At least with a movie you can just buy it and watch whenever you want. If it's a TV show they expect you to watch it whenever they want.
I also like to pay for things. I believe in supporting artists and I have a mid sized movie collection containing some of my favourite classics and the odd new movie (some of them are already blu-ray).
But what about TV shows? My favourite shows are, for the most part, on when I want to be doing something else. TV "prime time" is at times when I prefer to be out with my friends. That means the only option I have if I want to watch them is to pirate them. I would gladly pay a reasonable price if I could just for the convenience of watching what I want when I want without having to spend the the time hunting through torrent sites and hoping that whatever I just downloaded wasn't complete crap for quality or in a codec I've never seen before.
Which would risk more debris in the atmosphere as the Chinese target every American spy satellite they find to erase the American technical advantage to one of pure numbers where the Chinese have the advantage.
The US military is completely dependant on their technology and the rest of the world knows it. Do their cruise missiles even work without GPS?
Any war by the US against a significantly developed nation runs the risk of rendering space completely useless for the next century. Think about the collateral damage from such a war taking out weather/TV/communications on top of the GPS which would almost certainly be targeted on purpose. The economic damage from that stupidity would be huge.
Letting the Americans know that was most likely a major reason behind the missile test in the first place and it's also why the Americans won't retaliate.
He claims to be a journalist (blogger) that's a position of trust. He is working for a competitor (conflict) and not only does he not disclose that he claims to be independent.
I'd say that fits the definition of "conflict of interest".
I don't think it matters.. business people are a paycheque and not a way to make real money if the buisness tanks you had a steady income for however long your employment was. Your better off taking whatever day job you can find and work on your own stuff in your free time.
Apparently it was different in some places Not only were people holding off on HD purchases until the war was over they were holding off movie purchases in general.
That had to be a huge wakeup call to the studios to stop screwing around and chose a winner.
Two party rigging is often caused by each side's voters being afraid the other side will win and the resulting strategic voting keeps the smaller parties from getting votes in fear of taking support from the party that the public feels has the best chance against the side they hate. This was a big thing here last election here in Quebec. The sides: Liberals (lazy incompetent morons) PQ (Separatist party with strong racist undertones) and ADQ (may or may not be good but at least they aren't socialist). Since I like immigrants and am not a racist I need to vote Liberal so that the PQ don't make it in. This means I can't vote for the ADQ even though I'm not a socialist.
There is an easier way to allow smaller parties to gain traction: runoff ballots. Any time the leading candidate get less than 50% of the local vote a runoff between first and second place is done. This lets me vote for my preferred party on the first ballot and chose the lesser of the two resulting evils on a second ballot. This system would let voters take more risks on the first round and let the smaller parties have a chance without allowing the fringe parties to gain seats like they would in most other voting systems.
The price of a PS3 isn't much different from a Blu-ray player at least not where I am. I get the same thing from both friends and sales reps when I ask about Blu-Ray prices "Just get a PS3 in case you want to play games as well someday." With advice like that going around I suspect people are buying PS3 primarily as a DVD player.
Not if they are pushed. Consumers weren't just holding off on HD movies they were holding off buying movies period. That's a lot of money by any standard and a fairly big LART from the general public. Given that news I don't give the remaining studios long before they switch sides.
What overwhelming evidence is that? The 60% drop in player prices in the last year? The fact that both HD format players are finally starting to show up in stores? The fact that DVD used to be just as rare? If I recall correctly both Blu-ray and HD DVD seem to be taking off faster than DVD did. How can you possibly argue that one of these won't be the next standard?
A lot of the non technical people I've talked to are very worried about choosing the losing side and won't buy in until there is a clear winner.
Your also forgetting why Laserdisc failed. Laserdisc failed because the media was a lot more of a pain to carry around than VHS tapes. VHS tapes were a lot smaller and a LOT less fragile so it wasn't until they came up with a smaller format (DVD) that it even begun to catch on. Both Blu-Ray and HD DVD.
And yes I hate region coding as much as you do but as much as we all try and argue around reality we still won't make the result any less true: At this moment HD DVD is losing the content battle from both a production(movie studios) perspective and a distribution (blockbuster) perspective.
Everyone else is waiting for two things: 1: The format war to be over since no one wants to shell out for a player and movies only to end up on the losing side and end up with movies they can't play or a player they can't get movies for.
2: The players to get cheaper.
You make it seem like the non early adopters even matter on which way the war will end. They quite frankly don't. The war will be over before they ever bother to buy one themselves.
With today's news announcing that one of the larger studios is dropping HD DVD will only tilt the war further in Blu-Ray's favour since there is no point in buying HD DVD players if you can't get content for them no matter how cheap they get.
