free and even encouraged to be shared, also some of their titles you buy come with a cd/dvd thats got all of that authors previous works on it, and is licenced to encourage you to copy and share the disk(not kidding)
baen has found since the initial exparement that the authors whos works are offered free in part or in whole make more due to this "Free eBooks" deal then they make before their works are put up free.
good stuff....to bad more authors/publishers cant catch the clue.
free and even encouraged to be shared, also some of their titles you buy come with a cd/dvd thats got all of that authors previous works on it, and is licenced to encourage you to copy and share the disk(not kidding)
baen has found since the initial exparement that the authors whos works are offered free in part or in whole make more due to this "Free eBooks" deal then they make before their works are put up free.
good stuff....to bad more authors/publishers cant catch the clue.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Would this be another good time to repeat . . .
from my exp, its not just the left who love unions, many on the right love them, if only because they make alot of money off of said unions(both sides do)
but I like the idea, to bad it wont work/happen.
I like neither the left or right, I have a mix of opinions and ideas of ways to fix this country.
for one thing baring your idea, I think an easy fix for the tax problem would be a flat tax, everybody pays their % no loopholes, tax incentives or any of that bunk.
A man I use to work for admitted to me a while back that he 5 years running has gotten money back, despite being a multi millionaire and making stupid amounts of money each year....and its due to tax loopholes the left(democreitens) and tax cuts(repugnants) put into law, and even he says its pretty messed up.....BUT he would be a fool not to have his accountants take advantage of it....(i cant blame him....i really cant....)
one of the major issues is that our govt is run by rich people paying other rich people to help them get richer.....
I have no problem with wealth.....I have a problem with wealth at the expense of the rest of us....
I could fund a national healthcare system easily with a pretty simple change.
end the war on drugs, let all non-violent drug offenders out, it would be cheaper to give them food stamps and let them live on somebodies couch or even give them subsudized housing then hosing them in prisons.
its 20-45k a year to house EACH of these people......many in prison for something as stupid as having a freezer bag of weed....(not kidding....)
that 20-45k a year could be better spent on public services then on keeping pot heads and such in prison.....hell I dont even smoke the stuff and I think its stupid its illegal and alch isnt...never seen a stoned driver run into a parked cop car...or run over somebody... as a cop friend of mine likes to say "you never know what a drunks going to do, the worst pot head stoners gonna do is kill a bag of doritios and a soda".
but, again the problem with ending the "war on drugs" is that its making rich people money.....oh yeah and as george carlin liked to point out, america loves war.....
this isnt how they view it, in the eyes of the IOC and their sponsors, this is a marketing/money making event of epic proportions, nothing more, nothing less.
how much you wana bet the got masking tape ready if your waring a shirt that somehow "Advertises" something thats not giving them money?
my great grandfather later in his life refused to watch the olympics and said it was just a business event and served no purpose other then to make money, and thats not how it was when he was younger when there was actual national pride involved rather then greed...
welcome to the modern world, its all about the Benjamins
I would say this is a "working as intended" situation as far as big content is concerned, it will "keep people in their place" thinking they could endup like this poor bloke if they have the gull to be creative without being under the thumb of big content...
comcast bought out @home(att) they then effectively scrapped the ATT setup (wins based) and went to registering modems by mac, that fixed some issues, but they also have FAR better support both on the phone and in person then @home ever had.
Comcast IS NOT ATT, but they did buy @home from ATT, now days ATT offers DSL and Fiber in various places and their support and service are questionable at best...
naa, HBO will just say that they really quit because of piracy.....you need to have worked around these kind of people for a while to get their mind set that the world is against them and they are the victim.
somebody should to a psychological study of these people....I bet it would be a fun read....
Jeff R, some receivers mess up the signal, they process it and change it, what goes in isnt identical to what comes out, its espicially bad in the super cheap walmart style box sets (all in 1 home theiters kits), I have been involved in doing signal compairsons, It shouldnt happen but it does....
one kinda cool thing some cheaper units have done tho is only directing the audio into the receivers circuitry and just direct linked the in and out ports for the rest of the wires(or in some cases all wires) (its a cheap method that works well in some cases)
this is VERY Dependant on the receiver used, some range from MEH to UGGG, others are great, the great ones tend to cost alot more then the cheapo walmart setups most people get.
as to the cable company drm thing, I have seen it, not with comcast, but with others, I really think it depends on the provider and if they actually support doing that, some do, and I had a friend who worked for one company tell me it took them 14 months to work out some issues with some tv's that supported HDCP being seen as not supported due to a firmware issue with the boxes....the main issue was the company that made the boxes had never expected to have to push a firmware update of this type over the coaxial line, they for a while where sending techs out to use the firewire or rj45 ports on the boxes to update them....(that must have been fun...lol)
BUT it was only effecting a small number of titles and a smallish % of users...like this....
