What will you do when that is all that is left on the shelves?
Look at VHS, at the local stores, almost all VHS videos are $6 crap movies now. Everything most people want is only carried in DVD format.
Of course then you can simply stop buying music altogether.
You are right on #2 though, once someone cracks it and gets it out onto the net, you can then just burn the song to regular DVD. It won't sound as good, but unless you are the most anal of audiophiles, you probably won't care.
Then again, M$ will inhereit all the millions fools and retards (not all AOL users are but a large percentage anyway...) on AOL and all the problems that go with them.
M$ won't ever "own" the internet. They may have more users than any other provider, but all the providers together will always outweigh M$ by a gigantic margin. If M$ wants 15 million users who have no idea what they are doing and will create a tech support headache for them, then I say they are welcome to the lot of them.
You also see hints of Hypertransport, the 6.4 GB/s system bus that Apple, AMD, Nvidia and others have been working on together. The article states that the chip can handle bus speeds up to 900 MHZ and I imagine it can handle DDR proprerly unlike the current Motorola chips Apple is using.
I am excited about these chips but will be buying a new Mac soon as I can't put up with my Beige G3 any longer to wait for these:(
But on the bright side, I can upgrade in another 2 years after they work all the kinks out of this new chip!
Good advice. Another reason not to use the flash is you will greatly extend battery life while using it.
I also suggest setting it to high compression and to black and white mode. You will then be able to store thousands of shots on a 128 MB card (or hundreds at 32 or 64). That and turn down the resolution a bit, to about 1.3 MP should be good enough. This might save you from having to lug a heavy laptop along with you.
The MCP means Master Control Program. You have seen Tron haven't you?
Also, while bills are the floor of the House or Senate are not laws yet, we need to be just as worried about them becoming laws as if they were laws because they would not be there if someone was not paying for them to be there.
As for the MPAA and RIAA being seperate, true but they are both having the same bad effect on our rights and both are buying off the same groups of crooked congressmen and pushing and abusing the same bad laws.
Learn how to budget and do it early
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In my case, my parents basically made sure I had a job since I was 11, starting with a paper route. I had to learn in that time, how to budget my money and not to overspend or I had to wait until it was time to go collecting and then I had to figure out what I owed back to the newspaper and what I got to keep. While they helped a lot with the accounting, it did teach me early on how things work and how if you want something (Back then it was a Super Nintendo), you have to save for it and only buy it when you have enough money saved up so that you can buy it and still have a bit left over in case of a crisis.
In high school I got a job at a grocery store and also got a bank account. Now I had a little more spending power but by this time, I knew how to be conservative with my money and to keep a close eye on my accounts, using software to track my spending and keep track of checks I had written.
By the time I got a credit card, I knew well how to live within my means. I made sure to ALWAYS pay off the card in full each month unless it was an absolute emergency expenditure that I couldn't cover with one months pay. I also make sure not to have more than 2 credit cards and to try to never use more than one each month. I also make sure I can pay them in full each time unless its an extreme situation.
On top of that, I also set a "Paranoia level" on my Savings account. What that means is I choose an amount, in my case $5000 (started at $500 when I first got my bank account all those years ago) and I go VERY conservative on spending if I go below that until I've built it back up to above that level. So far that has saved me from every major disaster (car breaking down expensively, sudden big bill or need to buy something expensive like furniture) I've had in the 10 years I've had a bank account. It also reduces the need to use the credit card to cover sudden needs, as I do not like spending money I don't have at all.
Because of that, and driving a modest car ('95 Grand AM) and eeking out the most time I can from my computer (using a 5 year old Mac G3) rather than blowing it all on the latest and greatest every 6-12 months, I have managed to get a $120K home just this June and maintain over 5k in savings since then. I am going to try to raise that up to 10K soon as well as start cautiously getting into investing (maybe should have sooner but after the latest rounds of disasters in the financial world, glad I waited).
The main thing is to learn how to budget, keep a paranoia level of cash in the bank and don't spend money you don't have when you can avoid it (i.e. no credit card debt or loans unless necessary).
If you do that, you should be able to weather all but armageddon or the next great plague.
Re:Thank GOD I was born in 1976!
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Could be worse, we could be Generation X10, the voyuer generation.
It is good to see "digital rights massacre" plans starting to fall apart. First several high profile bills aimed to restore fair use and reign in the DMCA and now this.
I think that those with power in the industry are finally starting to see that the natives are indeed getting restless over this and realizing that they are headed for some extremely major consumer backlash if they press ahead with current DRM proposals.
