That movie can be extremely easy to create, it's probably a fake.
He films the normal PC in the back with the cable and so on, everything is fine... When the turns to the front of the screen someone takes out the VGA cable, puts it in a display switcher or something, while the monitor is still turned off, and connects a Mac laptop to that display switch.
Then the dude turns on the PC, starts recording the screen, waits until the windows starts showing and the other guy switches the signal to the laptop. This was his hand with the camera remains in the same position and it's easy to cut out the transition.. especially since the eyes of the people are focused on the flash where the mac screen is shown.
So the movie for me it says nothing, it can be so easily faked i could do it myself if i had a fake.
The motherboard is also a Gigabyte based on the "setup-q-flash" message shown on the screen... i don't know if gigabyte would agree to make a Mac clone...
Well, they're probably not even taking those 2 dollars. If the book has no success (as in sells few copies) the author won't make any money.
I'll give you a real example here, that happened to me when I went to university.
In order to get promoted and be able to earn titles like "Doctor Honoris Causa", a teacher is required to have some works of his published, the minimum being at least three books printed and about 10-15 articles in different magazines.
So, the teacher talks to a printing house, which says they have no guarantee that the book will sell, so the author has to pay for the printing process.
If a book costs 6 dollars, the publishing house requires the author to pay 3.5-4 dollars for each book.
The teacher obviously wants the have the book published, he goes on and publishes the minimum of about 250 books and then he wants to get his money back.
So what does he do?
At the start of a semester, he tells his students that at the end of the semester there will be a yes and no test with questions from his book, and students will be allowed to use the book at the exam, but not copies of the book.
The second edition of the book, the third and so on, belongs to the publishing house, they have the rights, and if the publishing house won't get their money back for the printing process, the author won't get any money in the future.
This is probably the best scenario, where the author can move the books, has guaranteed buyers for the books.
Not all authors afford to pay in advance, which makes them reach an agreement to not receive any payment until the publishing house gets all the money back. This may never happen (Hollywood accounting).
The author would make more money if you just send him a 5$ check in the mail.
However, some people prefer to read a book in their own time, not limited to a specific amount of time that libraries allow.
So what do they do?
Well, for example, you go out and buy 500 sheets of A4 paper, costing your about 3 dollars, and you use a Xerox machine to copy your book for about 2-3 more dollars.
So, yes, I've spent 5 dollars, but if I didn't do this I would have spent about 25 dollars on the buying it in the first place.
Let's not go into medicine related books that are about 800 pages and cost in my country about 200 dollars. We have students here that buy one copy and then use it to make copies of the book because 200 dollars is about two-three months rent in the university housing here.
No, you shouldn't feel bad about this because you're not actually stealing from the author... from those 25 dollars about 2 dollars goes to the author, same as in music and movies.
The author of the book would make more money if you would be able to buy it directly from him, but as it is right now from 25 dollars about 5-7 dollars are distribution costs (to cover for books that don't sell,books damaged and not saleable, transportation to stores), 5-10 dollars are the profit of the retailer,5 dollars go to the publishing house, a few dollars goes to the printing company and the rest goes to the author.
So you see, as with music, the same happens with the books. The only difference is that it's much easier for people to copy music than to copy books, it takes more time to copy a book than a music file.
The conclusion is simple... music and movie companies have to change their distribution model and face the facts. By cutting out the middle men (retailers, distributions) they'll be able to lower the prices and people will no longer be interested in pirating the music, they'll prefer to get music at a high quality they usually get from CDs and DVDs. Buyers will always prefer the easiest, unencumbered method of buying what they want. Give them the possibility and they will buy.
I heard a lot about this guy and appreciated his acting especially when I noticed he was the actor in Soylent Green.
However, when I heard he was involved with the gun association, it disappointed me and lowered him in my eyes. He may have been a great actor but I just don't share his thinking on such matters like gun control.
If I have the highest plan that my ISP offers me and I can afford to pay four dollars to rent a movie, why should my ISP restrict me from using my bandwith legally?
They've set the prices and have a contract with me, they should fulfill their part of the deal without moaning.
When I was about 6 or 7, I used to go with my brother and my father to a family friend who had a computer built in my country similar as performance with a Commodore. We loaded games from tapes and played while we were there. That guy sold the computer and with the money started a radio station.
A few months later, there was a shop at the lowest floor of my flat and I used to peek through the window and was amazed by the game Supaplex. It was a computer/tv repair shop and the owner was staying after schedule and playing.
After that, we convinced our father to take us with him at the chemistry lab at his work place (he worked in chemistry) and used to play on the computers Heretic2 and Mario (those were Compaq's 486 at 66Mhz - this is about 8-10 years ago).
