Not to be a pessimist, but just imagine what some terrorists with flying cars could do?
I can't even imagine how to control personal flying machines. Have carports where people leave their cars, and must go through some sort of bomb / weapon detection before allowed in the air? Limit licenses to upstanding wholesome citizens?
Don't think this idea will ever 'fly' (pun intended) until the world is a nicer, happier, less terrorized place.
You find people you want to borrow from, and ask to borrow something. They, in turn, will usually browse your collection for something that interests them. You get in contact via email (or however you like to be contacted) and make the swap.
OK, so you have never in your life borrowed a book from someone? You have never listened to someone else's CD? You have never watched a DVD at someone else's house?
Funny thing... I read, listened, or watched...
Enough said. MediaChest would be a valuable website for you then. As I stated, what you do behind your closed doors is up to you. This website allows you to borrow books, cds, DVDs, etc and use them for your purposes. So instead of shelling out a ton of money to buy a DVD, you can borrow it for free, and see it. Instead of buying a game, just to try it out, you can borrow it. For free.
No crookery involved. And as a member of MENSA, I can pretty much guarantee you that I not small-minded, impish, or moronic. I'm in the top 2%, so my thoughts/views/ideas are not childlike or idiotic ravings. Many people feel the same way I do.
OK, so you have never in your life borrowed a book from someone? You have never listened to someone else's CD? You have never watched a DVD at someone else's house?
The RIAA & MPAA would LOVE for all their media to be pay-per-use or pay-per-view... but it hasn't happened.. yet.. (look at DVD's they sell now at Quickie Marts, that self-destruct after 48 hours upon opening them).
FAIR USE. I bought it. I lent it to someone. I don't have it in my possession, that person does. Maybe they use it, maybe they don't. But if they LIKE it, they can go buy a copy of it. And buy similar products as well. I'm sick of you bunch of 'consumer responsibility' types... what about corporate responsibility!?!? Charging me $18 for a piece of round plastic that cost about 50 cents to manufacture? (IF THAT?!)
Sharing/swapping does nothing but help out these artists. I couldn't give a screw for the RIAA or MPAA, they are ancient beasts like the FCC that need to just go away. If I borrow a CD from a friend, and like it, I am more likely to buy a CD of this artist, buy OTHER CD's from this artist, and go to venues where this artist is performing live. I am MUCH LESS likely to plunk down $18 for a plastic disc that I might not like at all (and cannot return once I've opened it, the pen-ultimate reason the RIAA is doing so well.. -- oh you didn't like the music? Well, you opened it, so it's yours now... sorry bud.)
Well, as I actually *AM* a user of it, and actually *HAVE* traded with other people, let me assure you this is legit copies of stuff.
This service is actually helpful for me, as I have about 350 CDs, 80 books, ~75 DVDs, and it lets me catalog them all. You can even use a CueCat Scanner to scan them all in, which makes it much easier.
Basically, if you don't have the original legit copy of the cd, dvd, etc, it's a little bit harder to get it entered in the system (you need to know the UPC number, or exact title, etc...)
And how, praytell, are people swapping illegal BOOKS? Don't tell me you're scanning in your 400+ page tomes of wisdom and trading them on Kazaa?
If the service isn't for you, because you don't like people, and don't want to maybe meet interesting people that have likewise interests in music/movies/books/games, then don't use it. But don't trash talk a great service you obviously know nothing about.
Uhm, excuse ME, but how is it ILLEGAL to GIVE a CD or a book to a 'friend', to let them borrow it for a while, while they in turn let you borrow something of theirs, and then you return the media to eachother after a couple days/weeks?
Fair use, and what you do with that media once it is inside your home and in your possession is beyond the law (for now).
You all need to get your butts over to MEDIACHEST.COM http://www.mediachest.com/ and start trading your music, DVDs, CDs, and Books there.
(This is not a plug, I don't work for them or get paid by them)
Basically, you catalog your collection of stuff using their amazon-like lookup functions, and then other people can search your collections (they find you by Groups, by Zip Code, etc) and then you trade with them any way you want (in person, by mail, etc).
This service is excellent because the RIAA and MPAA and FBI and whomever else cannot I repeat CANNOT get you on law breaking. As the 'swapping' happens offline, they have no way to find out about it.
Please give it a shot, if this website takes off the world be a happier place.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Look at the picture and tell me if the HVD and CD/DVD are the same size. Could just be an illusion, but the HVD looks bigger to me...
I am only stating that by looking at the picture provided, the new "HVD" seems to be a tiny bit bigger than a normal dvd/CD (which are in fact, 120mm).
Maybe it's just an optical (no pun intended) illusion, maybe they are the same size.
I did not infer that this new HVD is 12 inches, and is the actual size of a laserdisc, jusouno. Perhaps I should compare HVD to Betamax instead, to clarify?
I wonder why the didn't make it EXACTLY the same size as a CD/DVD? One would think this would make life so much easier for everyone. I'd settle for ~900GB on a disc, if it meant it would fit in all the existing technology/drives/spinners/changers that are already out there...
