I am sure they animate their logo and make sure no static text displayed. Newer plasmas are more forgiving about static image and trust me as a person who used 1080p displays as early as Amiga 1200 was new, I am stating an industry known fact. Also new image processing chips can figure the incoming issue and pixel shift more aggressively.
I actually use Plasma and I am all for its accuracy but I won't keep it up without screensaver. TV is a way different matter, TV always and always changes. It is not like it will replay the last 24 hours if broken anyway:)
Oh also, I am not from LCD camp, LCD has even a worse burn in problem since people can't imagine it will burn in because of the BS spread by LCD only companies and every single person in IT industry calling screen savers obsolete. It doesn't just burn in, it degrades.
In fact, that is why entire TV industry begun animating logos or used ''dark glass' logo which wasn't really popular for Euro market except BBC/UK camp. Or... If you buy a cheap DVD player from a good company who knows what it does, it comes with actual screensaver.
Plasmas does have settings to shift pixels every 4 min (or less). In every Plasma (and LCD!) guarantee it writes static images can cause uncovered harm, ever huge game companies like EA made it a standard policy to put into game manuals while they can't be blamed.
Replying to that poster: If you only care about movies, Plasma is way to go. I was selling $20-30K barco CRT projectors back in time, only technology really impressed me in terms of colour accuracy and responsiveness was plasma which still continues today.
Philips VCR and Philips TVs were able to "talk" eachother over SCART line, Philips released it with very high hopes since they actually made real use of it in terms of easiness to use. The result? Nobody cared.
Look at this for instance, Apple who has the largest media catalogue on planet to sell, such excellent consumer trust and image, releases Apple TV which is a different form of their (hdmi) dreams and consumers including Apple fans say... "oh well, I'd use a Mini". So, "smart device" isn't really new thing, it is something which has been tried over and over for years and always failed. Apple TV stays afloat because it is actually a dedicated OS X/iTunes box coming from Apple.
These guys have no connections in TV industry, even with electronics guys? A tip for them: As 2 more Gigabit ethernet Macs and possible Apple TV coming to house, I purchased a gigabit switch. That is what you need, at _least_ to have 1080 h264+5.1 AAC audio which is the current minimum experience people expect from "HD" thingie.
That is the misconception which almost killed Plasma on consumer market. Plasma can't replace a LCD monitor nor LCD in current form (except very high end) can replace Plasma for movies.
Plasma is for people who will purchase Blu-Ray movies, Apple TV HD content or having something to display 1080 content and... watch movies! Yes, nothing else. Watch movies on Plasma and enjoy 10K+ black levels, 12 bit per channel colour with high end enhancements dedicated to enhance moving content (which is, movies).
Plasma isn't even suitable for people who keeps watching logo"ed content like mainstream TV channels, talk shows etc.
The only thing I'd pick over Plasma would be LED displays and for way higher end, Barco consumer or pro line of projectors.
Apple gives away Mini Display Port spec for free. I think Intel gives the parent technology free too. It is up to device manufacturers to pick it instead of HDMI joke (yes, as a person in industry I call it joke) and use it.
Or serious, ordinary people started to buy LCD monitors for TV watching. The consumer has woke up. After this scandalous release, I wouldn't put too much money in HDMI standard.
How hard you can try to make a standard more complicated, confusing than 1970s French invention SCART cable? Who runs these TV companies now? That rip off monster cable came up with standard?
If you are american and you don't know a lot about it, look to SCART articles on Web, especially how neatly the features were added over time by dozens of competing companies. E.g. how "16:9" signal added to spec and everyone adopted it. This is the standard to solve "3 component cables+fiber(S/PDIF)" issue right? A standard which hasn't solved polarity issue which made consumers mad for years on analogue, disconnected from real World and industry so much that tries to "invent" things about device communication between devices. Uh, it doesn't work. Go ask Philips, they did such stuff on high end VHS+ line more than decade ago. Consumer doesn't like it, they don't use it. Period.
