Really? Assume you purchase one of each, and you like it a lot. How many times do you watch that particular DVD? How many times do you listen to that particular CD? I know for me, DVDs are in the single digits, maybe dozens at the absolute extreme. CDs are in the hundreds, maybe thousands.
I also think Netflix is a great value, but they're apples and oranges.
My own response to the RIAA crackdown was to get a Netflix account, get into fansubs, and swear off CD purchases for life.
So you got pissed that they're tracking illegal downloads. So you get Netflix and get into fansubs, neither of which have anything to do with music. So you have a portable DVD player that you use while driving or something?
Then you swore off CD purchases, but if you were illegally downloading, you probably weren't purchasing CDs anyway. If you weren't illegally downloading, you would still want to purchase CDs for your music. Did you know that (lots of) other companies besides RIAA companies publish CDs? Ever hear of independent labels?
If you want to post the reduction in downloading and sales story, go ahead and submit that. But don't add in crap that doesn't make any sense.
This lowering of CD prices by the big boys might have an interesting effect on used CD stores. You'd think twice about buying used at $9 if the new one is $13 (yes, some used go for $9 or even $10 around me). This won't hurt the chains, but the mom-n-pop places usually in college towns might suffer.
That confused me as well. So you start watching DVDs as a way to revolt against the RIAA? That's like shopping at Best Buy because you don't like your local organic grocery store's underhanded business tactics.
How many people still consider a RAM based audio player when shopping?
Not me. I have a 10G Archos jukebox, and it still only holds a fraction of my collection. It can be upgraded to whatever I want, but it would violate the $10 even-if-you-drop-it extended warranty. 10G is enough to hold most of the music I listen to with any regularity.
But 256M? Forget it. That wouldn't even get me through the day until lunch. I understand they still have their definite strong points, but for me, the disadvantages of a HDD-based player disappear when I consider the capacity difference.
People on/. love to comment on concepts that have nothing at all to do with them. They have to come off all elite... "I don't listen to the radio... I don't like mass market movies... Me? I don't even own a TV." Guess what? The rest of us don't give a shit. Some people like top 40 music. Some of us don't have fancy schmancy taste in movies. Some of us are just stupid American consumer drones. That's who this technology is directed at. Not you. So shut your piehole, no one cares how elite you are.
I see your point, and if it is a hassle, it's not worth it. I have an Archos 10G mp3 player, though, and while I realize the situation is different, I think my setup would go something like this:
Have video capture card or TiVo record Simpsons. If TiVo, use appropriate extraction software. Create a cron job to mpeg4-ify the video. Place it somewhere in a directory to be "synced". Have a custom script that does the copying and removing of older episodes. Run it with hotplug. Yes it would take time to set up, but the result is, you take it home, plug it in, and it does its magic all by itself.
I have something similar for this for my Archos Jukebox. A perl script creates a symlink mirror to my mp3 collection. I delete the ones I don't want on the player (necessary because my mp3 collection is > 10G). When it changes, I plug it in at night and just get it before I leave in the morning.
The charging/smashing/stealing thing I can't sympathize with. I work in a pretty secure environment and just charge it here when it needs it.
I would hardly call this "gee-whiz". You might think so, but if you had a 1 hour bus/train ride to work every day, wouldn't you like to bring Simpsons/Family Guy/Queer Eye for a Straight Guy with you? I'm not in this situation, but if I were, this would be worthwhile. Just because you don't see a use for it personally does not make it useless.
The article mentioned this point, did you read it?
You're correct, and I think you saw my point, even though the crackhead moderators thought it was flamebait.
To spell it out: It's nice that there is an open-source "database" that can actually be called a RDMBS. I realize that MySQL has its uses, and it wouldn't be so popular if that weren't the case. But the lack of features place it in a completely different category than PostgreSQL.
Sort of like "six in one half dozen in the other". But I'm saying "six in one half dozen" and you're saying "one dozen minus six in the other". Why obfuscate? I'm just saying the likelihood is the same.
