DirectTV is also TVRO. All TVRO means is 'Televsion, Receive Only' In other words any satellite system, be it 18" Dish or 10' Dish.
I think what you mean is a C/KU band, multi satellite receiver, or 'Big Dish' rather than a single satellite digital TV system like DirecTC or Dish Network.
Actually, there was some pretty nasty stuff on the owners computer;) Yeah..he went in and verified it. Most of us didnt have the desire or stomach for it. Basically if a newsgroup with an obvious name had one randomly chosen binary that was kiddie porn, the NG got the axe. That left a lot of non KP ng's for the pr0n addicts to get their fix on.
Yes..you could make a point that it was illegal to take a look to verify content. But at least we were certain, and a quick delete erased the noxious jpg's
*WAH* THe DMCA and MPAA suck so badly that I will -NEVER- buy a DVD.
Tha'ts right, Flash. Deprive yourself of a great medium that gives you superior picture and sound, and doesnt degrade every time you play it, all because you find some of the policies of the MPAA odious. Well, so do I. But at least I am watching Crouching TIget Hidden Dragon in glorious widescreen with 5.1 suround...unlike you who will watch it as a crappy DIVX taken by some dude with a video camera. So while you are enjoying that amazing video quality and the guy in front of the cameraman eating his popcorn...I'll be enjoying my DVD.
Yes. THis is a flame, and maybe even a troll. I am just tired of sanctimonious warez d00ds trying to justify their thefts by talking about how evil the MPAA is. They arent saints, they are greedy. But hey, who isnt?
In the mid 90's I worked at an ISP here in British COlumbia. We were contacted by the RCMP and told that we had to police Usenet for alt.* groups that were obvioiously child porn. We happily complied, and removed any binary groups that had kiddie porn in them. We were not threatened with legal action, it was just a friendly request that we were happy to comply with. @Home chosing to block newsgroups that pretty much flagrantly distribute copyrighted materials is not censorship. IT's @home trying to forestall legal action.
Funny thing is, I see some of the newsgroups we blocked in 95 are available on the @home news server. Havent looked to see if there is anything there..but..shudder..Yeck.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I dont think you have a leg to stand on. If Pixar could have afforded to produce Toy Story on their own, you can bet they would have. So they likely approached Disney, Disney saw a winner and funded the film. And the phenomenal success of the first film meant that Pixar had a more active role in funding the second film, thus the joint copyright on the second film.
IANAMSE (I Am Not A Movie Studio Executive)(Thank heavens!!)but this seems pretty logical to me.
Disney may be opportunistic, but slamming them for knowing a good thing when they see it doesnt make a lot of sense. After all, if YOU'D had the bankroll to fund Toy Story, and the opportunty..you would have as well.
Most CD players are perfectly capable of playing CDR's. Add you might notice that CD players that wont play CDR's also wont play music CDR's. There is a very simple reason for this.
CDR and CDRW media reflect less light than a manufactured CD. You can do this by looking at your reflection in one of each type of disc. If your CD isnt able to play an R or RW disc it's because not enough laser light is being reflected back to the optical pickup. It all comes down to the age of your player, whether the optical pickup is clean, and what type of laser is used. This is why some cheap CD and DVD players wont playback R discs while better players will.
Home CD-R units for stereo systems will NOT burn onto normal data CDR's as those CDR's lack an SCMS block.
The SCMS block tells the home recorder NOT to make a digital copy of the disc. If an SCMS encoded CD is used in a CD player hooked via a digital connection to a consumer CDR deck, the disc will not be copied. If it is connected through the convential analog input/output, it can be copied.
It is there solely to stop a person from making a mix, and then using that disc to master more copies of the same disc. And it is really a consumer technology. The lack of SCMS is what caused the recording industry to effectively kill DAT as a consumer format. The 'Music CDR' will help bring CD recording to the masses in a way the PC never could. It is a Good Thing, even if the discs are more expensive. I'd start worrying if the RIAA started saying that home CD Recorders are bad.
I remember reading this guy's column in Byte magazine back in the early 90's. And if I remember correctly, he was actually pretty well spoken, and his opinions seemed to be well thought out.
But lately it seems like everything he says is some sort off ill informed knee jerk reaction.
Claiming that Broadband is losing the fight for wide acceptance is just utter nonsense, at least if you live in Canada.
The city council here (Kamloops, BC) has recently announced that they will be pushing to do an infrastructure upgrade to provide fiber to curb for the entire city. And then anyone that wants high speed fiber optic connections will be able to get them easily and inexpensively.
Does this sound to you like a luke warm reception to the concept of high speed access to internet services, for the masses? I certainly doesnt to me.
I think this is the one thing the comments skipped over...
I've been playing the beta of the XP since Fedex dropped it into my eager little hands, and I've noticed one thing..
