It absolutely wouldn't. But the only illegal act they're trying to catch here is the presence of other media files on the drives. Running a VM is probably the swiftest and easiest way of stopping it seeing any other files you might happen to have lying around.
Of course, if I ran the program on my machine, the RIAA would probably jump to malign conclusions about the 55Gb of legally ripped music from my own CDs that exist in my iTunes library. I wouldn't put it past the MPAA to think that my 100Gb file called "Bourne Supremacy.wmv" is a dodgy copy of the movie, rather than the HD-DVD trailer, either.
But while I know they're legal, I still wouldn't want to waste time and money telling a court of law that.
Many BluRay players output 24p, including (as the Grandparent says) the PS3, which is the only BluRay player anyone should be considering until the 1.1 Java spec appears in a standalone model. But HD-DVD players don't have it yet, annoyingly. Apparently, it'll be a firmware update to the HD-A20, HD-AX2 and HD-EX1 models in a couple of months.
Very few systems take a 1080p24 input, though. The new Pioneer plasmas do, and Sony and JVC's top-end projectors as well. I'm not aware of anything at standard consumer prices, however.
And yes, I can tell the PAL speedup quite regularly, when it leaves the soundtrack pitch-shifted with comparison to the CD version I'm used to.
"Consumers don't understand how it works" is a perfectly valid defence if you're trying to sue me for what a joyrider got up to in my car after stealing it, and my excuse is that I thought a basic lock would be enough.
FairPlay has been fairly regularly hacked because it relies on the Client program to protect the file in the first place. As soon as Apple have to support third party clients, they don't have the ability to force upgrades when people break it, and obviously it would be pretty trivial for any open-source solution to just not bother encrypting the file at all before storing.
As encryption systems go it's pretty daft, but having done that I can certainly understand why Apple don't want other client programs out there which they don't control.
True for the Wii and Gamecube, true for the XBox. Not true, however, for the PS2; that outputs 'proper' NTSC.
Not that it matters for many people, because if you want the best from your console you'll be using either RGB SCART or Component connections to your TV, and they don't need to encode the chroma signal like composite does. Which means there isn't really a difference between the two.
No, it didn't get any chart success, no it isn't even vaguely acceptable as a cover version. But a proper version of Radar Love would need to be on Guitar Hero 70s, instead, so they had to make do.
That, however, was a lying campaign by someone claiming to be a random member of the public who really, really wanted a Sony product because it is "cool".
This looks to be closer to the Sony equivalent of Major Nelson that they've needed for ages. A voice, with official ties to get the information that they're printing reliable, but just independant enough to sound like a real person and not just a script from the PR department, who lets console owners know what the new things available are, and even more importantly why we should care.
A press release tells me what the bullet-point features of the Live Spring Update were, but Hyrb/Nelson picks some interesting ones and talks about what they mean to real people. Sony need something like this, too. Once upon a time the lead times on this stuff were slow enough that the 'official' magazines could cover it, and they could also hope to rely on an army of slavering fanboy 'independant journalists' to as well. But that's proved not to be the case.
Thanks for that; it's good to know it was good fun. In a less than incredibly sensible move, I got Crackdown a week before the beta started, and I've been so absorbed by the full game since that I never actually got around to trying Halo. Oops.
The rather crucial difference, however, is that even most Slashdotters would grant copyright that lasts the month or so since Spidey 3 came out. Manchester Cathedral has existed in roughly that form since 1215; well before Sonny Bono and the Perpetual Copyright.
Others have dealt with the question of why a church - apart from anything else, I've seen enough fictional and real ones used in WWII FPS games to see them as a standard of the genre.
Why use a real one? Resistance is set in the UK, because the developers live here. They're modelling real cities (well, condensed ones, anyway) for a game set in the 50s.
Why in a city with a high gun crime (for the UK, you Americans can go argue about 'high' if you want, however)? Manchester is one of the UK's best-known cities. To exclude it as a level seems perverse.
Why an FPS? Because that's the genre of the game.
Why without asking permission? Sony's statement suggests they thought they had permission. I think there's been some sort of cock-up, and either the wrong person gave it, or the right person gave permission for something other than what they now think Resistance is.
