My ups ran my fridge for three days in the summer, there is no reason i can think of that it cant handle my computer for a week.
You never have used a UPS have you? You aren't going to have a UPS that will run your PC for 5-7 days. Well...let me rephrase that. You aren't going to run a regular desktop PC for 5-7 days without spending several thousand dollars on a UPS and batteries. To keep my little OptiPlex GX150 running without my monitor, I'd need one of these and two of these for a little over $2,000 total. And that's just for 48 hours of uptime. At that point, you could just hire a house sitter or just fix the thermostat.
And I doubt you ran a real fridge off of a UPS for 3 days straight, actually used it, and kept food cold.
But banks are wising up. My credit union now charges a $1 service fee if I use my debit card. This helps them cover the cost of the transaction...or so they claim. It's free if I use the same card as a visa check card though (merchant foots the transaction bill). It's not really a problem since more places take credit then debit...and those places that take debit usually also take credit.
No. It's illegal for a telemarketer to call your cell phone. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 prohibits automated machines from calling a number where the callee has to foot the bill. See US Code Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Part I, Section 227...or just look here. Scroll down to B.1.a.iii.
No telemarketer worth anything hand dials numbers.
I have yet to see a DVD and/or player that stopped me from either fast forwarding or skipping chapters over warning, previews, or other useless crap at the begining of the disc. Usually one or the other is blocked but never both so far.
That's nice that the government will subsidize the converters. Everyone knows that the governement has an unlimited supply of money and that the people won't be the ones who still end up footing the "subsidized" bill once it comes in the mail.
Nope. It was 1 million dollars....later changed to 100 billion dollars.
DR. EVIL: Gentlemen, I have a plan. It's called blackmail. The Royal Family of Britain are the wealthiest landowners in the world. Either the Royal Family pays us an exorbitant amount of money, or we make it look like Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, has had an affair outside of marriage and, therefore, they would have to divorce.
There is an uncomfortable silence.
NUMBER TWO: Um, Dr. Evil, Prince Charles did have an affair. He admitted it, and they are now divorced, actually.
DR. EVIL: People have to tell me these things. I've been frozen for thirty years, throw me a bone here. (pausing) OK, no problem. Here's my second plan. Back in the Sixties I had a weather changing machine that was in essence a sophisticated heat beam which we called a "laser." Using this laser, we punch a hole in the protective layer around the Earth, which we scientists call the "Ozone Layer." Slowly but surely, ultraviolet rays would pour in, increasing the risk of skin cancer. That is, unless the world pays us a hefty ransom.
There is another uncomfortable silence.
NUMBER TWO: Umm, that also has already happened.
DR. EVIL: Right. (pause) Oh, hell, let's just do what we always do. Let's hijack some nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage. (pause) Gentlemen, it's come to my attention that a breakaway Russian Republic called Kreplachistan will be transferring a nuclear warhead to the United Nations in a few days. Here's the plan. We get the warhead, and we hold the world ransom...(dramatic pause)...FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
There is an uncomfortable pause.
NUMBER TWO: Don't you think we should ask for more than a million dollars? A million dollars isn't that much money these days.
DR. EVIL: All right then...(dramatic pause)...FIVE MILLION DOLLARS!
There is another uncomfortable pause.
NUMBER TWO: Virtucon alone makes over nine billion dollars a year.
REPRESENTATIVES of various countries in their traditional garb around a large UN-style meeting table. The BRITISH are dressed in bowler hats. The AMERICANS all look like JFK. The CANADIANS are dressed as Mounties. The ARABS are dressed in ceremonial robes, etc.
DR. EVIL: Gentlemen, my name is Dr. Evil.
They all look up at the SCREEN.
DR. EVIL: In a little while, you'll find out that the Kreplachistani warhead has gone missing. Well, it's in safe hands. If you want it back, you'll have to pay me...ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
The UN representatives are confused. Number Two COUGHS.
DR. EVIL: (frustrated) Sorry. ONE-HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!
