Yeah, the xbox may store its games in this format, but it must be able to read the standard DVD file system if it is to play DVD movies. I'm sure if a mod chip comes out, it will have the ability to transfer the files to your computer over the wireless network, and play games off standard DVDs
Yeah, if you want to watch "on hour"? movies, then you'd be stuck without a good seat. Even off-hour they fill up pretty quick for the really popular movies. I don't even know why they put those first 5 rows in the theatres. Nobody really wants to sit there.
I've been watching invasion this year. It definitely helps to tape it and watch it later. Show's are soooo much better when you don't have to site through 4 or 5 commercials every 8 minutes. I was watching monday night football last night. Damn they pack a ton of commercials into that. I wish the leagues wouldn't give into the TV stations so much, and just play the game without taking TV breaks. It makes the sport so much less interesting. Same goes for hockey. I can't wait till the olympics are on this year. I love watching hockey without commercials.
Even without Tivo, we've gotten to the point where we just tape everything on the VCR and watch it later. Usually, I'd rather watch tv on the weekends, but most of the shows I watch are during the week. So I just tape them and watch them later. This has been possible for 20 years. I don't know why it hasn't been a problem before. I think that tv shows are just looking for an excuse to put out more ads. I mean, I don't know "that many" people with tivos. certainly not a big percentage compared to those who tape shows and watch them later on their vcr.
I'll agree with you about the GameCube. If you don't really care too much about having top of the line stuff, or having certain exclusive games, and just want a machine to play a few video games once in a while, then the GC is the way to go. It's cheap, reliable, and has a ton of really good games that don't require you to spend your whole life playing them just to be able to enjoy them.
I believe that this was the strategy with the GameCube. Although it only had 40 MB of RAM, 24 MB of that was T1-SRAM (I think), which was very fast. Basically, they were able to do quite a lot, with very little overall RAM, because it had a big chunk (comparatively) of really fast RAM, that it could used for frequently accessed data.
I am aware of MS's lack of care of responsibility for security, so I don't use their products either. The problem lies both in MS for not providing that security, and in Sony, for taking advantage of joe sixpack's lack of knowledge about the security of windows, or the existence of alternatives, and filling the already insecure OS with even more security problems. You can blame MS all you want, but it's a somewhat safe OS when there aren't people attacking it. Obviously there's always going to be people attacking it, but there has to be certain entities you are going to trust when using a computer. Most people wouldn't think twice about problems that may be encountered when inserting a cd from a major record label. And they shouldn't have to.
This is what makes NASCAR so exciting. They all run the exact same car, to pretty exacting specs. That way, different drivers win different events, depending on how well they do. The problem with "sports" that aren't based mostly on human skill, such as horse racing and F1, is that winning isn't based on how the person did, but how well the machine did. Luckily in horse racing, the win is actually attributed to the horse, who really deserves all the credit anyway.
I'd rather have laws in place to ensure that I got the health care I needed, instead of relying on the kindness of strangers. It's nice that you have run into sympathetic doctors in your life. I've heard of many anecdotes from people, with non-life threatening problems who were refused treatment. Because they didn't have insurance, and couldn't front the money. Just because it's not life threatening, doesn't mean you don't need the health care. When it's life or death, the doctor has to help you, and ask questions later.
I never said that doctors shouldn't get paid. In Canada, doctors still get paid. They actually make a very good living. Obviously they have to get paid. They just shouldn't be able to charge as much as they can milk out of the people. And in the US, the hospital decides when you can't pay. They will try to get some money out of you. Paying isn't optional. You can't just decide that you don't have the money, and not pay. They do make exceptions when you are truly out of options for paying, but only after ensuring that there is no way they are getting their money anyway.
Think about how many Americans are not getting the health care they need, or are forced into bankruptcy to get the healthcare they need, because they can't afford it. Think about how expensive you could make a private health care system. How much would people pay for their life? Think about the product that private healthcare is selling. I don't think that people's lives are something that should be a saleable item for profit.
Why don't the terrorists just use the email address to send out spam too? If they send out millions of random messages, encrypted, to everyone, it will be impossible for them to figure out who is in the terrorist ring, and who is just receiving encrypted junk they can't open.
