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Who wants H.D. pr0n? Do you really want to see cellulite, open pores, wrinkles, etc. all in high-def? You'll end up wishing porn really did make you go blind. Hi-def makes it much harder to fulfill people's fantasies with real-life actors. Even the producers are complaining about it.
I demand a sample to assess the veracity of this claim.
This(NSA - Not Safe Anywhere) isn't even hi-def, and it will make you wish you were blind. Now imagine porn films where you can see the scars from the implants, the crows feet, the stretch marks, the acne scars, the pimples, the herpes sores, the needle tracks, the remnants of laser tattoo removal, the layers of makeup, the cellulite bubbles, the liposuction bumps, nose hairs, ear hairs, unibrows, the bad wigs and toupees, the jelly bellies, etc. Some things really are better left unseen.
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Who wants H.D. pr0n? Do you really want to see cellulite, open pores, wrinkles, etc. all in high-def? You'll end up wishing porn really did make you go blind.
Hi-def makes it much harder to fulfill people's fantasies with real-life actors. Even the producers are complaining about it.
"If the RIAA questioned the constitutionality of a federal law, the DOJ would defend it."
Nope. Even the article notes that the DoJ "might" intervene - its NOT mandatory, as you imply. They can pick and choose what federal laws to defend, and how to defend them, so don't hold your breath naively expecting them to act in a non-political matter. they'll do what is healthy for their careers, not what's healthy for the public.
What are the odds that "may" will turn into "will"?
In favor:
[X] RIAA has friends in congress.
[X] Lobbyists have a lot more "access" than the ordinary Joe or Jane Doe,
[X] Politicians know their RIAA reps can score them some good "juice" and will keep their mouths shut
Against:
[_] Politicians care about voters
[_] Politicians understand concepts like "fair use"
[_] Prosecuters are immune from political pressure.
Looks like 3-0 in favor of the RIAA from here...
After all, do you really expect politicians' common sense will prevail in the face of free booze, sex, drugs, and power, if people are dick-headed enough to do this? (NOTE: NSA - Not Safe Anywhere)
"Vista is made for the Industry not the consumer. Consumer's are dairy cows to be milked for their money."
And businesses aren't? We all know the real reason Microsoft issued Vista in December was because otherwise they would have lost a lot of business customers with their "software assurance" program. They had to either issue a new OS before 2007/01/01 or face a revolt, because businesses were guaranteed between 3 and 6 years of OS updates for buying their plan. December 31st, with no new OS, would have made that "guarantee" even more worthless.
Microsoft is still in a position to abuse their customers, because most of those customers, both industry and retail, are too cowed to look at alternatives. Microsoft certainly isn't going to educate them.
"Software assurance" my *ss. But what do you expect from a bunch of ?
"only laser printers shed toner powder into the air."
... you forgot fax machines and photocopiers...
Also, ink jet printers emit solvents - that's why they dry out, and also how they print. If the solvent in the ink didn't evaporate, your injet prints would stay wet, and smear.
Of course, even booze can be harmful to your health if you're a dickhead.
"e latter is a known health hazard on par with glass dust and asbestos. Just look at any IT health and safety handbook under "dealing with toner spillages". It is supposed to be collected using specialised vacuum cleaners, you have to have the floor tiles replaced and so on. Unfortunately very few people follow these procedures."
Lovely - now some "terr'rist dickhead" will bring toner onto airplanes in 3 oz bottles, to give the TSA a reason to ban ALL containers! Scary stuff.
Seriously, if you've ever spilled even a bit of toner, that stuff is almost impossible to clean up.
"I've worked on officer copiers,printers, fax machines since 1981. I've probably breathed in more toner & dust than any of you EVER will. I don't have ANY health problems what so ever! Until 3 years ago, I had BAD hay fever, but the dust & toner NEVER affected me, other than the occasional sneeze, blow your nose and your handkerchief comes out a little black. You need to read the material safety data sheets on toner. IT IS NOT hazardous, unless you snort the damn stuff. More nanny state BS..."
Different people are affected differently. Its like drinking - some people can handle their booze, some can;t. Don't be such a dickhead.
... soon we're all going to need pgp and gpg. At that point, expect the government to crack down on anyone encrypting their comms, because "only terr'rists need privacy."
The sad part is a lot of people will buy into the "only terr'rists need privacy" argument as justification.
