I don't think that there's a connection. Regular audio tapes are still going strong and they're in a cartridge. I'm too young to know, but I believe that 8-track tapes were once very popular as well.
Sony's MD failed in North America because Sony tried to control the format too much. With every electronics company putting out CD players and every kind of music available on CD, consumers just weren't interested in a format that restricted them to Sony players and pre-recorded music was hard to find.
The industry wide cooperation is the greatest advantage this new format has.
amen brother... it's especially irritating when I see an ad saying that Show X is comming up next, so I hit record on the VCR and go out for the evening, only to discover that I wasn't watching Fox at all, and a different show came on instead. Canadian content my ass... Last night's episode of the Simpsons where they go to Toronto was more Canadian than any of the crap the CBC puts out.
anything with Ridley Scott anywhere near the helm isn't going to be accurate. Don't get me wrong... I definately enjoy his movies, but I enjoy them the way I enjoy movies like T2. For instance, I enoyed Gladiator, but it had the historical accuracy of The Patriot.
you're not alone, but I would *guess* that you're in a minority in the US. 9-11 was one of those "community" moments in which people feel emotionally connected to events and people that they never had direct contact with.
for a weaker version of this, you need only look at how sad some people got with Princess Di died.
Simple. I speak French, and I know people who speak Spanish. Keeping up a foreign language is difficult, but it makes it a bit easier if you can listen to a movie in the language.
If I'm going to buy a DVD, I'd like to get a lot of use out of it. Being able to listen in French gives me more use.
pretty much, although it's not just the anime freaks that care.
I buy DVD's, but the feature I care most about is the multiple audio track and subtitle feature. However, finding versions of my CD's with English, French and Spanish is actually quite difficult. I find it irritating that I could get the same title in Europe with those languages and more, but I'm not into hacking my DVD player.
Unfortunately, bilingualism just isn't as big here as in the rest of the world.
If I had my way, every DVD would have at least 3 languages and subtitles and/or closed captions.
Of course it's theft. That's not the point. The original poster suggested that only geeks transfter multiple gigabytes of data. That's not true. If it was only geeks, the RIAA and MPAA wouldn't give a hoot about Napster and it's brethren. The morality of stealing intellectual property aside, the average person DOES transfer tons of data and to say that it's just geeks is just plain false!
perhaps the use of the word "need" is inaccurate. Nobody "needs" bandwidth the way we need food, but the average man WANTS to transfer large quantities of data.
oh please... you seriously expected Tobin's proposal to actually produce something worthwhile?
One of two things would happen.
1) It would be 100% government run which would mean a lot of studies, little action, and almost no cable laid down to useful places before the money ran out. (last mile problems)
2) Government would try to get industry involved, and would end up handing out money to corps who wouldn't get the job done. (I am SICK of corporate welfare for companies that contribute to the Liberal party!)
You probably liked the part where Tobin proposed a central internet portal for all Canadians. Sort of like a government funded Yahoo that is politically biased like the CBC.
Dude... how much are you downloading? I do use Morpheus, although I don't leave it on all the time. (generally after 2am until the morning). I've never been contacted by shaw at all. I was beginning to think that it was one of those things they never do anything about. (Like people splitting a cable TV signal in their home and not paying extra for the extra outlets).
your right about the bad food/bandwidth comparison, but I don't think it's reasonable to call Napster-like programs to be "wasteful", because Rogers uses those programs as a selling point. (Or at least they did when they were in British Columbia, and I signed up with them). (They've now sold out to Shaw in this province).
Their ads go on and on about how cable-internet lets you download the music you want. That means high-bandwidth usage. To then turn around and say that using a heavily promoted "feature" of cable-internet constitutes excessive usage is ridiculous.
many things are like that though. With local calls in North America, the lighter users pay just as much as the heavy users. It's not this way everywhere. Some countries have per minute charges if you call the house next door, but can you imagine the fuss if they implemented that here?
North Americans like flat-rate. We like all you can eat. We like things where we can have however much we want for a fixed price paid in advance. We don't like surprises later. Which is why I wish we'd require that all companies include taxes in their advertised prices, but then we're also against excessive government regulation (By European standards), and it would be tough for a single company to be the first to implement this policy.
Yeah, but it's double what the two major providers charge out in British Columbia. (And Telus gives you $5 off if you own your own DSL modem). Good thing Shaw bought out Rogers over here. Many things in Europe are expensive. The most obvious is gasoline. We pay around $0.60 CDN per litre at the moment, and I paid as low as $0.30CDN just over a year ago. Comparing us to Europe just isn't reasonable because North Americans just won't tolerate some of the prices in Europe. (Don't the Brits still pay by the minute for local calls?)
