if you'd like to download the trailer to watch later, just view the source and search for "paycheck-sref.mov" then replace that with "paycheck_m480.mov". if you want, you can download the paycheck-sref.mov file and run strings on it to find other resolutions to download. enjoy!
Okay i'm obviously missing something here. I keep hearing all these statements about there being no DVD support at all whatsoever for Linux, but i know there are open source linux drivers for creative labs' dvd decorder card. Why doesn't this count as a legal dvd decoder?
On the contrary, my friend, this is NOT a good thing! Whether this company get's it or not they're exploiting the public here. There is a serious lack of availability of these old games and they're taking advantage of it to make themselves some cash. They aren't embracing a damn thing, they're abusing.
Are you serious? God, I've read too many of these kinds of posts already to let this one go. What on earth gives all you people this idea that John Katz is this evil boogeyman out to get? Would you seriously think about what you're posting here for a second? Let's take this veritable two-minutes-hate message to demonstrate.
Screw the sanctimonious idealism here, this thing is going to be a tax write off for its authors/producers while you get absolutly nothing not even your right to protest who's using your writing.
Okay let's think hard about what you're accusing JK & company of doing here. In this sentence you strongly imply that Katz's and the publisher's sole purpose for this book is to save tax money. Right. So Mr. Katz here has written heaps of insightful (or whatever you would prefer to call it) material on the issue of torturous high school life for no reason other than the possibility of exploiting the discussions he inspired with his articles? Perhaps he just happened to stumble upon this evil scheme while spreading his evil pro-geek propaganda and couldn't pass it up due to his obvious lack of integrity? Maybe he was just looking for a quick tax break so he could afford some night classes to work on his deplorable grammar (read: every JK-hater's best backup argument)? Further more, of course it's a tax writeoff! They're not going to print the book and just give it out for free! Oh sure they could get some juicy PR here but unless they get on CNN with this book, the PR they do get from this book's sale will be insignificant.
Look people, bottom line here is that suggestions like the ones presented in this message are totally ridiculous. These accusations are so improbable and halfway thought out that they strongly suggest that your resentment of JK is a bit more personal and probably undefendable by itself. Unfortunately there is no way for anyone to help you resolve this issue because you all bury it underneath big college words and paranoid fantasy. They say anger is a mask, right? So please, I beg of you, someone please tell me why everyone hates Jon Katz. Thank you.
Please keep in mind that this isn't a flame nor is it flame bait. I truly wish for a honest answer and possible discussion.
Beleive it or not, many OEMs "sell" bleeding edge Intel machines, but they rarely ship them in volume right away. Many of these sales take forever to actually ship. They take long enough, in fact, that customers cancel their orders in droves (ask dell how many millions they lost due to lack of chip supply from intel).
I don't think the DMCA can really make a big difference in the end.
Are you sure of that? How familiar with the DMCA are you? It basically gives companies the right to sell us medium with data on it without our having access to it by our own means. If we find some DeCSS-like way of getting at the data, we will be commiting a crime.
But at the end of the day, someone will always crack any code.
Don't be so sure of that, either. These people are wising up fast. Especially now that the whole DeCSS thing is out, I'm sure they know that they need to find more foolproof ways to secure their data. Both we and they know it's possible, too. Take Quake 3 and Divx. In each of these systems, a centralized information server prevents people from pirating either (well almost). In Q3 you can't even connect to an internet server without your key being checked by id's q3 authentication server at least 2 times (once by your client and once by the server you're connecting to). And Divx, you can't watch movies unless it can connect to a server every 3 days (or something). If it couldn't connect to the server, it wouldn't operate until a connection was established. Of course in the case of q3, if you disconnect from the internet then you can play single player or multiplayer over a lan and with divx i'm sure there was some hack in the works to prevent the box from disabling itself but you see my point, i hope. The means to foolproof encryption exist.
"As soon as the community of developers starts attaching a high priorty to corporate demand, the fun, hobbyish aspect of Linux will die."
