Re:more proof the RIAA/MPAA are insane
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Well, that's right, it won't be a several minute dissetation, it'll be a short something or other. Worf loves prune juice, so Welchs' brand juice could be introduced.
Mind you, I'm not saying that it's a good idea or that I necessairly like the idea. However, once they can't rely on ad spots, they're going to have to move onto something else, or go away all together. I think they'll go for tons of product placement, and it will be disruptive to the show and generall be annoying.
Re:more proof the RIAA/MPAA are insane
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How do they do it? They integrate their ads into the content of the network, and they will work with advertising services that specialize in interesting and unique ads.
Think of the Superbowl. Nearly as many people watch the game with the hope that they can catch a tiny moment of funny as the people that watch the game itself!
Maybe that weird ass Buger King will make an appearance on one of the lawyer shows, or the CSI people will use Mr. Clean products to clean up pools of blood. Make it good, and people will watch. Too bad that's quite contrary to what they think what people want to watch.
The quote is from one of Twain's notebooks that was published posthumously in 1935; I have a copy stashed away somewhere, but it's not conveniant to go look up right now. I don't think there was much context as he had it in his notebook, IIRC. Some people take the quote to mean that he was against copyright, and as a prolific and professional writer that stance dosen't make very much sense.
As you say, he was definitely on the side of copyrights, but as much as he favored copyright he hoped equally if not more for copyright reform.
I take the quote to mean that copyright law is quite literally too complex for an omniscient and omnipresent being make sense of it... That is, a supreme being could know copyright law inside and out, but he couldn't translate it into anything we could understand, just like how a supreme being can't do logically impossible things like make 2=9. He'd have to alter space/time and well, everything would just be screwed up--like we'd all become lawyers or something:)
With 12 gigs of space on a Linux machine, I could have everything I needed to do pretty much anything prouctive and then some, a virtual drive with a full install of Win2000 with plenty of room to grow, a few dozen hours of 128kbit MP3, and still be quite comfortable... I'd probably be hindered in tyring to work with largish images, but then a 12 gig drive is pretty ancient tech.
Funny that the full install of 2000 SP4 takes up less than a gig. Does that mean that Vista will be 12 times better?
My biggest concern is that it's going to be a bitch to backup all of that shit, un top of the rest of what people use. Is vista going to come with a tape drive?
1) The SAS (Special Air Service), Great Britian's answer to the Navy Seals, will send troops to HALO jump straight into the houses of everyone that plays your Open Source game.
2) They will then proceed to ransack the houses of said players, looting any valuables they happen to find, then they will make love to the wives of these game players for no less than a half hour after a romantic dinner at an expensive resturant, and finally they will kill anything that moves before executing a stealthy exit via the Fulton Recovery System.
it already takes ages to burn off 4.4 gigs onto single layer dvd-rs.
Sorry? It takes my DVD burner about 5 minutes to do that--not a big deal by any means. It's time the same time that it takes me to get up and go take a walk across the room, top off my coffee, and observe the scenery in the Big Blue Room for a few moments. Maybe it would be an issue if I were in the business of producing DVDs, and burning was my only option. But I'm not and so it aint.
how long will it take for 25-45 gigs?
Since the data density will drastically increase, it'll probably be just like the way that my fastest CD burner did 700MB in about 4 minutes, but DVD burner can burn a 4.5 GB disc in around 6 minutes. It's hard to say, but it will probably be able to be done in a reasonable amount of time.
then once you get it off.. all your eggs are in one very fragile and irrepairable disk. ogs step on it and *snap* its gone. oh you wanted to update that rough draft of a book you backed up? too bad, you now have to burn back 45 gigs of data!
How is this in any way dissimilar to whatever current physical storage devices you're currently using? What if the head on your HDD decides it wants to be friendly with the platter? Are you prepared to spend tens of thousands of dollars to have a data recovery expert do his thing? Probably not, I'd think. What if a cosmic ray shoots out of the heavens and into your CPU causing a chain of freakish events, biffing your filesystems? That's what a good backup strategy is for, and that's where optical media fits in, to a degree. ROM media is for archiving. What else is there to say? I get the feeling that you're trying to be just as daft as the people that had this "problem" the first time that optical ROM devices were available to the general populace... And yet grandmas everywhere are burning photos of their grandkids to CDs, and burning movies to DVDs with nary a thought of the critics' words.
I'm going with firewired hard drives or multivolume parity based raid arrays when my needs exceed the bounds of traditional dvd-rs. at least then i can maintain, alter, and repair my data once it's moved off my main system.
