Well NP, is controlled directly by Nintendo Corp of America, so its not going to have any contreverical content, or any advertzing at all, for that matter.
Other mags have to make money. I think it is pretty recent though, actualy... who knows.
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I think this is silly. Women arn't stupid, weak little flowers that we need to be delicet with. Most of the girls I know are just as ranuchy in there talk as the guys I know, and there probably worse when there alone together.
Most women Are not emotionaly immature idiots who can't stand the idea of sex. Pictures of scantily clad women arn't going to make them feel uncomfortable for the most part, especialy the ones who are going to be reading game mags anyway.
I'm not saying that women arn't going to be offended by someone cat-calling them or whatever, but A guy would be as well. but an image in a magazine just is not going to bother many people.
I don't see whats so hard to understand about this. Women arn't stupid, they can handle this. Sure, there not going to want to run out and buy the game. But not being part of a target demographic isn't discrimination...
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Why? I think for many people this would be better then renting. Just beacuse you don't want to participate in somthing dosn't mean its a bad Idea, its not.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Uh, the black coating does absolutly nothing. Other then make the disk look black. It has no effect on the IR laser used in a CD player. Remove the coating, and the disk will only look diffrent.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
The DVD hack could be a coating, placed on the DVD by the user, that absorbs (or reflects) the portion of the spectrum that turns the built in coating into another color
Um, you'd have a hard time playing the disc then, since only one wavelength of light is emmitted by the laser.
If you really want to keep the movie, just pump it into a VCR... I don't see whats so hard about that...
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
If I pay for something and feel that I own it, I expect it not to just go off and die on me. I do not beliece that these should be consumables, like milk or bread... If I buy a bunch of plastic with a movie on it today, I don't want to end up with a useless coaster tomorrow...
Well, that's fantastic. I'm glad we know what you want. But, why should we care? If you don't want to use this tech, then don't. How is droping this disc in the trash any diffrent from droping a netflix in the mail? You can't use a rented video after you return it, can you?
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
People want to collect movies. They don't want disposable disks that self destruct
Oh, is that why so many people rent movies? Obviously not every one cares about owning movies. This could posibly be cheaper and more convienent then Renting a movie. And unlike divx, you don't need a special player to play these. I don't see whats wrong with someone developing a technology. If people want it, fine, if they don't fine. I want it. And I'm sure other people do as well.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
You don't necessarily have to drive your rentals back to the rental store. Keep in mind that most humans have functioning feet, useful for walking and bicycling, in addition to driving.
Are you seriously going to sit there and tell me you walk/bike to the video store? The people who are going to buy these thigns arn't going to be the the people who bike all around town.
Sure, it's posible for people to get to the video store on foot, it will still be possible for people to not use/buy these disks. Nothing changes, whats your point?
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Have you seen what happens to a DVD in the microwave? it ain't pretty.
On the other hand, while they could make it 'tamper resistant', I'm sure with enough care and equipment you can get the data back off. Like you said, use an electron microscope. but then just take the data and burn it directly to another disk...
Not really a good way to send Encryption keys...
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Well, I like it, and I didn't like Divx. There are a lot of benifits that Divx didn't have.
A) no phone line, invasion of privacy My player dosn't need to call into the home station to let them know I'm watching a movie.
B) Uses the same player It uses the same player as a regular DVD, so the market cost of entry is a lot cheaper. If you've got a DVD drive, you can play these little things
D)avialable everywhere. With Divx, the only place you could get discs was at Circut city, beacuse of the propritary format. The divx people had complet control of every movie that got played. But you could sell these things anywhere, and everywhere. Gas stations, supermarkets, you could even mail them out to people, or whatever. C)ease of piracy:P With divx you'd need to mod the player, since you probably wouldn't be able to read them in a standard DVD drive. With these, you just stick in, DeCSS (then VCD, or encode with better video codec), and your done!
Like I said, I like the idea. Just beacuse it's Like Divx in some superficial ways, dosn't mean its bad. This has all the positives of Divx and none of the negatives.
sorry about my spelling, my computer just tanked out, and I havn't goten around to installing a spellchecker:(
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
you don't need De-CSS to copy the media and watch it.
