Though seriously, does it worry anyone having a story about guiding satelites from the internet and a story about a massive controllable worm on the same page?
mode parent down. It's a linking game. (everyone who follows the link counts as a point for the person.) And on top of that, The coward was too stupid to make it an actual link.
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The sony commercial was definately the best non-humor commercial in my opinion.
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And budwieser comes in w/ a late play. 3 arms, is that legal?
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Yes thats right pi. And now it's half-time. I think we can look forward to the best plays of the game right here.
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And Budweiser makes a strong play w/ the 'room-mates' commercial. The game is heating up...
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Advertisements win. Buccaneers, Raiders, and John Madden's public image lose.
Right now I think it's a tie between FedEx and the matrix trailer, but who knows what will happen. It's wide open.
And why oh why can't they just get John Madden stuffed. No one wants to hear what he has to sais. It's his face and his fat ass that he gets paid for.
I think we disagree on whether or not TCPA pigeon holes us into DRM. While Palladium or whatever the fuck it is now is designed for that purpose, TCPA is only designed to provide a secure environment. It is our choise to use it or not. I think a fundamental perspective on this question would be, 'does the technology dictate the future or does what individual humans choose to do with the technology dictate the future'. If technology dictates the future, it is inevidable that we will be locked into DRM. If individual users choose how to use the technology, it is up to each of us to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of using DRM and decide for ourselves if we will use it.
But we have 2 opinions, (as in not really provable either way), about the future; whether we will have to use DRM or not. A good discussion coming to a gentlemanly conclusion. =)
Techincally I believe.doc was documented and.wma is a blackbox hack of the dll's. Anyway, we can't expect other people to format their files in whatever way they want, (even if it includes DRM), any more than we would allow them to force us to include DRM in what we do. The fair ground is for us to allow them to choose whether or not to use DRM and for us to be able to choose not to.
And I understand there ARE places where this doesn't really hold true as a universal rule. For example music. But in those cases, adding DRM to music is in a way not allowing the consumer to get what they think they are paying for. We buy a song with the right to listen to that song how we see fit. They want to sell us this option also, but they want to also secure their data which is where it becomes . . . sticky. To secure their content they feel that our computers need to either not be able to play the music at all or to report back to them, obviously unacceptable.
But such things need to be delt with in other ways. And this technology might allow for reasonable solutions such as using a password w/ the cd to retrive a key that would cause the TCPA chip to allow decoding of the digital portion of the CD.
But the inclusion of encryption hardware with a computer only creates the ability for the computer to be protected, it doesn't not require it. The only thing that could cause it to be required would be the importance of the data that is DRM protected.
Most people use windows. They used *.doc and *.wma files, things that should only run on windows, yet people have developed ways of using them in linux environments. It may be that in the future we have to run 2 mail clients, one that has DRM enabled to take mail from our boss, and one that does not.
But as I said before, it is unreasonably that we expect other people not to secure their content. It is only reasonable that we be given the choise to make use of the DRM enabled content. In the case of your bosses email, it will probably prove to be worth while to use it. In the case of a game or a movie trailer, I'm sure we will wait, as we do, now until a version that has had any digital rights management removed from it to use it. Or we will forgo the luxury of using the DRM content all together. But it will still be our choise whether to use the DRM content or not. We will only be pigeon holed into it by the scope of it's availability compared to non DRM content.
Though it seems that in the open source and hardware implimentations the end user has to allow the supplier to secure their data. We can't force companies to NOT use DRM, but we can choose not to use the systems that do use it. The companies represented who have given information here seem to be willing to allow us to choose.
I'd have to say that my opinion of IBM went up. They seem to be making an honest effort to show exactly what TCPA is. I admit I have not read the documentation, (my mind has shut down for the night). But it seems like many of the companies, (IBM and AMI for instance), are working to let people know that TCPA is nothing more than a tool available to people who want to secure their computers and not a tool meant to secure other people's content on your computer.
This is probably a good idea. It will let Sony focus on what will be the governing technology. Assuming they are able to use a signifigant amount of money from their CRT development and production to improve their LCD development and production.
That said, I don't buy LCDs except for space and computers I don't use alot. My 3 main monitors are CRTs. First, I run at 1920x1440 and 1600x1200 on my 2 main computers. To get a LCD that does that is well beyond my budget. Second, I play games, I like bright images, and clear colors. LCD's are great for places like entertainment centers where you don't want a clunky CRT viing for affection with the TV, but for something you need to look at for hours a day, a CRT is the way to go.