The only reason people watch NASCAR is for the crashes. There's nothing exciting about watching people drive around in circles for a couple hours. Unless they crash. I've never really understood the popularity of NASCAR myself. Although I don't think it's that popular outside the USA. Even then, I think it's confined to specific parts of the USA.
I love how they try to invent new sports, in order to make money. If a sport makes X $ per year, then we can invent a new sport, and also make X $ a year. This makes no sense, as people don't want to watch new sports. They've tried it a few times, and it never really works that well. Sometimes, you get small cult followings, but never do you get to the level of the mega sports that are currently popular. This is going to go the way of slam ball. Which was a similarly stupid Idea. Watching people dunk isn't exciting once you realize that anyone could dunk if you gave them a trampelline.
Actually, to an outside observer, the plane, and the ball, and the players would all be moving in a parabolic way. However, this is a stupid sport, as they can only remain weightless for 20 seconds.
But this assumes there is nothing obstructing the rolling of the ball. If you throw it, and it ends up beside something else, there is a good chance that it won't be right side up. I think that in practice, you'd probably get about 20% of throws giving a picture that is acutally useful. Now, if they had 6 cameras in the thing, each placed at 90 degrees to eachother, then they would have a much better chance of getting a good shot.
It's a "what if" kind of thing. I know that there is no protection scheme that can't be broken. The other way is to convince governments to make it so risky to pirate (with fines or jail time) that people would rather pay the money than risk getting caught with pirated copies.
If you're looking for a good OSS burning program I have a couple of suggestions. If you're running Linux, then there's K3B. But if you're using windows, then you might want to take a look at CDBurnerXP (http://www.cdburnerxp.se/) (Windows XP not required). It's not open source, but it's free, and not just the trial version. It's free, with all the features, which there are a lot of.
This is very true. I wonder how quick free/Open Source software would take off if suddenly, all the expensive commercial software was impossible to pirate, or if they just made it too risky to bother pirating. Most people wouldn't choose MS Office over OO.o, if they were forced to fork over the $500. Same thing goes for photoshop, visual studio, and all that other high priced software with cheap/free alternatives.
But you don't realize. It takes X programmers to make a program, and it is sold Y people. If you sell it to 2Y people, you can hire 2X programmers. Just ignore the fact that if it was impossible to pirate stuff, that most people would just do without most of the software they are pirating, either that or use a free alternative.
I think what they think it means is the number of programs on computers, that aren't paid for, vs. the number that are paid for. This doesn't make a lot of sense though. Most people I know have photoshop installed. If they couldn't pirate it, they wouldn't have it. Simple as that. They aren't going to pay $700 for it. Same goes for many other programs that people tend to have installed at home. This includes windows and MS Office. Many people have MS Office Pro installed on their home computers. Very few of them have paid for it. 35%, I think, is the world average. Some countries have rates around 90%, while other countries have rates around 15%. Really, I think they are completely underestimating how much pirated software people have . Lots of people who have paid for the OS, and maybe 3 or 4 other programs, also have 20 programs that they haven't paid form. Meaning that out of maybe 25 programs, they've probably paid for 5. This means they are pirating 80% of their software.
I've always wondered how much development time goes into trying to get OO.o to read and write microsoft formats correctly, and how much better of a program it would be if that time was spent improving it's own capabilities instead of trying to perfect the art of openning.doc files, which even MSOffice screws up sometimes.
I find microsoft office extremely irritating compare to OO.o. There's often times when the formatting gets messed up, and there's nothing you can do to fix it. In OO.o, i've unzipped the file, and gone in an edited it by hand to fix the problems. Formatting problems always happen. It's being able to fix them that is the nice thing. What ever happened to reveal codes like in WP. That was awesome. Also, I hate dropping in 50 KB jpegs, and having my document get 300K bigger. I hate having to try to draw in the word processing program, or having to go to the presentation program to do good drawings. Where is there "Draw" equivalent? Oh, and I absolutely hate the fact that it tries to guess what you are doing, and changes around your document. For some reason, it's impossible to turn off all the auto junk. I've managed to do it in OO.o, why can't I do it with MSO.
