I'm a bit confused by this. 2 weeks ago I went to my local branch of Richer Sounds and was offered one of these when I asked for an iHP140. The showed me it, I prodded it a bit.
So, does this 'taking advance orders' thing apply only to the US release?
Well, firstly, some RAM chips are accessible by byte, some by 16 bits, many by 32 bits. Some (often called serial ram chips) do allow serial access.
The die for the 8 gigabit chip may be interfaced in different was when it is packaged, so the bit is still the most sensible measurement.
Secondly, your analogy doesn't work.:-)
CNET Asia? general public? Erm, no.
I'm a programmer, have been for year, I have always seen these developments advertised as *bit, I remember the breakthrough of the first megabit die. Such IT websites are catering to the IT populous.
The manufacturers of the actual silicon will always use *bit for the size because they are developing something independant of architecture, and therefore *bit is the most relevant notation of size. On a PC it might be relevant to use 'quads' as a measurement, as all machine code and addressing is done in 32 bits, whereas on some older microcontrollers the addressing is in 4 bits, so that would be nibbles. Perhaps some technologies want single-bit accessability, as the storage is not used to store addresses/instructions/ASCII. Using *bit is the only truly platform independant measurement, because the 8-bit bytes is aribtary whilst the bit is indivisible.
But then either: -
a) How do you generate gigabytes of one-time pad? And how you you secure the one-time pad against compromise
b) If you generate a 'pseudorandom' set for the one-time pad you still have the potential problems of it being reverse-engineered.
Of course, you could always have a base station generating the one-time pad in realtime using, say, a hundren million monkeys?
If you happen to set your password to 'password', lose your RSA key, and also happen to have lost your username, and something which allows the finder/theif to know that the SecurID is indeed for your AOL login.
I have seen these devices *many* times before, and they are small, nondescript keyfobs.
The worst thing, IMHO, would be if AOL decided to put an AOL logo on them, as this would indicate what it is a password for.
Of course, they probably will, because anybody dumb enough to use AOL will need a bit of help ensuring they type in the SecurID number instead of the serial number off their front door key.
The TV tuner in the TV Wonder USB 2.0 looks to be an NTSC style tuner
Not to be picky here, but the article advertises the tuner for sale in GBP, so it will almost certainly be a PAL style tuner
Erm, what happens on the mobo is really just a case of regulation, not a separate 'power supply' as such.
And board-level power regulation goes back at least as far as the IBM XT (yup, I had one, they had 7805 5v regulators on them)
But to answer the question I think you are asking, which is why doesn't the PSU supply the processor voltages, you have to think about the number of different processor and interface voltages there have been over the last few years. Processors have gone from using 5v logic supplies down to what, 0.8v now, via dozens of different steps in between. So to supply the voltage direct from the PSU would require either a PSU tied to a specific motherboard which was tied to a specific small group of processors, or a PSU with about 30 different voltage outputs. Both of these options are a lot more complex and painful than just regulating the voltage on the motherboard.
Indeed. Most of the American stuff I watch has a slightly fuzzy and annoying image quality.
Then, after missing the first episode of 'Dead Like Me', I downloaded a copy which said it was HD (from HBO?). Played back through my XBMCed XBOX the quality was much more like what I am used to in the UK.
This was also mentioned by someone above, and it is completely wrong.
The iRiver hardware uses a processor and firmware as opposed to a hardware decoder, unlike a lot of older MP3 players. Thats how they have retrospectively added Ogg Vorbis support to the iMP range of players.
So in this case, yes you are wrong, and yes, firmware does decode the file formats.
My understanding was that the three power blocks (Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia) were under different control, and only Oceania, under the rule of IngSoc was so opressive.
I don't recall anything to indicate that the other two were opressive regemes, although I think there was some propaganda that Winston handled that indicated so.
Database protected by the DPA? WTF???
The DPA doesn't work like that, at all. The DPA protects those whose details are stored on a database by encumbering the owner of the database to keep the details up-to-date and to remove information that is no longer relevant.
The misuse of that data is protected by the Computer Misuses Act 1990 and the RIPA 2000.
No to be even more pedantic, but as the parent noted, the action of 'googling' or 'to google' was indeed added to the last revision of the Oxford English dictionary, and therefore by definition it is a word.
