"Unfortunately, DRM stands for Digital Rights Management,"
Rights for whom??? Not the consumer who also happens to be the one footing the bill for content.
I'm a consumer therefore DRM = Digital Restrictions Management and will so be called that until the acronym changes.
right = A just or legal claim or title. restriction = a specific type of rule which defines a finite (and generally absolute) boundary defined for a type of process or function
If I buy music with DRM, I do not have title to it and my claim is restricted with boundaries as to what I may do with it within a specific type of process.
The problem with this is that Disney already has a formula for shitting out content which will always = money no matter how good or bad it is. Post Katzenberg era just sucked and got worse but the cash flow is something they've become dependant on.
If Pixar stresses quality over quantity, the cash flow won't be the same but the name brand recognition will = quality which doesn't always = money. It takes years to make an animated feature of the quality Pixar wants and Disney had over the years. It will be interesting to see what happend and I think Iger will be the fall guy if Disney suddenly stops producing the number of content it has in the past post Katzenberg.
I think it's actually Bambi 1.5 like Lion King 1.5. It focuses on the time when Bambi was with his father which was right after his mother was shot. In Bambi, his mother is shot, he goes off with his father and he returns as the Prince of the forest. Still unneccessary but a cash cow for Disney.
130 to 230 teragrams (145 million to 255 million short tons) of carbon dioxide each year.
Active volcanoes (each) release more like 10 to 20 million tons a day of Sulfur Dioxide. Humans don't put out that much and that's the stuff that will cool a planet. Kilauea spews out tons of H2S (Hydrogen Sulfide) every day. True about measureable CO2 Volcanos vs. Humans but what isn't measured are ocean vents (ocean flatulence)
"accept much of the earth becoming uninhabitable and keep going about our merry ways" is not acceptable.
I agree that it's not acceptable. No matter if a volcano makes the northwest uninhabitable or crates new land near Hawaii and Iceland, what the Earth does (i.e. plate tectonics, ocean flatulence, magnetic shift) is all part of the ecosystem. As inhabitants of this planet, we're part of the ecosystem and spewing out CO2 is part of what we do. Earth doesn't give a shit what we do. It's core will do what it will do without our intervention. If we make our air unbreatheable, we die and it's our own damn fault and the ecosystem will adjust. Volcanos will still spew, plates will still shift. Our current lifestyle won't change because humans are lazy. AIDS is 100% preventable yet it still runs rampant because of the lack of willing to change. Education has little to play with it other than basic comprehension.
My angle is that there is alot of America hating going on we're led to belive that it is American drivers that are the cause of Global Warming because of their love for the road. Australia is given carte blanche to pollute their air and ocean and their air is much more toxic than the US due to the fact that they have no restrictions on pollutants as the US does. Same for India and China and China has like 1/3 of the population of the planet. Someone explain to me how it's Americas fault that ice is melting in Antarctica.
We're not going to change. We'll have to adapt when we're forced to. Look at the US fiasco over 'airport security'. Americans and foreign travelers put up with it. When some super volcano happens http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm people will be forced to change.
There at least 7 active volcanoes that spew toxic crap every day. There's something like 24 (including the 7) that spew shit out each year. Ones that come to mind immediately are Hawaii, Washintgon, New Zealand, Iceland, one somewhere in Russia, (thats 5) and thats from my layman self just remembering from the news in the science section.
Here's a really unscientific way to see how much damage emissions form cars vs geological damage.
Look at the map of California. Imagine that Los Angeles , San Diego, and San Francisco are just black, nasty, unbreathable poison. Compare that to the rest of the square footage area of the state.
Do the same for the northwest and compare to Mt St Helens and other Yosemite vents. The vents of Yosemite do more toxic spewing than the rest of the US driving public day per day.
If I were an alarmist, I'd be moving the hell out of the northwest too. Indonesia just had a quake and I'm sure that the rest of the plates on this planet will adjust too.
Then what should we do about all those volcanoes that spew out more gases in 1 day than the emissions of all puny motor vehicles within a 3000 mile radius? Don't forget about ocean flatulence as well.
It's foolish to think that motor vehicles are the direct cause of global warming which is a theory anyway. We don't enough data [time] to correctly correlate any evidence related to the SUV hating crowd. There are more bigger things that we can't control like solar activity, plate tectonics, magnetic interference, orbit, heavenly bodies, etc... that has the trump card when it comes to climate change.