Re: Absolutist statements are always, always misleading
actually, those who sell companies on DRM state their services as an absolute or very close, I have heard their sales pitches in person, and have caused more then a few of them to storm out or start cursing at me for pointing out how their products fail to do what they are describing.
Somebody from DRM.inc told somebody high up at HBO that enabling this would stop piracy, and that person said "they we have to do it", they didnt mention that a huge number of subscribers would also be effected.(nore did they care, im sure they got paid well to flip the "enable drm" flag to on....)
DRM does lower the value to a large portion of the market, I know many people anymore who arent geeks but who have been burned by DRM who check what DRM games and software have before buying, some even research for months before buying to see how the DRM is working and if its causing a major negative effect(spore/bioshock/neverwinter nights 2 examples of piss poor drm use)
when it comes to this situation, its effecting people using HDMI boxes to HDMI tv's (hdtv's) this shouldnt be a problem, but it is....and nobody should have to buy a new box or tv to keep getting the service they are already paying for, specially seeing as most people RENT their equipment from their providers (even dish rents their stuff here)
again this issue shouldnt be an issue, and according to specs, ANALOG tv's(pre hdtv's) shouldnt be effected and probably arent.
sorry but the "component video provides a more vibrant color output" and "it is capable of any resolution HDMI can currently output" isnt really true.
first, we will address the "component video provides a more vibrant color output" this is the same thing people said about DVI vs VGA back in the day, VGA was "better" this was true on some low grade monitors with poor internal designs(that in some cases converted dvi-d to analog then back to digital....) but with quality units has never been true, same goes for HDTV's, likely its either Observer Bias or poor internal design to blame for any difference between perceived quality/color/vibrancy(i have tested this myself, its like people saying monster cables sound better then monoprice cables or coat hangers...they cant tell the dif in a blind test)
next: "it is capable of any resolution HDMI can currently output"
now, this is true for the most part, component cant carry the resolutions used by some newer projectors or large screen monitors(used for display purposes)
HDMI current spec is 1.4/1.4a and can do 4096×2160p24 I have done testing and even current 1.3 rated cables(decent quality ones) can support 1.4/1.4a specs.
1080p is as high as component is rated for at this time.
You would think that somebody attacking the OP would know that almost all HDTV's on the market have component inputs these days, and would also know that HDMI is not just like combining component cables into 1 cable.
HDMI can carry both analog(component) and Digital data, it can also carry much more data and isnt subject to analog line noise common with lower grade unshielded cabling.
its almost certainly licensing issues, Im sure they made deals with cable and satalite companies that dont allow them at this time to provide their own streaming service without the person also paying for an HBO package from their tv provider(even if they dont have one)
also this way, HBO sees it as good PR because people dont get that they cant get it without already being an HBO subscriber, and those who do get it are paying for HBO content twice!!!
Give it some time, they will either figure it out or HBO will die and be bought by somebody else who likely will get it.
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Re: Re: Re: Better safe than sorry
free and even encouraged to be shared, also some of their titles you buy come with a cd/dvd thats got all of that authors previous works on it, and is licenced to encourage you to copy and share the disk(not kidding)
baen has found since the initial exparement that the authors whos works are offered free in part or in whole make more due to this "Free eBooks" deal then they make before their works are put up free.
good stuff....to bad more authors/publishers cant catch the clue.
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Re: Re: Re: Better safe than sorry
free and even encouraged to be shared, also some of their titles you buy come with a cd/dvd thats got all of that authors previous works on it, and is licenced to encourage you to copy and share the disk(not kidding)
baen has found since the initial exparement that the authors whos works are offered free in part or in whole make more due to this "Free eBooks" deal then they make before their works are put up free.
good stuff....to bad more authors/publishers cant catch the clue.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Would this be another good time to repeat . . .
but I like the idea, to bad it wont work/happen.
I like neither the left or right, I have a mix of opinions and ideas of ways to fix this country.
for one thing baring your idea, I think an easy fix for the tax problem would be a flat tax, everybody pays their % no loopholes, tax incentives or any of that bunk.
A man I use to work for admitted to me a while back that he 5 years running has gotten money back, despite being a multi millionaire and making stupid amounts of money each year....and its due to tax loopholes the left(democreitens) and tax cuts(repugnants) put into law, and even he says its pretty messed up.....BUT he would be a fool not to have his accountants take advantage of it....(i cant blame him....i really cant....)
one of the major issues is that our govt is run by rich people paying other rich people to help them get richer.....