The consumers already descided. Blockbuster supported both then discovered that more people bought blue ray by a significant margin.
The previous articles putting the two in a dead heat could do so only by discounting the number of PlayStation 3 owners by not counting it as a player even though most of the time when I ask for blue ray player prices they just tell me to buy a PS 3 in case I ever want to play games. Without the PS3 the number of players is almost even with the PS3 the numbers are deep into Blue Ray's favour.
Why anyone thought that fudging the numbers was a good move is beyond me.
Surprisingly well actually. I list Leo Kuvayev's former company "2K Services" as a credit card processing company (the job I was hired for). When they ask why I left I tell them he changed his business model to something I couldn't participate in and still have a conscience. If they ask for details I tell them everything and I reap the scored sympathy points for having the worst job experience imaginable.
For the record I spent several weeks trying to change his mind then turned down a raise and left the company several months before his new business model forced a national carrier to change their policy on spam and cut his fibre optic connection which was exactly what I warned him they would do when I gave him my contractually required two weeks notice.
How about installing rootkit software to do this? the botnet machines weren't exactly his.
Also Ralsky has done a lot more than just this. I cringe from the bad memories after he convinced a former employer of mine that spamming animal porn was a great way to make money.
Curt Kobain dying was news.. I didn't mind that being covered.
The problems is I just can't bring myself to care what celebrity is sleeping with who (or what). Who is in rehab this week or who is getting a divorce from whome.
And for the love of God what was with that feigned outrage at Janet Jackson's nipple? How the hell did that make the news for a freaking WEEK? If they were so offended by it why did they show it.. then show it again.. then pan in for a close up?
It's gotten so bad most days I can't even sit through the news on TV anymore. I just pick the couple of stories I care about off the news sites I like and leave the gossip stuff alone.
The parent poster didn't even bother to RTFA:
The drive supports 2X writing to single-layer BD-R (write-once) and BR-RE (rewritable) discs and 1X writing to dual-layer discs.
Or they have friends who lived in socialist countries. Personally I didn't grow up with much money but after talking with a lot of people from Rissia and Cuba I'm glad I live in a capitalist society.
The problem with socialism is that it assumes (contrary to 5 000 years of human history) that people are naturally good natured and hard working. Any communist system depends on everyone working for the greater good since the lazy guy gets just as much as the harder working. The result is an inefficient system where most of the population is equally poor and nobody is motivated to do better without getting something in return.
Capitalism at least takes advantage of human nature to make a more efficient (not perfect) system. Throw in just enough of a safety net to keep people from starving when their down and a few rules to keep people from exploiting each other and it's a rather good system.
You make that sound so simple.. and it would be if you ignore the underlying hardware limitations.
X86 processors handle memory in 4kb pages.. That's the smallest size you can return to the underlying OS. Your allocator can split that into smaller chunks but it cannot return any size smaller than 4k. Some other architectures make this larger.
So you free() a 2kb chunk and it's still allocated to your process. When it pages it than it pages out 4kb at a time. When other processes need memory that's an entire 4k it can't touch since if it gave that software part of your page then you lose memory protection. Do that a lot and your talking real amounts of memory.
The problem with memory fragmentation is that as firefox gets used it allocates memory for buffers then stops using some of that memory. The memory unused is too small to return to the OS and if a large amount of memory is needed then more is allocated sice none of the spaces are large enough to hold whatever object that needs the memory.
It's entirely possible that firefox would have 1/3 to 1/2 of it's memory unused at any given time.
Knowing that's the problem and fixing a problem as complicated as that are two different things unfortunatly
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The MPAA has already been lobbying the isps for ages exactly that. See the latest announcement by AT&T from CES.
As for the USPS.. well I'm sure they would demand that if they could.
At least with a movie you can just buy it and watch whenever you want. If it's a TV show they expect you to watch it whenever they want.
I also like to pay for things. I believe in supporting artists and I have a mid sized movie collection containing some of my favourite classics and the odd new movie (some of them are already blu-ray).
But what about TV shows? My favourite shows are, for the most part, on when I want to be doing something else. TV "prime time" is at times when I prefer to be out with my friends. That means the only option I have if I want to watch them is to pirate them. I would gladly pay a reasonable price if I could just for the convenience of watching what I want when I want without having to spend the the time hunting through torrent sites and hoping that whatever I just downloaded wasn't complete crap for quality or in a codec I've never seen before.
You need to read that more closely. He doesn't have any idea how it's done. He wants everyone else to figure out a way to protect HIS content.
