they will go bad after a few years... just wait. and not in acid. just there, sitting in the box.
few years is not 2 or 3 years... it can last decades. too much? well, records from the 30s can be played today. don't expect that from cds and dvds... and I'm not talking about not having players available, I'm talking about the media. sit and wait...
time is not your friend... you didn't had to replace a single one "yet". in a few years when they start to degrade you'll remember some old technology called LPs that lasted decades, could be played even when scratched and could even be copied onto other ancient media called magnetic tapes
good luck trying to replace your valuable collection with the content holders. don't forget what you are saying today.
I backup music cds... they are on the car. that backup didn't had a impact on the copyright holdres... If someone brake in my car and steal the cds I'll loose around US$30 (discs and bag) besides the door/window.
if I didn't had the backup option I would't go around with US$400 worth in cds (without bag).
I wouldn't buy two copies from the discs... there is no impact.
the same with DVDs. If I had enough space in my HD there goes a backup. I won't buy two copies...a home and a for travelling. at most I would use the same dvd at home and travel.
their model is flawed... if they want so much control over content, don't sell the damn thing, people have the strange habit to use things that they buy as they seem fit.
The crusades were started by a serie of factors. besides the expansion of the muslim empire.
some large factors: overpopulation and famine, sending a large horde of people was a good way to diminish the pressure in europe and try to recapture the holy land.
"confiscating" the holy sites is a dubious interpretation, since the holy sites weren't in europe, but at the time were under european (rome) influence/control is risky guessing who was the invader
the fanaticism was (is?) rampant on both sides. the european army was easily recruited since every person that died going to holy lands to retake it from the muslims or in battle would have remission of sins and granted place in paradise (the 72 virgins were a privilege of muslims, since the christianity sees sex as a sin)
about forcing conversions I don't think that the christianity can says that don't used that expedient.
when we use religion as "the" cause for a war we forget that war are made to gain territories, commerce and money.
civilizations were wiped by christianity to save their souls and show the enlightment of god. curiously the damn natives used to live in regions that had spice, precious metals or gems or slaves. maybe in these days people in power really believed that was god will that they were doing, but I'm cinical and I think that the reason was just greed.
the world is a fucked place and we better hope that alien civilizations don't find us because
a) they can think we are so primitive and violent that seems fit to eradicate us from the universe before we spread our views and ways like a cancer
b) they are just like us, so they will eradicate us to bring us the enlightment of god, spoiling us from our resources and putting under slavery the few survivors
mankind has free will, our acts are our responsability alone. nor god or devil made us do something. let's accept the responsability of our actions and maybe we can improve. until there we live as today: killing each other for some stupid reason
"Valenti and those sharing his views on copyright believe that we (the consumers) should only be able to view works on devices that they approve, at a time and place allowed by them, and how ever many times they want us to."
as a consumer you don't have the same rights as a citizen. the "consumer" is an ideallized entity, that has cash in his pockets and will spend that money in funny gimmicks... the gimmick can be a movie, a cd or a service.
since the "consumer" is ideallized as a thief, it has to be restrained so he can't destroy one or more industries that need him to survive. so laws are passed to curfew some possibilities that the consumer may have to a)don't pay or b)pay less for a gimmick
Valenti is right reasoning that a law can't be made for a few. the legislation is a consensus of the majority. An extreme example: some serial killers think that they are right when they kill someone. we don't have laws to protect their (the serial killers) freedom of expression, religious view, divine obedience or artistic expression. what they do is wrong and we restrain them.
but, every law as a consensus of the majority looks for a balance: the common good of the majority, so the peaceful persons can be protected from the serial killers.
the IP laws are atacked because they are made backwards: a choosen group (usually with deep pockets, to hold lots of money and a few politicians) has all the rights of protection, the vast majority can only abide to the law or face fines, prison and other punishments. So you have some pearls of common sense, that can put you more time in jail for downloading a music file than robbing a bank. A rapist can spend less time in prison than Joe Bloe downloader.
