Sure we can. The movie industry can die a slow painful death. I don't care. I'll go sit on my front porch and relax while the mammoth hulks of producers sink inch by inch into the lava pits of bankruptcy. They earned it. The indie producers deserve a chance at greatness, anyway.
DRM is designed for an environment in which all content is copyrighted and copyrights never expire.
Since copyrights do expire (eventually, some day), I wonder if DRM designers are legally obligated to put a time bomb in their software. Once copyrights expire, the DRM should implode, removing all restrictions.
Complain to the bands directly (website chats, email, whatever), and, then, complain to their label. It wouldn't hurt to mention it the next time you go to the record store, either. The store manager would probably prefer to stock stuff that will not piss off customers.
Watch the movie in the theatres and don't buy the DVD's and watch the DVD portion of the profits plummet.
How about not buying the DVD _and_ not going to the theatre? The movie is 100% pure untainted optional. Further, the movie industry is 100% pure untainted optional. They exist because of _us_, they shouldn't forget that.
A free-market implies _competiton_. There is no competition here since the movie you want to see is only sold by _one_ company.
This is wrong, because the competition is every other form of entertainment ever devised by humans.
For example:
-- playing a game with family
-- reading a book
-- taking the dog for a walk
-- go see a stand up comedian
-- get drunk
-- read the Sunday funnies
-- play with legos with the kids
We don't have to watch any movie. What do you lose if you choose to do something else? Two sentences of meaningless smalltalk at work ("Hey, you see that movie?" "Yup." "Whaddya think about that hot chick at the end?" "Yup.").
If you really like a movie, you don't have a choice between companies...
Entertainment is cheap, so get a game or see a play or pick out another movie (there are thousands). You have tons of options. Don't fall for the marketing hype. That particular movie can wait.
A while ago I picked up a copy of Newsweek and it had that MSN Butterfly everywhere. There was a disturbing number of Microsoft advertisements in that magazine. Way out of proportion to other advertisers. Someone above mentioned that MSNBC provides content to Newsweek's website. There is definitely some collaboration between the two.
Microsoft is known for astroturfing, false advertising, lying, overcharging, extortion, you name it. How should I place any faith in anything they touch? They probably have the biggest marketing department outside of Big Tobacco--nothing that has the MS brand on it should be taken for granted.
I could never accept that Slate had genuine editorial independence from Microsoft. It's like MSNBC, Newsweek (I think), MSN, etc. that are all owned or influenced my Microsoft, and it's all very likely part of a grand marketing strategy.
Microsoft putting their brand on something is like a poison pill for credibility.
Is it just me or is this a case of too little, too late?
No, considering that just as cable providers pick up VoIP the telephone companies start offering TV. Basically, this is two competing distribution networks competing against eachother.
If that IP over powerlines stuff takes off, then we'll have the phone companies competing with the power utilities competing with the cable companies. What a set of unlikely enemies.
I thought it was common knowledge that most phone systems (especially in rural communities) are unable to support broadband data communication. Cable was supposed to solve this problem.
I live in a very rural area.
Telephone? Check. Cable? Nada.
DSL is more available than cable in my area. It is still spotty, but anywhere with more than just a few houses and a barn can get DSL.
Knowing HP, your systems are probably being replaced by Tandem-branded PCs with ECC RAM and software RAID. A rescue DVD will provide instant system rebuilds so downtime is never more than two days.
if self healing = ms office keeps putting another icon in my start menu whenever I start word
It's much better than that. Self-healing means that disks in a RAID array can detect corrupted blocks of data using checksums and correct them from good mirrors on-the-fly. With multiple mirrors with checksums proving whether there is a problem or not, corrupt data files should be a thing of the past (on systems with RAID). It seems failing drives would be detected sooner, also.
Linux outdoes Sun in highend NUMA. Linux outdoes Sun in clustered enterprise databases. Solaris needs 3rd party clusterware to make itself respectable.
Sun Fire is NUMA made to look like SMP, and Sun sells servers up to 144 cores. They can be clustered using non-third-party software to over 1000 CPUs. You should look at Sun's product line-up some time.
The fact that they don't sell 1000000000 CPU clusters to rare government labs has more to do with their business model then with their technology. How many Altix systems does SGI expect to sell? Sun probably sells a few thousand Sun Fire servers for every Altix system sold.
This is still not a good excuse for having a pathetically out of date browser.
Oh, BTW, Solaris 9 has both Netscape 4 and Netscape 6, but the original poster didn't have the clue to find them. Solaris 9 is really quite a bit better than the original poster made it out to be, but the loser moderators will always put politics ahead of the truth.
I was somewhat disheartened not to hear ony mention of FreeBSD jails...
It could be that Containers have nothing to do with jails or vservers. From what I've read, they are all tangentially related, but not much beyond that.
FreeBSD jails appeared in 1999
Trusted Solaris has been around a long time, since the mid-1990's.
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"So why put all this DRM garbage on a version of the movie released over 10 years later?"
Shameless greed? It's a sin, you know...I learned that from a movie with Brad Pitt...is this what irony feels like?
We can't win.
Sure we can. The movie industry can die a slow painful death. I don't care. I'll go sit on my front porch and relax while the mammoth hulks of producers sink inch by inch into the lava pits of bankruptcy. They earned it. The indie producers deserve a chance at greatness, anyway.
A good movie can be one of the best forms of entertainment stimulation-wise.
Then, have movies regulated under the FDA as narcotics. That would be awesome.