Erm, I can't help but thing that this stinks of 'hollow marketing plan'
In case anybody doesn't know, all keyboards, reguardless of language layout, are made on the same production line. The keyboards are made blank, and then the legend on the individual keys is laser-etched onto the surface (yes, anybody who didn't know this, feel free to bend over towards your keyboard, and scratch around with your fingernail).
So, in effect they have taken a keyboard, perhaps an existing one, perhaps a new design, and set up a laser-etch pattern which includes a penguin as opposed to a windows logo. all of about 5 seconds work. They don;t even need a new production line.
So I predict that this will either be a preexisting keyboard with the aforementioned 5 second alteration, or a windows version of this keyboard will be available within 6 months.
Maybe that is the point. If, as a lot of people here suggest, VoIP ends up being encrypted at source, then the security/intelligence services might already know they can't decrypt it. The best way to avoid the associated work is to make a big fuss about it, asking for more money, setting lots of (international) press coverage, then the terrorists stop using VoIP (which might be a very valuable tool to them) because they know it is being targeted. Quite a simple plan really.
IIRC, Lockerbie, 1984. (obviously not a hijacking, but...)
This happened because baggage was transferred between planes on a layover, and the culprit managed to leave the airport. Nobody knew he didn't board the onward flight which then blew up.
Now, if a suitable system was in place, such as baggage reconciliation, which would involve ID, either he wouldn't have bothered, or the bag involved would have been removed.
Either way, a proper ID scheme would have prevented the terrorist attack.
I think that a lot of people here think that airbourne terrorism == suicide bombing. Lets not forget that there have only ever been 4 suicide hijackings (5 if you include the shoebomber), and 4 of them were on the same morning.
What proper ID and baggage reconciliation do is ensure that there are no bags in the aircraft hold that do not belong to somebody on the plane, so at least that prevents the more traditional plane bombing attack.
It is a flat fee per house, although if you have a room with a lock on the door, it counts as a separate house. This way houses which are rented out as separate flats, like student accomodation have to buy multiple licences whilst normal families only need the one.
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I'm a bit confused by this. 2 weeks ago I went to my local branch of Richer Sounds and was offered one of these when I asked for an iHP140. The showed me it, I prodded it a bit. So, does this 'taking advance orders' thing apply only to the US release?
Well, firstly, some RAM chips are accessible by byte, some by 16 bits, many by 32 bits. Some (often called serial ram chips) do allow serial access. The die for the 8 gigabit chip may be interfaced in different was when it is packaged, so the bit is still the most sensible measurement. Secondly, your analogy doesn't work. :-)
CNET Asia? general public? Erm, no. I'm a programmer, have been for year, I have always seen these developments advertised as *bit, I remember the breakthrough of the first megabit die. Such IT websites are catering to the IT populous.
The manufacturers of the actual silicon will always use *bit for the size because they are developing something independant of architecture, and therefore *bit is the most relevant notation of size. On a PC it might be relevant to use 'quads' as a measurement, as all machine code and addressing is done in 32 bits, whereas on some older microcontrollers the addressing is in 4 bits, so that would be nibbles. Perhaps some technologies want single-bit accessability, as the storage is not used to store addresses/instructions/ASCII. Using *bit is the only truly platform independant measurement, because the 8-bit bytes is aribtary whilst the bit is indivisible.
Generally ram/storage sizes on-die are given as bit sizes, and have been for a very long time. No, it doesn't indicate a data rate.
But then either: - a) How do you generate gigabytes of one-time pad? And how you you secure the one-time pad against compromise b) If you generate a 'pseudorandom' set for the one-time pad you still have the potential problems of it being reverse-engineered. Of course, you could always have a base station generating the one-time pad in realtime using, say, a hundren million monkeys?
If you happen to set your password to 'password', lose your RSA key, and also happen to have lost your username, and something which allows the finder/theif to know that the SecurID is indeed for your AOL login.
I have seen these devices *many* times before, and they are small, nondescript keyfobs.
The worst thing, IMHO, would be if AOL decided to put an AOL logo on them, as this would indicate what it is a password for.
Of course, they probably will, because anybody dumb enough to use AOL will need a bit of help ensuring they type in the SecurID number instead of the serial number off their front door key.
