I've played around with digital TV under Linux - Australia currently has dual analog and digital transmissions.
When the tuner card tunes into a station, it spits out the digital TV data stream. To record it, you strip off the transport stream, pull out the program IDs that you are after (if multiple video streams are broadcast by the same station) and write the resulting MPEG2 data to disk.
HDTV is nothing more than a higher resolution version of digital TV. For example: My card is not advertised as an HDTV tuner, but it can provide HDTV content to a playback program (e.g. mplayer). It's just a matter of extracting the right program IDs. The company that made it just hasn't written the included software to handle HDTV size video.
DRM affected content would just have scrambled / altered MPEG2 data. It may even be implemented at the transport stream level.
To fool a program into decoding the DRM'd video, you just have to record the transport stream to disk. Then, using a driver that pretends to be a tuner card, read the data off disk and give it to the program. I'm assuming that this driver would be illegal in the US under provisions of the DMCA.
The driver idea falls down with full-featured digital TV cards. They do their own video decoding in hardware. You might be able to modify firmware on the card, but that's a whole different kettle of fish.
One of the biggest recurring ads was the one from Revo (the guy at the window in the visions used to convict Anderton).
Its not impossible for Minority Report's level of advertising to come around.
How invasive were TV ads 50 years ago? The old ads that I've seen basically say "this product is available, its great!". Many ads these days try to suck in consumers with the you-can-be-part-of-this-hip-group ploy (e.g. soft drink, clothing). Others use language like "You'll love it! Buy this!" - almost coersive.
I hope that your comment was intended to be moderated as "funny".
Firstly, I am not one of "those saps" that logs off each night, but what if my PC goes down (power/dialup/network failure) ?
In your scenario, many people will shy away from email because delivery isn't guaranteed. Admittedly, email delivery isn't guaranteed if a domain's mail server goes down, but at least the system has provisions for retrying when the server is back up.
If you want a system to be accepted in the real world, you have to cater for many tastes - even ones that are abhorrent to our palate.
Well, the questions are frequently asked, so no-one really has claim of copyright on the question. The answers should be available for copyrighting, though.
Really all the judge found was that the defendant was not guilty of plagiarism (however,/me != lawyer).
I'd love to hear their argument on how it caused them "irreparable harm". Ha!
> The fair user may find it more difficult to > engage in certain fair uses with regard to > electronic books, but nevertheless, fair use > is still available.
When is 'fair use' not 'fair'? If fair use is not fair use, then perpetrators can be prosecuted. If the judge is admitting that Elcomsoft software falls under fair use, then they shouldn't have a case to answer.
It seems as though the fair use regulations are going to end up like tax legislation.
The judge's decision is like saying that in a proper communist society (where all people are "equal"), some people are "more equal" than others.
(Yes this does happen - athletes, doctors, etc. get a better (more equal) treatment than others in certain communist countries)
Actually, there are two types of intestinal flora (or should that be fauna?). One type produces mainly methane, the other mainly hydrogen. I guess thats where the 'silent but violent' and 'loud but proud' phrases kids use come from.
Having a gas problem would only be annoying if it was
a) Loud. b) Nasally offensive.
If noone hears you or they can't smell it - you can fart all day.
Sorry for the semi-troll, but in this post-9/11-columbine-tech-bubble-collapse-armaggedo n-osama-global-warming-crappy-movie-review world, what is one to do?
I'm working on a combat system for some frigates. (Like the poster, I can't divulge who/what/where)
Although my company isn't using GPL'ed code, we do use GPL'ed tools. I know its not an amazing revelation, but my management is keen on it because they don't have to cough up any cash.
It sounds like you're hankering for the Battletech universe.
Unfortunately, most of the fighting in that series of books / RPG takes place on land - constant wars the cause of mass-destruction technologies being lost.
However, it does base everything on sound scientific principles (fusion reactors, wormholes/space folding for inter-stellar travel).
I believe what the original poster meant was on a much smaller scale.
e.g. You get pulled over for speeding. When handing over your licence/registration, a $50 note just happens to slide itself in there. Result? Move along, nothing to see here...
The model you have described fits IBM better than Apple. Although, instead of serving just 3 cinemas, an IBM projector's light output could be multiplexed to an entire city's worth of cinema complexes.
