Haven't the publishers already figured out and dealt with this?
I know that I always look through the "Greatest Hits" for PS2 games. I mean, typically they are $20, which I don't mind playing for a "new" game, that I don't have to worry about having scratches, etc.
The only thing I would pay $50 for is a game that I have been waiting for that I know would be what I like to play (GTA, GT, etc). They release so many games now for the PS2 that there is almost always something in the Greatest Hits section that I am interested in playing.
Except DVDs aren't HD - you could get identical quality out of your DVDs with a standard definition 16:9 screen
Not true. Standard definition sets show an interlaced image. Since DVDs are recorded with a full frame, it will look "better" on an non-interlaced monitor (provided you have a "progressive scan" DVD player).
I believe that you would need an 'EDTV' set in order to say you would get "identical quality" with HDTV for DVDs.
Answer: you probably wouldn't. But for someone who wants to write config files that are easy to understand, exim is a good alternative. Sure, sendmail is great, and if you are familiar with it, good for you. But exim is also a good, solid alternative. Especially for someone who hasn't wasted (*ahem*) time learning sendmail.
> > Like boiling lobsters, you just raise the > > temperature a tiny bit at a time and people > > don't realize they're being baked.
> That's frogs. A lobster couldn't get out of > the slowly heating pot even if it did realize > what was happening. A frog could jump out but > doesn't.
Not that it matters much, but this is indeed a myth. Frogs don't tend to sit still for long, and if they can jump out of a pot of water, they will.
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But you have to be root to run either of them, which is yet another step in the way.
I don't know what you are trying to argue...
You don't want to have a root account under linux? If one person is using the Linux Workstation, then why couldn't he be logged in as root all the time? If you are wanting to have multiple people use the machine, give all their accounts full super user privs.
Doing this would be bad system administration, but Windows does precicely the same thing. Almost all applications under Windows (NT derivatives) require joe_user to be logged in under a superuser (administrator) acount to install software.
'DOS-based' windows (95,98,ME) had no idea of user permissions, so that point is moot.
Your argument doesn't make a whole lot of sense (if you saying that windows makes things easier to install from a security perspective).
I'd honestly prefer to pay $70+ if it would keep the competition and quality available.
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I'm just glad I'm on DSL instead of @home... (switched 8 months ago)
It's funny you mention these things like they have some bearing on a company staying afloat. I payed 70+ a month for my DSL (through northpoint), and they went under just the same. DSL is not immune to the problem.:)
Well, the focal product in your argument is just a bit silly. AIDS is the wrong thing to use. If someone finds a 'CURE' for AIDS, or the HIV virus (very successful treatment already exists). The government will not allow them to charge 1 billion dollars per cure, nor 1 million dollars per cure. If the price isn't reasonable (expensive, yes, but reasonable), then it would get a LOT of attention, and would become affordable quite quickly.
OTOH: Even if it is cheap to manufacture, It certainly wasn't cheap to research and develop. So the cost of the product will have to include that cost as well. You keep forgetting that aspect of 'cost'. How are we to reward the person that comes up with ideas such as this? Joe Blow in his garage is never going to develop the cure for AIDS. It takes a lot of effort and money to do that. If companies weren't allowed to profit from those inovations, they would never happen in the first place!
While it probably wouldn't ever happen that a company could charge 1 billion dollars for a pill that saved someones life (millions (?) of peopls of life at that!), it CERTAINLY wouldn't be allowed by the government in that the price would need to be reduced or the patent would be invalidated
Being the first to make use of this new method I would have a jumpstart on anyone copy me... By the time they managed to implement my method effectively I should already have gained a loyal user base and established myself as the #1 builder
errr, not if Big Bad Construction Company (BBCC) came up and stole your idea. They would put money behind it and drive you out of business, quickly... Patents protect little people from getting eaten up by the big dogs as well(in their ideal sense).
I would obviously be the most effective at using it(at least in theory)
rarely is the person that invents something the most effective at executing that process. The most effective person at executing anything is the person that finds the right mix between workers with natural talent for doing what they do, and having enough money to throw at the project.
If I could simply patent my method, I would stop researching new ideas simply because no one could compete with me anyway so why waste the money?
Not when BBCC2 came along with a BETTER method of building a house. then where would you be? Probably right back inventing new ways to do things! ah, innovation!
