Wow! One Quebequoi that actually wants to be a Canadian! Now, if you could just convince the other 7,568,639 residents of Quebec that being Canadian isn't so bad, then we'd really have something!
I've seen some malicious trolls in my day, but you, sir, are the worst. They took down the entirety of de.wikipedia.org for user content containing those words. Do you hate Slashdot so much that you're willing to risk the same fate for it
When Google does the same thing, the same people rush to Google's defense
If you paid attention you'd find that i was not talking about google, I was talking about DRM and why it exists. I'm not defending google, I'm saying that there's a motivation behind DRM, and that motivation is to make more money, and have less unauthorized copying.
But you say that based on you not liking it.
It sucks when stuff resists being copied, but how does that make it so fucking evil?
I'm not saying that I like DRM, i'd love if it didn't exist, but I believe in order for it to be evil it must exist for the purpose of causing harm or misfortune. The motivation of DRM is to reduce privacy, I'm sorry to say this, but there's this trend among people to come across IP without the right to. And the distributors of these products would be complete fucking idiots to not try and make it more difficult for people to get ahold of their stuff without paying. This is not usually evil. It just sucks.
Mod me whatever you want, i've got plenty of karma.
I know you were just tossing a number, but I don't think solid state storage would reduce your power consumption by anything in that neighborhood. The biggest use of power in a laptop IINM is the backlight.
Yeah, there will likely be an exploit here or there, but I imagine that they have already thought of this and that they have designed it in a way to keep it from being extremely vulnerable, I can't imagine them not providing patches to any discovered vulnerabilities either.
Ignoring the fact that the gamecube is your property and you own it, while your job... well, isn't tangible, and you don't own the company. (at least, not if you're being fired for smoking you don't)
Oh, and there's another option that i don't use and would never ever do: a DVD rental is between $1.99 and $3.75 where I live (yeah, i'm sure that's more expensive there too) and a DVD-R is like $0.07 (once again, more expensive?) So one could, if they had the proper equipment copy a DVD in like 15 minutes
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What does that have to do with them being a buyout target?
while you're probably right to an extent, this one steps beyond the severity of something that will only try and prevent you from making copies.
I wouldn't compare *nix to newton.
If you paid attention you'd find that i was not talking about google, I was talking about DRM and why it exists. I'm not defending google, I'm saying that there's a motivation behind DRM, and that motivation is to make more money, and have less unauthorized copying.
He's a good idea:
Don't buy blu-ray. Buying it shows support for it.
What authentication servers?
It sucks when stuff resists being copied, but how does that make it so fucking evil? I'm not saying that I like DRM, i'd love if it didn't exist, but I believe in order for it to be evil it must exist for the purpose of causing harm or misfortune. The motivation of DRM is to reduce privacy, I'm sorry to say this, but there's this trend among people to come across IP without the right to. And the distributors of these products would be complete fucking idiots to not try and make it more difficult for people to get ahold of their stuff without paying. This is not usually evil. It just sucks.
Mod me whatever you want, i've got plenty of karma.
Is it always evil to use DRM?
I know you were just tossing a number, but I don't think solid state storage would reduce your power consumption by anything in that neighborhood. The biggest use of power in a laptop IINM is the backlight.
Yeah, there will likely be an exploit here or there, but I imagine that they have already thought of this and that they have designed it in a way to keep it from being extremely vulnerable, I can't imagine them not providing patches to any discovered vulnerabilities either.
It's a good thing that comets don't leave trails and that all things entering the atmosphere either explode into nothingness or disolve.
What do you have against reading the summary? I understand no one reads the articles... but not even the summary?
Ignoring the fact that the gamecube is your property and you own it, while your job... well, isn't tangible, and you don't own the company. (at least, not if you're being fired for smoking you don't)
Oh, and there's another option that i don't use and would never ever do: a DVD rental is between $1.99 and $3.75 where I live (yeah, i'm sure that's more expensive there too) and a DVD-R is like $0.07 (once again, more expensive?) So one could, if they had the proper equipment copy a DVD in like 15 minutes
That's fucked.
Couldn't you just go online and buy a US DVD player? Or a Reigion free one? Or download movies online?
Do you remember when the little four note chime for intel used to have them saying/singing "in-tel in-side"
I wonder how long that's been.
Looks older than that to me.i ng=r&hl=en&as_epq=intel+inside&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ug roup=&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&lr=&as_qdr=&as_drr b=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=30&as _maxm=12&as_maxy=1992&safe=off
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=&num=10&scor
What kind of defense is that? the "I'm so stupid that words spoken to me are wasted" defense?