The point of this is to assure everyone, including end users who aren't very mentally endowed can view the dvds they paid for, regardless of where they buy them. Especially take into consideration millitary families who move from place to place, DVD regioning is bad for all, but more bad for some than others. Sure, they'll be fine with swapping between the three dvd players they had to buy in the last 2 years to play all of their dvds, but that's not ideal, and there is always the problem of when one of them breaks.
The other part of this is that one would hope it could turn into a consumer digital rights stand where consumers demand to be able to do whatever they like with what they buy, but I doubt that will happen. Personally, I'm perfectly fine with them producing dvds that can't have previews skipped, that are region encoded, etc, but I do NOT think that law should require dvd player manufacturers to adhear to your will.
Didn't SCO promise to provide some proof that linux contains copyrighted Unix Code? I've not seen it anywhere, and I don't predict we'll be seeing it anytime soon. Does this classify as vaporware?
It's simply the conflicting meta-levels. You hold a card that is clearly green, but is boldly labeled as red. It's funnier when seen than read... If only/. allowed large bold black text on a green backgrou... err, maybe it's best they don't.
A vulnerability has been found in the latest version of knoppix. The vulnerability exploits one of several bugs found in NTFS.SYS and allows any user with access to the drive to render the system useless(moreso than simply using NTFS.SYS already does).
Actually... since a picture is worth 1000 words. With that taken into consideration, take the length of the movie (roughly 3 hours) determine the number of seconds.
3h*60*60=10,800 seconds.
10,800s * 30fps = 324,000 pictures. 324,000 pictures * 1,000 words per picture = 324 million words to describe the full movie. Since ther are 3 movies, we're looking at roughly 1 billion words to describe the triology. When you look at it that way, the movie is a much more in-depth experience than tolkien's mere 900ish pages.
Now if only we can determine at what resolution a picture is worth 1000 words we could work this out more accurately...
(btw, yes i've read the books, so i'm not interested in your flames).
Obviously it would be the company or group of company that owns it and reaps all the money for selling pieces of it off to ISPs and IAPs on both sides of the pond.
To think that the US, UK, French, or any other government could actually accomplish something of that magnitude would just be naive.
Of course they realize it stands for Basic Input-Output System. That's why they're renaming it.
On another note, I'd like to use this comment as the official announcment for the very latest in Trusted Computing, Patriotism, and Anti-Terrorism. It currently sells for $799, but we expect the price will go up to $1299 after January 1; so buy quickly! This piece of innovative hardware is vital for human survival, and makes great dogfood to boot. Be proud to be an American and get your very own copy of our #1 selling product, the Computing Resource Analyzer Program. It's sure to make your programs run exactly how we^H^Hyou want them to.
Apple has the worst customer service I've ever witnessed in my entire life.
1.) They are difficult to contact
I searched their site for half an hour before I found an e-mail address, no sight of phone number or snailmail address.
2.) They are rude.
When I finally contacted them, they didn't answer any of my questions, which was expected, but what was not expected was the rude tone their e-mail was written in.
3.) They are mafialike.
They aren't clear about the DRM restrictions, and there's no technical detail on their implementation. While they do say that you can use your songs on "3 Macs or PCs, and an unlimited number of ipods" when they say ipods, they mean it. You cannot use the music on any other kind of device short of a cdplayer without decoding and re-encoded the music by writing it to a CD. They NEVER clearly state this on their website. They imply that you can re-download your music if you lose it with their "Check for previously purchased music" options. If you lose your music, you're out of luck. For example, if your computer crashes, you will lose all music you had downloaded unless you backed it up to cd or something else. Not only will you lose the music, but you also permanantly lose one "Mac or PC" to play music on if you had backed it up, it considers an installation a computer, and you'll have to authorize your "new computer" as a second computer after you re-install your computer, upgrade harddrives or anything else down the same path.
I would not recommend Apple's miserable service to anyone. I had always assumed Apple was the nice innocent company squashed by the Giant M$. I'd prefer to be fucked by M$, because at least they tell you they're fucking you when they do it.
to block cameras from reading your license plate number. As it's been mentioned, while you can easily be pointed out as the one using this via a camera mounted on the pole (cameras can see the IR) if you've ever pointed your camera at a TV remote, you know how bright this can be... Why not use this in conjunction with your license plate? If they can't see your license plate, they can't get you via the camera. Assuming your state requires front-mounted license plates, mount one on the front to block it from being read by camera and to change the light, as well as one on the rear. Hell, run them all the time, that way pesky red light cams and UK Toll cams can't get you either. I encourage everyone to try this out so I know if it works:)
If they wanted cheap labor they'd use experts-exchange. Seriously, throw a few useless imaginary status points(that mean even less than/. karma) out and see what people would do. And you can pay $9.95/month to get unlimited number of question points to send out... It's like the perfect consultant for $9.95/month.
