Being paid for your work is all well and good, but in the case of some authors (e.g. JK Rowling), it seems like the publisher would rather NOT be paid. Harry Potter isn't available in ebook form legally, so shutting down sites that offer those books for download isn't "losing book sales", it's not making any sales at all since there is no viable alternative from the publisher.
And keep in mind, ereaders these days are expensive, a person who can afford one these days isn't going to balk at paying ~$10 (Kindle bestseller list and that's the high end) for an ebook so if a person is downloading books illegally, it's probably a combination of the "hoarding factor" (similar to downloading every movie possible, just for the sake of having them, without ever watching all of them) and somebody who can't read the official ebook version on their device because of DRM.
Another thing, this situation isn't the same with music. Libraries allow a large selection of ebooks to be downloaded legally, is that considered a lost sale? In fact, the publishers are just angry that they aren't making more money. They hate the used book market, which they've effectively killed in electronic form because of DRM, there is no ebook used book market.
To publishers: 1. Lose the DRM on ebooks, works great for iTunes and its music. Charge more if you have to for an unDRMed ebook. 2. Actually offer the ebooks for sale! Why do you think there are so many pirates? Books aren't available or aren't available for their ereader. 3. Embrace the ebook future, works great for Baen Publishing, all their books are available and with noDRM.
The HIV virus has a high rate of mutation, one of the reasons it sticks around in your body and your immune system has to keep attacking it, it's pretty much a "new" virus every time. What's to keep the virus from mutating and avoiding the CCR5 requirement it currently has? CCR5 doesn't seem to be a requirement for a normal human immune system (one of the many types of backups the immune system has), thus some percentage of the population being perfectly healthy without that receptor.
I'd even go as far as to say that if HIV mutates into not requiring CCR5, then this new strain could spread and theoretically be worse than the current HIV strain in the wild.
Didn't Mythbusters already disprove this electronic interference myth? Airline companies do it for safety's sake, even though all the important things are already shielded. Qantas just needs a scapegoat.
He took it to court? He should have handled it in the Contra Best Buy store itself, all it would have taken is...
UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A
Actually, the sorting by "Order Received" isn't even a true fix. Using IMAP if you move an email message from one folder to another, the moved email is considered "newer" since the order received is higher in the new folder.
As for the Date issue, Thunderbird does it correctly, the other clients do it incorrectly (e.g. Eudora, Zimbra, Outlook 2003). You do NOT want to see the time the email was received, but the time the email was sent. Why? The email could have traveled for a while before reaching your server. The TB default is right, but I agree that it should offer the option of showing the dates "incorrectly".
The provider's server isn't needed, you can setup your own server or just get an ATA adapter an open up a port in your firewall for incoming connections.
It's kinda like email. Sure you can host your own, but isn't it just easier to use another server? Especially if it offers more features, reliability, and a cheaper price in the long run, not to mention less headaches? The answer varies person to person of course, but most usually use a provider.
Not quite. How do you receive incoming calls with SIP? The server has to tell the client about the incoming call, so the client must have an open port to receive this information, otherwise no incoming call!
Not quite true. The open port for SIP only applies if you're actually calling that person's direct ip address, not his voip provider's sip url, which most are. So if you're registered/connected to your voip provider, then calling your sip url will go something like this:
friend -> voip provider's server -> your ata phone
Open port is required for this:
friend -> your ata port
Since you're registered to your voip provider (you initiate the connection), the phone call is received on the downstream end, you only need an outgoing open port.
I'm certainly not a SIP guru, but going to try and respond some of your points that have me honestly confused.
2. No NAT issues (SIP is retarded with NAT - check out how SDP works).
SIP works with STUN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN) servers, so you shouldn't really be getting NAT issues. Of course, I'd say that Skype has more NAT issues since it's P2P and would probably work better with an open incoming port. SIP just connects to a server and doesn't require open incoming ports (unless you have your own PBX server at home, which is pretty advanced for the regular SIP user).
Isn't it better to have many many more clients across every platform than to be stuck with only 1 on every platform? Plus have many more hardware choices as well (if you want to connect your home phone to VoIP)?
5. Voice quality is related to codec, not call setup protocol, which is what SIP is, so your voice quality comment is senseless.
How is SIP's voice quality not related to the chosen codec? And why would a setup protocol dictate voice quality in SIP? I honestly don't understand. Kind of like saying that since I'm driving on the right side of the road my car is faster, when it's engine (codec) that really matters most.
