No. I don't think you understand. The _hardware_ will detect a video DVD. The _hardware_ will read the region code. The _hardware_ will determine if the region code is correct. If the region code is not correct the _hardware_ will not read the DVD.
The point is that DRM will be controlled at the hardware level. It won't matter what program you run because your hardware will refuse to read the DVD if the region code isn't what it's looking for.
This is on of the first steps where the entertainment industry is fucking with our hardware. Personally it pisses me off. Not because I want to watch Euro movies on my PC but because I don't think that the entertainment industry should be able to dictate that my hardware won't do whatever I tell it to do just to protect their profit margins. We all will be paying for the extra junk. And the only function of the extra junk we will be paying for is to limit what we can do with our own hardware.
A lawyer tells a 15 year old girl that she has got to stick with her false statements because if she doesn't, he doesn't have a case?
That doesn't even make sense to me. "You can't change your story because if you do I can't hurt you!" Does that sound like it would motivate anyone into sticking to their original story?
I could be wrong but something doesn't add up here.
Which cards are well supported for Linux. I use to think that my GForce 2 was until NVIDIA decided that it was too old to bother with anymore. 3D stopped working in Suse 10.0 because of it. I am told that I need to install the older NVIDIA drivers. What a hassle.
Let's hope that NVIDIA will be kind enough to open source their old drivers. But not wanting to hold my breath I'm looking at going with a card from a different company that does have open source drivers.
"'I don't see how they could win. They have no case. They have no evidence she ever did anything. They don't know how the files appeared on her computer or who put them there.'"
She has already spent over $24,000.00 defending herself from the RIAA. They have already won. They don't have to win in court. All they need do is to ruin whoever stands up to them. It really sucks.
What do you base your belief that this is "wasted energy" being used?
It's only wasted if the driver would have applied his brakes turning the forward motion of his automobile into heat. This would make sense on off ramps or downhill slopes. On a flat road, however, this will convert some of his forward motion into energy that this mechanism will leach.
"... this makes Windows far more like Linux and Unix - and even the MacOS - where the graphics subsystem is a separate component, rather than being hard-wired into the OS kernel."
Now if Microsoft could just find a way to separate the internet browser from the OS...
The point of a standard is to allow multiple entities to develop software in a way that will be compatible with other developer's implementation of that standard. If you have too many standards then nothing is really standard.
It is a good idea to encourage competing products that use a common standard. It is NOT so good to encourage competing standards. Microsoft knows this full well. Like most of what Microsoft say and do they feel they can leverage some unfair advantage. Gee what could it be? The undocumented extensions that they plan maybe? Legal obstacles that block open source from implementing their standard?
With Microsoft's past record of dirty tricks we would be fools not to ask such questions.
It seems to me that Hasbro cannot stop a game that uses Google maps to track military movements around the world.
The mistake that this guy made was to blatantly refer to RISK and to base his rules on that game. Risk was published a LONG time ago (more than 20 years) so I don't see how they could own any kind of patent on the game process but they must defend their trademark or risk losing it.
If I were this guy I would create a game with my own rules that used Google maps. Hasbro certainly does not have the right to stop the development of a new game that uses maps and military unit counters.
A lot of places contract out the rebate process. Various companies will make a bid and the lowest bidder gets the contract.
So let's say that I want to do the work of sending back rebates on a video card that Office Max sells. I figure out how many people will probably send in for a rebate, how much it will cost me in labor, postage and everything else. Then I add in a profit margin and submit my bid.
If I get the contract the company offering the rebate will pay me up front. The fewer people who I pay the rebate to the more profit I get. If too many people request rebates I could even lose money.
So if I'm unscrupulous I delay paying and maybe only pay off to people who take additional steps like complaining about not getting their money.
Not all "rebate companies" do this but it seems to me that a lot of them do.
"Bove is correct that Microsoft's practices over the years have discouraged innovation and stunted competition. But then again, that is true of Ford, GM and other such companies."
And your point is that because other large corporations misbehave it's okay? I don't agree.
"Two of the companies that Microsoft has been accused of destroying are Novell and WordPerfect. Yet much of the blame for the demise of these two companies goes to their management that did not know how to properly market their products nor deal with a competitor such as Microsoft. This is not meant to imply that Microsoft is blameless, rather that Novell and WordPerfect had plenty of opportunities to fend off Microsoft, yet did not rise to the challenge."
By "rise to the challenge" do you mean did not fight back with their own dirty tricks? How should they have better marketed their products? Microsoft found that the best way to market a product is to include a scaled back version in their monopoly operating system. Word Pad for instance once incorporated into Windows gets everyone started using a Microsoft document format. It makes products like Word Perfect less attractive and when the user out grows Word Pad what product do you think he will buy? Word Perfect or a product that uses the same document format in which he already has his documents saved?
"According to Sherman, the problem with Sony BMG's XCP DRM software was simply that "the technology they used contained a security vulnerability of which they were unaware"."
Well, that and it probably violates multiple state laws... What's that saying? Ignorance of the law thing...
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Yeah, but his computer takes two weeks to deliver!
No. I don't think you understand. The _hardware_ will detect a video DVD. The _hardware_ will read the region code. The _hardware_ will determine if the region code is correct. If the region code is not correct the _hardware_ will not read the DVD.
The software won't get anything.
The point is that DRM will be controlled at the hardware level. It won't matter what program you run because your hardware will refuse to read the DVD if the region code isn't what it's looking for.