Yes, you do. If you want a direct DVD copy, you need DeCSS. If you just want to capture the video signal, then that's another issue, but it would require ether exspensive MPEG encoding equipment, insainly large hard drives (into the hundred gig range) or an enormous amount of time on your hands. (capture 3 minutes, encode, repeat). You could also copy to VHS, but its kind of hard to email a VHS tape...
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Well, you could simply just record it to a VHS tape as well. VHS is just a little more exspensive, and even the lowest qualty tapes will look better then a VCD.
you might have to get one of those MacroVision remover things, but it still wouldn't be that difficult...
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Well, thats not what there doing. They sell a disk that becomes unreadable after a certan amount of time after the first playing, not after x numbers of playings. And you could certanly get a record of when you baught it.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Put it this way: right now, hard drive space is less that $30/GB. That's based on an 18 GB Ultra-2 Wide SCSI drive I bought a few months ago for about $600. It's probably less now, not to mention how much less it would be for bigger, slower IDE drives.
Ahh, you've paid far, far to much money. First of all ATA66 is prettymuch just as fast as scsi. And second of all 40gb IDE HD is only $350 or somthing like that. Less then $10 a gig. You could only store about 4-8 DVD movies on that, I don't think many people would want to do that, though
(on the other hand, you could store about 38 VCD movies...)
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Your desire to dump waste into the ocean (or anywhere cheap and hidden) simply puts off the cost of that decision until future generations have to contend with it. It is flawed economic reasoning and morally selfish.
He said subduction zone. The stuff would get sucked into the earth's core, where it would do nothing. By the time it came back up again (if ever), it would most certanly be non-radioactive
Let's see nuclear generated electricity compete with solar power on a level playing field. No legislated exemptions from liability, no free fuel from gov't uranium mines, no socialist sharing of disposal costs. In a free market, the cost of dumping YOUR problems into our oceans would be prison.
Hrm, I think the cost of solar engergy is somthing like $5/kwatt-hour. This is vs about $0.10 for current systems. if you pay about $50 in electricity a month, your costs would go up to about $2,500.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
If there's such a fine line between humor and idiocy, I would think one would be carefull not to cross it. How was I supposed to know you were joking? how was anyone? Were we exspected to simply say "well, I know sig11's smart, so this must be a joke." You don't think that's a bit egotistical?
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
I don't think methonal is that flamable. Most real exsplosions are caused by Nitrogen forming into N2. Anyway, lithium Ion battaries are exsplosive to.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
What I'm curious about is what the airlines/FAA are going to say about people bringing electric devices which carry little vials of combustable poisionous liquid with them onto airplanes?
You mean like battary acid?
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
This sounds errily familiar to another cold fusion "fuel cell". They had a revolutionary new power source too.
Uh, sig, this has nothing to do with cold fusion whatsoever. A fule cell is a device that turns chemical energy into electrical energy, without the use of an engine and generator. It's fully understood (unlike cold fusion), And is in fact the basis of all life (We don't really 'burn' the food we eat, and then use internal combustion engines to move, now do we?)
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Yes this is the typical 'lets only read whats written and not pay attention to anything else'.
Well, yeh. That's generaly what you do when you read somthing Trying to second guess the motivations of people 224 years ago is ludicrist at best, and dangerous at worst. They wrote what they wrote, nothing more.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Well, I'm not white. I still think hate crimes laws are stupid. I understand that motive matters, however, If your going to murder someone (1st degree) you're obviously going to hate them. Why should it matter what your political belives are?
Sorry for the lack of spell checking here...
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Slashdot Mirror
Well NP, is controlled directly by Nintendo Corp of America, so its not going to have any contreverical content, or any advertzing at all, for that matter.
Other mags have to make money. I think it is pretty recent though, actualy... who knows.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
I think this is silly. Women arn't stupid, weak little flowers that we need to be delicet with. Most of the girls I know are just as ranuchy in there talk as the guys I know, and there probably worse when there alone together.
