From the looks of things, this doesn't solve any of the issues with HDCP. From Wikipedia:
"DisplayPort connector supports 1 to 4 data pairs at main link that also carries audio and clock signals, with transfer rate of 1.62 or 2.7 gigabits per second."
As they're still talking about "pairs," I doubt the number one complaint voiced in TFA has been addressed.
"DisplayPort includes optional DPCP (DisplayPort Content Protection) copy-protection from Philips, which uses 128-bit AES encryption, with modern cryptography ciphers. It also features full authentication and session key establishment (each encryption session is independent). There is an independent revocation system. This portion of the standard is licensed separately."
Think about it. All you have to do is DRM any pictures you upload. Any caching or storage would require a "circumvention device," and the DoJ is in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.;-)
I wasn't referring strictly to code. Tech support would be a factor. Probably not easy to convince GameStop that they should devote retail shelf space to the Linux version of a game either. I don't think those places even sell Mac games. At least on the Mac you've got a shot at getting it carried in the Apple stores. But hey, I'm just speculating anyway.
Most of the newer Apple firmwares work like this: You run the updater from inside the OS, then reboot and before the OS loads, a status bar crawls across the screen. I reckon they temporarily replace the normal boot loader with one that includes a little firmware flasher. It's fairly slick and painless.
1. The Net 2. Hackers 3. Antitrust (maybe, it's been awhile since I've seen it) 4. The Matrix 5. Goldeneye (she was a bond girl, too, though, so it kinda cancels out...)
If we're willing to expand to "science/tech" in general, then we add stuff like Stargate: SG1.
I think it's a chicken-and-egg problem. Women don't want to hang out with groups of mostly men because of comments like the first post. Programs like Fedora Women, etc. have a shot at working because it's understood that the probability of winding up as the only woman in a room full of men is reduced. I wouldn't be amazed if the idea that "programming is a man's job" has relatively little, if anything, to do with it.
How about sterility by default? Chemically alter everyone's reproductive systems, so when you want to have a kid, you go to classes and apply for a permit, then you get an injection that un-fucks your reproductive system and you can have a child.
Shee-yit. Now Tom's got a Hummer too. Well, I guess I could buy that big computer from the Internet. It even sits in my lap. That's good for th' in-you-wen-dough.
I don't think anyone's complaining about having to pay more for a quality product so much as questioning whether or not Apple products add enough "quality" to justify the price. My experience has been that the premium you pay for Apple is in software quality, not machine build quality. There's a simple demonstration to hint at this: Find an old PowerBook G3 and an old Thinkpad (I did this with a G3 Pismo and a 600E). Open the PowerBook and feel the resistance on the hinges. Now open the Thinkpad and see how it feels. There's really no comparison. The Thinkpad feels like a new machine, the PowerBook feels like it needs a hinge replacement.
I probably won't buy another Apple not because I think the price premium doesn't buy me anything, but because a shitty OS can be replaced with Linux (which is by no means a magic bullet or as user-friendly as Mac OS X, but it's a solid operating system that, once set up properly, gives you relatively little nonsense) while shitty hardware can only be repaired at significant expense. Software is transient, hardware is forever.
Sidenote: It is standard Intel hardware in a pretty box. It's a standard Intel Core Duo with an Intel south bridge (ifixit speculates it's a 945PM chipset). Other than EFI and a Trusted Platform Module or whatever the hell it's called, it looks like plain-Jane x86 stuff.
I want CDs that, instead of Red Book audio, contain 24bit 96kHz FLAC tracks. And what about CD-Text? That could have been cool, but I don't know since I've never seen anybody actually use CD-Text. Keep me from having to use CDDB or key in all the track data. Then maybe they could include PNGs of the cover art...
That would be way too good for customers, though. It'd probably never work. I mean, can you just think of the poor recording artists!
Secondly, what incentive would content providers have to back symmetric anything? The content industry needs to move advertising to viewers as quickly as possible. I'd be willing to bet that making sure everyone has enough bandwidth to express themselves and create independent content is fairly low on their list of priorities. What technology would achieve content providers' primary goal most effectively? A symmetric 10Mbit pipe into every home? No. Digital cable? Yes.
This is very much about digital cable. It's about digital over-the-air, it's about everything you do in analog, only it's sharper, has MPEG compression artifacts, and it's more expensive.
