You don't drive the strip to get from A-B. It's a thing tourists do, they might regret it 60 minutes after turning off Spring Mountain and are still looking at the Venetian.
the operator in this case is the equivalent of the keyboard where you enter your website pass phrase, if you dont trust it then you shouldn't be using it
and just because an authorised user can see the pass phrase doesn't mean its sitting in a db unencrypted
Not really. The staff is looking at this info in front of a computer, no doubt, so hashing the password, and then requiring the staff to type it in to verify a match would be quite easily possible.
not really seeing what benefit that will bring, the operator gets to hear the password so they'll get to know it anyhow
a solution to hiding the passphrase from the opearator would be, for phone banking, asking for particular letters of the pass phrase thats what my bank does
they also had some weird flight sim where you had to answer questions to get across the atlantic, but the 'teacher' had a computer phobia who insisted that if people answered the questions ahead of the rest of the class everything would break
eventually we got to sit in the centre of the room and had to watch everybody else have 'fun' with that
The people of the UK will put up with higher prices than those of India, etc.
which is why i decided to go for a region A player, for example local store sells bluray for £25+, local import store sells them for £18+, if i'm willing to wait for slow postage i can get them for around £12 or buy a few add 2 day postage and pay roughly an additional £3 per disc
when / if the price of region b drops i'll either buy a second player or if multi region has been done buy one of those
anyhow my local import store told me that he used to sell roughly 50/50 blu ray/hd-dvd, obviously because of the region freeness of hd dvd, but in the last quarter that had started to move to a blu ray preference
Three people are stranded on a small island. One is a physicist, one is a circus strongman, and one is an economist. After a few days of surviving on fruit, they discover a cache of canned food, and they have to decide how to open it. The physicist says to the strongman "Why don't you climb that tree, and smash the cans down on the rocks, and burst them open?"
The strongman says, "No, that would spatter the stuff all over. I can open the cans with my teeth!"
The economist says "First, we must assume that we have a can opener."
Does anyone else remember a time in American history when people would here something like this and go "I want to try and become like them" instead of "I want what they have" or "they can't have that because I don't"?
Maybe when it was a colony? thats the standard attitude to anyone who shows a sign of doing better than the average in england. Whether it be through luck or skill, "Wahhhh, they've got something i haven't, tax them more" (and thats a newspaper headline)
you know you dont need to throw away dvds or stop buying them if you've got a hd/blu player, i've still got my vhs player attached somewhere along the line (and its got random access, choose the recorded program from an onscreen list and click play and away it goes) so when i see films like 'trading places' being released i'm kind of thinking why? can the quality be that much better, does the high resolution add anything, no for trading places, imho, but blade runner that'll be something (i hope), kind of a sucker on certain films
anyhow i remember when i got my first dvd player, just about everybody, was saying whats the point, you can't record, cost twice as much as tape, you can't see the difference, not all the films are available, why throw away all the tapes(still dont get that one), you have to flip the disc to watch an entire film....(have a look through newsgroup postings from 00/01 for examples)
anyhow i'm going to give it a couple of years, some shops near me are committing larger areas now so obviously somethings selling, the fancy audio formats you referred to never got off a carousel stand stuck in a corner (again in my local stores). Some early dvd titles had terrible encoding so the picture looked like it had been processed with butter and a sharp knife to add a nice blurred jaggy effect, but they improved over time especially with fast moving shots
the drm thing is annoying, and its quite handy being able to rip a disc to another medium to allow it to be watched in different locations, but again early adopters of dvd couldnt do that, so no doubt it'll be fairly easy to transfer a hd/blu copy to disc then downconvert to portable devices, if hd/blu takes off
i've not heard any arguments against it haven't been heard before against dvd, the only one i kind of agree with is the donwnload services etc, but i wouldnt be keen on them until they sort out whether they want to treat me as a customer or as a criminal
I've been wracking my brain trying to come up with reasons why I need to upgrade to an HD disc format. We love movies and have the A/V firepower to work with an HD disc player, but we use our DVD player for so much more than just movies, such as Firefly discs and videos for my kids. At best, then, any HD disc would be used for 1/3 of the things we use our current DVD player.
some people said the same back in 00-02 about dvd vs vhs, i'm guessing that worked out for them.
although i do think the life cycle of hd/blu will be shorter than previously, until everybody agrees on a decent 'over the wires service' (before crippling it with digital restrictions management)
What I am unsure of is how you have never learned of this, but me as someone who grew up and lived his whole life in the US has.
Many thanks for your interesting & illuminating discussion of consumer tax. In fact I am quite aware of how VAT works in the UK (at least to a level that I care about), but I decided to post a facetious comment, I had thought that the 'genuine advantage' part at the end of the line would help to illustrate this but obviously so very wrong.
