HD-DVD and Blu-Ray content not playing properly on a two year old Celeron is nothing to do with DRM, it's that a two year-old Celeron isn't powerful enough to play said content. It would be the same if you downloaded a freely available H.264 movie with a high bit-rate.
As for the 'not being able to play it in 1080p' point, the potential flags which can be set to disable or downscale video playback on both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray isn't being set on any discs. Yes. IIRC, they've promised not to use this until 2011 or somesuch. Thus, right now HDCP isn't a must-have item, not to the point of throwing your old equipment away if it's otherwise HD capable.
You couldn't just set up a machine anywhere a la an ATM - If hackers were to set up a Chip and PIN terminal of their own, they'd have to do it at a checkout of a major store, which as you can imagine would be tricky.
The most likely mode of attack along those lines I suppose would be to disguise yourself (or get a job as) a repair person for these devices, and then tamper with them in some fashion so that they record key presses. It would still be a pretty tricky undertaking though I would imagine.
Yep, I work for a very big multi-national company, and we have a 10MB e-mail limit here.
Mind you, considering the number of users who have tried sending 50MB or so e-mails to all users within the company, it really is a blessing in disguise...
And this, ladies and gentleman, is why the plethora of speed cameras present on UK roads cause so much traffic chaos. One driver brakes sharply to avoid getting caught in the speed trap, and the domino effect swings into action. You can see this on pretty much any motorway over here with cameras installed all the time.
The guy's take on the pigeon or squirrel thing is: "Main thing is to prove to a degree who you are,
that you can do something unique and quickly, etc."
You're right though, it doesn't seem like the best way to prove that somebody isn't an FBI agent... Unless pigeons and squirrels have some anti-Fed sixth sense that I'm yet to find out about.
"But can it all get crammed together inside the OLPC ? Hell no. You'll need a rather beefy setup with eleventeen gazillions of gigabytes just to install this madness. (And that's all functionnality most non-custom Linux distros offer out of the box for a foot-print of only a few gigs)."
'A few gigs' still won't fit onto 512MB of Flash though, will it?;)
ITN is an internationally known British news organisation. You're right however that ITV does already exist, as a number of commercial British channels, and main rival to the BBC here in the UK.
"WTF? "Better image quality"? It's a graphics card you dolt! Not a camera! It deserves a higher ranking because it's faster sure, but you can not be telling me you can tell the difference in a still frame image. They probably tested on different monitors >.
Errm... The Radeon X1900 XTX supports anti-aliasing when floating-point based HDR rendering is used, and has an option to use a more comprehensive (rotationally invariant) anisotropic filtering technique. So yes, you can tell the difference in some game titles.
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HD-DVD and Blu-Ray content not playing properly on a two year old Celeron is nothing to do with DRM, it's that a two year-old Celeron isn't powerful enough to play said content. It would be the same if you downloaded a freely available H.264 movie with a high bit-rate.
As for the 'not being able to play it in 1080p' point, the potential flags which can be set to disable or downscale video playback on both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray isn't being set on any discs. Yes. IIRC, they've promised not to use this until 2011 or somesuch. Thus, right now HDCP isn't a must-have item, not to the point of throwing your old equipment away if it's otherwise HD capable.
Nope, just CAT-5 cable.
It could be the World's most expensive game of Snap...
Wait, 9/11 was actually a dastardly plot involving online gambling? There was me thinking it was a terrorist attack or something...
If you don't know the name, age or location of your own child, then you have more important things to worry about that their MySpace account! ;)
Damn, I just used my Mod points, and I can't reward you for the Mitchell and Webb gag. :(
You couldn't just set up a machine anywhere a la an ATM - If hackers were to set up a Chip and PIN terminal of their own, they'd have to do it at a checkout of a major store, which as you can imagine would be tricky.
The most likely mode of attack along those lines I suppose would be to disguise yourself (or get a job as) a repair person for these devices, and then tamper with them in some fashion so that they record key presses. It would still be a pretty tricky undertaking though I would imagine.
Yep, I work for a very big multi-national company, and we have a 10MB e-mail limit here. Mind you, considering the number of users who have tried sending 50MB or so e-mails to all users within the company, it really is a blessing in disguise...
Looks like Oxfam needs to lay off the coffee.
But the use of perpendicular recording to create said drives is.
God knows why I'm standing up for PC World's shoddy article in any way, shape or form, but just thought I'd mention it.
Now you're just talking out of your semi-colon...
And this, ladies and gentleman, is why the plethora of speed cameras present on UK roads cause so much traffic chaos. One driver brakes sharply to avoid getting caught in the speed trap, and the domino effect swings into action. You can see this on pretty much any motorway over here with cameras installed all the time.
The guy's take on the pigeon or squirrel thing is: "Main thing is to prove to a degree who you are, that you can do something unique and quickly, etc." You're right though, it doesn't seem like the best way to prove that somebody isn't an FBI agent... Unless pigeons and squirrels have some anti-Fed sixth sense that I'm yet to find out about.
Does this mean the end for Booble?
By the time they'd finished starting up the 16th DVD stream, the MPAA were hammering on the door...
"But can it all get crammed together inside the OLPC ? Hell no. You'll need a rather beefy setup with eleventeen gazillions of gigabytes just to install this madness. (And that's all functionnality most non-custom Linux distros offer out of the box for a foot-print of only a few gigs)." 'A few gigs' still won't fit onto 512MB of Flash though, will it? ;)
ITN is an internationally known British news organisation. You're right however that ITV does already exist, as a number of commercial British channels, and main rival to the BBC here in the UK.
In the same vein, I've got a (constantly updated) list of over 25 Core 2 Duo reviews up on the front page of Elite Bastards.
Live Messenger is out of Beta now, with its offline messaging functionality still intact.
Not that I've ever used it though - If they're offline, why not send an e-mail?
"WTF? "Better image quality"? It's a graphics card you dolt! Not a camera! It deserves a higher ranking because it's faster sure, but you can not be telling me you can tell the difference in a still frame image. They probably tested on different monitors >.
Errm... The Radeon X1900 XTX supports anti-aliasing when floating-point based HDR rendering is used, and has an option to use a more comprehensive (rotationally invariant) anisotropic filtering technique. So yes, you can tell the difference in some game titles.