Of course, it is not time to party just yet as the MPAA and RIAA have yet to acknowledge the clue stick which everyone and their brother has been whacking them with for the past 4 years, but if Microsoft and some members of Congress are starting to see the light, then anything is possible.
Once campaign finance reform kicks in and if voters give the Senetors and Reps from Disney/MPAA/RIAA the smackdown at the polls they so richly deserve, we might see the pendulum swing back our way again in the next 3-5 years.
Not to mention that your average user uses at least 5-10 GB of space for stuff like software and the OS and pr0n and mp3's and, well you get the point. So yes theoretically it could hold 10 hours of video, but after loading software you need and such, I would say it is more like 6-8 hours of video.
Maybe I'm nitpicking the article, but it is something anyone buying this should realize.
I don't think the name will stick myself. If anything, I think most people, like me, will call it Planet X and that name will stick because of popular demand.
Even if it is not deemed a planet, given they want to strip Pluto of that title, I think Planet X is as good a name as any. At the least 99% of people can pronounce it.
The RIAA has nothing to do with online pay services gaining in popularity.
Why? Because there WERE no places (or at least no well known places) to buy music online during the reign of Napster and early P2P services. Well maybe MP3.com, but the RIAA sued them too.
Instead it is rising because there has been a demand for this capability as soon as it became possible to create reasonable sized music files of a reasonably quality. It was basic economics which brought this about, not the RIAA. If anything, the RIAA has done everything they can to hamper services like this, even pay ones unless they actually CONTROLLED those services.
That is what this has always been about for the RIAA, not piracy, but who controls the sales. They want there to be *only* RIAA pay services and no 3rd party ones and they will sue companies like MP3.com and such who sell non RIAA music unser piracy laws to try to make and keep it that way.
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At the least it will be fun watching M$ run around like crazy trying to mimic every innovation that comes along in 100 different browsers.
It also opens the possibility for more competition, open source style. Look at the Mac for example. On Mac OS X, Chimera is taking off like a rocket among Mac users on OS X because it is fast and beautiful looking since it uses native Aqua, unlike IE 5.2 for the Mac. I for one have switched off of IE 5.2 and onto Chimera for 99% of my browsing, only suffering IE on sites that Chimera can't handle properly yet, which isn't many.
In short, choice is good, more choice is better. Who cares what browsers people use, as long as they conform to standards and work the way they like?
I've posted this before, but what the hell, I might as well do it again.
Basically, Scientology is a terrorist organization/organized crime syndicate based out of the US. In fact, you can very easily compare them to Al Qaida.
Scientology and Al Qaida share these traits - Threats of violence (and actual cases of murders and harm to people) and abuse of host countries legal system against detractors - Interference with and infiltration of the governments in the countries they are hosted in - Cells operating all over the world - Stockpiles of weapons and armed compounds - Religious dogma used to control members and threats and violence used to stop members who want to leave from leaving - Members are expected to be utterly loyal and are stripped of almost all money and most worldly possessions. - Use of torture and inhumane forms of punishment - Uses money to attack enemies (for Al Qaide, the US and her allies, for Scientology, it is anyone who detracts from them.) - Aims their recruiters at people who are vulnerable or off balance (drug users, the poor).
Hell, they even went as far as to interfere with medical workers helping 9/11 victims last year in their rush to try to recruit people in a state of shock over what had happened.
So, when is the Bush administration going to get serious about terrorists in this country and take out America's largest and most heavily financed terrorist organization?
When is the FBI going to raid Gold Base? Why isn't the Free Winds seized at customs next time it stops by and searched. I bet they find a lot of nose powder on board for the leaders despite the "church"'s insistance that they hate drugs.
Why don't they look into Clearwater and the CO$'s interference with the government there?
Why won't they listen to our own Allies who are telling us that the CoS is a big criminal racket?
So come on Bush admin, if you are going to bomb other countries, why don't you just take care of the terrorist organizations HERE in the US first?
Not only that, but with locked music, all it takes is one cracker to get the music off the CD and into mp3 format and put it on the net and they've lost that song for good.
If anything, this will make P2P even more popular when people's songs quit playing after the 4th time they've had to ask for a key because Windows crashed and lost it, or they got a new PC or upgraded their OS, etc. When that happens, even those who bought it will go "Ah fuck this" and download a "Digital Rights Manipulation" free version, and probably never buy another DRM CD from that point on when they realize that its easier to download it than to go through the hassle of DRM and not owning what they rightfully paid for.
Really, is any sci-fi original anymore? I can think of little in sci-fi that hasn't been done already. Not to say this will be a bad series, but I've already seen a lot of what's in it in other places.