If you have shares in a TV making company who doesn't offer LCD Monitors with HDCP, sell before it is too late.
I am in a closed beta test of a very small game (in case of budget and users) which is already up and running. They require actually signed (with ink!) paper to be posted in snail mail (no fax) to enter their beta test program. Everything, down to game binary download is encrypted in SSL.
EA can't be that sloppy, I am not saying it has POTENTIAL to be a 1 billion dollar product in terms of sales in 5 years. I wanted to show that it is not some lonely guys code we talk about. It is sequel to a game which has unbeatable place in Guinness World Records, even in 2009.
Pre "Gold disk" is always a closed beta, I am just saying if a company gave up a DRM system because of consumer feedback (it killed spore, no less) and a game copy without DRM is leaked and even posters on slashdot starts to question "who to blame", I say look elsewhere. Who benefits?
Can you imagine the level of security in such potentially billion dollar project?
If I was EA investigating it, I would check who would benefit from such leakage. They may come up with very interesting results.
I can tell as a person who had to carry betacam originals of some ordinary TV shows in a steel case, with guards hired to help and put them in bank safe myself, a hit like The Sims 3 won't leak that easy.
Having The Sims (1) played for months which was just a small neighbourhood, I don't think "losing half of the World" will matter.
They should come up with "It causes BSOD and disk corruption" argument, that is one thing Windows users fear. Blatant lie? Of course but will pirates sue them for spreading FUD about "their" product?:)
I don't understand where you come with 12 year old girl argument but The Sims is really an adult game, adult doesn't neccessarily mean porn btw.
I have seen 40-50 and even 60+ years old people play it, in fact for some people it was the first and only game they purchased. People still buy content for the game, even the first release still being played.
I must admit that I don't know how ads in such large size sites are administrated but it really bugs me that Scientology does excessive advertising on Slashdot, especially front page.
It can be also the scientific terms they picked to trigger ads or plain "lets do propaganda to these nerds".
Does/. (or the parent in fact) have right to reject certain advertisements? It has reached a point that I saw couple of people accused/. to be sponsored by them. Ads of any religion (or anti-religion) in a technical site doesn't really make sense to me at all.
You don't need to buy new system. Well, even if you need SATA3 bandwidth, regular companies will release interface cards which will be better performing than "coming in mainboard" ones. I'd prefer a cache having, dedicated and configurable SATA card instead of that dumb chip on mainboard anytime.
Of course if you talk about laptop, it is a different matter.
Yea, while swearing at Apple 24/7 for giving SATA1 with Quad G5 Workstation (most expensive G5), I purchased a very nice performing Western Digital Caviar 1TB drive having 32MB cache. It took a while to figure that I can't really saturate SATA1 bus, even with "fill with zeros" (format) of OS X, it went up to 140MB/sec. Of course, Apple expects me to buy a ATTO like high end card if I need more bandwidth.
What matters is SSD, that is why they release the spec right now. If you have enough money to setup a very high end (not toy-like) SSD right now, you will see SATA2 is the bottleneck. People were already talking about a different standard or even getting rid of SATA alltogether for them.
If you are doing large database work, redundancy needed or 2K/4K video work, you may need SAS. In fact, you would still boot OS and Apps from a serial ATA device and use SAS for program (database, movie etc) data. SATA and SAS have compatible connectors for that reason. They don't really replace each other.
Of course, SAS is really expensive but for example, if you are at a professional studio which speed may actually earn you more money, you wouldn't care.
Interestingly, even SMART like features of SCSI doesn't replace actual SMART in SATA. Both have different powers. It can show how different directions IDE and SCSI went
I guess the lawmakers hope that all people, especially people who buys extra caffeine containing things like Red Bull must hate cocaine or should be afraid of it.
If Red Bull sales explode because of these news, I wouldn't be so surprised. Red Bull could never come up with such a great PR idea, getting banned for having trace amounts of cocaine, a World known, famous thing.
