Vista applies DRM to.mov/Quicktime files. I don't know exactly what happens, but saving or writing (copying) Quicktime files wraps them in a 'secure' layer (filename changes to green - it's now 'secure'). Once this happens, a lot of restrictions are placed on how the file can then be moved, copied, deleted, etc.
I don't use Vista for anything media production related so I haven't delved into this.. but it caught my eye a few weeks ago.
Kinda funny (ironic - not haha).. I too actually have had the not so joyous pleasure of cleaning up after an incident like that. Wife had complications during miscarriage and had a urgent doctor visits. Pretty rough stuff. I guess that means I wacked Hans wife as well.
Exactly! I've said this for a while now.. been modded to hell and back over it many times..
Anytime you end up with something you didn't pay for, it's theft. Everyone focuses on the method of obtaining and claim, that's not theft, it's infringement - and completely neglects what the infringement gained. People need to stop looking at the means of transfer as the problem, and that they deprived someone else of payment as the problem. THAT'S THE THEFT (with a count of copyright infringement)!
Servers. Last I checked.. hosting your own email, telnet, httpd servers (I'm sure there are others - seems like it's most of the well known ports (1023)) wasn't doable using standard ports - both against TOS and directly dropped into/dev/null. If a judge won't understand/take into consideration the difference between throttling and blocking, I don't give them leeway regarding the loss of needing standard ports.
20 years of player life? Most of my (pricey - relatively high end) DVD players only last about 13-15 months before needing replacement due to the player failing completely.
that if Comcast is filtering bandwidth heavy traffic (which they aren't, Comcast is resetting packets dropping the connection entirely) they really don't have a leg to stand on to move to tiered pricing to generate more revenue.
Slow my downloads AND charge me more? Corporate greed is just staggering.. anything for the almighty coin.
Hello Fios (which thankfully just became available)!
The intermittent keyboard 'drops' still isn't fixed. To those unfamiliar, the problem is akin to the keyboard going into energy saver mode prematurely (however the rest of the laptop is still going). You have to hit a key once for the keyboard to turn back on before the keyboard starts working. Very frustrating if you're reading a page of comments on slashdot and hit the space bar to scroll down a page, and nothing happens. (you then have to hit it again now that the keyboard is 'woken up')
Like may be too strong. Rather, it's not bugging me or keeping me from working - and it's even growing on me. My work bought me a new Dell 530 desktop with Vista Business, seems to work fine (I actually kind of like Office 2007 too - Visual Studio 2008 Express is pretty cool as well). Probably just due to being forced to use it regularly.
Hrm, I do remember BeOS being advertised a real-time OS. Highly responsive UI was a side effect of the whole thing being real time. I remember all those demo videos demonstrating pegging the cpu to the max while still having a completely functional system.
I could be wrong as well, but I'm pretty sure BeOS was going for realtime (a la QNX, etc).
We still have Obama. Party doesn't really matter anymore.. the country is getting further and further fargone and needs real leadership. McCain (war hero or not - honestly, it's noble but doesn't impress me) and Clinton both represent entrenched politics and more of the same old. Sounds funny, if I can't have Ron Paul, I want Obama.
"Clerics defend Afghan reporter's death sentence Journalist 'insulted Islam' when he distributed report questioning polygamy Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, 23, was sentenced to death on Jan. 22 by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for handing out a report he printed off the Internet to fellow journalism students at Balkh University. The article questioned why men can have four wives but women cannot have multiple husbands."
Saw this on MSNBC a short while ago, felt like it would be good to post in this topic.
Why don't you vote? Are you a felon? Or is it the whole 'voting doesn't matter' diatribe.
When you get bad service at a restaurant, not leaving leaving a tip only makes the server think you're an ass. Leaving a $.25 tip will still make them think you're an ass, but betters the odds of sorting themselves out (either via a manager, or themselves, etc).
Personally, this is the first election I'll have ever voted in where I felt like 1) my vote mattered (both to me and to the outcome), and 2) I'm excited for the potential of numerous candidates regardless of parties.
Unless you're prohibited by law, get off your lazy ass and vote.
