Why does doing this with Star Trek give SciFi a bad name, and someone taking a class on Dante's Inferno not?
I have to disagree, very few people take either written or visual media as seriously as "Trekkies" do. Such feverish obsession reminds me of when I was a child and used to watch Ghostbusters and Superman repeatedly. Eventually I grew up.
Don't get me wrong, I like sci-fi, I like Star Trek (TOS and TNG anyway) but some people just take it all to far.
'Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water' captures the lives, passions and quirks of the members of the Klingon Language Institute during their annual qep'a' (conference).
I'm sorry but it's people like this that give science fiction a bad name.
I think the point is that I have a "free" DVD player on my Windows box. Came with my DVD drive. It's fully licensed and legal. How come there isn't a Linux player available?
It's not the MPAA's problem, they are not required to provide a way for people to watch DVD's on every obscure device or OS. This whole article kind of misses the point.
People seem to missing the point. I agree with you and valenti that it is not the responsibility of the Movie industry to ensure that a dvd will play in whatever device / OS that you want it to.
The issue with the MPAA is that they advocate copright technologies that don't fit well with the "fair use" elements of current copyright law. And because they also support laws like the DMCA they are making it illegal to decode or decrypt such copyright technology meaning that DIY solutions (which is what OOS is all about) aren't possible.
And why on earth *not* use FLAC? There certainly aren't licensing encumberments.
Which could be a part of the problem, I am sure I remeber reading on the FLAC homepage that they are very definitely opposed to DRM and that FLAC has no built in support for it. Seeing how hot Apple are for DRM then it might make sense for them to develop a format that supports it from the ground up.
Support for competing MP3 portables. I think I read somewhere that iTunes may support another mp3 player besides the iPod, but that really isn't enough. Once again, I think it'd be beneficial the popularity of the program if they supported other players.
Apple make almost no money from the program, it's free and they are barely breaking even with music sales. But iTunes does help to sell iPods, which is Apple's current cash cow, why then should they let other portables use their software ?.
And for the record - flanking & attacks of opportunity in 3/3.5 Edition still irritate me. Combine a familiar with Master Tactician and some rogue levels, and you're off to the races.
I would much rather have another movie than another formula tv series, TNG was good, but basically repeating it over and over is really starting to damage star trek as a whole.
And I actually enjoyed Nemesis, sure in some ways it ripped off the wrath of khan, but if you are going to copy any ST movie then you copy the best.
Wasn't that because the format they recorded it on was quite obscure and they couldn't find a player to read back the data ?. That is related to this I guess but the first hurdle is to ensure the integrity of the data in the first place.
In the wrong conditions, such as sunlight, humidity and upper surface damage, your CD-R will slowly turn into a coaster. "CD-Rs should never be left lying in sunlight as there's an element of light sensitivity, certainly in the poor quality media," says Stevenson. "I wouldn't rely on CD-Rs for long-term storage unless you're prepared to deal with them as recommended."
Surely storing cd's correctly is the key, if the dye on a cdr fades after being kept in a jewel case at a room temperature fr 2 years then that is obviously very bad (and there could be some lawsuits in the future).
As the poles switch, the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field will decrease to around one-tenth its current strength, and it will remain this way for around 3,000 years, Dr. Dunlop said. Then, the complex flow patterns will reinforce each other until they once again form the planetary version of an electric dynamo. As this happens, the magnetic field will gradually power up to full strength -- completely reversed.
Doesn't the earths maganetic field protect us from nasty stuff ?, what happens when the intensity is reduced... ?
I always use a program to reduce the bitrate of an audio file when i copy it over to my muvo nx, dbcpower amp can convert ogg -> mp3 as well so until ogg support is in every player you can just do that.
Winders does devices well because that's where the market's been. Linux would smoke Winders boxes in all tests if it had better drivers.
Linux's biggest problem at the moment is it's patchy support fr wireless network cards. It's literally 50/50 whether a particular card will work for you. Take into account that some manafacturers create different versions of the same card, some of which have a linux driver, some of which don't, and you have an incredibly confusing atmosphere for a non technical user.
