I've never paid to see the Mona Lisa or Sistine Chapel yet I know what they look like. This whole DRM or protected media is an antiquated idea about protecting the venue.
If you want to see the alligator lady, you go the the barkers tent at the local circus, pay your 50 cents and you get to see it; at least that's how it was 100 years ago.
Content is much easier to share today and authors need to come to grips with that. If content is worth a value for the observer, the observer will usually pay and authors need to understand that their 'children' aren't the 'angels' they think they are.
No one is saying that HD content looks bad on a 16:9 HD display. 4:3 content, whether SD or HD(upscaled as some channels do) looks bad stretched out to 16:9. Even the good HD displays that do scaling fairly well will give the viewer vertigo when the camera moves.
I guess that the old Harold Lloyd and like silent era films would do well scaled since most of them locked the camera down.
You don't stretch 4:3 to 16:9. You just watch it with black bars on the sides.
Likewise, when you watch a 4:3 that is letterboxed, you get about half of your screen in use as you have the black bars on the sides with the black bars on the top which is part of the 4:3 signal. If you zoom that, it works sometimes without cutting any content out.
I worry about the Blu-Ray manufacturers bricking my $400 Blu Ray player if I happen to play a disc that they haven't approved. That's a lot of coin for a player that basically has a 'Terms of Use'/'EULA' associated with it.
And even though there isn't a story yet about it happening, the fact that it's part of the spec keeps me away.
Not just that, you also get charged for messages you don't receive. I don't have my cell phone on all the time and I used to get about 3 SMS messages a week. When I happened to have my phone on, they were either not meant for me, like 90% of my phone messages, or spam. I have since opted out for SMS messages.
Have you never had a little girl in a uniform knock your door sell you cookies??? I order at least $20 worth every spring. It really isn't too much to ask a 12 year old to knock on the door to pay up for services rendered. Don't you have a kid in your neighborhood that offers to do lawn maintenance?
Where I grew up, the paper truck dropped off the stack and the carrier was to wrap and tie or bag the paper for delivery. I usually helped my friend who did deliver and he paid me and there was no driving, it was biked across the neighborhood and that was your route. No more than 30 homes.
Now forward that about 30 years, I happen to work with some pretty successful and wealthy people that came from nothing and got their start on a responsible paper route. I've always said that pressure creates diamonds and if I read your response correctly, you are suggesting that pressure shouldn't even be applied. You never know what people are made of until you ask them to do something.
A generation ago, a paper route was the responsibility of the carrier (the 12 year old kid). You made sure your subscriptions were paid and you kept track of your own money.
It seems that responsibility isn't required for anything anymore. Look at the recent mortgage fiasco.
Part of this problem is that WB will say that this 36 hours they spent unheard of resources is attributed to the income take when that is not the case at all. The people who pirate are not and never will be customers. There are no lost sales. The MPAA and their precious content are akin to Da Vinci and if he could have charged for each pair of eyes that looked upon the Mona Lisa.
Because I'd really like paying full price to see a scratchy print?
Some of us like going to theatres and I like to see movies I think would be worth seeing on opening weekend for the primary reason that the scratches on the prints would be less than weeks later. Another reason I see movies on opening weekend is the premium screen that my local cineplex offers for tentpole releases.
What bothers me about the movie experience is: A) scratchy prints which is noticeable to me after the first week. B) this new copy code (the pattern of orange dots) that flashes on the screen and I DO SEE THEM and THEY DO BOTHER ME.
The kids matinees that offer family movies that were released years before are really scratchy but I don't complain for $1 a ticket.
The copy code is a nuisance that I put up with vs seeing a film on the big screen. It really sucks. It was painfully obvious when I saw Master and Commander (storm scenes) and the same with the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I still see it when it's flashed but recently I've seen it on scenes with stuff in it instead of a blank frame.
I believe that Microsoft told OEM partners that if they offered BeOS as an alternative, they would lose the ability to sell Microsoft's OSs. That's what happened.
