Now if we can get media centre running on the 360, wonder if it can handle HD content playback. Original Xbox Media Centre refuses to play and HD content, the PIII 733MHz CPU is not fast enough to handle it.
Due to this limitation I set up a ubuntu/mythtv box, but somehow I still like XBMC better. I usually keep my content on my XP PC due to large storage on it and XBMC pulls it quite nicely. Not saying mythtv does not, but somehow I find using the game controller on xbmc more convinient to use.
Its not about Iran leadership or their competency.
No one ever answers the basic question the Iranian people are asking, why the hell are they not allowed nuclear technology. They want nukes, they have just as much of a right to nuclear arms as much as the country that invaded a sovereign nation and killed innocents through the use of nukes. GWBush is as much a mad man as Ahmedenijad. When Israel denies existence of Palestian, takes over their land, makes nukes, no one sees a much of a problem because powerful lobbies have investments in Israel, on the other hand if Iranian leadership denies existence of Israel, that is a problem, again because those powerful lobbies have investment in Israel.
Don't tell me you don't see a problem with these double standards. Israel's nukes are justified because its surronded by hostile nations. Well my man, that is the same problem that Iran has, its surrounded by hostile forces, USA and Israel.
Everyone talks about destabilization of the region if/when Iran becomes nuclear. What they are really saying is that damn we wont be able to make them do what we want.
Screw the leftist/rightist, I never got that anyway, the only way I look at it is why is it fair for one nation to have nukes while not the other. Nation that has used nukes on humans should remove nukes before telling others to do so.
When RIAA comes after your ass you are concerned for your privacy and rights, when the same lobbies enforce are anti-Iran policies you support them. Where I come from there is a qoute, "A frog born in a well dies in the well". Leave your well and look at things from a more nuclear prospective. Walk a mile in Iranian shoes, when its 40C outside (BTW, thats 104F) and they have a power cut, nuclear power seems like a very good option.
You complain about Iran's leadership, look at the leadership of the west, the capitalist lobbies are eating western countries from inside(USA in particular), much the same way the extremists are eating away middle east.
Its all perspective. If Iran's not a popular country, don't think America is either. Go walk in Europe and talk to people, they will tell you what they think of the almighty US of A. No doubt USA is a world power and most countries can be bribed into doing your bidding, but don't mistake that for friendship and respect. Don't be naive to world politics.
So, as I said, it says the medicine/herb boosts immune system. Mockery is then surely followed by western media. Well why not, third world country, part of axis of evil, the enemey, how can they come up with a cure.
If they are so incompetent, why the f_ck are you worrying about their nuke program. They are incompetent, let then do what they want, they will never succeed, if they do they will blow off themsleves from the face of the world. Those little evil incompetent Iranians.
So here are the choices as I understand
1) Iranian Incompetent: No treatment for AIDS, no saellite launch and no nukes RESULT: No problem 2) Iranian Competent: Alternative treatment of aids, satellite launch and nukes RESULT: problem
Just dont mix and match 1 & 2 to suit your convenience.
If you look at the news source for that claim that Iran is supposed to have made, its quite clear its a political game of chess. ynetnews is a a political newspaper for Israel, its in their best interest to portray Iran as some dumb country under the rule of Ahmedenijad.
However this current news in sync with recent events happening in Iran. And yes the region will be destabalized, the question is will it be for the good or for the ad. IRaq war destabalized the region, was it for the good or for the bad. Further, whats more important is will this destabalization be for the good of the Iranian people or not.
I think the answer is that destabalization will benefit Iran in the long but is a blow to percevied control of west and its allies in that region. Technological breakthroughs are always bebeficial to a country in the long run as they do not have to rely on bread crums thrown at them by those on power. India proved that by going nuclear in the 70s itself. I was tough to live in India during the 80s because of those sanctions, BUT because of those sanctions India learned to be self sufficient, damn US turned back a cargo ship full of rice when India did its first tests in the 70s, people went hungry, today India is oneof the largest exporter of rice. We wouldnt have Basmati rice if it wasnt fo rthose nuclear tests.
So I say go Iran, just dont make those damn nukes.
"....My question is, and I don't mean to troll, what happened?..."
Being a Muslim myself I really wanted to know "What the hell happened to Islam and Muslim?". Mulsim's were philosopher and thinkers, had scientist in all wake of life.
