So, take a quick look at craigslist.org - I'd say one in 5 personal ads includes the dollar-sign refernce for "will pay" or "for pay" and a similar ratio of them includes a "420" reference for pot smokers.
Is craigslist responsible too? Or are they just a "common carrier" of information? [As a voting libertarian, you know my feelings, but, it is an interesting question anyway.]
There are numerous other ways to illustrate to people that.9 repeating = 1.
What is the decimal value of one third?.3~
What is 3x one third?.9~
Q: What number do you add to.9~ to make 1.0?
A:.0~
Q: What is 1 divided by 9? --.1~
Q: What is 2 divided by 9? --.2~
Q:....
Q: What is 8 divided by 9? --.8~
Q: What is 9 divided by 9? --.9~
A:.9~ and 1 are the same number.
...the problem with all of these, of course, is that people just refuse to "get it." It goes against intuition. These, of course, are the same people who can't understand the Monty Hall problem, so *shrug*.
I went to the county fair once. For a handful of tickets, you could take a peek at the world's smallest horse. A viewing model much like many would want to implement for VOD services. Watch all the ponography you want, as long as it's YOU, and you're not keeping a copy - so you pay our subscription fee. Again, much like the world's smallest horse at the county fair. Not exactly an attractive model as far as I'm concerned, but a valid one nonetheless.
Everyone seems "ok" with, say, the iTunes DRM model, because it's mostly harmless. If iVideo's only play on your iVideoPod, is this going to be somehow different?
The problem is not things that *CAN* operate with a wide variety of DRM option. The abilty to support DRM isn't a problem at all.
The solution, as always, is simple. Vote with your wallet for either (a) DRM solutions that make sense, or (b) for solutions that don't take advantage of the richly enabled DRM fabic available to content producers.
If I produce content, I should be able to decide what's done with it (for a reasonable time, anyway). If I want it to be one-peek-per-customer, that's my right, it's my content.
I'm pretty sure Scooby Do already solved the haunted house mystery. It was Old Man Winters, and, were it not for those meddling kids, he would have gotten away with it.
The story in corporate circles is that employee-A makes a mistake, costing millions, and is summoned to the bosses office, where they expect to be fired.
The CEO simply assigns them their next project.
The employee is bewildered, and asks, "Why aren't I being fired?"
The CEO replies, "I just spent a million dollars on your training. Why would I fire you now?"
You can download the patcher from Sony, and it can download the ENTIRE game, including all retail and online expansions. You need no key to play on their emulated servers.
It's important to note that the [thinks hard] pause is a painfully long pregnant pause, and it's clear to everyone in the room (except Bluto) what the next line is.
A sad world when Animal House references aren't instantly recognized.
Speed is a factor when you've got a MCE2005 machine with dual analog tuners and and HD tuner, and you want to watch one of those programs shifted, or watch pre-recorded material while it's recording 16 gigabytes an hour.
I disagree completely. Doing something hardware intensive, like, playing a DVD from your remavable media on your LCD screen at high contrast takes power - lots of it, but NEW laptops, used for something other than playing Quake, have FANTASTIC battery life.
PC-Mag says the 4:10 has a "BatteryMark" of 4:05. Four hours and five minutes of REAL battery life in a form-factor that compares to the ThinkPad, and power that blows away the X40.
Making gains in the commercial market doesn't have nearly as much to do with the speed of the database as it does with support.
People pay for Oracle because they want to be able to pick up the phone and talk to the vendor. The cost of Oracle licenses is pennies compared to the operating costs of five-nine's datacenters and customer/patient/client data loss.
Unless they're going to ship free servers and provide free support contracts, you're going to have a hard sell at corporate customers.
While 10+ Hours is nice, most of the newer laptops I'm reviewing (Dell D410's and D610's) have multi-hour battery life right off the shelf, and a spare battery fits nicely in the bag.
