The process that you describe has been available since Windows 2000 came out, under the feature called 'dynamic disc'.
The operating system you mention has been a piece of shit since... forever.
Why do you insist on assuming some piss-poor Windows "feature" is the answer? It's much more likely to be hardware based since (now get this) 'not everyone uses Windows' and it clearly states it's for PC or Mac.
I was gonna say that maybe 'you' had been visited by aliens and had your funny bone removed... but then I realised you're a pommie so that's an anatomical impossibility.;)
DRM is not MS-Word, you dorks. It's not some nebulous app someone is busting their engineers to support.
Apple's market share has nothing to do with this at all. THAT's what makes it idiotic to go on about. DRM is arm twisting, not software.
So, let me re-cap: DRM is not software and Apple market share and supportability therefore have nothing to do with it. You don't get that. The other guy didn't either.
PS - They chose the word "coward" for very good reasons. You seem to epitomise those reasons.
Apple is very willing to embrace DRM. They just won't embrace DRM that they see as "interfering with the experience of consumers". In their view Audible doesn't do so.
No one, to my knowledge, ever said Apple was fighting against DRM, and if they did they are wrong. They're fighting against crappy implementations that benefit the owners at the detriment of the user.
No, I'll just pick up a VHS while I'm out getting needles for my record player.
You got any printer ribbons, by chance, for my dot matrix printer? I had some in the box where I keep my 5.25" disks but I can't find them now. I was watching Miami Vice and...........
I don't MEAN to be a bitch here... but if the shoe fits...
Anyway... exactly who made you arbiter of "what console gaming is supposed to be about"?
I'm not a supporter of M$ or the Xbox (although I have to honestly admit it is a nice console and some of the games are pretty damned good, but that's beside the point), but your statement is a bit presumptuous on your part. As with most activities, console gaming is what console gamers want or make it to be. There is no 'Big Book of Console Gaming' with a set of rules for what is and is not console gaming.
Having said that, FWIW I'm a Mac user and I prefer Gamecube. I say that in anticipation of some paranoid troll saying I'm some M$ stooge.
I agree. While his prose is reminiscent of the early English trolls of the 1700s, his clear and obvious misunderstanding of what Slashdot is harkens back to the post-fascist-neo-fuckian writers who were in fashion in the 20s.
As I glanced at the sidebar (Apache, Apple, Books, Science, YRO, etc.) noticing that the only Linux references were his post and the Penguin icon up top, I couldn't help but feel sorry for him. Perhaps one day a good troll coach can give him the training he needs to be a first-class troll. We can only hope.
We expect a better calibre of troll these days. Is this fair to the lesser trolls? Maybe not, but that's how things are. Here... at Slashdot... which is about "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
Filthy F. Coont, America's Science Whore and Troll Critic ===
... but the other day I copied a 3gb folder, burned a CD and played music all at the same time... but I'm on a Mac... and it's a laptop. Guess that's not the same. heh:)
82 watts of power dissipation... The VRU has to be cooled (or be of a more expensive design) so it won't... oh god I don't wanna think what it will do... melt? catch fire? explode? Eat through the Earth's core and Bruce Willis will have to team up with Hilary Swank to save us?
On the bright side, people who live in the northern hemisphere can consolidate their heating and gaming bills. "Bill, we got any space heaters left in the back?" "No, but we got some of them new Pentium machines."
Where does this end? I know Moore's law will 'eventually' catch up and they'll have to move away from just throwing more transistors at the design (although, like some weird horror movie, they keep infusing a few more months into the x86's life), but, seriously, how much is too much? Where will people draw the line on power consumption for their PC? Once upon a time I thought that 30 watts for the G4e was high. That's peanuts compared to this!
Start ordering more Lieberts, y'all. And invest in air handler stocks. ===
this is one of the few (I said "few", nitpickers) "crimes" in US law where damage does not have to be shown. It's implied damage with the plaintiffs being allowed to make up the damages off the top of their heads.
Intel has a name for it, "the software spiral". And they are happy as pigs in shit for Microsoft to continue their bloat-ware development at full steam. It just means that people will need more power to run the crap that comes outta Redmond.
