While you start with a reasonably insightful comment that's been true for decades, it's the second and third paragraphs that are very disturbing.
It is the entire goal of the terrorists...
Without straying too much off topic, you have clearly been drinking too much of the U.S. Government's punch. The U.S. Government historically doctors/spins media to meet their end goal. Every government does.
I urge you to examine the historical foreign policy record on the issue. It is hard to avoid coming up with a non-specific conclusion where this is a consequence of decades of U.S. foreign policy.
It's a hell of a lot less spooky and evil than you and the unfortunate individuals modding you insightful have been lead to believe.
The API that provides this spec is probably proprietary and will be jealously guarded.
HD Photo uses an advanced compression scheme, there is no simple way for applications to directly access specific portions of the stored photo data other than through the appropriate codec interfaces.
Rather than use a series of metadata tags to attempt to describe the attributes of an image's structure, HD Photo uses a unique GUID to provide a non-ambiguous definition of the image pixel format.
I would love to know the machinations that got the DOJ on _this_ case.
1. It's likely we'll never know because few, care enough about their government enough to pay attention. They are marginalized as "special interest groups." 2. Still. Who calls who(m?) in this situation.
Similarly, I'd love to know who called who(m?) when the whole RIM patent case was in-process to have the patents in question magically invalidated.
End Note: grammar nazis, please do the following: 1. correct my usage of who/whom in this post. I'm too lazy to look it up. 2. Provide rules for proper usage. 3. Provide handy shortcut for remembering proper usage.
That's a very nice idea, but examine the history of pushing ODF through in Massachusetts. Applying a little common sense to a situation that just so happened to directly threaten microsoft and cost the IT guy his job.
Citizens are the **last** ones to benefit when we aren't involved in our government. Always.
Exactly. What most USA-based media forgets is the cost of legitimate ownership on a Microsoft stack is **way** out of reach of most businesses of your usual Western economies.
All the more reason running unauthorized Windows installs have a happy future everywhere but probably the U.S.
Unrelated comment: The more uncertainty and lack of information media outlets have the better when it comes to OO.org and Linux distros. Reliable "speeds and feeds" is what managerial types use to justify raping another market. What Tivo did to the GPL is a great example.
This is very useful for a myriad of devices that connects to the internet. The device in question (ex. ipod, laptop) is a total slave in the sense that rogue devices will have a temporary impact.
RIAA members are probably quite satisfied with it. It's conceivable that governments would be pleased as well.
I guess the Hungarian office didn't do a good enough job of hiding the illegal with the legal.
Re:well it seems like the obvious thing....
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The Trouble With TiVo
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Ahhh yes... The quick and dirty reasons why Tivo is the bane of cable companies existence.
1. Not invented here. Cable companies didn't think of it so it's bad. Period. No logic. Just bad. 2. Negatively affects ratings. Since most "cable companies" are subsidiaries of the entertainment conglomerates, you bet the word comes from the mountain top that pvr's are bad. Dings ratings, failure to fully monetize their content. 3. Most consumers believe renting the box is a benefit. This is a dead end for consumers for a million reasons. None of which have to do with convenience.
Tivo apparently has great PR to get reviews by all of those media outlets. Too bad the media conglomerates are one of their biggest advertisers. The good reviews will come to an end for no good reason other than the media conglomerates want tivo dead.
Depending on how you do it, it's not illegal. But most of the time there is a mixture of legal and illegal MDF usage pretty much everywhere in the world.
These kinds of market development funds are used to take valued decision makers on vacations, the usual wine and dine and some more unusual things, some of which are legal in Las Vegas. It's a very cozy relationship. So cozy that any hint of a competitor would **really** disrupt the good times.
Think about it this way. Either Intel keeping you in wine and roses or the MDF goes to your competitor while you have both Intel and AMD's sales people whining in your office once a quarter with less MDF coming in the door overall and fewer perks overall.