Hopefully as linux grows, hardware manafacturers will start to consider a linux driver as important as the windows one.
I have all the info I need, and once I get Access to handle badly-formed ID3v3 tags,
Music Brainz can help you fill in missing or incomplete id3 tags. It creates an audio fingerprint of a song and then cmpares it to it's database, if it finds a match it updates the tag.
Is that it will sell just as well as non-DRM'd hardware because the masses are clueless as to what it does.
We as geeks need to inform people about this thing.
I have got a feeling that people will eventually realise what DRM is and it's disadvantages. Bear in mind that the early adopters of the kind of device this will be used in will likely be technologically literate, and the widespread use of mp3 by the general public mean that any DRM that is too restrictive will probably lead to failure.
As long as there is a non DRM option people will choose the hardware that lets them do what they want.
Yes they would. Dell would feel compeled to write the documentation and fix the bugs that it saw...
But Dell don't write software (at least not primarily) and probably don't want to. Why should they ? their business is selling hardware, they are not going to ship compy's with software that has UI and documentation which is inferior to that developed proprietary.
One of the great things about OSS is that if their is a bug you can fix it yourself, however if you have neither the skills or inclination then you may well be willing to pay someone else to do that development, you may actually be willing to put up with defects in the software.
So, out of just 14 filmed episodes of Firefly, three have been nominated for Hugo awards. I think that says something, but I doubt Fox is listening.:-)
It says that geeks liked the show, which everyone knew.
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Why does doing this with Star Trek give SciFi a bad name, and someone taking a class on Dante's Inferno not?
I have to disagree, very few people take either written or visual media as seriously as "Trekkies" do. Such feverish obsession reminds me of when I was a child and used to watch Ghostbusters and Superman repeatedly. Eventually I grew up.
Don't get me wrong, I like sci-fi, I like Star Trek (TOS and TNG anyway) but some people just take it all to far.
'Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water' captures the lives, passions and quirks of the members of the Klingon Language Institute during their annual qep'a' (conference).
I'm sorry but it's people like this that give science fiction a bad name.
I think the point is that I have a "free" DVD player on my Windows box. Came with my DVD drive. It's fully licensed and legal. How come there isn't a Linux player available?
It's not the MPAA's problem, they are not required to provide a way for people to watch DVD's on every obscure device or OS. This whole article kind of misses the point.
People seem to missing the point. I agree with you and valenti that it is not the responsibility of the Movie industry to ensure that a dvd will play in whatever device / OS that you want it to.
The issue with the MPAA is that they advocate copright technologies that don't fit well with the "fair use" elements of current copyright law. And because they also support laws like the DMCA they are making it illegal to decode or decrypt such copyright technology meaning that DIY solutions (which is what OOS is all about) aren't possible.
And why on earth *not* use FLAC? There certainly aren't licensing encumberments.
Which could be a part of the problem, I am sure I remeber reading on the FLAC homepage that they are very definitely opposed to DRM and that FLAC has no built in support for it. Seeing how hot Apple are for DRM then it might make sense for them to develop a format that supports it from the ground up.
Support for competing MP3 portables. I think I read somewhere that iTunes may support another mp3 player besides the iPod, but that really isn't enough. Once again, I think it'd be beneficial the popularity of the program if they supported other players.
Apple make almost no money from the program, it's free and they are barely breaking even with music sales. But iTunes does help to sell iPods, which is Apple's current cash cow, why then should they let other portables use their software ?.
What did you find that Office can do that OpenOffice cannot?
A word count function, seriously I prefer to use Open Office but I can't believe they left something so simple out...
And for the record - flanking & attacks of opportunity in 3/3.5 Edition still irritate me. Combine a familiar with Master Tactician and some rogue levels, and you're off to the races.
Yep you are a nerd.
I think the actual quote was...
