...One thing that might have Sony worried is that the PS3 is technically a software Blu-Ray player, and having this key might make it possible to hack that functionality to allow more widespread copying of movies, too.
Yeah, like the hacking of Blu-Ray is going to happen anytime soon...
The one constant, in my experience, is that the pastor never has access to the offering figures and that information is always closely held.... and have never had any idea who gave how much. Nor did I want to know.
Thank you for writing this, IMHO and experience we might peek at the others in our row out of curiosity but never ever held it my mind as this person gave this or that. The tithe is completely up to the person. On a funny side note I was interning for my pastor in a small church and looking through the single filing cabinet trying to find something and ran into a large coffee can two thirds full of coins. That kind of struck me in that the pastor had to deal with it and there were not many pennies.
Totally forgot about it till your post reminded me.
Perhaps some uber-geek can calculate the value of 3/4 large coffee filled with say 95% silver random mix coins.
On another side note, When I was like 8-10 years old I remember attending a fairly large church (They used to give us rides in the scoops of skip-loaders. I would make that a pretty awesome church!) that had a club you could join for like 3 bucks. They had little flyers stuck in the back of the pews for like weeks I asked my father if he could lend me the money to join because I felt sorry for the (Church/Club/Whatever I was 10 years old Dammit!)and slipped the envelope into the offering tray. Next sermon I was summoned (very scared) to the pulpet and the pastor gave me a card with membership number one and had the deacons co-sign. I was very relieved, I thought I was gonna get a spanking or something.
I understand the sentiment, but the correct answer is "I will never vote for any politician who puts corporate interest ahead of the welfare of citizens and neither should you."
This is why the founding fathers were drafting well respected citizens to share the concerns of the public ABOVE PERSONAL GAIN! Sorry for the shout but it is something we need to revisit lest we fall into the path of history.
A judge used the term "metadata" correctly. That is a good technical concept to grasp. We geeks and our friends like NYCL (who may also be a geek - not trying to exclude) have been bandying it about for years, but to 99% of the population it is a pretty foreign term.
Each example like this implies that the judicial is growing more familiar with technical concepts. That makes me happy.:)
.. WTF? How much value do you put on your time and frustration? Just buy the bloody stuff already!
Already have.
This is a major point, how many times do I have to pay for a format transfer? How long do I have to keep my 33LP records to prove I own the music?
At what point does the iconic music from childhood pass into the public domain? (classic rock)
In my lifetime working with media I thought the turning point in my life in the media industry was when a geek friend of mine introduced me to mp3's.
I literally could not believe you could compress so much information into a small file and generate a faithful reproduction.
Once you make that transfer you are not reliant on the media ever again.
Thus, I stop spending money on the media and it really pisses off the *AA's. (Breakage Fees are history)
Now suppose I want to lend a friend a copy to listen to?
Do I drag out the crusty old 33 record for him to listen on his non-existent player?
Nope, Gonna hand him a stick with the file or email it to him.
This is what you call sharing.
Generally, The friend would like my recommendation and seek more and if they like it would acquire more of the same on there own. IE. Buying the CD or DVD for themselves.
Generating money for the artists (cough) and everybody's happy except my friend and myself don't really much incentive to do a format change.
This really pisses off the *AA's.
Further, Following the simple logic of my example of one sharing with my friend and he does whatever he does and multiply that by the power of the internet, the lack of control must be truly breathtaking. (Lack of Breakage Fees)
...Someday someone will figure out how to do untraceable swarm downloading that works at an acceptable speed, it will be easy to use, it will gain critical mass, and then it's all over.
That will be the deathblow.
Ahh, but you forget past nuclear standoffs between superpowers.
I am sad about the verdict but the sheer controversy over the implications to the likes of Google and any other search engine out there being liable for an errant link to gosh knows where?
I don't know about you all, but I predict that social media (Twitter Et all) will triumph over folk that want to hijack culture.
Look at what happened when Microsoft tried to bundle its dialup service to the OS Win95.
Yes it was new and exciting at the time.