That may be. I just remember that the P4 was announced and all the new OEM PC's were going to have it in them and Best Buy sent them back because of that glitch and nobody wanted a P4 server so they went with P3 servers (which was my focus on this debacle) then there was a bios work-around that effectively made the clock speed on a 1Ghz P4 something like a 600Mhz system.
True but the difference is that the only way a Firefox plugin can be installed is through user action. An ActiveX Control can automatically ask the end user (and thereby trick the user) on page load for installation permission which doesn't require user interaction.
Basically, on page load, ActiveX controls will ask you for installation - one click. For Mozilla, you have to actively click the link which is basically a download the browser handles - not the donwload manager, give permission, then install.
I would imagine that in a hundred years time or more that the normal abundant viruses and other microorganisms that are bent on destroying the human body would probably take out his immune system immediately upon reanimation or drying out or whatever you want to call it. Of course you could put him a 'bubble' or quarrantine but if you don't have an evolution of antibiotics, his system would most likely shut down upon an infection.
The cold and flu that you and I shrug off today would kill our great grandparents (at an age of young adulthood) in an instant because of sex and diversification. Just a natural evolution process. Viruses evolve and his immune system won't, that's the point of having kids. Hell, the next batch of kids may be immune to this current avian flu and we ourselves may be immmune to some ancient avian flu.
Then explain why if you put a Sony (Columbia) DVD movie in your Windows computer that you don't get a rootkit installed and the same for any Sony software that accompanies their cameras.
I can understand the Sony bashing for the CD debacle but to hold the entire company to the same code of ethics is just plain stupid. If anything, it's the stupid RIAA and their 'above-the-law' attitude.
To follow the same logic for those who say "No more Sony in my house" would follow the same logic of "If you're stupid enough to use Windows that happened to be the only OS affected by the rootkit, you deserve what you got."
Sony is a big company. The dudes who put the rootkit in the CD's aren't the dudes who make Spider-man and aren't the dudes who make the eBook and they aren't the dudes who make the cameras and aren't the dudes who make the stereo systems and aren't the dudes who make the video cameras and aren't the dudes who make the PlayStation or the PlayStation games.
I'm sure the emulator approach would be the best. With processors as powerful as they are, an off the shelf x86 Mac should surely be able to emulate the last G4 Classic environment without any speed deficiencies.
That being said, why is Microsoft not doing this? We know that Longhorn was supposed to be the latest and greatest but it has fallen way short of it's stated goals from the get go. In recent years, Apple has changed their underlying OS while maintaining classic support and again, changing hardware while maintaining older application suppport via Rosetta. I think that letting Classic die is fine because emulators will come into play here.
Microsoft is supposed to be the 800lb. Gorilla yet they do nothing but have all the marbles as to do something. They even own the company that makes Virtual PC for the Mac. Why can't they come up with a new OS with real security and emulate that legacy, virus ridden older Operating Systems? I really hope that Monad will be something for them otherwise, they're just a lackluster Gorilla beating their chest.
It's what Microsoft wants. For everybody to use their platform becaue their platform will only support what they throw their weight behind (then drop to change to something else)
It looks like Apple comes clean and has already beat the naysayers where they're weren't harvesting personal info whereas when MS did it, they were harvesting info.
OK, so Apple had a hand up where they can know personal info but MS could know the same if there was a passport account with personal info (formerly know as MS Wallet) tied with Media Player.
I think Apple came clean about this as they posted the update because of the MS fiasco nonetheless.
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Mine was a legitimate question. I really didn't know but I remember the database fiasco how WMP recorded everything and sent it home at irregular intervals hence my "that phones home or used to phone home"
I'm also not an iTMS buyer so they don't know who I am and I wondered if the 'phoning home' was to 'just get album info'. If indeed Apple is harvesting personal data on usage, it's just as bad or worse at what Amazon does.
I guess that's what happens when you use a 'free' player. Content provider can call the shots.
I wonder if BluRay DVD's will have a limit feature on how many times a disc may be played. Possible I'm sure.
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"Unfortunately, DRM stands for Digital Rights Management,"
Rights for whom??? Not the consumer who also happens to be the one footing the bill for content.
I'm a consumer therefore DRM = Digital Restrictions Management and will so be called that until the acronym changes.
right = A just or legal claim or title.
restriction = a specific type of rule which defines a finite (and generally absolute) boundary defined for a type of process or function
If I buy music with DRM, I do not have title to it and my claim is restricted with boundaries as to what I may do with it within a specific type of process.
