I'd love to boycott them, however their prices suck so bad that I never even bothered using them before.:) Its generally cheaper to fly than use Amtrak.
Tim
I thought Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars" pretty much discounted this in flight refueling on the ISS as a waste and that a mission could proceed much more quickly and efficiently by going to mars directly.
I didn't get his argument about that though. Of course there will be some problems moving from a non-protected to protected system, but what else are they supposed to do? Its dumb to criticize them for making a move they need to make.
now that joe fucknuts can do it, it's a revolution
Not to be rude, but I would say that that defines a revolution for almost anything. Once anyone can publish books (printing press) or own a telephone etc it does become a sort of revolution eventually changing society. Of course, plenty of stuff becomes super widely available but doesn't really change our lives, but...
I was pretty happy to see them totally rip "The Net" apart like it deserved. People need to get the word out that that movie was SO far form the truth.
I like two of the lone gunmen, but I think the long haired blond guy is every cheesy hacker stereotype rolled into one. the other two look like they can have some depth written into the stories, especially the old guy. But the blonde is just a carboard cutout, and an annoyingly inaccurate one at that.
Umm...I own DVDs too, I was being sarcastic. I don't agree that an unacceptable and overly restrictive technology becomes ok when there are no alternatives, in fact I would say that if you thought something was too restrictive of your rights then it is twice as bad when you have no alternative. Also, the alternatives you listed aren't exactly comparable in some situations, some games run ONLY on Windows, some movies are released ONLY on Quicktime, so you don't really get to choose in that specific instance. And all in all this is way to much explaining to do over a dumb little comment kidding about Commander Taco's seemingly contradictory stand on Quicktime, Windows and DVDs. Good night.
Actually every license for every piece of software I've ever bothered to read states that the software is not being advertised as suitable for ANY purpose and that it has no warranties other than a warranty covering a defect in the physical media for a certain length of time (usualyl 90 days). You can see this on Microsoft products, Sun's Java download license and many other apps.
However, go to Bigfoot.com and look up a hotmail address. More often than not it will include a state and a zip code, where most other addresses won't. So they are selling some of your personal info away.
I'm not one to start flipping out about bias here on Slashdot, but that description of the raid seemed very biased against e-gold and made me thing that when I read the article it would indicate there was a very solid case against this company. Instead, it seems very ambiguous and more a case of the SS persecuting a business they don't understand because it disrupts their ability to keep tabs on people's money.
Nope, most stores have 30 days returns on most items, a lot of chains (Circuit City, Best Buy), limit you to 14 days on computers, computer related items, cameras, camcorders and some other electronics. They also charge a restocking fee of 15% on those 14 day items. CD's, movies, computer software can be exchanged if defective but can not be returned under any circumstances at ANY stores I have ever been to no matter how large or small. They don't want to take returns b/c they think you just copied it and want to return it. Which means if oyu buy a cd that sucks you are stuckw ith it in the USA.
The only problem is that the stores probably wont take it back, they will just blame it on your player since it will work on a test player in the store. The CD stores around me (chains and mom & pop stores) have the most draconian return policies on CD's. I don't think I'd be able to convince any of them to take back a cd like this.
I just thought of this, Apple's pushing the "mix, rip, burn" thing so hard. They'd be pissed if the big selling point of their machines went away. They could probably re-write the firmware of their CD and DVD drives so they didn't get hung up on the track errors, or maybe some other drive manufacturer will do this. Then hopefully all the manufacturers will do the same thing and the market will just roll right over this copy protection scheme.
My DVD player has two types of digital outputs. My friend's soundcard has digital inputs. Even if this CD won't work on my CD-ROM it damn well better play on my DVD changers, since its my only CD player. So I can still make a perfect digital copy, ironically by using the digital outputs that were pushed by the MPAA for digital surround.