Three months later you are calling tech support trying to get out of an agreement that you did not read the fine print.
Shame they got your credit card info in the transaction.:P
...They made him watch a TV show that makes fun of him. It's a little childish, but I really don't see what's so reprehensible about that.
Guessing that you have never seen the movie!:P
Seriously, if I had to watch it over and over again at high volume it would probably get to me after the 40th or 50th showing but I am one of those nerds that goes to conventions and such.
As for Saddam, I think he deserved what he got in the end. However, I was sickened by the example of the new Iraqi rule of law as practiced under supposed guidance of American law.
...Analog TV users are not REQUIRED to purchase a converter box. A converter box is needed if you wish to continue to view over-the-air...
Quite right.
And also it should be said that the converter box is not going to turn your grandmas old black and white into HDTV which is a completely different standard and not designed to be backward compatible with current analog sets. The big bro ha ha here is only older sets that don't have a digital tuner that they need to pull off air signals. If you have Dish or cable you are ok. If you have an early model of the HDTV sets you should check because a good deal of those early models shipped without a digital tuner because they were so expensive at the time.
Again this about over the air for analog tuner televisions only.
Having said that, I really have serious doubts that the government can get its act together enough to make the 2009 deadline. I know for a fact that broadcasters are having a difficult time keeping all the balls in the air (SD, HD, 16x9, 4x3, crop, pillers, up converting and down converting to name a few)
I also know that the government is going to blitz the airwaves a LOT between now and 2009 with mandatory promotional spots which should drive up the hype even harder.
Not surprising to see crooks so ready to fleece the public and the government both over the attention.
Also adoption of HDTV equipment (Cameras, switchers ect.) is slow by TV stations because it is very expensive.
...I have a 3Ghz P4 that does everything extremely well, except play current games.
I would say this article was meant for you?
Having morphed my single processor crappy video card unit through five iterations to a all but the last bleeding edge setup, I can tell you that even a modest upgrade to a dual core processor on sale plus a better video card will not only allow you to play todays games but will allow you to crank up the detail in your beloved older games.
I can never go back to my old system after seeing it the way the developers intended: Settings cranked all the way up.
Purchase the Orange box game then benchmark it on your current system, then find a friend who has a gaming rig or perform the above mentioned upgrades.
-I make it clear to my retailers when I send my stuff in for repair, I'm not sending the hard drive in with it.-
It's even worse than that. The consumerist website has stories about techs from the Geek Squad from Best Buy searching your drive for interesting things (In this case porn, who would have thought) and copying it for themselves.
I personally do my own computer work but for those who cannot: Be very careful to whom you entrust your data.
...It just has the right settings, the right mechanics, the right plot, the right amount of tension, etc. in the right places. Its a very well put together game...
It is so very simple. You replace your hard drive when a new drive under $200 can contain your last five OS installations plus data, er. might have to buy a secondary sub-$200 part to help a little. Gee thats five years for less than $400.
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...One thing that might have Sony worried is that the PS3 is technically a software Blu-Ray player, and having this key might make it possible to hack that functionality to allow more widespread copying of movies, too.
Yeah, like the hacking of Blu-Ray is going to happen anytime soon...
__Delete them and let the users make new ones with the same content.
_That's exactly what will happen...
Remember the bad old days of Napster's end how people were renaming all their files with strange crypto.
Reversing the file name was common as well as renaming the file and metadata as coming from the Dave Matthews band.
I never could figure that last one out.
The one constant, in my experience, is that the pastor never has access to the offering figures and that information is always closely held. ... and have never had any idea who gave how much. Nor did I want to know.
Thank you for writing this, IMHO and experience we might peek at the others in our row out of curiosity but never ever held it my mind as this person gave this or that. The tithe is completely up to the person. On a funny side note I was interning for my pastor in a small church and looking through the single filing cabinet trying to find something and ran into a large coffee can two thirds full of coins. That kind of struck me in that the pastor had to deal with it and there were not many pennies.
Totally forgot about it till your post reminded me.
