I've been a Netflix customer for years but I've never heard of this. I couldn't find any feature like this mentioned on the website either. How do you access it?
I'm not sure if you're joking, but just in case you aren't:
The type of piracy they are trying to stop here is people installing their one copy of Vista on the other computers they own. This would be piracy as you are only allowed to run it on one PC at a time. They didn't want people abusing the "hardware upgrade" clause to install Vista on to multiple machines at once.
I'm not sure I disagree with everything you said, but do you really think 5 months in prison is that bad? It actually seems like a pretty apt punishment for running a large BitTorrent site. The first thing I thought of when I read this story is "finally, they gave a copyright infringement punishment that is reasonable!"
I believe there is a big difference in the Second Life setting.
In the real world, they're cheap knockoffs. They're made from substandard materials and I'm sure the craftsmanship is not as good. But in a game like Second Life, stealing a texture to use on your own outfit has the SAME quality as the original, so there's no reason for a potential buyer to get the knockoff as opposed to the original.
Outlook has had this feature for a while as well - images don't load unless you specifically tell them to load. Also, you can add certain domains to a whitelist.
While analyzing the data I captured from my A Random Number experiment, I found TONS of sites just like the one this story is about. My project hit the front page of Digg and Delicious, but a lot of the referrers were from sites that just aggregated the RSS feed from either Digg or Delicious, and often times they were sites that just had a billion feeds from all over the web.
I couldn't find any AJAX on that site. It just uses Javascript to hide and show certain parts of the page, and display tooltips.
However, you're right that it's better than TFA.
To further your rebuttal for point #3, even if you have an HDTV it likely will not look as good as it does on the console boxes, or the promotional videos of "in game footage" for the next gen consoles. Just like computer games, console games run at different resolutions. The screenshots are taken at the equivalent of 1080p, which most HDTV's bought in the last several years don't support, and most games don't even support that resolution (but the developers can still take a screenshot at that res)
It IS possible to virtualize OS X on Windows, it's just not legal because of the whole OS X licence thing someone mentioned above. You can even do it inside of VMWare.
We still win because it cost the RIAA money. If they know it will cost them their own lawyer fees, plus their defendant's lawyer fees, and not even win the case, they will stop doing this crap.
Actually I experienced a creative use of SAP a couple years back. I was channel surfing and landed on some very young children's show. It was one of those ones where it was basically an adaptation of a kids book in to a 10 minute animated show.
Anyway, I can't remember why I switched on SAP, but when I did, I was surprised to find out that all it did was add narration to the whole thing. Whereas the normal show just has the dialog, the SAP added what I assume was the original text from whatever book this was a recreation of.
Actually, I work for a large game developer and publisher and every single one of our Xbox 360 titles have filled up a dual layer DVD (around 8 gigs) - we sometimes have to cut come graphic or sound content out at the end to make it fit.
Wow! This will make my double-boxing World of Warcraft loads easier. I always knew software like this existed but it can be pretty hard to find when you don't know exactly what to call it. (And the commercial software is usually on the top of the search results)
Got any more?:)
Wow. Hamachi is awesome. This is the answer my friends and I have been looking for for a long time!
I demand that you share with me other cool apps you use!
It's unfortunate that this method of advertising is so effective. There really is no way to weed out the "fake" posts from the real ones. I recently posted about my impressions of a product I tried out at E3, and was a bit offended when the reply I got was that I was "obviously" an employee of the company. But what can I say to make someone believe me? Anyone can type anything behind this anonymity...
When I go to the store and see a game that's based on a movie, I don't even give the box a second glance.
There have been so many bad movie-licenced games (and it seems that every single movie has one) that it's just not worth trying them anymore.
It surprises me that people buy these games and therefore make it worth it for more bad games to be released. I have a feeling this game will be another "Enter the Matrix"
Somehow I knew someone would accuse me of this.
I don't know WHY it's really nice, I'm not a designer. All I know is that I used it at E3 to play UT2004 and it just felt right, and worked really well.
I tried out the "phantom" at E3, and while I couldn't help but notice I was simply playing UT2004 on a big TV, the lapboard was REALLY nice. I walked away hoping they would just release the lapboard for PC someday because sitting on a comfy living room chair with that in your lap just feels right.
I like to hook up my computer to my 52" HDTV, and the biggest problem I have right now with doing that is that I have to hunch forward to get to my keyboard and mouse that I put on my coffee table. I've tried to put the keyboard/mouse on a surface on my legs, but nothing has worked as well as the lapboard did.
So as you might imagine, I'm looking forward to this a great deal
Slashdot Mirror
Need more info!
I've been a Netflix customer for years but I've never heard of this. I couldn't find any feature like this mentioned on the website either. How do you access it?
