To add to what I said, part of what bothers me so much is that people like me WANT to buy boxsets. They are nice ways of packing up a series that isn't a bunch of.mpg files on disk. The quality is usually good and it in theory supports the artists.
But they just ask too much. A season of Futurama can go for anywhere between 45 to 65$ in various Canadian shops. Similarly, I've seen odd films like Bloodsport sell for as much as 30$ [wtf?]
Making media like DVDs and CDs is largely a license to print money. The entire cost of making and distributing a DVD is probably on the order of 2 to 3$ at most. So if what's ON THE MEDIA is of any quality you can make back the creation costs fairly easily. Honestly, why can I see a movie in the theatre for 8$, but it costs me 30$ to buy a DVD copy? Something is wrong here. Seen is seen. The "value" of a movie or audio performance is that you have yet to experience it. Once I see the movie or hear the performance I have less desire to acquire a copy...
Maybe if we raised theatre prices and lowered DVD costs i could see a movie without getting gum all over my shoes and listening to little 5 year olds [in PG-13+ movies] whine and cry that the plot confuses them....
I'm saying, at the point where your home entertainment kit is self contained [like a big Gameboy] you might as well throw it out and go see live performances [or go to the theatre].
Last I checked you can't pause/rewind/copy [normally] while sitting in a Regal theatre:-)
I lived near 401/Weston. My neighbours were of all regions of Earth. Barely spoke any English, generally were trashy [e.g. litter on their lawns, in the street], those who had cars were in horrible repair, not clean, probably not emission checked. They drove REALLY bad where I lived, as in going right through stops and red lights. The corner stores were almost all chinese or korean. They stocked shit food that often made me sick [when I first moved in I didn't know better] and are horribly unhelpful people.
Then you have the nutcases on the bus... but that's another story.
Just "living together" is not culture. I used to have real neighbours in Ottawa [and I do now...]. you know, people you could up and talk with without getting the stares from all the other ethnics. We would have common values of decency and co-operate.
I'm not saying it's peachy perfect everywhere. There are assholes in any city. My point is places like Toronto which are largely immigrant built are really uncanadian.
Generally i think we ought to impose more limitations on immigrants, and society as a hole. you want to run a corner store? Fine. Stock real food. Not this shit crap you're used to in your third world nation. You want to immigrate here? Fine, learn French or English. Otherwise you're a useless fucking tool and I have no desire to know you.
i'm so tired of Canada being the worlds dumping ground. How about we seek and encourage talented or otherwise desirable people to immigrate here?
Um, steam is wet. It's just a really hot sort of wet.
This is one of those "if you observe it". Cuz if you touch steam or ice, it often reverts to water. So how can you "feel" them to tell they're not wet?:-)
Besides DRM is more than just copy protection. it's "rights" protection, like I have the "right" to only permit you to view that DVD on Tuesdays between 9pm and 930pm. I have the "right" to stop you from sharing the DVD, i have the "right" to stop you from backing it up or using clips for fair use purposes. I have the "right" make the media only work in select markets and then lock down the number of different players...
Effective, I have the "right" to make you my bitch. Squirm all you want, I'll cry foul and get the Federal government to lock up more kids!
DRM is such a futile idea that the only way it would be possible would be to lock down consumer electronics so badly as to make them virtually function free.
Now that I got that out of my system... it would help though if msn/ym/aim stopped changing their protocols every week. For the last little while it's been stable but I remember a year or two ago that msn would work one day, not the next, and then a week later a patch would come out to change the protocol.
"I went to the park" would imply that "john and me went to the park" is incorrect. It seems that people ALWAYS use "me" in this context regardless of how it sounds.
There is a habit of saying "at least we're not like the states" but in fact in many regards we have the same bad habits as they have [e.g. polution, right wing movements, etc]. I think if Canadians hated the americans so much we wouldn't be visiting them so much.
That said, I wouldn't mind a big influx of Americans to Canada. Two words: "Melting Pot".
Canada prides itself on the pluralism and "mixed salad" style of immigration. You know what that gives you? Places like Toronto. Where none of the residents share any common values and the quality of life takes a sharp nose dive. I lived there for a while and honestly it's like you moved to another country. I'm all for respecting other cultures, but this is Canada, not a gathering place for everyone and their brother who want to change the land from under me.
