The long end is that the RIAA wants everyone to buy a license for the music they listen to. The problem is at that point the only way they can continue to make money is to go pay-per-listen. Whats next? ear tax?
"Sorry, i didn't hear you. i forgot to pay my ear tax, and the RIAA took away my eardrums."
What if there are only 2 people in the office? 5? 10? And what if they already owned a copy of the cd in question?
I've always wondered if stores pay license fees for the demo movies they run. If i watch Top Gun at Best Buy am i stealing? I own a copy on VHS. Does that excuse me?
Mind you, this is the same company who's 'free' email service that i haven't used in well over a year still gets slammed with spam. Remember, it's a feature....for some.
Every 'accuracy' they made was usually backed up with a equal and opposite mistake. Lynch had better casting (SciFi's Hurt was a mistake) and better costumes, even if they were inaccurate (in the case of the open-faced stillsuits). I think the biggest problem was they tried to distance themselves so far from the Lynch version that they ignored everything he did right.
That's what i fear most about Myst. Everything that was good about the game will be glossed over.
I saw something like this at a craft show (i was young and didn't have a choice) about 10 years ago. It didn't look as impressive as this one did, but it only ran about $80.
I settled for a $10 model that shot farther and was quicker to load.
Considering that all new macs have cd burners as standard equipment (okay, so not the extreme low end imac/ibook), he could of easily just taken a cdr in there and done the same thing.
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preferences aren't so big a deal, most programs will recreate a generic one (hell, thats an easy way to get a program working normally again).
On the other hand, who says he didn't copy those files too?
Don't count on that. I've downloaded songs before that i owned on cd just due to the fact that it was easier - and sometimes quicker. And yes, i've gotten POed before because the song i was trying to find was blocked and i had to find it/rip it anyway.
The worst part is everything in this 'preview' has been available for months now. If your going to make a big deal of this, at least have the common decency to have something new to say.
yes there is. the 'true' geforce 4 comes out later this week. What the new g4s have is what was once going to be the geforce 3MX, but nvidia has decided to call it the 4mx.
If i remember correctly, the GF2 MX was mac compatible, but the rest of the 2 line...well, nothing was said that they were/were not.
Maybe they could have pried the GF3-ish chip from an xbox and used that.
more expandable RAM capability I dunno. One 'user-accessible' so-dimm (who's bright idea was that?) 100mhz ram slot isn't exactly what i would have had in mind.
the funny thing is, theres a factory-installed standard ram stick inside. I would think the two different flavors of ram would be problematic at best.
Other concerns:
where is the hard drive? How can i pull it out?
I have to buy a adapter to get the vga-out to work?
Is there a system speaker whatsoever?
is there any protective glass/heavy plastic on the screen?
If you can live without the superdrive, you can have a comparable machine for the same cost in the tower. You're still on your own for a monitor, though
My iMac is just over two years old, and i actually considered replacing it, but not with this. Gee, if they only made a compact g4...oh thats right, they did.
I cant remember when i actually gave CC my address/phone, so do they ask for ID ?
How simple would it be just to give a bogus address? i know when store Z asks for my phone number i usually give them either my work number or the one for the local dominos.
I completely missed the over-the-shoulder lack of security issue, so good point. But the best reason this is a bad idea is reason people use atm's in the first place.
No, not because banks keep difficult hours...
okay, fine, thats ANOTHER reason.
Quickness of transaction. provided its available, i can step up, tap in my 4 digit code in less than what ? less than 2 seconds? and get money in less than a minute.
Now, instead of 10 different buttons you're essentually offering people 25? and you even want to mix them around so you have to hunt for the right button (you could use some type of GUI for picture display and a touch screen, but that wouldn't speed it up any, especially if you mix the order).
This just seems like another attempt to force people into a hardware upgrade in order to run some bloated software. Is M$ involved?
Actually, this makes perfect sense. They're basically doing this as an arguement against the monopoly charge. A real threat to the way they do business. of course, it's just a technicality that the software in question isn't available for sale yet.
Not saying i agree with it though. And as logical as it seems, if they win, they're proving that they stifle competition through any means available.
The suit asks the court to order the start-up to stop using the Lindows name and also seeks unspecified monetary damages
How can they sue for money? has Lindows actually damaged them in someway? If they want them to change the name, fine, let them try, but how much can they really ask for?
Maybe i'll sue all the Jason's in the world for using MY name. No, i'll sue anyone who's name ends with -son. get them to change their names AND give me money for my effort.
i assumed (yeah, i know) that he was meaning one dvd...you could put all that on one dvd now anyway.
Besides, i thought the entire point was that we are talking about DVD players.
No, the guys obviously confused, if he's talking 4 to 1 compression thats saying that a an average discography is 4 cd's...or 320 minutes of music. That's good but i can get 10-1 out of mp3.
