As I understand it, it's usually hardest to get anything non-English accepted in England
Among the "less well educated" it can sometimes be a problem. London taxi drivers seem to be worst IMO, but when you tell them it's that or nothing they usually give in.
and easier to get Bank of England stuff accepted in Scotland or Northern Ireland
It's never a problem to use BoE notes anywhere in mainland Britain. I don't know about Ireland, but can't see it being different
God the US treasury has finally discovered that different colours allow people to distinguish different value notes more easily. What's next, different sizes of notes to help the blind?
If you have a mac then there is etherpeg. This will do what you want for any interface you want, including wireless.
I ran it once at a conference for a laugh because I was bored. As the large JPGs of Japanese girls in swimsuits started filling my screen I decided it was a pretty poor idea!
How about this? £25000, sustainable and pretty much all natural? OK you need (quite) a few mates to do it for that price, but you can always pay someone.
120 bpm is a longtime holdover from military marches. A healthy person without ambulatory difficulties can walk comfortably to music set at 120 bpm, just ask any Sousa fanatic. (british marches are slightly faster, at 144bpm. don't know why that is)
Aha - that must be why the british always join wars before the US. They march faster to get there!
I won't bet you're wrong, but your sums don't add up!
How many of those 35,000 subscribers have lifetime subscriptions? I don't (cause I expect technology to be substantially better in 2 years, so I opt to pay monthly) but reading the TiVo forums it would seem that I am quite unusual.
Second TiVo don't get all of that £10 anyway. They buy their listings data in from Tribune. I wouldn't like to hazzard a guess at how much that costs, but it sure aint free!
Although at the end of the day I think your premise is right. Since TiVo stopped subsising Thomson, they decided it wasn't worth being in the market. With the PVR/PDR market starting to blossom, and the potential for free schedule data (see www.tvanytime.org) I expect some manufacturer to see the value in TiVo's software (and don't forget the patents). At that time new "TiVo"'s will start to appear in the UK (and probably elsewhere in Europe).
Geez man, RTFA. Sony have licenced the technology exclusively for use in Japan. Toshiba have only licenced the ability to embed TiVo technology in their chipsets. They have made no announcement about releasing boxes and as yet wouldn't have the rights.
Well what you say about Xing's losses is totally correct. However if they had followed the terms of the license they received then they would not have made discovery of their key so easy and saved themselves the world of pain they ended up in.
To say they should be able to go after the "hacker"[1] to recover damages for their own failures is the kind of thing that one only sees in US courts!
[1a] Jon was not the person who discovered the keys - he wrote a GUI. [1b] The use of the term hacker is inappropriate in this context anyway.
EErm, you've heard of the iPod right? I don't think you'll find anything that small which has "several gigs". Best of all I've even heard that they sell products in the UK http://www.apple.com/uk
placing it on an FTP so that some us over in Europe who are sick of the 2-year delay and piss-poor overdubs can watch? Or how it could stop me DLing those files?
They won't even try! They will just include screening to Consumer Electronics so that you can't watch it on your whizzy new 42in Plasma.
So, I can still watch it on my computer monitor says the slashdot crowd. Guess what - noone really cares! The mass market is where these limitations are aimed, a few geeks watching Enterprise a few months early is not a problem. Let's face it - most of them will watch it again when it is released in their country:-)
I hear you yelling. They want to flag a lot of videos that are being transmitted through file-sharing networks like Kazaa and Gnutella, right? It's gonna be tough to get some marker or flag to remain in place through the various compressions and wrappers (mpg, div-x, asf, avi, wmf, etc.).
Well that is exactly what the current generation of watermarking technologies are promising. No, I don't think that they can do it perfectly, but if the quality has to be significantly degraded to remove the watermark then that is considered sufficient. E.g. one technology I'm aware of says that it is resistant to scaling down to 50%. Most of the stakeholders would be satisfied that this is effectively protecting their assets.
Employing an iLINK cable and incorporated DV input terminal, high quality digital images can be dubbed onto DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs through its easy-to-use "DV Automatic Recording" mode
DVD-R uses standard DVD-Video formating. Hence it will playback in ANY DVD-Video player. This is what is really cool about this device - Make DVD Videos for the family from your home movies.
After extensive testing we have discovered that 64MBs is not currently possible since the address line needed to do such an upgrade is not present at the memory chips. The only possible upgrade currently is maybe a 32MB upgrade for EM500 users. We were able to add the necessary 32MB chips to the EM500, but the machine still comes up as 16MBs. We will need to do some further study to determine what the next step is if any.
So no 32Meg EM500 for me then:-(
[Then again I doubt I'd bother if it's a ludicrously priced as the IPAQ conversion anyway]
... but, according to The Register, you're something like 12th in broadband availability
According to the economist UK is actually 20th in terms of broadband connections per head. Mind you even the mighty US is only 3rd (South Korea 1st, followed by Canada).
The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/ - a sardonic take on IT news from the UK).
Well it can be pretty emtertaining, unfortunately the journalism leaves an AWFUL lot to be desired
Well, I think you'll find that he's Scottish. You also seem to have missed some pretty important other ones out
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell (Scottish)
Electro magnetism - James Clarke Maxwell (Scottish)
Anaesthesia - James Young Simpson (Scottish)
Steam Engine (sort og) - James Watt (Scottish)
Steralisation - Joseph Lister (Scottish)
Macintosh - Charles Macintosh (Scottish)
Slashdot Mirror
Well I think we can all see why you don't want to reveal your identity.