Otherwise, this is just another "LASERDISC" with better technology that just won't catch on...
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines...and movies...[and in video games] and at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written in the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
Thanks for debunking the warm beer myth. But I recall last time I went across the Atlantic I could barely imbibe the local beer due to it's temperature. Being from South Florida, I guess I am used to my beer being frosty cold, mainly because I want to cool down (I drink all sorts of beer, not just cheap american piss beer).
(and please, no explanations about how drinking a hot coffee will make you feel cooler than drinking a cold beverage)
The british voted that the little widget inside beer cans/bottles (like in Guiness) was the best invention ever, to put fizzy back in the beer when opened.
Wonder if this little do-hickey will unseat that device.
On second thought, probably not... those wacky brits like warmish beer, for some odd reason.
People are so sue-happy now a days. Any little thing, people sue over it now...
What ever happened to the good ol' days where you would just get a couple friends, a couple baseball bats and crowbars, and 'leaving a message' instead of suing...
You, sir, just proved the point. You have to look up the correct spelling using a computer, because who cares about learning how to spell anymore, why bother teaching it in school, the dang-fernabbit compewders will teech us how to spel.
Perhaps I didn't put enough thought into my message. Versatile tools better than the computer...
Radio? TV? Telephone? Internal Combustion Engines? Mass Transit? Airplanes?
Watches tell us what time it is, they've been around pretty long. Brains are good for data storage, math... I mentioned a few things above good for communications (as well as our mouths).
Granted, the computer is pretty neat for starting to get to the point to being able to REPLACE all of these technologies we already had... but is it really that innovative to replace the telegraph, radio, and telephone?
Sorry, but computers are the most unique and versatile tool EVER invented? Step away from the PC every now and again and check out the world.
The Wheel? Levers? Arches? Steel? Medicine? A bajillion other things? The computer is great, but the world did plenty without them. The computer has made us all stupider for using them, I think.
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They were off by a day, and they brought down two airplanes instead of the internet...
Maybe there was a translation error in their intelligence?
Not to be a pessimist, but just imagine what some terrorists with flying cars could do?
I can't even imagine how to control personal flying machines. Have carports where people leave their cars, and must go through some sort of bomb / weapon detection before allowed in the air? Limit licenses to upstanding wholesome citizens?
Don't think this idea will ever 'fly' (pun intended) until the world is a nicer, happier, less terrorized place.
You find people you want to borrow from, and ask to borrow something. They, in turn, will usually browse your collection for something that interests them. You get in contact via email (or however you like to be contacted) and make the swap.
It's worked for me... even across state lines..
OK, so you have never in your life borrowed a book from someone? You have never listened to someone else's CD? You have never watched a DVD at someone else's house?
Funny thing... I read, listened, or watched...
Enough said. MediaChest would be a valuable website for you then. As I stated, what you do behind your closed doors is up to you. This website allows you to borrow books, cds, DVDs, etc and use them for your purposes. So instead of shelling out a ton of money to buy a DVD, you can borrow it for free, and see it. Instead of buying a game, just to try it out, you can borrow it. For free.
No crookery involved. And as a member of MENSA, I can pretty much guarantee you that I not small-minded, impish, or moronic. I'm in the top 2%, so my thoughts/views/ideas are not childlike or idiotic ravings. Many people feel the same way I do.
You probably voted for Bush. Thanks.
OK, so you have never in your life borrowed a book from someone? You have never listened to someone else's CD? You have never watched a DVD at someone else's house?
The RIAA & MPAA would LOVE for all their media to be pay-per-use or pay-per-view... but it hasn't happened.. yet.. (look at DVD's they sell now at Quickie Marts, that self-destruct after 48 hours upon opening them).
FAIR USE. I bought it. I lent it to someone. I don't have it in my possession, that person does. Maybe they use it, maybe they don't. But if they LIKE it, they can go buy a copy of it. And buy similar products as well. I'm sick of you bunch of 'consumer responsibility' types... what about corporate responsibility!?!? Charging me $18 for a piece of round plastic that cost about 50 cents to manufacture? (IF THAT?!)
Sharing/swapping does nothing but help out these artists. I couldn't give a screw for the RIAA or MPAA, they are ancient beasts like the FCC that need to just go away. If I borrow a CD from a friend, and like it, I am more likely to buy a CD of this artist, buy OTHER CD's from this artist, and go to venues where this artist is performing live. I am MUCH LESS likely to plunk down $18 for a plastic disc that I might not like at all (and cannot return once I've opened it, the pen-ultimate reason the RIAA is doing so well.. -- oh you didn't like the music? Well, you opened it, so it's yours now... sorry bud.)
Well, as I actually *AM* a user of it, and actually *HAVE* traded with other people, let me assure you this is legit copies of stuff.
This service is actually helpful for me, as I have about 350 CDs, 80 books, ~75 DVDs, and it lets me catalog them all. You can even use a CueCat Scanner to scan them all in, which makes it much easier.