Most women Are not emotionaly immature idiots who can't stand the idea of sex. Pictures of scantily clad women arn't going to make them feel uncomfortable for the most part, especialy the ones who are going to be reading game mags anyway.
I'm not saying that women arn't going to be offended by someone cat-calling them or whatever, but A guy would be as well. but an image in a magazine just is not going to bother many people.
I don't see whats so hard to understand about this. Women arn't stupid, they can handle this. Sure, there not going to want to run out and buy the game. But not being part of a target demographic isn't discrimination...
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Whoever came up with it is a complete jackass.
Why? I think for many people this would be better then renting. Just beacuse you don't want to participate in somthing dosn't mean its a bad Idea, its not.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Uh, the black coating does absolutly nothing. Other then make the disk look black. It has no effect on the IR laser used in a CD player. Remove the coating, and the disk will only look diffrent.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
The DVD hack could be a coating, placed on the DVD by the user, that absorbs (or reflects) the portion of the spectrum that turns the built in coating into another color
Um, you'd have a hard time playing the disc then, since only one wavelength of light is emmitted by the laser.
If you really want to keep the movie, just pump it into a VCR... I don't see whats so hard about that...
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
If I pay for something and feel that I own it, I expect it not to just go off and die on me. I do not beliece that these should be consumables, like milk or bread... If I buy a bunch of plastic with a movie on it today, I don't want to end up with a useless coaster tomorrow...
Well, that's fantastic. I'm glad we know what you want. But, why should we care? If you don't want to use this tech, then don't. How is droping this disc in the trash any diffrent from droping a netflix in the mail? You can't use a rented video after you return it, can you?
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
People want to collect movies. They don't want disposable disks that self destruct
Oh, is that why so many people rent movies? Obviously not every one cares about owning movies. This could posibly be cheaper and more convienent then Renting a movie. And unlike divx, you don't need a special player to play these. I don't see whats wrong with someone developing a technology. If people want it, fine, if they don't fine. I want it. And I'm sure other people do as well.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
You don't necessarily have to drive your rentals back to the rental store. Keep in mind that most humans have functioning feet, useful for walking and bicycling, in addition to driving.
Are you seriously going to sit there and tell me you walk/bike to the video store? The people who are going to buy these thigns arn't going to be the the people who bike all around town.
Sure, it's posible for people to get to the video store on foot, it will still be possible for people to not use/buy these disks. Nothing changes, whats your point?
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
pop it in the microwave and melt it off,
Have you seen what happens to a DVD in the microwave? it ain't pretty.
On the other hand, while they could make it 'tamper resistant', I'm sure with enough care and equipment you can get the data back off. Like you said, use an electron microscope. but then just take the data and burn it directly to another disk...
Not really a good way to send Encryption keys...
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Well, I like it, and I didn't like Divx. There are a lot of benifits that Divx didn't have.
:P
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A) no phone line, invasion of privacy
My player dosn't need to call into the home station to let them know I'm watching a movie.
B) Uses the same player
It uses the same player as a regular DVD, so the market cost of entry is a lot cheaper. If you've got a DVD drive, you can play these little things
D)avialable everywhere.
With Divx, the only place you could get discs was at Circut city, beacuse of the propritary format. The divx people had complet control of every movie that got played. But you could sell these things anywhere, and everywhere. Gas stations, supermarkets, you could even mail them out to people, or whatever. C)ease of piracy
With divx you'd need to mod the player, since you probably wouldn't be able to read them in a standard DVD drive. With these, you just stick in, DeCSS (then VCD, or encode with better video codec), and your done!
Like I said, I like the idea. Just beacuse it's Like Divx in some superficial ways, dosn't mean its bad. This has all the positives of Divx and none of the negatives.
sorry about my spelling, my computer just tanked out, and I havn't goten around to installing a spellchecker
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
you don't need De-CSS to copy the media and watch it.