At this time I was still in highschool... one of the guys used to own a Nintendo Gameboy and the guys in the classroom used to borrow it one day at a time... have good memories about that game, used to eat 12-16 batteries each day until I used a pocket calculator ac/dc adapter to feed the Gameboy power.
Then the first computer came (an AMD K6-2 at 333Mhz) and managed to find Supaplex, Prince of Persia... Half-Life was the most played though.
The problem is that the kids know that it's against the law to drink and it's exactly because of this they get over the board in such parties.
For them it's probably the ultimate "cool" thing, to be illegal and have fun and they get too drunk and don't know their limits.
If there was no stupid law like the one you have there in US, all those kids would be a bit more used to drinking and wouldn't get drunk and act like they acted. They would learn that drinking too much is not always good and they would be a bit more responsible.
I have first drank alcohol at Christmas when I was around 7 years old. My mother has a glass a wine and she let me wet my lips a bit. I drank about a third of a glass of wine and I got a bit dizzy and then my mother told me that drinking is not good when you're young and drinking too much is also not good, and I remembered that.
I really realized that a few months later when I found in the kitchen a 250 ml bottle of Coke that actually had whiskey inside. Naturally, it was about 60% alcohol so it burned my neck and got almost drunk from only one mouthful.
But, I realized one thing, alcohol is dangerous and I should not drink a lot at the parties.
Later on, in school, from 13-14 years old, I drank a beer at a party, maybe two, when I started to get dizzy I stopped, but at the same time I started to get used to alcohol. Never ever got drunk.
So you see, the idea is that I didn't act crazy like you people, I'm normal and I didn't need any laws, just a bit of education from parents and self experience.
Mind you, it's illegal for people older than 18years to drink here but it's also illegal to drive, to go to army and other things. One age for all, that represents that you are mature and you can make decisions for yourself.
You can go to army from 16 (I think), you can drive (you can kill people while driving, such responsibility), yet you can't have a glass of wine until you're 21. Don't you think that's a bit stupid?
Kill the stupid law, educate kids about alcohol and what does to you from a younger age, and you won't see these issues so often.
PS. It IS "your rights online", you're a citizen of US and laws/rights are for you. It's within your rights to request a rethink of this law.
They create an area on the drive where probably for each cluster or sector used, a bit is set to On, so for 8 clusters, there's a byte with the value 255 (11111111 in binary). This way, if you need to create a file of a certain size, you just have to scan for as many bytes with value 0 as needed, which is much faster than to keep in memory the position of all files on the drive and compute the free space between those files. I'm not 100% sure about the above, but this is how I understand it.
He changed the monitors, which caused Vista to invalidate the DRM, much like a Windows Genuine Advantage.
Now his Netflix account is invalid and has to revalidate it and for this the application will scan all his licenses and reset all license it finds (which means he would have to contact Amazon and all the other companies and request to have the licenses activated again).
Or something like that.
Please don't put Romania in the same hole with Russia and Khazakstan. Things have changed a lot. There are "hacker wannabees" in all countries, it's not fair to just pick countries out of your ass.
It has a killer refresh rate. P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium. Yeah. It's not just the chip, it has a PCI bus. But you knew that. Indeed. RISC architecture is gonna change everything. Yeah. RISC is good.;)
Am I the only one who doesn't understand if this is good or bad?
"Big telecom companies seem to have won big with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding FCC's ruling deregulating the Internet."
Big telecom companies seems to have won - that's bad, i guess. 3rd...of Appeals ruling upholding FCC's ruling deregulating.... ruling ruling.. so what it means, it won't against this court, which means the ruling according FCC ruled deregulation is no longer rule... really, I'm confused.
Nobody stops Microsoft from producing an OSX and a Linux version of Internet Explorer. Both would probably be offered as modules or packages in Ubuntu/OSX for the people interested.
The thing is - I'm not 100% sure - Ubuntu let's you choose to install or not (or at least you can uninstall) Firefox. You can't do that with IE. Oh, and removing the icons of IE is not considered uninstall.
Firefox and Opera ARE free, but only because they receive funds through advertising.
Each time you perform a Google search using the built-in search box in the right corner of Firefox, the Firefox guys get paid by Google.
Anyways, nowadays the price of CDs is so small it's very easy to just make a CD with IE7, Firefox and Opera and a small autorun app and deliver it with each sold computer. User should be able to choose what version wants. As a bonus, the CD would contain free versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader and alternatives and the drivers and the computer would be less bloated (dream on).
I'm inclined to believe they've already made more money than they would have received from the label. As you see reading the posts, some paid 1$, some paid 5 pounds, some bought the 80$ version...