Basically, if you don't have the original legit copy of the cd, dvd, etc, it's a little bit harder to get it entered in the system (you need to know the UPC number, or exact title, etc...)
And how, praytell, are people swapping illegal BOOKS? Don't tell me you're scanning in your 400+ page tomes of wisdom and trading them on Kazaa?
If the service isn't for you, because you don't like people, and don't want to maybe meet interesting people that have likewise interests in music/movies/books/games, then don't use it. But don't trash talk a great service you obviously know nothing about.
Uhm, excuse ME, but how is it ILLEGAL to GIVE a CD or a book to a 'friend', to let them borrow it for a while, while they in turn let you borrow something of theirs, and then you return the media to eachother after a couple days/weeks?
Fair use, and what you do with that media once it is inside your home and in your possession is beyond the law (for now).
You all need to get your butts over to MEDIACHEST.COM http://www.mediachest.com/ and start trading your music, DVDs, CDs, and Books there.
(This is not a plug, I don't work for them or get paid by them)
Basically, you catalog your collection of stuff using their amazon-like lookup functions, and then other people can search your collections (they find you by Groups, by Zip Code, etc) and then you trade with them any way you want (in person, by mail, etc).
This service is excellent because the RIAA and MPAA and FBI and whomever else cannot I repeat CANNOT get you on law breaking. As the 'swapping' happens offline, they have no way to find out about it.
Please give it a shot, if this website takes off the world be a happier place.
So this means we can play Doom 3 on it, right?
:)
If we play In 80x50 mode, basic graphics, and turn off the extras like shadows?
A picture is worth a thousand words. Look at the picture and tell me if the HVD and CD/DVD are the same size. Could just be an illusion, but the HVD looks bigger to me...
12cm = 4.7244 inches, actually.
I am only stating that by looking at the picture provided, the new "HVD" seems to be a tiny bit bigger than a normal dvd/CD (which are in fact, 120mm).
Maybe it's just an optical (no pun intended) illusion, maybe they are the same size.
I did not infer that this new HVD is 12 inches, and is the actual size of a laserdisc, jusouno. Perhaps I should compare HVD to Betamax instead, to clarify?
I wonder why the didn't make it EXACTLY the same size as a CD/DVD? One would think this would make life so much easier for everyone. I'd settle for ~900GB on a disc, if it meant it would fit in all the existing technology/drives/spinners/changers that are already out there...
Otherwise, this is just another "LASERDISC" with better technology that just won't catch on...
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines...and movies...[and in video games] and at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written in the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
And Linux will finally be old enough to watch "Adult Swim".
"It's like a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain!" - RIP, Harry...
Touche.
Beware lawyers with baseball bats.
Nothing ironic about my sig at all. Why don't you spend 30 seconds looking at the website before opening your mouth.
I'd expect more from someone with such a low member ID number.
Thanks for debunking the warm beer myth. But I recall last time I went across the Atlantic I could barely imbibe the local beer due to it's temperature. Being from South Florida, I guess I am used to my beer being frosty cold, mainly because I want to cool down (I drink all sorts of beer, not just cheap american piss beer).
(and please, no explanations about how drinking a hot coffee will make you feel cooler than drinking a cold beverage)
Protection doesn't work.... we must preach abstinence to our children...
:)
Just stay off the internet until you're 18, kids... (and you have your own damn computer/network to infect)
The british voted that the little widget inside beer cans/bottles (like in Guiness) was the best invention ever, to put fizzy back in the beer when opened.
Wonder if this little do-hickey will unseat that device.
On second thought, probably not... those wacky brits like warmish beer, for some odd reason.
People are so sue-happy now a days. Any little thing, people sue over it now...
What ever happened to the good ol' days where you would just get a couple friends, a couple baseball bats and crowbars, and 'leaving a message' instead of suing...
My horrible need to play a new version of Gran Turismo might just make me buy this PSP to play it.
(Unless they release Gran Turismo 4 for PS2 before then)
I line the interior of my house and roof with tin-foil, so I think my Wireless network should be pretty safe.
(obligatory post, sorry)
You, sir, just proved the point. You have to look up the correct spelling using a computer, because who cares about learning how to spell anymore, why bother teaching it in school, the dang-fernabbit compewders will teech us how to spel.
Perhaps I didn't put enough thought into my message. Versatile tools better than the computer...
Radio? TV? Telephone? Internal Combustion Engines? Mass Transit? Airplanes?
Watches tell us what time it is, they've been around pretty long. Brains are good for data storage, math... I mentioned a few things above good for communications (as well as our mouths).
Granted, the computer is pretty neat for starting to get to the point to being able to REPLACE all of these technologies we already had... but is it really that innovative to replace the telegraph, radio, and telephone?
Sorry, but computers are the most unique and versatile tool EVER invented? Step away from the PC every now and again and check out the world.
The Wheel? Levers? Arches? Steel? Medicine? A bajillion other things? The computer is great, but the world did plenty without them. The computer has made us all stupider for using them, I think.
Anyone remember how to do long division?