But far, far more people have "data" drives then actual music-only CD recorders. And for the vast majority of people out there they are either going to make a straight ISO copy, which would sound the same, or take the PCM data and make their own mix CD... also sounding the same.
There might be some degradation if they used MP3 compression for the tons of MP3 supporting players out there, but then, they'll be sticking 250 songs on there, not 20.
As for flexibility, I thought they were talking about the actual flexibility of the plastic (there is a difference with some CDs in this respect) or something. Being able to work with rare, crippled, expensive equipment isn't really that useful for most people, and sounding better when using even rarer, more expensive equipment is even less-so.
What's funny is that Java's networking API is called java.net. You know, like Java.io, java.util, java.awt.image, etc.
I've coded in java for years, and done lots of networking stuff in it, using java.net. But even then, during the height of the.net marketing push I was looking through the API for the first time in a while and saw "java.net" and it immediately made me think of.net, and made me wonder why there was.net support in J2SE. Then I came to my senses:P
Analysts are being quoted as saying that slapping.NET on so many Microsoft products has confused people as to what.NET actually means.
The entirety of your comment:
They are changing the name because people are getting confused about what.NET really is. It was a bad idea for Microsoft to try to add ".NET" to every single product they sell.
And you got modded +3 Insightful! Not +5 yet, but just wait. All you did was change the wording around, and not even that much!
what happened to the days would at least try to add tons of superfluous fluff around their restatements of the article when trying to karma whore.
Do you live in canada? If not, why are you using "music" CD-Rs rather then "data" ones for your music? (the only diffrence between the two is that music disks will work in special music drives, have serial copy protection (no copies of copies) and are taxed by the RIAA. Data CDs work in music players, have no SCP, and cost only a few cents, in general)
You're forgetting the harm Real's software did to my desktop. Really, the software is terrible. Read the thread on Real's DRM a few stories down. Lots of us simply hate the software. You can also wrap mpeg-4 in quicktime and Windows media player. I agree that Divx is quite crapy, but anything is better then Real...
For one thing, it's required that drivers initiates the gear change. Secondly, true automatic transmissions loose a lot of the power between the engine and the wheels.
F1 cars have a shifter knob that you just push or pull to shift up or down respectively. I forget what it's called. The Toyota MR2 spyder has one of those things as well.
Ah, Gran Tourismo. I love that game:). Is there anything equivalent out there for the PC? For those of you who actually race, how accurate is the game?
Anyway, I think for most drivers, there really isn't much more then getting a "racing chip". I'm not saying geeks could reverse engineer their cars, but there are so many different kinds of car computers out there, it would be hard to 'share the wealth' so to speak, the way you can with Linux programming.
Plus you run the risk of completely fucking up your engine. I'm not sure if I'd really trust my own code when one screw up could cost me thousands of dollars per incident.
Well, if you really have a comercial intrest in a search term, why not buy an ad for that keyword? When I actualy want to buy something, I usualy click the ads that show up on google.
An even better analogy is the broadcast industry. There are regulations that say that a single company cannot own so many local affiliates so it reaches more than XX% of the total population.
Actualy, a lot of these restrictions were lifted or removed in 1996. And now we have the scorge of clearchannel and the like...
Once one person figures out how to strip out the DRM, they can release a tool like DeCSS and anyone can go and decrypt their stuff (maybe just to play on an older player/linux box..)
It's probably annoying ot set up and FServ, too, but people still do it.
Its a math equation, and if a group of computer programmers are smart enough to make an OS, breaking DVD encryption must be trivially easy.
If the DVD-CCA haddn't fucked up and used wank-ass keys (to get around crypto export restrictions), and Xing haddn't fucked up and left their key unencrypted, DVD encryption never would have been broken.
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Is the fact that, if your running windows, it inserts itself into the windows registry under/Software/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run, so that it starts up whenever you start your computer.
And not just when it installs, but every time you run the player. I mean, I don't need this start-center crap, and every time I want to view a realplayer stream, I need to open up the registry and remove the damn key.
br.
Thank god regedit remembers the your place in the registry...
