Not to get too political, but the summary ought to include the party affiliation details: Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Joseph Biden (D-DE), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Two of those Senators are Democrats, and this is one of those nefarious 'bi-partisan' bills. In other words, having won majority (barely) in the last election the Democrats are back to screwing over the citizens whom just voted them back into power. -sigh- Nothing ever changes.
y bundling the new software only with a pay product when the Windows version is free is just insulting...
I'm sure all this new Toast does is handle the https download requests from the Tivo unit internally. You have always been able to do the same manually by pointing a web browser (via https) at your Tivo's IP address, typing in your MAK code, and then downloading the.tivo videofiles. Actually playing them back on anything has been problematic, even on the PeeCee platform.
The "official" way to download and burn.tivo files on the PC has always "officially" been to use the expensive and crappy Sonic MyDVD. I would hope that Toast on a Mac would be a huge improvement, even at the same price.
As has been pointed out, the open source tivodecode will convert the video file to something more useful.
It looks like there's no transfer-to-Mac capabilities without purchasing Toast
Except of course connecting your web browser via https to your tivo's IP address, typing in your MAK, and downloading the.tivo files you want. Like has always been the case. You don't think all PC owning Tivo users have actually been buying that crappy MyDVD thing all this time?!
This new version of Toast is merely the Mac equivalent of tivo-enabled Sonic MyDVD for PeeCees. Actually, Toast is way better than MyDVD so this can only be an improvement.
several Bravia flat-panel LCD TVs this spring -- will accept an attachable module that can stream broadband high-definition and other Internet video content with the press of a remote control button.
So it sounds like this only works on Sony units, and only certain specific Sony units at best -- yet another Sony proprietary product to waste their resources upon. Can't they see that a seperate unit which works with any HDTV would be better for both them and customers? But, this is Sony we're talking about.
One might be inclined to think Pegasus is flickering out of existance because is isn't open source. I remember early on moving from Pegasus to Eudora email because Eudora's simplicity and features were better. When Eudora became an advertisement-laden mess, the open source Thunderbird showed up to fill the gap and I haven't looked back. Now Thunderbird offers in-place spell-check and other features which were considered very advanced just a few years ago. Evolution in action.
The real problem I see here is that new technology is presented as "unbreakable" then allows the business interests to ignore victims of fraud. In the U.S. we've already seen this happen with the special chipped keys for new vehicles. The auto makers insisted the technology was unbreakable, and the insurance companies responded in kind by denying theft claims from those victims unfortunate enough to have purchased a vehicle with one of these chipped keys.
I'm sure the banks are ready to further punish any victims of this broken "unbreakable" bank card system. I'm not British, so I don't know how applicable this is in the UK, but I imagine it is still a problem.
And in the end, if they won? That's what bankruptcy is for.
This kind of idiotic armchair posturing (which of course gets modded up) is the reason I'm beginning to hate reading slashdot.
FWIW, if you actually knew anything about the code, Bankruptcy does not resolve you of court ordered payouts. In fact, since the massive changes in the bankruptcy code last year (Oct 2005) bankruptcy doesn't really absolve you of much at all anymore -- you can thank the credit card industry for that.
But go ahead, keep dreaming your Braveheart fantasies.
dada21 is well known for being self-employed and an avid gold collector (hard currency over fiat greenbacks and all that). Since he avoids banks and credit as much as possible, and as I said self-employed, he probably isn't on the "popular" lists sold to the phone harassers.
My guess is SCO didn't expect it'd go this far. They were hoping they'd get settlements...
And this I believe is why IBM decided to take their time, go through the entire court process, despite the increased costs involved -- this time -- to make an example out of SCO. Otherwise, IBM would be inviting multitudes of other lame and unsubstantiated lawsuits from all sorts of "IP" firms with no products. IBM is spending the time and cost now grinding SCO into salt to send a clear message to anyone else in the tech/patent business -- Don't mess with us!
It actually shows a long-term kind of thinking which is sorely lacking in most of the corporate world today.
MS has faltered in many of these ventures, and the only success is the game market.
Since Microsoft has lost billions of dollars over the past few years in the game console market with their Xbox line, and just recently posted another $1.6 billion loss in that division, I'd say the word success isn't relevant in this market either.
then why not hold the parent liable when the kid does something bad enough to warrant criminal or civil proceedings?
Wouldn't it be hilarious if it turns out these teens actually set up this MySpace riff on the asst-Principle from the school. What's the school to do then, sue themselves?
