In the future, speakers that produce piracy-inducing analog sound waves will be outlawed. All music will be transmitted directly to your auditory nerve.
Oh wait, nerves use analog signals. All nerves must carry DRM!
I'm gonna make a killing in ten years when I sue someone for infringing on my patent for a pro-rated system of video content distribution on the internet.
The latest QuickTime release has an Export setting for the iPod video. If you can get a video on to your computer that QuickTime can understand (which may require the use of things like Flip4Mac), you can definitely watch it on your iPod video.
Of course, there are other tools for re-encoding to H.264 and MPEG4, as well.
Until just a few months ago when an upgrade was rolled out at my university, the only web browsers officially supported on OS X were Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Tiger, which had been out for a few months at the time, was not officially supported.
Blackboard is also a fan of frames, ugliness, and odd behaviors. It's impossible to enroll a system administrator in a course, no matter what. They can only self-enroll.
I'd pay $5-10 a month to HBO if I could access all their content online -- I'm addicted to Real Time and I love Deadwood. However, I'm not going to pay the extra $20 for digital cable, which is full of shit content and shittier commercials, in order to pay $10 for something I want.
The Constitution does not grant the federal government the power to enforce standards of decency, but the Supremacy Clause and various Supreme Court decisions guarantee that the protections offered by the first amendment may not be infringed upon by state and local governments.
Miller and Roth are outdated and simply wrong, and I'm hoping that a truly conservative court will overturn them in the future. Titillating speech is no less speech because of its content. If the framers had intended to protect only non-obscene speech they would have written the First Amendment to reflect that intent.
Otherwise the button configuration is an interesting mix of old and new: standard D-pad up top, near the power button (to turn the Revolution console on and off),
Anyone remember when the neighborhood spaz would get über-pissed because he sucked at videogames and so he'd make a run to turn off the console, and a fight would ensue?
There really needs to be a way to prevent the console from being turned off remotely, or else there's going to be lots of bruises and bloody noses in homes that house both children and Revolutions.
Clippy's old news, man. The real reason for the insane requirements is that Vista requires you to be able to do real time rendering of photorealistic fur on the search dog.
It's very ironic to me that one of the industries that benefits most from globalization makes such a concerted and futile effort to hamper trade in their own global market.
As a person keen on foreign films, I know I won't be buying a Blu-Ray that can't be made region-free. If no such player exists, I'll just end up pirating films released exclusively on Blu-Ray.
If you've got a new hard drive in your Mac with nothing on it, it'll install on that just fine. In fact, you can install it on a FireWire drive, if you like. Or a flash drive, if you've got one large enough. The only version of Tiger that checks for a previously installed version of OS X is the one you get in the Up-To-Date program.
The market for vinyl still exists because there are some audiophiles who believe the sound quality of vinyl is superior to that of CDs. No one can reasonably hold the belief that VHS is of higher quality than DVD.
If I hadn't downloaded a torrent of the Firefly series (many many months after its cancellation), I wouldn't be so incredibly psyched to see Serentiy this Fall.
There's nothing wrong with PDFs. I can create and open PDFs easily and speedily in OS X with Preview.
Acrobat Reader, however, is like an eighty year old woman behind the wheel of an otherwise useful and speedy automobile. Why does Preview take a a matter of milliseconds to do what takes Acrobat fifteen seconds or more?
Oh yeah, there's no dobut that Metro is going to be Trusted Computing Friendly.
Microsoft's grammar check doesn't include a disclaimer that it's not perfect.
For someone who comes from a language in which there is only one correct way to form a certain sentence, it's not hard to think that the grammar checker ought to be trusted over your English-as-a-second-language skills.
I've had plenty of foreign friends who are baffled when I tell them that I'm right and their $1500 computer is wrong.
It may not be well publicized, but the studios threaten movie swappers just as much as they threaten television show swappers. Paramount routinely sends DMCA violation notices to my university's help desk, and about half of those are people downlaoding shows like Enterprise.
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You can't love Apple hardware that much if you think they're still making PowerBooks out of Titanium.
In the future, speakers that produce piracy-inducing analog sound waves will be outlawed. All music will be transmitted directly to your auditory nerve.
Oh wait, nerves use analog signals. All nerves must carry DRM!
I'm gonna make a killing in ten years when I sue someone for infringing on my patent for a pro-rated system of video content distribution on the internet.
