Bert has told Ernie for years now that a nutritious glass of pigeon milk makes you keep a healthy yellow pallor. However, thinking about it is making me turn a bit green to be honest. Crop Milk indeed.
"Bird Strike" sounds like a terrorist action and as such, all the FAA has to do is declare a "War on Birds" Based on similar actions by other governmental bodies in similar situations, I believe it will be only a matter of years before the birds give up and lay down their wings.
I'm a small government person. At least that's what I would prefer. However, we haven't seen anything like that with this Republican administration and I see no reason to believe that we would see it with another one. In addition to that, we've just effectively taken ownership of several incredibly large entities and in effect, nationalized them. Because of these reasons, I see no prospects of smaller government from either party. This removes my one philosophical reservation about voting for a democrat. Therefore, Obama.
If this trend continues and Western technology companies continue to pander to DRM and other silly schemes to prevent us from the freedom to use our computers, it's only a matter of time before cheap, powerful, and open Eastern manufacturers (read Chinese manufacturers) gain marketshare in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Chinese are already experimenting with their own CPUs (see http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/10/18/HNintell audschina_1.html) and will no doubt be happy to increase their revenues.
So when exactly will PS3 actually have any GAMES worth playing? I don't care if it can prognosticate the weather for all planetary ecosystems in the universe 10,000 years into the future...I just want to play 1 game that doesn't suck on it. Just one. Anybody? Forget it.
The old Interplay game Bard's Tale had a similar bug. You could copy the "Character" Disk, load your characters from the original disk, rob them of all their eartly treasures (crystal armor or some high value item is particularly nice) and/or gold. Once they are penniless, Save them to the bogus disk, and load them back from the original complete with all their equipment. Sweet! I spent some time doing this and I had everything a 12 year old boy ever wanted. Well....almost.;-P
Solid gold Humvee and diamond studded swimming pools...These things don't grow on trees. Maybe Vanity Fair should focus on the large scale squander of real dollars by the wealthiest 1% instead of the fictitous dollars "lost" to "piracy". That would be a far more interesting cultural op ed IMHO. Oh wait...MTV Cribs already beat them to it. Damn.
I guess all you have to do to win is send in a blurry scan of some kind of warning label. Did anyone actually look at the labels? You can't even read them.
Hey now that's an idea opressive governments might be interested in. Maybe a rel="NSFC(hinese)" or something similar and then they can stop spending so much on censorship. Brilliant!
OK...does that mean that Vista will be unsure as to whether my hardware exists or not? Hmm...
"VISTA HAS PERFORMED AN ILLEGAL OPERATION... actually is it illegal? who says what is legal or not? Perhaps it is legal for me but not for you? sorry, WINDOWS DOES NOT BELIEVE YOUR HARDWARE EXISTS. CONVINCE ME YOUR HARDWARE IS THERE, AND ILL LET YOU INTO YOUR COMPUTER"
I think I would prefer "hardware fanaticism" personally.
-JWR
I was working for a local ISP in the 90's and a woman called up to get connected to the Internet. She had just opened her new PC, and I attempted to guide her through attaching the phone cord to the PC.
Me: OK. Take the phone cord that came with your PC, and connect it to the phone jack on the back of your PC. (there were no standard ethernet cards then, so no confusion there).
Her: It won't fit. I can't get it to go in. It doesn't look like it will fit here.
Me: Hmm. Are you sure that is a standard phone cord?
Her: Yes..it looks like the one that I have on my phone.
Me: OK, see if you can find a different cord. Maybe you can take the one off a different phone than the one you're on just to make sure its a standard phone cord.
Her: OK...hang on.
10 minutes pass
Her: This one won't fit either. I can't get it to go in there.
20 minutes of waiting while she attempts and suggesting different things like "Make sure its lined up" etc.
Finally...
Her: AH HAH! I GOT IT. OK it's in there now. Now what?
Me: What was wrong?
Her: Oh...I was trying to put it in there sideways.
??? The shapes matching game is mastered in Kindergarten...or so I thought.
-JWR
Is anyone else mildly amused that this article is about something called 'Bluebag' and a "bunch of Dongles"?:-P
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I can only truly accept digital rights management if I can own a license for the copyrighted work I have purchased until the end of my days.
For example, if I purchase a CD, I want to pay for the rights once, and thereafter only pay for the medium the work is contained on.
If I am truly buying a license to listen, read, or view the material, then I should be able to retain that license if I run over the medium with my car.
Using this framework I could buy a CD, MP3, Tape, etc. and whatever future medium is released for the price of the medium without having to pay for the license over and over and over.
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"This one goes in your mouth, this one goes in your butt."
"He liked spiders, and was a pretty stupendous pig."
Bert has told Ernie for years now that a nutritious glass of pigeon milk makes you keep a healthy yellow pallor. However, thinking about it is making me turn a bit green to be honest. Crop Milk indeed.
"Bird Strike" sounds like a terrorist action and as such, all the FAA has to do is declare a "War on Birds" Based on similar actions by other governmental bodies in similar situations, I believe it will be only a matter of years before the birds give up and lay down their wings.
