Don't expect a major studio to BT their trailer anytime soon. It would mean they were giving away the rights to redistribute their IP. That's a big no-no for them -- people will just have to deal with a slow server. As we can see from the example of the record labels, the majors would rather lose potential customers then let control over their IP be ceded.
When it came out in my teenage years I got one and solved it on my own in about a week. I wound up improving my technique until I could reliably solve it in around a minute or so.
A few months ago I got one on a lark and gave up after a few hours. Of course I tried to tell myself that I just didn't have time to fiddle around all night with that stupid puzzle but the truth is that zee brain she dun work so good no more.
Those are good points, but I think in the final analysis, the marketplace will decide. Frankly, there's nothing so compelling on TV that it's going to make people go through major hoops to figure out how to access it. Even now, how many people bother to activate the "V-chips" in their American TV sets?
If CBS is making me go through a graduate-level course to configure my den TV to play the living room's recording...I'll get frustrated and stop watching CBS in short order. Remember, they want people to get hooked on their series...any obstacle they throw in the path of that, such as overrestrictive recordings, will hinder them as much as it will hinder the consumer.
I know everyone here thinks that the freedom to copy other people's IP should be totally unfettered, and I guess I sorta agree:), but all things considered, to me this plan doesn't sound so bad.
At least, my cursory five-minute perusal of the FCC statement seemed to indicate to me that:
1) You can still copy and archive with perfect digital fidelity, you just can't redistribute it outside your home network.
2) You can still copy and redistribute digitally at a lower resolution.
Outlook Express, on the other hand, should never be installed on any system
FUD. OE 6.0 can be easily configured to open all email as text only. (Tools|Options|Read|Read all messages in plain text) No more email viruses, end of story. Even from the early versions of OE, I've never been hosed by a virus despite getting loads of questionable UCE every day, which leads me to surmise that most people who get hit by viruses are just careless.
Its developers at the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) said the system could be used to provide an ultra realistic 'immersive' viewing experience when, for example, showing sporting events.
Great! Now all they need is to replicate the sensation of being vomited upon by the drunken lout behind you in the stands, and it'll be perfect!
That's an interesting article, but it's not about what you say it's about.
(It's about the EFF's shifting legal stance with respect to file sharing, not about whether or not new laws would be an improvement.)
You're name's "Matrix"?? You ARE stuck in 1999...
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the median salary for a US Systems Administrator was $64,271. As of 2002, the average salary was $67,675 ($67,920 for males, and $64,946 for females).
That's nice, but according to the US Bureau Of Labor Statistics' CPI Inflation Calculator, in order for your $64,271 salary to be keep pace with inflation, you'd have to be making $69,401. Since you made less than that, you've effectively gotten a paycut.
(Note, the calculator doesn't accept values greater than $9999.99. I assume this is because, to the current Adminstration, you're considered "rich" if you make more than that amount. However, no matter, just divide your salary by ten first, then multiply the output by 10. Or if you're Richard Grasso, divide and multiply by 100,000. HTH, Dick. )
Why buy a CD for $13-15 when you can get a DVD for 15-20. DVDs have way more entertainment value than a CD.
No they don't. You'll watch a even a good DVD just once or twice, maybe 10 times or so if it's really cool. I have CDs that I've easily listened to 100 times. Because a CD is audio only it's easy enough to put it on while doing other things, but a DVD requests your full attention. As much as I liked "Fellowship," I just haven't had the time to watch the full DVD more than once, no matter how entertaining it was.
A CD, a great CD, is a never-ending source of entertainment.
As for the people who keep talking like a movie soundtrack CD is just the movie minus visuals, and hence less value, of course that's not true. The actual soundtrack to a movie doesn't usually have the full songs or compositions, and what it does have is usually interrupted by the dialogue. That soundtrack is in no way comparable to the musical sountrack you can buy separately in CD format.
switch to Matrix Reloaded. You now have a totally different technique where something can happen that simply doesn't map to the real world at all. You go through the first part of the first movie's "bullet-time" process, filming real-world elements as required, and establishing your camera and timing tracks. Then you switch to 100% CG, for elements (e.g. Neo swooping in to pick up Morpheus and the Keymaker) that could never be fillmed, even against a green-screen with wires. The CG is based on the footage that you have, and uses textures, 3D-location information and other details that you have extracted, but ultimately it's the CG equivalent of rotoscoping.
