Gruezi ! I am a French guy living in Bern and I would not sell my place ! (10th most pleasant town in the World, Zuerich being the first, and Geneva the 4th, the others being non-Swiss)
I installed this version of Debian Hurd (id=51) months ago and it is quite stable (I'd say more than windows95) so, because of its elegance, the few remaining minor problems should be fixed soon. So, whoever called this vapourware should at least verify their sources : Hurd is no more confidential.
I am a guitarist, but as for my clothes, I just hate to serve as one's advertising board. Now, I could play one of these only if it was free (as in free beer) and if it sounded good. But don't expect me to play around with such a sucker.
And now, somewhere on the bill will be hidden a few cents aimed at amortizing the "settlement and advocates fee"... Of course, everybody have now heard about B&N and Amazon so, their accountants will hide these fees as advertising fees but as a results, the books prices will be imperceptibly higher.
After two years (or whatever arbitrary number "they" come up with) the DVD could be rereleased as region 0 (no region) and sold around the globe. Easier to produce one disc for a world market than to have the stock run out in a particular region no?
Exactly, and if it was previously available, this could also help people who want specific versions of a film, ex, a professional translator (e.g. English/Japanese) would be happy to buy danish film with Japanese dialogs and subtitles in order to increase his language skills with new dialogs...
It is barely enforcable, of course, except if you add some encrypted ntp software in the player (we actually come to it...), but, on the other hand, if they do such a gesture toward us, won't you suddenly feel a little more reasonable and just either take your time to wait for it to be available in your country - or region-free ?
I actually think the only way to reduce piracy is to trust the consummer and also to offer him quality stuff.
BTW, end the star system, when Tom Cruise will make less millions for his stupid films, he will actually open the competition and dynamise the market.
The point is that if I want to collect some Indian movies (FYI, India is the biggest movie producer worlwide), I don't want to have to buy an India-encoded dvd player. The same way, I don't understand why it took Tron more time (one year, maybe more) to be released in Region/2 (Europe) than it took for Region/1. Europeans don't want to be milked anoymore by some american corporation.
though a little "trollish" because of the way it was written, AC above actually has a good point :
(Babelfish was there)
The peculiar thing is that they are able to amortize the film in less than 1 year. So to that it comes that the right of Copyright lasts 75 years? I believe that with 5 years of Copyright they would have time to sell the film in the CINEMAS and to even sell a few DVDs to price of " opening ". But to more money they make more money want, and more case is arranged has to do the government to them.
I also consider that DVD-Region locking should *at least* be limited in time.
Listen to me: Valenti and his hord consider that DVD Region-ing is a way to prevent a film to be seen in a place in which it has not previously been played in theater.
they could schedule some 2-year period (hard-coded on the DVD, if they want) during which the DVD would only be playable in a given place, but after this period, it could be played worldwide with *no* limitations...
Really, then you won't like this quote from Herman Hauser (Acorn).
Q:
I often tell the story that Bill gates was trying to sell me MS-DOS in the early 80s and I had to say "Bill, we can't possibly take such a retrograde step, because our operating system really is an operating system and has many features that MS-DOS doesn't have. [...] schoolboy can type 'I am Johnny' into one of our computers and be logged on through the network to a local fileserver. They can use the same commands to get files down from the server that they've learned with a floppy disk." And Bill's answer to that was, "What's a network?"
I can't believe they worked to contain the riots instead of working on their policies to actually give them reason not to revolt... We have an ethical situation, here.
no real difference with the yahoogroups ads, I think, maybe some colorfull big pictures (or applets, or whatever) about some products I won't be able to order from Switzerland...
This is nothing new so, I guess I'll stick with Slashdot while junkbusting whatever I can. If that appear, well, as long as I don't have to wait until the complete ad has been shitted to read the tro^Wcomments, it's okay.
In a case, I'll have expectations if I pay to read an ad-free site, in the other, well, I guess we are becoming used to it.
After the numerous campaigns against pollutions (air, then water, then noise) I guess one will soon call these visual pollution and finally totally ignore ads as a cow ignores flies.
Good job, guys, if you don't change anything else (btw, I disable javascript, so don't put popups).
...the z80 assembly listings appearing in the Terminator's sights... How will they make such information compact enough to be useful and not dangerous (I don't want to have 2KB oftext to read while driving) ?
Can't you just ask the person for such details ? The problem, IMHO, is that this may reduce the communication between people. Also, how exhaustive is the collected info ? Maybe this could be useful for some guardians willing to authentify incoming visitors but else, well, I don't perceive this invention, however breathtaking, technically speaking, as a step toward the right direction which is making people happy to co-exist.
They don't need to convince them if they make it a LAW. This is the future I am afraid of. Have you seen how often people got sued because of their mental integrity ? There will be some "legal" (note the quote) need for some integrity checker.
The tech industry want the scca to be passed : it will instantaneously make most video-playing devices devices obsolete hence generating sales and profits.
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Gruezi !
I am a French guy living in Bern and I would not sell my place !
