Different nations, different laws. Play that for profit. America has anti "dumping" laws, but there's no reason why India should object to getting American DVDs cheaper than Americans have to pay, nor is there any law that American companies can't charge what they want in America for American products. They could just give the stuff away as a promotional item if they wished.
The region coding exists so that Americans can't just order $3 DVDs from Indian discount suppliers.
I'm sure there were a few monks who weren't happy about the advent of the Luther bible, but they adapted and the bible is still a number one best seller.
I think you miss the point here. They weren't happy, among other reasons, because they didn't want it to be a "best seller". They didn't want the average person to be able to possess a Bible at all, let alone read it in the vernacular (there were only about 180 Gutenberg Bibles printed, all told. Just enough for that many places of worship to possess one. Not any of "the people.")
It screwed up their monopoly on the Word of God, and they're still not particularly happy about it.
I entered this thread with a silly joke in response to a silly joke, ergo my defense of the joke is also silly.
It might be interesting to know just what all of the "universal" names for our planet are, no? I doubt any "people" orbiting 51 Pegasi would agree with the "official" name of their sun.
Gee, I don't know. I'm of a mind to make up some new, classic steel bicycle frames lately. If said Slashdotter wouldn't mind coming over here putting this hose. . .
No, nevermind, I think I'll just buy the stuff afterall. Just don't tell me where it actually came from, 'K?
Terra Mater (Mother Earth)is not commonly held to be the same as the Goddess Bona Dea (Fauna). They would typically have seperate shrines, often in the same area, built by the same people. One is a personification of Earth itself, the other of living things. Of course here and there the lines might well blur.
I am fauna, but not terra. The child, but not the mother. I come from, but do not share identity.
In any case, the current official name of the earth is Earth, which is Germanic.
At sufficient magnification you can actually see the raw, digital data. That means that if need be you can actually work out the the meaning of the raw data with pencil and paper if you had to, assuming you had the spec of the code.
Use published open standards. That is the important part with regards to maintaining knowledge. The actual meaning of symbols, not how they are recorded. See the Rosetta Stone.
Of course what you'd really do is photograph/scan the CD and use a computer to recover and interpret the data from the visual image, then save to whatever modern formant currently holds sway. If the issue becomes so pressing and widespread as to the threaten a "Dark Age" I'll simply set up a kiosk at the mall to recover your CDs for you, for a nominal fee, of course.
I suppose I should run out and file a patent on the method right now, eh? So, who's got venture capital left? It actually seems one of the more logical fields for Google to invest their pile of cash on.
KFG
In 2045 grandad knew about this stuff called. . .
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paper. Use it. Maybe give a copy to the family lawyer who handles grandad's will and shit, also on paper. The stuff isn't going away any time soon. Like, ever.
In 2045 there will still be functional CD drives around, because they are a mass market item. There are still Edison wax cyclinder "record" players around too. Data loss due to format changes are the biggest problem where rare or custom machinery is used, such as at NASA.
There is a huge difference between losing some data and losing all, or nearly all, of it, as in a Dark Age. Yeah, losing the key to the family fortune is a bit tragic for the family, but it already happens all the time without any reference to digital storage, and nobody declares a "Dark Age" over it.
In any case, dark ages aren't even defined by the loss of data, per se. They are the defined by the loss of data because reading and writting itself is lost and/or denigrated. It was not so much the burning of the library at Alexandria that created a dark age, it was the lack of social importance placed on recovering and preserving what had been lost.
People ceased to backup.
At the time backing up was labor intensive and expensive. Now it is quick, easy and cheap. Even, comparitively, for obsolescent/obsolete data storage devices. If the family fortune is really anything substantial it will be recovered because the knowledge of how to recover is maintained and the CD itself still exists.
Nothing has actually been lost, it's just a cost/labor issue to recover.
In other words the real function of this program is to create fear, uncertainty and doubt in the minds of parents and employers who aren't savvy enough to run find on mp3s and avis.
It doesn't delete anything, it creates social conflict which is it's function. Only they call it "talking to your kids."
Next up will be the deployment of communications systems which can't be jammed by the satellite, antisatellite satellites and antiantisatellite satelittes, just as we first had observation planes so had to develop planes to shoot them down, then planes to shoot down those planes and so had to develop observation satellites which couldn't be shot down by a plane.
This is what happens when you "make it big," in a niche market you are the acknowledged experts in and go public. You have bags of other people's money which you are required to invest, so. . .
you exapand into markets you know little to nothing about already well populated by experienced competitors. . .
You want to throw ads at me? Charge me less money per month.
Which they can't do because TiVo is not the one receiving the advertising revenue and they already don't make money. Welcome to the wonderful world of being a middle layer service provider. They do not produce or deliver you the content and are not part of that content's economic structure. They sell a video recording device and a service to automate it. It's just a fancy VCR, with a VCR's economics.
