The criminal penalties (and allowed civil penalties) may be excessive for IP violations, but why would anyone say they should not be subject to criminal prosecution? I steal a 50 cent candy bar, that is technically a (very minor) criminal matter. Why should copying somebody else's IP not be?
I'm very impressed with New Lines special edition DVDs so far. Criterion doesn't really do a lot of extras, some of their DVDs don't even have the trailers, but some come with interviews and such, so it's really a crapshoot. Criterion isn't known for the 'fully loaded' aspect of their releases, they mostly concern themselves with quality movies and transfers. Infinifilm has good extras on their DVDs. and Superbit does the hi-def hi-bitrate schtick.
Well, that's fine. The idea is to get all the movies in one nice box so you can keep them together as one unit. I'll be buying the cheap regular editions, and when then inevitable extended edition 3 movie box set comes out, I'll spring for that and replace the 3 boxes I'll have so far.
Evangelion comes in a box-set. 8 or 9 DVDs. I just watched the whole thing a few weeks ago. I don't know enough about the show to know if this is what you meant, this was the Neon Genesis thing.
I actually really dislike when series are not released in a box. I know some of the early TV series releases (like, say, Lexx) came out in individual DVDs, a couple episodes per. It's a real PITA to 'collect em all', and I hope that model is dead for good.
And there you go... indi-artist and Brittney spears on the same equal footing.
There's no equal footing there, just like there's no equal footing between cnn.com and your blog. Everyone knows who Britney Spears is. How will people discover new bands and new music when there is no promotion? As long as there are large labels pushing their roster, the independat will never be on equal footing.
That's an extreme corner case. Extremely few computer systems are left wide open, just like extremely few banks would leave piles of money laying outside their doors. If it happens, it's by accidental ommission. These people are BREAKING into the systems, which are for the most part fairly secure. Just because they're not 100% secure does not mean no crime has taken place. Would you like all burglars to go free because they managed to get around locks and alarms because obviously the owners were negligent of security?
The problem with perfect locks on cars and homes and computer systems is that the thieves will just bypass the elaborate locks and find other ways in around them.
Yeah, we had something like that as well, using Perl on NT actually, with the Win32 modules. Automatically provisioning from a central client db, turning off and fixing permissions for several class Cs worth of virtual hosts spread over 4 machines. Instead of having basically a full time person creating webs and changing passwords al day long, we just scheduled the scripts to do it automagically every couple of hours. There is some pretty good command line support for IIS (even IIS 4 and 5 that we were using), you just gotta dig through some docs and help pages and get used to the metabase and the data model. It's just like any other task. Only losers and Linux bigots would just give up and say it's impossible because it's M$ Windoze.
I imagine with IIS6 and VB scripts this task would be even easier to accomplish, I just didn't feel like learning all that stuff, and wanted to reuse our existing Linux/Apache provisioning infrastructure and code.
I'm not sure how digital cable works, but with IPTV (or TV over DSL/phone) it's sending only 1 channel your way. When you change channels, your set top box sends a signal to let the box downstream know, and it subscribes you to a different stream. So you don't have all the channels barreling down your line at the same time like with regular analog cable, there's noth enough bandwidth for that.
Controlling your torso/direction of movement and aim separately is accomplished much easier and more intuitively with a full-size rotating handle joystick, such as this one from MS. Most useful for the likes of MechWarrior. And, like someone already said, FPS-type games (ie, shooters) do not benefit from this feature. They are meant for quick, straight-forward control of direction, speed and aim.
It IS stupid that this is only limited to XP Pro. There is NO technical reason a limited Terminal Server could not be installed for this product on XP Home (which can run services, and Remote Assistance) or Win2000, which can also technically do those. MS just wants to scam out an upgrade.
The DVD layer change pause will go away as DVD players get more sophisticated and are able to buffer the 300-500 ms of video/sound necessary to make the change seemless. That's my belief anyways. I give it another 1 or 2 generations of players before this takes place.
Totally redundant, but you can never have too many opinions on this subject. They're worth way more that a thousand screen-shots.
Desktop LCDs are pretty damn good for gaming, just choose carefully.
Look for some good specs. High contrast. Low low refresh (~25ms). I got a Viewsonic VX800, and I highly recommend it. It's DVI, so none of that pixel mapping nonsense. Pixel drawn in video, pixel sent, pixel displayed on screen. Don't be tempted to save $50; get the real deal.
Make sure it's bright. I had to turn down the brightness to almost 50% initially, but as time goes on the backlight will get less bright.
For modern high-res (1280x1024) truecolour high detail games motion blur does not hurt anything. It's just barely noticable, but if anything it adds a quite pleasant motion blur effect. I was playing the new Unreal single player game, and I got my LCD midway through, and it looked pretty much the same after the switch.
