I like AnyDVD, I use AnyDVD. But only because I must.
Is it just me, or does anyone else see something wrong with that product? It's nice because it gives me (allows me to use rather) the freedoms I enjoy under my Fair Use rights but I've got to pay for it. Ironically, the software has copy protection built in!
I don't see AnyDVD lasting for long, but for good reasons. It is similar to bootlegging - we've been forced to look to questionable business practices because the government has sided with the special interests and hasn't supported our rights. Frankly I think it is wrong, wrong, wrong. I can't get a copy of DVD Decrypter (legally, you know) but I can *buy* a copy of AnyDVD?
I'm afraid that stories will be rushed to the website because "we can always change it later!"
The Dewey headlines were due to bad poll numbers, bad speeches by Dewey and maybe a friend on the inside. From Wikipedia: "Dewey was born and raised in Owosso, Michigan, where his father edited the local newspaper." Conspiracy!
Honestly, I'm bothered by dynamic news articles. The advantage of the printed page is that it can't be taken back and it can't be edited to leave out details. A good example is my local paper (the one I also happen to work for) that ran a story about the new congresswoman Jean Schmidt's remarks about John Murtha. She made the comments Friday night and the Saturday news story was almost congratulatory. By the time SNL aired that night (where Schmidt was spoofed) the mood had changed and the next days paper reflected that change. Under a dynamic system the paper could easily "take back" the story or edit it and change with people's moods as time went on - that's pandering.
I like the newspaper because it is a reliable source (even when their opinions are wrong their facts aren't, and I disagree with their editorial policy down to the silly/stupid/patriotic, sheeplike/random letters they publish...) and what you get is what you get - no playing around.
I think what will save the papers isn't the web, it's the paper itself - they just aren't working at it. The higher-ups are afraid to do anything because their business is dying. It's like a starving bird - they will not try new foods while they are starving, they can't afford it. When they are full and strong though they don't mind trying to eat rocks, trash or even possibly poisonous, unknown fruit.
Generally, newspapers are written for the grade 8 reading level and offer very little in the way of background, just a quick shot of information then on to the next story
Puh-leeez...
I think you are thinking of the 6 O'clock news. No background, and the story only hits air if it is juicy and has footage. Almost no national news and no international news, unless there was a fire, earthquake or riot (and even my local stations dropped that ball for DAYS).
If you are saying that newspapers are to "stupid" for web users I have a huge problem with that. Maybe the web in 1996, but not now. For god's sake, you misspelled "newspapers". I get it that people think they are too good for the "paper" today, but don't just put down the product when you've never used it.
It effectively attempts to curb Sony's console dominance by making Blu-Ray next to worthless.
It seems to me that if Sony goes with Blu-Ray and all the PC's out in the wild won't have it, it will be harder to copy their games. Mod chips always come out, encryption is cracked, but not being able to produce discs with the proper format/standard will halt copying efforts.
Of course it isn't the end all solution to piracy. Every SEGA Dreamcast game out has been copied and distributed, but you had to download the game (1+ Gigabyte) through a serial cable first. Using a proprietary technology kept people from renting games just to copy them. Assuming that the PS3 doesn't allow you to rip a game and upload it through the controller/USB/Firewire ports and that you can't fit a PS3 game on a DVD-R then they have got a winner.
Just imagine it another way: Protocol dead zones.
I had to create an network for a school that kept teacher's workstation and servers separate from the rest of the network. No student was allowed to even attempt a log in. The easiest way to do this was to use Novell Netware 6 (eDirectory) and IPX/SPX for all teacher/back-end communications. No student workstations were supplied with the drivers to use IPX (no student could install drivers, software, etc). Even if they had a rouge Linux install with IPX ready to go, let's say, the switch had IPX/SPX routing disabled for those ports. The only switch ports that would transmit IPX were the ones we told it to (of course all switches are kept in locked cabinets and so forth).
Same theory here for Blu-Ray. If the only place it is ever seen is the PS3 then Microsoft helped the PS3 become more "pirate-proof". (Of course, it could be argued that no PS3 game piracy may hurt Sony and so forth...)
Besides, who is the consumer electronics giant here, Sony or Microsoft?
How about leaving off the "125 channel tuner" and adding a simple IR dongle?
Because the `cable box` and `tuner` are one in the same!
Go buy a dongle (or make one), they run about $50 - more than what it costs to make, ship and market a simple tuner. Really, you're asking for something for free. It's like saying: "Keep the baked potato, I want a second steak instead!"
If you are just trying to record digital cable then wait for cards next year that will support cable card technology.