Despite the way TiVo has positioned themselves you are still the end product, being sold to advertisers in exchange for viewing material. TiVo cannot change that.
And except for certain elements of the service you can roll your own. They aren't in a long term viable market niche to begin with. They were doomed to die from the outset. Start collecting preDRMineverything hardware. . .
and prepare to be considered a felon for using it.
WHY are the content providers allowed to flag the media in the first place. ..
No, the question is why are hardware providers forced to care about the damned flag.
Tell that to all the people who conduct phone surveys, ask unverifiable subjective questions, if they don't get the primary party ask whoever they get what they think the other person thinks about it about, extrapolate "data" from nonrespondents and then. . .
get the "results" published as a scientific study in a reputable journal with public policy based on it:
I'm partial to the shenti/sarong. Except when the weather is hot or I'm hiking I wear at ankle length which eliminates the leg thing. I can dress from the top of my head to my ankles and literally not have a stitch on. No sewing. I like the way draping is nondestructive to cloth and retains multiuse capability.
I admit, however, that I went for the cheap joke above. I'm not "hardcore" about it and I'm not out to challange or shock people in any way. No "statement." It's just how I like to dress, but when I'm playing country fiddle with a band I'll put on the requisite blue jeans with button down and a three piece for a business meeting. In the winter (upstate NY subarctic) I'll go for warm.
But you might be surprised at how little other people really care these days.
Oh, and I have the legs for it when I go short. Years of long distance/competitive cycling. I wear the regulation bifurcated spandex for that.
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when you're paying 7 or 8 bucks to see a movie, 95 - 99 percent of that goes straight to the Movie Companies.
Which is just another way of saying that the movie companies are, themselves, the problem.
KFG
I thought it is illegal!
Different nations, different laws. Play that for profit. America has anti "dumping" laws, but there's no reason why India should object to getting American DVDs cheaper than Americans have to pay, nor is there any law that American companies can't charge what they want in America for American products. They could just give the stuff away as a promotional item if they wished.
The region coding exists so that Americans can't just order $3 DVDs from Indian discount suppliers.
KFG
I'm sure there were a few monks who weren't happy about the advent of the Luther bible, but they adapted and the bible is still a number one best seller.
I think you miss the point here. They weren't happy, among other reasons, because they didn't want it to be a "best seller". They didn't want the average person to be able to possess a Bible at all, let alone read it in the vernacular (there were only about 180 Gutenberg Bibles printed, all told. Just enough for that many places of worship to possess one. Not any of "the people.")
It screwed up their monopoly on the Word of God, and they're still not particularly happy about it.
KFG
Has the National Association of Theater Owners considered that they have pissed me off, and that's why I don't go to their theaters anymore?
If they don't listen to my criticisms, why should I give a damn about theirs?
KFG
I entered this thread with a silly joke in response to a silly joke, ergo my defense of the joke is also silly.
It might be interesting to know just what all of the "universal" names for our planet are, no? I doubt any "people" orbiting 51 Pegasi would agree with the "official" name of their sun.
KFG
. . . in order to keep their food supply fresh.
When a mosquito sucks your blood it is not feeding. It's a reproductive act.
It's always a female, if that makes you feel any better about it.
KFG
Nope, he recognizes the post isn't funny, which requires a sense of what is.
KFG
Gee, I don't know. I'm of a mind to make up some new, classic steel bicycle frames lately. If said Slashdotter wouldn't mind coming over here putting this hose. . .
No, nevermind, I think I'll just buy the stuff afterall. Just don't tell me where it actually came from, 'K?
KFG
Ah, you'd want a program that finds image filez for that.
KFG
That says its name is Sol III.
KFG
Ah, but we're not talking about what people call it. We're talking about its name.
KFG
God, The Lord, Yahwe, Jehovah, Holy Father, The Trinity, Allah.
The same devine entity may go by many epithets, for many reasons, even today.
KFG
Terra Mater (Mother Earth)is not commonly held to be the same as the Goddess Bona Dea (Fauna). They would typically have seperate shrines, often in the same area, built by the same people. One is a personification of Earth itself, the other of living things. Of course here and there the lines might well blur.
t s/earth.html
I am fauna, but not terra. The child, but not the mother. I come from, but do not share identity.
In any case, the current official name of the earth is Earth, which is Germanic.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplane
KFG
Ah, well, looks like Earth is shit outta luck.
KFG
At sufficient magnification you can actually see the raw, digital data. That means that if need be you can actually work out the the meaning of the raw data with pencil and paper if you had to, assuming you had the spec of the code.
