If the cable is made to specification and thus does what it's sold to do -- for $6 or $80 then it will transfer your digital signals properly.
If it doesn't, you're almost certainly within your consumer rights to return the faulty cable for a full refund or replacement.
However, I doubt any special manufacturing process has gone in to making the $80 cable any better than the $6 one and they are both built to the exact same specifications and tolerances.
I get the NFL here in the UK in HD (mostly) and the picture quality is usually of good quality. Sounds like a problem with the decoding or something your local station is doing maybe?
None of those things are really that bad though - having the option and market regulation to provide basic safety features in a very dangerous environment (i.e. car) is a GOOD THING.
I don't care who pressured the industry, but except for the 55mph thing, I think seat belts, DUI laws and airbags should be law and everyone should have the responsibility/choice to use them. The motor industry isn't famous for putting safty first!
Now this MPAA thing just sucks. I use the analog output from my box to feed to the kitchen for when I'm cooking. No way would I want them to suddenly stop allowing me to watch stuff in another room just on a whim. But that's got nothing to do with my car having safty features!
You missed England and Wales - who have lower gun crime and lower homicide.
Of course, there's no way to link the two - it could be that England and Wales have a superior police force and fewer social problems resulting in an overall lower amount of aggravated assault and armed theft.
The number of knee-jerk reactions to reports I see on this site is phenomenal! Democracy works by having all different ideas presented and prepared and then debated! Extending the debate here is healthy, but taking it as implemented law and an indication of a countries culture is absurd!
Someone from the print industry was asked to look in to why their industry was declining. They put together a report for the Dutch parliament and they then debate on it and through their own legislative proceedings decide if they're going to put it in to law. A suggestion this extreme will never get passed without some major corruption going on, so it'll be sidelined and never make it through for a second hearing. Job done, democracy wins and we can continue living our lives.
If we really enacted every single piece of legislation proposed or every single special committee report then we would live in a very strange world!
They have a public service remit and I get all my news and editorials from them. Whilst they always are accused of bias from all sides of the political spectrum, I find them as good as any national or local newspaper for general news and coverage.
I don't normally get this angry about government or the percieved loss of liberty in the UK.
However, this does really frustrate me. Not only do we have a government that has no problems with blanket censorship of content (in a nation where freedom of the press is very important) but we have no means of avoiding it.
I know some have indirectly blamed the press for this on the basis that they create a state of fear; but it's not their doing. It's the doing of a government that has so little to differentiate itself on against its competitors that knee-jerk responses to worries like knife-crime is all it has left.
The next election for us will be a tight race between the incumbants, Labour, and the Conservatives. I have no doubt whatsoever that the Conservatives would do the same thing. In fact, I tried finding their response to such a gross curtail of our freedom and got nothing.
I feel trapped. Today it's knives and 'think of the children' censorship. Tomorrow it's regulation by government to show only 'approved content'. Soon it's 'approved content' on 'approved devices' (trusted computing)... What can I do to get out of this?
I can't vote them out, I'm sober enough to know that my vote makes no difference and even if we got the bastards out, we'd get a new set in.
I can protest it, but these are times when you either look like a paranoid dillusionist or a criminal with something to hide. Also, where would the awareness be made? With the press being mostly behind these moves, it gives little space to be competitive.
All I can do is use technical measures (VPN) to get around the issue at first and when it gets too scary, move to a country that isn't doing stupid stuff like this. Given English is my only language, I think that leaves Australia or Canada!
What's crazy is that I WANT to pay for games. I WANT to legally own them and I WANT the people that produced them and funded their business to have my money (provided it's a reasonable cost).
What I DO NOT WANT is to fart around trying to get it working in a few years time after I've bought a new Mac. I want to be able to potentially play it in 5, maybe 10 years time.
I've recently started playing the Monkey Island Series again via ScummVM. I paid for these games way back when and still had them. It was a joy to load them up and just play them. The same went for Broken Sword. Can I do this in the future with all the DRM and restrictions placed in to these titles? When that time comes, I'll have to use a 'pirated' copy I expect because the original ones are too crippled to permit this kind of re-use.
Even today the first thing I do is get a No-CD crack for ligitimately owned games, so I can play them on the move without having to carry all the CD's with me and risk damaging/losing them. Really easy for the studios to overcome, but instead I have to look for these pirates.
The worry is then that I depend on the studios to create these games, but also the pirates to make them playable for me in the future and also bearable today! In other words, I feel almost like I have to pay the studios to ensure my moral obligation to pay for what I use is settled, but then download the pirate copy anyway to get a decent experience! Given that the former are being so ridiculous, guess which one I'm less likely to continue doing?
