OTA HD content can still be recorded freely on MythTV, and that is just as good for people living near the transmission towers, in fact in some cases it may even be better than the Cable Company's version of your local HD channels, which has more compression than OTA ATSC (8VSB) if it is using QAM 256. Besides most people are realizing that fewer and fewer good shows are on these days anyway. I'm still confident that somebody somewhere will figure out how to get Cable Cards working with Linux for recording "premium" content. But that won't happen until somebody can figure it out for Vista first... you know the OS that it was designed to "work" with since it has the most DRM. Frankly I haven't heard too many success stories for Cable Cards in general, never mind getting them to play nice with Vista. Personally I think the whole CableCard thing could have been great, but it really is just a joke, since the Cable Companies have no real obligation to them except to provide half-assed attempts to get it working for you. They have little incentive to sell it to you, because it means that you won't buy any ON DEMAND garbage from them ever, since Cable Card (current version) is a one way connection and is not interactive for ON DEMAND purchasing. I guess they don't care that most people hate set top boxes, because in the end they have a chance of making more money from you off of it (in addition to equipment rental fees etc.) And in the end isn't it always about the money and just let the consumer choice be damned? Well if consumers continue to stay uneducated about CableCard then they really will fail, and you'll be trapped into the set top box scam and extra fees forever!
How do we know that intelligent life can't evolve at an extremely accelerated pace for giant star? Remember that time is relative, so our assumptions that intelligent life only can exist for stars like Sol is naive at best, and most likely incorrect.
Yes!! This would solve all the hidious font rendering issues in OOo as well. That's why I switched to Abiword to begin with. If there was a native gtk+ version of OOo it would be much easier on the eyes and fit into linux and windows much better, and allow development towards a nice native coca style for gtk+ on OS X.
But this native port of OpenOffice reminds me of a problem I'm having with the native OpenOffice build I have on Ubuntu (7.04 Feisty). The font rendering is hideous, and nothing - I mean nothing - I've done has helped solve this problem! I've tried tweaking settings, recompiling from source (takes forever btw), and even export LD_PRELOAD=/opt/openoffice.org2.1/program/filter/l ibfreetype.so.6.3.8 but none of this worked. Meanwhile the font rendering for the rest of my system is gorgeous, including AbiWord, which I am now using in place of OOo writer until I figure this mess out (I may never go back to OOo if I can't get good rendering out of it.) It's like having a layer of grease on the monitor.
Because let's face it I'm cheap. These machines will come at a premium compared to the pre-loaded bloatware boxes because that bloatware and windows itself subsidies much of the cost of the hardware itself. I will continue to buy bloatware boxes and wipe them clean and install Linux afterword because I'm going to do what's right by me. Thank you Microsoft and friends for helping pay for my new hardware, now get lost.
The FCC needs to just stick to regulating and enforcing designated frequency bandwidths to their proper uses by U.S. law. They should NOT be enforcing restrictions on content over "the people's" frequencies. Let the people choose if they want to watch said content or not. If parents want to shelter children from nudity and profanity then it should be up to the parents, not big brother. The problem is that once the FCC is done regulating designated frequency bandwidths, they don't have anything else to do, so they decide censoring on their frequencies will keep them busy.
Doc: What did I just say?
TV Doc: No no no this sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction
to generate the one point
twenty-one gigawatts of electricity that I need.
Doc: One point twenty-one gigawatts!?! One point twenty-one gigawatts.
Great Scott!
So what's stopping someone from taking the AES encrypted string on the disc and reverse engineering it using the decrypted disc keys that are floating around the internet now thanks to BackupHDDVD? I don't know a whole lot about AES, but it seems to me that if you have the encrypted string and the decrypted string then you can reverse engineer it. Brute forcing something like this could take years, but when you have the unencrypted keys that should change the whole game.
But for me it would have a positive effect on my business with the iTMS if Apple actually did decide to drop DRM from iTMS. I would start purchasing more songs from them. It's a hassle to avoid/decrypt the DRM yourself with workarounds anyway. It's time for Fair Use to prevail, it should have been proven to these DRM'd companies by now that DRM doesn't work.
First there is the obvious fact that has been pointed out. How do you prove that you were the one who leaked your file, and not someone else stealing it? Second, this doesn't solve anything with the pirate that made his or her own file of copyrighted material and then shared it with the world.
Each OS has it's pros and cons, each has it's demographic, and each has it's own way of implementing things. Now I would really like to see Windows become a POSIX based OS, but I just don't see that happening. People who like one or the other are entitled to their opinions, but can somebody please stop the flame wars? It's getting old. There is no "perfect" OS, and there is no "right" or "wrong" here. Move along people.
You need at least 1Mb/s because you don't want to flood your entire connection with streaming video. You want to be able to stream on your tv box, and your wife, son or daughter can still do x, y, and z online at the same time, and you can still receive your VOIP calls while the movie is playing. You're going to need a little xtra then the bare minimum 128kbps that your XviD streams with.
