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AMD aren't a content producer, so it must just be a fat cheque.
Maybe. Something to consider is that AMD's customers aren't you and I. AMD's customers are OEM PC makers, large and small. Now if one of their large customers were given a fat cheque, or if AMD were potentially interested in wooing a large PC manufacturer who isn't (yet) a customer who also happens to be a content producer, without mentioning any names *cough*Sony*cough*, then perhaps that could be the reason.
He's not selling them to make money, he's selling ones he doesn't want anymore to make room for more. And, like another poster said, I'm sure he doesn't want to attract attention.
Yes. In theory OLEDs should be able to work without a backlight. It's been discovered, however, that in practically, the luminosity just isn't good enough on large displays. So these might have to have a backlight. What that means is no net power savings for laptops, and possibly even higher power consumption. For desktops, where power consumption is somewhat less of a concern, I could see this happening.
The biggest factor will be cost, though. Initially OLED displays will be higher in cost than LCDs are now, and by this time three years from now economies of scale will have forced LCDs to be available probably for the same or less than current CRTs (adjusted for inflation, of course).
I guess the fear might be that such cheap copies of hollywood crap will spill into the US and Western European markets and cut into the profits of RIAA/MPAA and friends. But then again in U.S. and Western Europe we have our broadband and Pirate Bay / BTJunkie / etc. so we can get our share of hollywood crap for $0.
They already have. I have a friend who goes to China about twice a year. He comes back with nicely produced pirated copies of movies -- these have high-quality reproductions of original cover art, and they come in nice cases and everything. He pays maybe $1-2 (USD) a piece for them, some fetch as much as $5. Compared to U.S. prices, legal DVDs are cheaper, but not that cheap. He gets so many that once or twice a year, he sells a bunch in his neighborhood's semi-annual garage sale for $0.50 a piece.
There's a LOT of confusion about the DMCA is about. The DMCA is makes it illegal for people to circumvent copy protection -- whether we're talking about encryption, or license managers, or dongles, etc. Basically any means of electronic protection from violation of copyright laws. The DMCA is not designed the prevent people from circumventing cheating mechanisms unless those cheating mechanisms involve making unauthorized copies of the software. Which WoWGlide does not do.
Gibson is exactly right. When I first saw sub-pixel rendering (aka 'ClearType') explained, I remembered programming graphics on an Apple IIe, and you had a difference between even and odd pixels that forced you to draw lines in a way that is exactly the same as how ClearType works.
I could claim prior art if I could just get those damned 5.25" floppies to read in anything. Of course, this was common practice back in the day, so maybe some old Apple II programmers out there can come up with AppleSoft BASIC code or something.
Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but this seems like a move for Microsoft to compete with AppleTV, considering the main reason xvid exists is for the online distribution of movies. Perhaps we'll start seeing Microsoft offering for sale downloads of movies in xvid format?
The last time I saw an ANSI bug was during my days as a BBS Sysop years ago!
Actually, the ANSI sequence 'viruses' (which were done by remapping keyboard keys to macro sequences which then executed commands) are just another form of terminal sequence attack that was quite popular a few years back when many people were still using terminal-oriented mail readers like pine, elm and mutt. These were the good ol' days when ISPs passed out shell accounts for reading mail and such. It forced Linux distros to shore up their termcap files and such.
Uhhh...that's not a new business model, really. Book authors regularly go to book signings at bookstores because it gets people to buy books. Bands already sell CDs at their concerts. It's really just a marriage of the two.
That's kind of what I thought. Like "d00d! 1m g0nna h4x0r ur g1bs0n 1f j00 d0nt s1gn up 4 my '5upp0rt 5u85cr1p710n!" Or maybe "I pwn3d j00! n0\/\/ p4y up j00r 5upp0r7 5u8scr1pt1on 1f u w4nt j00r g1bs0n b4ck!"
Insufficient technical information exists to say that they do interfere with ground signals or even the navigation and communications systems used to justify the FAA's ban.
So why the ban? Erring on the side of caution? Gimme a break. There's gotta be another reason that nobody's talking about.
Gmail now has a beta feature that allows you to get mail from other POP servers. So, you and the parent poster to your comment could both use Thunderbird and still have your mail searching.
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Maybe. Something to consider is that AMD's customers aren't you and I. AMD's customers are OEM PC makers, large and small. Now if one of their large customers were given a fat cheque, or if AMD were potentially interested in wooing a large PC manufacturer who isn't (yet) a customer who also happens to be a content producer, without mentioning any names *cough*Sony*cough*, then perhaps that could be the reason.
He's not selling them to make money, he's selling ones he doesn't want anymore to make room for more. And, like another poster said, I'm sure he doesn't want to attract attention.
