/ONLY playing devil's advocate; DON'T get on my case as this is not how I really feel/
Their answer will be: "Providing adequate protection for digital content helps ensure that the quality of that content is protected, and maintaining the rights of the content producer will help maintain the quality of their work, which helps us all."
Again, I don't agree with this nor do I think it is a compelling reason, but if I were a Microsoft Market-bot-3000, that would be my standard output.
The way I could see this being really really useful is to finally enable the persistent computer following you around. If they could beef up the battery capacity to a few days, just keep it in your pocket and have terminals at work and home (and in the car for streaming mp3s and on a job site for your tools etc) and have your computer seamlessly be wherever you are.
Have it your way, but when you get run over by some guy with a few outstanding tickets don't come crying to me.
If the corrupt cop hadn't given him the tickets to help pad the budget of his podunk town, would he have been pissed off enough to run someone over? Perhaps not...
And remember that these satellites are flying around in orbit pretty damn fast. You have to get pretty much a precise hit into the optics of a fast-moving
Er, uh... wait. If it's in geosynchronous orbit, you don't need to move the laser at all, right? Just point it and leave it.../me looks out the window to see if the neighbor's directv dish is spinning around wildly...
i have a habit of finishing a soda and twisting the can apartment...
Ah! It was you who twisted my can apartment! I can't live in it any longer because someone twisted the damn aluminum roof right off! *sniff* I just hope you stay away from my Can Airplane
No, but if you sign up for one MMORPG, you still have to pay $40 a month. And if you travel, you have to pay $40 a month times however many places you play games from because broadband works only from one location. Most subscription services (such as MMORPGs) can be dialed into from any location; broadband Internet access can't.
Kind of a nitpick, but every broadband service I've heard of offers a dialup connection to use when you're on the road. I get 20 hours/mo, which is more than I travel anyway. (Plus, if there's a power outage, I can get online using the dialup with my laptop.)
Hehe I love this sentiment from people... My favorite part? Being a fanboy for ALL the systems. I am but a lowly college student with limited resources, but I love games and my friends do too. Hence, we have an XBOX/PS2/GameCube/Dreamcast setup here. Perhaps it is you that needs vindication for grasping at ONE title when I can play any that I want for any system.
Bad analogy. Buying cars isn't illegal. It's more like they're in the sports arena industry, and someone just came out with a device which can print perfect replicas of tickets.
Whoah, whoah, whoah, Mr. "Bad Analogy" Man.
Seats in a sports arena are finite. Copies of digital information that can be shared are, for our purposes, economically infinite.
Nobody said anything about hidden cameras. If I point a camera out from my front porch and it catches her getting her mail, there is nothing wrong with that. There is no expectation of privacy in front of your house in plain view of my porch.
Who is stuck on sexual politics again?
OGG Petition for Ipod
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Anyone who is interested in signing a petition to add OGG support to the Ipod, Here's the link!
Seriously, it's mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but do these people realize what would happen to the speed of your Tivo of you were to do this? I upgraded mine to 90 hours and when it's full of shows, hitting the Tivo button sometimes takes a full 15 seconds of "Please Wait" as it indexes all of the shows in the infinitessimal 16MB of ram it's got. I can't imagine increasing it by a factor of ten but not increasing the RAM. (And yes, I know you can solder RAM directly onto the board, but I don't have a deathwish here;))
That's usually how they do slow motion, yes. They "overcrank" the camera, which means to run it at a higher frame rate and then that way they can play it back at a normal rate.
By the way, interestingly enough, the first technical idea for "bullet time" for the Matrix was to use traditional cameras, overcrank them, and then move the camera around the actor(s) in high speed. They had even proposed using a rocket to get the camera around that fast.
Because it would sound like crap, as far as an audiophile is concerned - I imagine most music reviewers are audiophiles...
Riiiight... Uh, I never said what compression rate. If you think that the reviewers are gonna notice the difference between a 320kbps mp3 and a cd, I believe you are wrong. Especially if the player (and the discman) has cheap consumer headphones.
I want to know why a solid-state mp3 player couldn't be used? They could just build their own and put the songs in ROM and just have no input. Kinda like those little "tiger beat" or whatever players that just play Britney Spears and you can get them at McDonald's.
I imagine building a custom player with built-in earbuds and only one album on it would be cheaper than this dumb glue thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you serious? You put a link to a Geocities site on the front page of Slashdot during primetime?
SLASHDOT.
FRONT PAGE.
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Seriously. I bet no more than 150 people got to actually see that site.
To the Editors:
(read this, it's important)
I WOULD PAY MONEY to have access to a subscribers-only cache of stories.
Period.
Money,
out of my pocket.
ask them to stop being asses and see how they respond.
Uh, look. He said "ask". I don't see how he could have been any more clear.
/ONLY playing devil's advocate; DON'T get on my case as this is not how I really feel/
Their answer will be:
"Providing adequate protection for digital content helps ensure that the quality of that content is protected, and maintaining the rights of the content producer will help maintain the quality of their work, which helps us all."