You can't force people to look at stuff that opposes their view. Well, maybe you can but I wouldn't expect the results to be very good. People have ALWAYS been able to shut themselves away from opposing views, by living in a neightborhood of people like themselves, working in jobs with those people, only reading newspapers or magazines that reinforced their views instead of challenging them, etc... The web is an extension of that, and these proposals only look at curing the symptoms not the disease (that is if you think of people only seeing one side of everything as not good, like I do). If you really want a populace that is open to new ideas, even those that conflict with thier own deep-seated beliefs you've got to raise and educate them to be open minded. Forcing people to see opposing material when they are not open to it will not fix the underlying problem and people will just tune it out.
They say its lasts 2 hours, which is fine, its a super early prototype. But they see the end result as a product with a battery that lasts a WEEK. Come on, my current watch battery will probably last longer than my watch (the manual said something like 5 years, and judging by my last watch I'd agree). I think they need to set their goals a little higher than just a week, maybe a 3-6 month minimum.
This was about two years ago, when demos of PowerDVD and the like just didn't seem to work that well or smoothly. I am sure they have gotten better. However about the free players, I know they are thrown in for free with video cards and such, but you still can't d/l one for free as far as I know. And its funny how my last two video cards came with free players, but a bare DVD drive doesn't.
People also forget this DeCSS is sometimes NECCESSARY on Windows and there are NO free players. And if you buy a bare DVD drive, you don't get player software. I struggled with this for months on my old PC, not wanting to pay $60 and up for crappy, buggy software and I ended up just buying a regular DVD player.
I don't see where the illogic is, every three 0's it gets a new name: thousand, million, billion, trillion, etc. So that way you don't get gaps where you have to say "thousand-something", we just give it a shorter name. Which is very useful considering how much more often large numbers need to be used in common language, especially when refering to money. Budgets and profits are regularly mentioned that are in the (American) billions or trillions.
Remember, in legal terms "effective" doesn't mean what it means in the "real world". Look at the DMCA and how its "effective" copyright controls include CSS, and even simple XOR schemes. So I guess "effective" means that you can put together whatever half assed filter you want andcall it effective.
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I'd love to boycott them, however their prices suck so bad that I never even bothered using them before. :) Its generally cheaper to fly than use Amtrak.
Tim
I thought Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars" pretty much discounted this in flight refueling on the ISS as a waste and that a mission could proceed much more quickly and efficiently by going to mars directly.
I didn't get his argument about that though. Of course there will be some problems moving from a non-protected to protected system, but what else are they supposed to do? Its dumb to criticize them for making a move they need to make.
You forgot Be :)
I thought that a Russian physicist came up with the idea sometime around the 1920s. I don't have the book with the reference with me however.
now that joe fucknuts can do it, it's a revolution
Not to be rude, but I would say that that defines a revolution for almost anything. Once anyone can publish books (printing press) or own a telephone etc it does become a sort of revolution eventually changing society. Of course, plenty of stuff becomes super widely available but doesn't really change our lives, but...
I was pretty happy to see them totally rip "The Net" apart like it deserved. People need to get the word out that that movie was SO far form the truth.
I like two of the lone gunmen, but I think the long haired blond guy is every cheesy hacker stereotype rolled into one. the other two look like they can have some depth written into the stories, especially the old guy. But the blonde is just a carboard cutout, and an annoyingly inaccurate one at that.
Umm...I own DVDs too, I was being sarcastic. I don't agree that an unacceptable and overly restrictive technology becomes ok when there are no alternatives, in fact I would say that if you thought something was too restrictive of your rights then it is twice as bad when you have no alternative. Also, the alternatives you listed aren't exactly comparable in some situations, some games run ONLY on Windows, some movies are released ONLY on Quicktime, so you don't really get to choose in that specific instance. And all in all this is way to much explaining to do over a dumb little comment kidding about Commander Taco's seemingly contradictory stand on Quicktime, Windows and DVDs. Good night.
Ok, so you won't install Windows, or use Quicktime or Real Audio, but you own a DVD player?
Actually every license for every piece of software I've ever bothered to read states that the software is not being advertised as suitable for ANY purpose and that it has no warranties other than a warranty covering a defect in the physical media for a certain length of time (usualyl 90 days). You can see this on Microsoft products, Sun's Java download license and many other apps.
However, go to Bigfoot.com and look up a hotmail address. More often than not it will include a state and a zip code, where most other addresses won't. So they are selling some of your personal info away.
