Well, I imagine that if all the keys need to be revoked, they will either give up and just let us copy everything, or they will release some sort of upgrade disc that can be read only by the players (yeah right) that will have new keys on it. This could go on for sometime, where every 3 months you have to go out and get a new disc of keys. Here's a question. If a disc is encoded with 1 key, and that key gets revoked, is that disc unplayable in old players? in all new players? or does it not disable anything at all, and just cause no new discs to be printed with that key?
DRM doesn't make anything any cheaper. iTunes still cost as much as a regular CD. Sure you can just buy one song, but for the entire album, the price is pretty much the same (sometimes more on iTunes). Plus you get a lower quality version, no physical CD, no Case, no Liner notes that are already printed on a commercial quality printing press (not some crappy liner notes you have to printe out on your crappy inkjet), and they pay pretty much 0 production cost. Oh, and the music is locked down a lot more than it is on a regular CD. For iTunes to be worth it, it would have to be down around 25 cents a song.
Yeah, those kind of people ruin it for everyone. It used to be unlimited movies, and then people were blasting through 40 movies a month, costing them $50 in postage for a $25 membership. So they cut back the number of movies you could get in a month to ensure they wouldn't lose any money even off a single customer. I think the old way was better. Sure they might have lost a little money off some people on some months, but on the whole they were making money. It's the people who went through 4 movies a day that really caused a problem.
Wow, I had no idea they sold those at Amazon. That's probably the last place I thought I'd find those. Next to walmart that is. Although, it would go nice as a recommended item when purchasing erotica.
Which most likely depends on the speed of your processor. So how much is 5 hours of my hard drive grinding and my processor running at full steam worth to me?
WTF is DCMA Copy protection? That says nothing about what the copy protection it is, or how breakable it is. Basically it says that it's against the law to break it, but that describes pretty much any method of copy protection currently available.
Wouldn't that mean that it probably wouldn't pay in any computer dvd player? I think a lot of people would be mighty pissed if they bought a movie and couldn't play it on the laptop that they used to burn it. I wonder if the XBox would even be able to play it. It uses a standard computer CD drive, and as far as I'm aware, all DVD Decoding is done in software. If lots of discs were published using this method, couldn't DVD Shrink be modified to not choke.
This is great for backing up kids movies so they don't get damaged. Take off all the crap, and the DVD plays instantly, no navigating through menus, no FBI warnings telling me how bad of a person I am, and no soundtracks from languages I don't understand anyway. This is the way DVDs should be, with the menu button showing the menus only when you want to see the menus, and not otherwise.
I haven't noticed that problem with Zip.ca. And instead of throttling, they placed actually limits on how many movies you're allowed to get in a month. You can't realistically expect them to run a business spending $30 in postage a month for you $25 membership. So they've cut down the number of movies you can get in a month. After that, you can still get move movies, but you're paying for them, still at a much cheaper price than it costs to rent them. They also have this "Get it Now" feature which means they send it out right away, but costs you money. This is alos less than a rental.
Nintendo didn't get trounced last generation. The GC sold about as many units as the XBox did worldwide. So if the GC got trounced then so did XBox. I don't know where the rumour comes from that Nintendo has been "trounced". According to wikipedia on Console wars GC sold 20 million units, and XBox 24 million units. PS2 killed them both with 102 million units shipped (unknown how many are sold). And the N64 sold 33 Million units. I don't really call that a low sales number. Sure it isn't as good as the PS was, but it came out a full year later, and didn't have CDs which was considered a major disadvantage.
Well, Maybe there's lots of kids who were born after 1996, and don't know much about Nintendo, but I don't think you'll find too many parents who were born after 1996. I think that many parents just aren't willing to spend $600 on a game console. $250 (from what I hear) from the wii is a much better price point.
Yeah, Sometimes I think it would be better to just send the movie back right away if I didn't want to watch it now. Then within 2 days you'd get another one, whereas usually it would just be sitting on the shelf. The other thing that is a problem (i'm canadian, so i'm talking zip.ca here) is that you can only put 2 movies on ASAP at a time, and if neither of those are available, or you forget to mark stuff as ASAP, then it just sends random movies. I think there's some sort of algorithm, based on how long it been on your list, but nothing relating to how much you actually want to see it. You should be able to rate every movie on your list in terms of importance, and they send you the highest ranked one that they have in stock. That way you could rank everything as you put it on the list, and not have to worry about having nothing ranked, and them just sending a random movie from you list.
