Since when is 'piracy' removing DRM for personal use?
Am I a pirate because I rip my DVDs for portability so that my children can't break the original DVD? Am I a pirate becuase I ripped Transformers and removed all the adult crap to where it's just a movie of transforming giant robots for my kids to watch?
I paid for my copies. I have a legal right to do whatever I want to the media as long as it doesn't leave my home.
There's a chart somewhere that lists the tally from Government expenditures from the Louisiana Purchase (in today's dollars) to the current Iraq expense and the bailout dwarfs all of it. The list includes NASA and all missions, all wars and reconstruction. Just what the hell is this bailout doing besides debasing the currency?
-Rant You reward failure then bitch about about kids cheating on tests?
If by private enterprise you mean a tinkerer in his/her garage and makes under $250,000. Sure, let's get a bunch of peasants building a fleet of Salvage 1 rockets. If a Chinese peasant can build robots out of garbage, surely our US rednecks can build a rocket that can take them to LEO.
Star Trek was ruined with the Rick Berman years. One could even say that it was ruined in the Fred Freiberger years.
There was a bit of fresh air with the Ron Moore phase but Berman just slapped some putty on noses, changed the settings and called it Star Trek. Fans of the concept bought it hook, line, and sinker and kept this dying product on life support for years well beyond it's life span.
The most interesting characters in the entire canon of Star Trek is the ensemble of the 1966-1968 years of production. For the few episodes that were actually good, the banter that the three main characters gave us is what keeps the spirit alive.
TNG has some concepts that are home runs but if I had to choose what Enterprise I'd serve on, I'd sign up for Captain Kirk.
Lost (with main credits to Lindelof, a producer for the movie, and Cuse) is an example of excellent storytelling, character development, setup and payoff of a much larger story arc. This movie won't have that level of quality as it's impossible to shove a series of 5 hours per character of development into a 2 hour movie.
If that is what you're implying about JJ Abrams ruining the movie, then I agree with you. Otherwise, let's just see where it fits. Most of the movies sucked anyway. The Motion Picture is probably the best 'Star Trek' film (in concept). The Wrath of Khan is the most fun with the Whale movie being a close second. The rest are just awful.
I have AT&T and I get charged for voice mail messages from the contact list. I have a GoPhone and if I haven't used my phone for the day, I also get charged $1 in addition to minutes.
My message is that I do not monitor my voice mail but I check it once a month because I usually get some funny wrong numbers. I call my mobile number from my home phone where it is free to check.
Obama ran unopposed for the senate. He never talked about immigration and abortion in the debates.
These are changing times and it appears that people have this belief that government will solve all the problems. The young people that vigorously supported Obama have no problem with mandatory civil service. That's not a bad thing but forcing it is.
The other extreme to this debate is that by just questioning what I brought up and questioning Rahm Emanuel's allegiance would have me locked up in a re-education camp.
I'm just a minority here obviously so I'll just watch what happens. Kids don't want education. They want edutainment.
This year has had the worst lot of presidential candidates.
Not only were Obama and McCain awful candidates but the 3rd parties were all just as bad. Obama had the most charisma which is probably what got him in. Most voters couldn't tell you his policies. All they knew was that he isn't the residing president now.
The debates were sorry, no discussion on the tried and true issues like immigration and abortion; they were just pissing matches of he said/he said.
That being said,
I find the fact that Obama ran for the Senate unopposed quite fishy. I find the fact that he practically didn't finish a term quite disturbing.
I'm not into conspiracy theories but I find his #1 guy disturbing too and he is probably a puppeteer. His book states his wishes for mandatory civil service for citizens ages 18-25.
I found this interview on C-SPAN where he discusses it.
The CD format has been here for 27 years with no signs of leaving soon. I suspect that the DVD format will be the same.
Your average tape drive for a home user lasts about 3 years before a newer, incompatible version comes along to replace it. I have never seen a commercial tape drive last longer than 7 years. YMMV
The tech heads that understand Blu Ray and can appreciate it already have it and they're usually the first adopters and the second wave of tech consumers.