I did some research and discovered what happened?
Center of the Islamic civilization was Baghdad, when Mongols came to Baghdad, they burned all the libraries and every single book. Although they later converted to Islam, they took it back by centuries. Mongols were a race of warriors, modern day Islam is influenced by Mongols. All the thinkers and educators were lost when Mongols invaded various lands.
So over a very short period, Islam turned into a religion of warriors instead of thinkers.
Now, why haven't we recovered after so many years, well we can thank the present day Saudi Arabia for that (IMHO). Their flavor of Islam is that of the "word" written in Quran as opposed to the spirit of that word. Unfortunately, with their wealth and large reserve of oils, they get to influence a lot of people. Modern day al-qaeda is a direct result of "Wahabi Islam", the flavor of Islam followed by Saudi Arabia. I had the fortune of living in Saudi Arabia as my dad worked for consulting company there. The screwed up religious police you to beat kids if they were caught playing during prayer times. Its easy to see the unfortunate events of 9/11 are a direct off shoot of this thinking. Beat the damn kid if he doesn't follow Islam.
I am a Muslim, and being a Muslim these days I do have a lot to worry about. Not only do I have to worry about terrorist attacks against my family and friends, I also have to worry about people thinking I myself am a terrorist. Particularly people who like the patriot act.
So ever since 9/11 I make sure I never order a Muslim meal, I don't pick seats on flight and I make sure I pay for my ticket with "American" Express or Bank of "America" Credit Card that links directly to my primary account that gets my pay checks from my big name American employer.
Wait... Someone's on the door, I will be right bac@#$!@# @#$%@#$% NO CARRIER!
I recently bought a projector that took HDMI, that is when I startedlooking for HDMI cables. Turns out the cheapest HDMI cable 3ft is for 30$-40$. if u want anything longer, your are looking at 100$ plus.
Researching more I discovered that reason for this is the specs, strangly yes, the specs. An article I read says the HDMI spec (an off shoot of DVI) was designed by computer engnineers and not video engineers. HDMI uses 4 twisted pair with no error correction (unlike TCP/IP) to send real time data and has a huge bandwidth requirements (HDTV). if they were video engineers they would have choosen coaxial. Anyhow, due to this, there are complications in the manufacturing of HDMI cables and achieving 100 ohm impedence is a big issue on these twisted pair cables. In fact for this reason true HDMI cables of any length more than 30ft are unheard of. anything larger and you have to get HDMI to optical converter on both src/dest. A costly affair.
To be honest, I have stopped buying Sony product's just as much as the next guy.
The problem is not Sony, the problem is You. Yes you.
On one hand you want products that costs less and does everything, on the other hand when you invest your money you want maximum returns. These bad products are a direct outcome of this cache 22 situation.
Sony is a aggressive company and a rather successful one no matter what anyone says, more often than net they have researched the market very well and are the only ones offereing a good solution, eg: I wanted a video camera, in this day and age of HDTV I figured lets look at the market for HDTV video cameras. Sony was the only one that made a consumer level HDTV cam corder. Its a pretty good camcorder and a good product overall. The features are well thought off and gives me what I need.
This has happened more often than not forcing me to buy a Sony product. And my personal experience says that yes, they do innovate.
Trinitron TV was an innovation F707, sony cybershot was an innovation their HD1 HD cam corder is an innovation. PSP is an innovation
And like it or not PS3 using a cell processor is an innovation, agreed Cell is not their innovation but using it knowing full well and taking a risk is.
When you and I invest and want maximum returns, this is what happens, face it corporate America.
There is actually one more reason. A docter friend of mine in India said doctors are often in a delima, the poor cannot afford approved commercial treatment, without which they will certainly die, hence doctors often ask these poor to enroll in these trials in a hope they might be able to afford (unproven) medicine, often better than no medicine at all. These same medicine once approved will cost them more than their yearly wages.
Yet another reason why I am absolutely against software patents.
Firestar never gave us anything, another useless company with 3 customers (http://www.firestarsoftware.com/customers.html) looking for a way to make money.
In recent times, no other library besides Hibernate and Spring have influenced the Java community so much, these two methodologies have changed the way architects and developers make enterprize software. Infact large parts of EJB 3.0 specs are inflenced by Hibernate.
