of habit rather than actual knowledge that they have something that actually doesn't work under 64 bit.
Just about all computer-based signal processing related to anything at all is performed in the frequency domain so passing the raw data through an FFT (or at least an FT) first is a no-brainer.
Calculating a hash is the blindingly obvious and standard approach to getting a semi-unique signature for mostly any data.
Both the FFT and the hashing would likely be the first thought of any competent software engineer tasked with solving this, in as much as using a screwdriver to undo a screw is obvious to a mechanic.
Don't even software patents have to require at least some concept of originality and non-obviousness?
He had posted the code on his blog.
Microsoft's business is almost entirely targetted at corporate software users. They never gave a rats ass about individual users. They jump into bed with the RIAA and MPAA, they continue to build lock-in and avoid using existing open standards, and their products suck ass for usability because they treat users like retards.
No wonder consumers don't trust them and avoid their products.
Internet says Prince is over...
There comes a point at which some exploits are so lame that the term hacking shouldn't be used. The most you could hope to achieve with this 'exploit' is to just be a bloody nuisance.
Why permanently deface your body? IMHO tatoos are ugly. A whole arm of formulae sounds especially ugly. Besides it screams "I'm a nerd" so no sex for you.
I for one welcome our new bionic feline overlords.
I'm guessing the RIAA are keeping this going just to avoid setting any 'dangerous' legal precidents that would undermine their future cases (like $54k being the most they can ever sue for from now on).
I'm totally amazed that none of the judges have found the RIAA guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to Jammie Thomas. I think she should countersue the RIAA for their ridiculous miscarriage of justice.