Wouldn't it be both easier and cheaper if parents actually took an interest in their children's activities online, instead of trying to outsource the cost and bother of raising their children to everyone else.
If you standardize DRM, the materials which the content providers are trying to control will have to work anywhere and all the time. This by the very definition is NOT what DRM is about. It is about managed access, not universal access.
A standardized DRM scheme would be just as useful to the content providers as MP3.
So, the RIAA will charge the stations for copyright and the (big) stations will charge the RIAA right back for payola. The only one suffering are the smaller stations, who will either disappear or be gobbled up.
Somehow this seems like something both the RIAA and the large media companies will benefit from.
Is the US space program even relevant anymore? The moon landings are ancient history. The space station is a political thing that is slowly decaying into mediocrity. So much for the space age. It'll never happen as long as politicians are too busy stuffing their pockets with blood-money.
Strange how you never hear anyone complain about financial, medical and food aid going to that region. Is there any incentive for actualy helping that part of the world?
I got this from a Patton Oswalt recording and it is pretty much spot on:
Episode one is about Darth Vader, the dark knight, the fallen Jedi, who looks like evil incarnate. But we make him a little boy... and he's sad.
Episode two is about Boba Fett, the quiet mysterious bad-ass bounty hunter who bested Han Solo and whom fans just can't seem to get enough of, despite his meager on-screen time. But we make him a little boy... and he's sad.
Episode 3 plays catch-up to all that. And does a decent job, but it can't help but feel like an apology. It also didn't help that those fearsome jedi warriors were so easily back-stabbed.:P
Moreso, they then have the power to sell you media with a self-destruct mechanism. They only need to "update" the "security" and everybody hass to buy everything again... and again and again.
Most of the money you so kindly mean to give the artists disappears into the pockets of the record companies. You might be doing them a bigger favour by sending them cash and downloading their music from the pirates.
If terrorism means: "To force political change through fear.", then I've got a sneaking suspicion who is winning the war on terrorism.
Why would you outlaw chemistry sets, but still sell guns in supermarkets though?
I recognize a lot of the frustrations the author must have had. I was perfectly at home with all versions of windows from 95 to XP. But then the new laptops arrived at work.
I had an Asus F3J laptop running XP before. The only change on the new one was that it was an incrememntal update to F3S. 2GB instead of 1, Core 2 Duo instead of Core Duo, that sort of thing. Oh yeah... and it only runs Vista. There's no drivers for XP anywhere to be found.
I was used to photoshop documents loading in half a minute, now it's three. I had to turn the graphics on my Battlefield 2 game down from high to medium, for it to be playable. And worse of all, the explorer thinks my web-images folders are photos that need star-ratings instead of file-size.
So instead of re-learning windows I got a macbook pro and am running OSX on it as well as XP. It took me maybe one day of discomfort to switch and it was really an eye-opener how smooth everything works somehow. I expect learning Ubuntu or OSX is easier than re-learning Windows.
Ah nice... can everyone now PLEASE remove those anoying "age-check" drop-downs again? It's stupidly obvious that everyone just selects something between 1901 and 1980 with one swoop from the mouse-wheel.
It's sad to see a nation litigating itself to death. The rest of the world doesn't care about intellectual property and is doing JUST FINE.
In the end it's what you produce that pays the bills. Just thinking about it, however smart, will get you nothing.
I thought schools were designed as day-care centers for kids and teens, while they get brainwashed in to obedient drones.
Seriously... All the programming skills I have, I had to teach myself. The only competent, successful people I know are drop-outs.
Seeing how much profit is made from religion, I'd say the church is a corporation just like the record companies and even Microsoft. All of them buy lawmakers.
I'd call it the Corporate States of America and be done with it.
Has society degraded so far that this stuff need to escalate so far? Do people really nedd to go to prison? Wouldn't kicking them out of the cinema have been enough? Does it make anyone feel better that a career or study will be ruined over this? I don't want to live in a society where victimizing your fellow humans is acceptable.
This is definetly "Lawful Evil". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_& _Dragons)#Lawful_Evil
I don't want people motivated to steal my head / finger / iris / retina along with my wallet. Even if you can tell the difference between a living or a stolen body part, some idiot will try it anyway.
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I thought it was most efficient to keep the slaves chained to their desk.
Wouldn't it be both easier and cheaper if parents actually took an interest in their children's activities online, instead of trying to outsource the cost and bother of raising their children to everyone else.
With european anti-car taxes, that would make about 15000 euros then?
