In a surprising move that has attracted the attention of the "content control coalition", Sony introduced a desktop system that records TV, and writes DVDs. Here are a few links. Go forth and/. Yahoo
Supposedly this was a surprise, and a source within Sony tells me that meetings have been scheduled by the "CCC" with Sony for some reason. I'm going out on a limb and going to say that it is to ask Sony to not sell the unit (although with Sony's experience with actually releasing things on time, with enough products for all interested consumers isn't that great [i.e. Playstation 2])
The reason for the meetings? The system can stream TV programs to its monitor, then record them to its hard drive. You can copy the video to DVD as well. And get this - normal people (read "non techie" / my mom) can use the interface.
Although it's $2500 price tag may shy some consumers away, this represents (im-very-ho) a giant leap towards selling what the consumer wants, and not what the "people who pay for the production of entertainment" wants to give us.
In the last few years, we have seen manufacturers bow to "certain members" of the entertainment industry (i.e. DVD players only made by major manufacturers because of a chip shortage, Creative abandoning a DVD-RAM drive (which I hear that they were making a fair bit of money on.), a shortage of DVD-Ram disks, DVD Watermarking, Macrovision, Tivo being called "the greatest threat to intellectual property" (or some other load of bullfeathers - way to go Mr. Valenti) et al.
What conclusions can be drawn by Sony's and the CCC's actions? It seems ironic that one of the few people who can actually protect our fair use rights are large corporations. Should we expect these kind of actions in the future and in what way we should (if we should) reward companies who make stuff that we want to use.
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These are new?
They've been around for quite some time.
Nevertheless, pretty cool. A great use for this is for plowing snow in the great white north (Canada). Add a scoop, these things and you're set.
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yeah, but when they say "the Internet is down" it has a totally different meaning. THey think that some appocaypse happened somewhere and destroyed "The Internet"
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Hey - why the hell would anyone want to buy a cramped POS HP, compaq, etc system?
The damn cases are cramped, a bitch to work with, the power supplies are crap, limited upgradibility etc.. etc..
And you don't have to buy ms software.
Dell still has some credibility in my eyes, they have really nice cases, and fairly decent boards.
Tell me - would you ever go back to buying premade?
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Yes, microsoft could go after every single person who installed windows on an extra machine. That is their legal right (at least in the states, and most countries)
But the legal system isn't equipped to handle millions of cases of $150 damages. Ironically the legal system does do this for people who steal food from supermarkets, but whatever.
It comes down to this, that even microsoft would be very hard pressed to pay for the friggin' lawyers and court fees involved in prosecuting millions of people - it would totally fuck their image too.
Which is why they go after distributors and companies.
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but wouldn't it be great if companies, especially in the same sector not use acronyms that have already been defined?
i.e. MAC address
now Media access control.
Maybe some standards would be great.
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don't touch the comp usa shit either. just add water to get a nice plastic / sludge something. The comp usa shit is worse than the fucking wicked witch of the north.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Ok.. the average age for sexual intercourse in the states is about 15, depending on which state you are in etc... I don't think porn on the net is a parents biggest concern.
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I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
No, I don't think the legal aspect is the problem, but I'm sure that it is not going to fit in the back of one semi - perhaps two or three. Then you have re assembly etc..
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
I'd say the cost of the materials alone would easily exceed $250k.
It'd be cool if the guy poseted to/. some of his ideas.
And as for "moving across the border", I severley doubt that you can pack this up into a truck and move it over the border.
What the hell happened to all these private space projects? The stratospheric skydiving seemed to die out, as did the manned launch to space a while back, they were going out to launch out of the ocean or something.
Perhaps a comprehensive slashback would be cool.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
And we were supposed to have trips to the moon in 2000 according to pan am or someone..
It'll be cool when I can have it. It's been theory (sci-fi) for quite some time.
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Supposedly this was a surprise, and a source within Sony tells me that meetings have been scheduled by the "CCC" with Sony for some reason. I'm going out on a limb and going to say that it is to ask Sony to not sell the unit (although with Sony's experience with actually releasing things on time, with enough products for all interested consumers isn't that great [i.e. Playstation 2])
The reason for the meetings? The system can stream TV programs to its monitor, then record them to its hard drive. You can copy the video to DVD as well. And get this - normal people (read "non techie" / my mom) can use the interface.
Although it's $2500 price tag may shy some consumers away, this represents (im-very-ho) a giant leap towards selling what the consumer wants, and not what the "people who pay for the production of entertainment" wants to give us.
In the last few years, we have seen manufacturers bow to "certain members" of the entertainment industry (i.e. DVD players only made by major manufacturers because of a chip shortage, Creative abandoning a DVD-RAM drive (which I hear that they were making a fair bit of money on.), a shortage of DVD-Ram disks, DVD Watermarking, Macrovision, Tivo being called "the greatest threat to intellectual property" (or some other load of bullfeathers - way to go Mr. Valenti) et al.
What conclusions can be drawn by Sony's and the CCC's actions? It seems ironic that one of the few people who can actually protect our fair use rights are large corporations. Should we expect these kind of actions in the future and in what way we should (if we should) reward companies who make stuff that we want to use.
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They've been around for quite some time.
Nevertheless, pretty cool. A great use for this is for plowing snow in the great white north (Canada). Add a scoop, these things and you're set.
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But the US did get booted off the human rights board and then decided to withold membership fees to protest.
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Remember the device drivers which would let disks hold 1.8 mb of data?
The good old days...
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IIS isn't that bad. Frontpage is the problem.
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That is not allowed under the license, you know?
Thats's the point.
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The damn cases are cramped, a bitch to work with, the power supplies are crap, limited upgradibility etc.. etc..
And you don't have to buy ms software.
Dell still has some credibility in my eyes, they have really nice cases, and fairly decent boards.
Tell me - would you ever go back to buying premade?
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But the legal system isn't equipped to handle millions of cases of $150 damages. Ironically the legal system does do this for people who steal food from supermarkets, but whatever.
It comes down to this, that even microsoft would be very hard pressed to pay for the friggin' lawyers and court fees involved in prosecuting millions of people - it would totally fuck their image too.
Which is why they go after distributors and companies.
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haven't heard of anything about it...
want to give some more info?
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i.e. MAC address
now Media access control.
Maybe some standards would be great.
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I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
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I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
hmm.. good point. I watched it blow in person. Was a fairly loud boom.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
I fell out of the chair laughing.
Incidentall, did Nasa have to file flight plans during the shuttle launches? They'd be interesting to see.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
But I'll believe it when I see it.
I'd say the cost of the materials alone would easily exceed $250k.
It'd be cool if the guy poseted to
And as for "moving across the border", I severley doubt that you can pack this up into a truck and move it over the border.
What the hell happened to all these private space projects? The stratospheric skydiving seemed to die out, as did the manned launch to space a while back, they were going out to launch out of the ocean or something.
Perhaps a comprehensive slashback would be cool.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
It'll be cool when I can have it. It's been theory (sci-fi) for quite some time.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.