Yeah, but extensions is a much better way to accomplish additional features without making the browser extremely bloated. I like to have some extensions that I know other people would hate. And other people have extensions that I would never want to use, or even have installed. It's the only sane way to have both lots of features, and not have a browser that feels bloated.
The person I was responding to was talking about using stored procedures specifically, I know a lot of people in this store are talking about prepared statements, but I was referring specifically to his comment about stored procedures. I think prepared statements are definitely the way to go. I never said that manually trying to escape everything was a good idea. In fact, it's a terrible Idea.
Yes, but the Wii still has ports for the old school GC controllers, so if games just want to use standard controllers, they can do that. The controllers are already pretty cheap ($20 US), and will probably get cheaper once there's 2 systems that support them. So, for games that don't care about or don't need the new controller functionality, they can still use the old controllers.
Can you please tell me how to manage 600 stored procedures in a sane manner? You get this giant list of stored procedures which are not categorized in any way. There's no intellisense stuff when you're trying to use them in your code either. So, every time you need to call one, you have to search through your docs to figure out what it is. Also, I don't think that any of sql databases really handle source control very well. Sure you could have files with all your stored procedures in them, but then you have to have 2 copies of everything. One in the database, and one in the file.
Yeah. I never really got how injection attacks were really that much of a problem. Just use prepared statements. Not only will you system be more secure, it will run faster. You don't even have to worry about injection attacks because it's impossible. Failing that, you could just make sure that you do your own verification of the string before doing it, but really it's not worth the hassle. It much easier to write prepared statements.
But kids don't want to be just another brick in the wall. They don't need no education. Which makes this whole "School your way" thing such a bad idea. Nobody wants to go on some crappy social networking site to talk about school supplies, and stuff that can be bought from walmart. I understand of having a safe social networking site for teens, but this is just stupid. First it's not safe, as how do they actually notify your parents? Do you give them "your parents" email address? Yeah, because like you couldn't make some fake hotmail account just for this purpose. Also, I went to the first screen of the signup process, and they want you to enter your entire address. Everybody knows you don't just go to a random site and enter your address. I know they need to send me prizes, but maybe they can talk to me about my address when they actually have something to send to me. I can just see it now. Their database gets compromised, with all the users addresses linked to their page.
I guess it's like that in the states, but in Canada there's only walmart in the cities. The again, maybe in Canada we have a different idea of "small town". When I hear "small town" I think under 15,000 people, maybe up to 20,000 people. I don't think i've ever seen a walmart in a town that size. You usually don't see a walmart in any town with less than 70,000 people. That is definitely not small town.
But why would you want to rent a movie to watch on your computer screen? I think this will be the breaking point for any online movie service. If you can't watch it on your home theatre, then only a small percentage of people will use this service. I think the rental model makes a lot of sense for movies too. However, there's no way with the current technology to get something you can only play for a limited time, and that you can't copy.
I live in a city, which means the post office does not collect outgoing mail, so Netflix is inconvenient
Are you telling me you don't see at least 5 mailboxes on your way to work each day. I don't know about you, but I use Zip.ca and love the fact that you can just drop the movies in the mailbox when you are done with them. What messed up city do you live in that you find it too much trouble to get to a mail box to return a movie.
I agree. I would much rather they had online movie sales where you burned a DVD as the final product instead of renting a movie. If I'm going to take the time to download gigs (if you want good quality) of information, I want to be able to keep the movie once i've downloaded it. I realize it would be impossible to stop people from copying the burned DVD for all their friends, but that's pretty much the way it is now with DVDs and CDs, so I don't see why they should be afraid. Also, I want to be able to watch this on my home theatre. My computer monitor/speakers just don't cut it when it comes to movies, and video out on most video cards is highly inferior to what you get straight from a DVD player. Also, it requires that you have a computer in the same room as the TV.
Well, if it's your windows laptop, and she keeps on messing it up, maybe you shouldn't let her use it anymore. Tell her that until she learns how to use a computer without messing it up, that she isn't allowed to use it. Maybe it seems like something you'd tell a child, or you think that she won't love you anymore, it's probably the best solution.
