In the 1953 movie, the Martian War Machines did not fly. They walked on magnetic legs which were invisible except when they first rose from the pit and except for their effect on the ground. The only flying machines they had were the landing cylinders, and they flew like a meteor.
The book did have a reference to the Martians developing a flying machine after studying ours, mentioned at the end of one of the chapters and never mentioned again.
The book also mentioned the food the Martians had brought with them to feed on during the trip to Earth. One could take it as a description of the typical grey aliens of modern myth, but the intent was that there was human life on Mars upon which the Martians also fed.
It does not say, "the date of the 18th birthday", it says, "the date of 18the birthday", which could mean anything.
Someone here is dyslexic and it's me not.
One PDF says "18th birthday indicator identifies minors". So it could equally mean that she will cease to be a minor in the future year of 1958 and was actually born in 1940. So she's a minor of age 64, able to buy alcohol but not cigarettes.
They need to either make it clearer or otherwise better proofread the site!
Also something I haven't seen mentioned (but I haven't checked recently): "Some images visible only under ultraviolet light."
If you look further, you'll find that the radio broadcast, the 1953 movie, and Jeff Wayne's Musical Version and PC game all adapted the opening from the book. Other versions likely did as well.
The original book is available free on-line from The Gutenberg Project.
What's wrong with steampunk Victorians fighting off a Martian invasion?
You'll get them. There are two War of the Worlds movies coming out. The other one from Pendragon Pictures will be set in the original book's setting.
I know what I'll be doing this weekend: retooling and reorganizing my War of the Worlds website. Interesting that this Spielburg version is depicting the alien hand holding the Earth in a manner very reminiscent of the 1988-1989 season of the TV series.
I just wish I had a complete working copy of the old waroftheworlds.com Radio Classics website, especially their story, "The Last Chat Room". Lost my copy to hard drive corruption. Random two-byte errors in the image files. Anyone who can help, drop me a line at my site, either having an archived version or can repair damaged GIF and/or JPEG files. (The Way-Back Machine sadly doesn't have a copy.)
Interesting too is that Gayle Elizabeth Sample was born in 1958 and is under 18 (birthdate is in red), but not under 21 (no red border around image). And Miss Sample seems to have been issued this new version of the license a month early, too.
More direct links to page and to image, the latter because they've sized the image down slightly in the markup.
I wonder if they're basing the license number on your SSN and if it is a reversible encoding.
This isn't a matter of Kaleidescape violating a law.
This is a matter of Kaleidescape violating a license, a contract with the DVDCCA.
The DVDCCA could just make the license tougher to explicitly disallow any future licensee (and all renewals) from being able to produce a server like this. What they want is a ruling that says that the term as it exists in their current license against this is enforceable, which will send a signal to everyone to stay out of that market.
It would help if we could see the license, but I suspect you have to be able to put up enough money to buy it before you're able to even see it, and that it contains non-disclosure elements.
I speak from experience that I have DVDs that have different barcodes on them than recorded in Amazon.com's database. I even possess two copies of Commando, same edition, but different barcodes, purchased at different times and not returned to the store in time.
The makers of DVDs can easily mark copies for sale from different vendors; it isn't beyond their ability to have different pressings for them as well. (I don't know for certain that these two releases of Commando are identical; they're both still shrink-wrapped.)
Ah, but the rub is that you have no fair use rights to the tools. Any prosecution over your making a fair use copy won't be over making of the copy but for having the tools to make the copy.
Thus legal ends become evidence of illegal means, and exercising your fair use defense becomes an admission of committing the other crime of possessing illegal tools for making copies of copyrighted works protected by technological means.
My library of DVDs is over 400 purchased items. Due to box sets, actual DVD count is higher. And it continues to grow. Not that it would rival your acquaintance's collection, but large enough to make Sony's 400-disc carosel insufficient. I'm not certain, but I think most of it is unwatched and still shrink-wrapped.
That said, this Kaledescape system is interesting, but even if I could afford it, it doesn't sound like it does everything I'd want. I want to be able to program it like a TV executive programs a TV station.
When I've seen the last act of an episode of The X-Files I want to see the trailer for the next episode off the bonus disk before I even see the credits. I want to interleave episodes of Millennium with it so that the crossover episode airs at the appropriate time. Same for any other series on DVD with crossover episodes, either guest appearances or plot lines that begin and end in different series.
And not only would I want to incorporate television recording, I'd also want to be able to push out my own live video over my home network. To have not just caller-ID information show up on the screen but also severe weather notices. To pre-empt all TVs in the house with an announcement to evacuate because of a gas leak or fire.
