Of course that would be implicitly illegal under the DMCA... So I doubt that if it requires a special drive that someone would do that, however if anyone presumes that we will buy a special CD-Rom just to read their crap software they are in for quite a shock.... I doubt that any technology that used that method would catch on very well at all.
Lol, yea, my thoughts exactly, a simple rawrite may be able to defeat this technology... Of course your average cd copy tech can't do it, but bit-bit copying sounds like it may very well defeat this... However a simply X-Copy will not work, as the keys are most likely hidden and un-readable by average software (read MS). Course I could be wrong, but we'll see what happens... I really wouldn't mind seeing something like this actually work, I don't mind paying for GOOD software, (of course I would much rather get good software for free, assuming it's legal) and if something like this works, the price of the software may very well go down in response to the impossibility to crack/hack/copy/warez it, as companies account for the losses and pass it on to the end user in price... Of course the same force that keeps them raising the price to make up for lost piracy also has the tendency to not allow them to price-gouge, as they also realize that if the price is too high no-one will pay for it except the first user, after that everyone will simply make copies to avoid out-of-mind pricing. So the piracy actually works to the consumers' benefit and also hurts the consumer by raising the price..... Hmmm, well now I'm not sure that it's a good thing to make something copy-proof. Not to mention how the hell do I make a backup? Maybe the companies should start to offer a low$$ copy service for licensed users. Either way, I'm not too sure there is anything that will ever be invented that won't be defeated by the computer-savvy out there.
A very long time ago (october 12th 2000) to be exact, I read a story on geek.com detailing new florescent disk technologies, kinda reminds me of this technology.
The real problem is the fact that some of the shareholders are asking to be paid quite a bit more for their stock than they invested in it. Seems fair right?
Wrong.
Even though this company has enough money to do that, it's not their legal responsibility to make sure that the stock holders turn a profit, hell, it's not even their legal responsibility to turn a profit. Effectively if they give away all the money there is no company left. The company is entering into a merger that should hopefully bring stock values up, which will benefit investors in the long run. These people are just being overly aggressive towards the company, and trying to avoid the risk which is inherent in the stocks and bonds game.
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I can only hope that someone will take the lessons learned from this and possibly re-vamp the old doom, maybe doom II would be eaiser, but doom would be oh-so-cool if someone were to add in modern features and graphics, but allow the gameplay for the most part to remain the same... Or, maybe I'm just nuts....
You know, that really makes me wonder what kind of toxins I'm storing, I mean I really do probably have nearly two tons of old hardware (no I'm not kidding, and it's mostly significant peices, trs-80's, wangs, ps2 (personal system2 not play station 2), apple IIe, etc.) I like to collect this old junk because I can then go plug one in fire it up and transport myself back to the "good ol days" when a mouse ran on the floor, and a computer system weighed in at about 200+lbs with a printer. So I wonder what kind of toxins they hold? Surely nothing to worry about if I'm not trying to extract the precious metals from them right?
Gerf, did you read my first post? Let me dump it here for you "When you consider the facts, it would be far more profitable for the average person to cultivate alfalfa to sell as hay, considering the minute amount of gold available in the plant matter, and the fact that a single bale of quality alfalfa hay can sell for 7-10 dollars, it quickly becomes appearant that there is better money in the hay. However the application in computer science is valuable beyond all actual value of the gold. On that note, I wonder exactly how much this should really reduce costs in producing such small particles of gold." Note the last part in bold, you see, I did read the article, and I did know what I was talking about, now, don't take this wrong, but I take a small amount of insult from your stating that I was wrong, when, indeed I was exactly on point. Ok, either way, you're not a flamer, or a troll, so as far as I'm concerned gerf, you are ok... Just read my posts a little more carefully before commenting on them, k?
If I'm correct wouldn't it be near impossible to tell if we really were on a collision course with an asteroid? After all, we are used to seeing video like this of a passing asteroid, and due to the fact that they are passing we are able to perceive movement relatively easily, however were it bound straight for earth the object would not appear to move, only to slowly get bigger and brighter.
A slightly higher quality movie is available at astropage Slashdot them too!! lol.... You know someday the government is going to start calling the slashdot effect a weapon of mass denial..