I can't see this going anywhere, like the 'inclusion' of Windows CE on the Dreamcast. For starters, Theres already an established base of DVD players out there. Most of them still work. The average consumer replaces entertainment equipment for two reasons:
A- its got some great quality/feature upgrade
b- its broke
WMA enabled DVD players offer NO real advantage to standard MPEG players. Sure, i'd rather not have to change between the two episode 1 dvd's, but its not like its a laserdisk. I don't have to get up or put up with a pause after every 30-45 minutes. Theres what? 6 hours of content on these discs as there is.
People embraced dvd's quickly because they offered more. Much better quality plus hours of extra footage and supplimental material. All on a 5" disc that didn't degrade like a tape. It was an improved laserdisk, in every way except you still couldn't record (hell, you can barely do that now).
Now...as for "all the Godfather movies or an entire musician's discography" bit...i heard that when dvd's came out. You can do that with a current DVD...are you willing to pay for it?
If an average CD costs $18 now, imagine the cost of 6-10 cd's worth of material on one disc. That's what boxed sets are for. Also imagine navigating said disc. Skip to track 110....sounds like an mp3 cd....and like i started with, what happens if you scratch it?
Now, the one thing i can't really argue with (much) is the higher resolutions enabled by DVD 2.0 (copyright m$). except the fact that the tv's to take advantage of said resolutions are still 5 years away from being affordable. This feature sounds like it will be limited to the high-end set for years, if not always. It just seems to me that the large-screen projection style tv's have always been priced about 4x the cost of the "average" tv.
Now, i realize that i could be wrong about this..next year at this time i could be embarrased about my inability to "look to the future" just like i thought that I'd never want a hard drive over 20gigs. But this seems to be a benefit only to the content providers, and reeks like divx (the dvd 'format') did years ago.
besides, if you want to protect content, don't compress it further, bloat it. DVD's were difficult to copy when they were introduced because few people had the storage or bandwidth to copy or transmit a full movie. Shrinking file sizes only makes it one step easier to copy.
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The long end is that the RIAA wants everyone to buy a license for the music they listen to. The problem is at that point the only way they can continue to make money is to go pay-per-listen. Whats next? ear tax?
"Sorry, i didn't hear you. i forgot to pay my ear tax, and the RIAA took away my eardrums."
What if there are only 2 people in the office? 5? 10?
And what if they already owned a copy of the cd in question?
I've always wondered if stores pay license fees for the demo movies they run. If i watch Top Gun at Best Buy am i stealing? I own a copy on VHS. Does that excuse me?
Mind you, this is the same company who's 'free' email service that i haven't used in well over a year still gets slammed with spam. Remember, it's a feature....for some.
Every 'accuracy' they made was usually backed up with a equal and opposite mistake. Lynch had better casting (SciFi's Hurt was a mistake) and better costumes, even if they were inaccurate (in the case of the open-faced stillsuits). I think the biggest problem was they tried to distance themselves so far from the Lynch version that they ignored everything he did right.
That's what i fear most about Myst. Everything that was good about the game will be glossed over.
Someone posts a story like this and you were expecting what?
I saw something like this at a craft show (i was young and didn't have a choice) about 10 years ago. It didn't look as impressive as this one did, but it only ran about $80.
I settled for a $10 model that shot farther and was quicker to load.
Microsoft has aggressively sold its own sub $350 PC, it is called an XBox and they sell them at Toys-R-Us
something about this i find very funny.
so if the kid got caught, would they prosecute him for stealing $500 worth of software or would they give him the student discount?
Considering that all new macs have cd burners as standard equipment (okay, so not the extreme low end imac/ibook), he could of easily just taken a cdr in there and done the same thing.
preferences aren't so big a deal, most programs will recreate a generic one (hell, thats an easy way to get a program working normally again).
On the other hand, who says he didn't copy those files too?
Don't count on that. I've downloaded songs before that i owned on cd just due to the fact that it was easier - and sometimes quicker.
And yes, i've gotten POed before because the song i was trying to find was blocked and i had to find it/rip it anyway.
The worst part is everything in this 'preview' has been available for months now. If your going to make a big deal of this, at least have the common decency to have something new to say.
yeah, but those were ....SPOILER WARNING....
actual women.
yes there is. the 'true' geforce 4 comes out later this week. What the new g4s have is what was once going to be the geforce 3MX, but nvidia has decided to call it the 4mx.
So it's not really a geforce 4, yet it is.
confused? yeah, me too.
If i remember correctly, the GF2 MX was mac compatible, but the rest of the 2 line...well, nothing was said that they were/were not.
Maybe they could have pried the GF3-ish chip from an xbox and used that.
more expandable RAM capability
...oh thats right, they did.
I dunno. One 'user-accessible' so-dimm (who's bright idea was that?) 100mhz ram slot isn't exactly what i would have had in mind.
the funny thing is, theres a factory-installed standard ram stick inside. I would think the two different flavors of ram would be problematic at best.