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Well, I imagine that if all the keys need to be revoked, they will either give up and just let us copy everything, or they will release some sort of upgrade disc that can be read only by the players (yeah right) that will have new keys on it. This could go on for sometime, where every 3 months you have to go out and get a new disc of keys. Here's a question. If a disc is encoded with 1 key, and that key gets revoked, is that disc unplayable in old players? in all new players? or does it not disable anything at all, and just cause no new discs to be printed with that key?
DRM doesn't make anything any cheaper. iTunes still cost as much as a regular CD. Sure you can just buy one song, but for the entire album, the price is pretty much the same (sometimes more on iTunes). Plus you get a lower quality version, no physical CD, no Case, no Liner notes that are already printed on a commercial quality printing press (not some crappy liner notes you have to printe out on your crappy inkjet), and they pay pretty much 0 production cost. Oh, and the music is locked down a lot more than it is on a regular CD. For iTunes to be worth it, it would have to be down around 25 cents a song.
Yeah, those kind of people ruin it for everyone. It used to be unlimited movies, and then people were blasting through 40 movies a month, costing them $50 in postage for a $25 membership. So they cut back the number of movies you could get in a month to ensure they wouldn't lose any money even off a single customer. I think the old way was better. Sure they might have lost a little money off some people on some months, but on the whole they were making money. It's the people who went through 4 movies a day that really caused a problem.
Wow, I had no idea they sold those at Amazon. That's probably the last place I thought I'd find those. Next to walmart that is. Although, it would go nice as a recommended item when purchasing erotica.
Which most likely depends on the speed of your processor. So how much is 5 hours of my hard drive grinding and my processor running at full steam worth to me?
WTF is DCMA Copy protection? That says nothing about what the copy protection it is, or how breakable it is. Basically it says that it's against the law to break it, but that describes pretty much any method of copy protection currently available.
Wouldn't that mean that it probably wouldn't pay in any computer dvd player? I think a lot of people would be mighty pissed if they bought a movie and couldn't play it on the laptop that they used to burn it. I wonder if the XBox would even be able to play it. It uses a standard computer CD drive, and as far as I'm aware, all DVD Decoding is done in software. If lots of discs were published using this method, couldn't DVD Shrink be modified to not choke.
This is great for backing up kids movies so they don't get damaged. Take off all the crap, and the DVD plays instantly, no navigating through menus, no FBI warnings telling me how bad of a person I am, and no soundtracks from languages I don't understand anyway. This is the way DVDs should be, with the menu button showing the menus only when you want to see the menus, and not otherwise.
With a DVD Rewinder of course. :)
I haven't noticed that problem with Zip.ca. And instead of throttling, they placed actually limits on how many movies you're allowed to get in a month. You can't realistically expect them to run a business spending $30 in postage a month for you $25 membership. So they've cut down the number of movies you can get in a month. After that, you can still get move movies, but you're paying for them, still at a much cheaper price than it costs to rent them. They also have this "Get it Now" feature which means they send it out right away, but costs you money. This is alos less than a rental.
Nintendo didn't get trounced last generation. The GC sold about as many units as the XBox did worldwide. So if the GC got trounced then so did XBox. I don't know where the rumour comes from that Nintendo has been "trounced". According to wikipedia on Console wars GC sold 20 million units, and XBox 24 million units. PS2 killed them both with 102 million units shipped (unknown how many are sold). And the N64 sold 33 Million units. I don't really call that a low sales number. Sure it isn't as good as the PS was, but it came out a full year later, and didn't have CDs which was considered a major disadvantage.
Well, Maybe there's lots of kids who were born after 1996, and don't know much about Nintendo, but I don't think you'll find too many parents who were born after 1996. I think that many parents just aren't willing to spend $600 on a game console. $250 (from what I hear) from the wii is a much better price point.
Yeah, Sometimes I think it would be better to just send the movie back right away if I didn't want to watch it now. Then within 2 days you'd get another one, whereas usually it would just be sitting on the shelf. The other thing that is a problem (i'm canadian, so i'm talking zip.ca here) is that you can only put 2 movies on ASAP at a time, and if neither of those are available, or you forget to mark stuff as ASAP, then it just sends random movies. I think there's some sort of algorithm, based on how long it been on your list, but nothing relating to how much you actually want to see it. You should be able to rate every movie on your list in terms of importance, and they send you the highest ranked one that they have in stock. That way you could rank everything as you put it on the list, and not have to worry about having nothing ranked, and them just sending a random movie from you list.