I agree with this statement but I think it is in dire need of elaboration. I believe that it is quite possible for Linux to fail--be it by treacherous corporate baddies or by terminal disorganization. However I believe that the community behind Linux can not die. The "fun" and "hobbyish" parts of Linux are within us. Our love of coding is impervious to corruption. Not only this, but thanks to large scale open source movements like Linux, we know that this type of sharing of ideas can work and it is great. If we had to start all over again, we would know exactly how to do it. In fact, if Linux was indeed destroyed, I believe the knowledged gained from its demise would aid us in building a much stronger manifestation of our community.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
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well first of all, to my knowledge, all 3dfx cards have linux drivers. In fact, 3dfx seems to have the most mature drivers for X in linux. The webcam and scanner support is pretty patchy, so that makes sense. What you said about windows requiring you to remove all other OS's when you run setup puzzles me. If you mean that your hard drive needs to be partitioned and formatted for windows before setup will run, well that just makes sense. Linux requires the same thing (unless the installer does it for you, of course).
Now then, about the validity of this post...Judging by the complete lack of relevence to the article this comment was attatched to, I'd say this is a bogus post. What exactly is your real intent here? Are you trolling for some juicy flames to use in an anti-slashdot/linux community campaign? Perhaps you would like to collect and categorize the responses to present as numbers in a journalistic endeavor? I'd really love to hear your reason for posting this in such an inappropriate location.
P.S. my sincerest apologies if this got here completely by mistake.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
I think that there is nothing wrong about selling your domain for big bucks. Your company bought it for a legitemate purpose and now that it is no longer of use to the company, you have very right to sell it. If you get oodles of cash for an array of characters, it's not because you're being a sleezy businessman, that's just the way things work in the domain name biz. What I do have a problem with is the domain name selling business itself.
As you demonstrated in your message, many people seem to think of domain names as real estate. Well why is that? Real estate can be of many different shapes, sizes, qualities and locations. These different characteristics are what make real estate valueable. Domain names, on the other hand, are only made valuable by being more recognizable than another. Since real estate is a physical thing, you can do many things with it such as build a building or raise live stock. Domain names can be used for one thing, and one thing only. They simply serve as a means to contact a certain group of people. They are much more like 1-800 phone numbers in this sense. Actually they are like 800 numbers in many ways. For example, as long as you can get one that people will remember, you're good as gold. Of course when it comes to domain names it can be a bit different. Domain names can be of many lengths and so it's much easier to get one that will really stand out in people's mind. Even given that, domain names are still just high tech phone numbers. I don't think any business is going to have significant leverage because they're name is super-memorable.
Now, IANAPC (i am not a phone company), but i don't think that Jenny Craig paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for those spiffy 1-800-9X-JENNY phone numbers. "Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
21264 is a type of DEC Alpha processor, my friend.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
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You'd simply end up with a Mozilla type situation...
I disagree, Mozilla and an open source Windows are two very different situations. In Mozilla's case, everyone jumped in the boat because there were no alternatives. There aren't any widely popular (or at all for that matter) mature browser projects so everyone pitched in to fix Mozilla. In the case of open source Windows, we alread have a few very popular and almost completely superior alternatives and so there is no reason to dive into the sludge that must be the Windows code base when we can just pick out the good parts.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
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"What happens to if [sic] the Windows source is opened? Does Linux become less important? Will developers flee Linux for OpenWindows? Or will everyone keep on going with Linux and *BSD. My personal bet is that a lot of developers will switch over and make OpenWindows better..."
Well I can't at all imagine Linux/*BSD developers leaving their current platform for an open source Windows. As probably every Windows users ever has noticed, Windows [referring to the kernel and all attatched drivers and whatnot] is a sloppy, memory leaking, buffer overflowing mess. Moving from Linux/*BSD to Windows would be a giant step down in stability. I don't know how this could seem like a good idea to anyone.
The most likely and probably only outcome for the open source community would be the study and incorporation of proprietary Microsoft code into the Linux/*BSD codebase (eg. drivers (!!), new more efficient methods of coding routines, etc.).
P.S. OpenWindows is a trademark of Sun Microsystens, Inc.:)
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
i thank [dabuzz] greatly for the above needed-to-be-said wisdom but I would like to remind everyone that the issue of DVD piracy is almost COMPLETELY unrelated to DeCSS.
The author( Andy Patrizio) of the wired article nearly explicitly states that the purpose of a the Linux software for decrypting and copying a dvd to a hard drive is sctrictly for piracy purposes. This is absolutely untrue and makes even Linux hackers (the real ones, not crax0rz) look like criminals!
