Natalie Portman is starting to get a little "droopy" if you catch my drift; she's starting to resemble Carie Fisher. (Like me...getting old sucks.) We need a new babe to drool over.
I nominate the cutie from Caprica. No not the Cylon girl - her blonde friend.
I love those security tapes. 12 hours on a single tape and in near-DVD quality (Super VHS). True my DVR can do more hours but not dvd quality, and there's no way to store what I record, whereas the tapes fit on a convenient shelf.
And in case someone objects and says "SVHS isn't DVD quality": - DVD == 480 lines horizontal resolution x 480 scanlines - SVHS== 420 lines horizontal resolution x 486 scanlines Close enough. I can't see any difference.
The lab's not wired for the network. Perhaps it should be, but these things tend to fall by the wayside. Plus we use old equipment. The Techtronix Logic Analyzer I sometimes use is still running Windows XP with a built-in floppy.
I also use floppies to hand-out resumes, transfer files from desktop to laptop (the USB is broke), and for my older Atari/Commodore machines to back-up the ancient games.
Personally I'd like to see BOTH the brown people and the corporations arrested.
Wouldn't it be fun to see Bill Gates standing before a tribunal and trying to explain why he allowed illegal intruders to work inside his organization? Of course Mr. Gates wouldn't see any jail time, but Microsoft should get a major fine. Ditto any other corporation found guilty of using illegals. It would help pay off the national debt.
>>> pity the people in states that do not, as they will be swamped with illegal aliens and the crime that comes with them.
I don't think illegal intruders are criminals (except for the druglords along Arizona's border), but I do think they need to be removed. I don't let strangers enter my house without permission, and neither should strange people enter my country without permission. If you live in a shitty place and want to move to a "wealthy" debt-ridden paradise like the US or EU, then follow the US and EU laws and apply for citizenship.
BTW how do you think the Chinese Government would deal with an American or European crossing the border without permission? Yeah. I'd rather face the Arizona police.
Poland is part of the EU, and they too have a constitution (Treaty of Lisbon). You mean to tell me you think Poland has to just sit on its hands, even as Russian militias are streaming over its eastern border? It has to sit their and do nothing while the EU Parliament gives pretty speeches???
Hell no. And neither does Arizona. BOTH are sovereign states and BOTH have the right to protect their borders. .
>>>this type of action (arresting/detaining people without probable cause) is illegal and a violation of civil rights.
(1) Looks Mexican or Arab or Chinese or Russian (2) Has Mexican or Arab or Chinese or Russian accent (3) Can not prove he is a U.S. citizen because he doesn't even have a drivers license. (Who doesn't carry a drivers license, or non-driver ID card???)
QED Probable cause to believe he is a foreign national has been established, and the arrest may occur. Now the courts will take-over and determine whether or not he actually is American or an invader, and follow due process of law. That's how our world operates.
Or:
Would you prefer that we just let people like Bin Laden or Mao Tse Spy cross our borders, and have free rein to wander anywhere he feels like wandering, causing destruction along the way? These invaders are KILLING American citizens along the border, and you don't even want to TRY to stop them. You just want to turn the other cheek.
If I was in Arizona I'd certainly expect my government to act to protect me. Today is NOT a good day to die.
Those same books also claim Disc-based media is obsolete, but I don't see how I can download a 50 Mbit/s encoded Bluray movie over my 0.7 connection??? That's not even fast enough to stream an old-fashioned DVD.
I think it will be a long, long, long time before networks replace physical media or hardware.
Most people don't care if their games stop working five years from now, because they'll be onto the next big thing. Those of us who buy things and expect them to still usable ten years after purchase ((cough)(like my Mac G3*)) are in the minority of the population. We're considered "weird" to want to continue using obsolete, old stuff. So I doubt few will care that Halo 2 no longer is supported by Microsoft Live.
* * It doesn't run anything newer than OS 10.3, or Internet Explorer 5, or Safari 1 due to Apple's lock-out mechanisms.
