if they didn't have notices warning people that filming in the cinema is criminal. Although to be honest she must have been living under a rock if she didn't know that already.
The real reason he's pissed at the internet is that he's made so much money through the record companies and has his own label (Rocket) he's a corner-stone of the old "record company" institution so of course he's going to hate whatever they hate.
INTERNET USE IS OPTIONAL. No one is forcing him to use it in connection with making his music.
Actually in his case there is probably much less stopping him than other musicians getting together in person with whoever he wants to make music. He has enough credibility and money to get a bunch of top musicians to fly round the world to come to his home studio. How is the internet ruining that?
>> Why doesn't the industry just give up and go DRM-free?"
Because the only mindset the labels have ever had is to maintain a vice-like monopoly over distribution channels. They've been doing it for so long they can't think any differently. Anyway they're middle-men. They add no value to the product itself so can only justify their large cut of the profits by bullying.
What if you were travelling on buisness and wanted to recharge your personal ipod but your own PC was at home? Now you couldn't plug your Ipod into your work-supplied laptop without turning into a brick.
I admit up-front that I don't 'get' the whole second-life thing. It only took me about 20 minutes to realise how dull and pointless it is. There's nothing going on, loads of places you can't go, and its totally boring just wandering around. Also even on broadband the crappy world graphics update so slowly its painful. Literally. You can bump into walls even minutes before they get drawn.
So I wouldn't classify second life as a game as there is no fun or objectives and its very clunky so 'playing' it isn't accurate.
Microsoft are famous for calculating the number of installed windows platforms in a very skewed way. For example, every six months when you need to do one of those maintenance reinstalls of windows because it has got too slow/fat/buggy, MS count that as another newly installed platform because you just reauthenticated.
The root cause is basically cultural. 1)Americans think bigger is better. This mentality still applies even with phones. 2) Most Americans are very ill-informed about the outside world so have no clue what is really going on elsewhere. 3)Americans feel most comfortable when every street in the US has the same stores so they can buy the same tired old crap from big familiar names. Thats why McDonalds are so ubiquitous yet make sure they never change their recipies or have any deviation between stores.
3) has led to the telecoms industry in the US becoming a closed marketplace because everyone goes with only a few big phone companies so now they control the whole US market(names like Sprint, AT&T, Verizon). Between them have full control of the whole US marketplace.
The phone comapnies have no motivation to improve their phones because they have worked hard to ensure there is no real competition. A couple of examples of how they do this is: 1) by selling phones that are locked to their own service only 2) by making sure that all the companies sell almost exactly the same phones as their competition so there is no real choice.
Those fat old clamshells that you end up paying $100 and a 2 year subscription for, actully cost the phone companies next to nothing because they are crappy old designs that the rest of the world don't want any more so the phone manufacturers ship all their old stock that won't sell anywhere else any more to the US. The phone companies love it too because the make more profit from selling older phone styles at premium prices and don't have to pay the extra costs of keeping their product lines up to date.
Microsoft do this "trick" whereby they count all new windows licences sold as being Vista Licences. You see, even if you want to run XP you now have to buy a Vista licence and convert it. MS still counts that as a Vista sale and a Vista-installed platform, even if you never install Vista and toss your Vista DVD in the trash.
This just sounds like its follwing Microsoft's trend of adding even more layers of middleware to suck down all our CPU time and resources just to do the simplest of tasks.
So do any of these solutions support 3D graphics (nvidia) hardware? The only reason I currently have a windows partition at all is for gaming.
Being able to run Windows 3D games in a VM would allow me to move to a Linux-only box and also give me a nice way of: * managing the way windows keeps grabbing diskspace * remove the need to go through reinstalling/reactivating windows every 6 months or so * limiting the damage Windows virusses can do * limiting all the phone-home comms with Microsoft that windows keeps doing
Laptop hardware is never even close the top-end of the performance curve that hardcore gamers like to inhabit. Also you can't just do partial upgrades e.g. just swap out your video card. That is why hardcore gamers will always prefer desktops.
The only reason codecs are declared illegal is to protect already powerful monopolies. This goes against any civilised concepts of fairness such as consumer rights, free speech, or a free market economy.
I already own media such as DVD's that I paid for fair and square. Why should it even be legal, let alone considered acceptable, for some company to implement completely artificial restrictions who's only purose is to stop me using my own media on my own player? What happened to my rights? They got purposely destroyed by a megacorp who only gets away with it because they have enough money to buy politicians.
I think we as good citizens have an obligation to fight this both by mass refusal to buy media that will only play on certain platforms, and to refuse to buy OS's such as Microsoft that comply/implement the undermining of consumer rights.
I bought a core2 cpu when they first came out, expecting the imminent release of nvidia 680i chipset and 8800 GPU. Well both nvidia was delayed by about 6 months so I bought a cheap ASRock motherboard just as a stop-gap. It used a VIA chipset. I also thought the same about VIA then, but I don't now. The motherboard didn't have blazing performance but it was incredibly stable. It had hardware raid, both SATA and PATA, supports both DDR 1 and 2 memory, and is still the only socket 775 motherboard that has both AGP and PCI-E GPU slots. Furthermore it cost $55. I thought it was an excellent product.
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>> but the use of propaganda and a false war to keep citizens in tow.
Hmm... thank goodness that could never happen in real l... err... wait a minute...
if they didn't have notices warning people that filming in the cinema is criminal.
Although to be honest she must have been living under a rock if she didn't know that already.
The real reason he's pissed at the internet is that he's made so much money through the record companies and has his own label (Rocket) he's a corner-stone of the old "record company" institution so of course he's going to hate whatever they hate.
INTERNET USE IS OPTIONAL. No one is forcing him to use it in connection with making his music.
