That this device supports "MP3-like" compression, according to their press release. This would enable several hours of audio on the re-writable medium... This one has me spooked.
Isn't the whole idea about "COLLEGE" to learn with peer support? I mean, if I wanted to learn by myself, wouldn't I just buy a book?
It seems to me that the professors at this school have gotten so far ahead of themselves in trying to prevent any sort of "cheating", that they've gotten intoxicated with the "game" of catching students. They've create scenarios where it will be more possible to catch cheaters. They've actually made study groups illegal. Whee! We'll catch 'em now!
The professors no longer care that study groups are the best method to learn and reinforce what has been learned. It's just like every other aspect of society. We're all no longer looked upon as innocents in need of protection. We've all become possible thives/cheats/lawbreakers in need of some serious thumbscrews. Pathetic.
All I know is that if I were in a nursing home, and I stopped getting what little human contact I was getting previously, and thought people were trying to placate me with robot dogs so they didnt have to ever look at me or talk to me, then it would seem to me that people just wanted to forget I exist. Gee, that would really cheer me up
I went and checked, and I had about 20 different SPAM options turned on! Without slashdot, I would NEVER have known about this until the spam started rolling in! Mark me as redundant if you want, but I wanted to make sure people knew this was real.
but PLEASE, for the LOVE OF GOD no more quicktime! It freezes my computer, or makes the whole screen flicker with each frame. It takes too long to load some videos, and while it's loading, if I want to close it, I have to end task! Forget subscriptions. I'll send them money RIGHT NOW if they promise to use good old no-problems, compatability-across-the-board MPEG!
AFAIK, copyrighted material is copyrighted material, without regard to whether it is a book, a CD, or anything. And you're allowed, if you own said material, to make a backup copy of it onto whatever medium you choose. Just like the senator that is investigating the constitutionality of copy-"protected" CD's. You should be able to copy a CD you own onto a tape or MP3s or whatever, and you should be able to copy ROM carts onto computers or audiocasettes for that matter. The only way the company can get around this would be to offer free replacements (maybe + S/H) if you send in your damaged version. I tried this with a DVD I own and was laughed at. But I think, had I sued, the case would have been at the least, not open and shut, and at the most, groundbreaking. DVDs try to prohibit copy-making, and provide no alternative relief as required under copyright law. So do the ROMs.
If there is no supreme entity, then there is no good and evil. There's no reason not to kill, steal, lie, or cheat. There are no such things as good and evil. Any ideal no longer has any meaning. Emotions are pointless. We might as well all be hitlers, killing many so that we may prosper. Working towards something is stupid, when there's an easier way to it that might involve another ape/man's life, and dying at age 5 is no worse than dying at age 95, because if we all die sooner or later anyways, what does it matter what we do before then?
This is all because, if there is no beginning, everything is the result of randomness. Good and bad? They come from your brain. Your brain? Just random chemical interactions.
Likewise, I wont scream 'If I were weak, I'd be atheist too' or 'Where did the big bang material come from anyways? Anybody?'
I'll simply say stop being so damn utopian. If we were just lucky lumps of chemicals, our lives and thoughts are of no greater consequence than that of a flea, and there's no such thing as good.
I can appreciate hoping beyond hope that your actions have no consequences, but on the whole, evolution is as much a religion as creation. Both cannot be proven, and must be accepted by faith, even though they have major holes in them.
That would be fine by me. I'm a big boy. I'll click the link and read. Wowee. Sometimes when posting a story, I'm not quite prepared to expound on it. They seem contrived when I do. So I think I'll take your advice next time:-)
In copyright law, if I remember correctly: "You are allowed to make one backup copy of any copyrighted material you own." How is this confusing? By trying to stop people from doing this, it is actually Nintendo that is breaking the law. I support EFF, and I fully expect EFF to support you. Good luck, fight this. We're behind you 100%.
Whoop-de-doo. It's a bold political statement. But it just looks that way on paper. When the olympics are in China, I not only will not be unhappy, but I will *expect* to see Chinese relics everywhere. I expect to see the Chinese flag as often as we now see the US's. I expect them to try and show their agenda in a positive light, and I will even not get into how negatively I feel about it. The olympics always have been, and always will be a major advertising and PR opportunity for the hosting city and state/country. Anyone who would be surprised by any of the former just isn't reading enough newspaper.
>one of my programing class's at the University of Calgary
Hey there, northern neighbor! I see you're from canada, so I'll enlighten you. In America, we use apostrophe-S ('s) to indicate posession, or on rare occasions, to indicate multiplicities of an abbreviation (PC's), but even that is deprecated. ("PCs" is just fine).
The actual accepted form of more than one class is "Classes". It is unusual, but hey, thats English for ya. I wish we lived in igloos and had huskies and ate our young and spoke an easy entirely-latin-derived language like french, but we speak english, and since we're the most powerful country in the world, if you want us to like you, you have to learn to speak and write english, too.
You're comparing record companies to librarians?? Of all the distorted thinking... Sorry. I'll get a grip.
If librarians operated as vile and maliciously as record producers, all books would be copyright(c) Your Local Library.
Notice how no musicians own their music? Whereas a book is copyrighted, hence owned, by it's creator, record companies demand TOTAL ownership of your product with NO guarantees of success or profit or even trying to do anything with it. Doesn't that disgust you? It ought to. And you compare these thiefs, these original pirates, to your friendly selfless local librarian. Please, you *need* to read a famous musician's explanation of how an artist can come out with ZERO profit for a year while his/her record company makes over ten million dollars. The math is sound. And disgusting.
I believe you're referring to artifacting. The blocky look sometimes.
That's a quality of ALL mpeg formats. I've seen it on digital cable, and on DVDs. One of the things that defines MPEG is that the image is broken up into 16x16 pixel blocks, which are then compressed. The only reason you notice it on DiVX videos is that they are low "bandwidth", or kilobits per second. The higher the bandwidth, the less they have to compress, and the more the compressed image looks like the original.
In closing:) Digital Cable and DVD have about 5 to 10 times the rate of your average DiVX. Thats why you see blocking. But it's not a failure of Divx. It's a failure of CD capacity.
PC owners are with me, I'm sure, when I say that as horrible as QuickTime is on a PC, I would rather QuickTime than RealPlayer for streaming any single day of the week. Real's streaming performance, in my years of experience, is IMHO the sludge below the barrel. Someone had to scrape the bottom of the barrel so deeply that they found this on the other side. If this idea makes it, I'm listening to my New-Age roommate and signing off of TV for good!:P
It's been asked so much that it's pointless, but WHY DO WE NEED proprietary formats?!? What's wrong with MPEG4?
Thanks to 2600 Magazine and The EFF, we all have a legal precedent for the right to link from our sites to wherever we wish (More info at 2600). Might this also apply to linking from our emails, thus invalidating the patent? Which takes precedent? I would imagine a judge and/or jury.
Um, DUH? It's being featured on SlashDot because it has to do with security of computerized devices in which big corporations put their trust and ours. Why do I say "ours" ? Because if the stores get ripped off, it costs us all. Do you mean to tell me that if the retina scanner protecting fort knox could be spoofed by sending "The Hacker's Manifesto" over the IR transciever on a Palm VIII, you wouldn't care, because it's just theft, and therefore does not meet discussion requirements here?
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That this device supports "MP3-like" compression, according to their press release. This would enable several hours of audio on the re-writable medium... This one has me spooked.
Isn't the whole idea about "COLLEGE" to learn with peer support? I mean, if I wanted to learn by myself, wouldn't I just buy a book?
It seems to me that the professors at this school have gotten so far ahead of themselves in trying to prevent any sort of "cheating", that they've gotten intoxicated with the "game" of catching students. They've create scenarios where it will be more possible to catch cheaters. They've actually made study groups illegal. Whee! We'll catch 'em now!
The professors no longer care that study groups are the best method to learn and reinforce what has been learned. It's just like every other aspect of society. We're all no longer looked upon as innocents in need of protection. We've all become possible thives/cheats/lawbreakers in need of some serious thumbscrews. Pathetic.
The entire domain is *totally* /.ed heheheh
:P
Well, that depends on your definition of "gently"...
All I know is that if I were in a nursing home, and I stopped getting what little human contact I was getting previously, and thought people were trying to placate me with robot dogs so they didnt have to ever look at me or talk to me, then it would seem to me that people just wanted to forget I exist. Gee, that would really cheer me up
I went and checked, and I had about 20 different SPAM options turned on! Without slashdot, I would NEVER have known about this until the spam started rolling in! Mark me as redundant if you want, but I wanted to make sure people knew this was real.
but PLEASE, for the LOVE OF GOD no more quicktime! It freezes my computer, or makes the whole screen flicker with each frame. It takes too long to load some videos, and while it's loading, if I want to close it, I have to end task! Forget subscriptions. I'll send them money RIGHT NOW if they promise to use good old no-problems, compatability-across-the-board MPEG!
I saw "Randy Bush" and thought we were going to have another monica lewinsky story!
Thank God I was wrong...
AFAIK, copyrighted material is copyrighted material, without regard to whether it is a book, a CD, or anything. And you're allowed, if you own said material, to make a backup copy of it onto whatever medium you choose. Just like the senator that is investigating the constitutionality of copy-"protected" CD's. You should be able to copy a CD you own onto a tape or MP3s or whatever, and you should be able to copy ROM carts onto computers or audiocasettes for that matter. The only way the company can get around this would be to offer free replacements (maybe + S/H) if you send in your damaged version. I tried this with a DVD I own and was laughed at. But I think, had I sued, the case would have been at the least, not open and shut, and at the most, groundbreaking. DVDs try to prohibit copy-making, and provide no alternative relief as required under copyright law. So do the ROMs.
Okay, if that gets a 4, what will this get?
If there is no supreme entity, then there is no good and evil. There's no reason not to kill, steal, lie, or cheat. There are no such things as good and evil. Any ideal no longer has any meaning. Emotions are pointless. We might as well all be hitlers, killing many so that we may prosper. Working towards something is stupid, when there's an easier way to it that might involve another ape/man's life, and dying at age 5 is no worse than dying at age 95, because if we all die sooner or later anyways, what does it matter what we do before then?
This is all because, if there is no beginning, everything is the result of randomness. Good and bad? They come from your brain. Your brain? Just random chemical interactions.
Likewise, I wont scream 'If I were weak, I'd be atheist too' or 'Where did the big bang material come from anyways? Anybody?'
I'll simply say stop being so damn utopian. If we were just lucky lumps of chemicals, our lives and thoughts are of no greater consequence than that of a flea, and there's no such thing as good.
I can appreciate hoping beyond hope that your actions have no consequences, but on the whole, evolution is as much a religion as creation. Both cannot be proven, and must be accepted by faith, even though they have major holes in them.
That would be fine by me. I'm a big boy. I'll click the link and read. Wowee. Sometimes when posting a story, I'm not quite prepared to expound on it. They seem contrived when I do. So I think I'll take your advice next time :-)
Thanks!
In copyright law, if I remember correctly: "You are allowed to make one backup copy of any copyrighted material you own." How is this confusing? By trying to stop people from doing this, it is actually Nintendo that is breaking the law. I support EFF, and I fully expect EFF to support you. Good luck, fight this. We're behind you 100%.
Whoop-de-doo. It's a bold political statement. But it just looks that way on paper. When the olympics are in China, I not only will not be unhappy, but I will *expect* to see Chinese relics everywhere. I expect to see the Chinese flag as often as we now see the US's. I expect them to try and show their agenda in a positive light, and I will even not get into how negatively I feel about it. The olympics always have been, and always will be a major advertising and PR opportunity for the hosting city and state/country. Anyone who would be surprised by any of the former just isn't reading enough newspaper.
Congratulations! Maybe some day, I'll be lucky enough just to have a g/f that *reads* slashdot :)
I'm waiting for my invitation!
Regards
Aye
>one of my programing class's at the University of Calgary
Hey there, northern neighbor! I see you're from canada, so I'll enlighten you. In America, we use apostrophe-S ('s) to indicate posession, or on rare occasions, to indicate multiplicities of an abbreviation (PC's), but even that is deprecated. ("PCs" is just fine).
The actual accepted form of more than one class is "Classes". It is unusual, but hey, thats English for ya. I wish we lived in igloos and had huskies and ate our young and spoke an easy entirely-latin-derived language like french, but we speak english, and since we're the most powerful country in the world, if you want us to like you, you have to learn to speak and write english, too.
Just doing my part for NAFTA!
OH puh-LEEZE...
You're comparing record companies to librarians?? Of all the distorted thinking... Sorry. I'll get a grip.
If librarians operated as vile and maliciously as record producers, all books would be copyright(c) Your Local Library.
Notice how no musicians own their music? Whereas a book is copyrighted, hence owned, by it's creator, record companies demand TOTAL ownership of your product with NO guarantees of success or profit or even trying to do anything with it. Doesn't that disgust you? It ought to. And you compare these thiefs, these original pirates, to your friendly selfless local librarian. Please, you *need* to read a famous musician's explanation of how an artist can come out with ZERO profit for a year while his/her record company makes over ten million dollars. The math is sound. And disgusting.
Sign me a musician.
I believe you're referring to artifacting. The blocky look sometimes.
:) Digital Cable and DVD have about 5 to 10 times the rate of your average DiVX. Thats why you see blocking. But it's not a failure of Divx. It's a failure of CD capacity.
That's a quality of ALL mpeg formats. I've seen it on digital cable, and on DVDs. One of the things that defines MPEG is that the image is broken up into 16x16 pixel blocks, which are then compressed. The only reason you notice it on DiVX videos is that they are low "bandwidth", or kilobits per second. The higher the bandwidth, the less they have to compress, and the more the compressed image looks like the original.
In closing
Two notes, smart guy :P
1) DivX **IS** MPEG
2) and so is DVD
Hope you were sitting down...
PC owners are with me, I'm sure, when I say that as horrible as QuickTime is on a PC, I would rather QuickTime than RealPlayer for streaming any single day of the week. Real's streaming performance, in my years of experience, is IMHO the sludge below the barrel. Someone had to scrape the bottom of the barrel so deeply that they found this on the other side. If this idea makes it, I'm listening to my New-Age roommate and signing off of TV for good! :P
It's been asked so much that it's pointless, but WHY DO WE NEED proprietary formats?!? What's wrong with MPEG4?
***sigh of exasperation***
Thanks to 2600 Magazine and The EFF , we all have a legal precedent for the right to link from our sites to wherever we wish (More info at 2600). Might this also apply to linking from our emails, thus invalidating the patent? Which takes precedent? I would imagine a judge and/or jury.
Um, DUH? It's being featured on SlashDot because it has to do with security of computerized devices in which big corporations put their trust and ours. Why do I say "ours" ? Because if the stores get ripped off, it costs us all. Do you mean to tell me that if the retina scanner protecting fort knox could be spoofed by sending "The Hacker's Manifesto" over the IR transciever on a Palm VIII, you wouldn't care, because it's just theft, and therefore does not meet discussion requirements here?
Is an MPS anything like an MP3?