And you sir? Surely realize that I'm very serious, and I'm most happy to see this. Your interpretation of my post as a troll only shows your underlying mentality of assumption that everything is sarcastic.
I'm amazed to see such innovation in Mozilla, (NOTE: This is not a bash!) It seems to me that most of this type of major change tending to make it prettier and eaiser to computer has come from apple (read macintosh), I'm a PC diehard and always will be, and it's really nice to see a QUALITY product like Mozilla getting even better with the addition of features like this...
Invoke the triple damages rule and that becomes 6.6 trillion, now add for interest (compounded daily of course at 5%),,, now just the interest would be a whopping $330,000,000,000 per diem which equals in simple terms a debt that will never be paid (hell even the 2.2 trillion is unattainable by a company of that nature, considering they weren't charging $500 per fax, let alone the $1500 it could theoretically cost them). Maybe Microsoft could bail them out? LOL!!!
Once again though, I was speaking of a small operation, if you'll read the thread above my first comment they were considering using it to extract gold in bulk to sell as bullion, in which case the value of the alfalfa would far exceed the value of the gold contained therin. You did'nt see that did you...
Yes, but you will notice that I said for the average person, not, for the farmer. Sometimes I wonder if you people even read the comments, really, I do. However I will tell you then in average market conditions you are very correct about the price of hay... But then again you don't live in New Mexico do you... During the summer if there is a short supply (remember supply and demand?) the prices can go as high as $10 to $11 per bale. Now, I know that is highway robbery, but people still pay it, why? Because they don't want their damned horses to die. Sorry to crap on you, but you tried to crap on me first...
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did you read the parent? No?... I really did'nt think so.......
Boy you people have a tendency to post before reading don't you, let me quote myself "However the application in computer science is valuable beyond all actual value of the gold. On that note, I wonder exactly how much this should really reduce costs in producing such small particles of gold" Are you really that stupid?
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No problem on the extra hands...
Well assuming that one has normal hardware.. if you have some weird crap hardware then no, it most likely won't work.
Of course that would be implicitly illegal under the DMCA... So I doubt that if it requires a special drive that someone would do that, however if anyone presumes that we will buy a special CD-Rom just to read their crap software they are in for quite a shock.... I doubt that any technology that used that method would catch on very well at all.
if it can be read, it can be burned... only by bit-bit, but it CAN be done.. rather easy to do actually....
Lol, yea, my thoughts exactly, a simple rawrite may be able to defeat this technology... Of course your average cd copy tech can't do it, but bit-bit copying sounds like it may very well defeat this... However a simply X-Copy will not work, as the keys are most likely hidden and un-readable by average software (read MS). Course I could be wrong, but we'll see what happens... I really wouldn't mind seeing something like this actually work, I don't mind paying for GOOD software, (of course I would much rather get good software for free, assuming it's legal) and if something like this works, the price of the software may very well go down in response to the impossibility to crack/hack/copy/warez it, as companies account for the losses and pass it on to the end user in price... Of course the same force that keeps them raising the price to make up for lost piracy also has the tendency to not allow them to price-gouge, as they also realize that if the price is too high no-one will pay for it except the first user, after that everyone will simply make copies to avoid out-of-mind pricing. So the piracy actually works to the consumers' benefit and also hurts the consumer by raising the price..... Hmmm, well now I'm not sure that it's a good thing to make something copy-proof. Not to mention how the hell do I make a backup? Maybe the companies should start to offer a low$$ copy service for licensed users. Either way, I'm not too sure there is anything that will ever be invented that won't be defeated by the computer-savvy out there.
Easy answer, Cryo-freeze it.... LOL.. sorry but this whole thread is just too funny.
Here is what the CIA has to say on the subject.
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MMMM, Bacon.... drool :p~~~~
Now after I block my veins with fatty deposits, and destroy my heart, the same pig can now give me a new heart? Awesome....
A very long time ago (october 12th 2000) to be exact, I read a story on geek.com detailing new florescent disk technologies, kinda reminds me of this technology.
The real problem is the fact that some of the shareholders are asking to be paid quite a bit more for their stock than they invested in it. Seems fair right?
Wrong.
Even though this company has enough money to do that, it's not their legal responsibility to make sure that the stock holders turn a profit, hell, it's not even their legal responsibility to turn a profit. Effectively if they give away all the money there is no company left. The company is entering into a merger that should hopefully bring stock values up, which will benefit investors in the long run. These people are just being overly aggressive towards the company, and trying to avoid the risk which is inherent in the stocks and bonds game.
