Wearing the glasses upside-down or the wrong way round would cause incorrect left/right shutter sync and resultant loss of 3D effect.
Anyone that would buy a TV from Best Buy must have limited intelligence, so Best Buy thoughtfully provide the glasses-sync service where they permanently epoxy the glasses to your head in the comfort of your own home. This value-for-money service prevents later user-error so ensures users will always get the full "amazing experience".
This helpful service is already under attack from other tv manufacturers as they have identified it as anticompetitive due to the implicit vendor lock-in following installation.
wake me up when you can buy a 1 TB SSD for like $200. The reason I like spinning media is that it can do practically infinite number of read-write ops, while an SSD sector can only take about a million writes. I know there's a load-levelling algorithm, and also 1 million is too many to worry about anyway, but when you consider its use for swap it really might not be. Call me strange but I don't like the idea of my expensive drive shrinking significantly over time.
I love my bank (USAA). They have been providing this for like 2+ years now. On their online banking website they have an option to credit a check into your account with a scanner. It downloads a Java app that controls your scanner directly. Its so great. Even the money is in your account and usable immediately the check has been scanned in.
This is a very well known corporate strategy to introduce something the people are dead against.
This strategy used to me the main way such things got done by governments before the Bush administration very cleverly capitalised on 9/11 by legally allowing anti-terrorist activity to trump all citizens rights.
It was only a short step to then to permit any government official to claim almost any activity was done in the name of anti-terror.
In fact I'm really surprised this guy hasnt autmaotically invoked the anti-terrorist mantra.
This is a very clever strategy to purposely have a large number of mostly crap alternatives, just to bury Chrome and Firefox. The randomised ordering of a large number of crap options just helps to ensure that the odds of anyone randomly picking a non-IE browser would more often end up with something worse than IE. Microsoft are very clever to turn even this browser selector into something that is more not less likely to establish the incorrect opinion that IE is best overall and then have users who tried something else switch back to IR.
I hope there's an option to disable this in the browser. I can already imagine that the only place where this tech will get used will be in advertising banners etc.
Why is it so hard to dismantle a botnet? Rather than find the botnet owners by technical means, surely all they need to do is determine who are the businesses being advertised via spam from the botnet, and get them to spill who they did their advertising deal with. I mean the advert always has to specify somewhere to send your money right?
It seems to me that if they made it as illegal to be an 'spamvertiser' as it is to be a botnet operator, and actually enforced it with presecutions, I bet the whole botnet and spam thing generally would stop happening due to a lack of businesses willing to pay to use that method for advertising.
It think its a chicken and egg problem, meaning I dont think Linux will be able to seriously challenge Windows for desktop market share without games developers supporting it. I also dont think its correct to liken Linux/Windows difference to PS2/Xbox as there's a lot more fundamental differences between consoles than different desktop OS's on the same PC hardware. With games console development you need to be very aware of all the hardware differences, with PC programming its basically the same API model for both Linux and Windows, and there are more higher-level APIs that abstract you away from the need to drill down. It seems the real problem is that PC games developers mostly automatically choose DirectX (presumably because Microsoft has bought their souls or brainwashed them into accepting lock-in). If they just chose OpenGL it would be a major step forward as its supported on both platforms. As far as I understand, OpenGL is every bit as good as Direct3D, and even better in some applications such as CAD. The other problem is ATI's Linux drivers suck.. but then there aren't enough games on Linux yet to make them care that most Linux customers all currently buy nVidia. The real point is you games developers need to decide to support Linux too as a matter of course... without that happening first, of course the Linux gaming market won';t grow, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I know linux gaming is currently a small market, but one good game would grab all of it. 90% of a relatively small Linux market might actually turn out to be bigger overall than 2% of the windows gaming market you would get with a windows-only release.
Why are you even considering buying this place? Its an obvious problem. As well as all the likely serious health hazards such as frequent migraines and increased risk of cancer, it will be a bitch to ever sell again.
I agree. However they can't directly count the number of lost sales, so the game developers will choose to pretend the low sales figures mean the whole PC gaming market is dying, rather than have to admit customers really aren't stupid and their own actions are causing people to ignore their products.
Maybe this ever worsening DRM will lead to a new gaming paradigm that looks like a sort of revival of amusement arcades, this time using PC-based hardware.
Superficially this is just yet more legislation that demonstrates how little our legislators actually understand the issue or the tech involved.
My guess is that this is actually a well-reasoned step by the music & movie industries to make non-technical people (including legislators) incorrectly beleive that P2P itself (which is just an internet protocol) is somehow intrinsically bad. It makes their next step, trying to convince lawmakers to make any/all P2P illegal, easier if they are misled first.
It sounde like you incorrectly thinking that MythTV gets its video from the internet.
Although there is a plugin (MythStream) to allow Myth to display internet video and audio streams, thats not where the main video comes from. MythTV's 'input' is just like a regular TV, it comes from an antenna or cable TV or satellite box. So your myth box needs a PC TV tuner card or something like an HDhomerun.
