FIOS is cheaper. FIOS doesn't throttle the shit out of your uploads. I expect Comcast will avoid taking this product to markets where FIOS is available.
For not starting impeachment hearings. For not demanding an independent investigation. This is truly awful. I've been thinking of moving to Singapore since you actually get some security and solid business growth for the lack of freedom.
Ask shareware authors what happens when they get effective copy protection on a title. They'll tell you you're wrong. As for buying SoaSE, not many pirates will buy a game just because it doesn't have copy protection. There is a difference between ineffective and intrusive copy protection, which a lot of commercial titles have, and effective yet convenient copy protection, like the ones that take a unique assigned code and online verification to run for the first time.
You underestimate the power of video game addiction. People will pirate the next version of Avernum if they can, but a lot of people who would pirate it will cave in and buy. The same thing goes for many other games. The right copy protection can and does increase sales.
And yes, at the same time, there's no use in caring what somebody who will never pay is doing with your software.
Is the light going to reduce night vision? Will we end up with aware drivers seeing less? Perhaps if we knew how bright the light had to be, we could tell.
The media companies could greatly reduce current TV show piracy by offering them over the web, broadcasting at the same time as regular cable and over the air. Why pirate an hour later when you can watch it now, even with commercials? Of course the cable companies are blocking this since they control so much of the distribution and want their cut of the advertising. On top of that, the cable companies are actually making money off of piracy since so many pirates are spending their $60 a month for Comcast or their competitors. They don't want to see an increase in bandwidth and a drop in their share of advertising and regular cable subscribers. Net neutrality comes in because the cable companies say, "If you go to Internet broadcasting, we'll just destroy your connections; it's legal, haha, and we sure as hell won't let you use P2P to save bandwidth."
So this whole thing is about corporations trying to protect their slice of the pie or at least get as big a slice as possible of the next one out of the oven.
Yes, pretty much. Go ahead and watch 'On Golden Pond' all you want. I wanna see Rambo cut assholes in half with a machine gun on the big screen with 30 speakers of screaming. I don't pay for content; easy piracy has destroyed its value. I pay for the experience.
People pay for the big screen. People pay for live shows. You can't make a digital copy of a 60ft screen and you can't make a digital copy of being in a crowd, watching a live band. The only reasons theater sales drop are:
1. Crappy films
2. Obnoxious theater goers
3. Cell phones (see number 2)
The article says, basically, that the experts are advertising supported. It will all fall apart as web advertising collapses again. Thank you, Adblock Plus!
Besides, with all but the newest and pre-release products, I get much better information reading a spec-sheet and browsing user opinions than I do from an expert review.
Someday you'll spray nano-particles on your ass and you won't have to wipe for a whole week. Of course, you could try petroleum jelly today, but it's uncomfortable, unless you like that sort of thing.
I wish I could add the tag, "Bullshit!" Call me a disciple of Searles, but brains make minds and anything else a wild guess. We don't have the algorithms. I doubt we will for a long, long, long time. We don't have the hardware. We won't have the hardware. We have the barest understanding of how the brain works.
The server stores files encrypted with its own hidden key. Clients request files based upon their USB key. The server decrypts then re-encrypts the file specifically for the user. The systems the user uses has limited access, including no ability to add or compile new applications. Open source doesn't matter here when the client cannot change the code.
Public key is the way to go. Place the keys on smart cards or smart USB keys. Encrypt files individually, not just as volumes. OK, it'll be a pain in the ass. Maybe PGP Enterprise will help?
Not even close to the truth. Here's a quote from http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0207.schaeffer.html
"The Bush administration faced a dilemma: How do you mount a stealth attack on environmental protection without making the most obvious mistakes of the Reagan-Gorsuch era? The first step was to appoint as EPA administrator Christine Whitman, who provides a moderate face, but already had a reputation for gutting anti-pollution enforcement programs while she was governor of New Jersey. Another was to leave the enforcement program rudderless: 18 months into his term, Bush has not yet filled the top EPA enforcement job (his first nominee, Donald Schregardus, withdrew amid criticism of his record running Ohio's program). Leaving the job unfilled not only deprives the staff of leadership, but also robs the administration's critics of an actual person to blame for poor performance. Bush political appointees in the White House and EPA quickly took up the many other ways of thwarting enforcement without drawing attention. Here are a few of their tricks:"
And it goes on and on and on. Bush eviscerated the EPA.
