The thing I like about Video-tape, was that they are realtivly bullet proof.
If you get a pindrop scrath on your DVD, you could be SOL.
At least if the tape is magles you can still watch the movie.
There is always some sort of format wars..
All I can suggest is to those that have spent may years building up your DVD collection. Make sure that you go buy a couple of new DVD players. Leave them in their boxces u ntill you need to replace the one you have, and wont be able to.
Look at what happened with records, and cds, video-tape, and DVDS.
The best thing is to ride out the wars, until they settle. And you wont be modernise your library.
I think that there will be many forum posts about those elements of the content. As long as they make the game plausible. Many of the problems with the galaxies game were thematic. There was a great post makng suggestions.. such as having bounthunters and smugglers start on Tatooine. Have all the 'legend' characters actually involved. Instead of taking the easy way out, and turinging everyone into a jedi.
I think the major part of these games, you need to maintain some sense of continuity. If this took place at the beginning of TNG/.. there shouldnt be any BORG. No matter what. They werent introduced yet. A little later, and that would be cool. Maybe the Main Characters from the show should be played by the devs, or given an AI. Is there some sort of Roddenberry over-searer?
I played some Starwars and some trek games, and i always felt let down by the trek games. Too boring. Maybe an immersive GTA-VC/SA style game, might be what will do it for a single player.
I am a lighting guy.. and it is important. It has to go with the feel of what is around you.
The problem is that you need a hook for the fanbois, so you get a reasonably passing grade. But they have an uphil climb. SW:Galaxies bombed even though it looked good.
However I still havent checkked the pictures.
Maybe what I was talking about was the use of the fingerprint method of identification.
Yours was the longest so I will reply. In my haze in the morning before i headed out to work. I had just quickly sped it out.. before i could even begin to format it. Sometimes my brain goes faster then my hands.
What i was saying was that that when laptops get stolen from the company, such as verizon or whoever, they tend to have that data on them. Why not have a drm-styled system that reports back to the head-office when the files or pc is accessed ? I know there are phone-home systems, but having this on top of that would help. I am not an expert by any means. But if the laptop reports back to the server everytime its accessed, regardless of how, then I think that its a good thing. DRM is at its early stage. I think that as it progresses this might be part of the trend. But as long as its not the only point of security. The thiefs ip is quickly identified, and the cops are called. (as long as they attempt to access the net).
The hollywood thing,
'And even if I do buy the computer hollywood wants me to buy, are you suggesting that for some reason that I no longer own my own property? That you somehow want to deny my my basic property rights to my own property? That for some reason I should not place my computer under a microscope and read out my master key? That I should not be able to send my computer to a professional and hire them to read out my key for me?'
Ok, last I look, when you buy the movie, your not actually buying a copy of the movie. Your buying a liscence to watch it. The DVD is what you pay for. YOu can grind the dvd, and put holes in it, however, the movie itself isnt yours. Thats why it tells you about the copyright. Its copyrighted. Just like a book. If there is room to make a back-up copy that is fine. However that doesn't mean that you are allowed to share it. Or remove the copy-protection. The industry has a problem in that it understands that people want to watch it on their computer, however that means more people can pirate it as well,
The case in point is DVDJon, I understand his status of going up against the big guys and winning. But my question is, why did he have to share the information to other people ? Couldnt he have just kept quiet? I dont understand why it's their fault that they didn't produce a linux version? A lot of companies don't. Just pressure them untill they do.
You also talk about the company that sends you their secret and trusts you not to release it. You would expect that coke would come after you if you gave away a formula right? Why cant the movie industry go after you for giving away theirs?
I had said nothing about the fact that you are secured from your own personal computer. I don't see this being used unless its a companies system. Its theirs they can do with it what ever they want.
I didnt read through to the end suggesting that a third party hold your keys.
Thats silly. I agree with you all there. I seem to think that should be able to be shifted to whomever owns the system.
But there are a lot of ideas that this can be used for. If the security is beefed up, then you have less reason to worry if the laptop that your company gave you got stolen. It would be a lot harder to access that system. With the recent rash of Credit card data that went missing this isnt a bad thing.
Your on-line banking could also use this in order to determine that its you that is accessing their account from your pc.
How about that pesky tax information that most of us have on them as well ? Can't get your sin if wedont have the finger-pad.
As far as the rest, if hollywood wants that too for you to play thier movie on your laptop, then thats the way it goes. You are the one who wants to play it on the laptop, instead of the DVD machine. Some games want you tto have the cd in when yu play them. Whats so different?
As far as the above who said that the question about the being the same as the police chief, no. It isn't anything like that at all. Thats outright watching everyone. A lot like those pesky illegal wiretaps.