"Copyright does not give you rights to make any copies. Fair use doe"
That's where you're wrong. Fair use is part and parcel of copyright law. You don't have to take my word for it - take the governments'.
If you're just copying the codecs, and have no intention of using or installing the rest of the copy of Windows you legitimately obtained, you don't have to agree with any after-sale click-through EULA, since:
you never see it
you don't agree with it
its an attempt to limit your legitimate rights after the sale
If I buy a car, there is nothing that obliges me to get it serviced at the manufacturer. I'm free to get it serviced elsewhere (and no, it doesn't void the warranty), or I'm free to rip out parts of it and use them in ways not foreseen by the manufacturer.
The license doesn't supercede copyright fair use, especially if you never agree to the license, and never use the package as a whole.
Next you'll be trying to say that Microsofts' attempts to gag people by forbidding them to post benchmarks about their products are legal, when they're just more bs from a cojmpany running scared.
Besides, some of those codecs were licensed to Microsoft by 3rd parties, who expect THEIR license to be passed through to end users of their codecs, not Microsoft's license.
"Even if your adverts are being shown via JavaScript, that in no way proves that your JavaScript that reports back will function."
If the ad is being served via an xmlhttprequest (which is the way I wrote one adserver), if the browser doesn't support xmlhttprequest, or the request is blocked, the ad doesn't get shown, the ad starts aren't incremented, and there is no log entry.
Microsoft admits that Office 97 is "good enough" for most people. That's why they're pushing OOXML so hard - they NEED to migrate people away from older versions of their office suite - and why they are fighting against true interoperability. OpenOffice IS also in the "good enough" category for most people at home and at work.
And of course, when people grab a copy of OpenOffice, they also go and get Sun's java runtime - further eroding their plans for lock-in with.NET.
As for name recognition - why not take a poll and ask how many of your co-workers would be willing to donate to a defense fund for whoever goes postal at Redmond? They have name recognition all right - people hate them.
Conventional office suites will be gone by 2015. That's 8 years away, plenty of time for alternatives to evolve to the point where an "office suite" is "just so 20th century." That's one reason Microsoft tried getting into the hardware leasing business - to try to lock people into their way of doing business.
"I unbox my new PC, hit the power button, and Windows comes up."
We can fix that, you know:-) Seriously, I haven't used Windows in over a year, either at home or at work. Linux is more than "good enough" - when the Windows machines go down, people come into my section and grab a box to surf the web, check their email, etc.
And there's the whole "once you go Mac you never go back" thing. Its worked out real well for a lot of people, including my sister. She'll never go gack to Windows. And what started it? Firefox. Once she got used to tabbed browsing, she started realizing that the Microsoft Way isn't the only way, and started wondering if she could actually make the switch.
Of course, she ended up saying it was easier than she thoughr. Just like the Windows users who come by and ask "How do I get on the net?" "See that icon? Click it." "Oh, that's it? I thought linux was hard, like DOS."
The last stronghold for Microsoft is going to be games, via DirectX.
Some caching proxies are broken in that they WILL serve up the same file if the parameters after the URL are the same; that's why I advocate giving different parameters each time. Now, if the web browser doesn't support javascript, they don't pull the ad. If they don't pull the ad, it doesn't count for an ad view, any more than a browser running adblock+, which also won't pull, say, banner ads. No advertiser should have to pay for ads that aren't requested by the user's browser, right? After all, if the page is served, but the ad isn't, then its time to either move to a different technique, or a different site.
The javascript method is simple to do, and it provides a nice log. The way I've implemented it at a couple of sites is that, for each request, it logs the query string and date/time, etc. into a log file. If the site has N page views, but only N-100 requests get to the javascript ad, then only N-100 count. Fair to everyone. If the request for the ad gets filtered out, why should the advertiser pay for it? It was never delivered. Ditto for people who disable javascript - advertisers shouldn't pay for that particular "page view" since the advertiser's ad was never delivered.
Fairness to all parties is what we should be striving for... and until something better comes along, this is about as good as its going to get. Of course, if you have a better idea...
Copying "just the bits you want" isn't a violation of the copyright law, provided you make only that one copy, and don't install windows. Read the copyright law. Its the same as if I buy a book, and decide I want to use only chapter 3. I'm not obliged to read the whole book.
Copyright gives me the right to make 1 copy onto the medium of my choice - the hard drive - of each file. So I can copy the codecs to one drive, the fonts to another, and the wav files to a third. All legal. What I can't do is then install the software - that would be making a second copy of the fonts, etc., which is not permitted under copyright.