I can only hope that someone will take the lessons learned from this and possibly re-vamp the old doom, maybe doom II would be eaiser, but doom would be oh-so-cool if someone were to add in modern features and graphics, but allow the gameplay for the most part to remain the same... Or, maybe I'm just nuts....
Actually no, I thought of it, however it seems that we think very much alike! lol....
You know, that really makes me wonder what kind of toxins I'm storing, I mean I really do probably have nearly two tons of old hardware (no I'm not kidding, and it's mostly significant peices, trs-80's, wangs, ps2 (personal system2 not play station 2), apple IIe, etc.) I like to collect this old junk because I can then go plug one in fire it up and transport myself back to the "good ol days" when a mouse ran on the floor, and a computer system weighed in at about 200+lbs with a printer. So I wonder what kind of toxins they hold? Surely nothing to worry about if I'm not trying to extract the precious metals from them right?
Gerf, did you read my first post? Let me dump it here for you "When you consider the facts, it would be far more profitable for the average person to cultivate alfalfa to sell as hay, considering the minute amount of gold available in the plant matter, and the fact that a single bale of quality alfalfa hay can sell for 7-10 dollars, it quickly becomes appearant that there is better money in the hay. However the application in computer science is valuable beyond all actual value of the gold. On that note, I wonder exactly how much this should really reduce costs in producing such small particles of gold." Note the last part in bold, you see, I did read the article, and I did know what I was talking about, now, don't take this wrong, but I take a small amount of insult from your stating that I was wrong, when, indeed I was exactly on point. Ok, either way, you're not a flamer, or a troll, so as far as I'm concerned gerf, you are ok... Just read my posts a little more carefully before commenting on them, k?
If I'm correct wouldn't it be near impossible to tell if we really were on a collision course with an asteroid? After all, we are used to seeing video like this of a passing asteroid, and due to the fact that they are passing we are able to perceive movement relatively easily, however were it bound straight for earth the object would not appear to move, only to slowly get bigger and brighter.
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ny40.gif no worries about that evil closed source software now is there? LOL..
A slightly higher quality movie is available at astropage Slashdot them too!! lol.... You know someday the government is going to start calling the slashdot effect a weapon of mass denial..
And you sir? Surely realize that I'm very serious, and I'm most happy to see this. Your interpretation of my post as a troll only shows your underlying mentality of assumption that everything is sarcastic.
I'm amazed to see such innovation in Mozilla, (NOTE: This is not a bash!) It seems to me that most of this type of major change tending to make it prettier and eaiser to computer has come from apple (read macintosh), I'm a PC diehard and always will be, and it's really nice to see a QUALITY product like Mozilla getting even better with the addition of features like this...
Invoke the triple damages rule and that becomes 6.6 trillion, now add for interest (compounded daily of course at 5%),,, now just the interest would be a whopping $330,000,000,000 per diem which equals in simple terms a debt that will never be paid (hell even the 2.2 trillion is unattainable by a company of that nature, considering they weren't charging $500 per fax, let alone the $1500 it could theoretically cost them). Maybe Microsoft could bail them out? LOL!!!
Once again though, I was speaking of a small operation, if you'll read the thread above my first comment they were considering using it to extract gold in bulk to sell as bullion, in which case the value of the alfalfa would far exceed the value of the gold contained therin. You did'nt see that did you...
Yes, but you will notice that I said for the average person, not, for the farmer. Sometimes I wonder if you people even read the comments, really, I do. However I will tell you then in average market conditions you are very correct about the price of hay... But then again you don't live in New Mexico do you... During the summer if there is a short supply (remember supply and demand?) the prices can go as high as $10 to $11 per bale. Now, I know that is highway robbery, but people still pay it, why? Because they don't want their damned horses to die. Sorry to crap on you, but you tried to crap on me first...
did you read the parent? No?... I really did'nt think so.......
Boy you people have a tendency to post before reading don't you, let me quote myself "However the application in computer science is valuable beyond all actual value of the gold. On that note, I wonder exactly how much this should really reduce costs in producing such small particles of gold" Are you really that stupid?