If Mr Patrizio would have bothered to do just a tiny bit of research on this story he would have discovered that in order for Linux users to be able to play DVDs, they must first copy the disc to the hard drive and then use an AC-3 player to watch the movie.
pre-.sig.sig quote: want slashdot fame? "first post;-)" doesn't cut it any more. try writing in with a worthwile story!
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
I see what you mean here but this would only benefit small companies. There is significant demand for high speed internet access so i'm absolutely positive many heavy hitters in and around the communications industry would be more than happy to pitch in to get these services off the ground so that they can start making money off of them.
I can't agree enough with Hemos on this one. If the government took a under developed and growing industry as broadband access and shackled it up with restrictions, user fees would undoubtedly skyrocket (no longer do you only pay for the network owner's maintenance, research and expansion fees but also a seperate isp fee) and it would probably leave the country in standard-shift limbo (anyone remember "DVD will replace CD-ROM"?). "Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase."
Maggie's little quote may seem like foolishness or paranoia and perhaps it was a bit of each. However, it was not completely unrealistic. I really believe Microsoft stepped over the line between monopoly and world domination here. They say that this service will provide hightened security by storing your information on their own servers and also by personally requiring all participating web sites to use "industry-standard" encryption when transferring sensetive data. Microsoft suggests here that for some reason it is their exclusive responsibility to enforce standards and protect their customers from the theft of their personal data. Microsoft portrays themselves as some sort of invincible superhero here to save us, or worse yet, an invincible global power here to bring order to all of our lives. These are duties of our respective governments, not some gigantic company. This may just sound like some more ridiculous anti-Microsoft propaganda at this point, but I believe all companies engaging in this "electronic wallet" are just as guilty of taking too much societal power into their own hands.
Not only are these services wrong because of their undermining of our governments but also they are completely unnecessary security risks! The only valid reason for using one of these services is to save yourself the minute trouble of re-typing your personal information when making a purchase online. Being lazy is certainly not important enough to warrant remote (meaning interceptable!) storage and communication of information necessary for funds to be debited. For these reasons I feel there is a great need for some action to be taken against these "electronic wallet" services.
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if you'd like to download the trailer to watch later, just view the source and search for "paycheck-sref.mov" then replace that with "paycheck_m480.mov". if you want, you can download the paycheck-sref.mov file and run strings on it to find other resolutions to download. enjoy!
Okay i'm obviously missing something here. I keep hearing all these statements about there being no DVD support at all whatsoever for Linux, but i know there are open source linux drivers for creative labs' dvd decorder card. Why doesn't this count as a legal dvd decoder?
On the contrary, my friend, this is NOT a good thing! Whether this company get's it or not they're exploiting the public here. There is a serious lack of availability of these old games and they're taking advantage of it to make themselves some cash. They aren't embracing a damn thing, they're abusing.
Are you serious? God, I've read too many of these kinds of posts already to let this one go. What on earth gives all you people this idea that John Katz is this evil boogeyman out to get? Would you seriously think about what you're posting here for a second? Let's take this veritable two-minutes-hate message to demonstrate.
Screw the sanctimonious idealism here, this thing is going to be a tax write off for its authors/producers while you get absolutly nothing not even your right to protest who's using your writing.
Okay let's think hard about what you're accusing JK & company of doing here. In this sentence you strongly imply that Katz's and the publisher's sole purpose for this book is to save tax money. Right. So Mr. Katz here has written heaps of insightful (or whatever you would prefer to call it) material on the issue of torturous high school life for no reason other than the possibility of exploiting the discussions he inspired with his articles? Perhaps he just happened to stumble upon this evil scheme while spreading his evil pro-geek propaganda and couldn't pass it up due to his obvious lack of integrity? Maybe he was just looking for a quick tax break so he could afford some night classes to work on his deplorable grammar (read: every JK-hater's best backup argument)? Further more, of course it's a tax writeoff! They're not going to print the book and just give it out for free! Oh sure they could get some juicy PR here but unless they get on CNN with this book, the PR they do get from this book's sale will be insignificant.
Look people, bottom line here is that suggestions like the ones presented in this message are totally ridiculous. These accusations are so improbable and halfway thought out that they strongly suggest that your resentment of JK is a bit more personal and probably undefendable by itself. Unfortunately there is no way for anyone to help you resolve this issue because you all bury it underneath big college words and paranoid fantasy. They say anger is a mask, right? So please, I beg of you, someone please tell me why everyone hates Jon Katz. Thank you.