The biggest problem I see with these indirect lawsuits by association (Parents you didn't watch your schoolkids close enough) is that the schools themselves are the absolute worst when it comes to avoiding responsibilities.
Generally, I'm a little pessimistic that copyright becomes the "green" movement of the 2010s. I'd love to see it, and I'll support it with everything I can, but my hopes are not too high.
I'd have to agree, if simply because in all the casual conversations I've had with people over so-called copyright issues, the overwhelming response seems to be that a writer (or movie maker, or whatever) should get iron-clad protection for their work.
The general public simply likes the notion that somebody's "idea" (especially one of their own) can be heavily protected.
her response was. " As long as I don't do anything wrong why should I worry? "
And of course the answer to that we should all remember is: "Do you trust the govenment enough to not screw up. So you trust government enough to keep absolutely clean database records, and not have your name get attached to some violation or other."
That's the problem with unfettered, growing data collection on citizens... it becomes impossible to keep records pristine. Crosslinks with similar names, previous residents of your apartment, coworkers and other errors begin to creep in and get worse over time.
And the end results of all that is that innocents begin to get fingered even though they "didn't do anything wrong."
Instead of having a computer that is obsolete when receive it, you can now pre-obsolesce your machine so you can be assured that it is obsolete and that you paid too much for it long before it ever arrives.
You mean if it ever arrives.
Instead, I recommend everyone interested in this (literally) Phantom $129 keyboard to instead send me the bargain price of $99! I guarantee to send you in return the same exact... well, nothing... as promised by this company.
Neilson media does NOT pull viewing statistics directly from people's television sets.
Much like many things on slashdot, this knee-jerk answer is false. Nielson does pull info from people's television sets.
Although I don't work for Nielson, I did interview at a local branch office a few months back. I guess I was too much 'software' for them, they seem to be looking for more low-level electronics guys (TV repair and the like). New hires apparently spend a couple months at in-depth training learning how various TVs and VCR devices work, how to dismantle them, and which board components do what on the logic boards.
The new Nielson equipment ties directly into your TV and VCR type devices. They literally record when you turn on the TV, what channel you're on, and how long you were on it. Stats are uploaded over the phone line every night. The new remote even has a different button for various members of the family, so they know demographics too. Now, they can't tell what VHS movie you were watching, but they can tell when you're using the VCR vs the TV. Chatting with the cold-contact person for a bit, I was surprised at how open the typical family is to having a Nielson guy come and wire up their sets for a few months.
Um, not jump in the middle of a fight... but I think you are proving his point. Using "special NASA lenses" and carefully set up candle-lit shots are too expensive for what you get at out at the end!
Why does everyone hate on Mansquito so much. I thought it was a decent, low-budget, made-for-TV monster flick. Pretty good for a bad movie.
Mansquito was certainly better than most of the crappy 'suspense' movies whose only claim to Scince-Fiction is that the background mattes supposedly render a spacestation or Mars-caves or something and otherwise have nothing to do with the story.
I'll take guys in rubber monster suits over their normal Made For SciFi pablum anytime. Methinks the Mansquito haters didn't actually watch the movie, or don't have a reference point for the other far crappier (and boring!) Made for SciFi movies.
Not everything in the past has worked right... - their SQA has left quite a bit to be desired in the past.
Here's an example even more basic than PCMCIA issues.
I own a pretty standard Microsoft optical mouse (2 buttons, plus that wheelie thing). My last attempt with Mandrake/Mandriva the installer system found the mouse and worked great, but after installation it could never find the mouse. Just try navigating without a mouse, even just to try to find the control panel for the mouse.
How could the installer use the mouse fine, but not the full system? For shame, Mandrake! Anyway, as you can probably guess, I haven't bothered to spend the money on it since.
And no, I'm not talking about any fictitious Biggs scenes.
Okay, I don't know about the missed grappling hook thing. But apparently the Biggs on Tattoine scene was originally filmed, just cut from the movie. Definitely a young Mark Hamill, there. And rightfully cut from the movie, because it is boring and stilted.
The 21st century began 2001-01-01. The first decade of your life's over the day you've lived 10 years, i.e. your 11th birthday.
Semantics, semantics. The year 2000 vs. 2001 issue is only because we have a tendancy to call years 1-100 the "first" century A.D. And even then, it is the scientists versus general populace. As far as I've read, the same nomenclature problem (if you can call it a problem) was raised between 1899-1901. You claim the 21st century didn't begin until 2001, but I would counter instead the Gregorian system should begin counting from Jesus' birth... i.e. the first century being years 0-99. In effect, nitpicking what to call dates on a calendar ends up being pointless.