Rogers is such a strange company. On the one hand they pull crap like this which tends to piss off customers. On the other hand, they completely ignored people who ran servers, grabbed additional IP's w/o paying for them and otherwise generally violated the license agreements. Now, I still think that those things should be allowed, but why make a rule if you're not going to enforce it. Shaw does, and I bet it saves them a chunk of money.
you seem to be confusing open-source with copy-lefted.
Open-source simply means that they make the source code publicly available. (i.e. no non-disclosure agreements). Open source doesn't imply any restrictions such as requiring that people all derived code is also open source, nor does it imply any lack of restriction. Meaning I can make something open-source and then forbid you to use the code or derive anything from it. (Though that would be pretty stupid as I couldn't really enforce it).
well smack me silly and call me susan... man do I feel like a moron for posting... I should have read more carefully myself.. I guess you were refering to the parent of this whole thread, not the article in using the word "this"...
"Using the Morpheus program, they found a way of getting a random list of people using the service.
They could then obtain details of the content of a user's hard drive and make copies of any file.
That doesn't say any file that is already shared, it says any file.
now I sould actually know tht why wouldn't the same technology work on the backbones?
Don't Tx and OC-xx lines using something akin to the OSI model? (I do know that no one implements that model exactly). I would have thought that they used TCP/IP.
Only ONE article mentioned he had an anti corporate/globalist site.
Because it isn't relevant. The identity of the victim of a crime isn't relevant as to whether or not a crime was commited. Suggesting that the identity of the victim justifies the crime is the same logic used by whackjobs who bomb abortion clinics and shoot people all the while claiming that they're doing God's work.
If an act is wrong, it's wrong no matter who you do it to.
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1) Single Sided, Single Layer (4.7 GB)
2) Single Sided, Dual Layer (8.5 GB)
3) Double Sided, Single Layer (9.4 GB)
4) Double Sided, Dual Layer (17 GB)
The large number of formats is due to politics. Philips & Sony wanted single, sided, dual layer for the high capacity version, while Toshiba & Time Warner wanted, double sided, single layer. The first group didn't think anyone would want to flip the disk, the second group didn't think the technical side of dual layer could be worked out.
Personally, I hate flipping a disk, and I like a pretty picture on one side. But other people hate that little freeze you get when switching layers on some hardware.
that's because price isn't a true reflection of cost in capitalist economies. it's simply a reflection of what people are willing to pay. (i.e. whatever the market will bear)
People perceive DVD's to be better therefore they are prepared to pay more, therefore the manufacturer charges more.
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I don't think that there's a connection. Regular audio tapes are still going strong and they're in a cartridge. I'm too young to know, but I believe that 8-track tapes were once very popular as well.
Sony's MD failed in North America because Sony tried to control the format too much. With every electronics company putting out CD players and every kind of music available on CD, consumers just weren't interested in a format that restricted them to Sony players and pre-recorded music was hard to find.
The industry wide cooperation is the greatest advantage this new format has.
amen brother... it's especially irritating when I see an ad saying that Show X is comming up next, so I hit record on the VCR and go out for the evening, only to discover that I wasn't watching Fox at all, and a different show came on instead. Canadian content my ass... Last night's episode of the Simpsons where they go to Toronto was more Canadian than any of the crap the CBC puts out.
JON KATZ!!! Think about it... Who else could ramble on and bore the guests beyond words?
anything with Ridley Scott anywhere near the helm isn't going to be accurate. Don't get me wrong... I definately enjoy his movies, but I enjoy them the way I enjoy movies like T2. For instance, I enoyed Gladiator, but it had the historical accuracy of The Patriot.
you're not alone, but I would *guess* that you're in a minority in the US. 9-11 was one of those "community" moments in which people feel emotionally connected to events and people that they never had direct contact with.
for a weaker version of this, you need only look at how sad some people got with Princess Di died.
Simple. I speak French, and I know people who speak Spanish. Keeping up a foreign language is difficult, but it makes it a bit easier if you can listen to a movie in the language.
If I'm going to buy a DVD, I'd like to get a lot of use out of it. Being able to listen in French gives me more use.
I buy DVD's, but the feature I care most about is the multiple audio track and subtitle feature. However, finding versions of my CD's with English, French and Spanish is actually quite difficult. I find it irritating that I could get the same title in Europe with those languages and more, but I'm not into hacking my DVD player.
Unfortunately, bilingualism just isn't as big here as in the rest of the world.
If I had my way, every DVD would have at least 3 languages and subtitles and/or closed captions.
Of course it's theft. That's not the point. The original poster suggested that only geeks transfter multiple gigabytes of data. That's not true. If it was only geeks, the RIAA and MPAA wouldn't give a hoot about Napster and it's brethren. The morality of stealing intellectual property aside, the average person DOES transfer tons of data and to say that it's just geeks is just plain false!
perhaps the use of the word "need" is inaccurate. Nobody "needs" bandwidth the way we need food, but the average man WANTS to transfer large quantities of data.
