Actually a lot of the described cost occurs on the front end with imaging and device preparedness. On Mac, they are leveraging DEP and handing out managed Macs that are still in the shrink wrap. It was a very good presentation.
To further clarify, the original email scam that asked a user to "assist in transferring money" involved Nigerian citizens/banks. So, as the previous poster pointed out, this "technique" is referred to as the Nigerian email scam.
Yes imagine the outcry because Dell IS ALREADY doing this and has been. Look here. This is primarily for Blu-ray but also applies to regular DVDs. Look at the row title Display. Specifically at the warning.
Hmm. That looks mighty similar to what the MacBook is doing which is restricting the passage of protected content across insecure video links. Again, with DVI and HDCP-enabled equipment, there is no problem. VGA, there is a problem.
To EVERYONE,
This is nothing to do with Apple implementing DRM!!!!!!! Please understand that. HDCP is NOT DRM.
This is Apple implementing a technology FORCED by the motion picture industry THAT HAS BEEN IN PCs FOR 2 YEARS ALREADY! Anyone who has a GeForce 7950 or better or an ATI X1900 or better has been subject to this technology (search for HDCP or hdcp in these pages).
Apple is actually LATE in implementing this.
ALL PC laptops currently have this so thinking "Well I'll just get a PC instead will not solve anything."
This article is pure FUD and has very little truth in it. Please do a little research before you make knee-jerk reactions because everything on the internet isn't always true.
Anyone??? This "built-in copy protection" is just HDCP that has been in video cards and monitors for YEARS now on the Windows side. It has been around since at least 2006 with the GeForce 7 series! 7-Series.[Wikipedia] It was optional for DVI displays but the DVDs started being encoded with the signals so the display makers started making compatible displays. Heck you're probably using one right now and don't even know it. The thing is, since the adoption was pretty good with the displays, this "issue" only crops up when watching an encoded movie output to a non-HDCP display such as through a VGA connection. Again this is nothing new, it doesn't affect the playback on the laptop's screen, just the output to the projector, which also wouldn't have been affected with a DVI cable (and DisplayPort to DVI converter).
There is nothing better than a job that you enjoy. Look at all of the stress associated with each job ( good stress and bad, because even good stress is still stress ) and decide if the stress of the higher paying job is going to be substantially more than that of the small company. If it is, stick with the small company. It won't be as much money, but it is still a raise AND you will actually have fun with ( Not everyday, I know, but overall ).
This is just my $0.02, but having a father-in-law who has suffered a mental breakdown due to stress at work has really put this into my head.
One reason in particular for PS2: FINAL FANTASY VII - still the greatest Final Fantasy of all time. Also all of the other Final Fantasy's including Anthology and Collections (for those nostalgic periods in your life). Also, do you ever feel like just popping in some GTA - I don't mean 3 or Vice City or whatever the new one is, although those are fun, it still can't beat the classic for originality.
Now on to the subject of XBox. Halo 2 will be shipping by November the 8th I believe. Then Microsoft will be releasing the XBox 2 probably within the following year and a half. It going to really piss me off If I have to drag my entire XBox setup with me to a friends house to play Halo 2 just because all he has is an XBox 2!!!
So for those who haven't gotten the message, yes, backwards-compatability is important. In fact, it is extremely important. If you need more proof, just look at how popular the GameBoy line is and has been.
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While this is from Previn's presentation, he said they have found 78 out of their 3000+ app catalog not work on the Mac.
Actually a lot of the described cost occurs on the front end with imaging and device preparedness. On Mac, they are leveraging DEP and handing out managed Macs that are still in the shrink wrap. It was a very good presentation.
To further clarify, the original email scam that asked a user to "assist in transferring money" involved Nigerian citizens/banks. So, as the previous poster pointed out, this "technique" is referred to as the Nigerian email scam.
Yes imagine the outcry because Dell IS ALREADY doing this and has been. Look here. This is primarily for Blu-ray but also applies to regular DVDs. Look at the row title Display. Specifically at the warning. Hmm. That looks mighty similar to what the MacBook is doing which is restricting the passage of protected content across insecure video links. Again, with DVI and HDCP-enabled equipment, there is no problem. VGA, there is a problem.
Absolutely not true if you use DVI. If VGA then yes because HDCP is not supported over VGA. It's the same with Windows computers.
To EVERYONE, This is nothing to do with Apple implementing DRM!!!!!!! Please understand that. HDCP is NOT DRM. This is Apple implementing a technology FORCED by the motion picture industry THAT HAS BEEN IN PCs FOR 2 YEARS ALREADY! Anyone who has a GeForce 7950 or better or an ATI X1900 or better has been subject to this technology (search for HDCP or hdcp in these pages). Apple is actually LATE in implementing this. ALL PC laptops currently have this so thinking "Well I'll just get a PC instead will not solve anything." This article is pure FUD and has very little truth in it. Please do a little research before you make knee-jerk reactions because everything on the internet isn't always true.
Anyone??? This "built-in copy protection" is just HDCP that has been in video cards and monitors for YEARS now on the Windows side. It has been around since at least 2006 with the GeForce 7 series! 7-Series.[Wikipedia] It was optional for DVI displays but the DVDs started being encoded with the signals so the display makers started making compatible displays. Heck you're probably using one right now and don't even know it. The thing is, since the adoption was pretty good with the displays, this "issue" only crops up when watching an encoded movie output to a non-HDCP display such as through a VGA connection. Again this is nothing new, it doesn't affect the playback on the laptop's screen, just the output to the projector, which also wouldn't have been affected with a DVI cable (and DisplayPort to DVI converter).
Wow, the man that "invented" the Internet didn't have one of the first 100? Go figure!
There is nothing better than a job that you enjoy. Look at all of the stress associated with each job ( good stress and bad, because even good stress is still stress ) and decide if the stress of the higher paying job is going to be substantially more than that of the small company. If it is, stick with the small company. It won't be as much money, but it is still a raise AND you will actually have fun with ( Not everyday, I know, but overall ). This is just my $0.02, but having a father-in-law who has suffered a mental breakdown due to stress at work has really put this into my head.
and log onto BobNet!!!!!!!
One reason in particular for PS2: FINAL FANTASY VII - still the greatest Final Fantasy of all time. Also all of the other Final Fantasy's including Anthology and Collections (for those nostalgic periods in your life). Also, do you ever feel like just popping in some GTA - I don't mean 3 or Vice City or whatever the new one is, although those are fun, it still can't beat the classic for originality.
Now on to the subject of XBox. Halo 2 will be shipping by November the 8th I believe. Then Microsoft will be releasing the XBox 2 probably within the following year and a half. It going to really piss me off If I have to drag my entire XBox setup with me to a friends house to play Halo 2 just because all he has is an XBox 2!!!
So for those who haven't gotten the message, yes, backwards-compatability is important. In fact, it is extremely important. If you need more proof, just look at how popular the GameBoy line is and has been.