Apple's projectors would be small and covered in a weird squishy (but high friction) plastic coating (choice of 5 colours/flavours). They wouldn't have the standard mounting point for 35mm film, but they would come equipped with a 10/100 MFPS EtherFilm card. It would most likely be named the iProj.
If the foetuses were terminated after 6 days, it doesn't really show that the technique would scale up to full gestation.
From what I saw of the article, this has only been tested on human tissue. What's going on with the Scientific Method? Lab rats first, people second!
This isn't really what George Lucas needs right now either. "Attack of the Clones" coming out right when (possible) mass cloning of people is being developed...
If this makes it into your average car, would you have to take it to a normal mechanic AND a quantum mechanic? The price of the devices used in research had better come down before it happens.
I can see it now...
QM: (Wipes hands on oily rag) Well, if you lookee here, yer muffler wall is causing the maser beam to create destructive interference.
Car owner: uhuh.
QM: That, combined with the alignment of the quantum magnetic dipole is causing yer car to stall.
Compared with the nuclear ones, they suck because they have to dick about on the surface all the time. You can only run a sub for a short amount of time on battery power before you have to surface for air for the engine. Even with a snorkel, you're still virtually on the surface.
It's more of a question of which makes more sense: a mechanical shark or a mechanical dolphin?
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I've played around with digital TV under Linux - Australia currently has dual analog and digital transmissions.
When the tuner card tunes into a station, it spits out the digital TV data stream. To record it, you strip off the transport stream, pull out the program IDs that you are after (if multiple video streams are broadcast by the same station) and write the resulting MPEG2 data to disk.
HDTV is nothing more than a higher resolution version of digital TV. For example:
My card is not advertised as an HDTV tuner, but it can provide HDTV content to a playback program (e.g. mplayer). It's just a matter of extracting the right program IDs. The company that made it just hasn't written the included software to handle HDTV size video.
DRM affected content would just have scrambled / altered MPEG2 data. It may even be implemented at the transport stream level.
To fool a program into decoding the DRM'd video, you just have to record the transport stream to disk. Then, using a driver that pretends to be a tuner card, read the data off disk and give it to the program. I'm assuming that this driver would be illegal in the US under provisions of the DMCA.
The driver idea falls down with full-featured digital TV cards. They do their own video decoding in hardware. You might be able to modify firmware on the card, but that's a whole different kettle of fish.
One of the biggest recurring ads was the one from Revo (the guy at the window in the visions used to convict Anderton).
Its not impossible for Minority Report's level of advertising to come around.
How invasive were TV ads 50 years ago? The old ads that I've seen basically say "this product is available, its great!". Many ads these days try to suck in consumers with the you-can-be-part-of-this-hip-group ploy (e.g. soft drink, clothing). Others use language like "You'll love it! Buy this!" - almost coersive.
Xenix? Microsoft?
Damn. Those Scientologists are everywhere.
:)
I hope that your comment was intended to be moderated as "funny".
Firstly, I am not one of "those saps" that logs off each night, but what if my PC goes down (power/dialup/network failure) ?
In your scenario, many people will shy away from email because delivery isn't guaranteed. Admittedly, email delivery isn't guaranteed if a domain's mail server goes down, but at least the system has provisions for retrying when the server is back up.
If you want a system to be accepted in the real world, you have to cater for many tastes - even ones that are abhorrent to our palate.
Well, the questions are frequently asked, so no-one really has claim of copyright on the question. The answers should be available for copyrighting, though.
/me != lawyer).
Really all the judge found was that the defendant was not guilty of plagiarism (however,
I'd love to hear their argument on how it caused them "irreparable harm". Ha!
I can't wait until NASA will accept time on roller coasters as astronaut training time.
High G-force Roller Coaster Theme Park World here I come!
Movement wouldn't be a process. You'd probably have to do:
/proc/kinetics/speed
/proc/brakes/pressure
echo 0 >
or
echo 100 >
I'll second that.
Although, "Maybe this IS a good day to die... PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED!!" was pretty funny.
Quoth the poster:
> The fair user may find it more difficult to
> engage in certain fair uses with regard to
> electronic books, but nevertheless, fair use
> is still available.
When is 'fair use' not 'fair'? If fair use is not fair use, then perpetrators can be prosecuted. If the judge is admitting that Elcomsoft software falls under fair use, then they shouldn't have a case to answer.
