Only because they slipped past the lawyers. Manufacturers don't sell them as non-regional models.
They don't, but other, smaller companies figure out how to 'region hack' the players, mod them and sell them for an extra 100$ or so. They even back up the warranty too. www.dvdcity.com has them, as well as many other sites. Look for 'code free'.
And signing on as an anonymous coward makes you such a great authority? Log on or put your info in a sig.
I prefer fsck just because it doesn't look as rude and doesn't make a poster look like a jerk. A word heard, read or said is quite a bit different than a word in your head.
Insurance premiums are high because the costs of government regulation are low, because our country has (correctly) decided not to have a million and one regulations and taxes to "protect" the people, but rather to set people free and let them protect themselves. Which is done by means of lawsuits, which are litigated by fucken lawyers.
Ever worked in health care? Insurance? They are expensive because the ARE over-regulated, as well as over-litigated. The litigation happens because there's always confusion over what's the law and what is right, as well as those that don't mind harrassing others.
I am also not a Stalinist or a Marxist, but I still believe that lawyers don't earn their keep, they simply get overpaid based on an inflated market value.
The idea is such that you rent a DVD and make a video tape copy. You see the movie and get a copy for your low cost library.
Yes, VHS isn't that great, but given the average setup in the average home, it's not that bad, and if there are children, they can watch a movie hundreds of times, wear out the tape, make a new one. But some DVD players are sensitive to scratches, so if the kids scratch the disc, that screws your copy. Making copies is also handy if you have multiple TVs but only 1 DVD player, assuming the other TVs have VCRs too, so that you can at least watch the movie. In the analog equivalent, say I have a car with a tape player, and do not want to buy a CD player to replace it, so I make a copy of a CD and play the tape in the car. Actually, I mostly use minidisc for audio, but you get the point.
Any lawyer that charges 200$ PER MAN HOUR should be shot (does that mean all of them?). Lawyers are the reasons why people of LEGITIMATE professions, such as MD or engineers have a harder time earning their keep, they pay the outrageous insurance, the insurance is used to pay idiotic settlements instigated by LAWYERS. And the unwashed sheep elect LAWYERS to make new laws to help out their cronies at home. Vicious cycle, eh?
Expensive productive machine time can be easily had for half that cost per hour of operation, and machines don't try to impress you with lousy ivy-league degrees, they just produce. That run time cost also usually includes maintainance and operation personell too.
Show me a lawyer that has actually done something worthwhile for the good of his client and society and I'll show you a person that switched careers to sell dope for 'medicinal' conditions.
(owned by xtian fundamentalists, according to some horror stories about working there)
I don't think that really accounts for much, if they were 'Christian Fundementalists', they wouldn't even buy and rent out the 'edited' versions either. I'd say that there's more pressure on the customer side than originating within the chain itself.
Personally, I don't see a point in not releasing a director's cut. Once Blade Runner's director's cut was released, how many people bought the other version? I'm not even sure if they are available at all in any format anymore.
In my area, there's ostensibly a Family Video rental store, where you can find some dumb sex video next to Star Trek. That's wholesome family entertainment there!
>The G4 can do, on average, calculations in 1/4 the amount of clock cycles that a PentiumIII takes. This makes a 500MHz G4 around twice as fast as a 1GHz P3, and thats not even using the velocity engine which is capable of sustaining a gigaflop.
Hmmm... Every SPEC figure I've found puts the G4 in the high x86 region. The G4 IMO isn't really all that fast without the AltiVec. Right now, any performance difference you get between x86 and Mac is due to a less bloated platform or differences in the application due to porting.
Sustain Gigaflop my butt. That figure was due to the 'reality distortion field', I read that Apple picked their favorite 6 instructions and calculated the performance based on that, the claim was not based on real code that I can tell.
That has hardsuits that the user 'wears'. That series is (c)1987, hardly a new idea, and I'm sure there was some inspiration before then. The 'robot' thing was what, mid 70's? It supposedly started with 'Gundam'. Mobile Suit Gundam my butt, you pilot them, you don't wear them.
And I think the group of women in the bubblegum crisis series was between 18 & 25, but I really don't know.
People won't go back to books. Not going to happen as a whole, maybe a nice fraction.