I do hope that more and more laws like that be passed and more and more IP restrainment be embedded in the devices until someday the vast majority will get a clue: "FUCK! I paid for that shit and somebody says that I can't use it!", until then... just wait... things will get even funnier than today.
As mr. Valenti view the things, I can't watch a DVD movie from other region than the one I'm entitled by the industry. I'm commiting a wrongdoing when I by-pass the region control in my (MY as in "my, I paid for it") DVD player to watch a movie that I bought (bought as in "I paid money for it") that happens to be from other region.
In a country with dimensions comparable to USA the electronic ballots are being used in the last elections, and here voting is mandatory.
paper ballots are used only for back-up (energy failure, ballot faillure and goes on).
In a south american country frauds are always a concern and electronic ballots helped to minimize frauds (there was a saying, in some rural areas, when the illiterates couldn't vote that was like that: in the elections the ones who vote are the dead literates and the living unliterates, due the forgery of vote registers of dead persons)
now the illiterates can vote (optional, not mandatory)... well, the politicians need to compensate the fraud...
the results of a presidential election is given in 24 hours, with partial tallys running all the day for public review.
I agree with you and I agree with the article, BUT:
what sound card he used? I couldn't find it in the article! it's a on-board card? It's a so brand new card, just hot from the factory that nobody could write a driver yet?
the only info: "utterly mainstream Intel motherboard with an on-board Intel sound system" from "brand new PC from a major vendor". really precise... I have spent almost a week trying to make my XP work with a very popular webcam from a major vendor... the OS is crap, the vendor, the webcam or I don't know nothing?
If I don't tell the the webcam was a Creative webcam-go that isn't supported under XP you can have all kind of conclusions...
and sorry, but the writer really don't know much about the mainstream linux distros... trying to use a soundcard as if it his life depends on it and didn't went for mandrake or red hat, the easiest distros to install, with a broad support for sound and graphic cards?
what is the magic hardware, that has driver for win95 but don't work with the newer distros of linux?
when you pay TV (be it cable, sattelite, UHF, whatever) you are paying for a content (movies, series, cartoons) and not for the lack of advertising.
a better analogy for spyware and TV is that:
you are watching Spiderman on HBO, and suddenly someone hijacks the signal and starts to overlaying some commercial over the movie (pop-up) or changes the movie for some other program (browser hijack)
I hope that companies like that go under ASAP, that's what they deserve.
If I had that good man email I could offer him a very special deal in nigeria, where he could get rich just trasfering some financial funds for the family of the late dictator mobutu sese seko that will be used to build an airport to take refugee kids from an orphanage in serbia... or something like this...
There is a oil change lamp that can be set off only at an Audi authorized center and few mechanical shops.
You can't do a oil change at some gas station, you must go to the speacialized centers and probably pay a hefty bill besides the oil change for they service.
I really don't know if an Audi owner don't care, since the car is already very expensive or they care but just accept it...
I think that was just for the stethical appearance... the article says "Do we need to have a one metre square hatch for that..." so you get rid of the entire hood and you get a seamless part.
look at the picture. I think the seamless appearence is very beatiful. But I dont think it's welded, I think it's more like some GT race cars, that the entire front part of the car is removed or lifted to give access to the motor.
Praticity: welded bonnet, since women *usually* don't know how to do basic maintanence. Arguments about expensive maintanence for simple item like oil change, radiator fluid, etc, are not so important since it's a Volvo, that's already expensive and it's users should take their car only to authorized service that already more expensive anyway.
Safety items (since it's a concept car): no keys, so women can't start the engine, just a motor sound and a little vibratios to pretend that the car is moving. Brakes always locked, so the car don't move by accident when the parking brake is accidentaly released. mirrored windshield. mirrored to inside the car. so the woman can do her make up properly, without usind the tiny rear mirror
IF SCO had a case and could PROVE it they wouldn't dragging the case until now. They would show it at first hearing, bringing reams of printed code (the so called millions of lines) and an account number to IBM deposit the due amount.
If you had 1 billion of damages that you could prove and document, comparing code you wouldn't do such a circus, you would present evidence and documents ASAP to receive the due amount. In fact, if they had a case IBM would have paid or bought them long ago.
