What's interesting is this uber-evil rootkit malware can be prevented from being installed by the mighty mighty shift key in Windows. Or even clicking "I do not accept" to the EULA. After that, simply then load up a favorite playback or ripping program, and voila!
It's not just the discovery of the encoding software, not only did the EULA have to be broken, but the DMCA as well, just to detect that it was a rootkit in the first place.
The thing I hate about this, though, is the Recycle Bin.
Say I've got two partitions, one as my root C:, and one mounted to C:\stuff. If I don't disable Recycle Bin, anything I delete in C:\stuff will actually be moved to the other partition's Recycle Bin area. Which can get really annoying for multi-gigabyte files.
Of course, this isn't a problem if you disable Recycle Bin or just selectively use shift-delete, and it's transparent when you're working with small enough files.
If you're not picky about flatbed versus feeders, there's quite a few. The HP 8200 does legal size in flatbed, and has both USB 2.0 and SCSI interfaces, for only $424.75. If you want automatic feeding with a 50-page hopper, pay an extra $300+ for the 8250.
I love browsing NewEgg, but it's so dangerous to do on a payday.:)
I've been interested in legal music downloads for a while, and have used iTunes once or twice. But I don't like the UI on iTunes, which seemed like it was just running a web browser in the window anyway.
If this means I can browse the iTMS and sample audio from within Mozilla, awesome! If it's just integrating Google's search engine into the iTunes software, I couldn't care less.
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For the same reason TiVo was such a major innovation over the VCR: They do essentially the same thing, but with less manual user intervention.
I listened to a couple weekly downloadable radio shows before this whole "podcasting" thing became so popular. I had to visit each site from my bookmarks, and download the MP3s manually to my player. With podcasts, I just leave my mp3 player hooked up, and the software loads it up automatically.
The audio file itself is certainly an integral part of a podcast, but it's not all of it. A podcast consists of a regularly produced audio file, an RSS feed that updates when there's a new audio file with a link to it, and an RSS aggregator that automatically downloads the file (and optionally syncs it to a portable music player). That's it.
Like the reviewer stated, there's no reason to get the book if you just want to subscribe to a podcast, that's as easy as getting a client (buzzword "podcatcher") and add feeds (usually as simple as bookmarking a website).
I wouldn't know where to start looking for the legalize, but it's somewhat simple.
When someone holds a copyright on something, they're given an artificial monopoly on the rights to copy it. They can do whatever they want with their copies, and nobody can do anything with a copy of it unless the copyright holder says they can.
So, if one were to get a copy without the copyright holder's permission, they're infringing on their right to control copies, thus copyright infringement.
On the other hand, theft is still taking something, and depriving the original owner from it. Going into a store, putting a DVD into your pocket, and leaving with it is theft, because the store is deprived of that physical object that they cannot sell.
Copyright infringement is not theft, and I hope everyone is able to know the difference. It's still wrong, and I know of a few people who have been the victims of copyright infringement, and agree that it can lead to lost sales, but it's not theft.
Thanks for the heads up, I was just about to post a link to this torrent, but as reported on that page some users are having problems with it, and so far it's been trickling to me at less than 1k/s, I don't even have a meg yet.
And honestly, I'd say I'd get much more excited over a GBA emulator for the PSP than I would for small, very lossily compressed, unmoving erotic pictures.
High quality full-motion videos with sound, on the other hand...
I wonder what effect this legislation will have on things like anime, where a company may secure commercial rights to distribute something in the United States, but then choose not to. From what I understand, fan-made subtitles of recordings are still in a gray area, where potential consumers *want* to buy the product, but cannot, and so share it amongst themselves at no profit instead. Many fansub groups even refuse to work on films and TV shows that are commercially available in English.
Not only anime, but any other type of product not released in the US by choice.
I tried searching around, but was unable to come up with the full text of the act this is proposing to amend. Call me paranoid, but without seeing the context, I can't feel jusified in having an opinion on the proposed amendment.
65 - 100 miles per gallon is: 17.17 - 26.42 miles per litre, 27.63 - 42.51 km per litre, 3.619 - 2.352 litres per 100km, or about LXXVIII - CXXI stadions per sester, depending on what measuring system you like.
I still have my VB, and I break it out from time to time to play the tennis game, WarioLand, and occaisonally a baseball game in a language I can't understand.
No, I don't have a point, except if one of these things flops and flops hard, I'll save up $20 to save it and a few games from the bargain bin, like I did with my OMG It's Teh Futare!!1 Nintendo Cyber Reality Helmet.
That should really be one third of people who choose to respond to telephone calls to answer surveys. I think that is a substantial skew in their results right there.