In order to fully purchase Blu Ray and appreciate it, the following needs to apply(low ball figures but accurate):
-New Hi Def TV $1000 -Blu Ray Player $300 -Content at $50 each
And if you're going to have a new Hi Def TV, you might as well get the service
-Increase of cable bill by $30/month for Hi Def Service -Increase of cost of tuner rental by $3-$5/month
Of course you can get OTA HD channels but YMMV and antennas aren't for Joe Consumer.
Personally, the cable packages piss me off enough to not ever want HD service from them. They upped my basic rates by 120% (I was paying $10/month for the past 2 years). Satellite has more HD channels but more restrictive on tuners and contracts.
I'll think about going HD when I can own my own tuner.
What happens if you wrap it up in some anti radio signal paper and you walk by a scanner that has an official posted and they stop you because you 'don't have an ID' which means they can't read your ID passively?
Or was it Major Havoc leaving an exploding space station?
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After Y2K wasn't, they had to have something to spout "The End is Nigh!" about. My guess that this is a dry run before the 2012 event or some asteroid really does come close to Earth.
I'm just chiming from my observations but wasn't OS/2 great for digital phone systems in the 90s and early 2000s before Linux products took the crown? This is of course well before VOIP.
American Express Blue is another contactless one. To be fair, when I use it, I do have to hold it over the contact point for the same amount of time as it takes to swipe a card, maybe slightly longer.
McCain destroyed the "Obama doesn't have the experience to lead" meme just as much as Obama destroyed the "McCain, more of the Same" meme with Biden's VP choice.
Biden is just as much is entrenched as part of the D.C. problem as they come and believing the "Obama = change" is much harder than believing in Santa Claus.
The thing this girl brings to the table is: 1. She is the only conservative of the 4. 2. A lively debate as part of the political process.
That being said, I believe that she would offer more change beneficial to the populace than Obama if she were to be promoted to commander in chief because of some health issue of John "I was a POW for 5.5 years" McCain.
Obama doesn't believe in the 4th ammendment. Biden wants to police the internet.
2 reasons I wouldn't be happy if Obama gets the keys to the White House.
The Creationism vs. Evolution battle has been fought and she's not a 'Creationism only policy' freak so that talking point doesn't hold any weight with me. While they're at it, they might as well teach the Flying Spaghetti Monster myths in school too. People will believe what they want to believe and no amount of evidence will sway that opinion. Cases in point: -9/11 conspiracies -Moon Landings -UFOs -Bigfoot < Yes, bigfoot has been a hoax as uttered on the deathbed by the guy who took the picture.
I'm not voting for either, I just think this election cycle just got a bit more interesting.
Part of me is rooting for McCain/Palin to win just to watch Hillary shriek. Too bad that both of them will get clobbered in the debates.
No, It's the background for that one too and NT4. You're looking at active desktop activated which was on by default for Win98 and disabled once Plus! was installed.
They weren't preventing people, just giving false information - and in the context, not to be taken seriously.
If you don't know when to vote, you don't deserve to vote.
It is UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL to be educated, not someone else (except parents and caregivers).
If the local TV news reports that a 'Santa Claus' has been seen in a sleigh over homes in your neighborhood, who are the ignorant ones to go out and look for such sleigh? Nothing different.
This is 250 Gig on the Cable Modem part of the service to your house. Digital is Digital but HDTV service that cable providers provide doesn't come off the cable modem, it comes off their $5 to $12/month rental box and that isn't measured for the cap.
Now lets find a way to hack the digital tuner to route IP addresses and bypass the cap.
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Since when is 'piracy' removing DRM for personal use?
Am I a pirate because I rip my DVDs for portability so that my children can't break the original DVD?
Am I a pirate becuase I ripped Transformers and removed all the adult crap to where it's just a movie of transforming giant robots for my kids to watch?
I paid for my copies. I have a legal right to do whatever I want to the media as long as it doesn't leave my home.