Again, I don't agree with this nor do I think it is a compelling reason, but if I were a Microsoft Market-bot-3000, that would be my standard output.
So at which store can I buy Tomcats for $9?
on eBay
Also, use a powerstrip or power source with a switch so that you don't have to touch the cord to turn it off.
The way I could see this being really really useful is to finally enable the persistent computer following you around. If they could beef up the battery capacity to a few days, just keep it in your pocket and have terminals at work and home (and in the car for streaming mp3s and on a job site for your tools etc) and have your computer seamlessly be wherever you are.
Have it your way, but when you get run over by some guy with a few outstanding tickets don't come crying to me.
If the corrupt cop hadn't given him the tickets to help pad the budget of his podunk town, would he have been pissed off enough to run someone over? Perhaps not...
And remember that these satellites are flying around in orbit pretty damn fast. You have to get pretty much a precise hit into the optics of a fast-moving
/me looks out the window to see if the neighbor's directv dish is spinning around wildly...
Er, uh... wait. If it's in geosynchronous orbit, you don't need to move the laser at all, right? Just point it and leave it...
i have a habit of finishing a soda and twisting the can apartment...
Ah! It was you who twisted my can apartment! I can't live in it any longer because someone twisted the damn aluminum roof right off! *sniff*
I just hope you stay away from my Can Airplane
No, but if you sign up for one MMORPG, you still have to pay $40 a month. And if you travel, you have to pay $40 a month times however many places you play games from because broadband works only from one location. Most subscription services (such as MMORPGs) can be dialed into from any location; broadband Internet access can't.
Kind of a nitpick, but every broadband service I've heard of offers a dialup connection to use when you're on the road. I get 20 hours/mo, which is more than I travel anyway. (Plus, if there's a power outage, I can get online using the dialup with my laptop.)
Any intelligent person will spell things wrong because that's how they sound.
Did that excuse work on your teachers in grade school?
I think you meant to say any idiot will spell things wrong because that's how they sound.
Hehe I love this sentiment from people... My favorite part? Being a fanboy for ALL the systems. I am but a lowly college student with limited resources, but I love games and my friends do too. Hence, we have an XBOX/PS2/GameCube/Dreamcast setup here. Perhaps it is you that needs vindication for grasping at ONE title when I can play any that I want for any system.
Bad analogy. Buying cars isn't illegal. It's more like they're in the sports arena industry, and someone just came out with a device which can print perfect replicas of tickets.
Whoah, whoah, whoah, Mr. "Bad Analogy" Man.
Seats in a sports arena are finite.
Copies of digital information that can be shared are, for our purposes, economically infinite.
How was yours a good analogy?
Nobody said anything about hidden cameras.
If I point a camera out from my front porch and it catches her getting her mail, there is nothing wrong with that. There is no expectation of privacy in front of your house in plain view of my porch.
Who is stuck on sexual politics again?
Anyone who is interested in signing a petition to add OGG support to the Ipod, Here's the link!
I didn't sign it, but then, I don't really care.
Kahlua Mudslide.
/me gives imaginary mod points
All over my monitor.
Kudos.
I dunno about you, but I will find the player I want independent of bus interface and THEN, and only then, will I decide that I am not too cheap for
AN EIGHTEEN DOLLAR PART!!!
Sorry 'bout that.
Walmart often has the 212 model, which is the 20-hour one, for $99.
Seriously, it's mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but do these people realize what would happen to the speed of your Tivo of you were to do this? I upgraded mine to 90 hours and when it's full of shows, hitting the Tivo button sometimes takes a full 15 seconds of "Please Wait" as it indexes all of the shows in the infinitessimal 16MB of ram it's got. I can't imagine increasing it by a factor of ten but not increasing the RAM. (And yes, I know you can solder RAM directly onto the board, but I don't have a deathwish here;))
That's usually how they do slow motion, yes. They "overcrank" the camera, which means to run it at a higher frame rate and then that way they can play it back at a normal rate.
By the way, interestingly enough, the first technical idea for "bullet time" for the Matrix was to use traditional cameras, overcrank them, and then move the camera around the actor(s) in high speed. They had even proposed using a rocket to get the camera around that fast.
Because it would sound like crap, as far as an audiophile is concerned - I imagine most music reviewers are audiophiles...
Riiiight... Uh, I never said what compression rate. If you think that the reviewers are gonna notice the difference between a 320kbps mp3 and a cd, I believe you are wrong. Especially if the player (and the discman) has cheap consumer headphones.
Well, to be technical, I just meant [memory] but that since there is no input on our theoretical box, it's more like ROM.
I want to know why a solid-state mp3 player couldn't be used? They could just build their own and put the songs in ROM and just have no input. Kinda like those little "tiger beat" or whatever players that just play Britney Spears and you can get them at McDonald's.
I imagine building a custom player with built-in earbuds and only one album on it would be cheaper than this dumb glue thing.
You think it's ok to cast chicks for their sex appeal and status in the film industry, and you have the nerve to accuse me of misogyny?
Riiiiight....
Because sex appeal is always purely physical, isn't it?