It seems as though the fair use regulations are going to end up like tax legislation.
The judge's decision is like saying that in a proper communist society (where all people are "equal"), some people are "more equal" than others.
(Yes this does happen - athletes, doctors, etc. get a better (more equal) treatment than others in certain communist countries)
As far as I know, the El Nino effect is a result of ocean temperatures between South America and Australia.
When its warm on one side and cold on the other (not sure which), you get droughts here in Australia and too much rain over there.
When its the other way round, you have El Ninya (sp?), the sister of El Nino and 'normal' (read: non-catatrosphic) weather ensues.
How about a mutli-threaded VB program?
Didn't think so.
Actually, there are two types of intestinal flora (or should that be fauna?). One type produces mainly methane, the other mainly hydrogen. I guess thats where the 'silent but violent' and 'loud but proud' phrases kids use come from.
Having a gas problem would only be annoying if it was
a) Loud.
b) Nasally offensive.
If noone hears you or they can't smell it - you can fart all day.
You forgot globalization. :)
I'm working on a combat system for some frigates. (Like the poster, I can't divulge who/what/where)
Although my company isn't using GPL'ed code, we do use GPL'ed tools. I know its not an amazing revelation, but my management is keen on it because they don't have to cough up any cash.
It sounds like you're hankering for the Battletech universe.
Unfortunately, most of the fighting in that series of books / RPG takes place on land - constant wars the cause of mass-destruction technologies being lost.
However, it does base everything on sound scientific principles (fusion reactors, wormholes/space folding for inter-stellar travel).
Win2k still doesn't shut down my PC. Admittedly, my motherboard is a bit old (A-bit BP6 - 440BX chipset), but SP2 didn't do anything for me.
I believe what the original poster meant was on a much smaller scale.
e.g. You get pulled over for speeding. When handing over your licence/registration, a $50 note just happens to slide itself in there. Result? Move along, nothing to see here...
The model you have described fits IBM better than Apple. Although, instead of serving just 3 cinemas, an IBM projector's light output could be multiplexed to an entire city's worth of cinema complexes.
Apple's projectors would be small and covered in a weird squishy (but high friction) plastic coating (choice of 5 colours/flavours). They wouldn't have the standard mounting point for 35mm film, but they would come equipped with a 10/100 MFPS EtherFilm card. It would most likely be named the iProj.
If the foetuses were terminated after 6 days, it doesn't really show that the technique would scale up to full gestation.
From what I saw of the article, this has only been tested on human tissue. What's going on with the Scientific Method? Lab rats first, people second!
This isn't really what George Lucas needs right now either. "Attack of the Clones" coming out right when (possible) mass cloning of people is being developed...
If this makes it into your average car, would you have to take it to a normal mechanic AND a quantum mechanic? The price of the devices used in research had better come down before it happens.
I can see it now...
QM: (Wipes hands on oily rag) Well, if you lookee here, yer muffler wall is causing the maser beam to create destructive interference.
Car owner: uhuh.
QM: That, combined with the alignment of the quantum magnetic dipole is causing yer car to stall.
Car owner: But how much will it cost?
QM: Yer salary fer the next two years.
If you can get enough energy out of the exhaust laser, you can use the radiation pressure of the light to get the car to go faster!
(I know the pressure produced would be minimal - the sun's light generates a force of what? 80 tonnes?)
This would sure give a new meaning to 'back-firing'.
A neutron spectrometer is a new one to me.
How does it work? Has anyone here worked with one before?
You forgot that they're DIESEL submarines.
Compared with the nuclear ones, they suck because they have to dick about on the surface all the time. You can only run a sub for a short amount of time on battery power before you have to surface for air for the engine. Even with a snorkel, you're still virtually on the surface.
It's more of a question of which makes more sense: a mechanical shark or a mechanical dolphin?
(Yes, I am Australian)
While DDR-SDRAM is cheaper and has a lower latency than Rambus RAM, it isn't necessarily the best thing for an Intel chip.
The P4 is built to utilize memory bandwidth, not lower latency. The AMD's chips are the opposite.
While a P4 PC would cost less with DDR-SDRAM, it would cop a slight performance hit.
If these devices work off the energy we generate, think of how much exercise some people will get trying to power all their stuff!
This could be the best thing for geek health since interlaced monitors were outlawed.