I saw this pop up in my Google Reader on another site, but I immediately came here to look and see if someone had posted the specs for this machine yet. I'm not seeing them listed anywhere.

Someone care to help? I even went crazy and RTFA (I'm new here, ya see...).

Perhaps I am missing the point. Just seems to me that at that point, Google would be actively distributing tools to circumvent their own DRM.

I hate DRM as much as any other Slashdotter, but the fact of the matter is Google wants it to be as difficult as possible to break their stuff free. Besides which, the Nexus 7 is already a deprecated media tablet (no microSD, no USB host, no CIFS afaik), so it seems silly to get pissed when the DRM system breaks. That's what you're getting when you buy the Nexus 7 - a device made only to get it's content from a locked down store.

I'm amazed there aren't more users angry at the fact that they can't just load up an SD card with media and go. To each their own though...

My Nexus 7 arrived today. It comes preloaded with a copy of "Transformers: Far side of the moon" for my viewing pleasure. Five minutes into viewing it there was a popup advising the battery is low. So I go get the USB cable and plug it in. Now the movie won't play, it says "Couldn't load licence key (error 16)". Bah. So all the smart boys and all the smart girls over at Google can't make DRM work properly. Can anybody make DRM work properly? Does DRM have any right to life whatsoever?

Canada is heading towards making DRM illegal. Good for Canada, and a perfect example why.

How is this +5 Insightful? You don't think it might have something to do with the fact that Android does debugging over USB, therefore making it "possible" at least to get an unencrypted version of the movie (i.e. screengrabs while it's playing)?

Thanks for letting us know you have a Nexus 7, though.

Does this mean we can publicly criticize the XBMC UI?

Uhhh... Of course. By that same token, there's nothing holding you back from making a better one.

I hate to be "that guy", but seriously, where's the story here? This story is only over a month old and it seems to have about the same amount of info (which is to say essentially none). If it were some kind of announcement maybe...

Well, guess I know what I'm doing on my next day off (Wednesday- don't ask). I'll be fixing all the backwards ass bullshit they seem to love including in these "rapid fire" releases. Disable compatibility checking, test everything to see it still works, yadda yadda.

This is getting old.

You mean a land-line? I was shocked how many people called their family/friends to make sure they were okay. It was an earthquake yes, but it wasn't soo bad (also in Ottawa here)

Actually, it's my Nokia 5130 cellphone. I don't even care to make a call, but my phone just completely locks up when it's turned on.

45.37623 N, 75.67543 W or so. I didn't think it was so bad, but my neighbours/Facebook friends seem to disagree.

As a side note, my cellphone is completely borked. Seems whenever the carriers become overloaded the damn thing won't even boot/function at all... time to grab the back up phone...

Does anyone else just grimace when they see "Duke Nukem"-anything related news anymore? I was 7 when Duke Nukem 3d came out, and although freaking awesome, what of note has the franchise done since?

Been a bucketload of fail, and a waste of terabytes of useless "news" stories posted on the internet.

Can we just call this one, guys? Time of death: 2005 (and that's being GENEROUS ).

/rant

I hate loud commercials too, but this is just too much government IMHO. I'd much rather just have intelligent TVs or receivers that turned the volume down upon detecting a commercial...based on the settings *I* want, not what the government thinks is best for me.

My old as hell tube TV has this (it's a 27" RCA TV, circa 1999). I just checked and it's called SoundLogic in the menu, and I've gotta tell you it's a pretty terrible feature. It basically turns the volume on everything down (making an amp or what have you work harder), and anytime there is a spike in volume it re-adjusts and turns it down.

What I've found it does is make every good kaboom in every good movie I've watched with it on go flat. It also takes a second or two for it to adjust, so you still get too much sound. With commercials that are only 30 seconds long, this leads to a very uneven "HAVE YOu ever heard of product x?", 30 seconds later "WATCH THis tv show on sunday", etc.

Like I said too, you always have to remember to toggle it off before you watch a movie. Kind of a pain.

Maybe the technology needs to be improved, but my experience with it has been pretty bad. I don't think it's been enabled in at least 8 years.

Dad: Who hacked us!?

Granny: idk my bff jill?

I'll go kill myself now.

I waited a full year after launch to buy my console.

All this time since launch, and consoles are still dropping. I feel a fool for giving them my money *stares pointedly at his 360 with messed up video output*.

Call me a troll, but I feel ripped off: Fucking FAIL

I know, I know, I just replied to myself, bad form. But I probably should've linked to the site for Foxit. Here's the download page.

But ya, worth a try at least, it is free.

As always, Foxit does all that stuff.

Insert typical: it's also smaller, more efficient, free* and typically immune to these types of attacks.

* Sure, theres a "pay" version, but the only thing I've ever noticed is when you add text to a pdf it puts a little "Edited using Foxit!" stamp on the top of the page. A small concession IMO.