The thing with VLC is, that its a shit-ton more than just a media player. You can't really find any other single piece of software that could replace it IF you also use it for its other uses.
But I do agree, that for just playing video files, I am torn between it and MPC-HC
When quality DVDs are available on the street corner in front of your house for sixty cents, displayed in attractive packaging, and people still don't want to pay that much, obviously there isn't a mentality of paying for software because you "like" the company. There's a mentality that it would be stupid to waste the money when you can get a free version that's just as good.
By the way, these sixty cent DVDs are either straightforward copies of the legitimate DVD but with added subtitles, or maybe they'll contain a complete season of a TV show on just a few disks.
The main reason they are not selling is, that there is a superior product available (online download).
The ease of use of an online download is greater than storing and inserting a pirate DVD to a player, which again is greater than an official DVD with10 minutes of forced commercial before the remote controller can be used.
The sad thing here is, that the original product is worse than what the pirates are offering (both bootleg and online), and no matter how low the prices for the original product go, the sales cannot increase before the quality for the end user goes above the pirated product.
if you want a jammer, you can make your n900 into a pocket sized one.
first, you just remove the limits by telling it it's in japan, this gives you all channels. then, the bit trickier part, where you remove the signal power limitations.
The original news article about this (in finnish) actually mentions that this is the same method already in use at some other european airports.. but I guess someone wanted to post this as a "new and interesting" item in Slashdot.
You don't think that piracy is just a non-US problem, do you really? If you do you're a fool and if you don't you've gone out of your way to miss the point which makes you a troll.
piracy is a worldwide problem, hence you cannot use examples or webstores that are only available in the united states to draw conclusions like the op did. ie. that there already are viable alternatives to piracy => if piracy did not go down => it is the people and not the content managers who are at fault.
especially when this whole news article is about an EUROPEAN isp. hence the discussion would by logic be eurocentric, not us centric.
my post was to show that there is still a lot of work to do on the content managers side to bring out a product that can compete with a pirated product, around the world, and not just in some specific part of the world.
I cycled to work during the last winter and actually found it somewhat enjoyable. Just make sure you have a good headlight. The output of some types of batteries breaks down when they get cold. The AA LiPo ones I finally bought work ok at -10C.
Much will depend on your definition of winter, which I guess depends on where you live:)
This is a pretty decent development compared to what they usually have at gyms for their cycling. My local one is currently using heartbeat assisted cycling, where everyone is using a wireless heartbeat monitor and the results are displayed on the wall via a projector.
I have long been wondering why the cycles cannot be used to do real routes, by automatically controlling the bike magnets to reduce or increase the effort based on the distance you have so far gone, and maybe even showing everyones location on the route on a map also projected to the wall. It sounds so simple to me..
24 fps isn't arbitrary. It's the result of a lot of research.
It's the minimum number of frames that trick 99.9% of people into seeing a constant image on screen.
According to the Peter Jacksons blog entry that this news is based on, 24fps was chosen because it was the lowest framerate that they could sync audio to, without problems, back in ~1920, thus the cheapest possible framerate as film costs money, and the higher the fps, the more film is consumed.
Except that these barriers are all really nothing more than a chicken-and-egg problem. Nobody builds a phone that can do all the HSDPA bands, but that's not because it's hard. The only customers who care about the 1700 MHz band are in the U.S. and Canada on carriers that don't sell unlocked phones, and there are no laws requiring unlocking. As a result, those customers don't expect to be able to move from one carrier to another without unlocking. As a result, the handset manufacturers don't need to build phones that allow this. As a result, the chipset vendors largely haven't bothered to design the chips to make this possible.
If you can build a 5-band handset, a 6-band handset is really only incrementally harder. Even a 12-band handset is only incrementally harder when you factor in electronically tunable antennas into the mix.
Nokia does.
N8 supports the following bands: GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100
Because despite the fact that FoxConn make stuff for all sorts of people in the consumer electronics world, all the bile and invective seems to fall on Apple's shoulders.
No doubt, Apple actually trying to help will be seen negatively too - let's see if any of the subsequent comments say so (my money's on yes...). Honestly, the anyone-but-apple brigade make the fanboys look calm, collected, and sane.
Simon
In Finland, all these Foxconn suicides have been reported as happening at a "Nokia contractor", no word of Apple in any of the news posts.
Seriously. Google is (believed to be) the largest single user of consumer hard drives. When they start replacing hard drives with SSDs, I will consider HDDs to be done. I wonder what price differential the power savings (don't forget the power for cooling) will cover?
In the literal sense, light aircraft not equiped with GPS, (Drug or people smugglers), and of course aircraft that have been hijacked and their transponders disabled.
Or some kid in a baloon (hoax or not, its probably not going to do an engine any good if it sucks it in...
And if the pilots are too busy playing with their laptops to even look out of the window...
It doesnt sound safe to me, especially in a post 911 world.
Does it matter? GPS is passive, it only figures out its current location via the satellite signals, it does not broadcast it onwards.