Imagine someone who created a cure to AIDS and patented it
That is why you can't say "I patent cures to aids". Patents are supposed to be specifically how you do something. In the case of Medicinal Patents, they would go through the steps it took to create the drug, and the chemicals that went into it. Someone else could come along and find a better way to cure aids, or still yet, they could license the rights to make your cure to aids and give your royalties.
patents, when used properly, can be a huge boost to a civilization; protecting its inventors frr theft, and big bad companies with lots of money. The problem with our patent system is not its Intent, it's the Method in which it's executed..
30 fps is not an "absolute minimum" defined anywhere but in popular opinion. truth is: 60 fps, is the arcade standard of "absolute minimum", and you can tell a huge difference between the two. as for playable? who knows.
That point aside: the difference between games and motion pictures, is that they capture and display a MUCH different environment and media. games draw smooth sharp lines with clear borders and edges from prewritten data, while a camera captures real life, which is natrually "anti-aliased" and smooth in motion. The capturing of smooth curves and fuzzy edges give a realaistic motion blur to the film, thus making the higer frame rate uneeded to convey a natrual representation of life.
Some people do compain about the lack of framerate in a standard film, but the vast majority find it more than comfortable and smooth to watch.
in response to a lower post: dvds actually have 30 frames per second. Im not sure how they transition from 24 to 30? (at least the ones I have watched (region 1) have 30.:)
I'm pretty disappointed that when something like this emerges, it's immediately criticized from the perspective of "they're trying to keep us from copying stuff willy nilly", rather than as a new technology that will allow us to do something we couldn't before: preserve HDTV broadcasts at home in High Definition.
I usually would agree with you, however, you are forgetting that the networks and the MPAA is going to tell you what you CAN record and what you CAN'T record. I think that recording in HD is all well and good, but if you can't record a show that you want to (besides all the commercials of course), then why would you care to record at all?
That is why people are criticizing from the perspective that you mention. It is the overwhelming consideration in this argument IMO. So while it is so easy for you to just "set aside the whole 'copy protection'" issue, This is a very large factor for others, and they can't look past it.
OOPS! I dont know how I will feel about any comments you make from now on. This quotation should be credited to "Deep Throat". Fox Mulder merely repeated it.:)
that is amazing that you disliked the characters so much execpt LEITO???? he was the the worst cast character in the entire series.
william hurt at no point screams out "duke". his low-key perfomance turned me off immediately. I thought that the ONLY reason he was in the movie was for name-reckognition. Seriously, he seemed more like a beaten down father than a powerful and stoic duke. It was like he was depressed and hoarse the entire movie!!
And the baron was bad, but not as bad as Lynch's Baron. Both seem to forget that the baron is a freaking bloodthirsty leader instead paiting him as (and ONLY as) a pederass. Oh well, still better than lynch's.
I thought Jessica was better than the movie, but not as strong as in the book.
i think that is funny how people can have such grossly opposite opinions from others.:)
Now it's our turn, and we don't have to blow anyone up to get our way.
Oh yeah, Hiroshima was a just a miscommunication.:)
Don't get me wrong, I bleed red, white and blue, but we have been in our share of wars. True, our involvement has been less about colonizing new countries, and more about keeping the peace and fighting communism, but the Persian Gulf war sure had some Capitalistic overtones in it.
I can definately vouch for the fact that non-profit orgs cannot afford to stay "high-tech" to say the least.
My mother is the director of operations at a school for handicap children, that just begs to have a sys admin. They are now even in multiple sites (with two seperate small networks), and would like to have those networked together in some way (right now they use dial-up networking in Windows on a one-by-one basis). They have people that would like to dial in from home, etc, but they just dont have the resources to manage a small-medium sized network.
I used to "run" their network, which is just a simple file sharing network, with no real servers (in my spare time). But they have set up Microsoft mail on their own, and are frustrated that it isn't easier to maintain. They are just not technically oriented people, but find great benifits in using tech.
The real problem is the pay. Most of the people there are there becasue they want to help the less fortunate, and often take pay cuts. There just does not seem to be a great desire to lend ones technical knowledge to them. I help when im home, but since i have moved away, they are just stuck. I have a feeling that it is the same for most non-profits out there as well. you don't make the bucks, so you can't hire the help. People can donate their time, but the people with the proper skills (usually these people are younger), are not willing to help.
Just my observations, and encouragement to get involved in a cause that you think is worthwhile. They could definately use someone that would rather hammer at a keyboard than hammer a nail.