Other concerns:
where is the hard drive? How can i pull it out?
I have to buy a adapter to get the vga-out to work?
Is there a system speaker whatsoever?
is there any protective glass/heavy plastic on the screen?
If you can live without the superdrive, you can have a comparable machine for the same cost in the tower. You're still on your own for a monitor, though
My iMac is just over two years old, and i actually considered replacing it, but not with this. Gee, if they only made a compact g4
I cant remember when i actually gave CC my address/phone, so do they ask for ID ?
How simple would it be just to give a bogus address? i know when store Z asks for my phone number i usually give them either my work number or the one for the local dominos.
I've been told that microsofts mice are made by logitech.
i truly hope you are moderating, because you should take credit for this comment. This one's too good to let go.
I completely missed the over-the-shoulder lack of security issue, so good point. But the best reason this is a bad idea is reason people use atm's in the first place.
No, not because banks keep difficult hours...
okay, fine, thats ANOTHER reason.
Quickness of transaction. provided its available, i can step up, tap in my 4 digit code in less than what ? less than 2 seconds? and get money in less than a minute.
Now, instead of 10 different buttons you're essentually offering people 25? and you even want to mix them around so you have to hunt for the right button (you could use some type of GUI for picture display and a touch screen, but that wouldn't speed it up any, especially if you mix the order).
This just seems like another attempt to force people into a hardware upgrade in order to run some bloated software. Is M$ involved?
Actually, this makes perfect sense. They're basically doing this as an arguement against the monopoly charge. A real threat to the way they do business. of course, it's just a technicality that the software in question isn't available for sale yet.
Not saying i agree with it though. And as logical as it seems, if they win, they're proving that they stifle competition through any means available.
The suit asks the court to order the start-up to stop using the Lindows name and also seeks unspecified monetary damages
How can they sue for money? has Lindows actually damaged them in someway? If they want them to change the name, fine, let them try, but how much can they really ask for?
Maybe i'll sue all the Jason's in the world for using MY name. No, i'll sue anyone who's name ends with -son. get them to change their names AND give me money for my effort.
Did anyone else notice one of the test rigs was a compaq ipaq running (it looks like) win ce or whatever the hell they are calling it now?
Haven't they had enough problems with M$ operating systems?
i assumed (yeah, i know) that he was meaning one dvd...you could put all that on one dvd now anyway.
Besides, i thought the entire point was that we are talking about DVD players.
No, the guys obviously confused, if he's talking 4 to 1 compression thats saying that a an average discography is 4 cd's...or 320 minutes of music. That's good but i can get 10-1 out of mp3.
If WMA-dvd is established, how difficult will it be then to turn it into Divx2?
All too easy, i'm afraid.
And if you scratch said disc....
I can't see this going anywhere, like the 'inclusion' of Windows CE on the Dreamcast. For starters, Theres already an established base of DVD players out there. Most of them still work. The average consumer replaces entertainment equipment for two reasons:
A- its got some great quality/feature upgrade
b- its broke
WMA enabled DVD players offer NO real advantage to standard MPEG players. Sure, i'd rather not have to change between the two episode 1 dvd's, but its not like its a laserdisk. I don't have to get up or put up with a pause after every 30-45 minutes. Theres what? 6 hours of content on these discs as there is.
People embraced dvd's quickly because they offered more. Much better quality plus hours of extra footage and supplimental material. All on a 5" disc that didn't degrade like a tape. It was an improved laserdisk, in every way except you still couldn't record (hell, you can barely do that now).
Now...as for "all the Godfather movies or an entire musician's discography" bit...i heard that when dvd's came out. You can do that with a current DVD...are you willing to pay for it?
If an average CD costs $18 now, imagine the cost of 6-10 cd's worth of material on one disc. That's what boxed sets are for. Also imagine navigating said disc. Skip to track 110....sounds like an mp3 cd....and like i started with, what happens if you scratch it?
Now, the one thing i can't really argue with (much) is the higher resolutions enabled by DVD 2.0 (copyright m$). except the fact that the tv's to take advantage of said resolutions are still 5 years away from being affordable. This feature sounds like it will be limited to the high-end set for years, if not always. It just seems to me that the large-screen projection style tv's have always been priced about 4x the cost of the "average" tv.
Now, i realize that i could be wrong about this..next year at this time i could be embarrased about my inability to "look to the future" just like i thought that I'd never want a hard drive over 20gigs. But this seems to be a benefit only to the content providers, and reeks like divx (the dvd 'format') did years ago.
besides, if you want to protect content, don't compress it further, bloat it. DVD's were difficult to copy when they were introduced because few people had the storage or bandwidth to copy or transmit a full movie. Shrinking file sizes only makes it one step easier to copy.