Caldera v. Microsoft happened back before Caldera and The Santa Cruz Organization (old SCO) even merged. They were different organizations then ran by different people with different management philosophies
EXTORTION - The use, or the express or implicit threat of the use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to person, reputation, or property as a means to obtain property from someone else with his consent. USC 18
The Hobbs Act defines "extortion" as "the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right." 18 U.S.C. S 1951(b)(2).
While Webster might not stand up in court, I think the US Code will.
And the dictionary would be wrong. Look up router at Merriam-Webster. (link)
An example of one that is wrong is MSN's Encarta Dictionary. (link) Of course they also mispronounce the other from of router (the woodworking variety) as well. Go into any woodcraftsman store and ask for a "root-er" and they are going to look at you funny.
You suggestion will work with some games but not all. The Sims comes to mind. The CDs are pressed with various types of DRM that are not there when you just copy the files.
Currently the only way I know that gets around this is to create an iso image of the disc, and use Daemon Tools to mount it. DT has the option to emulate several different types of DRM to allow the software to use the virtual drive.
No. He should print out every single message on a seperate piece of paper and hand it to them. There can't be more then a few couple hundred thousand messages over the course of the past 12 years.
Actually they have been. See here, here, and here. Look for the "Option Exercise at" lines. They were exercising their stock options. Which would you do for your company, exercise an option at 5-20% of the current market value, or pay market rate?
You can see more from Edgar: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13
But you don't need a T3. Go look in the a.b.dvdr newsgroup. Most posts there are less then 4.7 GB. Sure it will take 7 hours at 1.5 Mb/s DSL to get (or less depending on the size/speed), but in most cases the resulting image file can be burned to DVD and has all the content that you would want. Most people don't need subtitles, audio in 4 different languages in DD, DTS, and stereo, widescreen and pan & scan. If you leave just the widescreen and a single audio track, you can save a lot of space from the original DVD.
As someone pointed out somewhere in all the posts for this article, people just queue them up and go to bed. They don't care how long it takes. I know people who find an artist that they like, do a search for them in Kazaa, queue all the results up and go to bed. Come back in the morning. Some failed, some where downloaded. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I think that there are several reasons why DVD pirating isn't as popular as MP3. - Number of sources. Major studio movies can only churn out movies so fast. The music industry produces many more more CDs then what the movie industry does DVDs. - Size of files. A single track is a few megs for an MP3, so probably 70 megs for a whole albumn. There isn't really an equivilent for a movie...so you need the whole movie, so the overall files are bigger. With faster broadband speeds, this is becoming less of a factor...but still will be for a while. - Encoding time. It still takes a couple of hours per video to encode them using Divx. Compare 3 hours for a good quality divx to less then 1/2 hour for a full CD. -DVD recorders are not as popular as CD recorders yet. They are more expensive and the media is significantly more then the CD equivilent. This too is changing though.
You are correct. I rip my kids DVDs so that they can watch them over and over and they don't touch the original DVDs. Lost a few DVDs due to scratches and cracks before I started doing this... Basically the process is extract the video and audio to seperate files, encode the video to divx/xvid/whatever, then mux the audio back in. AC3 audio is typically around 400 megs for a 100 minute movie...but it varies from movie to movie. Depending on the video content/length, very good quality can be achieved under 2 CDs (1400 megs). Playback is handled via XBMP flawlessly.
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And I doubt you ran a real fridge off of a UPS for 3 days straight, actually used it, and kept food cold.
And much to the chagrin of thousands of CS profs.
Hey, don't confuse the issue with the facts.
But banks are wising up. My credit union now charges a $1 service fee if I use my debit card. This helps them cover the cost of the transaction...or so they claim. It's free if I use the same card as a visa check card though (merchant foots the transaction bill). It's not really a problem since more places take credit then debit...and those places that take debit usually also take credit.
No. It's illegal for a telemarketer to call your cell phone. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 prohibits automated machines from calling a number where the callee has to foot the bill. See US Code Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Part I, Section 227...or just look here. Scroll down to B.1.a.iii.
No telemarketer worth anything hand dials numbers.
I have yet to see a DVD and/or player that stopped me from either fast forwarding or skipping chapters over warning, previews, or other useless crap at the begining of the disc. Usually one or the other is blocked but never both so far.
