Not really. Betamax players started cost over $1000 in 1977. Even by 1983, when Betamax was clearly losing the war, Betamax players started at $380. Adjusted for inflation this would be about $750-800. Buying both High Def DVD players really isn't a huge financial undertaking for most movie fans. $199 wasn't even a terrible price for the free DVDs you got, aside from lack of choice.
Any HD DVD you purchase in the next few years will continue to be playable until your player dies. By that time they'll all be available in the bargain bin.
As far as newsworthiness goes, I'd say this was pushing it on gamepolitics.com. Having a site that isn't exclusively about games and politics, and how they relate covering it really makes me think they're struggling for news.
I'm sure there is someone who is smart enough out there to bypass this, I've thought about it (for the technical challenge) but really I'm probably just to lazy to even try.
Isn't there software that will automatically transcribe sheet music by playing it? Seems that it's about as effective as DRM on a haiku.
But it was the mainstream media who usurped the use of the word from the "few" good programmers. The media lumped the majority of the good (using their own word) in with the few bad.
Well, typically hacking in the legitimate sense isn't substantially different from the illegitimate sense. Normally I understand hackers to be getting a system to do something it wasn't meant to do. Installing Linux on a camera and obtaining access to a corporate server through an exploit both fit this definition. I'd also point out that "The Hacker's Handbook" was published in 1985. The term had only been first recorded two years earlier and was mainly a piece of technology jargon. Furthermore, the first computer infiltrators were hackers in both senses of the word. All were capable programmers and keen on exploring.
Now you have wanky terms like 'white hat' and 'black hat' hackers. I'm not a fucking white hat hacker. I have nothing against black people and I don't like wearing bedsheets or burning crosses.
Okay... that's a weird argument. What do black and white hats have to do with black and white people? It's an old cowboy film metaphor!
It may be a difference in the way sentences are interpreted in England and Scotland. In England, a 12 month term is the maximum length of imprisonment. Typically you will be let out of prison after 6 months (with various restrictions, such as a requirement to call in for the remaining 6 months). It may well be different in Scotland.
And this is just a guess based on rather poor knowledge of the law of both countries. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will correct me.
Only very few people refer to unauthorised computer attackers as "crackers". The rest of the world (including the crackers, the mainstream media, and me) aren't going to change their terminology just to please a few programmers who, for whatever reason, want to call themselves hackers. The majority rules when it comes to use of language.
But it is about security! They've decided it's too hard to actually solve crimes and prosecute the old fashioned way, by proving intent to commit a crime.
Instead they just criminalise the capability to commit a crime. No matter whether there may be a legitimate use for something, or whether there may be enthusiasts who take pleasure from understanding how security works. Of course, they're not going to actually prosecute people who they think probably aren't going to commit a real crime. Just those who probably are but the police aren't capable of proving without some of that pesky "reasonable doubt" stuff getting in the way.
The only way to beat this effect is to reduce the bandwidth--which the cable companies can do just fine without netflix-- and to distribute the serving (bit torrent versus central caches).
The other way is to wait for bandwidth to increase. This will happen. In the meantime, Netflix have a capable offering and are in a posityion to exploit better quality when it comes. And remember, not everyone is in a position to get Cable. They may even not like the offering their cable company is providing.
Sure, small is cool, but these laser projection systems seem better than LCD/Lens. Lower power, cooler, presumably no need to focus. And can easily be made quite portable at a higher resolution.
It gets dark early, and it's cold and depressing in the Winter. I'm really not in the mood to start anything new. So, in 3 months time it will have started to warm up, it will be light for a decent chunk of the day, and I'll have a much better idea of what I want for the year.
Q: Should the word "Nazi" be capitalized?
A: Yes.
Should it? I mean certainly it should be if you're referring to the National Socialist German Workers' Party of Germany in the 1930's, but we're not. It's a general term for people who are fanatical about spelling. Do any style guides actually go into detail about this sort of thing?
I had to buy something. My new TV seemed a little sad without any high definition inputs to use.
I'll buy a Blu-Ray player when multi-region hackable ones start to come out. Everyone else I know with a High Def [player feels the same way. I really can't believe they decided to do the region coding thing again. The consumers really don't like being prevented from doing something perfectly legitimate.