Yes. In theory OLEDs should be able to work without a backlight. It's been discovered, however, that in practically, the luminosity just isn't good enough on large displays. So these might have to have a backlight. What that means is no net power savings for laptops, and possibly even higher power consumption. For desktops, where power consumption is somewhat less of a concern, I could see this happening.
The biggest factor will be cost, though. Initially OLED displays will be higher in cost than LCDs are now, and by this time three years from now economies of scale will have forced LCDs to be available probably for the same or less than current CRTs (adjusted for inflation, of course).
It was a joke. I guess there are just too many humor-impaired people on /.
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They already have. I have a friend who goes to China about twice a year. He comes back with nicely produced pirated copies of movies -- these have high-quality reproductions of original cover art, and they come in nice cases and everything. He pays maybe $1-2 (USD) a piece for them, some fetch as much as $5. Compared to U.S. prices, legal DVDs are cheaper, but not that cheap. He gets so many that once or twice a year, he sells a bunch in his neighborhood's semi-annual garage sale for $0.50 a piece.
Not to worry. You'll have no problem detecting unsafe traffic on .safe because all other traffic will have to have the evil bit set!
There's a LOT of confusion about the DMCA is about. The DMCA is makes it illegal for people to circumvent copy protection -- whether we're talking about encryption, or license managers, or dongles, etc. Basically any means of electronic protection from violation of copyright laws. The DMCA is not designed the prevent people from circumventing cheating mechanisms unless those cheating mechanisms involve making unauthorized copies of the software. Which WoWGlide does not do.
Gibson is exactly right. When I first saw sub-pixel rendering (aka 'ClearType') explained, I remembered programming graphics on an Apple IIe, and you had a difference between even and odd pixels that forced you to draw lines in a way that is exactly the same as how ClearType works.
I could claim prior art if I could just get those damned 5.25" floppies to read in anything. Of course, this was common practice back in the day, so maybe some old Apple II programmers out there can come up with AppleSoft BASIC code or something.
I don't see anything in his post indicating that he's a U.S. citizen, either.
Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but this seems like a move for Microsoft to compete with AppleTV, considering the main reason xvid exists is for the online distribution of movies. Perhaps we'll start seeing Microsoft offering for sale downloads of movies in xvid format?
I especially liked this one:
/usr/bin/top /usr/bin/wall
$ ls -l
-r-xr-sr-x 1 root tty 19388 Mar 20 2005
Wow. That's a neat trick.
Actually, the ANSI sequence 'viruses' (which were done by remapping keyboard keys to macro sequences which then executed commands) are just another form of terminal sequence attack that was quite popular a few years back when many people were still using terminal-oriented mail readers like pine, elm and mutt. These were the good ol' days when ISPs passed out shell accounts for reading mail and such. It forced Linux distros to shore up their termcap files and such.
Uhhh...that's not a new business model, really. Book authors regularly go to book signings at bookstores because it gets people to buy books. Bands already sell CDs at their concerts. It's really just a marriage of the two.
Be careful of what you wish for. I highly recommend renting the movie "Ghostbusters".
Phew. Before I RTFA'd, I thought they were talking about Rosie O'Donnell....
I'm north of Port Richey. Just checked. No FiOS for me. :(
Yeah? If you think that's bad, I typed it without even slowing down the figure out what I was writing!
I had Comcast nearly 6 years and used HUGE amounts of bandwidth, and I had never been capped or left high and dry in any way.
... ya know...
Anyone have experience with Bright House in Tampa? I just got the service a month ago...nothing bad so far, but
Here lemme try *tap* *tap* *tap* There? See? Wine seems to support denial-of-service exploits just fine...oh, wait, that looks like a bug ...
Yeah? Which version of OpenSSH? Got the latest security patches from Apple? What's your IP address?
Oh, yeah, do you wanna buy some root exploits for your Mac?
That's kind of what I thought. Like "d00d! 1m g0nna h4x0r ur g1bs0n 1f j00 d0nt s1gn up 4 my '5upp0rt 5u85cr1p710n!" Or maybe "I pwn3d j00! n0\/\/ p4y up j00r 5upp0r7 5u8scr1pt1on 1f u w4nt j00r g1bs0n b4ck!"
Insufficient technical information exists to say that they do interfere with ground signals or even the navigation and communications systems used to justify the FAA's ban.
So why the ban? Erring on the side of caution? Gimme a break. There's gotta be another reason that nobody's talking about.
Gmail now has a beta feature that allows you to get mail from other POP servers. So, you and the parent poster to your comment could both use Thunderbird and still have your mail searching.
BTW-- I retrieve my Gmail using Thunderbird.