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Sony Japan to Abolish Copy Controlled CDs
Gridle writes "In a complete reversal of their policy and on the heels of Avex's partial cessation of copy protected CDs (translation), Sony Music Entertainment in Japan has announced that it will abolish its Label Gate CCCD format (translation) beginning in November 2004 and move back to normal CD-audio format discs for all future releases. Reasons cited are music users' increased consciousness about copyrights and maintenance of legality (conformity to the CD-audio format specification). In related news, Sony also released a slightly updated HD walkman (translation) due to pressure from the iPod, but because of hardware limitations the device still does not support MP3 playback."
Move over Bill Gates, there's a new sherif in town. I would like to make a wild prediction: I will personally destroy Microsoft Don't say I didn't warn you bitches!
Remember, you can still increase sound quality by running a green marker along the edge of the CD.
Have a blast!
Hardware wise, the PS2 is totally different to the PS1.
It does contain a PS1 CPU to act as the IO processor (I think) and the processor for PS1 games.
As for Sony Digital Cameras, I have a DSC-P32 and its good.
More like "The fuckers still steal our hard work, so no much sense in annoying the remaining customers."
...", again laughing; then the line was dead. Mind you, we are paying > 80,000 USD per month in AdSense-fees.
Much like Google does.
Let's face the facts:
- Google has long ago sold out to AOL Time Warner; the next round of IPO will increase their shares and they are likely to achieve a total majority of shares by the end of 2005.
- Google is the favourite search engine for terrorists, paedophiles, communists, neo-nazis and George W. Bush (the last one commented: "Whew, this is tricky!" when confronted with the confusing user interface of Google)
- Gmail fails to meet the standard of users above Novice-level; those who are used to the comfort of a sophisticated email-client, like Microsoft Outlook, connected to a powerful and secure server-side solution, like Microsoft Exchange. When I called the Google-helpdesk ("Hoogle") and asked for POP3 and IMAP support, I heard the insulting sound of muffled laughter, then a "Sorry, we really don't
- Gmail still does not work fully with less sopisticated browsers, such as Mozilla and Firefox. This may be caused by lacking standards-support in these browsers. Fortunately, barely nobody uses these nowadays, so the problem can safely be ignored for the time being. After all, the standard user-agent for web access is the mature and secure Internet Explorer
- Google's investment in Doubleclick.com and other "online marketing" agencies is a dubious move; personally, I can live with text-only advertising as practised by Google so far, but our company ads are exclusively deployed using latest Macromedia Flash technology, because this simply is what our professional customers expect of us
- The ethical credibility of Google has been on the decline since a new employee of Google (a "noogler", according to the company-internal nomenclatura, or "Goospeak") has leaked some disturbing information regarding cruel rituals of initiation, including gross acts of homoerotic sexuality, horses and mutants. However, law authorities are now more alert towards Google, since the so called FAGACT has passed the Californian legislative. Trivia: the percentage of heterosexual Google-employees has reached an all-time low of << 0.09% as of an assessment on 2004-08-22.
It's really going to suck waking up in the morning.
My reality check bounced.
This will probably earn me an offtopic mod or worse but looking at your sig I was reminded of a bit I saw on yahoo scox message board yesterday. Enjoy!
Utah secret code
605413? Yes, it's a prime.
"It's a moral problem, boys and girls."
Yeah, well, explain all those morals about how Japan treats foreigners poorly generations later.
The atrocities committed by Japan in WW2
Their racial hatred of all things not japanese.
The corruption that lets the government wink at illegal and immoral collusion by big business
Poor treatment of women.
Honestly, its like calling a mass murder a nice guy because he always says "please and thank you".
Preach morals all you want, but dont' you dare use the japanese as an example.
Sony actually did announce a firmware to support MP3 in some existing players for early 2005. Slashdot just got it wrong, that's all. I wonder if they read their submission inbox these days, or have they completely switched over to posting paid slashvertisements?
2004-09-23 12:59:53 Sony Smartens Up: Music Players to Support MP3 (Index,Music) (pending)
I've considered your post very carefully, having read it over several times. And I have one question to ask (especially the mods who found you "intersesting": What the FUCK are you talking about? (With all due respect)
:)
My scathing reply was narrowly averted by your due respect subclause.
So I shall answer you with Due respect.... Stuff.
If you are not new to slashdot then you probably have all the facts you need to understand my post maybe just take some time to let it soak in.
Second this post is interesting, not enlightening (which is my most common modifier (Thank you slashdot mods!) so um, it's just information people didn't have organized in a useful way before. So um look up the individual facts (guestimates),and words? (dictionary.com) and you'll be enlightened too
Wrong douche bag, If you are given illegal orders, and carry them out, you can't take the Eichmann defense of "I was only following orders." And as a commanding officer in Vietnam if you make a habit of shooting your subordinates when they refuse illegal orders, then you get fragged(aka killed by those same subordinates). And Kerry was an Officer not a grunt.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.