I don't see how people miss that it is ironic that this worm is apparently from China while most machines without SP2 are also from China. Earlier there was a story that said we should be aware/afraid of cyber attacks by the Chinese.
I think the worm originated in Fort Meade, the stories originated from the Pentagon. That or the Chinese are targeting each other, not us.
putting more distractions in front of them during quite possibly the only time in which they might eat and interact directly with their parents and siblings is just wrong, absolutely wrong.
You assume that families that eat at McDonalds actually give a rats ass about spending time with each other. The people I know who force-feed this crap on their kids do it to spend less time on or with their children.
You think that McDonalds is to blame? Should they share some burden?
No - they didn't fuck your husband/wife/babby daddy/whatever.
The only thing making it hard on parents who want to raise their children right are the parents themselves.
these kids are already struggling with obesity
Media isn't going to make kids fat. The kids are fat because their parents don't love them and don't feed them right.
Again, none of this has to do with any major corporations. I hate Disney, for the most part I also hate McDonalds (for other reasons) but to blame them for decades of bad parenting and general social decline is wrong. Don't sue McDonalds because you are fat, sue your mom and dad that didn't love you enough to tell you when and why you should quit overeating (and/or to eat healthy).
Notice: I seem to be taking this out on you, I'm sorry. Not intended.
But as others mentioned: You need to boycott Sony/BMG, not Sony at large. It would be hard to boycott everything that puts money in Sony's pockets because they have their hands in everything.
Own any CD's? CD-R's, RW's? CD players?
DVD anything?
Get real. It would be like boycotting Magnavox, you support them when you buy the XBox.
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I like AnyDVD, I use AnyDVD. But only because I must.
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Is it just me, or does anyone else see something wrong with that product? It's nice because it gives me (allows me to use rather) the freedoms I enjoy under my Fair Use rights but I've got to pay for it. Ironically, the software has copy protection built in!
I don't see AnyDVD lasting for long, but for good reasons. It is similar to bootlegging - we've been forced to look to questionable business practices because the government has sided with the special interests and hasn't supported our rights. Frankly I think it is wrong, wrong, wrong. I can't get a copy of DVD Decrypter (legally, you know) but I can *buy* a copy of AnyDVD?
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It seems the only thing that creates cyber-criminals is cyber-laws.
Microsoft just announced that you must load the first 640k of Vista with punch cards...
I don't see any reason probes will ever need more than 256MB of memory...
they might as well start a program to eradicate all the flies in the world.
I was always taught that they invented the flyswatter, so why not?
Well you had to delete the newsletter when you were done reading it or if you didn't want to read it.
With RSS you just let the old news expire - no need to actively delete old headlines or micromanage the information.
Sadly, I'm stuck with version 1.0.1 because none of the rest will work when using Apache on Windows.
I for one welcome our communist, indium antimonide clad overlords!
Security through infrequency?
They "get it," maybe, but only to the extent that it gets them theirs: they want to own all the tollbooths on the web-services highway.
Yeah, they got it... now you are getting it too. They saw green and went for it.
AFAIK is pretty secure, at least the NSA sponsored OS.X security guide I read recently recommended using it.
Is that the same guide I read? I think it's title was: " For Our Eyes Only "
ahhh... I was thinking RedHat?
I'm afraid that stories will be rushed to the website because "we can always change it later!"
The Dewey headlines were due to bad poll numbers, bad speeches by Dewey and maybe a friend on the inside. From Wikipedia: "Dewey was born and raised in Owosso, Michigan, where his father edited the local newspaper." Conspiracy!
Honestly, I'm bothered by dynamic news articles. The advantage of the printed page is that it can't be taken back and it can't be edited to leave out details. A good example is my local paper (the one I also happen to work for) that ran a story about the new congresswoman Jean Schmidt's remarks about John Murtha. She made the comments Friday night and the Saturday news story was almost congratulatory. By the time SNL aired that night (where Schmidt was spoofed) the mood had changed and the next days paper reflected that change. Under a dynamic system the paper could easily "take back" the story or edit it and change with people's moods as time went on - that's pandering.
I like the newspaper because it is a reliable source (even when their opinions are wrong their facts aren't, and I disagree with their editorial policy down to the silly/stupid/patriotic, sheeplike/random letters they publish...) and what you get is what you get - no playing around.
I think what will save the papers isn't the web, it's the paper itself - they just aren't working at it. The higher-ups are afraid to do anything because their business is dying. It's like a starving bird - they will not try new foods while they are starving, they can't afford it. When they are full and strong though they don't mind trying to eat rocks, trash or even possibly poisonous, unknown fruit.
Generally, newspapers are written for the grade 8 reading level and offer very little in the way of background, just a quick shot of information then on to the next story
Puh-leeez...
