I was looking back over Walden's site, after I submitted the story about the movies.
Here is their official press release. For those too lazy (like me) to go, it summarizes the Chronicles and the movie plans. It also has the date of the official announcement: December 6, 2001.
I guess they weren't doing a huge amount to publicize it. I hadn't heard anything about it until today. Ah well. It was probably overlooked due to the release of LotR.
Hmmmm.... How about an actual release date of Christmas 2004 for Narnia? We'll be done with The Trilogy in 2003. We'll need some kind of good fantasy in 2004.
I would guess that the rundowns of answers should read something like this:
I want to know the first EULA that said we can't reverse engineer their software: I would wager it was one of the first pieces of software when copyright became a concern. Probably one of the first flavors of MAC OS or Windows.
first that said they can watch our activities: Which came first? Gator or WinXP? Maybe a version of IE or Media Player before these?
I want to know how the NES agreement differs from the GameCube: Did the NES even have an agreement? Have fun and enjoy? I can't remember ever having one, of course the box/manuals/instructions went away a long time ago. Did Nintendo lighten, or tighten restrictions? Now, with the potential to rip Gamecube games, I would guess that the Gamecube has much tighter restrictions.
What permissions we have been given, and taken away over that period. What rights did we have in Windows 3.1, compared to Windows XP?: I'd guess that we've been given many additional permissions. Windows 3.1, IIRC, didn't really have much in the EULA regarding the Internet. I don't think it was a huge factor at the onset.
I will try my best to find some of these older EULAs. I'm pretty sure I've got WIN 3.1 sitting around somewhere. I can fire it up and see where it leads.
Really though, as time goes by, I think companies want to protect their product as much as possible. They're more and more concerned with "piracy" (--I'm not raping and pillaging, so how is it piracy?) and the like, which is just another reason to change how users can use their systems. There are certain ways where this doesn't affect the majority, ie the reverse engineering clauses, but when you start to deal with things like privacy invasions, that affects almost all users, excluding those not on the net or with decent firewalls.
MS and Mac have been concerned with things like this from practically their beginnings. Palladium is MS's next step in restricting consumer rights, dictating what you can and cannot put on your own computer.
Just my $.02. I'd write more, but my day is done, and I'm going home from work now. Later.
"What do you use your computer for?" "Oh, data entry, keeping track of appointments, records, all that and more. What about you?" "Portable porn. Check it out! It's hands free!"
...three Maxtor drives (one 30GB and two 80GB) cool.
3) Drives fail quickly if not properly cooled. 4) Drives tend to fail anyway or have the remote possibility of very quickly losing 100 of your hard-earned movies in the event of failure....my experience is that Windows/FAT32 *kills* drives.
I think your problem may just be the first part. Maxtor drives, in my experience, fail. They make a habit of it. I don't think it's Windows or Fat32.
I, myself, have been running a 20GB Deskstar (IBM) for the past three years. It's quite happy. One backup drive is a 13GB Seagate that I salvaged from an old machine. It's now starting to die(or is at least making the noises that cry out for help), but I swear it's 5 or 6 years old.
I've also got a pair of WD Caviar 40GB drives. One is taking over for the old 13 Seagate (and then some, of course). They're new (within a year) but I've had no problems with them. My case is pretty well cooled, but the drives aren't. They're kind of in a dead air section (too many IDE and power cables blocking them). I should add another fan for them, but I haven't gotten a chance to do it yet.
The only reason that I even know they get warm (not exactlt hot) is that when the 13 tried to kill itself I shut the machine down, opened it up and checked the relative drive temps. The 13 and 20 weren't exactly cool.
Anyway though. Maxtor: fails. WD has been wonderful for myself and others. I worked at a local comp. shop for a couple years, and we sold machines with caviars almost exclusively. We had a bad drive maybe once or twice / year.
Try again, use WD drives. I would wager that your problems will vastly decrease, OS independent.
Otherwise, your project sounds really promising, and I wish you the best of luck and skill.
Oh, and be careful with the IDE Raid. Especially if you stick with Maxtor. Unless you were talking about mirroring. Then, don't worry about it as much. BUT if you're concerned with drive failure, striping is not worth the risk. Me, I'm going to put my two 40s into an array soon, but striping for speed. I don't need fault tolerance. That's what WD is for. Later.
