they will charge you $15 to replace it, even if the actual game cost $35 new. it pissed me off to great ends when i scratched my nba live 98 disc and couldn't play it for months
This is just cause EA is the Microsoft of games, the bastards.
The sad fact is it is WAY to easy to copy a DVD or rip it to DivX right now. Now while it's great if you are actually backing up your DVD's or making VCD's so you can watch them on a Dreamcast or something (which btw is a GREAT feature) but when you can take a DVD and turn it into a 400-600meg file and still retain decent quality, something is wrong. With Smartripper and FlaskMPEG, ANYONE can rip a DVD to Divx in about an hour, and I mean ANYONE. Divx trading has become a huge thing on the internet with hundreds of gigs being moved around each day. The problem I have is, if new copy protection is imposed, for a brief while this will prevent DVD ripping. Are we not allowed to make backups of ANYTHING we pay for? A DVD is just like a CD, it can be scratched, damaged or otherwise made unplayable, but if you contact a movie company with "My DVD is scratched and will no longer play" do they offer to send you a new copy??? No.
So let me make my own backups, and send your lawyers after the people who are not buying the DVD's.
Any publicity is good. Sure, people are saying its evil for IBM to do stuff like this being it opens the idea up to everyone else. But just look at this forum here, 70+ posts already. We think of IBM to be THE blue chip stock, but remember most of their computing side came from hackers and geeks just like most of us.
Quite true, but pointing to an older story, LS-120 don't have the click of death problem.... I can't wait for my $40 rebate on more worthless Iomega crap
We can create a handheld machine with 64 megs of ram, we have video cameras that hold more storage then I have RAM, and yet computers still ship with 1.44 floppy drives.
I would have to agree with this after reading the CC information on a recent piece of spam, it was cc'd to: myaccount@hotmail.com myaccount@yahoo.com myaccount@msn.com myaccount@aol.com and about 10 different combintations of common email hosts. It seems the spammers are banking on me using the same account name for multiple servers.
The theory of having two seperate email addresses is nice but the gray line is crossed when a family member goes and sends you an E-Card or something of the like from a site. If they are not paying attention, they fail to check the box about receiving more information about the site. Once that happens your screwed being all of these companies share their databases with each other. For example, I setup a 5th email account (having stopped using 4 of them because of spam) as a test I went to 2 ecard pages and just left everything defaul checked. When I woke up this morning already I have 4 email, 2 people telling me how easy it is to get rid of my debt. One "sexy" woman willing to share her webpage with me for a modest 29.99 fee, and one I cannot even read cause its in french (they have french spam??). I am really getting tired of this, but it seems there is little we can do.
I tried doing this as well, and I still have the problem of huge CPU usage, but on top of that it was using OVER 512 megs of RAM, and about 1/2 of my available swap file space just to access the damn drive. This only happens when you download the Iomega wear bullshit, if you use the built in win2k drivers while you lose some of the special features it doesnt make your machine run like a 386...
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So what happens if someone fires up a DoS attack on your pacemaker? Does it start shocking the sh*t out of your heart??
they will charge you $15 to replace it, even if the actual game cost $35 new. it pissed me off to great ends when i scratched my nba live 98 disc and couldn't play it for months This is just cause EA is the Microsoft of games, the bastards.
The sad fact is it is WAY to easy to copy a DVD or rip it to DivX right now. Now while it's great if you are actually backing up your DVD's or making VCD's so you can watch them on a Dreamcast or something (which btw is a GREAT feature) but when you can take a DVD and turn it into a 400-600meg file and still retain decent quality, something is wrong. With Smartripper and FlaskMPEG, ANYONE can rip a DVD to Divx in about an hour, and I mean ANYONE. Divx trading has become a huge thing on the internet with hundreds of gigs being moved around each day. The problem I have is, if new copy protection is imposed, for a brief while this will prevent DVD ripping. Are we not allowed to make backups of ANYTHING we pay for? A DVD is just like a CD, it can be scratched, damaged or otherwise made unplayable, but if you contact a movie company with "My DVD is scratched and will no longer play" do they offer to send you a new copy??? No. So let me make my own backups, and send your lawyers after the people who are not buying the DVD's.
Any publicity is good. Sure, people are saying its evil for IBM to do stuff like this being it opens the idea up to everyone else. But just look at this forum here, 70+ posts already. We think of IBM to be THE blue chip stock, but remember most of their computing side came from hackers and geeks just like most of us.
Quite true, but pointing to an older story, LS-120 don't have the click of death problem.... I can't wait for my $40 rebate on more worthless Iomega crap
Then why do I no longer have an ISA slot on my new motherboard?
We can create a handheld machine with 64 megs of ram, we have video cameras that hold more storage then I have RAM, and yet computers still ship with 1.44 floppy drives.
I would have to agree with this after reading the CC information on a recent piece of spam, it was cc'd to: myaccount@hotmail.com myaccount@yahoo.com myaccount@msn.com myaccount@aol.com and about 10 different combintations of common email hosts. It seems the spammers are banking on me using the same account name for multiple servers.
Thats not your fault, being MS fails to fix a known problem with hotmail, anyone can pull huge lists of accouts and just spam them.
The theory of having two seperate email addresses is nice but the gray line is crossed when a family member goes and sends you an E-Card or something of the like from a site. If they are not paying attention, they fail to check the box about receiving more information about the site. Once that happens your screwed being all of these companies share their databases with each other. For example, I setup a 5th email account (having stopped using 4 of them because of spam) as a test I went to 2 ecard pages and just left everything defaul checked. When I woke up this morning already I have 4 email, 2 people telling me how easy it is to get rid of my debt. One "sexy" woman willing to share her webpage with me for a modest 29.99 fee, and one I cannot even read cause its in french (they have french spam??). I am really getting tired of this, but it seems there is little we can do.
I tried doing this as well, and I still have the problem of huge CPU usage, but on top of that it was using OVER 512 megs of RAM, and about 1/2 of my available swap file space just to access the damn drive. This only happens when you download the Iomega wear bullshit, if you use the built in win2k drivers while you lose some of the special features it doesnt make your machine run like a 386...