If you standardize DRM, the materials which the content providers are trying to control will have to work anywhere and all the time. This by the very definition is NOT what DRM is about. It is about managed access, not universal access. A standardized DRM scheme would be just as useful to the content providers as MP3.
So, the RIAA will charge the stations for copyright and the (big) stations will charge the RIAA right back for payola. The only one suffering are the smaller stations, who will either disappear or be gobbled up. Somehow this seems like something both the RIAA and the large media companies will benefit from.
Why not just keep them chained to a post?
All your solutions seem to include throwing away about $50.
Is the US space program even relevant anymore? The moon landings are ancient history. The space station is a political thing that is slowly decaying into mediocrity. So much for the space age. It'll never happen as long as politicians are too busy stuffing their pockets with blood-money.
Strange how you never hear anyone complain about financial, medical and food aid going to that region. Is there any incentive for actualy helping that part of the world?
I got this from a Patton Oswalt recording and it is pretty much spot on: Episode one is about Darth Vader, the dark knight, the fallen Jedi, who looks like evil incarnate. But we make him a little boy... and he's sad. Episode two is about Boba Fett, the quiet mysterious bad-ass bounty hunter who bested Han Solo and whom fans just can't seem to get enough of, despite his meager on-screen time. But we make him a little boy... and he's sad. Episode 3 plays catch-up to all that. And does a decent job, but it can't help but feel like an apology. It also didn't help that those fearsome jedi warriors were so easily back-stabbed. :P
Moreso, they then have the power to sell you media with a self-destruct mechanism. They only need to "update" the "security" and everybody hass to buy everything again... and again and again.
Most of the money you so kindly mean to give the artists disappears into the pockets of the record companies. You might be doing them a bigger favour by sending them cash and downloading their music from the pirates.
Your statistical study has a population of 1, how am I supposed to be convinced by your compelling argument?
Because books have chapters and movies have scenes.
If terrorism means: "To force political change through fear.", then I've got a sneaking suspicion who is winning the war on terrorism. Why would you outlaw chemistry sets, but still sell guns in supermarkets though?
I'm happy it's not slow for YOU. Now please come around and open a few PSD's on my work laptop and compare it to a similar system running XP. Thanks.
Wasn't it Vista that pops up "Are you sure" for every potentially risky action, thus moving the burden of security from the OS to the user.
I recognize a lot of the frustrations the author must have had. I was perfectly at home with all versions of windows from 95 to XP. But then the new laptops arrived at work. I had an Asus F3J laptop running XP before. The only change on the new one was that it was an incrememntal update to F3S. 2GB instead of 1, Core 2 Duo instead of Core Duo, that sort of thing. Oh yeah... and it only runs Vista. There's no drivers for XP anywhere to be found. I was used to photoshop documents loading in half a minute, now it's three. I had to turn the graphics on my Battlefield 2 game down from high to medium, for it to be playable. And worse of all, the explorer thinks my web-images folders are photos that need star-ratings instead of file-size. So instead of re-learning windows I got a macbook pro and am running OSX on it as well as XP. It took me maybe one day of discomfort to switch and it was really an eye-opener how smooth everything works somehow. I expect learning Ubuntu or OSX is easier than re-learning Windows.
Ah nice... can everyone now PLEASE remove those anoying "age-check" drop-downs again? It's stupidly obvious that everyone just selects something between 1901 and 1980 with one swoop from the mouse-wheel.
It's sad to see a nation litigating itself to death. The rest of the world doesn't care about intellectual property and is doing JUST FINE. In the end it's what you produce that pays the bills. Just thinking about it, however smart, will get you nothing.
I thought schools were designed as day-care centers for kids and teens, while they get brainwashed in to obedient drones. Seriously... All the programming skills I have, I had to teach myself. The only competent, successful people I know are drop-outs.
... in about 12 years time, after the W3C is done bickering and all legacy browsers are phased out.
Seeing how much profit is made from religion, I'd say the church is a corporation just like the record companies and even Microsoft. All of them buy lawmakers. I'd call it the Corporate States of America and be done with it.
Has society degraded so far that this stuff need to escalate so far? Do people really nedd to go to prison? Wouldn't kicking them out of the cinema have been enough? Does it make anyone feel better that a career or study will be ruined over this? I don't want to live in a society where victimizing your fellow humans is acceptable. This is definetly "Lawful Evil". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_& _Dragons)#Lawful_Evil
I don't want people motivated to steal my head / finger / iris / retina along with my wallet. Even if you can tell the difference between a living or a stolen body part, some idiot will try it anyway.