Mine's been open a few days in OS X and is running at 190... Not that simple crappy anecdotes are that helpful anyway.
Also, check out takebacktheweb.org for the superior grapple themes. They are admittedly a blatent Safari rip-off, but it helps FF blend very nicely in to the OS X environment.
Most people here in the UK at least live further away from work not because of fuel or whatever, but because living in London is horrendously expensive, so your only option for something affordable and pleasant is to live a fair distance away.
A house similar to what I have now that is within 30 minutes of our office would literally cost 3-4x.
How will this affect private (aka bogus) domains for people running internal applications?
For example, we had page.intranet in our old company and loads of the HR tools run on sites like hr.wwwin etc.
This will cause total havoc at least to begin with!
The internet is a saving grace of liberty for countries that would not have been invisioned for 1984.
Provided there is freedom and the intent to remain free people can never unknowingly have their information blocked. The moment I try and log in to wikipedia or BBC news and am blocked will be the day I know we've sunk in to a dystopia.
One other thing is that I have to confess by not being bothered by CCTV:
(1) It's not pointing at my house, my car or my workplace.
(2) A lot of it is privatised in shops etc, I have no problems with a store recording what I do when I'm in there.
(3) In London the number of cameras is kind of frightening. There's a high density of people and thus a high density of cameras. I don't live in London, but in a small town in the West of England. No CCTV here to speak of.
It seems that a lot of the comments are very circumstantial. Crime in the UK, I believe, is generally going down and people are generally safer. However, most people think it's going up and that they're in more danger. This kind of article plays upon that perception I think.
Seriously, who still thinks Apple don't have the option for multiple buttons? Even Apple's own Mighty Mouse has 5 buttons these days...
Get out of 1990...
It's not intuitive either, but the mom or dad looking over your shoulder can at least see what you've done and repeat that next time (not that there will be a next time).
I'm not sure sudo vi/etc/X11/... holds quite the same ease of use.
So I work for Cisco and own a Cisco Mac.
There are about 2,000+ of us using Macs without any IT support or official recognition. You could say we're 'tolerated' and have built up a grassroots community.
We're an Exchange house and have a lot of Microsoft out there. Nevertheless, we all get on just fine with that. Everything interoperates fantastically (and sometimes better).
IT is moving away from the proprietary web pages we have internally that need IE (not for Mac users, but more because it makes sense to support Firefox on all platforms. As supporting Firefox means supported web standards, we get the benefits on our Macs).
Every time I open my Mac in a new customer meeting, people wanna see it like it's a toy. I show them (I'm pretty scripted with it all now) and normally they're impressed.
IT are flexible enough to let us work, which is nice and they will make Mac-supportive changes where they can (normally out of the kindness of their hearts). However, just imagine if we had true IT support for our applications?
The 2,000+ Mac users (that grows by about 2-3 a week) who have no support whatsoever and often have to self-fund their Mac would skyrocket. The obvious productivity gains given to those who WANT a Mac would be far more accessible within the organisation and pretty much all of the 'Macs aren't enterprise ready' crap I'm reading here would be toast.
So give it a go IBM. I'll bet they'll have a very hard time getting those users on the pilot to revert back...
(PS, if they even wanted to revert back they could just put bootcamp on the Mac hardware anyway and have a very decent Windows laptop).
I work for a very large global organisation with a 'middle-of-the-road' IT. They allow all users admin access to their Windows desktops, but have a lot of mandatory software installed.
However, a very large number of users within the organisation use Macs. Some of these are self-funded, others are paid for by their departments. The one thing in common is that we support each other, have a wiki page with most configuration and want as little to do with IT as possible.
In the year I've been using my Mac (some have used theirs for years and years), I have to say it's worked exceptionally well. It's not for everyone. Some are content to tow the line and use their Lenovos.
IT turn a blind eye to the several thousand (and growing) of us. In fact, they support us in some ways (mostly secretly and below the radar). It's universally acknowledged that those employees who are itchy to use Macs instead of Windows and self-support are more productive than they would be were they forced in to a corp. IT environment.
The same goes for the very large linux community within the organisation too.
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If the cable is made to specification and thus does what it's sold to do -- for $6 or $80 then it will transfer your digital signals properly.
If it doesn't, you're almost certainly within your consumer rights to return the faulty cable for a full refund or replacement.
However, I doubt any special manufacturing process has gone in to making the $80 cable any better than the $6 one and they are both built to the exact same specifications and tolerances.
I get the NFL here in the UK in HD (mostly) and the picture quality is usually of good quality. Sounds like a problem with the decoding or something your local station is doing maybe?