I have no problem with wealth.....I have a problem with wealth at the expense of the rest of us....
I could fund a national healthcare system easily with a pretty simple change.
end the war on drugs, let all non-violent drug offenders out, it would be cheaper to give them food stamps and let them live on somebodies couch or even give them subsudized housing then hosing them in prisons.
its 20-45k a year to house EACH of these people......many in prison for something as stupid as having a freezer bag of weed....(not kidding....)
that 20-45k a year could be better spent on public services then on keeping pot heads and such in prison.....hell I dont even smoke the stuff and I think its stupid its illegal and alch isnt...never seen a stoned driver run into a parked cop car...or run over somebody... as a cop friend of mine likes to say "you never know what a drunks going to do, the worst pot head stoners gonna do is kill a bag of doritios and a soda".
but, again the problem with ending the "war on drugs" is that its making rich people money.....oh yeah and as george carlin liked to point out, america loves war.....
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Would this be another good time to repeat . . .
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how much you wana bet the got masking tape ready if your waring a shirt that somehow "Advertises" something thats not giving them money?
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welcome to the modern world, its all about the Benjamins
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Re: Re: Re: Hah, AT&T lies
Comcast IS NOT ATT, but they did buy @home from ATT, now days ATT offers DSL and Fiber in various places and their support and service are questionable at best...
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Re: Simple solution to all of this
somebody should to a psychological study of these people....I bet it would be a fun read....
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/scarc
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Re: Re: Component misconceptions
one kinda cool thing some cheaper units have done tho is only directing the audio into the receivers circuitry and just direct linked the in and out ports for the rest of the wires(or in some cases all wires) (its a cheap method that works well in some cases)
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Re: Component misconceptions
as to the cable company drm thing, I have seen it, not with comcast, but with others, I really think it depends on the provider and if they actually support doing that, some do, and I had a friend who worked for one company tell me it took them 14 months to work out some issues with some tv's that supported HDCP being seen as not supported due to a firmware issue with the boxes....the main issue was the company that made the boxes had never expected to have to push a firmware update of this type over the coaxial line, they for a while where sending techs out to use the firewire or rj45 ports on the boxes to update them....(that must have been fun...lol)
BUT it was only effecting a small number of titles and a smallish % of users...like this....
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Re: Absolutist statements are always, always misleading
Somebody from DRM.inc told somebody high up at HBO that enabling this would stop piracy, and that person said "they we have to do it", they didnt mention that a huge number of subscribers would also be effected.(nore did they care, im sure they got paid well to flip the "enable drm" flag to on....)
DRM does lower the value to a large portion of the market, I know many people anymore who arent geeks but who have been burned by DRM who check what DRM games and software have before buying, some even research for months before buying to see how the DRM is working and if its causing a major negative effect(spore/bioshock/neverwinter nights 2 examples of piss poor drm use)
when it comes to this situation, its effecting people using HDMI boxes to HDMI tv's (hdtv's) this shouldnt be a problem, but it is....and nobody should have to buy a new box or tv to keep getting the service they are already paying for, specially seeing as most people RENT their equipment from their providers (even dish rents their stuff here)
again this issue shouldnt be an issue, and according to specs, ANALOG tv's(pre hdtv's) shouldnt be effected and probably arent.
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Re: component or composite?
first, we will address the "component video provides a more vibrant color output" this is the same thing people said about DVI vs VGA back in the day, VGA was "better" this was true on some low grade monitors with poor internal designs(that in some cases converted dvi-d to analog then back to digital....) but with quality units has never been true, same goes for HDTV's, likely its either Observer Bias or poor internal design to blame for any difference between perceived quality/color/vibrancy(i have tested this myself, its like people saying monster cables sound better then monoprice cables or coat hangers...they cant tell the dif in a blind test)
next: "it is capable of any resolution HDMI can currently output"
now, this is true for the most part, component cant carry the resolutions used by some newer projectors or large screen monitors(used for display purposes)
HDMI current spec is 1.4/1.4a and can do 4096×2160p24 I have done testing and even current 1.3 rated cables(decent quality ones) can support 1.4/1.4a specs.
1080p is as high as component is rated for at this time.
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Re: hm.
the "pirates" arent being effected, just people who are trying to stay legal and paying to watch hbo....
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HDMI can carry both analog(component) and Digital data, it can also carry much more data and isnt subject to analog line noise common with lower grade unshielded cabling.
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also this way, HBO sees it as good PR because people dont get that they cant get it without already being an HBO subscriber, and those who do get it are paying for HBO content twice!!!
Give it some time, they will either figure it out or HBO will die and be bought by somebody else who likely will get it.
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