Uhuh... I'll take tapes for my backup purposes, thanks... And I'll use my giant RAID for scratch purposes, and large temporary files that don't mean much to me. I'll continue to give my customers whatever media makes sense to work with at the time.
guns don't do much good when...your opposition has clusterbombs and cruise missiles.
You can't huh? Is that why the Iraqui Insurgents are still mostly fine and dandy? Is that why nobody has claimed the $10 Mil bounty on one of the leaders' head? Is that why our soldiers keep getting their asses blown up by a roadside bomb that cost less than $5 to make?
Cruise missiles are good for point targets, to destroy something without causing massive collateral damage. They're so expensive that it dosen't make sense to use them en masse... And cluster bombs are for all intents and purposes, weapons of (a little mass) destruction. If you want to take out an area 100x70 meters, that's what they're good for.
A network of like-minded people is all that it takes to counter all of the billions and billions of dollars that all of the first-world governments combined have spent on weapons in the last 50 years. There will never be anything more effective to counter such a group but troops pounding the pavement... That is, unless they are willing to destroy every living thing at their target site...
Frankly, I'm slightly more comfortable with some illegal immigrant using my SSN and personal information to get a job or even a criminal using my information to milk my bank accounts than I am with the government building a fingerprint and DNA database "to track workers".
They should figure out how to get a pair of silicon breats to figure out who's touching them... It'd go great with this invention. All the salesmen I know would be beating down doors for Mnemonic Breats!(tm)
Isn't that kind of like saying "I didn't kill the guy. It was the bullet's fault."
Even worse, it's like saying, "I didn't beat that guy's face in! It was my fist's fault!" Maybe that works if you have Tourettes Syndrome, and the guy was in the wrong place at the right time, or if you're clinically insane or something... But, really...
Points, in order: 1) Yeah, you're probably right, else Sony is more boneheaded than I ever gave them credit for. 2) They developed ICT as part of the BlueRay spec. Sony themselves have said that movies they produce won't be inhibited by it (but there's no guarantee this will be the case indefinitely). Nevertheless, it is there, and it *WILL* work on discs that were produced by other companies, if they so chose to implement it. Warner Brothers and Paramount will likely be using ICT on their discs, for a start. 3) Saying Sony-BMG isn't part and parcel of Sony is like saying the Pentagon isn't the home of the Defense Department. Sony-BMG has influence over every other part of Sony, and vise-versa. Saying that the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing in regards to Sony, well, it reflects a certain level disingenuousness, because most other evidence would seem to indicate otherwise. 4) Mu 5) Moo 6) Agree, but if the hype is generated by Sony itself, the product should aught to live up to expectations. 7) Yeah 8) I think this is generally thought to be the cause of #4. Arrogance doesn't buy allies. 9) Ditto.
Re:PSP in general was just a huge mistake
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Yeah, that's NOW... I won't argue with the fact that 'stick readers are both plentiful and cheap today--likewise with media for that matter. Back in '98-2000, when Sony was trying to establish Memory Sticks as a 'standard', that wasn't the case so much, though, and it really hurt them.
Still, aside from a few laptops having built-in readers, I don't know of any non-Sony products that use Memory Sticks for actually producing images, video, sound, whatever... So if you're vested heavily in Sony cameras and camcorders, PDAs, compatible phones, etc., Memory Sticks make great sense, but I think the whole format is designed to lock users into the Sony universe--which is bad, 'cause the format itself is great.
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Could someone tell me why everybody hates Memory Sticks?
Well, for one it used to be that you could not find a memory stick reader on anything but a Sony computer, and no hardware (cameras, PDAs, whatever) aside from Sonys own could use Memory Stick, and as far as I'm aware, this is still the case today. Combine that with the fact that for a long time Sony was the only manufactuer of Memory Sticks, their prices were often at least 2 times greater than that of comparable CF brands, MB for MB.
That said, I do believe that it's a superior format--it's very durable, the form factor is nice, and the later incarnations are about as fast as modern CF cards. Of course, Sony has a habit of making superior formats not going anywhere, what with the proprietary ugliness, more expensive prices, etc.
It's not like google is suggesting that you go an get a crack for your software, it's suggesting that it might a word you're looking for, based on what other people search for.
It's exactly like page-rank. If you go searching for "Santorum" because you're looking for Senator Rick Santorum's personal website, you're not going to find it as the first result, because more pages link to spreadingsantorum.com than they do linking to the senator's site... But instead of the content of the web dictating what comes first, it's the users that dictate what comes first, as a byproduct of what they ultimately click on.
So, as usual, they shouldn't be suing Google, they should be suing Google users that search for cracks.
