it was probably available, not available, then available again within that time span. I'm sure they don't update their status indicators unless they ship out all their copies one day and dont expect any back (assume they know a pretty good idea of how soon they get them back) before yours go out.
just to clarify- by fragment, i assume it is by messing with the time markers/chapters or something like that, rather than breaking the standard like some of the cdaudio methods.
btw im not a dvd expert either, it was just my guess based on the article's wording.
The way I read the article, it sounds like theyre essentially going to fragment the disc so it takes a long time to seek around the disk.. If this assumption is correct, it sounds like this will wear out drives faster, fuck up fast forwarding, and probably bork out some old players that give up when they have to work too hard. Also, if this is the case, no patch will fix it. Youll have to read the disc slow, and reburn it unfragmented.
The hong kong market will do this once, press a bagillion of the things at $.02 a piece and some schmuck on ebay will buy them for $5, and then sell them for $45 and tell you that theyre not bootlegged and just have chinese writing on the covers, and the mispellings on the case art/credits are just your eyes betraying you.
Basically the guy who just wants a copy to watch and wouldnt have bought it anyway because he's broke will just have to wait a little longer, the people that mass produce the copies will have to wait longer but then have a straightened out version than can pump out at the same speed they always did.. and meanwhile the people getting punished are the ones with older dvd player whose motors just burnt out and the people who like fast forwarding.
I don't see this changing anything, sure itll take you two hours to rip a movie, and a little time to clean it up maybe, but in the end, its no real problem to anyone who wants to make a copy.
Part of the reason the internet2 is so fast is because its not bogged down with porn, movies and crap (in general). Granted there are hardware differences, but really, a fair chunk of the reason is lack of congestion.
The MPAA wants to turn an academic/research network into a sales machine under the guise of stopping piracy.
As soon as you let the MPAA in (and napster, et al), you're no longer on the internet2, they just merged.
Seems to me, researchers and others should self-police and keep the network free of illegal material in the hopes that it will stave off the commercial machinery.
I totally agree about standardization.. every polling place should have the same rules, equipment, etc. There's no reason for one county to be using chisel and tablet while another uses diebold vote changers... err machines.
only thing wrong with the 'x' system is that theres no good way to reliably count those, so it would have to be done by hand. I guess what the world is looking for is something thats fast but irrefutable- a tough combination.
maybe im nuts, but it seems like the only way things are ever going to work for the electronic voting machines is if the machine prints out the receipt of your vote which you verify and then stick in a good old fashioned iron box for a possible recount.
If i were going to still use optical scan.. id make a card that had one candidate on each line, with a punch box to the right of their name.. underneath each box (behind the card) is a LED that shows through when youve punched the card properly.. not to mention, youd have punches that are electric or in some other way more or less fool(elderly)proof... Maybe you slide a bar that has a cutout so you can see the text through the cutout.. so you slide the bar down until the candidate you want is visible in the window, then push the button and if the light is shining through you've made a correct vote and you can see it visually.. thats a pretty low tech way to make sure its right..
now for everyone else: you know what- even if you can somehow account for the real intention of every voter and gore should have won for some reason.. bush is in office, his term's days from being over, the country hasn't melted, people need to let it go.
but all their chads were dimpled.. and they were 'clear gore votes'...
I remember watching those schmucks on tv staring at the cards.. the man would say 'clear bush vote' and the lady would scowl and say 'clear gore vote'.. repeat the process ad infinitum.
I made the mistake of purchasing a copy of his Net-Force series after playing lots of xbox clancy (splinter cell/s.c.p.t./ghost recon/rainbow six 3/r.s.3.b.a) and thinking it might be interesting..
the encryption/technological stuff was so wrong i threw the book away after 20 pages.. It may be a good book, but the incorrectness of it bothered me too much to read. Back to Koontz- at least you know its going to be weird but interesting, and very little technology to be pissed about its incorrectness.
I dont know what scares me more.. that people think of this stuff, or that the people that think of this stuff don't always work for the US government...
one problem.. no president knows what wars are going to come to the forefront while theyre in office. If we had a clairvoyant president, maybe you'd start hearing promises that they'll go to war with this country or that country..
btw, i agree that government needs to stay out of insurance, among other things.
we have the best medical technology in the world, yes.. whether or not we have the best way of paying for it is pretty much established as being shitty..
So is customs still its own department, just under a new umbrella, or have the agents been integrated (read: assimilated) into DHS?
If so, why put agents not trained in counter-terrorism in an anti-terrorist capacity?
If they're still customs agents, just with new parents, I think they should say theyre with customs rather than homeland security.. just pushes the wrong buttons and gives the wrong impression (as seen on/. and in the parent article). And furthermore, if customs doesn't have the same level of power as its parents, they are giving a false statement about the power they posess merely for fear factor.
Like I mentioned, im actually more or less a bush supporter.. and I did RTA.. And I posted when there were about 46 comments on the thread, before anybody had really discussed the customs being a part of DHS.