There's no example where industry spends money that doesn't somehow contribute to their profits.
Unsafe cars provide automobiles for more people at lower prices. Safe cars are more expensive. Forests? They have no value as trees. Company X makes paper, company Y makes furniture.
I was going to throw a similar kind of bomb about pornography, but I think you get the point.
Sadly, most of America have no clue where the dividing line between Science and Policy should be. Hell, they aren't capable of discussing the concept of a gray area between Science and Policy. Sadly, you fall in there somewhere.
... the CTO's underlings doing the hard work and the CTO gets the credit.
IMHO, the story wouldn't garner any interest whatsoever if the summary did NOT include mentioning the CTO. Look at the grief your average employee get when they publish an exploit.
First claiming that mysterious "application support" is missing and then switching your explanation to "politics" is telling. It suggests that if the two conditions mentioned were actually met then a third deal-breaking condition would suddenly appear.
For those of you looking for a more bare-metal kind of browser like Dillo except with more rendering capability then start packaging! I'm sure they could use the bug reports too. We could use a GNU version of it too.
The machines on the floor can have coin comparator/bill validator problems. That's what this sounds like to me.
The state tests/certifies a single machine. Funny how there's so few game manufacturers licensed and yet it has gotten ridiculously easy to build a game. **All** of them are a low-low end pc's in a game cabinet. Some of them are dumb terminals. If there are any enterprising reporters in the./ audience they should look the lack of licensed game manufacturers.
.. Poor battery lifetime... The wearing out of laptop clamshell hinges. The low quality of laptop keyboards
*Every* single company that retails computers sees higher unit sales when you mention those features. While laptops aren't designed to break as much as they are designed to meet an ever-declining cost, breaking works out great for the laptop retailers.
The room inside a desktop for various hardware add-ons I don't think you understand the tiny number of people that want this feature. Nearly all consumers *never* open a case.
No doubt the typical atx computer is failing. It's been known for a long time the space the average american **wants** to devote to office/computer is tiny. As in laptop tiny. They just bought the ATX style computer because it was cheap.
In some instances, yes they do. Mediaportal has a plugin that treats some digital cable boxes like a tuner. You still need an mpeg encoder/decoder card to write the data to disk. I'm not sure about knoppmyth.
Each has their caveats. Knoppmyth works better once you get it rolling, but there's lots of fiddly work to get it going. Lots of fiddly work. Once it's up its rock steady. It manages powering down/sleeping between scheduled shows much better than win32.
MediaPortal is easier to set up. Buggy interface though. Not show-stoppers but whacky things that make it hard to use. For reasons I haven't investigated it uses some kind of proprietary file type to store the shows. If someone knows how to set it up to make an mpeg that would be great. http://www.team-mediaportal.com/
The point is they will be using their bully pulpit to sodomize the Linux market by conveniently ignoring whatever rule of law applies in this situation.
They will change tactics when ignoring the rule of law as they see fit is no longer tolerated.
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While you start with a reasonably insightful comment that's been true for decades, it's the second and third paragraphs that are very disturbing.
It is the entire goal of the terrorists...
Without straying too much off topic, you have clearly been drinking too much of the U.S. Government's punch. The U.S. Government historically doctors/spins media to meet their end goal. Every government does.
I urge you to examine the historical foreign policy record on the issue. It is hard to avoid coming up with a non-specific conclusion where this is a consequence of decades of U.S. foreign policy.
It's a hell of a lot less spooky and evil than you and the unfortunate individuals modding you insightful have been lead to believe.
Think Apple's Aperture. The file becomes part of a bigger work flow if one of them is implemented correctly.
