Next at 5: Someone can set up an un-encrypted FM transmitter and block out your favorite station.
Re:Social hack - use "bullfight" for "speed trap".
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To that end, not much brings a smile to my face more than driving at the speed limit on cruise control (which I always do) in the passing lane, and pissing-off some Type-A driver
Ever read traffic laws? In Massachusettes, you must always stay in the right-most lane unless you are explicitly passing someone.
This looks like it's harder to crack then Vidoop. I watched their demo on Tuesday, and I relized how easy it is to watch someone's mouse pointer click on different pictures. I think after 2-3 tries I can figure out that someone chose boats over cars.
One counterpart to this kind of study is this argument: If you think $21.50 is a lot, just imagine how much it would cost each individual customer to negotiate and license all of the patents in question? By centralizing the negotiation and licensing, Microsoft greatly reduces the total transaction costs.
That said, I'm sure a lot of these patents are absurd software patents that Microsoft decided it was cheaper or easier to license than defeat in court.
What's really happening is that the patent system is being used to establish something similar to Adam Smith's Landlord: A class of people who:
Make their primary income from rent
Do no real work
Hold back progress in order to maintain their income from rent
Now, the same can be said for the RIAA who seem to think that owning a copyright entitles their descendants to perpetual effortless income.
One of the reasons why homeownership is highly encouraged in the US is to avoid a landowning class. Perhaps we can fix the patent system in a similar manner, by figuring out a way for indivigual inventors to own their patents?
Well this should push everything towards open document formats a bit more, so it might just be a good thing...
Personally, I think that it's better to use PDF instead of Word for document interchange. It would be cool if someone set up a server that would automatically convert incoming Word documents to PDF. (The server could be wrapped in a VM.)
Right now I can't remember the last time I saw a "best viewed in IE X.0" warning, and that should be an indicator that people know there's a diversity of clients in the market, and making you site exclusive to a particular browser, instead of compiling with standards everyone can implement, means greatly limiting your customer base.
Remember modems? Back in the day, some vendor would come out with a faster modem that would only work at its fastest speed with modems of the same brand. I remember that there were two competing 28.8 standards for awhile. Once there was a final 28.8 standard, US Robotics came out with a modem that could go up to 33.6, but only with another US Robotics modem. A year or two later, there was a standard for 33.6 and a few incompatible 56k standards.
I think were're going to see something similar with browsers. If you want to use the latest and greatest technologies, (XUL, ClickOnce, MS's Flash Clone,) you'll need to put up with some incompatibilites. However, established technologies (like HTML, CSS, Flash, JavaScript, and DOM) need to be standardized and interoperable. Likewise, web sites that use non-standard technologies need to be prepared to quickly update once the standards work.
Just a note... I highly recommend the keep folder over just trashing the message. When's it's morning and you are groggily mass deleting messages, sometimes good messages get axed accidentally... If you have your own domain, it's likely that you have POP so long term storage shouldn't be a problem.
Normally that's not a problem. I typically get about 100 bounces a day, which are easy to delete. Yesterday I got home to find > 2000 messages in my inbox; all bounces to the same forged email address. While it was easy to set up my host to trash all future emails to the same address, it took my mail client a long time to delete those messages.
Such as? What necessary piece of functionality does IE have that Mozilla (or Opera, or others) don't have?
ActiveX. It's great for internal corporate web sites where "getting things done" is more important then 100% standards compliance. (ActiveX components are easier to install then standard applications.) Besides, when something comes around that's better at "getting things done", it'll replace IE.
Excessive treble can even cause the cutting stylus to accelerate so fast that its back edge wipes out what the front edge just cut! It's unfortunate, but treble rolls off, and distortion goes up as you approach the center of the record.
It's worth noting that the CD-4 tecnique had significant problems encoding the carrier tones. (I wasn't alive to witness Quadraphonics, so I jumped on the DVD-A and SACD bandwagon while I could.) From what I understand, the carrier tone used to wear off after 1 or 2 plays on the earliest CD-4 records. The special needle also used to create more hiss. I think CD-4 eventually required half-speed mastering and higher-quality vinyl.
the moral of the story: Getting above 15khz is quite unreliable.
