The Pirate Bay is also a source to bypass the industry, which sometimes works against itself.
As an example, I have bought "Colossus: The Forbin Project" on VHS tape years ago. It's in widescreen.
Now, Universal, the owners of that title, butchered the North American DVD release by making it a 4:3 pan and scan title. They have no respect for their own property. There was some backlash on a lot of forums, and the UK release was made widescreen (not sure it's because of the backlash, but who knows). I've heard that they even butchered the interlacing on the UK DVD, to make things even worst.
So here's the problems: 1. If we go by the MPAA's terms of "buying a viewing license" for movies, I already paid my license for this movie when I bought the VHS tape. 2. Even if I was willing to pay the license AGAIN for the DVD, they botched the North American release DVD (4:3 instead of widescreen) 3. Even if I was willing to import the UK DVD, it wouldn't play in my DVD player 4. The only possible way to get a good digital copy of that movie would be to import the UK version and fix the interlacing problem while ripping it. But in some countries, ripping the DVD is also illegal, even though you bought the damn thing.
So, legally, the only good commercial version available for that movie still seems to be the LaserDisc. And we're In 2009. If that's not a good example of the industry being a slow dinosaur that can't even take care of its own products, I don't know what is.
I don't know if it's a weird psychological experiment you're doing, but after reading your title "Just give her Windows 7", I read your post as "and call it eleven".
Did you even understand my post? I didn't say that Apple currently had any such product, I merely stated the path Apple seems to be following.
As for Microsoft's table PC, I still think it's a dumb idea. Not the technological side, but the practical use side.
In an era where people want thin televisions in the living room, Microsoft is developing something that's bigger and takes even more room. Doesn't make sense if you ask me.
Microsoft thinks the future of computing is a huge table PC with a touch surface while Apple is quietly moving toward making the iPhone/iPod touch your portable Mac (just connect to a docking station or something).
If we take for granted that preserving history includes videogames, shouldn't game companies that don't disclose specifications, ROMs, etc. be considered as targets for some kind of anti-history-archiving laws, if such a thing exists?
And if such a law exists or ever exists, we get in the same "differents countries, different rules" and "how much time to we give them before asking for the specs", etc.
I bet Tecmo would apply to have a Disney-esque protection on Pac-Man, for example.
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The Pirate Bay is also a source to bypass the industry, which sometimes works against itself.
As an example, I have bought "Colossus: The Forbin Project" on VHS tape years ago. It's in widescreen.
Now, Universal, the owners of that title, butchered the North American DVD release by making it a 4:3 pan and scan title. They have no respect for their own property. There was some backlash on a lot of forums, and the UK release was made widescreen (not sure it's because of the backlash, but who knows). I've heard that they even butchered the interlacing on the UK DVD, to make things even worst.
So here's the problems:
1. If we go by the MPAA's terms of "buying a viewing license" for movies, I already paid my license for this movie when I bought the VHS tape.
2. Even if I was willing to pay the license AGAIN for the DVD, they botched the North American release DVD (4:3 instead of widescreen)
3. Even if I was willing to import the UK DVD, it wouldn't play in my DVD player
4. The only possible way to get a good digital copy of that movie would be to import the UK version and fix the interlacing problem while ripping it. But in some countries, ripping the DVD is also illegal, even though you bought the damn thing.
So, legally, the only good commercial version available for that movie still seems to be the LaserDisc. And we're In 2009. If that's not a good example of the industry being a slow dinosaur that can't even take care of its own products, I don't know what is.
And satellites that 'collide in mid-space'.
They're not Goth Comets! They're Vampire Comets!
Don't you know the difference?
I don't know if it's a weird psychological experiment you're doing, but after reading your title "Just give her Windows 7", I read your post as "and call it eleven".
Did you even understand my post? I didn't say that Apple currently had any such product, I merely stated the path Apple seems to be following.
As for Microsoft's table PC, I still think it's a dumb idea. Not the technological side, but the practical use side.
In an era where people want thin televisions in the living room, Microsoft is developing something that's bigger and takes even more room. Doesn't make sense if you ask me.
I think you didn't understand the "docking station" part of my post.
Microsoft thinks the future of computing is a huge table PC with a touch surface while Apple is quietly moving toward making the iPhone/iPod touch your portable Mac (just connect to a docking station or something).
Microsoft, moving backward into the past!
Will they squirt each other? (not my words, Microsoft's own marketing terms)
What, this is illegal now?!
At least Lara's chest can't be any bigger... can it?
On another topic, the acronym for the new company is SEE... maybe they bought Eidos just to make a joke or something?
SEE games for your Wii...
Ok, I'll stop now.
Icann haz worm plz?
Yes, there is an option for local databases in Safari 3. I get choices for default size of 1 MB, 5 MB, 10 MB, 50 MB, 100 MB, 500 MB.
CmdTaco is living in the past.
You're living in the past, man! - Leo from That 70's Show
Fix a gas tank leak problem?
If we take for granted that preserving history includes videogames, shouldn't game companies that don't disclose specifications, ROMs, etc. be considered as targets for some kind of anti-history-archiving laws, if such a thing exists?
And if such a law exists or ever exists, we get in the same "differents countries, different rules" and "how much time to we give them before asking for the specs", etc.
I bet Tecmo would apply to have a Disney-esque protection on Pac-Man, for example.
If you think the music from those games sound good on an OPL3 you really should get yourself a Roland MT-32, CM-32L or CM-64.
And if you run those games on an old PC with an ISA slot, you can also the LAPC-1 to your options.
The soundtracks for the LucasGames and Sierra games of this era were made for these synths.
Brown.... box....
If you see a box on fire, don't step on it!
And if they were the RIAA, it would magically become 17 000 people.
Can someone send a crate of these NSLU32 to NASA?
Ignorant mod doesn't read Penny Arcade? It's only eight days old, too!
P-P-PowerBook?
Yes. It was an MP3 of Britney Spears' latest song.
Oh, you said dubious legality, I misread that as dubious quality.
My mistake, carry on.
I use plain CSV text files, you insensitive clods!
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What do you mean? An African or European leap second?