Oh, I totally agree that parents should be able to edit movies so their kids can watch them. In fact, I do exactly that. For example, I edited all the BS family crap out of "the Incredibles" to make a great action movie for my three year old son. I did the same thing with the wonderful "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by editing out the annoying scenes with Robin Williams and the piano torture scene. Take those out and you have a great kids movie.
The problem I have is allowing third party corporations to do this. If these corporations want to make family friendly movies, have them hire some producers and make those types of movies themselves. They shouldn't be able to leach off the work of others to make their products.
"strong advocacy for intellectual property rights"
The same law allows ClearPlay to edit hollywood movies against the creators' wishes. Despite the hype to the contrary, it does NOT allow consumers to rip and edit movies. That'd violate the DMCA!
How is allowing corporations to edit movies a "strong advocacy" of property rights?!
Today Steven Jobs has filed a temporary restraining order against his mother. The TRO claims that Jobs' mother kept talking about her son to friends and family, showed embarrassing pictures of him as a kid, and praised him for his success.
A spokesperson for Apple was quoted as saying, "Jobs' mom was always prone to talk about how proud she is of her son, but when she showed the friends in her knitting circle a picture of Steve when he was two years old using the toilet for the first time, her actions went from merely annoying to criminal."
This current action from Jobs has affected others in his family too. His wife of 14 years, Laurene Powell, has had her voice box surgically removed to avoid any chance of her offending her husband. Furthermore, his two children have been killed for talking about their dad in class.
Postings about stupid hackers, a fluff piece about a non-existent iTunes service, Real trying yet another business model, and yet one more attempt by Microsoft to compete with Adobe.
My advice, if there's no news worth posting, simply don't post anything.
Where have you been?! The lack of incentive for US students to enter the software industry is due entirely to the lack of jobs available once they graduate. Those jobs have NOT been replaced by the use of open source software. They have been replaced when software development is outsourced to India, or elsewhere.
And secondly, why would the software industry suddenly die with open source? We would still need software. Thus software would still need to be written. IBM and HP pay people to write open source software. Now I'm not saying that all software SHOULD be open sourced, I agree that's ludicrous. I'm only saying that it could not kill the software industry.
No no no no. We're talking about BROADCAST. Once 85% of an area can obtain HDTV OVER THE AIR analog licenses for over-the-air broadcasters will not be renewed. It has NOTHING to do with cable or satellite services.
In fact, there are NO FCC requirements that either cable or satellite services ever provide HDTV content. They are providing it, merely because the market demands it. But that's the sole reason.
Analog TV will NOT be turned off in 2006! The date of 2006 is completely arbitrary and is also complete nonsense. Analog will ONLY be turned off when 85 percent of households in a given broadcast region have digital receivers. That could be decades from now.
And it will also affect areas of the country differently. I imagine areas in Nebraska will remain analog well into the next decade.
I decided to outsource the mowing of my lawn. Now I have several geeks living in my garage using up all my bandwidth. They drink a fucking lot of Dr. Pepper too.
I have to admit my lawn looks great, but for some reason they keep trying to mow my Xbox. I really don't understand why.
From Wired, "Viewers would not be allowed to use software or devices to skip commercials or promotional announcements 'that would otherwise be performed or displayed before, during or after the performance of the motion picture...'"
In other words, you can skip over someone cussing, but if Miramax decides to advertise hard core porn in the middle of their movie, it'd be illegal to skip THAT!
And what about a movie like Happy Gilmore?! With all of the product placements, nearly the entire movie would be unskipable!
This does NOT give users the right to edit commercially bought or rented DVDs in their own home! Do you really think Congress would toss out the DMCA?!
This gives COMPANIES the ability to decide what is objectionable, program that information in their DVD players, and sell those players to consumers. When an "objectionable" DVD is played the consumer can choose to use the edits the COMPANY has determined are appropriate.
I wish this was about choice. I do think we have the right to edit movies for our own personal use. But let's get this straight about this bill; it gives NO rights to consumers.
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Great, then 100% of his time should be spent on the Green Hornet.
Like finish the Green Hornet or apologize for Jersey Girl?!
Simply leave your apartment, go to the nearest corner, buy all the DVDs you want for about a buck each, then go home and watch them!
Oh, I totally agree that parents should be able to edit movies so their kids can watch them. In fact, I do exactly that. For example, I edited all the BS family crap out of "the Incredibles" to make a great action movie for my three year old son. I did the same thing with the wonderful "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by editing out the annoying scenes with Robin Williams and the piano torture scene. Take those out and you have a great kids movie.
The problem I have is allowing third party corporations to do this. If these corporations want to make family friendly movies, have them hire some producers and make those types of movies themselves. They shouldn't be able to leach off the work of others to make their products.
