Then it isn't science. Review by independent scientists is a fundamental part of science. Unfortunately the vast majority of people have no understanding of science or its principles.
Let's see: I can only get modem access at a decent monthly rate so I can expect it to take 12-24 hours to download, that's R120-R240 for call charges, plus the R50 fee to the studio.
A new DVD here costs R200-R300.
So I can pay R170-R290 for an inferior copy that lasts for a day or I can get a DVD with much better picture and sound quality plus probably extras, and it lasts for years.
DVD wins until we have very, very fast downloads; and even then why pay R50 when I can just hire the DVD for R15?
Too many people donate money because they want to be seen as charitable, they are essentially doing it for selfish reasons. When I donate money I don't want my name on a plaque, in fact I don't want any recognition - I donate because I believe in something not for recognition of my charity.
In fact the current campaign contribution (i.e. bribery) system could be improved by requiring all contributions to be completely anonymous.
It wasn't that long ago that companies were claiming they should be able to spy on their employees after hours, in their own homes.
The only way to keep corporate scum in hand is have as much information as possible available to the public so we should be implementing systems to help more internal information to get leaked out.
It is most definitely private and I dare any company exec to try messing with me. I have more dirt on them than they have on me and I have no problem with destroying them permanently.
Still has to be decrypted sometime so there'll just be tools that give you the decrypted data. If you can read the keys to decrypt the data in the first place then you can read them to decrypt it to make a copy and the copy will no longer be encrypted.
Maybe the EFF is pushing it, but really that is the only way to truly get the public's attention - exaggeration is how laws like this and the Patriot Act get passed in the first place - we need to counter that with our hyperbole. I say go ahead frighten the academics and spook the public because they need it.
The DMCA has already been used to threaten academics. What if I publish an article describing a means to circumvent copy protection, which someone takes and produces the code to do it, am I liable? I can definitely expect to be threatened by the media giants - it doesn't matter if the threat has merit, they have the money to bankrupt me in court and they know it. They'll contend that if I did not describe the method, then the code could not have been created in the first place.
but gave no thought to the copy-protection and region-encoding incorporated into DVDs
Wrong these have been issues since the beginning and remain so. Facts: the Macrovision blight is easier to eliminate with DVD & Region coding is easily defeated.
The higher price and the mandatory five-minute commercials (which one could FFWD through on a VCR) are accepted as the "tradeoff" for these great benefits
OK the price is higher, but extras are demanded plus unlike my VHS movies I can watch my DVDs regularly and not be concerned with degradation. Any time a studio tries to force the watching of advertising they are soundly attacked - they're still there, but you can skip them and much more easily than with VHS.
Meanwhile, DVDs that work with your PC now install software on your PC, connect to industry Web sites (sending who knows what information back) and some even require you to register to use the "features" on your disk.
Not one of my discs requires me to install anything on my PC. I can if I choose. I have never seen any DVD-ROM content that required me to register either, besides which I always provide fake information (and that includes my details provided when I install an OS) if I choose to register.
Valenti is either a knowing or unknowing front for a bunch of lazy corporations and management, all of whom are an insult to the concept of capitalism.
Not so simple. They could easily have more flexible options taking into account the capital available to a developer. For example why not a much lower fee combined with a share of the game profits?
They are extremely abundant and have no intrinsic value, although they can be quite useful. They are only expensive because criminals like De Beers artificially control the supply. Worse these companies actively promote war in Africa to help them exploit the diamonds - they are currently involved in a scam where they have been underpaying Namibia for its diamonds and are now threatening the Namibian government if they try to ascertain what others besides De Beers would pay.
And anyone who has ever tried to resell a wedding ring will tell you that they are completely worthless - you might just as well have handed your money over to the jeweller in exchange for a piece of granite.
Rubbish, there's no reason to kowtow to a woman's every whim, especially when her idiotic desire for a worthless rock is contributing to war and famine. If she insists, then give her one and every day remind her that children were tortured and murdered so she could carry around a piece of useless junk.
My Windows 2000 is on one CD, so is XP; both require a single reboot during the installation; both take in the region of 30-40 minutes to install most of which can be completely unattended - if you take the trouble to set up an install script it'll do everything on its own.
As far as drivers go XP came with drivers for almost everything and no OS install can possibly have the latest drivers unless you just acquired it.
installation. Windows is *not done* when you pop the disk in, set up time zones and users, and run. Great care must be taken to get the system ready to go, and install all of your other apps. Drivers are almost *never* current on a vanilla Windows installation.
This is no different to installing any version of Linux - or do they have some magical way of spiriting the latest drivers into the install?
We need to keep these modified crops out of the environment - everywhere they have been used they contaminate the environment leading to long term damage that cannot be repaired.
When such laws will be rescinded unless there is a major backlash from the public.
Bush and his cronies have been wringing their hands with glee ever since the attack. They couldn't have planned it better themselves and now he can continue his father's dream of finally completing the conversion of the US into a police state.
Criminals and religious nuts can buy their way into office. Corporations buy politicians who then protect their vested interests. At this rate the country is doomed.
Now here's a question - are there any countries that operate a free market? Are there even any countries where politicians are elected based on merit?
Macrovision have conned numerous studios into buying their worthless garbage; of course everyone was worried about giving it up, but it only takes one success to get the ball rolling and chances are Harry Potter is going to sell really well.
Hopefully this means goodbye to the Macrovision blight.
It is a truism in the war on drugs that the police at their most efficient capture about 10% of the total trade; vicious police states may be able to get that as high as 30%. The principle is being erroneously applied here.
As someone who has watched the original series regularly over the years, continuing to watch them because I enjoy them not through any nostalgia or notions of Star Wars changed my outlook - it didn't - I can say that Episode 1 wasn't even in the same ballpark as the worst of the original series, i.e. Return of the Jedi.
The basic thing that makes Star Wars work is the silliness of it all and the players obviously not taking it seriously. By RotJ they were starting to take it all very seriously and that along with the annoying Ewoks drags the whole movie down.
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Left out drugs, which idiotically will get you the most severe sentence in most areas.
That the world desperately needs. Torture them until they pay back what they stole, then shoot them in the back of the head.
Might be worth getting a better trained monkey to be president too.
Then it isn't science. Review by independent scientists is a fundamental part of science. Unfortunately the vast majority of people have no understanding of science or its principles.
Let's see: I can only get modem access at a decent monthly rate so I can expect it to take 12-24 hours to download, that's R120-R240 for call charges, plus the R50 fee to the studio.
A new DVD here costs R200-R300.
So I can pay R170-R290 for an inferior copy that lasts for a day or I can get a DVD with much better picture and sound quality plus probably extras, and it lasts for years.
DVD wins until we have very, very fast downloads; and even then why pay R50 when I can just hire the DVD for R15?
Too many people donate money because they want to be seen as charitable, they are essentially doing it for selfish reasons. When I donate money I don't want my name on a plaque, in fact I don't want any recognition - I donate because I believe in something not for recognition of my charity.
In fact the current campaign contribution (i.e. bribery) system could be improved by requiring all contributions to be completely anonymous.
then you lose your cell phone with everyone's phone numbers in it and you're back in the stone age
That is why you back them up. I keep copies of my address book in my handheld and on my PC, plus they get backed up to CD periodically.
Cellphones just give the opportunity to demonstrate this fact.
It wasn't that long ago that companies were claiming they should be able to spy on their employees after hours, in their own homes.
The only way to keep corporate scum in hand is have as much information as possible available to the public so we should be implementing systems to help more internal information to get leaked out.
It is most definitely private and I dare any company exec to try messing with me. I have more dirt on them than they have on me and I have no problem with destroying them permanently.
Tired of corporate bullshit.
there are some that believe that this could be very tough.
Like those selling it perhaps?
The same claim has been made for every other copy protection scam out there and each one has been breached.
If there's a way to load the data, then there's a way to copy it.
Still has to be decrypted sometime so there'll just be tools that give you the decrypted data. If you can read the keys to decrypt the data in the first place then you can read them to decrypt it to make a copy and the copy will no longer be encrypted.
Problem solved. Don't know why they even bother.
The rise of MP3 pre-dates the rise of Napster by years.
All Napster really did was put a pretty face on what already existed.
And there's nothing wrong with undermining criminal media conglomerates.
Maybe the EFF is pushing it, but really that is the only way to truly get the public's attention - exaggeration is how laws like this and the Patriot Act get passed in the first place - we need to counter that with our hyperbole. I say go ahead frighten the academics and spook the public because they need it.
The DMCA has already been used to threaten academics. What if I publish an article describing a means to circumvent copy protection, which someone takes and produces the code to do it, am I liable? I can definitely expect to be threatened by the media giants - it doesn't matter if the threat has merit, they have the money to bankrupt me in court and they know it. They'll contend that if I did not describe the method, then the code could not have been created in the first place.
Wrong these have been issues since the beginning and remain so. Facts: the Macrovision blight is easier to eliminate with DVD & Region coding is easily defeated.
The higher price and the mandatory five-minute commercials (which one could FFWD through on a VCR) are accepted as the "tradeoff" for these great benefits
OK the price is higher, but extras are demanded plus unlike my VHS movies I can watch my DVDs regularly and not be concerned with degradation. Any time a studio tries to force the watching of advertising they are soundly attacked - they're still there, but you can skip them and much more easily than with VHS.
Meanwhile, DVDs that work with your PC now install software on your PC, connect to industry Web sites (sending who knows what information back) and some even require you to register to use the "features" on your disk.
Not one of my discs requires me to install anything on my PC. I can if I choose. I have never seen any DVD-ROM content that required me to register either, besides which I always provide fake information (and that includes my details provided when I install an OS) if I choose to register.
Valenti is either a knowing or unknowing front for a bunch of lazy corporations and management, all of whom are an insult to the concept of capitalism.
Not so simple. They could easily have more flexible options taking into account the capital available to a developer. For example why not a much lower fee combined with a share of the game profits?
They are extremely abundant and have no intrinsic value, although they can be quite useful. They are only expensive because criminals like De Beers artificially control the supply. Worse these companies actively promote war in Africa to help them exploit the diamonds - they are currently involved in a scam where they have been underpaying Namibia for its diamonds and are now threatening the Namibian government if they try to ascertain what others besides De Beers would pay.
And anyone who has ever tried to resell a wedding ring will tell you that they are completely worthless - you might just as well have handed your money over to the jeweller in exchange for a piece of granite.
Rubbish, there's no reason to kowtow to a woman's every whim, especially when her idiotic desire for a worthless rock is contributing to war and famine. If she insists, then give her one and every day remind her that children were tortured and murdered so she could carry around a piece of useless junk.
My Windows 2000 is on one CD, so is XP; both require a single reboot during the installation; both take in the region of 30-40 minutes to install most of which can be completely unattended - if you take the trouble to set up an install script it'll do everything on its own.
As far as drivers go XP came with drivers for almost everything and no OS install can possibly have the latest drivers unless you just acquired it.
installation. Windows is *not done* when you pop the disk in, set up time zones and users, and run. Great care must be taken to get the system ready to go, and install all of your other apps. Drivers are almost *never* current on a vanilla Windows installation.
This is no different to installing any version of Linux - or do they have some magical way of spiriting the latest drivers into the install?
We need to keep these modified crops out of the environment - everywhere they have been used they contaminate the environment leading to long term damage that cannot be repaired.
When such laws will be rescinded unless there is a major backlash from the public.
Bush and his cronies have been wringing their hands with glee ever since the attack. They couldn't have planned it better themselves and now he can continue his father's dream of finally completing the conversion of the US into a police state.
Criminals and religious nuts can buy their way into office. Corporations buy politicians who then protect their vested interests. At this rate the country is doomed.
Now here's a question - are there any countries that operate a free market? Are there even any countries where politicians are elected based on merit?
Macrovision have conned numerous studios into buying their worthless garbage; of course everyone was worried about giving it up, but it only takes one success to get the ball rolling and chances are Harry Potter is going to sell really well.
Hopefully this means goodbye to the Macrovision blight.
But they certainly do come up with some really funny idiocies.
And sometimes they do something right, like forcing greedy pharmaceutical companies to lower the prices of life-saving drugs.
It is a truism in the war on drugs that the police at their most efficient capture about 10% of the total trade; vicious police states may be able to get that as high as 30%. The principle is being erroneously applied here.
As someone who has watched the original series regularly over the years, continuing to watch them because I enjoy them not through any nostalgia or notions of Star Wars changed my outlook - it didn't - I can say that Episode 1 wasn't even in the same ballpark as the worst of the original series, i.e. Return of the Jedi.
The basic thing that makes Star Wars work is the silliness of it all and the players obviously not taking it seriously. By RotJ they were starting to take it all very seriously and that along with the annoying Ewoks drags the whole movie down.