There's a chart somewhere that lists the tally from Government expenditures from the Louisiana Purchase (in today's dollars) to the current Iraq expense and the bailout dwarfs all of it. The list includes NASA and all missions, all wars and reconstruction. Just what the hell is this bailout doing besides debasing the currency?
-Rant
You reward failure then bitch about about kids cheating on tests?
If by private enterprise you mean a tinkerer in his/her garage and makes under $250,000.
Sure, let's get a bunch of peasants building a fleet of Salvage 1 rockets. If a Chinese peasant can build robots out of garbage, surely our US rednecks can build a rocket that can take them to LEO.
Viruses were being spread before the Dark Ages, in the time when floppies were floppy and carried 370k of data.
Star Trek was ruined with the Rick Berman years.
One could even say that it was ruined in the Fred Freiberger years.
There was a bit of fresh air with the Ron Moore phase but Berman just slapped some putty on noses, changed the settings and called it Star Trek.
Fans of the concept bought it hook, line, and sinker and kept this dying product on life support for years well beyond it's life span.
The most interesting characters in the entire canon of Star Trek is the ensemble of the 1966-1968 years of production.
For the few episodes that were actually good, the banter that the three main characters gave us is what keeps the spirit alive.
TNG has some concepts that are home runs but if I had to choose what Enterprise I'd serve on, I'd sign up for Captain Kirk.
Lost (with main credits to Lindelof, a producer for the movie, and Cuse) is an example of excellent storytelling, character development, setup and payoff of a much larger story arc. This movie won't have that level of quality as it's impossible to shove a series of 5 hours per character of development into a 2 hour movie.
If that is what you're implying about JJ Abrams ruining the movie, then I agree with you. Otherwise, let's just see where it fits.
Most of the movies sucked anyway.
The Motion Picture is probably the best 'Star Trek' film (in concept).
The Wrath of Khan is the most fun with the Whale movie being a close second.
The rest are just awful.
I have AT&T and I get charged for voice mail messages from the contact list.
I have a GoPhone and if I haven't used my phone for the day, I also get charged $1 in addition to minutes.
My message is that I do not monitor my voice mail but I check it once a month because I usually get some funny wrong numbers.
I call my mobile number from my home phone where it is free to check.
What misstatements?
Obama ran unopposed for the senate.
He never talked about immigration and abortion in the debates.
These are changing times and it appears that people have this belief that government will solve all the problems.
The young people that vigorously supported Obama have no problem with mandatory civil service. That's not a bad thing but forcing it is.
The other extreme to this debate is that by just questioning what I brought up and questioning Rahm Emanuel's allegiance would have me locked up in a re-education camp.
I'm just a minority here obviously so I'll just watch what happens.
Kids don't want education. They want edutainment.
This year has had the worst lot of presidential candidates.
Not only were Obama and McCain awful candidates but the 3rd parties were all just as bad.
Obama had the most charisma which is probably what got him in. Most voters couldn't tell you his policies. All they knew was that he isn't the residing president now.
The debates were sorry, no discussion on the tried and true issues like immigration and abortion; they were just pissing matches of he said/he said.
That being said,
I find the fact that Obama ran for the Senate unopposed quite fishy.
I find the fact that he practically didn't finish a term quite disturbing.
I'm not into conspiracy theories but I find his #1 guy disturbing too and he is probably a puppeteer.
His book states his wishes for mandatory civil service for citizens ages 18-25.
I found this interview on C-SPAN where he discusses it.
The CD format has been here for 27 years with no signs of leaving soon.
I suspect that the DVD format will be the same.
Your average tape drive for a home user lasts about 3 years before a newer, incompatible version comes along to replace it.
I have never seen a commercial tape drive last longer than 7 years.
YMMV
What about tuner rental?
Cox is $5 for basic and $8 for HD including cablecard.
It's peripherally cost prohibitive.
The tech heads that understand Blu Ray and can appreciate it already have it and they're usually the first adopters and the second wave of tech consumers.
