Ithink that the last major UK EMI release with DRM was Coldplay's X&Y back in 2005, any other releases I noticed on EMI was on the budget/reissue EMI Gold label, which was usually sold at about £2.99 in the bargain bin's at Sainsburys (a posher version of Walmart for our American chums;) )
Why they kept it on the cheap stuff and not the latest releases I don't know, I suspect they were trying to see how many returns as "faulty" they would get on the budget range, maybe it was too high a percentage and they decided the cost of the returns on a big selling CD was too high.
They used to have a pro-drm site at http://www.emimusic.info/uk/ printed on the DRM'd CD's but they seem to have pulled it.
Played it a few hours a night since then, sometimes with friends, several times drunk. And how many straps have we broke? None. We have done this by HOLDING ON TIGHT TO THE FRIGGING REMOTE. Jesus weep, I can't believe how stupid some people are, although the greediness of lawyers isn't a shock.
I have however fell on my arse while playing Baseball because I was stupid enough to stand on our wooden floor in just socks, but you don't see me suing my wooden floor company, or the blokes who make my socks.
I'd been playing games in the home since 1980 when I got my Philips Videopac G7000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_G7000 but nothing grabbed me as much as Final Fantasy VII http://www.ffonline.com/ff7/ did. Before I had spent a few days on a game before getting bored, I played FF7 for over 7 months before I finished it.
By the way, does anyone remember Super Robot on OpenVMS? I spent hours at lunchtime at this game at work, not graphically great by any means but great fun when all you have is a VT220:) - There's a Windows version at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.kelly4/robot.ht m
Here in Northern Ireland, which is still part of the UK, we can apply for an Irish Passport instead of a UK one. Guess what I'll be doing when my UK one runs out:)
I usually hate reality TV shows, but this one has me hooked, maybe because we have done the fantasic ATX http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/visitKSC/atx.asp so some of the training looked familiar and it brought back some happy memories.
BTW, they are either the stupidest people ever.. or brilliant actors.
For SETI@home, OpenVMS was responsible for less that 0.2% of the results returned. Non-intel Windows generated about 0.06%.
That's a fair point, I can see now why no official port has been done. I'm pretty sure a OpenVMS port will appear sometime so when it does I'll dust off the old AlphaServers again:)
I'd do it myself but I havn't programmed in about 9 years.... and I wasn't that good at it anyway:D
What I loved about SETI@Home compared to other distributed computing networks like http://www.ud.com/ was that there was loads of clients out there for Operating Systems and hardware dating back to the 80's. Hell you could even get a client for Satan itself, http://www.sco.com/ OpenServer
Now, you basically have to run Windows, MAC or Linux, if not you can feck off
I've got 2 old AlphaServers in work that have been running SETI@HOME since 2000, one running NT4 and one OpenVMS 7.1, never any downtime with either of them, time to call it a day on 15th December, it's a shame
Used it myself a few times when I worked in London in the 80's.
First of all, it would only work with a Nat West Deposit Account, if you did it with a current account you were screwed as you would get charged.
Lets say you had a big weekend coming up, you had £100 in your pocket and £100 in the bank. You would go to the bank and deposit £100 in the branch so you had £200 in Nat West. This would flag up on the ATM as you had £200 to withdraw, so you could go and withdraw £200 from the ATM, but for some reason (I assume the ATM's did a processing job every couple of days to a mainframe) the transaction didn't register on the branches computers for about 3 days and you could walk into the same branch 5 minutes later and withdraw another £200, so you had £400 now for the weekend. 3 days later however, the bank will have caught up and you are overdrawn by £200.
OK, now you are thinking about "hey you are going to get big charges for that", but the beauty was that it was meant to be impossible for you to go overdrawn on a deposit account so there was no charging procedures in place (the old computers are infallible thing that was mentioned in the original article), I did get called in to the bank once or twice to explain my actions but I just shrugged my shoulders and said "Well, I thought I had that much money in my account, sorry I buggered up, but why did you let me take that extra money out when I didn't have it, why didn't your computers stop me?" So I got away with it every time.
It was never a way to get free money, it was just a way to tide you over if you were a little short before your next pay day.
"It's impressive, but I think that the goal of bridges is to be as short as possible (although in this case, that's obviously the shortest length it can be)."