You can only enter manual mode on an iPod that is already 'tied' to a particular machine/OS install/library/whathaveyou. Which IIRC can only be one machine at a time. It makes synching an iPod with an OSX and Windows/Bootcamp install tricky (managing the single music library between both OS's isn't hard).
Macbook Pro 17 (2.33 C2D) with Vista (160GB internal) Leopard (500GB external FW800) 3 additional external USB Drives (~ 1TB of space) 1 USB DVD burner
I've never had a crash, all of my software has worked perfectly. Of course, I did do a fresh install and selectively moved my old programs back - rather than an Upgrade. 0 problems.
O'Malley's a complete asshole. Most of the state didn't really know about him before he was elected. I'm in Baltimore and it's a f*cking dumpster thanks to O'Malley's "mayorship" (is that a word?). And now he's doing it with the state.
He ran on an anti-slots campaign to beat Ehrlich, but as soon as he took office he did a complete 180 and pushed through (in a special session bypassing citizen/constituent oversight) legalization of slot machines. And along with that a ridiculous amount of new taxation focused almost exclusively on the service and small-business industries. I don't care about the slots, it's about all his blatant lying. He's killing the independent businessman in Maryland, and his other policies are insuring no larger/established corporations are going to want to EVER relocated and base themselves here.
Maryland already has one of the highest costs of living in the US.. not far behind Los Angeles and NYC. And it's getting much worse. A LOT of people are considering their options for relocating.
For those who don't know, Gov. O'Malley just forced upon the citizen of Maryland the BIGGEST state tax hike in the history of the United States of America. $1.7 BILLION tax hike for 2008.
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Vista applies DRM to .mov/Quicktime files. I don't know exactly what happens, but saving or writing (copying) Quicktime files wraps them in a 'secure' layer (filename changes to green - it's now 'secure'). Once this happens, a lot of restrictions are placed on how the file can then be moved, copied, deleted, etc.
I don't use Vista for anything media production related so I haven't delved into this.. but it caught my eye a few weeks ago.
Not familiar with Stage6 or it's content.. but Vimeo? It's a better quality (and smaller) Youtube.
Kinda funny (ironic - not haha).. I too actually have had the not so joyous pleasure of cleaning up after an incident like that. Wife had complications during miscarriage and had a urgent doctor visits. Pretty rough stuff. I guess that means I wacked Hans wife as well.
Exactly! I've said this for a while now.. been modded to hell and back over it many times..
Anytime you end up with something you didn't pay for, it's theft. Everyone focuses on the method of obtaining and claim, that's not theft, it's infringement - and completely neglects what the infringement gained. People need to stop looking at the means of transfer as the problem, and that they deprived someone else of payment as the problem. THAT'S THE THEFT (with a count of copyright infringement)!
up to 1023.. forgot to do < manually
Servers. Last I checked.. hosting your own email, telnet, httpd servers (I'm sure there are others - seems like it's most of the well known ports (1023)) wasn't doable using standard ports - both against TOS and directly dropped into /dev/null. If a judge won't understand/take into consideration the difference between throttling and blocking, I don't give them leeway regarding the loss of needing standard ports.
20 years of player life? Most of my (pricey - relatively high end) DVD players only last about 13-15 months before needing replacement due to the player failing completely.
that if Comcast is filtering bandwidth heavy traffic (which they aren't, Comcast is resetting packets dropping the connection entirely) they really don't have a leg to stand on to move to tiered pricing to generate more revenue.
Slow my downloads AND charge me more? Corporate greed is just staggering.. anything for the almighty coin.
Hello Fios (which thankfully just became available)!
The intermittent keyboard 'drops' still isn't fixed. To those unfamiliar, the problem is akin to the keyboard going into energy saver mode prematurely (however the rest of the laptop is still going). You have to hit a key once for the keyboard to turn back on before the keyboard starts working. Very frustrating if you're reading a page of comments on slashdot and hit the space bar to scroll down a page, and nothing happens. (you then have to hit it again now that the keyboard is 'woken up')
I'm starting to like Vista?
Like may be too strong. Rather, it's not bugging me or keeping me from working - and it's even growing on me. My work bought me a new Dell 530 desktop with Vista Business, seems to work fine (I actually kind of like Office 2007 too - Visual Studio 2008 Express is pretty cool as well). Probably just due to being forced to use it regularly.