I'd rather pay to watch what I want. I rent, trade & buy movies & TV shows on DVD and tape. The producers get their money from sales & the local video stores get rental money. Since the media giants own most venues, they still get money from what I watch, only the way they get it changes. Also, I get better audio. Until I get an HDTV display & reciever, I can't get AC-3 reception at all.
You seem to be in a minority for being a huge fan of PBS. I guess I would actually watch if I had decent reception.
A company like CD Now has horrible record in being a CD seller, and being lame too, they won't ship DVD Videos to Canada claiming licencing restrictions (there aren't any).
Amazon has a low selection and prices that aren't good enough to even look at them. I'd rather buy locally than from them.
Unfortunately many 'Net companies just spend money and sell below cost to get customer awareness. I tried looking for an A/V reciever of a specific model, apparently many companies were either totally out of stock or wanted more than Circuit City charged. At least one time I clicked 'order' and the system said the item was out of stock. At least twice there were no prices anywhere on the site, you had to call or email to get it. And with some of these companies, I wonder what I'd have to go through to replace a lemon.
I ended up buying from Circuit City. They just recieved the latest model, the one I was looking for was actually getting phased out (but no site told me this!), and from the manual, it appears I would have liked this newer model better. I was able to dicker the price down 20$ and they threw in 100$ worth of speakers with it, by charging me 50$ for them and reducing the cost of the reciever by another 50$.
I suppose the moral of the story is shop around, online and off. With the 'Net, you don't always know if a company is 'Fly by Night', in the physical world, you have a human being there to help and the store gets a reputation that you can ask about.
If they aren't educated enough to know what Linux is, and can't be bothered to learn about it before writing a story, blacklist the company from ever being posted on Slashdot. Make sure you write to them.
If this story is just a joke, blacklist them anyways. They only joke stories I'll accept would be those written on April 1, and even then that's annoying.
There's no need to have them being slashdotted so they can get 'eyeballs' and 'ad revenue'.
One huge act of chagrin if they are using a proprietary server is to have it come down. Oops!
NuON seems to be available now, but mostly hyped as an extremely powerful DVD player chipset. While the articles state the possibility of games, they emphasize all sorts of capabilities in manipulating DVD play such as zooming 16X while playing in reverse and such.
I don't know much else about it, but its chipset is comming out on some DVD players.
I don't care how much you try to make these agencies seem like faceless and evil entities, real people work hard to try and make the US safe from terrorism. Obviously not all of their activities are used to track terrorism, but your statement is still a ludicrous exaggeration. The fact that these organizations have such a strict and enforced veil of secrecy means that ANYTHING could be happening, and secrecy means little oversight and easy abuse of power. These people that worked so hard to protect the US from terrorism certainly didn't affect the bombing in Oklahoma or those embassies in Africa did it? If America and its rougue organizations (government, individual or corporate) quit making an obnoxious ass of themselves, fewer maligned people would want to bomb us in the first place. Face it, the world has good reason to hate the actions of those in America, although they do unfairly put those that are in absolutely no position to know what is going on with those that are possibly violating laws.
I can't find anything about a 'disastrous Haystack project. There's a Haystack observatory that's mentioned that is capable of traking small debris (2mm and larger), but nothing that seems to pass as what you described.
36 bits is the limit on Intel's newest chips, the older ones 32 or less (2^32 ~= 4GB, 2^36 ~= 64GB). Even the older Alphas actually have 38-40 physical address pins on the chip.
The limitation was that 32 bit PCI couldn't reference anything higher than 4GB.
The marketing claimed 64 bits but it was merely two 32 bit chips that I remember. If the other companies took to claims like that, maybe PS1 would be 128+ bits, same with the N64, as it seems both of them have extra hardware processors for specific tasks.
So, you like being an @$$ in public? I wish I could moderate you down as it seems like either vacuous bragging or an attempt to show yourself off as someone you aren't. You claim to be such a great designer, but your slashdot user ID doesn't even have a link to a web page of any kind.
Those Compaq designs are from Compaq. The Alpha engineering manufacturing & designs are from the former DEC. I have a true DEC Alpha at 500MHz and I wouldn't trade it for an x86 at any clock speed, except maybe 1.5GHz or so, but I can still up my system to 800MHz if I ever find a chip rated near that speed (good for a 3 year old system, eh?)...