Now here comes a useless company and sues Redhat.
IMHO, if I see a company that has a legit product being harmed by real patent infringement, it does make sense for them to sue the offender. However in this case, there is no product to talk off, nor does it seem like there is going to be a competing product from them.
"Why did Japan succeed but India fail?" I think comparision between India and Japan is wrong. Japan was fighting the world during WWII i.e. it was a world power, India at the time was coming out of a British rule that had slaved it.
All Japan really had to do is recover from WWII and the nukes. India had to start from scratch. Its only been 55 odd years or so since British rule ended in India. 55 Years is not a lot of time for a country to get freedom and stand on its feat.
Closest I would compare here is that Japan has succeeded and India is still writing its exam, judgement is still out.
There is a reason to why everyone is worried about outsourcing to India. This is also where NASA can learn from India. Budget for ISRO is nothing compared to that of NASA, nonetheless ISRO is in a select class of organization that has managed to launch a one ton plus satellite into orbit.
This is where NASA has most to gain, getting things done for lesser costs. Further, no single event except for wars have helped technology as much as NASA's Man on the Moon mission.
ISRO's exploration of the moon has similar objectives as well.
All this discussion about DRM chips and analog holes.
I think it is about time someone suggested putting a DRM chip right in the human head... talking straight to nurons in the head. Better yet, DRM chip can create synaptic patterns based on the content. That will show them consumers.
Slashdot Mirror
HDMI cards with and without HDCP have been available for at least over a year.
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http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=102962653
Why is this news?
HDMI cards with and without HDCP have been around for quite some time!
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Here is a list of at least a dozen available for over a year. (text search for HDMI)
http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=102962653
Why is this news?
Now if we can get media centre running on the 360, wonder if it can handle HD content playback. Original Xbox Media Centre refuses to play and HD content, the PIII 733MHz CPU is not fast enough to handle it.
Due to this limitation I set up a ubuntu/mythtv box, but somehow I still like XBMC better. I usually keep my content on my XP PC due to large storage on it and XBMC pulls it quite nicely. Not saying mythtv does not, but somehow I find using the game controller on xbmc more convinient to use.
Its not about Iran leadership or their competency.
No one ever answers the basic question the Iranian people are asking, why the hell are they not allowed nuclear technology. They want nukes, they have just as much of a right to nuclear arms as much as the country that invaded a sovereign nation and killed innocents through the use of nukes. GWBush is as much a mad man as Ahmedenijad. When Israel denies existence of Palestian, takes over their land, makes nukes, no one sees a much of a problem because powerful lobbies have investments in Israel, on the other hand if Iranian leadership denies existence of Israel, that is a problem, again because those powerful lobbies have investment in Israel.
Don't tell me you don't see a problem with these double standards. Israel's nukes are justified because its surronded by hostile nations. Well my man, that is the same problem that Iran has, its surrounded by hostile forces, USA and Israel.
Everyone talks about destabilization of the region if/when Iran becomes nuclear. What they are really saying is that damn we wont be able to make them do what we want.
Screw the leftist/rightist, I never got that anyway, the only way I look at it is why is it fair for one nation to have nukes while not the other. Nation that has used nukes on humans should remove nukes before telling others to do so.
When RIAA comes after your ass you are concerned for your privacy and rights, when the same lobbies enforce are anti-Iran policies you support them. Where I come from there is a qoute, "A frog born in a well dies in the well". Leave your well and look at things from a more nuclear prospective. Walk a mile in Iranian shoes, when its 40C outside (BTW, thats 104F) and they have a power cut, nuclear power seems like a very good option.
You complain about Iran's leadership, look at the leadership of the west, the capitalist lobbies are eating western countries from inside(USA in particular), much the same way the extremists are eating away middle east.
Its all perspective. If Iran's not a popular country, don't think America is either. Go walk in Europe and talk to people, they will tell you what they think of the almighty US of A. No doubt USA is a world power and most countries can be bribed into doing your bidding, but don't mistake that for friendship and respect. Don't be naive to world politics.
So, as I said, it says the medicine/herb boosts immune system. Mockery is then surely followed by western media. Well why not, third world country, part of axis of evil, the enemey, how can they come up with a cure.