That's nice that the government will subsidize the converters. Everyone knows that the governement has an unlimited supply of money and that the people won't be the ones who still end up footing the "subsidized" bill once it comes in the mail.
Ok. How about this picture. Do you see a black man or a white woman?
The mob recently announced that it is seeking permanent anti-RICO exemption. More at 10...
And it's not even a review of new hardware. The AIW 9600 Pro has been getting reviews for the last month and a half.
And remember that `cleaver' spelled backwards is revaelc...hmm...I guess it only works with `strap on'. Feel free to mod me up to 5 though.
And for those who are too lazy to actually figure it out, here's a quick reference:
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Caldera v. Microsoft happened back before Caldera and The Santa Cruz Organization (old SCO) even merged. They were different organizations then ran by different people with different management philosophies
Only if he sold it for more then he purchased it for. Otherwise, it's capital loss...or capital break-even.
And the dictionary would be wrong. Look up router at Merriam-Webster. (link)
An example of one that is wrong is MSN's Encarta Dictionary. (link) Of course they also mispronounce the other from of router (the woodworking variety) as well. Go into any woodcraftsman store and ask for a "root-er" and they are going to look at you funny.
You suggestion will work with some games but not all. The Sims comes to mind. The CDs are pressed with various types of DRM that are not there when you just copy the files.
Currently the only way I know that gets around this is to create an iso image of the disc, and use Daemon Tools to mount it. DT has the option to emulate several different types of DRM to allow the software to use the virtual drive.
And I'm sure no one suspects anything wrong when they download a 700 meg iso in 10 seconds. :)
People can't sue if it's outside the court's jurisdiction. He needs to bring this case to a Eros 433's district court first...
No. He should print out every single message on a seperate piece of paper and hand it to them. There can't be more then a few couple hundred thousand messages over the course of the past 12 years.
Actually they have been. See here, here, and here. Look for the "Option Exercise at" lines. They were exercising their stock options. Which would you do for your company, exercise an option at 5-20% of the current market value, or pay market rate?
You can see more from Edgar:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13
It's ok. You call say hell here. You can even say works like fuck, shit, bitch, or any one of several hundred other 3, 4, adn 5 letter words.
But you don't need a T3. Go look in the a.b.dvdr newsgroup. Most posts there are less then 4.7 GB. Sure it will take 7 hours at 1.5 Mb/s DSL to get (or less depending on the size/speed), but in most cases the resulting image file can be burned to DVD and has all the content that you would want. Most people don't need subtitles, audio in 4 different languages in DD, DTS, and stereo, widescreen and pan & scan. If you leave just the widescreen and a single audio track, you can save a lot of space from the original DVD.
As someone pointed out somewhere in all the posts for this article, people just queue them up and go to bed. They don't care how long it takes. I know people who find an artist that they like, do a search for them in Kazaa, queue all the results up and go to bed. Come back in the morning. Some failed, some where downloaded. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I think that there are several reasons why DVD pirating isn't as popular as MP3.
- Number of sources. Major studio movies can only churn out movies so fast. The music industry produces many more more CDs then what the movie industry does DVDs.
- Size of files. A single track is a few megs for an MP3, so probably 70 megs for a whole albumn. There isn't really an equivilent for a movie...so you need the whole movie, so the overall files are bigger. With faster broadband speeds, this is becoming less of a factor...but still will be for a while.
- Encoding time. It still takes a couple of hours per video to encode them using Divx. Compare 3 hours for a good quality divx to less then 1/2 hour for a full CD.
-DVD recorders are not as popular as CD recorders yet. They are more expensive and the media is significantly more then the CD equivilent. This too is changing though.
You are correct. I rip my kids DVDs so that they can watch them over and over and they don't touch the original DVDs. Lost a few DVDs due to scratches and cracks before I started doing this... Basically the process is extract the video and audio to seperate files, encode the video to divx/xvid/whatever, then mux the audio back in. AC3 audio is typically around 400 megs for a 100 minute movie...but it varies from movie to movie. Depending on the video content/length, very good quality can be achieved under 2 CDs (1400 megs). Playback is handled via XBMP flawlessly.