That doesn't work too well when it's the projectionist or an employee doing it. Making them risk a few years of their life in prison is a lot more effective.
Does anyone know if there's a Firefox skin that looks like IE? I'd make Firefox look like IE and change the icons around on the family computer so that they'd stop using IE and stop making me go in there and fix whatever they've done with it every five minutes.
...is if they infect the Windows Update servers. You go there to fix the vulnerabilities in IE and *BAM* you're infected with the same vulnerabilities you're trying to fix.
"In an unfree society, we would not be able to debate this. In an unfree society, you would be unable to go here [daily-tits.com] and see naked breasts. In an unfree society, I would not be able to post this."
I think the point he was making is how you have to go to an almost unpoliceable media like the Internet to see naked breasts. Other countries, which a lot of Americans would have you believe are less free than the US, have tits in the daily newspapers, on TV, on statues in public places (Freudian slip: I typed "pubic places" then), and you can hear naughty words on the TV and radio without the state fining them for excercising their right to free speech.
I've seen this thing and the original in action and the improvement is vast. It make you wonder what the hell Nokia was thinking when they didn't do this the first time around and I'd definitely consider one if they got some decent games on it. You can have all the hardware in the world but it's worthless without software support which the N-Gage is horribly lacking in.
Minor quality loss? I've seen 1GB+ XviD rips that still don't look as good as the DVD original. Fitting a movie into ~7GB (typical size of the movie on a retail DVD) can still give compression problems like artifacting, and then when you add the extra quality loss from converting MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 and then fit it into 700MB you're never going to make it look as good as the DVD. If you think it looks as good that's obviously why you're happy downloading movies while I'm happy buying them.
I don't know why people download movies in the first place. $15 for a CD with less than 80 minutes of music is unreasonable but a little more than that for a two hour movie with high quality video, digital surround sound, and usually a couple of hours of extras is well worth it IMO.
If Apple isn't in the monopoly position when it comes to desktops how about in the MP3 player market? The masses keep buying iPods in the face of superior competition from the likes of iRiver, Rio, and even Dell for god's sake, but Apple refuse to let anyone use their proprietary DRM that they've wrapped around the AAC format except themselves. Rumours abound that MS are bringing our their own "iPod killer" but the difference is that MS will licence the DRM in their WMA format to anyone who wants it, including Apple, and have stated this in the past.
Definitely. My dad's company does all its invoicing on DOS just because they all know how to use it and it does what they need so they don't see the point in spending a couple thousand on an upgrade that they really don't need. The only downside is that although they have regular backups the software they use has been defunct for some time and they'd have nothing to restore the backup to in the event of a hardware failure, but they have paper-based records as well so they continue on oblivious.
At least they don't grind to a halt whenever a new worm comes out which is more than can be said for the other companies on the industrial estate, but as long as I keep making money out of them whenever they need them removed I'm not complaining:P
Sounds impressive (although I'd prefer an iRiver one because it's driverless so it works on anything that supports USB 2.0 and will have no DRM), but no matter how impressive other companies make their jukeboxes and media players the masses will continue to suck up iPods like there's no tomorrow.
"I know it's expensive with less functionality, shorter batter life, lower sound quality, and forces me to use bloated software, but it's so pretty!"
Good point, even if they make it so that only material over ten years old falls under this that's still over 80 years of material. My guess is that only a selection will be available directly from the BBC either streamed or downloaded, but it will give people the right to freely distribute their own recordings of material that this applies to.
It's good news if they do this. Their shows (especially comedy) are probably the best in the world and making them available to anyone who wants them is great, especially for people who live in places where they can't see them usually. One of the advantages of having a publicly funded non-commercial TV network I guess.
I've got five free songs for Napter which I'll use but I think someone should tell them that by buying online or from independant shops I can get most physical CDs uncompressed and without DRM for 7.99 or 8.99. How exactly do they expect to get people to buy stuff?
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That doesn't work too well when it's the projectionist or an employee doing it. Making them risk a few years of their life in prison is a lot more effective.