Hmm, I wonder if Northern Ireland holds the record for shortest bridge:)
I never buy anything from Dixons or PC World as the spend 5 minutes selling you something and then 20 minutes trying to get you to buy their overpriced extended warrenties.
Last thing I bought there was a £20 Toaster and they wanted me to buy a £16 3 year warrenty for it.
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My friend's bands, in alphabetical order, all have songs without DRM to download for free -
http://www.bitchfindergenital.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/dagdad
http://www.hundredweight.co.uk/
Enjoy,
Jonathan
I posted about this earlier on http://www.groklaw.net/
;) )
i ll_be_protected/
Ithink that the last major UK EMI release with DRM was Coldplay's X&Y back in 2005, any other releases I noticed on EMI was on the budget/reissue EMI Gold label, which was usually sold at about £2.99 in the bargain bin's at Sainsburys (a posher version of Walmart for our American chums
Why they kept it on the cheap stuff and not the latest releases I don't know, I suspect they were trying to see how many returns as "faulty" they would get on the budget range, maybe it was too high a percentage and they decided the cost of the returns on a big selling CD was too high.
They used to have a pro-drm site at http://www.emimusic.info/uk/ printed on the DRM'd CD's but they seem to have pulled it.
Funny to see how cocky the record companies were back in 2002 compared to now - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/21/all_cds_w
Jonathan
Normal view - http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=330182196& size=o
& size=o
Zoomed in - http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=330182199
I did quite like using it but after an hour I had a headache.
Jonathan
Played it a few hours a night since then, sometimes with friends, several times drunk. And how many straps have we broke? None. We have done this by HOLDING ON TIGHT TO THE FRIGGING REMOTE. Jesus weep, I can't believe how stupid some people are, although the greediness of lawyers isn't a shock.
I have however fell on my arse while playing Baseball because I was stupid enough to stand on our wooden floor in just socks, but you don't see me suing my wooden floor company, or the blokes who make my socks.
Jonathan
Well, you can actually still buy a PC with a ARM processor in it if you like - http://www.castle-technology.co.uk/
Jonathan
http://www.myspace.com/stripeymiata
It's a trap!
Jonathan
http://www.justgofaster.com/
http://distrowatch.com/
Top 5 are:
1 Ubuntu 2711
2 SUSE 1827
3 Mandriva 1542
4 Fedora 1199
5 MEPIS 632
Jonathan
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"I really wish I hadn't recommended http://www.justgofaster.com/ driver training to that Spanish twat" - Michael Schumacher
Ohh.. wait.. that's been said http://www.sedway.com/ ;)
One rare time when Steve Jobs was talking bollocks.
Jonathan
http://www.justgofaster.com/
Abbey's http://www.abbey.co.uk/ ATMs in the UK do as well, I watched one boot up a few weeks ago. Yes I should get out more.
Jonathan
http://www.justgofaster.com/
Ohh hang on.. you said South Korea, my mistake ;)
r _linux_is_communism/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/31/ms_ballme
Jonathan
http://www.justgofaster.com/
I'd been playing games in the home since 1980 when I got my Philips Videopac G7000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_G7000 but nothing grabbed me as much as Final Fantasy VII http://www.ffonline.com/ff7/ did. Before I had spent a few days on a game before getting bored, I played FF7 for over 7 months before I finished it.
:) - There's a Windows version at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.kelly4/robot.ht m
Just waiting for the movie to come out on DVD - http://www.square-enix.co.jp/dvd/ff7ac/
By the way, does anyone remember Super Robot on OpenVMS? I spent hours at lunchtime at this game at work, not graphically great by any means but great fun when all you have is a VT220
Jonathan
http://www.justgofaster.com/
Here in Northern Ireland, which is still part of the UK, we can apply for an Irish Passport instead of a UK one. Guess what I'll be doing when my UK one runs out :)
Jonathan
http://www.justgofaster.com/
http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/
Jonathan
Oscar The Grouch Does California, Nevada & Arizona - http://www.mccormackj.fsnet.co.uk/oscarthegrouch
For all non-UK Slashdotters, this forum will bring you up to speed on what has been happening in the last week. - http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/forumdisplay.p hp?f=139
p so some of the training looked familiar and it brought back some happy memories.
I usually hate reality TV shows, but this one has me hooked, maybe because we have done the fantasic ATX http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/visitKSC/atx.as
BTW, they are either the stupidest people ever.. or brilliant actors.