The TV tuner in the TV Wonder USB 2.0 looks to be an NTSC style tuner
Not to be picky here, but the article advertises the tuner for sale in GBP, so it will almost certainly be a PAL style tuner
Erm, what happens on the mobo is really just a case of regulation, not a separate 'power supply' as such.
And board-level power regulation goes back at least as far as the IBM XT (yup, I had one, they had 7805 5v regulators on them)
But to answer the question I think you are asking, which is why doesn't the PSU supply the processor voltages, you have to think about the number of different processor and interface voltages there have been over the last few years. Processors have gone from using 5v logic supplies down to what, 0.8v now, via dozens of different steps in between. So to supply the voltage direct from the PSU would require either a PSU tied to a specific motherboard which was tied to a specific small group of processors, or a PSU with about 30 different voltage outputs. Both of these options are a lot more complex and painful than just regulating the voltage on the motherboard.
Indeed. Most of the American stuff I watch has a slightly fuzzy and annoying image quality.
Then, after missing the first episode of 'Dead Like Me', I downloaded a copy which said it was HD (from HBO?). Played back through my XBMCed XBOX the quality was much more like what I am used to in the UK.
This was also mentioned by someone above, and it is completely wrong. The iRiver hardware uses a processor and firmware as opposed to a hardware decoder, unlike a lot of older MP3 players. Thats how they have retrospectively added Ogg Vorbis support to the iMP range of players. So in this case, yes you are wrong, and yes, firmware does decode the file formats.
My understanding was that the three power blocks (Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia) were under different control, and only Oceania, under the rule of IngSoc was so opressive.
I don't recall anything to indicate that the other two were opressive regemes, although I think there was some propaganda that Winston handled that indicated so.
Database protected by the DPA? WTF??? The DPA doesn't work like that, at all. The DPA protects those whose details are stored on a database by encumbering the owner of the database to keep the details up-to-date and to remove information that is no longer relevant. The misuse of that data is protected by the Computer Misuses Act 1990 and the RIPA 2000.
No to be even more pedantic, but as the parent noted, the action of 'googling' or 'to google' was indeed added to the last revision of the Oxford English dictionary, and therefore by definition it is a word.
Emmanual from 2600 being a nome-de-plume taken as a direct reference to 1984 anyway. Did you not notice they were both Emmanual Goldstein?
Erm, I can't help but thing that this stinks of 'hollow marketing plan' In case anybody doesn't know, all keyboards, reguardless of language layout, are made on the same production line. The keyboards are made blank, and then the legend on the individual keys is laser-etched onto the surface (yes, anybody who didn't know this, feel free to bend over towards your keyboard, and scratch around with your fingernail). So, in effect they have taken a keyboard, perhaps an existing one, perhaps a new design, and set up a laser-etch pattern which includes a penguin as opposed to a windows logo. all of about 5 seconds work. They don;t even need a new production line. So I predict that this will either be a preexisting keyboard with the aforementioned 5 second alteration, or a windows version of this keyboard will be available within 6 months.
Maybe that is the point. If, as a lot of people here suggest, VoIP ends up being encrypted at source, then the security/intelligence services might already know they can't decrypt it. The best way to avoid the associated work is to make a big fuss about it, asking for more money, setting lots of (international) press coverage, then the terrorists stop using VoIP (which might be a very valuable tool to them) because they know it is being targeted. Quite a simple plan really.
IIRC, Lockerbie, 1984. (obviously not a hijacking, but...)
This happened because baggage was transferred between planes on a layover, and the culprit managed to leave the airport. Nobody knew he didn't board the onward flight which then blew up.
Now, if a suitable system was in place, such as baggage reconciliation, which would involve ID, either he wouldn't have bothered, or the bag involved would have been removed.
Either way, a proper ID scheme would have prevented the terrorist attack.
I think that a lot of people here think that airbourne terrorism == suicide bombing. Lets not forget that there have only ever been 4 suicide hijackings (5 if you include the shoebomber), and 4 of them were on the same morning.
What proper ID and baggage reconciliation do is ensure that there are no bags in the aircraft hold that do not belong to somebody on the plane, so at least that prevents the more traditional plane bombing attack.
Nope, it is definately COmpressor/DECompressor. See!
It is a flat fee per house, although if you have a room with a lock on the door, it counts as a separate house. This way houses which are rented out as separate flats, like student accomodation have to buy multiple licences whilst normal families only need the one.
Yes, but it is coming! Although not too soon