Hour 6: DVDXCopy found and installed, read phase begins. You realize that you burned your last blank DVD last night. err... if you've made past the read stage then the data isnt going to degrade anymore. you can go get that blank cd some time next week and it'll still be sitting there waiting to burn. its chemicals destroying the data on the dvd, not magical bits and bytes
The movie industry really needs to start focusing on making movies, like back in the old days. How damn long is it going to take for them to catch on that consumers dont like and wont buy their bullshit schemes like this?
movie guy 1: hey, check out this new technology i made that fucks the dvd as it gets played preventing it getting ripped movie guy 2: cool! im gonna protect my movie [insert current shitty film title here] with it consumer: fuck both you guys, im not putting up with this shit. kazaa here i come!
I've found the biggest problem with the OO.org spellchecker is that it always defaults to US spelling, regardless of locale settings. Were the errors it missed errors of that type, or outright misspellings?
its easier to tell the difference between a DVD and a Divx of the same movie than it is to tell the difference between an audio cd and an mp3 of the same song. heck, most people cant even tell the difference if you play the one after the other.
now why exactly is that sort of person going to fork out more cash for better hardware with features they probably wont even notice? I know im not paying the extra bucks for an audigy3 (or whatever the latest and greatest may be) when these days built in sound or an old SBLive sound exactly the same to my ears
its not a beta, its a release candidate. no more features will be added, very few bugs should exist. release candidates go on to become the final release and such an oversight (profile migration) should not have made it this far in the development
Re:Perhaps you'd like another Windows Key
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I might add that I used CAPS LOCK six times so far just while typing this post, and if I didn't have one my finger would be aching by now.
I remember running windows 3.11 on MS DOS 6.0 (never did get that.2 update) on a 386sx, and it ran perfectly alright. i think the grandparent poster must have been smoking crack or something
if a cd recorder can write something, surely it can copy it. i though copy protections were based on corruptions that consumer cdr drives correct automatically and are hence not reproduceable, or is that just game copy protection?
For example, if I buy "Parappa the Rappa 2", I know that if and when I get sick of the game, I could turn around and sell it used.
For example, if I buy a used copy of "Parappa the Rappa 2", I know that if and when I get sick of the game, I could turn around and sell it used again. What was the point of buying it new again?
As it is, I have not left my home (as in, I have literally not gone outside the front door) since Christmas of 2003 you should try that man, if you leave it too long you're not going to fit out the door
yeah, the big problem is that if companies developing these new technologies dont see some return on their investments, they start working on something else and the technology never matures. not saying everyone should go out and buy an OLED screen today, but if everyone takes your stance i dont think we'll see it reach maturity
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they did inform him that it was illegal and that mailboxes were not "personal receptacles." I find this very hard to believe. if you buy a mailbox it is your right to do whatever you want with it. why should the postal service have any say in what you do with your own property? are they subsidising it in any way?
He isn't doing it deliberately to facilitate illegal things. For that to be true, he would have to have some prior knowledge that illegal activities were to take place and have taken actions to facilitate them. Look, lets not start talking about this like it's of the benefit of neighbourhood hackers. We all know he is leaving his connection unsecured so that when the feds come knocking on his door about the movies/mp3s/kiddie porn he's been leeching for the past 6 months he can try and deny it. I find it hard to believe that he would have no prior knowledge of his _OWN_ actions
heck, if you took the time you could probably slipstream all those updates into a windows install and get it to boot of the usb drive. big usb drives rock
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Hour 6: DVDXCopy found and installed, read phase begins. You realize that you burned your last blank DVD last night.
err... if you've made past the read stage then the data isnt going to degrade anymore. you can go get that blank cd some time next week and it'll still be sitting there waiting to burn. its chemicals destroying the data on the dvd, not magical bits and bytes
The movie industry really needs to start focusing on making movies, like back in the old days. How damn long is it going to take for them to catch on that consumers dont like and wont buy their bullshit schemes like this?
movie guy 1: hey, check out this new technology i made that fucks the dvd as it gets played preventing it getting ripped
movie guy 2: cool! im gonna protect my movie [insert current shitty film title here] with it
consumer: fuck both you guys, im not putting up with this shit. kazaa here i come!
I've found the biggest problem with the OO.org spellchecker is that it always defaults to US spelling, regardless of locale settings. Were the errors it missed errors of that type, or outright misspellings?
hahaha!! you lose karma for being an ignorant american. look outside your countries borders and expand you mind, the USA is not the world
i agree with the AC, i was left wondering just what point the grandparent was making
its easier to tell the difference between a DVD and a Divx of the same movie than it is to tell the difference between an audio cd and an mp3 of the same song. heck, most people cant even tell the difference if you play the one after the other.
now why exactly is that sort of person going to fork out more cash for better hardware with features they probably wont even notice? I know im not paying the extra bucks for an audigy3 (or whatever the latest and greatest may be) when these days built in sound or an old SBLive sound exactly the same to my ears
i thought the office family went:
office 2000
office xp (AKA 2002)
office 2003
did I miss something?
Wow! man you are a l33t h4x0r
moron
you've obviously never seen the national rail system in england :P
its not a beta, its a release candidate. no more features will be added, very few bugs should exist. release candidates go on to become the final release and such an oversight (profile migration) should not have made it this far in the development
I might add that I used CAPS LOCK six times so far just while typing this post, and if I didn't have one my finger would be aching by now.
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I remember running windows 3.11 on MS DOS 6.0 (never did get that .2 update) on a 386sx, and it ran perfectly alright. i think the grandparent poster must have been smoking crack or something
if a cd recorder can write something, surely it can copy it. i though copy protections were based on corruptions that consumer cdr drives correct automatically and are hence not reproduceable, or is that just game copy protection?
For example, if I buy "Parappa the Rappa 2", I know that if and when I get sick of the game, I could turn around and sell it used.
For example, if I buy a used copy of "Parappa the Rappa 2", I know that if and when I get sick of the game, I could turn around and sell it used again. What was the point of buying it new again?
Oceania Has Always Been at War with Eurasia
err.. its being shown in the UK first, US 4 days later. explain that one, big shot?
As it is, I have not left my home (as in, I have literally not gone outside the front door) since Christmas of 2003
you should try that man, if you leave it too long you're not going to fit out the door
yeah, the big problem is that if companies developing these new technologies dont see some return on their investments, they start working on something else and the technology never matures. not saying everyone should go out and buy an OLED screen today, but if everyone takes your stance i dont think we'll see it reach maturity
Since you can't travel faster than the speed of light :P
... and even if you could, how would you see where you were going?
wtf is a Pentum? :P
they did inform him that it was illegal and that mailboxes were not "personal receptacles."
I find this very hard to believe. if you buy a mailbox it is your right to do whatever you want with it. why should the postal service have any say in what you do with your own property? are they subsidising it in any way?
He isn't doing it deliberately to facilitate illegal things. For that to be true, he would have to have some prior knowledge that illegal activities were to take place and have taken actions to facilitate them.
Look, lets not start talking about this like it's of the benefit of neighbourhood hackers. We all know he is leaving his connection unsecured so that when the feds come knocking on his door about the movies/mp3s/kiddie porn he's been leeching for the past 6 months he can try and deny it. I find it hard to believe that he would have no prior knowledge of his _OWN_ actions
free-av is your friend not the prettiest of UI's, but it does its job for free
heck, if you took the time you could probably slipstream all those updates into a windows install and get it to boot of the usb drive. big usb drives rock
google points to some quote site, which points to bash.org, which was probably some guy on irc copying it from somewhere else :P