Vice-versa I was visiting an engineering school, and the students came-up with a very ingenious idea to convert tidal waves into air motion and then electricity (via windmill action). I asked where they got the idea, and they said they saw it on the internet.
Yes they copied the idea, but so what? That's how science advances. One guy has an idea and ~10,000 other guys work to perfect it and make it reality. As you said, as long as they cite it, I have no problem with it. "Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." - Thomas Jefferson in the 1780s
Uh..... NEW Mickey Mouse cartoons are copyrighted. Old cartoons (like Steamboat Willie) under the previous law would be public domain by now, and therefore you could watch it anytime you felt like it.
Similarly Linux kernal 1 might very well be public domain by now, but the current Kernal 10 (or wherever we're at) would still be copyrighted.
Also note that not all of us agree with your goal of destroying copyright. Speaking for myself, I merely want to limit it to its original 14-year-lifespan with the possibility of ONE renewal of that license by the original creator (see US Copyright Act of 1790). i.e. I think everything pre-1980 should be public domain.
Of course Stallman and the rest always have the right to NOT copyright their creations. They have the right to release it to the public domain for the benefit of all.
When dealing with an intractable foe, I see nothing wrong with adopting their tactics. RIAA exaggerates their numbers? Well then exaggerate your numbers too. RIAA sends-out talking points to Congresscritters with their "piracy costs us 5 trillion a year!" stats? Then send out YOUR talking point that says the exact opposite: "Fair use generate 5 trillion a year in revenue!"
If the enemy cheats, then you need to cheat too, else you might as well just accept defeat. Nice guys finish last.
>>>Can you use your VCR and DVR to change the channel on FIOS or Satellite? No and you never could.
Yes you can. The satellite boxes include Timers which will automatically change the channel at preset times. The timers purpose is to help VCR and DVR owners. . Comcast boxes also had the capability upto the most-recent firmware update when the VCR/DVR Timers were removed. .
>>> The [revised] TOS states the limit is 250gb.
Fixed that for ya. The old TOS had no limit, and a lot of customers were banned. Comcast just arbitrarily picked users and said, "You are in the top 5%. Goodbye."
And of course there was no way to dispute the issue. Many people are still banned under the old rules, even though they only downloaded 50-150 GB and nowhere near the current cap.
I have observed paused in non-OFF files. Some of the WMV files I own will pause for 2-3 seconds before playing. Or else the video will play instantly, but the sound won't resume until 15 seconds later.
As for OGG:
Isn't this also considered outdated? Test results I've reviewed show the video/audio quality is no better than an MP3 or AAC encoded file, and far inferior to newer codecs like MP3pro (MP3+SBR), MPEG4 VLC, or AAC+SBR
The British burned down the white house, not the Canadians. And of course things have changed a little bit since 1814..... we're no longer a backwards, agrarian nation fighting with pitchforks and muskets.:-)
It's not racist to embrace my Hispanic, Japanese, and Chinese friends who have *obeyed the law* and acquired Visas or Citizenship.
I welcome them to this country. Vice-versa, neither is it racist to remove those who did NOT follow the law & invaded our land without permission. We are a Republic, not an anarchy. The Law rules. In ALL cases.
- States have a right to militias, and they are entitled to protect their *own* borders from invasion from without. At the time it was envisioned as a way for State Governments to act when invaded from a neighbor *New York invades Pennsylvania) or from the west (British or French troops invading Ohio). The States needed to act instantly, using their own resources, rather than have to wait for US troops to mobilize.
In the present, Arizona's border is being invaded from the south by Mexican militias that are stealing and *murdering* Arizona citizens. They are merely trying to protect themselves, first by passing laws to arrest the invaders, and second by mobilizing their militia (cops).
This is no different than if the EU State of Poland mobilized its laws and cops to protect itself from militias from Russia. Poland has that right. So too does Arizona.
