I don't know much about the subject, but the fact that I know that this statement is total crap makes me disbelieve all of it:
Most people watch DVDs through a composite video cable, which sends luma and chroma over different frequency bands (roughly 0-2.7 MHz and 2.7-4.5 MHz) on one wire pair. In order for the luma not to overlap the chroma and cause color fringing, the DVD player horizontally filters the image down to the equivalent of 480 pixels wide. Now you're down to 480x480, the same resolution as SVCD.
Bollocks. You can take any S-Video cable (which by your definition would not have said filtering), stip it, twist the luma and chroma wires together, and pop it into any composite jack. I would challenge anyone to see any "color banding". I have played literally hundreds of movies over such a connection because I was too cheap to go buy a converter when twisting two wires will do.
But if a company is going to sell me a product, it better try its hardest to at least make other stuff work. When I plug my Archos AV420 into my mac, it shows up in iTunes -- it's recognized. Sure I can't do funky playlist stuff with it, but I can copy music to it. iTunes supports MP3 the same as it does its own AAC format (and music purchased from the iTMS).
And if I plug my memory stick loaded with MP3s into my PSP, it will play them. And if I bluetooth some mP3s to my Walkman phone, it will play them. What's your point?
You mean I can now plug in my Zen and play songs I download off of iTunes?
Oh wait, no I can't. Not without converting them all.
STFU. Apple is just as bad as Sony in this regard. There is no difference between Sony wanting you to have a PSP/Walkman phone, and Apple wanting you to have an iPod.
You should not be able to read the files without logging into the computer with your password and/or other identification token.
After logging in, the files are accessable. But not before. Someone who just swipes your PC would boot into Windows but would be unable to read any data files, even with a seperate boot CD. That's the whole idea.
But if the government adds a backdoor, you can bet that a hacker (white or black hat) would find it as well, probably within a few weeks of the OS being out. Thus making the encryption useless.
The whole government complaint is useless anyway because for all they know people can be using deniable encryptionn schemes *today* and they'd never even know about it.
Do you really think they would say that if that was not what Daniel was actually doing? It is easily verifiable. The guy is not stupid.
Daniel *is* going to work for a company on.Net stuff.
.. in the software development field, this is normal.
People in software development are constantly learning more and more about their craft, constantly having access to cutting-edge technologies and APIs. But rarely do you have a job where you can play with this stuff on a day-to-day basis, because actual real-life mean and potatoes development takes place using tools and technology 3-5 years behind the curve.
When was the last time you heard of a production application being written in Ruby on Rails, or in D? Sure, there are exceptions to every rule, but for the majority of us, we are stuck using older stuff.
Which is as it should be. Because if left to our own devices, programmers would always use the most whiz-bang, untested, unstable stuff out there. It's the technophile nature.
IM is never going to be popular in North America until the providers get their heads out of their asses and start charging reasonable amounts for data access. They wonder why no one sends pictures over their phone or uses all theyr hyper-cool content, it is because they'd have to sell their first-born child to afford it.
Why can I get unlimited evening and weekend talk time for 25 bucks or less a month, but I can't get more than 5 MB of data transfer for that same price? It is foolish. I'd exhaust 5MB in a few days just by polling my POP server for email every 5 minutes.
Give me unlimited data for 15 or 20 bucks a month, like I have at my house, and I'll start using some of these "awesome features", like IM and emailing pictures. Right now it is just not worth it.
Will digital music distribution fall solely to giants like XM and iTunes?
I think this is very short-sighted, and in fact I think it is going to go the exact opposite, XM and Sirius are going to be in toruble evry soon.
As more and more major metropolitian areas get cheap or free blanket Wi-Fi access, it will be harder and harder to justify paying 6.95 a month to listen to digital radio, when you can tune into an internet-based digital stream for free. Personally, I already find the quality of a 192kbps stream at shoutcast.com to be far superior to anything on XM.
Satelite also has much higher expenses - it costs a lot more to run and power a network of satelites than a few web servers.
Of what good is a 1Gb/s ethernet connection to a consumer if his hard drive can only read/write data at a peak rate of 400 or 500 Mb/s ? The speed of the LAN is irrelevant at that point.
Thankfully I live in a country with sane tax laws around contest winnings, which are 100% tax free.
Eligibility. In order to be eligible, entrants must be 13 years of age or older, and a legal resident of one of the 50 United States, including Washington, D.C., Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or the United Kingdom.
Seeing as how you can access all the functions of the phone via their Java SDK, including camera, WiFi, multimedia, bluetooth, IR, and text messaging, I don't see what the difference would be.
700k xbox360s -- isn't that the US sales numbers?
13 Million DS -- Isn't that global sales?
Yes and yes. You seem to be forgetting the fact that the XBox 360 is only popular in the US, whereas the DS is popular everywhere. Pretty much same as it was with the XBox and the GBA...
Most of those stories come before eBay bought Paypal. I use paypal extensively, and also did before the buyout, and I find eBay really cleaned up their act.
