Theres nothing too wrong with it.
You know what you're getting when you pay for it just as much as you do when you rent a movie elsewhere.
Ever rented a movie and never got around to watching it? The 30 days should be a significant advantage in dealing with that.
And lastly it isn't as if it were replacing anything... it seems to be an additional service with which people can access movies.
I probably won't be using it. You probably won't be using it. But is there anything wrong with it being offered?!?
Nice idea from their perspective.
Its not like the encryption they use will be worth cracking. As soon as it is cracked they can change it and at best users can get a few copies of movies they didn't pay for... but that won't be so much of an issue at all if they change it regularly.
What I would be interested in is how they plan to make it work. If each movie is 500 MB and all this is official... (assuming official == more users) they're going to need LOTS of bandwidth.
I wonder whether this will be cost effective? Perhaps it is merely an attempt to reduce piracy of movies rather than actually making profit.
Or will AOL Time Warner be large enough to make sure that most of the bandwidth is free?
Yes, but since its the only method of purchasing it they offer, you're probably getting some shitty game they bundle with it because the game wasn't selling well in the first place.
I left out the 1. Yes, I meant $199.
Thats still 6 GameCubes per X-Box, though. Is it really worth it? So far the GameCube has much fewer games being developed for it, but in terms of quality games it seems far ahead.
Wasn't the GameCube going to launch at $99??
Is the X-Box really worth 12 GameCubes?
At $1200, I wonder if even Bill Gates would bother getting one of these shitty X-Boxes. The games are by far worse than any other console. It got totally slammed by the press at the last E3.
Most hardcore gamers think the X-Box will turn out to be a poor console. So are Microsoft really expecting "casual gamers" to fork out $1200 for a console?
It seems Microsoft is approximately one target audience short of a commercially successful console.
I've been told before that K6-2's were not in stock because they weren't being produced anymore... and now I find out that they just halted the 486's?!?
The K6-2's that are in stock seem so damn cheap... how do they manage to charge anything at all on their 486's that they only just halted?
What I'm wondering is, what exactly do they want with Sklyarov?
I mean, he broke *US LAW* whilst IN RUSSIA... and now they're prosecuting him in the US.
After taking that into account... what do they hope to achieve? Its unlikely that he has much money that anyone can sue him for... so they just want to keep a prisoner, basically?
What if Russia arrested and held an American for breaking a Russian law whilst in America?!? I bet there'd be a helluva lot of demands going on by the US.
The US seems to have a lot of double standards in terms of what it expects from other countries contrasted with what it allows other countries.
The DMCA is only part of the deal.
I've noticed that with myself... I would have thought it was kinda obvious though?
If within the period of 1 minute... Someone switches between two applications, obviously it will take them a second or two to adjust between the two (depending on the complexity of what they're doing).
IM programs also are a huge source of distraction for me... people come online, people go offline and messages are sent and recieved. I think IM programs will be the downfall of any productivity that exists whilst working unless they are removed from a work environment. I have started getting into the habit of closing them before starting any work.
The paper's authors list an email address as "{davek,rubin}@research.att.com". This address is invalid (501 Bad address syntax). Anyone know how to contact these people?
I don't think it is.
But I do not see why it CAN'T be.
I just think that by putting "its not lame anti ms rhetoric" they seem to acknowledge that other MS articles posted on/. are unreliable. My point was that if they acknowledge this, why don't they do something about it?
"its not lame anti ms rhetoric"
Is this supposed to suggest that other MS articles that are posted to/. *ARE* "lame anti ms rhetoric"?
Oh yeah, and where the hell is the punctuation? Shouldn't it read "it's not lame, anti-MS rhetoric"?
I mean... thats 6 words... and somehow/. editors managed to fit in about 3 mistakes in 6 words?!?
/. isn't exactly renowned for it's editing, but this seems to be a new low.
The post also has nothing to do with the article, we're given very little info. Of course, now I know its not lame and that its "a good read", but I kinda expect that would be why it's posted.
Needless to say, this is a very good thing.
Indrema was going to be an open-source console before the project died... but now it seems the PS2 has taken its place! Quite unexpected.
