You are wrong. People are dumb fools and they'll buy anything if they're told its better. Oh DVD!! its DIGITAL VIDEO ON A DISK!!!! lets buy it now!!!... Oh... wait a minute... this sucks, now we can't copy stuff, and the quality isnt that good... hmmm, i would say the quality has been chosen so that we will buy the new harware when in actual fact its just a ploy to make us buy a crippled system.. oh well, its too late now, we've just replaced our entire vhs collection for dvd...
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. But give a man a terminal, and he can set-up a tele-marketing scam and feed his family for years to come.
Everyday 1000's of people sufer from disconnections and low bandwidth. Most of the people of Afghan. have never had an Internet in their life. Imagine, no slashdot, no dilbert... Forced to live on scraps of news they find on the street, theses people cannot live a normal life.
This young girl has never had the taste of caffene, while her little brother has never seen those Natalie Portman fakes. Their father is forced to work for a few $ a year at the nearby Microsoft Packing Factory, His wife is beaten for talking of Linux, and their baby is starved of EMF. They are typical of so many...
But you can help today: for just £2 a month, you can supply a family with internet access for a week. You can help bring someone into a world of porn, warez, and freedom to flame. People in the 3rd world don't want to live on hand-outs. They just want a chance to hack and pir8 their way like the rest of us. So donate just £2 a month to OxfamXXXXX i mean Slashdot, or whatever you can afford... call now, thank you
I respect other cultures, and all that crap but F* you... The Taliban _need_ help in a hospital with padded walls. They are class A nuts. I would rather spend the day with Hannibal Lecter than set foot in that country at the moment.
Its a global conspiracy - Most people in the world use IE, or 'scape, They _could_ just disable pop-ups/java/flash, use the hosts file or other programs, but many don't know how or even that it can be done.
Microsoft for example _could_ set all this up by default, but what would that mean... overnight economic collapse as everyone realises that advertising on the net is doomed. The death of doubleclick and all, and the end of life as we know it. (Bill would get his legs broke)
So, we have the choice of being selfish and using ad-busting for our selves while retaining stability in the economy (and thus allowing the the bussinessmenwithtoomuchmoneyandpower to fuel their crackandwhorehabbits/or we could unleash a load of virii that disable advertising (while carefully retaining useful content) in the major browsers & OS's and laugh as the world falls apart. Then we could do the same to Tivo (call it v2.5) and those adverts on the bottom of hotmails etc. for some extra fun.:)
ROFL Are theses watermelons patented? im serious, if they dont do something now, there'll be law-suits to hell when other companies start making square watermelons. And what about other shapes? how would it stand in court if someone made cuboid watermelons? (ie. 1 x 1 x 1.1 -not a cube). Or maybe pyramids, cylinders or _even_ spherical watermelons!!! (god forbid). Im sure there will be government controls on fruit shapes pretty soon, as well as anger from anti-plant deformation groups:) With a complex process like this, who knows what could happen...
As for Brittney, didn't anyone mistake her for Spears? we don't need _another_ dumb blonde. The apocalypse is certainly upon us:)
Is it just me, or are we moving closer towards the sort of civilisations in films like Aliens, where everything is controlled by the company
So, are there any free-lance terrorists out there willing to do our bidding?.. All you have to do is take out Bill Gates, The heads of AOL/Time, The Heads of Tivo, and the TV Networks and dont forget the _entire_ board of MPAA, RIAA, DMCA, and SDMI people. Also Thompson, and those people who were responsible for CPRM and anyone else with too much money and power... um... Mr. Torvalds will pay you.. no, scrap that, you can nick all of Bill G's money
No, PVR provides a way to let the big money corporations to control what you do while making it seem like their not. The only way forward on that front is to build your own pvr, or get a local computer store to custom build one for you.
That way you can get infinatly more features and no restrictions.