Remember the Sail Barge? Jabba had it right! R2's only meant to serve drinks!
"R2! Get me a beer! What?!?! Coors?!? You know I only drink Guiness!"
Of course, I'd need him to come with a built in Ewok-shocker too. Those damn things are always getting into the beer. You have got to have defenses against drunk ewoks. It's not a pretty picture.
And this is the same principle that goes behind Palladium. DRM in software and hardware. Actually, more appropriately, it's what goes into the SSSCA. Remember this bill? The one that makes DRM a requirement and open-source effectively a crime? This bill, if ever passed (Tyr forbid), would require new hardware for computer users within, IIRC, 6 months. And no building your own system. Ever.
I agree that the industries don't care. But that doesn't make it right.
To counter your examples, the 2nd can not be done and the first isn't buying a gun and being told not to shoot people. It's buying a gun and being told not to USE it. For any reason. That would certainly piss off the 5-10 hunters I know and the several million across the US. Just as this would piss off the many millions of people across the country who like to record things.
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I've noticed. When your state continually elects Strom Thurmond, you know there's probelms with the state's mentality. Senators and Reps really do need term # limits.
On the other side of the coin, in Indiana we have Senators (D)Bayh and (R)Lugar. Lugar is a solid guy. I (D-IN) voted for him because in the past he's stood up for issues that his party usually goes against. And Bayh is one of the best loved governors in our state history.
There are no copies of West Wing available in the US, according to Amazon.com. I live in the USA.
I just researched, and you can't get the West Wing on DVD in the US. Isn't it sad that one if the most popular TV shows about American politics isn't available to buy, except in the UK? Not even in America?
Basically, I could buy a region free DVD player and import it, but that's not exactly the economical way to do it. *sigh* They'd make a small killing by putting out season one here.
"When a distinguished but elderly (+30) scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke's three laws.
but I think I may have done him a grave disservice, introducing electronics-as-necessity to him that young in life. (How many 9 year olds do you know who, on the phone with their friends, say "Hang on.. I'll shut down the laptop and be right over?"
No, actually, you have done him a service. It's better that he's used to it than become a technophobe. Honestly though, I'm impressed that he'll say "Let me shut down my laptop, I'll be right over," instead of "Let me boot up Quake III. Head over to the server at 192.168.25.65. I'll be there in a minute."
Human interaction has gone down the thresher. One of my closest friends does almost nothing other than work and play EverQuest. I rarely see him anymore. I'll ask him "Mark, I tried to get ahold of you? Where you been this weekend?" and he'll say "Oh, I was around, but I was playing EQ all weekend." He actually does mean ~12+ hours/day.
*sigh* Where have we gone, and what have we become.
See? This is the problem! You've gotten to watch those shows! I'm too young too have seen most of them. I've caught them occasionally, and they're wonderful! I want to watch all of MASH! Hogan's Heroes is hilarious! I Love Lucy is classic! I've seen maybe 10 episodes each of Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents! It's infuriating.
Even today, there are a few good shows that stand out. I want to watch them too. The Simpsons is still a good show, and West Wing is amazing. My family used to [college got in the way] sit down every Wednesday to watch West Wing together. Sometimes we couldn't watch it, as we had a play to go to (yes! REAL theatre!). If we couldn't record it, there's not exactly a way to see it, is there? Except wait until it comes on in re-reruns. And if you miss it then? Too. Fucking. Bad.
I do have a question though. My family doesn't have one, but what are the implications for TiVO users? Are they just going to be told, "Well. You're screwed." or what? Any returns or refunds? I mean, this would be like buying a CD-RW drive and then being told it can't be used to burn CDs, only to read them. It negates a major purpose of a device. We use the DVD player if we rent movies. We only use the VCR to play back things we've recorded on it anymore. No record = no playback = no purpose. Damn them all.
This is just as bad as the pop-up ads in TV shows article on/. a few weeks ago.
Serial Experiments: Lain is simply a wonderful series. I would recommend it to almost anyone. Especially anyone who likes screwed up anime. Lain makes some sense the first time through, but when it ends, it justs clicks.
For those of you who don't know, James Randi is dedicated to exposing supernatural hoaxes of all kinds. He has an excellent method of exposing psychics. Anyone who claims to have powers can take simple psychic tests. If they pass they even get, IIRC, $1 million. He's never paid a dime.