6. Seamless integration with landlines.
How is SIP's integration not "seamless"? Open up your client, dial a phone number and voila, their landline rings. I would say it's better than Skype's actually. You can actually get a real phone number in Japan (for example) that will ring your SIP phone/PC in the US. Skype has this for around 15 countries, but SIP has DID (real landline numbers) numbers for many more countries (if not all). Plus SIP vendors have number portability as well.
8. SIP is not consistent across vendors, with many proprietary extensions....the list goes on. They just did it right, and it works for everyone. SIP is mostly a joke.
Most vendors that use SIP can communicate with each other. Some vendors block outside SIP calls (e.g. Vonage) while others use their own proprietary SIP (e.g. Comcast Digital Voice), but they block outside connections too. So it doesn't really matter if they're proprietary or not, a SIP client can't access their network anyway unless they go the landline route.
I've got nothing against Skype (I've used it tons), I just like SIP better because of its better call rates (you can always get a vendor cheaper than Skype), number of choices available (SIP hardware, software, vendors), plus the fact that if you want, you can get down to the nitty gritty and do some amazing stuff with it (want to get sms notifications of voicemail? access 10 different vendors with different rates with just a press of a button on your phone? setup smart call forwarding, if you're not at office, try home, then cell? Check voicemail on the web/email?).
Plus Skype is P2P, which is good for some things, but can use a lot of bandwidth when not in use, that's why some college campuses and businesses don't allow Skype.
Good god, only on Slashdot will you find name nazis. Over here it's GNU/Linux and not Linux, it's a portable hardware audio decompresser and not an iPod, and it's a quantum based time machine portal and not an Interoceter.
I stand corrected. Jesus is another aspect of God in Christianity. I believe that's the main difference that made people branch out and form Islam. Probably much like how people branched out and created Christianity because of their belief in Jesus.
True, but I was just referring to the differences between the Christian and Muslim God, not between the Son of God and the Prophet relationship of Jesus. I don't believe Christians consider Jesus to be God, so assumed that when Christian God was mentioned, it was referring to The God(tm).
So to recap:
The God(tm) == Christian God == Allah Jesus == Son of God == Prophet of God
Just want to point out that Allah and "Christian God" are the same being, just another name for God. In fact, Islam has 100 names for God, Allah is just the most widely used.
The article mentions:
"...any Office Online templates downloaded from within the Office 2007 Microsoft Office System applications will require validation of legitimacy."
So I assume this covers Office 2003 (since OGA starts October 27th and Office 2007 isn't even out yet). But does this OGA cover Office 97 and XP as well?
So is this new DRMed music still available in lossless format? At least my burned CDs and mp3/m4a files I make from them can be created from a good quality source (compared to DRM AAC -> CDs).
One of the areas I have thoroughly enjoyed about ATI's Linux drivers is their monthly driver releases. As the code base is shared between the Windows and Linux drivers, since last year the fglrx development team has been pushing out releases to accompany the monthly Windows Catalyst suite.
At least elements from Doki Doki made it into Mario games and not elements from Captain N: The Game Master (which I used to love as a kid, but hate now because everybody else says it's cool to do so).
I guess Final Fantasy has now joined the ranks of "I'm l33t if I hate the new and praise the older classic versions", along with Star Wars and Weezer. But then again, the new Star Wars did kinda suck...
I believe the copies now are being pulled to relabel the rating, not the game content. The new beta patch already addresses the "nudity".
So unless you really want to pay tons extra on eBay for a box without the extra sticker that says "M", I wouldn't bother hunting for the old copy of the game.
I've never used VLC + ffmpeg so I don't really know exact what the ffmpeg filter settings do, I would think it's some sort of post-processing like deringing and such.
As for the low cpu util, the cpu horsepower is needed most when resizing using the lanczos algorithm, especially when upscaling a dvd image to 1080i. Because of the size of the image, you have to blur/sharpen before resizing, but people still hit ~70-80% cpu util that way, with high end cpus.
So if VLC allows it, try resizing your dvd video to 1440x1080 using lanczos, cpu usage should shoot up.
Oh btw, resizing in software has better quality than hardware scaling, hence fastcpu+software.
A fast CPU is required if you want optimal image quality with resizing/noise-reduction/sharpening filters (e.g. piping your video through ffdshow for instance). Unless you own a DVD player that costs a few/several grand, an htpc is a good solution that costs much less and does much more.
