Tuesday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on December 13, 2005 at 2:24:53 PM
HD DVD player launch delayed over stupid DRM.
I wonder why the media dances around the issue that DRM or 'copy protection management systems' are pure crap and infringe on the rights of consumers.
Microsoft to open docx.
Japanese probe most likely won't arrive back at Earth.
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Toshiba said in a statement it would not launch the products until the last details on copy protection management systems, called AACS, or advanced access content system, were finalized.
I wonder why the media dances around the issue that DRM or 'copy protection management systems' are pure crap and infringe on the rights of consumers.
Microsoft to open docx.
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At a general assembly meeting of Ecma in Nice, France, on Friday, the Geneva-based organization established a technical committee to make formal standards from Microsoft's XML-based Office file formats. The committee will have responsibility for enhancing the standard "while maintaining backward compatibility" and to handle maintenance of the specification. A first edition is slated for completion by the end of 2006, according to Ecma.
Japanese probe most likely won't arrive back at Earth.
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The spacecraft was designed to bring the first-ever asteroid samples back to Earth for analysis. But recent data suggest that, during a landing attempt on 26 November, it did not fire metal pellets into the 600-metre-long asteroid Itokawa to draw up material for collection. Now mission controllers have little hope the spacecraft will be able to get back to Earth - even without its quarry - because of continuing problems with its fuel thrusters.