"Who came up with this? I'm betting Marketing, with a side-bet on Legal."
This plan sounds like a potential nightmare for both those departments. This plan is so boneheaded it could only come from one department... Management.
"The fact of the matter is that these measures have not removed or degraded ANY civil liberties in this country. If you think otherwise, PROVE IT! Give an example of how you are being restricted in exercising ANY civil right since these policies were put into place."
It's called FEAR, and it affects the excersize of people's rights in a very real way. People are less likely to speak up, or even go to the library to get information about their own government if they believe that the government will abuse its authority to monitor such activities. You don't have to change laws to take away peoples rights, you can just make them too afraid to use them. The FEAR that these laws, and the apparent abuses stemming from these laws cause is a DIRECT DEGRADATION of our civil rights.
By the way, the president now has the right to secretly arrest you, without trial or cause recourse or oversight, fly you to a foreign country to be tortured by contractors, in secret, until such time as you die. You don't have any rights anymore.
I see so many people referring to spyware that people willingly install themselves, yet at least 90% of the spyware I have seen on peoples computers was installed through Internet Explorer browser exploits or through some other surreptitious means.
Using resilin balls as ammunition it would be like that scene in Men in Black where the bouncy ball tore up half the office. I can think of a few places I could use that....
The real question to ask is if there actually has been an increase of "depraved sociopaths", or if it is meerly percieved to be so because news coverage now picks out these rare incidents wherever and whenever they happen and sensationalize it and parade it around for weeks to get rating. Scaring people enhances news ratings.
The issue I was trying to address was about how independent studios would be able to distribute their works. Since TV pretty much already has them locked out that only left internet and physical medium distribution. His comment that he doesn't go to the video store got me thinking that internet distribution might be more promising. I was not however trying to address how to distribute live content like news coverage. But independent news outfits would also benefit from online distribution.
It is odd seeing as there is a lens system in existence that can take 360 degree pictures. It uses a funky lens that goes all the way around like a donut IIRC, and the camera is mounted below the lens assembly... OH, here's one http://www.sony.net/Products/SC-HP/cx_news/vol34/f eaturing2.html and here http://www.bugeyedigital.com/product_main/036-0360 d.html , hell just type in 360 lens into google and tons of stuff pops up. Looks like the people marketing this are full of shit, and don't know anything about physics, or optics. Article is/.ed so I can't check out anything past the/. summary and what you said.
"For new content and the new format, not geting something that can play DRM would be a waste of money unless you use your HDTV camcorder to produce all your own content.
Most of my content comes over the Internet, not from traditional TV sources."
Well since in the meantime there are already sets around that won't be able to play new 'content' that leaves the window open for amateur/upstart/independent film makers armed with the new generation of prosumer HD cameras to produce movies for release on HD-DVD/Blu-ray or (admittedly large) download, and get a hold on the market for HD movies you can OWN, not just get by broadcast. While the major studios are busy trying to screw over 'joe consumer' with DRM laden crap, small and independent studios can put out movies in the new formats while guarenteeing the ability to play them on your your spanking new 1080p $20,000 projector, or your 2 year old DRM-less rear projection or CRT set or whatever.
Your admission that you get most of your stuff over the internet suggests that ordering disks and downloads online instead of through brick and mortar retailers would be the best avenue of approach to getting something like this off the ground. After all, when you release something on the internet the whole world is your market. Who knows, if they seriously screw with people in the format wars and there is an alternative way to buy movies through downloads from small/independent studios it might really show a crack in the MPAA's armor if these small outfits become successfull despite the MPAA.
I've seen this argument posted all over the place, but this is the first time I've realized that, contrary to this wisdom, VHS was actually the better product... to the VCR manufacturers.
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Isn't there also a prohibition against extradicting people to countries that practice torture?
"Now, come up with an external, plugin keyboard..." You mean like this?
Everyone knows that Star Trek was canceled because of the theme song. I mean seriously, singing in a Star Trek theme?
"Who came up with this? I'm betting Marketing, with a side-bet on Legal."
This plan sounds like a potential nightmare for both those departments. This plan is so boneheaded it could only come from one department... Management.
At least your post was less confusing than the summary. What was that about the speed of light?
"We're basically giving more rights to malicious websites than we are to government agencies."
This statement suggests you endorse giving the government the same leeway in their actions that criminals give themselves.
That's why you always get a refill before then.
You must be new here.
Henderson, Nevada is just southeast of Las Vegas. They were just making these "AI" systems in the hope of learning how to beat the dealers there.
Is it me, or does Balmer look like a crazed cult leader in that video? He scares me.
It's nice to see a story posted on slashdot about real pirates for a change, just to remind everyone what real piracy is.