Just non-trusted boot-loaders. A non-trusted OS would simply have some restrictions placed on it's access to the hardware, at a hardware level. So, for example, you wouldn't be able to play DRM'd videos or whatnot on a linux box, not matter how hard you tried. But you'd still be able to boot.
Anyway, what's scary about protecting the national IT infrastructure? I mean, as long as they aren't spying on people or whatnot, shouldn't that stuff be monitored?
Automated tools like firewalls and stuff can't be perfect, so it's a good idea to have people looking out for aberrant traffic.(perhaps the future of hacking will be in making intrusions unnoticeable...)
I purchaced a pair of bunny-ear antennas for my old color TV today. I've had cable since I've moved into the dorms, but since my mom doesn't have it I've had to go back to bunny-ears.
They were $7 at walmart, and the package said "digital ready" which, to be honest, confused the hell out of me for a while, untill I remembered that HDTV was broadcast over regular airwaves. I find it kind of ironic that all you need are these little mettal tubes to pick up HTDV, when so often people have cable or at least rooftop antenas. In fact, it seems like a lot of people are actualy ignorant of the fact that you can pick up TV signals using them anymore.
(What's really strange is the story of a friend of mine who moved to Athens Ga. and could only get one TV station over the air, a hip-hop music video station. ABC, NBC, etc could only be had over cable...)
Actualy, I think you just don't know what you're talking about. But you could 'overflow' (I think) the non-coding region and overwrite a part of the bacteria's DNA with the DNA for a virus, and perhaps the virus would come alive once that bit got read.
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But far, far more people have "data" drives then actual music-only CD recorders. And for the vast majority of people out there they are either going to make a straight ISO copy, which would sound the same, or take the PCM data and make their own mix CD... also sounding the same.
There might be some degradation if they used MP3 compression for the tons of MP3 supporting players out there, but then, they'll be sticking 250 songs on there, not 20.
As for flexibility, I thought they were talking about the actual flexibility of the plastic (there is a difference with some CDs in this respect) or something. Being able to work with rare, crippled, expensive equipment isn't really that useful for most people, and sounding better when using even rarer, more expensive equipment is even less-so.
What's funny is that Java's networking API is called java.net. You know, like Java.io, java.util, java.awt.image, etc.
.net marketing push I was looking through the API for the first time in a while and saw "java.net" and it immediately made me think of .net, and made me wonder why there was .net support in J2SE. Then I came to my senses :P
I've coded in java for years, and done lots of networking stuff in it, using java.net. But even then, during the height of the
From the slashdot blurb:
.NET on so many Microsoft products has confused people as to what .NET actually means.
.NET really is. It was a bad idea for Microsoft to try to add ".NET" to every single product they sell.
Analysts are being quoted as saying that slapping
The entirety of your comment:
They are changing the name because people are getting confused about what
And you got modded +3 Insightful! Not +5 yet, but just wait. All you did was change the wording around, and not even that much!
what happened to the days would at least try to add tons of superfluous fluff around their restatements of the article when trying to karma whore.
All you had to do was fill out a form on the web.
And get rapped by price-fixers for 5 years...
The only way no one gets anything is if more then 13 million people claim. Slashdot does not have 13 million visitors.
Do you live in canada? If not, why are you using "music" CD-Rs rather then "data" ones for your music? (the only diffrence between the two is that music disks will work in special music drives, have serial copy protection (no copies of copies) and are taxed by the RIAA. Data CDs work in music players, have no SCP, and cost only a few cents, in general)
Over those years. At $20 per recording, that works out to, hrm, oh, only about a quarter million dollars :P
You're forgetting the harm Real's software did to my desktop. Really, the software is terrible. Read the thread on Real's DRM a few stories down. Lots of us simply hate the software. You can also wrap mpeg-4 in quicktime and Windows media player. I agree that Divx is quite crapy, but anything is better then Real...
Why are the trailers released in Real Crap format and not something more geek friendly, like Divx?
For one thing, it's required that drivers initiates the gear change. Secondly, true automatic transmissions loose a lot of the power between the engine and the wheels.