In any case, I still think research should have been done, either way. All I said was that if we're paying DHS(/customs) to do these things, we should pay them to research too. I also think they should say they're with customs rather than homeland security.
That's almost like a janitor for the FBI knocking on your door saying he's with the FBI and you have illegal dust on your premises. (well maybe not, but I cant figure out the analogy I'm looking for)
Either way, not everybody is a Bush hater just because they don't agree with everything he's ever done, and it doesn't have a whole lot to do with whether I read the article or other people agreed with what I said.
true, but would we really want him to plant something, or admit failure? I have to give him that.
I'm a weird bush supporter.. I think he was the best choice at the time, but I don't agree with every part of his platform. I have a lot of leanings both directions really.
I find his 'special' words funny and humanizing, though it would be nice if he were a better orator.
Anyway, back to the point.. the WMD thing is a tough one.. I think it would certainly have helped the unrest around the US if some were 'found', but then there would have been a discovery later on or someone would have talked and then he'd have been seen just as badly or worse, even perhaps if he had no knowledge of the planting.
I think I like better that he admitted defeat on that count.
more a problem with the article than a problem with the government's account of the event...
Either way, it really bugs me that homeland security is even thinking about anything besides terrorism. Why the hell are we paying agents to fly out to bumsville for a da## rubiks cube.. And if we're paying them to do that, why aren't we paying them to research things first? Perhaps the same researchers that decided there were WMD's in Iraq (though I think there must be somewhere.. still intelligence was bad enough we cant find them if they are there)..
I wonder if anyone could somehow build a game cartridge that runs a basic web server and has a couple of io ports on the back of the cartridge? Then you could run a porn site -on- a nintendo.
Or just gut it and replace the parts with the mini itx boards (as seen a few weeks ago).. Then its not technically running -on- a nintendo, but oh well..
I say, run the porn site on the nintendo and reference every game possible by making all member account names be required to be either a game name or a character name.
With Microsoft, its not DRM its DRF (Digital Rights Forfeiture).
MS tends to bow to industry pressure, at least Apple tries to leave some fredoms to users.
All of the iPod people I know exclusively use iTunes with their iPod, mostly from albums they own but with a lot of music they purchase (some in the $100's every few months).
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his non-xwin education served him well I see.
it was probably available, not available, then available again within that time span. I'm sure they don't update their status indicators unless they ship out all their copies one day and dont expect any back (assume they know a pretty good idea of how soon they get them back) before yours go out.
With mass extinction, everyone wins! SGR-1806-20 is an equal opportunity destroyer.
just to clarify- by fragment, i assume it is by messing with the time markers/chapters or something like that, rather than breaking the standard like some of the cdaudio methods.
btw im not a dvd expert either, it was just my guess based on the article's wording.
The way I read the article, it sounds like theyre essentially going to fragment the disc so it takes a long time to seek around the disk.. If this assumption is correct, it sounds like this will wear out drives faster, fuck up fast forwarding, and probably bork out some old players that give up when they have to work too hard. Also, if this is the case, no patch will fix it. Youll have to read the disc slow, and reburn it unfragmented.
The hong kong market will do this once, press a bagillion of the things at $.02 a piece and some schmuck on ebay will buy them for $5, and then sell them for $45 and tell you that theyre not bootlegged and just have chinese writing on the covers, and the mispellings on the case art/credits are just your eyes betraying you.
Basically the guy who just wants a copy to watch and wouldnt have bought it anyway because he's broke will just have to wait a little longer, the people that mass produce the copies will have to wait longer but then have a straightened out version than can pump out at the same speed they always did.. and meanwhile the people getting punished are the ones with older dvd player whose motors just burnt out and the people who like fast forwarding.
I don't see this changing anything, sure itll take you two hours to rip a movie, and a little time to clean it up maybe, but in the end, its no real problem to anyone who wants to make a copy.
xbox live has friends and ability to join their games, send them text and/or voice messages, etc too.
Part of the reason the internet2 is so fast is because its not bogged down with porn, movies and crap (in general). Granted there are hardware differences, but really, a fair chunk of the reason is lack of congestion.
The MPAA wants to turn an academic/research network into a sales machine under the guise of stopping piracy.
As soon as you let the MPAA in (and napster, et al), you're no longer on the internet2, they just merged.
Seems to me, researchers and others should self-police and keep the network free of illegal material in the hopes that it will stave off the commercial machinery.
I do have to wonder how you make a cd that is supposed to be biodegradable and yet last for a valid data life?
I totally agree about standardization.. every polling place should have the same rules, equipment, etc. There's no reason for one county to be using chisel and tablet while another uses diebold vote changers... err machines.
only thing wrong with the 'x' system is that theres no good way to reliably count those, so it would have to be done by hand. I guess what the world is looking for is something thats fast but irrefutable- a tough combination.
maybe im nuts, but it seems like the only way things are ever going to work for the electronic voting machines is if the machine prints out the receipt of your vote which you verify and then stick in a good old fashioned iron box for a possible recount.