Uk sales tax is 17.5% and is called Value Added Tax, unsure what value it brings, maybe i'm at a genuine advantage for paying it
on most things its rolled into the ticket price, i think by law because some garages tried to make a point by listing petrol (gas) at price + ~300% tax (or whatever it was at the time) +17.5% VAT
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You don't drive the strip to get from A-B. It's a thing tourists do, they might regret it 60 minutes after turning off Spring Mountain and are still looking at the Venetian.
"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
and just because an authorised user can see the pass phrase doesn't mean its sitting in a db unencrypted
not really seeing what benefit that will bring, the operator gets to hear the password so they'll get to know it anyhow
a solution to hiding the passphrase from the opearator would be, for phone banking, asking for particular letters of the pass phrase thats what my bank does
they also had some weird flight sim where you had to answer questions to get across the atlantic, but the 'teacher' had a computer phobia who insisted that if people answered the questions ahead of the rest of the class everything would break
eventually we got to sit in the centre of the room and had to watch everybody else have 'fun' with that
which is why i decided to go for a region A player, for example local store sells bluray for £25+, local import store sells them for £18+, if i'm willing to wait for slow postage i can get them for around £12 or buy a few add 2 day postage and pay roughly an additional £3 per disc
when / if the price of region b drops i'll either buy a second player or if multi region has been done buy one of those
anyhow my local import store told me that he used to sell roughly 50/50 blu ray/hd-dvd, obviously because of the region freeness of hd dvd, but in the last quarter that had started to move to a blu ray preference
where the formula is in cell A1. You get the correct & incorrect results depending on whether you look at value or text
Three people are stranded on a small island. One is a physicist, one is a circus strongman, and one is an economist. After a few days of surviving on fruit, they discover a cache of canned food, and they have to decide how to open it. The physicist says to the strongman "Why don't you climb that tree, and smash the cans down on the rocks, and burst them open?"
The strongman says, "No, that would spatter the stuff all over. I can open the cans with my teeth!"
The economist says "First, we must assume that we have a can opener."
Maybe when it was a colony? thats the standard attitude to anyone who shows a sign of doing better than the average in england. Whether it be through luck or skill, "Wahhhh, they've got something i haven't, tax them more" (and thats a newspaper headline)
anyhow i remember when i got my first dvd player, just about everybody, was saying whats the point, you can't record, cost twice as much as tape, you can't see the difference, not all the films are available, why throw away all the tapes(still dont get that one), you have to flip the disc to watch an entire film....(have a look through newsgroup postings from 00/01 for examples)
anyhow i'm going to give it a couple of years, some shops near me are committing larger areas now so obviously somethings selling, the fancy audio formats you referred to never got off a carousel stand stuck in a corner (again in my local stores). Some early dvd titles had terrible encoding so the picture looked like it had been processed with butter and a sharp knife to add a nice blurred jaggy effect, but they improved over time especially with fast moving shots
the drm thing is annoying, and its quite handy being able to rip a disc to another medium to allow it to be watched in different locations, but again early adopters of dvd couldnt do that, so no doubt it'll be fairly easy to transfer a hd/blu copy to disc then downconvert to portable devices, if hd/blu takes off
i've not heard any arguments against it haven't been heard before against dvd, the only one i kind of agree with is the donwnload services etc, but i wouldnt be keen on them until they sort out whether they want to treat me as a customer or as a criminal
some people said the same back in 00-02 about dvd vs vhs, i'm guessing that worked out for them.
although i do think the life cycle of hd/blu will be shorter than previously, until everybody agrees on a decent 'over the wires service' (before crippling it with digital restrictions management)
driving in england?
and now the new shuffles make sense
even if there is a back door, what good is it if the machine is not connected to anything that the NSA could practically get too.
unless I'm missing something obvious?
>..but with the prices of Macs, that 3% has about 30% of disposable income...
i sense a new "i'm a mac, i'm a pc" on its way
> I wouln't call it lock in when you just have t...
whats the point then?, its more of an annoyance for the consumer
land of the free? its a good job some people had the foresight to write some fundamentals down
All i want is them to release them in numbers so it'll be possible to buy any HD player, in the UK at least.
i can also think of a object that gets bigger (like an auxetic material), when beaten or (repeatedly) stretched
Your running the old type that need screens, i've got a Affleck2007 the screen has been removed
Its when the 'excitement' dies down when you can judge that $600 is a good price point
PlaysForSure, one of the most irratating names, my mp3 collection plays for sure on whatever i want to try it on
What I am unsure of is how you have never learned of this, but me as someone who grew up and lived his whole life in the US has.
Many thanks for your interesting & illuminating discussion of consumer tax. In fact I am quite aware of how VAT works in the UK (at least to a level that I care about), but I decided to post a facetious comment, I had thought that the 'genuine advantage' part at the end of the line would help to illustrate this but obviously so very wrong.
(ps the bit about petrol wasn't facetious)
on most things its rolled into the ticket price, i think by law because some garages tried to make a point by listing petrol (gas) at price + ~300% tax (or whatever it was at the time) +17.5% VAT
in other news sony have revised the number of PS3s being distributed to 5, 3 to North america and 2 to Tokyo