I think you are thinking of the 6 O'clock news. No background, and the story only hits air if it is juicy and has footage. Almost no national news and no international news, unless there was a fire, earthquake or riot (and even my local stations dropped that ball for DAYS).
If you are saying that newspapers are to "stupid" for web users I have a huge problem with that. Maybe the web in 1996, but not now. For god's sake, you misspelled "newspapers". I get it that people think they are too good for the "paper" today, but don't just put down the product when you've never used it.
It effectively attempts to curb Sony's console dominance by making Blu-Ray next to worthless.
It seems to me that if Sony goes with Blu-Ray and all the PC's out in the wild won't have it, it will be harder to copy their games. Mod chips always come out, encryption is cracked, but not being able to produce discs with the proper format/standard will halt copying efforts.
Of course it isn't the end all solution to piracy. Every SEGA Dreamcast game out has been copied and distributed, but you had to download the game (1+ Gigabyte) through a serial cable first. Using a proprietary technology kept people from renting games just to copy them. Assuming that the PS3 doesn't allow you to rip a game and upload it through the controller/USB/Firewire ports and that you can't fit a PS3 game on a DVD-R then they have got a winner.
Just imagine it another way: Protocol dead zones.
I had to create an network for a school that kept teacher's workstation and servers separate from the rest of the network. No student was allowed to even attempt a log in. The easiest way to do this was to use Novell Netware 6 (eDirectory) and IPX/SPX for all teacher/back-end communications. No student workstations were supplied with the drivers to use IPX (no student could install drivers, software, etc). Even if they had a rouge Linux install with IPX ready to go, let's say, the switch had IPX/SPX routing disabled for those ports. The only switch ports that would transmit IPX were the ones we told it to (of course all switches are kept in locked cabinets and so forth).
Same theory here for Blu-Ray. If the only place it is ever seen is the PS3 then Microsoft helped the PS3 become more "pirate-proof". (Of course, it could be argued that no PS3 game piracy may hurt Sony and so forth...)
Besides, who is the consumer electronics giant here, Sony or Microsoft?
How about leaving off the "125 channel tuner" and adding a simple IR dongle?
Because the `cable box` and `tuner` are one in the same!
Go buy a dongle (or make one), they run about $50 - more than what it costs to make, ship and market a simple tuner. Really, you're asking for something for free. It's like saying: "Keep the baked potato, I want a second steak instead!"
If you are just trying to record digital cable then wait for cards next year that will support cable card technology.
How long before these robots turn evil and try to push us down the stairs?
2560 days and 13 hours?
That's okay, I bought the robot insurance.
I don't see how people miss that it is ironic that this worm is apparently from China while most machines without SP2 are also from China. Earlier there was a story that said we should be aware/afraid of cyber attacks by the Chinese.
I think the worm originated in Fort Meade, the stories originated from the Pentagon. That or the Chinese are targeting each other, not us.
Since it's in times square, does that make it a new year's resolution?
No, it makes it 5846724 x 904401
Hey, you win the prize!
Thanks for playing the game kids
putting more distractions in front of them during quite possibly the only time in which they might eat and interact directly with their parents and siblings is just wrong, absolutely wrong.
You assume that families that eat at McDonalds actually give a rats ass about spending time with each other. The people I know who force-feed this crap on their kids do it to spend less time on or with their children.
You think that McDonalds is to blame? Should they share some burden?
No - they didn't fuck your husband/wife/babby daddy/whatever.
The only thing making it hard on parents who want to raise their children right are the parents themselves.
these kids are already struggling with obesity
Media isn't going to make kids fat. The kids are fat because their parents don't love them and don't feed them right.
Again, none of this has to do with any major corporations. I hate Disney, for the most part I also hate McDonalds (for other reasons) but to blame them for decades of bad parenting and general social decline is wrong. Don't sue McDonalds because you are fat, sue your mom and dad that didn't love you enough to tell you when and why you should quit overeating (and/or to eat healthy).
Notice: I seem to be taking this out on you, I'm sorry. Not intended.
Damn, I was going to answer the question of what is under the 360's hood by saying:
A cooking burrito!
this profile of myself but they rejected it for some reason.
Something about competition and being human or something...
...a good boycott.
But as others mentioned: You need to boycott Sony/BMG, not Sony at large. It would be hard to boycott everything that puts money in Sony's pockets because they have their hands in everything.
Own any CD's? CD-R's, RW's? CD players?
DVD anything?
Get real. It would be like boycotting Magnavox, you support them when you buy the XBox.
And let me tell you, the guy being tortured for three hours wasn't Christ...
(it was me... and I don't mean that in any hidden, allegorical sense either)