Ask any police guy, they are particularly afraid of cocaine because people somehow think it is classy. While it may have very same, very dangerous side effects (including sudden death) and addiction, they aren't afraid of it like they would be afraid of heroine.
You now declare a free to buy thing in grocery store has that matter even it is ridiculously low. Very clever. If I was Red Bull, I would even sponsor these politicians.
Of course you can't ignore a nuclear device exploding but just imagine if you could... Kim Jong guy like any troll would be extremely pissed.
Do they really dream about using it against South Korea? I mean, a country in walking distance is not good for nuking.
It is more like a crybaby looking for attention with nukes. I know it sounds crazy but what they did is no less. Also, I'd be very careful underground nuke testing if my country is small and has faults around.
Lets not forget the elected nutjobs too, shall we?
I mean between 2000 to this date which things seems slowly restoring, we all learned that elected people can do way more harm than a freak communist dictator even claiming they are doing it for democracy and human rights.
We at least know North Korea, what are they capable of and whether they are serious or not. What about some other countries which are claimed to run by democratically elected officials?
If they go Nuclear, you won't be able to figure it.
Exploding nukes underground is so backwards technology or done to get attention. See the top500.org , you will see they are the documented ones. Japan has hit number 1 very easily just 2 years ago. They have companies like NEC, Hitachi and many more. They can build a super computer or use existing super computer instead of actually blowing stuff up.
I am saying this to people who thinks just because Russia and USA doesn't blow stuff up, nukes are over. Nukes just explode digitally these days which means they must be progressing way better than ''Lets blow this thing and see what it does'' ages.
This thing always amused me. Istanbul isn't anything turkish either. It is a heavily distorted ''Est en poli'' which means ''to the big city'' in Greek. You can guess what is big city.
So both Turkish and Greek fanatics argue about a old Greek word and nothing else. Of course, some wants their city back like the World powers would REALLY give Greece the control of one of the most important passages in World. Even in 1920s it was decided that no power should control it, in a total sense.
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It is not Safari writing the files there, it is the OS which redirects the files. Safari doesn't say ''let me create a weird dir to write my files'', it is OS which says ''Let me put Safari's caches to a weird place so it won't be easy to hack it and steal its caches''
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I would do it in single user mode (Apple key+S on boot). What people (and that blog) doesn't understand is, that structure doesn't only carry Safari caches. There are some system caches, font caches and caches of OTHER users there.
Also they didn't even bother to check the new method of Safari (and other webkit) cache creation. They now create the file in a reasonable (64MB here) size and fill it with zeros.It is a flat file, I guess one of the reasons is to prevent fragmentation.
Safari does a good job cleaning it. The reason is ''force quit'' and similar. If it loses track of its own file, it (in fact, OS) re-creates in another random dir and they all add up.
As I don't use Windows, AV company security blogs tells me a lot about the security scene after I filter the PR.
Also Kaspersky never says ''buy our product'', they don't need such stupid stunts. A person who buys one of those cheapo TW netbooks won't likely afford their product either. They say ''a security product'' without mentioning any brand while they have right to advertise their own.
Once upon a time, computer vendors (including Taiwanese) were decent enough to run a god damn antivirus (standard was 3 of them) before shipping the computer. I guess they are targeting old timers reminding them it is not the case anymore.
Ever wonder why Apple, who offers one of the best organized file system to users since 1980s decided to put temp files to ''non obvious'' places, scattering them?
Think a bit. I was a Mozilla user when they made the great choice of randomizing cache/temp folder name, Apple (and some vendors) just extended it to operating system for exact same reasons. Temp folder and caches folder security is one of weak points of operating systems and by putting files to weird, impossible to guess places, they are preventing some targeted attacks in future.
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I am sure they animate their logo and make sure no static text displayed. Newer plasmas are more forgiving about static image and trust me as a person who used 1080p displays as early as Amiga 1200 was new, I am stating an industry known fact. Also new image processing chips can figure the incoming issue and pixel shift more aggressively.
