Once that TCPA thing gets mandated by the government, computers as we know them WILL need preserving. All that will be left are locked up, pre sanitised and centrally monitored appliances.
Puzzles/toys/games where you see the assembly instructions as you hold up pieces.
The puzzles would ship with a software disc that had a piece database for recognition purposes.
Make the puzzles using one of those 3D "printers" and you are in for hours of fun, with assistance (when you want) it, and you end up with a physical 3D object at the end.
I can think of a coupla reasons AM being lower frequency than FM (max 1.7MHz rather than 108MHz) needs bigger, bulkier tuning coils.
Usually, the biggest coil in an AM radio is the ferrite rod - which is also the antenna. FM has the benefit of using the headphone wire as an antenna rather than the ferrite rod, tucked in amongst lots of nice noisy digital circuitry.
Add to this the very nature of AM being more susceptable to interference, the expense of a good quality wideband AM tuner (in that noisy environment) and you see why manufacturers steer away from it.
I've got an AverMedia USB 2 external tv tuner. Its nicely made and does deliver good video over USB2 HOWEVER I'm disappointed with the fact that: - it uses the PC sound card for the audio
meaning more cables, a little clipping as
my laptop only has a mic level input and less
than perfect sync. All that USB2 bandwidth and
they dont use it for the audio??? - All the PVR software I've tried (apart than
the buggy software that comes with it) is unable
to control the tuner, though if the card is
alredy set to a channel it feeds the other PVRs
OK.
I wanted to setup a TV server for a short while. I ended up connecting the AverMedia to a VCR to guarantee the channel would not lost when the PC rebooted (VERY likely with Windows Media Encoder:)
They got filthy rich on the cartoons of their founder. Now they're trying to lock up the world into encrypted DRM hell?
If you're worried about your movies getting leaked on the internet, deal with it yourself (like the special DVDs for screeners). I've got no problem with that.
Hire security guards to shoot filmers in the cinema. I don't give a damn.
Bring out your movies on super secure quartz atomic encrypted cubes - I dont care, I'll get a player IF I WANT.
But dont you DARE go sticking your nose into how I store my personal data and creations.
If it forcibly comes into my house (broadcast) and I can legally watch/hear it, then I can also find a way to record it, whether using a needle and hot wax or a fast learning talking parrot. TURN OFF THE TRANSMITTER if that upsets you.
Here we go again:
DRM will be a disaster once:
- keys start getting lost, corrupted or failed
- key providing/validation services go under/
ot they abandon your DRM format
(side note: if Win 2.0 had activation, would
MS still provide me a key if I had to
get an install going NOW to run some old
software????)
- your hardware fails or is stolen (and all
your media was tied to some unique key
therein)
- your media is partially corrupted
(good luck recovering DRM encoded material
off media with corrupt TOCs or bad blocks).
"The ones who leech off the talented are the ones who run the show."
Its a fair letter but in this world political "support" speaks lounder than words, you know the kind of support that lines pockets.
Whilst there are artists (ahem) who strive to be "superstars" and there are companies (the publishers who end up OWNING the stars and their material) who will push their resources to get them there -AND- there is an audience for these "pop" sensations, then the monetary incentive will be there to support the publishers and their whims. And that is that.
I do wonder sometimes if the politicians passing these draconian laws have EVER copied a tape, made a compilation disc for the car OR HAVE TEENAGE KIDS who would be so inclined?
I'm staying at an apartment here in Seoul. Applied for broadband Tuesday afternoon after I arrived - the apartment wasn't wired for cable.
Guy rocks up with some cable, a cablemodem and a drill Wednesday morning.
Installation: Ran a cable from the roof of the apartment down to the window. Cable just flops onto the floor (he used the drill for some cable clamps in the wall).
Setup: Plug the cable modem into my laptop. DHCP on. Thats it. No login software, no caps. no smtp server, no home page. Just 2.5mbps download and 1.5mbps upload (in a test to the states that I did, during evening time).
Price: We chose no contract because we're only here a month, so we had to pay installation. 44,000W for installation, 27000W for one month.
Thats like $60USD for one month of broadband bliss (remember, including connection & installation).
While I'm at it - their TV stations here (KBS, MBC) offer live streaming of their TV channels PLUS video on demand of just about all programs they air. Who needs a TIVO here! (you've got to have at least 100kbps connection to enjoy it).