If i were going to still use optical scan.. id make a card that had one candidate on each line, with a punch box to the right of their name.. underneath each box (behind the card) is a LED that shows through when youve punched the card properly.. not to mention, youd have punches that are electric or in some other way more or less fool(elderly)proof... Maybe you slide a bar that has a cutout so you can see the text through the cutout.. so you slide the bar down until the candidate you want is visible in the window, then push the button and if the light is shining through you've made a correct vote and you can see it visually.. thats a pretty low tech way to make sure its right..
agreed..
now for everyone else: you know what- even if you can somehow account for the real intention of every voter and gore should have won for some reason.. bush is in office, his term's days from being over, the country hasn't melted, people need to let it go.
but all their chads were dimpled.. and they were 'clear gore votes'...
I remember watching those schmucks on tv staring at the cards.. the man would say 'clear bush vote' and the lady would scowl and say 'clear gore vote'.. repeat the process ad infinitum.
Neal Stephenson? (sp?)
I made the mistake of purchasing a copy of his Net-Force series after playing lots of xbox clancy (splinter cell/s.c.p.t./ghost recon/rainbow six 3/r.s.3.b.a) and thinking it might be interesting..
the encryption/technological stuff was so wrong i threw the book away after 20 pages.. It may be a good book, but the incorrectness of it bothered me too much to read. Back to Koontz- at least you know its going to be weird but interesting, and very little technology to be pissed about its incorrectness.
so its ok to blow up a stadium with 29,999 people? interesting.
Why not just say its illegal to fly over any major sporting event?
*shrugs*
I know you didn't write it, but just had to comment..
I dont know what scares me more.. that people think of this stuff, or that the people that think of this stuff don't always work for the US government...
one problem.. no president knows what wars are going to come to the forefront while theyre in office. If we had a clairvoyant president, maybe you'd start hearing promises that they'll go to war with this country or that country..
btw, i agree that government needs to stay out of insurance, among other things.
we have the best medical technology in the world, yes.. whether or not we have the best way of paying for it is pretty much established as being shitty..
Man, you need a faster link! I only got 400kb/s, poor bastard =|
(ps. thanks!)
So is customs still its own department, just under a new umbrella, or have the agents been integrated (read: assimilated) into DHS?
/. and in the parent article). And furthermore, if customs doesn't have the same level of power as its parents, they are giving a false statement about the power they posess merely for fear factor.
If so, why put agents not trained in counter-terrorism in an anti-terrorist capacity?
If they're still customs agents, just with new parents, I think they should say theyre with customs rather than homeland security.. just pushes the wrong buttons and gives the wrong impression (as seen on
Just askin'...
Like I mentioned, im actually more or less a bush supporter.. and I did RTA.. And I posted when there were about 46 comments on the thread, before anybody had really discussed the customs being a part of DHS.
In any case, I still think research should have been done, either way. All I said was that if we're paying DHS(/customs) to do these things, we should pay them to research too. I also think they should say they're with customs rather than homeland security.
That's almost like a janitor for the FBI knocking on your door saying he's with the FBI and you have illegal dust on your premises. (well maybe not, but I cant figure out the analogy I'm looking for)
Either way, not everybody is a Bush hater just because they don't agree with everything he's ever done, and it doesn't have a whole lot to do with whether I read the article or other people agreed with what I said.
true, but would we really want him to plant something, or admit failure? I have to give him that.
I'm a weird bush supporter.. I think he was the best choice at the time, but I don't agree with every part of his platform. I have a lot of leanings both directions really.
I find his 'special' words funny and humanizing, though it would be nice if he were a better orator.
Anyway, back to the point.. the WMD thing is a tough one.. I think it would certainly have helped the unrest around the US if some were 'found', but then there would have been a discovery later on or someone would have talked and then he'd have been seen just as badly or worse, even perhaps if he had no knowledge of the planting.
I think I like better that he admitted defeat on that count.
more a problem with the article than a problem with the government's account of the event...
Either way, it really bugs me that homeland security is even thinking about anything besides terrorism. Why the hell are we paying agents to fly out to bumsville for a da## rubiks cube.. And if we're paying them to do that, why aren't we paying them to research things first? Perhaps the same researchers that decided there were WMD's in Iraq (though I think there must be somewhere.. still intelligence was bad enough we cant find them if they are there)..
I wonder if anyone could somehow build a game cartridge that runs a basic web server and has a couple of io ports on the back of the cartridge? Then you could run a porn site -on- a nintendo.
Or just gut it and replace the parts with the mini itx boards (as seen a few weeks ago).. Then its not technically running -on- a nintendo, but oh well..
I say, run the porn site on the nintendo and reference every game possible by making all member account names be required to be either a game name or a character name.
With Microsoft, its not DRM its DRF (Digital Rights Forfeiture).
MS tends to bow to industry pressure, at least Apple tries to leave some fredoms to users.
All of the iPod people I know exclusively use iTunes with their iPod, mostly from albums they own but with a lot of music they purchase (some in the $100's every few months).