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Thanks for remind me that I'm old as a dinossaur... I knew that the acronym reminded me of something. Better I start thinking about modding wheel-chairs and how to get high using alzheilmer's medicine...
My parents taught it also, but in their times there wasn't sofisticated technology that destroys itself over time... a vinil record can last for decades, if not scratched, bent or broken. A CD or DVD can "rot" itself. I store it, take care of it, but they will dissolve. I paid for them, so I feel that I have the right to copy it for myself, so 20 years from now I can watch/listen to them again, as I do with my vinyl records...
So today goes like this: after buying every problem is up to you since you didn't stored, cared or manuseated accordingly the disc, so it is broken. Whatever means an advantage to you is forbidden, since it's a circunvention of some protection scheme, or you just don't have the right since the manufacturer says that you don't need a backup
What comes next? I new tax if I don't buy X records in a year to show me that I can't deprive the entertainment industry from it's right of profiting?
ebook will fail along they still expensive. you can buy a cheap edition of some book, even a best seller, read it during an airplane trip and discard it. you can't do it with a ebook reader.
ebook reader's are expensive. I remember a model that had a cover with "leather smell", to appeal to paper book readers, another marketing moron displaying it's stupidity: a reader reads a book because of the contents. judging a book for it's cover is for illiterates... or marketing morons.
reading on a gorgeous wide and tall screen of a palm sized device doesn't fit in my sense of confort.
an last but not least, random access... you can flip through the pages of a book as you wish, looking for random passages or particular points of the text. the close to a book flip that you can do with a ebook reader is the fast forward, backward, or select a given page... not that bad.
ebooks can be a huge success when cheap reader appear. something with a screen the size of a pocket book, with good contrast, backlight could be a plus, but not essential. also an ebook not tied to some proprietary DRMed format. I want to download some of the classicals available at the project Guthenberg or simmilars and read it. and a cheaper price tag. if the costs of distribution, stocking are being cutted, I want my share.
I think that you misendurstood the point of the movie. It is a story of somebody that had all the right things to go wrong (poor, living surround by violence, the chance to take a revenge) and could overcome this.
The killings, drug dealing, poverty are part of the scene in City of God, but without this you can't understand the life and choices of the main character (Buscape/Rocket).
"...an invitation to a technology festival at Redmond"
So he messed with the sacred IP os MS, dilluted it's brand name, passed as victim due a legal scam that the laweyrs take on him and now, due bad press, he got some gifts and all will be fine?
There is a lake or river near Redmond? I think that the guy will visit Jimmy Hoffa:-)
That made sense when people didn't had calculators. It was easier to use a base 12 system. The other problem is the change of units. 12 inches perform a foot. So John is 5foot6", or 5.5 foot, or 66"... another inheritance of time when calculators weren't available. You can say that John is 1.6764m tall, or 167.64cm or 1676.4mm, the measurements are more consistent.
the metric system isn't advantageous in itself by being base 10. The advantage comes from the fact that the unit is constant all the time. You don't change names or add new units in the measurement, nor use fractions.
It's hard to cope with different units in the same measurement. The imperial system was good once... it had it's time, time to move on.
If SCO is right the offending code will be removed. I cant go to you with a bill saying that you owe me money for something that you have and, since that thing belongs to me, you have to pay. What thing? I won't tell or you will throw away and I won't get my money. I may be a liar... and you don't have anything that belongs to me... you will pay in doubt?
Since programmers doing some work for free is prejudicial to the industry we should abolish it. Is that? So all volunteer work should be abolished, since that volunteer work is stopping some professional of making profit somewhere. Is that?
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they will go bad after a few years... just wait. and not in acid. just there, sitting in the box.
few years is not 2 or 3 years... it can last decades. too much? well, records from the 30s can be played today. don't expect that from cds and dvds... and I'm not talking about not having players available, I'm talking about the media. sit and wait...
time is not your friend... you didn't had to replace a single one "yet". in a few years when they start to degrade you'll remember some old technology called LPs that lasted decades, could be played even when scratched and could even be copied onto other ancient media called magnetic tapes
good luck trying to replace your valuable collection with the content holders. don't forget what you are saying today.