This type of computer contracted to the French has been announced last summer, although not many are using it yet.
Honestly, the last half of your problem belongs on some email list somewhere.
...That'll put up with games that are in Japanese. I really don't think that the region lockout is so valuable from Japan to US as many media items in Japan retail for more than the US versions.
Given that random noise is an inherent component in everything around us, am I really that surprised? There's no way to totally get rid of it, although there are many minimization techniques to design a system with minimum noise. Even an ordinary resistor has a calculable and definite amount of voltage noise related to its resistance and temperature, it doesn't have to be connected to anything.
I haven't read the thing yet, 'web server down'. Oops. Does anyone know what type of server this thing was on? Less than 30 posts are here on slashdot and the link's already slashdotted.
I tried to watch Fantasia as a young teen or as a child waaaay back, I couldn't appreciate it, so if it's been a decade since you've seen it check F2K out. It's very nice and I don't normally like that kind of music.
The slaves thing goes overboard. The RI people are likely shafting the artists, but does that make it any more ethical to have MP3s of CDs you don't own? While morality, ethics and legality are not always the same, this issue is different from those in the 1860's. Sorry.
Personally I believe it there is a right to intellectual property, but the way big money owners are trying to hoard it isn't good. It's kind of like crap, the more you try to sit on, the more squishes away.
If these judges allow these laws to continue under their watch, screw the judges. Remember, they are former lawyers. I mean, if the RIAA, MPAA and the DVD-CCA are allowed to put on us what ammounts to SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) where people are being muscled out of their rights by force, money and the financial inability to defend themselves, stuff like throwing a wrench in their works should be totally legal.
When you think of it, it's the lawyers that run this country, maybe others. We allow lawyers to be elected to office to make laws that help litigation and pad the pockets of their partners at home. If you can't afford to defend yourself, you are screwed.
Maybe all those that were sued for linking could countersue for libel, as those links are only references, those links of themselves don't defeat copyrights, but the owners of those sites are being attacked and libeled as pirates.
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Only because they slipped past the lawyers. Manufacturers don't sell them as non-regional models.
They don't, but other, smaller companies figure out how to 'region hack' the players, mod them and sell them for an extra 100$ or so. They even back up the warranty too. www.dvdcity.com has them, as well as many other sites. Look for 'code free'.
And signing on as an anonymous coward makes you such a great authority? Log on or put your info in a sig.
I prefer fsck just because it doesn't look as rude and doesn't make a poster look like a jerk. A word heard, read or said is quite a bit different than a word in your head.
I have never seen any link to any government document classifying a single 'G4' based system to be un-exportable.
Insurance premiums are high because the costs of government regulation are low, because our country has (correctly) decided not to have a million and one regulations and taxes to "protect" the people, but rather to set people free and let them protect themselves. Which is done by means of lawsuits, which are litigated by fucken lawyers.
Ever worked in health care? Insurance? They are expensive because the ARE over-regulated, as well as over-litigated. The litigation happens because there's always confusion over what's the law and what is right, as well as those that don't mind harrassing others.
I am also not a Stalinist or a Marxist, but I still believe that lawyers don't earn their keep, they simply get overpaid based on an inflated market value.
The idea is such that you rent a DVD and make a video tape copy. You see the movie and get a copy for your low cost library.
Yes, VHS isn't that great, but given the average setup in the average home, it's not that bad, and if there are children, they can watch a movie hundreds of times, wear out the tape, make a new one. But some DVD players are sensitive to scratches, so if the kids scratch the disc, that screws your copy. Making copies is also handy if you have multiple TVs but only 1 DVD player, assuming the other TVs have VCRs too, so that you can at least watch the movie. In the analog equivalent, say I have a car with a tape player, and do not want to buy a CD player to replace it, so I make a copy of a CD and play the tape in the car. Actually, I mostly use minidisc for audio, but you get the point.
Any lawyer that charges 200$ PER MAN HOUR should be shot (does that mean all of them?). Lawyers are the reasons why people of LEGITIMATE professions, such as MD or engineers have a harder time earning their keep, they pay the outrageous insurance, the insurance is used to pay idiotic settlements instigated by LAWYERS. And the unwashed sheep elect LAWYERS to make new laws to help out their cronies at home. Vicious cycle, eh?
