Why bother with physical media when you can get much more diverse pr0n over the internet. Do you mean, why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
Internet stuff tends to be formatted to prevent personal retention unlike physical media which only prevents extraction.
However, all three include a network connection to report back what you're watching.
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Can anyone imagine what it must be like to be sitting at home with: I actually wouldn't mind having a hybrid DiVX/DVD player. It would be something obscure to hack.
I also wish I had a Laserdisc player, and that I could get my old Videodisc player working (bought-from-eBay Christmas gift from my brother, suspect dead motor).
Right now I have more HD-DVD disks than Blu-Ray, but that'll equalize once I send in my rebate. In future releases, I've only spotted one title I want that's only on one HD format: Heroes Season 1 on HD-DVD.
And I have the XBOX 360 HD-DVD drive, but no XBOX 360. I've ordered the ReadDVD! UDF 2.5 drivers for Mac OS X Tiger to determine if Apple DVD Player really can play HD-DVD disks or only HD-DVD content recorded on DVD disks.
I don't understand this insistance on being fair with convicted criminals. They weren't being fair in most cases when they broke the law so why do we need to do this for them. You'd be quite at home in the alternate Earth where graffiti carries the death penalty and where Proposition 199, the "Instant Justice Initiative" was passed, providing for the instantaneous denial of appeals.
Or perhaps you'd prefer the world of Judge Dredd: 1 year for Littering, 2 years for Speeding, 1 year for Flatulism.
Or the law of the Edo, that for every crime there is only one penalty: death. (Apologies to CleverNickName.)
"There can be no justice as long as laws are absolute! Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions." "When has justice ever been as simple as a rulebook?"
So while we're burning the Constitution, let's not forget the part about no cruel, unusual punishments.
Of course, such a fingerprinting scheme ignores fair use. If a match is found, the video will automatically be flagged as infringing without concern for context and prevented from being uploaded without any oversight.
It's like being found guilty for murder because your fingerprints were found at the scene... on some groceries you bagged for the victim at the supermarket a week earlier, but that is of no concern to the justice droid.
Porno is obscene tool. And thus pornography is restricted in its distribution.
If games aren't artistic, then they would have to have literary, political, or scientific value to avoid being considered obscene. I'd be hard pressed to categorize Super Mario Bros. in only those terms ("Thank you Mario. But our princess is in another castle!" has literary value?).
So, should Super Mario Bros. have to be put in the back room with the other obscene material: pornography? There'd be no market left for serious non-adult video games and they will trend to the pornographic. The "back-room" stigma will keep those wanting to play serious, non-pornographic game-playing adults away.
So I create a sculpture unlike any before. Instead of looking upon its exterior surface, you have to step inside it and explore its inner surface. There are many branches, converging and diverging, and depending on the path you take to explore the sculpture you see different things. Areas differ in appearance through materials used, lighting, projections, etc. Others differ in acoustics, have different environmental sounds, perhaps play back recordings of others who were there before. Others may be completely dark with nothing visible and you experience it only through touch. It can be enjoyed singly or in groups. Some parts are only accessible if you cooperate with others, or if you picked up some element along the way necessary to reach something. Other areas are only accessible if you work against your fellow explorers. Many are mutually exclusive. Some parts of it react to your presence and try to induce you to follow particular paths, which you can go with or fight against. The sculpture is the size of a large building, both in height and footprint. There is one entrance, but thousands of exits. It may even be impossible to fully explore within one person's lifetime.
Is it just a game? Is it just a sport? Or is it art?
The physical interactivity with a game world that videogames provide add nothing to a story.... Interaction is limited, so the stories are as well. Unless you want to use cutscenes or text... in which case you're using another medium. So, how do you feel about kinetic sculptures where people are permitted to manipulate it? Or, hell, just a plain static sculpture?
Or do you feel that the real art in the plaque next to the sculpture bearing its name and explaining to you what you're looking at?
I'd go a step further than that. Who cares if people consider video games to be art? Legislators seeking to censor them. If they aren't art, then they can't have serious artistic merit, making it easier to declare them obscene.
Contrived Dribble 2: More Dribbles! Is it a basketball movie, or did you intend to use the word "drivel": childish, silly, or meaningless talk or thinking; nonsense; twaddle?
I don't get it, why care? Does everyone have to have a favorable view of games to keep them going now? By categorizing games as "not art" in the public mindset, those looking to censor them would no longer have to consider whether they have "serious artistic merit".
It has been going on for like 8 years and nobody has heard of it At least, not heard of it 12 hours in advance so that some planning can be done for the event.
Followup, here is a story about the problems where me Warner spokeswoman Ann Shrewsbury said "I think the software is stable now. We're ready to move on." (Jun 22, 2007) Today, problems with their "OCAP Digital Navigator" are still ongoing. I can try to test it again (there was another update last night turning off all three cable boxes) but I have no confidence that the TiVo-defeating bugs have been addressed.
My only relief is that installing CableCARDs in a Series3 TiVo have apparently avoids the problematic software, at least for now.
Locations subjected to the unannounced "beta test" (PDF) are New York City; Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Waco, Texas.
Although, my mother has a knack for calling during the middle of my favorite shows. There's a very simple explanation for that knack: she knows your favorite shows and chooses those times to call, knowing you'll be home.
It's not like the cable companies make their own DVRs currently You're obviously not in one of Time Warner Cable's beta-testing communities.
OK, so they're not making their own hardware (still running on Scientific Atlanta hardware), but they are making their own software, calling it Mystro Digital Navigator, or Mystro for short, to replace Passport.