For a start, the spokesbishop was going on about how disgusting it is to have a game where you shoot people set there. But Resistance is about shooting 6-limbed bug-eyed Martians, not people.
I've not heard of Etrian Odyssey before, no, but I do have both a DS and a PSP. It looks like another Japanese RPG of the "read lots of text, level grind for a few hours, read more text" variety that makes me want to break things, though, so I'd rather play Mario Kart.
I suppose that means you're right, to some extent - because I play my intense 3D games like WipEout and Outrun on the PSP, my DS is where I go for simple stuff and miss the really clever things. NSMB is gorgeous, but not really what I meant about graphically complex.
Nintendo makes a great, cheap device that allows people who wouldn't normally play videogames to have fun with stuff that's simple to pick up, easy to understand what your aims are, and are chiefly great fun in short bursts, despite being graphically poor in comparison to the "competition".
Sony have an all-singing, all-dancing ninja device that plays more traditional games, but much prettier than before. Are they really "failing"? Or is the market for this just rather smaller than people who will buy a DS for Brain Training?
Blu-Ray is comfortably out-selling HD-DVD as a whole, yes. But I don't think you'll hear anything from Universal before September at the very earliest. Crucially, when looking at dual-format releases in instances where they don't stupidly make the HD-DVD version more expensive, the sales margin is nowhere near as close for most films.
Right now, the evidence seems to suggest that Blu-Ray is winning by releasing more, and more popular films. Because right now, a lot of sales are to people with both formats. The Toshiba HD-A2 is both insanely cheap now, and an excellent upscaling DVD player, so anyone after the HD-DVD exclusives might as well get it.
Now, obviously multiple formats isn't something I expect the masses to be doing, but at the moment sales are still largely to the A/V geeks for which that's the cost of the hobby.
I'll agree you're right about Christmas being a big time for Blu-Ray, though. I actually think that Warner are going to hold the big card here, because the utter incompetence of the Blu-Ray steering group to finalize the interactivity spec means that old news like The Matrix, Potter 4 and Batman Begins will be turning up as shiny new things for the format, rather than languishing ignored in the back catalogue section for HD-DVD.
1080p has always been possible, yes. But 1080p/24 is amazing news. If I could afford the necessary setup, I'd be switching from my current HD-DVD only position right away. Unlike disc capacity (30Gb is easily enough to fit a film on in high quality, thanks to the wonders of AVC) or PCM support (Dolby TrueHD is lossless), this is a real point the format now has over the opposition.
Sadly, the whole stories (the former being vindictive slurs against some lefty students because they don't like one of Associated's pet Conservatives, the latter mistaken identity) are rather more dull. So I like to just leave those statements hanging...
I absolutely agree. But it's still worth noting that, despite the Mail's failure to mention it, this was one individual school, rather than standard practice.
Mail readers can't get out of bed in the morning without something, anything to be righteously indignant about. Even if it's by reading a paper that was busy denying the Holocaust itself at first, on account of being too busy ranting about the flood of horrid Jewish immigrants coming from Eastern Europe who should be sent back to where they came from.
All I can imagine is that the editors just don't know who the Daily Mail are - because a collegue gets it free here at work, I constantly find myself being amazed that they run with headlines about how disgusting it is that the Government isn't doing anything about X, when every other paper has a story about the Government's latest attempts to do something about the same.
But then, on previous occasions they've falsely accused me of being a drug addict, and my aunt of being the Dutchess of Gloucester, so it's hardly surprising I have a low opinion of their journalistic abilities.
Thanks for the link, which rather proves the point. Unlike the Daily Hate, the Guardian story shows that the real news here is that the Government's Department for Education and Skills have found that teachers have been avoiding this particular optional component of the History Curriculum, on account of it being challenging when you've got children arguing with it.
So it's being made compulsory:
A DfES spokesman said: "It's up to schools to make a judgment on non-compulsory parts of the national curriculum. It is a broad framework and there is scope for schools to make their own decisions."
Teaching of the Holocaust is expected to become compulsory under the new national curriculum from next year.