Please keep in mind that this isn't a flame nor is it flame bait. I truly wish for a honest answer and possible discussion.
Beleive it or not, many OEMs "sell" bleeding edge Intel machines, but they rarely ship them in volume right away. Many of these sales take forever to actually ship. They take long enough, in fact, that customers cancel their orders in droves (ask dell how many millions they lost due to lack of chip supply from intel).
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase."
I don't think the DMCA can really make a big difference in the end.
Are you sure of that? How familiar with the DMCA are you? It basically gives companies the right to sell us medium with data on it without our having access to it by our own means. If we find some DeCSS-like way of getting at the data, we will be commiting a crime.
But at the end of the day, someone will always crack any code.
Don't be so sure of that, either. These people are wising up fast. Especially now that the whole DeCSS thing is out, I'm sure they know that they need to find more foolproof ways to secure their data. Both we and they know it's possible, too. Take Quake 3 and Divx. In each of these systems, a centralized information server prevents people from pirating either (well almost). In Q3 you can't even connect to an internet server without your key being checked by id's q3 authentication server at least 2 times (once by your client and once by the server you're connecting to). And Divx, you can't watch movies unless it can connect to a server every 3 days (or something). If it couldn't connect to the server, it wouldn't operate until a connection was established. Of course in the case of q3, if you disconnect from the internet then you can play single player or multiplayer over a lan and with divx i'm sure there was some hack in the works to prevent the box from disabling itself but you see my point, i hope. The means to foolproof encryption exist.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase."
"As soon as the community of developers starts attaching a high priorty to corporate demand, the fun, hobbyish aspect of Linux will die."
I agree with this statement but I think it is in dire need of elaboration. I believe that it is quite possible for Linux to fail--be it by treacherous corporate baddies or by terminal disorganization. However I believe that the community behind Linux can not die. The "fun" and "hobbyish" parts of Linux are within us. Our love of coding is impervious to corruption. Not only this, but thanks to large scale open source movements like Linux, we know that this type of sharing of ideas can work and it is great. If we had to start all over again, we would know exactly how to do it. In fact, if Linux was indeed destroyed, I believe the knowledged gained from its demise would aid us in building a much stronger manifestation of our community.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
well first of all, to my knowledge, all 3dfx cards have linux drivers. In fact, 3dfx seems to have the most mature drivers for X in linux. The webcam and scanner support is pretty patchy, so that makes sense. What you said about windows requiring you to remove all other OS's when you run setup puzzles me. If you mean that your hard drive needs to be partitioned and formatted for windows before setup will run, well that just makes sense. Linux requires the same thing (unless the installer does it for you, of course).
Now then, about the validity of this post...Judging by the complete lack of relevence to the article this comment was attatched to, I'd say this is a bogus post. What exactly is your real intent here? Are you trolling for some juicy flames to use in an anti-slashdot/linux community campaign? Perhaps you would like to collect and categorize the responses to present as numbers in a journalistic endeavor? I'd really love to hear your reason for posting this in such an inappropriate location.
P.S. my sincerest apologies if this got here completely by mistake.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
I think that there is nothing wrong about selling your domain for big bucks. Your company bought it for a legitemate purpose and now that it is no longer of use to the company, you have very right to sell it. If you get oodles of cash for an array of characters, it's not because you're being a sleezy businessman, that's just the way things work in the domain name biz. What I do have a problem with is the domain name selling business itself.
As you demonstrated in your message, many people seem to think of domain names as real estate. Well why is that? Real estate can be of many different shapes, sizes, qualities and locations. These different characteristics are what make real estate valueable. Domain names, on the other hand, are only made valuable by being more recognizable than another. Since real estate is a physical thing, you can do many things with it such as build a building or raise live stock. Domain names can be used for one thing, and one thing only. They simply serve as a means to contact a certain group of people. They are much more like 1-800 phone numbers in this sense. Actually they are like 800 numbers in many ways. For example, as long as you can get one that people will remember, you're good as gold. Of course when it comes to domain names it can be a bit different. Domain names can be of many lengths and so it's much easier to get one that will really stand out in people's mind. Even given that, domain names are still just high tech phone numbers. I don't think any business is going to have significant leverage because they're name is super-memorable.