Actually in his case there is probably much less stopping him than other musicians getting together in person with whoever he wants to make music. He has enough credibility and money to get a bunch of top musicians to fly round the world to come to his home studio. How is the internet ruining that?
>> Why doesn't the industry just give up and go DRM-free?"
Because the only mindset the labels have ever had is to maintain a vice-like monopoly over distribution channels. They've been doing it for so long they can't think any differently. Anyway they're middle-men. They add no value to the product itself so can only justify their large cut of the profits by bullying.
that this kills all the stupid p2p-throttling that services providers do but deny.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to encrypt personal data.
What if you were travelling on buisness and wanted to recharge your personal ipod but your own PC was at home? Now you couldn't plug your Ipod into your work-supplied laptop without turning into a brick.
I admit up-front that I don't 'get' the whole second-life thing. It only took me about 20 minutes to realise how dull and pointless it is. There's nothing going on, loads of places you can't go, and its totally boring just wandering around. Also even on broadband the crappy world graphics update so slowly its painful. Literally. You can bump into walls even minutes before they get drawn.
So I wouldn't classify second life as a game as there is no fun or objectives and its very clunky so 'playing' it isn't accurate.
...except MS DID do something illegal.
Microsoft are famous for calculating the number of installed windows platforms in a very skewed way.
For example, every six months when you need to do one of those maintenance reinstalls of windows because it has got too slow/fat/buggy, MS count that as another newly installed platform because you just reauthenticated.
because ATI management are too stupid to think bigger than cutting quality to save costs.
The root cause is basically cultural.
1)Americans think bigger is better. This mentality still applies even with phones.
2) Most Americans are very ill-informed about the outside world so have no clue what is really going on elsewhere.
3)Americans feel most comfortable when every street in the US has the same stores so they can buy the same tired old crap from big familiar names. Thats why McDonalds are so ubiquitous yet make sure they never change their recipies or have any deviation between stores.
3) has led to the telecoms industry in the US becoming a closed marketplace because everyone goes with only a few big phone companies so now they control the whole US market(names like Sprint, AT&T, Verizon). Between them have full control of the whole US marketplace.
The phone comapnies have no motivation to improve their phones because they have worked hard to ensure there is no real competition. A couple of examples of how they do this is:
1) by selling phones that are locked to their own service only
2) by making sure that all the companies sell almost exactly the same phones as their competition so there is no real choice.
Those fat old clamshells that you end up paying $100 and a 2 year subscription for, actully cost the phone companies next to nothing because they are crappy old designs that the rest of the world don't want any more so the phone manufacturers ship all their old stock that won't sell anywhere else any more to the US. The phone companies love it too because the make more profit from selling older phone styles at premium prices and don't have to pay the extra costs of keeping their product lines up to date.
Microsoft do this "trick" whereby they count all new windows licences sold as being Vista Licences.
You see, even if you want to run XP you now have to buy a Vista licence and convert it.
MS still counts that as a Vista sale and a Vista-installed platform, even if you never install Vista and toss your Vista DVD in the trash.
thats how many terabytes of hard drive space, CPU cores, and gigabytes of ram its minimum spec is.
This just sounds like its follwing Microsoft's trend of adding even more layers of middleware to suck down all our CPU time and resources just to do the simplest of tasks.
All those arrogant dicks in first class get to die first.
that someone might get to see how boring my life really is.
So do any of these solutions support 3D graphics (nvidia) hardware?
The only reason I currently have a windows partition at all is for gaming.
Being able to run Windows 3D games in a VM would allow me to move to a Linux-only box and also give me a nice way of:
* managing the way windows keeps grabbing diskspace
* remove the need to go through reinstalling/reactivating windows every 6 months or so
* limiting the damage Windows virusses can do
* limiting all the phone-home comms with Microsoft that windows keeps doing
Laptop hardware is never even close the top-end of the performance curve that hardcore gamers like to inhabit.
Also you can't just do partial upgrades e.g. just swap out your video card.
That is why hardcore gamers will always prefer desktops.
The only reason codecs are declared illegal is to protect already powerful monopolies.
This goes against any civilised concepts of fairness such as consumer rights, free speech, or a free market economy.
I already own media such as DVD's that I paid for fair and square.
Why should it even be legal, let alone considered acceptable, for some company to implement completely artificial restrictions who's only purose is to stop me using my own media on my own player?
What happened to my rights? They got purposely destroyed by a megacorp who only gets away with it because they have enough money to buy politicians.
I think we as good citizens have an obligation to fight this both by mass refusal to buy media that will only play on certain platforms, and to refuse to buy OS's such as Microsoft that comply/implement the undermining of consumer rights.
>> It comes with Windows Vista Home Basic as well as a complete lack of crapware
I think the crapware threshold was already exceeded by the OS.
I bought a core2 cpu when they first came out, expecting the imminent release of nvidia 680i chipset and 8800 GPU.
Well both nvidia was delayed by about 6 months so I bought a cheap ASRock motherboard just as a stop-gap. It used a VIA chipset. I also thought the same about VIA then, but I don't now.
The motherboard didn't have blazing performance but it was incredibly stable. It had hardware raid, both SATA and PATA, supports both DDR 1 and 2 memory, and is still the only socket 775 motherboard that has both AGP and PCI-E GPU slots. Furthermore it cost $55.
I thought it was an excellent product.
>> It's a fallacy that our elected officials take forever to get things done. Two examples where Washington acted with speed are...
Please can article-posters to slashdot stop assuming all readers are in the USA.
a car or even clothes covered with this stuff. You could just change their colour at will with the touch of a button.
ahh.. so you mean like... uhh... a monitor.