Besides didn't I read that google was also giving away 10 grand for this? Hardly cheap labor.
Seriously, did it take you 18 months of scientific research to figure this out? Or did the fact that you were sick of playing boring games remind you that you should probably do something while at work so you spat out this excellent article in 5 minutes?
You mean I'd be able to play all my games from a menu system without spending 15 minutes finding searching through drawers looking for it only to be disappointed by a huge scratch on the disc leaving it utterly useless? Oh, well this has no use other than piracy.
As far as I can read you seem to be mostly correct with one exception. This will eventually get ironed out into being able to load a small executable from a memory card and executing it which will read drivers for an external dvdrom, cdrom, hard disk, or even network card and allow you to read your backup or out of region games from a different media. As far as I know the copy protection is on the side of the disc reading, but I could be wrong.
But I'd like to see a lot more of it. If open source software continues to team up with distributers and hardware manufacturers like this they could be well on their way to being viable M$ competition. If little johnny asks his dad for a computer it's going to be a tough job for M$ to convince johnny's daddy to buy him a windows computer for an extra $200(rough cost of OEM operating system license and office license?) when the linux machine boasts all the same features. M$ has ridden the coattails of every manufacturer in the world shipping a license of Windows/Office with every computer they sell for long enough. Now all they need is to work out a few more kinks and get some advertisement going.
An MP3 is significantly smaller than the data on a cd representing the same song.
Not that this is in any way a ruling that will have an effect on music... besides the fact that the ruling doesn't set a binding precadent; but hey, we can dream can't we? Or is it also copyright infringement if you happen to hear their music in your dreams?
Why not just wire it the CD end of a CD audio cable to the PC Speaker output on the Motherboard?
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Gotcha, So when the cop draws the gun, it attempts to scan his finger, but because he has whipped it out in a hurry he hasn't gotten his finger quite on the sensor correctly and is repetitively told "Please re-align finger on scanner unit" while he has his brains blown out by a conventional (reliable) gun.
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The point of this is to assure everyone, including end users who aren't very mentally endowed can view the dvds they paid for, regardless of where they buy them. Especially take into consideration millitary families who move from place to place, DVD regioning is bad for all, but more bad for some than others. Sure, they'll be fine with swapping between the three dvd players they had to buy in the last 2 years to play all of their dvds, but that's not ideal, and there is always the problem of when one of them breaks.
The other part of this is that one would hope it could turn into a consumer digital rights stand where consumers demand to be able to do whatever they like with what they buy, but I doubt that will happen. Personally, I'm perfectly fine with them producing dvds that can't have previews skipped, that are region encoded, etc, but I do NOT think that law should require dvd player manufacturers to adhear to your will.
Didn't SCO promise to provide some proof that linux contains copyrighted Unix Code? I've not seen it anywhere, and I don't predict we'll be seeing it anytime soon. Does this classify as vaporware?
No! You have it all wrong.
1.) Charge nearby cities for landfill space under your city. (profit)
2.) Move city 10 miles.
3.) Repeat.
[for those who don't get it, it's a Simpsons reference]
It's simply the conflicting meta-levels. You hold a card that is clearly green, but is boldly labeled as red. It's funnier when seen than read... If only /. allowed large bold black text on a green backgrou... err, maybe it's best they don't.
Take a large green index card and a think tip black marker. Write "RED" in very large letters and show it to someone suspected of being a geek.
Think before you mod. While not EXACTLY like the examples, it still fullfills the criteria.
Subject says it all.
A vulnerability has been found in the latest version of knoppix. The vulnerability exploits one of several bugs found in NTFS.SYS and allows any user with access to the drive to render the system useless(moreso than simply using NTFS.SYS already does).
Actually... since a picture is worth 1000 words. With that taken into consideration, take the length of the movie (roughly 3 hours) determine the number of seconds.
3h*60*60=10,800 seconds.
10,800s * 30fps = 324,000 pictures. 324,000 pictures * 1,000 words per picture = 324 million words to describe the full movie. Since ther are 3 movies, we're looking at roughly 1 billion words to describe the triology. When you look at it that way, the movie is a much more in-depth experience than tolkien's mere 900ish pages.
Now if only we can determine at what resolution a picture is worth 1000 words we could work this out more accurately...
(btw, yes i've read the books, so i'm not interested in your flames).
Obviously it would be the company or group of company that owns it and reaps all the money for selling pieces of it off to ISPs and IAPs on both sides of the pond.
To think that the US, UK, French, or any other government could actually accomplish something of that magnitude would just be naive.
Of course they realize it stands for Basic Input-Output System. That's why they're renaming it.