The latest QuickTime release has an Export setting for the iPod video. If you can get a video on to your computer that QuickTime can understand (which may require the use of things like Flip4Mac), you can definitely watch it on your iPod video.
Of course, there are other tools for re-encoding to H.264 and MPEG4, as well.
Until just a few months ago when an upgrade was rolled out at my university, the only web browsers officially supported on OS X were Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Tiger, which had been out for a few months at the time, was not officially supported.
Blackboard is also a fan of frames, ugliness, and odd behaviors. It's impossible to enroll a system administrator in a course, no matter what. They can only self-enroll.
I'd pay $5-10 a month to HBO if I could access all their content online -- I'm addicted to Real Time and I love Deadwood. However, I'm not going to pay the extra $20 for digital cable, which is full of shit content and shittier commercials, in order to pay $10 for something I want.
I wasn't aware of the MPAA clause in Article I. Why does Ars think this would be exempted from being blocked by a filibuster?
The Constitution does not grant the federal government the power to enforce standards of decency, but the Supremacy Clause and various Supreme Court decisions guarantee that the protections offered by the first amendment may not be infringed upon by state and local governments.
Miller and Roth are outdated and simply wrong, and I'm hoping that a truly conservative court will overturn them in the future. Titillating speech is no less speech because of its content. If the framers had intended to protect only non-obscene speech they would have written the First Amendment to reflect that intent.
Anyone remember when the neighborhood spaz would get über-pissed because he sucked at videogames and so he'd make a run to turn off the console, and a fight would ensue?
There really needs to be a way to prevent the console from being turned off remotely, or else there's going to be lots of bruises and bloody noses in homes that house both children and Revolutions.
Clippy's old news, man. The real reason for the insane requirements is that Vista requires you to be able to do real time rendering of photorealistic fur on the search dog.
It's very ironic to me that one of the industries that benefits most from globalization makes such a concerted and futile effort to hamper trade in their own global market.
As a person keen on foreign films, I know I won't be buying a Blu-Ray that can't be made region-free. If no such player exists, I'll just end up pirating films released exclusively on Blu-Ray.
How does one write off the expenses of an LLC on his personal income taxes?
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If I left the phone in my pocket while torrenting an ISO to my Powerbook with an 802.11g link, would I be rendered sterile?
Doing so would be a dupe.
I rescind my earlier statement. That's a really bad PDF. If PDFs were a food, that PDF would be shit-stewed haggis.
It's not the PDF format that sucks, it's Acrobat Reader. Use Preview or XPDF.
Complaining about PDFs is like complaining about HTTP cause you don't like IIS.
The internet has been banned because of the possibility that children may buy bicycles online.
If you've got a new hard drive in your Mac with nothing on it, it'll install on that just fine. In fact, you can install it on a FireWire drive, if you like. Or a flash drive, if you've got one large enough. The only version of Tiger that checks for a previously installed version of OS X is the one you get in the Up-To-Date program.
So you're telling him to look for what's popular on eBay?
The market for vinyl still exists because there are some audiophiles who believe the sound quality of vinyl is superior to that of CDs. No one can reasonably hold the belief that VHS is of higher quality than DVD.
Flat panel displays have a "sweet-spot" resulution. Anything outside that looks terrible.
It's not a "sweet spot," it's the dimensions of the physical pixels on the display, also known as a native resolution.
With that said, computer labs full of 1024x768 native res flat panel displays all set at 800x600 is one of the worst tech atrocities in the world.
If I hadn't downloaded a torrent of the Firefly series (many many months after its cancellation), I wouldn't be so incredibly psyched to see Serentiy this Fall.
There's nothing wrong with PDFs. I can create and open PDFs easily and speedily in OS X with Preview.
Acrobat Reader, however, is like an eighty year old woman behind the wheel of an otherwise useful and speedy automobile. Why does Preview take a a matter of milliseconds to do what takes Acrobat fifteen seconds or more?
Oh yeah, there's no dobut that Metro is going to be Trusted Computing Friendly.
Microsoft's grammar check doesn't include a disclaimer that it's not perfect.
For someone who comes from a language in which there is only one correct way to form a certain sentence, it's not hard to think that the grammar checker ought to be trusted over your English-as-a-second-language skills.
I've had plenty of foreign friends who are baffled when I tell them that I'm right and their $1500 computer is wrong.
It may not be well publicized, but the studios threaten movie swappers just as much as they threaten television show swappers. Paramount routinely sends DMCA violation notices to my university's help desk, and about half of those are people downlaoding shows like Enterprise.