Yeah, I figured out how to use the dongle. The computer can't handle analog side-by-side with digital. (But if I boot with just the CRT, it works fine.) Odd, huh? Maybe the update that came in last night fixed it...
Apple's stores are almost like walking into a fancy TV store. If they could get news shows like "The Daily Show" on iTunes as soon as it's broadcast, they'd take over TV.
Something tells me that lifespan is going to be rather important with TVs of this size. Given the difficulty in installing the thing, I could anticipate that some people will expect them to last 30-40 years. (I would also anticipate that such TVs will be installed while a house is being constructed.
I grew up with NES and SNES. I played Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake 1. When I picked up the N64, Counterstrike, PS2, ect, I was usually dissapointed. The controls were too difficult to learn, and the games weren't much better then what I grew up with. Even the fighting games didn't seem much better then Street Figher 2 or Mortal Combat.
Everything changed when I bought Zelda for the Wii. Each level is as immersive as an entire Zelda game on the original NES. It really is a true improvement over what I had when I was younger.
Why not pick up a SATA CD/DVD drive? You can probably get an unboxed OEM for about $30. You might also be able to get a SATA -> IDE adaptor, but I don't have any experience with them.
It's very difficult to be backwards compatible with everything. Ignoring cost, it adds complexity and difficulty to the development process; and could potentially reduce reliability. As another poster in the thread added, Intel decided to go for more SATA ports in the chipset.
Let's face it, it's 2007, and IDE is quickly on its way out. Why should we hamper a chipset with functionality needed so that you can save $30?
I do empasize with you. This weekend I picked up a Mac Pro, and much to my surprise, I can't run dual monitors unless both are digital. (I can't bear to part with my 17" CRT.) I tried transfering my PCI video card from my old desktop, but it seems that the Mac Pro doesn't use PCI.
Now if I could only get Windows Vista to run on my P100!
A lot of the die-offs have been near corn fields, and a pesticide that coats some of the GM corn is a neurotoxin that causes disorientation in bees, even at low doses.
This article reminds me of a phenominon that occured when there was a huge upswing of people dying from lung cancer in the 1920s, (or 1930s?). Their lungs were always BLACK.
At first, doctors blamed fumes from all of the newly-paved streets. It took many years for doctors to actually accept the crazy idea that smoking causes lung cancer.
I find the theory of cell phones laughable; it's far more likely that it's some new pesticide or other agro chemical.
Something tells me that the value of the raw materials is much less then the cost to recycle. I bet the damage to the environment from TRANSPORTING the CDs to the recycling center is higher then the cost of chucking them in the trash.
Agreed. This is the same kind of crap that I see all of the time from inexperienced developers (especially offshore developers in India). They make all of the classic mistakes, client side javascript for input validation, use of query string parameters with the the SQL command builder on their pages (SQL injections galore), administrative query access to the SQL server directly from the web server, "secret" admin pages, cross-site scripting, you name it and they do it.
I get the impression that the woman who discovered the exploit wasn't an expert programmer. For all I know, they could have been using poorly-checked GET parameters.
The thing about secure programming is that little gotchas creep in that are easily overlooked by senior developers. Perhaps TurboTax wasn't doing good code reviews?
I don't know what it is, or how it will be different from x86, but progress can't keep continuing if we don't look for better methods of doing things.
It cannot be argued that x86 is best architecture ever made, we all know it's not... but it is the one with the most research. We need the top companies in the industry, Intel, AMD, MS, etc. to sit down and design an entirely new specification going forward.
New processor architecture, a new form factor, a new power supply, etc...
I wonder if anyone will create an x86 emulator for this processor. I wonder how fast a parralelized x86 emulator would be?
Yeah, sounds great, until you realize that gasoline (petrol) has 45 MJ per KILOGRAM - the same order of magnitude as coal, 10 times as much as TNT, and over 80 times that of the best batteries.