There is nothing in copyright law that obliges me to actually install the software.
The difference is that if you upgrade your card every 2 years, you still have your old one. If you upgrade all your hardware in the same fashion, you end up with both a new machine AND a backup machine that's 2 years old, and still has a lot of life left in it.
In the case of video cards, think dual (or more) displays as one use for a second, older card. I'm running dual at the office, and triple at home.
Do you really believe such a product will even exist? Or that it will do all that much more than Office 97? Software is hitting the same barriers as hardware - a lot of older software is "good enough", just as a lot of open/free software is "good enough." A lot of what were software monopolies are being encroached upon by "good enough", same as hardware.
Vendor lock-in is deteriorating - look at the resistance to 00XML (Microsoft's proprietary format) as opposed to ODF. The browser war is already a lost cause - it can't be used to leverage the Microsoft monopoly any more. Office will have gone the same way some time before 2015. After that, there isn't any really compelling reason to run Windows.
Really, what other lock-ins do they have? DirectX? The Wii is changing the game equation. There's a whole world of games that will never require the "latest and greatest" that will be ported to the PC.
Software and hardware will be fully commoditized within the decade. That's what this article mirrors.
And we all need suckers like him to buy the latest overpriced, overhyped hardware, so that we can wait a couple of years and buy the next generation for 1/10 the cost.
The "early adopters" get what they want - which is mostly "I want it now!" , and the rest of us get what we want, which is improved hardware cheaper by waiting a bit.
Look at the people who paid $500 for a 15" LCD screen with crap specs, when you can now buy a 20" for $150.00.
Same thing with video cards - they paid $500 for a card with a quarter-gig of ram - those cards are now under $100.00
Let them keep spending - the benefits trickle down to the rest of us because we're patient.
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This (NSA - Not Safe Anywhere) isn't even hi-def, and it will make you wish you were blind. Now imagine porn films where you can see the scars from the implants, the crows feet, the stretch marks, the acne scars, the pimples, the herpes sores, the needle tracks, the remnants of laser tattoo removal, the layers of makeup, the cellulite bubbles, the liposuction bumps, nose hairs, ear hairs, unibrows, the bad wigs and toupees, the jelly bellies, etc. Some things really are better left unseen.
Who wants H.D. pr0n? Do you really want to see cellulite, open pores, wrinkles, etc. all in high-def? You'll end up wishing porn really did make you go blind.
Hi-def makes it much harder to fulfill people's fantasies with real-life actors. Even the producers are complaining about it.
"If the RIAA questioned the constitutionality of a federal law, the DOJ would defend it."
Nope. Even the article notes that the DoJ "might" intervene - its NOT mandatory, as you imply. They can pick and choose what federal laws to defend, and how to defend them, so don't hold your breath naively expecting them to act in a non-political matter. they'll do what is healthy for their careers, not what's healthy for the public.
What are the odds that "may" will turn into "will"?
In favor:
[X] RIAA has friends in congress.
[X] Lobbyists have a lot more "access" than the ordinary Joe or Jane Doe,
[X] Politicians know their RIAA reps can score them some good "juice" and will keep their mouths shut
Against:
[_] Politicians care about voters
[_] Politicians understand concepts like "fair use"
[_] Prosecuters are immune from political pressure.
Looks like 3-0 in favor of the RIAA from here ...
After all, do you really expect politicians' common sense will prevail in the face of free booze, sex, drugs, and power, if people are dick-headed enough to do this? (NOTE: NSA - Not Safe Anywhere)
"Why do you assume the justice dept will be on the RIAA side or even choose to intervene at all?
The docs state the 60 days were not apposed by the defendent. "
Because the site linked to says that the feds will intervene on the side of the RIAA. But really, was anyone expecting otherwise?
"Vista is made for the Industry not the consumer. Consumer's are dairy cows to be milked for their money."
And businesses aren't? We all know the real reason Microsoft issued Vista in December was because otherwise they would have lost a lot of business customers with their "software assurance" program. They had to either issue a new OS before 2007/01/01 or face a revolt, because businesses were guaranteed between 3 and 6 years of OS updates for buying their plan. December 31st, with no new OS, would have made that "guarantee" even more worthless.
Microsoft is still in a position to abuse their customers, because most of those customers, both industry and retail, are too cowed to look at alternatives. Microsoft certainly isn't going to educate them.