The 'Evils' now are. Really.
Diablo in Act4/Normal was pretty much a walk in the park compared to some of the hordes released when you opened the 'seals'.
But now, he's totally over the top. He casts way more spells and is way more resistant to attack. It took three people at least a dozen tries to off him. Diablo is actually tough now! Mephisto is a little harder, and Baal isnt that bad, but man, Diablo is TOUGH. At least until you get some Uber Characters 'slumming'
I dont think anyone can deny that we need some change in the way packet routing happens now. If I am trying to ftp from my machine to a client across town, why on earth does it need to be bounced across the country, because we use different ISP's.
The main problem I see with this system is that there really is no way to stop the large backbone providers from selling 'priority' access for particular streams. In other words, your for pay info from foo.com will be a lot faster than your not for pay look at Slashdot.
I think that if you CAN abuse it, a corporation will figure out a way to do it, no?
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Actually, I believe the only thing Australian in the new Dundee movie is Paul Hogan. Otherwise it's pretty much stupid Hollywood fare. Dont confuse an Australian with BEING Australian.
There is rather valid reason that the manufacturers won't allow retailers to submit rebate requests. Unscrupulous dealers can submit claims that dont exist, or start the program late and end the program early to claim these rebates for themselves. I once watched a manager at a store I worked at claim a $500 rebate on a big screen television that was still in the store. He gloated when the cheque arrived. So many manufacturers ONLY allow rebates to go to the absolute end user. Sort of sucks, but if you make a system that can be taken advantage of, it WILL be taken advantage of.
That's my two cents.
Guess what? Hitachi will release a DVD Camcorder later this year. Likely September. At least, here in Canada. While I've not seen a specifications sheet on this item, I will post it as soon as I see it. Pioneer has had a recordable DVD deck in Japan since late last year. ~$2500 us with blanks at ~$30 us. These products are available.... just rare. But we'll see them soon! You dont need a supercomputer to do MPEG2 encoding in real time, just a large chunk of money.
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Just a minor point...
DirectTV is also TVRO. All TVRO means is 'Televsion, Receive Only' In other words any satellite system, be it 18" Dish or 10' Dish.
I think what you mean is a C/KU band, multi satellite receiver, or 'Big Dish' rather than a single satellite digital TV system like DirecTC or Dish Network.
Actually, there was some pretty nasty stuff on the owners computer ;) Yeah..he went in and verified it. Most of us didnt have the desire or stomach for it. Basically if a newsgroup with an obvious name had one randomly chosen binary that was kiddie porn, the NG got the axe. That left a lot of non KP ng's for the pr0n addicts to get their fix on.
Yes..you could make a point that it was illegal to take a look to verify content. But at least we were certain, and a quick delete erased the noxious jpg's
Hahahahah. I was waiting for someone to point that one out. That's even better. I dont like DVD, but I'll use a DVD rip. Greeeeat. Ah well.
*WAH* THe DMCA and MPAA suck so badly that I will -NEVER- buy a DVD. Tha'ts right, Flash. Deprive yourself of a great medium that gives you superior picture and sound, and doesnt degrade every time you play it, all because you find some of the policies of the MPAA odious. Well, so do I. But at least I am watching Crouching TIget Hidden Dragon in glorious widescreen with 5.1 suround...unlike you who will watch it as a crappy DIVX taken by some dude with a video camera. So while you are enjoying that amazing video quality and the guy in front of the cameraman eating his popcorn...I'll be enjoying my DVD.
Yes. THis is a flame, and maybe even a troll. I am just tired of sanctimonious warez d00ds trying to justify their thefts by talking about how evil the MPAA is. They arent saints, they are greedy. But hey, who isnt?
In the mid 90's I worked at an ISP here in British COlumbia. We were contacted by the RCMP and told that we had to police Usenet for alt.* groups that were obvioiously child porn. We happily complied, and removed any binary groups that had kiddie porn in them. We were not threatened with legal action, it was just a friendly request that we were happy to comply with. @Home chosing to block newsgroups that pretty much flagrantly distribute copyrighted materials is not censorship. IT's @home trying to forestall legal action.
Funny thing is, I see some of the newsgroups we blocked in 95 are available on the @home news server. Havent looked to see if there is anything there..but..shudder..Yeck.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I dont think you have a leg to stand on. If Pixar could have afforded to produce Toy Story on their own, you can bet they would have. So they likely approached Disney, Disney saw a winner and funded the film. And the phenomenal success of the first film meant that Pixar had a more active role in funding the second film, thus the joint copyright on the second film.
IANAMSE (I Am Not A Movie Studio Executive)(Thank heavens!!)but this seems pretty logical to me.