Mystro is riddled with bugs, in both DVR and non-DVR configurations. Due to problems with updates of its on-screen display of guide data for upcoming shows, I can't use my TiVo's Suggestions feature lest the box crash. Only padding recordings by a minute start-and-end avoids the problem, but Suggestions cannot be padded, and the padding can trigger the bug in cases where shows start late or end early by a minute. (It is the guide data in the cable box for the channel you're leaving rolling over to the next program while the TiVo is simultaneously trying to change channels that triggers the bug.)
Locally, only the DVR configuration bugs are getting press.
The freedom fighters from Iraq, or the ones from Afghanistan, or others, are not technically protected by those regulations - they are not uniformed, and they are not fighting for their country (the government recognized at the international level).
USe the letter of the law to violate the spirit of the law much?
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Internet stuff tends to be formatted to prevent personal retention unlike physical media which only prevents extraction.
However, all three include a network connection to report back what you're watching.
I also wish I had a Laserdisc player, and that I could get my old Videodisc player working (bought-from-eBay Christmas gift from my brother, suspect dead motor).
Right now I have more HD-DVD disks than Blu-Ray, but that'll equalize once I send in my rebate. In future releases, I've only spotted one title I want that's only on one HD format: Heroes Season 1 on HD-DVD.
And I have the XBOX 360 HD-DVD drive, but no XBOX 360. I've ordered the ReadDVD! UDF 2.5 drivers for Mac OS X Tiger to determine if Apple DVD Player really can play HD-DVD disks or only HD-DVD content recorded on DVD disks.
Yet Sony still won't let them press porn disks in Japan; they have to press them in Taiwan and import them.
It's an extension of "blue" comedy which contains more profanity.
The biggest barrier I can see for the geek community in adopting one format or the other is the lack of consumer-market HD-DVD burners.
But then, Sony's Blu-Ray burner is also still too damn expensive.
The porn industry is perfectly capable of going both ways... and a few others besides.
Or perhaps you'd prefer the world of Judge Dredd: 1 year for Littering, 2 years for Speeding, 1 year for Flatulism.
Or the law of the Edo, that for every crime there is only one penalty: death. (Apologies to CleverNickName.) So while we're burning the Constitution, let's not forget the part about no cruel, unusual punishments.
Of course, such a fingerprinting scheme ignores fair use. If a match is found, the video will automatically be flagged as infringing without concern for context and prevented from being uploaded without any oversight.
It's like being found guilty for murder because your fingerprints were found at the scene... on some groceries you bagged for the victim at the supermarket a week earlier, but that is of no concern to the justice droid.
If games aren't artistic, then they would have to have literary, political, or scientific value to avoid being considered obscene. I'd be hard pressed to categorize Super Mario Bros. in only those terms ("Thank you Mario. But our princess is in another castle!" has literary value?).
So, should Super Mario Bros. have to be put in the back room with the other obscene material: pornography? There'd be no market left for serious non-adult video games and they will trend to the pornographic. The "back-room" stigma will keep those wanting to play serious, non-pornographic game-playing adults away.
I was hoping someone would some up with "funhouse".
So I create a sculpture unlike any before. Instead of looking upon its exterior surface, you have to step inside it and explore its inner surface. There are many branches, converging and diverging, and depending on the path you take to explore the sculpture you see different things. Areas differ in appearance through materials used, lighting, projections, etc. Others differ in acoustics, have different environmental sounds, perhaps play back recordings of others who were there before. Others may be completely dark with nothing visible and you experience it only through touch. It can be enjoyed singly or in groups. Some parts are only accessible if you cooperate with others, or if you picked up some element along the way necessary to reach something. Other areas are only accessible if you work against your fellow explorers. Many are mutually exclusive. Some parts of it react to your presence and try to induce you to follow particular paths, which you can go with or fight against. The sculpture is the size of a large building, both in height and footprint. There is one entrance, but thousands of exits. It may even be impossible to fully explore within one person's lifetime.
Is it just a game? Is it just a sport? Or is it art?
What makes it one and not another?
Or do you feel that the real art in the plaque next to the sculpture bearing its name and explaining to you what you're looking at?
Gridlock computing.
He could still come back as Gigabyte; Blu Mankuma is still with us.
If necessary, he could be written as having gathered enough of the pieces of Hexadecimal scattered on the Net to achieve it.
Followup, here is a story about the problems where me Warner spokeswoman Ann Shrewsbury said "I think the software is stable now. We're ready to move on." (Jun 22, 2007) Today, problems with their "OCAP Digital Navigator" are still ongoing. I can try to test it again (there was another update last night turning off all three cable boxes) but I have no confidence that the TiVo-defeating bugs have been addressed.
My only relief is that installing CableCARDs in a Series3 TiVo have apparently avoids the problematic software, at least for now.
Locations subjected to the unannounced "beta test" (PDF) are New York City; Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Waco, Texas.
OK, so they're not making their own hardware (still running on Scientific Atlanta hardware), but they are making their own software, calling it Mystro Digital Navigator, or Mystro for short, to replace Passport.
Mystro is riddled with bugs, in both DVR and non-DVR configurations. Due to problems with updates of its on-screen display of guide data for upcoming shows, I can't use my TiVo's Suggestions feature lest the box crash. Only padding recordings by a minute start-and-end avoids the problem, but Suggestions cannot be padded, and the padding can trigger the bug in cases where shows start late or end early by a minute. (It is the guide data in the cable box for the channel you're leaving rolling over to the next program while the TiVo is simultaneously trying to change channels that triggers the bug.)
Locally, only the DVR configuration bugs are getting press.
I think they're calling it a DMR now: Digital Media Recorder.
What, like a Light Ocular-Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses (LOOKER) gun?