Did they help You Tube come up with the fix he was bragging about? No. They just sued You Tube for not implementing it fast enough.
Which would risk more debris in the atmosphere as the Chinese target every American spy satellite they find to erase the American technical advantage to one of pure numbers where the Chinese have the advantage.
The US military is completely dependant on their technology and the rest of the world knows it. Do their cruise missiles even work without GPS?
Any war by the US against a significantly developed nation runs the risk of rendering space completely useless for the next century. Think about the collateral damage from such a war taking out weather/TV/communications on top of the GPS which would almost certainly be targeted on purpose. The economic damage from that stupidity would be huge.
Letting the Americans know that was most likely a major reason behind the missile test in the first place and it's also why the Americans won't retaliate.
He claims to be a journalist (blogger) that's a position of trust. He is working for a competitor (conflict) and not only does he not disclose that he claims to be independent.
I'd say that fits the definition of "conflict of interest".
I don't think it matters.. business people are a paycheque and not a way to make real money if the buisness tanks you had a steady income for however long your employment was. Your better off taking whatever day job you can find and work on your own stuff in your free time.
Apparently it was different in some places Not only were people holding off on HD purchases until the war was over they were holding off movie purchases in general.
That had to be a huge wakeup call to the studios to stop screwing around and chose a winner.
Two party rigging is often caused by each side's voters being afraid the other side will win and the resulting strategic voting keeps the smaller parties from getting votes in fear of taking support from the party that the public feels has the best chance against the side they hate. This was a big thing here last election here in Quebec. The sides: Liberals (lazy incompetent morons) PQ (Separatist party with strong racist undertones) and ADQ (may or may not be good but at least they aren't socialist). Since I like immigrants and am not a racist I need to vote Liberal so that the PQ don't make it in. This means I can't vote for the ADQ even though I'm not a socialist.
There is an easier way to allow smaller parties to gain traction: runoff ballots. Any time the leading candidate get less than 50% of the local vote a runoff between first and second place is done. This lets me vote for my preferred party on the first ballot and chose the lesser of the two resulting evils on a second ballot. This system would let voters take more risks on the first round and let the smaller parties have a chance without allowing the fringe parties to gain seats like they would in most other voting systems.
Technical people want to be able to place shift. Non technical people, for the most part, will just buy a second copy if they need to.
Most of the people I know who own Hi Def TVs never manage to copy a DVD.
The price of a PS3 isn't much different from a Blu-ray player at least not where I am. I get the same thing from both friends and sales reps when I ask about Blu-Ray prices "Just get a PS3 in case you want to play games as well someday." With advice like that going around I suspect people are buying PS3 primarily as a DVD player.
Discounting PS3 numbers is idiocy.
Not only did neither [high-def DVD] format really take off as expected in fourth quarter, but standard-def was softer than expected given the release slate," Sanders said Friday, shortly after the studio announced that it will drop is support of the HD DVD format and release its high-def titles exclusively on Blu-ray starting in June. "We're seeing research now that shows that consumers are starting to delay purchases because of the format war, not just on high-def but standard-def purchases as well. That's very alarming."
Not if they are pushed. Consumers weren't just holding off on HD movies they were holding off buying movies period. That's a lot of money by any standard and a fairly big LART from the general public. Given that news I don't give the remaining studios long before they switch sides.
What overwhelming evidence is that? The 60% drop in player prices in the last year? The fact that both HD format players are finally starting to show up in stores? The fact that DVD used to be just as rare? If I recall correctly both Blu-ray and HD DVD seem to be taking off faster than DVD did. How can you possibly argue that one of these won't be the next standard?
A lot of the non technical people I've talked to are very worried about choosing the losing side and won't buy in until there is a clear winner.
Your also forgetting why Laserdisc failed. Laserdisc failed because the media was a lot more of a pain to carry around than VHS tapes. VHS tapes were a lot smaller and a LOT less fragile so it wasn't until they came up with a smaller format (DVD) that it even begun to catch on. Both Blu-Ray and HD DVD.
And yes I hate region coding as much as you do but as much as we all try and argue around reality we still won't make the result any less true: At this moment HD DVD is losing the content battle from both a production(movie studios) perspective and a distribution (blockbuster) perspective.
Ok so the early adopters have decided.
Everyone else is waiting for two things:
1: The format war to be over since no one wants to shell out for a player and movies only to end up on the losing side and end up with movies they can't play or a player they can't get movies for.
2: The players to get cheaper.
You make it seem like the non early adopters even matter on which way the war will end. They quite frankly don't. The war will be over before they ever bother to buy one themselves.