Newer laptop batteries are making these sort of gadgets not-so-nifty.
Actually, most spam gets sent for SUCCESSFUL online enterprises. TONS of people play poker online, and they give MASSIVE referral bonuses to websites who can generate new players ($65 a pop!) - because competition for new players and site-loyalty is so high. Most casual players pick one site and stick with it.
Agreed. Copyright isn't perfect. The music industry thrives off of their hefty cut, and the punishment to the "ciminals" is probably too severe......none of that makes it right.
(Unless you're in a country with laws that say otherwise.)
You know, the problem is that too many of us have an attitude like the parent poster. Already the people who've posted "Good, they got what they deserved" have been modded trolls and flamebait.
We're going to have another day where people lecture about that it's not "stealing" because it's merely "copyright infrigement" instead of actually being strong enough to regognize that it's still WRONG.
These people broke the law, and they should be punished for it.
I currently run MCE2005. I run both a Hauppauge PVR 500 (dual-tuner) that captures non-pay cable, and an ATI (pre-broadcast-flag) HD Wonder connected to an antenna on the roof. Although it reaches the speed limit on my drive, I can capture a 1080i or 720p HD broadcast and two "best" resolution analog-cable shows at the same time.
I have no trouble outputting from MCE2005 at 720x480 to my tube TV for DVDs and cable, and likewise the 720p and 1080i recordings look nice scaled down as well.
I *also* have no problem viewing the 1080i and 720p (and 480) broadcasts on my SyncMaster 210T.
Microsoft now has a legal XBox Media Center program that lets you use an XBox as a MCE repeater, correctly supporting MSDVR files, as well as all of your other stored video/audio -- and the XBox Media Center (hack) project is starting to support them now as well.
MCE with XBox repeaters is pretty sharp. [Admittedly Myth and the like is very nice too in a free solution, but I enjoy the MCE interface.]
MCE2005 is a vast improvement over the previous build.
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So, take a quick look at craigslist.org - I'd say one in 5 personal ads includes the dollar-sign refernce for "will pay" or "for pay" and a similar ratio of them includes a "420" reference for pot smokers.
Is craigslist responsible too? Or are they just a "common carrier" of information? [As a voting libertarian, you know my feelings, but, it is an interesting question anyway.]
What is the decimal value of one third? .3~ .9~
What is 3x one third?
Q: What number do you add to .9~ to make 1.0? .0~
A:
Q: What is 1 divided by 9? -- .1~ .2~ .... .8~ .9~ .9~ and 1 are the same number.
Q: What is 2 divided by 9? --
Q:
Q: What is 8 divided by 9? --
Q: What is 9 divided by 9? --
A:
I went to the county fair once. For a handful of tickets, you could take a peek at the world's smallest horse. A viewing model much like many would want to implement for VOD services. Watch all the ponography you want, as long as it's YOU, and you're not keeping a copy - so you pay our subscription fee. Again, much like the world's smallest horse at the county fair. Not exactly an attractive model as far as I'm concerned, but a valid one nonetheless.
Everyone seems "ok" with, say, the iTunes DRM model, because it's mostly harmless. If iVideo's only play on your iVideoPod, is this going to be somehow different?
The problem is not things that *CAN* operate with a wide variety of DRM option. The abilty to support DRM isn't a problem at all.
:)
The solution, as always, is simple. Vote with your wallet for either (a) DRM solutions that make sense, or (b) for solutions that don't take advantage of the richly enabled DRM fabic available to content producers.
If I produce content, I should be able to decide what's done with it (for a reasonable time, anyway). If I want it to be one-peek-per-customer, that's my right, it's my content.
You...just shouldn't be stupid as to buy it
I'm pretty sure Scooby Do already solved the haunted house mystery. It was Old Man Winters, and, were it not for those meddling kids, he would have gotten away with it.
The story in corporate circles is that employee-A makes a mistake, costing millions, and is summoned to the bosses office, where they expect to be fired.