To replace radars on the ground for tracking aircraft, you need something in addition to the GPS (what is that, it's not mentioned in the summary?)
All that these new security measures are doing, is moving the target from the "protected" airplane, to the unprotected queues of people at the airports.
Looking from an attacker PoV, which "mission" sounds better: A) a high risk bomb smuggling operation to blow up ~200 people in an airplane with minimal explosives.
B) fit as much explosives as you can to your luggage and queue to the airport security check line at the most active time.
Scenario B has almost no chance of you getting caught before you can blow things up.
if your employer owns a device, and allows you to use it, you are not to ever use it for personal reasons, nor should you ever expect even the slightest amount of privacy for communications using the device. Even (and probably especially) if they give you permission for personal use. That goes for cell phones, pagers, computers, slide rules, everything. That means you do not log into personal Facebook, Google, or Hotmail at work. You do not use the company phone to call home. If you do any of these, you've 1) probably violated the terms of your employment and 2) have given the company/government permission to peer into all personal communications made with your employer's equipment.
You have explicit rights (in most cases) to privacy and use of the property that you actually own. That's it, the line is drawn there. I can't believe there is any controversy over this.
After reading this, I'm damn glad that i'm living and employed in Finland and not in USA.
Is it possible to trade with players from other realms via this cross-realm instances? Possibly players could even schedule a meeting in the lesser frequented instances.
only conjured items and items that drop during the dungeon can be traded via players from different realms
Months, huh? I call bullshit. Some guild with no life will beat Arthas into paste before the end of the year.
The only possible things that could put it off until the new year is (1) Blizzard hard coded it so each wing is opened on a set schedule, regardless of how fast the bosses in that wing are beaten and (2) Christmas break.
Which is exactly what Blizzard did. The first wing opened now, the next wing will open 28 days from now. There are a total of 4 wings, and you need to complete ICC on normal mode before you can do hard modes.
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Kaveri is also finnish, and means "a friend", seems to describe the system decently.
The thing with VLC is, that its a shit-ton more than just a media player. You can't really find any other single piece of software that could replace it IF you also use it for its other uses.
But I do agree, that for just playing video files, I am torn between it and MPC-HC
When quality DVDs are available on the street corner in front of your house for sixty cents, displayed in attractive packaging, and people still don't want to pay that much, obviously there isn't a mentality of paying for software because you "like" the company. There's a mentality that it would be stupid to waste the money when you can get a free version that's just as good.
By the way, these sixty cent DVDs are either straightforward copies of the legitimate DVD but with added subtitles, or maybe they'll contain a complete season of a TV show on just a few disks.
The main reason they are not selling is, that there is a superior product available (online download).
The ease of use of an online download is greater than storing and inserting a pirate DVD to a player, which again is greater than an official DVD with10 minutes of forced commercial before the remote controller can be used.
The sad thing here is, that the original product is worse than what the pirates are offering (both bootleg and online), and no matter how low the prices for the original product go, the sales cannot increase before the quality for the end user goes above the pirated product.
if you want a jammer, you can make your n900 into a pocket sized one.
first, you just remove the limits by telling it it's in japan, this gives you all channels.
then, the bit trickier part, where you remove the signal power limitations.
http://www.knownokia.ca/2011/06/pushing-wireless-limits-on-n900.html
800Mbps, how many libraries of congress per second is that?
1.6 × 10^-5
The original news article about this (in finnish) actually mentions that this is the same method already in use at some other european airports.. but I guess someone wanted to post this as a "new and interesting" item in Slashdot.
You don't think that piracy is just a non-US problem, do you really? If you do you're a fool and if you don't you've gone out of your way to miss the point which makes you a troll.
piracy is a worldwide problem, hence you cannot use examples or webstores that are only available in the united states to draw conclusions like the op did.
ie. that there already are viable alternatives to piracy => if piracy did not go down => it is the people and not the content managers who are at fault.
especially when this whole news article is about an EUROPEAN isp. hence the discussion would by logic be eurocentric, not us centric.
my post was to show that there is still a lot of work to do on the content managers side to bring out a product that can compete with a pirated product, around the world, and not just in some specific part of the world.
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Their patent portfolio wants you to think otherwise.
"Wants", being the keyword.
Allow me to laugh in the face of a software patent portfolio
I cycled to work during the last winter and actually found it somewhat enjoyable. Just make sure you have a good headlight. The output of some types of batteries breaks down when they get cold. The AA LiPo ones I finally bought work ok at -10C.
Much will depend on your definition of winter, which I guess depends on where you live :)
Due to Winter.
This is a pretty decent development compared to what they usually have at gyms for their cycling.
My local one is currently using heartbeat assisted cycling, where everyone is using a wireless heartbeat monitor and the results are displayed on the wall via a projector.
I have long been wondering why the cycles cannot be used to do real routes, by automatically controlling the bike magnets to reduce or increase the effort based on the distance you have so far gone, and maybe even showing everyones location on the route on a map also projected to the wall. It sounds so simple to me..
24 fps isn't arbitrary. It's the result of a lot of research.