I do hope though, that in the future very high quality LCDs will be available at more reasonable prices. When I bought my first CRT, it did 1024x768 and cost more than my Diamontron 17in monitor that does 1600x1200 and is perfect flat. (I'm young. the monitors bought before the 1024x768 ones were purchased by the parents.) It seems like LCDs are at that exact point. The very cheap ones are 1024x768 and crappy quality. But hopefully the same way I can now get a nice monitor for that price, hopefully the same amount of time in the future the CRTs will be that good.
One of the nice things about liquid cooling is that it's expandable. If I were to get one of these cards, I'd wait for a water block to become available for it and just add it to my liquid cooling system.
People call liquid cooling dangerious, unneccesary, and extravigant, and then buy video cards that have cooling such as this one, cpu coolers that are enormious, and put half a dozen case fans in their case to try to keep the temperature down.
It mentions that files must be in mp3 or pcm format. Now alot of my music is actually in ogg. First, if it's embeded linux, will there be a means by which we can install other codecs? (say ssh or such.) Second, will there be a supplied means to upgrade the hard drive? (I know you might not need 80gigs for your legal collection but my illegal collections already over that. by far.)
Mandrake 9.0 was the windowsME of linux. It had nice looks, but added little and caused nothing but troubles for me. I'm really hoping that Mandrake 9.1 resolves most of the problems I had. Also, I'm looking forward to XFree86 4.3.
Don't get me wrong. My favorite distro is still mandrake 8.2. It was excellent, but Mandrake 9 didn't do anything for me. It caused crashes (Grip for whatever reason seamed to lock up the desktop), problems (not working on reiserFS), more crashes (NVidia drivers crash when rendering 3D continuiously), bad organization mistakes (why in the world separate out package installation and removal), and many other things. But I've always liked mandrake and am really hoping that 9.1 clears up the problems and increases the extras including the great. up-to-date, package selection. I support distro's I like which is why I'm part of the mandrake club and I am really hoping this one continues to improve.
Oh, and add to this that the drink master remembers your drinking habits including what drink, how many, what time of day, and what day of the week. As such, if the drink master feels you are overdrinking it will send your address to counselors and doctors who will then contact you by unsolicited mail. The drink master will also make your drinking habits available to your employer for a price.
I live in CO which implimented a do-not-call list about a year ago. I can say it works damn well. I get almost no unsolicited calls. This is compared to when I visited the family over christmas and was having to hang up on 3-4 telemarketers each day. There were no calls during the elections this year so either there is a difference in the law between states or this stipulation has little impact. The only thing I get are calls from the firefighter and Police fraturaties which are delt with with a simple, "Please put me on your 'do not call' list. Thankyou"
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Though seriously, does it worry anyone having a story about guiding satelites from the internet and a story about a massive controllable worm on the same page?
mode parent down. It's a linking game. (everyone who follows the link counts as a point for the person.) And on top of that, The coward was too stupid to make it an actual link.
The sony commercial was definately the best non-humor commercial in my opinion.
And budwieser comes in w/ a late play. 3 arms, is that legal?
Yes thats right pi. And now it's half-time. I think we can look forward to the best plays of the game right here.
And Budweiser makes a strong play w/ the 'room-mates' commercial. The game is heating up...
Right now I think it's a tie between FedEx and the matrix trailer, but who knows what will happen. It's wide open.
And why oh why can't they just get John Madden stuffed. No one wants to hear what he has to sais. It's his face and his fat ass that he gets paid for.
But we have 2 opinions, (as in not really provable either way), about the future; whether we will have to use DRM or not. A good discussion coming to a gentlemanly conclusion. =)
And I understand there ARE places where this doesn't really hold true as a universal rule. For example music. But in those cases, adding DRM to music is in a way not allowing the consumer to get what they think they are paying for. We buy a song with the right to listen to that song how we see fit. They want to sell us this option also, but they want to also secure their data which is where it becomes . . . sticky. To secure their content they feel that our computers need to either not be able to play the music at all or to report back to them, obviously unacceptable.
But such things need to be delt with in other ways. And this technology might allow for reasonable solutions such as using a password w/ the cd to retrive a key that would cause the TCPA chip to allow decoding of the digital portion of the CD.