The reason? Things like coal and gasoline don't carry a heavy oxidizer with them. "Air-breathing" fuels will always be better than "rocket" type fuels for transportation because of the weight and storage expense of carrying both the oxidizer and the fuel on the vehicle. That's a substantial feature for "battery-like" technology to overcome for everyone who is not a short-distance commuter.
Something to consider is that gasoline-powered cars are about 20-30% efficient, while electric cars are about 90-95% efficent. (Gas cars need radiators because so much energy is wasted in heat!) An all-electric car can get away with much less joules / KG because it uses less joules per mile.
Look, they're running a business, so they're not aiming for perfection, just profit. The protection is supposed to keep your neighbor from putting a HD-DVD and a blank into a computer and getting a perfect copy half an hour later. It is not supposed to keep a group of Chinese from remastering the disc with professional equipment.
I'd say that "they" are turning into Adam Smith's Landlord. The entertainment industry is turning copyright into a method of extracting rent by holding back innovation...
Or, in other terms, the entertainment industry is using DRM to try to force you to pay more for entertainment then it's worth; as a result, they are holding back innovation.
I'm being burned by DRM. I ripped all of my CDs into my entertainment system, yet I can't easily rip my DVD-Audio and SACDs. This is a mistake that I won't make with High-def disks.
More important things to look for in a display: color bit depth (10-bit or greater) with full 10-bit processing throughout the pipeline, good motion adaptive deinterlacing tuned for both high-motion and low-motion scenes, good scaling with properly-selected coefficients, good color management, MPEG block and mosquito artifact reduction, and good off-axis viewing angle both horizontally and vertically. I'll gladly take a WXGA display with these features over the 1080p crap that's foisted on people without them
I recently helped my parents purchase a 42" Sharp Aquos. It has a wonderful picture, great viewing angle, ect. Compared to all of the other TVs we looked it, it really had the best picture.
The TV is 1080p. Given that my parents spent lots of money for an incredible picture, why should they rely on a de-interlacer if/when they come across a 1080p source?
Frankly, the only 1080i models available were the "out-of-production" models that didn't have HDMI, and thus weren't under consideration anyway.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that most of the properties where I live have a $200 monthly fee; either as a condo fee or property fee. By taking in an occasional roommate, what I spend on "rent" is comparable to paying a condo/property fee and replacing major appliances as they die.
You mentioned that homes in your area are much nicer than your apartment. Is it possible to move slightly away to find a home, or do you live a huge metro area?
Well, I don't like giving out personal information on a public message board! (But yes, real estate is expensive where I live.)
Let's just say that I think there's more to life then getting up every day to go to a job to pay a mortgage. If I buy a home, I'm forcing myself to have a livelihood that I don't enjoy. I'm currently in a position that Brahm Cohen was in when he decided to quit his job to write BitTorrent. I'm sick of having people tell me where to spend my creative energies.
Basically, I'm better off investing in furthering my career then buying a house. Certainly you can understand that some things in life are more valuable then owning a home? I'm sure I'll be able to afford one once I've put my career where I want it.
That said, even in areas where the cost of maintaining a property might be high, I don't see how you can argue that renting is cheaper than buying. When you rent, all of the money you are paying to the landlord is going into another person's captial investment.
Don't make the mistake that your formula for success works every time.
It's very simple, really. Where I live, the condos and homes are much, much, much nicer then my apartment. The maintence costs, fees, taxes, ect, are about 60-80% of what I currently pay for rent. If I were to buy a property, I'd have to stay there for at least five years in order for it to be worth it.
Read that above paragraph again. Did you comprehend it? Good. To put it bluntly, a mortgage (and other costs) are about double my rent!
If I buy a home of any kind, I'm locked into my job for at least five years. Considering that my job is making me go crazy, I'm much better off going back to school, starting a business, buying "risk", ect.
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Next at 5: Someone can set up an un-encrypted FM transmitter and block out your favorite station.
Ever read traffic laws? In Massachusettes, you must always stay in the right-most lane unless you are explicitly passing someone.