"Software assurance" my *ss. But what do you expect from a bunch of ?
"only laser printers shed toner powder into the air."
Also, ink jet printers emit solvents - that's why they dry out, and also how they print. If the solvent in the ink didn't evaporate, your injet prints would stay wet, and smear.
Of course, even booze can be harmful to your health if you're a dickhead.
"e latter is a known health hazard on par with glass dust and asbestos. Just look at any IT health and safety handbook under "dealing with toner spillages". It is supposed to be collected using specialised vacuum cleaners, you have to have the floor tiles replaced and so on. Unfortunately very few people follow these procedures."
Lovely - now some "terr'rist dickhead" will bring toner onto airplanes in 3 oz bottles, to give the TSA a reason to ban ALL containers! Scary stuff.
Seriously, if you've ever spilled even a bit of toner, that stuff is almost impossible to clean up.
"I've worked on officer copiers,printers, fax machines since 1981. I've probably breathed in more toner & dust than any of you EVER will. I don't have ANY health problems what so ever! Until 3 years ago, I had BAD hay fever, but the dust & toner NEVER affected me, other than the occasional sneeze, blow your nose and your handkerchief comes out a little black. You need to read the material safety data sheets on toner. IT IS NOT hazardous, unless you snort the damn stuff. More nanny state BS..."
Different people are affected differently. Its like drinking - some people can handle their booze, some can;t. Don't be such a dickhead.
[tt] "
Only a real dickhead would install Vista at work ... but what Microsoft wants, Microsoft gets.
"or maybe even kibblebytes"
"that only guarantees exponential growth"
I thing every investor would be happier with exponential returns on their investments, rather than a steady % growth.
Energy and clean water are the 2 current choke points, the things countries will go to war over this century. Everything else is secondary.
The sad part is a lot of people will buy into the "only terr'rists need privacy" argument as justification.
"Name the basket of commoditiy futures I can buy that predictably appreciates at the "true" 10-12% inflation rate you claim."I/i>
Energy.
"btw, "mama" and "dada" are quite easy to tell apart."
Well, maybe not at 2 in the morning when both parents are trying to get the other one to get out of bed and feed the baby ... :-(
"Copyright does not give you rights to make any copies. Fair use doe"
That's where you're wrong. Fair use is part and parcel of copyright law. You don't have to take my word for it - take the governments'.
If you're just copying the codecs, and have no intention of using or installing the rest of the copy of Windows you legitimately obtained, you don't have to agree with any after-sale click-through EULA, since:
If I buy a car, there is nothing that obliges me to get it serviced at the manufacturer. I'm free to get it serviced elsewhere (and no, it doesn't void the warranty), or I'm free to rip out parts of it and use them in ways not foreseen by the manufacturer.
The license doesn't supercede copyright fair use, especially if you never agree to the license, and never use the package as a whole.
Next you'll be trying to say that Microsofts' attempts to gag people by forbidding them to post benchmarks about their products are legal, when they're just more bs from a cojmpany running scared.
Besides, some of those codecs were licensed to Microsoft by 3rd parties, who expect THEIR license to be passed through to end users of their codecs, not Microsoft's license.
"Even if your adverts are being shown via JavaScript, that in no way proves that your JavaScript that reports back will function."
If the ad is being served via an xmlhttprequest (which is the way I wrote one adserver), if the browser doesn't support xmlhttprequest, or the request is blocked, the ad doesn't get shown, the ad starts aren't incremented, and there is no log entry.
Its a solution that works. No big deal :-)
... and integrates it into a baby monitor ...
2 PM:
She: Look, the baby said "mama."
He: No, the baby said "dada."
She: "Mama!"
He: "Dada!"
2 AM:
She: The baby's crying for you - it said "dada."
He: No, the baby said "mama."
She: "Dada!"
He: "Mama!"
s/WordStar/QEdit?g;
For when plain ascii is "good enough".
WordStar really did have a big influence - everyone copied their keyboard shortcuts - Borland, QuickEdit, MultiEdit, etc.
Microsoft admits that Office 97 is "good enough" for most people. That's why they're pushing OOXML so hard - they NEED to migrate people away from older versions of their office suite - and why they are fighting against true interoperability. OpenOffice IS also in the "good enough" category for most people at home and at work.
And of course, when people grab a copy of OpenOffice, they also go and get Sun's java runtime - further eroding their plans for lock-in with .NET.