In fact, for some reason this show reminds me a lot of Outlaw star, just less cartoonish. Must be the girl in the box thing that makes me think of that particular Anime series. And the fact they are tooling around in a ship doing odd jobs for a living. And the fact that they have no real home port anymore after they have to blast their way off of the one place they called home.
You could also say they play the Hon Solo angle a bit as well other than the fact they have more to their crew than just a wookie.
I'll give it a watch regardless, it could be fun and maybe it will be surprisingly original, but I'll withold any hype or wild statements until I've actually seen the first few episodes.
You could also sit in the library and read and take notes on good old fashioned notebook paper, just like any student or someone doing reasearch on a topic would do.
I certainly doubt they are going to try to search every single person leaving for suspicious note taking. I suppose they could focus on Arab looking people, but aside from being wrong, it would create a huge stink with Arab-Americans and probably with many other types of American citizens as well.
You could also do your reading IN the library. Just never check the book out and read it in a study corner.
Granted not saying anyone should HAVE to do that at all. But a terrorist could do that and leave no traces as to what he read while there unless someone was physically following him around the library, something that might attract notice eventually.
That shows just why this law is useless in tracking terrorists by library reading history, even if it actually WAS kept. They would have to force you to have each book scanned before you even read it there and I don't think that would be practical or acceptable to the American public.
As for this poll you mentioned, I don't know who they were surveying, but it was almost certainly a biased group.
Maybe I'm responding to a troll here, but would you like to provide some evidence to back your claim?
Would you also like to explain the marks left behind by the glaciers and the things such as mammoths we have found frozen in them? Everything points to there having been ice ages in the past, even during times when the human race was around.
Also, unless I am terribly mistaken, we had a much more tropical Earth during the reign of the dinosaurs and very very small ice caps. All geologic and evolutionary evidence points to the fact that the Earth has had its warm times and its cold times.
Humans may be effecting the climate now, but we may only be nudging along a warming trend for all we know. We just don't have enough data to know for sure yet.
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Well, it just hasn't hit your area yet or you have better stores. If you don't believe me, just wait another few months and watch.
What will you do when that is all that is left on the shelves?
Look at VHS, at the local stores, almost all VHS videos are $6 crap movies now. Everything most people want is only carried in DVD format.
Of course then you can simply stop buying music altogether.
You are right on #2 though, once someone cracks it and gets it out onto the net, you can then just burn the song to regular DVD. It won't sound as good, but unless you are the most anal of audiophiles, you probably won't care.
Then again, M$ will inhereit all the millions fools and retards (not all AOL users are but a large percentage anyway...) on AOL and all the problems that go with them.
M$ won't ever "own" the internet. They may have more users than any other provider, but all the providers together will always outweigh M$ by a gigantic margin. If M$ wants 15 million users who have no idea what they are doing and will create a tech support headache for them, then I say they are welcome to the lot of them.
This is why Microsoft is smarter than the "Church" of $cientology.
The Co$ would find that if they ignored their detractors, they would still find just as many dumb fools to con and save a lot in legal costs.
Hell, its certainly working for M$, they ignore bad press and get fools who switch from Unix to Windows all the time.
They even basically ripped off Apple's How To Switch steps, basically just swaping the words "Mac" with "PC".
You also see hints of Hypertransport, the 6.4 GB/s system bus that Apple, AMD, Nvidia and others have been working on together. The article states that the chip can handle bus speeds up to 900 MHZ and I imagine it can handle DDR proprerly unlike the current Motorola chips Apple is using.
:(
I am excited about these chips but will be buying a new Mac soon as I can't put up with my Beige G3 any longer to wait for these
But on the bright side, I can upgrade in another 2 years after they work all the kinks out of this new chip!
Good advice. Another reason not to use the flash is you will greatly extend battery life while using it.
I also suggest setting it to high compression and to black and white mode. You will then be able to store thousands of shots on a 128 MB card (or hundreds at 32 or 64). That and turn down the resolution a bit, to about 1.3 MP should be good enough. This might save you from having to lug a heavy laptop along with you.
The MCP means Master Control Program. You have seen Tron haven't you?
Also, while bills are the floor of the House or Senate are not laws yet, we need to be just as worried about them becoming laws as if they were laws because they would not be there if someone was not paying for them to be there.
As for the MPAA and RIAA being seperate, true but they are both having the same bad effect on our rights and both are buying off the same groups of crooked congressmen and pushing and abusing the same bad laws.