The same way the telephone company racks up money by having area codes be very distant from each other; a typo in the area code probably means big bucks for a wrong number
This is either a conspiracy theory or an outdated idea. Not sure which.
My spreadsheet of 1997 budget information could produce the same hash as a RIP of Meeco's Star Wars disco theme remix, but it would be unlikely to produce a hash similar to my 1996 budget information
Both are equally likely.
Producing a unique result for each file is what a compression algorithm does. If a hash were truly unique and reversible then you'd have a compression algorithm, right?
A unique result is simply a side effect of compression. And I can create you a hash that's truly unique and reversible: add a 0 to the end of each file. Unique, reversible, but not compression.
From the article: Video games, hardly an MIT priority but a strong commercial interest of Microsoft's, have suddenly become a subject of scholarly inquiry.
Several points:
Games are one interest of Microsoft, but that's not where they make the money.
If games aren't a priority at MIT, they should be. Games are what drive the newest hardware and software technologies to the consumer. There is a lot to be learned in that area.
If Red Hat had swept in and done the same thing and Linux games were being touted, I bet the author would change his tune.
I know MS bashing is the tune here, but at least they're giving money to education. What should they do, give away SPARC workstations? At least it's less money for Billy to spend on champagne and whores.
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So you don't have any source of guide data in Europe? There's nothing about that information that makes it specific to Canada.
Maybe, but here is a reason that you shouldn't discount TiVo.
It apparently has PVR capabilities
Like TiVo?
as well as the ability to receive small images via Bluetooth for viewing on a larger screen, i.e. your television.
Like TiVo if you have Home Media Option, except for the Bluetooth part. And the images aren't small.
feature to record from a digital camera or camcorder.
Like from the audio/video in on a TiVo, if you have a fake satellite input?
Yawn...
The early distributions ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM"
Damn! Time to upgrade again!
Anyone want to post some ASCII art of the webcams?
Really? Assume you purchase one of each, and you like it a lot. How many times do you watch that particular DVD? How many times do you listen to that particular CD? I know for me, DVDs are in the single digits, maybe dozens at the absolute extreme. CDs are in the hundreds, maybe thousands.
I also think Netflix is a great value, but they're apples and oranges.
My own response to the RIAA crackdown was to get a Netflix account, get into fansubs, and swear off CD purchases for life.
So you got pissed that they're tracking illegal downloads. So you get Netflix and get into fansubs, neither of which have anything to do with music. So you have a portable DVD player that you use while driving or something?
Then you swore off CD purchases, but if you were illegally downloading, you probably weren't purchasing CDs anyway. If you weren't illegally downloading, you would still want to purchase CDs for your music. Did you know that (lots of) other companies besides RIAA companies publish CDs? Ever hear of independent labels?
If you want to post the reduction in downloading and sales story, go ahead and submit that. But don't add in crap that doesn't make any sense.
This lowering of CD prices by the big boys might have an interesting effect on used CD stores. You'd think twice about buying used at $9 if the new one is $13 (yes, some used go for $9 or even $10 around me). This won't hurt the chains, but the mom-n-pop places usually in college towns might suffer.
That confused me as well. So you start watching DVDs as a way to revolt against the RIAA? That's like shopping at Best Buy because you don't like your local organic grocery store's underhanded business tactics.
But by allowing it to be modded they are opening up a new sales channel: Adults who want to play specialized content.
They probably sell the hardware at a loss and then make money on the discs. Just like game consoles.
What was that? I think I just heard your argument fall flat on the floor.
How many people still consider a RAM based audio player when shopping?
Not me. I have a 10G Archos jukebox, and it still only holds a fraction of my collection. It can be upgraded to whatever I want, but it would violate the $10 even-if-you-drop-it extended warranty. 10G is enough to hold most of the music I listen to with any regularity.
But 256M? Forget it. That wouldn't even get me through the day until lunch. I understand they still have their definite strong points, but for me, the disadvantages of a HDD-based player disappear when I consider the capacity difference.
That is 3 different results from the same user action!
Three words: right button drag. You'll always know exactly what's happening.