Well after the oil crisis hits circa 2020 (over $300 a barrel), and the U.S. "anschlusses" Canada's oilrich provinces as states 51-60* that would technically make Japan state number 61. On the other hand Japan doesn't have any resources so it's doubtful the US would even bother.
>>>If the company you sold it to does something you don't want them to, you can choose to no longer sell to them
That may be legal elsewhere like Japan, but in the US it violates the Sherman Antitrust Act. It's called collusion and forming a cartel, and the Record Companies were sued by several U.S. States and the US DOJ circa 2000 for violating it. The record companies told discount stores, including Walmart, that selling CDs for less than $12 was unacceptable, and they should either raise prices or be cut off from resupply.
This process continued throughout the 1990s, until the class-action lawsuit came to the forefront. The record companies knew they were guilty of the crime, so they settled the issue out of court (mailed-out $25 checks to all purchasers of CDs that requested a rebate). The DOJ accepted the resolution.
If Apple tries this stuff in the US, they will face a similar fate. It may take ten years like the record company case, but eventually they will be caught and stopped.
The key issue for me is not the copyright law. I don't care if Paramount and other companies want to protect their income stream on the new Star Trek movie.
The issue for me is that these 3-strike laws assign punishment without benefit of trial by jury. And once that precedent is set, then the government can further erode the rights of Englishmen. "You were caught stealing three times. 5 years jail for you." - "But I had no trial." - "Precedent shows we don't need to give you a trial. Take him away!"
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Natalie Portman is starting to get a little "droopy" if you catch my drift; she's starting to resemble Carie Fisher. (Like me...getting old sucks.) We need a new babe to drool over.
I nominate the cutie from Caprica. No not the Cylon girl - her blonde friend.
I love those security tapes. 12 hours on a single tape and in near-DVD quality (Super VHS). True my DVR can do more hours but not dvd quality, and there's no way to store what I record, whereas the tapes fit on a convenient shelf.
And in case someone objects and says "SVHS isn't DVD quality":
- DVD == 480 lines horizontal resolution x 480 scanlines
- SVHS== 420 lines horizontal resolution x 486 scanlines
Close enough. I can't see any difference.
The lab's not wired for the network. Perhaps it should be, but these things tend to fall by the wayside. Plus we use old equipment. The Techtronix Logic Analyzer I sometimes use is still running Windows XP with a built-in floppy.
I also use floppies to hand-out resumes, transfer files from desktop to laptop (the USB is broke), and for my older Atari/Commodore machines to back-up the ancient games.
Illyria is that you?
The speechifying sure sounds like you.
Personally I'd like to see BOTH the brown people and the corporations arrested.
Wouldn't it be fun to see Bill Gates standing before a tribunal and trying to explain why he allowed illegal intruders to work inside his organization? Of course Mr. Gates wouldn't see any jail time, but Microsoft should get a major fine. Ditto any other corporation found guilty of using illegals. It would help pay off the national debt.
>>> pity the people in states that do not, as they will be swamped with illegal aliens and the crime that comes with them.
I don't think illegal intruders are criminals (except for the druglords along Arizona's border), but I do think they need to be removed. I don't let strangers enter my house without permission, and neither should strange people enter my country without permission. If you live in a shitty place and want to move to a "wealthy" debt-ridden paradise like the US or EU, then follow the US and EU laws and apply for citizenship.
BTW how do you think the Chinese Government would deal with an American or European crossing the border without permission? Yeah. I'd rather face the Arizona police.
Poland is part of the EU, and they too have a constitution (Treaty of Lisbon). You mean to tell me you think Poland has to just sit on its hands, even as Russian militias are streaming over its eastern border? It has to sit their and do nothing while the EU Parliament gives pretty speeches???
Hell no. And neither does Arizona. BOTH are sovereign states and BOTH have the right to protect their borders.
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>>>this type of action (arresting/detaining people without probable cause) is illegal and a violation of civil rights.