With today's news announcing that one of the larger studios is dropping HD DVD will only tilt the war further in Blu-Ray's favour since there is no point in buying HD DVD players if you can't get content for them no matter how cheap they get.
The consumers already descided. Blockbuster supported both then discovered that more people bought blue ray by a significant margin.
The previous articles putting the two in a dead heat could do so only by discounting the number of PlayStation 3 owners by not counting it as a player even though most of the time when I ask for blue ray player prices they just tell me to buy a PS 3 in case I ever want to play games. Without the PS3 the number of players is almost even with the PS3 the numbers are deep into Blue Ray's favour.
Why anyone thought that fudging the numbers was a good move is beyond me.
EmployER and yeah I guess he did.. By doing that he forced me to make a direct moral choice.
Although I don't think the resulting eye burning I got was really worth it.
Surprisingly well actually. I list Leo Kuvayev's former company "2K Services" as a credit card processing company (the job I was hired for). When they ask why I left I tell them he changed his business model to something I couldn't participate in and still have a conscience. If they ask for details I tell them everything and I reap the scored sympathy points for having the worst job experience imaginable.
For the record I spent several weeks trying to change his mind then turned down a raise and left the company several months before his new business model forced a national carrier to change their policy on spam and cut his fibre optic connection which was exactly what I warned him they would do when I gave him my contractually required two weeks notice.
How about installing rootkit software to do this? the botnet machines weren't exactly his.
Also Ralsky has done a lot more than just this. I cringe from the bad memories after he convinced a former employer of mine that spamming animal porn was a great way to make money.
Curt Kobain dying was news.. I didn't mind that being covered.
.. then show it again.. then pan in for a close up?
The problems is I just can't bring myself to care what celebrity is sleeping with who (or what). Who is in rehab this week or who is getting a divorce from whome.
And for the love of God what was with that feigned outrage at Janet Jackson's nipple? How the hell did that make the news for a freaking WEEK? If they were so offended by it why did they show it
It's gotten so bad most days I can't even sit through the news on TV anymore. I just pick the couple of stories I care about off the news sites I like and leave the gossip stuff alone.
You laugh but I used to work for a small credit card processing company and that was exactly the reason for many, many charge backs.
wife: Honey what's this charge for porn on our creditcard?
man: Oh you know I would never look at THAT. Someone must have stolen our credit card.
The parent poster didn't even bother to RTFA: The drive supports 2X writing to single-layer BD-R (write-once) and BR-RE (rewritable) discs and 1X writing to dual-layer discs.
So it does have a recording function
Actually most of bigger squatting operations don't pay a dime on a per name basis. They hold the name for 30 days, then release it at no cost.
They don't need to release it. They just get another shell company to snap it up.
Domain tasting is causing nothing but headaches for the internet at large and they need to abolish it.
Grub will have some not so fun glitches if you try and combine it with a filesystem it doesn't properly support like XFS.
/boot.
The fix is to make a 50 mb
I keep waiting for them to fix that but they never seem to.
Or they have friends who lived in socialist countries. Personally I didn't grow up with much money but after talking with a lot of people from Rissia and Cuba I'm glad I live in a capitalist society.
The problem with socialism is that it assumes (contrary to 5 000 years of human history) that people are naturally good natured and hard working. Any communist system depends on everyone working for the greater good since the lazy guy gets just as much as the harder working. The result is an inefficient system where most of the population is equally poor and nobody is motivated to do better without getting something in return.
Capitalism at least takes advantage of human nature to make a more efficient (not perfect) system. Throw in just enough of a safety net to keep people from starving when their down and a few rules to keep people from exploiting each other and it's a rather good system.
You make that sound so simple.. and it would be if you ignore the underlying hardware limitations.
X86 processors handle memory in 4kb pages.. That's the smallest size you can return to the underlying OS. Your allocator can split that into smaller chunks but it cannot return any size smaller than 4k. Some other architectures make this larger.
So you free() a 2kb chunk and it's still allocated to your process. When it pages it than it pages out 4kb at a time. When other processes need memory that's an entire 4k it can't touch since if it gave that software part of your page then you lose memory protection. Do that a lot and your talking real amounts of memory.
Your misunderstanding it.
The problem with memory fragmentation is that as firefox gets used it allocates memory for buffers then stops using some of that memory. The memory unused is too small to return to the OS and if a large amount of memory is needed then more is allocated sice none of the spaces are large enough to hold whatever object that needs the memory.
It's entirely possible that firefox would have 1/3 to 1/2 of it's memory unused at any given time.
Knowing that's the problem and fixing a problem as complicated as that are two different things unfortunatly