This looks like it's harder to crack then Vidoop. I watched their demo on Tuesday, and I relized how easy it is to watch someone's mouse pointer click on different pictures. I think after 2-3 tries I can figure out that someone chose boats over cars.
What's really happening is that the patent system is being used to establish something similar to Adam Smith's Landlord: A class of people who:
Now, the same can be said for the RIAA who seem to think that owning a copyright entitles their descendants to perpetual effortless income.
One of the reasons why homeownership is highly encouraged in the US is to avoid a landowning class. Perhaps we can fix the patent system in a similar manner, by figuring out a way for indivigual inventors to own their patents?
Personally, I think that it's better to use PDF instead of Word for document interchange. It would be cool if someone set up a server that would automatically convert incoming Word documents to PDF. (The server could be wrapped in a VM.)
Remember modems? Back in the day, some vendor would come out with a faster modem that would only work at its fastest speed with modems of the same brand. I remember that there were two competing 28.8 standards for awhile. Once there was a final 28.8 standard, US Robotics came out with a modem that could go up to 33.6, but only with another US Robotics modem. A year or two later, there was a standard for 33.6 and a few incompatible 56k standards.
I think were're going to see something similar with browsers. If you want to use the latest and greatest technologies, (XUL, ClickOnce, MS's Flash Clone,) you'll need to put up with some incompatibilites. However, established technologies (like HTML, CSS, Flash, JavaScript, and DOM) need to be standardized and interoperable. Likewise, web sites that use non-standard technologies need to be prepared to quickly update once the standards work.
Normally that's not a problem. I typically get about 100 bounces a day, which are easy to delete. Yesterday I got home to find > 2000 messages in my inbox; all bounces to the same forged email address. While it was easy to set up my host to trash all future emails to the same address, it took my mail client a long time to delete those messages.
ActiveX. It's great for internal corporate web sites where "getting things done" is more important then 100% standards compliance. (ActiveX components are easier to install then standard applications.) Besides, when something comes around that's better at "getting things done", it'll replace IE.
That's not really true. From http://www.urpressing.com/tips.html
It's worth noting that the CD-4 tecnique had significant problems encoding the carrier tones. (I wasn't alive to witness Quadraphonics, so I jumped on the DVD-A and SACD bandwagon while I could.) From what I understand, the carrier tone used to wear off after 1 or 2 plays on the earliest CD-4 records. The special needle also used to create more hiss. I think CD-4 eventually required half-speed mastering and higher-quality vinyl.
the moral of the story: Getting above 15khz is quite unreliable.
Yeah, I figured out how to use the dongle. The computer can't handle analog side-by-side with digital. (But if I boot with just the CRT, it works fine.) Odd, huh? Maybe the update that came in last night fixed it...
The good news is that I now have my desk back!
Apple's stores are almost like walking into a fancy TV store. If they could get news shows like "The Daily Show" on iTunes as soon as it's broadcast, they'd take over TV.
Something tells me that lifespan is going to be rather important with TVs of this size. Given the difficulty in installing the thing, I could anticipate that some people will expect them to last 30-40 years. (I would also anticipate that such TVs will be installed while a house is being constructed.
I wonder if the credit card companies would let people get away with chargebacks...
I think the industry has cycles.
I grew up with NES and SNES. I played Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake 1. When I picked up the N64, Counterstrike, PS2, ect, I was usually dissapointed. The controls were too difficult to learn, and the games weren't much better then what I grew up with. Even the fighting games didn't seem much better then Street Figher 2 or Mortal Combat.
Everything changed when I bought Zelda for the Wii. Each level is as immersive as an entire Zelda game on the original NES. It really is a true improvement over what I had when I was younger.
Why not pick up a SATA CD/DVD drive? You can probably get an unboxed OEM for about $30. You might also be able to get a SATA -> IDE adaptor, but I don't have any experience with them.
It's very difficult to be backwards compatible with everything. Ignoring cost, it adds complexity and difficulty to the development process; and could potentially reduce reliability. As another poster in the thread added, Intel decided to go for more SATA ports in the chipset.
