I've been using free-software only for about 10 years now...the freedom and power that gives me is far more valuable than an hour and a half of the latest car crash scenes.
However it's not at all required. If you burn CD's yourself, you will never see DRM in the iTunes iPod chain.
The fact that you can get around it doesn't change the fact that it has DRM, and iTunes has DRM, and Apple supports DRM.
Even with protected songs you can simply burn to a CD and re-rip lossless if you like.
No, you are re-ripping to a lossless format, at the original quality of the compressed file. If you take a vynil record, copy it to an 8-Track, copy it to a cassette tape, record it onto a CD and rip it in a lossless format, that doesn't mean it is now at a lossless quality, it's still lossy (very very lossy...).
And thats your choice, much as I can buy a copy of doom3 even though it wont run on my gf2mx400 pci. You don't have the hardware for it, don't buy the software.
The difference between your problem and this is the fact that his current hardware can play video just fine.
It's more like my laptop can run HL2, and some other company comes out with a better programmed game that has worse quality of graphics, uses less CPU power, and less RAM, but as soon as it starts up it says "you must either have a GeForce GT Blah blah blah or an ATI Radeon Xblah to run this game", and will refuse to display.
The less quality graphics are analagous because his computer I can assume runs DVDs just fine, but this is targetted for Internet content (I believe), which has less video quality.
That DOESN'T MATTER if the hardware refuses to let MPlayer run (since it's not signed by Microsoft).
That only matters under WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER. If Microsoft didn't allow non MS products to be installed or if a monitor only displayed stuff signed by Microsoft, then MS would be back in the courts and bye-bye birdie.
Wait, what am I saying? Bring the DRM on! I want more DRM MS!
"There is one thing we know about human beings in certainty, they are masters of self destruction." - Hot Blonde Cylon Chick from Battlestar Galactica
the next computer i get will be an apple. i don't want to deal with all this drm that will clearly only affect non-apples.
Or you can switch to Linux, which will always be free, always be DRMless, and you can just switch right now, without paying for new hardware that is extremely overpriced and non-easily-upgradable.
DMCA, baby. In that case they are in violation of federal law and will be shut down if they do not rewrite the player to comply. OR the video will simply fail to stream, OR the monitor will simply not accept the stream from the player.
OR you could use MPlayer, which does not have to comply with US copyright laws.
When we were about to graduate, I thought we needed a special surprise for the show our class was arranging. The computer room was completely closed for the last month or so, but bullshited my way inside anyway (yay for social engineering!). At the show, we called the administrator up on stage, told everyone that he needs a raise for all the grief we've caused him, and then presented him with his password. God that was fun.
Oh my god.... I want, need, desire, whatever REALLY BAD to have an adversary like that. That would be awesome!
In the US, it usually means you aren't allowed to come to school for usually about a week. It's defined with a time frame, but it's not forever, it's usually just a week.
In IL at least, this isn't correct. Suspension is being kicked out for a week, maximum 14 days. Then if they think that you need a bigger punishment than that, they confront the school board and request expullsion (sp?). Being expelled is not permanent, but it is much longer. It's 1 month minimum, and usually 10-14 months. After that time has elapsed you can come back, usually on a "probational" type status for a month or so, depending on what you did.
Look, chemistry instructors that position bunsen burners and spark igniters out on a high school lab bench are not and should not get "credit where credit is due" when a student "naturally explores boundaries" by seeing what happens when they torch various things around the classroom
When a chemistry teacher says "here's a bunsen burner, no messing around with it it is very hot and very dangerous, always have your safety goggles on at all times and don't tip it over or take it off the flame-proof table", then they aren't responsible. When they hand you a bunsen burner and leave, then they should take the blame.
Likewise when a teacher hands an iBook to a student and tells them "the administrator password is on the back, if you use it to get into the administrators account you could be punished", or even "don't touch the administrator account or you will be punished", then the teacher/sysadmin isn't responsible. But when they hand them an iBook and tell them "here's the on switch, I want you to go to www.learncoolstuff.com tonight as homework", then they are responsible as well if they just handed them a computer, with admin access, if and only if the student causes damage to that computer or others on the network (getting a virus or something) with the administrator account.
You are a psychopath because you value some things (your pleasure, happiness, etc.) more than the lives/happiness/etc of others. It really doesn't matter what you value more than someone's life (marshmellows, communism, women) - just that your values are messed up with relation to others.