I backup music cds... they are on the car. that backup didn't had a impact on the copyright holdres... If someone brake in my car and steal the cds I'll loose around US$30 (discs and bag) besides the door/window.
if I didn't had the backup option I would't go around with US$400 worth in cds (without bag).
I wouldn't buy two copies from the discs... there is no impact.
the same with DVDs. If I had enough space in my HD
there goes a backup. I won't buy two copies...a home and a for travelling. at most I would use the same dvd at home and travel.
their model is flawed... if they want so much control over content, don't sell the damn thing, people have the strange habit to use things that they buy as they seem fit.
argument is so flawed that doesn't deserve even a troll... how I miss a moron modifier.
The crusades were started by a serie of factors. besides the expansion of the muslim empire.
some large factors: overpopulation and famine, sending a large horde of people was a good way to diminish the pressure in europe and try to recapture the holy land.
"confiscating" the holy sites is a dubious interpretation, since the holy sites weren't in europe, but at the time were under european (rome) influence/control is risky guessing who was the invader
the fanaticism was (is?) rampant on both sides. the european army was easily recruited since every person that died going to holy lands to retake it from the muslims or in battle would have remission of sins and granted place in paradise (the 72 virgins were a privilege of muslims, since the christianity sees sex as a sin)
about forcing conversions I don't think that the christianity can says that don't used that expedient.
when we use religion as "the" cause for a war we forget that war are made to gain territories, commerce and money.
civilizations were wiped by christianity to save their souls and show the enlightment of god. curiously the damn natives used to live in regions that had spice, precious metals or gems or slaves. maybe in these days people in power really believed that was god will that they were doing, but I'm cinical and I think that the reason was just greed.
the world is a fucked place and we better hope that alien civilizations don't find us because
a) they can think we are so primitive and violent that seems fit to eradicate us from the universe before we spread our views and ways like a cancer
b) they are just like us, so they will eradicate us to bring us the enlightment of god, spoiling us from our resources and putting under slavery the few survivors
mankind has free will, our acts are our responsability alone. nor god or devil made us do something. let's accept the responsability of our actions and maybe we can improve. until there we live as today: killing each other for some stupid reason
"Valenti and those sharing his views on copyright believe that we (the consumers) should only be able to view works on devices that they approve, at a time and place allowed by them, and how ever many times they want us to."
as a consumer you don't have the same rights as a citizen. the "consumer" is an ideallized entity, that has cash in his pockets and will spend that money in funny gimmicks... the gimmick can be a movie, a cd or a service.
since the "consumer" is ideallized as a thief, it has to be restrained so he can't destroy one or more industries that need him to survive. so laws are passed to curfew some possibilities that the consumer may have to a)don't pay or b)pay less for a gimmick
Valenti is right reasoning that a law can't be made for a few. the legislation is a consensus of the majority. An extreme example: some serial killers think that they are right when they kill someone. we don't have laws to protect their (the serial killers) freedom of expression, religious view, divine obedience or artistic expression. what they do is wrong and we restrain them.
but, every law as a consensus of the majority looks for a balance: the common good of the majority, so the peaceful persons can be protected from the serial killers.
the IP laws are atacked because they are made backwards: a choosen group (usually with deep pockets, to hold lots of money and a few politicians) has all the rights of protection, the vast majority can only abide to the law or face fines, prison and other punishments. So you have some pearls of common sense, that can put you more time in jail for downloading a music file than robbing a bank. A rapist can spend less time in prison than Joe Bloe downloader.
I do hope that more and more laws like that be passed and more and more IP restrainment be embedded in the devices until someday the vast majority will get a clue: "FUCK! I paid for that shit and somebody says that I can't use it!", until then... just wait... things will get even funnier than today.
As mr. Valenti view the things, I can't watch a DVD movie from other region than the one I'm entitled by the industry. I'm commiting a wrongdoing when I by-pass the region control in my (MY as in "my, I paid for it") DVD player to watch a movie that I bought (bought as in "I paid money for it") that happens to be from other region.