My next purchase will be a high def network media centre.
But I consider open standards and open source to be different arguments. Unless you're employing your own developers, freely available source code (as opposed to restrictedly available source code) is not the most important aspect of the software.
No. I'm with the Laissez-Fair linguists on that one.
Sorry, but formal logicians will need to either accept that this is a piece of jargon with specific meaning in their domain, or come up with a new term.
I keep making mistakes with electric hobs, even the one I've been using for over a year. But this isn't all that easy to solve. If you have enough space then you can put them in a better arrangement but space isn't always available.
No idea why they don't have fridge controls go from red to blue.
Actually we do have "fair dealing". This includes "private study", and the copyright office have said in the past that this includes listening to music for pleasure. I'm not certain whether that's law or just legal opinion, or whether it applies to filling an entire mp3 player but at least there's a basis for argument there. And in the past, the courts have come down in favour of the consumer over this sort of thing.
That's like saying murderers and humanitarians are all just people
They both work as well as organ donors.
There is a lot of philosophy about whether Open Source is in itself good for society. Really though, this shouldn't affect government buying decisions any more than someone's political opinions affect whether they should be hired.
It shouldn't matter. Some software has all the source code publicly available. Other software only has the machine code publicly available. The differences there are quite small. Most software is somewhere between (A lot of free source code is used legitimately in closed source apps).
But it makes no difference. It is ultimately just software. A tool that can do a job. Zealots proclaiming that open source is the only way make it sound like Open Source software is somehow different. It's all just software.
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Betamax all over again.
Not really. Betamax players started cost over $1000 in 1977. Even by 1983, when Betamax was clearly losing the war, Betamax players started at $380. Adjusted for inflation this would be about $750-800. Buying both High Def DVD players really isn't a huge financial undertaking for most movie fans. $199 wasn't even a terrible price for the free DVDs you got, aside from lack of choice.
Any HD DVD you purchase in the next few years will continue to be playable until your player dies. By that time they'll all be available in the bargain bin.
As far as newsworthiness goes, I'd say this was pushing it on gamepolitics.com. Having a site that isn't exclusively about games and politics, and how they relate covering it really makes me think they're struggling for news.
I'm sure there is someone who is smart enough out there to bypass this, I've thought about it (for the technical challenge) but really I'm probably just to lazy to even try.
Isn't there software that will automatically transcribe sheet music by playing it? Seems that it's about as effective as DRM on a haiku.
But it was the mainstream media who usurped the use of the word from the "few" good programmers. The media lumped the majority of the good (using their own word) in with the few bad.
Well, typically hacking in the legitimate sense isn't substantially different from the illegitimate sense. Normally I understand hackers to be getting a system to do something it wasn't meant to do. Installing Linux on a camera and obtaining access to a corporate server through an exploit both fit this definition. I'd also point out that "The Hacker's Handbook" was published in 1985. The term had only been first recorded two years earlier and was mainly a piece of technology jargon. Furthermore, the first computer infiltrators were hackers in both senses of the word. All were capable programmers and keen on exploring.
Now you have wanky terms like 'white hat' and 'black hat' hackers. I'm not a fucking white hat hacker. I have nothing against black people and I don't like wearing bedsheets or burning crosses.
Okay... that's a weird argument. What do black and white hats have to do with black and white people? It's an old cowboy film metaphor!
It may be a difference in the way sentences are interpreted in England and Scotland. In England, a 12 month term is the maximum length of imprisonment. Typically you will be let out of prison after 6 months (with various restrictions, such as a requirement to call in for the remaining 6 months). It may well be different in Scotland.
And this is just a guess based on rather poor knowledge of the law of both countries. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will correct me.
Only very few people refer to unauthorised computer attackers as "crackers". The rest of the world (including the crackers, the mainstream media, and me) aren't going to change their terminology just to please a few programmers who, for whatever reason, want to call themselves hackers. The majority rules when it comes to use of language.
But it is about security! They've decided it's too hard to actually solve crimes and prosecute the old fashioned way, by proving intent to commit a crime.