MR isn't the first time "textures" were used in this fashion. You can see something similar in any episode of the old SF show Lexx. You might enjoy yourself more too.
>> don't think anyone could possibly claim ownership to such translations as the king James Version.
>Nope, it's public domain: The KJV Bible
It's public domain in most of the world, but in the UK, it is technically Crown Copyright which, at least in this specific case, acts as a sort-of early version of copyleft!
How true it is, brethren, that "there is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9);-)
This isn't "competition." This is a few countires getting together and deciding to basically put MS out of the Operating System / Office Suite business in their region. MS can't compete against potentially limitless resources going into developing a product and releasing it at no cost. Unless you happen to be a socialist or believe in RMS type software freedom (which are perfectly legitimate stances) why would you celebrate a company's market essentially being forcefully taken over by the government? The same thing could happen next to any large software firm. Maybe some government will decide to develop a free workalike to Macromedia MX. Or a free Photoshop.
What's wrong with free software? Nothing, as long as its being developed for free, too. But when the government does it, the rule generally seems to be that the taxpayer winds up paying more than what they'd pay if it was done by a private individual. Of course there are circumstances where that extra cost is worth it. But is this one of those circumstances? I think that's should be debated honestly, instead of with a sort of cavalier "The enemy of M$ is my friend" attitude.
d) Who wants to wait for a week or two between chapters when reading a book?
Quite a few people, if "Wheel of Time" is any indication. (Except instead of waiting a week or two between chapters in a book, its devotees wait a year or two between books in a series.)
Especially if the author makes no guarantee to ever finish the book?
I rest my case.:)
More seriously, King already serialized a novel successfully with "The Green Mile," and his inspiration, Dickens, made a career out of serializations.
The reason King's online novel didn't work is because few people want to be bothered with reading books online. Book reading is a sensual as well as an intellectual experience, the feel and smell of the paper, the heft of the volume, the sound of turning pages, all add to the enjoyment of reading in a way that shining phosphors will find very difficult to equal.
...when even suspected infringers are not entitled to any corresponding anonymity under the DMCA? Seems a trifle unfair. What's sauce for the goose ought to be sauce for the gander.
Outlook Express 6 SP1 now comes with a setting to "read all messages in plain text" Which is how I have my system configured and which gets rid of approximately 100% of email viruses. But unless you happen to be fiddling around with the configuration of OE, you'd never know this setting exists. If anything, Microsoft should be prominently advertising this "new, free" feature (which is of course ain't new, it's elm-level functionality) as a way to protect your system, but they won't.
Sure, but most people like their email with pretty colors. Then, fine, they should do what Poco Mail does, automatically "sanitize" email by stripping potentially harmful HTML coding and external image downloading (i.e. webbugs) while allowing basic HTML formatting to be read. This is not rocket science, but MS seems to be irresponsibly holding back on such basic safety improvements.
Yeah, I'd like to see a major Linux player working on something beyond the bitmapped desktop. If Apple can do it, surely IBM with its vast resources can get cracking in this arena. Even the alleged copycat Microsoft is actively developing a scalable desktop solution for Longhorn. How about SVG? Any implementations of that on the desktop in development?
Although they are of a similar tech, what about DVD recordable disks? I've got plenty of those now...
This would be as good a place as any to mention TDK's Armor Plated DVD Media, which are supposed to keep on working even after having been scoured with steel wool pads. Also, Verbatim makes a line of scratch-resistant CD-R media.
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Don't expect a major studio to BT their trailer anytime soon. It would mean they were giving away the rights to redistribute their IP. That's a big no-no for them -- people will just have to deal with a slow server. As we can see from the example of the record labels, the majors would rather lose potential customers then let control over their IP be ceded.
When it came out in my teenage years I got one and solved it on my own in about a week. I wound up improving my technique until I could reliably solve it in around a minute or so.
A few months ago I got one on a lark and gave up after a few hours. Of course I tried to tell myself that I just didn't have time to fiddle around all night with that stupid puzzle but the truth is that zee brain she dun work so good no more.