People on /. love to comment on concepts that have nothing at all to do with them. They have to come off all elite... "I don't listen to the radio... I don't like mass market movies... Me? I don't even own a TV." Guess what? The rest of us don't give a shit. Some people like top 40 music. Some of us don't have fancy schmancy taste in movies. Some of us are just stupid American consumer drones. That's who this technology is directed at. Not you. So shut your piehole, no one cares how elite you are.
I spent $500 on a discman when I was 16 cuz I thought it was cool. To think, I could've put that in a mutual fund!
If you still have it, sell the discman on eBay. You'll probably get more than the mutual fund would be worth today.
Why PDF? Are you going to print it or something? That's really the only reason to use PDF.
Ironically enough, Sherman Networks, using the DMCA, filed a legal complaint to block Kazaa Lite sites.
Ok, countdown time. How long will it take for someone from the UK to rip on Americans for their incorrect use of irony.
3... 2... 1...
All from my own CDs, and live music from taping-friendly bands. Nothing to see here, folks.
I see your point, and if it is a hassle, it's not worth it. I have an Archos 10G mp3 player, though, and while I realize the situation is different, I think my setup would go something like this:
Have video capture card or TiVo record Simpsons. If TiVo, use appropriate extraction software. Create a cron job to mpeg4-ify the video. Place it somewhere in a directory to be "synced". Have a custom script that does the copying and removing of older episodes. Run it with hotplug. Yes it would take time to set up, but the result is, you take it home, plug it in, and it does its magic all by itself.
I have something similar for this for my Archos Jukebox. A perl script creates a symlink mirror to my mp3 collection. I delete the ones I don't want on the player (necessary because my mp3 collection is > 10G). When it changes, I plug it in at night and just get it before I leave in the morning.
The charging/smashing/stealing thing I can't sympathize with. I work in a pretty secure environment and just charge it here when it needs it.
I would hardly call this "gee-whiz". You might think so, but if you had a 1 hour bus/train ride to work every day, wouldn't you like to bring Simpsons/Family Guy/Queer Eye for a Straight Guy with you? I'm not in this situation, but if I were, this would be worthwhile. Just because you don't see a use for it personally does not make it useless.
The article mentioned this point, did you read it?
You're correct, and I think you saw my point, even though the crackhead moderators thought it was flamebait.
To spell it out: It's nice that there is an open-source "database" that can actually be called a RDMBS. I realize that MySQL has its uses, and it wouldn't be so popular if that weren't the case. But the lack of features place it in a completely different category than PostgreSQL.
... and another leap ahead of MySQL. MySQL is essentially a glorified flat file in comparison.
Hope whoever it was had fun, because a world of pain is waiting in store now.
That's for sure. Where he's going, I'm sure he'll be experiencing a "blaster" of a different sort.
Better to say... both are equally unlikely.
Sort of like "six in one half dozen in the other". But I'm saying "six in one half dozen" and you're saying "one dozen minus six in the other". Why obfuscate? I'm just saying the likelihood is the same.
Unless you're kidding, of course.
The same way the telephone company racks up money by having area codes be very distant from each other; a typo in the area code probably means big bucks for a wrong number
This is either a conspiracy theory or an outdated idea. Not sure which.
My spreadsheet of 1997 budget information could produce the same hash as a RIP of Meeco's Star Wars disco theme remix, but it would be unlikely to produce a hash similar to my 1996 budget information
Both are equally likely.
Producing a unique result for each file is what a compression algorithm does. If a hash were truly unique and reversible then you'd have a compression algorithm, right?
A unique result is simply a side effect of compression. And I can create you a hash that's truly unique and reversible: add a 0 to the end of each file. Unique, reversible, but not compression.
Video games, hardly an MIT priority but a strong commercial interest of Microsoft's, have suddenly become a subject of scholarly inquiry.
Several points:
I know MS bashing is the tune here, but at least they're giving money to education. What should they do, give away SPARC workstations? At least it's less money for Billy to spend on champagne and whores.