Yeah, I'd like to run my own TV network in my own home, whether it be on a rigid schedule every day or just managing the queue (or multiple queues for independent viewers) of content.
And on top of all that, including lock outs for scheduling activities other than watching TV.
While the screensaver allegedly throttles back when a site slows, it would seem it's being a bit overzealous.
Oh, don't be afraid of the word, CowboyNeal. Ruthless. Committed. It does its duty as it sees it, and it sees it clearly. It has no time for the dirty gray areas of net politics.
And what if next week NBC decides to schedule ER to start 2 minutes early? The shows come into conflict again. If they shift it to start on time, you've cut off the end of CSI for no reason. You're still at the mercy of the networks.
Better would be to allow the software to resolve partial conflicts dynamically, giving shows a designation of "hard" or "soft". Soft shows will yield their conflicted time to hard shows. Two soft shows would split the conflicted time between them. This would maximize the amount of recording that could occur.
Two hard shows in conflict fall back to current behavior of highest priority wins, because sometimes I find I want to use positive padding just to conflict out a particular timeslot.
Or, even if you have only one MPEG encoder in your analog unit, still allow two sources to be hooked up and PIP or split-screen the video between the conflicts for a minute, routing each channel's sound to opposite speakers.
Each message in a thread has a named HTML anchor, try this for instance. It will show the whole thread, but position you at an exact message in the middle.
The only problem is there is no easy way to get this URL, you have to find the anchor by looking at the HTML source (Firefox's "View Selection Source" feature helps a lot).
I put this in my userContent.css file (the client-side stylesheet) in Mozilla:
/* Show named anchors */ a[name]:before { content: "[#" attr(name) "] "; } a[name] { border: 1px solid #ddd; }
Any anchor that has a name attribute will disclose that attribute on the page. The file is in your ~/.mozilla//*/chrome/ folder, unless you use Windows where I don't know its location offhand. You may have to create it. (Your browser will need to be restarted for this change to take effect.)
Have you considered the bandwidth required to record uncompressed HDTV over DVI? It's not even MPEG video anymore by that point. You'd need an intermediary box to recompress that raw video back into an HD data stream again.
You'd be better off getting a cable box with a Firewire output.
If cars modelled this behavior, you might drive your car from New York to Miami, run out of gas in Fort Lauderdale, 10 miles from your destination, and suddenly find yourself back in New York.
For a trip from New York to Miami, that would be considered a bug.
For a trip from Earth to Mars, that would be considered a feature.
You could cut out every second of commercials, but to cut out the sponsor you'd cut the entire "heart" of the show. Hell, you wouldn't even have a show.
Dude, you're talking about The Apprentice. There wasn't a show there to begin with.
Meanwhile, there used to be an open site called adcritic.com which had free downloads of commercials. It was quite popular (especially after the Super Bowl). Now it's a pay service, $99.95 a year with a compulsory companion print magazine.
And the funny thing? They pay millions of dollars to television stations to get their ads on TV, but would likely still sue people sharing their favorite advertisements for free!
Well, I wouldn't use the Internet at all if I could get the hang of the time machine. It's a very delicate business, web surfing, you know. Full of appalling traps and dangers.
I think in the case of suprnova the cat's already out of the bag.
When you have a TV show host wearing a suprnova.org T-shirt on live TV for an hour, yeah, it's out of the bag. Nevermind that the site even has T-shirts.
Then again, it was a show on third tier digital platinum plus cable, so that might still be considered on the "down low".
At least you still show science fiction from the UK on IPTV, unlike NETV (Nebraska Educational TeleVision) where it has been banned from our airwaves for decades. I've even driven for miles weekly to get close enough to receive Red Dwarf and Doctor Who on a 5" TV.
I took advantage of TiVo's offer to transfer lifetime service from a Series1 to a new Series2. Now I have Series1 units that I can use to do timed manual records without a subscription (with occasional maintenance) while the Series2 units will forever require a subscription to operate.
I could stop giving TiVo money ($6.95 a month each for two Series1 units) and still have functional recorders.
This is likely just repurposing their iPreview icons to use custom graphics. For those using external tuners, I suspect one could easily filter out the VBI and disable TiVo's ability to recognize this information. (A better filter would be scanline selective and avoid filtering out closed captioning.)
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In the 1953 movie, the Martian War Machines did not fly. They walked on magnetic legs which were invisible except when they first rose from the pit and except for their effect on the ground. The only flying machines they had were the landing cylinders, and they flew like a meteor.