If they are so incompetent, why the f_ck are you worrying about their nuke program. They are incompetent, let then do what they want, they will never succeed, if they do they will blow off themsleves from the face of the world. Those little evil incompetent Iranians.
So here are the choices as I understand
1) Iranian Incompetent: No treatment for AIDS, no saellite launch and no nukes RESULT: No problem
2) Iranian Competent: Alternative treatment of aids, satellite launch and nukes RESULT: problem
Just dont mix and match 1 & 2 to suit your convenience.
If you look at the news source for that claim that Iran is supposed to have made, its quite clear its a political game of chess. ynetnews is a a political newspaper for Israel, its in their best interest to portray Iran as some dumb country under the rule of Ahmedenijad.
However this current news in sync with recent events happening in Iran. And yes the region will be destabalized, the question is will it be for the good or for the ad. IRaq war destabalized the region, was it for the good or for the bad. Further, whats more important is will this destabalization be for the good of the Iranian people or not.
I think the answer is that destabalization will benefit Iran in the long but is a blow to percevied control of west and its allies in that region. Technological breakthroughs are always bebeficial to a country in the long run as they do not have to rely on bread crums thrown at them by those on power. India proved that by going nuclear in the 70s itself. I was tough to live in India during the 80s because of those sanctions, BUT because of those sanctions India learned to be self sufficient, damn US turned back a cargo ship full of rice when India did its first tests in the 70s, people went hungry, today India is oneof the largest exporter of rice. We wouldnt have Basmati rice if it wasnt fo rthose nuclear tests.
So I say go Iran, just dont make those damn nukes.
"....My question is, and I don't mean to troll, what happened?..."
Being a Muslim myself I really wanted to know "What the hell happened to Islam and Muslim?". Mulsim's were philosopher and thinkers, had scientist in all wake of life.
I did some research and discovered what happened?
Center of the Islamic civilization was Baghdad, when Mongols came to Baghdad, they burned all the libraries and every single book. Although they later converted to Islam, they took it back by centuries. Mongols were a race of warriors, modern day Islam is influenced by Mongols. All the thinkers and educators were lost when Mongols invaded various lands.
So over a very short period, Islam turned into a religion of warriors instead of thinkers.
Now, why haven't we recovered after so many years, well we can thank the present day Saudi Arabia for that (IMHO). Their flavor of Islam is that of the "word" written in Quran as opposed to the spirit of that word. Unfortunately, with their wealth and large reserve of oils, they get to influence a lot of people. Modern day al-qaeda is a direct result of "Wahabi Islam", the flavor of Islam followed by Saudi Arabia. I had the fortune of living in Saudi Arabia as my dad worked for consulting company there. The screwed up religious police you to beat kids if they were caught playing during prayer times. Its easy to see the unfortunate events of 9/11 are a direct off shoot of this thinking. Beat the damn kid if he doesn't follow Islam.
Thats what happened to Islam.
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..and I am all set
They just happened to create the memory cell, twice, one yesterday, one today.
Yes
Go to google, search
filetype:torrent
almost as good as isohunt, no harm done.
Now my hind site says this is common sense.
I am a Muslim, and being a Muslim these days I do have a lot to worry about. Not only do I have to worry about terrorist attacks against my family and friends, I also have to worry about people thinking I myself am a terrorist. Particularly people who like the patriot act.
So ever since 9/11 I make sure I never order a Muslim meal, I don't pick seats on flight and I make sure I pay for my ticket with "American" Express or Bank of "America" Credit Card that links directly to my primary account that gets my pay checks from my big name American employer.
Wait... Someone's on the door, I will be right bac@#$!@# @#$%@#$% NO CARRIER!
Since I am no video expert and no I don't talk to sales people at bestbuy, here is the article I was talking about.
e r-with-hdmi.htm
:)
http://bluejeanscable.com/articles/whats-the-matt
Educate
I recently bought a projector that took HDMI, that is when I startedlooking for HDMI cables. Turns out the cheapest HDMI cable 3ft is for 30$-40$. if u want anything longer, your are looking at 100$ plus.