As for the Katrina thing, it was perfectly valid and the right thing to do. Somehtingawful was not a registered charity and thus paypal had no way to differentiate what it was doing with the hundreds of scams going on at the time to defraud people. I actually applaud them for their pro-active approach in dealing with it - they *could* have just done nothing and let the fraudsters get away with it.
You steal a car, are careening down the highway with cops tight behind, then you hear a dull *thud* from the trunk and the cops stop chasing you.
What are you going to do?
a) Bring the obviously tagged car back to your hideout / chop shop
b) Pull over very quickly at a 7/11, run out and shoot the tracking device, jump back in and speed off. All of which is possible because the cops stopped chasing you.
Seems to me like even with this thing they willhave to maintain at least a close distance to make sure they don't disable the thing.
The laws around marrige and finances have nothing to do with what you're taking about. The reasoning behind it all is that if you are married to someeone, it is for all intents and purposes impossible for someone to accuratly track what is yours and what is your partners. Therefore there needs to be provisions for that, in the income tax act, in the housing act, etc etc.
The reason you can move your deductions onto your partners return and vice-versa, to get the tax breaks, is because even if there was no law allowing it **you could do it anyway**, because they would never be able to prove whose actual deduction it was in the first place, since you likely have joint accounts etc etc.
... borrowed a DVD from a friend and watched it?... made a mixed tape in the 80s from some songs your friends had?... recorded songs on the radio and played them later?
To the **AA, these are all the same as "piracy" and "theft" too, and if they could they'd sue you for each of them.
200 CDs/week was for the pusher to be making low-rent housing in NY.
Any "terrorist" trying to find activities from piracy would need to be selling like 10,000 CDs/ week to equal their potential profit from drugs.
Drugs are a *high markup* item. There is high risk involved, but if you have the mules you can intimidate / bribe to carry the stuff across the border, then you'll make a fortune.
The very suggestion that software piracy is even in the same league as drug smuggling when it comes to profit is absolutely ridiculous.
Do you know how many movies at 5$ a pop it would take to equal even 1KG of coke at street value?
Get your head out of your ass. The pirates on the street are barely scraping by. They'd have to sell 200 CDs a week just to make rent. And with bittorrent aetc, less people buy them every day.
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Most people watch DVDs through a composite video cable, which sends luma and chroma over different frequency bands (roughly 0-2.7 MHz and 2.7-4.5 MHz) on one wire pair. In order for the luma not to overlap the chroma and cause color fringing, the DVD player horizontally filters the image down to the equivalent of 480 pixels wide. Now you're down to 480x480, the same resolution as SVCD.
Bollocks. You can take any S-Video cable (which by your definition would not have said filtering), stip it, twist the luma and chroma wires together, and pop it into any composite jack. I would challenge anyone to see any "color banding". I have played literally hundreds of movies over such a connection because I was too cheap to go buy a converter when twisting two wires will do.
But if a company is going to sell me a product, it better try its hardest to at least make other stuff work. When I plug my Archos AV420 into my mac, it shows up in iTunes -- it's recognized. Sure I can't do funky playlist stuff with it, but I can copy music to it. iTunes supports MP3 the same as it does its own AAC format (and music purchased from the iTMS).
And if I plug my memory stick loaded with MP3s into my PSP, it will play them. And if I bluetooth some mP3s to my Walkman phone, it will play them. What's your point?
Maybe the PSP will be able to connect directly as well.
It isn't out yet so we don't know, do we?
You mean I can now plug in my Zen and play songs I download off of iTunes?
Oh wait, no I can't. Not without converting them all.
STFU. Apple is just as bad as Sony in this regard. There is no difference between Sony wanting you to have a PSP/Walkman phone, and Apple wanting you to have an iPod.
Expect the ability to transfer stuff from your PS3 directly to your PSP for portability.
Also expect the ability to transfer music and small videos directly to your Walkman phone.
I assume you have tried to recover the password from the SAM in a production release of Vista?
Oh wait, that is not out yet.
Stop spouting drivel. You don't know what the OS is going to do because it isn't even out yet.
You should not be able to read the files without logging into the computer with your password and/or other identification token.
After logging in, the files are accessable. But not before. Someone who just swipes your PC would boot into Windows but would be unable to read any data files, even with a seperate boot CD. That's the whole idea.
But if the government adds a backdoor, you can bet that a hacker (white or black hat) would find it as well, probably within a few weeks of the OS being out. Thus making the encryption useless.
The whole government complaint is useless anyway because for all they know people can be using deniable encryptionn schemes *today* and they'd never even know about it.
Do you really think they would say that if that was not what Daniel was actually doing? It is easily verifiable. The guy is not stupid. Daniel *is* going to work for a company on .Net stuff.
Or maybe you aren't qualified.
.. in the software development field, this is normal.
People in software development are constantly learning more and more about their craft, constantly having access to cutting-edge technologies and APIs. But rarely do you have a job where you can play with this stuff on a day-to-day basis, because actual real-life mean and potatoes development takes place using tools and technology 3-5 years behind the curve.
When was the last time you heard of a production application being written in Ruby on Rails, or in D? Sure, there are exceptions to every rule, but for the majority of us, we are stuck using older stuff.
