The creators of DRM schemes like this don't care if the consumer wants the DRM. As long as they can get all of the major content providers board, they're good to go. The content providers then ram it down the throats of the electronics providers (the ideal way to do this will be by getting legislation in place if possible, or some kind of FCC mandate), and then restrict access to their "best" content using the new DRM scheme. Hey, it worked for HDMI/HDCP. Many new electronics come with HDMI-out but no DVI-out.
The major problem with this cycle is the internet, where consumers can get high quality copies of media with no DRM to speak of, for free. The hope at his point is eliminate that by legislating against it on the international level. Will it work? Probably not.
I'm not particularly concerned about the locked down media, since much of what I listen to is legally available on the internet (or I already own it in MP3/FLAG/OGG format), but I don't particularly enjoy paying for the hardware forced into newer computers, set top boxes, TV's, stereo's, etc, for whatever DRM scheme du jour arrives. My only request would be that whoever cracks it respectfully waits until it's too widespread for the content people to just drop it on the floor and roll out a new one.
Well, if you can feel "fair"... Several boxes with games I bought collect dust on the shelf, while I play torrented versions. Not gonna risk putting these in my drive. It took me weeks to get my DVD-RW working fully again after SecuROM bundled with Oblivion broke the drivers beyond repair and I couldn't even make copies of my private data.
You need to get the original edition. It has no DRM other than a simple check to make sure the disc is in the drive. I stuck the disc in my linux box, typed "dd if=/dev/hdc of=oblivion.iso", then burned a copy of the disc, and play using that while the original sits in its case. At the time, Oblivion was held up as a shining example of a hugely successful PC game which didn't use any real DRM to speak of. From what I've read online, it sounds like the GOTY edition came with SecuROM.
I've since migrated to the "toaster" school of gaming and bought a 360 and a Wii. No more Starforce, no more SecuROM, no more Windows.
Some people tune into the Superbowl to see the advertisements, after all, so that's a kind of exchange: entertainment for eyeballs.
One of the reasons Superbowl advertising is so expensive is that so many people watch it live rather than Tivo'ing it or downloading it from the net. Those watching it live are much less likely to be blocking or fast-forwarding through the ads. Advertisers know this.
And as you point out, some people watch it just to see the ads - what better market to pitch to?
nVidia can arbitrarily stop supporting old graphics cards at any time. ATI did this with my R600-based laptop chipset; the newest ATI Catalyst linux drivers now longer support my two-year-old laptop. Since linux has a smaller user base, it's a "safe" place to cut costs by not having to feature-test against older hardware with every proprietary driver release. Having an open source driver would prevent you from suddenly becoming unable to use your hardware on newer linux releases.
Here on Slashdot today, not only did two people make a joke about an obscure techincal configuration option of the Linux kernel, we both made the same joke, and we made it one minute apart. This place is terrifying.
And six people who understood the joke about a tickless kernel have already modded it Funny. This place is awesome!
On top of that, if you had a TiVo box that had TiVo Basic service and upgraded it to full service, there's no way to go back to Basic, so once you got a HD box to replace it with (like I did), the old box is worthless without the service.
OverClock Remix is a site that hosts remixes, mostly of video game soundtracks. This particular remix is special in that the composer of the original soundtrack helped with the remix. This one has a gritty electronica feel to it.
Wait, how is offering out-of-print books discouraging competition? I thought part of being an out-of-print book is that there is no competition because there is nobody printing the book anymore...
I think book publishers are afraid that you won't buy their latest offerings, preferring instead to download some out-of-print book you can get for free from Google. It seems unlikely, especially since you can currently download many of the classics (ie, the best-of-breed out of print books) for free from sites like Project Gutenberg.
Burglary charges tend to be more severe when they involve a night-time break-in since it's more likely that the homeowners are going to be at home (possibly asleep) then.
I've been running a VM image built from source from a couple of recent developer's releases, and I've got to say, the OS is definitely usable. Probably the largest missing piece has been a wireless stack (haven't checked the R1 alpha, so for all I know his is already there). This will make an awesome OS for a netbook - lightweight, fast, boots fast, already has a port of Firefox. Can't wait to try out the alpha.
Big thumbs up to Georgia Tech - they're my selected mirror for Slackware downloads/updates. Not sure if this counts as Linux "support", but I'm grateful either way.
Wow, I wonder how close you are to me. I'm in southern NH, about an hour's drive to Boston. My 2400 sq. ft. house with views of Mt. Monadnock and the Wapacks from the upper windows and a private beach at the bottom of my street cost $185,000 in the early nineties. Boston is easily drivable for culture, but I'm more likely to be in Nashua or Manchester. Also, flying out of Manchester is an order of magnitude easier than Boston. No pollution, low crime rates, access to Boston's hospitals, schools, and employers, an hour to the seashore, skiing in the winter. I love this place.
You left out malware. Does malware count as an app? If so, three pieces of malware can prevent you from using any apps.
If regedit.exe counts as an app, you won't be able to clean out the malware either. I think I'll stick with Jaunty.