The elections in Brazil are electronic.
In a country with dimensions comparable to USA the electronic ballots are being used in the last elections, and here voting is mandatory.
paper ballots are used only for back-up (energy failure, ballot faillure and goes on).
In a south american country frauds are always a concern and electronic ballots helped to minimize frauds (there was a saying, in some rural areas, when the illiterates couldn't vote that was like that: in the elections the ones who vote are the dead literates and the living unliterates, due the forgery of vote registers of dead persons)
now the illiterates can vote (optional, not mandatory)... well, the politicians need to compensate the fraud...
the results of a presidential election is given in 24 hours, with partial tallys running all the day for public review.
I agree with you and I agree with the article, BUT:
what sound card he used? I couldn't find it in the article! it's a on-board card? It's a so brand new card, just hot from the factory that nobody could write a driver yet?
the only info: "utterly mainstream Intel motherboard with an on-board Intel sound system" from "brand new PC from a major vendor". really precise... I have spent almost a week trying to make my XP work with a very popular webcam from a major vendor... the OS is crap, the vendor, the webcam or I don't know nothing?
If I don't tell the the webcam was a Creative webcam-go that isn't supported under XP you can have all kind of conclusions...
and sorry, but the writer really don't know much about the mainstream linux distros... trying to use a soundcard as if it his life depends on it and didn't went for mandrake or red hat, the easiest distros to install, with a broad support for sound and graphic cards?
what is the magic hardware, that has driver for win95 but don't work with the newer distros of linux?
something is missing...
when you pay TV (be it cable, sattelite, UHF, whatever) you are paying for a content (movies, series, cartoons) and not for the lack of advertising.
a better analogy for spyware and TV is that:
you are watching Spiderman on HBO, and suddenly someone hijacks the signal and starts to overlaying some commercial over the movie (pop-up) or changes the movie for some other program (browser hijack)
I hope that companies like that go under ASAP, that's what they deserve.
how insensitive of you!
If I had that good man email I could offer him a very special deal in nigeria, where he could get rich just trasfering some financial funds for the family of the late dictator mobutu sese seko that will be used to build an airport to take refugee kids from an orphanage in serbia... or something like this...
Thanks for clarifying. I was thinking that was a permanent "feature" that could stop the user from using cheaper alternatives. My bad...
But that requires a specialized tool (software, in this case) to do this. It's not more "change the oil at the gas station".
There is a oil change lamp that can be set off only at an Audi authorized center and few mechanical shops.
You can't do a oil change at some gas station, you must go to the speacialized centers and probably pay a hefty bill besides the oil change for they service.
I really don't know if an Audi owner don't care, since the car is already very expensive or they care but just accept it...
I think that was just for the stethical appearance... the article says "Do we need to have a one metre square hatch for that..." so you get rid of the entire hood and you get a seamless part.
look at the picture. I think the seamless appearence is very beatiful. But I dont think it's welded, I think it's more like some GT race cars, that the entire front part of the car is removed or lifted to give access to the motor.
Praticity: welded bonnet, since women *usually* don't know how to do basic maintanence. Arguments about expensive maintanence for simple item like oil change, radiator fluid, etc, are not so important since it's a Volvo, that's already expensive and it's users should take their car only to authorized service that already more expensive anyway.
:-)
Safety items (since it's a concept car): no keys, so women can't start the engine, just a motor sound and a little vibratios to pretend that the car is moving. Brakes always locked, so the car don't move by accident when the parking brake is accidentaly released. mirrored windshield. mirrored to inside the car. so the woman can do her make up properly, without usind the tiny rear mirror
I couldn't resist... sorry
IF SCO had a case and could PROVE it they wouldn't dragging the case until now. They would show it at first hearing, bringing reams of printed code (the so called millions of lines) and an account number to IBM deposit the due amount.
If you had 1 billion of damages that you could prove and document, comparing code you wouldn't do such a circus, you would present evidence and documents ASAP to receive the due amount. In fact, if they had a case IBM would have paid or bought them long ago.