Let's face it, it's 2007, and IDE is quickly on its way out. Why should we hamper a chipset with functionality needed so that you can save $30?
I do empasize with you. This weekend I picked up a Mac Pro, and much to my surprise, I can't run dual monitors unless both are digital. (I can't bear to part with my 17" CRT.) I tried transfering my PCI video card from my old desktop, but it seems that the Mac Pro doesn't use PCI.
Now if I could only get Windows Vista to run on my P100!
This article reminds me of a phenominon that occured when there was a huge upswing of people dying from lung cancer in the 1920s, (or 1930s?). Their lungs were always BLACK.
At first, doctors blamed fumes from all of the newly-paved streets. It took many years for doctors to actually accept the crazy idea that smoking causes lung cancer.
I find the theory of cell phones laughable; it's far more likely that it's some new pesticide or other agro chemical.
Something tells me that the value of the raw materials is much less then the cost to recycle. I bet the damage to the environment from TRANSPORTING the CDs to the recycling center is higher then the cost of chucking them in the trash.
I get the impression that the woman who discovered the exploit wasn't an expert programmer. For all I know, they could have been using poorly-checked GET parameters.
The thing about secure programming is that little gotchas creep in that are easily overlooked by senior developers. Perhaps TurboTax wasn't doing good code reviews?
I wonder if anyone will create an x86 emulator for this processor. I wonder how fast a parralelized x86 emulator would be?
Something to consider is that gasoline-powered cars are about 20-30% efficient, while electric cars are about 90-95% efficent. (Gas cars need radiators because so much energy is wasted in heat!) An all-electric car can get away with much less joules / KG because it uses less joules per mile.
I'd say that "they" are turning into Adam Smith's Landlord. The entertainment industry is turning copyright into a method of extracting rent by holding back innovation...
Or, in other terms, the entertainment industry is using DRM to try to force you to pay more for entertainment then it's worth; as a result, they are holding back innovation.
I'm being burned by DRM. I ripped all of my CDs into my entertainment system, yet I can't easily rip my DVD-Audio and SACDs. This is a mistake that I won't make with High-def disks.
I recently helped my parents purchase a 42" Sharp Aquos. It has a wonderful picture, great viewing angle, ect. Compared to all of the other TVs we looked it, it really had the best picture.
The TV is 1080p. Given that my parents spent lots of money for an incredible picture, why should they rely on a de-interlacer if/when they come across a 1080p source?
Frankly, the only 1080i models available were the "out-of-production" models that didn't have HDMI, and thus weren't under consideration anyway.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that most of the properties where I live have a $200 monthly fee; either as a condo fee or property fee. By taking in an occasional roommate, what I spend on "rent" is comparable to paying a condo/property fee and replacing major appliances as they die.
Well, I don't like giving out personal information on a public message board! (But yes, real estate is expensive where I live.)
Let's just say that I think there's more to life then getting up every day to go to a job to pay a mortgage. If I buy a home, I'm forcing myself to have a livelihood that I don't enjoy. I'm currently in a position that Brahm Cohen was in when he decided to quit his job to write BitTorrent. I'm sick of having people tell me where to spend my creative energies.
Basically, I'm better off investing in furthering my career then buying a house. Certainly you can understand that some things in life are more valuable then owning a home? I'm sure I'll be able to afford one once I've put my career where I want it.
Don't make the mistake that your formula for success works every time.
It's very simple, really. Where I live, the condos and homes are much, much, much nicer then my apartment. The maintence costs, fees, taxes, ect, are about 60-80% of what I currently pay for rent. If I were to buy a property, I'd have to stay there for at least five years in order for it to be worth it.
Read that above paragraph again. Did you comprehend it? Good. To put it bluntly, a mortgage (and other costs) are about double my rent!
If I buy a home of any kind, I'm locked into my job for at least five years. Considering that my job is making me go crazy, I'm much better off going back to school, starting a business, buying "risk", ect.