The book did have a reference to the Martians developing a flying machine after studying ours, mentioned at the end of one of the chapters and never mentioned again.
The book also mentioned the food the Martians had brought with them to feed on during the trip to Earth. One could take it as a description of the typical grey aliens of modern myth, but the intent was that there was human life on Mars upon which the Martians also fed.
It does not say, "the date of the 18th birthday", it says, "the date of 18the birthday", which could mean anything.
Someone here is dyslexic and it's me not.
One PDF says "18th birthday indicator identifies minors". So it could equally mean that she will cease to be a minor in the future year of 1958 and was actually born in 1940. So she's a minor of age 64, able to buy alcohol but not cigarettes.
They need to either make it clearer or otherwise better proofread the site!
Also something I haven't seen mentioned (but I haven't checked recently): "Some images visible only under ultraviolet light."
Sounds like what we really need is a War of the Worlds Musical!
Sounds like someone isn't aware of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
While we are at it might as well remake casablanca.
How can you remake Casablanca? The one starring Myra Dinglebat and Peter Beardsley was definitive!
"Of all the space bars on all the worlds you had to re-materialise in mine."
If you look further, you'll find that the radio broadcast, the 1953 movie, and Jeff Wayne's Musical Version and PC game all adapted the opening from the book. Other versions likely did as well.
The original book is available free on-line from The Gutenberg Project.
What's wrong with steampunk Victorians fighting off a Martian invasion?
You'll get them. There are two War of the Worlds movies coming out. The other one from Pendragon Pictures will be set in the original book's setting.
I know what I'll be doing this weekend: retooling and reorganizing my War of the Worlds website. Interesting that this Spielburg version is depicting the alien hand holding the Earth in a manner very reminiscent of the 1988-1989 season of the TV series.
I just wish I had a complete working copy of the old waroftheworlds.com Radio Classics website, especially their story, "The Last Chat Room". Lost my copy to hard drive corruption. Random two-byte errors in the image files. Anyone who can help, drop me a line at my site, either having an archived version or can repair damaged GIF and/or JPEG files. (The Way-Back Machine sadly doesn't have a copy.)
Interesting too is that Gayle Elizabeth Sample was born in 1958 and is under 18 (birthdate is in red), but not under 21 (no red border around image). And Miss Sample seems to have been issued this new version of the license a month early, too.
More direct links to page and to image, the latter because they've sized the image down slightly in the markup.
I wonder if they're basing the license number on your SSN and if it is a reversible encoding.
This isn't a matter of Kaleidescape violating a law.
This is a matter of Kaleidescape violating a license, a contract with the DVDCCA.
The DVDCCA could just make the license tougher to explicitly disallow any future licensee (and all renewals) from being able to produce a server like this. What they want is a ruling that says that the term as it exists in their current license against this is enforceable, which will send a signal to everyone to stay out of that market.
It would help if we could see the license, but I suspect you have to be able to put up enough money to buy it before you're able to even see it, and that it contains non-disclosure elements.
I speak from experience that I have DVDs that have different barcodes on them than recorded in Amazon.com's database. I even possess two copies of Commando, same edition, but different barcodes, purchased at different times and not returned to the store in time.
The makers of DVDs can easily mark copies for sale from different vendors; it isn't beyond their ability to have different pressings for them as well. (I don't know for certain that these two releases of Commando are identical; they're both still shrink-wrapped.)
Ah, but the rub is that you have no fair use rights to the tools. Any prosecution over your making a fair use copy won't be over making of the copy but for having the tools to make the copy.
Thus legal ends become evidence of illegal means, and exercising your fair use defense becomes an admission of committing the other crime of possessing illegal tools for making copies of copyrighted works protected by technological means.
My library of DVDs is over 400 purchased items. Due to box sets, actual DVD count is higher. And it continues to grow. Not that it would rival your acquaintance's collection, but large enough to make Sony's 400-disc carosel insufficient. I'm not certain, but I think most of it is unwatched and still shrink-wrapped.
That said, this Kaledescape system is interesting, but even if I could afford it, it doesn't sound like it does everything I'd want. I want to be able to program it like a TV executive programs a TV station.
When I've seen the last act of an episode of The X-Files I want to see the trailer for the next episode off the bonus disk before I even see the credits. I want to interleave episodes of Millennium with it so that the crossover episode airs at the appropriate time. Same for any other series on DVD with crossover episodes, either guest appearances or plot lines that begin and end in different series.
And not only would I want to incorporate television recording, I'd also want to be able to push out my own live video over my home network. To have not just caller-ID information show up on the screen but also severe weather notices. To pre-empt all TVs in the house with an announcement to evacuate because of a gas leak or fire.
Yeah, I'd like to run my own TV network in my own home, whether it be on a rigid schedule every day or just managing the queue (or multiple queues for independent viewers) of content.
And on top of all that, including lock outs for scheduling activities other than watching TV.
Wake me when they last at least as long as their copyright.
While the screensaver allegedly throttles back when a site slows, it would seem it's being a bit overzealous.
Oh, don't be afraid of the word, CowboyNeal. Ruthless. Committed. It does its duty as it sees it, and it sees it clearly. It has no time for the dirty gray areas of net politics.
And what if next week NBC decides to schedule ER to start 2 minutes early? The shows come into conflict again. If they shift it to start on time, you've cut off the end of CSI for no reason. You're still at the mercy of the networks.
Better would be to allow the software to resolve partial conflicts dynamically, giving shows a designation of "hard" or "soft". Soft shows will yield their conflicted time to hard shows. Two soft shows would split the conflicted time between them. This would maximize the amount of recording that could occur.
Two hard shows in conflict fall back to current behavior of highest priority wins, because sometimes I find I want to use positive padding just to conflict out a particular timeslot.
Or, even if you have only one MPEG encoder in your analog unit, still allow two sources to be hooked up and PIP or split-screen the video between the conflicts for a minute, routing each channel's sound to opposite speakers.
So you're saying it had nothing to do with PVR infringing on the trademark for the DPS (now Leitch) Perception Video Recorder?
The only problem is there is no easy way to get this URL, you have to find the anchor by looking at the HTML source (Firefox's "View Selection Source" feature helps a lot).
I put this in my userContent.css file (the client-side stylesheet) in Mozilla:Any anchor that has a name attribute will disclose that attribute on the page. The file is in your ~/.mozilla//*/chrome/ folder, unless you use Windows where I don't know its location offhand. You may have to create it. (Your browser will need to be restarted for this change to take effect.)
It likely works for Firefox too.
Have you considered the bandwidth required to record uncompressed HDTV over DVI? It's not even MPEG video anymore by that point. You'd need an intermediary box to recompress that raw video back into an HD data stream again.
You'd be better off getting a cable box with a Firewire output.
Sounds nice, but I'm not certain I want to give up my IMSoSmrt client from Compuglobalhypermeganet.
If cars modelled this behavior, you might drive your car from New York to Miami, run out of gas in Fort Lauderdale, 10 miles from your destination, and suddenly find yourself back in New York.
For a trip from New York to Miami, that would be considered a bug.
For a trip from Earth to Mars, that would be considered a feature.
You could cut out every second of commercials, but to cut out the sponsor you'd cut the entire "heart" of the show. Hell, you wouldn't even have a show.
Dude, you're talking about The Apprentice. There wasn't a show there to begin with.
Meanwhile, there used to be an open site called adcritic.com which had free downloads of commercials. It was quite popular (especially after the Super Bowl). Now it's a pay service, $99.95 a year with a compulsory companion print magazine.
And the funny thing? They pay millions of dollars to television stations to get their ads on TV, but would likely still sue people sharing their favorite advertisements for free!
Well, I wouldn't use the Internet at all if I could get the hang of the time machine. It's a very delicate business, web surfing, you know. Full of appalling traps and dangers.
I think in the case of suprnova the cat's already out of the bag.
When you have a TV show host wearing a suprnova.org T-shirt on live TV for an hour, yeah, it's out of the bag. Nevermind that the site even has T-shirts.
Then again, it was a show on third tier digital platinum plus cable, so that might still be considered on the "down low".
Oooh, Evil Dead: The Musical? I likee.
I'll swallow your sooooooooul!
At least you still show science fiction from the UK on IPTV, unlike NETV (Nebraska Educational TeleVision) where it has been banned from our airwaves for decades. I've even driven for miles weekly to get close enough to receive Red Dwarf and Doctor Who on a 5" TV.
I took advantage of TiVo's offer to transfer lifetime service from a Series1 to a new Series2. Now I have Series1 units that I can use to do timed manual records without a subscription (with occasional maintenance) while the Series2 units will forever require a subscription to operate.
I could stop giving TiVo money ($6.95 a month each for two Series1 units) and still have functional recorders.
This is likely just repurposing their iPreview icons to use custom graphics. For those using external tuners, I suspect one could easily filter out the VBI and disable TiVo's ability to recognize this information. (A better filter would be scanline selective and avoid filtering out closed captioning.)