There is no cut-off. That's the point. It may be that in our future, we have higer resolution displays, holograms, holo-deck, whatever. Who cares.
Personally, I won't say "That's Enough" until I can capture an entire landscape with such resolution that you can zoom in and clearly see the eyes of every damn ant that happened to be crawling around that day... Or better yet, print the whole thing at life-size, to cover a skyscraper or something. Okay, so that's probably not going to happen, and even if it did happen, it might not even be useful, but goddamn, it WOULD be cool.
Now, 8MP in a phone camera probably isn't going to be more useful than say, a 5MP sensor in a phone, as the resolution will certianly be limited by the cheap-ass plastic lens they put in front of it--and by any pocket-lint that it may have gained. The size of the aperture will limit the amount of light it can collect, and the noise generated by all those tiny sensors packed in there will probably not be a good thing for image quality--you'll just get even larger grainy, blury photos than you would with the 5MP sensor, which would be useful if you wanted to take big-ass grainy photos, I guess. I'm sure someone will find an art in it.
Not only that, but modest RF signals around carbon fiber can induce electrical currents that can cause galvanic corrosion on metals that might be in contact with the carbon fiber. Carbon fiber and Aluminum do not play together nicely, most especially, and I hear that it's not too friendly on Titanium. It's a Good Thing there are special primers that solve that problem. There have been a few accidents with bicycles constructed with carbon fiber and aluminum, where the joint between the two erodes to the point where the whole thing falls apart... And a few riders have been seriously hurt because of it.
If there are any hobby guys messing around with CF and metal composite airframes, it would be a very good idea to know what's going on electrically, and how their materials react with eachother!
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Well, that's right, it won't be a several minute dissetation, it'll be a short something or other. Worf loves prune juice, so Welchs' brand juice could be introduced.
Mind you, I'm not saying that it's a good idea or that I necessairly like the idea. However, once they can't rely on ad spots, they're going to have to move onto something else, or go away all together. I think they'll go for tons of product placement, and it will be disruptive to the show and generall be annoying.
How do they do it? They integrate their ads into the content of the network, and they will work with advertising services that specialize in interesting and unique ads.
Think of the Superbowl. Nearly as many people watch the game with the hope that they can catch a tiny moment of funny as the people that watch the game itself!
Maybe that weird ass Buger King will make an appearance on one of the lawyer shows, or the CSI people will use Mr. Clean products to clean up pools of blood. Make it good, and people will watch. Too bad that's quite contrary to what they think what people want to watch.
The quote is from one of Twain's notebooks that was published posthumously in 1935; I have a copy stashed away somewhere, but it's not conveniant to go look up right now. I don't think there was much context as he had it in his notebook, IIRC. Some people take the quote to mean that he was against copyright, and as a prolific and professional writer that stance dosen't make very much sense.
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As you say, he was definitely on the side of copyrights, but as much as he favored copyright he hoped equally if not more for copyright reform.
I take the quote to mean that copyright law is quite literally too complex for an omniscient and omnipresent being make sense of it... That is, a supreme being could know copyright law inside and out, but he couldn't translate it into anything we could understand, just like how a supreme being can't do logically impossible things like make 2=9. He'd have to alter space/time and well, everything would just be screwed up--like we'd all become lawyers or something
With 12 gigs of space on a Linux machine, I could have everything I needed to do pretty much anything prouctive and then some, a virtual drive with a full install of Win2000 with plenty of room to grow, a few dozen hours of 128kbit MP3, and still be quite comfortable... I'd probably be hindered in tyring to work with largish images, but then a 12 gig drive is pretty ancient tech.
Funny that the full install of 2000 SP4 takes up less than a gig. Does that mean that Vista will be 12 times better?
My biggest concern is that it's going to be a bitch to backup all of that shit, un top of the rest of what people use. Is vista going to come with a tape drive?
I bet Mr. Verichip is kicking himself that his company didn't exist back in the grand old days of slavery. He would have made a killing.
Yeah, his company was doing just fine back in the day.
If I remember correctly, it was called Veri-Brand(tm) back then.
What gamer even has a girlfriend, let alone a wife?
Oh, the ones with lots of money, or possibly gamers that take a shower semi-regularly...
SAS?
Yes. Isn't it clear enough?
1) The SAS (Special Air Service), Great Britian's answer to the Navy Seals, will send troops to HALO jump straight into the houses of everyone that plays your Open Source game.
