With VHS vs BetaMax people had a good reason to try and choose the same format as everyone else so they could view each other's tapes. However, once a DVD-R or DVD+R is recorded it can be read by either kind of drive. So people will simply choose the cheaper one.
As long as both kinds achieve a user base (and I think they already have) media will be available for either. It's not like one of them is going to die.
That depends on your definition. Some people might say that the opposite of being free is being in prison. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Here are some of the numbers (all per 100.000 inhabitants) USA: 699 Russia: 644 UK: 125 Germany: 95 Japan: 40
The old LucasArts games no longer make money on PCs - they already were bundled and rebundled years ago, ad nauseam.
However, they might make money on handheld machines. Therefore, LucasArts would prefer their old games to be unplayable on modern PCs, so that they will appear fresh and exclusive when they are released for handhelds.
I actually read the banned article. First of all, it is certainly not bogus. But more importantly, the threat being made is not dangerous (except possibly to the person who performs it). All it will do is to stop a train by switching a signal to the halt state and blocking it there.
We are talking about politically motivated sabotage here, not about terrorism. There is no intention of hurting anyone.
Bertelsmann never believed they could recoup the money. Those millions (really 85 millions? What the hell happened to all that money?) subverted napster, turning it from a beacon of freedom into a corrupt outpost of the MPAA.
Had Napster stayed free and loyal to its users there would have been a grave danger of a million fans marching on Washington. Inducing Napster to commit suicide was a good business move.
In Germany, sales of violent games to minors (as well as advertising of any kind) is illegal already.
After the tragedy of Erfurt there is now a strong push to outlaw them altogether.
Remember when the MPAA tried to outlaw the VCR, and then it became one of their biggest moneymakers? That wasn't that long ago, and those dumb fsckheads are still the ones in charge.
Yes, the MPAA makes good money from VHS videos. But Valenti thinks they could have made more, if VHS had been read-only, like DVD. What makes you think he is wrong, let alone dumb?
Actually this is easy to answer. Crackers are less likely to include malware in their products than commercial vendors.
Cracker groups release thousand of key generators and patches every month. MS wants you to believe that these are full of trojans and whatnot, but afaik there has never been a single reported case of a scene group deliberately releasing an infected crack.
All the shit that people are getting is coming from legal software, either as spyware or through outlook.
If you think that, as a parent, you can stop your 16-year-old from playing Quake, then either you have no children or you don't live on the same planet as I do.
On my planet, 16-year-olds have their own computers, and so do all their friends. If they can't play at home, they will play elsewhere. I know that my son was first exposed to Half Life at the age of 10 at school .
Maybe we'll be less tolerant of racism, child abuse, slavery, dictators, monopolies, pollution...
I just don't like the way the idea of tolerance has been appropriated as a good thing.
You misunderstand. The ideal of tolerance describes an attitude towards individual people, not towards their ideas or their actions.
A tolerant person hates racism, not racists. If she feels that religion is evil, she may give speeches, write a book, or use the babel fish to prove god does not exist but she will not despise priests.
Tolerance can be carried to extremes without becoming evil. Nazis or terrorists are people too,
and it is not a bad idea to treat them as human beings. This has nothing to do with softness, only with respect.
Tolerance is the opposite of blind hate. There can't be too much of it in the world.
Many other countries already have much stronger privacy laws. There have been serious frictions between the EU and the US because the EU was trying to impose EU privacy guidelines for US companies doing business in Europe.
Take, for example the Borland downloads of Delphi Personal Edition, Kylix Open Edition etc.
They ask you to register and fill out forms before you are allowed to download. Then installation itself is another multi-step process with various registration infos getting sent back and forth - it takes hours to complete.
I just don't do this anymore. Much easier to get a version with all necessary serial numbers and whatever included from edonkey or usenet.
Don't require registration. Don't ask intrusive questions. It is not good for your company if the legit evaluation copy is harder to obtain than the warez version.