They probably would have made in the best case scenario 0.8-1.2$ from a CD through the label (so much only because they're famous and can negotiate better deals).
Also consider the transaction fee of 0.45, from which about 0.2 is probably going directly in their pocket...
No longer applies. Otherwise, more than half of Wikipedia's articles would not appear on search results, and these contain _ in urls. Also, pages on my websites appear just fine in Google and some contain "_" in url..
If my video would be delivered via IP and starts stuttering and they give me their explanation, I would simply quit paying for the TV and I will also probably sue them.
It's not their business to see what packets I am transferring and to prioritize stuff, but it's their business to deliver what they promise in the contracts.
Too much P2P traffic? Tough luck, the companies shouldn't have promised so much in contracts, if you can't deliver 4,6 mbps then don't say in the contracts.
Governments and customer protection companies should enforce and sue ISP's who specify in the contracts some parameters and when monitoring the connection, those parameters can not be reached for a specific amount of time(let's say 80% of the time). I don't care if the neighbors are downloading stuff and the lines are busy, the ISP companies won't accept 50% of the monthly fees because you had a hard month at work (or you did not receive quality service.
My feeling is that if this is enforced, *all* ISP companies would have to lower the download and upload speeds advertised in the contracts or raise the monthly prices for those contracts. This way, you really get what you pay for and companies will not promise so much.
If the kid can't buy the game from that shop, it will go to another shop or will ask a friend to buy the game for him or simply pirate it from the Internet.
It's just loss of sales unless all shops in that city or from that retailer have an agreement to follow this guys' idea.
I would have fired the guy, because he's not employed there to make his own rules, he's there to sell games.
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No, they have not. Initially, drives were using Base 2.
See for example the image with the drive on this page:
http://www.pctechguide.com/tutorials/HardDrive_Reasons.htm
or the hard drive on the left in this image:
http://www.divideby0.com/photos/vaio-f280/pics/DSCN1323.JPG
This was his hand with - > this way his hand with
i could do it myself if i had a mac.
sorry for the typos
That movie can be extremely easy to create, it's probably a fake.
He films the normal PC in the back with the cable and so on, everything is fine...
When the turns to the front of the screen someone takes out the VGA cable, puts it in a display switcher or something, while the monitor is still turned off, and connects a Mac laptop to that display switch.
Then the dude turns on the PC, starts recording the screen, waits until the windows starts showing and the other guy switches the signal to the laptop. This was his hand with the camera remains in the same position and it's easy to cut out the transition.. especially since the eyes of the people are focused on the flash where the mac screen is shown.
So the movie for me it says nothing, it can be so easily faked i could do it myself if i had a fake.
The motherboard is also a Gigabyte based on the "setup-q-flash" message shown on the screen... i don't know if gigabyte would agree to make a Mac clone...
Just my two cents
Well, they're probably not even taking those 2 dollars. If the book has no success (as in sells few copies) the author won't make any money.
I'll give you a real example here, that happened to me when I went to university.
In order to get promoted and be able to earn titles like "Doctor Honoris Causa", a teacher is required to have some works of his published, the minimum being at least three books printed and about 10-15 articles in different magazines.
So, the teacher talks to a printing house, which says they have no guarantee that the book will sell, so the author has to pay for the printing process.
If a book costs 6 dollars, the publishing house requires the author to pay 3.5-4 dollars for each book.
The teacher obviously wants the have the book published, he goes on and publishes the minimum of about 250 books and then he wants to get his money back.
So what does he do?
At the start of a semester, he tells his students that at the end of the semester there will be a yes and no test with questions from his book, and students will be allowed to use the book at the exam, but not copies of the book.
The second edition of the book, the third and so on, belongs to the publishing house, they have the rights, and if the publishing house won't get their money back for the printing process, the author won't get any money in the future.
This is probably the best scenario, where the author can move the books, has guaranteed buyers for the books.
Not all authors afford to pay in advance, which makes them reach an agreement to not receive any payment until the publishing house gets all the money back. This may never happen (Hollywood accounting).
The author would make more money if you just send him a 5$ check in the mail.
You're right, all books do return to the library.
However, some people prefer to read a book in their own time, not limited to a specific amount of time that libraries allow.
So what do they do?
Well, for example, you go out and buy 500 sheets of A4 paper, costing your about 3 dollars, and you use a Xerox machine to copy your book for about 2-3 more dollars.
So, yes, I've spent 5 dollars, but if I didn't do this I would have spent about 25 dollars on the buying it in the first place.