"These actions only make sense from an anticompetitive standpoint. There's no other logical explanation."
How about the fact that MS wants VBS support gone from everything they do so the script kiddies can't write any more viruses? Why else do you think that Novell is working to open source the support for it in OpenOffice? It's because MS is ready to dump support of VBS.
Well if it's still plugged into the wall outlet it's still drawing some power even when completely off, just like everything plugged in does. I won't split hairs about that though.
Pure paranoia is the only way to describe this. Linux is not a threat to Microsoft's empire in the least. I can't believe you all get so paranoid when new functionality emerges that supports some (ancient) Microsoft-supported format. I guarantee you Microsoft doesn't give a fuck who uses their shitty old no longer supported format. Why else do you think they opened it up?
Mod parent up. This is very true. If you'd asked me a year ago which format was going to win this "format war" I would have said Blu-ray. But now today, once again, somehow Sony has not learned from their mistakes. It is truly mind boggling! Here we have Sony with what is once again the technically superior format (Betamax anyone?), it's ridden with DRM just like the movie industry wants. Anybody on the outside looking in at this a year ago would say that it's probably a lock and that Sony finally got it right.
Take a step back and look at what's happened in the last year. It's become apparent that Sony got it's priorities wrong. In trying desperately to recreate what was a coincidental success with the PS2's DVD player, they have focused all of their energy on trying to force a Blu-ray success story with the PS3. The problem is that Sony focused on Blu-ray so much that it seems the PS3's gaming aspects have been pulled out of the spotlight and Blu-ray shoehorned into it's place. The PS3 is suffering because of it.
The fact is that Blu-ray production is being rushed (lack of blue lasers available, diode failure problems, etc.) and people themselves are either not ready for it, or don't see the benefits of it over DVD as being a "must have" right now. I think the HD media will have it's place in the future, but forcing it down the throats of consumers to try and insure marketplace success is turning people off of the PS3 and Sony in general. Blu-ray drives the price of the PS3 up dramatically, and to what purpose or benefit of the consumers? The only benefits of this can go to Sony, who is looking more and more like they don't give a damn about their customers, only their precious Blu-ray.
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Good thing it's in the U.S. then!
OTA HD content can still be recorded freely on MythTV, and that is just as good for people living near the transmission towers, in fact in some cases it may even be better than the Cable Company's version of your local HD channels, which has more compression than OTA ATSC (8VSB) if it is using QAM 256. Besides most people are realizing that fewer and fewer good shows are on these days anyway. I'm still confident that somebody somewhere will figure out how to get Cable Cards working with Linux for recording "premium" content. But that won't happen until somebody can figure it out for Vista first... you know the OS that it was designed to "work" with since it has the most DRM. Frankly I haven't heard too many success stories for Cable Cards in general, never mind getting them to play nice with Vista. Personally I think the whole CableCard thing could have been great, but it really is just a joke, since the Cable Companies have no real obligation to them except to provide half-assed attempts to get it working for you. They have little incentive to sell it to you, because it means that you won't buy any ON DEMAND garbage from them ever, since Cable Card (current version) is a one way connection and is not interactive for ON DEMAND purchasing. I guess they don't care that most people hate set top boxes, because in the end they have a chance of making more money from you off of it (in addition to equipment rental fees etc.) And in the end isn't it always about the money and just let the consumer choice be damned? Well if consumers continue to stay uneducated about CableCard then they really will fail, and you'll be trapped into the set top box scam and extra fees forever!
How do we know that intelligent life can't evolve at an extremely accelerated pace for giant star? Remember that time is relative, so our assumptions that intelligent life only can exist for stars like Sol is naive at best, and most likely incorrect.
Yes!! This would solve all the hidious font rendering issues in OOo as well. That's why I switched to Abiword to begin with. If there was a native gtk+ version of OOo it would be much easier on the eyes and fit into linux and windows much better, and allow development towards a nice native coca style for gtk+ on OS X.
But this native port of OpenOffice reminds me of a problem I'm having with the native OpenOffice build I have on Ubuntu (7.04 Feisty). The font rendering is hideous, and nothing - I mean nothing - I've done has helped solve this problem! I've tried tweaking settings, recompiling from source (takes forever btw), and even export LD_PRELOAD=/opt/openoffice.org2.1/program/filter/l ibfreetype.so.6.3.8 but none of this worked. Meanwhile the font rendering for the rest of my system is gorgeous, including AbiWord, which I am now using in place of OOo writer until I figure this mess out (I may never go back to OOo if I can't get good rendering out of it.) It's like having a layer of grease on the monitor.
that posted my luggage combination?
Because let's face it I'm cheap. These machines will come at a premium compared to the pre-loaded bloatware boxes because that bloatware and windows itself subsidies much of the cost of the hardware itself. I will continue to buy bloatware boxes and wipe them clean and install Linux afterword because I'm going to do what's right by me. Thank you Microsoft and friends for helping pay for my new hardware, now get lost.