Perhaps some uber-geek can calculate the value of 3/4 large coffee filled with say 95% silver random mix coins.
On another side note, When I was like 8-10 years old I remember attending a fairly large church (They used to give us rides in the scoops of skip-loaders. I would make that a pretty awesome church!) that had a club you could join for like 3 bucks. They had little flyers stuck in the back of the pews for like weeks I asked my father if he could lend me the money to join because I felt sorry for the (Church/Club/Whatever I was 10 years old Dammit!)and slipped the envelope into the offering tray. Next sermon I was summoned (very scared) to the pulpet and the pastor gave me a card with membership number one and had the deacons co-sign. I was very relieved, I thought I was gonna get a spanking or something.
Again, thanks for your words!
Hell, let's just legalize outright bribery!
Too late, Welcome to the (Fill in the blank) Empire!
All us has a plan. :)
I understand the sentiment, but the correct answer is "I will never vote for any politician who puts corporate interest ahead of the welfare of citizens and neither should you."
This is why the founding fathers were drafting well respected citizens to share the concerns of the public ABOVE PERSONAL GAIN! Sorry for the shout but it is something we need to revisit lest we fall into the path of history.
The only sucker around here is the one that thinks that either one is better than other.
The both have sold out. Blasting one and supporting the other is height of foolishness.
And the low is believing the side that echos your mindset.
Third party anyone?
"The man is an irrelevant blowhard with a stupid website..."
"...The classical Greek dramatists pointed this out and it's no less true today."
Dude, You rock!
Way to take down that troll!
I am being serious that was nice!!!
A judge used the term "metadata" correctly. That is a good technical concept to grasp. We geeks and our friends like NYCL (who may also be a geek - not trying to exclude) have been bandying it about for years, but to 99% of the population it is a pretty foreign term.
Each example like this implies that the judicial is growing more familiar with technical concepts. That makes me happy. :)
To quote WOW players: WOOT!
.. WTF? How much value do you put on your time and frustration? Just buy the bloody stuff already!
Already have.
This is a major point, how many times do I have to pay for a format transfer? How long do I have to keep my 33LP records to prove I own the music?
At what point does the iconic music from childhood pass into the public domain? (classic rock)
In my lifetime working with media I thought the turning point in my life in the media industry was when a geek friend of mine introduced me to mp3's.
I literally could not believe you could compress so much information into a small file and generate a faithful reproduction.
Once you make that transfer you are not reliant on the media ever again.
Thus, I stop spending money on the media and it really pisses off the *AA's. (Breakage Fees are history)
Now suppose I want to lend a friend a copy to listen to?
Do I drag out the crusty old 33 record for him to listen on his non-existent player?
Nope, Gonna hand him a stick with the file or email it to him.
This is what you call sharing.
Generally, The friend would like my recommendation and seek more and if they like it would acquire more of the same on there own. IE. Buying the CD or DVD for themselves.
Generating money for the artists (cough) and everybody's happy except my friend and myself don't really much incentive to do a format change.
This really pisses off the *AA's.
Further, Following the simple logic of my example of one sharing with my friend and he does whatever he does and multiply that by the power of the internet, the lack of control must be truly breathtaking. (Lack of Breakage Fees)
This truly why they angry.
Does that help?
..the wires leading from a phonograph's cartridge through the amplifier to the speakers are transiently storing a portion of the copyrighted signal.
Gonna be a bummer pulling the date/time logs out of that one!
That will be the deathblow.
Ahh, but you forget past nuclear standoffs between superpowers.
I am sad about the verdict but the sheer controversy over the implications to the likes of Google and any other search engine out there being liable for an errant link to gosh knows where?
I don't know about you all, but I predict that social media (Twitter Et all) will triumph over folk that want to hijack culture.
Look at what happened when Microsoft tried to bundle its dialup service to the OS Win95.
Yes it was new and exciting at the time.
Three months later you are calling tech support trying to get out of an agreement that you did not read the fine print.
Shame they got your credit card info in the transaction. :P
...They made him watch a TV show that makes fun of him. It's a little childish, but I really don't see what's so reprehensible about that.
