Ça a pris plus d’un an, mais Vidéotron y est arrivé!
Enfin un PVR qui a l’air pas trop poche au Québec. Son Dolby Digital, sortie vidéo HDTV et la capacité d’enregistrer deux émissions simultanément sont incluses (tout en permettant d’en regarder une troisième live).
Y a même des sorties 1394 derrière!
650$….
CNet: Trust or Treachery? I can’t help but feel that we’re winning.
The masses don’t necessarily trust the companies developing « trusted computing » technology.
On TCPA and Palladium and a funny quote:
« If (Microsoft and Intel) are out to screw the world, I think Congress will stop them »
David Farber, telecom law professor
[via Hack the Planet]
All CDs will be protected and you are a filthy pirate
more details on the fate of CDs in Europe
[via The Register]
This article may be freely reproduced.
Beyong the catchy title, it is about the british implementation of the EU copyright directive. And this is actually quite relevant to my work.
[via The Register]
« [the] best batteries get 70w/kg. Not enough. Fuel cells aren’t going to happen this decade. Chocolate cookie is 1000w/kg; propane is 8750w/kg »
–Dean Kamen talking about life and the Segway
[via Aaron Swartz]
So a certain someone said that someone wasn’t too enthusiastic about going to someone’s someone’s cottage in a few weeks. That second someone would just like to clear his or her name by saying that this someone is very much enthusiastic about hanging with these someones for a day or two. Just that since this so called gathering is still so far away, this someone can’t maintain the expected level of enthusiasm til then.
But just to make things clear, let it be known at this moment that this someone has self-assigned the role of bringing a cake to the gathering! Beat this kind of enthusiasm!
We already know that Qualcomm says that CDMA won.
Now the Register comments on that reality gap in a article aptly named « Qualcomm monoculture is ‘killing Ameciran wireless« .
I was talking about IP telephony restrictions the other day. Little did I realize that the XBox Live has built-in voice chat capability for games. That might end up being put to some creative use.
[via JOHO]
Another halloween memo (and the mandatory /. and news.com coverage.) and an article stating the obvious about TCO: shop before you buy into any sales pitch because your mileage may vary.
Net censorship bill passed.
and blocking plans for web sites advocating violent protests here and here. Hey it’s a though call… Maybe they won’t have to go to Doha next time…
[mostly via BNA ILN]
Time to change the color scheme.
[via Carnet CFD]
I had a conversation during lunch the other day with a couple coders and they were saying they couldn’t wait for a cell-phone-PDA-pager-camera combo that was Bluetooth-WiFi-GPRS-3G-Infrared enabled, you know, a no compromise, everything goes in thing. Oh, and it needs to be small too and have a long long battery life….
This ZDNet article says that they can dream on. Will not happen. Market not going there. I’m not sure I agree.
Continuer la lecture
Bridging the digital divide. A leitmotiv. Well apparently, even inside the US, people are not interested anymore.
Protests Against University Network Monitoring
GrepLaw story about a letter (well documented in american law) sent by EPIC to education institutions regarding the pressures by the RIAA to see them adopt some form of monitoring of P2P activities
[via GrepLaw]
Salon has a lengthy book review of The Eagle’s Shadow by Mark Hertsgaard.
I experienced first-hand what he is talking about in his book, albeit on a limited scale. The article seems balanced and quite in line with what I experienced myself. I must confess that my limited mandarin vocabulary includes « I’m not American, I’m Canadian », that would always buy me a smile… Anyways, gotta read it.