Yeah, but extensions is a much better way to accomplish additional features without making the browser extremely bloated. I like to have some extensions that I know other people would hate. And other people have extensions that I would never want to use, or even have installed. It's the only sane way to have both lots of features, and not have a browser that feels bloated.
The person I was responding to was talking about using stored procedures specifically, I know a lot of people in this store are talking about prepared statements, but I was referring specifically to his comment about stored procedures. I think prepared statements are definitely the way to go. I never said that manually trying to escape everything was a good idea. In fact, it's a terrible Idea.
Yes, but the Wii still has ports for the old school GC controllers, so if games just want to use standard controllers, they can do that. The controllers are already pretty cheap ($20 US), and will probably get cheaper once there's 2 systems that support them. So, for games that don't care about or don't need the new controller functionality, they can still use the old controllers.
Can you please tell me how to manage 600 stored procedures in a sane manner? You get this giant list of stored procedures which are not categorized in any way. There's no intellisense stuff when you're trying to use them in your code either. So, every time you need to call one, you have to search through your docs to figure out what it is. Also, I don't think that any of sql databases really handle source control very well. Sure you could have files with all your stored procedures in them, but then you have to have 2 copies of everything. One in the database, and one in the file.
Yeah. I never really got how injection attacks were really that much of a problem. Just use prepared statements. Not only will you system be more secure, it will run faster. You don't even have to worry about injection attacks because it's impossible. Failing that, you could just make sure that you do your own verification of the string before doing it, but really it's not worth the hassle. It much easier to write prepared statements.
But kids don't want to be just another brick in the wall. They don't need no education. Which makes this whole "School your way" thing such a bad idea. Nobody wants to go on some crappy social networking site to talk about school supplies, and stuff that can be bought from walmart. I understand of having a safe social networking site for teens, but this is just stupid. First it's not safe, as how do they actually notify your parents? Do you give them "your parents" email address? Yeah, because like you couldn't make some fake hotmail account just for this purpose. Also, I went to the first screen of the signup process, and they want you to enter your entire address. Everybody knows you don't just go to a random site and enter your address. I know they need to send me prizes, but maybe they can talk to me about my address when they actually have something to send to me. I can just see it now. Their database gets compromised, with all the users addresses linked to their page.
I guess it's like that in the states, but in Canada there's only walmart in the cities. The again, maybe in Canada we have a different idea of "small town". When I hear "small town" I think under 15,000 people, maybe up to 20,000 people. I don't think i've ever seen a walmart in a town that size. You usually don't see a walmart in any town with less than 70,000 people. That is definitely not small town.
That explains why Bill Gates is the richest man in the world.
But why would you want to rent a movie to watch on your computer screen? I think this will be the breaking point for any online movie service. If you can't watch it on your home theatre, then only a small percentage of people will use this service. I think the rental model makes a lot of sense for movies too. However, there's no way with the current technology to get something you can only play for a limited time, and that you can't copy.
I live in a city, which means the post office does not collect outgoing mail, so Netflix is inconvenient Are you telling me you don't see at least 5 mailboxes on your way to work each day. I don't know about you, but I use Zip.ca and love the fact that you can just drop the movies in the mailbox when you are done with them. What messed up city do you live in that you find it too much trouble to get to a mail box to return a movie.
I agree. I would much rather they had online movie sales where you burned a DVD as the final product instead of renting a movie. If I'm going to take the time to download gigs (if you want good quality) of information, I want to be able to keep the movie once i've downloaded it. I realize it would be impossible to stop people from copying the burned DVD for all their friends, but that's pretty much the way it is now with DVDs and CDs, so I don't see why they should be afraid. Also, I want to be able to watch this on my home theatre. My computer monitor/speakers just don't cut it when it comes to movies, and video out on most video cards is highly inferior to what you get straight from a DVD player. Also, it requires that you have a computer in the same room as the TV.
Well, if it's your windows laptop, and she keeps on messing it up, maybe you shouldn't let her use it anymore. Tell her that until she learns how to use a computer without messing it up, that she isn't allowed to use it. Maybe it seems like something you'd tell a child, or you think that she won't love you anymore, it's probably the best solution.