The spec is publicly available. I'm not sure how this interacts with the EULA: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:IHRfofXSXt4J:d ownload.microsoft.com/download/1/6/a/16acc601-1b7a -42ad-8d4e-4f0aa156ec3e/HDPhoto_v10.doc+HD+Photo+u ses+an+advanced+compression+scheme,+there+is+no+si mple+way+for+applications+to+directly+access+speci fic+portions+of+the+stored+photo+data+other+than+t hrough+the+appropriate+codec+interfaces.&hl=en&ct= clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
The API that provides this spec is probably proprietary and will be jealously guarded.
HD Photo uses an advanced compression scheme, there is no simple way for applications to directly access specific portions of the stored photo data other than through the appropriate codec interfaces.
Rather than use a series of metadata tags to attempt to describe the attributes of an image's structure, HD Photo uses a unique GUID to provide a non-ambiguous definition of the image pixel format.
I would love to know the machinations that got the DOJ on _this_ case.
1. It's likely we'll never know because few, care enough about their government enough to pay attention. They are marginalized as "special interest groups."
2. Still. Who calls who(m?) in this situation.
Similarly, I'd love to know who called who(m?) when the whole RIM patent case was in-process to have the patents in question magically invalidated.
End Note: grammar nazis, please do the following:
1. correct my usage of who/whom in this post. I'm too lazy to look it up.
2. Provide rules for proper usage.
3. Provide handy shortcut for remembering proper usage.
That's a very nice idea, but examine the history of pushing ODF through in Massachusetts. Applying a little common sense to a situation that just so happened to directly threaten microsoft and cost the IT guy his job.
Citizens are the **last** ones to benefit when we aren't involved in our government. Always.
Exactly. What most USA-based media forgets is the cost of legitimate ownership on a Microsoft stack is **way** out of reach of most businesses of your usual Western economies.
All the more reason running unauthorized Windows installs have a happy future everywhere but probably the U.S.
Unrelated comment:
The more uncertainty and lack of information media outlets have the better when it comes to OO.org and Linux distros. Reliable "speeds and feeds" is what managerial types use to justify raping another market. What Tivo did to the GPL is a great example.
This is very useful for a myriad of devices that connects to the internet. The device in question (ex. ipod, laptop) is a total slave in the sense that rogue devices will have a temporary impact.
RIAA members are probably quite satisfied with it. It's conceivable that governments would be pleased as well.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=256583&cid=200 10655
I guess the Hungarian office didn't do a good enough job of hiding the illegal with the legal.
Ahhh yes... The quick and dirty reasons why Tivo is the bane of cable companies existence.
1. Not invented here. Cable companies didn't think of it so it's bad. Period. No logic. Just bad.
2. Negatively affects ratings. Since most "cable companies" are subsidiaries of the entertainment conglomerates, you bet the word comes from the mountain top that pvr's are bad. Dings ratings, failure to fully monetize their content.
3. Most consumers believe renting the box is a benefit. This is a dead end for consumers for a million reasons. None of which have to do with convenience.
Tivo apparently has great PR to get reviews by all of those media outlets. Too bad the media conglomerates are one of their biggest advertisers. The good reviews will come to an end for no good reason other than the media conglomerates want tivo dead.
Depending on how you do it, it's not illegal. But most of the time there is a mixture of legal and illegal MDF usage pretty much everywhere in the world.
These kinds of market development funds are used to take valued decision makers on vacations, the usual wine and dine and some more unusual things, some of which are legal in Las Vegas. It's a very cozy relationship. So cozy that any hint of a competitor would **really** disrupt the good times.
Think about it this way. Either Intel keeping you in wine and roses or the MDF goes to your competitor while you have both Intel and AMD's sales people whining in your office once a quarter with less MDF coming in the door overall and fewer perks overall.
There's no example where industry spends money that doesn't somehow contribute to their profits.
Unsafe cars provide automobiles for more people at lower prices. Safe cars are more expensive.
Forests? They have no value as trees. Company X makes paper, company Y makes furniture.
I was going to throw a similar kind of bomb about pornography, but I think you get the point.
