Posts by psyq

Re: Instead of telling us where the cameras are ...

@Harry - Actually, TomTom does support warning you if you exceed the speed limit. It is a standard feature in all TomTom navigation units.

Please educate yourself about the matter you are writing about

AAC (like MP3 or H.264) has NOTHING to do with DRM. It is a worldwide international standard (ISO/IEC 14496 in case of AAC, ISO 11152 in case of MP3) and is related to audio coding only.

Encrypting this with your DRM has nothing to do whatsoever with the AAC (or H.264, or MP3) standard itself. Hell, you can even put Ogg Vorbis in DRM container if you wish. This is purely the decision of the implementer. Standards alone do not enforce nor prohibit DRM.

Second, H.264, MP3 and AAC are as open as it gets - they ALL are fully documented and available from ISO/ITU directly (or your country standards body) with open source reference C/C++ software being available as well. When those patents expire, they will be fully public domain - much more "free" (as in freedom) than some GPL-ed stuff.

The fact of the matter is - yes, complex audio and video codecs ARE based on patented technology more often than not. And there is NOTHING bad in that and NOTHING preventing them from being open for everyone to implement and use, with reasonable and non-discriminatory cost model.

It is only the freetards of this planet who are trying to spread FUD about the well-proven international standards like H.264. Sorry guys, technology has a price - someone worked very hard to invent it. No, those companies WILL NOT give it away "for free" so Apples and Googles of this would would use it to make money.

And, by the way - these ITU/ISO standardized technologies are in almost all modern digital TV, optical media, mobile and satellite standards. That makes much more relevant than what some FSF-tards would like people to know.

I guess this is progress...

Wow, if Sony really manages to pull this off - and get $2K for an Atom-based polished toy, I am really losing faith in the future of the mankind... This must be the most overpriced piece of IT equipment in the last few years.

Core 2 Duo of "CULV" sort can wipe the floor with any Atom - and, Sony used to offer that with TZ and TT series... These little Core2 Duos were quite OK for many uses, with an SSD my old TZ was actually faster for day to day use than many higher-clocked C2D desktops (with the hard drive inside)

The only good thing in this is US15W "Poulsbo" chipset, which is perfectly able to decode even 1080p content (with the proper decoders and players) - but then, man can get Dell's Mini 10 for the fraction of a price...

What value add do you really get with X apart from carbon fiber? Bragging rights?

Well, I guess - Apple proved the point that you can actually capitalize on those very well...

It is already possible to enable VT in Sony

And I am quite sure it will be possible to do it on Fujitsu, too.\

Someone managed to hack into Insyde EFI and find how to unlock an "Advanced" menu which offers VT-X and VT-D enable/disable (among other goodies)

I already did it on my Vaio Z - and it works great

Re: Oh, so that'll not be Windows Mobile is any better then.

Last time I checked, Win Mobile does have a feature to encrypt the data on the storage card.

There is no "catch"

First of all, Linux Kernel is GPL v2 - there is nothing inherently "evil" with Microsoft releasing Linux kernel code with the same license as the rest of the Linux Kernel. I will skip the GPL v3 "patent protection" nonsense, even Linus Torvalds is not buying it...

As for the hidden agenda, there is none - Microsoft cannot ignore the simple fact that there are tons of cheap small Linux web servers used for e.g. hosting plans, etc... Those are all going to be virtualized and hosted on more powerful multi-core systems.

So, instead of doing nothing they can at least try to get the money for the hosting OS - and for this, they need the client VMs to run as fast as possible, so they can have an edge over e.g. VMWare.

This is actually a "win win" for Microsoft and Linux - Microsoft cannot ignore reality, they certainly cannot make all those Linux servers in question switch to Win Server 2008 - but they can at least try to get something by offering to host those systems on a Hyper-V server.