Which is as it should be. Because if left to our own devices, programmers would always use the most whiz-bang, untested, unstable stuff out there. It's the technophile nature.
When a RAID array crashes, someone has to be able restore the data from backups, or re-build the array.
That person, by definition, needs access to the data.
Note, however, they don't need to be able to read it. And from what I understand, they can't. It's all encrypted.
IM is never going to be popular in North America until the providers get their heads out of their asses and start charging reasonable amounts for data access. They wonder why no one sends pictures over their phone or uses all theyr hyper-cool content, it is because they'd have to sell their first-born child to afford it.
Why can I get unlimited evening and weekend talk time for 25 bucks or less a month, but I can't get more than 5 MB of data transfer for that same price? It is foolish. I'd exhaust 5MB in a few days just by polling my POP server for email every 5 minutes.
Give me unlimited data for 15 or 20 bucks a month, like I have at my house, and I'll start using some of these "awesome features", like IM and emailing pictures. Right now it is just not worth it.
You can playe the original NES and SNES games perfectly on PC and Xbox using an emulator. But few N64 games run well.
Will digital music distribution fall solely to giants like XM and iTunes?
I think this is very short-sighted, and in fact I think it is going to go the exact opposite, XM and Sirius are going to be in toruble evry soon.
As more and more major metropolitian areas get cheap or free blanket Wi-Fi access, it will be harder and harder to justify paying 6.95 a month to listen to digital radio, when you can tune into an internet-based digital stream for free. Personally, I already find the quality of a 192kbps stream at shoutcast.com to be far superior to anything on XM.
Satelite also has much higher expenses - it costs a lot more to run and power a network of satelites than a few web servers.
Of what good is a 1Gb/s ethernet connection to a consumer if his hard drive can only read/write data at a peak rate of 400 or 500 Mb/s ? The speed of the LAN is irrelevant at that point.
Thankfully I live in a country with sane tax laws around contest winnings, which are 100% tax free.
Eligibility. In order to be eligible, entrants must be 13 years of age or older, and a legal resident of one of the 50 United States, including Washington, D.C., Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or the United Kingdom.
Seeing as how you can access all the functions of the phone via their Java SDK, including camera, WiFi, multimedia, bluetooth, IR, and text messaging, I don't see what the difference would be.
700k xbox360s -- isn't that the US sales numbers? 13 Million DS -- Isn't that global sales?
Yes and yes. You seem to be forgetting the fact that the XBox 360 is only popular in the US, whereas the DS is popular everywhere. Pretty much same as it was with the XBox and the GBA...
Most of those stories come before eBay bought Paypal. I use paypal extensively, and also did before the buyout, and I find eBay really cleaned up their act.
As for the Katrina thing, it was perfectly valid and the right thing to do. Somehtingawful was not a registered charity and thus paypal had no way to differentiate what it was doing with the hundreds of scams going on at the time to defraud people. I actually applaud them for their pro-active approach in dealing with it - they *could* have just done nothing and let the fraudsters get away with it.
You steal a car, are careening down the highway with cops tight behind, then you hear a dull *thud* from the trunk and the cops stop chasing you.
What are you going to do?
a) Bring the obviously tagged car back to your hideout / chop shop
b) Pull over very quickly at a 7/11, run out and shoot the tracking device, jump back in and speed off. All of which is possible because the cops stopped chasing you.
Seems to me like even with this thing they willhave to maintain at least a close distance to make sure they don't disable the thing.
So you're trying to say that a same-sex couple can not "raise children in a healthy environment"?
I am sorry, but that's just bigotry.
The laws around marrige and finances have nothing to do with what you're taking about. The reasoning behind it all is that if you are married to someeone, it is for all intents and purposes impossible for someone to accuratly track what is yours and what is your partners. Therefore there needs to be provisions for that, in the income tax act, in the housing act, etc etc.
The reason you can move your deductions onto your partners return and vice-versa, to get the tax breaks, is because even if there was no law allowing it **you could do it anyway**, because they would never be able to prove whose actual deduction it was in the first place, since you likely have joint accounts etc etc.
... borrowed a DVD from a friend and watched it? ... made a mixed tape in the 80s from some songs your friends had? ... recorded songs on the radio and played them later?
To the **AA, these are all the same as "piracy" and "theft" too, and if they could they'd sue you for each of them.
200 CDs/week was for the pusher to be making low-rent housing in NY. Any "terrorist" trying to find activities from piracy would need to be selling like 10,000 CDs/ week to equal their potential profit from drugs. Drugs are a *high markup* item. There is high risk involved, but if you have the mules you can intimidate / bribe to carry the stuff across the border, then you'll make a fortune. The very suggestion that software piracy is even in the same league as drug smuggling when it comes to profit is absolutely ridiculous.
Do you know how many movies at 5$ a pop it would take to equal even 1KG of coke at street value?
Get your head out of your ass. The pirates on the street are barely scraping by. They'd have to sell 200 CDs a week just to make rent. And with bittorrent aetc, less people buy them every day.