Exactly. If those 3000 cell-to-cell minutes are now 'free', and you were changed for them before, obviously the phone company can afford to 'give' them to you and still make money. How much were you overcharged before? And if not, where has the overcharge moved to? Probably shifted to a different group of subscribers.
You're missing the point of a patent, which allows you, the little guy, to think up some invention, draw up some blueprints, patent your design and get money from investors to actually build your invention.
The downside of patents is that you can do the above, and sit on your patent looking for and sueing hapless infringers.
What has increased are revenue generating infractions of "safety" laws, such as people who miscalculate the timing of yellow lights, not slowing down at stop signs, etc...
There's your problem tight there. You're supposed to STOP ata stop sign, not slow down. The name 'stop sign' was nor designed to confuse people.
There is nothing to miscalculate about yellow lights either. Yellow light, stop. You can't stop safely, then go through, but don't floor it. If you have the distance for acceleartion to make a difference, you most certainly have enough distance to stop. If you're gonna bitch about this, then say yellow lights are too short, or the camera threshold is set too early.
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The COMMON CONSENSUS?!??! I thought Gentoo users were a pretty smart bunch. It says it's April Fools Joke right on the article. Not much room for consensus there, I'm afraid.
From a marketing point of view, they have to. A DVI LCD is a higher end/premium product, so it has to be priced higher. Otherwise you'd have people asking, why if it's so much better does it cost less? This way they can milk you for $50 more.
DVI so godamn rules! Everyone says the xVGA to LCD conversion process is very good these days and makes a sharp image; either they haven't seen a DVI picture, or they're trying to get rid of stock. Sure, you get to pay about $50-100 extra, but it's wirth it. You don't have to pay extra for a video card with DVI out, unless you're buying a shitty card to begin with.
Why would you buy a digital display, where it's possible to exactly map a pixel on the video card to a pixel on the screen, and then run an analog signal through it?!? Why?! For the love of all that is good. You're not saving THAT much money. Consider all the extra circuitry and power needed for the conversion process.
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The criminal penalties (and allowed civil penalties) may be excessive for IP violations, but why would anyone say they should not be subject to criminal prosecution? I steal a 50 cent candy bar, that is technically a (very minor) criminal matter. Why should copying somebody else's IP not be?
I'm very impressed with New Lines special edition DVDs so far. Criterion doesn't really do a lot of extras, some of their DVDs don't even have the trailers, but some come with interviews and such, so it's really a crapshoot. Criterion isn't known for the 'fully loaded' aspect of their releases, they mostly concern themselves with quality movies and transfers. Infinifilm has good extras on their DVDs. and Superbit does the hi-def hi-bitrate schtick.
Well, that's fine. The idea is to get all the movies in one nice box so you can keep them together as one unit. I'll be buying the cheap regular editions, and when then inevitable extended edition 3 movie box set comes out, I'll spring for that and replace the 3 boxes I'll have so far.
Evangelion comes in a box-set. 8 or 9 DVDs. I just watched the whole thing a few weeks ago. I don't know enough about the show to know if this is what you meant, this was the Neon Genesis thing.
I actually really dislike when series are not released in a box. I know some of the early TV series releases (like, say, Lexx) came out in individual DVDs, a couple episodes per. It's a real PITA to 'collect em all', and I hope that model is dead for good.
There's no equal footing there, just like there's no equal footing between cnn.com and your blog. Everyone knows who Britney Spears is. How will people discover new bands and new music when there is no promotion? As long as there are large labels pushing their roster, the independat will never be on equal footing.
That's an extreme corner case. Extremely few computer systems are left wide open, just like extremely few banks would leave piles of money laying outside their doors. If it happens, it's by accidental ommission. These people are BREAKING into the systems, which are for the most part fairly secure. Just because they're not 100% secure does not mean no crime has taken place. Would you like all burglars to go free because they managed to get around locks and alarms because obviously the owners were negligent of security?
The problem with perfect locks on cars and homes and computer systems is that the thieves will just bypass the elaborate locks and find other ways in around them.
No, presumably it treats it like a network drive/mount.
Yeah, we had something like that as well, using Perl on NT actually, with the Win32 modules. Automatically provisioning from a central client db, turning off and fixing permissions for several class Cs worth of virtual hosts spread over 4 machines. Instead of having basically a full time person creating webs and changing passwords al day long, we just scheduled the scripts to do it automagically every couple of hours. There is some pretty good command line support for IIS (even IIS 4 and 5 that we were using), you just gotta dig through some docs and help pages and get used to the metabase and the data model. It's just like any other task. Only losers and Linux bigots would just give up and say it's impossible because it's M$ Windoze.