This is on of the first steps where the entertainment industry is fucking with our hardware. Personally it pisses me off. Not because I want to watch Euro movies on my PC but because I don't think that the entertainment industry should be able to dictate that my hardware won't do whatever I tell it to do just to protect their profit margins. We all will be paying for the extra junk. And the only function of the extra junk we will be paying for is to limit what we can do with our own hardware.
A lawyer tells a 15 year old girl that she has got to stick with her false statements because if she doesn't, he doesn't have a case?
That doesn't even make sense to me. "You can't change your story because if you do I can't hurt you!" Does that sound like it would motivate anyone into sticking to their original story?
I could be wrong but something doesn't add up here.
Thanks! I'll give it a close look.
Which cards are well supported for Linux. I use to think that my GForce 2 was until NVIDIA decided that it was too old to bother with anymore. 3D stopped working in Suse 10.0 because of it. I am told that I need to install the older NVIDIA drivers. What a hassle.
Let's hope that NVIDIA will be kind enough to open source their old drivers. But not wanting to hold my breath I'm looking at going with a card from a different company that does have open source drivers.
"'I don't see how they could win. They have no case. They have no evidence she ever did anything. They don't know how the files appeared on her computer or who put them there.'"
She has already spent over $24,000.00 defending herself from the RIAA. They have already won. They don't have to win in court. All they need do is to ruin whoever stands up to them. It really sucks.
This is a trick question righ?
Shocking news!
(Sorry... couldn't help myself...)
What do you base your belief that this is "wasted energy" being used?
It's only wasted if the driver would have applied his brakes turning the forward motion of his automobile into heat. This would make sense on off ramps or downhill slopes. On a flat road, however, this will convert some of his forward motion into energy that this mechanism will leach.
"... this makes Windows far more like Linux and Unix - and even the MacOS - where the graphics subsystem is a separate component, rather than being hard-wired into the OS kernel."
Now if Microsoft could just find a way to separate the internet browser from the OS...
** cough, choke, gag...**
The point of a standard is to allow multiple entities to develop software in a way that will be compatible with other developer's implementation of that standard. If you have too many standards then nothing is really standard.
It is a good idea to encourage competing products that use a common standard. It is NOT so good to encourage competing standards. Microsoft knows this full well. Like most of what Microsoft say and do they feel they can leverage some unfair advantage. Gee what could it be? The undocumented extensions that they plan maybe? Legal obstacles that block open source from implementing their standard?
With Microsoft's past record of dirty tricks we would be fools not to ask such questions.
"When did you guys lose your "Give me your poor, tired and huddled masses ...'"
Ummmm.... more and more we ARE the poor, tired and huddled masses...
My bad ;-)
It seems to me that Hasbro cannot stop a game that uses Google maps to track military movements around the world.
The mistake that this guy made was to blatantly refer to RISK and to base his rules on that game. Risk was published a LONG time ago (more than 20 years) so I don't see how they could own any kind of patent on the game process but they must defend their trademark or risk losing it.
If I were this guy I would create a game with my own rules that used Google maps. Hasbro certainly does not have the right to stop the development of a new game that uses maps and military unit counters.
The products that could be made using this are endless to the creative mind!
Pockets that warn you when they've been picked.
Underwear that warns people around you when you fart.
Man, I can hardly wait!
A lot of places contract out the rebate process. Various companies will make a bid and the lowest bidder gets the contract.
So let's say that I want to do the work of sending back rebates on a video card that Office Max sells. I figure out how many people will probably send in for a rebate, how much it will cost me in labor, postage and everything else. Then I add in a profit margin and submit my bid.
If I get the contract the company offering the rebate will pay me up front. The fewer people who I pay the rebate to the more profit I get. If too many people request rebates I could even lose money.
So if I'm unscrupulous I delay paying and maybe only pay off to people who take additional steps like complaining about not getting their money.
Not all "rebate companies" do this but it seems to me that a lot of them do.
"ntroverted children enjoy the internal world of thoughts, feelings and fantasies..."
;-)
And what fantasies I've had too!
"Bove is correct that Microsoft's practices over the years have discouraged innovation and stunted competition. But then again, that is true of Ford, GM and other such companies."
And your point is that because other large corporations misbehave it's okay? I don't agree.
"Two of the companies that Microsoft has been accused of destroying are Novell and WordPerfect. Yet much of the blame for the demise of these two companies goes to their management that did not know how to properly market their products nor deal with a competitor such as Microsoft. This is not meant to imply that Microsoft is blameless, rather that Novell and WordPerfect had plenty of opportunities to fend off Microsoft, yet did not rise to the challenge."
By "rise to the challenge" do you mean did not fight back with their own dirty tricks? How should they have better marketed their products? Microsoft found that the best way to market a product is to include a scaled back version in their monopoly operating system. Word Pad for instance once incorporated into Windows gets everyone started using a Microsoft document format. It makes products like Word Perfect less attractive and when the user out grows Word Pad what product do you think he will buy? Word Perfect or a product that uses the same document format in which he already has his documents saved?
"Just because this is new to you doesn't mean it's new or at all unusual."
Rude Dude.
Are they also going to drop the patent encumbrances and change the license so it can be used by open source including GPL'd works?
"According to Sherman, the problem with Sony BMG's XCP DRM software was simply that "the technology they used contained a security vulnerability of which they were unaware"."
Well, that and it probably violates multiple state laws... What's that saying? Ignorance of the law thing...
Party pooper... ;-)
...that they would have been able to get this out sooner but had to overcome a lack of space caused by the oversized rootkit included.
Their royalty free license isn't GPL compatible.