Newsflash, business has long since departed the capitalism game and joined the "corrupt enterprise" market. Companies just feel "entitled" to make hand over fist of cash because clearly they're hip, happening, and all that jazz. Sales low? Must be piracy, because it can be in no way due to the COMPLETE AND UTTER LACK OF QUALITY OUTPUT. Or simply overpriced shit. I mean I like boxsets like the next guy, but honestly, a boxset of cartoons ain't worth 70$. Especially when I can score them off the net for 0$.
Combine quality with fair market valued prices and you will see a return of sales numbers.
Perhaps but "noun and me" sounds so lame because it's OVER FUCKING USED. "john and me walked to the park..." etc. It's used on broadcast TV all the time improperly. I just felt I should rebalance the equation.
The origins is "load and lock." Wayne screwed up his lines when he said "lock and load" and it stuck.
You "open" the bolt when you pull it back, you load the damn gun by putting a clip in, and you lock it when you push the bold forwards and turn it down [e.g. lock it closed].
Whatever... if you've never fired a rifle I guess you just wouldn't get it. Personally when I "lock" my rifle, I sure as hell hope the breach is not exposed...
Linux can handle the games just fine. Just they don't write portable games [mostly because the assclown developers who write these games couldn't care less, which is there perogative I guess...].
I don't measure the quality of my OS by which badly written games can run on it. I can get real work done with UNIX[-like] tools that have real power behind them. "cmd.exe"? I think not...
To each their own... my point of posting was to reassure people that Vista is not the only 64-bit OS. That there REALLY IS choice and that if people just open their eyes they can take back what little precious control they really have over how they use technology...
I run open office and play doom3/EnemyTerritory all the time...
What's your point? Oh you mean I can't play "office" and run the random assortment of last years games with the same graphics... I got a PS2 and xbox for that. Actually I spend more time playing NES games on my GBA then anything else...
I guess I'm more productive and resourceful than you is all...
Probably people who are not preparing to run Windows vista64 as they already have A F'ING CLUE and are already enjoying the benefits of the x86_64 instruction set.
64-bit computing doesn't always just involve big memory.
I'm not going to explain the other benefits of a 64-bit address space or the new x86_64 instruction set. Since I've done it about 7 times already on slashdot. You're a dumbtard and frankly a low form of troll. Get an original thought. Please.
no, lock refers to LOCKING THE BOLT CLOSED after loading a round in the internal mag or breach.
Pick up a bolt-action rifle [circa when "lock and load" came about]. It's a hollywoodism, see this page about half way down.
You "switch" fire modes, you don't lock them. And frankly I always hear it as "turn the safety on" or off, etc... not "lock the safety" because that doesn't make any sense.
Not to get picky... but this drives my brother and I mad... it's "load and lock" not "lock and load". You have to first load the ammo before you can lock the bolt closed.
That's like "drive away and get in the car!" or "dash and dine" or...
RMS isn't specifically against DRM in so much as he's against the tivovization. That is, using GPL software, but not allowing it to run modified on the hardware.
Sure he's against DRM, but he's more against stoping hackers:-)
What I don't get, is that these adults are now saying we have to protect our children from the same "evil" sources they were privy to. If the evil temptations warp fragile young minds so much, who the fuck are they to think they're sane enough to make rules up for the rest of us?
It's high time I roll out the "what the 1st admendment actually says" talk...
1st admendment is to prevent the GOVERNMENT from abridging your right to speech/expression. I can tell you to get off my servers all I want. I can ask someone else to filter your access to my servers as well.
The government CANNOT mandate that a filter be used however, but this is not the case here....
Actually what pisses me off more is that they leave wep/wpa off. Then my stupid windows laptop connects to it by default....
But yeah, same idea. Well sorta. I mean your home network is probably less sensitive then say a person who manipulates medical records or some such.
We force people to have minimum training to drive cars, own firearms, and the like. Yet any stupid MBA can store a million accounts with credit cards on their laptop by just copying the database to a laptop or something...
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To add to what I said, part of what bothers me so much is that people like me WANT to buy boxsets. They are nice ways of packing up a series that isn't a bunch of .mpg files on disk. The quality is usually good and it in theory supports the artists.
But they just ask too much. A season of Futurama can go for anywhere between 45 to 65$ in various Canadian shops. Similarly, I've seen odd films like Bloodsport sell for as much as 30$ [wtf?]