Even my own life? My willing to kill someone who is willing to kill me makes me a psychopath?
You said, "They're in the queue, directly behind people who don't put periods inside quotation marks."
I, personally, would prefer something like this:
You said, "They're in the queue, directly behind people who don't put periods inside quotation marks.".
The first period ends the sentence within the quotes, a virtual sentence of sorts, and the second period ends the encasing sentence.
This is much like an eval statement, or something (this is just random generic programming, I have no idea if any language actually would support the following, exactly):
eval("echo(419);");
Okay, I know I've seen both, but for some reason I'm thinking that was actually Total Recall. Maybe it wasn't, and I'm getting my Ahnold movies mixed up...
As I've been saying for years - recruit submariners, not pilots. They're already partially screened for resistance to this syndrome. They are already used to living in confined spaces, isolation, etc.. etc..
Or they can hire nerds, who already know a bunch about space anyway, and also fit that criteria.
You may think I'm joking, but I haven't actually left this room all summer, except once or twice. I've been able to handle 3 months without any problems, I'm sure I can handle a year or two even.
This is, of course, given I have an internet connection.
that said, i did try thunderbird for a week or so but then it crashed and blew away my email inbox (with all of the emails in it) and i haven't gone back...i don't need my business emails being blown away randomly;}
It does support IMAP you know... Why on Earth were you using POP3?
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I've been using free-software only for about 10 years now...the freedom and power that gives me is far more valuable than an hour and a half of the latest car crash scenes.
Umm.... MPlayer, Xine, or Ogle, with libdvdread and libdvdcss work fine under Linux to play any and every DVD I've ever tried.
There's also a Mitsubishi plant in Illinois.
However it's not at all required. If you burn CD's yourself, you will never see DRM in the iTunes iPod chain.
The fact that you can get around it doesn't change the fact that it has DRM, and iTunes has DRM, and Apple supports DRM.
Even with protected songs you can simply burn to a CD and re-rip lossless if you like.
No, you are re-ripping to a lossless format, at the original quality of the compressed file. If you take a vynil record, copy it to an 8-Track, copy it to a cassette tape, record it onto a CD and rip it in a lossless format, that doesn't mean it is now at a lossless quality, it's still lossy (very very lossy...).
Someone mod this hilarious.
And thats your choice, much as I can buy a copy of doom3 even though it wont run on my gf2mx400 pci. You don't have the hardware for it, don't buy the software.
The difference between your problem and this is the fact that his current hardware can play video just fine.
It's more like my laptop can run HL2, and some other company comes out with a better programmed game that has worse quality of graphics, uses less CPU power, and less RAM, but as soon as it starts up it says "you must either have a GeForce GT Blah blah blah or an ATI Radeon Xblah to run this game", and will refuse to display.
The less quality graphics are analagous because his computer I can assume runs DVDs just fine, but this is targetted for Internet content (I believe), which has less video quality.
That DOESN'T MATTER if the hardware refuses to let MPlayer run (since it's not signed by Microsoft).
That only matters under WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER. If Microsoft didn't allow non MS products to be installed or if a monitor only displayed stuff signed by Microsoft, then MS would be back in the courts and bye-bye birdie.
Wait, what am I saying? Bring the DRM on! I want more DRM MS!
"There is one thing we know about human beings in certainty, they are masters of self destruction." - Hot Blonde Cylon Chick from Battlestar Galactica
I wonder why I [didn't] think of that before...
Because you only just met him today, Minister!
the next computer i get will be an apple. i don't want to deal with all this drm that will clearly only affect non-apples.
Or you can switch to Linux, which will always be free, always be DRMless, and you can just switch right now, without paying for new hardware that is extremely overpriced and non-easily-upgradable.
But 1920x1200 is quite common for widescreen computer displays.
:P
That's because widescreen computer displays are 16:10. I'm posting this from a widescreen laptop right now
DMCA, baby. In that case they are in violation of federal law and will be shut down if they do not rewrite the player to comply. OR the video will simply fail to stream, OR the monitor will simply not accept the stream from the player.
OR you could use MPlayer, which does not have to comply with US copyright laws.
When we were about to graduate, I thought we needed a special surprise for the show our class was arranging. The computer room was completely closed for the last month or so, but bullshited my way inside anyway (yay for social engineering!). At the show, we called the administrator up on stage, told everyone that he needs a raise for all the grief we've caused him, and then presented him with his password. God that was fun.