And no, you can't enable "Hardware Acceleration" (to reduce cpu usage) in your video card for mpeg2 video (e.g. DVDs) and still pipe your video through a software post-processor, it's either one or the other. So a fast cpu is required.
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Being paid for your work is all well and good, but in the case of some authors (e.g. JK Rowling), it seems like the publisher would rather NOT be paid. Harry Potter isn't available in ebook form legally, so shutting down sites that offer those books for download isn't "losing book sales", it's not making any sales at all since there is no viable alternative from the publisher.
And keep in mind, ereaders these days are expensive, a person who can afford one these days isn't going to balk at paying ~$10 (Kindle bestseller list and that's the high end) for an ebook so if a person is downloading books illegally, it's probably a combination of the "hoarding factor" (similar to downloading every movie possible, just for the sake of having them, without ever watching all of them) and somebody who can't read the official ebook version on their device because of DRM.
Another thing, this situation isn't the same with music. Libraries allow a large selection of ebooks to be downloaded legally, is that considered a lost sale? In fact, the publishers are just angry that they aren't making more money. They hate the used book market, which they've effectively killed in electronic form because of DRM, there is no ebook used book market.
To publishers:
1. Lose the DRM on ebooks, works great for iTunes and its music. Charge more if you have to for an unDRMed ebook.
2. Actually offer the ebooks for sale! Why do you think there are so many pirates? Books aren't available or aren't available for their ereader.
3. Embrace the ebook future, works great for Baen Publishing, all their books are available and with noDRM.
The HIV virus has a high rate of mutation, one of the reasons it sticks around in your body and your immune system has to keep attacking it, it's pretty much a "new" virus every time. What's to keep the virus from mutating and avoiding the CCR5 requirement it currently has? CCR5 doesn't seem to be a requirement for a normal human immune system (one of the many types of backups the immune system has), thus some percentage of the population being perfectly healthy without that receptor. I'd even go as far as to say that if HIV mutates into not requiring CCR5, then this new strain could spread and theoretically be worse than the current HIV strain in the wild.
Didn't Mythbusters already disprove this electronic interference myth? Airline companies do it for safety's sake, even though all the important things are already shielded. Qantas just needs a scapegoat.
He took it to court? He should have handled it in the Contra Best Buy store itself, all it would have taken is... UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A
Actually, the sorting by "Order Received" isn't even a true fix. Using IMAP if you move an email message from one folder to another, the moved email is considered "newer" since the order received is higher in the new folder. As for the Date issue, Thunderbird does it correctly, the other clients do it incorrectly (e.g. Eudora, Zimbra, Outlook 2003). You do NOT want to see the time the email was received, but the time the email was sent. Why? The email could have traveled for a while before reaching your server. The TB default is right, but I agree that it should offer the option of showing the dates "incorrectly".
They must be pretty rich to own ABC twice.
The provider's server isn't needed, you can setup your own server or just get an ATA adapter an open up a port in your firewall for incoming connections. It's kinda like email. Sure you can host your own, but isn't it just easier to use another server? Especially if it offers more features, reliability, and a cheaper price in the long run, not to mention less headaches? The answer varies person to person of course, but most usually use a provider.
friend -> voip provider's server -> your ata phone
Open port is required for this:
friend -> your ata port
Since you're registered to your voip provider (you initiate the connection), the phone call is received on the downstream end, you only need an outgoing open port.
What's SDP?c ol orP rotocol or
Isn't it better to have many many more clients across every platform than to be stuck with only 1 on every platform? Plus have many more hardware choices as well (if you want to connect your home phone to VoIP)? How is SIP's voice quality not related to the chosen codec? And why would a setup protocol dictate voice quality in SIP? I honestly don't understand. Kind of like saying that since I'm driving on the right side of the road my car is faster, when it's engine (codec) that really matters most. How is SIP's integration not "seamless"? Open up your client, dial a phone number and voila, their landline rings. I would say it's better than Skype's actually. You can actually get a real phone number in Japan (for example) that will ring your SIP phone/PC in the US. Skype has this for around 15 countries, but SIP has DID (real landline numbers) numbers for many more countries (if not all). Plus SIP vendors have number portability as well. Most vendors that use SIP can communicate with each other. Some vendors block outside SIP calls (e.g. Vonage) while others use their own proprietary SIP (e.g. Comcast Digital Voice), but they block outside connections too. So it doesn't really matter if they're proprietary or not, a SIP client can't access their network anyway unless they go the landline route.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockets_Direct_Proto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Description_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_discovery
I've got nothing against Skype (I've used it tons), I just like SIP better because of its better call rates (you can always get a vendor cheaper than Skype), number of choices available (SIP hardware, software, vendors), plus the fact that if you want, you can get down to the nitty gritty and do some amazing stuff with it (want to get sms notifications of voicemail? access 10 different vendors with different rates with just a press of a button on your phone? setup smart call forwarding, if you're not at office, try home, then cell? Check voicemail on the web/email?).