Sadly, most of America have no clue where the dividing line between Science and Policy should be. Hell, they aren't capable of discussing the concept of a gray area between Science and Policy. Sadly, you fall in there somewhere.
... the CTO's underlings doing the hard work and the CTO gets the credit.
IMHO, the story wouldn't garner any interest whatsoever if the summary did NOT include mentioning the CTO. Look at the grief your average employee get when they publish an exploit.
Maybe Ask Yahoo is a better place for this kind of question?
How is this insightful?
First claiming that mysterious "application support" is missing and then switching your explanation to "politics" is telling. It suggests that if the two conditions mentioned were actually met then a third deal-breaking condition would suddenly appear.
Please examine your motivations carefully.
This guy is probably doing something similar. Symphony OS.
c reenshots/index.php?linux_distribution_sm=Symphony %20OS%202006-12%20Beta
http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/s
For those of you looking for a more bare-metal kind of browser like Dillo except with more rendering capability then start packaging! I'm sure they could use the bug reports too. We could use a GNU version of it too.
Not really.
./ audience they should look the lack of licensed game manufacturers.
The machines on the floor can have coin comparator/bill validator problems. That's what this sounds like to me.
The state tests/certifies a single machine. Funny how there's so few game manufacturers licensed and yet it has gotten ridiculously easy to build a game. **All** of them are a low-low end pc's in a game cabinet. Some of them are dumb terminals. If there are any enterprising reporters in the
.. Poor battery lifetime ... The wearing out of laptop clamshell hinges. The low quality of laptop keyboards
*Every* single company that retails computers sees higher unit sales when you mention those features. While laptops aren't designed to break as much as they are designed to meet an ever-declining cost, breaking works out great for the laptop retailers.
The room inside a desktop for various hardware add-ons
I don't think you understand the tiny number of people that want this feature. Nearly all consumers *never* open a case.
No doubt the typical atx computer is failing. It's been known for a long time the space the average american **wants** to devote to office/computer is tiny. As in laptop tiny. They just bought the ATX style computer because it was cheap.
...but since last march the trend reversed
o e=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client =firefox-a
Maybe you really aren't a Microsoft shill, but you sure sound like one.
4 tabs open in IE7 and firefox + both minimised > ie7 using 4MB! firefox is using 60MB! wtf?
This is a logical fallacy of some crazy kind. Is IE a standalone application that's reporting its *actual* memory use? Very doubtful.
How about the dog-slowedness of rendering in IE7? Wait. don't tell me it's rocket-fast for you right?
http://www.google.com/search?q=ie7+slow&ie=utf-8&
/. needs to put the grammar nazis to better use.
Seriously.
Most IT projects I've been involved with that got to some difficult points suddenly had no one willing to discuss them, much less do anything.
Woe is the girl/guy with no authority brought in to get the project back on track.
In some instances, yes they do. Mediaportal has a plugin that treats some digital cable boxes like a tuner. You still need an mpeg encoder/decoder card to write the data to disk. I'm not sure about knoppmyth.
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ if you like win32. You need a card with the mpeg decoder on board.
http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html if you like linux. Cheap pci cards/usbpvr2 work great.
I've configured both knoppmyth http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html and mediaportal for win32 http://www.team-mediaportal.com/.
Each has their caveats. Knoppmyth works better once you get it rolling, but there's lots of fiddly work to get it going. Lots of fiddly work. Once it's up its rock steady. It manages powering down/sleeping between scheduled shows much better than win32.
MediaPortal is easier to set up. Buggy interface though. Not show-stoppers but whacky things that make it hard to use. For reasons I haven't investigated it uses some kind of proprietary file type to store the shows. If someone knows how to set it up to make an mpeg that would be great. http://www.team-mediaportal.com/
The point is they will be using their bully pulpit to sodomize the Linux market by conveniently ignoring whatever rule of law applies in this situation.
They will change tactics when ignoring the rule of law as they see fit is no longer tolerated.