In Europe, a significant number of DVD players are hacked to allow playing US DVDs. US DVDs are imported because the EU versions are too often inferior quality or delayed from the US release.
I wanted to get an EVD (or was it HVD?) player back when they tried it, but there were less than ten discs in Chinese that I could find online, and I could not find any information on subtitling. At any rate, the JVC D-VHS format was more successful than EVD/HVD.
Of course the rights granted by the DRM must follow fair use guidelines. So far no one has done that.
What part of Apple's system doesn't? It allows five computers and an unlimited number of iPods. It's easy to write to an audio CD, up to seven CDs of a particular playlist. If you change the playlist by a minute (add a one minute track at the end), or make a new playlist with same tracks, you can get seven more burns. You can even use their program to rip that CD to get an unencrypted (albiet slightly lower quality) file, they've never tried to stop that.
It's not that I like DRM, but I would consider Apple's system to be more lenient than what fair use case law might allow.
The problem is that one should not compare between different quarters if there is any reason that sales may be seasonal. You can have a significant drop between quarters but have a strong year over year increase. Anyone worth their salt in the retail or stock analysis industries would understand that. I would normally expect that The Register or The Inquirer to understand that, either that or they ignore it, making them hack journalists at best.
Much in the same way that a dedicated graphics chip can render so much quicker than a general purpose CPU running many times the speed. The problem is, the specialized units for certain problems may or may not be needed a year from now when a better way to solve a problem is found. Or new problems arise that don't fit the existing specialized units. General purpose CPUs may be slower at a given task, but they can perform a much greater range of tasks. As such, I'm not calling a winner here.
It sounded like the pilot to Farscape to me, I don't think that was Roddenbery, I thought it was pretty good, what little I did see. Maybe the pilot to Voyager too.
I think a little variety can help. When I tried Knopmyth, it simply wasn't compatible with my computer with an Intel workstation chipset, despite the fact that the chipset was over three years old at the time. If I had another option to try, then it might have helped.
I have done an install of Myth on Fedora, but it's 95% done and I left it that way for a long time because there was some setup stoff that needed to be finished that I couldn't get to work reliably. Eventually I just gave up and bought an EyeTV for my Mac. It's probably not as good as Myth but at least the installation was quick and simple.
He has said many times that he has no interest in software politics. Unfortunately for him, software politics has a terrific interest in him. He ignores it at his own peril.
I'm curious what Linus loses if he ignores software politics, or how he would be emperiled by this. Is he going to lose the kernel? If he does, how does that really hurt him?
Design fits, but unfortunately, you are referring to the unfortunate connotation that design is only about aesthetics, which is an extremely limited scope.
The problem is that recordings are considered copyrighted from the time of the recording, as derivative works aren't automatically out of copyright when the original work leaves copyright. I think most people probably wouldn't want recordings that left copyright just by age, what would that be? Wax cylinders?
I wonder where this sort of thing impression comes from. Even with digital broadcasts, there's no reason that even an obsolete TV should be thrown away except after it dies. Digital tuners are available that can output analog video, and the picture quality will be better than analog broadcasts. The old TVs will work with cable or satellite boxes, game systems, DVD players or anything with an analog video output.
I don't think it's necessarily the business laws, I think it may be the record labels simply deciding they don't want to sell certain titles overseas. If it's not available on CD in Sweden, I imagine that it's not available on iTunes for some of the same reasons.
Then there's also the negotiations because overseas rights are often held by subsidiaries or licensees, and you have to deal with the licensee. That's one reason why rolling out a new store in a new country isn't easy. I think for the same reason, a person with an overseas credit card can't buy from the US store.
According to an article about people deducing things, which may or may not be correct based on limited specific information.
Credit card transactions don't account for those iTunes prepaid cards either. Those things are now popping up at gas stations, so the alleged credit card loss might be made up for with those cards.
But that's not really my problem. I have a 1GB first gen nano which I fill up with my own legal rips.
I think this is the most sensible approach. If you don't pay for the music that you do like, it reduces the production of that music. If you don't like the RIAA, that's plenty fine, but please listen to and support independent music and non-RIAA labels.
I think it's funny that crowds like this foam at the mouth if a business violates the GPL, but voilating someone else's copyright is often considered OK. It's basically called a double standard or hypocrisy.