As for name recognition - why not take a poll and ask how many of your co-workers would be willing to donate to a defense fund for whoever goes postal at Redmond? They have name recognition all right - people hate them.
Conventional office suites will be gone by 2015. That's 8 years away, plenty of time for alternatives to evolve to the point where an "office suite" is "just so 20th century." That's one reason Microsoft tried getting into the hardware leasing business - to try to lock people into their way of doing business.
"I unbox my new PC, hit the power button, and Windows comes up."
We can fix that, you know :-) Seriously, I haven't used Windows in over a year, either at home or at work. Linux is more than "good enough" - when the Windows machines go down, people come into my section and grab a box to surf the web, check their email, etc.
And there's the whole "once you go Mac you never go back" thing. Its worked out real well for a lot of people, including my sister. She'll never go gack to Windows. And what started it? Firefox. Once she got used to tabbed browsing, she started realizing that the Microsoft Way isn't the only way, and started wondering if she could actually make the switch.
Of course, she ended up saying it was easier than she thoughr. Just like the Windows users who come by and ask "How do I get on the net?" "See that icon? Click it." "Oh, that's it? I thought linux was hard, like DOS."
The last stronghold for Microsoft is going to be games, via DirectX.
Some caching proxies are broken in that they WILL serve up the same file if the parameters after the URL are the same; that's why I advocate giving different parameters each time. Now, if the web browser doesn't support javascript, they don't pull the ad. If they don't pull the ad, it doesn't count for an ad view, any more than a browser running adblock+, which also won't pull, say, banner ads. No advertiser should have to pay for ads that aren't requested by the user's browser, right? After all, if the page is served, but the ad isn't, then its time to either move to a different technique, or a different site.
The javascript method is simple to do, and it provides a nice log. The way I've implemented it at a couple of sites is that, for each request, it logs the query string and date/time, etc. into a log file. If the site has N page views, but only N-100 requests get to the javascript ad, then only N-100 count. Fair to everyone. If the request for the ad gets filtered out, why should the advertiser pay for it? It was never delivered. Ditto for people who disable javascript - advertisers shouldn't pay for that particular "page view" since the advertiser's ad was never delivered.
Fairness to all parties is what we should be striving for ... and until something better comes along, this is about as good as its going to get. Of course, if you have a better idea ...
Copyright gives me the right to make 1 copy onto the medium of my choice - the hard drive - of each file. So I can copy the codecs to one drive, the fonts to another, and the wav files to a third. All legal. What I can't do is then install the software - that would be making a second copy of the fonts, etc., which is not permitted under copyright.
There is nothing in copyright law that obliges me to actually install the software.
The difference is that if you upgrade your card every 2 years, you still have your old one. If you upgrade all your hardware in the same fashion, you end up with both a new machine AND a backup machine that's 2 years old, and still has a lot of life left in it.
In the case of video cards, think dual (or more) displays as one use for a second, older card. I'm running dual at the office, and triple at home.
"Microsoft Office 2015"
Do you really believe such a product will even exist? Or that it will do all that much more than Office 97? Software is hitting the same barriers as hardware - a lot of older software is "good enough", just as a lot of open/free software is "good enough." A lot of what were software monopolies are being encroached upon by "good enough", same as hardware.
Vendor lock-in is deteriorating - look at the resistance to 00XML (Microsoft's proprietary format) as opposed to ODF. The browser war is already a lost cause - it can't be used to leverage the Microsoft monopoly any more. Office will have gone the same way some time before 2015. After that, there isn't any really compelling reason to run Windows.
Really, what other lock-ins do they have? DirectX? The Wii is changing the game equation. There's a whole world of games that will never require the "latest and greatest" that will be ported to the PC.
Software and hardware will be fully commoditized within the decade. That's what this article mirrors.
And we all need suckers like him to buy the latest overpriced, overhyped hardware, so that we can wait a couple of years and buy the next generation for 1/10 the cost.
The "early adopters" get what they want - which is mostly "I want it now!" , and the rest of us get what we want, which is improved hardware cheaper by waiting a bit.
Look at the people who paid $500 for a 15" LCD screen with crap specs, when you can now buy a 20" for $150.00.
Same thing with video cards - they paid $500 for a card with a quarter-gig of ram - those cards are now under $100.00
Let them keep spending - the benefits trickle down to the rest of us because we're patient.