Plus Skype is P2P, which is good for some things, but can use a lot of bandwidth when not in use, that's why some college campuses and businesses don't allow Skype.
Good god, only on Slashdot will you find name nazis. Over here it's GNU/Linux and not Linux, it's a portable hardware audio decompresser and not an iPod, and it's a quantum based time machine portal and not an Interoceter.
I stand corrected. Jesus is another aspect of God in Christianity. I believe that's the main difference that made people branch out and form Islam. Probably much like how people branched out and created Christianity because of their belief in Jesus.
True, but I was just referring to the differences between the Christian and Muslim God, not between the Son of God and the Prophet relationship of Jesus. I don't believe Christians consider Jesus to be God, so assumed that when Christian God was mentioned, it was referring to The God(tm).
So to recap:
The God(tm) == Christian God == Allah
Jesus == Son of God == Prophet of God
Just want to point out that Allah and "Christian God" are the same being, just another name for God. In fact, Islam has 100 names for God, Allah is just the most widely used.
The article mentions: "...any Office Online templates downloaded from within the Office 2007 Microsoft Office System applications will require validation of legitimacy." So I assume this covers Office 2003 (since OGA starts October 27th and Office 2007 isn't even out yet). But does this OGA cover Office 97 and XP as well?
So is this new DRMed music still available in lossless format? At least my burned CDs and mp3/m4a files I make from them can be created from a good quality source (compared to DRM AAC -> CDs).
I hope this doesn't start up another barrage of shitty Mars movies...Red Planet, Mission to Mars, Ghosts of Mars...
What's the code to get unlimited ammo on my Tivo?
One of the areas I have thoroughly enjoyed about ATI's Linux drivers is their monthly driver releases. As the code base is shared between the Windows and Linux drivers, since last year the fglrx development team has been pushing out releases to accompany the monthly Windows Catalyst suite.
At least elements from Doki Doki made it into Mario games and not elements from Captain N: The Game Master (which I used to love as a kid, but hate now because everybody else says it's cool to do so).
I guess Final Fantasy has now joined the ranks of "I'm l33t if I hate the new and praise the older classic versions", along with Star Wars and Weezer. But then again, the new Star Wars did kinda suck...
I believe the copies now are being pulled to relabel the rating, not the game content. The new beta patch already addresses the "nudity". So unless you really want to pay tons extra on eBay for a box without the extra sticker that says "M", I wouldn't bother hunting for the old copy of the game.
Yes it does, but as long as Heisenberg Compensators are working, I think it's OK.
I've never used VLC + ffmpeg so I don't really know exact what the ffmpeg filter settings do, I would think it's some sort of post-processing like deringing and such.
As for the low cpu util, the cpu horsepower is needed most when resizing using the lanczos algorithm, especially when upscaling a dvd image to 1080i. Because of the size of the image, you have to blur/sharpen before resizing, but people still hit ~70-80% cpu util that way, with high end cpus.
So if VLC allows it, try resizing your dvd video to 1440x1080 using lanczos, cpu usage should shoot up.
Oh btw, resizing in software has better quality than hardware scaling, hence fastcpu+software.
A fast CPU is required if you want optimal image quality with resizing/noise-reduction/sharpening filters (e.g. piping your video through ffdshow for instance). Unless you own a DVD player that costs a few/several grand, an htpc is a good solution that costs much less and does much more.
And no, you can't enable "Hardware Acceleration" (to reduce cpu usage) in your video card for mpeg2 video (e.g. DVDs) and still pipe your video through a software post-processor, it's either one or the other. So a fast cpu is required.
Here is a good beginner's guide to what I'm talking about:
http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=ffdshowdvd_1
DVDs honestly look a lot better and going back to "regular" dvd video is a big let down that's very noticable.