Actually, i think you are getting confused between 4:3 mode with a letterboxed picture, 4:3 mode with a Pan and Scan picture, and 16:9 mode.
16:9 mode actually outputs a different signal to your TV. The signal is designed for TVs that are enhanced for 16:9 mode (ala widescreen TVs). You can usually access this option from the dvd player setup menu (as apposed to the interactive DVD menu).
Pan and Scan mode is usually an alternate track on a DVD. if a DVD could fit two movies on a single side, there could be a "letterboxed" edition, and a "pan and scan" edition. That is probably the feature that you are trying to set. The catch is: most DVDs don't include this ability. Movies are too large to fit two copies on a single side. So you can usually access a pan and scan version on the other side of the disk, or not at all.
The Matrix IIRC, does NOT have a Pan and Sacn version on it.
so you will be stuck using a 4:3 picture with a letterboxed movie. Which IMO is so much better than pan and scan.:)
I mean with a banner, the site you are clicking from is going to want to know how many people clicked so they can get paid... Or are you implying that Microsoft are getting paid click-through from the default favourites? I would have thought it would be the other way round, companies paying Microsoft to have their site in the default favourites.
actually, you just agreed with the statement you were trying to counter. "The other way [a]round" would be microsoft paying companies to include their links in their browser. they are doing "click-through" payments logic here. the more people that use the default bookmarks, the more they can charge for the inclusion of them.
There are a very large number of reasons why this is legal
Point 1 and 2 are reasons (whether they are correct points or not, i dont know -- IANAL) why this would be legal, points 3-5 are NOT reasons why this would be legal. Actually I have not seen any solid information yet. Does anyone know if this is leagal or not? -- one person says "It's illegal: copyright violation" another says "leaked trade secrets are not protected under copyright laws". Does anyone have an informed opinion, or are all these just opinions?
*Rumors sites are fun for the fanatics, who have already decided whether or not to buy apple, but they don't actually generate new sales of products, so they aren't losing any business by shutting them down
Actually, the business they may be loosing would be those very fans that read the fansites... The fear is alienating your user base. Not alienating the uninformed user.
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Excellent point. I hadn't thought of it this way until you mentioned it. If I had mod points, and you weren't already at a 5, I'd give you more.
Haven't the publishers already figured out and dealt with this?
I know that I always look through the "Greatest Hits" for PS2 games. I mean, typically they are $20, which I don't mind playing for a "new" game, that I don't have to worry about having scratches, etc.
The only thing I would pay $50 for is a game that I have been waiting for that I know would be what I like to play (GTA, GT, etc). They release so many games now for the PS2 that there is almost always something in the Greatest Hits section that I am interested in playing.
Except DVDs aren't HD - you could get identical quality out of your DVDs with a standard definition 16:9 screen
D -on-HDTV-Display.html
Not true. Standard definition sets show an interlaced image. Since DVDs are recorded with a full frame, it will look "better" on an non-interlaced monitor (provided you have a "progressive scan" DVD player).
I believe that you would need an 'EDTV' set in order to say you would get "identical quality" with HDTV for DVDs.
http://www.oppodigital.com/Getting-Most-out-of-DV
Well, of course this won't retroactively fix your "inbox", but the traditional way to do this is to Bcc: your email address -- Works very well.
use wget:
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00:12:21 (202.46 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 3633960. Retrying.
00:12:45 (129.40 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 5860693. Retrying.
00:13:09 (191.46 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 9888738. Retrying.
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00:16:43 (209.72 KB/s) - `revolutions_640_dl.mov' saved [34239231/34239231]
Good job, wget!
> Am I missing something?
/db
Yeah... The last month on slashdot (Note: that is
not necessarily a bad thing).
> Re:Why would I want to use exim?
Answer: you probably wouldn't. But for someone who wants to write config files that are easy to understand, exim is a good alternative. Sure, sendmail is great, and if you are familiar with it, good for you. But exim is also a good, solid alternative. Especially for someone who hasn't wasted (*ahem*) time learning sendmail.
> > Like boiling lobsters, you just raise the
> > temperature a tiny bit at a time and people
> > don't realize they're being baked.
> That's frogs. A lobster couldn't get out of
> the slowly heating pot even if it did realize
> what was happening. A frog could jump out but
> doesn't.
Not that it matters much, but this is indeed a myth.
Frogs don't tend to sit still for long, and if
they can jump out of a pot of water, they will.