Does anyone know if there's a Firefox skin that looks like IE? I'd make Firefox look like IE and change the icons around on the family computer so that they'd stop using IE and stop making me go in there and fix whatever they've done with it every five minutes.
...is if they infect the Windows Update servers. You go there to fix the vulnerabilities in IE and *BAM* you're infected with the same vulnerabilities you're trying to fix.
"In an unfree society, we would not be able to debate this. In an unfree society, you would be unable to go here [daily-tits.com] and see naked breasts. In an unfree society, I would not be able to post this."
I think the point he was making is how you have to go to an almost unpoliceable media like the Internet to see naked breasts. Other countries, which a lot of Americans would have you believe are less free than the US, have tits in the daily newspapers, on TV, on statues in public places (Freudian slip: I typed "pubic places" then), and you can hear naughty words on the TV and radio without the state fining them for excercising their right to free speech.
Oh, wait...
I've seen this thing and the original in action and the improvement is vast. It make you wonder what the hell Nokia was thinking when they didn't do this the first time around and I'd definitely consider one if they got some decent games on it. You can have all the hardware in the world but it's worthless without software support which the N-Gage is horribly lacking in.
Minor quality loss? I've seen 1GB+ XviD rips that still don't look as good as the DVD original. Fitting a movie into ~7GB (typical size of the movie on a retail DVD) can still give compression problems like artifacting, and then when you add the extra quality loss from converting MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 and then fit it into 700MB you're never going to make it look as good as the DVD. If you think it looks as good that's obviously why you're happy downloading movies while I'm happy buying them.
I don't know why people download movies in the first place. $15 for a CD with less than 80 minutes of music is unreasonable but a little more than that for a two hour movie with high quality video, digital surround sound, and usually a couple of hours of extras is well worth it IMO.
I think you mean 1080p HD-DVDs ;)
It's an Internet browser that people used back in the olden days. Just after the Internet was invented.
Is it coincidence that I got an Intel ad when I opened this story? I think not...
If Apple isn't in the monopoly position when it comes to desktops how about in the MP3 player market? The masses keep buying iPods in the face of superior competition from the likes of iRiver, Rio, and even Dell for god's sake, but Apple refuse to let anyone use their proprietary DRM that they've wrapped around the AAC format except themselves. Rumours abound that MS are bringing our their own "iPod killer" but the difference is that MS will licence the DRM in their WMA format to anyone who wants it, including Apple, and have stated this in the past.
Definitely. My dad's company does all its invoicing on DOS just because they all know how to use it and it does what they need so they don't see the point in spending a couple thousand on an upgrade that they really don't need. The only downside is that although they have regular backups the software they use has been defunct for some time and they'd have nothing to restore the backup to in the event of a hardware failure, but they have paper-based records as well so they continue on oblivious.
At least they don't grind to a halt whenever a new worm comes out which is more than can be said for the other companies on the industrial estate, but as long as I keep making money out of them whenever they need them removed I'm not complaining :P
Sounds impressive (although I'd prefer an iRiver one because it's driverless so it works on anything that supports USB 2.0 and will have no DRM), but no matter how impressive other companies make their jukeboxes and media players the masses will continue to suck up iPods like there's no tomorrow.
"I know it's expensive with less functionality, shorter batter life, lower sound quality, and forces me to use bloated software, but it's so pretty!"
Good point, even if they make it so that only material over ten years old falls under this that's still over 80 years of material. My guess is that only a selection will be available directly from the BBC either streamed or downloaded, but it will give people the right to freely distribute their own recordings of material that this applies to.
It's good news if they do this. Their shows (especially comedy) are probably the best in the world and making them available to anyone who wants them is great, especially for people who live in places where they can't see them usually. One of the advantages of having a publicly funded non-commercial TV network I guess.
I've got five free songs for Napter which I'll use but I think someone should tell them that by buying online or from independant shops I can get most physical CDs uncompressed and without DRM for 7.99 or 8.99. How exactly do they expect to get people to buy stuff?
I ran SETI@home for months but I got bored when I didn't find any aliens. What's the point of the game?