I sure want people to use my roads and stop driving on those other roads. I think I'll start mass producing cars, and giving them away for free. Then, when GM, Ford, and all the other automakers are out of business, I'll make my cars incompatible with their roads and everyone will be forced to drive on my roads! Then, I'll make my roads toll roads because no one has a choice any more....
Yeah, 17.05 GB is a huge file for a 80 mb hard drive. You'd need over 200 of those drives just to fit one movie!
The video is as compressable as you want it to be. Using mpeg 4, you can get a pretty decent looking 2 hour movie in a gig and a half, so I'd guess that if you wanted to preserve the HDTV look, it would be somewhat larger than that... But just like you can choose quality settings on a tivo, or like you can choose SP, SLP, or LP on a VCR, you can choose the bitrate and compress it to whatever size you want with a quality tradeoff.
I think its a wonderful idea, and I can't believe there hasn't been something like that for the PC yet. A 5 gig compressed movie may sound huge now, but in a few years it'll be like storing an MP3 album as hard drive sizes increase.
And once you're playing video on your computer, how long could it possibly take before someone finds a way to break the encryption and then compress the raw stream?
Actually, I know how to turn the features off; I wasn't seeking tech support. I'm pointing out how it's absurd that they are on by default, and that I have to go through nine clicks of configuration before a WYSIWYG word processor will display what I type. Bitch.
Word may not restrict you from typing certain words, but it does restrict certain keystrokes! Try typing (Something:) in word - you can't! It turns to:) into a picture of a smiley face without asking, and there's no obvious way to turn it off. Much like typing an email address or URL... MS assumes you want it to be blue and underlined.
He is not selling the software. His company, Elcomsoft, is selling the software. He is a programmer who simply did what he was told by his supervisor. In an economy like Russia, my guess would be that people actually do what they're told by their company for fear of losing their jobs and not being able to find another one. And, let's not forget, as has been pointed out many times in the past, Adobe is selling software that is illegal under Russian law. I suppose any time an Adobe programmer visits Russia he should fear for his freedom now?
Windows ME does a similar thing to XP. I first noticed this when I installed a beta of Windows ME. I have a kodak DC 280 camera, and I assumed that somehow installing ME over 98 overwrote my Kodak software. I reinstalled the Kodak software, but there was no way to access it. As soon as I plugged the camera in, a Microsoft "Digital Photo Wizard" would pop up in my face and start asking questions. As far as I could tell there was no way to turn it off!
And, in my opinion, while the Kodak software wasn't anything special, it didn't have all the annoying "Are you sure? Y/N" features of Microsoft Wizards.
The other automatic thing I found really annoying about ME is the low disk space notification. While using my laptop, which only has a four gig drive, I'll often have only 200 megs or so free. On the taskbar, a hard drive icon with a big word bubble would appear warning me to correct the situation, and there was NO WAY to turn it off short of deleting stuff. I seems to me that a gentle reminder would have done the trick.
I can't tell if you're kidding or not. If I were paranoid that someone was trying to crack my account on www.amigeekornot.com then I would keep passwords safe like you do. Fortunately, for most of us, there arent't too many people after us, so we use the same passwords on most of the sites we visit.
Of course this brings up the fact that it's probably incredibly easy to take over many people's (mine included) internet life with just one weak link (IE. I work at www.amigeekornot.com - I could own 50% of the people here)
Seriously, though, it's a shame that cops will harass people based on things like that. Meanwhile, if I had a bumper sticker that said "I support my local police" I could probably traffic some serious drugs in my car and never be caught!
Almost arrested at gunpoint for renting a stolen car
Pulled over by four cop cars, all with guns pulled, because the driver of the car I was in was too stupid to turn off his brights, which evidently is a sign of a stolen car. (The cop: "You're young and driving a car that gets stolen a lot...")
Sitting at the port in Spain, waiting to get on a boat to Ibiza (a party known for drug use) and randomly searched.