I have that Galaxy Metal Gear NAS box running RAID 1 and it has an option to spin down the drives after X minutes. Running RAID, the drives never spin down.
Some perp comes in my house to take my property, I have the right to defend myself and my property. Saying "STOP, or I'll sue" is not a proper course of action. After dealing with the salutations, he can meet my weaponry if I still see him as a threat.
If a neighbors tree falls and damages your property, then the `sue` option applies if not dealt with in a gentlemanly fashion.
4 months and 7%. I do have an occasional pizza or HFCS sauce every now and then but I limit it to 5-7 days in between. The big culprit is HFCS. I never really realized how much of that stuff is in everything. I still can't find ketchup without it.
Present for the reunion was office manager Miriam Lubow (center of new picture), who missed the original sitting due to a snowstorm. (When Lubow, now retired, first met Gates, she couldn't believe that disheveled kid was the president.) Absent for the reshoot was Bob Wallace (top center), who died in 2002; after leaving Microsoft in 1983, he pioneered the idea of shareware.
I witnessed a state come up with a way to provide free college education to all residents. The stipulations were A) Had to be a resident when graduating high school B) Had to be an instate college C) Had to have a B average and maintain it through college
When the enacting governor left office, the replacement governor promised college for all students. The result was grade inflation where the D average inner city kid got that magical B average and because of affirmative action, the D average kids got head of the line admission to the universities over the real B and A achievers.
We see animosity from the educational unions over the home and private schooled kids because their results are better and it's the unions that say that the results aren't fair.
Political correctness got rid of the best and brightest.
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If I can eventually see it, it's broken.
I've never paid to see the Mona Lisa or Sistine Chapel yet I know what they look like.
This whole DRM or protected media is an antiquated idea about protecting the venue.
If you want to see the alligator lady, you go the the barkers tent at the local circus, pay your 50 cents and you get to see it; at least that's how it was 100 years ago.
Content is much easier to share today and authors need to come to grips with that.
If content is worth a value for the observer, the observer will usually pay and authors need to understand that their 'children' aren't the 'angels' they think they are.
No one is saying that HD content looks bad on a 16:9 HD display.
4:3 content, whether SD or HD(upscaled as some channels do) looks bad stretched out to 16:9.
Even the good HD displays that do scaling fairly well will give the viewer vertigo when the camera moves.
I guess that the old Harold Lloyd and like silent era films would do well scaled since most of them locked the camera down.
You don't stretch 4:3 to 16:9. You just watch it with black bars on the sides.
Likewise, when you watch a 4:3 that is letterboxed, you get about half of your screen in use as you have the black bars on the sides with the black bars on the top which is part of the 4:3 signal.
If you zoom that, it works sometimes without cutting any content out.
I worry about the Blu-Ray manufacturers bricking my $400 Blu Ray player if I happen to play a disc that they haven't approved. That's a lot of coin for a player that basically has a 'Terms of Use'/'EULA' associated with it.
And even though there isn't a story yet about it happening, the fact that it's part of the spec keeps me away.
Not just that, you also get charged for messages you don't receive.
I don't have my cell phone on all the time and I used to get about 3 SMS messages a week. When I happened to have my phone on, they were either not meant for me, like 90% of my phone messages, or spam.
I have since opted out for SMS messages.
Have you never had a little girl in a uniform knock your door sell you cookies???
I order at least $20 worth every spring.
It really isn't too much to ask a 12 year old to knock on the door to pay up for services rendered.
Don't you have a kid in your neighborhood that offers to do lawn maintenance?
Where I grew up, the paper truck dropped off the stack and the carrier was to wrap and tie or bag the paper for delivery. I usually helped my friend who did deliver and he paid me and there was no driving, it was biked across the neighborhood and that was your route. No more than 30 homes.
Now forward that about 30 years, I happen to work with some pretty successful and wealthy people that came from nothing and got their start on a responsible paper route.
I've always said that pressure creates diamonds and if I read your response correctly, you are suggesting that pressure shouldn't even be applied. You never know what people are made of until you ask them to do something.
