But this isn't early adoption anymore. Both Bluray and HDDVD had players on the market in mid 2006. Now films are available on both formats in almost any store that sells DVDs. Current video game consoles incorporate both formats.
This isn't a tax on early adoption, it's a levy paid to support the feud between the formats. There is heavy market resistance because of customer confusion and a marginal increase in video/audio quality with no other benefits.
It's like broadcast television. Except broadcast television isn't free like Google services are. The TV networks are getting paid twice. Google only charges the advertisers, not the consumers. TV viewers are paying to be subjected to ads for 20 or so minutes out of an hour.
I've been trying to figure out the same thing. If there is so much known about this worm and the botnet/supercomputer it has created, how come nobody has been able to hijack it and use it for their own use? Or possibly to destroy or at least disrupt it.
That's the reason that I pirate films. Every once in a while I give the theaters another chance, but so far have always happily returned to my boycott...
When I download a film, I get to watch... the film! When I go to a theater, I get to sit and wait while they play full audio/video commercials for half an hour before show time. When showtime starts, I am shown adds for the theater and warnings about how how movie piracy is a crime and kills children. Then I am shown fifteen or twenty minutes of previews for films. I don't understand why people pay so much money to be shown all these advertisements.
Even buying or renting a DVD is a lousy experience. unskippable FBI warnings, ads, and trailers. I paid for the film, just let me watch it!
The stream ripping you describe is very different from what SoundExchange et. al. are trying to stop. Copying the entire radio show to CD or a music player to listen to later is pretty much impossible to stop. You will get you the same experience as every other listener, just at a later time. They are targeting people who meticulously rip and cut up tracks off of streaming radio and add them to their music collection. That kind of stream ripping is supposedly a threat to their business model.
I will never purchase a game with ingame adverting. No one should. You bought the game, paid good money for it, and now you have to pay again by looking at banal advertising. The sherlock that thought this up should be taken out and shot, regardless of the amount of revenue.
Right. That's why TV has no commercials and DVD movies have no previews before them or product placement in the film...
Advertisers will continue to inject ads wherever they can, and people will continue to buy the content anyway. Most people would rather just watch the ads than boycott the product. That's why ads will make their way into games just like they have all other types of media.
Oooh, Linux developers copied a Microsoft product in two weeks! How novel, how path-breaking!
What this is actually saying is:
"Linux developers implement in two weeks the compatibility and usability features that Microsoft intentionally left out."
It's not the fault of the MPAA directly. It's the fundamental flaw of DRM.
Encryption works because parties A and B exchange data that is encrypted with a key that party C does not have. In the case of DRM, you have the encrypted data and you have the keys that you need to decrypt and view the data. You are in essence parties B and C. They hide the key from you in the players and software, but it's there if you know how to find it. That's why DRM can and will never work. It's security through obscurity.
But don't worry. It was all worth it since they got to sneak in an hour of sunny evening shopping for three weeks. Who cares about saving energy or lost corporate dollars when you can squeeze out some more of that expendable income from the average suburb resident. Who wants to go shopping in the dark anyway? It's dangerous out there...
I'm sure the lack of interest in Vista has something to do with this.
Why would a typical Dell customer who isn't interested in Vista, be interested in Linux ?
Because Dell can't sell Macs?
I've already had a hand full of non-tech people come to me asking advice about buying a Mac because they refuse to buy Vista. If Dell is really trying to diversify due to low Vista sales numbers and customer concerns with MS, what OS can the offer as an alternative other than Linux? Selling a computer without an operating system is even less approachable than selling one with Linux.
I dunno, but, one thing I DO fear from reading this...is the demise of the CD itself.
Until we have another way to get music in a lossless format...I really don't want them to stop pressing CD's.
Wow! Things really move fast in this fancy new internet age. Someone has already heard your cry for help and filled your request!
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But this isn't early adoption anymore. Both Bluray and HDDVD had players on the market in mid 2006. Now films are available on both formats in almost any store that sells DVDs. Current video game consoles incorporate both formats.
This isn't a tax on early adoption, it's a levy paid to support the feud between the formats. There is heavy market resistance because of customer confusion and a marginal increase in video/audio quality with no other benefits.
Hey! Didn't I read about you in the news?
You should have searched via the tagging (beta). Pretty same to assume that the old article was also tagged as "hypospray".
The you're describing an anti-rape female condom, frequently called a Dentata.
I didn't really notice the offensiveness of that website. Guess it's one of the rare occasions where I'm happy to be colorblind.
http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/index.php/archives/2005/04/11/your-wish-is-my-command/
I've been trying to figure out the same thing. If there is so much known about this worm and the botnet/supercomputer it has created, how come nobody has been able to hijack it and use it for their own use? Or possibly to destroy or at least disrupt it.
When I download a film, I get to watch... the film! When I go to a theater, I get to sit and wait while they play full audio/video commercials for half an hour before show time. When showtime starts, I am shown adds for the theater and warnings about how how movie piracy is a crime and kills children. Then I am shown fifteen or twenty minutes of previews for films. I don't understand why people pay so much money to be shown all these advertisements.
Even buying or renting a DVD is a lousy experience. unskippable FBI warnings, ads, and trailers. I paid for the film, just let me watch it!
Advertisers will continue to inject ads wherever they can, and people will continue to buy the content anyway. Most people would rather just watch the ads than boycott the product. That's why ads will make their way into games just like they have all other types of media.
"Linux developers implement in two weeks the compatibility and usability features that Microsoft intentionally left out."
I think all of us first-borns have known this for years!
You can convert .pdf to html through the browser:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlin etools.html
There are others too with a simple Google-ing
As mentioned, the list is fairly rich in content and loses lots of the formatting and special characters through conversion.
It's a sad state of affairs when hoping for a Mac release of a game that's a year and a half away gets you modded +5 Funny.
I can't think of a more appropriate example to illustrate the differences between our two countries.
It's not the fault of the MPAA directly. It's the fundamental flaw of DRM.
Encryption works because parties A and B exchange data that is encrypted with a key that party C does not have. In the case of DRM, you have the encrypted data and you have the keys that you need to decrypt and view the data. You are in essence parties B and C. They hide the key from you in the players and software, but it's there if you know how to find it. That's why DRM can and will never work. It's security through obscurity.
Wow!
It's like you can see into the past!
Don't forget to download this.
Sometimes I forget that the internet has ads... No joke.
But don't worry. It was all worth it since they got to sneak in an hour of sunny evening shopping for three weeks. Who cares about saving energy or lost corporate dollars when you can squeeze out some more of that expendable income from the average suburb resident. Who wants to go shopping in the dark anyway? It's dangerous out there...
I've already had a hand full of non-tech people come to me asking advice about buying a Mac because they refuse to buy Vista. If Dell is really trying to diversify due to low Vista sales numbers and customer concerns with MS, what OS can the offer as an alternative other than Linux? Selling a computer without an operating system is even less approachable than selling one with Linux.