There's absolutely nothing stopping you from investigating this yourself, big guy. If you think this is a problem, check it out. Go do the research, ask questions, talk to Secretaries of State, get some facts. If you want to be an SJW for the Right, which clearly you do because of your sig, put your money where your mouth is and blow the lid off it.
You babbling away on a tech board isn't worth anything, and certainly isn't convincing anyone.
Literally liberal propaganda: liberals portraying conservative values in the dumbest way possible so as to discredit them.
Okay, this is, without a doubt, the dumbest fucking thing I've read in my 20+ years on Slashdot. It's so fucking stupid, it makes me wonder if *you're* a liberal attempting to discredit conservatives by portraying the dumbest fucking idea possible.
If that is the case... well, trust me, conservatives do not need help in this. At all. They're doing fine all by themselves.
If this is not the case, perhaps you should double-up on the thorazine and stick to finger-painting simplistic landscapes out in the institution's courtyard.
If you actually believe what you wrote here, you have absolutely no idea what a Liberal is. Your idea of a Liberal is a caricature that has been illustrated for you by the media.
Way to miss the point. They're bad at stealing is the point. If you're going to rip off a browser, at least rip off the current version with all the security patches.
But in that case it would take work for the Chinese government to build in vulnerabilities that they can exploit to spy on its users. Better to leverage an older browser that already has these vulnerabilities.
The *Internet* is the public square, not Facebook, or Twitter, or YouTube,or Google. If you want to trade ultra right-wing rhetoric and/or hate speech with like-minded people, you can go to Stormfront or Free Republic or Infowars. You can create your own website too.
It would be different if the government were saying you cannot create these sites. But they're not. Nor should they. *That* would be censorship.
The internet is the public square, your website is your protest sign.
Not exactly. Note that the Republicans overwhelmingly voted for the Patriot Act extension in 2011 (196 yeas vs. 31 nays), while the Democrats were largely opposed (54 yeas vs. 122 nays).
http://politics.nytimes.com/co...
I think you meant to say that "The failure of HD-DVD has nothing to do with whether it is superior or inferior, but to manufactured and manipulated market forces".
The Blu-Ray Disc Authority (BDA) would have you believe that it was due to "consumer choice", which is dubious at best. Had all studios been format neutral from the get-go, and *all* studios released on both formats from the beginning, the outcome may very well have been different. However, the BDA were able to secure Fox, Disney, and (surprise surprise) Sony's studios from the get-go. Three *very* large studios with an impressive catalog.
It's likely that Fox and Disney received "incentives" either in the form of cash payoffs or other "financial or promotional considerations" for Blu-Ray exclusivity. In fact, at the BDA press conference at the IFA in Berlin in August of last year, when asked point-blank whether they had received financial incentives for their exclusive support of Blu-Ray, Disney's VP of European Marketing responded with "no comment".
There's still a lot of speculation as to why Warner had chosen to go Blu-Ray exclusive. Perhaps out of the goodness of their hearts they knew that they held the winning hand in deciding the outcome of the war, and decided to just go with Blu-Ray and put an end to the "war" for the consumer's sake. However, this is big business, and if Paramount and Disney were receiving payouts for their support of their exclusivity, why wouldn't they try to secure a nice incentive package? I say the jury's still out on this one, and it may be some time before we know what actually went down in Warner's meetings with the BDA/Sony two weeks prior to CES 2008... if ever.
But don't kid yourselves, the war was not decided on market forces brought on by consumer demand.
The ignorant thing about a strategy like this is that companies don't seem to realize that they are simply creating demand for service offerings other than their own. Ultimately what will happen, considering that internet access is a fairly competitive market, is that they risk ending up losing customers to another service provider... and the SP that *doesn't* throttle, or tier, their services will become the favored alternative. Unthrottled bandwidth becomes a feature that people who use these services will seek out and prefer to spend their hard-earned cash for. It isn't just about raw bandwidth anymore... it's about features and functionality as well.
Why any company would endanger their current *and future* customer base through these type of shenanigans is mind-boggling foolish... and anyone who has invested any sort of money in the corporation should really re-think their investment and get the fuck out (i.e. SELL) while the getting-out is good. All may be good in the initial stages, but believe me it will be short-lived.
You don't invest in a company who creates a market for an alternative to their service. It's that simple.
I had this problem initially with my Samsung 1080p LCD set (text representation was poor... fuzzy and out of focus). What I found out is that the "sharpness" setting of the television, while helpful in some instances of video display, was actually causing the problems with text display. By setting the sharpness to zero, it eliminated the issues with text such that the display is on par and indistinguishable with my actual LCD monitors.
Sony and the BDA countered the Transformers release with a buy-one-get-one-free campaign... they had to *give away* discs to maintain their lead. Considering a 4 million installed base for the PS3, a 51:49 percent lead is pretty pathetic when you take into account the freebies.
At any rate, the war is really just beginning, and the dust will settle after *this* holiday season.