Hrm, I do remember BeOS being advertised a real-time OS. Highly responsive UI was a side effect of the whole thing being real time. I remember all those demo videos demonstrating pegging the cpu to the max while still having a completely functional system.
I could be wrong as well, but I'm pretty sure BeOS was going for realtime (a la QNX, etc).
We still have Obama. Party doesn't really matter anymore.. the country is getting further and further fargone and needs real leadership. McCain (war hero or not - honestly, it's noble but doesn't impress me) and Clinton both represent entrenched politics and more of the same old. Sounds funny, if I can't have Ron Paul, I want Obama.
"Clerics defend Afghan reporter's death sentence
Journalist 'insulted Islam' when he distributed report questioning polygamy
Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, 23, was sentenced to death on Jan. 22 by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for handing out a report he printed off the Internet to fellow journalism students at Balkh University.
The article questioned why men can have four wives but women cannot have multiple husbands."
Saw this on MSNBC a short while ago, felt like it would be good to post in this topic.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23043451/
Police state anyone? Things are getting worse and worse.
Why don't you vote? Are you a felon? Or is it the whole 'voting doesn't matter' diatribe.
When you get bad service at a restaurant, not leaving leaving a tip only makes the server think you're an ass. Leaving a $.25 tip will still make them think you're an ass, but betters the odds of sorting themselves out (either via a manager, or themselves, etc).
Personally, this is the first election I'll have ever voted in where I felt like 1) my vote mattered (both to me and to the outcome), and 2) I'm excited for the potential of numerous candidates regardless of parties.
Unless you're prohibited by law, get off your lazy ass and vote.
So we should vote based on who's viable rather than who's right? Anymore, this seems to exemplify exactly what's wrong with this country.
90% of guns are used to kill people. Hasn't stopped the gun manufacturers...
Trying to contain genetically-altered virii for medical cures will get your family blown up in a helicopter!
(I know.. technically it was Emma Thompson who engineered the cure)
has had this for years. Dragging/dropping in context of what the content is your manipulating - and then initiating an action (or series of).
Hell, anytime you've burned a CD in OSX by dragging to the trash can and it changes to a burning icon, you've just prior-arted Yahoo.
FFS.. learn how to use the term!
That sounds vaguely like the whole 'DRM doesn't work' (once known, easily exploited) thing. Hrm.. DRM crackers to be eventually considered terrorists?
You can only enter manual mode on an iPod that is already 'tied' to a particular machine/OS install/library/whathaveyou. Which IIRC can only be one machine at a time. It makes synching an iPod with an OSX and Windows/Bootcamp install tricky (managing the single music library between both OS's isn't hard).
Why can't Apple be both a Hardware and a Software company? It seems pretty obvious that they hold both in pretty high, equal regard.
Macbook Pro 17 (2.33 C2D) with
Vista (160GB internal)
Leopard (500GB external FW800)
3 additional external USB Drives (~ 1TB of space)
1 USB DVD burner
I've never had a crash, all of my software has worked perfectly. Of course, I did do a fresh install and selectively moved my old programs back - rather than an Upgrade. 0 problems.
O'Malley's a complete asshole. Most of the state didn't really know about him before he was elected. I'm in Baltimore and it's a f*cking dumpster thanks to O'Malley's "mayorship" (is that a word?). And now he's doing it with the state.
He ran on an anti-slots campaign to beat Ehrlich, but as soon as he took office he did a complete 180 and pushed through (in a special session bypassing citizen/constituent oversight) legalization of slot machines. And along with that a ridiculous amount of new taxation focused almost exclusively on the service and small-business industries. I don't care about the slots, it's about all his blatant lying. He's killing the independent businessman in Maryland, and his other policies are insuring no larger/established corporations are going to want to EVER relocated and base themselves here.
Maryland already has one of the highest costs of living in the US.. not far behind Los Angeles and NYC. And it's getting much worse. A LOT of people are considering their options for relocating.
For those who don't know, Gov. O'Malley just forced upon the citizen of Maryland the BIGGEST state tax hike in the history of the United States of America. $1.7 BILLION tax hike for 2008.
He's a crook and liar.