Now, IANAPC (i am not a phone company), but i don't think that Jenny Craig paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for those spiffy 1-800-9X-JENNY phone numbers.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
21264 is a type of DEC Alpha processor, my friend.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
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"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
You'd simply end up with a Mozilla type situation...
I disagree, Mozilla and an open source Windows are two very different situations. In Mozilla's case, everyone jumped in the boat because there were no alternatives. There aren't any widely popular (or at all for that matter) mature browser projects so everyone pitched in to fix Mozilla. In the case of open source Windows, we alread have a few very popular and almost completely superior alternatives and so there is no reason to dive into the sludge that must be the Windows code base when we can just pick out the good parts.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
"What happens to if [sic] the Windows source is opened? Does Linux become less important? Will developers flee Linux for OpenWindows? Or will everyone keep on going with Linux and *BSD.
:)
My personal bet is that a lot of developers will switch over and make OpenWindows better..."
Well I can't at all imagine Linux/*BSD developers leaving their current platform for an open source Windows. As probably every Windows users ever has noticed, Windows [referring to the kernel and all attatched drivers and whatnot] is a sloppy, memory leaking, buffer overflowing mess. Moving from Linux/*BSD to Windows would be a giant step down in stability. I don't know how this could seem like a good idea to anyone.
The most likely and probably only outcome for the open source community would be the study and incorporation of proprietary Microsoft code into the Linux/*BSD codebase (eg. drivers (!!), new more efficient methods of coding routines, etc.).
P.S. OpenWindows is a trademark of Sun Microsystens, Inc.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
i thank [dabuzz] greatly for the above needed-to-be-said wisdom but I would like to remind everyone that the issue of DVD piracy is almost COMPLETELY unrelated to DeCSS.
.sig quote: want slashdot fame? "first post ;-)" doesn't cut it any more. try writing in with a worthwile story!
The author( Andy Patrizio) of the wired article nearly explicitly states that the purpose of a the Linux software for decrypting and copying a dvd to a hard drive is sctrictly for piracy purposes. This is absolutely untrue and makes even Linux hackers (the real ones, not crax0rz) look like criminals!
If Mr Patrizio would have bothered to do just a tiny bit of research on this story he would have discovered that in order for Linux users to be able to play DVDs, they must first copy the disc to the hard drive and then use an AC-3 player to watch the movie.
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"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
I see what you mean here but this would only benefit small companies. There is significant demand for high speed internet access so i'm absolutely positive many heavy hitters in and around the communications industry would be more than happy to pitch in to get these services off the ground so that they can start making money off of them.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase."
I can't agree enough with Hemos on this one. If the government took a under developed and growing industry as broadband access and shackled it up with restrictions, user fees would undoubtedly skyrocket (no longer do you only pay for the network owner's maintenance, research and expansion fees but also a seperate isp fee) and it would probably leave the country in standard-shift limbo (anyone remember "DVD will replace CD-ROM"?).
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase."
Maggie's little quote may seem like foolishness or paranoia and perhaps it was a bit of each. However, it was not completely unrealistic. I really believe Microsoft stepped over the line between monopoly and world domination here. They say that this service will provide hightened security by storing your information on their own servers and also by personally requiring all participating web sites to use "industry-standard" encryption when transferring sensetive data. Microsoft suggests here that for some reason it is their exclusive responsibility to enforce standards and protect their customers from the theft of their personal data. Microsoft portrays themselves as some sort of invincible superhero here to save us, or worse yet, an invincible global power here to bring order to all of our lives. These are duties of our respective governments, not some gigantic company. This may just sound like some more ridiculous anti-Microsoft propaganda at this point, but I believe all companies engaging in this "electronic wallet" are just as guilty of taking too much societal power into their own hands.
Not only are these services wrong because of their undermining of our governments but also they are completely unnecessary security risks! The only valid reason for using one of these services is to save yourself the minute trouble of re-typing your personal information when making a purchase online. Being lazy is certainly not important enough to warrant remote (meaning interceptable!) storage and communication of information necessary for funds to be debited. For these reasons I feel there is a great need for some action to be taken against these "electronic wallet" services.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase."