Without the DRM, you'd be able to do EVERYTHING with those formats. Microsoft has capitulated to entertainment industry demands to put tilt bits and crap like that throughout it's infrastructure so it can tell if there's any kind of bus sniffing or anything going on in order to get a license to be able to play that media.
You seem to be under the impression that the DRM in Blu-Ray's and HD-DVD's is a good thing. It's not. It has royally screwed up the infrastructure of Windows, and made your computer less of your computer and more one that's only allowed to do what some company says it can do. Even if you never play a single Blu-Ray disc, you still have to deal with the bullshit drivers that make Creative sound cards useless. Isn't that awesome?
I don't know about you, but I'm all for remote controlled bugs instead of ridiculous cold-war style WMDs that are useless in the types of wars that are forseeable in the near future.
And how exactly would you know that someone developed HD televisions without advertising? Or that the local store has them for sale for $X, which is right in your budget? Advertising isn't necessarily just to convince you to get something... it can be just to inform. If I'm in the market for something, I pay more attention to ads for that thing. I even seek them out. How is that a bad thing? They inform me about options, and help me get the best deal for my money, as well as telling me that brand X has all these features that are awesome, but I wasn't aware of and was about to settle for brand Y of the same thing. A capitalist economy can only function properly when all parties are fully informed going into any value exchange. That will never happen completely, but advertising helps.
Really? I don't mind a lot of ads. I hate the ones that interrupt what I'm trying to get to, which is why I use Adblock, but if the ads aren't intrusive they can be quite informative. I get an email daily from Newegg, telling me what's on sale, about coupon codes, and so on. I'm not always in the market to buy computer gear, but when I am, I buy from them. Their ads are informative, and they back it up with good service. Nonprofit groups that need funds and volunteers also find people via advertising... would you deny them that? Sure, we're a "consumerist" society, but that's part of capitalism. If you don't want to be in a consumerist society, move to Malaysia and do subsistence farming.
See, all that shit you said annoys me, too. But I honestly don't mind ads like Hulu does it. Sometimes they alert me to a cause or something I wasn't aware of. Sometimes it's crap. But it is only a 30 second break in what I'm watching. I can live with that, if it means I can keep watching shows on Hulu. What gets me are where you get cable operators double-dipping, selling ads AND subscriptions, as well as taking public money to... hell if I know what they do with it. It probably goes up all the exec's noses. That is the advertising I take offense to... when they aren't giving me a product nearly as valuable as my time I give them to watch their ads.
You're assuming that native English speakers are actually able to notice this. Most people who are "literate" are just barely so. I'm sure you've read various message boards... hell, just Slashdot. Asking them to recognize incorrect grammar is a good step, but it's not a solution. Hell, on the flipside, I've seen many reputable businesses employing copywriters who apparently cannot write proper English.
Why pay him when he does such a good job of being crazy without any incentive? The "moral" incentive he has is more powerful than any amount of money, at least as far as he's concerned.
When I was in high school, some dumbasses learned how to send email "anonymously" through like, hotmail or something like that. They sent a threatening letter to Socks. Yes, that Socks. The Clinton's cat. Secret Service showed up a couple days later to have a very long chat with them... I'm not sure of all the details, but I believe they weren't allowed to use computers at school for at least the rest of the year, and were very close to going to jail.
For Jack to realize that what was said was legal would require him to be sane and properly be able to connect cause with effect. From his actions, I really don't think that he is, ergo, he keeps doing this shit.
And people kill each other with steak knives, too. I just use mine to cut steak. Just because it can be used that way doesn't mean that HackMii doing anything illegal or even morally wrong.
NOBODY CAN DRIVE AND BE SAFE, since there's always a risk of accident. Seriously... it's all about risk management. Reading a traffic text message is no different than the electronic signs over the highway that say "Traffic ahead! Slow down now!" or a "Construction Jun 17-25 10pm to 5am" signs on some of our highways here. Or a billboard.
I assume you're also the kind of person who puts a helmet on their kid when they go play outside in case they fall down, and all the walls and surfaces in your house are padded in case you trip?
But do they have a monopoly on the physics acceleration market? Is PhysX popular enough to put it into monopoly territory as compared to other libraries? If so, I think there's a good case of illegal product tying by a monopoly.
fglrx has always sucked. Why not look at an ATI card because their open-source driver is really maturing? It's OpenGL 1.4, and all recent cards should be supported in Ubuntu 10.04. My Radeon 4670 is already supported in the Fedora Core 12 betas (or are they alphas? I can never remember). ATI's open-source drivers are currently supporting Doom3, OpenArena, Nexuiz... lots of stuff. And they're playing the game with Intel, doing the acceleration the right way, instead of replacing most of the graphics stack with their own binary module like Nvidia does.
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Without the DRM, you'd be able to do EVERYTHING with those formats. Microsoft has capitulated to entertainment industry demands to put tilt bits and crap like that throughout it's infrastructure so it can tell if there's any kind of bus sniffing or anything going on in order to get a license to be able to play that media.
You seem to be under the impression that the DRM in Blu-Ray's and HD-DVD's is a good thing. It's not. It has royally screwed up the infrastructure of Windows, and made your computer less of your computer and more one that's only allowed to do what some company says it can do. Even if you never play a single Blu-Ray disc, you still have to deal with the bullshit drivers that make Creative sound cards useless. Isn't that awesome?
