Yea, they do.. its called dots... they use a series of dots in various frames throughout the movie to track where the copies come from. Of course the warez groups are on to this, and photoshop the frames that contain the dots to remove or alter them to protect their suppliers...
T4 used to carry a lot of the backhaul feeds for the networks. Simpsons, Everybody loves Raymond, etc. Its dropped off recently due to networks switching to digital feeds, but it still used to be the only way to watch Simpsons at 7am saturday morning...
Yea they do. If you really like the DVD. I cant sit down and watch fellowship over and over, but I can sit down and watch Family Guy, Simpsons, or Futurrama over and over and over. They're funny. And I've got enough volumes of them to keep from getting bored. Now granted, a TV series costs more than a normal movie DVD (depending on which series, it could be a lot more).
And I have got sick of some CDs. Mostly because nothing I like has come along lately, so I've been listening to the same (old) stuff I like over and over and over. And now its boring...
I've been saying this for a while! Why buy a CD for $13-15 when you can get a DVD for 15-20. DVDs have way more entertainment value than a CD. With DVD players in cars to occupy your passangers, music CDs realm of entertainment is also being displaced. Somethings you cant watch a DVD to but you could listen to a CD (work for example). Like its been said, bring CD prices to $9.99 and its a far better value.
At my company, we give everyone the idea that they have complete privacy, but in reality every email/IM conversation is logged and read
Thus I use trillian and SecureIM. Keeps those guys in IS/IT out of my business.
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Anandtech is only comparing single processor Opteron performance against everything else, no infact, Athlon64 performance. The primary difference is that the Opteron has a dual channel memory subsystem, whereas the Athlon64 has a single channel system. This difference will have an affect on performance.
What MS is complaining about is that a govt is going to be funding this. And governments dont need to be profitable, if they give the OS away for free and spent $1B USD developing it, no big deal. It just came out of the taxpayers pockets (who now get to use it for free so they really paid for it anyways). But yea, my point is governments dont have a profit margin. MS does. The govt can undercut MS's product. Thats what they worry about.
Thanks to their friends over in the Movie industry, $13 still isnt low enough for me to buy a CD. Most DVDs are $15-25, and it doesnt necessarily mean that the $15 movies suck either, I picked up Dogma last week for $15 at BB. A $13 CD or $15 (or $20) movie? CDs would need to go down to $10 before I start looking for them as entertainment again...
I honestly think that these two apps can replace IE/OE on most people's home computers within 6 months. I try to evangelized Firebird with my friends and coworkers and it worked up until the new google toolbar for IE started blocking popups.. I still love it though. Love live the *bird.
Is this good? That we got a delay? Or do they simply want to wait until the tide rolls out, then pass it when there isnt as much vocal opposition. Regardless, keep the pressure on them! Make sure software patents arent allowed!
The freeway you're talking about is Interstate 15 near San Diego, CA. They built a single lane, multi-mile segment on the inside median, with magnets under the road every 100'. The car would be programed to follow the magnets and make course corrections. There were also ultrasonic sensors on the front and back. The demo had 3 cars at 100mph, 10' apart with the system engaged.
Surprisingly, I've noticed that Family Guy Vol 1 its a top DVD seller, or at least thats what Yahoo Shopping says. When I went to buy it the day it came out, the best buy was nearly out, the guy who was stocking the shelf said he'd never seen a TV series sell so well.
For direct-to-DVD to work, they'd probably raise the prices to $50 (say if they sold 250K copies, thats 12.5M USD), but still its ever so slightly fesiable.
I own a HAVi enabled TV (Mits WS-55511) and while its nice to know its there, there arent many other HAVi enabled devices. No HAVi DVD players, cable boxes, etc. Thats the current problem with HAVi.
It is a pipe dream. First, the data sent over firewire is typically 5C encrypted. Second, current HAVi licenses prohibit the use of computer to store unencrypted data. There is a PCI card supposedly in development that acts as a HAVi slave device.
I submitted this yesterday and it was rejected, and I even included this important link regarding who funds Howard Berman.
1 Walt Disney Co $32,000 2 AOL Time Warner $29,050 3 Vivendi Universal $27,341 4 Viacom Inc $15,000 5 News Corp $11,750 6 DreamWorks SKG $11,000 7 American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees $10,000 7 National Assn of Realtors $10,000 7 Service Employees International Union $10,000 7 William Morris Agency $10,000
I was thinking about this in lieu of the RIAA sending subpeonas to ISPs, and why ISPs need to keep logs of what MAC address had what IP at what time. Maybe it would be enough to drop the time, or get really vauge? "Yea, three MACs have had that IP address this week, sorry, cant tell ya which one had it at that time." Not quite sure how that would affect tracking the source of hacker and/or hacking. Vauge engough to keep it out of a court of law, specific enough to combat/detect hacking.
Of course, whats the big deal to set my computer to an empty address in the DHCP pool, and DHCP logs wont detect squat.