Expensive productive machine time can be easily had for half that cost per hour of operation, and machines don't try to impress you with lousy ivy-league degrees, they just produce. That run time cost also usually includes maintainance and operation personell too.
Show me a lawyer that has actually done something worthwhile for the good of his client and society and I'll show you a person that switched careers to sell dope for 'medicinal' conditions.
(owned by xtian fundamentalists, according to some horror stories about working there)
I don't think that really accounts for much, if they were 'Christian Fundementalists', they wouldn't even buy and rent out the 'edited' versions either. I'd say that there's more pressure on the customer side than originating within the chain itself.
Personally, I don't see a point in not releasing a director's cut. Once Blade Runner's director's cut was released, how many people bought the other version? I'm not even sure if they are available at all in any format anymore.
In my area, there's ostensibly a Family Video rental store, where you can find some dumb sex video next to Star Trek. That's wholesome family entertainment there!
>The G4 can do, on average, calculations in 1/4 the amount of clock cycles that a PentiumIII takes. This makes a 500MHz G4 around twice as fast as a 1GHz P3, and thats not even using the velocity engine which is capable of sustaining a gigaflop.
Hmmm... Every SPEC figure I've found puts the G4 in the high x86 region. The G4 IMO isn't really all that fast without the AltiVec. Right now, any performance difference you get between x86 and Mac is due to a less bloated platform or differences in the application due to porting.
Sustain Gigaflop my butt. That figure was due to the 'reality distortion field', I read that Apple picked their favorite 6 instructions and calculated the performance based on that, the claim was not based on real code that I can tell.
That has hardsuits that the user 'wears'. That series is (c)1987, hardly a new idea, and I'm sure there was some inspiration before then. The 'robot' thing was what, mid 70's? It supposedly started with 'Gundam'. Mobile Suit Gundam my butt, you pilot them, you don't wear them.
And I think the group of women in the bubblegum crisis series was between 18 & 25, but I really don't know.
People won't go back to books. Not going to happen as a whole, maybe a nice fraction.
I'd rather pay to watch what I want. I rent, trade & buy movies & TV shows on DVD and tape. The producers get their money from sales & the local video stores get rental money. Since the media giants own most venues, they still get money from what I watch, only the way they get it changes. Also, I get better audio. Until I get an HDTV display & reciever, I can't get AC-3 reception at all.
You seem to be in a minority for being a huge fan of PBS. I guess I would actually watch if I had decent reception.
A company like CD Now has horrible record in being a CD seller, and being lame too, they won't ship DVD Videos to Canada claiming licencing restrictions (there aren't any).
Amazon has a low selection and prices that aren't good enough to even look at them. I'd rather buy locally than from them.
Unfortunately many 'Net companies just spend money and sell below cost to get customer awareness. I tried looking for an A/V reciever of a specific model, apparently many companies were either totally out of stock or wanted more than Circuit City charged. At least one time I clicked 'order' and the system said the item was out of stock. At least twice there were no prices anywhere on the site, you had to call or email to get it. And with some of these companies, I wonder what I'd have to go through to replace a lemon.
I ended up buying from Circuit City. They just recieved the latest model, the one I was looking for was actually getting phased out (but no site told me this!), and from the manual, it appears I would have liked this newer model better. I was able to dicker the price down 20$ and they threw in 100$ worth of speakers with it, by charging me 50$ for them and reducing the cost of the reciever by another 50$.
I suppose the moral of the story is shop around, online and off. With the 'Net, you don't always know if a company is 'Fly by Night', in the physical world, you have a human being there to help and the store gets a reputation that you can ask about.
If they aren't educated enough to know what Linux is, and can't be bothered to learn about it before writing a story, blacklist the company from ever being posted on Slashdot. Make sure you write to them.
If this story is just a joke, blacklist them anyways. They only joke stories I'll accept would be those written on April 1, and even then that's annoying.
There's no need to have them being slashdotted so they can get 'eyeballs' and 'ad revenue'.
One huge act of chagrin if they are using a proprietary server is to have it come down. Oops!
NuON seems to be available now, but mostly hyped as an extremely powerful DVD player chipset. While the articles state the possibility of games, they emphasize all sorts of capabilities in manipulating DVD play such as zooming 16X while playing in reverse and such.