Having my nuts grabbed by US Customs officials as a way to search while entering the USA (with nothing illegal, I might add)
I don't think I look, walk, or talk like a criminal... Although I'd say that of all the criminals I know (and I have known drug sellers and car theives), they all walk, talk, look, and act very differently.
What I do is speak my mind, refuse permission when asked to be searched, and ask a lot of "why" questions. I am also young, travel a lot, and have had no set daily routine for years. These things alone are probably enough to flag me as "probable future criminal"
What you suggest is along the lines of racial profiling. Example:People who walk, talk, and look like this commit more crimes than others statistically, therefore I will assume people like that are criminals. In my book, that's not OK.
I haven't grown up all over the world, but I have visited all over the US, and I've had cops point guns at me and treat me generally like shit more times that I can count.
Once, when working a trade show in San Jose, I had to get a cheap hotel room on the "bad side of town" because all the rooms in the city were full. The next morning the cops busted in with six guns pointed at me, drug me out of the room in my underwear and then searhed my room immediately after I denied them permission. Why? Because I rented a car the day before that had been reported stolen a year in the past.
The cops were rude and very rough, and after I showed them proof that I had just rented the vehicle, didn't even apoligize.
I've had several similar run ins with the law in Europe (The Netherlands, Spain) and I can say that each time the cops were much more polite. The best thing: when I reach into my pocket or bag for a passport or something, they don't freak out and point their guns at me!
It seems strange to worry about losing physical hard drives. How much do these drives cost? A few hundred dollars? The data on the drives is significantly more important. If the government is only worried when the media is missing, we're in trouble. If the drives could go for three weeks without being reported missing, we might as well assume ALL of our top secret information has been compromised. Hell, maybe I should go search gnutella for "nuclear secrets." If tomorrow, the FBI busts into some terrorist's house and confiscates the drives, will it then be proclaimed that our data is safe?
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If 95% or so of people use IE, then doesn't IE become the standard, putting the W3C into a state of noncompliance to the standard?
I sure want people to use my roads and stop driving on those other roads. I think I'll start mass producing cars, and giving them away for free. Then, when GM, Ford, and all the other automakers are out of business, I'll make my cars incompatible with their roads and everyone will be forced to drive on my roads! Then, I'll make my roads toll roads because no one has a choice any more....
Kinda like how there will never be linux DVD players, 'cuz it's all encrypted and stuff?
Yeah, 17.05 GB is a huge file for a 80 mb hard drive. You'd need over 200 of those drives just to fit one movie!
The video is as compressable as you want it to be. Using mpeg 4, you can get a pretty decent looking 2 hour movie in a gig and a half, so I'd guess that if you wanted to preserve the HDTV look, it would be somewhat larger than that... But just like you can choose quality settings on a tivo, or like you can choose SP, SLP, or LP on a VCR, you can choose the bitrate and compress it to whatever size you want with a quality tradeoff.
I think its a wonderful idea, and I can't believe there hasn't been something like that for the PC yet. A 5 gig compressed movie may sound huge now, but in a few years it'll be like storing an MP3 album as hard drive sizes increase.
And once you're playing video on your computer, how long could it possibly take before someone finds a way to break the encryption and then compress the raw stream?
Actually, I know how to turn the features off; I wasn't seeking tech support. I'm pointing out how it's absurd that they are on by default, and that I have to go through nine clicks of configuration before a WYSIWYG word processor will display what I type. Bitch.
Word may not restrict you from typing certain words, but it does restrict certain keystrokes! Try typing (Something:) in word - you can't! It turns to :) into a picture of a smiley face without asking, and there's no obvious way to turn it off. Much like typing an email address or URL... MS assumes you want it to be blue and underlined.
You can try out ALICE - check out the ALICE homepage. There's a link to talk to her on the right side of the page.
He is not selling the software. His company, Elcomsoft, is selling the software. He is a programmer who simply did what he was told by his supervisor. In an economy like Russia, my guess would be that people actually do what they're told by their company for fear of losing their jobs and not being able to find another one.