(1) Looks Mexican or Arab or Chinese or Russian
(2) Has Mexican or Arab or Chinese or Russian accent
(3) Can not prove he is a U.S. citizen because he doesn't even have a drivers license. (Who doesn't carry a drivers license, or non-driver ID card???)
QED Probable cause to believe he is a foreign national has been established, and the arrest may occur. Now the courts will take-over and determine whether or not he actually is American or an invader, and follow due process of law. That's how our world operates.
Or:
Would you prefer that we just let people like Bin Laden or Mao Tse Spy cross our borders, and have free rein to wander anywhere he feels like wandering, causing destruction along the way? These invaders are KILLING American citizens along the border, and you don't even want to TRY to stop them. You just want to turn the other cheek.
If I was in Arizona I'd certainly expect my government to act to protect me. Today is NOT a good day to die.
Probably not.
Those same books also claim Disc-based media is obsolete, but I don't see how I can download a 50 Mbit/s encoded Bluray movie over my 0.7 connection??? That's not even fast enough to stream an old-fashioned DVD.
I think it will be a long, long, long time before networks replace physical media or hardware.
ALSO we live in a disposable society.
Most people don't care if their games stop working five years from now, because they'll be onto the next big thing. Those of us who buy things and expect them to still usable ten years after purchase ((cough)(like my Mac G3*)) are in the minority of the population. We're considered "weird" to want to continue using obsolete, old stuff. So I doubt few will care that Halo 2 no longer is supported by Microsoft Live.
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* It doesn't run anything newer than OS 10.3, or Internet Explorer 5, or Safari 1 due to Apple's lock-out mechanisms.
Vice-versa I was visiting an engineering school, and the students came-up with a very ingenious idea to convert tidal waves into air motion and then electricity (via windmill action). I asked where they got the idea, and they said they saw it on the internet.
Yes they copied the idea, but so what? That's how science advances. One guy has an idea and ~10,000 other guys work to perfect it and make it reality. As you said, as long as they cite it, I have no problem with it. "Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." - Thomas Jefferson in the 1780s
Uh..... NEW Mickey Mouse cartoons are copyrighted. Old cartoons (like Steamboat Willie) under the previous law would be public domain by now, and therefore you could watch it anytime you felt like it.
Similarly Linux kernal 1 might very well be public domain by now, but the current Kernal 10 (or wherever we're at) would still be copyrighted.
Also note that not all of us agree with your goal of destroying copyright. Speaking for myself, I merely want to limit it to its original 14-year-lifespan with the possibility of ONE renewal of that license by the original creator (see US Copyright Act of 1790). i.e. I think everything pre-1980 should be public domain.
Of course Stallman and the rest always have the right to NOT copyright their creations. They have the right to release it to the public domain for the benefit of all.
When dealing with an intractable foe, I see nothing wrong with adopting their tactics. RIAA exaggerates their numbers? Well then exaggerate your numbers too. RIAA sends-out talking points to Congresscritters with their "piracy costs us 5 trillion a year!" stats? Then send out YOUR talking point that says the exact opposite: "Fair use generate 5 trillion a year in revenue!"
If the enemy cheats, then you need to cheat too, else you might as well just accept defeat. Nice guys finish last.
>>>Can you use your VCR and DVR to change the channel on FIOS or Satellite? No and you never could.
Yes you can. The satellite boxes include Timers which will automatically change the channel at preset times. The timers purpose is to help VCR and DVR owners.
. Comcast boxes also had the capability upto the most-recent firmware update when the VCR/DVR Timers were removed.
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>>> The [revised] TOS states the limit is 250gb.
Fixed that for ya. The old TOS had no limit, and a lot of customers were banned. Comcast just arbitrarily picked users and said, "You are in the top 5%. Goodbye."
And of course there was no way to dispute the issue. Many people are still banned under the old rules, even though they only downloaded 50-150 GB and nowhere near the current cap.