Guessing that you have never seen the movie! :P
Seriously, if I had to watch it over and over again at high volume it would probably get to me after the 40th or 50th showing but I am one of those nerds that goes to conventions and such.
As for Saddam, I think he deserved what he got in the end. However, I was sickened by the example of the new Iraqi rule of law as practiced under supposed guidance of American law.
As we all know it was not a pretty image.
All I need is just a few people to buy these...
Cha-Ching!
Tell your bosses that Spam pisses people off and it tarnishes your branding and sabotages any promotional efforts.
There, Problem solved.
...Analog TV users are not REQUIRED to purchase a converter box. A converter box is needed if you wish to continue to view over-the-air ...
Quite right.
And also it should be said that the converter box is not going to turn your grandmas old black and white into HDTV which is a completely different standard and not designed to be backward compatible with current analog sets. The big bro ha ha here is only older sets that don't have a digital tuner that they need to pull off air signals. If you have Dish or cable you are ok. If you have an early model of the HDTV sets you should check because a good deal of those early models shipped without a digital tuner because they were so expensive at the time.
Again this about over the air for analog tuner televisions only.
Having said that, I really have serious doubts that the government can get its act together enough to make the 2009 deadline. I know for a fact that broadcasters are having a difficult time keeping all the balls in the air (SD, HD, 16x9, 4x3, crop, pillers, up converting and down converting to name a few)
I also know that the government is going to blitz the airwaves a LOT between now and 2009 with mandatory promotional spots which should drive up the hype even harder.
Not surprising to see crooks so ready to fleece the public and the government both over the attention.
Also adoption of HDTV equipment (Cameras, switchers ect.) is slow by TV stations because it is very expensive.
Don't hold your breath over that deadline.
Why yes, Pimp my ride with blinking blue LEDS shining into my eyes while I try to make that curve I misjudged by 10MPH or so.
At Night.
Hope the passengers have hefty life insurance policies.
There is a lesson here folks!
...I've found myself going to conferences to get my fix...
I will have you know I get MY fix from Mythbusters.
...My friends and I always thought that BattleBots on Comedy Central was a bad idea.
If ESPN treats the sport at least half as well as NBC did with American Gladiators, We may be in for a treat!
ESPN has a rep to keep up, and sports show crews tend to be fanatics. So there is much upside.
...I have a 3Ghz P4 that does everything extremely well, except play current games.
I would say this article was meant for you?
Having morphed my single processor crappy video card unit through five iterations to a all but the last bleeding edge setup, I can tell you that even a modest upgrade to a dual core processor on sale plus a better video card will not only allow you to play todays games but will allow you to crank up the detail in your beloved older games.
I can never go back to my old system after seeing it the way the developers intended: Settings cranked all the way up.
Purchase the Orange box game then benchmark it on your current system, then find a friend who has a gaming rig or perform the above mentioned upgrades.
Then you will see what the fighting is all about!
Try Ben Popkin over at http://www.consumerist.com/
He is a wizard in dealing with issues like these.
Not certain if he operates in the UK though.
-I make it clear to my retailers when I send my stuff in for repair, I'm not sending the hard drive in with it.-
It's even worse than that. The consumerist website has stories about techs from the Geek Squad from Best Buy searching your drive for interesting things (In this case porn, who would have thought) and copying it for themselves.
I personally do my own computer work but for those who cannot: Be very careful to whom you entrust your data.
...It just has the right settings, the right mechanics, the right plot, the right amount of tension, etc. in the right places. Its a very well put together game...
This why it's revolutionary.
Look.
Find a friend that works at a TV station who has a heavy De-Gausser.
One swipe and RFID (OK might take a microwave pass) and all the fleas are gone!
My $.02
It is so very simple. You replace your hard drive when a new drive under $200 can contain your last five OS installations plus data, er. might have to buy a secondary sub-$200 part to help a little. Gee thats five years for less than $400.
YMMV
"The local stations here will do everything they can to sensationalize a story..."
Isn't this more of a national story?