However it seems maybe M$ is losing ground and, thereby, helping facilitate the current market slowdown for new consumer system purchases. There's only so much crap they can cram into Office, I guess. And grandpa can't tell the diff between his PIII and that fancy new P4 so why buy one.
I dunno if I mean this post to be taken as sarcasm or as academic... it could go either way. It's all certainly true, but also somewhat Heller-ian.
re: disruption of electronics and satellite crippling the story did mention this. and the solar flaring you mention would have to occur at the most incredibly opportune second as the broiling radiation furnace our upper atmosphere will become will begin vaporising those satellites straight away. however they'd already have begun to die from the bombardment they were not designed to handle.
and I have to disagree re: us -- very many things could happen to us. not the least of which would be radiation poisoning/extremely accelerated cancer rates (our solar defenses in our atmosphere will be among the first to go) and possibly the steady loss of our atmosphere altogether (and associated steady heat related deaths) which would most certainly kill us.
You're bitching about a company keeping their stuff out of public domain where others can use it (and maybe even profit from it)... and then you're bitching that the same company made money from stuff in the public domain???
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The process that you describe has been available since Windows 2000 came out, under the feature called 'dynamic disc'.
The operating system you mention has been a piece of shit since... forever.
Why do you insist on assuming some piss-poor Windows "feature" is the answer? It's much more likely to be hardware based since (now get this) 'not everyone uses Windows' and it clearly states it's for PC or Mac.
Asshat.
I was gonna say that maybe 'you' had been visited by aliens and had your funny bone removed... but then I realised you're a pommie so that's an anatomical impossibility. ;)
Lemme get my tinfoil hat and sign me up!
/. starts paying more attention to them black helicopters soon!
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Hooboy I hope that
"Dale, where in the hell did you hear that?"
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DRM is not MS-Word, you dorks. It's not some nebulous app someone is busting their engineers to support.
Apple's market share has nothing to do with this at all. THAT's what makes it idiotic to go on about. DRM is arm twisting, not software.
So, let me re-cap: DRM is not software and Apple market share and supportability therefore have nothing to do with it. You don't get that. The other guy didn't either.
PS - They chose the word "coward" for very good reasons. You seem to epitomise those reasons.
Yeah, until they start making [as a co-worker calls it] "Admin Sized" versions.
Maybe they'll be like Jeep and have a special edition kinda like the Eddie Bauer Cherokee; but it would be the R.M. Stallman Edition Segway.
"Supports up to 400 lbs. Comes complete with cup holder and Palm cradle."
Apple is very willing to embrace DRM. They just won't embrace DRM that they see as "interfering with the experience of consumers". In their view Audible doesn't do so.
No one, to my knowledge, ever said Apple was fighting against DRM, and if they did they are wrong. They're fighting against crappy implementations that benefit the owners at the detriment of the user.
I see why you posted as an AC... cuz yer an idiot.
At least you were smart enough not to attach your name to this badge of stupidity.
No, I'll just pick up a VHS while I'm out getting needles for my record player.
You got any printer ribbons, by chance, for my dot matrix printer? I had some in the box where I keep my 5.25" disks but I can't find them now. I was watching Miami Vice and...........
PS - And it's "you're" you lazy bastard.
I don't MEAN to be a bitch here... but if the shoe fits...
Anyway... exactly who made you arbiter of "what console gaming is supposed to be about"?
I'm not a supporter of M$ or the Xbox (although I have to honestly admit it is a nice console and some of the games are pretty damned good, but that's beside the point), but your statement is a bit presumptuous on your part. As with most activities, console gaming is what console gamers want or make it to be. There is no 'Big Book of Console Gaming' with a set of rules for what is and is not console gaming.
Having said that, FWIW I'm a Mac user and I prefer Gamecube. I say that in anticipation of some paranoid troll saying I'm some M$ stooge.
... but if you haven't read the book, why do you care about the movie?
Because I'm a cinephile. *smacks you on top of the head* That was a silly thing to say...
Why: To beat the Japanese, of course!
... 9/11 ....
*sings* Where were you... when they built the domino ladder to heaven...