As I understand it, it's usually hardest to get anything non-English accepted in England
Among the "less well educated" it can sometimes be a problem. London taxi drivers seem to be worst IMO, but when you tell them it's that or nothing they usually give in.
and easier to get Bank of England stuff accepted in Scotland or Northern Ireland
It's never a problem to use BoE notes anywhere in mainland Britain. I don't know about Ireland, but can't see it being different
God the US treasury has finally discovered that different colours allow people to distinguish different value notes more easily. What's next, different sizes of notes to help the blind?
ObGeek - Its a TiBook ;-)
Emm, How hard is
1) Select AAC track in iTunes
2) Advanced/Convert selection to MP3
3) PROFIT (OK, maybe not)
Or do yourself a favour and dump the Archos for an iPod
Oops, you better tell all the digital TV guys who are using it as the audio codec then.
Oops, all together - you are clueless.
If you have a mac then there is etherpeg. This will do what you want for any interface you want, including wireless. I ran it once at a conference for a laugh because I was bored. As the large JPGs of Japanese girls in swimsuits started filling my screen I decided it was a pretty poor idea!
but only for the USians :-(
How about this? £25000, sustainable and pretty much all natural? OK you need (quite) a few mates to do it for that price, but you can always pay someone.
Grand Designs
Aha - that must be why the british always join wars before the US. They march faster to get there!
I won't bet you're wrong, but your sums don't add up!
How many of those 35,000 subscribers have lifetime subscriptions? I don't (cause I expect technology to be substantially better in 2 years, so I opt to pay monthly) but reading the TiVo forums it would seem that I am quite unusual.
Second TiVo don't get all of that £10 anyway. They buy their listings data in from Tribune. I wouldn't like to hazzard a guess at how much that costs, but it sure aint free!
Although at the end of the day I think your premise is right. Since TiVo stopped subsising Thomson, they decided it wasn't worth being in the market. With the PVR/PDR market starting to blossom, and the potential for free schedule data (see www.tvanytime.org) I expect some manufacturer to see the value in TiVo's software (and don't forget the patents). At that time new "TiVo"'s will start to appear in the UK (and probably elsewhere in Europe).
Geez man, RTFA. Sony have licenced the technology exclusively for use in Japan. Toshiba have only licenced the ability to embed TiVo technology in their chipsets. They have made no announcement about releasing boxes and as yet wouldn't have the rights.
Well what you say about Xing's losses is totally correct. However if they had followed the terms of the license they received then they would not have made discovery of their key so easy and saved themselves the world of pain they ended up in.
To say they should be able to go after the "hacker"[1] to recover damages for their own failures is the kind of thing that one only sees in US courts!
[1a] Jon was not the person who discovered the keys - he wrote a GUI.
[1b] The use of the term hacker is inappropriate in this context anyway.
EErm, you've heard of the iPod right? I don't think you'll find anything that small which has "several gigs". Best of all I've even heard that they sell products in the UK http://www.apple.com/uk
Nope sorry - S+H does count for customs value. However, since it was less than £18 (about $26) then it is not liable for import duty.
Try Customs and Excise if you want chapter and verse..
They won't even try! They will just include screening to Consumer Electronics so that you can't watch it on your whizzy new 42in Plasma.
So, I can still watch it on my computer monitor says the slashdot crowd. Guess what - noone really cares!
The mass market is where these limitations are aimed, a few geeks watching Enterprise a few months early is not a problem. Let's face it - most of them will watch it again when it is released in their country
Well that is exactly what the current generation of watermarking technologies are promising. No, I don't think that they can do it perfectly, but if the quality has to be significantly degraded to remove the watermark then that is considered sufficient. E.g. one technology I'm aware of says that it is resistant to scaling down to 50%. Most of the stakeholders would be satisfied that this is effectively protecting their assets.
WRONG It uses DVD-RAM or DVD-R
DVD-R plays back very nicely in DVD Video players thank you very much.
DVD-R uses standard DVD-Video formating. Hence it will playback in ANY DVD-Video player. This is what is really cool about this device - Make DVD Videos for the family from your home movies.
Yep you could change WS to Server (not sure why you would want to though) see http://www.lehigh.edu/~rjm2/ntwntw.html for a method.
From their webpage
So no 32Meg EM500 for me then
[Then again I doubt I'd bother if it's a ludicrously priced as the IPAQ conversion anyway]
... but, according to The Register, you're something like 12th in broadband availability
According to the economist UK is actually 20th in terms of broadband connections per head. Mind you even the mighty US is only 3rd (South Korea 1st, followed by Canada).
Well it can be pretty emtertaining, unfortunately the journalism leaves an AWFUL lot to be desired
Well, I think you'll find that he's Scottish. You also seem to have missed some pretty important other ones out
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell (Scottish)
Electro magnetism - James Clarke Maxwell (Scottish)
Anaesthesia - James Young Simpson (Scottish)
Steam Engine (sort og) - James Watt (Scottish)
Steralisation - Joseph Lister (Scottish)
Macintosh - Charles Macintosh (Scottish)
What about Sky digital in the UK? 2 or 3 years and still unbroken.
Previous analogue satellite encryption? Still unbroken.
You seem to forget that it's a lot easier to enforce an encryption scheme if it's being done in hardware which has no "User serviceable parts"