If i sent you a company secret and there was a way to add on layers of protection, I think that its worth any performance hit. I don't see many poeple wanting to play the latest and greatest FPS, while they are doing work on their companies laptop, while the boss is using a virtual desktop to see how you are making out.
Shagz
I live in Canada and we have some Cop cams in the downtown area. Yes it does help to deter crime. However,
you are right, people go to where the cameras arent. Which means my area. To be honest I've often thought of putting my own camera up on the corner. Streaming it to a website. Would that be proceeds from a crime ????>
There isnt much you can do to take people away from what they are doing once they get into the crack. The only thing you can think of is setting up shooting galleries. SO that these people can go there. Untill the Shrubs kids discover crack, that is such a bad notion for your people to think about.
Make pot legal and all of sudden your crime rate goes down. Seems simple enough to me.
There is a new hitman ???
Gotta go check that out.
I am in my thirties. Am i over a hill that I didnt know existed ?
The trouble is that the newer games only want to be played on the newest hardware. I bought a great new laptop, but splinter cell barely plays on it. Whats up with that? One of the levels i cant get through becuase of video problems. You would think that there would be a patch that allowed you to play an older game, on a lesser system. This would bring wider appeal.
I understand that they want to be able to push the envelope. But once there, how about a bone for us ?
In our northern province of Ontario, Canada. A few years back they decided that it was ok for women to go topless, as long as it wasnt sexual. Men can take off their shirts, so know women can too.
Now of course the right-wingers were freaking out. We'd hear that these women would be walking through downtown with no shirts on.. and that the kids would be exposed to it. Not too mention the idea that all these women are going to be raped, not too mention the locusts. Now, none of this has come to pass. This is also the same rhetoric spwed over gay--marriage. Who cares?? Somehow they get all upset when they get married. Somehow they think that their rights are being violated. Not to mention the locuts, and that churches would be forced to marry these folks..Have I mentioned the Locusts ?
We also have a system in place that allows the governement to collect a tax on blank cds.. (works out to maybe a nickel a cd maybe?). What that is supposed to do is go into the Canadian Musicians, that work hard to earn that. The idea is that they can go after copyrights here, because they are making some money there. There is another argumnet too be made about how little money the artists are making.
The noises that the music industry is making because that is all they know.
No matter how much you try to guide their hands they react out of the fear of the unknown. Maybe they need better terms in the contract over how the industry pays out these 'monthly' fees. Thats the big 'white elephant in the room' as it were. How do you determine the scale? Its a great idea, but thats what scares them. The idea of deciding who gets what is a big new thing. Of course the artist are afraid because tey think that they will get any of the money that will come from that. Anyone remember Courtney Love and her lawsuit?: She was filing after they got all that money from napster and others "in the name of the artists"? Nobody ever got dime.
Did anyone see the locusts yet ?
Hwy.. nothing wrong with over-hyping something like this. Your right in your analogy.
Anyone remember the panic of y2k ? A lot of work because of some liitle numbers that were hyped. I bellives that for the most part that the lights would go out for a while. Maybe a couple of stock markets migbht not open for a few days. Who knows...
But no fallign planes or anything so fun.. but thanx for the warnings.. I can feel safe knowing my remote is y2k compliant...;)
Yes the bell that rings is the same sort of market that Linux-Boxen brings.
Better faster and more secure. (they are running fc as their kernel shhhH!;)
The conspiracy theorist in me has always thought that Microsoft and the Virus guys are in cahoots. MS gets a kickback in order to be a little less secure, so the Virus companies will survive.
The other part is that I wonder if the Virus companies re;lease their own trojans every so often. That way they guaratee the sales. Almost like Kevlar Jacket guys seling armor-piercing bullets out the back.;)
My cable provider has more then 2 levels of connection. One is the light version for 20$, that gives you a thrid of the 'normal' bandwidth. That allows people that only check their mail and whatnot.
The 50$ a month is what I have. The level of about 600 down 120 up or so. Then there is the 100$ pro version that opens up the ports for a mail server, as well as more bandwith.
You pay for the acceessthat you need. I dont understand what the cuffual is about.
If the telcos want other people to pay for your access thats defintly wrong. However the message can be strong if everyone switched to cable instead of the telcos.
Demand better service by your money.
This Website was very well done. It explains how to make a bootcd, and how to get the ServicePack in as well. Very quick and easy. As long as you follow a few steps.
This will work for Win2k.xp..prolly 2003 as well.
Hope it helps.
This also works for BIOS updates et al.
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I was thinking the same thing. I am a Canadian.. I think that they should be impeached. Not sued.
In soviet Russia, the coffee would drop you!
Resurface ? Would that mean that you'd have to sand it first ?
The thing I like about Video-tape, was that they are realtivly bullet proof. If you get a pindrop scrath on your DVD, you could be SOL. At least if the tape is magles you can still watch the movie.