Did you convince yourself of all the above yet? :)
You can write some more if it will help you feel OK about yourself.
I agree. While his prose is reminiscent of the early English trolls of the 1700s, his clear and obvious misunderstanding of what Slashdot is harkens back to the post-fascist-neo-fuckian writers who were in fashion in the 20s.
As I glanced at the sidebar (Apache, Apple, Books, Science, YRO, etc.) noticing that the only Linux references were his post and the Penguin icon up top, I couldn't help but feel sorry for him. Perhaps one day a good troll coach can give him the training he needs to be a first-class troll. We can only hope.
We expect a better calibre of troll these days. Is this fair to the lesser trolls? Maybe not, but that's how things are. Here... at Slashdot... which is about "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
Filthy F. Coont, America's Science Whore and Troll Critic
===
However, my company recently "shifted focus" and everyone will have PC's within a year.
:)
And everyone will be frustrated and pissed off within a year and 2 days. hehe
... but the other day I copied a 3gb folder, burned a CD and played music all at the same time... but I'm on a Mac... and it's a laptop. Guess that's not the same. heh :)
82 watts of power dissipation...
The VRU has to be cooled (or be of a more expensive design) so it won't... oh god I don't wanna think what it will do... melt? catch fire? explode? Eat through the Earth's core and Bruce Willis will have to team up with Hilary Swank to save us?
On the bright side, people who live in the northern hemisphere can consolidate their heating and gaming bills.
"Bill, we got any space heaters left in the back?"
"No, but we got some of them new Pentium machines."
Where does this end? I know Moore's law will 'eventually' catch up and they'll have to move away from just throwing more transistors at the design (although, like some weird horror movie, they keep infusing a few more months into the x86's life), but, seriously, how much is too much? Where will people draw the line on power consumption for their PC? Once upon a time I thought that 30 watts for the G4e was high. That's peanuts compared to this!
Start ordering more Lieberts, y'all. And invest in air handler stocks.
===
this is one of the few (I said "few", nitpickers) "crimes" in US law where damage does not have to be shown. It's implied damage with the plaintiffs being allowed to make up the damages off the top of their heads.
Intel has a name for it, "the software spiral". And they are happy as pigs in shit for Microsoft to continue their bloat-ware development at full steam. It just means that people will need more power to run the crap that comes outta Redmond.
However it seems maybe M$ is losing ground and, thereby, helping facilitate the current market slowdown for new consumer system purchases. There's only so much crap they can cram into Office, I guess. And grandpa can't tell the diff between his PIII and that fancy new P4 so why buy one.
I dunno if I mean this post to be taken as sarcasm or as academic... it could go either way. It's all certainly true, but also somewhat Heller-ian.
You can get all three games on DVD and play em on your puter or DVD player or DVD-enabled-aibo-lunchbox. I got em about 2 weeks ago.
:)
But... I'll probably buy the Gamecube version of 3d as well.
and I assure YOU that irony requires a much steadier writing hand than that.
re: disruption of electronics and satellite crippling
the story did mention this.
and the solar flaring you mention would have to occur at the most incredibly opportune second as the broiling radiation furnace our upper atmosphere will become will begin vaporising those satellites straight away. however they'd already have begun to die from the bombardment they were not designed to handle.
and I have to disagree re: us -- very many things could happen to us. not the least of which would be radiation poisoning/extremely accelerated cancer rates (our solar defenses in our atmosphere will be among the first to go) and possibly the steady loss of our atmosphere altogether (and associated steady heat related deaths) which would most certainly kill us.
(my sig is not directed at you)
then you might wanna look at/ 98rn 02.htm
/ v5n1/walker5 1.html
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/1997-98
and, re: defamation
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues
and, yes, there's no bill of rights... *sigh*
but maybe... one day...
this is ancient news (and... didn't you gys already cover the o'reilly version ????).
You're bitching about a company keeping their stuff out of public domain where others can use it (and maybe even profit from it)... and then you're bitching that the same company made money from stuff in the public domain???
I dunno who's more confused. Me or you.
Yeah. Heaven knows why a movie writer would want to submit their work to Hollywood... *stares at you with raised eyebrow*