But you have to be root to run either of them, which is yet another step in the way.
I don't know what you are trying to argue...
You don't want to have a root account under linux? If one person is using the Linux Workstation, then why couldn't he be logged in as root all the time? If you are wanting to have multiple people use the machine, give all their accounts full super user privs.
Doing this would be bad system administration, but Windows does precicely the same thing. Almost all applications under Windows (NT derivatives) require joe_user to be logged in under a superuser (administrator) acount to install software.
'DOS-based' windows (95,98,ME) had no idea of user permissions, so that point is moot.
Your argument doesn't make a whole lot of sense (if you saying that windows makes things easier to install from a security perspective).
[...]
I'm just glad I'm on DSL instead of @home... (switched 8 months ago)
It's funny you mention these things like they have some bearing on a company staying afloat. I payed 70+ a month for my DSL (through northpoint), and they went under just the same. DSL is not immune to the problem.
OTOH: Even if it is cheap to manufacture, It certainly wasn't cheap to research and develop. So the cost of the product will have to include that cost as well. You keep forgetting that aspect of 'cost'. How are we to reward the person that comes up with ideas such as this? Joe Blow in his garage is never going to develop the cure for AIDS. It takes a lot of effort and money to do that. If companies weren't allowed to profit from those inovations, they would never happen in the first place!
While it probably wouldn't ever happen that a company could charge 1 billion dollars for a pill that saved someones life (millions (?) of peopls of life at that!), it CERTAINLY wouldn't be allowed by the government in that the price would need to be reduced or the patent would be invalidated
errr, not if Big Bad Construction Company (BBCC) came up and stole your idea. They would put money behind it and drive you out of business, quickly... Patents protect little people from getting eaten up by the big dogs as well(in their ideal sense).
I would obviously be the most effective at using it(at least in theory)
rarely is the person that invents something the most effective at executing that process. The most effective person at executing anything is the person that finds the right mix between workers with natural talent for doing what they do, and having enough money to throw at the project.
If I could simply patent my method, I would stop researching new ideas simply because no one could compete with me anyway so why waste the money?
Not when BBCC2 came along with a BETTER method of building a house. then where would you be? Probably right back inventing new ways to do things! ah, innovation!
Imagine someone who created a cure to AIDS and patented it
That is why you can't say "I patent cures to aids". Patents are supposed to be specifically how you do something. In the case of Medicinal Patents, they would go through the steps it took to create the drug, and the chemicals that went into it. Someone else could come along and find a better way to cure aids, or still yet, they could license the rights to make your cure to aids and give your royalties.
patents, when used properly, can be a huge boost to a civilization; protecting its inventors frr theft, and big bad companies with lots of money. The problem with our patent system is not its Intent, it's the Method in which it's executed..
That point aside: the difference between games and motion pictures, is that they capture and display a MUCH different environment and media. games draw smooth sharp lines with clear borders and edges from prewritten data, while a camera captures real life, which is natrually "anti-aliased" and smooth in motion. The capturing of smooth curves and fuzzy edges give a realaistic motion blur to the film, thus making the higer frame rate uneeded to convey a natrual representation of life.
Some people do compain about the lack of framerate in a standard film, but the vast majority find it more than comfortable and smooth to watch.
in response to a lower post: dvds actually have 30 frames per second. Im not sure how they transition from 24 to 30? (at least the ones I have watched (region 1) have 30. :)
I usually would agree with you, however, you are forgetting that the networks and the MPAA is going to tell you what you CAN record and what you CAN'T record. I think that recording in HD is all well and good, but if you can't record a show that you want to (besides all the commercials of course), then why would you care to record at all?
That is why people are criticizing from the perspective that you mention. It is the overwhelming consideration in this argument IMO. So while it is so easy for you to just "set aside the whole 'copy protection'" issue, This is a very large factor for others, and they can't look past it.
OOPS! I dont know how I will feel about any comments you make from now on. This quotation should be credited to "Deep Throat". Fox Mulder merely repeated it. :)
'primary education' == 5 and below (sometimes the 5 varies and can go up to 8th grade)
:)
'middle school' == 6 - 8
'secondary education' == 9 - 12
not to be picky, but i didn't want your misinformation to escape to the unwashed, ignorant, canadian masses.
william hurt at no point screams out "duke". his low-key perfomance turned me off immediately. I thought that the ONLY reason he was in the movie was for name-reckognition. Seriously, he seemed more like a beaten down father than a powerful and stoic duke. It was like he was depressed and hoarse the entire movie!!
And the baron was bad, but not as bad as Lynch's Baron. Both seem to forget that the baron is a freaking bloodthirsty leader instead paiting him as (and ONLY as) a pederass. Oh well, still better than lynch's.
I thought Jessica was better than the movie, but not as strong as in the book.
i think that is funny how people can have such grossly opposite opinions from others. :)
I didn't know that capitalism meant greed and extortion.
Capitalism: using men's greed to better the economy and the products and services they offer. Plain and simple.
there are corrupt capitalists just as there are corrupt socialists, but fundamentally, they view the human spirit in two different ways.
you are making the connection between being a good capitalist and being an ethical person. That connection is not necessary.
Oh yeah, Hiroshima was a just a miscommunication. :)
Don't get me wrong, I bleed red, white and blue, but we have been in our share of wars. True, our involvement has been less about colonizing new countries, and more about keeping the peace and fighting communism, but the Persian Gulf war sure had some Capitalistic overtones in it.
My point: we are not totally innocent.
My mother is the director of operations at a school for handicap children, that just begs to have a sys admin. They are now even in multiple sites (with two seperate small networks), and would like to have those networked together in some way (right now they use dial-up networking in Windows on a one-by-one basis). They have people that would like to dial in from home, etc, but they just dont have the resources to manage a small-medium sized network.
I used to "run" their network, which is just a simple file sharing network, with no real servers (in my spare time). But they have set up Microsoft mail on their own, and are frustrated that it isn't easier to maintain. They are just not technically oriented people, but find great benifits in using tech.
The real problem is the pay. Most of the people there are there becasue they want to help the less fortunate, and often take pay cuts. There just does not seem to be a great desire to lend ones technical knowledge to them. I help when im home, but since i have moved away, they are just stuck. I have a feeling that it is the same for most non-profits out there as well. you don't make the bucks, so you can't hire the help. People can donate their time, but the people with the proper skills (usually these people are younger), are not willing to help.
Just my observations, and encouragement to get involved in a cause that you think is worthwhile. They could definately use someone that would rather hammer at a keyboard than hammer a nail.
Actually, i think you are getting confused between 4:3 mode with a letterboxed picture, 4:3 mode with a Pan and Scan picture, and 16:9 mode.
:)
16:9 mode actually outputs a different signal to your TV. The signal is designed for TVs that are enhanced for 16:9 mode (ala widescreen TVs). You can usually access this option from the dvd player setup menu (as apposed to the interactive DVD menu).
Pan and Scan mode is usually an alternate track on a DVD. if a DVD could fit two movies on a single side, there could be a "letterboxed" edition, and a "pan and scan" edition. That is probably the feature that you are trying to set. The catch is: most DVDs don't include this ability. Movies are too large to fit two copies on a single side. So you can usually access a pan and scan version on the other side of the disk, or not at all.
The Matrix IIRC, does NOT have a Pan and Sacn version on it.
so you will be stuck using a 4:3 picture with a letterboxed movie. Which IMO is so much better than pan and scan.
/db
it IS the most successful portable game console ever.
I mean with a banner, the site you are clicking from is going to want to know how many people clicked so they can get paid... Or are you implying that Microsoft are getting paid click-through from the default favourites? I would have thought it would be the other way round, companies paying Microsoft to have their site in the default favourites.
actually, you just agreed with the statement you were trying to counter. "The other way [a]round" would be microsoft paying companies to include their links in their browser. they are doing "click-through" payments logic here. the more people that use the default bookmarks, the more they can charge for the inclusion of them.
There are a very large number of reasons why this is legal
Point 1 and 2 are reasons (whether they are correct points or not, i dont know -- IANAL) why this would be legal, points 3-5 are NOT reasons why this would be legal. Actually I have not seen any solid information yet. Does anyone know if this is leagal or not? -- one person says "It's illegal: copyright violation" another says "leaked trade secrets are not protected under copyright laws". Does anyone have an informed opinion, or are all these just opinions?
*Rumors sites are fun for the fanatics, who have already decided whether or not to buy apple, but they don't actually generate new sales of products, so they aren't losing any business by shutting them down
Actually, the business they may be loosing would be those very fans that read the fansites... The fear is alienating your user base. Not alienating the uninformed user.