Did NOBODY learn from Betamax? When will the industry learn that the ONLY thing DRM ensures is that the next high density optical disc standard will be whatever China turns out?
"RAR itself is fine. It spliting up RAR archives into multiple files that annoy me.
And then there is the different extentions:
rar, r##, part##.rar etc.."
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Zip is also capable of splitting it's archive, why don't you complain about that too?
Anyway, people split RARs for good reason. It's so that if during a massive download you have a small bit that doesn't stand up to CRC, all you need to do is redownload the segment that went bad instead of maybe 4.7gb all over again.
And what have YOU been smoking today? It's obviously NOT the same production team making the web site.
More than likely, the website is a 2 or 3 man show consisting of maybe an artist, a web designer and a web programmer. They likely just got the rough details of what the core production team wanted on the website in a meeting and proceeded to create the site all by themselves.
That problem is that America itself is a large enough consumer of said IP to keep the industry afloat. And trust me, America will sonner be cut off from the Chinese Internet then the above doomsday were to happen.
Not true... See, as long as the radio stations play it and MTV hypes it, it will sell. Apple is only yet another music store owner being screwed over...
Yes and no... See while it IS produced by the Indian (more specifically, the 'Mamak' or Indian Muslim) population in Malaysia, it isn't a food whose geographic origin is India.
In India, their staple is basically a toasted flat bread, where as Roti Canai is flat bread panfried in ghee and we normally stuff it with things like sardines, eggs, sliced bananas etc.
Well... 'Rojak' is a Malaysian* dish, consisting of but Prawn fritters, cut coconut fritters, cubed tofu, sliced cucumber, sliced chestnut, squid and an hardboiled egg, all covered in a thick nutty curry gravy.
As you can see, a Rojak is a messy mix of many ingredients hastily tossed together. Hence, the word Rojak is also used colloquially (in insult or in jest) to mean something that consists of an odd mix of many different things.
For instance, "James is of Rojak decent" is a crude way of saying James' ancestry is very diverse. Also, "That magazines layout is very rojak" means that the magazines layout is haphazard.
So 'RojakPot' would be a play of words to mean 'MeltingPot'
Oh and... Visit Malaysia:D
*Rojak, along with Satay, Roti Canai, Teh Tarik, etc are ALL Malaysian dishes, despite what the lying Singaporeans have been claiming.
All this just proves that nomatter how the 'Holier then thou' like to spin it, our vices will forever be the driving force behind our technological development.
Think about it, blood lust drove nuclear research, porn drove Internet penetration (No pun intended) and now we have gambelling (not some war on terror) driving survallience and crowd management.
I agree.. Take a page from Aircraft design like the auto industry. First you have Fly by wire, which spawned Drive by wire... So make a gloves thats grip By Wire.
Like the sibling post says, all you need is to extend the sleeve to cover the whole arm to keep it contained, then have a glove with sensors that can map all the finger joints and provide force feedback..
yea, but how many movies or TV shows did you download that came in.wmv though? I'm not saying nobody uses.wmv , i'm saying that using it to enforce DRM is futile.. afterall, you still got ur pr0n.
You're right on only one point: DRM only works on a small scale.
Thing here is that iTunes is really responsible for a small amount of music traded daily. Compared to the I dare say billions of mp3's out there, iTunes' music is barely a drop in the bucket.
Joe Sixpack might NOT know any better, but 'Free as in Beer' is a very strong motivation. I personally know of many peopel who have very little technical knowlage setup and use the likes of limewire or eMule...
This WHOLE thing is moot. We all know that DRM does't work and people go out of their way to avoid DRM content.
For instance, they made ATRAC as a secure format for digital music, we all still use mp3. They made.wmv to secure online video, we use XviD. They region encoded DVDs, China starts pumping out millions upon millions of region free DVD players.
So who wants to bet that this DRM will die still born along with the rest of the attempts to restrict media?
As a sign of good will towards mother nature, i propose ALL members of Greenpeace be given the honour of being the first visitors to the INSIDE of the reactor when it's finally operational... and OPERATING...
That said, Greenpeace isn't an enviormentalist movement. It's just a movement of people who are mental... Heck, many real enviormental movements want to have NOTHING to do with Greenpeace.
1) People will always want things free (As in paid for by ad's)
2) If the people who serve ads as we know it today die off, soemone else will come back and fill the void.
People do tolorate and to a certain extent, apreciate ads, but the reason why people block ads today is because the people serving ads are crap flooding people with annoying devices like pop-up that serve up lies, half truths and spyware.
The advertiser who learns the rule of doing it in moderation and not pissing off your audience is the one whose gonna make it, not scum like DoubleClick.
In essence, this whole mess is the advertising industries own fault, not the fault of the makers of ad blocking software.
No doubt about that. If you ask me, this case was more about some offical being pissed at not getting a bribe then justice, considering what goes on down there...
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Did NOBODY learn from Betamax? When will the industry learn that the ONLY thing DRM ensures is that the next high density optical disc standard will be whatever China turns out?
Wait a min.. that might be a GOOD thing.
"RAR itself is fine. It spliting up RAR archives into multiple files that annoy me.
And then there is the different extentions:
rar, r##, part##.rar etc.."
-1 Troll
Zip is also capable of splitting it's archive, why don't you complain about that too?
Anyway, people split RARs for good reason. It's so that if during a massive download you have a small bit that doesn't stand up to CRC, all you need to do is redownload the segment that went bad instead of maybe 4.7gb all over again.