Making media like DVDs and CDs is largely a license to print money. The entire cost of making and distributing a DVD is probably on the order of 2 to 3$ at most. So if what's ON THE MEDIA is of any quality you can make back the creation costs fairly easily. Honestly, why can I see a movie in the theatre for 8$, but it costs me 30$ to buy a DVD copy? Something is wrong here. Seen is seen. The "value" of a movie or audio performance is that you have yet to experience it. Once I see the movie or hear the performance I have less desire to acquire a copy...
Maybe if we raised theatre prices and lowered DVD costs i could see a movie without getting gum all over my shoes and listening to little 5 year olds [in PG-13+ movies] whine and cry that the plot confuses them....
Tom
I'm saying, at the point where your home entertainment kit is self contained [like a big Gameboy] you might as well throw it out and go see live performances [or go to the theatre].
:-)
Last I checked you can't pause/rewind/copy [normally] while sitting in a Regal theatre
Tom
I lived near 401/Weston. My neighbours were of all regions of Earth. Barely spoke any English, generally were trashy [e.g. litter on their lawns, in the street], those who had cars were in horrible repair, not clean, probably not emission checked. They drove REALLY bad where I lived, as in going right through stops and red lights. The corner stores were almost all chinese or korean. They stocked shit food that often made me sick [when I first moved in I didn't know better] and are horribly unhelpful people.
... but that's another story.
Then you have the nutcases on the bus
Just "living together" is not culture. I used to have real neighbours in Ottawa [and I do now...]. you know, people you could up and talk with without getting the stares from all the other ethnics. We would have common values of decency and co-operate.
I'm not saying it's peachy perfect everywhere. There are assholes in any city. My point is places like Toronto which are largely immigrant built are really uncanadian.
Generally i think we ought to impose more limitations on immigrants, and society as a hole. you want to run a corner store? Fine. Stock real food. Not this shit crap you're used to in your third world nation. You want to immigrate here? Fine, learn French or English. Otherwise you're a useless fucking tool and I have no desire to know you.
i'm so tired of Canada being the worlds dumping ground. How about we seek and encourage talented or otherwise desirable people to immigrate here?
Tom
Um, steam is wet. It's just a really hot sort of wet.
:-)
This is one of those "if you observe it". Cuz if you touch steam or ice, it often reverts to water. So how can you "feel" them to tell they're not wet?
Tom
Shut up Bruce.
Besides DRM is more than just copy protection. it's "rights" protection, like I have the "right" to only permit you to view that DVD on Tuesdays between 9pm and 930pm. I have the "right" to stop you from sharing the DVD, i have the "right" to stop you from backing it up or using clips for fair use purposes. I have the "right" make the media only work in select markets and then lock down the number of different players...
Effective, I have the "right" to make you my bitch. Squirm all you want, I'll cry foul and get the Federal government to lock up more kids!
Tom
P.S. note the quotes around "rights"
ATI deserves to be sued. Their Linux support is horrible. :-)
And AMD still owes me a grand from my Linux World expenses... cheap bastards the lot of them!
Tom
Is anyone really surprised by this?
DRM is such a futile idea that the only way it would be possible would be to lock down consumer electronics so badly as to make them virtually function free.
We call that the theatre or a live performance.
Tom
You don't like it, improve the source.
Now that I got that out of my system... it would help though if msn/ym/aim stopped changing their protocols every week. For the last little while it's been stable but I remember a year or two ago that msn would work one day, not the next, and then a week later a patch would come out to change the protocol.
Tom
"I went to the park" would imply that "john and me went to the park" is incorrect. It seems that people ALWAYS use "me" in this context regardless of how it sounds.
Tom
Canada doesn't hate the states.
There is a habit of saying "at least we're not like the states" but in fact in many regards we have the same bad habits as they have [e.g. polution, right wing movements, etc]. I think if Canadians hated the americans so much we wouldn't be visiting them so much.
That said, I wouldn't mind a big influx of Americans to Canada. Two words: "Melting Pot".
Canada prides itself on the pluralism and "mixed salad" style of immigration. You know what that gives you? Places like Toronto. Where none of the residents share any common values and the quality of life takes a sharp nose dive. I lived there for a while and honestly it's like you moved to another country. I'm all for respecting other cultures, but this is Canada, not a gathering place for everyone and their brother who want to change the land from under me.
Tom
That bidnez would lie to try and make a buck...