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It absolutely wouldn't. But the only illegal act they're trying to catch here is the presence of other media files on the drives. Running a VM is probably the swiftest and easiest way of stopping it seeing any other files you might happen to have lying around.
Of course, if I ran the program on my machine, the RIAA would probably jump to malign conclusions about the 55Gb of legally ripped music from my own CDs that exist in my iTunes library. I wouldn't put it past the MPAA to think that my 100Gb file called "Bourne Supremacy.wmv" is a dodgy copy of the movie, rather than the HD-DVD trailer, either.
But while I know they're legal, I still wouldn't want to waste time and money telling a court of law that.
Many BluRay players output 24p, including (as the Grandparent says) the PS3, which is the only BluRay player anyone should be considering until the 1.1 Java spec appears in a standalone model. But HD-DVD players don't have it yet, annoyingly. Apparently, it'll be a firmware update to the HD-A20, HD-AX2 and HD-EX1 models in a couple of months.
Very few systems take a 1080p24 input, though. The new Pioneer plasmas do, and Sony and JVC's top-end projectors as well. I'm not aware of anything at standard consumer prices, however.
And yes, I can tell the PAL speedup quite regularly, when it leaves the soundtrack pitch-shifted with comparison to the CD version I'm used to.
Not only that, but all European HD-DVD releases play at 60Hz only.
"Consumers don't understand how it works" is a perfectly valid defence if you're trying to sue me for what a joyrider got up to in my car after stealing it, and my excuse is that I thought a basic lock would be enough.
FairPlay has been fairly regularly hacked because it relies on the Client program to protect the file in the first place. As soon as Apple have to support third party clients, they don't have the ability to force upgrades when people break it, and obviously it would be pretty trivial for any open-source solution to just not bother encrypting the file at all before storing.
As encryption systems go it's pretty daft, but having done that I can certainly understand why Apple don't want other client programs out there which they don't control.
I don't want to pay Microsoft when I sell PCs with Windows installed. Should I tell them to shove their licenses too, and see how far I get?
In order to get a distribution license for the DVD CCA code, you need to sign the license agreement. Otherwise, you're breaking copyright law.
Which would be a lovely idea if either the PS2 or Wii officially supported the booting of unsigned discs.
Cutting off the money supply is usually the most effective way to stop the flow of illegal product, so maybe that's part of the point...
Or indeed a browser that can be pointed at an import website.
They can't stop all copies from reaching people. But they can significantly reduce the volume with these laws.
Or has your country decided that drug laws are pointless, too?
No, it didn't get any chart success, no it isn't even vaguely acceptable as a cover version. But a proper version of Radar Love would need to be on Guitar Hero 70s, instead, so they had to make do.
That, however, was a lying campaign by someone claiming to be a random member of the public who really, really wanted a Sony product because it is "cool".
This looks to be closer to the Sony equivalent of Major Nelson that they've needed for ages. A voice, with official ties to get the information that they're printing reliable, but just independant enough to sound like a real person and not just a script from the PR department, who lets console owners know what the new things available are, and even more importantly why we should care.
A press release tells me what the bullet-point features of the Live Spring Update were, but Hyrb/Nelson picks some interesting ones and talks about what they mean to real people. Sony need something like this, too. Once upon a time the lead times on this stuff were slow enough that the 'official' magazines could cover it, and they could also hope to rely on an army of slavering fanboy 'independant journalists' to as well. But that's proved not to be the case.
Thanks for that; it's good to know it was good fun. In a less than incredibly sensible move, I got Crackdown a week before the beta started, and I've been so absorbed by the full game since that I never actually got around to trying Halo. Oops.
The rather crucial difference, however, is that even most Slashdotters would grant copyright that lasts the month or so since Spidey 3 came out. Manchester Cathedral has existed in roughly that form since 1215; well before Sonny Bono and the Perpetual Copyright.
Others have dealt with the question of why a church - apart from anything else, I've seen enough fictional and real ones used in WWII FPS games to see them as a standard of the genre.
Why use a real one? Resistance is set in the UK, because the developers live here. They're modelling real cities (well, condensed ones, anyway) for a game set in the 50s.