And proving my point about idiots, I mispelled skeptical in the subject.
As a programmer, any time I hear hype like this ". . .could spell the end for accidental key presses." I laugh a little.
We will NEVER spell the end for accidental use of technology by using more technology.
It kind of falls into the old maxim "Try to make anything idiot proof, and the world with generate bigger idiots".
Yep. That pretty much sums it up.
I'm a small government person. At least that's what I would prefer. However, we haven't seen anything like that with this Republican administration and I see no reason to believe that we would see it with another one. In addition to that, we've just effectively taken ownership of several incredibly large entities and in effect, nationalized them. Because of these reasons, I see no prospects of smaller government from either party. This removes my one philosophical reservation about voting for a democrat. Therefore, Obama.
Natural insemination is SUCH a dignified process.
If this trend continues and Western technology companies continue to pander to DRM and other silly schemes to prevent us from the freedom to use our computers, it's only a matter of time before cheap, powerful, and open Eastern manufacturers (read Chinese manufacturers) gain marketshare in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Chinese are already experimenting with their own CPUs (see http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/10/18/HNintell audschina_1.html) and will no doubt be happy to increase their revenues.
OMG I got the dreaded troll modifier. Just because I don't like PS3. I'll have to be more judicious with my opinion in the future. :-P
So when exactly will PS3 actually have any GAMES worth playing? I don't care if it can prognosticate the weather for all planetary ecosystems in the universe 10,000 years into the future...I just want to play 1 game that doesn't suck on it. Just one. Anybody? Forget it.
The old Interplay game Bard's Tale had a similar bug. You could copy the "Character" Disk, load your characters from the original disk, rob them of all their eartly treasures (crystal armor or some high value item is particularly nice) and/or gold. Once they are penniless, Save them to the bogus disk, and load them back from the original complete with all their equipment. Sweet! I spent some time doing this and I had everything a 12 year old boy ever wanted. Well....almost. ;-P
Solid gold Humvee and diamond studded swimming pools...These things don't grow on trees. Maybe Vanity Fair should focus on the large scale squander of real dollars by the wealthiest 1% instead of the fictitous dollars "lost" to "piracy". That would be a far more interesting cultural op ed IMHO. Oh wait...MTV Cribs already beat them to it. Damn.
Since XP support is due to last until 2011, I'll let you know how it is in about four years.
I guess all you have to do to win is send in a blurry scan of some kind of warning label. Did anyone actually look at the labels? You can't even read them.
Hey now that's an idea opressive governments might be interested in. Maybe a rel="NSFC(hinese)" or something similar and then they can stop spending so much on censorship. Brilliant!
Well that's great. Maybe I'll get a good Sprint, T-Mobile or Cingular sales add so I can change my service over to get away from it.
OK...does that mean that Vista will be unsure as to whether my hardware exists or not? Hmm... "VISTA HAS PERFORMED AN ILLEGAL OPERATION... actually is it illegal? who says what is legal or not? Perhaps it is legal for me but not for you? sorry, WINDOWS DOES NOT BELIEVE YOUR HARDWARE EXISTS. CONVINCE ME YOUR HARDWARE IS THERE, AND ILL LET YOU INTO YOUR COMPUTER" I think I would prefer "hardware fanaticism" personally. -JWR
I was working for a local ISP in the 90's and a woman called up to get connected to the Internet. She had just opened her new PC, and I attempted to guide her through attaching the phone cord to the PC.
Me: OK. Take the phone cord that came with your PC, and connect it to the phone jack on the back of your PC. (there were no standard ethernet cards then, so no confusion there).
Her: It won't fit. I can't get it to go in. It doesn't look like it will fit here.
Me: Hmm. Are you sure that is a standard phone cord?
Her: Yes..it looks like the one that I have on my phone.
Me: OK, see if you can find a different cord. Maybe you can take the one off a different phone than the one you're on just to make sure its a standard phone cord.
Her: OK...hang on.
10 minutes pass
Her: This one won't fit either. I can't get it to go in there.
20 minutes of waiting while she attempts and suggesting different things like "Make sure its lined up" etc.
Finally...
Her: AH HAH! I GOT IT. OK it's in there now. Now what?
Me: What was wrong?
Her: Oh...I was trying to put it in there sideways.
??? The shapes matching game is mastered in Kindergarten...or so I thought.
-JWR
Is anyone else mildly amused that this article is about something called 'Bluebag' and a "bunch of Dongles"? :-P
I can only truly accept digital rights management if I can own a license for the copyrighted work I have purchased until the end of my days.
For example, if I purchase a CD, I want to pay for the rights once, and thereafter only pay for the medium the work is contained on.
If I am truly buying a license to listen, read, or view the material, then I should be able to retain that license if I run over the medium with my car.
Using this framework I could buy a CD, MP3, Tape, etc. and whatever future medium is released for the price of the medium without having to pay for the license over and over and over.