(10th most pleasant town in the World, Zuerich being the first, and Geneva the 4th, the others being non-Swiss)
I installed this version of Debian Hurd (id=51) months ago and it is quite stable (I'd say more than windows95) so, because of its elegance, the few remaining minor problems should be fixed soon.
So, whoever called this vapourware should at least verify their sources : Hurd is no more confidential.
I am a guitarist, but as for my clothes, I just hate to serve as one's advertising board.
Now, I could play one of these only if it was free (as in free beer) and if it sounded good.
But don't expect me to play around with such a sucker.
And now, somewhere on the bill will be hidden a few cents aimed at amortizing the "settlement and advocates fee"...
Of course, everybody have now heard about B&N and Amazon so, their accountants will hide these fees as advertising fees but as a results, the books prices will be imperceptibly higher.
Exactly, and if it was previously available, this could also help people who want specific versions of a film, ex, a professional translator (e.g. English/Japanese) would be happy to buy danish film with Japanese dialogs and subtitles in order to increase his language skills with new dialogs...
It is barely enforcable, of course, except if you add some encrypted ntp software in the player (we actually come to it...), but, on the other hand, if they do such a gesture toward us, won't you suddenly feel a little more reasonable and just either take your time to wait for it to be available in your country - or region-free ?
I actually think the only way to reduce piracy is to trust the consummer and also to offer him quality stuff.
BTW, end the star system, when Tom Cruise will make less millions for his stupid films, he will actually open the competition and dynamise the market.
The point is that if I want to collect some Indian movies (FYI, India is the biggest movie producer worlwide), I don't want to have to buy an India-encoded dvd player.
The same way, I don't understand why it took Tron more time (one year, maybe more) to be released in Region/2 (Europe) than it took for Region/1.
Europeans don't want to be milked anoymore by some american corporation.
Listen to me: Valenti and his hord consider that DVD Region-ing is a way to prevent a film to be seen in a place in which it has not previously been played in theater.
they could schedule some 2-year period (hard-coded on the DVD, if they want) during which the DVD would only be playable in a given place, but after this period, it could be played worldwide with *no* limitations...
I read "Now you may be detected while ordering a value meal like this".
What if my watch is hacked ?
I can't believe they worked to contain the riots instead of working on their policies to actually give them reason not to revolt...
We have an ethical situation, here.
OK, just give me the URL of such a page, I'll tell you how far I can read it, and if there are some simpler equivalent somewhere, okay ? :-)
no real difference with the yahoogroups ads, I think, maybe some colorfull big pictures (or applets, or whatever) about some products I won't be able to order from Switzerland...
This is nothing new so, I guess I'll stick with Slashdot while junkbusting whatever I can.
If that appear, well, as long as I don't have to wait until the complete ad has been shitted to read the tro^Wcomments, it's okay.
In a case, I'll have expectations if I pay to read an ad-free site, in the other, well, I guess we are becoming used to it.
After the numerous campaigns against pollutions (air, then water, then noise) I guess one will soon call these visual pollution and finally totally ignore ads as a cow ignores flies.
Good job, guys, if you don't change anything else (btw, I disable javascript, so don't put popups).
Why would I ? :-)
Do you think I visit site because they are coded in WTFML ?
Nope, I visit what Google fetches to me
What do you think I am answering you with ?
Maybe some people prefer looking for contents rather than for the latest bells and whistles ?
Frankly, my ns4.78 is the best at what it's doing under linux : it plays flash, java, javascript...
Definitely a good choice.
I just replaced its mail funcitonalities with Sylpheed
You should visit Nooface as you'd be interested by this article which is about Augmented reality Quake
...the z80 assembly listings appearing in the Terminator's sights...
How will they make such information compact enough to be useful and not dangerous (I don't want to have 2KB oftext to read while driving) ?
Can't you just ask the person for such details ?
The problem, IMHO, is that this may reduce the communication between people.
Also, how exhaustive is the collected info ?
Maybe this could be useful for some guardians willing to authentify incoming visitors but else, well, I don't perceive this invention, however breathtaking, technically speaking, as a step toward the right direction which is making people happy to co-exist.
They don't need to convince them if they make it a LAW.
This is the future I am afraid of.
Have you seen how often people got sued because of their mental integrity ?
There will be some "legal" (note the quote) need for some integrity checker.
NT is built upo an HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) which makes it actually seen as software so, it is obvious DRM hardware can't be 100% secure !?
Now, if they promote brain-implants, then they might have the users DRM'ed which will be quite different to bypass...
Unless one finds enough red pills.
So, it is quite a good quote but double-edged.
Just take a look to the longest server uptime list from Netcraft.
The tech industry want the scca to be passed : it will instantaneously make most video-playing devices devices obsolete hence generating sales and profits.
Or maybe it would be a good idea to start making good asynchronous systems based on collaborating heterogeneous processors ?
with the upcoming Zaurus (same proc, 64MB RAM, IBM 1GB microdrive, cheap)... do we still need such boxes ?