He also does work with every other kind of proported supernatural occurence. His site can be a fun read (if only to see what some idiots try and get a way with:).
I think this is something like the 52x and 60x and 72x CDROM, where the number behind the X stands for MAX... meaning that with optimal (ideal?) parameters, the drive gives 72x (1x = 150kbps)
Actually, for the 72x CD-ROMs, IIRC, 72x was the average speed. They're fast and they're just about silent. They used 7 lasers to read from all parts of the disc at once. Kenwood made them two-three years ago and now they're out of production. You can't find them new, only on e-bay. However, for non-Kenwood drives, you're right in that those are the maximum speeds under ideal conditions.
It's a little OT, but I saw this article over at popular science the other day.
For those who don't want to read the article, it describes VW's latest test/concept car. Two person, 600 lbs car. It has a tank for 1.7 gallons and gets better than 260 MPG(though only rated for 235. ONLY.). And no, it's not slow. They rated the top speed as over 70 MPH. Which is plenty fast, even for highway travel.
Ontopic: it runs on diesel fuel. Who wants to mod this car and make it even more environmentally friendly? "It barely even burns Vegetable Oil!"
I don't, however, know what's involved in applying the mod. Or if VW could even fit it in this car. But it would still be cool. I actually want one of these cars. Errr... this car. That would be sweet. *sigh* Time to go buy a lottery ticket.
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I was looking back over Walden's site, after I submitted the story about the movies.
Here is their official press release. For those too lazy (like me) to go, it summarizes the Chronicles and the movie plans. It also has the date of the official announcement: December 6, 2001.
I guess they weren't doing a huge amount to publicize it. I hadn't heard anything about it until today. Ah well. It was probably overlooked due to the release of LotR.
Hmmmm.... How about an actual release date of Christmas 2004 for Narnia? We'll be done with The Trilogy in 2003. We'll need some kind of good fantasy in 2004.
The... flood started on Friday
I think it's more likely that Illiad caught news of this from somewhere other than ZD and thought it was funny enough to make into a comic.
I don't think it was just a coincidence.
More spending? It wouldn't take much more. After all, you'd only need to make one spaceship to fight the war.
You get a bonus ship every 10000 points.
I would guess that the rundowns of answers should read something like this:
I want to know the first EULA that said we can't reverse engineer their software: I would wager it was one of the first pieces of software when copyright became a concern. Probably one of the first flavors of MAC OS or Windows.
first that said they can watch our activities: Which came first? Gator or WinXP? Maybe a version of IE or Media Player before these?
I want to know how the NES agreement differs from the GameCube: Did the NES even have an agreement? Have fun and enjoy? I can't remember ever having one, of course the box/manuals/instructions went away a long time ago. Did Nintendo lighten, or tighten restrictions? Now, with the potential to rip Gamecube games, I would guess that the Gamecube has much tighter restrictions.
What permissions we have been given, and taken away over that period. What rights did we have in Windows 3.1, compared to Windows XP?: I'd guess that we've been given many additional permissions. Windows 3.1, IIRC, didn't really have much in the EULA regarding the Internet. I don't think it was a huge factor at the onset.
I will try my best to find some of these older EULAs. I'm pretty sure I've got WIN 3.1 sitting around somewhere. I can fire it up and see where it leads.
Really though, as time goes by, I think companies want to protect their product as much as possible. They're more and more concerned with "piracy" (--I'm not raping and pillaging, so how is it piracy?) and the like, which is just another reason to change how users can use their systems. There are certain ways where this doesn't affect the majority, ie the reverse engineering clauses, but when you start to deal with things like privacy invasions, that affects almost all users, excluding those not on the net or with decent firewalls.
MS and Mac have been concerned with things like this from practically their beginnings. Palladium is MS's next step in restricting consumer rights, dictating what you can and cannot put on your own computer.
Just my $.02. I'd write more, but my day is done, and I'm going home from work now. Later.
I win!!!! Wooo hooo!!! Wang!
It's Mr. Fusion.
Beer + eggshells + other garbage = Fusion = 1.21 Jigawatts!
With wearable computers comes wearable porn.
"What do you use your computer for?"
"Oh, data entry, keeping track of appointments, records, all that and more. What about you?"