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Yeah, the xbox may store its games in this format, but it must be able to read the standard DVD file system if it is to play DVD movies. I'm sure if a mod chip comes out, it will have the ability to transfer the files to your computer over the wireless network, and play games off standard DVDs
Yeah, if you want to watch "on hour"? movies, then you'd be stuck without a good seat. Even off-hour they fill up pretty quick for the really popular movies. I don't even know why they put those first 5 rows in the theatres. Nobody really wants to sit there.
I've been watching invasion this year. It definitely helps to tape it and watch it later. Show's are soooo much better when you don't have to site through 4 or 5 commercials every 8 minutes. I was watching monday night football last night. Damn they pack a ton of commercials into that. I wish the leagues wouldn't give into the TV stations so much, and just play the game without taking TV breaks. It makes the sport so much less interesting. Same goes for hockey. I can't wait till the olympics are on this year. I love watching hockey without commercials.
Even without Tivo, we've gotten to the point where we just tape everything on the VCR and watch it later. Usually, I'd rather watch tv on the weekends, but most of the shows I watch are during the week. So I just tape them and watch them later. This has been possible for 20 years. I don't know why it hasn't been a problem before. I think that tv shows are just looking for an excuse to put out more ads. I mean, I don't know "that many" people with tivos. certainly not a big percentage compared to those who tape shows and watch them later on their vcr.
I'll agree with you about the GameCube. If you don't really care too much about having top of the line stuff, or having certain exclusive games, and just want a machine to play a few video games once in a while, then the GC is the way to go. It's cheap, reliable, and has a ton of really good games that don't require you to spend your whole life playing them just to be able to enjoy them.
I believe that this was the strategy with the GameCube. Although it only had 40 MB of RAM, 24 MB of that was T1-SRAM (I think), which was very fast. Basically, they were able to do quite a lot, with very little overall RAM, because it had a big chunk (comparatively) of really fast RAM, that it could used for frequently accessed data.
I am aware of MS's lack of care of responsibility for security, so I don't use their products either. The problem lies both in MS for not providing that security, and in Sony, for taking advantage of joe sixpack's lack of knowledge about the security of windows, or the existence of alternatives, and filling the already insecure OS with even more security problems. You can blame MS all you want, but it's a somewhat safe OS when there aren't people attacking it. Obviously there's always going to be people attacking it, but there has to be certain entities you are going to trust when using a computer. Most people wouldn't think twice about problems that may be encountered when inserting a cd from a major record label. And they shouldn't have to.
This is what makes NASCAR so exciting. They all run the exact same car, to pretty exacting specs. That way, different drivers win different events, depending on how well they do. The problem with "sports" that aren't based mostly on human skill, such as horse racing and F1, is that winning isn't based on how the person did, but how well the machine did. Luckily in horse racing, the win is actually attributed to the horse, who really deserves all the credit anyway.
Couldn't they just go without coke for passover? I mean it wouldn't really do them much harm. It would probably do them a lot of good.
I'd rather have laws in place to ensure that I got the health care I needed, instead of relying on the kindness of strangers. It's nice that you have run into sympathetic doctors in your life. I've heard of many anecdotes from people, with non-life threatening problems who were refused treatment. Because they didn't have insurance, and couldn't front the money. Just because it's not life threatening, doesn't mean you don't need the health care. When it's life or death, the doctor has to help you, and ask questions later.
I never said that doctors shouldn't get paid. In Canada, doctors still get paid. They actually make a very good living. Obviously they have to get paid. They just shouldn't be able to charge as much as they can milk out of the people. And in the US, the hospital decides when you can't pay. They will try to get some money out of you. Paying isn't optional. You can't just decide that you don't have the money, and not pay. They do make exceptions when you are truly out of options for paying, but only after ensuring that there is no way they are getting their money anyway.
Think about how many Americans are not getting the health care they need, or are forced into bankruptcy to get the healthcare they need, because they can't afford it. Think about how expensive you could make a private health care system. How much would people pay for their life? Think about the product that private healthcare is selling. I don't think that people's lives are something that should be a saleable item for profit.
Why don't the terrorists just use the email address to send out spam too? If they send out millions of random messages, encrypted, to everyone, it will be impossible for them to figure out who is in the terrorist ring, and who is just receiving encrypted junk they can't open.
but couldn't you just go through their proxy, to your own proxy, and encrypt everything between your own proxy, and the computer you are on?