Those are good points, but I think in the final analysis, the marketplace will decide. Frankly, there's nothing so compelling on TV that it's going to make people go through major hoops to figure out how to access it. Even now, how many people bother to activate the "V-chips" in their American TV sets?
If CBS is making me go through a graduate-level course to configure my den TV to play the living room's recording...I'll get frustrated and stop watching CBS in short order. Remember, they want people to get hooked on their series...any obstacle they throw in the path of that, such as overrestrictive recordings, will hinder them as much as it will hinder the consumer.
I know everyone here thinks that the freedom to copy other people's IP should be totally unfettered, and I guess I sorta agree :), but all things considered, to me this plan doesn't sound so bad.
At least, my cursory five-minute perusal of the FCC statement seemed to indicate to me that:
1) You can still copy and archive with perfect digital fidelity, you just can't redistribute it outside your home network.
2) You can still copy and redistribute digitally at a lower resolution.
3) Unprotected analog output is also allowed.
So what exactly is the problem here?
Outlook Express, on the other hand, should never be installed on any system
FUD. OE 6.0 can be easily configured to open all email as text only. (Tools|Options|Read|Read all messages in plain text) No more email viruses, end of story. Even from the early versions of OE, I've never been hosed by a virus despite getting loads of questionable UCE every day, which leads me to surmise that most people who get hit by viruses are just careless.
I really have .zip to say about this matter...
Its developers at the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) said the system could be used to provide an ultra realistic 'immersive' viewing experience when, for example, showing sporting events.
Great! Now all they need is to replicate the sensation of being vomited upon by the drunken lout behind you in the stands, and it'll be perfect!
I can hardly wait!
I always use 90210 for the zipcode (regardless of what company asks)... It either gets a double-take, a question like "can I have your real zipcode",
...and of course the infamous:
Yawn, BORING! More interesting Zip Codes:
96943: Yap, Federated States of Micronesia
37863: Pigeon Forge TN (Home of Dollywood)
20505: CIA
92328: Death Valley
80429: Climax, Colorado, highest elevation Post Office.
97834: Halfway, Oregon, also known as "Half.com"
12345: Schenectady, NY
10048: WTC
17534: Intercourse, but this being Slashdot, I wouldn't expect most to be familiar with that locale.
That's an interesting article, but it's not about what you say it's about.
(It's about the EFF's shifting legal stance with respect to file sharing, not about whether or not new laws would be an improvement.)
the median salary for a US Systems Administrator was $64,271. As of 2002, the average salary was $67,675 ($67,920 for males, and $64,946 for females).
That's nice, but according to the US Bureau Of Labor Statistics' CPI Inflation Calculator, in order for your $64,271 salary to be keep pace with inflation, you'd have to be making $69,401. Since you made less than that, you've effectively gotten a paycut.
(Note, the calculator doesn't accept values greater than $9999.99. I assume this is because, to the current Adminstration, you're considered "rich" if you make more than that amount. However, no matter, just divide your salary by ten first, then multiply the output by 10. Or if you're Richard Grasso, divide and multiply by 100,000. HTH, Dick. )
Even more to the point, don't read the article, just look at the picture.
And oh, it's a prototype.
SCO used to be nice guys, too.
Why buy a CD for $13-15 when you can get a DVD for 15-20. DVDs have way more entertainment value than a CD.
No they don't. You'll watch a even a good DVD just once or twice, maybe 10 times or so if it's really cool. I have CDs that I've easily listened to 100 times. Because a CD is audio only it's easy enough to put it on while doing other things, but a DVD requests your full attention. As much as I liked "Fellowship," I just haven't had the time to watch the full DVD more than once, no matter how entertaining it was.
A CD, a great CD, is a never-ending source of entertainment.
As for the people who keep talking like a movie soundtrack CD is just the movie minus visuals, and hence less value, of course that's not true. The actual soundtrack to a movie doesn't usually have the full songs or compositions, and what it does have is usually interrupted by the dialogue. That soundtrack is in no way comparable to the musical sountrack you can buy separately in CD format.
