Uh, I always thought he said "Fuck you" and I thought it was Judd Nelson's character. Emilios character just talks about how his dad wants him to be "a winner".
Editors at automobile magazines are more likely to drive expensive models which is why their coverage of low end Fords and Chevys is poor given their high marketshare and BMW has more coverage than its marketshare warrants.
Why shouldn't we expect Windows to work as well as a Mac? Windows was a straight up copy of the Macintosh. Apparently Bil Gates regularly shouted "I want Mac on PC!" at his engineers between 1982 and 1995 as his major contribution to the development of Windows.
The very fact that they say they won't discriminate makes me believe that they will indeed be looking at employees genetic makeup.
By that logic, there is no possible thing that they could say to convince you. What would they have to say? "We totally promise. Cross our heart and hope to die - stick a needle in our eye!"
For the folks that work there, I'm sure this hard to take. Remember, they probably have a long history of the location, they lost lots of awards and other physical assets including the sets that were used in four movies.
I would imagine that some of these sets might have been re-used in the future, had they not been destroyed.
Moving making, espedcially using claymation is much more physical than programming. If my office burned down tomorrow, I'd need the offsite backup take restored onto a new server, a new Macintosh, a new desk, and a chair. That's it.
You geeks are always upset when people explain technical details like "squared". That's why the business majors of the world have to tell you what to do! If you majored in business, you would not have learned useless concepts like "squared" and you would understand why the general public needs this explained to them.
As to why would someone be interested in E=mc^2 without knowing the concept of "squared", you obviously don't understand business. We can't limit the target audience of our movie to only the few people who know about "squared".
Not a normal CD. Normal CDs do not have a copy protection scheme. Therefore, you aren't defeating it, or bypassing it at all when you copy it to your computer which means that you are covered by the fair use doctrine.
It isn't that the XBox 360 is going to stream to the PS3. That's not the scenario. The scenario Microsoft wants is for you to be able to buy a Windows Media PC and stream HD video content from an HD-DVD or Blue Ray DVD to a wireless media receiver somewhere in your house. This would allow your PC to become your video jukebox/Tivo that you can stream video using Microsoft's DRM wherever you want. For example, you could stream it to an XBox 360, or to a Plasma TV or a data projector or whatever.
Sony's DRM is going to hurt the adoption of Microsoft's vision on this.
You are making the assumption there will be any high defintion movies available on HD-DVD to play on this mythical vapor-ware XBox 360 with HD-DVD. According to the article, Paramount is support Blue Ray and Warner may also support Blue Ray? I can give you a hint: the studios probably won't be supporting both.
I don't understand. You would simply create a new type of DVD player that read the movie data onto its internal storage (like maybe a hard drive), then writes zeros tto the disc, destroying it. Once it verifies that the disc was destroyed, it plays the movie. You can pause, rewind, etc. Perhaps the DRM rules could be that you can watch the movie as much as you want until you eject the disc. Once you eject the disc to watch a different movie, the disc is no good and you throw it away.
And of course, the movie would be encrypted to prevent you from disassembling the device and mouting the storage system (HD or flash) on a another system and reading the data off.
I think the cost of such a player would be about the same as a DVD-RW + 4 GB of flash or a 4 GB HD for standard def video. In other words, maybe a $150 bill of materials? A bit more for high def.
Sure, and then they page you and you call them and tell them that no, you didn't loose your pager. They don't know who to believe, so they put your account on hold until you come in with photo ID and have them examine your fingerprints.
It will be a copied directly from either BlueRay or HD DVD with trivial changes. In order to be sold in China, it will have be "their format" which will mean it is "our format" (Blue Ray or HD DVD) with a license fee paid to the Chinese company that owns "their format" so that the disc is compliant.
It's a way for cronies of the chinese government to make money.
If you are smart, you will assume everything a policeman says is a lie.
Every time I have interacted with the police, they have told me a lie like "You were going so fast I didn't think I would be able to catch you!" (I was going 45 MPH on a small stretch of road where the limit dips from 50 to 35 for a brief period while its technically "in a town". Yes, I was speeding, but to say that he couldn't have caught me was ridiculous hperbole.
Another lie: "No, there's way we can ever catch the person who shot your house with paintballs". While the guy was telling me this, another officer radioed him to say they had pulled over a group of teens 2 blocks from my house who all had paintball guns and were shooting up the neighborhood.
Another police lie: "Your friend has already confessed that the two of you commited armed robery." The circumstance was that I was in college and they pulled over me and my friend on suspicion of armed robbery. Apparently two guys in a van had robbed someplace the week before and my friend who I went to lunch with had a van. Since we hadn't commited armed robbery, I knew the policeman was lying. I was too scared to actually say that he was lying (i.e. I didn't say "You are a dirty liar."), but I did say that I did not rob anyone. Of course, in the next room they were telling him the same thing. Fortunately the victim came down and looked at us and said, "No, these were not the guys who robbed me."