I imagine with IIS6 and VB scripts this task would be even easier to accomplish, I just didn't feel like learning all that stuff, and wanted to reuse our existing Linux/Apache provisioning infrastructure and code.
I'm not sure how digital cable works, but with IPTV (or TV over DSL/phone) it's sending only 1 channel your way. When you change channels, your set top box sends a signal to let the box downstream know, and it subscribes you to a different stream. So you don't have all the channels barreling down your line at the same time like with regular analog cable, there's noth enough bandwidth for that.
Controlling your torso/direction of movement and aim separately is accomplished much easier and more intuitively with a full-size rotating handle joystick, such as this one from MS. Most useful for the likes of MechWarrior. And, like someone already said, FPS-type games (ie, shooters) do not benefit from this feature. They are meant for quick, straight-forward control of direction, speed and aim.
It IS stupid that this is only limited to XP Pro. There is NO technical reason a limited Terminal Server could not be installed for this product on XP Home (which can run services, and Remote Assistance) or Win2000, which can also technically do those. MS just wants to scam out an upgrade.
The DVD layer change pause will go away as DVD players get more sophisticated and are able to buffer the 300-500 ms of video/sound necessary to make the change seemless. That's my belief anyways. I give it another 1 or 2 generations of players before this takes place.
Totally redundant, but you can never have too many opinions on this subject. They're worth way more that a thousand screen-shots.
Desktop LCDs are pretty damn good for gaming, just choose carefully.
Look for some good specs. High contrast. Low low refresh (~25ms). I got a Viewsonic VX800, and I highly recommend it. It's DVI, so none of that pixel mapping nonsense. Pixel drawn in video, pixel sent, pixel displayed on screen. Don't be tempted to save $50; get the real deal.
Make sure it's bright. I had to turn down the brightness to almost 50% initially, but as time goes on the backlight will get less bright.
For modern high-res (1280x1024) truecolour high detail games motion blur does not hurt anything. It's just barely noticable, but if anything it adds a quite pleasant motion blur effect. I was playing the new Unreal single player game, and I got my LCD midway through, and it looked pretty much the same after the switch.
Exactly. If those 3000 cell-to-cell minutes are now 'free', and you were changed for them before, obviously the phone company can afford to 'give' them to you and still make money. How much were you overcharged before? And if not, where has the overcharge moved to? Probably shifted to a different group of subscribers.
Not the least of that accomplishment is that our pm is french (ok ok, quebecois), which puts him pretty low on the hard-ass scale.
A classic case of 'do as we say, not as we do.'
You're missing the point of a patent, which allows you, the little guy, to think up some invention, draw up some blueprints, patent your design and get money from investors to actually build your invention.
The downside of patents is that you can do the above, and sit on your patent looking for and sueing hapless infringers.
There's your problem tight there. You're supposed to STOP ata stop sign, not slow down. The name 'stop sign' was nor designed to confuse people.
There is nothing to miscalculate about yellow lights either. Yellow light, stop. You can't stop safely, then go through, but don't floor it. If you have the distance for acceleartion to make a difference, you most certainly have enough distance to stop. If you're gonna bitch about this, then say yellow lights are too short, or the camera threshold is set too early.
You're gonna 'evict' a government backed by a multi-trillion dollar war machine how? With your .45 perhaps?
The COMMON CONSENSUS?!??! I thought Gentoo users were a pretty smart bunch. It says it's April Fools Joke right on the article. Not much room for consensus there, I'm afraid.
From a marketing point of view, they have to. A DVI LCD is a higher end/premium product, so it has to be priced higher. Otherwise you'd have people asking, why if it's so much better does it cost less? This way they can milk you for $50 more.
DVI so godamn rules! Everyone says the xVGA to LCD conversion process is very good these days and makes a sharp image; either they haven't seen a DVI picture, or they're trying to get rid of stock. Sure, you get to pay about $50-100 extra, but it's wirth it. You don't have to pay extra for a video card with DVI out, unless you're buying a shitty card to begin with.
Why would you buy a digital display, where it's possible to exactly map a pixel on the video card to a pixel on the screen, and then run an analog signal through it?!? Why?! For the love of all that is good. You're not saving THAT much money. Consider all the extra circuitry and power needed for the conversion process.
You mean the ones that charge during the day and light up when it's dark?
I know you're new to this whole 'DVD recolution' thing, but if you look closely you'll see that DVDs take up just as much room as CDs.
And if your DVD goes bad, a DivX/Xvid copy will not be of much consolation. I know it wouldn't for me.