In fact VOIP-based 911 may actually make things worse, providing a false sense of security. How many callers are going to keep a regular phone hooked up to their POTS line just as a backup for 911?
Why not have a phone jack on the VoIP adapter and require it to be physically connected to a phone line? I'd imagine that most people who get VoIP and drop their phone service still have the physical jacks and the physical connections to the network. I'm pretty sure phone companies are required to provide 911 service even if the line is not in service (nonpayment, etc). The box would just need to pass any calls to 911 through to POTS, forcing the telco to take care of routing the call. This would have the added benefit of working even if the box is connected at another location.
And how much extra time is going to be wasted when they first try 911 on their VOIP line, discover it's dead, then race over to their nearest POTS "backup" phone, which is most likely nowhere near where the victim they're calling for is!
The POTS connection could solve this one too by adding a couple relays to the VoIP adaptor. When power is applied to the VoIP box, the relays are switched to connect the phones to the VoIP hardware. In the event of a network failure, the firmware switches off the relays and the phones are connected directly to POTS. Same deal for power failures. Power loss to the VoIP adaptor, relays click off, and the phones are directly connected to the (hopefully still working) POTS network.
I like the fact that there's no phone built-in. I saw it, thought, "Cool," then realized it was made by Nokia and thought, "Dammit! Another portable internet thing that won't work with my carrier (Verizon) and comes with a monthly fee." I must say, not including the cell-phone stuff was a pretty bright move IMHO. 'Sides, there's no way if they had a cell phone in it the carrier would let them include WiFi so folks could avoid data transfer charges.
I'm also not an audiophile, but I can appreciate things that don't suck... and for $150, these put out a relative fuck-ton of bass from a 6.5" subwoofer. Why Bose needs an extra order of magnitude on the price tag is beyond me, though.;-)
Ah, but if that key happens to be burned on a PROM built into a microcontroller, it may be very difficult, if not impossible, to do a block-by-block read. There will probably be a dedicated "trust" chip, which will be a microcontroller with a PROM containing the various keys. The only interface it will provide to the outside world most likely will be a challenge/response type of thing... take something, sign/encrypt it against one of the stored keys and send it back. It certainly won't have an interface for dumping the list of keys it contains.
Quite frankly, I'm sick of this "Apple = classy" crap. Apple has made, and continues to make, major design blunders that I think make their products a lot less classy than they could be. iMacs whose slot-loading DVD drives can't eject DVDs because the slot is ever-so-slightly narrower than it needs to be, the same iMacs having repeated failures of their analog boards because they're right in the path of the "innovative" fanless cooling system. PowerBooks with power supply ports that come loose, power supplies whose cables fray, spark, and short out. Power Mac G3s which are "supported" in Mac OS X unless you want to use the DVD decoder, the video capture, the TV-out, or any of those features you paid extra for when you bought it. iPods with a brilliant headphone-detection "feature" that causes random pausing when you use headphones other than the ones supplied with the player. PowerBooks with Broadcom wireless chipsets that don't work in Linux, switching from solid hardware DSP modems that work with anything to Conexant HCF modems that only run in OS X. A "pause" command in their brilliant new Automator programming environment that uses 100% CPU sitting in a tight delay loop instead of just launching the UNIX "sleep" command which uses zero CPU.
Therefore, Apple's "classy" hardware requires that I slap several layers of paper and tape over my iPod's headphone jack, use "run shell script: sleep 60" instead of "delay one minute", and only connect to the internet in Mac OS X at a cost of approximately 20% CPU. Thanks, guys. Here's something that I think would be classy: instead of spending your extra engineering time making my keyboard light up automatically when it gets dark out, why not give me a modem that doesn't suck? Or maybe a wireless card that works with my other OS? Or an iPod that actually plays music through decent headphones for more than eight seconds at a time? That would be really nice.
I'm all for innovation, as long as your innovative new features ACTUALLY WORK.
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From the looks of things, this doesn't solve any of the issues with HDCP. From Wikipedia:
"DisplayPort connector supports 1 to 4 data pairs at main link that also carries audio and clock signals, with transfer rate of 1.62 or 2.7 gigabits per second."
As they're still talking about "pairs," I doubt the number one complaint voiced in TFA has been addressed.