And, let's not forget, as has been pointed out many times in the past, Adobe is selling software that is illegal under Russian law. I suppose any time an Adobe programmer visits Russia he should fear for his freedom now?
Windows ME does a similar thing to XP. I first noticed this when I installed a beta of Windows ME. I have a kodak DC 280 camera, and I assumed that somehow installing ME over 98 overwrote my Kodak software. I reinstalled the Kodak software, but there was no way to access it. As soon as I plugged the camera in, a Microsoft "Digital Photo Wizard" would pop up in my face and start asking questions. As far as I could tell there was no way to turn it off!
And, in my opinion, while the Kodak software wasn't anything special, it didn't have all the annoying "Are you sure? Y/N" features of Microsoft Wizards.
The other automatic thing I found really annoying about ME is the low disk space notification. While using my laptop, which only has a four gig drive, I'll often have only 200 megs or so free. On the taskbar, a hard drive icon with a big word bubble would appear warning me to correct the situation, and there was NO WAY to turn it off short of deleting stuff. I seems to me that a gentle reminder would have done the trick.
I can't tell if you're kidding or not. If I were paranoid that someone was trying to crack my account on www.amigeekornot.com then I would keep passwords safe like you do. Fortunately, for most of us, there arent't too many people after us, so we use the same passwords on most of the sites we visit. Of course this brings up the fact that it's probably incredibly easy to take over many people's (mine included) internet life with just one weak link (IE. I work at www.amigeekornot.com - I could own 50% of the people here)
Maybe I should keep donuts in my car to hand out.
Seriously, though, it's a shame that cops will harass people based on things like that. Meanwhile, if I had a bumper sticker that said "I support my local police" I could probably traffic some serious drugs in my car and never be caught!
Let's take a look at some of my run-ins:
Almost arrested at gunpoint for renting a stolen car
Pulled over by four cop cars, all with guns pulled, because the driver of the car I was in was too stupid to turn off his brights, which evidently is a sign of a stolen car. (The cop: "You're young and driving a car that gets stolen a lot...")
Sitting at the port in Spain, waiting to get on a boat to Ibiza (a party known for drug use) and randomly searched.
Having my nuts grabbed by US Customs officials as a way to search while entering the USA (with nothing illegal, I might add)
I don't think I look, walk, or talk like a criminal... Although I'd say that of all the criminals I know (and I have known drug sellers and car theives), they all walk, talk, look, and act very differently.
What I do is speak my mind, refuse permission when asked to be searched, and ask a lot of "why" questions. I am also young, travel a lot, and have had no set daily routine for years. These things alone are probably enough to flag me as "probable future criminal"
What you suggest is along the lines of racial profiling. Example:People who walk, talk, and look like this commit more crimes than others statistically, therefore I will assume people like that are criminals. In my book, that's not OK.
I haven't grown up all over the world, but I have visited all over the US, and I've had cops point guns at me and treat me generally like shit more times that I can count. Once, when working a trade show in San Jose, I had to get a cheap hotel room on the "bad side of town" because all the rooms in the city were full. The next morning the cops busted in with six guns pointed at me, drug me out of the room in my underwear and then searhed my room immediately after I denied them permission. Why? Because I rented a car the day before that had been reported stolen a year in the past. The cops were rude and very rough, and after I showed them proof that I had just rented the vehicle, didn't even apoligize. I've had several similar run ins with the law in Europe (The Netherlands, Spain) and I can say that each time the cops were much more polite. The best thing: when I reach into my pocket or bag for a passport or something, they don't freak out and point their guns at me!
It seems strange to worry about losing physical hard drives. How much do these drives cost? A few hundred dollars? The data on the drives is significantly more important. If the government is only worried when the media is missing, we're in trouble. If the drives could go for three weeks without being reported missing, we might as well assume ALL of our top secret information has been compromised. Hell, maybe I should go search gnutella for "nuclear secrets." If tomorrow, the FBI busts into some terrorist's house and confiscates the drives, will it then be proclaimed that our data is safe?