Let's not go into medicine related books that are about 800 pages and cost in my country about 200 dollars. We have students here that buy one copy and then use it to make copies of the book because 200 dollars is about two-three months rent in the university housing here.
No, you shouldn't feel bad about this because you're not actually stealing from the author... from those 25 dollars about 2 dollars goes to the author, same as in music and movies.
The author of the book would make more money if you would be able to buy it directly from him, but as it is right now from 25 dollars about 5-7 dollars are distribution costs (to cover for books that don't sell,books damaged and not saleable, transportation to stores), 5-10 dollars are the profit of the retailer,5 dollars go to the publishing house, a few dollars goes to the printing company and the rest goes to the author.
So you see, as with music, the same happens with the books. The only difference is that it's much easier for people to copy music than to copy books, it takes more time to copy a book than a music file.
The conclusion is simple... music and movie companies have to change their distribution model and face the facts. By cutting out the middle men (retailers, distributions) they'll be able to lower the prices and people will no longer be interested in pirating the music, they'll prefer to get music at a high quality they usually get from CDs and DVDs.
Buyers will always prefer the easiest, unencumbered method of buying what they want. Give them the possibility and they will buy.
I heard a lot about this guy and appreciated his acting especially when I noticed he was the actor in Soylent Green. However, when I heard he was involved with the gun association, it disappointed me and lowered him in my eyes. He may have been a great actor but I just don't share his thinking on such matters like gun control.
The shipping and handling kills your idea. Sorry...
Someone who can afford to pay 4 dollars for a minute can easily burn that bandwidth each day.
For example see this : Amazon Unbox Movie Rentals
File Size 2.3 GB
Bitrate 2500 kbps
Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
Audio Channels 2
If I have the highest plan that my ISP offers me and I can afford to pay four dollars to rent a movie, why should my ISP restrict me from using my bandwith legally? They've set the prices and have a contract with me, they should fulfill their part of the deal without moaning.
When I was about 6 or 7, I used to go with my brother and my father to a family friend who had a computer built in my country similar as performance with a Commodore. We loaded games from tapes and played while we were there. That guy sold the computer and with the money started a radio station.
A few months later, there was a shop at the lowest floor of my flat and I used to peek through the window and was amazed by the game Supaplex. It was a computer/tv repair shop and the owner was staying after schedule and playing.
After that, we convinced our father to take us with him at the chemistry lab at his work place (he worked in chemistry) and used to play on the computers Heretic2 and Mario (those were Compaq's 486 at 66Mhz - this is about 8-10 years ago).
At this time I was still in highschool... one of the guys used to own a Nintendo Gameboy and the guys in the classroom used to borrow it one day at a time... have good memories about that game, used to eat 12-16 batteries each day until I used a pocket calculator ac/dc adapter to feed the Gameboy power.
Then the first computer came (an AMD K6-2 at 333Mhz) and managed to find Supaplex, Prince of Persia... Half-Life was the most played though.
Mind you, it's illegal for people older than 18years to drink here but it's also illegal to drive
was supposed to say:
Mind you, it's illegal for people YOUNGER than 18years to drink here but it's also illegal to drive
The problem is that the kids know that it's against the law to drink and it's exactly because of this they get over the board in such parties.
For them it's probably the ultimate "cool" thing, to be illegal and have fun and they get too drunk and don't know their limits.
If there was no stupid law like the one you have there in US, all those kids would be a bit more used to drinking and wouldn't get drunk and act like they acted. They would learn that drinking too much is not always good and they would be a bit more responsible.
I have first drank alcohol at Christmas when I was around 7 years old. My mother has a glass a wine and she let me wet my lips a bit. I drank about a third of a glass of wine and I got a bit dizzy and then my mother told me that drinking is not good when you're young and drinking too much is also not good, and I remembered that.
I really realized that a few months later when I found in the kitchen a 250 ml bottle of Coke that actually had whiskey inside. Naturally, it was about 60% alcohol so it burned my neck and got almost drunk from only one mouthful.
But, I realized one thing, alcohol is dangerous and I should not drink a lot at the parties.
Later on, in school, from 13-14 years old, I drank a beer at a party, maybe two, when I started to get dizzy I stopped, but at the same time I started to get used to alcohol. Never ever got drunk.
So you see, the idea is that I didn't act crazy like you people, I'm normal and I didn't need any laws, just a bit of education from parents and self experience.
Mind you, it's illegal for people older than 18years to drink here but it's also illegal to drive, to go to army and other things. One age for all, that represents that you are mature and you can make decisions for yourself.
You can go to army from 16 (I think), you can drive (you can kill people while driving, such responsibility), yet you can't have a glass of wine until you're 21. Don't you think that's a bit stupid?