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I'm running the Jaunty beta right now, and will probably regress to 8.10 soon because of the ATI drivers. The problem, AFAIK, is that the version of X.org 9.04 is shipping with will only support Catalyst 9.4 (currently in beta for linux). Catalyst 9.4 dropped support for a large number of older chipsets, basically anything earlier than R600, deferring to the always-improving open source ati drivers to support these. The open source driver is wonderful for 2D acceleration. It seems to handle all of the desktop effects with ease. The problem is that it's miles behind the fglrx (proprietary/Catalyst) drivers for 3D support. The reports I was able to scrounge online seem to indicate that open source ati 3D support is a good year away from general availability.
...and when any given politician is re-running for office, their opponent will point out that they voted against keeping mature rated video games out of the hands of children. This will lose them votes - especially in a conservative state like Utah. Voting for it costs them no political capital. They probably already know that the law will be overturned anyway, and the state will pay legal fees to the EFF, but it's easier for them to let that happen than to try to explain their reasoning to the voting public. It sucks, but even to an otherwise sympathetic politician it's a Catch-22. This is why you're seeing state after state pass these inane unconstitutional video game laws - no one wants to be the one who didn't vote for it.
I'm currently taking the routing intro class at a community college night school that uses the Cisco Academy software, and it's running fine under Firefox 3.0 under Vista. I haven't tried it under Ubuntu (only use my laptop for class), but there's a guy who sits behind me who has the academy site up on his Fedora desktop every class.
As a side note, I just noticed that the Slashdot spell checker doesn't recognize either Ubuntu or Cisco. Go figure.
And when you finally get hold of the last one, they launch a new version of the main game...
....which is great, because the price drops even further. Plus, you get the validation that the game is more likely to have been decent if they launched a sequel or GOTY edition or somesuch.
My alma mater (an unnamed private technical school in upstate NY) has consistently raised its tuition by inflation plus 3%. This means (based on the Rule of 72) that in the 25 years or so since I graduated, the tuition has more than doubled, even adjusting for inflation!
If I were looking today, I'd be looking at public schools.
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If you are truly worthy of owning IDA you should be able to use the trial version to crack itself.
...seems kinda obvious...
If you check the website, you'll find the trial version is unable to disassemble itself.
On the flip side, having this would in place could potentially make you liable for the material your customers are transmitting. So much for common carrier status. If I were an ISP I'd be fighting this thing tooth and nail.
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The creators of DRM schemes like this don't care if the consumer wants the DRM. As long as they can get all of the major content providers board, they're good to go. The content providers then ram it down the throats of the electronics providers (the ideal way to do this will be by getting legislation in place if possible, or some kind of FCC mandate), and then restrict access to their "best" content using the new DRM scheme. Hey, it worked for HDMI/HDCP. Many new electronics come with HDMI-out but no DVI-out.
The major problem with this cycle is the internet, where consumers can get high quality copies of media with no DRM to speak of, for free. The hope at his point is eliminate that by legislating against it on the international level. Will it work? Probably not.
I'm not particularly concerned about the locked down media, since much of what I listen to is legally available on the internet (or I already own it in MP3/FLAG/OGG format), but I don't particularly enjoy paying for the hardware forced into newer computers, set top boxes, TV's, stereo's, etc, for whatever DRM scheme du jour arrives. My only request would be that whoever cracks it respectfully waits until it's too widespread for the content people to just drop it on the floor and roll out a new one.
Well, if you can feel "fair"... Several boxes with games I bought collect dust on the shelf, while I play torrented versions. Not gonna risk putting these in my drive. It took me weeks to get my DVD-RW working fully again after SecuROM bundled with Oblivion broke the drivers beyond repair and I couldn't even make copies of my private data.
You need to get the original edition. It has no DRM other than a simple check to make sure the disc is in the drive. I stuck the disc in my linux box, typed "dd if=/dev/hdc of=oblivion.iso", then burned a copy of the disc, and play using that while the original sits in its case. At the time, Oblivion was held up as a shining example of a hugely successful PC game which didn't use any real DRM to speak of. From what I've read online, it sounds like the GOTY edition came with SecuROM.
I've since migrated to the "toaster" school of gaming and bought a 360 and a Wii. No more Starforce, no more SecuROM, no more Windows.
Some people tune into the Superbowl to see the advertisements, after all, so that's a kind of exchange: entertainment for eyeballs.
One of the reasons Superbowl advertising is so expensive is that so many people watch it live rather than Tivo'ing it or downloading it from the net. Those watching it live are much less likely to be blocking or fast-forwarding through the ads. Advertisers know this.
And as you point out, some people watch it just to see the ads - what better market to pitch to?
nVidia can arbitrarily stop supporting old graphics cards at any time. ATI did this with my R600-based laptop chipset; the newest ATI Catalyst linux drivers now longer support my two-year-old laptop. Since linux has a smaller user base, it's a "safe" place to cut costs by not having to feature-test against older hardware with every proprietary driver release. Having an open source driver would prevent you from suddenly becoming unable to use your hardware on newer linux releases.
2.6.32's KMS and R600/700 improvements are expected to give a huge 3D performance boost to the open source ATI drivers - can't wait to test this!