BTW: if you care about fair use, you should be rooting for HD-DVD.
The player doesn't require an ethernet connection to *function*, but the HD-DVD *specifications* require that an ethernet port is built in to any HD-DVD unit for firmware updates et. al.
Seconded... I have the Astronomy Picture of the Day set to my homepage for all of my machines. Great great pictures every day. In fact, one of the most breathtaking pictures I've seen there was just put up the other day:
Well this is a great first step for me, now I just need a Linux player with which to take the title keys, decode the content, and play on my system.
You see, I would have gone HD-DVD when they first hit the shelves, if it weren't for all of this DRM bullshit.
I've had an HDTV for over 3 years. I use MythTV throughout the house.
I have absolutely no interest in piracy... I just want to watch the damn movies on my MythTV system, and on non-HDCP monitors I have
throughout the house. I'm happy to give the MPAA my money. In fact, my last count of DVDs that I own is over 350. 350!!
I've since stopped purchasing DVDs in anticipation for HD format. Yet the MPAA won't get one dime from my hide until this DRM is cracked, or removed altogether.
Dumbasses.
Anyone remember Abit's BE6-II motherboards, and their leaky capacitors? This is the single reason why I haven't bought an Abit board in the last 5 years... and will likely *not* purchase another Abit board in the next 5 years (Abit handled it very poorly.. it cost me money).
Guess what? I haven't had a leaky capacitor problem for 5 years. Nor have I had a MB problem (Asus and ECS).
It's expected that your hardware should just work. Don't charge me more for "capacitors that won't leak". If I can trust your hardware, and not have any problems... you get my business. If you go with cheap parts and pass your hardware off as 'teh b3st'... then fuck off.
It's as simple as that.
While he's most likely not a terrorist, this guy ought to be charged under Federal Anti-Idiocy laws for not only initially flashing the plane, but also flashing the helicopter that was later searcing for the source of his laser. He actually tells the agent that arrested him not to shine the laser into his eyes becuase it might blind him!
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There's absolutely nothing stopping you from investigating this yourself, big guy. If you think this is a problem, check it out. Go do the research, ask questions, talk to Secretaries of State, get some facts. If you want to be an SJW for the Right, which clearly you do because of your sig, put your money where your mouth is and blow the lid off it. You babbling away on a tech board isn't worth anything, and certainly isn't convincing anyone.
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Literally liberal propaganda: liberals portraying conservative values in the dumbest way possible so as to discredit them.
Okay, this is, without a doubt, the dumbest fucking thing I've read in my 20+ years on Slashdot. It's so fucking stupid, it makes me wonder if *you're* a liberal attempting to discredit conservatives by portraying the dumbest fucking idea possible.
If that is the case... well, trust me, conservatives do not need help in this. At all. They're doing fine all by themselves.
If this is not the case, perhaps you should double-up on the thorazine and stick to finger-painting simplistic landscapes out in the institution's courtyard.
If you actually believe what you wrote here, you have absolutely no idea what a Liberal is. Your idea of a Liberal is a caricature that has been illustrated for you by the media.
Let's just set aside the fact that this was an obvious joke for now. They didn't say anything about Republicans. They said "racist relatives".
You guys need to stop with the "persecuted victim" act... it's wearing pretty thin.
Happy holidays,
SK
Freudian slip
/froidn slip/
:D
noun
"An unintentional error regarded as revealing subconscious feelings."
Best example I've seen in... well... years.
Way to miss the point. They're bad at stealing is the point. If you're going to rip off a browser, at least rip off the current version with all the security patches.
But in that case it would take work for the Chinese government to build in vulnerabilities that they can exploit to spy on its users. Better to leverage an older browser that already has these vulnerabilities.
The *Internet* is the public square, not Facebook, or Twitter, or YouTube,or Google. If you want to trade ultra right-wing rhetoric and/or hate speech with like-minded people, you can go to Stormfront or Free Republic or Infowars. You can create your own website too.
It would be different if the government were saying you cannot create these sites. But they're not. Nor should they. *That* would be censorship.
The internet is the public square, your website is your protest sign.
Land of the free, eh?
Eh, minor detail.
Not exactly. Note that the Republicans overwhelmingly voted for the Patriot Act extension in 2011 (196 yeas vs. 31 nays), while the Democrats were largely opposed (54 yeas vs. 122 nays). http://politics.nytimes.com/co...
How about the most important 'legit' reason (for me anyway): being able to play blu-ray media on Linux?
Wikipedia is old information. The capability you describe has been available for some time.
This new version of AnyDVD will completely remove both AACS and BD+.
Hell if that were implemented I'd already be eligible for a lifetime membership to World of Warcraft..
I think you meant to say that "The failure of HD-DVD has nothing to do with whether it is superior or inferior, but to manufactured and manipulated market forces".