"DisplayPort includes optional DPCP (DisplayPort Content Protection) copy-protection from Philips, which uses 128-bit AES encryption, with modern cryptography ciphers. It also features full authentication and session key establishment (each encryption session is independent). There is an independent revocation system. This portion of the standard is licensed separately."
Still has DRM.
Do not taunt SuperAwesomeFunPlug.
There's something like this in OSX. Renaming files leaves them where they are for several seconds, then the re-sort happens.
Think about it. All you have to do is DRM any pictures you upload. Any caching or storage would require a "circumvention device," and the DoJ is in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. ;-)
DRM would fix this.
I wasn't referring strictly to code. Tech support would be a factor. Probably not easy to convince GameStop that they should devote retail shelf space to the Linux version of a game either. I don't think those places even sell Mac games. At least on the Mac you've got a shot at getting it carried in the Apple stores. But hey, I'm just speculating anyway.
A game involves more than graphics code.
You misheard. Ducts, dude. A series of ducts.
Most of the newer Apple firmwares work like this: You run the updater from inside the OS, then reboot and before the OS loads, a status bar crawls across the screen. I reckon they temporarily replace the normal boot loader with one that includes a little firmware flasher. It's fairly slick and painless.
When the shit hits the fan I want to be able to open the fan to remove the mess.
Well said.
is _THIS_ what stops me from running my DVD player through the Line-In on my VCR so I can watch it on my TV?
Yes.
1. The Net
2. Hackers
3. Antitrust (maybe, it's been awhile since I've seen it)
4. The Matrix
5. Goldeneye (she was a bond girl, too, though, so it kinda cancels out...)
If we're willing to expand to "science/tech" in general, then we add stuff like Stargate: SG1.
I think it's a chicken-and-egg problem. Women don't want to hang out with groups of mostly men because of comments like the first post. Programs like Fedora Women, etc. have a shot at working because it's understood that the probability of winding up as the only woman in a room full of men is reduced. I wouldn't be amazed if the idea that "programming is a man's job" has relatively little, if anything, to do with it.
http://www.radtech.us/Products/SleevziPod.aspx
Pricey, but has tactile pad thingies.
Why stop there?
How about sterility by default? Chemically alter everyone's reproductive systems, so when you want to have a kid, you go to classes and apply for a permit, then you get an injection that un-fucks your reproductive system and you can have a child.
This makes me very, very sad.
Shee-yit. Now Tom's got a Hummer too. Well, I guess I could buy that big computer from the Internet. It even sits in my lap. That's good for th' in-you-wen-dough.
Restraint? You pussy.
I don't think anyone's complaining about having to pay more for a quality product so much as questioning whether or not Apple products add enough "quality" to justify the price. My experience has been that the premium you pay for Apple is in software quality, not machine build quality. There's a simple demonstration to hint at this: Find an old PowerBook G3 and an old Thinkpad (I did this with a G3 Pismo and a 600E). Open the PowerBook and feel the resistance on the hinges. Now open the Thinkpad and see how it feels. There's really no comparison. The Thinkpad feels like a new machine, the PowerBook feels like it needs a hinge replacement.
I probably won't buy another Apple not because I think the price premium doesn't buy me anything, but because a shitty OS can be replaced with Linux (which is by no means a magic bullet or as user-friendly as Mac OS X, but it's a solid operating system that, once set up properly, gives you relatively little nonsense) while shitty hardware can only be repaired at significant expense. Software is transient, hardware is forever.
Sidenote: It is standard Intel hardware in a pretty box. It's a standard Intel Core Duo with an Intel south bridge (ifixit speculates it's a 945PM chipset). Other than EFI and a Trusted Platform Module or whatever the hell it's called, it looks like plain-Jane x86 stuff.
I want CDs that, instead of Red Book audio, contain 24bit 96kHz FLAC tracks. And what about CD-Text? That could have been cool, but I don't know since I've never seen anybody actually use CD-Text. Keep me from having to use CDDB or key in all the track data. Then maybe they could include PNGs of the cover art...
That would be way too good for customers, though. It'd probably never work. I mean, can you just think of the poor recording artists!
First off, three little letters: D, R, M.
Secondly, what incentive would content providers have to back symmetric anything? The content industry needs to move advertising to viewers as quickly as possible. I'd be willing to bet that making sure everyone has enough bandwidth to express themselves and create independent content is fairly low on their list of priorities. What technology would achieve content providers' primary goal most effectively? A symmetric 10Mbit pipe into every home? No. Digital cable? Yes.