The tabloid crowd will almost always equate paedophilia (or homosexuality or whatever) with abuser/rapist.
I don't know if it is that, but that's what they'll always call you.
None of those things are really that bad though - having the option and market regulation to provide basic safety features in a very dangerous environment (i.e. car) is a GOOD THING.
I don't care who pressured the industry, but except for the 55mph thing, I think seat belts, DUI laws and airbags should be law and everyone should have the responsibility/choice to use them. The motor industry isn't famous for putting safty first!
Now this MPAA thing just sucks. I use the analog output from my box to feed to the kitchen for when I'm cooking. No way would I want them to suddenly stop allowing me to watch stuff in another room just on a whim. But that's got nothing to do with my car having safty features!
In my opinion the police should follow up every call.
Even if completely legal activity is occurring, it would be grossly irresponsible to say "No crime here" if the person is distressed enough to call.
Worst case, fine them for wasting police time.
You missed England and Wales - who have lower gun crime and lower homicide.
Of course, there's no way to link the two - it could be that England and Wales have a superior police force and fewer social problems resulting in an overall lower amount of aggravated assault and armed theft.
Crazy idea...
Extend DNS to allow 'P' records to represent international phone numbers and then call people on a domain name?
Would be nice to virtualise it... It's not like it can't be just a number in this context..,
Mod parent up.
The number of knee-jerk reactions to reports I see on this site is phenomenal! Democracy works by having all different ideas presented and prepared and then debated! Extending the debate here is healthy, but taking it as implemented law and an indication of a countries culture is absurd!
Someone from the print industry was asked to look in to why their industry was declining. They put together a report for the Dutch parliament and they then debate on it and through their own legislative proceedings decide if they're going to put it in to law. A suggestion this extreme will never get passed without some major corruption going on, so it'll be sidelined and never make it through for a second hearing. Job done, democracy wins and we can continue living our lives.
If we really enacted every single piece of legislation proposed or every single special committee report then we would live in a very strange world!
What about the BBC?
They have a public service remit and I get all my news and editorials from them. Whilst they always are accused of bias from all sides of the political spectrum, I find them as good as any national or local newspaper for general news and coverage.
I don't normally get this angry about government or the percieved loss of liberty in the UK.
However, this does really frustrate me. Not only do we have a government that has no problems with blanket censorship of content (in a nation where freedom of the press is very important) but we have no means of avoiding it.
I know some have indirectly blamed the press for this on the basis that they create a state of fear; but it's not their doing. It's the doing of a government that has so little to differentiate itself on against its competitors that knee-jerk responses to worries like knife-crime is all it has left.
The next election for us will be a tight race between the incumbants, Labour, and the Conservatives. I have no doubt whatsoever that the Conservatives would do the same thing. In fact, I tried finding their response to such a gross curtail of our freedom and got nothing.
I feel trapped. Today it's knives and 'think of the children' censorship. Tomorrow it's regulation by government to show only 'approved content'. Soon it's 'approved content' on 'approved devices' (trusted computing)... What can I do to get out of this?
I can't vote them out, I'm sober enough to know that my vote makes no difference and even if we got the bastards out, we'd get a new set in.
I can protest it, but these are times when you either look like a paranoid dillusionist or a criminal with something to hide. Also, where would the awareness be made? With the press being mostly behind these moves, it gives little space to be competitive.
All I can do is use technical measures (VPN) to get around the issue at first and when it gets too scary, move to a country that isn't doing stupid stuff like this. Given English is my only language, I think that leaves Australia or Canada!
What I DO NOT WANT is to fart around trying to get it working in a few years time after I've bought a new Mac. I want to be able to potentially play it in 5, maybe 10 years time.
I've recently started playing the Monkey Island Series again via ScummVM. I paid for these games way back when and still had them. It was a joy to load them up and just play them. The same went for Broken Sword. Can I do this in the future with all the DRM and restrictions placed in to these titles? When that time comes, I'll have to use a 'pirated' copy I expect because the original ones are too crippled to permit this kind of re-use.
Even today the first thing I do is get a No-CD crack for ligitimately owned games, so I can play them on the move without having to carry all the CD's with me and risk damaging/losing them. Really easy for the studios to overcome, but instead I have to look for these pirates.
The worry is then that I depend on the studios to create these games, but also the pirates to make them playable for me in the future and also bearable today! In other words, I feel almost like I have to pay the studios to ensure my moral obligation to pay for what I use is settled, but then download the pirate copy anyway to get a decent experience! Given that the former are being so ridiculous, guess which one I'm less likely to continue doing?