The EPA has become the Exxon Protection Agency under our current executive leadership. Sadly the Democrats, once they are in power, will need years to reverse the damage.
Oh, nice insult. High fives for you.
I'm willing to bet that people pay for music only when they cannot easily find it online for free, as a gift, or as an impulse purchase.
This is about portable movies more than watching it on your TV. Apple makes their money of iPod sales! Their TV shows, as far as I can tell, usually runs 200MB for a 43 minute TV episode. That'll be about 600 megs for your typical 2-hour film. Comcraptastic customers get 500k+ downloads usually, so they'll finish downloading in about 20 minutes. That's way faster than getting a rental from a store, and Apple will likely allow you to watch as you download. You can "rent" a film before you go to bed, wake up with it already synched, and watch it on the work-commute. At $2-4, I bet many people will go for it. $5 is pushing it. Unless you're on a fast private torrent site, iTunes will be much faster and more convenient than piracy.
And like others have pointed out, the DRM will be cracked quicker than spit and people will be able to save the films without any feeling of guilt as they'll have paid for them.
Yeah! What kind of weak-ass monitor can only take a couple hits from a 90lb pull crossbow? Shit, I hit my LCD with a 280b pull all the time. Just the other day, I put ten rounds with my 9mm into it. It's still standing! I put a youtube up of it. 50,000,000 hits in two hours. SUCK IT DOWN!
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FIOS is cheaper. FIOS doesn't throttle the shit out of your uploads. I expect Comcast will avoid taking this product to markets where FIOS is available.
For not starting impeachment hearings. For not demanding an independent investigation. This is truly awful. I've been thinking of moving to Singapore since you actually get some security and solid business growth for the lack of freedom.
Ask shareware authors what happens when they get effective copy protection on a title. They'll tell you you're wrong. As for buying SoaSE, not many pirates will buy a game just because it doesn't have copy protection. There is a difference between ineffective and intrusive copy protection, which a lot of commercial titles have, and effective yet convenient copy protection, like the ones that take a unique assigned code and online verification to run for the first time.
That's just bad copy protection that screws up your system. You can trash that, but it just belongs with all other crappy coding.
You underestimate the power of video game addiction. People will pirate the next version of Avernum if they can, but a lot of people who would pirate it will cave in and buy. The same thing goes for many other games. The right copy protection can and does increase sales.
And yes, at the same time, there's no use in caring what somebody who will never pay is doing with your software.
But copy protection still stops a lot of piracy, especially for shareware authors and multi-player games.
Is the light going to reduce night vision? Will we end up with aware drivers seeing less? Perhaps if we knew how bright the light had to be, we could tell.
The media companies could greatly reduce current TV show piracy by offering them over the web, broadcasting at the same time as regular cable and over the air. Why pirate an hour later when you can watch it now, even with commercials? Of course the cable companies are blocking this since they control so much of the distribution and want their cut of the advertising. On top of that, the cable companies are actually making money off of piracy since so many pirates are spending their $60 a month for Comcast or their competitors. They don't want to see an increase in bandwidth and a drop in their share of advertising and regular cable subscribers. Net neutrality comes in because the cable companies say, "If you go to Internet broadcasting, we'll just destroy your connections; it's legal, haha, and we sure as hell won't let you use P2P to save bandwidth."
So this whole thing is about corporations trying to protect their slice of the pie or at least get as big a slice as possible of the next one out of the oven.
And do you know what I say? F them all.
Yes, pretty much. Go ahead and watch 'On Golden Pond' all you want. I wanna see Rambo cut assholes in half with a machine gun on the big screen with 30 speakers of screaming. I don't pay for content; easy piracy has destroyed its value. I pay for the experience.
