Why are you anti copyright? The things you want to do can be done with copyrights the way they are now, just pick a license that allows redistribution (and what ever you want).
I'm to lame to search for the h264 decoder specs of the psp or video ipod. But I guess there is dedicated hardware in there. But both are far from HD specs.
BS, do the math: it takes somewhere near 6 hours with lowly 10mbit download. This can almost be accomplished on a simple ADSL line for most people.
But the main problem is not your individual download speed, but the bandwidth the distributor needs to supply this to "a couple" of users. A bittorrent like setup might be the solution and the sacrfice of the users upload bandwidth.
"Neither format takes full use of compression to allow more video content to be stored on an individual disc; if you look at WMV-HD you can fit HD movies on a conventional DVD,"
Consider the processing power required to play back that content. Most of those cheap standalone playback devices don't have even enough power to handle the "very complex" GMC algorithm in XviD, an xbox isn't even powerfull enough to play H264 (unless one doesn't use all the nice features that make it worth encoding to it in the first place).
"the best way to prevent piracy is to sell your product for a price that people are willing to pay"
There is no way I can keep firefox running long enough to share back a decent ratio (atleast with the 1.0x versions I have been running sofar). Sure Azureus also leaks memory but atleast I can keep it running a couple of weeks before the systems starts thrashing.
But inter-op with an exchange server isn't the issue (a PDA/GSM combo could do that (and have since merged to become the "smartphone")), email over radio freq. is.
SMS is more than just sending short text messages. It can be used to transfer data (like ringtones etc.). Not that you want to nowadays with GPRS (or maybe even UMTS).
Which just raises the question again: what is special about a blackberry? Even my old Ericcson T39 has a buildin email client (transfers via GRPS or a WAP gateway).
"Google didn't invent any of those things, but they sure made them better."
Hmmm, groups.google.com didn't get any better as time passed, it is getting worse (for use as an archive and having to read borked posts made with their client).
My local phone company doesn't have to be my DSL provider. The FCC has no power here. A decent provider already has the power to block abuse(rs). Some sell people filtered internet at a premium to give them a warm save and fuzzy feeling. Some just don't care at all.
My fibreoptic line is a coop, a little campaigning will do wonders. Since it went online the cable company started spamvertising to get people into a 1+ year contract for internet, DTV and telephony in hopes of keeping people from abandoning them. The cable comp. also had to revise their "fair use" internet policy due to competition (abolishing limits, upgrade down/up speeds, dropping prices). The same competition that increased the download of my 768kb/s ADSL line to 3Mb/s in less that a year for the same price.
There are no RBOCs nor ILECs here. And the spectrucm/bandwidth can be found in GSM/GPRS and UMTS in the case of cellphone providers.
You want to move? You must know there are places in the world that have opened up The Phone Companie its landlines to 3rd party DSL providers. There are at least 5 DSL providers (for consumers) with even more I(S)Ps available on top of that 1 cable provider 1 fibre optic provider. And who knows how many different wireless providers (I guess at least 3 companies that aren't already among the DSL providers).
Just to show that the EU is the USA's bitch, Rice came by a couple of days ago and told us it was the good thing to do. But atleast we are save from terrorists now.
Well my Japanese WW-II history is all but non-existant. But having visited both the nuclear bomb musea in Hiroshima and Nagasaki I must have missed seeing this information on display somewhere. Can you provide some links to resources?
" Intel quickly made the serial number disabled by default, and few web sites ever started using it."
It is not like the CPUID is the only part of your system that has a unique ID. Just think about the hardware address of your networkcard. Sure some people change them but very very few change them periodically and with the introduction of IPv6 and its automatic address discovery soon everybody will know your MAC.
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Why are you anti copyright? The things you want to do can be done with copyrights the way they are now, just pick a license that allows redistribution (and what ever you want).
That's funny but that is my experience with installing any Windows version on a PC. After that installation the real quest for functionality begins.
Ahhh NT 3.5x, the (long gone) times that there was support for 64bit machines.
I rather run java/azureus than wine/utorrent anyday.
I'm to lame to search for the h264 decoder specs of the psp or video ipod. But I guess there is dedicated hardware in there. But both are far from HD specs.
For once the gun control crowd is right:
"If $FOO is illegal, only criminals will have $FOO"
with in this case FOO being "convenient copies of $WORK".
