Tivo hardly invented the DVR concept. Its a natural extension of the ideas expressed by a VCR. The DVR was obvious to anyone with half a brain once we started getting enough processing power to deal with digital video effciently.
Its too bad that Forza can only be experienced with the shitty MS steering wheel. I know there are some 3rd party wheels for 360 but they are stuff like MadCatz, not logitech. A shame really. Ill take GT5 and a good logitech wheel over Forza and the MS wheel anyday.
Which still requires you to pay money for a fileplanet subscription, which of course they dont tell you until you give them your email address and agree to let fileplanet and cryptic spam you.
It is impossible to get behind any DRM scheme while a full flat ban on decryption remain in effect. Works that have fallen in the public domain but wrapped in encryption need to have a provision in law before we can even begin to talk about universal DRM.
And management gets fancy catered lunches, and warehouse gets free shipping, Marketing gets free swag, Sales gets to wine and dine people on the company credit card, etc so on and so forth
I have no problem with this commercial-only level of DRM. Its a business to business arrangement, which has very specific guidelines. It use does not relate to the curtailing of fair use 'rights' in any way. This is no different then sending a locked courier briefcase and not having the key. It is appropriate for the movie studio to be able to digitally distribute movies securely. In other words, this is a tempest in a teacup, and in no way relates to the locking up of culture at the consumer level.
DO you not understand that IE was given away to kill all other paid browsers? They did this while in a monopoly position, that makes it illegal. This is why they are forced to unbundle now. I dont understand how this is unclear to you. Giving something away for free does not preclude you from behaving properly in the marketplace.
The punishment is long overdue, and a lot of people just want to see SOME action taken against them.
Its not that they gave IE away for free, its WHY they did it.
I am as anti CONSUMER DRM as they come, but this is a normal mistake in a supply chain. Its no different then some item not being shipped because no one was qualified to ship it or whatever. This is not at all relational to consumer level DRM.
This is punishment for monopolistic practices. Its mentality like yours that allowed the DoJ to let MS off with a warning instead of sundering the company.
DO you understand that this is punishment for past misdeeds? WIth great power comes great responsibility, and microsoft abused that power. This is their penance if they wish to continue to operate in the markets that this ruling affects. Microsoft is free to choose to stop operating in those markets, it has no inherent right to do business as it sees fit.
Yes, actually. The Telco immunity act proved that phones are not private at all. The USPS can open any mail it deems necessary, and private email...lol stop it. Im not saying we shouldnt EXPECT that we would have controls in place to ensure privacy in those spaces, but to actually think using 3 rd party systems to deliver messages is private is naive. Encrypt if you want privacy, else always expect that what you send out over other people's delivery systems always has a chance of appearing in very public way.
No where in my statement did i say that thief is less culpable, only that to expect privacy using 3rd party delivery systems is laughable. Its nice, and most of the time we get it, but there is no REAL checks on them releasing any info of yours they want. You may be able to sue later but it doesnt put the genie back in the bottle.
And i wish people like you would stop assuming that you have a level of privacy when you send your stuff to third parties. Unless you have a privacy service agreement with every link in the chain with every provider between here and the person the information was intended for, presume it to be non-private henceforth.
When i was a child, if almost ANY adult told you to do something, you did it. If ANY adult said something to your parents, you were in deep trouble. Where i grew up, if kids were doing wrong, ANY adult would be expected to say something to them and they would generally listen. This is not the world we live in today.
Racism is born from baser impulses, the desire to keep one's line intact. Those that look radically different from you are usually considered threats at first glance. It is only our reasoning mind that calms these fears. Saying racism is unnatural ignores the reality of the underlying logic.
I have used my GT4/Logitech steering wheel in Midnight club and GTA IV. In midnight club i usually just end up aggro'ing some cops and race like hell down the freeway to get away. Its really fun jsut tooling around the city with a steering wheel. GTA IV isnt as fun as its much less of a driving game.
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Tivo hardly invented the DVR concept. Its a natural extension of the ideas expressed by a VCR. The DVR was obvious to anyone with half a brain once we started getting enough processing power to deal with digital video effciently.
I dont normally say this on slashdot but, you're an idiot.
Cell tower triangulation is not GPS in any way shape or form.