But the inclusion of encryption hardware with a computer only creates the ability for the computer to be protected, it doesn't not require it. The only thing that could cause it to be required would be the importance of the data that is DRM protected.
But as I said before, it is unreasonably that we expect other people not to secure their content. It is only reasonable that we be given the choise to make use of the DRM enabled content. In the case of your bosses email, it will probably prove to be worth while to use it. In the case of a game or a movie trailer, I'm sure we will wait, as we do, now until a version that has had any digital rights management removed from it to use it. Or we will forgo the luxury of using the DRM content all together. But it will still be our choise whether to use the DRM content or not. We will only be pigeon holed into it by the scope of it's availability compared to non DRM content.
Though it seems that in the open source and hardware implimentations the end user has to allow the supplier to secure their data. We can't force companies to NOT use DRM, but we can choose not to use the systems that do use it. The companies represented who have given information here seem to be willing to allow us to choose.
I'd have to say that my opinion of IBM went up. They seem to be making an honest effort to show exactly what TCPA is. I admit I have not read the documentation, (my mind has shut down for the night). But it seems like many of the companies, (IBM and AMI for instance), are working to let people know that TCPA is nothing more than a tool available to people who want to secure their computers and not a tool meant to secure other people's content on your computer.
That said, I don't buy LCDs except for space and computers I don't use alot. My 3 main monitors are CRTs. First, I run at 1920x1440 and 1600x1200 on my 2 main computers. To get a LCD that does that is well beyond my budget. Second, I play games, I like bright images, and clear colors. LCD's are great for places like entertainment centers where you don't want a clunky CRT viing for affection with the TV, but for something you need to look at for hours a day, a CRT is the way to go.
I do hope though, that in the future very high quality LCDs will be available at more reasonable prices. When I bought my first CRT, it did 1024x768 and cost more than my Diamontron 17in monitor that does 1600x1200 and is perfect flat. (I'm young. the monitors bought before the 1024x768 ones were purchased by the parents.) It seems like LCDs are at that exact point. The very cheap ones are 1024x768 and crappy quality. But hopefully the same way I can now get a nice monitor for that price, hopefully the same amount of time in the future the CRTs will be that good.
People call liquid cooling dangerious, unneccesary, and extravigant, and then buy video cards that have cooling such as this one, cpu coolers that are enormious, and put half a dozen case fans in their case to try to keep the temperature down.
Maybe Lindows is a little TOO much like windows...
Computers are perfect, within tolerances.
Heh, meant ssh into the box to update it/etc.
Your right. I posted the part about the hard drive as an after thought to the question about ogg files.
It mentions that files must be in mp3 or pcm format. Now alot of my music is actually in ogg. First, if it's embeded linux, will there be a means by which we can install other codecs? (say ssh or such.) Second, will there be a supplied means to upgrade the hard drive? (I know you might not need 80gigs for your legal collection but my illegal collections already over that. by far.)
I believe 'exposion' refers to what happened to their server (4 posts in).
This has to be one of the slowest FP trolls ever.
Don't get me wrong. My favorite distro is still mandrake 8.2. It was excellent, but Mandrake 9 didn't do anything for me. It caused crashes (Grip for whatever reason seamed to lock up the desktop), problems (not working on reiserFS), more crashes (NVidia drivers crash when rendering 3D continuiously), bad organization mistakes (why in the world separate out package installation and removal), and many other things. But I've always liked mandrake and am really hoping that 9.1 clears up the problems and increases the extras including the great. up-to-date, package selection. I support distro's I like which is why I'm part of the mandrake club and I am really hoping this one continues to improve.
Oh, and add to this that the drink master remembers your drinking habits including what drink, how many, what time of day, and what day of the week. As such, if the drink master feels you are overdrinking it will send your address to counselors and doctors who will then contact you by unsolicited mail. The drink master will also make your drinking habits available to your employer for a price.
I live in CO which implimented a do-not-call list about a year ago. I can say it works damn well. I get almost no unsolicited calls. This is compared to when I visited the family over christmas and was having to hang up on 3-4 telemarketers each day. There were no calls during the elections this year so either there is a difference in the law between states or this stipulation has little impact. The only thing I get are calls from the firefighter and Police fraturaties which are delt with with a simple, "Please put me on your 'do not call' list. Thankyou"
Your in denial?