Some trading sites, like IGE mentioned in the article, are willing to buy money and items from players who have excess. So if your idea of fun is to spend hours every day killing the same things over and over again to collect the gold and magic swords they drop, and don't mind throwing the game's economy out of whack even more, or the risk of getting banned for violating the games Terms of Service, then go ahead, sell your excess for profit.
I've gotten some gold myself through these services, so I suppose I'm rotten too and adding to the problem. But I'm just spending that in-game currency on items in the game, and to improve my character's skills. I play the game until I get bored with it, then unsubscribe, removing my character and his ill-gotten gains from the system. And can game inflation really be blamed on the players, when the game itself is actually the one virtually pressing new coins left and right?
Yeah, but monkey wages can come out of the maintenance budget, and go more or less unnoticed, but it takes a lot of paperwork and red tape in big companies to get new hardware, no matter how critical.
I don't know about others, but this monkey has job security, nobody else wants to move a terabyte of tapes around every hour:)
I haven't played the Resident Evil game they're talking about, so I'm not sure how they're comparing it.
But it would be a nifty idea to scale back the monthly subscription to something small, like $5/month, and then just sell add-ons.
For example, you bring your shrinkwrapped game home, and with it is your first month subscription, and an invite to Noobland. Noobland seems pretty fun at first, but it doesn't have many higher-level enemies, and by the time a player gets to level 10, he's forced to buy access to the new L10-15 continent for $10.
Design it so the average gamer would be spending $10 a month in new things, in addition to monthly fees. That way, the power gamers would be burning through some serious cash in the game, to make up for the casual players, who really wouldn't use up much bandwidth anyway.
Asking them to count the pins or sockets can help too.
Unless it's a monitor. People will suddenly notice there's a pin missing from the plug (which is normal and unused) and leap to the conclusion that the monitor cable is the cause of all their problems.
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What's interesting is this uber-evil rootkit malware can be prevented from being installed by the mighty mighty shift key in Windows. Or even clicking "I do not accept" to the EULA. After that, simply then load up a favorite playback or ripping program, and voila!
It's not just the discovery of the encoding software, not only did the EULA have to be broken, but the DMCA as well, just to detect that it was a rootkit in the first place.
The thing I hate about this, though, is the Recycle Bin.
Say I've got two partitions, one as my root C:, and one mounted to C:\stuff. If I don't disable Recycle Bin, anything I delete in C:\stuff will actually be moved to the other partition's Recycle Bin area. Which can get really annoying for multi-gigabyte files.
Of course, this isn't a problem if you disable Recycle Bin or just selectively use shift-delete, and it's transparent when you're working with small enough files.
NewEgg > Computer Hardware > Printers and Scanners > Scanners > Type=Flatbed & Size=8.5x14
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If you're not picky about flatbed versus feeders, there's quite a few. The HP 8200 does legal size in flatbed, and has both USB 2.0 and SCSI interfaces, for only $424.75. If you want automatic feeding with a 50-page hopper, pay an extra $300+ for the 8250.
I love browsing NewEgg, but it's so dangerous to do on a payday.
I've been interested in legal music downloads for a while, and have used iTunes once or twice. But I don't like the UI on iTunes, which seemed like it was just running a web browser in the window anyway.
If this means I can browse the iTMS and sample audio from within Mozilla, awesome! If it's just integrating Google's search engine into the iTunes software, I couldn't care less.
For the same reason TiVo was such a major innovation over the VCR: They do essentially the same thing, but with less manual user intervention.
I listened to a couple weekly downloadable radio shows before this whole "podcasting" thing became so popular. I had to visit each site from my bookmarks, and download the MP3s manually to my player. With podcasts, I just leave my mp3 player hooked up, and the software loads it up automatically.
The audio file itself is certainly an integral part of a podcast, but it's not all of it. A podcast consists of a regularly produced audio file, an RSS feed that updates when there's a new audio file with a link to it, and an RSS aggregator that automatically downloads the file (and optionally syncs it to a portable music player). That's it.
I like it because I can listen to NPR's Science Friday while I'm working.
Like the reviewer stated, there's no reason to get the book if you just want to subscribe to a podcast, that's as easy as getting a client (buzzword "podcatcher") and add feeds (usually as simple as bookmarking a website).
Btw, MP3 for Dummies
I wouldn't know where to start looking for the legalize, but it's somewhat simple.
When someone holds a copyright on something, they're given an artificial monopoly on the rights to copy it. They can do whatever they want with their copies, and nobody can do anything with a copy of it unless the copyright holder says they can.
So, if one were to get a copy without the copyright holder's permission, they're infringing on their right to control copies, thus copyright infringement.
On the other hand, theft is still taking something, and depriving the original owner from it. Going into a store, putting a DVD into your pocket, and leaving with it is theft, because the store is deprived of that physical object that they cannot sell.
