What if tomorrow DVD's are replaced by some other technology? Within a few years you no longer can find a DVD player to replace yours that just died. Now you have a collection of DVDs which contain the material you paid a license to watch. Your options are to pay again to have something you already have and paid for or to break the law and copy the data to a new medium.
The cynical answer would be that they want to sell more hardware (i.e., players) but stamping out disks is FAR more profitable and efficient than making new electronics. Keeping standards is FAR more profitable and efficient than getting into a situation where new ones have to be created.
The object for business is a sustainable profit stream. If they can kill off innovation, profits go up. Look no further than Microsoft for evidence.
look at it this way: bookies and whores are the most honest people to do _business_ with. All the serious dirtbags I've encountered in this world have come from the allegedly legitimate side of society. Stock brokers are number one on the dirtbag list. At least bookies will quote you the odds.
This is not nearly as critical as removing IE under Windows 98. With XP, removing access to IE is a trivial matter. Go to "Set Program Access and Defaults" under the start menu and uncheck access to IE. Simple. No need to break the OS.
As a veteran of 4 Hurricanes in five weeks last summer, I can declare that when the weather gets to "life threatening" levels, your computer stopped working long before that point.
Well, I wouldn't go complaining about the climate changes too much. On the positive side, Canada could handle being a bit warmer. And on a more positive side, at least it isn't "The Day After Tomorrow"
I thought the actions of Mr. Moss after his touchdown were hilarious and completely on topic. The Green Bay FudgePackers actually moon losing teams. Moss just pretended to moon them. It's a light retribution for earned karma.
young grasshopper, Greenland is approximately the same size as Mexico. Africa is bigger than the Americas and Europe combined. The US is quite small. Australia isn't all that big. What does that tell you? Look at the actual numbers, not the representations on the map.
There's no point to getting a computer LCD then a tuner when an LCD TV costs the same. I bought my LCD for space considerations more than anything else. I like available space. I have more seating in my living room and more space to walk through because I don't have a giant idiot box forcing everything closer together. Now it's an idiot panel and stays out of the way.
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Is eternal life being as ugly as Lo Pan?
This movie offers profound insight in both scope and depth on the difficulties of living forever and the kind of evil it can foster.
The cynical answer would be that they want to sell more hardware (i.e., players) but stamping out disks is FAR more profitable and efficient than making new electronics. Keeping standards is FAR more profitable and efficient than getting into a situation where new ones have to be created.
The object for business is a sustainable profit stream. If they can kill off innovation, profits go up. Look no further than Microsoft for evidence.
They don't seem to know what they want these glasses to do. Maybe play music. Maybe something else. Regardless, preorder today!
is not a word.
Please use real words to encourage people to care.
Dave... I'm sorry Dave. I'll never eat your pets again.
Everybody here is a robot powered by muscle.
nobody downloading this program.
/. effect will happen here.
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look at it this way: bookies and whores are the most honest people to do _business_ with. All the serious dirtbags I've encountered in this world have come from the allegedly legitimate side of society. Stock brokers are number one on the dirtbag list. At least bookies will quote you the odds.
I heard "LIBER TE! SAVE YOURSELF!"
[to the idiot mod: see Event Horizon.]
You mean 98 days ago?
This is not nearly as critical as removing IE under Windows 98. With XP, removing access to IE is a trivial matter. Go to "Set Program Access and Defaults" under the start menu and uncheck access to IE. Simple. No need to break the OS.
Agreed. Faster connection time for everyone else that has a clue on basic security. I don't want these people back. Let them use the library.
As a veteran of 4 Hurricanes in five weeks last summer, I can declare that when the weather gets to "life threatening" levels, your computer stopped working long before that point.
DAMN. That was funny. One of those rare instances where + 5 just isn't enough.
Just wait until the day after tomorrow. :)
I agree completely.
I thought the actions of Mr. Moss after his touchdown were hilarious and completely on topic. The Green Bay FudgePackers actually moon losing teams. Moss just pretended to moon them. It's a light retribution for earned karma.
"It doesn't affect me so bring on the tides."
That's a pretty brave position, tough guy. Try saying it when your elevation is sea level and within five miles of the ocean.
I can't remember the last time that /. informed its readers of something _ahead_ of time that isn't measured in decades.
All weekend? I think that after 24 hours you'll get septic shock. Could be 6 hours. Somebody might know.
A cheap yet funny post.
Once a geek, always a geek.
young grasshopper, Greenland is approximately the same size as Mexico. Africa is bigger than the Americas and Europe combined. The US is quite small. Australia isn't all that big. What does that tell you? Look at the actual numbers, not the representations on the map.
There's no point to getting a computer LCD then a tuner when an LCD TV costs the same. I bought my LCD for space considerations more than anything else. I like available space. I have more seating in my living room and more space to walk through because I don't have a giant idiot box forcing everything closer together. Now it's an idiot panel and stays out of the way.