This is very much about digital cable. It's about digital over-the-air, it's about everything you do in analog, only it's sharper, has MPEG compression artifacts, and it's more expensive.
In fact VOIP-based 911 may actually make things worse, providing a false sense of security. How many callers are going to keep a regular phone hooked up to their POTS line just as a backup for 911?
Why not have a phone jack on the VoIP adapter and require it to be physically connected to a phone line? I'd imagine that most people who get VoIP and drop their phone service still have the physical jacks and the physical connections to the network. I'm pretty sure phone companies are required to provide 911 service even if the line is not in service (nonpayment, etc). The box would just need to pass any calls to 911 through to POTS, forcing the telco to take care of routing the call. This would have the added benefit of working even if the box is connected at another location.
And how much extra time is going to be wasted when they first try 911 on their VOIP line, discover it's dead, then race over to their nearest POTS "backup" phone, which is most likely nowhere near where the victim they're calling for is!
The POTS connection could solve this one too by adding a couple relays to the VoIP adaptor. When power is applied to the VoIP box, the relays are switched to connect the phones to the VoIP hardware. In the event of a network failure, the firmware switches off the relays and the phones are connected directly to POTS. Same deal for power failures. Power loss to the VoIP adaptor, relays click off, and the phones are directly connected to the (hopefully still working) POTS network.
I like the fact that there's no phone built-in. I saw it, thought, "Cool," then realized it was made by Nokia and thought, "Dammit! Another portable internet thing that won't work with my carrier (Verizon) and comes with a monthly fee." I must say, not including the cell-phone stuff was a pretty bright move IMHO. 'Sides, there's no way if they had a cell phone in it the carrier would let them include WiFi so folks could avoid data transfer charges.
You're not going to get good bass out of a 6.5" woofer
;-)
Yes, you can.
I'm also not an audiophile, but I can appreciate things that don't suck... and for $150, these put out a relative fuck-ton of bass from a 6.5" subwoofer. Why Bose needs an extra order of magnitude on the price tag is beyond me, though.
Ah, but if that key happens to be burned on a PROM built into a microcontroller, it may be very difficult, if not impossible, to do a block-by-block read. There will probably be a dedicated "trust" chip, which will be a microcontroller with a PROM containing the various keys. The only interface it will provide to the outside world most likely will be a challenge/response type of thing... take something, sign/encrypt it against one of the stored keys and send it back. It certainly won't have an interface for dumping the list of keys it contains.
Quite frankly, I'm sick of this "Apple = classy" crap. Apple has made, and continues to make, major design blunders that I think make their products a lot less classy than they could be. iMacs whose slot-loading DVD drives can't eject DVDs because the slot is ever-so-slightly narrower than it needs to be, the same iMacs having repeated failures of their analog boards because they're right in the path of the "innovative" fanless cooling system. PowerBooks with power supply ports that come loose, power supplies whose cables fray, spark, and short out. Power Mac G3s which are "supported" in Mac OS X unless you want to use the DVD decoder, the video capture, the TV-out, or any of those features you paid extra for when you bought it. iPods with a brilliant headphone-detection "feature" that causes random pausing when you use headphones other than the ones supplied with the player. PowerBooks with Broadcom wireless chipsets that don't work in Linux, switching from solid hardware DSP modems that work with anything to Conexant HCF modems that only run in OS X. A "pause" command in their brilliant new Automator programming environment that uses 100% CPU sitting in a tight delay loop instead of just launching the UNIX "sleep" command which uses zero CPU.
Therefore, Apple's "classy" hardware requires that I slap several layers of paper and tape over my iPod's headphone jack, use "run shell script: sleep 60" instead of "delay one minute", and only connect to the internet in Mac OS X at a cost of approximately 20% CPU. Thanks, guys. Here's something that I think would be classy: instead of spending your extra engineering time making my keyboard light up automatically when it gets dark out, why not give me a modem that doesn't suck? Or maybe a wireless card that works with my other OS? Or an iPod that actually plays music through decent headphones for more than eight seconds at a time? That would be really nice.
I'm all for innovation, as long as your innovative new features ACTUALLY WORK.