This could also end up being an excellent thing for Linux in general. Developers may be inclined to use SDL for their games and applications due to its portability factor. SDL makes porting from platform to platform very easy. It would be pretty hard to lose any portability without making it a concious decision.
The only drawback I see here is that there probably isn't any OpenGL distribution for PS2... (I'd love for someone to correct me on that??) so developers will probably be stuck with SDL's rasterizer.
This is still a major step forward though.
I don't think anything is ever "random".
Everything has its logical base... but alot of things can be way beyond our comprehension and thus can be considered "random".
I've always wondered... what if a completely new computer architecture was built from ground-up with only a few basic functions to act as an un-crackable server?
Surely if it only accepted a few simple text string commands it would be possible to make it un-crackable by software methods?!? Of course, theres still other ways to attack it with denial of service and the like, but for the most part it would be secure... wouldn't it??
Even if the code for each language was the best possible for that language then a huge responsibility rests upon the compiler. How well does the compiler optimize the code?
You could turn off optimizations but its still pretty worthless to try and benchmark a language since a language is simply a specification which compilers can be written to conform to.
Its hard enough to benchmark code written in the same language on different platforms and settings... trying to compare between languages is ridiculous.
What this could be useful and interesting for however is the difference in what the code looks like for different tasks in each language.
Care to explain why anyone but criminals would be afraid of this? The cameras are in public places so its not really an invasion of privacy, and unless you're breaking the law, they're not going to be interested in you. I just can't see how any law-abiding citizen would have a problem with this?
My school (Knox Grammar in Sydney, Australia) has a joint satellite project with another school in Sydney, Ravenswood and a school in Russia. The satellite is named "Kolibri" and each school has equipment for communicating and recieving data from the satellite. The students are performing actual research regarding "the structure and intensity of low-frequency electromagmetic fields around the Earth". You can read more about this project here and here.
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Theres nothing too wrong with it.
You know what you're getting when you pay for it just as much as you do when you rent a movie elsewhere.
Ever rented a movie and never got around to watching it? The 30 days should be a significant advantage in dealing with that.
And lastly it isn't as if it were replacing anything... it seems to be an additional service with which people can access movies.
I probably won't be using it. You probably won't be using it. But is there anything wrong with it being offered?!?
Nice idea from their perspective.
Its not like the encryption they use will be worth cracking. As soon as it is cracked they can change it and at best users can get a few copies of movies they didn't pay for... but that won't be so much of an issue at all if they change it regularly.
What I would be interested in is how they plan to make it work. If each movie is 500 MB and all this is official... (assuming official == more users) they're going to need LOTS of bandwidth.
I wonder whether this will be cost effective? Perhaps it is merely an attempt to reduce piracy of movies rather than actually making profit.
Or will AOL Time Warner be large enough to make sure that most of the bandwidth is free?
Yes, but since its the only method of purchasing it they offer, you're probably getting some shitty game they bundle with it because the game wasn't selling well in the first place.
I left out the 1. Yes, I meant $199.
Thats still 6 GameCubes per X-Box, though. Is it really worth it? So far the GameCube has much fewer games being developed for it, but in terms of quality games it seems far ahead.
Wasn't the GameCube going to launch at $99??
Is the X-Box really worth 12 GameCubes?
At $1200, I wonder if even Bill Gates would bother getting one of these shitty X-Boxes. The games are by far worse than any other console. It got totally slammed by the press at the last E3.
Most hardcore gamers think the X-Box will turn out to be a poor console. So are Microsoft really expecting "casual gamers" to fork out $1200 for a console?
It seems Microsoft is approximately one target audience short of a commercially successful console.
I've been told before that K6-2's were not in stock because they weren't being produced anymore... and now I find out that they just halted the 486's?!?
The K6-2's that are in stock seem so damn cheap... how do they manage to charge anything at all on their 486's that they only just halted?
What I'm wondering is, what exactly do they want with Sklyarov?
I mean, he broke *US LAW* whilst IN RUSSIA... and now they're prosecuting him in the US.
After taking that into account... what do they hope to achieve? Its unlikely that he has much money that anyone can sue him for... so they just want to keep a prisoner, basically?
What if Russia arrested and held an American for breaking a Russian law whilst in America?!? I bet there'd be a helluva lot of demands going on by the US.