"Portable porn. Check it out! It's hands free!"
...three Maxtor drives (one 30GB and two 80GB) cool.
...my experience is that Windows/FAT32
3) Drives fail quickly if not properly cooled.
4) Drives tend to fail anyway or have the remote possibility of very quickly losing 100 of your
hard-earned movies in the event of failure.
*kills* drives.
I think your problem may just be the first part. Maxtor drives, in my experience, fail. They make a habit of it. I don't think it's Windows or Fat32.
I, myself, have been running a 20GB Deskstar (IBM) for the past three years. It's quite happy. One backup drive is a 13GB Seagate that I salvaged from an old machine. It's now starting to die(or is at least making the noises that cry out for help), but I swear it's 5 or 6 years old.
I've also got a pair of WD Caviar 40GB drives. One is taking over for the old 13 Seagate (and then some, of course). They're new (within a year) but I've had no problems with them. My case is pretty well cooled, but the drives aren't. They're kind of in a dead air section (too many IDE and power cables blocking them). I should add another fan for them, but I haven't gotten a chance to do it yet.
The only reason that I even know they get warm (not exactlt hot) is that when the 13 tried to kill itself I shut the machine down, opened it up and checked the relative drive temps. The 13 and 20 weren't exactly cool.
Anyway though. Maxtor: fails. WD has been wonderful for myself and others. I worked at a local comp. shop for a couple years, and we sold machines with caviars almost exclusively. We had a bad drive maybe once or twice / year.
Try again, use WD drives. I would wager that your problems will vastly decrease, OS independent.
Otherwise, your project sounds really promising, and I wish you the best of luck and skill.
Oh, and be careful with the IDE Raid. Especially if you stick with Maxtor. Unless you were talking about mirroring. Then, don't worry about it as much. BUT if you're concerned with drive failure, striping is not worth the risk. Me, I'm going to put my two 40s into an array soon, but striping for speed. I don't need fault tolerance. That's what WD is for. Later.
Remember the Sail Barge? Jabba had it right! R2's only meant to serve drinks!
"R2! Get me a beer! What?!?! Coors?!? You know I only drink Guiness!"
Of course, I'd need him to come with a built in Ewok-shocker too. Those damn things are always getting into the beer. You have got to have defenses against drunk ewoks. It's not a pretty picture.
Using Macs. It's like Iceland.
"He'd probably give it a 'C+', or maybe a 'C#'."
Nah. He'd give it a Cg.
And this is the same principle that goes behind Palladium. DRM in software and hardware. Actually, more appropriately, it's what goes into the SSSCA. Remember this bill? The one that makes DRM a requirement and open-source effectively a crime? This bill, if ever passed (Tyr forbid), would require new hardware for computer users within, IIRC, 6 months. And no building your own system. Ever.
I agree that the industries don't care. But that doesn't make it right.
To counter your examples, the 2nd can not be done and the first isn't buying a gun and being told not to shoot people. It's buying a gun and being told not to USE it. For any reason. That would certainly piss off the 5-10 hunters I know and the several million across the US. Just as this would piss off the many millions of people across the country who like to record things.
I've noticed. When your state continually elects Strom Thurmond, you know there's probelms with the state's mentality. Senators and Reps really do need term # limits.
On the other side of the coin, in Indiana we have Senators (D)Bayh and (R)Lugar. Lugar is a solid guy. I (D-IN) voted for him because in the past he's stood up for issues that his party usually goes against. And Bayh is one of the best loved governors in our state history.
If I had mod points I wouldn't know whether to mod that as insightful or funny. :)
There are no copies of West Wing available in the US, according to Amazon.com. I live in the USA.
I just researched, and you can't get the West Wing on DVD in the US. Isn't it sad that one if the most popular TV shows about American politics isn't available to buy, except in the UK? Not even in America?
Basically, I could buy a region free DVD player and import it, but that's not exactly the economical way to do it. *sigh* They'd make a small killing by putting out season one here.
"When a distinguished but elderly (+30) scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke's three laws.
but I think I may have done him a grave disservice, introducing electronics-as-necessity to him that young in life. (How many 9 year olds do you know who, on the phone with their friends, say "Hang on.. I'll shut down the laptop and be right over?"