Researching more I discovered that reason for this is the specs, strangly yes, the specs. An article I read says the HDMI spec (an off shoot of DVI) was designed by computer engnineers and not video engineers. HDMI uses 4 twisted pair with no error correction (unlike TCP/IP) to send real time data and has a huge bandwidth requirements (HDTV). if they were video engineers they would have choosen coaxial. Anyhow, due to this, there are complications in the manufacturing of HDMI cables and achieving 100 ohm impedence is a big issue on these twisted pair cables. In fact for this reason true HDMI cables of any length more than 30ft are unheard of. anything larger and you have to get HDMI to optical converter on both src/dest. A costly affair.
To be honest, I have stopped buying Sony product's just as much as the next guy.
The problem is not Sony, the problem is You. Yes you.
On one hand you want products that costs less and does everything, on the other hand when you invest your money you want maximum returns. These bad products are a direct outcome of this cache 22 situation.
Sony is a aggressive company and a rather successful one no matter what anyone says, more often than net they have researched the market very well and are the only ones offereing a good solution, eg: I wanted a video camera, in this day and age of HDTV I figured lets look at the market for HDTV video cameras. Sony was the only one that made a consumer level HDTV cam corder. Its a pretty good camcorder and a good product overall. The features are well thought off and gives me what I need.
This has happened more often than not forcing me to buy a Sony product. And my personal experience says that yes, they do innovate.
Trinitron TV was an innovation
F707, sony cybershot was an innovation
their HD1 HD cam corder is an innovation.
PSP is an innovation
And like it or not
PS3 using a cell processor is an innovation, agreed Cell is not their innovation but using it knowing full well and taking a risk is.
When you and I invest and want maximum returns, this is what happens, face it corporate America.
on this slide http://www.networkworld.com/graphics/2006/Antikyth era_Image3.jpg
On a more serious note: So what makes up the Internet? Webpages or the data that flows over networks.
Wow dude, RIAA is gonna hire a hitman to take you down for the copyright infringement.
There is no way you can claim fairuse if you have a copy of songs etched in your neurons.
Cool, I am going to put a turbine on the top of my car and charge the capacitor with all the wind when I drive my car.
Off to patent it now.
#$% #$%^%^ those damn europeans, not allowing me to patent it, saying I can't patent perpetual motion devices.
http://www.TrackStick.com
There is actually one more reason. A docter friend of mine in India said doctors are often in a delima, the poor cannot afford approved commercial treatment, without which they will certainly die, hence doctors often ask these poor to enroll in these trials in a hope they might be able to afford (unproven) medicine, often better than no medicine at all. These same medicine once approved will cost them more than their yearly wages.
Yet another reason why I am absolutely against software patents.
Firestar never gave us anything, another useless company with 3 customers (http://www.firestarsoftware.com/customers.html) looking for a way to make money.
In recent times, no other library besides Hibernate and Spring have influenced the Java community so much, these two methodologies have changed the way architects and developers make enterprize software. Infact large parts of EJB 3.0 specs are inflenced by Hibernate.
Now here comes a useless company and sues Redhat.
IMHO, if I see a company that has a legit product being harmed by real patent infringement, it does make sense for them to sue the offender. However in this case, there is no product to talk off, nor does it seem like there is going to be a competing product from them.
The driver of the vehical died later due to fatigue by paddling the vehicle for 3145 miles.
"Why did Japan succeed but India fail?"
I think comparision between India and Japan is wrong. Japan was fighting the world during WWII i.e. it was a world power, India at the time was coming out of a British rule that had slaved it.
All Japan really had to do is recover from WWII and the nukes. India had to start from scratch. Its only been 55 odd years or so since British rule ended in India. 55 Years is not a lot of time for a country to get freedom and stand on its feat.
Closest I would compare here is that Japan has succeeded and India is still writing its exam, judgement is still out.
There is a reason to why everyone is worried about outsourcing to India. This is also where NASA can learn from India. Budget for ISRO is nothing compared to that of NASA, nonetheless ISRO is in a select class of organization that has managed to launch a one ton plus satellite into orbit.
This is where NASA has most to gain, getting things done for lesser costs. Further, no single event except for wars have helped technology as much as NASA's Man on the Moon mission.
ISRO's exploration of the moon has similar objectives as well.
I don't care about Air-Force.
When can I get my chinese laser pointer to do the same.
All this discussion about DRM chips and analog holes.
I think it is about time someone suggested putting a DRM chip right in the human head... talking straight to nurons in the head. Better yet, DRM chip can create synaptic patterns based on the content. That will show them consumers.