And what have YOU been smoking today? It's obviously NOT the same production team making the web site.
More than likely, the website is a 2 or 3 man show consisting of maybe an artist, a web designer and a web programmer. They likely just got the rough details of what the core production team wanted on the website in a meeting and proceeded to create the site all by themselves.
That problem is that America itself is a large enough consumer of said IP to keep the industry afloat. And trust me, America will sonner be cut off from the Chinese Internet then the above doomsday were to happen.
Not true... See, as long as the radio stations play it and MTV hypes it, it will sell. Apple is only yet another music store owner being screwed over...
Thats all good... until you find a corner and try to turn. That thing must have the turning radius of a 18 wheel semi...
Yes and no... See while it IS produced by the Indian (more specifically, the 'Mamak' or Indian Muslim) population in Malaysia, it isn't a food whose geographic origin is India.
In India, their staple is basically a toasted flat bread, where as Roti Canai is flat bread panfried in ghee and we normally stuff it with things like sardines, eggs, sliced bananas etc.
sori lor... but it's too often i see Satay being refered to as Singaporen...
To be fair, the site IS called 'Rojak Pot'.
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For a definition, see:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1595
Well... 'Rojak' is a Malaysian* dish, consisting of but Prawn fritters, cut coconut fritters, cubed tofu, sliced cucumber, sliced chestnut, squid and an hardboiled egg, all covered in a thick nutty curry gravy.
:D
As you can see, a Rojak is a messy mix of many ingredients hastily tossed together. Hence, the word Rojak is also used colloquially (in insult or in jest) to mean something that consists of an odd mix of many different things.
For instance, "James is of Rojak decent" is a crude way of saying James' ancestry is very diverse. Also, "That magazines layout is very rojak" means that the magazines layout is haphazard.
So 'RojakPot' would be a play of words to mean 'MeltingPot'
Oh and... Visit Malaysia
*Rojak, along with Satay, Roti Canai, Teh Tarik, etc are ALL Malaysian dishes, despite what the lying Singaporeans have been claiming.
All this just proves that nomatter how the 'Holier then thou' like to spin it, our vices will forever be the driving force behind our technological development.
Think about it, blood lust drove nuclear research, porn drove Internet penetration (No pun intended) and now we have gambelling (not some war on terror) driving survallience and crowd management.
"...can measure vital signs including pulse rate, cardiac rhythm (ECG or EKG), and blood oxygen levels..."
Yes, but can it tell time?
Sorry... just HAD to...
Hence, my sig...
I agree.. Take a page from Aircraft design like the auto industry. First you have Fly by wire, which spawned Drive by wire... So make a gloves thats grip By Wire.
Like the sibling post says, all you need is to extend the sleeve to cover the whole arm to keep it contained, then have a glove with sensors that can map all the finger joints and provide force feedback..
yea, but how many movies or TV shows did you download that came in .wmv though? I'm not saying nobody uses .wmv , i'm saying that using it to enforce DRM is futile.. afterall, you still got ur pr0n.
You're right on only one point: DRM only works on a small scale.
Thing here is that iTunes is really responsible for a small amount of music traded daily. Compared to the I dare say billions of mp3's out there, iTunes' music is barely a drop in the bucket.
Joe Sixpack might NOT know any better, but 'Free as in Beer' is a very strong motivation. I personally know of many peopel who have very little technical knowlage setup and use the likes of limewire or eMule...
This WHOLE thing is moot. We all know that DRM does't work and people go out of their way to avoid DRM content.
.wmv to secure online video, we use XviD. They region encoded DVDs, China starts pumping out millions upon millions of region free DVD players.
For instance, they made ATRAC as a secure format for digital music, we all still use mp3. They made
So who wants to bet that this DRM will die still born along with the rest of the attempts to restrict media?
As a sign of good will towards mother nature, i propose ALL members of Greenpeace be given the honour of being the first visitors to the INSIDE of the reactor when it's finally operational... and OPERATING...
That said, Greenpeace isn't an enviormentalist movement. It's just a movement of people who are mental... Heck, many real enviormental movements want to have NOTHING to do with Greenpeace.
Plain, boring, and unobtrusive gets you unseen and unwatched...
That's where you have a problem. The correct formula is Exciting, Enticing and Unobtrusive.
Ever wondered why people are hell bent on skipping Ads on their TIVO, but places like FunnyPlaces.org that serve up TV ads on demand exist?
You have to make ads that people WANT to watch, not ads that you have to FORCE on people.
Bennie Smith is entirely WRONG.
2 Facts:
1) People will always want things free (As in paid for by ad's)
2) If the people who serve ads as we know it today die off, soemone else will come back and fill the void.
People do tolorate and to a certain extent, apreciate ads, but the reason why people block ads today is because the people serving ads are crap flooding people with annoying devices like pop-up that serve up lies, half truths and spyware.
The advertiser who learns the rule of doing it in moderation and not pissing off your audience is the one whose gonna make it, not scum like DoubleClick.
In essence, this whole mess is the advertising industries own fault, not the fault of the makers of ad blocking software.
This proves that as long as you make sure your product is good, people WILL pay for it. It's when one makes crap however...
No doubt about that. If you ask me, this case was more about some offical being pissed at not getting a bribe then justice, considering what goes on down there...
If what the AC says is true, it's not grounds for guilt alone, but it does reinforce the prosecutions arguement...
Also,
The Comic Book Guy - William Shatner
Kelsey Grammer does Sideshow Bob well enough, thank you.