Stealing? Yes, that's been illegal for a very long time. Copyright infringment? Only a few hundred years. The USA used to have no problem at all with copying works from Europe and elsewhere even after it created internal copyright legislation.
Heck, join the army and you get to kill people for basic pay!
People I know and would have a motive for killing command a higher price due to higher risk. Ordinary people the going rate is about $10K-20K. Celebrities and other people expected to have security is about $50K. President of the USA? Pricless....as in free. Just need setup costs and opportunity and someone with mental problems and a copy of Catcher in the Rye.
So, get them voted out of office....to be replaced with people who do nothing significantly different.
And even if you lobby hard enough to get your issue on your parties manifesto, (at least in the UK) there is no obligation for them to actually put it into law. Or even attempt to do so.
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The programming he does for love (OSS) _is_ free.
The programming he hates (his daytime job) he does for the money.
A 26 episode series here would come out on 6 DVDs, each one costing ~£25 = £150 = $US250. This is too much. A pirate series would come on 3 DVDs. For £15. £5 if you don't want the box. I'd personally be willing to pay £40 for the genuine item. Rent? to laugh hollowly. Blockbuster doesn't stock it. Availability? The pirates can have a series out very shortly or even before its release in Japan. Waiting for it to be licensed and dubbed can make you wait _years_. I don't need dubbing, I don't want dubbing. Heck, some of the time I don't even need subs.
Price need to come down. eg. Where you can sell 10 items for $100 each, but if you lower the price to $10, then you sell 10,000 items. Since DVD's have negligible physical costs, then surely lowering the price will sell a lot more items, the 'evil' pirates will see dwindling sales as consumers see value for the extra quality that the real item gives.
That's assuming your cinema shows the things you want to see, when you want to see them, and allow you to stop the movie to make a few snacks/nature break, raise and lower the sound for comfort, and give you a huge tub of popcorn for a few cents instead of more than the movie itself.
It depends a lot on the model of the DLP. I demoed several before buying, and the best they had was the Z90E. I have to be actively looking for rainbows before I see them on this one. Also, it helps if you are the type of person who watches the screen fairly constantly instead of turning your head to the side all the time saying 'ooh, what's happening?' - if you'd been watching the movie then you'd know and you wouldn't be seeing rainbows either! (Not that I'm annoyed by this at all;P)
True, why would you want to hire a _convicted_ felon?
You need to hire the hacker they _didn't_ catch. Surely the guy who managed to cover his tracks so well as to never get caught is a much better person to learn from.
Next, due to lack of the software CD, I had a hard time working out how to get the ethernet port to work - luckily, a nice person on Kiss DVD forum pointed out to me that the software was also on the same.iso that is used to update the firmware.
Once software was installed, and the IP of my windows machine entered into the Kiss DVD setup, I was able to play all of my files that were Divx4,5, Xvid, mp3 etc.
It requires a windows machine to stream the data through, but if you can share a drive to it eg, samba, then you can share from non-windows platforms.
In fact, it plays them better than on my PC (Athlon 1600, 1G DDR, GF4-Ti4200).
So far, the promised Divx3.11 support is not yet with us, but indications are it will be with us in a few weeks. Once it has, it will make the noisy computer beside my TV redundant!
While I do recommend this to the people who need to be on the leading edge, I wouldn't recommend it to someone who doesn't have a CDburner - though who would buy a Divx player who didn't?? -due to the need for frequent firmware updates.
It plays Xvid, ogm, and all reports say it plays DVD+Rs as well. While it's by no means perfected, it plays my Xvid and Divx4/5 files fine, and they are giving us new firmwares every couple of weeks.
I made mine regionless last night. All it requires is to flash the Toshiba DVDrom drive to RPC-1, and then use the hidden menu to select which region or all.
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Because the men won't....but whinge endlesses about how cold it is.
"The entire planet is a desert! With all that desert, there's gotta be oil!"
Since when has stealing EVER been allowed?
Stealing? Yes, that's been illegal for a very long time. Copyright infringment? Only a few hundred years. The USA used to have no problem at all with copying works from Europe and elsewhere even after it created internal copyright legislation.
Heck, join the army and you get to kill people for basic pay!
...as in free. Just need setup costs and opportunity and someone with mental problems and a copy of Catcher in the Rye.
People I know and would have a motive for killing command a higher price due to higher risk.
Ordinary people the going rate is about $10K-20K.
Celebrities and other people expected to have security is about $50K.
President of the USA? Pricless.
So, get them voted out of office....to be replaced with people who do nothing significantly different.
And even if you lobby hard enough to get your issue on your parties manifesto, (at least in the UK) there is no obligation for them to actually put it into law. Or even attempt to do so.
The programming he does for love (OSS) _is_ free.
The programming he hates (his daytime job) he does for the money.
It does however, prevent reoffending.