I actually use Plasma and I am all for its accuracy but I won't keep it up without screensaver. TV is a way different matter, TV always and always changes. It is not like it will replay the last 24 hours if broken anyway :)
Oh also, I am not from LCD camp, LCD has even a worse burn in problem since people can't imagine it will burn in because of the BS spread by LCD only companies and every single person in IT industry calling screen savers obsolete. It doesn't just burn in, it degrades.
In fact, that is why entire TV industry begun animating logos or used ''dark glass' logo which wasn't really popular for Euro market except BBC/UK camp. Or... If you buy a cheap DVD player from a good company who knows what it does, it comes with actual screensaver.
Plasmas does have settings to shift pixels every 4 min (or less). In every Plasma (and LCD!) guarantee it writes static images can cause uncovered harm, ever huge game companies like EA made it a standard policy to put into game manuals while they can't be blamed.
Replying to that poster: If you only care about movies, Plasma is way to go. I was selling $20-30K barco CRT projectors back in time, only technology really impressed me in terms of colour accuracy and responsiveness was plasma which still continues today.
They need space right? They got new datacenter too. I bet those guys somehow make use of it, in a good way.
Or, find every public school in a poor area of town and donate to them for setting up backup drives.
Philips VCR and Philips TVs were able to "talk" eachother over SCART line, Philips released it with very high hopes since they actually made real use of it in terms of easiness to use. The result? Nobody cared.
Look at this for instance, Apple who has the largest media catalogue on planet to sell, such excellent consumer trust and image, releases Apple TV which is a different form of their (hdmi) dreams and consumers including Apple fans say... "oh well, I'd use a Mini". So, "smart device" isn't really new thing, it is something which has been tried over and over for years and always failed. Apple TV stays afloat because it is actually a dedicated OS X/iTunes box coming from Apple.
These guys have no connections in TV industry, even with electronics guys? A tip for them: As 2 more Gigabit ethernet Macs and possible Apple TV coming to house, I purchased a gigabit switch. That is what you need, at _least_ to have 1080 h264+5.1 AAC audio which is the current minimum experience people expect from "HD" thingie.
That is the misconception which almost killed Plasma on consumer market. Plasma can't replace a LCD monitor nor LCD in current form (except very high end) can replace Plasma for movies.
Plasma is for people who will purchase Blu-Ray movies, Apple TV HD content or having something to display 1080 content and... watch movies! Yes, nothing else. Watch movies on Plasma and enjoy 10K+ black levels, 12 bit per channel colour with high end enhancements dedicated to enhance moving content (which is, movies).
Plasma isn't even suitable for people who keeps watching logo"ed content like mainstream TV channels, talk shows etc.
The only thing I'd pick over Plasma would be LED displays and for way higher end, Barco consumer or pro line of projectors.
Apple gives away Mini Display Port spec for free. I think Intel gives the parent technology free too. It is up to device manufacturers to pick it instead of HDMI joke (yes, as a person in industry I call it joke) and use it.
Or serious, ordinary people started to buy LCD monitors for TV watching. The consumer has woke up. After this scandalous release, I wouldn't put too much money in HDMI standard.
How hard you can try to make a standard more complicated, confusing than 1970s French invention SCART cable? Who runs these TV companies now? That rip off monster cable came up with standard?
If you are american and you don't know a lot about it, look to SCART articles on Web, especially how neatly the features were added over time by dozens of competing companies. E.g. how "16:9" signal added to spec and everyone adopted it. This is the standard to solve "3 component cables+fiber(S/PDIF)" issue right? A standard which hasn't solved polarity issue which made consumers mad for years on analogue, disconnected from real World and industry so much that tries to "invent" things about device communication between devices. Uh, it doesn't work. Go ask Philips, they did such stuff on high end VHS+ line more than decade ago. Consumer doesn't like it, they don't use it. Period.
If you have shares in a TV making company who doesn't offer LCD Monitors with HDCP, sell before it is too late.