BS, do the math: it takes somewhere near 6 hours with lowly 10mbit download. This can almost be accomplished on a simple ADSL line for most people.
But the main problem is not your individual download speed, but the bandwidth the distributor needs to supply this to "a couple" of users. A bittorrent like setup might be the solution and the sacrfice of the users upload bandwidth.
"Neither format takes full use of compression to allow more video content to be stored on an individual disc; if you look at WMV-HD you can fit HD movies on a conventional DVD,"
Consider the processing power required to play back that content. Most of those cheap standalone playback devices don't have even enough power to handle the "very complex" GMC algorithm in XviD, an xbox isn't even powerfull enough to play H264 (unless one doesn't use all the nice features that make it worth encoding to it in the first place).
"the best way to prevent piracy is to sell your product for a price that people are willing to pay"
Why pay if you can get it for free?
There is no way I can keep firefox running long enough to share back a decent ratio (atleast with the 1.0x versions I have been running sofar). Sure Azureus also leaks memory but atleast I can keep it running a couple of weeks before the systems starts thrashing.
Funny but zillions of programs to do the same thing in
- MS Windows is a
- Linux is a bad
thing.
Sure, if you want to pay the Apple tax instead.
Is that all tv/radio or just the public (funded by the gov.) ones?
But inter-op with an exchange server isn't the issue (a PDA/GSM combo could do that (and have since merged to become the "smartphone")), email over radio freq. is.
SMS is more than just sending short text messages. It can be used to transfer data (like ringtones etc.). Not that you want to nowadays with GPRS (or maybe even UMTS).
Which just raises the question again: what is special about a blackberry? Even my old Ericcson T39 has a buildin email client (transfers via GRPS or a WAP gateway).
"Google didn't invent any of those things, but they sure made them better."
Hmmm, groups.google.com didn't get any better as time passed, it is getting worse (for use as an archive and having to read borked posts made with their client).
That obviously should be: ....
while read ; do
To many actions, faster alternative:
while : ; do abcde; eject; echo "insert new cd and press enter"; done
Someone should slap you, you are stuck in a loop.
My local phone company doesn't have to be my DSL provider. The FCC has no power here.
A decent provider already has the power to block abuse(rs). Some sell people filtered internet at a premium to give them a warm save and fuzzy feeling. Some just don't care at all.
My fibreoptic line is a coop, a little campaigning will do wonders.
Since it went online the cable company started spamvertising to get people into a 1+ year contract for internet, DTV and telephony in hopes of keeping people from abandoning them. The cable comp. also had to revise their "fair use" internet policy due to competition (abolishing limits, upgrade down/up speeds, dropping prices). The same competition that increased the download of my 768kb/s ADSL line to 3Mb/s in less that a year for the same price.
There are no RBOCs nor ILECs here. And the spectrucm/bandwidth can be found in GSM/GPRS and UMTS in the case of cellphone providers.
You want to move? You must know there are places in the world that have opened up The Phone Companie its landlines to 3rd party DSL providers.
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:)
There are at least
5 DSL providers (for consumers) with even more I(S)Ps available on top of that
1 cable provider
1 fibre optic provider.
And who knows how many different wireless providers (I guess at least 3 companies that aren't already among the DSL providers).
Where? Here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.442185,5.511961
But see the recent article about the EU monitoring and storing data traffic to see one of the (possible) downsides of a move
Just to show that the EU is the USA's bitch, Rice came by a couple of days ago and told us it was the good thing to do. But atleast we are save from terrorists now.
The global population is 6600000000000? It's more likely something 6600000000.
Well my Japanese WW-II history is all but non-existant. But having visited both the nuclear bomb musea in Hiroshima and Nagasaki I must have missed seeing this information on display somewhere. Can you provide some links to resources?
Don't tell anyone of the atleast 3 other companies that could supply me of an internet uplink.
If I fix my router to support it to get online, how will they support multiple different machines and users from that 1 UID?
Maybe I should just use one of my neighbours' AP, it is not like they will ever notice the weak setup of their wireless networks.
" Intel quickly made the serial number disabled by default, and few web sites ever started using it."
It is not like the CPUID is the only part of your system that has a unique ID. Just think about the hardware address of your networkcard. Sure some people change them but very very few change them periodically and with the introduction of IPv6 and its automatic address discovery soon everybody will know your MAC.