The only reason people watch NASCAR is for the crashes. There's nothing exciting about watching people drive around in circles for a couple hours. Unless they crash. I've never really understood the popularity of NASCAR myself. Although I don't think it's that popular outside the USA. Even then, I think it's confined to specific parts of the USA.
I love how they try to invent new sports, in order to make money. If a sport makes X $ per year, then we can invent a new sport, and also make X $ a year. This makes no sense, as people don't want to watch new sports. They've tried it a few times, and it never really works that well. Sometimes, you get small cult followings, but never do you get to the level of the mega sports that are currently popular. This is going to go the way of slam ball. Which was a similarly stupid Idea. Watching people dunk isn't exciting once you realize that anyone could dunk if you gave them a trampelline.
Actually, to an outside observer, the plane, and the ball, and the players would all be moving in a parabolic way. However, this is a stupid sport, as they can only remain weightless for 20 seconds.
But this assumes there is nothing obstructing the rolling of the ball. If you throw it, and it ends up beside something else, there is a good chance that it won't be right side up. I think that in practice, you'd probably get about 20% of throws giving a picture that is acutally useful. Now, if they had 6 cameras in the thing, each placed at 90 degrees to eachother, then they would have a much better chance of getting a good shot.
It's a "what if" kind of thing. I know that there is no protection scheme that can't be broken. The other way is to convince governments to make it so risky to pirate (with fines or jail time) that people would rather pay the money than risk getting caught with pirated copies.
If you're looking for a good OSS burning program I have a couple of suggestions. If you're running Linux, then there's K3B. But if you're using windows, then you might want to take a look at CDBurnerXP (http://www.cdburnerxp.se/) (Windows XP not required). It's not open source, but it's free, and not just the trial version. It's free, with all the features, which there are a lot of.
This is very true. I wonder how quick free/Open Source software would take off if suddenly, all the expensive commercial software was impossible to pirate, or if they just made it too risky to bother pirating. Most people wouldn't choose MS Office over OO.o, if they were forced to fork over the $500. Same thing goes for photoshop, visual studio, and all that other high priced software with cheap/free alternatives.
But you don't realize. It takes X programmers to make a program, and it is sold Y people. If you sell it to 2Y people, you can hire 2X programmers. Just ignore the fact that if it was impossible to pirate stuff, that most people would just do without most of the software they are pirating, either that or use a free alternative.
I think what they think it means is the number of programs on computers, that aren't paid for, vs. the number that are paid for. This doesn't make a lot of sense though. Most people I know have photoshop installed. If they couldn't pirate it, they wouldn't have it. Simple as that. They aren't going to pay $700 for it. Same goes for many other programs that people tend to have installed at home. This includes windows and MS Office. Many people have MS Office Pro installed on their home computers. Very few of them have paid for it. 35%, I think, is the world average. Some countries have rates around 90%, while other countries have rates around 15%. Really, I think they are completely underestimating how much pirated software people have . Lots of people who have paid for the OS, and maybe 3 or 4 other programs, also have 20 programs that they haven't paid form. Meaning that out of maybe 25 programs, they've probably paid for 5. This means they are pirating 80% of their software.
I've always wondered how much development time goes into trying to get OO.o to read and write microsoft formats correctly, and how much better of a program it would be if that time was spent improving it's own capabilities instead of trying to perfect the art of openning .doc files, which even MSOffice screws up sometimes.
I find microsoft office extremely irritating compare to OO.o. There's often times when the formatting gets messed up, and there's nothing you can do to fix it. In OO.o, i've unzipped the file, and gone in an edited it by hand to fix the problems. Formatting problems always happen. It's being able to fix them that is the nice thing. What ever happened to reveal codes like in WP. That was awesome. Also, I hate dropping in 50 KB jpegs, and having my document get 300K bigger. I hate having to try to draw in the word processing program, or having to go to the presentation program to do good drawings. Where is there "Draw" equivalent? Oh, and I absolutely hate the fact that it tries to guess what you are doing, and changes around your document. For some reason, it's impossible to turn off all the auto junk. I've managed to do it in OO.o, why can't I do it with MSO.