Copyright infringement is not theft, and I hope everyone is able to know the difference. It's still wrong, and I know of a few people who have been the victims of copyright infringement, and agree that it can lead to lost sales, but it's not theft.
Thanks for the heads up, I was just about to post a link to this torrent, but as reported on that page some users are having problems with it, and so far it's been trickling to me at less than 1k/s, I don't even have a meg yet.
But the filefront download is at 80mb already.
Me three! I'm such a geek.
And honestly, I'd say I'd get much more excited over a GBA emulator for the PSP than I would for small, very lossily compressed, unmoving erotic pictures.
High quality full-motion videos with sound, on the other hand...
I wonder what effect this legislation will have on things like anime, where a company may secure commercial rights to distribute something in the United States, but then choose not to. From what I understand, fan-made subtitles of recordings are still in a gray area, where potential consumers *want* to buy the product, but cannot, and so share it amongst themselves at no profit instead. Many fansub groups even refuse to work on films and TV shows that are commercially available in English.
Not only anime, but any other type of product not released in the US by choice.
Oh, I know, the title got my hopes up so much. u_u;
I tried searching around, but was unable to come up with the full text of the act this is proposing to amend. Call me paranoid, but without seeing the context, I can't feel jusified in having an opinion on the proposed amendment.
The Wikipedia article did link to a partial report, but I profess ignorance in how to decipher where Paragraph 22 is, if it's listed. Other links I've found seem to rely on a couple 404's at Cornell, subchapter I and subchapter II.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
They won't do PS/2 natively, but you can get converters that will make a PS/2 keyboard and mouse look like their USB counterparts.
I love my buckling spring Model M too, that things lasted me through seven computers so far, no signs of wearing.
65 - 100 miles per gallon is:
17.17 - 26.42 miles per litre,
27.63 - 42.51 km per litre,
3.619 - 2.352 litres per 100km, or about
LXXVIII - CXXI stadions per sester,
depending on what measuring system you like.
he was attacking the darkness.
I still have my VB, and I break it out from time to time to play the tennis game, WarioLand, and occaisonally a baseball game in a language I can't understand.
No, I don't have a point, except if one of these things flops and flops hard, I'll save up $20 to save it and a few games from the bargain bin, like I did with my OMG It's Teh Futare!!1 Nintendo Cyber Reality Helmet.
I'm weird that way.
That should really be one third of people who choose to respond to telephone calls to answer surveys. I think that is a substantial skew in their results right there.
Oh, c'mon, Chewie was walking around wearing nothing but a bandolier!
On the other hand, that's not very brief, is it?
I'm stumped too.
Some trading sites, like IGE mentioned in the article, are willing to buy money and items from players who have excess. So if your idea of fun is to spend hours every day killing the same things over and over again to collect the gold and magic swords they drop, and don't mind throwing the game's economy out of whack even more, or the risk of getting banned for violating the games Terms of Service, then go ahead, sell your excess for profit.
I've gotten some gold myself through these services, so I suppose I'm rotten too and adding to the problem. But I'm just spending that in-game currency on items in the game, and to improve my character's skills. I play the game until I get bored with it, then unsubscribe, removing my character and his ill-gotten gains from the system. And can game inflation really be blamed on the players, when the game itself is actually the one virtually pressing new coins left and right?
I'm surprised some of the code from olden days hasn't made anyone deaf yet, with all that shouting..
.. okay, bad joke..
10 REM HELLO WORLD
20 CLS
30 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!"
Yeah, but monkey wages can come out of the maintenance budget, and go more or less unnoticed, but it takes a lot of paperwork and red tape in big companies to get new hardware, no matter how critical.
:)
I don't know about others, but this monkey has job security, nobody else wants to move a terabyte of tapes around every hour
Ook ook.
I haven't played the Resident Evil game they're talking about, so I'm not sure how they're comparing it.
But it would be a nifty idea to scale back the monthly subscription to something small, like $5/month, and then just sell add-ons.
For example, you bring your shrinkwrapped game home, and with it is your first month subscription, and an invite to Noobland. Noobland seems pretty fun at first, but it doesn't have many higher-level enemies, and by the time a player gets to level 10, he's forced to buy access to the new L10-15 continent for $10.
Design it so the average gamer would be spending $10 a month in new things, in addition to monthly fees. That way, the power gamers would be burning through some serious cash in the game, to make up for the casual players, who really wouldn't use up much bandwidth anyway.
Asking them to count the pins or sockets can help too.
Unless it's a monitor. People will suddenly notice there's a pin missing from the plug (which is normal and unused) and leap to the conclusion that the monitor cable is the cause of all their problems.