Instead they just criminalise the capability to commit a crime. No matter whether there may be a legitimate use for something, or whether there may be enthusiasts who take pleasure from understanding how security works. Of course, they're not going to actually prosecute people who they think probably aren't going to commit a real crime. Just those who probably are but the police aren't capable of proving without some of that pesky "reasonable doubt" stuff getting in the way.
The only way to beat this effect is to reduce the bandwidth--which the cable companies can do just fine without netflix-- and to distribute the serving (bit torrent versus central caches).
The other way is to wait for bandwidth to increase. This will happen. In the meantime, Netflix have a capable offering and are in a posityion to exploit better quality when it comes. And remember, not everyone is in a position to get Cable. They may even not like the offering their cable company is providing.
That was the case in Atlantic V. Howell
Sure, small is cool, but these laser projection systems seem better than LCD/Lens. Lower power, cooler, presumably no need to focus. And can easily be made quite portable at a higher resolution.
Wait until March.
It gets dark early, and it's cold and depressing in the Winter. I'm really not in the mood to start anything new. So, in 3 months time it will have started to warm up, it will be light for a decent chunk of the day, and I'll have a much better idea of what I want for the year.
Q: Should the word "Nazi" be capitalized?
A: Yes.
Should it? I mean certainly it should be if you're referring to the National Socialist German Workers' Party of Germany in the 1930's, but we're not. It's a general term for people who are fanatical about spelling. Do any style guides actually go into detail about this sort of thing?
Yup. So I bought one (although the Toshibas are all region locked for standard DVD).
Sorry. A little confused here. Was I unclear? I bought an HD-DVD player because it's region free. I'll buy a Blu-Ray player when that's region free.
Many movies are 2.35:1. Wide screen TVs are 16:9 (about 1.8:1). So you'll still get black bars at the top and bottom. Just smaller.
I had to buy something. My new TV seemed a little sad without any high definition inputs to use.
I'll buy a Blu-Ray player when multi-region hackable ones start to come out. Everyone else I know with a High Def [player feels the same way. I really can't believe they decided to do the region coding thing again. The consumers really don't like being prevented from doing something perfectly legitimate.
My next purchase will be a high def network media centre.
But I consider open standards and open source to be different arguments. Unless you're employing your own developers, freely available source code (as opposed to restrictedly available source code) is not the most important aspect of the software.
No. I'm with the Laissez-Fair linguists on that one.
Sorry, but formal logicians will need to either accept that this is a piece of jargon with specific meaning in their domain, or come up with a new term.
I keep making mistakes with electric hobs, even the one I've been using for over a year. But this isn't all that easy to solve. If you have enough space then you can put them in a better arrangement but space isn't always available.
No idea why they don't have fridge controls go from red to blue.
After he ripped them he did make them available to everyone else in the world using Kazaa. Assuming this is the same guy
Actually we do have "fair dealing". This includes "private study", and the copyright office have said in the past that this includes listening to music for pleasure. I'm not certain whether that's law or just legal opinion, or whether it applies to filling an entire mp3 player but at least there's a basis for argument there. And in the past, the courts have come down in favour of the consumer over this sort of thing.
That's like saying murderers and humanitarians are all just people
They both work as well as organ donors.
There is a lot of philosophy about whether Open Source is in itself good for society. Really though, this shouldn't affect government buying decisions any more than someone's political opinions affect whether they should be hired.
Have you ever done a code inspection on a binary?
Yup. 99% of military purchasing guys haven't done a code inspection of anything.
Have you ever written a patch for one?
Yes. Haven't you?
It shouldn't matter. Some software has all the source code publicly available. Other software only has the machine code publicly available. The differences there are quite small. Most software is somewhere between (A lot of free source code is used legitimately in closed source apps).
But it makes no difference. It is ultimately just software. A tool that can do a job. Zealots proclaiming that open source is the only way make it sound like Open Source software is somehow different. It's all just software.
You're going to be out of luck for a bit. Sorry. You're a fairly small, slightly more expensive segment of the market.
You (or rather the lobby groups representing you) are going to have to go through all the hassle of getting the same rights all over again.
Do hard disks really sieze up if they don't get used?
Isn't there a better form of archival storage? Tape or something? Or better hard disks?