"you ccan either do the right thing or the wrong thing, but do something"
The patent, filed in 1986, includes 46 claims for various embodiments of digital signal compression technology
So they own all forms of digital compression ?
Not to be pedantic or anything but pencils use graphite, not lead.
I would much rather have another movie than another formula tv series, TNG was good, but basically repeating it over and over is really starting to damage star trek as a whole.
And I actually enjoyed Nemesis, sure in some ways it ripped off the wrath of khan, but if you are going to copy any ST movie then you copy the best.
Wasn't that because the format they recorded it on was quite obscure and they couldn't find a player to read back the data ?. That is related to this I guess but the first hurdle is to ensure the integrity of the data in the first place.
In the wrong conditions, such as sunlight, humidity and upper surface damage, your CD-R will slowly turn into a coaster. "CD-Rs should never be left lying in sunlight as there's an element of light sensitivity, certainly in the poor quality media," says Stevenson. "I wouldn't rely on CD-Rs for long-term storage unless you're prepared to deal with them as recommended."
Surely storing cd's correctly is the key, if the dye on a cdr fades after being kept in a jewel case at a room temperature fr 2 years then that is obviously very bad (and there could be some lawsuits in the future).
From the link...
As the poles switch, the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field will decrease to around one-tenth its current strength, and it will remain this way for around 3,000 years, Dr. Dunlop said. Then, the complex flow patterns will reinforce each other until they once again form the planetary version of an electric dynamo. As this happens, the magnetic field will gradually power up to full strength -- completely reversed.
Doesn't the earths maganetic field protect us from nasty stuff ?, what happens when the intensity is reduced... ?
Frm the article...
The process by which this was accomplished (parthenogenesis) does not naturally occur in mammals
No shit sherlock...
Or to quote friends...
"If they took all the porn off the internet I'm pretty sure there would only be one website left, and it would called bring back the porn"
I always use a program to reduce the bitrate of an audio file when i copy it over to my muvo nx, dbcpower amp can convert ogg -> mp3 as well so until ogg support is in every player you can just do that.
now maybe i'll get a first post...
Actually I am really surprised that it is only 1/3. Seems so much higher based on personal experience.
Winders does devices well because that's where the market's been. Linux would smoke Winders boxes in all tests if it had better drivers.
Linux's biggest problem at the moment is it's patchy support fr wireless network cards. It's literally 50/50 whether a particular card will work for you. Take into account that some manafacturers create different versions of the same card, some of which have a linux driver, some of which don't, and you have an incredibly confusing atmosphere for a non technical user.
Hopefully as linux grows, hardware manafacturers will start to consider a linux driver as important as the windows one.
I have all the info I need, and once I get Access to handle badly-formed ID3v3 tags,
Music Brainz can help you fill in missing or incomplete id3 tags. It creates an audio fingerprint of a song and then cmpares it to it's database, if it finds a match it updates the tag.
Is that it will sell just as well as non-DRM'd hardware because the masses are clueless as to what it does.
We as geeks need to inform people about this thing.
I have got a feeling that people will eventually realise what DRM is and it's disadvantages. Bear in mind that the early adopters of the kind of device this will be used in will likely be technologically literate, and the widespread use of mp3 by the general public mean that any DRM that is too restrictive will probably lead to failure.
As long as there is a non DRM option people will choose the hardware that lets them do what they want.
Yes they would. Dell would feel compeled to write the documentation and fix the bugs that it saw...
But Dell don't write software (at least not primarily) and probably don't want to. Why should they ? their business is selling hardware, they are not going to ship compy's with software that has UI and documentation which is inferior to that developed proprietary.
One of the great things about OSS is that if their is a bug you can fix it yourself, however if you have neither the skills or inclination then you may well be willing to pay someone else to do that development, you may actually be willing to put up with defects in the software.
So, out of just 14 filmed episodes of Firefly, three have been nominated for Hugo awards. I think that says something, but I doubt Fox is listening. :-)
It says that geeks liked the show, which everyone knew.