I've tried VLC. It crashes a lot more often than Windows. I've seen VLC 0.8.5 crash twice in an evening, I see Windows crash once every other year, and often it's a hardware problem when it does.
I've been frustrated by 0.8.5's inability to remember deinterlacing settings, and also it's tendency to spew out errors. I've had it crash several times in an evening.
The problem is that stuff like newspapers don't use good quality printing, so you can get away with a lesser camera. Camcorder quality is improving, but more people are just using cell phone cameras to shoot photos or record video, and those cameras are still pretty bad. A lot of online stories by the news organizations don't have much by the way of photos either, the ones that I do see are very low res, whether or not it was taken by a good camera.
Are there consumer systems for doing this, and are they reliable? Are the DVDs easily recyclable? I'd hate to be buying more and more stacks of plastic laminated metal that can't be recycled when they are no longer needed.
I certainly don't want to be dealing with jukeboxes that fail. I knew some people that dealt with a commercial grade jukebox that was simply unusable, it would routinely drop media and otherwise misbehave.
I'm also not interested in manually changing out discs.
For me, it's all adding up to just using a remote second computer to store a backup on hard drives.
Microsoft was smart to drop Virtual PC, it is is irrelevant. There was Boot Camp and Parallels. Parallels now has what they call "coherence" so that Windows apps can be along side Mac apps, much like Virtual PC did. I would expect that the parts that Parallels doesn't do yet will come soon enough. There are other options, such as Crossover and there's vmware coming onto the scene, so I expect theret to be enough competition.
According to the Flip4Mac people, Microsoft had a stated policy of never supporting or licencing their DRM on non-Microsoft platforms, meaning Linux and Mac OS are out anyway.
That depends on what you mean. Cars have had computers in them for a long time. I think Packard and Deusenberg had computers in the 30's. Regular passenger cars have had computers in them for twenty years now, any electronic fuel injection engine has a computer to control it.
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In Europe, a significant number of DVD players are hacked to allow playing US DVDs. US DVDs are imported because the EU versions are too often inferior quality or delayed from the US release.
I wanted to get an EVD (or was it HVD?) player back when they tried it, but there were less than ten discs in Chinese that I could find online, and I could not find any information on subtitling. At any rate, the JVC D-VHS format was more successful than EVD/HVD.
Of course the rights granted by the DRM must follow fair use guidelines. So far no one has done that.
What part of Apple's system doesn't? It allows five computers and an unlimited number of iPods. It's easy to write to an audio CD, up to seven CDs of a particular playlist. If you change the playlist by a minute (add a one minute track at the end), or make a new playlist with same tracks, you can get seven more burns. You can even use their program to rip that CD to get an unencrypted (albiet slightly lower quality) file, they've never tried to stop that.
It's not that I like DRM, but I would consider Apple's system to be more lenient than what fair use case law might allow.
The problem is that one should not compare between different quarters if there is any reason that sales may be seasonal. You can have a significant drop between quarters but have a strong year over year increase. Anyone worth their salt in the retail or stock analysis industries would understand that. I would normally expect that The Register or The Inquirer to understand that, either that or they ignore it, making them hack journalists at best.
Much in the same way that a dedicated graphics chip can render so much quicker than a general purpose CPU running many times the speed. The problem is, the specialized units for certain problems may or may not be needed a year from now when a better way to solve a problem is found. Or new problems arise that don't fit the existing specialized units. General purpose CPUs may be slower at a given task, but they can perform a much greater range of tasks. As such, I'm not calling a winner here.
Yeah, the Omega Particle was a crap Voyager bullshit particle that should have been forgotten, much like the Voyager series.
It sounded like the pilot to Farscape to me, I don't think that was Roddenbery, I thought it was pretty good, what little I did see. Maybe the pilot to Voyager too.
Not Skynet but Dotnet.
I think a little variety can help. When I tried Knopmyth, it simply wasn't compatible with my computer with an Intel workstation chipset, despite the fact that the chipset was over three years old at the time. If I had another option to try, then it might have helped.
I have done an install of Myth on Fedora, but it's 95% done and I left it that way for a long time because there was some setup stoff that needed to be finished that I couldn't get to work reliably. Eventually I just gave up and bought an EyeTV for my Mac. It's probably not as good as Myth but at least the installation was quick and simple.