>>>Antenna?
No cable channels like syfy or cnn
>>>DSL?
No.
>>>Satellite?
Good for TV, but not useful for internet.
>>>Wireless broadband?
In my area it costs $50 for every 200 megabytes (half a tv episode). Not practical.
Comcast is the only real option for internet. Either that or slow 50k dialup. So Comcast has a virtual monopoly over High-speed net access.
I have observed paused in non-OFF files. Some of the WMV files I own will pause for 2-3 seconds before playing. Or else the video will play instantly, but the sound won't resume until 15 seconds later.
As for OGG:
Isn't this also considered outdated? Test results I've reviewed show the video/audio quality is no better than an MP3 or AAC encoded file, and far inferior to newer codecs like MP3pro (MP3+SBR), MPEG4 VLC, or AAC+SBR
The British burned down the white house, not the Canadians. And of course things have changed a little bit since 1814..... we're no longer a backwards, agrarian nation fighting with pitchforks and muskets. :-)
It's not racist to embrace my Hispanic, Japanese, and Chinese friends who have *obeyed the law* and acquired Visas or Citizenship.
I welcome them to this country. Vice-versa, neither is it racist to remove those who did NOT follow the law & invaded our land without permission. We are a Republic, not an anarchy. The Law rules. In ALL cases.
On the other hand:
- States have a right to militias, and they are entitled to protect their *own* borders from invasion from without. At the time it was envisioned as a way for State Governments to act when invaded from a neighbor *New York invades Pennsylvania) or from the west (British or French troops invading Ohio). The States needed to act instantly, using their own resources, rather than have to wait for US troops to mobilize.
In the present, Arizona's border is being invaded from the south by Mexican militias that are stealing and *murdering* Arizona citizens. They are merely trying to protect themselves, first by passing laws to arrest the invaders, and second by mobilizing their militia (cops).
This is no different than if the EU State of Poland mobilized its laws and cops to protect itself from militias from Russia. Poland has that right. So too does Arizona.
Well after the oil crisis hits circa 2020 (over $300 a barrel), and the U.S. "anschlusses" Canada's oilrich provinces as states 51-60* that would technically make Japan state number 61. On the other hand Japan doesn't have any resources so it's doubtful the US would even bother.
(I am kidding...)
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* You can keep French Quebec. We don't want it.
>>>If the company you sold it to does something you don't want them to, you can choose to no longer sell to them
That may be legal elsewhere like Japan, but in the US it violates the Sherman Antitrust Act. It's called collusion and forming a cartel, and the Record Companies were sued by several U.S. States and the US DOJ circa 2000 for violating it. The record companies told discount stores, including Walmart, that selling CDs for less than $12 was unacceptable, and they should either raise prices or be cut off from resupply.
This process continued throughout the 1990s, until the class-action lawsuit came to the forefront. The record companies knew they were guilty of the crime, so they settled the issue out of court (mailed-out $25 checks to all purchasers of CDs that requested a rebate). The DOJ accepted the resolution.
If Apple tries this stuff in the US, they will face a similar fate. It may take ten years like the record company case, but eventually they will be caught and stopped.
I was thinking more along the lines of "Bill Gates"
Newsline - "Today Apple CEO Steve "Gates" Jobs denied responsibility for iPods that randomly start smoking and burning."
The key issue for me is not the copyright law. I don't care if Paramount and other companies want to protect their income stream on the new Star Trek movie.
The issue for me is that these 3-strike laws assign punishment without benefit of trial by jury. And once that precedent is set, then the government can further erode the rights of Englishmen. "You were caught stealing three times. 5 years jail for you." - "But I had no trial." - "Precedent shows we don't need to give you a trial. Take him away!"
Pac-Man, Elite, Populous, Zelda Ocarina of Time, Final Fantasy 12 - still playable; my money's not wasted
Phantasy Star Online? Not so much.