The CEO simply assigns them their next project.
The employee is bewildered, and asks, "Why aren't I being fired?"
The CEO replies, "I just spent a million dollars on your training. Why would I fire you now?"
No, you don't need to buy a copy.
You can download the patcher from Sony, and it can download the ENTIRE game, including all retail and online expansions. You need no key to play on their emulated servers.
Cricket does the same thing here. Unlimited minutes, with long distance included plans. [No international though...yet.]
$45/mo gets you unlimited calling, including US long distance.
$30/mo gets you unlimited local calling.
It's important to note that the [thinks hard] pause is a painfully long pregnant pause, and it's clear to everyone in the room (except Bluto) what the next line is.
A sad world when Animal House references aren't instantly recognized.
Nah, they mean to say "whole." It's a coded message to the Germans, providing instructions to bomb Pearl Harbor.
Similarly, I'd like to apologize to the yak.com domain for their many extra foo@ emails I've been the source of.
http://www.google.com/search?q=bill+gates+53+milli on+house
http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm
The IE rendering engine with most of the features people get all gushy about in the Mozilla/Firefox browsers.
That country, is Lichtenstein.
Speed is a factor when you've got a MCE2005 machine with dual analog tuners and and HD tuner, and you want to watch one of those programs shifted, or watch pre-recorded material while it's recording 16 gigabytes an hour.
Believe it or not, some of us still actually work on our laptops.
PC-Mag says the 4:10 has a "BatteryMark" of 4:05. Four hours and five minutes of REAL battery life in a form-factor that compares to the ThinkPad, and power that blows away the X40.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1757493,00.as p
Those numbers jive with what I've seen in testing my demos and building my enterprise images for deployment.
People pay for Oracle because they want to be able to pick up the phone and talk to the vendor. The cost of Oracle licenses is pennies compared to the operating costs of five-nine's datacenters and customer/patient/client data loss.
Unless they're going to ship free servers and provide free support contracts, you're going to have a hard sell at corporate customers.
Newer laptop batteries are making these sort of gadgets not-so-nifty.
At least a few of us get the Charles U. Farley joke.
Chuck U Farley?
Actually, most spam gets sent for SUCCESSFUL online enterprises. TONS of people play poker online, and they give MASSIVE referral bonuses to websites who can generate new players ($65 a pop!) - because competition for new players and site-loyalty is so high. Most casual players pick one site and stick with it.
It's NOT because nobody wants to play.
Agreed. Copyright isn't perfect. The music industry thrives off of their hefty cut, and the punishment to the "ciminals" is probably too severe... ...none of that makes it right.
(Unless you're in a country with laws that say otherwise.)
We're going to have another day where people lecture about that it's not "stealing" because it's merely "copyright infrigement" instead of actually being strong enough to regognize that it's still WRONG.
These people broke the law, and they should be punished for it.
I currently run MCE2005. I run both a Hauppauge PVR 500 (dual-tuner) that captures non-pay cable, and an ATI (pre-broadcast-flag) HD Wonder connected to an antenna on the roof. Although it reaches the speed limit on my drive, I can capture a 1080i or 720p HD broadcast and two "best" resolution analog-cable shows at the same time.
I have no trouble outputting from MCE2005 at 720x480 to my tube TV for DVDs and cable, and likewise the 720p and 1080i recordings look nice scaled down as well.
I *also* have no problem viewing the 1080i and 720p (and 480) broadcasts on my SyncMaster 210T.
Microsoft now has a legal XBox Media Center program that lets you use an XBox as a MCE repeater, correctly supporting MSDVR files, as well as all of your other stored video/audio -- and the XBox Media Center (hack) project is starting to support them now as well.
MCE with XBox repeaters is pretty sharp. [Admittedly Myth and the like is very nice too in a free solution, but I enjoy the MCE interface.]
MCE2005 is a vast improvement over the previous build.