Here on Slashdot today, not only did two people make a joke about an obscure techincal configuration option of the Linux kernel, we both made the same joke, and we made it one minute apart. This place is terrifying.
And six people who understood the joke about a tickless kernel have already modded it Funny. This place is awesome!
On top of that, if you had a TiVo box that had TiVo Basic service and upgraded it to full service, there's no way to go back to Basic, so once you got a HD box to replace it with (like I did), the old box is worthless without the service.
For those who aren't into the scene:
OverClock Remix is a site that hosts remixes, mostly of video game soundtracks. This particular remix is special in that the composer of the original soundtrack helped with the remix. This one has a gritty electronica feel to it.
Wait, how is offering out-of-print books discouraging competition? I thought part of being an out-of-print book is that there is no competition because there is nobody printing the book anymore...
I think book publishers are afraid that you won't buy their latest offerings, preferring instead to download some out-of-print book you can get for free from Google. It seems unlikely, especially since you can currently download many of the classics (ie, the best-of-breed out of print books) for free from sites like Project Gutenberg.
Burglary charges tend to be more severe when they involve a night-time break-in since it's more likely that the homeowners are going to be at home (possibly asleep) then.
Also, CFL's are notorious for interfering with WiFi.
I've been running a VM image built from source from a couple of recent developer's releases, and I've got to say, the OS is definitely usable. Probably the largest missing piece has been a wireless stack (haven't checked the R1 alpha, so for all I know his is already there). This will make an awesome OS for a netbook - lightweight, fast, boots fast, already has a port of Firefox. Can't wait to try out the alpha.
Big thumbs up to Georgia Tech - they're my selected mirror for Slackware downloads/updates. Not sure if this counts as Linux "support", but I'm grateful either way.
Wow, I wonder how close you are to me. I'm in southern NH, about an hour's drive to Boston. My 2400 sq. ft. house with views of Mt. Monadnock and the Wapacks from the upper windows and a private beach at the bottom of my street cost $185,000 in the early nineties. Boston is easily drivable for culture, but I'm more likely to be in Nashua or Manchester. Also, flying out of Manchester is an order of magnitude easier than Boston. No pollution, low crime rates, access to Boston's hospitals, schools, and employers, an hour to the seashore, skiing in the winter. I love this place.
Thanks - I needed that!
"Since you started playing that game, how much closer are you to being the person you want to be when you die?"
I'm going to commit this quote to memory. Thank you.
You left out malware. Does malware count as an app? If so, three pieces of malware can prevent you from using any apps.
If regedit.exe counts as an app, you won't be able to clean out the malware either. I think I'll stick with Jaunty.
I'm running the Jaunty beta right now, and will probably regress to 8.10 soon because of the ATI drivers. The problem, AFAIK, is that the version of X.org 9.04 is shipping with will only support Catalyst 9.4 (currently in beta for linux). Catalyst 9.4 dropped support for a large number of older chipsets, basically anything earlier than R600, deferring to the always-improving open source ati drivers to support these. The open source driver is wonderful for 2D acceleration. It seems to handle all of the desktop effects with ease. The problem is that it's miles behind the fglrx (proprietary/Catalyst) drivers for 3D support. The reports I was able to scrounge online seem to indicate that open source ati 3D support is a good year away from general availability.
...and when any given politician is re-running for office, their opponent will point out that they voted against keeping mature rated video games out of the hands of children. This will lose them votes - especially in a conservative state like Utah. Voting for it costs them no political capital. They probably already know that the law will be overturned anyway, and the state will pay legal fees to the EFF, but it's easier for them to let that happen than to try to explain their reasoning to the voting public. It sucks, but even to an otherwise sympathetic politician it's a Catch-22. This is why you're seeing state after state pass these inane unconstitutional video game laws - no one wants to be the one who didn't vote for it.
I'm currently taking the routing intro class at a community college night school that uses the Cisco Academy software, and it's running fine under Firefox 3.0 under Vista. I haven't tried it under Ubuntu (only use my laptop for class), but there's a guy who sits behind me who has the academy site up on his Fedora desktop every class.
As a side note, I just noticed that the Slashdot spell checker doesn't recognize either Ubuntu or Cisco. Go figure.
And when you finally get hold of the last one, they launch a new version of the main game...
....which is great, because the price drops even further. Plus, you get the validation that the game is more likely to have been decent if they launched a sequel or GOTY edition or somesuch.
On the flip side, the pop-unders I get from my local newspaper's site under Firefox don't happen under Linux, only Windows.
My alma mater (an unnamed private technical school in upstate NY) has consistently raised its tuition by inflation plus 3%. This means (based on the Rule of 72) that in the 25 years or so since I graduated, the tuition has more than doubled, even adjusting for inflation!
If I were looking today, I'd be looking at public schools.
If you are truly worthy of owning IDA you should be able to use the trial version to crack itself.
...seems kinda obvious...
If you check the website, you'll find the trial version is unable to disassemble itself.
On the flip side, having this would in place could potentially make you liable for the material your customers are transmitting. So much for common carrier status. If I were an ISP I'd be fighting this thing tooth and nail.