I WAS looking forward to this game, but come on, over a year still to go? Really sick of companies announcing games that are YEARS away.
Its too bad that Forza can only be experienced with the shitty MS steering wheel. I know there are some 3rd party wheels for 360 but they are stuff like MadCatz, not logitech. A shame really. Ill take GT5 and a good logitech wheel over Forza and the MS wheel anyday.
Which still requires you to pay money for a fileplanet subscription, which of course they dont tell you until you give them your email address and agree to let fileplanet and cryptic spam you.
It is impossible to get behind any DRM scheme while a full flat ban on decryption remain in effect. Works that have fallen in the public domain but wrapped in encryption need to have a provision in law before we can even begin to talk about universal DRM.
And management gets fancy catered lunches, and warehouse gets free shipping, Marketing gets free swag, Sales gets to wine and dine people on the company credit card, etc so on and so forth
Disappointing. What about eSATA?
How do i get external USB HDDs to allow the right click option to eject it, like i get from USB flash drives, on windows.
I have no problem with this commercial-only level of DRM. Its a business to business arrangement, which has very specific guidelines. It use does not relate to the curtailing of fair use 'rights' in any way. This is no different then sending a locked courier briefcase and not having the key. It is appropriate for the movie studio to be able to digitally distribute movies securely. In other words, this is a tempest in a teacup, and in no way relates to the locking up of culture at the consumer level.
DO you not understand that IE was given away to kill all other paid browsers? They did this while in a monopoly position, that makes it illegal. This is why they are forced to unbundle now. I dont understand how this is unclear to you. Giving something away for free does not preclude you from behaving properly in the marketplace. The punishment is long overdue, and a lot of people just want to see SOME action taken against them. Its not that they gave IE away for free, its WHY they did it.
I am as anti CONSUMER DRM as they come, but this is a normal mistake in a supply chain. Its no different then some item not being shipped because no one was qualified to ship it or whatever. This is not at all relational to consumer level DRM.
Id say this saying no longer holds water
This is punishment for monopolistic practices. Its mentality like yours that allowed the DoJ to let MS off with a warning instead of sundering the company.
DO you understand that this is punishment for past misdeeds? WIth great power comes great responsibility, and microsoft abused that power. This is their penance if they wish to continue to operate in the markets that this ruling affects. Microsoft is free to choose to stop operating in those markets, it has no inherent right to do business as it sees fit.
Yes, actually. The Telco immunity act proved that phones are not private at all. The USPS can open any mail it deems necessary, and private email...lol stop it. Im not saying we shouldnt EXPECT that we would have controls in place to ensure privacy in those spaces, but to actually think using 3 rd party systems to deliver messages is private is naive. Encrypt if you want privacy, else always expect that what you send out over other people's delivery systems always has a chance of appearing in very public way. No where in my statement did i say that thief is less culpable, only that to expect privacy using 3rd party delivery systems is laughable. Its nice, and most of the time we get it, but there is no REAL checks on them releasing any info of yours they want. You may be able to sue later but it doesnt put the genie back in the bottle.
Contributory negligence is a valid argument and certainly can weigh in on decisions. Like someone said above, its not black and white.
And i wish people like you would stop assuming that you have a level of privacy when you send your stuff to third parties. Unless you have a privacy service agreement with every link in the chain with every provider between here and the person the information was intended for, presume it to be non-private henceforth.
When i was a child, if almost ANY adult told you to do something, you did it. If ANY adult said something to your parents, you were in deep trouble. Where i grew up, if kids were doing wrong, ANY adult would be expected to say something to them and they would generally listen. This is not the world we live in today.
Racism is born from baser impulses, the desire to keep one's line intact. Those that look radically different from you are usually considered threats at first glance. It is only our reasoning mind that calms these fears. Saying racism is unnatural ignores the reality of the underlying logic.
Then you get 20 years for tampering.
I have used my GT4/Logitech steering wheel in Midnight club and GTA IV. In midnight club i usually just end up aggro'ing some cops and race like hell down the freeway to get away. Its really fun jsut tooling around the city with a steering wheel. GTA IV isnt as fun as its much less of a driving game.
Stop referring to prison as PMITA. It is extremely hypocritical.
I had a D830 with the NV 140 graphics set that would do the same thing. A firmware update partially fixed it, but its still an unreliable machine.