On another note, I'd like to use this comment as the official announcment for the very latest in Trusted Computing, Patriotism, and Anti-Terrorism. It currently sells for $799, but we expect the price will go up to $1299 after January 1; so buy quickly! This piece of innovative hardware is vital for human survival, and makes great dogfood to boot. Be proud to be an American and get your very own copy of our #1 selling product, the Computing Resource Analyzer Program. It's sure to make your programs run exactly how we^H^Hyou want them to.
Apple has the worst customer service I've ever witnessed in my entire life.
1.) They are difficult to contact
I searched their site for half an hour before I found an e-mail address, no sight of phone number or snailmail address.
2.) They are rude.
When I finally contacted them, they didn't answer any of my questions, which was expected, but what was not expected was the rude tone their e-mail was written in.
3.) They are mafialike.
They aren't clear about the DRM restrictions, and there's no technical detail on their implementation. While they do say that you can use your songs on "3 Macs or PCs, and an unlimited number of ipods" when they say ipods, they mean it. You cannot use the music on any other kind of device short of a cdplayer without decoding and re-encoded the music by writing it to a CD. They NEVER clearly state this on their website. They imply that you can re-download your music if you lose it with their "Check for previously purchased music" options. If you lose your music, you're out of luck. For example, if your computer crashes, you will lose all music you had downloaded unless you backed it up to cd or something else. Not only will you lose the music, but you also permanantly lose one "Mac or PC" to play music on if you had backed it up, it considers an installation a computer, and you'll have to authorize your "new computer" as a second computer after you re-install your computer, upgrade harddrives or anything else down the same path.
I would not recommend Apple's miserable service to anyone. I had always assumed Apple was the nice innocent company squashed by the Giant M$. I'd prefer to be fucked by M$, because at least they tell you they're fucking you when they do it.
Jamon
to block cameras from reading your license plate number. As it's been mentioned, while you can easily be pointed out as the one using this via a camera mounted on the pole (cameras can see the IR) if you've ever pointed your camera at a TV remote, you know how bright this can be... Why not use this in conjunction with your license plate? If they can't see your license plate, they can't get you via the camera. Assuming your state requires front-mounted license plates, mount one on the front to block it from being read by camera and to change the light, as well as one on the rear. Hell, run them all the time, that way pesky red light cams and UK Toll cams can't get you either. I encourage everyone to try this out so I know if it works :)
Jamon
microsoft did to it what they did to hotmail.
If they wanted cheap labor they'd use experts-exchange. Seriously, throw a few useless imaginary status points(that mean even less than /. karma) out and see what people would do. And you can pay $9.95/month to get unlimited number of question points to send out... It's like the perfect consultant for $9.95/month.
Besides didn't I read that google was also giving away 10 grand for this? Hardly cheap labor.
Seriously, did it take you 18 months of scientific research to figure this out? Or did the fact that you were sick of playing boring games remind you that you should probably do something while at work so you spat out this excellent article in 5 minutes?
You mean I'd be able to play all my games from a menu system without spending 15 minutes finding searching through drawers looking for it only to be disappointed by a huge scratch on the disc leaving it utterly useless? Oh, well this has no use other than piracy.
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As far as I can read you seem to be mostly correct with one exception. This will eventually get ironed out into being able to load a small executable from a memory card and executing it which will read drivers for an external dvdrom, cdrom, hard disk, or even network card and allow you to read your backup or out of region games from a different media. As far as I know the copy protection is on the side of the disc reading, but I could be wrong.
Jamon
Now we're getting a cheap gaming system to go along with our cheap linuxbox .
No the poster has it exactly right. He too was started in the USA and has since spread to the world. :b
But I'd like to see a lot more of it. If open source software continues to team up with distributers and hardware manufacturers like this they could be well on their way to being viable M$ competition. If little johnny asks his dad for a computer it's going to be a tough job for M$ to convince johnny's daddy to buy him a windows computer for an extra $200(rough cost of OEM operating system license and office license?) when the linux machine boasts all the same features. M$ has ridden the coattails of every manufacturer in the world shipping a license of Windows/Office with every computer they sell for long enough. Now all they need is to work out a few more kinks and get some advertisement going.
An MP3 is significantly smaller than the data on a cd representing the same song.
Not that this is in any way a ruling that will have an effect on music... besides the fact that the ruling doesn't set a binding precadent; but hey, we can dream can't we? Or is it also copyright infringement if you happen to hear their music in your dreams?
Did they find Nemo yet?
It works so well that even slashdotters are rushing to read spam mail =)
Why not just wire it the CD end of a CD audio cable to the PC Speaker output on the Motherboard?
Gotcha, So when the cop draws the gun, it attempts to scan his finger, but because he has whipped it out in a hurry he hasn't gotten his finger quite on the sensor correctly and is repetitively told "Please re-align finger on scanner unit" while he has his brains blown out by a conventional (reliable) gun.
It's all too clear now!