In my case, my parents basically made sure I had a job since I was 11, starting with a paper route. I had to learn in that time, how to budget my money and not to overspend or I had to wait until it was time to go collecting and then I had to figure out what I owed back to the newspaper and what I got to keep. While they helped a lot with the accounting, it did teach me early on how things work and how if you want something (Back then it was a Super Nintendo), you have to save for it and only buy it when you have enough money saved up so that you can buy it and still have a bit left over in case of a crisis.
In high school I got a job at a grocery store and also got a bank account. Now I had a little more spending power but by this time, I knew how to be conservative with my money and to keep a close eye on my accounts, using software to track my spending and keep track of checks I had written.
By the time I got a credit card, I knew well how to live within my means. I made sure to ALWAYS pay off the card in full each month unless it was an absolute emergency expenditure that I couldn't cover with one months pay. I also make sure not to have more than 2 credit cards and to try to never use more than one each month. I also make sure I can pay them in full each time unless its an extreme situation.
On top of that, I also set a "Paranoia level" on my Savings account. What that means is I choose an amount, in my case $5000 (started at $500 when I first got my bank account all those years ago) and I go VERY conservative on spending if I go below that until I've built it back up to above that level. So far that has saved me from every major disaster (car breaking down expensively, sudden big bill or need to buy something expensive like furniture) I've had in the 10 years I've had a bank account. It also reduces the need to use the credit card to cover sudden needs, as I do not like spending money I don't have at all.
Because of that, and driving a modest car ('95 Grand AM) and eeking out the most time I can from my computer (using a 5 year old Mac G3) rather than blowing it all on the latest and greatest every 6-12 months, I have managed to get a $120K home just this June and maintain over 5k in savings since then. I am going to try to raise that up to 10K soon as well as start cautiously getting into investing (maybe should have sooner but after the latest rounds of disasters in the financial world, glad I waited).
The main thing is to learn how to budget, keep a paranoia level of cash in the bank and don't spend money you don't have when you can avoid it (i.e. no credit card debt or loans unless necessary).
If you do that, you should be able to weather all but armageddon or the next great plague.
Could be worse, we could be Generation X10, the voyuer generation.
Same here, but what generation does that leave us in?
Generation X2?
Or, according to the article are we Generation Really Fucked (given we will inheirit the mess left by Gen X)
It is good to see "digital rights massacre" plans starting to fall apart. First several high profile bills aimed to restore fair use and reign in the DMCA and now this.
I think that those with power in the industry are finally starting to see that the natives are indeed getting restless over this and realizing that they are headed for some extremely major consumer backlash if they press ahead with current DRM proposals.
Of course, it is not time to party just yet as the MPAA and RIAA have yet to acknowledge the clue stick which everyone and their brother has been whacking them with for the past 4 years, but if Microsoft and some members of Congress are starting to see the light, then anything is possible.
Once campaign finance reform kicks in and if voters give the Senetors and Reps from Disney/MPAA/RIAA the smackdown at the polls they so richly deserve, we might see the pendulum swing back our way again in the next 3-5 years.
Not to mention that your average user uses at least 5-10 GB of space for stuff like software and the OS and pr0n and mp3's and, well you get the point. So yes theoretically it could hold 10 hours of video, but after loading software you need and such, I would say it is more like 6-8 hours of video.
Maybe I'm nitpicking the article, but it is something anyone buying this should realize.
Christ, you people have to nitpick over everything don't you?
It will be discovered a third time when Slashdot reposts this story in about 2 days.
CmdrTaco is from Cruithne, Cowboyneal is from Quaoar
I don't think the name will stick myself. If anything, I think most people, like me, will call it Planet X and that name will stick because of popular demand.
Even if it is not deemed a planet, given they want to strip Pluto of that title, I think Planet X is as good a name as any. At the least 99% of people can pronounce it.
The RIAA has nothing to do with online pay services gaining in popularity.
Why? Because there WERE no places (or at least no well known places) to buy music online during the reign of Napster and early P2P services. Well maybe MP3.com, but the RIAA sued them too.
Instead it is rising because there has been a demand for this capability as soon as it became possible to create reasonable sized music files of a reasonably quality. It was basic economics which brought this about, not the RIAA. If anything, the RIAA has done everything they can to hamper services like this, even pay ones unless they actually CONTROLLED those services.
That is what this has always been about for the RIAA, not piracy, but who controls the sales. They want there to be *only* RIAA pay services and no 3rd party ones and they will sue companies like MP3.com and such who sell non RIAA music unser piracy laws to try to make and keep it that way.
At the least it will be fun watching M$ run around like crazy trying to mimic every innovation that comes along in 100 different browsers.
