Sorry what was that? I was just busy making a backup of my DVD of The Big Lebowski I bought last week so I could remove the "piracy is a crime" intro to the film. It's so annoying having to wait through 2 minutes of "don't copy this or else!!!!" crap, I want to drop the DVD in and watch the film straight away.
Shouldn't the British Phonographic Industry be investigated for price fixing? As has been mentioned, the CDs are legally produced and the artists have already been paid their share, leaving the only reason the BPI are pissed off is that they didn't make a larger cut of the sale.
Hudson: We've got multiple signals... uh, front and behind... reading's off the chart!
Vasquez: There's nothing here. You're just reading us, there's nothing!
Hudson: Look there's something moving in here and it ain't us! Reading's off the charts man! They're all around us man! What the hell?
Dietrich: Maybe they don't show up on infra red at all -
This should be fun, more material for those Police Camera Action type shows, they could even setup a website for the best clips, www.youdidntgetawaywithittube.com
But on a serious note, in the UK you can pay £10 for CCTV footage you appear in, so does this mean you could also pay to get the footage of you from the headcams, or won't the headcams be classed as CCTV?
If there really is no censorship and care about uploading of copyrighted works, then this site could become your own personal tv channel like a TIVO. Just think about it, no more having to wait for that usenet/bittorrent download to finish of the latest episode of some tv show you're hooked on but they're not airing it in your country yet (or ever), just press play and watch.
Just like a TIVO you could tell it what kind of tv you like and it brings up suggestions, teach it what specific shows you like and throw in a random function so you could create a few 'channels' just like regular tv.
The potential is there to end up with something quite extraordinarily good, lets hope the programmers can come up trumps, that there's plenty of server space + bandwidth for decent quality video that looks good on fullscreen, and lastly that they've thought out the sticky legal situation of hosting (inevitably) copyrighted material.
When I first saw the heading I thought the mp3s were stored on the actual vinyl and wondered how they'd be retreived from them, nothing so fancy but it reminded me of the plastic flexi-disc I have stored away with my miniscule vinyl collection, the flexi-disc in question having a couple of Sinclair ZX81 programs on them whereby you use a turntable instead of a tape recorder to load the programs in.
"i want to see curved displays - like a giant earth globe/sphere that is a display, or a mounted movable sphere you can be inside of, with your head at the center that displays inward to the viewer. you run around inside and the globe spins, moving you in a virtual environment - 3D WOW fun!"
I've seen an earlier version that instead of a clear sphere with the user wearing LCD glasses, the sphere is opaque and they projected the virtual world on the outside of the sphere.
Will Apple allow users who have purchased DRM encoded tracks the chance to re-buy them without DRM at a reduced price, or will they have to fork out a 2nd time the full amount for the same tracks without DRM? (much like having to re-buy your favourite films every few years because someone comes out with a newer higher quality format)
I still can't see my house on Google Earth, all those corporations etc. complaining about how GE is showing a building site where there's now a building or wotnot and all I see when I look at the area I live in is a patch of blurry green. Sucks.
I think the military should hold some special Robot Wars events for prospective killbot suppliers, I bet some kid and his dad would win with a contraption made with parts from an old washing machine or lawn mower, and Craig Charles would be able to have his hosting job back which would be a little less demeaning than being on Coronation Street...
If a.safe TLD was introduced then too many people would automatically have the assumption that their PC would never be infected from visiting a.safe site nor would it's details on them ever be compromised. I don't believe anyone can say with 100% certainty that all.safe domains would be hacker proof, in fact I think hackers would be much more attracted to trying to break into.safe sites in the knowledge that people wouldn't automatically be vigilant when visiting those sites.
You've just jogged my memory with the bit about exploring inside buildings, there's a very similar device used in the film Runaway (1984), at the beginning a domestic robot goes crazy and kills a family, a baby is still alive inside so the police send in a video surveilance unit which hovers about 5 foot off the ground and looks round the house for the baby, until it's shot by the rogue robot.
In the tv series SeaQuest DSV they had a real 'holographic' display in the captain's quarters, a very simple process that looked pretty neat, a wide, thin jet of what looks like dry ice is sprayed downwards whilst an image is projected onto the 'virtual' screen of fog - SeaQuest Hologram jpg
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Sorry what was that? I was just busy making a backup of my DVD of The Big Lebowski I bought last week so I could remove the "piracy is a crime" intro to the film. It's so annoying having to wait through 2 minutes of "don't copy this or else!!!!" crap, I want to drop the DVD in and watch the film straight away.
Imagine trying to play Jet Set Willy on a 700MHz Spectrum!
If they can merge the technology of digital paper with touch sensitive paper things could get interesting...
/comic store guy
So how long now 'til we can play Grand Theft Auto:Earth?