People pay for the big screen. People pay for live shows. You can't make a digital copy of a 60ft screen and you can't make a digital copy of being in a crowd, watching a live band. The only reasons theater sales drop are: 1. Crappy films 2. Obnoxious theater goers 3. Cell phones (see number 2)
The article says, basically, that the experts are advertising supported. It will all fall apart as web advertising collapses again. Thank you, Adblock Plus!
Besides, with all but the newest and pre-release products, I get much better information reading a spec-sheet and browsing user opinions than I do from an expert review.
He wrote wonderful pulp fantasy that my students enjoy to this day.
Someday you'll spray nano-particles on your ass and you won't have to wipe for a whole week. Of course, you could try petroleum jelly today, but it's uncomfortable, unless you like that sort of thing.
I wish I could add the tag, "Bullshit!" Call me a disciple of Searles, but brains make minds and anything else a wild guess. We don't have the algorithms. I doubt we will for a long, long, long time. We don't have the hardware. We won't have the hardware. We have the barest understanding of how the brain works.
The server stores files encrypted with its own hidden key. Clients request files based upon their USB key. The server decrypts then re-encrypts the file specifically for the user. The systems the user uses has limited access, including no ability to add or compile new applications. Open source doesn't matter here when the client cannot change the code.
Public key is the way to go. Place the keys on smart cards or smart USB keys. Encrypt files individually, not just as volumes. OK, it'll be a pain in the ass. Maybe PGP Enterprise will help?
Not even close to the truth. Here's a quote from http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0207.schaeffer.html "The Bush administration faced a dilemma: How do you mount a stealth attack on environmental protection without making the most obvious mistakes of the Reagan-Gorsuch era? The first step was to appoint as EPA administrator Christine Whitman, who provides a moderate face, but already had a reputation for gutting anti-pollution enforcement programs while she was governor of New Jersey. Another was to leave the enforcement program rudderless: 18 months into his term, Bush has not yet filled the top EPA enforcement job (his first nominee, Donald Schregardus, withdrew amid criticism of his record running Ohio's program). Leaving the job unfilled not only deprives the staff of leadership, but also robs the administration's critics of an actual person to blame for poor performance. Bush political appointees in the White House and EPA quickly took up the many other ways of thwarting enforcement without drawing attention. Here are a few of their tricks:" And it goes on and on and on. Bush eviscerated the EPA.
The EPA has become the Exxon Protection Agency under our current executive leadership. Sadly the Democrats, once they are in power, will need years to reverse the damage.
So I was talking to my friend Jermaine in Germany and he said something quite germane about germane.
I'm confused.
Oh, nice insult. High fives for you. I'm willing to bet that people pay for music only when they cannot easily find it online for free, as a gift, or as an impulse purchase.
Haven't they heard of file sharing? This is a lawsuit where a slower dinosaur is attacking a faster dinosaur. They're still both dinosaurs.
This is about portable movies more than watching it on your TV. Apple makes their money of iPod sales! Their TV shows, as far as I can tell, usually runs 200MB for a 43 minute TV episode. That'll be about 600 megs for your typical 2-hour film. Comcraptastic customers get 500k+ downloads usually, so they'll finish downloading in about 20 minutes. That's way faster than getting a rental from a store, and Apple will likely allow you to watch as you download. You can "rent" a film before you go to bed, wake up with it already synched, and watch it on the work-commute. At $2-4, I bet many people will go for it. $5 is pushing it. Unless you're on a fast private torrent site, iTunes will be much faster and more convenient than piracy.
And like others have pointed out, the DRM will be cracked quicker than spit and people will be able to save the films without any feeling of guilt as they'll have paid for them.
Yeah! What kind of weak-ass monitor can only take a couple hits from a 90lb pull crossbow? Shit, I hit my LCD with a 280b pull all the time. Just the other day, I put ten rounds with my 9mm into it. It's still standing! I put a youtube up of it. 50,000,000 hits in two hours. SUCK IT DOWN!
Do not use this monitor when you are frustrated. Banging your fist against the screen will result in broken fingers.