Alas you dont get very far if you dont speak Korean.
Of course we want control of our machines and would object to anything running on them. Thats why WE protect and patch them regularly, RIGHT?
NO... this is for those Joe Sixpacks, grandmas and - worse of all - the selfish dumbasses who dont know OR CARE if their machine on their spanking new broadband connection is fouling the net for the rest of us.
If ISPs dont employ some kind of active blocking, then the combination of the worlds most used OS (STILL having gaping holes) + users who'll open any attachment and OK every install query + broadband means the battle will be lost without some "friendly agent" on our side.
And whats with these PCs you buy with one years free subscription to virus updates? Whaddaya think happens when that expires? The expiry warning dialogs get dismissed, the machines become increasingly vulnerable.
For these users, patching needs to be proactive, automatic and on by default.
Course the nay sayers will argue that an auto update mechanism creates a vulnerability in itself. This is arguable, but the fact is you're not gonna win trying to "educate" users.
You could just sit back until a nice cosy CLOSED internet standard is imposed on us by the powers that be when the frustration level reaches breaking point.
Music has been entering the public domain there for years hasn't it?
Oh yeah, this is Elvis we're talking about, heaven forbid his music ever be free.
(wait till the Beatles' hits hit the wire...)
Dont worry, in 50 years or so, some copyright will be repealed. No one will give a damn about protecting today's pop musical shite. But the old stuff will remain protected FOREVER AND EVER.:)
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Finally Teams will be able to get all the CPU it needs just tor me to type in a message. Damn thing spins up my i7 NUC's fan per keystroke.
Its the OLED pixels screaming in pain as they get burnt in.
I was hoping for access to the audio tones that encode the images, it would be cool to get a decoder going for them, SSTV FTW
Its obvious why Apple feels threatened... Too many things in Woolies are iChewns compatible.
So now Clippy can pop up when it detects fapping.
*This* is how we'll all be forced to use trusted computing/soundcards with DRM.
They just dont make them like they used to.
A very appropriate measure.
Once that TCPA thing gets mandated by the government, computers as we know them WILL need preserving. All that will be left are locked up, pre sanitised and centrally monitored appliances.
HD Video release of the proceedings will be made available on both HD-DVD and Blue-ray format discs.
And here was I hoping that they'd made a PC mouse that recharged its batteries from the motion as you use it ...
"Honey, come here... theres something wrong with the TV, all I get is static..."
Puzzles/toys/games where you see the assembly instructions as you hold up pieces.
The puzzles would ship with a software disc that had a piece database for recognition purposes.
Make the puzzles using one of those 3D "printers" and you are in for hours of fun, with assistance (when you want) it, and you end up with a physical 3D object at the end.
Sure, add a tactile feedback panel, speech.
Advance the pattern recognition a bit then
Imagine the applications for this with household objects, items at a museum, body parts, mechanical components.
Build it into eyeglasses and have an informative heads up display.
I can think of a coupla reasons
AM being lower frequency than FM (max 1.7MHz rather than 108MHz) needs bigger, bulkier tuning coils.
Usually, the biggest coil in an AM radio is the ferrite rod - which is also the antenna. FM has the benefit of using the headphone wire as an antenna rather than the ferrite rod, tucked in amongst lots of nice noisy digital circuitry.
Add to this the very nature of AM being more susceptable to interference, the expense of a good quality wideband AM tuner (in that noisy environment) and you see why manufacturers steer away from it.
I'm sorry Dave....
I've got an AverMedia USB 2 external tv tuner. Its nicely made and does deliver good video over USB2 HOWEVER I'm disappointed with the fact that:
:)
- it uses the PC sound card for the audio
meaning more cables, a little clipping as
my laptop only has a mic level input and less
than perfect sync. All that USB2 bandwidth and
they dont use it for the audio???
- All the PVR software I've tried (apart than
the buggy software that comes with it) is unable
to control the tuner, though if the card is
alredy set to a channel it feeds the other PVRs
OK.
I wanted to setup a TV server for a short while. I ended up connecting the AverMedia to a VCR to guarantee the channel would not lost when the PC rebooted (VERY likely with Windows Media Encoder
...or did that new supercomputer finally arrive??
Wonder why its "10240"?
You'd think they'd have gone 8192 or 16384, or 10000 or something.
10 chips in a module, 1024 of them perhaps?