Disney may be opportunistic, but slamming them for knowing a good thing when they see it doesnt make a lot of sense. After all, if YOU'D had the bankroll to fund Toy Story, and the opportunty..you would have as well.
Wrong.
Most CD players are perfectly capable of playing CDR's. Add you might notice that CD players that wont play CDR's also wont play music CDR's. There is a very simple reason for this.
CDR and CDRW media reflect less light than a manufactured CD. You can do this by looking at your reflection in one of each type of disc. If your CD isnt able to play an R or RW disc it's because not enough laser light is being reflected back to the optical pickup. It all comes down to the age of your player, whether the optical pickup is clean, and what type of laser is used. This is why some cheap CD and DVD players wont playback R discs while better players will.
It's called SCMS.
Serial Copy Management System.
Home CD-R units for stereo systems will NOT burn onto normal data CDR's as those CDR's lack an SCMS block.
The SCMS block tells the home recorder NOT to make a digital copy of the disc. If an SCMS encoded CD is used in a CD player hooked via a digital connection to a consumer CDR deck, the disc will not be copied. If it is connected through the convential analog input/output, it can be copied.
It is there solely to stop a person from making a mix, and then using that disc to master more copies of the same disc. And it is really a consumer technology. The lack of SCMS is what caused the recording industry to effectively kill DAT as a consumer format. The 'Music CDR' will help bring CD recording to the masses in a way the PC never could. It is a Good Thing, even if the discs are more expensive. I'd start worrying if the RIAA started saying that home CD Recorders are bad.
I remember reading this guy's column in Byte magazine back in the early 90's. And if I remember correctly, he was actually pretty well spoken, and his opinions seemed to be well thought out.
But lately it seems like everything he says is some sort off ill informed knee jerk reaction.
Claiming that Broadband is losing the fight for wide acceptance is just utter nonsense, at least if you live in Canada.
The city council here (Kamloops, BC) has recently announced that they will be pushing to do an infrastructure upgrade to provide fiber to curb for the entire city. And then anyone that wants high speed fiber optic connections will be able to get them easily and inexpensively.
Does this sound to you like a luke warm reception to the concept of high speed access to internet services, for the masses? I certainly doesnt to me.
I think this is the one thing the comments skipped over...
I've been playing the beta of the XP since Fedex dropped it into my eager little hands, and I've noticed one thing..
The 'Evils' now are. Really.
Diablo in Act4/Normal was pretty much a walk in the park compared to some of the hordes released when you opened the 'seals'.
But now, he's totally over the top. He casts way more spells and is way more resistant to attack. It took three people at least a dozen tries to off him. Diablo is actually tough now! Mephisto is a little harder, and Baal isnt that bad, but man, Diablo is TOUGH. At least until you get some Uber Characters 'slumming'
I dont think anyone can deny that we need some change in the way packet routing happens now. If I am trying to ftp from my machine to a client across town, why on earth does it need to be bounced across the country, because we use different ISP's. The main problem I see with this system is that there really is no way to stop the large backbone providers from selling 'priority' access for particular streams. In other words, your for pay info from foo.com will be a lot faster than your not for pay look at Slashdot. I think that if you CAN abuse it, a corporation will figure out a way to do it, no?
Actually, I believe the only thing Australian in the new Dundee movie is Paul Hogan. Otherwise it's pretty much stupid Hollywood fare. Dont confuse an Australian with BEING Australian.
There is rather valid reason that the manufacturers won't allow retailers to submit rebate requests. Unscrupulous dealers can submit claims that dont exist, or start the program late and end the program early to claim these rebates for themselves. I once watched a manager at a store I worked at claim a $500 rebate on a big screen television that was still in the store. He gloated when the cheque arrived. So many manufacturers ONLY allow rebates to go to the absolute end user. Sort of sucks, but if you make a system that can be taken advantage of, it WILL be taken advantage of. That's my two cents.
At the risk of drawing some flamage, I'd like to point out that Neal Stephenson did NOT invent the concept of VR Avatars.
As crude as they may have been, and slow at 1200baud or less, the first Avatar based chat room was back in my Commodore 64 day during the mid 80's
For the life of me I cant remember the name of the darn thing..but I know it existed. Little cartoons with big heads and word balloons.
Anyone else out there remember that thing?
Now all we need is Avatars as detailed and functional as those described in SNow Crash. Then some of us would NEVER have to leave our computers!
Guess what? Hitachi will release a DVD Camcorder later this year. Likely September. At least, here in Canada. While I've not seen a specifications sheet on this item, I will post it as soon as I see it. Pioneer has had a recordable DVD deck in Japan since late last year. ~$2500 us with blanks at ~$30 us. These products are available.... just rare. But we'll see them soon! You dont need a supercomputer to do MPEG2 encoding in real time, just a large chunk of money.