Thanks for remind me that I'm old as a dinossaur... I knew that the acronym reminded me of something. Better I start thinking about modding wheel-chairs and how to get high using alzheilmer's medicine...
My parents taught it also, but in their times there wasn't sofisticated technology that destroys itself over time... a vinil record can last for decades, if not scratched, bent or broken. A CD or DVD can "rot" itself. I store it, take care of it, but they will dissolve. I paid for them, so I feel that I have the right to copy it for myself, so 20 years from now I can watch/listen to them again, as I do with my vinyl records...
So today goes like this: after buying every problem is up to you since you didn't stored, cared or manuseated accordingly the disc, so it is broken. Whatever means an advantage to you is forbidden, since it's a circunvention of some protection scheme, or you just don't have the right since the manufacturer says that you don't need a backup
What comes next? I new tax if I don't buy X records in a year to show me that I can't deprive the entertainment industry from it's right of profiting?
ebook will fail along they still expensive. you can buy a cheap edition of some book, even a best seller, read it during an airplane trip and discard it. you can't do it with a ebook reader.
ebook reader's are expensive. I remember a model that had a cover with "leather smell", to appeal to paper book readers, another marketing moron displaying it's stupidity: a reader reads a book because of the contents. judging a book for it's cover is for illiterates... or marketing morons.
reading on a gorgeous wide and tall screen of a palm sized device doesn't fit in my sense of confort.
an last but not least, random access... you can flip through the pages of a book as you wish, looking for random passages or particular points of the text. the close to a book flip that you can do with a ebook reader is the fast forward, backward, or select a given page... not that bad.
ebooks can be a huge success when cheap reader appear. something with a screen the size of a pocket book, with good contrast, backlight could be a plus, but not essential. also an ebook not tied to some proprietary DRMed format. I want to download some of the classicals available at the project Guthenberg or simmilars and read it. and a cheaper price tag. if the costs of distribution, stocking are being cutted, I want my share.
What can I say? The best Valentine's day gift that I got was an HP48G :-) At the time I was still studying EE
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That was a gift that made me happy
I think that you misendurstood the point of the movie. It is a story of somebody that had all the right things to go wrong (poor, living surround by violence, the chance to take a revenge) and could overcome this.
The killings, drug dealing, poverty are part of the scene in City of God, but without this you can't understand the life and choices of the main character (Buscape/Rocket).
In Brazil the Dauphine became known as Leite Gloria (Milk Gloria, a brand of instant powdered milk).
Leite Gloria slogan in Portuguese: "Desmancha sem bater"
rough translation: "Don't need to be beaten to dissolve"
"...an invitation to a technology festival at Redmond"
:-)
So he messed with the sacred IP os MS, dilluted it's brand name, passed as victim due a legal scam that the laweyrs take on him and now, due bad press, he got some gifts and all will be fine?
There is a lake or river near Redmond? I think that the guy will visit Jimmy Hoffa
That made sense when people didn't had calculators. It was easier to use a base 12 system. The other problem is the change of units. 12 inches perform a foot. So John is 5foot6", or 5.5 foot, or 66"... another inheritance of time when calculators weren't available. You can say that John is 1.6764m tall, or 167.64cm or 1676.4mm, the measurements are more consistent.
the metric system isn't advantageous in itself by being base 10. The advantage comes from the fact that the unit is constant all the time. You don't change names or add new units in the measurement, nor use fractions.
It's hard to cope with different units in the same measurement. The imperial system was good once... it had it's time, time to move on.
If SCO is right the offending code will be removed. I cant go to you with a bill saying that you owe me money for something that you have and, since that thing belongs to me, you have to pay. What thing? I won't tell or you will throw away and I won't get my money. I may be a liar... and you don't have anything that belongs to me... you will pay in doubt?
Since programmers doing some work for free is prejudicial to the industry we should abolish it. Is that? So all volunteer work should be abolished, since that volunteer work is stopping some professional of making profit somewhere. Is that?