As for Video on Demand - its already around. eg. HomeChoice etc.. but people dont realise that current technology is simply _not_ ready for it. You cannot possably expect to get decent quality from a compressed signal through a cable modem or whatever, its just quantity over quality - the way most companies (like dvd lol) work these days.
I want everything - the full works, i want up to the minute news, reviews and entertainment. I want top notch TV, films, music, games and software. I want it full, uncut and uncensored - with no advertising and no sponsership. I don't want to see a single coke can in my life. I want all of this - it must be high quality. And, i want it for _free_
lol:-)
I think bill gates should pay for it - as punishment for his ways.
"Although not all artists realize it, MP3 is what is known as a "lossy" format. Thus, much of the sound data is removed when MP3 files are created. This results in a file with inferior sound quality to a CD. Vorbis is also a "lossy" format..."
convert? why would you convert one lossy format to another and loose more signal? unless you mean convert from cd...
i find it amazing that the record companies are still making cds.. all that free uncompressed quality with no copy-protection? i wonder how that managed to get out.
Its true that mp3 is standard. Ogg Vorbis will never rule unless they re-name it... - you can always tell if somethings going to be sucessful by the name.
err... no. i ment dvd. its only a few gigs in size (cd replaced floppy at 600 times more capacity and dvd has only about 10 times more than cd...) the new multi-layer thingys coming out look much more promising (starting at 50gb>)
it uses cheap lossless compression. im f*ing pissed of seeing poorly compressed material with artifacts showing.
Its low res... not enough for hdtv - what happens when everyone switches?.. oh yeah, the mpaa will make shit loads...
don't even get me started on macrovision, region encoding and css.
oh yes. and for the dumb ideas list, add that chip the electronics companies wanted to put indevices to disable them if they were taken out of the country.
Is there a dumb ideas hall of fame anywhere? - sort of like fuckedcompany.com but just dumb ideas such as CPRM, DVD, SDMI, Thompson's smart cards in pc's, 3G etc...
standard cd's don't - im not talking about some half-assed stupid idea someone had to make some cds that were completely incompatable with 99.99% of players.
My copy protection scheme is much better - it involves hampsters!! (you make it mandatory to include copy-protect hampsters with cd players that try to bite you if you try to copy cds)
The reason they make so much money is because stupid people who don't know any better (bless them) think its cool because its "digital!(tm)(r)" and therefore really good quality. True, its better than VHS, but lets face it, bettering a 20-year-old home video format really isnt beyond the scope of even the dumbest engineers and an electronics lab. They chose the disk so they could fit a films worth of standard tv resolution video on it. Thats all they need to grab the market (forget hdtv or the fact that the cheapest of pc monitors could handle higher resolution). The reason for digital encoding is 2-fold - they can hype up the fact that its digital like cd's! oh wow... (even though its lossy compression) and then they can encrypt the stream and put on all sorts of lovely copy-protection. Obviously, mass producing a flat piece of plastic is gonna be cheaper than making a video tape so they can make _even more_ profit then before. Now for the finishing touch, like Tivo and all, you must include a programmable system into the specs. That way, you can control what people watch (the people like to be controlled...). So there you have it. An entire home video system that is designed _purely_ for the financial gain of the movie industry (of course you have to add the odd feature to make it look like your serving the customers.)
people are so easily impressed by the features, extras, menus, subtitles etc.
Look how versatile the CD-ROM has become. It can support hybrid - Data and Audio. It has zero copyprotection and you can even cut the sides off the disk - lol. Writers and blank media are cheap and easily available (unlike dvd's that will never be seeing cheap writers because Hollywood wont allow it for obvious reasons).
We need a replacement for the CD, which replaced the floppy (at 600 times more capacity). And lets face it. dvd as it is at around only 10 times more capacity than cd isnt the answer.
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You are wrong. People are dumb fools and they'll buy anything if they're told its better. Oh DVD!! its DIGITAL VIDEO ON A DISK!!!! lets buy it now!!!... Oh... wait a minute... this sucks, now we can't copy stuff, and the quality isnt that good... hmmm, i would say the quality has been chosen so that we will buy the new harware when in actual fact its just a ploy to make us buy a crippled system.. oh well, its too late now, we've just replaced our entire vhs collection for dvd...
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. But give a man a terminal, and he can set-up a tele-marketing scam and feed his family for years to come.
Everyday 1000's of people sufer from disconnections and low bandwidth. Most of the people of Afghan. have never had an Internet in their life. Imagine, no slashdot, no dilbert... Forced to live on scraps of news they find on the street, theses people cannot live a normal life.
This young girl has never had the taste of caffene, while her little brother has never seen those Natalie Portman fakes. Their father is forced to work for a few $ a year at the nearby Microsoft Packing Factory, His wife is beaten for talking of Linux, and their baby is starved of EMF. They are typical of so many...
But you can help today: for just £2 a month, you can supply a family with internet access for a week. You can help bring someone into a world of porn, warez, and freedom to flame. People in the 3rd world don't want to live on hand-outs. They just want a chance to hack and pir8 their way like the rest of us. So donate just £2 a month to OxfamXXXXX i mean Slashdot, or whatever you can afford... call now, thank you
Was that flaim-bait?
I respect other cultures, and all that crap but F* you... The Taliban _need_ help in a hospital with padded walls. They are class A nuts. I would rather spend the day with Hannibal Lecter than set foot in that country at the moment.
now thats flaimbait
Its a global conspiracy - Most people in the world use IE, or 'scape, They _could_ just disable pop-ups/java/flash, use the hosts file or other programs, but many don't know how or even that it can be done.
/or we could unleash a load of virii that disable advertising (while carefully retaining useful content) in the major browsers & OS's and laugh as the world falls apart. Then we could do the same to Tivo (call it v2.5) and those adverts on the bottom of hotmails etc. for some extra fun. :)
Microsoft for example _could_ set all this up by default, but what would that mean... overnight economic collapse as everyone realises that advertising on the net is doomed. The death of doubleclick and all, and the end of life as we know it. (Bill would get his legs broke)
So, we have the choice of being selfish and using ad-busting for our selves while retaining stability in the economy (and thus allowing the the bussinessmenwithtoomuchmoneyandpower to fuel their crackandwhorehabbits
-tfga
Pay them money!!?
Microsoft probably threatened to break their legs.
My associates tell me you have a little business named XBox...
ROFL Are theses watermelons patented? im serious, if they dont do something now, there'll be law-suits to hell when other companies start making square watermelons. And what about other shapes? how would it stand in court if someone made cuboid watermelons? (ie. 1 x 1 x 1.1 -not a cube). Or maybe pyramids, cylinders or _even_ spherical watermelons!!! (god forbid). Im sure there will be government controls on fruit shapes pretty soon, as well as anger from anti-plant deformation groups :) With a complex process like this, who knows what could happen...
:)
As for Brittney, didn't anyone mistake her for Spears? we don't need _another_ dumb blonde. The apocalypse is certainly upon us
-tfga
Is it just me, or are we moving closer towards the sort of civilisations in films like Aliens, where everything is controlled by the company
So, are there any free-lance terrorists out there willing to do our bidding?.. All you have to do is take out Bill Gates, The heads of AOL/Time, The Heads of Tivo, and the TV Networks and dont forget the _entire_ board of MPAA, RIAA, DMCA, and SDMI people. Also Thompson, and those people who were responsible for CPRM and anyone else with too much money and power... um... Mr. Torvalds will pay you.. no, scrap that, you can nick all of Bill G's money
rofl
-tfga
No, PVR provides a way to let the big money corporations to control what you do while making it seem like their not. The only way forward on that front is to build your own pvr, or get a local computer store to custom build one for you.
That way you can get infinatly more features and no restrictions.
As for Video on Demand - its already around. eg. HomeChoice etc.. but people dont realise that current technology is simply _not_ ready for it. You cannot possably expect to get decent quality from a compressed signal through a cable modem or whatever, its just quantity over quality - the way most companies (like dvd lol) work these days.
I want everything - the full works, i want up to the minute news, reviews and entertainment. I want top notch TV, films, music, games and software. I want it full, uncut and uncensored - with no advertising and no sponsership. I don't want to see a single coke can in my life. I want all of this - it must be high quality. And, i want it for _free_ :-)
lol
I think bill gates should pay for it - as punishment for his ways.
"Although not all artists realize it, MP3 is what is known as a "lossy" format. Thus, much of the sound data is removed when MP3 files are created. This results in a file with inferior sound quality to a CD. Vorbis is also a "lossy" format..."
who has a head made of bone? huh, huh!?
lol
good point... i never proof read.. lol
convert? why would you convert one lossy format to another and loose more signal? unless you mean convert from cd...
i find it amazing that the record companies are still making cds.. all that free uncompressed quality with no copy-protection? i wonder how that managed to get out.
Its true that mp3 is standard. Ogg Vorbis will never rule unless they re-name it... - you can always tell if somethings going to be sucessful by the name.
err... no. i ment dvd. its only a few gigs in size (cd replaced floppy at 600 times more capacity and dvd has only about 10 times more than cd...) the new multi-layer thingys coming out look much more promising (starting at 50gb>)
it uses cheap lossless compression. im f*ing pissed of seeing poorly compressed material with artifacts showing.
Its low res... not enough for hdtv - what happens when everyone switches?.. oh yeah, the mpaa will make shit loads...
don't even get me started on macrovision, region encoding and css.
oh yes. and for the dumb ideas list, add that chip the electronics companies wanted to put indevices to disable them if they were taken out of the country.
Is there a dumb ideas hall of fame anywhere? - sort of like fuckedcompany.com but just dumb ideas such as CPRM, DVD, SDMI, Thompson's smart cards in pc's, 3G etc...
standard cd's don't - im not talking about some half-assed stupid idea someone had to make some cds that were completely incompatable with 99.99% of players.
My copy protection scheme is much better - it involves hampsters!! (you make it mandatory to include copy-protect hampsters with cd players that try to bite you if you try to copy cds)
The reason they make so much money is because stupid people who don't know any better (bless them) think its cool because its "digital!(tm)(r)" and therefore really good quality. True, its better than VHS, but lets face it, bettering a 20-year-old home video format really isnt beyond the scope of even the dumbest engineers and an electronics lab. They chose the disk so they could fit a films worth of standard tv resolution video on it. Thats all they need to grab the market (forget hdtv or the fact that the cheapest of pc monitors could handle higher resolution). The reason for digital encoding is 2-fold - they can hype up the fact that its digital like cd's! oh wow... (even though its lossy compression) and then they can encrypt the stream and put on all sorts of lovely copy-protection. Obviously, mass producing a flat piece of plastic is gonna be cheaper than making a video tape so they can make _even more_ profit then before. Now for the finishing touch, like Tivo and all, you must include a programmable system into the specs. That way, you can control what people watch (the people like to be controlled...). So there you have it. An entire home video system that is designed _purely_ for the financial gain of the movie industry (of course you have to add the odd feature to make it look like your serving the customers.)
people are so easily impressed by the features, extras, menus, subtitles etc.
Look how versatile the CD-ROM has become. It can support hybrid - Data and Audio. It has zero copyprotection and you can even cut the sides off the disk - lol. Writers and blank media are cheap and easily available (unlike dvd's that will never be seeing cheap writers because Hollywood wont allow it for obvious reasons).
We need a replacement for the CD, which replaced the floppy (at 600 times more capacity). And lets face it. dvd as it is at around only 10 times more capacity than cd isnt the answer.