For those who may have forgotten...this Tata Consultancy Services is a subsidiary of the very same Tata that took over the website www.bodacious-tatas.com in the landmark cybersquatting case.
That is one big bad Tata!
switch to Matrix Reloaded. You now have a totally different technique where something can happen that simply doesn't map to the real world at all. You go through the first part of the first movie's "bullet-time" process, filming real-world elements as required, and establishing your camera and timing tracks. Then you switch to 100% CG, for elements (e.g. Neo swooping in to pick up Morpheus and the Keymaker) that could never be fillmed, even against a green-screen with wires. The CG is based on the footage that you have, and uses textures, 3D-location information and other details that you have extracted, but ultimately it's the CG equivalent of rotoscoping.
MR isn't the first time "textures" were used in this fashion. You can see something similar in any episode of the old SF show Lexx. You might enjoy yourself more too.
>> don't think anyone could possibly claim ownership to such translations as the king James Version.
;-)
>Nope, it's public domain: The KJV Bible
It's public domain in most of the world, but in the UK, it is technically Crown Copyright which, at least in this specific case, acts as a sort-of early version of copyleft!
How true it is, brethren, that "there is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
This isn't "competition." This is a few countires getting together and deciding to basically put MS out of the Operating System / Office Suite business in their region. MS can't compete against potentially limitless resources going into developing a product and releasing it at no cost. Unless you happen to be a socialist or believe in RMS type software freedom (which are perfectly legitimate stances) why would you celebrate a company's market essentially being forcefully taken over by the government? The same thing could happen next to any large software firm. Maybe some government will decide to develop a free workalike to Macromedia MX. Or a free Photoshop.
What's wrong with free software? Nothing, as long as its being developed for free, too. But when the government does it, the rule generally seems to be that the taxpayer winds up paying more than what they'd pay if it was done by a private individual. Of course there are circumstances where that extra cost is worth it. But is this one of those circumstances? I think that's should be debated honestly, instead of with a sort of cavalier "The enemy of M$ is my friend" attitude.
d) Who wants to wait for a week or two between chapters when reading a book?
:)
Quite a few people, if "Wheel of Time" is any indication. (Except instead of waiting a week or two between chapters in a book, its devotees wait a year or two between books in a series.)
Especially if the author makes no guarantee to ever finish the book?
I rest my case.
More seriously, King already serialized a novel successfully with "The Green Mile," and his inspiration, Dickens, made a career out of serializations.
The reason King's online novel didn't work is because few people want to be bothered with reading books online. Book reading is a sensual as well as an intellectual experience, the feel and smell of the paper, the heft of the volume, the sound of turning pages, all add to the enjoyment of reading in a way that shining phosphors will find very difficult to equal.
I think it's fair to say that that line of reasoning is begging the question.
Thanks. I had noticed that general info, but it still doesn't tell us who the specific sleazoid attorney was who drafted the C&D letter.
Outlook Express 6 SP1 now comes with a setting to "read all messages in plain text" Which is how I have my system configured and which gets rid of approximately 100% of email viruses. But unless you happen to be fiddling around with the configuration of OE, you'd never know this setting exists. If anything, Microsoft should be prominently advertising this "new, free" feature (which is of course ain't new, it's elm-level functionality) as a way to protect your system, but they won't.
Sure, but most people like their email with pretty colors. Then, fine, they should do what Poco Mail does, automatically "sanitize" email by stripping potentially harmful HTML coding and external image downloading (i.e. webbugs) while allowing basic HTML formatting to be read. This is not rocket science, but MS seems to be irresponsibly holding back on such basic safety improvements.
Yeah, I'd like to see a major Linux player working on something beyond the bitmapped desktop. If Apple can do it, surely IBM with its vast resources can get cracking in this arena. Even the alleged copycat Microsoft is actively developing a scalable desktop solution for Longhorn. How about SVG? Any implementations of that on the desktop in development?
Although they are of a similar tech, what about DVD recordable disks? I've got plenty of those now...
This would be as good a place as any to mention TDK's Armor Plated DVD Media, which are supposed to keep on working even after having been scoured with steel wool pads. Also, Verbatim makes a line of scratch-resistant CD-R media.