He has said many times that he has no interest in software politics. Unfortunately for him, software politics has a terrific interest in him. He ignores it at his own peril.
I'm curious what Linus loses if he ignores software politics, or how he would be emperiled by this. Is he going to lose the kernel? If he does, how does that really hurt him?
Design fits, but unfortunately, you are referring to the unfortunate connotation that design is only about aesthetics, which is an extremely limited scope.
The problem is that recordings are considered copyrighted from the time of the recording, as derivative works aren't automatically out of copyright when the original work leaves copyright. I think most people probably wouldn't want recordings that left copyright just by age, what would that be? Wax cylinders?
Heck, they get accusations of slashvertisements already.
I agree. I would want to see a scan of the document. Otherwise, unless proven otherwise, I'll just regard it as a hoax for reasons like this.
I wonder where this sort of thing impression comes from. Even with digital broadcasts, there's no reason that even an obsolete TV should be thrown away except after it dies. Digital tuners are available that can output analog video, and the picture quality will be better than analog broadcasts. The old TVs will work with cable or satellite boxes, game systems, DVD players or anything with an analog video output.
I don't think it's necessarily the business laws, I think it may be the record labels simply deciding they don't want to sell certain titles overseas. If it's not available on CD in Sweden, I imagine that it's not available on iTunes for some of the same reasons.
Then there's also the negotiations because overseas rights are often held by subsidiaries or licensees, and you have to deal with the licensee. That's one reason why rolling out a new store in a new country isn't easy. I think for the same reason, a person with an overseas credit card can't buy from the US store.
According to an article about people deducing things, which may or may not be correct based on limited specific information.
Credit card transactions don't account for those iTunes prepaid cards either. Those things are now popping up at gas stations, so the alleged credit card loss might be made up for with those cards.
But that's not really my problem. I have a 1GB first gen nano which I fill up with my own legal rips.
I think this is the most sensible approach. If you don't pay for the music that you do like, it reduces the production of that music. If you don't like the RIAA, that's plenty fine, but please listen to and support independent music and non-RIAA labels.
I think it's funny that crowds like this foam at the mouth if a business violates the GPL, but voilating someone else's copyright is often considered OK. It's basically called a double standard or hypocrisy.
I've tried VLC. It crashes a lot more often than Windows. I've seen VLC 0.8.5 crash twice in an evening, I see Windows crash once every other year, and often it's a hardware problem when it does.
I've been frustrated by 0.8.5's inability to remember deinterlacing settings, and also it's tendency to spew out errors. I've had it crash several times in an evening.
The problem is that stuff like newspapers don't use good quality printing, so you can get away with a lesser camera. Camcorder quality is improving, but more people are just using cell phone cameras to shoot photos or record video, and those cameras are still pretty bad. A lot of online stories by the news organizations don't have much by the way of photos either, the ones that I do see are very low res, whether or not it was taken by a good camera.
Are there consumer systems for doing this, and are they reliable? Are the DVDs easily recyclable? I'd hate to be buying more and more stacks of plastic laminated metal that can't be recycled when they are no longer needed.
I certainly don't want to be dealing with jukeboxes that fail. I knew some people that dealt with a commercial grade jukebox that was simply unusable, it would routinely drop media and otherwise misbehave.
I'm also not interested in manually changing out discs.
For me, it's all adding up to just using a remote second computer to store a backup on hard drives.
Microsoft was smart to drop Virtual PC, it is is irrelevant. There was Boot Camp and Parallels. Parallels now has what they call "coherence" so that Windows apps can be along side Mac apps, much like Virtual PC did. I would expect that the parts that Parallels doesn't do yet will come soon enough. There are other options, such as Crossover and there's vmware coming onto the scene, so I expect theret to be enough competition.
According to the Flip4Mac people, Microsoft had a stated policy of never supporting or licencing their DRM on non-Microsoft platforms, meaning Linux and Mac OS are out anyway.
I'm pretty sure they have a different set of priorities than you do. The project will probably be forked to handle different needs.
That depends on what you mean. Cars have had computers in them for a long time. I think Packard and Deusenberg had computers in the 30's. Regular passenger cars have had computers in them for twenty years now, any electronic fuel injection engine has a computer to control it.