It's the minimum number of frames that trick 99.9% of people into seeing a constant image on screen.
According to the Peter Jacksons blog entry that this news is based on, 24fps was chosen because it was the lowest framerate that they could sync audio to, without problems, back in ~1920, thus the cheapest possible framerate as film costs money, and the higher the fps, the more film is consumed.
Except that these barriers are all really nothing more than a chicken-and-egg problem. Nobody builds a phone that can do all the HSDPA bands, but that's not because it's hard. The only customers who care about the 1700 MHz band are in the U.S. and Canada on carriers that don't sell unlocked phones, and there are no laws requiring unlocking. As a result, those customers don't expect to be able to move from one carrier to another without unlocking. As a result, the handset manufacturers don't need to build phones that allow this. As a result, the chipset vendors largely haven't bothered to design the chips to make this possible.
If you can build a 5-band handset, a 6-band handset is really only incrementally harder. Even a 12-band handset is only incrementally harder when you factor in electronically tunable antennas into the mix.
Nokia does.
N8 supports the following bands:
GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100
Because despite the fact that FoxConn make stuff for all sorts of people in the consumer electronics world, all the bile and invective seems to fall on Apple's shoulders.
No doubt, Apple actually trying to help will be seen negatively too - let's see if any of the subsequent comments say so (my money's on yes...). Honestly, the anyone-but-apple brigade make the fanboys look calm, collected, and sane.
Simon
In Finland, all these Foxconn suicides have been reported as happening at a "Nokia contractor", no word of Apple in any of the news posts.
Would this be vulnerable to the man in the middle attack on quantum key distribution described in this earlier slashdot article:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/12/30/2118250/Quantum-Encryption-Implementation-Broken
They seem to be attacking the hardware rather than the software
I remember that Blizzard had this very same issue with WoW, back in either Vanilla or early The Burning Crusade times.
I believe it was a mistake by the company they had outsourced the billing to.
Seriously. Google is (believed to be) the largest single user of consumer hard drives. When they start replacing hard drives with SSDs, I will consider HDDs to be done. I wonder what price differential the power savings (don't forget the power for cooling) will cover?
They started planning that, 2 years ago?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/systems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207602745
In the literal sense, light aircraft not equiped with GPS, (Drug or people smugglers), and of course aircraft that have been hijacked and their transponders disabled.
Or some kid in a baloon (hoax or not, its probably not going to do an engine any good if it sucks it in...
And if the pilots are too busy playing with their laptops to even look out of the window...
It doesnt sound safe to me, especially in a post 911 world.
Does it matter? GPS is passive, it only figures out its current location via the satellite signals, it does not broadcast it onwards.
To replace radars on the ground for tracking aircraft, you need something in addition to the GPS (what is that, it's not mentioned in the summary?)
All that these new security measures are doing, is moving the target from the "protected" airplane, to the unprotected queues of people at the airports.
Looking from an attacker PoV, which "mission" sounds better:
A) a high risk bomb smuggling operation to blow up ~200 people in an airplane with minimal explosives.
B) fit as much explosives as you can to your luggage and queue to the airport security check line at the most active time.
Scenario B has almost no chance of you getting caught before you can blow things up.
I bet they do give a shit when they try using a hammer to fit a 1366 pin into a 1156 socket!
Average consumers don't try to build their own computer from parts.
if your employer owns a device, and allows you to use it, you are not to ever use it for personal reasons, nor should you ever expect even the slightest amount of privacy for communications using the device. Even (and probably especially) if they give you permission for personal use. That goes for cell phones, pagers, computers, slide rules, everything. That means you do not log into personal Facebook, Google, or Hotmail at work. You do not use the company phone to call home. If you do any of these, you've 1) probably violated the terms of your employment and 2) have given the company/government permission to peer into all personal communications made with your employer's equipment.
You have explicit rights (in most cases) to privacy and use of the property that you actually own. That's it, the line is drawn there. I can't believe there is any controversy over this.
After reading this, I'm damn glad that i'm living and employed in Finland and not in USA.
If you're seeing smaller numbers, then you have something wrong with your computer.
like.. using a higher resolution than you are?
(2560*1600 here)
Is it possible to trade with players from other realms via this cross-realm instances? Possibly players could even schedule a meeting in the lesser frequented instances.
only conjured items and items that drop during the dungeon can be traded via players from different realms
Months, huh? I call bullshit. Some guild with no life will beat Arthas into paste before the end of the year.
The only possible things that could put it off until the new year is (1) Blizzard hard coded it so each wing is opened on a set schedule, regardless of how fast the bosses in that wing are beaten and (2) Christmas break.
Which is exactly what Blizzard did.
The first wing opened now, the next wing will open 28 days from now. There are a total of 4 wings, and you need to complete ICC on normal mode before you can do hard modes.
You might also want to disable core parking as instructed in this other thread:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20677771277&sid=1
I haven't done this myself, but i did notice a large performance jump when i set the processAffinityMask to 255 on my i7 860 setup