Oh my god.... I want, need, desire, whatever REALLY BAD to have an adversary like that. That would be awesome!
In the US, it usually means you aren't allowed to come to school for usually about a week. It's defined with a time frame, but it's not forever, it's usually just a week.
In IL at least, this isn't correct. Suspension is being kicked out for a week, maximum 14 days. Then if they think that you need a bigger punishment than that, they confront the school board and request expullsion (sp?). Being expelled is not permanent, but it is much longer. It's 1 month minimum, and usually 10-14 months. After that time has elapsed you can come back, usually on a "probational" type status for a month or so, depending on what you did.
Look, chemistry instructors that position bunsen burners and spark igniters out on a high school lab bench are not and should not get "credit where credit is due" when a student "naturally explores boundaries" by seeing what happens when they torch various things around the classroom
When a chemistry teacher says "here's a bunsen burner, no messing around with it it is very hot and very dangerous, always have your safety goggles on at all times and don't tip it over or take it off the flame-proof table", then they aren't responsible. When they hand you a bunsen burner and leave, then they should take the blame.
Likewise when a teacher hands an iBook to a student and tells them "the administrator password is on the back, if you use it to get into the administrators account you could be punished", or even "don't touch the administrator account or you will be punished", then the teacher/sysadmin isn't responsible. But when they hand them an iBook and tell them "here's the on switch, I want you to go to www.learncoolstuff.com tonight as homework", then they are responsible as well if they just handed them a computer, with admin access, if and only if the student causes damage to that computer or others on the network (getting a virus or something) with the administrator account.
Why do you think sirens and bells and whistles and streamers show up when someone hits a big jackpot on any of the jackpot games?
So they can catch people that count slots?
That has no relevance to your statement, there aren't bells and whistles on the heads of the dealers in poker or blackjack.
You are a psychopath because you value some things (your pleasure, happiness, etc.) more than the lives/happiness/etc of others. It really doesn't matter what you value more than someone's life (marshmellows, communism, women) - just that your values are messed up with relation to others.
Even my own life? My willing to kill someone who is willing to kill me makes me a psychopath?
I think you need to get your definition straight.
I use KNotes, it's an upgrade to the "Post-it Notes" solution.
PS: Please don't sue me.
You said, "They're in the queue, directly behind people who don't put periods inside quotation marks."
I, personally, would prefer something like this:
You said, "They're in the queue, directly behind people who don't put periods inside quotation marks.".
The first period ends the sentence within the quotes, a virtual sentence of sorts, and the second period ends the encasing sentence.
This is much like an eval statement, or something (this is just random generic programming, I have no idea if any language actually would support the following, exactly):
eval("echo(419);");
Google takes that $5 and turns it into $25b of value
/me runs and puts $5 into nearest ATM.
How does Google do it? I can only turn it into $5 of value...
Hang on, are you saying that there exist stores with cameras in the dressing rooms?
Yes. Welcome to 2005.
Where do I apply?
I'm a certified theft prevention control officer. Honest.
Remember the movie "The 6th day"?
Okay, I know I've seen both, but for some reason I'm thinking that was actually Total Recall. Maybe it wasn't, and I'm getting my Ahnold movies mixed up...
As I've been saying for years - recruit submariners, not pilots. They're already partially screened for resistance to this syndrome. They are already used to living in confined spaces, isolation, etc.. etc..
Or they can hire nerds, who already know a bunch about space anyway, and also fit that criteria.
You may think I'm joking, but I haven't actually left this room all summer, except once or twice. I've been able to handle 3 months without any problems, I'm sure I can handle a year or two even.
This is, of course, given I have an internet connection.
I couldn't do it just because of the lack of sex! Good god.
...with a space prostitute.
One of my biggest sexual fantasies is to have sex on the space shuttle.
that said, i did try thunderbird for a week or so but then it crashed and blew away my email inbox (with all of the emails in it) and i haven't gone back...i don't need my business emails being blown away randomly ;}
It does support IMAP you know... Why on Earth were you using POP3?
Hmm, that's interesting.
I am of course basing this off of my brand new Inspiron 6000, though, so maybe they improved the heating in newer models.
I wish slashdot had an edit feature.
;)
I also wish Slashdot had editors. Get those two things and we will have a better site