Like utility infrastructure. I work at a water company, and before a contractor burries pipeline, we use RTK (realtime kinematic) GPS to record its location down to 0.04' (or 1cm). So when line locators need to mark facilities its much more accurate. Normal GPS isnt that accurate, but we use base stations and radios to send correction data in real time out to the GPS collection devices.
If I put up a billboard (or rent one for a month), and my competitor comes around and puts his ad overtop of mine, thats vandalism. How exactly is this different than this case? U-Haul rents or owns virtual billboards along "the information superhighway" and someone else comes around and puts their ad overtop of U-Hauls. Its vandalism. Even if its only for a few people, its still vandalism. Another example of the court not grasping the concept because its electronic.
The "compression" used here is actually bending the CD spec, as the pits on the disc are smaller than normal. As stated in the article, no other drives were able to read the disc that had just under 1GB stored on the disc. The setting at 120% of normal capacity seemed to work on a few more drives, but still not all. Its prolly just easier to get a DVD+/-RWfor $300 USD instead of going and buying all new CD-ROMs/CDRWs that read the compressed discs (assuming you have a few computers).
First I'm not defending this guy, we all know stealing is bad, but I have a major beef with DirecTV/Echostar on this one...
The $180M penalty is bullshit, its just a fear tactic. Regardless of whether or not he'll pay it all back or not. D*, E* and their estimates are no where near accurate. $180 million / 5000 custotmers = $36,000 per customer. How on earth did they calculate that???? They just want a headline to scare people. Screw the facts, protecting their product by fear is more important to them.
D* and E* have only been around since the early 1990s. Can you think of any way to spend $36,000 in D* or E* programming in 10 years? $3600 a year?
Even future damages... if someone spent an average $100/mo with D or E, thats $1200 a year, which would take someone 30 years to get to $36,000. You think this hacking system would have lasted 30 years? Even 10 years at 3x damages? No way.
D/E do this damage inflation in the same way the RIAA/MPAA sued those 4 college kids for $98 Billion dollars. Its complete BS. They want a headline. This guy is 28, say he lives to be 78. $500/mo is a total payback of 300,000. An good amount no doubt, but not $180M.
Ah, by that you must mean that the RIAA will imprison millions of otherwise nonviolent offenders, at great expense, turning them into violent criminals through the wonder which is our prison system's "rehabilitiation" program.
The RIAA/MPAA cant put people in jail (yet). They can sue you for $98 billion though.
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$30/mo for 128/128
$40/mo for 1.5/128
$50/mo for 3/256
(assuming you have cable TV) 1 IP, 5 or so email addresses, regular residential crap...
or... (what I pay for)
$80/mo for 3/256, 8 real IPs, 1 static IP, no transfer cap, better (business level) tech support
Cox HSD
Yea, they do.. its called dots... they use a series of dots in various frames throughout the movie to track where the copies come from. Of course the warez groups are on to this, and photoshop the frames that contain the dots to remove or alter them to protect their suppliers...
T4 used to carry a lot of the backhaul feeds for the networks. Simpsons, Everybody loves Raymond, etc. Its dropped off recently due to networks switching to digital feeds, but it still used to be the only way to watch Simpsons at 7am saturday morning...
Yea they do. If you really like the DVD. I cant sit down and watch fellowship over and over, but I can sit down and watch Family Guy, Simpsons, or Futurrama over and over and over. They're funny. And I've got enough volumes of them to keep from getting bored. Now granted, a TV series costs more than a normal movie DVD (depending on which series, it could be a lot more).
And I have got sick of some CDs. Mostly because nothing I like has come along lately, so I've been listening to the same (old) stuff I like over and over and over. And now its boring...
I've been saying this for a while! Why buy a CD for $13-15 when you can get a DVD for 15-20. DVDs have way more entertainment value than a CD. With DVD players in cars to occupy your passangers, music CDs realm of entertainment is also being displaced. Somethings you cant watch a DVD to but you could listen to a CD (work for example). Like its been said, bring CD prices to $9.99 and its a far better value.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030907& mode=classic
At my company, we give everyone the idea that they have complete privacy, but in reality every email/IM conversation is logged and read
Thus I use trillian and SecureIM. Keeps those guys in IS/IT out of my business.
Anandtech is only comparing single processor Opteron performance against everything else, no infact, Athlon64 performance. The primary difference is that the Opteron has a dual channel memory subsystem, whereas the Athlon64 has a single channel system. This difference will have an affect on performance.
What MS is complaining about is that a govt is going to be funding this. And governments dont need to be profitable, if they give the OS away for free and spent $1B USD developing it, no big deal. It just came out of the taxpayers pockets (who now get to use it for free so they really paid for it anyways). But yea, my point is governments dont have a profit margin. MS does. The govt can undercut MS's product. Thats what they worry about.
Thanks to their friends over in the Movie industry, $13 still isnt low enough for me to buy a CD. Most DVDs are $15-25, and it doesnt necessarily mean that the $15 movies suck either, I picked up Dogma last week for $15 at BB. A $13 CD or $15 (or $20) movie? CDs would need to go down to $10 before I start looking for them as entertainment again...
SRP = Suggested Retail Price
MSRP = Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price
I honestly think that these two apps can replace IE/OE on most people's home computers within 6 months. I try to evangelized Firebird with my friends and coworkers and it worked up until the new google toolbar for IE started blocking popups.. I still love it though. Love live the *bird.
Is this good? That we got a delay? Or do they simply want to wait until the tide rolls out, then pass it when there isnt as much vocal opposition. Regardless, keep the pressure on them! Make sure software patents arent allowed!
The freeway you're talking about is Interstate 15 near San Diego, CA. They built a single lane, multi-mile segment on the inside median, with magnets under the road every 100'. The car would be programed to follow the magnets and make course corrections. There were also ultrasonic sensors on the front and back. The demo had 3 cars at 100mph, 10' apart with the system engaged.
Surprisingly, I've noticed that Family Guy Vol 1 its a top DVD seller, or at least thats what Yahoo Shopping says. When I went to buy it the day it came out, the best buy was nearly out, the guy who was stocking the shelf said he'd never seen a TV series sell so well.
For direct-to-DVD to work, they'd probably raise the prices to $50 (say if they sold 250K copies, thats 12.5M USD), but still its ever so slightly fesiable.
I own a HAVi enabled TV (Mits WS-55511) and while its nice to know its there, there arent many other HAVi enabled devices. No HAVi DVD players, cable boxes, etc. Thats the current problem with HAVi.
It is a pipe dream. First, the data sent over firewire is typically 5C encrypted. Second, current HAVi licenses prohibit the use of computer to store unencrypted data. There is a PCI card supposedly in development that acts as a HAVi slave device.
Isnt 1.5 and forward supposed to be based on Firebird and not Mozilla? I didnt see that change anywhere in the simple release notes...
I submitted this yesterday and it was rejected, and I even included this important link regarding who funds Howard Berman.
1 Walt Disney Co $32,000
2 AOL Time Warner $29,050
3 Vivendi Universal $27,341
4 Viacom Inc $15,000
5 News Corp $11,750
6 DreamWorks SKG $11,000
7 American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees $10,000
7 National Assn of Realtors $10,000
7 Service Employees International Union $10,000
7 William Morris Agency $10,000
Nice top 10 eh?
I was thinking about this in lieu of the RIAA sending subpeonas to ISPs, and why ISPs need to keep logs of what MAC address had what IP at what time. Maybe it would be enough to drop the time, or get really vauge? "Yea, three MACs have had that IP address this week, sorry, cant tell ya which one had it at that time." Not quite sure how that would affect tracking the source of hacker and/or hacking. Vauge engough to keep it out of a court of law, specific enough to combat/detect hacking.
Of course, whats the big deal to set my computer to an empty address in the DHCP pool, and DHCP logs wont detect squat.
Like utility infrastructure. I work at a water company, and before a contractor burries pipeline, we use RTK (realtime kinematic) GPS to record its location down to 0.04' (or 1cm). So when line locators need to mark facilities its much more accurate. Normal GPS isnt that accurate, but we use base stations and radios to send correction data in real time out to the GPS collection devices.
If I put up a billboard (or rent one for a month), and my competitor comes around and puts his ad overtop of mine, thats vandalism. How exactly is this different than this case? U-Haul rents or owns virtual billboards along "the information superhighway" and someone else comes around and puts their ad overtop of U-Hauls. Its vandalism. Even if its only for a few people, its still vandalism. Another example of the court not grasping the concept because its electronic.
The "compression" used here is actually bending the CD spec, as the pits on the disc are smaller than normal. As stated in the article, no other drives were able to read the disc that had just under 1GB stored on the disc. The setting at 120% of normal capacity seemed to work on a few more drives, but still not all. Its prolly just easier to get a DVD+/-RWfor $300 USD instead of going and buying all new CD-ROMs/CDRWs that read the compressed discs (assuming you have a few computers).
First I'm not defending this guy, we all know stealing is bad, but I have a major beef with DirecTV/Echostar on this one...
The $180M penalty is bullshit, its just a fear tactic. Regardless of whether or not he'll pay it all back or not. D*, E* and their estimates are no where near accurate. $180 million / 5000 custotmers = $36,000 per customer. How on earth did they calculate that???? They just want a headline to scare people. Screw the facts, protecting their product by fear is more important to them.
D* and E* have only been around since the early 1990s. Can you think of any way to spend $36,000 in D* or E* programming in 10 years? $3600 a year?
Even future damages... if someone spent an average $100/mo with D or E, thats $1200 a year, which would take someone 30 years to get to $36,000. You think this hacking system would have lasted 30 years? Even 10 years at 3x damages? No way.
D/E do this damage inflation in the same way the RIAA/MPAA sued those 4 college kids for $98 Billion dollars. Its complete BS. They want a headline. This guy is 28, say he lives to be 78. $500/mo is a total payback of 300,000. An good amount no doubt, but not $180M.
Ah, by that you must mean that the RIAA will imprison millions of otherwise nonviolent offenders, at great expense, turning them into violent criminals through the wonder which is our prison system's "rehabilitiation" program.
The RIAA/MPAA cant put people in jail (yet). They can sue you for $98 billion though.