No, actually, you have done him a service. It's better that he's used to it than become a technophobe. Honestly though, I'm impressed that he'll say "Let me shut down my laptop, I'll be right over," instead of "Let me boot up Quake III. Head over to the server at 192.168.25.65. I'll be there in a minute."
Human interaction has gone down the thresher. One of my closest friends does almost nothing other than work and play EverQuest. I rarely see him anymore. I'll ask him "Mark, I tried to get ahold of you? Where you been this weekend?" and he'll say "Oh, I was around, but I was playing EQ all weekend." He actually does mean ~12+ hours/day.
*sigh* Where have we gone, and what have we become.
See? This is the problem! You've gotten to watch those shows! I'm too young too have seen most of them. I've caught them occasionally, and they're wonderful! I want to watch all of MASH! Hogan's Heroes is hilarious! I Love Lucy is classic! I've seen maybe 10 episodes each of Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents! It's infuriating.
/. a few weeks ago.
Even today, there are a few good shows that stand out. I want to watch them too. The Simpsons is still a good show, and West Wing is amazing. My family used to [college got in the way] sit down every Wednesday to watch West Wing together. Sometimes we couldn't watch it, as we had a play to go to (yes! REAL theatre!). If we couldn't record it, there's not exactly a way to see it, is there? Except wait until it comes on in re-reruns. And if you miss it then? Too. Fucking. Bad.
I do have a question though. My family doesn't have one, but what are the implications for TiVO users? Are they just going to be told, "Well. You're screwed." or what? Any returns or refunds? I mean, this would be like buying a CD-RW drive and then being told it can't be used to burn CDs, only to read them. It negates a major purpose of a device. We use the DVD player if we rent movies. We only use the VCR to play back things we've recorded on it anymore. No record = no playback = no purpose. Damn them all.
This is just as bad as the pop-up ads in TV shows article on
I'm disgusted. Later all.
So sayeth the article:
Hackers will be unable to attack Web sites protected by a new security system unless they can change the laws of physics, according to Naoto Takano
I'm working on it all ready. So far I've managed to get the relativity theory down to E/2 = MC^(1.9)
And standard Earth Gravity now has a value of 8.8m/s/s.
Up.
And don't try to fill up a garbage bag anytime soon. I've been playing with volume. They're now "Garbage Bags of Holding."
Too easy... Must resist!
Nah, forget it.
"I mean, two heads are better than one."
Serial Experiments: Lain is simply a wonderful series. I would recommend it to almost anyone. Especially anyone who likes screwed up anime. Lain makes some sense the first time through, but when it ends, it justs clicks.
But that's just my $.02.
Don't tell me: you're psychic? :)
:)
I could not resist that one, and I apologize.
Where is the Amazing Randi when I need him?
:).
He's right here.
For those of you who don't know, James Randi is dedicated to exposing supernatural hoaxes of all kinds. He has an excellent method of exposing psychics. Anyone who claims to have powers can take simple psychic tests. If they pass they even get, IIRC, $1 million. He's never paid a dime.
He also does work with every other kind of proported supernatural occurence. His site can be a fun read (if only to see what some idiots try and get a way with
I think this is something like the 52x and 60x and 72x CDROM, where the number behind the X stands for MAX ... meaning that with optimal (ideal?) parameters, the drive gives 72x (1x = 150kbps)
Actually, for the 72x CD-ROMs, IIRC, 72x was the average speed. They're fast and they're just about silent. They used 7 lasers to read from all parts of the disc at once. Kenwood made them two-three years ago and now they're out of production. You can't find them new, only on e-bay. However, for non-Kenwood drives, you're right in that those are the maximum speeds under ideal conditions.
It's a little OT, but I saw this article over at popular science the other day.
For those who don't want to read the article, it describes VW's latest test/concept car. Two person, 600 lbs car. It has a tank for 1.7 gallons and gets better than 260 MPG(though only rated for 235. ONLY.). And no, it's not slow. They rated the top speed as over 70 MPH. Which is plenty fast, even for highway travel.
Ontopic: it runs on diesel fuel. Who wants to mod this car and make it even more environmentally friendly? "It barely even burns Vegetable Oil!"
I don't, however, know what's involved in applying the mod. Or if VW could even fit it in this car. But it would still be cool. I actually want one of these cars. Errr... this car. That would be sweet. *sigh* Time to go buy a lottery ticket.