There is always some sort of format wars.. All I can suggest is to those that have spent may years building up your DVD collection. Make sure that you go buy a couple of new DVD players. Leave them in their boxces u ntill you need to replace the one you have, and wont be able to. Look at what happened with records, and cds, video-tape, and DVDS. The best thing is to ride out the wars, until they settle. And you wont be modernise your library.
I think that there will be many forum posts about those elements of the content. As long as they make the game plausible. Many of the problems with the galaxies game were thematic. There was a great post makng suggestions.. such as having bounthunters and smugglers start on Tatooine. Have all the 'legend' characters actually involved. Instead of taking the easy way out, and turinging everyone into a jedi. I think the major part of these games, you need to maintain some sense of continuity. If this took place at the beginning of TNG/.. there shouldnt be any BORG. No matter what. They werent introduced yet. A little later, and that would be cool. Maybe the Main Characters from the show should be played by the devs, or given an AI. Is there some sort of Roddenberry over-searer? I played some Starwars and some trek games, and i always felt let down by the trek games. Too boring. Maybe an immersive GTA-VC/SA style game, might be what will do it for a single player.
I am a lighting guy.. and it is important. It has to go with the feel of what is around you. The problem is that you need a hook for the fanbois, so you get a reasonably passing grade. But they have an uphil climb. SW:Galaxies bombed even though it looked good. However I still havent checkked the pictures.
Maybe what I was talking about was the use of the fingerprint method of identification.
Yours was the longest so I will reply.
In my haze in the morning before i headed out to work. I had just quickly sped it out.. before i could even begin to format it. Sometimes my brain goes faster then my hands.
What i was saying was that that when laptops get stolen from the company, such as verizon or whoever, they tend to have that data on them. Why not have a drm-styled system that reports back to the head-office when the files or pc is accessed ? I know there are phone-home systems, but having this on top of that would help. I am not an expert by any means. But if the laptop reports back to the server everytime its accessed, regardless of how, then I think that its a good thing. DRM is at its early stage. I think that as it progresses this might be part of the trend. But as long as its not the only point of security. The thiefs ip is quickly identified, and the cops are called. (as long as they attempt to access the net).
The hollywood thing,
'And even if I do buy the computer hollywood wants me to buy, are you suggesting that for some reason that I no longer own my own property? That you somehow want to deny my my basic property rights to my own property? That for some reason I should not place my computer under a microscope and read out my master key? That I should not be able to send my computer to a professional and hire them to read out my key for me?'
Ok, last I look, when you buy the movie, your not actually buying a copy of the movie. Your buying a liscence to watch it. The DVD is what you pay for. YOu can grind the dvd, and put holes in it, however, the movie itself isnt yours. Thats why it tells you about the copyright. Its copyrighted. Just like a book. If there is room to make a back-up copy that is fine. However that doesn't mean that you are allowed to share it. Or remove the copy-protection. The industry has a problem in that it understands that people want to watch it on their computer, however that means more people can pirate it as well,
The case in point is DVDJon, I understand his status of going up against the big guys and winning.
But my question is, why did he have to share the information to other people ? Couldnt he have just kept quiet? I dont understand why it's their fault that they didn't produce a linux version? A lot of companies don't. Just pressure them untill they do.
You also talk about the company that sends you their secret and trusts you not to release it. You would expect that coke would come after you if you gave away a formula right? Why cant the movie industry go after you for giving away theirs?
I had said nothing about the fact that you are secured from your own personal computer. I don't see this being used unless its a companies system. Its theirs they can do with it what ever they want.
I didnt read through to the end suggesting that a third party hold your keys.
Thats silly. I agree with you all there. I seem to think that should be able to be shifted to whomever owns the system.
But there are a lot of ideas that this can be used for. If the security is beefed up, then you have less reason to worry if the laptop that your company gave you got stolen. It would be a lot harder to access that system. With the recent rash of Credit card data that went missing this isnt a bad thing. Your on-line banking could also use this in order to determine that its you that is accessing their account from your pc. How about that pesky tax information that most of us have on them as well ? Can't get your sin if wedont have the finger-pad. As far as the rest, if hollywood wants that too for you to play thier movie on your laptop, then thats the way it goes. You are the one who wants to play it on the laptop, instead of the DVD machine. Some games want you tto have the cd in when yu play them. Whats so different? As far as the above who said that the question about the being the same as the police chief, no. It isn't anything like that at all. Thats outright watching everyone. A lot like those pesky illegal wiretaps. If i sent you a company secret and there was a way to add on layers of protection, I think that its worth any performance hit. I don't see many poeple wanting to play the latest and greatest FPS, while they are doing work on their companies laptop, while the boss is using a virtual desktop to see how you are making out. Shagz
Will it do this out of the box? Or will they cram it down your throat with another 'forced paid upgrade' ala xp pro ?