Use published open standards. That is the important part with regards to maintaining knowledge. The actual meaning of symbols, not how they are recorded. See the Rosetta Stone.
Of course what you'd really do is photograph/scan the CD and use a computer to recover and interpret the data from the visual image, then save to whatever modern formant currently holds sway. If the issue becomes so pressing and widespread as to the threaten a "Dark Age" I'll simply set up a kiosk at the mall to recover your CDs for you, for a nominal fee, of course.
I suppose I should run out and file a patent on the method right now, eh? So, who's got venture capital left? It actually seems one of the more logical fields for Google to invest their pile of cash on.
KFG
paper. Use it. Maybe give a copy to the family lawyer who handles grandad's will and shit, also on paper. The stuff isn't going away any time soon. Like, ever.
In 2045 there will still be functional CD drives around, because they are a mass market item. There are still Edison wax cyclinder "record" players around too. Data loss due to format changes are the biggest problem where rare or custom machinery is used, such as at NASA.
There is a huge difference between losing some data and losing all, or nearly all, of it, as in a Dark Age. Yeah, losing the key to the family fortune is a bit tragic for the family, but it already happens all the time without any reference to digital storage, and nobody declares a "Dark Age" over it.
In any case, dark ages aren't even defined by the loss of data, per se. They are the defined by the loss of data because reading and writting itself is lost and/or denigrated. It was not so much the burning of the library at Alexandria that created a dark age, it was the lack of social importance placed on recovering and preserving what had been lost.
People ceased to backup.
At the time backing up was labor intensive and expensive. Now it is quick, easy and cheap. Even, comparitively, for obsolescent/obsolete data storage devices. If the family fortune is really anything substantial it will be recovered because the knowledge of how to recover is maintained and the CD itself still exists.
Nothing has actually been lost, it's just a cost/labor issue to recover.
KFG
In other words the real function of this program is to create fear, uncertainty and doubt in the minds of parents and employers who aren't savvy enough to run find on mp3s and avis.
It doesn't delete anything, it creates social conflict which is it's function. Only they call it "talking to your kids."
KFG
Next up will be the deployment of communications systems which can't be jammed by the satellite, antisatellite satellites and antiantisatellite satelittes, just as we first had observation planes so had to develop planes to shoot them down, then planes to shoot down those planes and so had to develop observation satellites which couldn't be shot down by a plane.
So what else is new?
KFG
This is what happens when you "make it big," in a niche market you are the acknowledged experts in and go public. You have bags of other people's money which you are required to invest, so. . .
you exapand into markets you know little to nothing about already well populated by experienced competitors. . .
and blow your original company on it.
KFG
You want to throw ads at me? Charge me less money per month.
.
Which they can't do because TiVo is not the one receiving the advertising revenue and they already don't make money. Welcome to the wonderful world of being a middle layer service provider. They do not produce or deliver you the content and are not part of that content's economic structure. They sell a video recording device and a service to automate it. It's just a fancy VCR, with a VCR's economics.
Despite the way TiVo has positioned themselves you are still the end product, being sold to advertisers in exchange for viewing material. TiVo cannot change that.
And except for certain elements of the service you can roll your own. They aren't in a long term viable market niche to begin with. They were doomed to die from the outset. Start collecting preDRMineverything hardware. . .
and prepare to be considered a felon for using it.
WHY are the content providers allowed to flag the media in the first place. .
No, the question is why are hardware providers forced to care about the damned flag.
KFG
You can't make up a loss on volume.
Any idiot can gross a million a day if they're prepared to spend two million to get it.
KFG
Finally I'll be able to play The Matrix on the matrix.
KFG
Tell that to all the people who conduct phone surveys, ask unverifiable subjective questions, if they don't get the primary party ask whoever they get what they think the other person thinks about it about, extrapolate "data" from nonrespondents and then. . .
get the "results" published as a scientific study in a reputable journal with public policy based on it:
Please.
KFG
Future = Video Blogs. . .
with feeeewing. This is not a chawade. This is thewepy.
KFG
I'm partial to the shenti/sarong. Except when the weather is hot or I'm hiking I wear at ankle length which eliminates the leg thing. I can dress from the top of my head to my ankles and literally not have a stitch on. No sewing. I like the way draping is nondestructive to cloth and retains multiuse capability.
I admit, however, that I went for the cheap joke above. I'm not "hardcore" about it and I'm not out to challange or shock people in any way. No "statement." It's just how I like to dress, but when I'm playing country fiddle with a band I'll put on the requisite blue jeans with button down and a three piece for a business meeting. In the winter (upstate NY subarctic) I'll go for warm.
But you might be surprised at how little other people really care these days.
Oh, and I have the legs for it when I go short. Years of long distance/competitive cycling. I wear the regulation bifurcated spandex for that.
KFG