Even if the person is later found innocent of the original crime, you can be certain that they won't offend in future!
Except that in Shakespearean days, we could make our own entertainment if the acting sucked by throwing fruit and veges at them.
Geez, what backwater do you live in? The kids will just send the person a text whether there is a powercut or not!
A 26 episode series here would come out on 6 DVDs, each one costing ~£25 = £150 = $US250. This is too much.
A pirate series would come on 3 DVDs. For £15. £5 if you don't want the box.
I'd personally be willing to pay £40 for the genuine item.
Rent? to laugh hollowly. Blockbuster doesn't stock it.
Availability? The pirates can have a series out very shortly or even before its release in Japan. Waiting for it to be licensed and dubbed can make you wait _years_. I don't need dubbing, I don't want dubbing. Heck, some of the time I don't even need subs.
Price need to come down. eg. Where you can sell 10 items for $100 each, but if you lower the price to $10, then you sell 10,000 items.
Since DVD's have negligible physical costs, then surely lowering the price will sell a lot more items, the 'evil' pirates will see dwindling sales as consumers see value for the extra quality that the real item gives.
Presumably this was for ensuring the peace of his country.
Neither the US or anyone else has ever invaded a nuclear capable country.
That's assuming your cinema shows the things you want to see, when you want to see them, and allow you to stop the movie to make a few snacks/nature break, raise and lower the sound for comfort, and give you a huge tub of popcorn for a few cents instead of more than the movie itself.
It depends a lot on the model of the DLP. I demoed several before buying, and the best they had was the Z90E. I have to be actively looking for rainbows before I see them on this one. ;P)
Also, it helps if you are the type of person who watches the screen fairly constantly instead of turning your head to the side all the time saying 'ooh, what's happening?' - if you'd been watching the movie then you'd know and you wouldn't be seeing rainbows either! (Not that I'm annoyed by this at all
Yes, in future I'll avoid this risk by simply shoplifting it.
The amount of bandwidth I can get by doing this is phenomenal! 700M in 1/2 second!
Well, except of course that they don't sell any music I want to listen to, so why bother stealing it.
How about the Patent Office gets money for every patent denied?
This will stop a lot of frivilous patents and only the really and assuredly original works will get through.
True, why would you want to hire a _convicted_ felon?
You need to hire the hacker they _didn't_ catch. Surely the guy who managed to cover his tracks so well as to never get caught is a much better person to learn from.
Would seem to be pretty simple to block - and how would they know how you are seeing it on your screen without monitoring you in your home?
Um, that was a problem, _not_ a suggestion Big Brother!
I've got one workmate who loves his Tivo. And it seems a cool toy. I'd get one, except for one little problem -
I don't watch TV anymore. I DL the few episodes of things I do want to watch, and everything else is DVD.
Well, I do watch a little news on TV. And strangely enough, I don't need a Tivo to record it when it's repeated every hour.
Your Windows/Samba comment means that it uses SMB for filesharing. Easy enough.
Sorry, no - it uses something else to get to the windows machine, I just simply mapped a drive to Samba shares on other machines.
I got mine from Scan. It's not the cheapest thing in the world.
On the other hand, you can mount the firmware on linux and change all the images!
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It took a couple of weeks for it to arrive, but it finally got to me.
.iso that is used to update the firmware.
First thing I did was to make it regionless - Region free Kiss DVD
Next, due to lack of the software CD, I had a hard time working out how to get the ethernet port to work - luckily, a nice person on Kiss DVD forum pointed out to me that the software was also on the same
Once software was installed, and the IP of my windows machine entered into the Kiss DVD setup, I was able to play all of my files that were Divx4,5, Xvid, mp3 etc.
It requires a windows machine to stream the data through, but if you can share a drive to it eg, samba, then you can share from non-windows platforms.
In fact, it plays them better than on my PC (Athlon 1600, 1G DDR, GF4-Ti4200).
So far, the promised Divx3.11 support is not yet with us, but indications are it will be with us in a few weeks. Once it has, it will make the noisy computer beside my TV redundant!
While I do recommend this to the people who need to be on the leading edge, I wouldn't recommend it to someone who doesn't have a CDburner - though who would buy a Divx player who didn't?? -due to the need for frequent firmware updates.
It plays Xvid, ogm, and all reports say it plays DVD+Rs as well.
While it's by no means perfected, it plays my Xvid and Divx4/5 files fine, and they are giving us new firmwares every couple of weeks.
And yes, it took a couple of weeks to be delivered. :(
I made mine regionless last night. All it requires is to flash the Toshiba DVDrom drive to RPC-1, and then use the hidden menu to select which region or all.
It requires a bit of software running on a Windows PC to select which files you want available.
However, once you have it running on a PC, you can have the files on a network drive.
Yes, I have done this - connected to a Samba share on an Mac OSX machine and played them via the PC.