The FCC needs to just stick to regulating and enforcing designated frequency bandwidths to their proper uses by U.S. law. They should NOT be enforcing restrictions on content over "the people's" frequencies. Let the people choose if they want to watch said content or not. If parents want to shelter children from nudity and profanity then it should be up to the parents, not big brother. The problem is that once the FCC is done regulating designated frequency bandwidths, they don't have anything else to do, so they decide censoring on their frequencies will keep them busy.
It's a cruel, cruel gate switch
Doc: What did I just say?
TV Doc: No no no this sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the one point
twenty-one gigawatts of electricity that I need.
Doc: One point twenty-one gigawatts!?! One point twenty-one gigawatts. Great Scott!
"Mooninites! Duplicate, Reunite, and Unihilate!"
So what's stopping someone from taking the AES encrypted string on the disc and reverse engineering it using the decrypted disc keys that are floating around the internet now thanks to BackupHDDVD? I don't know a whole lot about AES, but it seems to me that if you have the encrypted string and the decrypted string then you can reverse engineer it. Brute forcing something like this could take years, but when you have the unencrypted keys that should change the whole game.
But for me it would have a positive effect on my business with the iTMS if Apple actually did decide to drop DRM from iTMS. I would start purchasing more songs from them. It's a hassle to avoid/decrypt the DRM yourself with workarounds anyway. It's time for Fair Use to prevail, it should have been proven to these DRM'd companies by now that DRM doesn't work.
First there is the obvious fact that has been pointed out. How do you prove that you were the one who leaked your file, and not someone else stealing it? Second, this doesn't solve anything with the pirate that made his or her own file of copyrighted material and then shared it with the world.
Each OS has it's pros and cons, each has it's demographic, and each has it's own way of implementing things. Now I would really like to see Windows become a POSIX based OS, but I just don't see that happening. People who like one or the other are entitled to their opinions, but can somebody please stop the flame wars? It's getting old. There is no "perfect" OS, and there is no "right" or "wrong" here. Move along people.
Because nobody ever lies on their exit poll...
You need at least 1Mb/s because you don't want to flood your entire connection with streaming video. You want to be able to stream on your tv box, and your wife, son or daughter can still do x, y, and z online at the same time, and you can still receive your VOIP calls while the movie is playing. You're going to need a little xtra then the bare minimum 128kbps that your XviD streams with.
I hate Micro$oft stuff never gets old around here. How many people here even own HD-DVD or Blu-ray (I'm sorry) content anyway?
if it doesn't exist!
"These actions only make sense from an anticompetitive standpoint. There's no other logical explanation."
How about the fact that MS wants VBS support gone from everything they do so the script kiddies can't write any more viruses? Why else do you think that Novell is working to open source the support for it in OpenOffice? It's because MS is ready to dump support of VBS.
Well if it's still plugged into the wall outlet it's still drawing some power even when completely off, just like everything plugged in does. I won't split hairs about that though.
It's called Boston.
Pure paranoia is the only way to describe this. Linux is not a threat to Microsoft's empire in the least. I can't believe you all get so paranoid when new functionality emerges that supports some (ancient) Microsoft-supported format. I guarantee you Microsoft doesn't give a fuck who uses their shitty old no longer supported format. Why else do you think they opened it up?
Mod parent up. This is very true. If you'd asked me a year ago which format was going to win this "format war" I would have said Blu-ray. But now today, once again, somehow Sony has not learned from their mistakes. It is truly mind boggling! Here we have Sony with what is once again the technically superior format (Betamax anyone?), it's ridden with DRM just like the movie industry wants. Anybody on the outside looking in at this a year ago would say that it's probably a lock and that Sony finally got it right.
Take a step back and look at what's happened in the last year. It's become apparent that Sony got it's priorities wrong. In trying desperately to recreate what was a coincidental success with the PS2's DVD player, they have focused all of their energy on trying to force a Blu-ray success story with the PS3. The problem is that Sony focused on Blu-ray so much that it seems the PS3's gaming aspects have been pulled out of the spotlight and Blu-ray shoehorned into it's place. The PS3 is suffering because of it.
The fact is that Blu-ray production is being rushed (lack of blue lasers available, diode failure problems, etc.) and people themselves are either not ready for it, or don't see the benefits of it over DVD as being a "must have" right now. I think the HD media will have it's place in the future, but forcing it down the throats of consumers to try and insure marketplace success is turning people off of the PS3 and Sony in general. Blu-ray drives the price of the PS3 up dramatically, and to what purpose or benefit of the consumers? The only benefits of this can go to Sony, who is looking more and more like they don't give a damn about their customers, only their precious Blu-ray.
It's called buy the damn DVD and rip it onto the iPod. It includes the added bonus of being DRM free and viewable anywhere