Jonathan
Oscar The Grouch Does California, Nevada & Arizona - http://www.mccormackj.fsnet.co.uk/oscarthegrouch
BeatrIX Linux - http://www.watsky.net/
Jonathan
Mine's still working after 10 years - http://www.alphant.com/
For SETI@home, OpenVMS was responsible for less that 0.2% of the results returned. Non-intel Windows generated about 0.06%.
:)
:D
That's a fair point, I can see now why no official port has been done. I'm pretty sure a OpenVMS port will appear sometime so when it does I'll dust off the old AlphaServers again
I'd do it myself but I havn't programmed in about 9 years.... and I wasn't that good at it anyway
Jonathan
What I loved about SETI@Home compared to other distributed computing networks like http://www.ud.com/ was that there was loads of clients out there for Operating Systems and hardware dating back to the 80's. Hell you could even get a client for Satan itself, http://www.sco.com/ OpenServer
Now, you basically have to run Windows, MAC or Linux, if not you can feck off
I've got 2 old AlphaServers in work that have been running SETI@HOME since 2000, one running NT4 and one OpenVMS 7.1, never any downtime with either of them, time to call it a day on 15th December, it's a shame
Jonathan
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Oscar The Grouch Does California, Nevada, Arizona - http://www.mccormackj.fsnet.co.uk/oscarthegrouch/
Used it myself a few times when I worked in London in the 80's.
First of all, it would only work with a Nat West Deposit Account, if you did it with a current account you were screwed as you would get charged.
Lets say you had a big weekend coming up, you had £100 in your pocket and £100 in the bank. You would go to the bank and deposit £100 in the branch so you had £200 in Nat West. This would flag up on the ATM as you had £200 to withdraw, so you could go and withdraw £200 from the ATM, but for some reason (I assume the ATM's did a processing job every couple of days to a mainframe) the transaction didn't register on the branches computers for about 3 days and you could walk into the same branch 5 minutes later and withdraw another £200, so you had £400 now for the weekend. 3 days later however, the bank will have caught up and you are overdrawn by £200.
OK, now you are thinking about "hey you are going to get big charges for that", but the beauty was that it was meant to be impossible for you to go overdrawn on a deposit account so there was no charging procedures in place (the old computers are infallible thing that was mentioned in the original article), I did get called in to the bank once or twice to explain my actions but I just shrugged my shoulders and said "Well, I thought I had that much money in my account, sorry I buggered up, but why did you let me take that extra money out when I didn't have it, why didn't your computers stop me?" So I got away with it every time.
It was never a way to get free money, it was just a way to tide you over if you were a little short before your next pay day.
Jonathan
Oscar The Grouch Does America - http://www.mccormackj.fsnet.co.uk/oscarthegrouch/
"It's impressive, but I think that the goal of bridges is to be as short as possible (although in this case, that's obviously the shortest length it can be)."
:)
s /w-findaplace/w-carrickarede/
Hmm, I wonder if Northern Ireland holds the record for shortest bridge
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visit
Jonathan
Oscar The Grouch Does America - http://www.mccormackj.fsnet.co.uk/oscarthegrouch/
When you boot up, it flashes up "When I'm 64" which is apt for a machine with an Alpha chip in it ;)
Jonathan
Oscar The Grouch Does America - http://www.mccormackj.fsnet.co.uk/oscarthegrouch
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/uni x/story/0,10801,103779,00.html
With that gold suit he has a new life as an Elvis impersonator ahead of him methinks
Jonathan
http://www.justgofaster.com/
A bit offtopic, but does this apply to British women?
;)
Yes, but unfotunatly they all have bad teeth
Jonathan
http://members.lycos.co.uk/stripy_miata/
I never buy anything from Dixons or PC World as the spend 5 minutes selling you something and then 20 minutes trying to get you to buy their overpriced extended warrenties.
Last thing I bought there was a £20 Toaster and they wanted me to buy a £16 3 year warrenty for it.
Jonathan
http://donkeydoeslondon.freeservers.com/
I assume it was of Houston losing radio contact and couldn't help if anything went wrong?
Jonathan
http://donkeydoeslondon.freeservers.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_movies_that_h ave_been_considered_the_worst_ever
Jonathan
http://donkeydoeslondon.freeservers.com/