Kill the stupid law, educate kids about alcohol and what does to you from a younger age, and you won't see these issues so often.
PS. It IS "your rights online", you're a citizen of US and laws/rights are for you. It's within your rights to request a rethink of this law.
They create an area on the drive where probably for each cluster or sector used, a bit is set to On, so for 8 clusters, there's a byte with the value 255 (11111111 in binary). This way, if you need to create a file of a certain size, you just have to scan for as many bytes with value 0 as needed, which is much faster than to keep in memory the position of all files on the drive and compute the free space between those files.
I'm not 100% sure about the above, but this is how I understand it.
He changed the monitors, which caused Vista to invalidate the DRM, much like a Windows Genuine Advantage. Now his Netflix account is invalid and has to revalidate it and for this the application will scan all his licenses and reset all license it finds (which means he would have to contact Amazon and all the other companies and request to have the licenses activated again). Or something like that.
PerlData Link is actually this one, not the current link that points to the blog.
Please don't put Romania in the same hole with Russia and Khazakstan. Things have changed a lot. There are "hacker wannabees" in all countries, it's not fair to just pick countries out of your ass.
It has a killer refresh rate. P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium. ;)
Yeah. It's not just the chip, it has a PCI bus. But you knew that.
Indeed. RISC architecture is gonna change everything. Yeah. RISC is good.
Am I the only one who doesn't understand if this is good or bad?
...of Appeals ruling upholding FCC's ruling deregulating .... ruling ruling.. so what it means, it won't against this court, which means the ruling according FCC ruled deregulation is no longer rule... really, I'm confused.
"Big telecom companies seem to have won big with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding FCC's ruling deregulating the Internet."
Big telecom companies seems to have won - that's bad, i guess.
3rd
It's good or bad?
Nobody stops Microsoft from producing an OSX and a Linux version of Internet Explorer.
Both would probably be offered as modules or packages in Ubuntu/OSX for the people interested.
The thing is - I'm not 100% sure - Ubuntu let's you choose to install or not (or at least you can uninstall) Firefox. You can't do that with IE. Oh, and removing the icons of IE is not considered uninstall.
Firefox and Opera ARE free, but only because they receive funds through advertising.
Each time you perform a Google search using the built-in search box in the right corner of Firefox, the Firefox guys get paid by Google.
Anyways, nowadays the price of CDs is so small it's very easy to just make a CD with IE7, Firefox and Opera and a small autorun app and deliver it with each sold computer. User should be able to choose what version wants. As a bonus, the CD would contain free versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader and alternatives and the drivers and the computer would be less bloated (dream on).
I'm inclined to believe they've already made more money than they would have received from the label. As you see reading the posts, some paid 1$, some paid 5 pounds, some bought the 80$ version...
They probably would have made in the best case scenario 0.8-1.2$ from a CD through the label (so much only because they're famous and can negotiate better deals).
Also consider the transaction fee of 0.45, from which about 0.2 is probably going directly in their pocket...
No longer applies. Otherwise, more than half of Wikipedia's articles would not appear on search results, and these contain _ in urls. Also, pages on my websites appear just fine in Google and some contain "_" in url..
If my video would be delivered via IP and starts stuttering and they give me their explanation, I would simply quit paying for the TV and I will also probably sue them.
It's not their business to see what packets I am transferring and to prioritize stuff, but it's their business to deliver what they promise in the contracts.
Too much P2P traffic? Tough luck, the companies shouldn't have promised so much in contracts, if you can't deliver 4,6 mbps then don't say in the contracts.
Governments and customer protection companies should enforce and sue ISP's who specify in the contracts some parameters and when monitoring the connection, those parameters can not be reached for a specific amount of time(let's say 80% of the time). I don't care if the neighbors are downloading stuff and the lines are busy, the ISP companies won't accept 50% of the monthly fees because you had a hard month at work (or you did not receive quality service.
My feeling is that if this is enforced, *all* ISP companies would have to lower the download and upload speeds advertised in the contracts or raise the monthly prices for those contracts. This way, you really get what you pay for and companies will not promise so much.
Someone tag this kdawson... In other words, what kind of network are those people using that a game crashes it? With hubs and bridged computers...
You could try buying a Panasonic Toughbook. Not really cheap but as far as I know, they're made in Japan. AND they're quality stuff.
If the kid can't buy the game from that shop, it will go to another shop or will ask a friend to buy the game for him or simply pirate it from the Internet.
It's just loss of sales unless all shops in that city or from that retailer have an agreement to follow this guys' idea.
I would have fired the guy, because he's not employed there to make his own rules, he's there to sell games.