Consumers are for the most part too ignorant to care about dvd based DRM.
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 Over The Hedge.
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 copyright messages on DVDs that you can't skip past?". 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.
Do you really want *extremely* impressionable young minds exposed to hard-core pornography and gratuitous violence? Do you have *any* idea how the human mind develops?
And before you say parents should take the responsibility to monitor what their kids watch, that would also be censorship, wouldn't it?
Even better! All we need to do then is scope out Beagle 2's crash site and analyse the soil around it which should still be considered 'freshly' dug up. No need to fire any missiles.
The studies I've looked at when studying Human Computer Interaction point to 200ms as the magic deadline for conveying the illusion of the user directly interacting with the interface. If creating a process is a whopping tenth of a second then we've just used half our available time on just spawning the process.
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... or the black holes continue at the initial speed of the particles and pass through the earth and out of the solar system at nearly the speed of light before they pick up any substantial mass.
"Everyone that has pr0n less nasty than mine is a prude. Everyone that has nastier pr0n than me is a freak." -- Optic7
And what of those of us who don't fit either of those categories? (I'll leave it to you to work out the two possibile scenarios that could bring this about).
What's this stigma with hybrid owners being considered smug holier-than-thou sods?
You mean like most Linux users? Or people who light their homes with Compact Fluorescents? Or avoid overpackaged items? Bike to work when possible?
I fit all those categories, but I do them because they seem the right thing to do. Smugness doesn't come into it.
Okay so Hybrid tech doesn't seem quite "there" yet (hell I get 38mpg from my 2.0L station wagon so would expect a lot more from a hybrid), but these are still early days right?
Or is the hybrid what the cell phone/CD player were in the early '90s.
From TFA, it's been raised to $500 now. Still less than the standard fee for such services, but a step in the right direction. I think this challenge is a good idea in principle, but needs someone with a deeper money pot. Perhaps we can get that Randi skeptic in on this.
It might even make a good Mythbusters episode. I'm sure they could work ballistics gel somewhere in there.
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Consumers are for the most part too ignorant to care about dvd based DRM.
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 Over The Hedge.
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 copyright messages on DVDs that you can't skip past?". 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.
...but it does mean being able to say anything you want.
Oh good, so we can now happily threaten to kill our neighbours, and lie under oath!
In many states execution of minors below a certain age is still very very legal, requiring no evidence of wrongdoing on their part.
In fact, the wonderful caring people at Amnesty International have even declared the ability to do so a basic human right!
...speech of any sort should never be sufficient justification for legal repercussions.
Really? What about the much-bandied "Fire!" in a crowded theatre? Or "Empty your safe - I've put a bomb under your family's car"?
...and I've never been to Boston in the fall...
Oh good. Now where can I buy one?
Absolutely yes.
Do you really want *extremely* impressionable young minds exposed to hard-core pornography and gratuitous violence? Do you have *any* idea how the human mind develops?
And before you say parents should take the responsibility to monitor what their kids watch, that would also be censorship, wouldn't it?
Okay but what about "Blue marble"? That predates this effort, and clearly shows a planet which is known to orbit a sun-like star.
Even better! All we need to do then is scope out Beagle 2's crash site and analyse the soil around it which should still be considered 'freshly' dug up. No need to fire any missiles.
(thinks)
It probably burned up the atmosphere, didn't it?
Grit.
Eventually, it made more sense for me quit my low-paying job and become the full-time house repair dude while she worked her good job.
It's not that hard, you learn new skills, have an excuse to aquire tools, and have something to be proud of. It did take seven years, though. YMMV
Are you trying to scare the poor guy off?
ummm... no.
Aspergers isn't exactly hard to diagnose.
Great going, but how did you manage to find this guy's old tech?
Erm, the wife and I have an open marriage
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
"Everyone who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart"
Maybe those oh-so-selfish SO's don't like competing for their life-mate.
I hope this guy's address isn't anywhere near Switzerland...
The studies I've looked at when studying Human Computer Interaction point to 200ms as the magic deadline for conveying the illusion of the user directly interacting with the interface. If creating a process is a whopping tenth of a second then we've just used half our available time on just spawning the process.
... or the black holes continue at the initial speed of the particles and pass through the earth and out of the solar system at nearly the speed of light before they pick up any substantial mass.
"Everyone that has pr0n less nasty than mine is a prude. Everyone that has nastier pr0n than me is a freak." -- Optic7
And what of those of us who don't fit either of those categories? (I'll leave it to you to work out the two possibile scenarios that could bring this about).
It looks like Unix - I know this!
And I think it's just low-energy collisions are scheduled for this month. The real high-energy stuff isn't due to happen until much later.
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I think they really missed the boat when they rejected Flatulent Ferret.
What's this stigma with hybrid owners being considered smug holier-than-thou sods?
You mean like most Linux users? Or people who light their homes with Compact Fluorescents? Or avoid overpackaged items? Bike to work when possible?
I fit all those categories, but I do them because they seem the right thing to do. Smugness doesn't come into it.
Okay so Hybrid tech doesn't seem quite "there" yet (hell I get 38mpg from my 2.0L station wagon so would expect a lot more from a hybrid), but these are still early days right?
Or is the hybrid what the cell phone/CD player were in the early '90s.
From TFA, it's been raised to $500 now. Still less than the standard fee for such services, but a step in the right direction. I think this challenge is a good idea in principle, but needs someone with a deeper money pot. Perhaps we can get that Randi skeptic in on this.
It might even make a good Mythbusters episode. I'm sure they could work ballistics gel somewhere in there.