No it's not. Read the article... it's built on a 60GB classic PS3 (the only one with proper PS2 support). Linux most certainly is an option.
I don't know about you, but I'm all for remote controlled bugs instead of ridiculous cold-war style WMDs that are useless in the types of wars that are forseeable in the near future.
Kids these days. These are the original bad bugs.
Was it extraterrestrial reptiles? I knew it was extraterrestrial reptiles. Those fuckers.
And how exactly would you know that someone developed HD televisions without advertising? Or that the local store has them for sale for $X, which is right in your budget? Advertising isn't necessarily just to convince you to get something... it can be just to inform. If I'm in the market for something, I pay more attention to ads for that thing. I even seek them out. How is that a bad thing? They inform me about options, and help me get the best deal for my money, as well as telling me that brand X has all these features that are awesome, but I wasn't aware of and was about to settle for brand Y of the same thing. A capitalist economy can only function properly when all parties are fully informed going into any value exchange. That will never happen completely, but advertising helps.
Really? I don't mind a lot of ads. I hate the ones that interrupt what I'm trying to get to, which is why I use Adblock, but if the ads aren't intrusive they can be quite informative. I get an email daily from Newegg, telling me what's on sale, about coupon codes, and so on. I'm not always in the market to buy computer gear, but when I am, I buy from them. Their ads are informative, and they back it up with good service. Nonprofit groups that need funds and volunteers also find people via advertising... would you deny them that? Sure, we're a "consumerist" society, but that's part of capitalism. If you don't want to be in a consumerist society, move to Malaysia and do subsistence farming.
See, all that shit you said annoys me, too. But I honestly don't mind ads like Hulu does it. Sometimes they alert me to a cause or something I wasn't aware of. Sometimes it's crap. But it is only a 30 second break in what I'm watching. I can live with that, if it means I can keep watching shows on Hulu. What gets me are where you get cable operators double-dipping, selling ads AND subscriptions, as well as taking public money to... hell if I know what they do with it. It probably goes up all the exec's noses. That is the advertising I take offense to... when they aren't giving me a product nearly as valuable as my time I give them to watch their ads.
You'd think they'd at least push accessories or something instead...
No, it's just what team's idiocy. The kind of idiocy isn't even changing as of late.
Hey, breaking news! I found a patch for stupid! It works pretty well.
You're assuming that native English speakers are actually able to notice this. Most people who are "literate" are just barely so. I'm sure you've read various message boards... hell, just Slashdot. Asking them to recognize incorrect grammar is a good step, but it's not a solution. Hell, on the flipside, I've seen many reputable businesses employing copywriters who apparently cannot write proper English.
Yeah, well, my $500 stereo knobs make my stereo potentiometers absorb them and turn them into Pat Benatar tunes.
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Why pay him when he does such a good job of being crazy without any incentive? The "moral" incentive he has is more powerful than any amount of money, at least as far as he's concerned.
When I was in high school, some dumbasses learned how to send email "anonymously" through like, hotmail or something like that. They sent a threatening letter to Socks. Yes, that Socks. The Clinton's cat. Secret Service showed up a couple days later to have a very long chat with them... I'm not sure of all the details, but I believe they weren't allowed to use computers at school for at least the rest of the year, and were very close to going to jail.
For Jack to realize that what was said was legal would require him to be sane and properly be able to connect cause with effect. From his actions, I really don't think that he is, ergo, he keeps doing this shit.
And people kill each other with steak knives, too. I just use mine to cut steak. Just because it can be used that way doesn't mean that HackMii doing anything illegal or even morally wrong.
Are you sure it was sugar producers? Seems more like something the corn producers would lobby for, to get some subsidies.
The solution is to just not update your firmware. I don't like Nintendo doing this, but it's hardly forced on the users.
So it uses very little CPU... that just means the scanning of every file will take that much longer, and make installs that much slower.
NOBODY CAN DRIVE AND BE SAFE, since there's always a risk of accident. Seriously... it's all about risk management. Reading a traffic text message is no different than the electronic signs over the highway that say "Traffic ahead! Slow down now!" or a "Construction Jun 17-25 10pm to 5am" signs on some of our highways here. Or a billboard.
I assume you're also the kind of person who puts a helmet on their kid when they go play outside in case they fall down, and all the walls and surfaces in your house are padded in case you trip?
But do they have a monopoly on the physics acceleration market? Is PhysX popular enough to put it into monopoly territory as compared to other libraries? If so, I think there's a good case of illegal product tying by a monopoly.
fglrx has always sucked. Why not look at an ATI card because their open-source driver is really maturing? It's OpenGL 1.4, and all recent cards should be supported in Ubuntu 10.04. My Radeon 4670 is already supported in the Fedora Core 12 betas (or are they alphas? I can never remember). ATI's open-source drivers are currently supporting Doom3, OpenArena, Nexuiz... lots of stuff. And they're playing the game with Intel, doing the acceleration the right way, instead of replacing most of the graphics stack with their own binary module like Nvidia does.
Yeah, but that all their competitors will be able to market by saying "Oracle got fined for lying about benchmark claims"? That's priceless.