In my case the only reason my mythbox is connected to the internet at all is to get TV listings data, which is a few megs of XML data once every day or so, so myth's internet bandwidth requirements and usage is negligible.
Also not sure why you think you need to get rid of satellite first. If you are using a digital cable or satellite box, MythTV can use an IR blaster to change its channels.
Most of the hard work is done. It still takes maybe a day to configure your particular setup. Matching scanned DTV channels to XMLIDs for listing data is for me the biggest pain....but its a one-time deal.. you really don't have to ever reconfigure it once its set up.
For the sake of no monthly fees, and all the useful extras like auto commercial skipping I'll suck up the config pain of myth any day.
>> I wanted to find out why TiVo hasn't been more successful
I'm very happy with my Mythtv box. It does way more than a Tivo does, I can customise it, and it has no monthly fees. (Although I do subscribe to Schedules Direct for listings, but that's only $20 per year ).
yeah but it doens't have to be so rude. Consider Unreal Tournament. I think its the perfect model. The game does have a single-player mode but its really only training for the online mode. There is no montly fee. You just buy the game. UT allows users to run their own servers. I think there is an online cd number check but its a part of logging in to a server that holds your stats and preferences. Its great that those are online becuse if you ever reinstall windows you dont lose everything. Atari do run a few UT servers, but most servers out there are run by individuals. They even also provide a native linux version of the server. (Unfortunately no native linux client though for the latest UT).
I work as a software developer in the avionics industry. This list is ridiculous. There's nothing any website programmer could do that is even remotely dangerous compared to what we could screw up yet all I see in the list are website programming bugs.
Thats a very common misconception. There is much more to 64 bit extensions than just a larger address space. 32 bit apps can't use any of the 64 bit instructions or take advantage of the extra cpu registers introduced for 64 bit such as extra SSE registers, or do instruction pointer relative data access, or have the same mathematical precision in a single math operation. All this means 32 bit code is less cpu-efficient.
Basically, native 64 bit code runs faster. The only question is whether that difference is enough to be noticeable in your particular case. In most people's case it isn't, hence the propagation of the misconception.
agreed. More to the point though, it seems used mostly in commercial pop music to cover up the fact that the sampling artist actually cant play an instrument and/or has limited creativity themselves.
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Wearing the glasses upside-down or the wrong way round would cause incorrect left/right shutter sync and resultant loss of 3D effect.
Anyone that would buy a TV from Best Buy must have limited intelligence, so Best Buy thoughtfully provide the glasses-sync service where they permanently epoxy the glasses to your head in the comfort of your own home. This value-for-money service prevents later user-error so ensures users will always get the full "amazing experience".
This helpful service is already under attack from other tv manufacturers as they have identified it as anticompetitive due to the implicit vendor lock-in following installation.
wake me up when you can buy a 1 TB SSD for like $200.
The reason I like spinning media is that it can do practically infinite number of read-write ops, while an SSD sector can only take about a million writes. I know there's a load-levelling algorithm, and also 1 million is too many to worry about anyway, but when you consider its use for swap it really might not be. Call me strange but I don't like the idea of my expensive drive shrinking significantly over time.
Dump Windows. Switch to Linux.
I love my bank (USAA). They have been providing this for like 2+ years now.
On their online banking website they have an option to credit a check into your account with a scanner.
It downloads a Java app that controls your scanner directly.
Its so great. Even the money is in your account and usable immediately the check has been scanned in.
This is a very well known corporate strategy to introduce something the people are dead against.
This strategy used to me the main way such things got done by governments before the Bush administration very cleverly capitalised on 9/11 by legally allowing anti-terrorist activity to trump all citizens rights.
It was only a short step to then to permit any government official to claim almost any activity was done in the name of anti-terror.
In fact I'm really surprised this guy hasnt autmaotically invoked the anti-terrorist mantra.
Sorry for my typo at the end. I meant IE not IR.
This is a very clever strategy to purposely have a large number of mostly crap alternatives, just to bury Chrome and Firefox.
The randomised ordering of a large number of crap options just helps to ensure that the odds of anyone randomly picking a non-IE browser would more often end up with something worse than IE.
Microsoft are very clever to turn even this browser selector into something that is more not less likely to establish the incorrect opinion that IE is best overall and then have users who tried something else switch back to IR.
this is an RFID chip then. With the added inconvenience of having to also enter a PIN number anyway.
Why would anybody mourn the death of that piece of crap?
I hope there's an option to disable this in the browser.
I can already imagine that the only place where this tech will get used will be in advertising banners etc.
Wow nice. Kdawson is the next new internet meme.
Why is it so hard to dismantle a botnet? Rather than find the botnet owners by technical means, surely all they need to do is determine who are the businesses being advertised via spam from the botnet, and get them to spill who they did their advertising deal with.
I mean the advert always has to specify somewhere to send your money right?
It seems to me that if they made it as illegal to be an 'spamvertiser' as it is to be a botnet operator, and actually enforced it with presecutions, I bet the whole botnet and spam thing generally would stop happening due to a lack of businesses willing to pay to use that method for advertising.