"Wal-Mart fan-boy's need to calm down and analyze exactly what they are supporting."
Cheap DVD players for me. No future for my kids.
"strong advocacy for intellectual property rights"
The same law allows ClearPlay to edit hollywood movies against the creators' wishes. Despite the hype to the contrary, it does NOT allow consumers to rip and edit movies. That'd violate the DMCA!
How is allowing corporations to edit movies a "strong advocacy" of property rights?!
"Gates Calls for Increase in dirt cheap Tech Labor Supply who are willing to work 20 hour days under sweatshop conditions"
"Sit tight, trash the OS in August when you get the real preview."
But I want to trash it NOW!
Yeah, my guess is that they're waiting for Tiger to be released so they'll know exactly what to put into Longhorn.
The screen shots I've seen so far have been UTTERLY unimpressive. Essentially XP with a different color scheme. IE 6, Media Player 10, etc, etc, etc.
It's hard to hype a product when there is so much evidence showing the opposite.
Well, I'm not going to do anything drastic like WORK or something!
Today Steven Jobs has filed a temporary restraining order against his mother. The TRO claims that Jobs' mother kept talking about her son to friends and family, showed embarrassing pictures of him as a kid, and praised him for his success.
A spokesperson for Apple was quoted as saying, "Jobs' mom was always prone to talk about how proud she is of her son, but when she showed the friends in her knitting circle a picture of Steve when he was two years old using the toilet for the first time, her actions went from merely annoying to criminal."
This current action from Jobs has affected others in his family too. His wife of 14 years, Laurene Powell, has had her voice box surgically removed to avoid any chance of her offending her husband. Furthermore, his two children have been killed for talking about their dad in class.
More news on this story as it develops.
Postings about stupid hackers, a fluff piece about a non-existent iTunes service, Real trying yet another business model, and yet one more attempt by Microsoft to compete with Adobe.
My advice, if there's no news worth posting, simply don't post anything.
And bloated. And buggy. And basically crap.
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Heck, even MICROSOFT pays people to create open source software!
Where have you been?! The lack of incentive for US students to enter the software industry is due entirely to the lack of jobs available once they graduate. Those jobs have NOT been replaced by the use of open source software. They have been replaced when software development is outsourced to India, or elsewhere.
And secondly, why would the software industry suddenly die with open source? We would still need software. Thus software would still need to be written. IBM and HP pay people to write open source software. Now I'm not saying that all software SHOULD be open sourced, I agree that's ludicrous. I'm only saying that it could not kill the software industry.
I wasn't disagreeing with you, merely making fun of my fellow overweight Americans! Sorry for any misunderstanding.
"killed TONS of people"?!
Do you mean one dozen over-weight americans or several dozen non-americans?!
No no no no. We're talking about BROADCAST. Once 85% of an area can obtain HDTV OVER THE AIR analog licenses for over-the-air broadcasters will not be renewed. It has NOTHING to do with cable or satellite services.
In fact, there are NO FCC requirements that either cable or satellite services ever provide HDTV content. They are providing it, merely because the market demands it. But that's the sole reason.
My prison cell is the perfect place to live. My 10x10 foot living area is all anyone really needs. And every so often they even let me see the sun!
Analog TV will NOT be turned off in 2006! The date of 2006 is completely arbitrary and is also complete nonsense. Analog will ONLY be turned off when 85 percent of households in a given broadcast region have digital receivers. That could be decades from now.
And it will also affect areas of the country differently. I imagine areas in Nebraska will remain analog well into the next decade.
I decided to outsource the mowing of my lawn. Now I have several geeks living in my garage using up all my bandwidth. They drink a fucking lot of Dr. Pepper too.
I have to admit my lawn looks great, but for some reason they keep trying to mow my Xbox. I really don't understand why.
From Wired, "Viewers would not be allowed to use software or devices to skip commercials or promotional announcements 'that would otherwise be performed or displayed before, during or after the performance of the motion picture...'"
In other words, you can skip over someone cussing, but if Miramax decides to advertise hard core porn in the middle of their movie, it'd be illegal to skip THAT!
And what about a movie like Happy Gilmore?! With all of the product placements, nearly the entire movie would be unskipable!
This does NOT give users the right to edit commercially bought or rented DVDs in their own home! Do you really think Congress would toss out the DMCA?!
This gives COMPANIES the ability to decide what is objectionable, program that information in their DVD players, and sell those players to consumers. When an "objectionable" DVD is played the consumer can choose to use the edits the COMPANY has determined are appropriate.
I wish this was about choice. I do think we have the right to edit movies for our own personal use. But let's get this straight about this bill; it gives NO rights to consumers.