F1 cars have a shifter knob that you just push or pull to shift up or down respectively. I forget what it's called. The Toyota MR2 spyder has one of those things as well.
Ah, Gran Tourismo. I love that game :). Is there anything equivalent out there for the PC? For those of you who actually race, how accurate is the game?
Anyway, I think for most drivers, there really isn't much more then getting a "racing chip". I'm not saying geeks could reverse engineer their cars, but there are so many different kinds of car computers out there, it would be hard to 'share the wealth' so to speak, the way you can with Linux programming.
Plus you run the risk of completely fucking up your engine. I'm not sure if I'd really trust my own code when one screw up could cost me thousands of dollars per incident.
Except the change that killed search king largley killed the 'google bomb'
Well, if you really have a comercial intrest in a search term, why not buy an ad for that keyword? When I actualy want to buy something, I usualy click the ads that show up on google.
An even better analogy is the broadcast industry. There are regulations that say that a single company cannot own so many local affiliates so it reaches more than XX% of the total population.
Actualy, a lot of these restrictions were lifted or removed in 1996. And now we have the scorge of clearchannel and the like...
Interestingly enough, no other major search engine used THAT strategy yet
Ever heard of alltheweb?
They even have a google based skin you can use.
Or so says my C++ guru friend. And so says I, since I tried it and it worked.
I'd post the output, but I'm sure the lameness filter would bitch
The command I used was: gcc oo.c -lm
Have fun walking around after your car falls apart, I guess.
I mean... in order for something to violate the DMCA, don't you need to have something, you know, copied?
Once one person figures out how to strip out the DRM, they can release a tool like DeCSS and anyone can go and decrypt their stuff (maybe just to play on an older player/linux box..)
It's probably annoying ot set up and FServ, too, but people still do it.
Its a math equation, and if a group of computer programmers are smart enough to make an OS, breaking DVD encryption must be trivially easy.
If the DVD-CCA haddn't fucked up and used wank-ass keys (to get around crypto export restrictions), and Xing haddn't fucked up and left their key unencrypted, DVD encryption never would have been broken.
Is the fact that, if your running windows, it inserts itself into the windows registry under /Software/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run, so that it starts up whenever you start your computer.
And not just when it installs, but every time you run the player. I mean, I don't need this start-center crap, and every time I want to view a realplayer stream, I need to open up the registry and remove the damn key.
br. Thank god regedit remembers the your place in the registry...
Just non-trusted boot-loaders. A non-trusted OS would simply have some restrictions placed on it's access to the hardware, at a hardware level. So, for example, you wouldn't be able to play DRM'd videos or whatnot on a linux box, not matter how hard you tried. But you'd still be able to boot.
Wow, I can't believe I used so many apostrophes.
Anyway, what's scary about protecting the national IT infrastructure? I mean, as long as they aren't spying on people or whatnot, shouldn't that stuff be monitored?
Automated tools like firewalls and stuff can't be perfect, so it's a good idea to have people looking out for aberrant traffic.(perhaps the future of hacking will be in making intrusions unnoticeable...)
...allows SUV's, minivans and cars to receive DirecTV...
Am I the only one who found this enumeration a bit odd? I mean, why not just say "vehicle"?
I purchaced a pair of bunny-ear antennas for my old color TV today. I've had cable since I've moved into the dorms, but since my mom doesn't have it I've had to go back to bunny-ears.
They were $7 at walmart, and the package said "digital ready" which, to be honest, confused the hell out of me for a while, untill I remembered that HDTV was broadcast over regular airwaves. I find it kind of ironic that all you need are these little mettal tubes to pick up HTDV, when so often people have cable or at least rooftop antenas. In fact, it seems like a lot of people are actualy ignorant of the fact that you can pick up TV signals using them anymore.
(What's really strange is the story of a friend of mine who moved to Athens Ga. and could only get one TV station over the air, a hip-hop music video station. ABC, NBC, etc could only be had over cable...)
Actualy, I think you just don't know what you're talking about. But you could 'overflow' (I think) the non-coding region and overwrite a part of the bacteria's DNA with the DNA for a virus, and perhaps the virus would come alive once that bit got read.
hrm...