Sigh.
Stop saying "Subjects" - British Citizens are just that, Citizens under the Citizenship act. Take your republican nonsense propaganda elsewhere.
Yes, and the cost of devices (the Euro-tax, where pricing of $1 = â1) means that we're also the losers for low-grade stuff anyway.
Mine's been open a few days in OS X and is running at 190... Not that simple crappy anecdotes are that helpful anyway. Also, check out takebacktheweb.org for the superior grapple themes. They are admittedly a blatent Safari rip-off, but it helps FF blend very nicely in to the OS X environment.
Most people here in the UK at least live further away from work not because of fuel or whatever, but because living in London is horrendously expensive, so your only option for something affordable and pleasant is to live a fair distance away. A house similar to what I have now that is within 30 minutes of our office would literally cost 3-4x.
How will this affect private (aka bogus) domains for people running internal applications? For example, we had page.intranet in our old company and loads of the HR tools run on sites like hr.wwwin etc. This will cause total havoc at least to begin with!
OS X has built in X11 support as well. Although it doesn't 'feel' integrated, it does exist.
Provided there is freedom and the intent to remain free people can never unknowingly have their information blocked. The moment I try and log in to wikipedia or BBC news and am blocked will be the day I know we've sunk in to a dystopia.
One other thing is that I have to confess by not being bothered by CCTV:
(1) It's not pointing at my house, my car or my workplace.
(2) A lot of it is privatised in shops etc, I have no problems with a store recording what I do when I'm in there.
(3) In London the number of cameras is kind of frightening. There's a high density of people and thus a high density of cameras. I don't live in London, but in a small town in the West of England. No CCTV here to speak of.
It seems that a lot of the comments are very circumstantial. Crime in the UK, I believe, is generally going down and people are generally safer. However, most people think it's going up and that they're in more danger. This kind of article plays upon that perception I think.
Google itself is becoming genericized, I quite often hear people say "Just google it" or "I'm going to Google for that later".
They may well use Google today, but I think they'll probably still say Google if/when they start using something else...
Check out this interesting article from a few years back.
Is that so hard to implement?
Seriously, who still thinks Apple don't have the option for multiple buttons? Even Apple's own Mighty Mouse has 5 buttons these days... Get out of 1990...
It's not intuitive either, but the mom or dad looking over your shoulder can at least see what you've done and repeat that next time (not that there will be a next time).
I'm not sure sudo vi /etc/X11/... holds quite the same ease of use.
In that case, truth (or justification) is a valid defence in the case of defamation.
Take a look here. Wikipedia also covers it, but I may have edited that before hand, right?
So I work for Cisco and own a Cisco Mac. There are about 2,000+ of us using Macs without any IT support or official recognition. You could say we're 'tolerated' and have built up a grassroots community. We're an Exchange house and have a lot of Microsoft out there. Nevertheless, we all get on just fine with that. Everything interoperates fantastically (and sometimes better). IT is moving away from the proprietary web pages we have internally that need IE (not for Mac users, but more because it makes sense to support Firefox on all platforms. As supporting Firefox means supported web standards, we get the benefits on our Macs). Every time I open my Mac in a new customer meeting, people wanna see it like it's a toy. I show them (I'm pretty scripted with it all now) and normally they're impressed. IT are flexible enough to let us work, which is nice and they will make Mac-supportive changes where they can (normally out of the kindness of their hearts). However, just imagine if we had true IT support for our applications? The 2,000+ Mac users (that grows by about 2-3 a week) who have no support whatsoever and often have to self-fund their Mac would skyrocket. The obvious productivity gains given to those who WANT a Mac would be far more accessible within the organisation and pretty much all of the 'Macs aren't enterprise ready' crap I'm reading here would be toast. So give it a go IBM. I'll bet they'll have a very hard time getting those users on the pilot to revert back... (PS, if they even wanted to revert back they could just put bootcamp on the Mac hardware anyway and have a very decent Windows laptop).
However, a very large number of users within the organisation use Macs. Some of these are self-funded, others are paid for by their departments. The one thing in common is that we support each other, have a wiki page with most configuration and want as little to do with IT as possible.
In the year I've been using my Mac (some have used theirs for years and years), I have to say it's worked exceptionally well. It's not for everyone. Some are content to tow the line and use their Lenovos.
IT turn a blind eye to the several thousand (and growing) of us. In fact, they support us in some ways (mostly secretly and below the radar). It's universally acknowledged that those employees who are itchy to use Macs instead of Windows and self-support are more productive than they would be were they forced in to a corp. IT environment.
The same goes for the very large linux community within the organisation too.