From my experience, different things work for different movies -which is partly what makes it so annoying.
One DVD will allow you to just press the Menu button, but fast forward and Next Chapter are disabled.
Another DVD will have the Menu button disabled, but allow you to hit the Next Chapter button a few times to get through the previews. Fast forward may or may not be enabled.
The next one will allow fast forward but not chapter skipping or going straight to the menu.
As the article mentions, I wonder how MS feels about this given their vision of the "Media PC" making all your video available wherever you want to see it.
On second thought, maybe MS likes this. More incentive for the media companies to jump on their DRM bandwagon.
I really liked the quote, "They were burning games onto the hard drive and equipping the hard drive with copying software so that the average consumer could just go ahead and copy the software themselves," she said.
The first part is exactly what I do when I buy a new computer game ("burn" it onto the hard drive), but that's only because Apple was nice enough to equip my computer with software that makes it so this "average consumer could just go ahead and copy the software themselves."
The mistake that you make is that you assume that schools are here to educate. Schools exist to employ teachers.
No, IMO it seems more like schools exist to take care of and raise kids while parents work. Unfortunately it seems that more and more of the "parental role" is left to the school to fill in. That means less time for education.
Let's not forget that all the PowerPC's (from the 601 on) were built in partnership with IBM. They are based on IBM's POWER line after all. Remember when the common hardware reference platform with IBM and Apple was going to be the future?
Then there are all the software ventures they've worked on together. Apple and IBM have been pretty tight for a good decade now.
IMO working together as separate companies, each doing what they do best in the way that works best for them, is a much better fit for both companies.
Based on my experience, on the rare occasion that there is a show on I reeeally don't want to miss, there will invariably be another show I reeeally don't want to miss on another channel.
Just be sure you understand what's involved. If I understand correctly, if someone complains to Sharman that there is child porn being shared from a specific computer, they can verify the claim and ban that computer if found true.
For the same thing to happen for copyrighted works, someone would first have to inform Sharman. Then we have to assume that they would have the resources to verify and ban, one-by-one, every suspected computer.
Keep in mind a solution that may work for a small number of cases, doesn't necessarily scale to handling a large load.
Meh... Six of one and half a dozen of the other, perhaps.
My sentiment exactly. The MP/RIAA say they aren't worried about analog copies because of the loss of quality. You'd have to go down several generations of analog copying to get down to the "quality" level of the majority of the stuff that can be downloaded.
Or it could be that VHS started out with a 2 hr tape, and Betamax was only one hour. Most people I know who had to make the choice and picked VHS did so because of that one factor. I don't remember the prices really being significantly different at the time -but its been a while, and memory being what it is...
And I thought the "demonstration" proved exactly why filtering won't work.
Apparently, the "adult" filter uses a list of "adult" words and filters out all files containing those words. The "demo" clearly showed that filters don't actually know what's really adult material vs. a file containing the wrong word, sex in this case. Which may be why nobody downloads the Sextant Manual I wrote.
So how do you create a list of files to filter that will remove all copyrighted works without filtering out everything?
Then to make matters even more difficult, how does the RIAA propose these sets of filters be continuously updated and pushed out to all the users on the network?
I'm still having a hard time seeing how using filters can realistically be thought of as a solution. They simply don't work IMO.
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I have serious doubts about it being a Linux user. There are a heck of a lot of Windows users, and many of them are very pro-open source. They're none too happy with SCO either.
I just did a relatively quick read. To tell you the truth, I don't think they eliminated any but the most basic of factors and really missed a couple (at least as far as i can tell).
After taking the aforementioned factors into account, they conclude there is a difference in using electronic voting in 2004 compared to the voting in 2000.
Isn't it just as likely the difference or bias was in the counting method used in 2000, not the electronic voting in 2004? The premise seems to be the 2000 numbers are correct, which igornes the reason the 2000 method of counting was replaced.
Which is my next question. AFAIK not all areas had new voting equipment. They didn't seem to take into account which districts would have the new electronic voting system. Were they mostly upgraded in the areas that had the most trouble in the past? In the more affluent areas? Why did those particular distrincts have their machines replaced and not others? That could indicate an underlying factor.
In the end, I guess I'm just a skeptic. I've done modeling not too unlike this, and there are always boatloads of assumptions made that may or may not be true and may or may not alter the conclusion.
Researchers have found a correlation between chocolate sales and crime rate. Chocolate must be banned!
Oh, BTW, the years chocolate sales and crime were up also correlate with population.
The above is what I remember of an example of the problem with certain types of statistics. People often see a correlation and jump to the conclusion that there must be some type of causitive effect. That's often not the case and there are often underlying variables (population) that would more readily explain the correlation -if one were to take the time to look for them.
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The pitch is that "home cinema" is like real cinema without the kids with cellphones and the person behind asking stupid questions.
Problem is when your kids are the ones with cell phones and my wife is always asking questions.
I go the theatre to see movies in a quiet, peaceful setting!
Star Wars, yep one movie per tape, 2, 4, 6 hours of recording per tape? yep that was there as well.
Eventually, yes. But they started off with only 1 hr and by the time the players got up to two hrs, it was too late. Plus VHS was then up to 6 hrs.
From my experience, different things work for different movies -which is partly what makes it so annoying.
One DVD will allow you to just press the Menu button, but fast forward and Next Chapter are disabled.
