USA: DVD copyright warning obtain second

In the fight against illegal movie copies have Hollywood studios and U.S. authorities agreed on a measure that ultimately most likely to be rather counterproductive: who acquire legally a DVD that must precede the film is now presented twice a menacing warning overlays to go through the , tells the U.S. magazine ‘ Wired ‘.

In a first indication to the user is under the logo of the FBI and Department of Homeland Security made it clear unequivocally that the unauthorized reproduction is a crime and is pursued by the authorities. Up to 5 years in prison and $ 250,000 fine may be additionally threatened, although such sentences tend to fall for commercial offenses and not for people who can pass it on a copy to friends.

On this note, a second insertion follows the logo of the National Intellectual Property Center. It is an agency of the U.S. government, the prosecution of copyright violations and industrial espionage targeted coordinated through various agencies of time. The user will be noted here that copyright infringement is not a victimless crime. Furthermore, reference is made to the website of the organization.

One of the warning notices

Since 2004, the audience saw only one notice will be displayed, which was decorated with the logo of the FBI. Now they have to make two such evidence can not be skipped, endure. Whether this ultimately results in fewer people make illegal copies would be questionable. What seems certain is that users who buy a movie at a swap meet, at any time can immediately start playing.

Launched Drive storage service in the cloud Google

The so rumored storage service Google cloud will be officially released within a few minutes has just been released. Google Drive includes really interesting features, some of which we already know in successive rumors and leaks .

As I say, someone at Google France has made ​​a mistake and published the information we provide you a few hours before the official release. The post was deleted from the official blog, but someone took a copy, went through Google Translate and posted it on Google +.

The basic storage space is 5GB per account payment expandable (25GB for $ 2.49 a month, 100GB for double, or up to 1TB per ciencuenta dollars). This expansion also makes our storage capacity to grow to allow 25GB Gmail email.

Google does not forget Google Apps and every user of this service will automatically 5GB that the administrator can expand at will, and set by a new central control panel.

Applications for Windows and OS X are available, allowing you to do what makes Dropbox or Skydrive yesterday: synchronize a folder on your PC with Google Drive space. Also present from now on Android smartphones and tablets, allowing access to data stored on Drive from these devices. A client for IOS is under way and will arrive in the coming weeks, say from Google.

This will integrate the two major operating systems and the two most widely used mobile platforms, even though it would be ideal to also devote some attention to Linux, either through an official client or through an API to allow another to a client.

One of the real strengths of Google Drive tools are available from the outset. Integrated with Google Docs, you can edit documents collaboratively without pain and in real time (something that Dropbox is really painful if not impossible).

Google Drive also has character recognition software in both documents as we can upload images to the service. And besides, you can search the contents of the documents directly from Drive.

Skydrive application available for OS X

Skydrive, the storage service Cloud Microsoft, has seen Microsoft launched today its customers for its Windows platform and client for OS X. Skydrive which we downloaded from the web for free.

Skydrive is, as I said, an online storage service with which we can keep our records to have them anywhere or share it with others. Client for OS X Skydrive allows us to work and organize files on your hard drive, then they will be uploaded and synchronized with the server in the background Skydrive. Required to have a Windows Live account.

In addition, Microsoft has released different options. On the one hand offering free 7GB of storage, expandable to 25GB if you were already user of Skydrive, and other payment plans to increase capacity to 20, 50 or 100GB for 10, 25 0 $ 50 a year. Next to the IOS release applications have been updated adding support for the iPad. That yes, the Skydrive client for OS X supports only OS X Lion or higher.

Operates 12 Wahoo. All about hardware acceleration, which can be tested

For a few hours, we are able to test the hardware acceleration of Opera Wahoo. The snapshot published in Opera Next corresponds to what could be the last alpha version before the release of Opera 12 Beta.

The way in which the manufacturer addresses the hardware accelerator is integral. Speed ​​is not specific but all web elements, including the user interface for all supported operating systems: Windows 32 or 64 bit, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac

How to enable hardware acceleration and WebGL

Whether this pre-beta version and in the end, hardware acceleration is disabled by default. To enjoy the benefit we have to write in the search box:

opera: config # UserPrefs|EnableHardwareAcceleration (hardware acceleration).
opera: config # UserPrefs|EnableWebGL (WebGL).

In both cases we have to replace in the box, the initial value 0 to a 1. After that, save changes and restart the browser.

One might ask why one of the benefits Wahoo star is not enabled by default. According to Opera, hardware acceleration is not always faster than that obtained by Vega, the highly optimized backend browser for this purpose.

The particular case of Windows

Windows is enabled DirectX support and also comes with hardware acceleration disabled by default, an approach that will remain stable in the final version.

Development team says that most users of Vista and Windows 7 by default use DirectX instead of OpenGL backend for performance and stability. Currently WebGL support for using the OpenGL backend is more complete than when using DirectX.

For Windows and for users with sufficient knowledge it is best to try, depending on the job that we give the browser. If we make intensive use of WebGL perhaps worth activate the feature at the expense of stability.

Wahoo operates 12 pre-beta, comments

In a small test I made ​​on performance in HTML 5 (nothing conclusive), the difference between turning or acceleration is about 4% faster activation (Windows 7 64-bit). Regarding the current stable version (Opera 11.62) The speed increase is 18.34% for pre-beta version.

It is too early to draw conclusions. The development team has spent nearly a year working on this version and polishing details. I told you at the time that the series 11.6x (Tunny) was a version of Wahoo without hardware acceleration. We have since had two updates (11.61 and 11.62), where the manufacturer has had the opportunity (and has done so) to polish many details.

Since Wahoo is on channel Next, even with the first snapshot, stability has been demonstrated that I dare label as improper in a positive sense, of a product at that stage of development. It may be the result of the development in parallel with Tunny. I have no doubt that Wahoo will be a great browser, even if minority.

Third Price: The new Apple iPad from getgoods.de

As a reminder for our (not daily) reader and the fact that it took nine prizes for all in itself, we make a profit every day of our anniversary raffle in 2012 before again separately. Today: The new Apple iPad from getgoods.de!

The online retailer getgoods.de is as it was at this Nicholas raffle a prize from the house of Apple. In this case it is the new iPad the third generation, which both at home and away to provide entertainment. So just the external benefits of IOS tablets will not be made dependent on the availability of a WLAN must have the provided model and a 3G wireless modem.

The new iPad
Completing the features of a one gigahertz dual-core SoC that has enough computing power for high definition games and applications. This benefit, as well as high resolution video and images from the sharp, 9.7-inch display with his retina 2048 × 1536 pixels. So the place is just not too fast, 32 gigabytes of internal memory are installed. The battery has a capacity of 42.5 watt-hour ensures a sufficiently long period, the pre-installed iOS 5.1 for seamless integration of iTunes and the icloud service.