In order to fully purchase Blu Ray and appreciate it, the following needs to apply(low ball figures but accurate):
-New Hi Def TV $1000
-Blu Ray Player $300
-Content at $50 each
And if you're going to have a new Hi Def TV, you might as well get the service
-Increase of cable bill by $30/month for Hi Def Service
-Increase of cost of tuner rental by $3-$5/month
Of course you can get OTA HD channels but YMMV and antennas aren't for Joe Consumer.
Personally, the cable packages piss me off enough to not ever want HD service from them. They upped my basic rates by 120% (I was paying $10/month for the past 2 years).
Satellite has more HD channels but more restrictive on tuners and contracts.
I'll think about going HD when I can own my own tuner.
What happens if you wrap it up in some anti radio signal paper and you walk by a scanner that has an official posted and they stop you because you 'don't have an ID' which means they can't read your ID passively?
Or was it Major Havoc leaving an exploding space station?
After Y2K wasn't, they had to have something to spout "The End is Nigh!" about.
My guess that this is a dry run before the 2012 event or some asteroid really does come close to Earth.
I'm just chiming from my observations but wasn't OS/2 great for digital phone systems in the 90s and early 2000s before Linux products took the crown? This is of course well before VOIP.
If you're getting a TV signal, you're going to get the EBS signal.
If you're getting a radio signal, you're going to get the EBS signal.
-regardless if it's digital or analog.
American Express Blue is another contactless one.
To be fair, when I use it, I do have to hold it over the contact point for the same amount of time as it takes to swipe a card, maybe slightly longer.
Once again, the corporate culture uses lawyers to focus attention on themselves by trying to silence people who simply speak the truth.
Soft fascism at work.
McCain destroyed the "Obama doesn't have the experience to lead" meme just as much as Obama destroyed the "McCain, more of the Same" meme with Biden's VP choice.
Biden is just as much is entrenched as part of the D.C. problem as they come and believing the "Obama = change" is much harder than believing in Santa Claus.
The thing this girl brings to the table is:
1. She is the only conservative of the 4.
2. A lively debate as part of the political process.
That being said, I believe that she would offer more change beneficial to the populace than Obama if she were to be promoted to commander in chief because of some health issue of John "I was a POW for 5.5 years" McCain.
Obama doesn't believe in the 4th ammendment.
Biden wants to police the internet.
2 reasons I wouldn't be happy if Obama gets the keys to the White House.
The Creationism vs. Evolution battle has been fought and she's not a 'Creationism only policy' freak so that talking point doesn't hold any weight with me.
While they're at it, they might as well teach the Flying Spaghetti Monster myths in school too. People will believe what they want to believe and no amount of evidence will sway that opinion.
Cases in point:
-9/11 conspiracies
-Moon Landings
-UFOs
-Bigfoot < Yes, bigfoot has been a hoax as uttered on the deathbed by the guy who took the picture.
I'm not voting for either, I just think this election cycle just got a bit more interesting.
Part of me is rooting for McCain/Palin to win just to watch Hillary shriek.
Too bad that both of them will get clobbered in the debates.
No, It's the background for that one too and NT4. You're looking at active desktop activated which was on by default for Win98 and disabled once Plus! was installed.
Win ME used the blue background that was Win2K.
They weren't preventing people, just giving false information - and in the context, not to be taken seriously.
If you don't know when to vote, you don't deserve to vote.
It is UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL to be educated, not someone else (except parents and caregivers).
If the local TV news reports that a 'Santa Claus' has been seen in a sleigh over homes in your neighborhood, who are the ignorant ones to go out and look for such sleigh?
Nothing different.
If you didn't get it, #008080 is the default background for Windows 95/98
Comcast On Demand != IP Traffic.
This is 250 Gig on the Cable Modem part of the service to your house.
Digital is Digital but HDTV service that cable providers provide doesn't come off the cable modem, it comes off their $5 to $12/month rental box and that isn't measured for the cap.
Now lets find a way to hack the digital tuner to route IP addresses and bypass the cap.
How about the standard #008080
What do you expect from a traditionally Democratic state.
Tax everyone to pay for the lazies.