I don't know much else about it, but its chipset is comming out on some DVD players.
I don't care how much you try to make these agencies seem like faceless and evil entities, real people work hard to try and make the US safe from terrorism. Obviously not all of their activities are used to track terrorism, but your statement is still a ludicrous exaggeration. The fact that these organizations have such a strict and enforced veil of secrecy means that ANYTHING could be happening, and secrecy means little oversight and easy abuse of power. These people that worked so hard to protect the US from terrorism certainly didn't affect the bombing in Oklahoma or those embassies in Africa did it? If America and its rougue organizations (government, individual or corporate) quit making an obnoxious ass of themselves, fewer maligned people would want to bomb us in the first place. Face it, the world has good reason to hate the actions of those in America, although they do unfairly put those that are in absolutely no position to know what is going on with those that are possibly violating laws.
I can't find anything about a 'disastrous Haystack project. There's a Haystack observatory that's mentioned that is capable of traking small debris (2mm and larger), but nothing that seems to pass as what you described.
36 bits is the limit on Intel's newest chips, the older ones 32 or less (2^32 ~= 4GB, 2^36 ~= 64GB). Even the older Alphas actually have 38-40 physical address pins on the chip.
The limitation was that 32 bit PCI couldn't reference anything higher than 4GB.
The marketing claimed 64 bits but it was merely two 32 bit chips that I remember. If the other companies took to claims like that, maybe PS1 would be 128+ bits, same with the N64, as it seems both of them have extra hardware processors for specific tasks.
And would those mega-scroll asses please stop!
So, you like being an @$$ in public? I wish I could moderate you down as it seems like either vacuous bragging or an attempt to show yourself off as someone you aren't. You claim to be such a great designer, but your slashdot user ID doesn't even have a link to a web page of any kind.
Those Compaq designs are from Compaq. The Alpha engineering manufacturing & designs are from the former DEC. I have a true DEC Alpha at 500MHz and I wouldn't trade it for an x86 at any clock speed, except maybe 1.5GHz or so, but I can still up my system to 800MHz if I ever find a chip rated near that speed (good for a 3 year old system, eh?)...
This type of computer contracted to the French has been announced last summer, although not many are using it yet.
Honestly, the last half of your problem belongs on some email list somewhere.
...That'll put up with games that are in Japanese. I really don't think that the region lockout is so valuable from Japan to US as many media items in Japan retail for more than the US versions.
Given that random noise is an inherent component in everything around us, am I really that surprised? There's no way to totally get rid of it, although there are many minimization techniques to design a system with minimum noise. Even an ordinary resistor has a calculable and definite amount of voltage noise related to its resistance and temperature, it doesn't have to be connected to anything.
I haven't read the thing yet, 'web server down'. Oops. Does anyone know what type of server this thing was on? Less than 30 posts are here on slashdot and the link's already slashdotted.
As stated before, The 7400 Motorola is US designed. I really doubt the G4 500 can sustain a gigaflop in a real program.
I tried to watch Fantasia as a young teen or as a child waaaay back, I couldn't appreciate it, so if it's been a decade since you've seen it check F2K out. It's very nice and I don't normally like that kind of music.
The slaves thing goes overboard. The RI people are likely shafting the artists, but does that make it any more ethical to have MP3s of CDs you don't own? While morality, ethics and legality are not always the same, this issue is different from those in the 1860's. Sorry.
Personally I believe it there is a right to intellectual property, but the way big money owners are trying to hoard it isn't good. It's kind of like crap, the more you try to sit on, the more squishes away.
If these judges allow these laws to continue under their watch, screw the judges. Remember, they are former lawyers. I mean, if the RIAA, MPAA and the DVD-CCA are allowed to put on us what ammounts to SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) where people are being muscled out of their rights by force, money and the financial inability to defend themselves, stuff like throwing a wrench in their works should be totally legal.
When you think of it, it's the lawyers that run this country, maybe others. We allow lawyers to be elected to office to make laws that help litigation and pad the pockets of their partners at home. If you can't afford to defend yourself, you are screwed.
Maybe all those that were sued for linking could countersue for libel, as those links are only references, those links of themselves don't defeat copyrights, but the owners of those sites are being attacked and libeled as pirates.