Shouldn't the British Phonographic Industry be investigated for price fixing? As has been mentioned, the CDs are legally produced and the artists have already been paid their share, leaving the only reason the BPI are pissed off is that they didn't make a larger cut of the sale.
Hudson: We've got multiple signals... uh, front and behind... reading's off the chart!
Vasquez: There's nothing here. You're just reading us, there's nothing!
Hudson: Look there's something moving in here and it ain't us! Reading's off the charts man! They're all around us man! What the hell?
Dietrich: Maybe they don't show up on infra red at all -
I'd mod you up but slashdot.org doesn't work properly on IE6, JS error when trying to use them, 5 mod points sitting doing nowt...
This should be fun, more material for those Police Camera Action type shows, they could even setup a website for the best clips, www.youdidntgetawaywithittube.com
But on a serious note, in the UK you can pay £10 for CCTV footage you appear in, so does this mean you could also pay to get the footage of you from the headcams, or won't the headcams be classed as CCTV?
If there really is no censorship and care about uploading of copyrighted works, then this site could become your own personal tv channel like a TIVO. Just think about it, no more having to wait for that usenet/bittorrent download to finish of the latest episode of some tv show you're hooked on but they're not airing it in your country yet (or ever), just press play and watch.
Just like a TIVO you could tell it what kind of tv you like and it brings up suggestions, teach it what specific shows you like and throw in a random function so you could create a few 'channels' just like regular tv.
The potential is there to end up with something quite extraordinarily good, lets hope the programmers can come up trumps, that there's plenty of server space + bandwidth for decent quality video that looks good on fullscreen, and lastly that they've thought out the sticky legal situation of hosting (inevitably) copyrighted material.
When I first saw the heading I thought the mp3s were stored on the actual vinyl and wondered how they'd be retreived from them, nothing so fancy but it reminded me of the plastic flexi-disc I have stored away with my miniscule vinyl collection, the flexi-disc in question having a couple of Sinclair ZX81 programs on them whereby you use a turntable instead of a tape recorder to load the programs in.
Does deleting the login exes of a college computer system count as a Big Red Buton Disaster?
What if I said I did it twice?
Damn, yet more SW cash-ins, and here I was hoping for Howard The Duck 2...
"i want to see curved displays - like a giant earth globe/sphere that is a display, or a mounted movable sphere you can be inside of, with your head at the center that displays inward to the viewer. you run around inside and the globe spins, moving you in a virtual environment - 3D WOW fun!"
You mean something like this? - http://www.gizmag.com/go/4833/
I've seen an earlier version that instead of a clear sphere with the user wearing LCD glasses, the sphere is opaque and they projected the virtual world on the outside of the sphere.
Will Apple allow users who have purchased DRM encoded tracks the chance to re-buy them without DRM at a reduced price, or will they have to fork out a 2nd time the full amount for the same tracks without DRM? (much like having to re-buy your favourite films every few years because someone comes out with a newer higher quality format)
I still can't see my house on Google Earth, all those corporations etc. complaining about how GE is showing a building site where there's now a building or wotnot and all I see when I look at the area I live in is a patch of blurry green. Sucks.
I for one welcome our new solar death ray Canadian overlords.
I think the military should hold some special Robot Wars events for prospective killbot suppliers, I bet some kid and his dad would win with a contraption made with parts from an old washing machine or lawn mower, and Craig Charles would be able to have his hosting job back which would be a little less demeaning than being on Coronation Street...
The simulated quake must've been so big it shook the images off the linked page!
I hope they do a corn oil version, I do like freshly cooked chips & a battered sausage.
If a .safe TLD was introduced then too many people would automatically have the assumption that their PC would never be infected from visiting a .safe site nor would it's details on them ever be compromised. I don't believe anyone can say with 100% certainty that all .safe domains would be hacker proof, in fact I think hackers would be much more attracted to trying to break into .safe sites in the knowledge that people wouldn't automatically be vigilant when visiting those sites.
You've just jogged my memory with the bit about exploring inside buildings, there's a very similar device used in the film Runaway (1984), at the beginning a domestic robot goes crazy and kills a family, a baby is still alive inside so the police send in a video surveilance unit which hovers about 5 foot off the ground and looks round the house for the baby, until it's shot by the rogue robot.
"I don't want people thinking we're robosexuals, so if anybody asks, you're my debugger." - Bender
In the tv series SeaQuest DSV they had a real 'holographic' display in the captain's quarters, a very simple process that looked pretty neat, a wide, thin jet of what looks like dry ice is sprayed downwards whilst an image is projected onto the 'virtual' screen of fog - SeaQuest Hologram jpg
A company has already produced a similar display which looks much clearer than the SeaQuest one: http://www.physorg.com/news2591.html
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