BTW - From your method of counting to your first decade, you didn't actually live between birth and your first birthday. More so, your post and now mine are veering way offtopic from game sales.
why are people modding it as interesting as opposed to funny?
The moderators have begun to figure out that Funny doesn't generate karma points for the post, so a lot of otherwise silly or funny comments on slashdot get modded as a more generic interesting instead.
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Holy Toledo! 19.6GB for one movie!?!
I think the true limit of 'piracy' won't be in DRM but instead found in ISP bandwidth throttling and usage caps.
Not to get too political, but the summary ought to include the party affiliation details:
Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Joseph Biden (D-DE), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Two of those Senators are Democrats, and this is one of those nefarious 'bi-partisan' bills. In other words, having won majority (barely) in the last election the Democrats are back to screwing over the citizens whom just voted them back into power. -sigh- Nothing ever changes.
Sounds points, but I think the most important one missing from your list is simply:
6. Dealing with more product returns which often cost more than the original distribution cost of the CD in the first place.
All because these whackajob DRM controls prevent real customers from playing the disc in a number of 'normal' players.
I'm sure all this new Toast does is handle the https download requests from the Tivo unit internally. You have always been able to do the same manually by pointing a web browser (via https) at your Tivo's IP address, typing in your MAK code, and then downloading the .tivo videofiles. Actually playing them back on anything has been problematic, even on the PeeCee platform.
The "official" way to download and burn .tivo files on the PC has always "officially" been to use the expensive and crappy Sonic MyDVD. I would hope that Toast on a Mac would be a huge improvement, even at the same price.
As has been pointed out, the open source tivodecode will convert the video file to something more useful.
Except of course connecting your web browser via https to your tivo's IP address, typing in your MAK, and downloading the .tivo files you want. Like has always been the case. You don't think all PC owning Tivo users have actually been buying that crappy MyDVD thing all this time?!
This new version of Toast is merely the Mac equivalent of tivo-enabled Sonic MyDVD for PeeCees. Actually, Toast is way better than MyDVD so this can only be an improvement.
So it sounds like this only works on Sony units, and only certain specific Sony units at best -- yet another Sony proprietary product to waste their resources upon. Can't they see that a seperate unit which works with any HDTV would be better for both them and customers? But, this is Sony we're talking about.
One might be inclined to think Pegasus is flickering out of existance because is isn't open source. I remember early on moving from Pegasus to Eudora email because Eudora's simplicity and features were better. When Eudora became an advertisement-laden mess, the open source Thunderbird showed up to fill the gap and I haven't looked back. Now Thunderbird offers in-place spell-check and other features which were considered very advanced just a few years ago. Evolution in action.
The real problem I see here is that new technology is presented as "unbreakable" then allows the business interests to ignore victims of fraud. In the U.S. we've already seen this happen with the special chipped keys for new vehicles. The auto makers insisted the technology was unbreakable, and the insurance companies responded in kind by denying theft claims from those victims unfortunate enough to have purchased a vehicle with one of these chipped keys.
I'm sure the banks are ready to further punish any victims of this broken "unbreakable" bank card system. I'm not British, so I don't know how applicable this is in the UK, but I imagine it is still a problem.
This kind of idiotic armchair posturing (which of course gets modded up) is the reason I'm beginning to hate reading slashdot.
FWIW, if you actually knew anything about the code, Bankruptcy does not resolve you of court ordered payouts. In fact, since the massive changes in the bankruptcy code last year (Oct 2005) bankruptcy doesn't really absolve you of much at all anymore -- you can thank the credit card industry for that.
But go ahead, keep dreaming your Braveheart fantasies.
dada21 is well known for being self-employed and an avid gold collector (hard currency over fiat greenbacks and all that). Since he avoids banks and credit as much as possible, and as I said self-employed, he probably isn't on the "popular" lists sold to the phone harassers.
And this I believe is why IBM decided to take their time, go through the entire court process, despite the increased costs involved -- this time -- to make an example out of SCO. Otherwise, IBM would be inviting multitudes of other lame and unsubstantiated lawsuits from all sorts of "IP" firms with no products. IBM is spending the time and cost now grinding SCO into salt to send a clear message to anyone else in the tech/patent business -- Don't mess with us!
It actually shows a long-term kind of thinking which is sorely lacking in most of the corporate world today.
Since Microsoft has lost billions of dollars over the past few years in the game console market with their Xbox line, and just recently posted another $1.6 billion loss in that division, I'd say the word success isn't relevant in this market either.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if it turns out these teens actually set up this MySpace riff on the asst-Principle from the school. What's the school to do then, sue themselves?