I'm not sure if you're joking, but just in case you aren't:
The type of piracy they are trying to stop here is people installing their one copy of Vista on the other computers they own. This would be piracy as you are only allowed to run it on one PC at a time. They didn't want people abusing the "hardware upgrade" clause to install Vista on to multiple machines at once.
I'm not sure I disagree with everything you said, but do you really think 5 months in prison is that bad? It actually seems like a pretty apt punishment for running a large BitTorrent site. The first thing I thought of when I read this story is "finally, they gave a copyright infringement punishment that is reasonable!"
That is exactly what I thought. I don't understand what the issue is.
I believe there is a big difference in the Second Life setting.
In the real world, they're cheap knockoffs. They're made from substandard materials and I'm sure the craftsmanship is not as good. But in a game like Second Life, stealing a texture to use on your own outfit has the SAME quality as the original, so there's no reason for a potential buyer to get the knockoff as opposed to the original.
Outlook has had this feature for a while as well - images don't load unless you specifically tell them to load. Also, you can add certain domains to a whitelist.
While analyzing the data I captured from my A Random Number experiment, I found TONS of sites just like the one this story is about. My project hit the front page of Digg and Delicious, but a lot of the referrers were from sites that just aggregated the RSS feed from either Digg or Delicious, and often times they were sites that just had a billion feeds from all over the web.
I couldn't find any AJAX on that site. It just uses Javascript to hide and show certain parts of the page, and display tooltips. However, you're right that it's better than TFA.
Actually, he just read the article summary.
I really thought that people were getting sick of the World War 2 setting in shooters. I know I am.
I guess there are at least 1 million people that disagree with me!
Oh come on, no one did the most obvious, real one: 3. Mac vs PC
To further your rebuttal for point #3, even if you have an HDTV it likely will not look as good as it does on the console boxes, or the promotional videos of "in game footage" for the next gen consoles. Just like computer games, console games run at different resolutions. The screenshots are taken at the equivalent of 1080p, which most HDTV's bought in the last several years don't support, and most games don't even support that resolution (but the developers can still take a screenshot at that res)
That makes me want to find out what Runescape is. It seems to be the only game on there besides WoW that's increasing in subscriptions...
It IS possible to virtualize OS X on Windows, it's just not legal because of the whole OS X licence thing someone mentioned above. You can even do it inside of VMWare.
Check out the OSX86 Project.
The C stands for "conference" not "convention".
We still win because it cost the RIAA money. If they know it will cost them their own lawyer fees, plus their defendant's lawyer fees, and not even win the case, they will stop doing this crap.
Actually I experienced a creative use of SAP a couple years back. I was channel surfing and landed on some very young children's show. It was one of those ones where it was basically an adaptation of a kids book in to a 10 minute animated show.
Anyway, I can't remember why I switched on SAP, but when I did, I was surprised to find out that all it did was add narration to the whole thing. Whereas the normal show just has the dialog, the SAP added what I assume was the original text from whatever book this was a recreation of.
Actually, I work for a large game developer and publisher and every single one of our Xbox 360 titles have filled up a dual layer DVD (around 8 gigs) - we sometimes have to cut come graphic or sound content out at the end to make it fit.
Actually, it requires 9 keystrokes and a pause. Unless you can somehow only push each button once.
Wow! This will make my double-boxing World of Warcraft loads easier. I always knew software like this existed but it can be pretty hard to find when you don't know exactly what to call it. (And the commercial software is usually on the top of the search results) Got any more? :)
Wow. Hamachi is awesome. This is the answer my friends and I have been looking for for a long time! I demand that you share with me other cool apps you use!
It's unfortunate that this method of advertising is so effective. There really is no way to weed out the "fake" posts from the real ones. I recently posted about my impressions of a product I tried out at E3, and was a bit offended when the reply I got was that I was "obviously" an employee of the company. But what can I say to make someone believe me? Anyone can type anything behind this anonymity...
When I go to the store and see a game that's based on a movie, I don't even give the box a second glance. There have been so many bad movie-licenced games (and it seems that every single movie has one) that it's just not worth trying them anymore. It surprises me that people buy these games and therefore make it worth it for more bad games to be released. I have a feeling this game will be another "Enter the Matrix"
Somehow I knew someone would accuse me of this. I don't know WHY it's really nice, I'm not a designer. All I know is that I used it at E3 to play UT2004 and it just felt right, and worked really well.
I tried out the "phantom" at E3, and while I couldn't help but notice I was simply playing UT2004 on a big TV, the lapboard was REALLY nice. I walked away hoping they would just release the lapboard for PC someday because sitting on a comfy living room chair with that in your lap just feels right.
I like to hook up my computer to my 52" HDTV, and the biggest problem I have right now with doing that is that I have to hunch forward to get to my keyboard and mouse that I put on my coffee table. I've tried to put the keyboard/mouse on a surface on my legs, but nothing has worked as well as the lapboard did.
So as you might imagine, I'm looking forward to this a great deal