The Blu-Ray Disc Authority (BDA) would have you believe that it was due to "consumer choice", which is dubious at best. Had all studios been format neutral from the get-go, and *all* studios released on both formats from the beginning, the outcome may very well have been different. However, the BDA were able to secure Fox, Disney, and (surprise surprise) Sony's studios from the get-go. Three *very* large studios with an impressive catalog.
It's likely that Fox and Disney received "incentives" either in the form of cash payoffs or other "financial or promotional considerations" for Blu-Ray exclusivity. In fact, at the BDA press conference at the IFA in Berlin in August of last year, when asked point-blank whether they had received financial incentives for their exclusive support of Blu-Ray, Disney's VP of European Marketing responded with "no comment".
There's still a lot of speculation as to why Warner had chosen to go Blu-Ray exclusive. Perhaps out of the goodness of their hearts they knew that they held the winning hand in deciding the outcome of the war, and decided to just go with Blu-Ray and put an end to the "war" for the consumer's sake. However, this is big business, and if Paramount and Disney were receiving payouts for their support of their exclusivity, why wouldn't they try to secure a nice incentive package? I say the jury's still out on this one, and it may be some time before we know what actually went down in Warner's meetings with the BDA/Sony two weeks prior to CES 2008... if ever.
But don't kid yourselves, the war was not decided on market forces brought on by consumer demand.
The ignorant thing about a strategy like this is that companies don't seem to realize that they are simply creating demand for service offerings other than their own. Ultimately what will happen, considering that internet access is a fairly competitive market, is that they risk ending up losing customers to another service provider... and the SP that *doesn't* throttle, or tier, their services will become the favored alternative. Unthrottled bandwidth becomes a feature that people who use these services will seek out and prefer to spend their hard-earned cash for. It isn't just about raw bandwidth anymore... it's about features and functionality as well.
Why any company would endanger their current *and future* customer base through these type of shenanigans is mind-boggling foolish... and anyone who has invested any sort of money in the corporation should really re-think their investment and get the fuck out (i.e. SELL) while the getting-out is good. All may be good in the initial stages, but believe me it will be short-lived.
You don't invest in a company who creates a market for an alternative to their service. It's that simple.
I had this problem initially with my Samsung 1080p LCD set (text representation was poor... fuzzy and out of focus). What I found out is that the "sharpness" setting of the television, while helpful in some instances of video display, was actually causing the problems with text display. By setting the sharpness to zero, it eliminated the issues with text such that the display is on par and indistinguishable with my actual LCD monitors.
HTH,
SweepK
Sony and the BDA countered the Transformers release with a buy-one-get-one-free campaign... they had to *give away* discs to maintain their lead. Considering a 4 million installed base for the PS3, a 51:49 percent lead is pretty pathetic when you take into account the freebies. At any rate, the war is really just beginning, and the dust will settle after *this* holiday season. BTW: if you care about fair use, you should be rooting for HD-DVD.
The player doesn't require an ethernet connection to *function*, but the HD-DVD *specifications* require that an ethernet port is built in to any HD-DVD unit for firmware updates et. al.
Big difference.
Yeah... looks like the mug shot it should be.
Also, has Darl taken up trepenation these days? That pinhole in his forehead seems to suggest so...
lol!
Seconded... I have the Astronomy Picture of the Day set to my homepage for all of my machines. Great great pictures every day. In fact, one of the most breathtaking pictures I've seen there was just put up the other day:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070205.html
Awesome.
Well this is a great first step for me, now I just need a Linux player with which to take the title keys, decode the content, and play on my system. You see, I would have gone HD-DVD when they first hit the shelves, if it weren't for all of this DRM bullshit. I've had an HDTV for over 3 years. I use MythTV throughout the house. I have absolutely no interest in piracy... I just want to watch the damn movies on my MythTV system, and on non-HDCP monitors I have throughout the house. I'm happy to give the MPAA my money. In fact, my last count of DVDs that I own is over 350. 350!! I've since stopped purchasing DVDs in anticipation for HD format. Yet the MPAA won't get one dime from my hide until this DRM is cracked, or removed altogether. Dumbasses.
Anyone remember Abit's BE6-II motherboards, and their leaky capacitors? This is the single reason why I haven't bought an Abit board in the last 5 years... and will likely *not* purchase another Abit board in the next 5 years (Abit handled it very poorly.. it cost me money). Guess what? I haven't had a leaky capacitor problem for 5 years. Nor have I had a MB problem (Asus and ECS). It's expected that your hardware should just work. Don't charge me more for "capacitors that won't leak". If I can trust your hardware, and not have any problems... you get my business. If you go with cheap parts and pass your hardware off as 'teh b3st'... then fuck off. It's as simple as that.
Leave it alone. Kamapuaa is obviously off his or her medication.
While he's most likely not a terrorist, this guy ought to be charged under Federal Anti-Idiocy laws for not only initially flashing the plane, but also flashing the helicopter that was later searcing for the source of his laser. He actually tells the agent that arrested him not to shine the laser into his eyes becuase it might blind him!
"Dyurrrrrhh...."