There is a priciple in law that has been upheld by the supreme court that says that a jury can refuse to convict on the basis that the law is unconstitutional. I'm not sure about "morally wrong" when there is not a constitutional question, but the case that it goes back to was from the colonial period where a person was being tried for distributing seditious pamphlets (against the king) and the jury refused to convict because they thought the law was morally wrong.
I've always thought it would be nice if everyone had a two way pager to authorize financial transactions. It could a cerficicate (dual key technique) to authenticate that it was *your pager*. So, when you go to buy something online, or in a store, or whatever, the transaction doesn't go through until you are paged and then press the "authorize" button on the pager.
The effect would be that if a Phisher or any fraudster tries to access your account, you get paged and you see the amount and the store and you hit "don't authorize". Ba-da-bing.
I'd gladly pay for the cost of the pager and the service for this.
Hoaxes are much more funny when they are somewhat improbably or ironic in some way. When I first saw this story, I was a bit surprised that Microsoft would come out with this kind of technology considering that Microsoft has not in the past developed any form of physical media - they have mostly been a software company. OTOH, it wasn't that long ago that they got into the hardware business and Microsoft clearly has enough money, industry influence, etc. that they could develop a single play DVD format.
It is not a humorous hoax in any way, nor do I feel bad for having believed it at face value - nor should you. It was clearly a plausible story.
I guess I could blackmail people who make paperclips by threatening to make really bad locks causing paperclips to be "illegal tools for circumventing my locks". But somehow this is acceptable in the world of software.
Sadly, the terms "American" and "Lover of Freedom" are not synonymous anymore. Some would argue that they never were synonymous, but I think that for the most part of the 19th and 20th centuries, true American patriots were on the side of freedom everywhere in the world - at least from a moral support point of view.
It was only during the cold war that we started to think that the ends justify the means - prop up a dictator to keep communism out. A globalised economy also encourages this type of thinking because it promotes a race to the bottom between nations to auction off liberty to the various corporate interests.
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Uh, I always thought he said "Fuck you" and I thought it was Judd Nelson's character. Emilios character just talks about how his dad wants him to be "a winner".
Editors at automobile magazines are more likely to drive expensive models which is why their coverage of low end Fords and Chevys is poor given their high marketshare and BMW has more coverage than its marketshare warrants.
Why shouldn't we expect Windows to work as well as a Mac? Windows was a straight up copy of the Macintosh. Apparently Bil Gates regularly shouted "I want Mac on PC!" at his engineers between 1982 and 1995 as his major contribution to the development of Windows.
If you are going to copy, at least get it right.
The very fact that they say they won't discriminate makes me believe that they will indeed be looking at employees genetic makeup.
By that logic, there is no possible thing that they could say to convince you. What would they have to say? "We totally promise. Cross our heart and hope to die - stick a needle in our eye!"
For the folks that work there, I'm sure this hard to take. Remember, they probably have a long history of the location, they lost lots of awards and other physical assets including the sets that were used in four movies.
I would imagine that some of these sets might have been re-used in the future, had they not been destroyed.
Moving making, espedcially using claymation is much more physical than programming. If my office burned down tomorrow, I'd need the offsite backup take restored onto a new server, a new Macintosh, a new desk, and a chair. That's it.
Games are already by the ESRB, but it is not illegal to sell to minors.
This is america, can we at least call it the Atari act?
You geeks are always upset when people explain technical details like "squared". That's why the business majors of the world have to tell you what to do! If you majored in business, you would not have learned useless concepts like "squared" and you would understand why the general public needs this explained to them.
As to why would someone be interested in E=mc^2 without knowing the concept of "squared", you obviously don't understand business. We can't limit the target audience of our movie to only the few people who know about "squared".
I used to work at Microsoft, too. It sucked.
Also, what happens if you lock yourself out? Or lose your RFID "key"? You don't even have the option of having a locksmith pick it for you.
And with Digital Watermarking, tracking you down might not be so hard.
(Watermarks will still be preserved if you re-record the music and re-encode it.)
Not a normal CD. Normal CDs do not have a copy protection scheme. Therefore, you aren't defeating it, or bypassing it at all when you copy it to your computer which means that you are covered by the fair use doctrine.
It isn't that the XBox 360 is going to stream to the PS3. That's not the scenario. The scenario Microsoft wants is for you to be able to buy a Windows Media PC and stream HD video content from an HD-DVD or Blue Ray DVD to a wireless media receiver somewhere in your house. This would allow your PC to become your video jukebox/Tivo that you can stream video using Microsoft's DRM wherever you want. For example, you could stream it to an XBox 360, or to a Plasma TV or a data projector or whatever.
Sony's DRM is going to hurt the adoption of Microsoft's vision on this.
