Wow… this is pretty cool, I was curious if I could make A blog post on my cell phone, and if you are reading this, I apparently can! This post was posted from my Motorola i870 Cell Phone through Opera Mini… It can even take and upload a photo !
That was a very interesting meeting, John Palmieri came and spoke about the OLPC project’s XO laptop and its Sugar interface, and also brought one along to show us.
I have some pictures that I took at the meeting posted up.
http://pics.tonybox.net/v/Lilug-05-08-07/
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Read for yourself, my school now apparently has tagged Wikipedia’s content as “pornography,miscellaneous questionable”. Well, it makes sense, I mean, Look at all those naked women doing dirty things on the front page…oh..there aren’t any. Well theres a page on Sex…….looks oddly familiar…kind of like health class.
UPDATE With the images they showed us in health class (for example, the vagina of a woman with Hepatitis B), health class now qualifies as notably worse than what is on wikipedia.
After reading this long document about Windows Vista’s content protection, I felt inclined to tell others to read it. The others, saw its length and didn’t feel like reading all of it (and therefore didn’t read any). So here is my shorter summary, and my first blog post.
What “Premium Content” is.
Now, “Premium Content” is not very common, but in the future it will be hard to find any multimedia that Vista doesn’t consider to be “Premium”. Microsoft simply says that this content is “protected commercial audiovisual content, such as newly released HD-DVD or Blu-Ray discs”, here
What happens when you watch “Premium Content”.
People have a tendency of wanting to take the content off their media and saving it as a backup, by any means. One way is to simply hook up a high-quality, analog signal cable to a device that records it. Vista says this is bad, and decides that everything that is “Premium Content” must be sent over signal cables digitally encrypted, scrambled, or degraded. So if someone listens to a Super AudioCD, which is premium content, vista disables the high quality S/PDIF, which is commonly used for surround sound hookups with digital audio recievers, citing it as insecure. This only leaves lower-quality outputs, so that people can not record the higher quality signals off of the CD.
Watching HD Video
So, if someone buys a Blu-Ray drive for their windows vista computer, along with an HD movie for it, they will not be able to watch the movie in HD, even if they have an HD-Capable monitor, unless that monitor uses a special HDMI plug with HDCP Encryption. When watching HD content on a monitor that doesn’t have HDCP support (These aren’t really sold commonly, yet, and need an HDCP capable graphics card, also scarse), it will be degraded to standard definition qualty, totally defeating the point of an HD monitor. The degraded image is described as “Slightly Fuzzy”, but this describes it as “a bit like a 10-year-old CRT monitor that you picked up for $2 at a yard sale”
Listening to surround sound audio
As mentioned earlier, people often use S/PDIF to allow for a digital connection between their computer and their audio reciever, which is connected to several speakers. S/PDIF’s digital connection allows for a very high quality surround sound audio (For Super Audio CDs with 5.1 surround soud tracks). Now, also as mentioned earlier, Super Audio CDs are considered “Premium Content”, and when one is listening to this “Premium Content”, the S/PDIF audio device is disabled by Windows Vista, leaving lower quality, analog, audio the only option. The reason this is done is to prevent the user from being able to get the highest-quality copy of the audio in an unencrypted format.
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