The biggest problem I see with these indirect lawsuits by association (Parents you didn't watch your schoolkids close enough) is that the schools themselves are the absolute worst when it comes to avoiding responsibilities.
I'd have to agree, if simply because in all the casual conversations I've had with people over so-called copyright issues, the overwhelming response seems to be that a writer (or movie maker, or whatever) should get iron-clad protection for their work.
The general public simply likes the notion that somebody's "idea" (especially one of their own) can be heavily protected.
And of course the answer to that we should all remember is: "Do you trust the govenment enough to not screw up. So you trust government enough to keep absolutely clean database records, and not have your name get attached to some violation or other."
That's the problem with unfettered, growing data collection on citizens... it becomes impossible to keep records pristine. Crosslinks with similar names, previous residents of your apartment, coworkers and other errors begin to creep in and get worse over time.
And the end results of all that is that innocents begin to get fingered even though they "didn't do anything wrong."
You mean if it ever arrives.
Instead, I recommend everyone interested in this (literally) Phantom $129 keyboard to instead send me the bargain price of $99! I guarantee to send you in return the same exact... well, nothing... as promised by this company.
After all this time, and they still expect more people to pay them for nothing in return? Sheesh.
Much like many things on slashdot, this knee-jerk answer is false. Nielson does pull info from people's television sets.
Although I don't work for Nielson, I did interview at a local branch office a few months back. I guess I was too much 'software' for them, they seem to be looking for more low-level electronics guys (TV repair and the like). New hires apparently spend a couple months at in-depth training learning how various TVs and VCR devices work, how to dismantle them, and which board components do what on the logic boards.
The new Nielson equipment ties directly into your TV and VCR type devices. They literally record when you turn on the TV, what channel you're on, and how long you were on it. Stats are uploaded over the phone line every night. The new remote even has a different button for various members of the family, so they know demographics too. Now, they can't tell what VHS movie you were watching, but they can tell when you're using the VCR vs the TV. Chatting with the cold-contact person for a bit, I was surprised at how open the typical family is to having a Nielson guy come and wire up their sets for a few months.
Um, not jump in the middle of a fight... but I think you are proving his point. Using "special NASA lenses" and carefully set up candle-lit shots are too expensive for what you get at out at the end!
Why does everyone hate on Mansquito so much. I thought it was a decent, low-budget, made-for-TV monster flick. Pretty good for a bad movie.
Mansquito was certainly better than most of the crappy 'suspense' movies whose only claim to Scince-Fiction is that the background mattes supposedly render a spacestation or Mars-caves or something and otherwise have nothing to do with the story.
I'll take guys in rubber monster suits over their normal Made For SciFi pablum anytime. Methinks the Mansquito haters didn't actually watch the movie, or don't have a reference point for the other far crappier (and boring!) Made for SciFi movies.
Here's an example even more basic than PCMCIA issues.
I own a pretty standard Microsoft optical mouse (2 buttons, plus that wheelie thing). My last attempt with Mandrake/Mandriva the installer system found the mouse and worked great, but after installation it could never find the mouse. Just try navigating without a mouse, even just to try to find the control panel for the mouse.
How could the installer use the mouse fine, but not the full system? For shame, Mandrake! Anyway, as you can probably guess, I haven't bothered to spend the money on it since.
I just wanted to point out that the "Big Three" these days are more like the Big Two (Ford and GM) since Chrysler got bought out by the Germans.
Okay, I don't know about the missed grappling hook thing. But apparently the Biggs on Tattoine scene was originally filmed, just cut from the movie. Definitely a young Mark Hamill, there. And rightfully cut from the movie, because it is boring and stilted.
Semantics, semantics. The year 2000 vs. 2001 issue is only because we have a tendancy to call years 1-100 the "first" century A.D. And even then, it is the scientists versus general populace. As far as I've read, the same nomenclature problem (if you can call it a problem) was raised between 1899-1901. You claim the 21st century didn't begin until 2001, but I would counter instead the Gregorian system should begin counting from Jesus' birth... i.e. the first century being years 0-99. In effect, nitpicking what to call dates on a calendar ends up being pointless.
BTW - From your method of counting to your first decade, you didn't actually live between birth and your first birthday. More so, your post and now mine are veering way offtopic from game sales.
The moderators have begun to figure out that Funny doesn't generate karma points for the post, so a lot of otherwise silly or funny comments on slashdot get modded as a more generic interesting instead.