2) They will then proceed to ransack the houses of said players, looting any valuables they happen to find, then they will make love to the wives of these game players for no less than a half hour after a romantic dinner at an expensive resturant, and finally they will kill anything that moves before executing a stealthy exit via the Fulton Recovery System.
3) Profit!!!
it already takes ages to burn off 4.4 gigs onto single layer dvd-rs.
Sorry? It takes my DVD burner about 5 minutes to do that--not a big deal by any means. It's time the same time that it takes me to get up and go take a walk across the room, top off my coffee, and observe the scenery in the Big Blue Room for a few moments. Maybe it would be an issue if I were in the business of producing DVDs, and burning was my only option. But I'm not and so it aint.
how long will it take for 25-45 gigs?
Since the data density will drastically increase, it'll probably be just like the way that my fastest CD burner did 700MB in about 4 minutes, but DVD burner can burn a 4.5 GB disc in around 6 minutes. It's hard to say, but it will probably be able to be done in a reasonable amount of time.
then once you get it off.. all your eggs are in one very fragile and irrepairable disk. ogs step on it and *snap* its gone. oh you wanted to update that rough draft of a book you backed up? too bad, you now have to burn back 45 gigs of data!
How is this in any way dissimilar to whatever current physical storage devices you're currently using? What if the head on your HDD decides it wants to be friendly with the platter? Are you prepared to spend tens of thousands of dollars to have a data recovery expert do his thing? Probably not, I'd think. What if a cosmic ray shoots out of the heavens and into your CPU causing a chain of freakish events, biffing your filesystems? That's what a good backup strategy is for, and that's where optical media fits in, to a degree. ROM media is for archiving. What else is there to say? I get the feeling that you're trying to be just as daft as the people that had this "problem" the first time that optical ROM devices were available to the general populace... And yet grandmas everywhere are burning photos of their grandkids to CDs, and burning movies to DVDs with nary a thought of the critics' words.
I'm going with firewired hard drives or multivolume parity based raid arrays when my needs exceed the bounds of traditional dvd-rs. at least then i can maintain, alter, and repair my data once it's moved off my main system.
Uhuh... I'll take tapes for my backup purposes, thanks... And I'll use my giant RAID for scratch purposes, and large temporary files that don't mean much to me. I'll continue to give my customers whatever media makes sense to work with at the time.
guns don't do much good when...your opposition has clusterbombs and cruise missiles.
You can't huh? Is that why the Iraqui Insurgents are still mostly fine and dandy? Is that why nobody has claimed the $10 Mil bounty on one of the leaders' head? Is that why our soldiers keep getting their asses blown up by a roadside bomb that cost less than $5 to make?
Cruise missiles are good for point targets, to destroy something without causing massive collateral damage. They're so expensive that it dosen't make sense to use them en masse... And cluster bombs are for all intents and purposes, weapons of (a little mass) destruction. If you want to take out an area 100x70 meters, that's what they're good for.
A network of like-minded people is all that it takes to counter all of the billions and billions of dollars that all of the first-world governments combined have spent on weapons in the last 50 years. There will never be anything more effective to counter such a group but troops pounding the pavement... That is, unless they are willing to destroy every living thing at their target site...
Frankly, I'm slightly more comfortable with some illegal immigrant using my SSN and personal information to get a job or even a criminal using my information to milk my bank accounts than I am with the government building a fingerprint and DNA database "to track workers".
Os I grwe pu no Alpah Centauri, is't all teh fautl of dopplre shitf, I telsl ay!
once again the military claims to have "lost" an F-22 somewhere on the grounds of Andrews Airforce Base.
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It's not really a big deal... But you do have to wait for it to rain!
They should figure out how to get a pair of silicon breats to figure out who's touching them... It'd go great with this invention. All the salesmen I know would be beating down doors for Mnemonic Breats!(tm)
Isn't that kind of like saying "I didn't kill the guy. It was the bullet's fault."
Even worse, it's like saying, "I didn't beat that guy's face in! It was my fist's fault!"
Maybe that works if you have Tourettes Syndrome, and the guy was in the wrong place at the right time, or if you're clinically insane or something... But, really...
Sony said that the moveies they produce won't be inhibited by it [i]now[/i]. They left the door cracked so it can sneak inside in the future.
Right, that's pretty much what I meant by (but there's no guarantee this will be the case indefinitely)...
Points, in order:
1) Yeah, you're probably right, else Sony is more boneheaded than I ever gave them credit for.
2) They developed ICT as part of the BlueRay spec. Sony themselves have said that movies they produce won't be inhibited by it (but there's no guarantee this will be the case indefinitely). Nevertheless, it is there, and it *WILL* work on discs that were produced by other companies, if they so chose to implement it. Warner Brothers and Paramount will likely be using ICT on their discs, for a start.