And Greenland used to be green some 900 years ago. We will adapt.k ings_greenland.html
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/end_of_vi
The problem with this is that Disney already has a formula for shitting out content which will always = money no matter how good or bad it is. Post Katzenberg era just sucked and got worse but the cash flow is something they've become dependant on.
If Pixar stresses quality over quantity, the cash flow won't be the same but the name brand recognition will = quality which doesn't always = money.
It takes years to make an animated feature of the quality Pixar wants and Disney had over the years. It will be interesting to see what happend and I think Iger will be the fall guy if Disney suddenly stops producing the number of content it has in the past post Katzenberg.
I think it's actually Bambi 1.5 like Lion King 1.5. It focuses on the time when Bambi was with his father which was right after his mother was shot. In Bambi, his mother is shot, he goes off with his father and he returns as the Prince of the forest.
Still unneccessary but a cash cow for Disney.
130 to 230 teragrams (145 million to 255 million short tons) of carbon dioxide each year.
Active volcanoes (each) release more like 10 to 20 million tons a day of Sulfur Dioxide.
Humans don't put out that much and that's the stuff that will cool a planet.
Kilauea spews out tons of H2S (Hydrogen Sulfide) every day.
True about measureable CO2 Volcanos vs. Humans but what isn't measured are ocean vents (ocean flatulence)
"accept much of the earth becoming uninhabitable and keep going about our merry ways" is not acceptable.
I agree that it's not acceptable. No matter if a volcano makes the northwest uninhabitable or crates new land near Hawaii and Iceland, what the Earth does (i.e. plate tectonics, ocean flatulence, magnetic shift) is all part of the ecosystem. As inhabitants of this planet, we're part of the ecosystem and spewing out CO2 is part of what we do. Earth doesn't give a shit what we do. It's core will do what it will do without our intervention.
If we make our air unbreatheable, we die and it's our own damn fault and the ecosystem will adjust. Volcanos will still spew, plates will still shift.
Our current lifestyle won't change because humans are lazy. AIDS is 100% preventable yet it still runs rampant because of the lack of willing to change. Education has little to play with it other than basic comprehension.
My angle is that there is alot of America hating going on we're led to belive that it is American drivers that are the cause of Global Warming because of their love for the road.
Australia is given carte blanche to pollute their air and ocean and their air is much more toxic than the US due to the fact that they have no restrictions on pollutants as the US does.
Same for India and China and China has like 1/3 of the population of the planet.
Someone explain to me how it's Americas fault that ice is melting in Antarctica.
We're not going to change. We'll have to adapt when we're forced to. Look at the US fiasco over 'airport security'. Americans and foreign travelers put up with it.
When some super volcano happens http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm
people will be forced to change.
There at least 7 active volcanoes that spew toxic crap every day. There's something like 24 (including the 7) that spew shit out each year.
Ones that come to mind immediately are Hawaii, Washintgon, New Zealand, Iceland, one somewhere in Russia, (thats 5) and thats from my layman self just remembering from the news in the science section.
Agendas are what pays the "dumb scientists".
It really amazes me how naive people are.
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Here's a really unscientific way to see how much damage emissions form cars vs geological damage.
Look at the map of California. Imagine that Los Angeles , San Diego, and San Francisco are just black, nasty, unbreathable poison. Compare that to the rest of the square footage area of the state.
Now compare that to the San Andreas fault line http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/
What will cause more damage?
Do the same for the northwest and compare to Mt St Helens and other Yosemite vents.
The vents of Yosemite do more toxic spewing than the rest of the US driving public day per day.
If I were an alarmist, I'd be moving the hell out of the northwest too. Indonesia just had a quake and I'm sure that the rest of the plates on this planet will adjust too.
Then what should we do about all those volcanoes that spew out more gases in 1 day than the emissions of all puny motor vehicles within a 3000 mile radius?
Don't forget about ocean flatulence as well.
It's foolish to think that motor vehicles are the direct cause of global warming which is a theory anyway. We don't enough data [time] to correctly correlate any evidence related to the SUV hating crowd.
There are more bigger things that we can't control like solar activity, plate tectonics, magnetic interference, orbit, heavenly bodies, etc... that has the trump card when it comes to climate change.
And $300
Anyone remember Liquid Motion?
That may be. I just remember that the P4 was announced and all the new OEM PC's were going to have it in them and Best Buy sent them back because of that glitch and nobody wanted a P4 server so they went with P3 servers (which was my focus on this debacle) then there was a bios work-around that effectively made the clock speed on a 1Ghz P4 something like a 600Mhz system.