I am in a closed beta test of a very small game (in case of budget and users) which is already up and running. They require actually signed (with ink!) paper to be posted in snail mail (no fax) to enter their beta test program. Everything, down to game binary download is encrypted in SSL.
EA can't be that sloppy, I am not saying it has POTENTIAL to be a 1 billion dollar product in terms of sales in 5 years. I wanted to show that it is not some lonely guys code we talk about. It is sequel to a game which has unbeatable place in Guinness World Records, even in 2009.
Pre "Gold disk" is always a closed beta, I am just saying if a company gave up a DRM system because of consumer feedback (it killed spore, no less) and a game copy without DRM is leaked and even posters on slashdot starts to question "who to blame", I say look elsewhere. Who benefits?
Can you imagine the level of security in such potentially billion dollar project?
If I was EA investigating it, I would check who would benefit from such leakage. They may come up with very interesting results.
I can tell as a person who had to carry betacam originals of some ordinary TV shows in a steel case, with guards hired to help and put them in bank safe myself, a hit like The Sims 3 won't leak that easy.
Having The Sims (1) played for months which was just a small neighbourhood, I don't think "losing half of the World" will matter.
They should come up with "It causes BSOD and disk corruption" argument, that is one thing Windows users fear. Blatant lie? Of course but will pirates sue them for spreading FUD about "their" product? :)
I don't understand where you come with 12 year old girl argument but The Sims is really an adult game, adult doesn't neccessarily mean porn btw.
I have seen 40-50 and even 60+ years old people play it, in fact for some people it was the first and only game they purchased. People still buy content for the game, even the first release still being played.
With such money in hand, they can hire people to do edits. There is a web 2.0 abuse market which hits badly setup and popular sites without karma etc.
Or they can hire that Media Defender like company having large pools of IP addresses and can do anything for money.
I must admit that I don't know how ads in such large size sites are administrated but it really bugs me that Scientology does excessive advertising on Slashdot, especially front page.
It can be also the scientific terms they picked to trigger ads or plain "lets do propaganda to these nerds".
Does /. (or the parent in fact) have right to reject certain advertisements? It has reached a point that I saw couple of people accused /. to be sponsored by them. Ads of any religion (or anti-religion) in a technical site doesn't really make sense to me at all.
You don't need to buy new system. Well, even if you need SATA3 bandwidth, regular companies will release interface cards which will be better performing than "coming in mainboard" ones. I'd prefer a cache having, dedicated and configurable SATA card instead of that dumb chip on mainboard anytime.
Of course if you talk about laptop, it is a different matter.
Yea, while swearing at Apple 24/7 for giving SATA1 with Quad G5 Workstation (most expensive G5), I purchased a very nice performing Western Digital Caviar 1TB drive having 32MB cache. It took a while to figure that I can't really saturate SATA1 bus, even with "fill with zeros" (format) of OS X, it went up to 140MB/sec. Of course, Apple expects me to buy a ATTO like high end card if I need more bandwidth.
What matters is SSD, that is why they release the spec right now. If you have enough money to setup a very high end (not toy-like) SSD right now, you will see SATA2 is the bottleneck. People were already talking about a different standard or even getting rid of SATA alltogether for them.
If you are doing large database work, redundancy needed or 2K/4K video work, you may need SAS. In fact, you would still boot OS and Apps from a serial ATA device and use SAS for program (database, movie etc) data. SATA and SAS have compatible connectors for that reason. They don't really replace each other.
Of course, SAS is really expensive but for example, if you are at a professional studio which speed may actually earn you more money, you wouldn't care.
Interestingly, even SMART like features of SCSI doesn't replace actual SMART in SATA. Both have different powers. It can show how different directions IDE and SCSI went
I guess the lawmakers hope that all people, especially people who buys extra caffeine containing things like Red Bull must hate cocaine or should be afraid of it.
If Red Bull sales explode because of these news, I wouldn't be so surprised. Red Bull could never come up with such a great PR idea, getting banned for having trace amounts of cocaine, a World known, famous thing.