3) Saying Sony-BMG isn't part and parcel of Sony is like saying the Pentagon isn't the home of the Defense Department. Sony-BMG has influence over every other part of Sony, and vise-versa. Saying that the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing in regards to Sony, well, it reflects a certain level disingenuousness, because most other evidence would seem to indicate otherwise.
4) Mu
5) Moo
6) Agree, but if the hype is generated by Sony itself, the product should aught to live up to expectations.
7) Yeah
8) I think this is generally thought to be the cause of #4. Arrogance doesn't buy allies.
9) Ditto.
Yeah, that's NOW... I won't argue with the fact that 'stick readers are both plentiful and cheap today--likewise with media for that matter. Back in '98-2000, when Sony was trying to establish Memory Sticks as a 'standard', that wasn't the case so much, though, and it really hurt them.
Still, aside from a few laptops having built-in readers, I don't know of any non-Sony products that use Memory Sticks for actually producing images, video, sound, whatever... So if you're vested heavily in Sony cameras and camcorders, PDAs, compatible phones, etc., Memory Sticks make great sense, but I think the whole format is designed to lock users into the Sony universe--which is bad, 'cause the format itself is great.
Could someone tell me why everybody hates Memory Sticks?
Well, for one it used to be that you could not find a memory stick reader on anything but a Sony computer, and no hardware (cameras, PDAs, whatever) aside from Sonys own could use Memory Stick, and as far as I'm aware, this is still the case today. Combine that with the fact that for a long time Sony was the only manufactuer of Memory Sticks, their prices were often at least 2 times greater than that of comparable CF brands, MB for MB.
That said, I do believe that it's a superior format--it's very durable, the form factor is nice, and the later incarnations are about as fast as modern CF cards. Of course, Sony has a habit of making superior formats not going anywhere, what with the proprietary ugliness, more expensive prices, etc.
Actually, the motherboard in my SNES blew when it was brand new. Thankfully it was still a few days till the warranty ran out.
You mean to say that aliens are using Enlightenment? Damn, they really are an advanced race!
It's not like google is suggesting that you go an get a crack for your software, it's suggesting that it might a word you're looking for, based on what other people search for.
It's exactly like page-rank. If you go searching for "Santorum" because you're looking for Senator Rick Santorum's personal website, you're not going to find it as the first result, because more pages link to spreadingsantorum.com than they do linking to the senator's site... But instead of the content of the web dictating what comes first, it's the users that dictate what comes first, as a byproduct of what they ultimately click on.
So, as usual, they shouldn't be suing Google, they should be suing Google users that search for cracks.
Where is that cut-off?
There is no cut-off. That's the point. It may be that in our future, we have higer resolution displays, holograms, holo-deck, whatever. Who cares.
Personally, I won't say "That's Enough" until I can capture an entire landscape with such resolution that you can zoom in and clearly see the eyes of every damn ant that happened to be crawling around that day... Or better yet, print the whole thing at life-size, to cover a skyscraper or something. Okay, so that's probably not going to happen, and even if it did happen, it might not even be useful, but goddamn, it WOULD be cool.
Now, 8MP in a phone camera probably isn't going to be more useful than say, a 5MP sensor in a phone, as the resolution will certianly be limited by the cheap-ass plastic lens they put in front of it--and by any pocket-lint that it may have gained. The size of the aperture will limit the amount of light it can collect, and the noise generated by all those tiny sensors packed in there will probably not be a good thing for image quality--you'll just get even larger grainy, blury photos than you would with the 5MP sensor, which would be useful if you wanted to take big-ass grainy photos, I guess. I'm sure someone will find an art in it.
You forgot where the guy in the ten-gallon hat says "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker", and where the unmarked black helicopter goes "Wii!"
Not only that, but modest RF signals around carbon fiber can induce electrical currents that can cause galvanic corrosion on metals that might be in contact with the carbon fiber. Carbon fiber and Aluminum do not play together nicely, most especially, and I hear that it's not too friendly on Titanium. It's a Good Thing there are special primers that solve that problem. There have been a few accidents with bicycles constructed with carbon fiber and aluminum, where the joint between the two erodes to the point where the whole thing falls apart... And a few riders have been seriously hurt because of it.
If there are any hobby guys messing around with CF and metal composite airframes, it would be a very good idea to know what's going on electrically, and how their materials react with eachother!
Well, I think you've either encountered Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf or possibly a PR person for the Bush Administration...
Either way, it's a confusingly deadly beast.