Yes, you do. If you want a direct DVD copy, you need DeCSS. If you just want to capture the video signal, then that's another issue, but it would require ether exspensive MPEG encoding equipment, insainly large hard drives (into the hundred gig range) or an enormous amount of time on your hands. (capture 3 minutes, encode, repeat). You could also copy to VHS, but its kind of hard to email a VHS tape...
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Won't people still have to make that 6 mile round trip to buy the disposable DVDs anyway?
Yes, but you only need to make the round trip once. To buy it. Instaid of twice to buy and return. Do you know how to read?
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Well, you could simply just record it to a VHS tape as well. VHS is just a little more exspensive, and even the lowest qualty tapes will look better then a VCD.
you might have to get one of those MacroVision remover things, but it still wouldn't be that difficult...
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Well, thats not what there doing. They sell a disk that becomes unreadable after a certan amount of time after the first playing, not after x numbers of playings. And you could certanly get a record of when you baught it.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Put it this way: right now, hard drive space is less that $30/GB. That's based on an 18 GB Ultra-2 Wide SCSI drive I bought a few months ago for about $600. It's probably less now, not to mention how much less it would be for bigger, slower IDE drives.
Ahh, you've paid far, far to much money. First of all ATA66 is prettymuch just as fast as scsi. And second of all 40gb IDE HD is only $350 or somthing like that. Less then $10 a gig. You could only store about 4-8 DVD movies on that, I don't think many people would want to do that, though
(on the other hand, you could store about 38 VCD movies...)
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Your desire to dump waste into the ocean (or anywhere cheap and hidden) simply puts off the cost of that decision until future generations have to contend with it. It is flawed economic reasoning and morally selfish.
He said subduction zone. The stuff would get sucked into the earth's core, where it would do nothing. By the time it came back up again (if ever), it would most certanly be non-radioactive
Let's see nuclear generated electricity compete with solar power on a level playing field. No legislated exemptions from liability, no free fuel from gov't uranium mines, no socialist sharing of disposal costs. In a free market, the cost of dumping YOUR problems into our oceans would be prison.
Hrm, I think the cost of solar engergy is somthing like $5/kwatt-hour. This is vs about $0.10 for current systems. if you pay about $50 in electricity a month, your costs would go up to about $2,500.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
If there's such a fine line between humor and idiocy, I would think one would be carefull not to cross it. How was I supposed to know you were joking? how was anyone? Were we exspected to simply say "well, I know sig11's smart, so this must be a joke." You don't think that's a bit egotistical?
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Someone dies
Someone posts to slashdot with a link to "hot pics" of said person, and gets a score+1 informative?
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
I don't think methonal is that flamable. Most real exsplosions are caused by Nitrogen forming into N2. Anyway, lithium Ion battaries are exsplosive to.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
What I'm curious about is what the airlines/FAA are going to say about people bringing electric devices which carry little vials of combustable poisionous liquid with them onto airplanes?
You mean like battary acid?
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
This sounds errily familiar to another cold fusion "fuel cell". They had a revolutionary new power source too.
Uh, sig, this has nothing to do with cold fusion whatsoever. A fule cell is a device that turns chemical energy into electrical energy, without the use of an engine and generator. It's fully understood (unlike cold fusion), And is in fact the basis of all life (We don't really 'burn' the food we eat, and then use internal combustion engines to move, now do we?)
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
How about using this technology in a UPS?
FuleCells cannot be recharged. You'd have to stick more fule in. So, I don't think they would be to usefull in an UPS
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Yes this is the typical 'lets only read whats written and not pay attention to anything else'.
Well, yeh. That's generaly what you do when you read somthing Trying to second guess the motivations of people 224 years ago is ludicrist at best, and dangerous at worst. They wrote what they wrote, nothing more.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Do you really believe that all linux gurus have a mission to destroy windows
No, the guy was trolling. Relax. Read trolltalk quite entertaining.
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Well, I'm not white. I still think hate crimes laws are stupid. I understand that motive matters, however, If your going to murder someone (1st degree) you're obviously going to hate them. Why should it matter what your political belives are?
Sorry for the lack of spell checking here...
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",