Ask any police guy, they are particularly afraid of cocaine because people somehow think it is classy. While it may have very same, very dangerous side effects (including sudden death) and addiction, they aren't afraid of it like they would be afraid of heroine.
You now declare a free to buy thing in grocery store has that matter even it is ridiculously low. Very clever. If I was Red Bull, I would even sponsor these politicians.
Of course you can't ignore a nuclear device exploding but just imagine if you could... Kim Jong guy like any troll would be extremely pissed.
Do they really dream about using it against South Korea? I mean, a country in walking distance is not good for nuking.
It is more like a crybaby looking for attention with nukes. I know it sounds crazy but what they did is no less. Also, I'd be very careful underground nuke testing if my country is small and has faults around.
Lets not forget the elected nutjobs too, shall we?
I mean between 2000 to this date which things seems slowly restoring, we all learned that elected people can do way more harm than a freak communist dictator even claiming they are doing it for democracy and human rights.
We at least know North Korea, what are they capable of and whether they are serious or not. What about some other countries which are claimed to run by democratically elected officials?
If they go Nuclear, you won't be able to figure it.
Exploding nukes underground is so backwards technology or done to get attention. See the top500.org , you will see they are the documented ones. Japan has hit number 1 very easily just 2 years ago. They have companies like NEC, Hitachi and many more. They can build a super computer or use existing super computer instead of actually blowing stuff up.
I am saying this to people who thinks just because Russia and USA doesn't blow stuff up, nukes are over. Nukes just explode digitally these days which means they must be progressing way better than ''Lets blow this thing and see what it does'' ages.
Whole N Korea thing is something like a troll guy who begs for ''replies'' or getting banned until he gets the ultimate attention.
There were no news about N Korea for a while and bam, they explode a nuke.
Can a country troll? They seem to be able to do it.
This thing always amused me. Istanbul isn't anything turkish either. It is a heavily distorted ''Est en poli'' which means ''to the big city'' in Greek. You can guess what is big city.
So both Turkish and Greek fanatics argue about a old Greek word and nothing else. Of course, some wants their city back like the World powers would REALLY give Greece the control of one of the most important passages in World. Even in 1920s it was decided that no power should control it, in a total sense.
It is not Safari writing the files there, it is the OS which redirects the files. Safari doesn't say ''let me create a weird dir to write my files'', it is OS which says ''Let me put Safari's caches to a weird place so it won't be easy to hack it and steal its caches''
I would do it in single user mode (Apple key+S on boot). What people (and that blog) doesn't understand is, that structure doesn't only carry Safari caches. There are some system caches, font caches and caches of OTHER users there.
Also they didn't even bother to check the new method of Safari (and other webkit) cache creation. They now create the file in a reasonable (64MB here) size and fill it with zeros.It is a flat file, I guess one of the reasons is to prevent fragmentation.
Safari does a good job cleaning it. The reason is ''force quit'' and similar. If it loses track of its own file, it (in fact, OS) re-creates in another random dir and they all add up.
As I don't use Windows, AV company security blogs tells me a lot about the security scene after I filter the PR.
Also Kaspersky never says ''buy our product'', they don't need such stupid stunts. A person who buys one of those cheapo TW netbooks won't likely afford their product either. They say ''a security product'' without mentioning any brand while they have right to advertise their own.
Once upon a time, computer vendors (including Taiwanese) were decent enough to run a god damn antivirus (standard was 3 of them) before shipping the computer. I guess they are targeting old timers reminding them it is not the case anymore.
Ever wonder why Apple, who offers one of the best organized file system to users since 1980s decided to put temp files to ''non obvious'' places, scattering them?
Think a bit. I was a Mozilla user when they made the great choice of randomizing cache/temp folder name, Apple (and some vendors) just extended it to operating system for exact same reasons. Temp folder and caches folder security is one of weak points of operating systems and by putting files to weird, impossible to guess places, they are preventing some targeted attacks in future.