It would appear that we are somewhat more lax in this country (UK). I bought my dvd player at a well known high street retailer. The player is not from a very well known manufacturer however.....
The player cost me 70 (about $100 us)
-It plays DVDs And all writable formats and all (s)vcd formats
-It is region free
-It has a de-macrovision filter built in to it
The last two were not enabled when I bought it BUT they gave me a printout with all the activation codes on it so I wouldn't have to look them up. Apparently the company which makes it applies for a de-macrovision license, waits for it to be approved (takes up to a year or so I hear). Whilst waiting for approval they are allowed to incorporate the feature into their players. Once the application is approved they withdraw the application before they have to pay and then change the company's name and start all over again!
Has anyone else heard of this happening?
I was in my networking levture the other day and the lecturer mentioned that the actual bandwidth limit of the cable which we have in our cable systems here in the uk is about 500mbps. If this is true (is it?) why not just lay that instead of 100mbps network cable?
Just tell the customer how long it will take you to reinstall all their software, restore all their data from tape and reset their network policies after they get the latest worm. Then tell them how long it will take to reboot now. Then tell them how much your company will charge for said system restore.
See how many complaints you get.
At least choose a fresh quote, how about...
"Professor, without knowing precisely what spintronics is / Reading TFA, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?" Professor: "Yes I would, Kent.
This is all true but I dont see how a competition involving mice would have so much to do with feeding the world. If they wanted to make a competition for the most resilient crop plants then that would be more sensible and wouldn't take nearly as long.
Btw. You are more than right. I wish the radicals in the world would adopt an attitude like yours so that they can express an issue this succulently.
I wish I could express an issue succulently
It's pretty obvious that things are headed this way, we already saw it with printers, the machine is given away whilst the ink remains seven times more expensive than Dom Perignon
As with all these things, I dont expect we'll see a resolution anytime soon, third party printer manufacturers have a hard enough time operating with all the varied chips in the cartridges these days (smart chips in cartridges are incidentally being banned here in the uk by 2007 or so). Could you imagine any court or government ever ruling that the mechanisms which prevent unlicensed 3rd party software being run on say a PS2 should be removed in order to allow free competition and stimulate lower prices? I don't think so, in fact I'm pretty sure they can't (IANAL).
I also seem to remember that there are plans to use a similar system here in the UK which will act in the same way as your toll stops in the states. The car drives past a sensor and triggers the onboard system to charge you for using that stretch of road.
I would imagine this will only apply on motorways for now but it might make a nicve change from a fixed road tax like we already have.
It's nice to finally see a credible news source (ie the BBC) carrying an honest account of the problem facing the industry. Maybe if this happened more often the government would be less inclined to beleive whatever the **AA tells them
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I for one will be moving all of my images to PGM format.
Lol thats exactly what the old xbox controller did, I had to put the bloody thing down after half an hour
hmm that would have to be some fscking massive IPBM
The player cost me 70 (about $100 us)
-It plays DVDs And all writable formats and all (s)vcd formats
-It is region free
-It has a de-macrovision filter built in to it
The last two were not enabled when I bought it BUT they gave me a printout with all the activation codes on it so I wouldn't have to look them up.
Apparently the company which makes it applies for a de-macrovision license, waits for it to be approved (takes up to a year or so I hear). Whilst waiting for approval they are allowed to incorporate the feature into their players. Once the application is approved they withdraw the application before they have to pay and then change the company's name and start all over again!
Has anyone else heard of this happening?
Cool, so when can we expect to start seeing these? :P
I guess you have to subscribe to see them
I was in my networking levture the other day and the lecturer mentioned that the actual bandwidth limit of the cable which we have in our cable systems here in the uk is about 500mbps. If this is true (is it?) why not just lay that instead of 100mbps network cable?
Then tell them how long it will take to reboot now.
Then tell them how much your company will charge for said system restore.
See how many complaints you get.
I know I'm a cultureless slob
SLAP!!!
At least choose a fresh quote, how about... "Professor, without knowing precisely what spintronics is / Reading TFA, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?" Professor: "Yes I would, Kent.
Btw. You are more than right. I wish the radicals in the world would adopt an attitude like yours so that they can express an issue this succulently.
I wish I could express an issue succulently
I was wondering when this would finally appear
Actually I do on my Smartphone SPV, I have a 256 MB mem card in it and Im quite happy to leave my minidisc at home for now.
No Seriously there's a shitload of them down there!
As with all these things, I dont expect we'll see a resolution anytime soon, third party printer manufacturers have a hard enough time operating with all the varied chips in the cartridges these days (smart chips in cartridges are incidentally being banned here in the uk by 2007 or so). Could you imagine any court or government ever ruling that the mechanisms which prevent unlicensed 3rd party software being run on say a PS2 should be removed in order to allow free competition and stimulate lower prices?
I don't think so, in fact I'm pretty sure they can't (IANAL).
fear not it does work, m ine picked up on the sobig-f in my mail this morning and i have seen it pick up on worms hidden in downloaded files.
I would imagine this will only apply on motorways for now but it might make a nicve change from a fixed road tax like we already have.
It's nice to finally see a credible news source (ie the BBC) carrying an honest account of the problem facing the industry. Maybe if this happened more often the government would be less inclined to beleive whatever the **AA tells them