"The fact of the matter is that these measures have not removed or degraded ANY civil liberties in this country. If you think otherwise, PROVE IT! Give an example of how you are being restricted in exercising ANY civil right since these policies were put into place."
It's called FEAR, and it affects the excersize of people's rights in a very real way. People are less likely to speak up, or even go to the library to get information about their own government if they believe that the government will abuse its authority to monitor such activities. You don't have to change laws to take away peoples rights, you can just make them too afraid to use them. The FEAR that these laws, and the apparent abuses stemming from these laws cause is a DIRECT DEGRADATION of our civil rights.
By the way, the president now has the right to secretly arrest you, without trial or cause recourse or oversight, fly you to a foreign country to be tortured by contractors, in secret, until such time as you die. You don't have any rights anymore.
That's exactly why I refuse to click on any of his articles. I don't believe in funding trolls.
If it's something to do about hot grits then it's another matter alltogether though...
I thought of that first, but I couldn't remember the name of it, and I couldn't remember the name of the movie it was from, so I went with MIB.
I see so many people referring to spyware that people willingly install themselves, yet at least 90% of the spyware I have seen on peoples computers was installed through Internet Explorer browser exploits or through some other surreptitious means.
I don't know if we would be saddled with tons of Sims knock-offs, but we would probably get Sims Crime Scene Investigators.
Using resilin balls as ammunition it would be like that scene in Men in Black where the bouncy ball tore up half the office. I can think of a few places I could use that....
Not only are they going to merge their network with Yahoo's client, they are also aqcuiring a stake in AOL http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/15/146243 &tid=109&tid=120 , probably with plans to also merge the AOL IM network into theirs. It looks like MS is actually trying to aquire ALL of the competition to compete... nay DESTROY google as seen here http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/03/05 15250&tid=109&tid=217&tid=133&tid=123. I can only imagine that they will be facing another anti-trust suit if they follow through on this plan of controlling the vast majority of IM networks.
Maybe by saying the manual was "pretty fucking good" he meant it wasn't like this http://www.tecstandards.com/2005winner.htm
"Is there some study that I haven't noticed, or just marketing FUD?"
It's from ZDNet, do you really have to ask?
The real question to ask is if there actually has been an increase of "depraved sociopaths", or if it is meerly percieved to be so because news coverage now picks out these rare incidents wherever and whenever they happen and sensationalize it and parade it around for weeks to get rating. Scaring people enhances news ratings.
The issue I was trying to address was about how independent studios would be able to distribute their works. Since TV pretty much already has them locked out that only left internet and physical medium distribution. His comment that he doesn't go to the video store got me thinking that internet distribution might be more promising. I was not however trying to address how to distribute live content like news coverage. But independent news outfits would also benefit from online distribution.
It is odd seeing as there is a lens system in existence that can take 360 degree pictures. It uses a funky lens that goes all the way around like a donut IIRC, and the camera is mounted below the lens assembly... OH, here's one http://www.sony.net/Products/SC-HP/cx_news/vol34/f eaturing2.html and here http://www.bugeyedigital.com/product_main/036-0360 d.html , hell just type in 360 lens into google and tons of stuff pops up. Looks like the people marketing this are full of shit, and don't know anything about physics, or optics. Article is /.ed so I can't check out anything past the /. summary and what you said.
"For new content and the new format, not geting something that can play DRM would be a waste of money unless you use your HDTV camcorder to produce all your own content.
Most of my content comes over the Internet, not from traditional TV sources."
Well since in the meantime there are already sets around that won't be able to play new 'content' that leaves the window open for amateur/upstart/independent film makers armed with the new generation of prosumer HD cameras to produce movies for release on HD-DVD/Blu-ray or (admittedly large) download, and get a hold on the market for HD movies you can OWN, not just get by broadcast. While the major studios are busy trying to screw over 'joe consumer' with DRM laden crap, small and independent studios can put out movies in the new formats while guarenteeing the ability to play them on your your spanking new 1080p $20,000 projector, or your 2 year old DRM-less rear projection or CRT set or whatever.
Your admission that you get most of your stuff over the internet suggests that ordering disks and downloads online instead of through brick and mortar retailers would be the best avenue of approach to getting something like this off the ground. After all, when you release something on the internet the whole world is your market. Who knows, if they seriously screw with people in the format wars and there is an alternative way to buy movies through downloads from small/independent studios it might really show a crack in the MPAA's armor if these small outfits become successfull despite the MPAA.
Let the revolution begin.
I've seen this argument posted all over the place, but this is the first time I've realized that, contrary to this wisdom, VHS was actually the better product... to the VCR manufacturers.