It also opens the possibility for more competition, open source style. Look at the Mac for example. On Mac OS X, Chimera is taking off like a rocket among Mac users on OS X because it is fast and beautiful looking since it uses native Aqua, unlike IE 5.2 for the Mac. I for one have switched off of IE 5.2 and onto Chimera for 99% of my browsing, only suffering IE on sites that Chimera can't handle properly yet, which isn't many.
In short, choice is good, more choice is better. Who cares what browsers people use, as long as they conform to standards and work the way they like?
I've posted this before, but what the hell, I might as well do it again.
Basically, Scientology is a terrorist organization/organized crime syndicate based out of the US. In fact, you can very easily compare them to Al Qaida.
Scientology and Al Qaida share these traits
- Threats of violence (and actual cases of murders and harm to people) and abuse of host countries legal system against detractors
- Interference with and infiltration of the governments in the countries they are hosted in
- Cells operating all over the world
- Stockpiles of weapons and armed compounds
- Religious dogma used to control members and threats and violence used to stop members who want to leave from leaving
- Members are expected to be utterly loyal and are stripped of almost all money and most worldly possessions.
- Use of torture and inhumane forms of punishment
- Uses money to attack enemies (for Al Qaide, the US and her allies, for Scientology, it is anyone who detracts from them.)
- Aims their recruiters at people who are vulnerable or off balance (drug users, the poor).
Hell, they even went as far as to interfere with medical workers helping 9/11 victims last year in their rush to try to recruit people in a state of shock over what had happened.
So, when is the Bush administration going to get serious about terrorists in this country and take out America's largest and most heavily financed terrorist organization?
When is the FBI going to raid Gold Base? Why isn't the Free Winds seized at customs next time it stops by and searched. I bet they find a lot of nose powder on board for the leaders despite the "church"'s insistance that they hate drugs.
Why don't they look into Clearwater and the CO$'s interference with the government there?
Why won't they listen to our own Allies who are telling us that the CoS is a big criminal racket?
So come on Bush admin, if you are going to bomb other countries, why don't you just take care of the terrorist organizations HERE in the US first?
Not only that, but with locked music, all it takes is one cracker to get the music off the CD and into mp3 format and put it on the net and they've lost that song for good.
If anything, this will make P2P even more popular when people's songs quit playing after the 4th time they've had to ask for a key because Windows crashed and lost it, or they got a new PC or upgraded their OS, etc. When that happens, even those who bought it will go "Ah fuck this" and download a "Digital Rights Manipulation" free version, and probably never buy another DRM CD from that point on when they realize that its easier to download it than to go through the hassle of DRM and not owning what they rightfully paid for.
Really, is any sci-fi original anymore? I can think of little in sci-fi that hasn't been done already. Not to say this will be a bad series, but I've already seen a lot of what's in it in other places.
In fact, for some reason this show reminds me a lot of Outlaw star, just less cartoonish. Must be the girl in the box thing that makes me think of that particular Anime series. And the fact they are tooling around in a ship doing odd jobs for a living. And the fact that they have no real home port anymore after they have to blast their way off of the one place they called home.
You could also say they play the Hon Solo angle a bit as well other than the fact they have more to their crew than just a wookie.
I'll give it a watch regardless, it could be fun and maybe it will be surprisingly original, but I'll withold any hype or wild statements until I've actually seen the first few episodes.
You could also sit in the library and read and take notes on good old fashioned notebook paper, just like any student or someone doing reasearch on a topic would do.
I certainly doubt they are going to try to search every single person leaving for suspicious note taking. I suppose they could focus on Arab looking people, but aside from being wrong, it would create a huge stink with Arab-Americans and probably with many other types of American citizens as well.
You could also do your reading IN the library. Just never check the book out and read it in a study corner.
Granted not saying anyone should HAVE to do that at all. But a terrorist could do that and leave no traces as to what he read while there unless someone was physically following him around the library, something that might attract notice eventually.
That shows just why this law is useless in tracking terrorists by library reading history, even if it actually WAS kept. They would have to force you to have each book scanned before you even read it there and I don't think that would be practical or acceptable to the American public.
As for this poll you mentioned, I don't know who they were surveying, but it was almost certainly a biased group.
Maybe I'm responding to a troll here, but would you like to provide some evidence to back your claim?
Would you also like to explain the marks left behind by the glaciers and the things such as mammoths we have found frozen in them? Everything points to there having been ice ages in the past, even during times when the human race was around.
Also, unless I am terribly mistaken, we had a much more tropical Earth during the reign of the dinosaurs and very very small ice caps. All geologic and evolutionary evidence points to the fact that the Earth has had its warm times and its cold times.
Humans may be effecting the climate now, but we may only be nudging along a warming trend for all we know. We just don't have enough data to know for sure yet.