Another DVD will have the Menu button disabled, but allow you to hit the Next Chapter button a few times to get through the previews. Fast forward may or may not be enabled.
The next one will allow fast forward but not chapter skipping or going straight to the menu.
Some don't allow you to do anything.
Its a literal crap shoot. And very annoying.
As the article mentions, I wonder how MS feels about this given their vision of the "Media PC" making all your video available wherever you want to see it.
On second thought, maybe MS likes this. More incentive for the media companies to jump on their DRM bandwagon.
I prefer the much easier to say "DVDCACA".
OTOH, it would be cheaper to buy all the movies and a $50 DVD player than it would be to buy this monstrosity to begin with.
I really liked the quote, "They were burning games onto the hard drive and equipping the hard drive with copying software so that the average consumer could just go ahead and copy the software themselves," she said.
The first part is exactly what I do when I buy a new computer game ("burn" it onto the hard drive), but that's only because Apple was nice enough to equip my computer with software that makes it so this "average consumer could just go ahead and copy the software themselves."
In other words, its one of those pesky games that combines skill and chance?
The mistake that you make is that you assume that schools are here to educate. Schools exist to employ teachers.
No, IMO it seems more like schools exist to take care of and raise kids while parents work. Unfortunately it seems that more and more of the "parental role" is left to the school to fill in. That means less time for education.
And Windows is?
x86 is an open architecture.
As is PowerPC.
Microsoft. Intel.
Let's not forget that all the PowerPC's (from the 601 on) were built in partnership with IBM. They are based on IBM's POWER line after all. Remember when the common hardware reference platform with IBM and Apple was going to be the future?
Then there are all the software ventures they've worked on together. Apple and IBM have been pretty tight for a good decade now.
IMO working together as separate companies, each doing what they do best in the way that works best for them, is a much better fit for both companies.
Are you advocating an end to Pig Latin?
Say it aint so! How wil. they communicate?
Based on my experience, on the rare occasion that there is a show on I reeeally don't want to miss, there will invariably be another show I reeeally don't want to miss on another channel.
That may just be me though.
Just be sure you understand what's involved. If I understand correctly, if someone complains to Sharman that there is child porn being shared from a specific computer, they can verify the claim and ban that computer if found true.
For the same thing to happen for copyrighted works, someone would first have to inform Sharman. Then we have to assume that they would have the resources to verify and ban, one-by-one, every suspected computer.
Keep in mind a solution that may work for a small number of cases, doesn't necessarily scale to handling a large load.
FTP, OK.
:-)
But Archie and Veronica have to go!
Meh... Six of one and half a dozen of the other, perhaps.
My sentiment exactly. The MP/RIAA say they aren't worried about analog copies because of the loss of quality. You'd have to go down several generations of analog copying to get down to the "quality" level of the majority of the stuff that can be downloaded.
Or it could be that VHS started out with a 2 hr tape, and Betamax was only one hour. Most people I know who had to make the choice and picked VHS did so because of that one factor. I don't remember the prices really being significantly different at the time -but its been a while, and memory being what it is...
What do you suppose would happen to the various entertainment industries?
All of a sudden, the live performance industry goes BOOM!
And I thought the "demonstration" proved exactly why filtering won't work.
Apparently, the "adult" filter uses a list of "adult" words and filters out all files containing those words. The "demo" clearly showed that filters don't actually know what's really adult material vs. a file containing the wrong word, sex in this case. Which may be why nobody downloads the Sextant Manual I wrote.
So how do you create a list of files to filter that will remove all copyrighted works without filtering out everything?
Then to make matters even more difficult, how does the RIAA propose these sets of filters be continuously updated and pushed out to all the users on the network?
I'm still having a hard time seeing how using filters can realistically be thought of as a solution. They simply don't work IMO.
I have serious doubts about it being a Linux user. There are a heck of a lot of Windows users, and many of them are very pro-open source. They're none too happy with SCO either.
Because the majority of music that people have before they purchase an MP3 player[snip] ... is pirated or copied from CDs anyway
Which all plays fine on an iPod (unless you ripped your CDs into Vorbis).
I just did a relatively quick read. To tell you the truth, I don't think they eliminated any but the most basic of factors and really missed a couple (at least as far as i can tell).
After taking the aforementioned factors into account, they conclude there is a difference in using electronic voting in 2004 compared to the voting in 2000.
Isn't it just as likely the difference or bias was in the counting method used in 2000, not the electronic voting in 2004? The premise seems to be the 2000 numbers are correct, which igornes the reason the 2000 method of counting was replaced.
Which is my next question. AFAIK not all areas had new voting equipment. They didn't seem to take into account which districts would have the new electronic voting system. Were they mostly upgraded in the areas that had the most trouble in the past? In the more affluent areas? Why did those particular distrincts have their machines replaced and not others? That could indicate an underlying factor.
In the end, I guess I'm just a skeptic. I've done modeling not too unlike this, and there are always boatloads of assumptions made that may or may not be true and may or may not alter the conclusion.
Researchers have found a correlation between chocolate sales and crime rate. Chocolate must be banned!
Oh, BTW, the years chocolate sales and crime were up also correlate with population.
The above is what I remember of an example of the problem with certain types of statistics. People often see a correlation and jump to the conclusion that there must be some type of causitive effect. That's often not the case and there are often underlying variables (population) that would more readily explain the correlation -if one were to take the time to look for them.