/ p4.glitch.idg/index.html/ p4.recall.idg/index.html
I found a couple of articles:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/11/23
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/12/01
They had issues with their first run of the P4's. Remember that there was a BIOS workaround which made it slower than the P3 at the time?
True but the difference is that the only way a Firefox plugin can be installed is through user action. An ActiveX Control can automatically ask the end user (and thereby trick the user) on page load for installation permission which doesn't require user interaction.
Basically, on page load, ActiveX controls will ask you for installation - one click.
For Mozilla, you have to actively click the link which is basically a download the browser handles - not the donwload manager, give permission, then install.
Do you know that ActiveX is?
I would imagine that in a hundred years time or more that the normal abundant viruses and other microorganisms that are bent on destroying the human body would probably take out his immune system immediately upon reanimation or drying out or whatever you want to call it. Of course you could put him a 'bubble' or quarrantine but if you don't have an evolution of antibiotics, his system would most likely shut down upon an infection.
The cold and flu that you and I shrug off today would kill our great grandparents (at an age of young adulthood) in an instant because of sex and diversification. Just a natural evolution process.
Viruses evolve and his immune system won't, that's the point of having kids. Hell, the next batch of kids may be immune to this current avian flu and we ourselves may be immmune to some ancient avian flu.
Then explain why if you put a Sony (Columbia) DVD movie in your Windows computer that you don't get a rootkit installed and the same for any Sony software that accompanies their cameras.
I can understand the Sony bashing for the CD debacle but to hold the entire company to the same code of ethics is just plain stupid. If anything, it's the stupid RIAA and their 'above-the-law' attitude.
To follow the same logic for those who say "No more Sony in my house" would follow the same logic of "If you're stupid enough to use Windows that happened to be the only OS affected by the rootkit, you deserve what you got."
Sony is a big company. The dudes who put the rootkit in the CD's aren't the dudes who make Spider-man and aren't the dudes who make the eBook and they aren't the dudes who make the cameras and aren't the dudes who make the stereo systems and aren't the dudes who make the video cameras and aren't the dudes who make the PlayStation or the PlayStation games.
I'm sure the emulator approach would be the best. With processors as powerful as they are, an off the shelf x86 Mac should surely be able to emulate the last G4 Classic environment without any speed deficiencies.
That being said, why is Microsoft not doing this? We know that Longhorn was supposed to be the latest and greatest but it has fallen way short of it's stated goals from the get go.
In recent years, Apple has changed their underlying OS while maintaining classic support and again, changing hardware while maintaining older application suppport via Rosetta. I think that letting Classic die is fine because emulators will come into play here.
Microsoft is supposed to be the 800lb. Gorilla yet they do nothing but have all the marbles as to do something. They even own the company that makes Virtual PC for the Mac.
Why can't they come up with a new OS with real security and emulate that legacy, virus ridden older Operating Systems?
I really hope that Monad will be something for them otherwise, they're just a lackluster Gorilla beating their chest.
Except it's not Microsoft that did it, it's the 3rd parties which is why Microsoft has a successful desktop monopoly.
or the first exploits to based on monad or use monad as a transport.
All the more reason to stop using the format.
It's what Microsoft wants. For everybody to use their platform becaue their platform will only support what they throw their weight behind (then drop to change to something else)
It looks like Apple comes clean and has already beat the naysayers where they're weren't harvesting personal info whereas when MS did it, they were harvesting info.
OK, so Apple had a hand up where they can know personal info but MS could know the same if there was a passport account with personal info (formerly know as MS Wallet) tied with Media Player.
I think Apple came clean about this as they posted the update because of the MS fiasco nonetheless.
Mine was a legitimate question. I really didn't know but I remember the database fiasco how WMP recorded everything and sent it home at irregular intervals hence my "that phones home or used to phone home"
I'm also not an iTMS buyer so they don't know who I am and I wondered if the 'phoning home' was to 'just get album info'. If indeed Apple is harvesting personal data on usage, it's just as bad or worse at what Amazon does.
I guess that's what happens when you use a 'free' player. Content provider can call the shots.
I wonder if BluRay DVD's will have a limit feature on how many times a disc may be played. Possible I'm sure.
Is this any different from Microsoft's Windows Media Player database that phones home or used to phone home?t m
http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/wmp8dvd.h
What a monumental feat that is too. Not to be underestimated. This trumps anything that Microsoft can do this year.