DRM is designed for an environment in which all content is copyrighted and copyrights never expire.
Since copyrights do expire (eventually, some day), I wonder if DRM designers are legally obligated to put a time bomb in their software. Once copyrights expire, the DRM should implode, removing all restrictions.
Complain to the bands directly (website chats, email, whatever), and, then, complain to their label. It wouldn't hurt to mention it the next time you go to the record store, either. The store manager would probably prefer to stock stuff that will not piss off customers.
Watch the movie in the theatres and don't buy the DVD's and watch the DVD portion of the profits plummet.
How about not buying the DVD _and_ not going to the theatre? The movie is 100% pure untainted optional. Further, the movie industry is 100% pure untainted optional. They exist because of _us_, they shouldn't forget that.
A free-market implies _competiton_. There is no competition here since the movie you want to see is only sold by _one_ company.
This is wrong, because the competition is every other form of entertainment ever devised by humans.
For example:
-- playing a game with family
-- reading a book
-- taking the dog for a walk
-- go see a stand up comedian
-- get drunk
-- read the Sunday funnies
-- play with legos with the kids
We don't have to watch any movie. What do you lose if you choose to do something else? Two sentences of meaningless smalltalk at work ("Hey, you see that movie?" "Yup." "Whaddya think about that hot chick at the end?" "Yup.").
If you really like a movie, you don't have a choice between companies...
Entertainment is cheap, so get a game or see a play or pick out another movie (there are thousands). You have tons of options. Don't fall for the marketing hype. That particular movie can wait.
Please, get it right next time. I am so tired of these misleading names confusing the public long enough until it's too late.
And for the record, I think a new rocket motor qualifies as sexy . . .
So...you're a sucker for heavy thrusting?
Any evidence?
A while ago I picked up a copy of Newsweek and it had that MSN Butterfly everywhere. There was a disturbing number of Microsoft advertisements in that magazine. Way out of proportion to other advertisers. Someone above mentioned that MSNBC provides content to Newsweek's website. There is definitely some collaboration between the two.
Microsoft is known for astroturfing, false advertising, lying, overcharging, extortion, you name it. How should I place any faith in anything they touch? They probably have the biggest marketing department outside of Big Tobacco--nothing that has the MS brand on it should be taken for granted.
Perhaps one should judge a book by it's content and not its cover.
I prefer to follow the money.
I could never accept that Slate had genuine editorial independence from Microsoft. It's like MSNBC, Newsweek (I think), MSN, etc. that are all owned or influenced my Microsoft, and it's all very likely part of a grand marketing strategy.
Microsoft putting their brand on something is like a poison pill for credibility.
Is it just me or is this a case of too little, too late?
No, considering that just as cable providers pick up VoIP the telephone companies start offering TV. Basically, this is two competing distribution networks competing against eachother.
If that IP over powerlines stuff takes off, then we'll have the phone companies competing with the power utilities competing with the cable companies. What a set of unlikely enemies.
I thought it was common knowledge that most phone systems (especially in rural communities) are unable to support broadband data communication. Cable was supposed to solve this problem.
I live in a very rural area.
Telephone? Check.
Cable? Nada.
DSL is more available than cable in my area. It is still spotty, but anywhere with more than just a few houses and a barn can get DSL.
Sorry about that, I just said the first thing that came to my mind.
Knowing HP, your systems are probably being replaced by Tandem-branded PCs with ECC RAM and software RAID. A rescue DVD will provide instant system rebuilds so downtime is never more than two days.
Mostly, that's because Windows is a piece of shit.
if self healing = ms office keeps putting another icon in my start menu whenever I start word
It's much better than that. Self-healing means that disks in a RAID array can detect corrupted blocks of data using checksums and correct them from good mirrors on-the-fly. With multiple mirrors with checksums proving whether there is a problem or not, corrupt data files should be a thing of the past (on systems with RAID). It seems failing drives would be detected sooner, also.
Linux outdoes Sun in highend NUMA. Linux outdoes Sun in clustered enterprise databases. Solaris needs 3rd party clusterware to make itself respectable.
Sun Fire is NUMA made to look like SMP, and Sun sells servers up to 144 cores. They can be clustered using non-third-party software to over 1000 CPUs. You should look at Sun's product line-up some time.
The fact that they don't sell 1000000000 CPU clusters to rare government labs has more to do with their business model then with their technology. How many Altix systems does SGI expect to sell? Sun probably sells a few thousand Sun Fire servers for every Altix system sold.
Without high quality, freshly roasted and freshly ground beans, your coffee is crap, no matter what you think.
;)
It's still better than Starbucks
On my Solaris 9 (it's two years old, now), it's
This is still not a good excuse for having a pathetically out of date browser.
Oh, BTW, Solaris 9 has both Netscape 4 and Netscape 6, but the original poster didn't have the clue to find them. Solaris 9 is really quite a bit better than the original poster made it out to be, but the loser moderators will always put politics ahead of the truth.
Have a looky-looky at sunfreeware.com.
BTW, I have a two-year-old version of Solaris 9...it has Java 1.4.0, which isn't all that bad at all.
Me thinks that Sun Blade 2500 is older than you are.
I was somewhat disheartened not to hear ony mention of FreeBSD jails...
It could be that Containers have nothing to do with jails or vservers. From what I've read, they are all tangentially related, but not much beyond that.
FreeBSD jails appeared in 1999
Trusted Solaris has been around a long time, since the mid-1990's.