I live in Canada and we have some Cop cams in the downtown area. Yes it does help to deter crime. However, you are right, people go to where the cameras arent. Which means my area. To be honest I've often thought of putting my own camera up on the corner. Streaming it to a website. Would that be proceeds from a crime ????> There isnt much you can do to take people away from what they are doing once they get into the crack. The only thing you can think of is setting up shooting galleries. SO that these people can go there. Untill the Shrubs kids discover crack, that is such a bad notion for your people to think about. Make pot legal and all of sudden your crime rate goes down. Seems simple enough to me.
There is a new hitman ??? Gotta go check that out. I am in my thirties. Am i over a hill that I didnt know existed ? The trouble is that the newer games only want to be played on the newest hardware. I bought a great new laptop, but splinter cell barely plays on it. Whats up with that? One of the levels i cant get through becuase of video problems. You would think that there would be a patch that allowed you to play an older game, on a lesser system. This would bring wider appeal. I understand that they want to be able to push the envelope. But once there, how about a bone for us ?
I always thought that Harley Davidsons were drivable couches.
In our northern province of Ontario, Canada. A few years back they decided that it was ok for women to go topless, as long as it wasnt sexual. Men can take off their shirts, so know women can too. Now of course the right-wingers were freaking out. We'd hear that these women would be walking through downtown with no shirts on.. and that the kids would be exposed to it. Not too mention the idea that all these women are going to be raped, not too mention the locusts. Now, none of this has come to pass. This is also the same rhetoric spwed over gay--marriage. Who cares?? Somehow they get all upset when they get married. Somehow they think that their rights are being violated. Not to mention the locuts, and that churches would be forced to marry these folks..Have I mentioned the Locusts ? We also have a system in place that allows the governement to collect a tax on blank cds.. (works out to maybe a nickel a cd maybe?). What that is supposed to do is go into the Canadian Musicians, that work hard to earn that. The idea is that they can go after copyrights here, because they are making some money there. There is another argumnet too be made about how little money the artists are making. The noises that the music industry is making because that is all they know. No matter how much you try to guide their hands they react out of the fear of the unknown. Maybe they need better terms in the contract over how the industry pays out these 'monthly' fees. Thats the big 'white elephant in the room' as it were. How do you determine the scale? Its a great idea, but thats what scares them. The idea of deciding who gets what is a big new thing. Of course the artist are afraid because tey think that they will get any of the money that will come from that. Anyone remember Courtney Love and her lawsuit?: She was filing after they got all that money from napster and others "in the name of the artists"? Nobody ever got dime. Did anyone see the locusts yet ?
Hwy.. nothing wrong with over-hyping something like this. Your right in your analogy. Anyone remember the panic of y2k ? A lot of work because of some liitle numbers that were hyped. I bellives that for the most part that the lights would go out for a while. Maybe a couple of stock markets migbht not open for a few days. Who knows... But no fallign planes or anything so fun.. but thanx for the warnings.. I can feel safe knowing my remote is y2k compliant... ;)
Yes the bell that rings is the same sort of market that Linux-Boxen brings. Better faster and more secure. (they are running fc as their kernel shhhH! ;)
The conspiracy theorist in me has always thought that Microsoft and the Virus guys are in cahoots. MS gets a kickback in order to be a little less secure, so the Virus companies will survive. The other part is that I wonder if the Virus companies re;lease their own trojans every so often. That way they guaratee the sales. Almost like Kevlar Jacket guys seling armor-piercing bullets out the back. ;)
My cable provider has more then 2 levels of connection. One is the light version for 20$, that gives you a thrid of the 'normal' bandwidth. That allows people that only check their mail and whatnot. The 50$ a month is what I have. The level of about 600 down 120 up or so. Then there is the 100$ pro version that opens up the ports for a mail server, as well as more bandwith. You pay for the acceessthat you need. I dont understand what the cuffual is about. If the telcos want other people to pay for your access thats defintly wrong. However the message can be strong if everyone switched to cable instead of the telcos. Demand better service by your money.
This Website was very well done. It explains how to make a bootcd, and how to get the ServicePack in as well. Very quick and easy. As long as you follow a few steps. This will work for Win2k.xp..prolly 2003 as well. Hope it helps. This also works for BIOS updates et al.
In Soviet Russia, the emoticon patents you.
Fishy Fishy Fishy.. Has anyone seen the fish?? Where did the fishy go ?
I have an 89 SI.. leaks a lot in the cabin.. but.. god is it great.
Perchance was that the reason that I was modded down ? Perhaps it could say 'that mean Mean Bush'???\\
Does that Mean Bush gets fired for wasting our time for 6 years ??
In the rest of the world..everything belongs to Bush.