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Then they're not being consistent. I've done WAY over 3GB upload this month already, and probably similar for the past 6 months.
Totally off-track! The common man, (or sometimes the common man's kids are a serious driving force). Did you forget Napster?
I worked in a sawmill, and the guys in the shop would talk about napster and stuff over coffee. Seriously.
oh please... you seriously expected Tobin's proposal to actually produce something worthwhile?
One of two things would happen.
1) It would be 100% government run which would mean a lot of studies, little action, and almost no cable laid down to useful places before the money ran out. (last mile problems)
2) Government would try to get industry involved, and would end up handing out money to corps who wouldn't get the job done. (I am SICK of corporate welfare for companies that contribute to the Liberal party!)
You probably liked the part where Tobin proposed a central internet portal for all Canadians. Sort of like a government funded Yahoo that is politically biased like the CBC.
Dude... how much are you downloading? I do use Morpheus, although I don't leave it on all the time. (generally after 2am until the morning). I've never been contacted by shaw at all. I was beginning to think that it was one of those things they never do anything about. (Like people splitting a cable TV signal in their home and not paying extra for the extra outlets).
Their ads go on and on about how cable-internet lets you download the music you want. That means high-bandwidth usage. To then turn around and say that using a heavily promoted "feature" of cable-internet constitutes excessive usage is ridiculous.
many things are like that though. With local calls in North America, the lighter users pay just as much as the heavy users. It's not this way everywhere. Some countries have per minute charges if you call the house next door, but can you imagine the fuss if they implemented that here?
North Americans like flat-rate. We like all you can eat. We like things where we can have however much we want for a fixed price paid in advance. We don't like surprises later. Which is why I wish we'd require that all companies include taxes in their advertised prices, but then we're also against excessive government regulation (By European standards), and it would be tough for a single company to be the first to implement this policy.
Rogers is such a strange company. On the one hand they pull crap like this which tends to piss off customers. On the other hand, they completely ignored people who ran servers, grabbed additional IP's w/o paying for them and otherwise generally violated the license agreements. Now, I still think that those things should be allowed, but why make a rule if you're not going to enforce it. Shaw does, and I bet it saves them a chunk of money.
Open-source simply means that they make the source code publicly available. (i.e. no non-disclosure agreements). Open source doesn't imply any restrictions such as requiring that people all derived code is also open source, nor does it imply any lack of restriction. Meaning I can make something open-source and then forbid you to use the code or derive anything from it. (Though that would be pretty stupid as I couldn't really enforce it).
Copy-lefted is what linux is distributed under.
since when is bundled with eZulamain???
well smack me silly and call me susan... man do I feel like a moron for posting... I should have read more carefully myself.. I guess you were refering to the parent of this whole thread, not the article in using the word "this"...
stupid, stupid, stupid...
"Using the Morpheus program, they found a way of getting a random list of people using the service. They could then obtain details of the content of a user's hard drive and make copies of any file.
That doesn't say any file that is already shared, it says any file.
no maybe I'm just getting old and can't think at 1:30 in the morning any more, but how would that help?
Encrypt & Authenticate what? My ID & PWD? I provide Trillian with that info.
Seriously, I'm not trolling, please explain.
now I sould actually know tht why wouldn't the same technology work on the backbones?
Don't Tx and OC-xx lines using something akin to the OSI model? (I do know that no one implements that model exactly). I would have thought that they used TCP/IP.
Because it isn't relevant. The identity of the victim of a crime isn't relevant as to whether or not a crime was commited. Suggesting that the identity of the victim justifies the crime is the same logic used by whackjobs who bomb abortion clinics and shoot people all the while claiming that they're doing God's work.
If an act is wrong, it's wrong no matter who you do it to. .
nah.. he meant lost as in "I had to destroy them 'cause if they read my files I'm screwed"...
it's the same thing when the FBI forces hard working urban narcotics dealers to donate their hard earned inventory to sewer rats...
There are four DVD formats
1) Single Sided, Single Layer (4.7 GB)
2) Single Sided, Dual Layer (8.5 GB)
3) Double Sided, Single Layer (9.4 GB)
4) Double Sided, Dual Layer (17 GB)
The large number of formats is due to politics. Philips & Sony wanted single, sided, dual layer for the high capacity version, while Toshiba & Time Warner wanted, double sided, single layer. The first group didn't think anyone would want to flip the disk, the second group didn't think the technical side of dual layer could be worked out.
Personally, I hate flipping a disk, and I like a pretty picture on one side. But other people hate that little freeze you get when switching layers on some hardware.
that's because price isn't a true reflection of cost in capitalist economies. it's simply a reflection of what people are willing to pay. (i.e. whatever the market will bear)
People perceive DVD's to be better therefore they are prepared to pay more, therefore the manufacturer charges more.
.