Curious.
Anyway, certainly a LOT of IMAGINING will get fulfilled if you work at nasa!
Who the hell do they think they are?
They got filthy rich on the cartoons of their founder. Now they're trying to lock up the world into encrypted DRM hell?
If you're worried about your movies getting leaked on the internet, deal with it yourself (like the special DVDs for screeners). I've got no problem with that.
Hire security guards to shoot filmers in the cinema. I don't give a damn.
Bring out your movies on super secure quartz atomic encrypted cubes - I dont care, I'll get a player IF I WANT.
But dont you DARE go sticking your nose into how I store my personal data and creations.
If it forcibly comes into my house (broadcast) and I can legally watch/hear it, then I can also find a way to record it, whether using a needle and hot wax or a fast learning talking parrot. TURN OFF THE TRANSMITTER if that upsets you.
Here we go again:
DRM will be a disaster once:
- keys start getting lost, corrupted or failed
- key providing/validation services go under/
ot they abandon your DRM format
(side note: if Win 2.0 had activation, would
MS still provide me a key if I had to
get an install going NOW to run some old
software????)
- your hardware fails or is stolen (and all
your media was tied to some unique key
therein)
- your media is partially corrupted
(good luck recovering DRM encoded material
off media with corrupt TOCs or bad blocks).
"The ones who leech off the talented are the ones who run the show."
Its a fair letter but in this world political "support" speaks lounder than words, you know the kind of support that lines pockets.
Whilst there are artists (ahem) who strive to be "superstars" and there are companies (the publishers who end up OWNING the stars and their material) who will push their resources to get them there -AND- there is an audience for these "pop" sensations, then the monetary incentive will be there to support the publishers and their whims. And that is that.
I do wonder sometimes if the politicians passing these draconian laws have EVER copied a tape, made a compilation disc for the car OR HAVE TEENAGE KIDS who would be so inclined?
I'm staying at an apartment here in Seoul. Applied for broadband Tuesday afternoon after I arrived - the apartment wasn't wired for cable.
Guy rocks up with some cable, a cablemodem and a drill Wednesday morning.
Installation: Ran a cable from the roof of the apartment down to the window. Cable just flops onto the floor (he used the drill for some cable clamps in the wall).
Setup: Plug the cable modem into my laptop. DHCP on. Thats it. No login software, no caps. no smtp server, no home page. Just 2.5mbps download and 1.5mbps upload (in a test to the states that I did, during evening time).
Price: We chose no contract because we're only here a month, so we had to pay installation. 44,000W for installation, 27000W for one month.
Thats like $60USD for one month of broadband bliss (remember, including connection & installation).
While I'm at it - their TV stations here (KBS, MBC) offer live streaming of their TV channels PLUS video on demand of just about all programs they air. Who needs a TIVO here! (you've got to have at least 100kbps connection to enjoy it).
Alas you dont get very far if you dont speak Korean.
but the comms system didn't survive the impact.
Of course we want control of our machines and would object to anything running on them. Thats why WE protect and patch them regularly, RIGHT?
NO... this is for those Joe Sixpacks, grandmas and - worse of all - the selfish dumbasses who dont know OR CARE if their machine on their spanking new broadband connection is fouling the net for the rest of us.
If ISPs dont employ some kind of active blocking, then the combination of the worlds most used OS (STILL having gaping holes) + users who'll open any attachment and OK every install query + broadband means the battle will be lost without some "friendly agent" on our side.
And whats with these PCs you buy with one years free subscription to virus updates? Whaddaya think happens when that expires? The expiry warning dialogs get dismissed, the machines become increasingly vulnerable.
For these users, patching needs to be proactive, automatic and on by default.
Course the nay sayers will argue that an auto update mechanism creates a vulnerability in itself. This is arguable, but the fact is you're not gonna win trying to "educate" users.
You could just sit back until a nice cosy CLOSED internet standard is imposed on us by the powers that be when the frustration level reaches breaking point.
... because the web server could sure use one now!
Music has been entering the public domain there for years hasn't it?
:)
Oh yeah, this is Elvis we're talking about, heaven forbid his music ever be free.
(wait till the Beatles' hits hit the wire...)
Dont worry, in 50 years or so, some copyright will be repealed. No one will give a damn about protecting today's pop musical shite. But the old stuff will remain protected FOREVER AND EVER.