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Stephen King got a lot of money for his ebook
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... Stephen King's experiment, where he allowed free download of his book and asked for a tiny donation in return. Very few of the people who downloaded the book paid for it and the project was scrapped.
This is simply not true. King set a threshhold of 75%, no less. As long as 75% of downloaders were paying a dollar per chapter (not, let us note, a tiny amount but probably more than the hardcover price), he would continue. This worked for the first five chapters. The sixth chapter was still downloaded 112.000 times with 50% of people paying. Saying that "very few" people paid for their downloads is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. King took half a million dollars from his fans and then neither finished the project nor gave a refund.
Saying that this experience proves that ebooks don't work is adding insult to injury.
yields, as you say, a bit over 2 million results, but your site is not number one.
It is not even in the first thirty (I did not bother to look any further). Your site is, indeed, number one on a search for the phrase (note the quotations)
"two kinds of order"
However, that is number one out 185 which is a lot less impressive than the 2 million which you claim.
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PGP-Disk works flawlessly on Windows XP, have been using it for quite some time now. It's just not officially supported.
With VHS vs BetaMax people had a good reason to try and choose the same format as everyone else so they could view each other's tapes. However, once a DVD-R or DVD+R is recorded it can be read by either kind of drive. So people will simply choose the cheaper one.
As long as both kinds achieve a user base (and I think they already have) media will be available for either. It's not like one of them is going to die.
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USA: 699
Russia: 644
UK: 125
Germany: 95
Japan: 40
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Let the RIAA take out those services which are too weak to defend themselves, it will only make the others stronger.
It is possible to design a filesharing service that defends itself against bogus files.
It is possible to define a protocol that hides the file lists of individual users.
It is possible to build CDRs that play, copy and rip copy-preventing CDs.
The pressure exerted by RIAA will turn these possibilities into realities - simple Darwinian evolution.
Mod parent up, he has an excellent point.
The source may not be free, but the concept is, and even if it gets shut down, it will be re-engineered by someone else.
Same as gnutella which was also "shut down" by AOL/Time-Warner after they realized what it was doing.
However, they might make money on handheld machines. Therefore, LucasArts would prefer their old games to be unplayable on modern PCs, so that they will appear fresh and exclusive when they are released for handhelds.
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I actually read the banned article. First of all, it is certainly not bogus. But more importantly, the threat being made is not dangerous (except possibly to the person who performs it). All it will do is to stop a train by switching a signal to the halt state and blocking it there.
We are talking about politically motivated sabotage here, not about terrorism. There is no intention of hurting anyone.
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be suspicious...be very suspicious
When browsing, I typically have my left hand on the keyboard and my right hand on the mouse.
Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown are not workable, because they can't be typed with the left hand.
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So did I.
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Like other human rights, free speech is for people. There is no point in extending this right to corporations in general.
In particular, companies should not be allowed to lie.
Actually this is easy to answer. Crackers are less likely to include malware in their products than commercial vendors.
Cracker groups release thousand of key generators and patches every month. MS wants you to believe that these are full of trojans and whatnot, but afaik there has never been a single reported case of a scene group deliberately releasing an infected crack.
All the shit that people are getting is coming from legal software, either as spyware or through outlook.
On my planet, 16-year-olds have their own computers, and so do all their friends. If they can't play at home, they will play elsewhere. I know that my son was first exposed to Half Life at the age of 10 at school .
Do you believe in death after life?
Tolerance is the opposite of blind hate. There can't be too much of it in the world.
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I just don't do this anymore. Much easier to get a version with all necessary serial numbers and whatever included from edonkey or usenet.
Don't require registration. Don't ask intrusive questions. It is not good for your company if the legit evaluation copy is harder to obtain than the warez version.
Do you believe in death after life?
Saying that this experience proves that ebooks don't work is adding insult to injury.
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loses another death star.
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