The US seems to have a lot of double standards in terms of what it expects from other countries contrasted with what it allows other countries.
The DMCA is only part of the deal.
Borg or lost for words?
I wonder if he'll still be getting burned by IBM engineers in 2020?
I wonder if Steve Ballmer will still be doing this in 2020?
Thank god the "Matrix-style effects" claim was retracted!
I've noticed that with myself... I would have thought it was kinda obvious though?
If within the period of 1 minute... Someone switches between two applications, obviously it will take them a second or two to adjust between the two (depending on the complexity of what they're doing).
IM programs also are a huge source of distraction for me... people come online, people go offline and messages are sent and recieved. I think IM programs will be the downfall of any productivity that exists whilst working unless they are removed from a work environment. I have started getting into the habit of closing them before starting any work.
The paper's authors list an email address as "{davek,rubin}@research.att.com". This address is invalid (501 Bad address syntax). Anyone know how to contact these people?
davek@research.att.com
and
rubin@research.att.com
I don't think it is. /. are unreliable. My point was that if they acknowledge this, why don't they do something about it?
But I do not see why it CAN'T be.
I just think that by putting "its not lame anti ms rhetoric" they seem to acknowledge that other MS articles posted on
"its not lame anti ms rhetoric" /. *ARE* "lame anti ms rhetoric"?
/. editors managed to fit in about 3 mistakes in 6 words?!?
Is this supposed to suggest that other MS articles that are posted to
Oh yeah, and where the hell is the punctuation? Shouldn't it read "it's not lame, anti-MS rhetoric"?
I mean... thats 6 words... and somehow
/. isn't exactly renowned for it's editing, but this seems to be a new low.
The post also has nothing to do with the article, we're given very little info. Of course, now I know its not lame and that its "a good read", but I kinda expect that would be why it's posted.
Needless to say, this is a very good thing.
Indrema was going to be an open-source console before the project died... but now it seems the PS2 has taken its place! Quite unexpected.
This could also end up being an excellent thing for Linux in general. Developers may be inclined to use SDL for their games and applications due to its portability factor. SDL makes porting from platform to platform very easy. It would be pretty hard to lose any portability without making it a concious decision.
The only drawback I see here is that there probably isn't any OpenGL distribution for PS2... (I'd love for someone to correct me on that??) so developers will probably be stuck with SDL's rasterizer.
This is still a major step forward though.
I don't think anything is ever "random".
Everything has its logical base... but alot of things can be way beyond our comprehension and thus can be considered "random".
As you can read here Telstra are in fact denying any crack taking place. They're blaming it on the users!
I've always wondered... what if a completely new computer architecture was built from ground-up with only a few basic functions to act as an un-crackable server?
Surely if it only accepted a few simple text string commands it would be possible to make it un-crackable by software methods?!? Of course, theres still other ways to attack it with denial of service and the like, but for the most part it would be secure... wouldn't it??
Anyone else notice how the description of a Prima donna seems to suit Microsoft as a company?
The point of reading the screen rather than parsing the HTML, I believe was to make it adaptable to different online poker sites, I suppose?
Even if the code for each language was the best possible for that language then a huge responsibility rests upon the compiler. How well does the compiler optimize the code?
You could turn off optimizations but its still pretty worthless to try and benchmark a language since a language is simply a specification which compilers can be written to conform to.
Its hard enough to benchmark code written in the same language on different platforms and settings... trying to compare between languages is ridiculous.
What this could be useful and interesting for however is the difference in what the code looks like for different tasks in each language.
Care to explain why anyone but criminals would be afraid of this?
The cameras are in public places so its not really an invasion of privacy, and unless you're breaking the law, they're not going to be interested in you.
I just can't see how any law-abiding citizen would have a problem with this?
I would have thought they could have made mention that it was set to launch ASAP. (tomorrow)
Sun rises, source opens. Sun sets, source closes.
My school (Knox Grammar in Sydney, Australia) has a joint satellite project with another school in Sydney, Ravenswood and a school in Russia.
The satellite is named "Kolibri" and each school has equipment for communicating and recieving data from the satellite.
The students are performing actual research regarding "the structure and intensity of low-frequency electromagmetic fields around the Earth".
You can read more about this project here and here.