A generation ago, a paper route was the responsibility of the carrier (the 12 year old kid).
You made sure your subscriptions were paid and you kept track of your own money.
It seems that responsibility isn't required for anything anymore.
Look at the recent mortgage fiasco.
Part of this problem is that WB will say that this 36 hours they spent unheard of resources is attributed to the income take when that is not the case at all.
The people who pirate are not and never will be customers. There are no lost sales.
The MPAA and their precious content are akin to Da Vinci and if he could have charged for each pair of eyes that looked upon the Mona Lisa.
I've never seen the Mona Lisa, only copies.
Because I'd really like paying full price to see a scratchy print?
Some of us like going to theatres and I like to see movies I think would be worth seeing on opening weekend for the primary reason that the scratches on the prints would be less than weeks later.
Another reason I see movies on opening weekend is the premium screen that my local cineplex offers for tentpole releases.
What bothers me about the movie experience is:
A) scratchy prints which is noticeable to me after the first week.
B) this new copy code (the pattern of orange dots) that flashes on the screen and I DO SEE THEM and THEY DO BOTHER ME.
The kids matinees that offer family movies that were released years before are really scratchy but I don't complain for $1 a ticket.
The copy code is a nuisance that I put up with vs seeing a film on the big screen. It really sucks. It was painfully obvious when I saw Master and Commander (storm scenes) and the same with the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I still see it when it's flashed but recently I've seen it on scenes with stuff in it instead of a blank frame.
I believe that Microsoft told OEM partners that if they offered BeOS as an alternative, they would lose the ability to sell Microsoft's OSs.
That's what happened.
It's called Preview, the button left of the [Submit]
I have that Galaxy Metal Gear NAS box running RAID 1 and it has an option to spin down the drives after X minutes.
Running RAID, the drives never spin down.
You're not going to be able to drop Comcast to get Cox.
You're also not going to be able to drop Comcast and get DSL and still have the same speed.
Some perp comes in my house to take my property, I have the right to defend myself and my property.
Saying "STOP, or I'll sue" is not a proper course of action. After dealing with the salutations, he can meet my weaponry if I still see him as a threat.
If a neighbors tree falls and damages your property, then the `sue` option applies if not dealt with in a gentlemanly fashion.
4 months and 7%.
I do have an occasional pizza or HFCS sauce every now and then but I limit it to 5-7 days in between.
The big culprit is HFCS. I never really realized how much of that stuff is in everything. I still can't find ketchup without it.
Cut out High Fructose corn Syrup and processed wheat.
I lost over 12 pounds and 2 inches doing that.
Except now we're all going to be fingerprinted so they can match these rogue fingerprints.
FTA:
Present for the reunion was office manager Miriam Lubow (center of new picture), who missed the original sitting due to a snowstorm. (When Lubow, now retired, first met Gates, she couldn't believe that disheveled kid was the president.) Absent for the reshoot was Bob Wallace (top center), who died in 2002; after leaving Microsoft in 1983, he pioneered the idea of shareware.
YMMV.
I have CDs from 1998 burned with SCSI cd burner and used cheap $1.00/CD bought in bulk that still read today.
It depends on your REN number.
Back in the days of modems, my REN was about 4.5.
No matter what device they attach, it will modify your REN number and if it's higher than 4, you'll be able to tell.
I witnessed a state come up with a way to provide free college education to all residents.
The stipulations were
A) Had to be a resident when graduating high school
B) Had to be an instate college
C) Had to have a B average and maintain it through college
When the enacting governor left office, the replacement governor promised college for all students.
The result was grade inflation where the D average inner city kid got that magical B average
and because of affirmative action, the D average kids got head of the line admission to the universities over the real B and A achievers.
We see animosity from the educational unions over the home and private schooled kids because their results are better and it's the unions that say that the results aren't fair.
Political correctness got rid of the best and brightest.
Just like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and The Alphabet song are the same.
The bittorrent client sucks. My only complaint with it.
9.0 was much better, recently upgrade to 9.5