Monthly Archives: August 2007

Underlying requirement for hard real-time

Posted on August 28, 2007 by yodaiken

Simple point that is widely ignored: you need hard real-time capability to offer any meaningful “soft” real-time. Let’s suppose you say that you can drop up to N frames a minute or K< N frames over any 10 second period … Continue reading →

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universal machinery

Posted on August 25, 2007 by yodaiken

If even 20% of what Peter Gutman says is so, then I’ve been optimistic in my assessement of DRM.

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DRM python sets another coil

Posted on August 22, 2007 by yodaiken

Docomo is using Microsoft DRM products in its phones so that customers can move protected “content” between phones and PCs under control of the DRM software. The goal here is to generate a network effect so that it becomes difficult … Continue reading →

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