I used to work for Sony. I loved it there.
You are making the assumption there will be any high defintion movies available on HD-DVD to play on this mythical vapor-ware XBox 360 with HD-DVD. According to the article, Paramount is support Blue Ray and Warner may also support Blue Ray? I can give you a hint: the studios probably won't be supporting both.
I don't understand. You would simply create a new type of DVD player that read the movie data onto its internal storage (like maybe a hard drive), then writes zeros tto the disc, destroying it. Once it verifies that the disc was destroyed, it plays the movie. You can pause, rewind, etc. Perhaps the DRM rules could be that you can watch the movie as much as you want until you eject the disc. Once you eject the disc to watch a different movie, the disc is no good and you throw it away.
And of course, the movie would be encrypted to prevent you from disassembling the device and mouting the storage system (HD or flash) on a another system and reading the data off.
I think the cost of such a player would be about the same as a DVD-RW + 4 GB of flash or a 4 GB HD for standard def video. In other words, maybe a $150 bill of materials? A bit more for high def.
Sure, and then they page you and you call them and tell them that no, you didn't loose your pager. They don't know who to believe, so they put your account on hold until you come in with photo ID and have them examine your fingerprints.
It will be a copied directly from either BlueRay or HD DVD with trivial changes. In order to be sold in China, it will have be "their format" which will mean it is "our format" (Blue Ray or HD DVD) with a license fee paid to the Chinese company that owns "their format" so that the disc is compliant.
It's a way for cronies of the chinese government to make money.
If you are smart, you will assume everything a policeman says is a lie.
Every time I have interacted with the police, they have told me a lie like "You were going so fast I didn't think I would be able to catch you!" (I was going 45 MPH on a small stretch of road where the limit dips from 50 to 35 for a brief period while its technically "in a town". Yes, I was speeding, but to say that he couldn't have caught me was ridiculous hperbole.
Another lie: "No, there's way we can ever catch the person who shot your house with paintballs". While the guy was telling me this, another officer radioed him to say they had pulled over a group of teens 2 blocks from my house who all had paintball guns and were shooting up the neighborhood.
Another police lie: "Your friend has already confessed that the two of you commited armed robery." The circumstance was that I was in college and they pulled over me and my friend on suspicion of armed robbery. Apparently two guys in a van had robbed someplace the week before and my friend who I went to lunch with had a van. Since we hadn't commited armed robbery, I knew the policeman was lying. I was too scared to actually say that he was lying (i.e. I didn't say "You are a dirty liar."), but I did say that I did not rob anyone. Of course, in the next room they were telling him the same thing. Fortunately the victim came down and looked at us and said, "No, these were not the guys who robbed me."
There is a priciple in law that has been upheld by the supreme court that says that a jury can refuse to convict on the basis that the law is unconstitutional. I'm not sure about "morally wrong" when there is not a constitutional question, but the case that it goes back to was from the colonial period where a person was being tried for distributing seditious pamphlets (against the king) and the jury refused to convict because they thought the law was morally wrong.
I've always thought it would be nice if everyone had a two way pager to authorize financial transactions. It could a cerficicate (dual key technique) to authenticate that it was *your pager*. So, when you go to buy something online, or in a store, or whatever, the transaction doesn't go through until you are paged and then press the "authorize" button on the pager.
The effect would be that if a Phisher or any fraudster tries to access your account, you get paged and you see the amount and the store and you hit "don't authorize". Ba-da-bing.
I'd gladly pay for the cost of the pager and the service for this.
Hoaxes are much more funny when they are somewhat improbably or ironic in some way. When I first saw this story, I was a bit surprised that Microsoft would come out with this kind of technology considering that Microsoft has not in the past developed any form of physical media - they have mostly been a software company. OTOH, it wasn't that long ago that they got into the hardware business and Microsoft clearly has enough money, industry influence, etc. that they could develop a single play DVD format.
It is not a humorous hoax in any way, nor do I feel bad for having believed it at face value - nor should you. It was clearly a plausible story.
I guess I could blackmail people who make paperclips by threatening to make really bad locks causing paperclips to be "illegal tools for circumventing my locks". But somehow this is acceptable in the world of software.
Sadly, the terms "American" and "Lover of Freedom" are not synonymous anymore. Some would argue that they never were synonymous, but I think that for the most part of the 19th and 20th centuries, true American patriots were on the side of freedom everywhere in the world - at least from a moral support point of view.
It was only during the cold war that we started to think that the ends justify the means - prop up a dictator to keep communism out. A globalised economy also encourages this type of thinking because it promotes a race to the bottom between nations to auction off liberty to the various corporate interests.
I've been waiting a long time for a PowerBook at G5 speeds. Maybe this will be an Intel PowerBook.
(Unlikely, since they said it would be Janruary before Intel Macs come out, but it would be nice.)