I'm not one to start flipping out about bias here on Slashdot, but that description of the raid seemed very biased against e-gold and made me thing that when I read the article it would indicate there was a very solid case against this company. Instead, it seems very ambiguous and more a case of the SS persecuting a business they don't understand because it disrupts their ability to keep tabs on people's money.
Nope, most stores have 30 days returns on most items, a lot of chains (Circuit City, Best Buy), limit you to 14 days on computers, computer related items, cameras, camcorders and some other electronics. They also charge a restocking fee of 15% on those 14 day items. CD's, movies, computer software can be exchanged if defective but can not be returned under any circumstances at ANY stores I have ever been to no matter how large or small. They don't want to take returns b/c they think you just copied it and want to return it. Which means if oyu buy a cd that sucks you are stuckw ith it in the USA.
The only problem is that the stores probably wont take it back, they will just blame it on your player since it will work on a test player in the store. The CD stores around me (chains and mom & pop stores) have the most draconian return policies on CD's. I don't think I'd be able to convince any of them to take back a cd like this.
Actually, Stereophile magazine and the like go about 50/50 on the digital/analog thing. Trust me,t hey review some seriously expensive DVD/CD players.
I just thought of this, Apple's pushing the "mix, rip, burn" thing so hard. They'd be pissed if the big selling point of their machines went away. They could probably re-write the firmware of their CD and DVD drives so they didn't get hung up on the track errors, or maybe some other drive manufacturer will do this. Then hopefully all the manufacturers will do the same thing and the market will just roll right over this copy protection scheme.
My DVD player has two types of digital outputs. My friend's soundcard has digital inputs. Even if this CD won't work on my CD-ROM it damn well better play on my DVD changers, since its my only CD player. So I can still make a perfect digital copy, ironically by using the digital outputs that were pushed by the MPAA for digital surround.
You can't force people to look at stuff that opposes their view. Well, maybe you can but I wouldn't expect the results to be very good. People have ALWAYS been able to shut themselves away from opposing views, by living in a neightborhood of people like themselves, working in jobs with those people, only reading newspapers or magazines that reinforced their views instead of challenging them, etc... The web is an extension of that, and these proposals only look at curing the symptoms not the disease (that is if you think of people only seeing one side of everything as not good, like I do). If you really want a populace that is open to new ideas, even those that conflict with thier own deep-seated beliefs you've got to raise and educate them to be open minded. Forcing people to see opposing material when they are not open to it will not fix the underlying problem and people will just tune it out.
They say its lasts 2 hours, which is fine, its a super early prototype. But they see the end result as a product with a battery that lasts a WEEK. Come on, my current watch battery will probably last longer than my watch (the manual said something like 5 years, and judging by my last watch I'd agree). I think they need to set their goals a little higher than just a week, maybe a 3-6 month minimum.
This was about two years ago, when demos of PowerDVD and the like just didn't seem to work that well or smoothly. I am sure they have gotten better. However about the free players, I know they are thrown in for free with video cards and such, but you still can't d/l one for free as far as I know. And its funny how my last two video cards came with free players, but a bare DVD drive doesn't.
People also forget this DeCSS is sometimes NECCESSARY on Windows and there are NO free players. And if you buy a bare DVD drive, you don't get player software. I struggled with this for months on my old PC, not wanting to pay $60 and up for crappy, buggy software and I ended up just buying a regular DVD player.
I don't see where the illogic is, every three 0's it gets a new name: thousand, million, billion, trillion, etc. So that way you don't get gaps where you have to say "thousand-something", we just give it a shorter name. Which is very useful considering how much more often large numbers need to be used in common language, especially when refering to money. Budgets and profits are regularly mentioned that are in the (American) billions or trillions.
How the hell is this a troll? It seems like a good comment with one cut on Texas at the end.
Remember, in legal terms "effective" doesn't mean what it means in the "real world". Look at the DMCA and how its "effective" copyright controls include CSS, and even simple XOR schemes. So I guess "effective" means that you can put together whatever half assed filter you want andcall it effective.