It think its a chicken and egg problem, meaning I dont think Linux will be able to seriously challenge Windows for desktop market share without games developers supporting it.
I also dont think its correct to liken Linux/Windows difference to PS2/Xbox as there's a lot more fundamental differences between consoles than different desktop OS's on the same PC hardware. With games console development you need to be very aware of all the hardware differences, with PC programming its basically the same API model for both Linux and Windows, and there are more higher-level APIs that abstract you away from the need to drill down.
It seems the real problem is that PC games developers mostly automatically choose DirectX (presumably because Microsoft has bought their souls or brainwashed them into accepting lock-in). If they just chose OpenGL it would be a major step forward as its supported on both platforms. As far as I understand, OpenGL is every bit as good as Direct3D, and even better in some applications such as CAD.
The other problem is ATI's Linux drivers suck.. but then there aren't enough games on Linux yet to make them care that most Linux customers all currently buy nVidia.
The real point is you games developers need to decide to support Linux too as a matter of course... without that happening first, of course the Linux gaming market won';t grow, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I know linux gaming is currently a small market, but one good game would grab all of it. 90% of a relatively small Linux market might actually turn out to be bigger overall than 2% of the windows gaming market you would get with a windows-only release.
Why are you even considering buying this place? Its an obvious problem.
As well as all the likely serious health hazards such as frequent migraines and increased risk of cancer, it will be a bitch to ever sell again.
The government have totally lost the plot. I'll be so glad when BRrown and his morons get voted out in May.
I agree. However they can't directly count the number of lost sales, so the game developers will choose to pretend the low sales figures mean the whole PC gaming market is dying, rather than have to admit customers really aren't stupid and their own actions are causing people to ignore their products.
Maybe this ever worsening DRM will lead to a new gaming paradigm that looks like a sort of revival of amusement arcades, this time using PC-based hardware.
Superficially this is just yet more legislation that demonstrates how little our legislators actually understand the issue or the tech involved.
My guess is that this is actually a well-reasoned step by the music & movie industries to make non-technical people (including legislators) incorrectly beleive that P2P itself (which is just an internet protocol) is somehow intrinsically bad. It makes their next step, trying to convince lawmakers to make any/all P2P illegal, easier if they are misled first.
It sounde like you incorrectly thinking that MythTV gets its video from the internet.
Although there is a plugin (MythStream) to allow Myth to display internet video and audio streams, thats not where the main video comes from. MythTV's 'input' is just like a regular TV, it comes from an antenna or cable TV or satellite box. So your myth box needs a PC TV tuner card or something like an HDhomerun.
In my case the only reason my mythbox is connected to the internet at all is to get TV listings data, which is a few megs of XML data once every day or so, so myth's internet bandwidth requirements and usage is negligible.
Also not sure why you think you need to get rid of satellite first. If you are using a digital cable or satellite box, MythTV can use an IR blaster to change its channels.
I use mythbuntu, a myth-centric distro.
Most of the hard work is done. It still takes maybe a day to configure your particular setup. Matching scanned DTV channels to XMLIDs for listing data is for me the biggest pain. ...but its a one-time deal.. you really don't have to ever reconfigure it once its set up.
For the sake of no monthly fees, and all the useful extras like auto commercial skipping I'll suck up the config pain of myth any day.
>> I wanted to find out why TiVo hasn't been more successful
I'm very happy with my Mythtv box. It does way more than a Tivo does, I can customise it, and it has no monthly fees. (Although I do subscribe to Schedules Direct for listings, but that's only $20 per year ).
yeah but it doens't have to be so rude.
Consider Unreal Tournament. I think its the perfect model.
The game does have a single-player mode but its really only training for the online mode.
There is no montly fee. You just buy the game.
UT allows users to run their own servers. I think there is an online cd number check but its a part of logging in to a server that holds your stats and preferences. Its great that those are online becuse if you ever reinstall windows you dont lose everything.
Atari do run a few UT servers, but most servers out there are run by individuals.
They even also provide a native linux version of the server. (Unfortunately no native linux client though for the latest UT).
I work as a software developer in the avionics industry.
This list is ridiculous.
There's nothing any website programmer could do that is even remotely dangerous compared to what we could screw up yet all I see in the list are website programming bugs.
Thats a very common misconception. There is much more to 64 bit extensions than just a larger address space.
32 bit apps can't use any of the 64 bit instructions or take advantage of the extra cpu registers introduced for 64 bit such as extra SSE registers, or do instruction pointer relative data access, or have the same mathematical precision in a single math operation. All this means 32 bit code is less cpu-efficient.
Basically, native 64 bit code runs faster. The only question is whether that difference is enough to be noticeable in your particular case. In most people's case it isn't, hence the propagation of the misconception.
agreed. More to the point though, it seems used mostly in commercial pop music to cover up the fact that the sampling artist actually cant play an instrument and/or has limited creativity themselves.