Newsflash, business has long since departed the capitalism game and joined the "corrupt enterprise" market. Companies just feel "entitled" to make hand over fist of cash because clearly they're hip, happening, and all that jazz. Sales low? Must be piracy, because it can be in no way due to the COMPLETE AND UTTER LACK OF QUALITY OUTPUT. Or simply overpriced shit. I mean I like boxsets like the next guy, but honestly, a boxset of cartoons ain't worth 70$. Especially when I can score them off the net for 0$.
Combine quality with fair market valued prices and you will see a return of sales numbers.
Tom
Perhaps but "noun and me" sounds so lame because it's OVER FUCKING USED. "john and me walked to the park..." etc. It's used on broadcast TV all the time improperly. I just felt I should rebalance the equation.
You see, I am the one.
Tom
The origins is "load and lock." Wayne screwed up his lines when he said "lock and load" and it stuck.
You "open" the bolt when you pull it back, you load the damn gun by putting a clip in, and you lock it when you push the bold forwards and turn it down [e.g. lock it closed].
Whatever... if you've never fired a rifle I guess you just wouldn't get it. Personally when I "lock" my rifle, I sure as hell hope the breach is not exposed...
Tom
Linux can handle the games just fine. Just they don't write portable games [mostly because the assclown developers who write these games couldn't care less, which is there perogative I guess...].
... my point of posting was to reassure people that Vista is not the only 64-bit OS. That there REALLY IS choice and that if people just open their eyes they can take back what little precious control they really have over how they use technology...
I don't measure the quality of my OS by which badly written games can run on it. I can get real work done with UNIX[-like] tools that have real power behind them. "cmd.exe"? I think not...
To each their own
Tom
I run open office and play doom3/EnemyTerritory all the time...
What's your point? Oh you mean I can't play "office" and run the random assortment of last years games with the same graphics... I got a PS2 and xbox for that. Actually I spend more time playing NES games on my GBA then anything else...
I guess I'm more productive and resourceful than you is all...
Tom
Now you can get all pissed off at stupid action movies when they authoratively say "lock and load gentlemen" ... :-)
I ruined action movies for ya!!!
It's almost as if they've never seen a bolt action rifle... cuz most snipers use fully automatic mag loaded rifles...
Tom
Probably people who are not preparing to run Windows vista64 as they already have A F'ING CLUE and are already enjoying the benefits of the x86_64 instruction set.
Tom
64-bit computing doesn't always just involve big memory.
I'm not going to explain the other benefits of a 64-bit address space or the new x86_64 instruction set. Since I've done it about 7 times already on slashdot. You're a dumbtard and frankly a low form of troll. Get an original thought. Please.
Tom
no, lock refers to LOCKING THE BOLT CLOSED after loading a round in the internal mag or breach.
Pick up a bolt-action rifle [circa when "lock and load" came about]. It's a hollywoodism, see this page about half way down.
You "switch" fire modes, you don't lock them. And frankly I always hear it as "turn the safety on" or off, etc... not "lock the safety" because that doesn't make any sense.
Tom
There are other 64-bit OSes ... out .... ALREADY ... that don't have these problems...
...
Just saying
STOP BEING SHEEP PEOPLE!!!
BAHAHAHAHA
Tom
Not to get picky ... but this drives my brother and I mad... it's "load and lock" not "lock and load". You have to first load the ammo before you can lock the bolt closed.
...
That's like "drive away and get in the car!" or "dash and dine" or
Tom
RMS isn't specifically against DRM in so much as he's against the tivovization. That is, using GPL software, but not allowing it to run modified on the hardware.
:-)
Sure he's against DRM, but he's more against stoping hackers
Tom
but, but, but, the children!
What I don't get, is that these adults are now saying we have to protect our children from the same "evil" sources they were privy to. If the evil temptations warp fragile young minds so much, who the fuck are they to think they're sane enough to make rules up for the rest of us?
Tom
It's high time I roll out the "what the 1st admendment actually says" talk ...
...
1st admendment is to prevent the GOVERNMENT from abridging your right to speech/expression. I can tell you to get off my servers all I want. I can ask someone else to filter your access to my servers as well.
The government CANNOT mandate that a filter be used however, but this is not the case here.
Tom
Actually what pisses me off more is that they leave wep/wpa off. Then my stupid windows laptop connects to it by default....
But yeah, same idea. Well sorta. I mean your home network is probably less sensitive then say a person who manipulates medical records or some such.
We force people to have minimum training to drive cars, own firearms, and the like. Yet any stupid MBA can store a million accounts with credit cards on their laptop by just copying the database to a laptop or something...
Tom