Why in a city with a high gun crime (for the UK, you Americans can go argue about 'high' if you want, however)? Manchester is one of the UK's best-known cities. To exclude it as a level seems perverse.
Why an FPS? Because that's the genre of the game.
Why without asking permission? Sony's statement suggests they thought they had permission. I think there's been some sort of cock-up, and either the wrong person gave it, or the right person gave permission for something other than what they now think Resistance is.
For a start, the spokesbishop was going on about how disgusting it is to have a game where you shoot people set there. But Resistance is about shooting 6-limbed bug-eyed Martians, not people.
I've not heard of Etrian Odyssey before, no, but I do have both a DS and a PSP. It looks like another Japanese RPG of the "read lots of text, level grind for a few hours, read more text" variety that makes me want to break things, though, so I'd rather play Mario Kart.
I suppose that means you're right, to some extent - because I play my intense 3D games like WipEout and Outrun on the PSP, my DS is where I go for simple stuff and miss the really clever things. NSMB is gorgeous, but not really what I meant about graphically complex.
Nintendo makes a great, cheap device that allows people who wouldn't normally play videogames to have fun with stuff that's simple to pick up, easy to understand what your aims are, and are chiefly great fun in short bursts, despite being graphically poor in comparison to the "competition".
Sony have an all-singing, all-dancing ninja device that plays more traditional games, but much prettier than before. Are they really "failing"? Or is the market for this just rather smaller than people who will buy a DS for Brain Training?
No, that's the ATI drivers where the cheap cards are clock-locked in software for Windows...
Although I suppose NVidia could be doing it as well.
Blu-Ray is comfortably out-selling HD-DVD as a whole, yes. But I don't think you'll hear anything from Universal before September at the very earliest. Crucially, when looking at dual-format releases in instances where they don't stupidly make the HD-DVD version more expensive, the sales margin is nowhere near as close for most films.
Right now, the evidence seems to suggest that Blu-Ray is winning by releasing more, and more popular films. Because right now, a lot of sales are to people with both formats. The Toshiba HD-A2 is both insanely cheap now, and an excellent upscaling DVD player, so anyone after the HD-DVD exclusives might as well get it.
Now, obviously multiple formats isn't something I expect the masses to be doing, but at the moment sales are still largely to the A/V geeks for which that's the cost of the hobby.
I'll agree you're right about Christmas being a big time for Blu-Ray, though. I actually think that Warner are going to hold the big card here, because the utter incompetence of the Blu-Ray steering group to finalize the interactivity spec means that old news like The Matrix, Potter 4 and Batman Begins will be turning up as shiny new things for the format, rather than languishing ignored in the back catalogue section for HD-DVD.
1080p has always been possible, yes. But 1080p/24 is amazing news. If I could afford the necessary setup, I'd be switching from my current HD-DVD only position right away. Unlike disc capacity (30Gb is easily enough to fit a film on in high quality, thanks to the wonders of AVC) or PCM support (Dolby TrueHD is lossless), this is a real point the format now has over the opposition.
Since said Duchess is seven years older, she certainly took it that way...
Sadly, the whole stories (the former being vindictive slurs against some lefty students because they don't like one of Associated's pet Conservatives, the latter mistaken identity) are rather more dull. So I like to just leave those statements hanging...
I absolutely agree. But it's still worth noting that, despite the Mail's failure to mention it, this was one individual school, rather than standard practice.
Mail readers can't get out of bed in the morning without something, anything to be righteously indignant about. Even if it's by reading a paper that was busy denying the Holocaust itself at first, on account of being too busy ranting about the flood of horrid Jewish immigrants coming from Eastern Europe who should be sent back to where they came from.
All I can imagine is that the editors just don't know who the Daily Mail are - because a collegue gets it free here at work, I constantly find myself being amazed that they run with headlines about how disgusting it is that the Government isn't doing anything about X, when every other paper has a story about the Government's latest attempts to do something about the same.
But then, on previous occasions they've falsely accused me of being a drug addict, and my aunt of being the Dutchess of Gloucester, so it's hardly surprising I have a low opinion of their journalistic abilities.
So it's being made compulsory: