So you support dull solder joints that fail in much less time than shiny ones? Which electronics companies do you have shares in? There are substances used in electronics worse than Teh Evil Lead, you know. It's not even like it's difficult to keep the lead away from humans if done properly.
But won't this require prefect line-of-sight to have any hope of working?
I'm imagining something like a TV remote, or those IRda systems PDAs and printers used to have but, since it's in the visible band of the spectrum, with more line-of-sight problems. I don't see anything like that replacing 2.4GHz wireless any time soon.
Call me naive, but wouldn't us tech-savvy geeks pass their music through a simple id-remover script upon downloading anything from iTunes and certainly before uploading to a portable device?
I'll repost a comment I made in another thread that seems relevant here:
Maybe so, but there are at least two movies that I will, as a direct result of DRM, never ever buy or rent: Madagascar and Shark Tale.
Why? No jokes about their quality, please.
Because another Dreamworks title, Shrek 2, showed trailers for them on the DVD release I bought, and prohibited me from skipping past them.
When I'm in a theatre I expect to have to watch trailers, and often find them entertaining, but not every. single. time I put a disc into my own player at home.
And most other people I know find such things annoying too. Try asking people in the street "what do you think of those FBI Warnings on DVDs that you can't skip past?". Or utter the phrase "You wouldn't steal a car...". You'll soon see what consumers think of DRM, even if they don't know to call it that. Curiously enough Disney for all their Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension evilness, seems to be the best behaved - their titles rarely if ever forbid you from skipping anything.
UOPs must die.
As for me:
I am currently taking a boycott stance with the RIAA and MPAA, particularly since money I used to throw at them seems to be used to buy laws further restricting my freedom.
I no longer buy, listen to or watch (endorse) works produced through these associations. I thought I would miss such products, but it's actually been a rather pleasant experience.
Perhaps MS are tired of providing service packs and countless patches for a 7-year-old operating system so they're passing on the costs of keeping the XP dev team fed to the people who make them necessary?
I don't know. It's not red for me. But then again I'm logged in with the "no icon" and "Slashdot Classic Discussion System" options, which makes everything seem to work 10x faster than the new defaults.
I used to use the "low-bandwidth" option too, before I realised that also cut out the polls.
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So you support dull solder joints that fail in much less time than shiny ones? Which electronics companies do you have shares in?
There are substances used in electronics worse than Teh Evil Lead, you know. It's not even like it's difficult to keep the lead away from humans if done properly.
frandom (fast pseudo-random numbers) is brilliant for that
dd if=/dev/frandom of=/dev/sdb
Its just a f'n shame that our leaders who espouse freedom, don't get it.
You mean like RMS? Who has yet to produce a suitable Flash or Silverlight replacement.
(removes tongue from cheek)
But won't this require prefect line-of-sight to have any hope of working?
I'm imagining something like a TV remote, or those IRda systems PDAs and printers used to have but, since it's in the visible band of the spectrum, with more line-of-sight problems. I don't see anything like that replacing 2.4GHz wireless any time soon.
Uhm, sorry who raped who?
I think you'd best go re-read that passage.
Call me naive, but wouldn't us tech-savvy geeks pass their music through a simple id-remover script upon downloading anything from iTunes and certainly before uploading to a portable device?
... SMS messages at 12:01am on 1 January still take about ten times longer to reach their destination than at other times of the year.
If it's not, as I had always assumed, the networks being overloaded with send-to-all-in-address-book Happy New Year messages, then why is it?
So only about 5.2 times slower than the same code written in C then :p
... and nothing of value was lost. Except the online transaction part, that is.
Which Wikipedia will no doubt now correctly claim. Thanks for fixing it!
...for now at least.
I'll repost a comment I made in another thread that seems relevant here:
Maybe so, but there are at least two movies that I will, as a direct result of DRM, never ever buy or rent: Madagascar and Shark Tale.
Why? No jokes about their quality, please.
Because another Dreamworks title, Shrek 2, showed trailers for them on the DVD release I bought, and prohibited me from skipping past them.
When I'm in a theatre I expect to have to watch trailers, and often find them entertaining, but not every. single. time I put a disc into my own player at home.
And most other people I know find such things annoying too. Try asking people in the street "what do you think of those FBI Warnings on DVDs that you can't skip past?". Or utter the phrase "You wouldn't steal a car...". You'll soon see what consumers think of DRM, even if they don't know to call it that. Curiously enough Disney for all their Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension evilness, seems to be the best behaved - their titles rarely if ever forbid you from skipping anything.
UOPs must die.
As for me:
I am currently taking a boycott stance with the RIAA and MPAA, particularly since money I used to throw at them seems to be used to buy laws further restricting my freedom.
I no longer buy, listen to or watch (endorse) works produced through these associations. I thought I would miss such products, but it's actually been a rather pleasant experience.
I can buy a 55 Farad supercapacitor that fits in my hand from Jaycar for about $20. They are very cool.
This looks like an altogether different supercapacitor.
Dad?
By 5%, I of course mean the 1.6% that was successfully negotiated in 2007.
I wonder how long that will last, with MS now being a 5% stakeholder.
Nah, in a few months a paper will come out demonstrating that O2 is the leading cause of Global Dulling.
I predict that by 2011 we'll all be trading oxygen credits.
You, sir, are the reason they will eventually cancel that policy due to abuse.
I've tried out Nepomuk and, while I have to say that it's promising, it's got miles to go before it's even near ready.
Unfortunately the same can also be said of KDE 4 in general...
Never buy music CDs.
That's a good principle to go by in general these days (indie artists excluded, of course :)
Playing devil's advocate:
Perhaps MS are tired of providing service packs and countless patches for a 7-year-old operating system so they're passing on the costs of keeping the XP dev team fed to the people who make them necessary?
I don't know. It's not red for me. But then again I'm logged in with the "no icon" and "Slashdot Classic Discussion System" options, which makes everything seem to work 10x faster than the new defaults.
I used to use the "low-bandwidth" option too, before I realised that also cut out the polls.
But... but think of the Carbon Credits you'll get.
Won't someone please think of the Carbon Credits?
The Wii might be showing us who should move on to procreate and who should not for the next big step in evolution of mankind.
Hmm you might be onto something there. People who own Wiis presumably fitting into the "should not" category.
No, no it is not.
- Trogre, a system administrator.